You Decide for Yourself

After dinner, Qi Si sat beside Yu Doudou and watched him do his homework.

He also gave him a few pointers along the way.

Zhou Linzhe glanced at the sky outside, looking somewhat hesitant.

Qi Si noticed and said blandly, "Want to go out? Then go. Sitting here and staring won't make what you're hoping for happen."

Zhou Linzhe looked back at Qi Si without saying anything, then turned and returned to his room.

Qi Si snorted.

"Brother, can you solve this problem?"

Qi Si lowered his head and looked at Yu Doudou's workbook. It was a math problem.

"You need to calculate this one like this..."

Zhou Linzhe thought he had hidden it well, but Qi Si was not blind.

Ever since dinner, he had been standing at the door and looking outside. Everyone knew perfectly well what he was looking for.

Wasn't he just watching to see whether Lin Weiwei would come over?

Or maybe he wanted to go find Lin Weiwei himself, but at night, he did not know what excuse to use.

Qi Si could not understand what there was to agonize over.

If he wanted to go, he should just go!

The production team had not said they were not allowed to visit the other guests.

Forget it. It had nothing to do with him anyway.

It was not like he was the one who liked Lin Weiwei.

After helping Yu Doudou with his homework, Qi Si sat chatting with Grandma Yu.

Zhou Linzhe came out carrying a change of clothes, ready to take a shower.

Grandma Yu asked, "Where are you going, child?"

"To take a shower," Zhou Linzhe answered, his feet not slowing in the slightest.

Bathing in the countryside was not so convenient, and not every household had a water heater installed.

Even those that did mostly used solar water heaters, and their hot water supply was limited.

Grandma Yu's home did have a water heater. Yu Doudou's parents had installed it when they came back last year.

But Grandma Yu rarely used it. Usually, she only turned it on occasionally when Yu Doudou bathed during colder weather.

Most of the time, she simply boiled water and wiped herself down.

There was not much hot water to begin with. Zhou Linzhe and Qi Si had already showered once before dinner, so there was probably not much hot water left now.

"You're showering again?" Grandma Yu froze for a moment, then patted her leg and stood up. "Then there won't be enough hot water. I'll go boil some for you."

Zhou Linzhe stopped and turned back, asking in confusion, "Why wouldn't there be enough hot water?"

Qi Si rolled his eyes. "Second Young Master Zhou, do you think this is your home? Grandma Yu's water heater is solar-powered. There's only so much hot water every day. The sun has already set—where do you think you're getting hot water from?"

Grandma Yu's solar water heater did not have a self-heating function, so without sunlight, there was no hot water.

Grandma Yu herself was not so particular. If there was no hot water, then there was no hot water. Boiling water worked just as well.

But this was clearly Zhou Linzhe's first time encountering such a situation. For a moment, he was baffled and at a loss.

Qi Si could not help laughing. "I say, young master, do you have a cleanliness obsession or something?"

After asking, he suddenly remembered how Zhou Linzhe had changed his own bedding at noon and felt that he might have asked a pointless question.

"Even if you do have one, there's nothing you can do. These are the conditions here. The water heater can't provide enough water for you to scrub that skin of yours three or four times a day."

In fact, Qi Si thought the conditions here were already pretty good, considering they even had a solar water heater.

In places with even harsher conditions, there was no bathroom at all.

Qi Si suddenly felt relieved. Fortunately, he did not have a cleanliness obsession. He was merely cleaner than most people.

But with no other option, he could adapt quickly enough.

A long time ago, someone had said he was like a seed in the desert—give him even the slightest chance to survive, and he could take root and sprout. His adaptability was exceptionally strong.

Qi Si thought so too.

He was not someone who would mistreat himself, but neither was he someone unable to endure hardship.

Having something nice was great. Not having it was fine too.

Qi Wang watched Qi Si adapt so well to Grandma Yu's home through the livestream, his eyes darkening slightly.

In the end, Zhou Linzhe still did not get to take a shower.

Just as Qi Si had said, the water heater's supply had long since been used up by the two of them earlier that evening.

Zhou Linzhe had no concept of how much hot water there was, so naturally, he had no awareness of conserving it while showering.

If Qi Si had not deliberately controlled the water flow when he showered, he would probably have frozen to death halfway through.

It was not summer anymore. This place was also somewhat northward, and the chill of winter was already in the air.

People in the countryside went to bed early. Not long after dinner, Grandma Yu was already preparing to return to her room to sleep.

Qi Si checked the time and saw that it was not even eight o'clock. His face immediately fell.

He had not gone to sleep this early in years. This was ridiculous!

But there was nothing else to do for entertainment if they did not sleep, so the two could only return to their rooms.

Qi Si could not sleep, and naturally, neither could Zhou Linzhe.

The livestream viewers could not sleep either!

[Holy crap! No way, are they really going to sleep this early?]

[What young person goes to bed this early?!]

[Lin Weiwei and Shen Shuyu next door are still playing cards with Wang Abao and her younger brother. (facepalm)]

[Their group is the only one with something to do. The other two groups also went back to their rooms early.]

[This show is kind of boring...]

The livestream viewers had barely finished saying the show was boring when the screen abruptly went black with a pop.

Viewers: ???

Where's my livestream? Where are my four livestreams?!

Xiang Qianchong looked at the audience's wailing and snorted. "Boring? Then stop watching if it's boring!"

"..." The planners and producers beside him wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.

It was obvious now—the biggest obstacle to this show becoming popular was the director himself!

Early the next morning.

While all the guests were still asleep, the production team's bus slowly drove into the village.

The bus stopped at the village entrance, and a tall figure stepped down from it.

The next second, a staff member came forward, took his luggage, and handed him a handheld camera.

"Your task this morning is to wake up the other guests. Livestream the entire process and record their reactions," Xiang Qianchong said.

"What about the female guests? Isn't it inappropriate to just go in and wake them up?" the man asked with some displeasure.

Xiang Qianchong said, "Anyway, your task is to wake them up. As for how you do it, you decide for yourself."