Any clues on the whereabouts of Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou? Annabel Yao fails to debunk rumors, Yu Ge reports safety: The innocent need no defense! Sulfur bamboo shoots strike, victims of the mass poisoning involving a hundred people are humiliated: A refund of 7 yuan each! (Old Beijing Teahouse / Episode 1748 / 2026/09/19)
This episode covers several hot political and social events: the ongoing fallout from Huawei's Yao Anna threatening a netizen and the subsequent denials from various parties; rumors regarding Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou facing political pressure and details of a US court trial; blogger Yu Lie Qi Ge exposing unscrupulous merchants in Qingyuan, Guangdong, using sulfur to fumigate bamboo shoots, and the local official response; the controversy surrounding a mass food poisoning incident involving over 100 people at Huludao Zhizhen Middle School in Liaoning, where the school only refunded 7 yuan per person; and campus chaos such as the lockdown of Changchun Medical College and students at Shanxi Medical University being required to purchase their own ladders.
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As for the aftermath of Huawei's second princess Yao Anna threatening to kill a netizen's entire family, here is the update. You already know about the previous incident: a netizen asked why Huawei hadn't responded to rumors about Ren Zhengfei fleeing abroad and whether Huawei was truly in trouble. Yao Anna flew into a rage, greeting the netizen's entire family and saying, "You trash don't know what class you live in; I can have your whole family killed with a single phone call." After this, public opinion exploded. Every netizen who saw this reply was shocked by the cruelty of the Huawei princess, exclaiming that the halo of a wealthy heiress couldn't hide her low quality. Even if she was upset about her family's situation, threatening a netizen like this already suspected of committing the crime of making death threats. Some netizens even suspected that state security (MSS) personnel had taken control of Yao Anna's account, reasoning that the style of the threat to kill the entire family was almost identical to how state security agents used to threaten netizens—it was a total mess.
Later, there was a major reversal in public opinion. On one hand, a rumor-refuting post allegedly from Yao Anna began to spread wildly online; on the other hand, countless CCP overseas propaganda (Da Wai Xuan), Little Pink, and wumao accounts began to steer the narrative, insisting that the screenshot of Yao Anna threatening the netizen was a photoshopped fake. For a time, the waters were muddied, and it was hard to tell what was real. Let's look at the specifics. First, the so-called denial post from Yao Anna stated: "Hello everyone, I am Anna. Regarding the recent rumors online that I intimidated a commenter on Xiaohongshu, I solemnly deny this here. The screenshot is a malicious photoshop and was absolutely not posted by me. This fabrication has caused me distress, and we will handle it seriously, blah blah blah. I will continue to work diligently, please rest assured. Note: I am giving out benefits to everyone at the end, free delivery coupons and milk tea gift packs, blah blah blah. I hope everyone eats and drinks well, thank you for your concern." Now, let's look at the posts from Yao Anna's fans and various unidentified accounts refuting the rumors on her behalf. The rhetoric was basically: "This is obviously fake. Which public figure would post such remarks? Yao Anna's IP location is shown in Guizhou, but the IP in the screenshot is Beijing; the locations don't even match. Also, why are the size and position of the avatar and name in the screenshot different? It's a confirmed photoshop, don't be misled by fake images."
After reading this kind of analysis, I am a bit confused. Could it be that Annabel Yao's fans and the Little Pinks driving the narrative have truly never used a VPN? Once a VPN is used, the IP address on social media is displayed randomly. This means that assuming Annabel Yao was actually in Guizhou and logged into social media using a VPN, her IP address could appear anywhere in China—Jiangsu, Gansu, Beijing, Heilongjiang, or Hainan are all possible. Therefore, it is entirely possible that the IP address in that threatening screenshot was located in Beijing. Of course, others have pointed out that if the comment was really written by Annabel Yao, different versions of the screenshots should have been leaked online. Because if different netizens had seen it in the first place, the page layouts in the screenshots would look different depending on the phone model. Personally, I feel this point is indeed worth observing. Could it be that very few people saw it initially, or that netizens within the Great Firewall saw it but dared not easily publish it to avoid bringing trouble upon themselves? All in all, seeing the debunking claims becoming increasingly dense really leaves one a bit dazed. Fortunately, another important party in this incident has come forward to speak out—he is the netizen "Feather Brother Dragon Striding Across the World" (羽哥龙行天下) who triggered the Huawei princess's fury.
