What kind of person can be called a psychic craftsman?
Can you embroider a lifelike animal? Will you cook a table full of color and flavor? Good at making all kinds of small toys?
In the past six months, watermelon video creator "Lin Guo'er" has shown a different "spiritual skill". With a series of "hardcore" videos of repairing chainsaws, generators, and pumps, she managed to gain 1.34 million followers.
The post-90s graduate of the hydropower major proved with strength that "the hands-on ability of engineering women is really good" and "girls can also be repairmen".
In the first issue of "Repair the Uncle's 5 Horsepower Dilapidated Diesel Engine", Lin Guo'er verified online the simple truth that "old electrical appliances should not be thrown away, repaired, and the children next door are hungry".
In the video, due to the strike of the diesel engine playing sweet potato flour, the uncle asked Lin Guo'er to repair it. Only to see her find this rusty machine from the corner of the garbage pile.
Lin Guo'er was like an old Chinese medicine doctor, looking and asking first. She said to the camera, "Externally, the cylinder head is broken, the decompression is broken, and the fuel tank cover is gone." Listen to the inside again, the sound inside is not quite right. ”
After the diagnosis, it enters the "surgical opening" link that netizens love to watch. She pulled out eighteen repair props: screwdrivers, hammers, wrenches, electric drills... To remove the old bolts, she even used electric welding.
As the cylinder head, camshaft, etc. are dismantled one after another. She examines the inside of the cylinder. "No problem with the side cover, no problem with the tiles, no problem with the pistons." Finally, she analyzed that the diesel engine was not working because of decompression failure and clogged circulating water holes.
The next step is to repair and clean. She poked open the blocked water hole and slowly removed the rust. Then use casting glue and angle grinder to repair broken water tanks and other items.
Disgusted that the old tank lid was too ugly, she pulled out the iron plate in the yard and cut out the shape. It is then reforged with electric welding. Washed, sprayed, dried and reassembled. The time has come to witness miracles
Netizens joked, "It's not easy to repair it, what is the matter with buying a new one?" In the end, Lin Guo'er and his uncle tried the machine together. With a rumbling sound, the elderly diesel engine is "resurrected"!
In addition to the diesel engine, Lin Guo'er has also repaired the mixer of the contractor foreman, the water pump of the elderly living alone, the generator of the neighbor's house... As a result, she was jokingly called "the woman who contracted the mechanical and electrical maintenance of the whole village" by netizens.
Lin Guo'er said that maintenance only needs to charge material fees, free of labor costs. She likes to challenge complex point repairs, and too simple electrical repairs will refuse. Some netizens speculated that she was a graduate of a technical school, and Lin Guo'er responded that she graduated from Kunming University in 17 years majoring in water conservancy and hydropower engineering, "which is also considered to be a science class." ”
Lin Guo'er's hometown is located in a mountain village in Zhaotong County, Yunnan Province. In 2019, she rented a plot of land in the mountains. A man set up a wooden pavilion, paved it with cement, and adopted a small yellow dog.
Because of the inconvenience of electricity in her new place, she went to the scrap store last April to buy an old generator. She filmed the repair process and didn't expect the video to get 55,000 likes. Realizing that netizens like to watch maintenance appliances, she began to focus on this content. In the following six months, Lin Guo'er had 12 maintenance-themed works that exceeded one million views on watermelon videos.
Talking about the reasons for the popularity of the work, she said that the most feedback received from netizens was that "the video is very stress-relieving.". But it's hard to imagine that before the maintenance work exploded, Lin Guo'er often felt overwhelmed by life.
Lin Guo'er's parents divorced from childhood, and he and his brother lived with their grandparents. At the age of 6, she began learning to do laundry and cook, grow potatoes and cut grass and feed pigs. When she was 15 years old, she felt that her family was poor, hid her high school acceptance letter, and ran to the county to work as a nanny. Eventually, her aunt scolded her back on the phone, "You are a girl with no background, you don't learn what you can do."
Lin Guo'er decided to go back to school, but the problem of money remained unresolved. Her younger brother, who is 1 year younger, dropped out of school and worked in a restaurant to help her finish high school. After the college entrance examination, she applied for the major of water conservancy and hydropower engineering, and the professional name sounded cool. In 2017, she was interning at a bidding company in Kunming as a senior, intending to stay in the big city. In June, Grandma died suddenly of kidney failure and was not able to see her in her bachelor's uniform. Lin Guo'er realized the preciousness of family affection and chose to return to her hometown and accompany her grandfather. There were not many job opportunities in her hometown, and she prepared for the civil service exam at the suggestion of her grandfather.
In April 2018, in addition to preparing for the exam, she took a picture of her hometown life and posted it to the video platform. When it was time for dinner in the evening, she opened the app, and the number of likes for the work had exceeded 10,000. After the results of the civil servants were announced, Lin Guo'er was not admitted. So she decided to try a video. Lin Guo'er's idea was very simple, "If you make it bigger, you may be able to make some money."
Grandpa Lin Guo'er was a carpenter and stonemason. Since she was a child, she learned her craft from her grandfather and chose the direction of manual video. Bamboo from her hometown, which is full of mountains, has become the raw material for her production. She built a bamboo house with her bare hands, built a bamboo bridge in front of a ditch, and tried to put a bamboo shell on the induction cooker. Lin Guo'er likes to run to the mountains, lie in the bamboo forest, listen to the cicadas, accompanied by the sound of the wind, and steal half a day of idleness. Looking back on that time, Lin Guo'er was full of smiles. "It fulfilled my childhood dream of paradise."
However, Lin Guo'er's "Taoyuan Dream" lasted less than 1 year. She can't make money making videos or explaining what she's doing to the people around her. Under financial pressure, she worked as a cashier in a pharmacy. Acquaintances could not help but be surprised to see her, "You're a college student, do this?" She left after staying for half a month, "feeling too humiliated and not asking for a salary."
Under all kinds of pressure, in December 2018, she interrupted her video career. After that, Lin Guo'er's life was repeatedly tug-of-war between taking the civil service examination institution and doing videos. In July 2019, she realized that she still likes to make videos and likes that sense of freedom. So she decided to run the account again.
Later stories are like Shuangwen. The number of followers on her new account is growing rapidly. At the beginning of the year, she heard that the video partner plan in the release of watermelon video, and she could make money by publishing works. She was moved and chose to join. In July, she went viral in watermelon videos. The first repair video was played over a million times. At present, she relies on the video partner plan to share, with a monthly income of about 30,000 yuan.
This money has a special effect on Lin Guo'er. Lin Guo'er began to give Grandpa money, sometimes 200, sometimes 500. In the winter, she bought a pair of shoes for her grandfather, who was reluctant to wear them and kept them in the cupboard. The neighbor said to Grandpa, your granddaughter can't make a lot of money by recording repair videos. Grandpa didn't believe in asking Lin Guo'er, can you still make money by shooting videos? Lin Guo'er smiled and replied, "Sent by the video platform."
Lin Guo'er, who earned money, also enrolled his brother in driving school. She hoped to double her retribution for her younger brother. Lin Guo'er secretly swore that he must be good to the people around him.
Now she runs to the maintenance place every morning to tinker with the motor, feed the dog when she is tired, and take pictures. She came home once every two or three days to help grandpa sort out the housework and cook a good table. She loves the unpredictable weather in the mountains and the unpredictable failures before the plane is dismantled. Love the security of having loved ones close at hand.
Because the maintenance items are old, the repair site is hidden in the landscape. Some netizens named Lin Guo'er's work "I repair "cultural relics" in the deep mountains." She loved the name. Lin Guo'er said that this was the life she longed for.
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