When the birthday banquet ended, several guests stayed to help clean up. The host felt very embarrassed and, after declining several times, gave them extra packets of noodles before they left.
It's a local custom to serve noodles to guests at birthday banquets. In the past, it was instant noodles, but in recent years it has been replaced by dried noodles. As for whether the gift is good or bad, that depends on the host's budget and the sentiment behind it.
Qin Yue hadn't expected that they could bring back a few packets of noodles on this trip, and said with a smile, "That's perfect, it saves us some money."
The small shop also sells noodles, which are not expensive, just the market price. For supplies like these that can be easily bought just down the mountain, they don't seem to have any intention of raising prices.
At most, they'll charge a little extra for items that need to be kept fresh; overall, they're not really considered shady dealers.
But it's definitely not good value for money.
Although it was a small amount of money, they didn't have much cash on hand at the moment, and the cake and gold jewelry they bought for the elderly person, plus the reward money from the program team afterwards, all of which offset each other...
Break even.
Xia Zhiyi Wang Chengran's utterly devastated expression when he heard that her task had been marked as a failure due to cheating.
Qin Yue: "What are your plans for this afternoon? I'm thinking of going to the cornfield with Ranran to help out." Although she might not be able to do much work, she can't just stay cooped up in the house like a cook without doing anything.
Wang Chengran still a little dejected. "Waaaaah, my money..."
The others looked at each other, somewhat helpless, unsure of what to say.
Although Director Gong only stated that Wang Chengran cheated and therefore his score was invalid, without explaining the details, the guests, while not discussing it on camera last night, had likely sensed something was amiss and knew that Wang Chengran secretly slipped out. So, what exactly did he do to cheat...?
Moreover, according to Director Gong, Wang Chengran's behavior was cheating. However, for various reasons, the guests did not give gifts individually, but instead pooled their funds to prepare gifts for the elderly. Logically speaking Wang Chengran was part of their team in this task.
Wang Chengran's mission failed.
Then they should be considered failures.
The fact that Director Gong only counted Wang Chengran a failure and judged them as successful is quite subtle.
There's always this feeling that... the other party is trying to sow discord.
Xia Zhiyi hesitated for a moment, then said, " Brother Chengran."
Wang Chengran: "Hmm?"
Xia Zhiyi: "Do you remember asking you to do some physical work for me before?"
Wang Chengran after a moment, he remembered and said, "I remember, what's wrong? What are you going to do later?"
Xia Zhiyi: "Let's do some carpentry."
Qin Yue: "Aren't you doing any tasks this afternoon?"
Xia Zhiyi: "I've been thinking about it. The tasks we complete earn us points from the show, and those points can be spent in the shop. It seems like an unavoidable task, but..."
Xia Zhiyi smiled and said, "We're not living entirely in the wild. There's a town down the mountain. Although it's not as developed as a city, it can meet our basic needs. It's just that we don't need points."
Everyone turned to look at him.
Xia Zhiyi: "I feel like if I'm fixated on completing tasks, I'll be trapped by the production team. So, I want to try and see if I can learn a skill to earn some money."
He also helped replace the old furniture in the houses of a few elderly people in the village. He was skilled at this and wasn't afraid of failure.
Fu Yunyi, who had been silent the whole time, finally spoke up and asked Xia Zhiyi, "What do you want to do?"
Xia Zhiyi: " Brother Fu, do you want to try it together?"
Fu Yunyi hesitated for a moment.
Qin Yue and Xue Ranran exchanged a glance. Qin Yue stepped forward and said, "We currently have enough supplies for two days. If you want to try, you can go ahead and give it a shot. Xue Ranran and I will earn some points as a safety net."
Fortunately, the production team didn't require them to earn a certain number of points every day, otherwise Qin Yue wouldn't have dared to say that.
That would be too much pressure.
Xia Zhiyi: "Okay."
He had been to the market once and had a certain level of confidence, which is why he said that.
Otherwise, Xia Zhiyi would also need to take some time to do tasks and earn some guaranteed points.
Fu Yunyi thought for a moment and said, "I'll stay with you guys. If there's anything I can do to help, I'll stay; if not, I'll do the tasks myself." There's no reason to pile all the work on the female guests.
And so the agreement was reached.
On the other side, Director Gong, who overheard the conversation between the group in the live stream, glanced at the viewers who were divided on the screen and frowned slightly when he saw one of their comments.
[The old lady is so pitiful. She was just used as a tool by these guests. They were so generous with the gifts, but would they have been this generous if it weren't for filming a TV show?]
Director Gong tilted his head slightly and said to the staff, "Guide them a bit."
"OK."
Then, Director Gong called over the assistant director and asked, "Did you hear what Xia Zhiyi just said? What are your thoughts?"
The assistant director hesitated for a moment, then said, "If Teacher Xia can really make things to sell, wouldn't our shop be a bit redundant?"
Director Gong raised an eyebrow at him and said, "Are you so sure he can make money?"
Assistant director. "I wasn't entirely convinced either, but his performance... it was so understated and confident, it seemed very believable."
It doesn't seem like he's just boasting; rather, it's because he's confident and knows he can do it that he feels so calm.
Qin Yue and the others probably felt the same way.
Director Gong thought for a moment and said, "Here's what we'll do: you go over and keep an eye on things personally. If Xia Zhiyi and the others really make money, we'll adjust the mission rewards and get some store discount cards or something."
Upon hearing this, the assistant director thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up. "In that case, if they want to save trouble and money and time, they still have to spend their money in our store!"
Director Gong smiled.
Do you think you can easily escape his grasp?
Besides, the production team hasn't made enemies with the guests, so there's no need for the guests to ignore more convenient options and stubbornly insist on going up and down the mountain every day to buy things.
Director Gong originally thought that Xia Zhiyi were at most just making small stools and tables, which were relatively easy.
result...
A few hours later, the two hashtags became trending topics.
#Xia Zhiyi seems to really want to teach me#
#What else can Xia Zhiyi?#
When the hashtag surged into the top ten, it was right during rush hour. Most people were either off work or going home from school, and many people were bored on the way or at home and would check the trending topics to see if there was anything new. After seeing this trending topic, they clicked on it out of curiosity and were then led to the live stream.
Director Gong silently watched the ever-increasing data, his hand trembling slightly as he lit his cigarette.