After it was rumored that Annabel Yao threatened to kill a netizen's entire family, Feather Brother Dragon Striding Across the World responded. How should I put it? Even though I live at the very bottom of society, and even though the life and death of my entire family are in the hands of the princess, neither the underworld nor the official authorities will change an ordinary citizen's original intention to seek the truth. After all, this is still a country ruled by law. I don't know if Feather Brother managed to keep a straight face when typing out those words "country ruled by law." Perhaps Feather Brother was deliberately messing with us, or perhaps while flattering the Party and the State, he was reminding Annabel Yao and all the underworld and official forces that your Party Mommy wants to build a chastity arch. If you really want to act fiercely, please first assess whether it will smash the sign of the Party's so-called country ruled by law and cause trouble or annoyance to the General Secretary. After this, many people began @ing Feather Brother Dragon Striding Across the World to ask, "Did she really reply to you?" Feather Brother replied that there were screenshots in the comment section. Netizen Little Old Liu said it had already been hidden by the backend, probably visible only to himself, and Feather Brother replied to Little Liu that it had been deleted by Xiaohongshu. Afterwards, Feather Brother responded to more netizens asking, "I didn't pay attention, it doesn't matter. I just care about Huawei. I hope it's a rumor, and the upright are self-explanatory." He also said he hoped everyone would focus on the facts themselves, that scolding doesn't matter, who scolds doesn't matter, and whether it's a rumor doesn't matter either—believing no rumors, spreading no rumors, and respecting only the facts.
Later on, more and more netizens began to remind Feather Brother to mind his safety. Feather Brother responded, "Okay, from now on I will report that I am safe every day." Other netizens asked, "Brother, are you scared?" Feather Brother replied, "So scared, especially scared. If I'm not here one day, remember to help me call the police and find a regular police station." On September 18, Feather Brother posted an update reporting safety, and accidentally got scolded, but he is still alive and well. On the morning of September 18, on the X platform, a netizen said that it can basically be confirmed to be true. I went to verify it again; Feather Brother Dragon Striding Across the World's posts from June used to have several left, but now only one remains. It is estimated that someone else asked about this matter under another June post, and he replied under it again, so those posts were deleted again. I checked it a few hours ago and should have taken a screenshot of all his posts, but unfortunately, I didn't think of that point. Now when I go to look, only one of his June posts is left. It can be seen that although Feather Brother may still be safe at present, his account has already been targeted by the Cyberspace Administration of China or even the police station. Moving against him or not depends entirely on a word from above.
Sigh, after reading the mutual tearing between debunking and anti-debunking on social media, the calm responses of the involved netizen, and the various subsequent bizarre developments, I feel a sort of inexplicable, formidable humor. This era is truly magical. Although we still have to thank the Cyberspace Administration of China for not deleting the posts of netizens who are reporting safety, reminding others to pay attention to safety, and making all kinds of discussions up to now, perhaps this can only explain one thing: something has truly happened to Huawei's Ren Zhengfei family. Otherwise, such posts would be deleted within seconds of appearing. Having said that, returning to Feather Brother's question that ignited public sentiment—why wasn't there a reply? Could something have really happened to Huawei? As of today, the news of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou fleeing has been out for more than a week. With such a huge public outcry, Huawei officials have completely failed to respond, and the CCP officials have completely refused to debunk the rumors either. Accompanied by a vacuum of truth, various rumors continue to circulate online.
On September 17, 2026, exclusive intelligence from the NFSC revealed that internal pressure at Huawei is intensifying. Reports indicate that NFSC intelligence shows escalating conflicts within Huawei. According to the intelligence, Xi Jinping is continuously exerting pressure on Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, while restrictions on the movements of Ren Zhengfei and his family are also tightening, including restrictions on his daughter's movements. According to the NFSC, since March 2026, a special working group from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been blah blah blah. In short, this struggle within Huawei is not just about a single company or a single family. Meanwhile, on September 9, shocking details emerged regarding the trial of Huawei's Meng Wanzhou in a U.S. court. Someone online relayed reports from foreign media stating that a very impactful scene appeared in this criminal trial of Huawei in the United States. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors played a 54-second surveillance video for the jury. The location was a locked robotics laboratory at T-Mobile. Prosecutors claimed that a Huawei employee in the footage entered the laboratory, walked up to the testing robot Tappy, reached out, removed a component from the back of the robot, and put it into a black backpack he was carrying. Prosecutors alleged that Huawei has been continuously stealing trade secrets from U.S. companies for the past 20 years. Huawei's lawyers flatly denied this, countering that the government was cherry-picking individual incidents over many years and blaming the entire company for the misconduct of a few employees.
