Chapter 710: Chapter 608: Jiang Ning Studio
After Shen Zha got out of the car, he glanced at Hao Meng, then at the camera behind her, without saying much.
Neither he nor Jiang Ning mentioned the incident in the town proactively.
However, upon returning to the temporary office prepared by the production team for the program recording, staff immediately showed Shen Zha comments made by netizens.
Meanwhile, Jiang Ning received a phone call from the Hetian Town police.
Because the incident continued to ferment online, Hetian Town police also received numerous calls from netizens and media.
Higher-ups asked them to issue an official statement to briefly update the public on the events of the afternoon.
They knew Jiang Ning and the production team were recording in Sanwan Village, so they called ahead to give a heads-up.
“It’s okay, go ahead. Sorry for the trouble,” Jiang Ning replied.
“It’s no trouble at all, it’s our duty,” the officer on the other end was very polite and proactively reported the progress on Chang Gaoduo: “Thanks to you today for exposing Chang Gaoduo’s fraud and apprehending him. This afternoon, our colleagues split into two teams, one to interrogate Chang Gaoduo, the other to investigate his past whereabouts. Turns out he’s a repeat offender! Countless people have been swindled by him!
Moreover, we’ve been contacted by two other regional police departments who say Chang Gaoduo likely resembles a suspect they’ve been trying to catch but haven’t been able to!”
It turned out that when Chang Gaoduo was committing fraud previously, he had already attracted police attention.
However, he was cautious, frequently changed his location, often used rural roads or national highways, staying out of surveillance range, making it harder to track him, combined with the lack of concrete evidence, catching him wasn’t easy.
Today Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou captured Chang Gaoduo. Once Hetian Town police finish interrogating him, they will file joint charges with other regional police.
“What about the people he defrauded?” Jiang Ning asked one more question.
The officer sighed: “We’ve already notified village leaders in nearby villages, asking them to visit homes to see if anyone was scammed. If so, they can bring the stolen goods, and we’ll fully refund them. But over the years, we don’t know how many victims there are, those we can trace, we’ll notify the victims, but those we can’t trace, there’s nothing we can do…”
Jiang Ning nodded: “You’ve already done a great job, thank you for your hard work.”
“It’s nothing, just part of our duty.”
Still on duty, the officer hung up after speaking.
Jiang Ning contacted Shen Zha and informed him that Hetian Town police would soon release a statement.
Shen Zha nodded: “They’re just following procedure, but they actually called us to notify, that’s quite considerate.”
“What about the production team?” Jiang Ning asked, “Will you issue a statement?”
“We will, it’s already being written,” Shen Zha answered.
Hearing the production team was preparing, Jiang Ning said nothing further.
She hung up the phone and then saw a WeChat message from Yang Shu.
Yang Shu: Jiang Ning, the Hetian Town incident at noon made it to the trending topics. Should we release a statement?
Yang Shu: Should I register a studio account for you? Use the studio account for future endorsements or business collaborations to communicate with clients.
Jiang Ning opened the image, which had black text on a white background. It was a statement Yang Shu had edited earlier, lively yet stern, reminiscent of when celebrities curtail their fans.
She hadn’t thought about releasing a statement herself when asking Shen Zha.
But thinking it over, perhaps she should release one too.
She couldn’t just pop up every time she needed the netizens.
Indeed, the difference between having and not having a manager is significant!
Jiang Ning lowered her head to type.
A Ginger: Okay, handle it, thank you. If there are procedures needing me, contact me later, we’ll deal with it after filming the program.
Yang Shu: Great, I’ll first contact the production team.
Ten minutes later, Yang Shu registered a new account named Jiang Ning Studio.
Then, she published the first Douyin post.
Jiang Ning Studio: Thank you everyone for your concern, mwah. [Image.mp4]
The accompanying image was the statement she had just shown Jiang Ning on WeChat.
After publishing, Yang Shu contacted Jiang Ning via WeChat.
Half a minute later, Jiang Ning shared Yang Shu’s post.
Simultaneously, the production team also issued their statement and shared Jiang Ning Studio’s illustration.
The statement by Yang Shu and the one by the production team had little material differences.
Both started by thanking netizens for their concern, briefly explaining the midday incident, and finally appealed to netizens to protect the privacy of guests, the filming privacy of the production team, not to spread the IP address of the filming, and not to rashly disturb those who posted videos to Douyin at noon.
[Heh heh, look at how Director Shen got scared, hahaha, back to the village one moment, releasing a statement the next?]
[Tut tut, look at the content of the statement, so full of a survival instinct, afraid netizens will troop into the village overnight]
[Haha, I can picture it.]