The most impactful part is that this piece of evidence contains no complex algorithms or technical jargon; it is just a locked laboratory, a competitor's robot, a hand reaching out, and 54 seconds of surveillance. Huawei has always emphasized independent research and development, but now U.S. prosecutors are trying to convince the jury that there is another side to this story of independent innovation. X account Mr. Sanpiao provided a special breakdown: 1. The charge against Huawei in the U.S. is organized crime (RICO). If Huawei loses the case, it is not just a matter of paying money; if the entire enterprise is a criminal organization, it will be wiped out entirely. 2. To protect Huawei, the only strategy for the CCP's lawyers is to claim that the criminal acts were committed by individuals and have nothing to do with the company. 3. Who are these individuals? Five years ago, Meng Wanzhou reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. The U.S. dropped the extradition request, and Canada allowed Meng Wanzhou to return to China. The deferred prosecution agreement contained admissions of guilt. 4. Therefore, the individuals are Meng Wanzhou. 5. Since September 12, there have been rumors of Ren Zhengfei's entire family fleeing. Ren Zhengfei knows too much. If Ren Zhengfei flees, the CCP will definitely catch them, and the U.S. will also catch them because they are the actual controllers of the criminal organization, unless there is one possibility: they flee to the U.S. to cooperate with the investigation and become state's witnesses. 6. Ren Zhengfei's family, except for his youngest daughter Yao Anna who is not involved in Huawei's business, are all controlled by the CCP. As early as March this year, a special CCP group moved into Huawei to launch an investigation. 7. Awaiting official or personal news. In any case, for Ren Zhengfei to have worked for the CCP until his 80s only for his whole family to end up in such a state is truly a human tragedy.
By the way, as long as the CCP's special supply system is not abolished, the CCP's country does not need to overtake on a curve at all. Regulatory departments and unscrupulous merchants think in the same direction and exert effort in the same place, absolutely ensuring that the CCP's country will always lead the way in the track of poisonous food. Blogger Yu Lie Qi Ge, who previously exposed formaldehyde cabbage, once again exposed unscrupulous merchants in Guangdong using sulfur to smoke bamboo shoots in pursuit of extremely low costs and high profits. In this way, they can change the appearance of the bamboo shoots in a short time while extending their shelf life. On September 18, Yu Lie Qi Ge released a video recording the entire process of him and his partners secretly tracking unscrupulous merchants using sulfur to smoke bamboo shoots in Qingyuan, Guangdong. The whole process was like a thrilling detective movie. The blogger and his partners drove to track a large truck loaded with fresh bamboo shoots into a hidden forest. In order not to alert the enemy, the blogger recorded the location and waited until 5:00 AM the next day to search for evidence at the scene.
At dawn the next day, the blogger and others drove to the location. Through footage captured by a drone, they confirmed that the production site for the bamboo shoots was a hidden and enclosed forest. They sneaked into the production site from behind the forest and found that many trees and plants there had been killed by the poisonous sulfur smoke. The scene was filled with smoke, and the blogger felt some difficulty breathing. After walking closer, he saw piles of items covered with tarpaulins on the ground, with exhaust vents on them emitting smoke. He warned his partners to approach the tarpaulins slowly. They filmed white bags with the word "sulfur" on them piled up on the ground at the scene. Subsequent clips showed the merchants packing the smoked bamboo shoots and loading them onto trucks. There were two large trucks loading bamboo shoots. The blogger bought a bag of freshly packed bamboo shoots online, put on rubber gloves, and opened the bag. It was wrapped in two layers, and the black plastic bag inside was tied tightly. The blogger explained that this was to allow the sulfur to fully penetrate the bamboo shoots. As soon as the bag was opened, the pungent smell choked everyone present. The blogger jumped up and walked away, "My God."
The vlogger pulled two bamboo shoots out of a bag, bluntly stating that the smell was extremely pungent and that these bamboo shoots were inedible as their sulfur dioxide content exceeded standard levels by dozens or even hundreds of times. We have already tested them with instruments, and I looked it up: consuming a large amount of sulfur dioxide in a short period can cause nausea, vomiting, and in severe cases lead to acute poisoning or even shock. If they are fumigated with industrial sulfur, the hazards are even greater. Moreover, I believe that since they were already secretly fumigated to cut costs, using industrial sulfur is practically a certainty. In addition, because the fumigated sweet bamboo shoots contain heavy metals such as arsenic (white arsenic), lead, and mercury, long-term ingestion damages the liver and kidneys and carries a cancer risk. Needless to say, these unscrupulous merchants in Qingyuan will likely claim it's unfair: gutter oil, melamine, Sudan red, earth-vat pickled cabbage, formaldehyde cabbage—Chinese people's bodies are almost about to complete the periodic table, so what's a little more sulfur dioxide for us? If you're not convinced, let's just hurt each other.
Speaking of which, let's insert a bit of popular science: the total industrial chain output value of Qingyuan sweet bamboo shoots reached 10.965 billion yuan in 2025, making it a local pillar industry, and Xiniu sweet bamboo shoots are even a national geographical indication protected product in China. Therefore, this exposure by influencer Yu Liewu unsurprisingly triggered a trust crisis for Qingyuan sweet bamboo shoots, and local regulatory authorities had to step up and make a statement—the legendary fire-extinguishing act. On September 18, the Qingyuan Municipal Market Supervision Bureau in Guangdong issued a notice stating that after on-site verification, the illegal use of sulfur to fumigate sweet bamboo shoots by individual dens was true. Currently, the dens involved have been sealed off, and relevant departments are urgently tracing the flow of this batch of poisoned sweet bamboo shoots while carrying out a comprehensive inspection across the city. Staff members of the Yuetan Town Government in Qingqing District also said that this situation is an isolated case, and the site has already controlled and confiscated a portion of the fumigated bamboo shoots, but the specific figures are temporarily inconvenient to disclose. Just listen to that—figures inconvenient to disclose. In my opinion, they are probably afraid that if the number is said to be too small, it won't fool the public's eyes and might trigger greater public opinion, while if it's too large, the government won't stand for it—once the pillar industry collapses, what will the leaders use for promotion? So they can only muddle through with a mysterious "inconvenient to disclose," and if you ask again, are you trying to pick quarrels and provoke trouble?
As it turns out, vegetable safety incidents have been frequently exposed recently. On August 22, Yu Liewu exposed the chaos of formaldehyde cabbage in Kangbao County, Hebei; on September 5, netizens reported that dyed lettuce existed in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu; and on September 18, Yu Liewu exposed sulfur-fumigated bamboo shoots in Qingyuan, Guangdong, once again. Speaking of the internet age, it is indeed not bad; netizens not only did the jobs of local regulatory authorities everywhere, but also slapped them hard in the face. The party media Guangming Daily couldn't stand it anymore and righteously questioned why sulfur-fumigated bamboo shoots were exposed by netizens yet again, stating that having learned a bitter lesson, regulatory authorities ought to reflect and take action, and that while we can thank netizens for their supervision, we cannot sit back and wait for netizen supervision—only by taking the initiative can we prevent problems before they occur. Thus, regulatory authorities everywhere immediately understood and received the message: in the future, they will definitely step up monitoring efforts and list restless vloggers like Yu Liewu into internal facial recognition blacklists, ensuring they are detained and persuaded to return as soon as they cross our provincial borders. This makes me want to humbly remind Guangming Daily: solving food security is very simple—just have Zhongnanhai eat the same food as the common people, and I guarantee all kinds of high-tech and harsh additives will vanish overnight. What do you think, tea friends?
Nowadays, running schools under the CCP also follows the tenet of serving the renminbi wholeheartedly. Regardless of whether they are public or private, while frantically gathering wealth, they inevitably trample on the physical and mental health of students. The most typical examples are the frequent outbreaks of large-scale, vicious food safety incidents in schools. Of course, small-scale ones are also unbearable with even higher disgust indices—for instance, in June 2023, the rat head duck neck incident at the public Jiangxi Vocational and Technical College of Industry went down in history as a modern-day version of calling a deer a horse, while the cafeteria outsourcing company came out completely unscathed. The latest food safety incident occurred on the evening of September 16 at Zhizhen Middle School in the Dongdahe New Area, Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning Province, where a collective student poisoning incident took place. It is said that a hundred or so people were sent to the hospital. Although the official authorities did not report the number of poisoned people, concerned citizens and reporters contacted the receiving hospitals and learned that more than 80 children went for medical treatment on the night of the 16th. In addition, three other local hospitals received multiple students from this middle school who were feeling unwell. Videos circulating online show that many students at Zhizhen Middle School suffered from vomiting and diarrhea after dining in the cafeteria, with dozens of severely ill students being rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, and some students continuing to vomit in the hospital.
It is understood that after the food poisoning incident, many parents went to the school to protest, but the school officials did not come forward to respond, and the school continued normal teaching. Parents went to the school to protest, and then the most bizarre scene occurred: some parents revealed that a principal told the students after the incident, "Since you all vomited, I will refund your 7 yuan meal fee." After hearing this, I felt like vomiting myself. In the CCP-ruled country, the lives of students are worth so little—vomiting and diarrhea are only worth 7 yuan, not a penny more. Then the official report came, stating that the cause of the incident was preliminarily judged to be acute gastroenteritis in students caused by improper cooking and processing of food in the school canteen. You see, they just glossed over it with the word "improper." As for which ingredients were used, how they were processed, and why they became toxic, not a single word was mentioned. Consequently, various rumors erupted: some said it was mushroom poisoning, some said it was undercooked green beans, and some parents revealed that it was spoiled pork in the school canteen that caused the poisoning. Other parents disclosed that their children had recently complained that the food quality in the school canteen was very poor, sometimes containing insects, cigarette butts, and green, smelly eggs. An insider hit the nail on the head: currently, the management of canteens and dormitories in all schools in Liaoning Province has been fully outsourced to labor dispatch companies. These companies generally offer low wages and no social security, so food safety problems occur frequently, and food poisoning is not surprising at all.
Coincidentally, something that happened recently at a school in Changchun was also likely caused by an outsourced canteen. On September 16, netizens revealed that Changchun Medical College suddenly began to implement strict campus lockdown management. For example, if students wanted to take leave, they first had to have their parents send a WeChat message to the counselor, and then the students themselves had to print a leave slip on A4 paper and run to the office to get the counselor's signature for approval. Moreover, if any link in this process was not completed—that is, if the parents did not apply for leave or the counselor did not sign the paper leave slip—the student could not leave the campus. It is conceivable that the students were certainly not happy about this, questioning one after another if the school had regressed to the era of pandemic lockdowns. Then news spread that the reason the school suddenly implemented closed management was to force students to stay on campus and spend money, including spending in the school canteen and supermarket, mainly the canteen. Because fewer people were eating there and the canteen was making less money, they had to lock the students up for management. However, there has been no response from the school regarding these reports so far. Anyway, they have already locked the students up first, and the wallets of the outsourced canteen operators and the school leaders are visibly bulging—it is a win-win situation.
Public schools are also ruthless when it comes to exploiting students. Recently, Shanxi Medical University set a perfect example. In the video, a parent helplessly describes the bizarre experience of having to buy a ladder for the student dormitory beds at the Shanxi Medical University Zhongdu campus because there were no ladders provided. In the video, many parents can be seen going to shops on the street to buy ladders and carrying them to the school, where the students install the ladders onto the upper bed frames themselves. In the video's comment section, when interacting with students' parents and netizens, it was revealed that buying a ladder on the street cost 200 RMB, far exceeding the normal market price. However, the school only allowed parents to enter the school on the day of student registration, and they were not allowed in the next day, so parents had to buy them at high prices and install them for their children quickly, especially for the girls. Netizens questioned one after another that it was too outrageous for the school not to provide ladders for upper bunks, asking if they were colluding with merchants to harvest money from parents. Even more bizarrely, senior students at Shanxi Medical University calmly stated that they had lived there for three years without ladders. Well, putting aside whether they learned any medical knowledge over the years, each of them has developed the agile skill of leaping onto their beds, which can be considered as not wasting their youth and the school's cultivation. The school claims this is what they call comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetics, and labor—they have won completely.