Everyone was worried it would be another task requiring the children to complete it alone, like in the morning. That would put them at too much of a disadvantage.
When Huang Yiping saw that the time was about right, he called everyone to gather. After counting and recounting, he realized one group was missing.
“Where’s Di Youyou?”
Huang Yiping immediately sent someone to look for them, only to find the siblings sound asleep in a corner.
The cameraman was quite sneaky, quietly moving over to Li Jingmo and Di Youyou’s side, capturing their pleasing sleeping faces, waiting for the post-production team to add funny subtitles for the siblings.
Because Li Jingmo had been obscure enough before, almost only people in the singing circle knew him.
And before Mayor Qin Chenghao introduced this pair of siblings, Huang Yiping only knew that something involving them and Fu Jie had apparently trended on Weibo.
He figured it was probably compensation from higher-ups for the siblings, asking him to bring Li Jingmo onto this variety show.
Therefore, Huang Yiping definitely wouldn’t give them special treatment. After all, being able to appear on this show was already the best support for an obscure figure like Li Jingmo in the entertainment industry.
What Huang Yiping also found unfathomable about this family was Di Youyou. Today, he needed to focus on observing this little one.
Everyone truly admired the siblings’ composed and unruffled attitude, as steady as Mount Tai.
“Li Jingmo, wake up!”
The assistant director suppressed a laugh and quickly stepped forward to shake Li Jingmo awake.
These siblings were really young, able to fall asleep just like that in such a setting.
Li Jingmo woke up, saw everyone waiting for them, and hurriedly got up to rouse the little piglet in his arms.
“Little sister, little sister!
We have to start doing tasks again, wake up quickly.”
Anyone would be unhappy the moment they regained consciousness if someone was in their ear telling them to hurry up and go work like a beast of burden.
Di Youyou was no exception.
The little one ‘smacked’ Li Jingmo hard across his handsome face.
Li Jingmo wasn’t even angry, instead guiltily stroking Di Youyou’s little cheek.
If he weren’t so useless, still unable to make a name for himself, his little sister wouldn’t have to suffer like this with him.
Still mindful of others’ feelings, Li Jingmo picked up the still-eyes-closed Di Youyou and quickly walked over to join the group.
For some reason, Gu Sihan just couldn’t stand this pair of siblings.
Especially when Li Jingmo picked up his sister, Gu Sihan instinctively wanted to rush over and chop the guy’s hands off.
Gu Sihan thought it was just a matter of destined incompatibility, so he simply stopped looking at the siblings.
He focused only on Gu Mingzhu standing by his feet.
As Di Youyou reached the front and was hit by a warm breeze, she was already somewhat awake.
The little one sat up, yawned, then hugged Li Jingmo’s neck and leaned back against him.
But her little ears perked up, listening carefully.
Huang Yiping didn’t care about the rest. Whether they could have outstanding performances on this show still depended on the guests themselves.
Every family that agreed to join this parent-child program hoped their child would have a good development platform in the future.
To put it bluntly, Huang Yiping wished these young children would reveal more personality flaws on camera, as it would add more topics and discussion points for the show.
“This afternoon, the program team will lead the children to Adie Village, ten kilometers below Xiangshan, to complete farming tasks. The parents, on the other hand, must stay on the mountain and remotely assist the children to obtain the quantity of farming tools.
The children will also need to be ranked based on their hard work throughout the day. Whoever performs the best labor will receive more ingredients.
Your parents can then use these ingredients to prepare your dinner.”
Huang Yiping’s words were not difficult to understand. The parents were mainly concerned about whether their children could properly complete Director Huang’s arrangements.
The children were all a bit confused, but that was okay—the overall direction would be controlled by the program team.
Huang Yiping then explained the accommodation arrangements for the evening.
“Your accommodation arrangements for tonight will require a joint vote from all seven families.
Later, everyone can raise their hands to vote for the guest group you think performed the best today, who will then get priority in choosing the best rooms…”
The children didn’t quite understand yet, but the expressions among the adults became rather intriguing.
After all, who wouldn’t want to stay in a good room?
Voting to let others have the best room—wasn’t this deliberately creating rifts between everyone?
Even Di Youyou looked up at Huang Yiping in surprise. This director really seemed to enjoy stirring up trouble!
“Alright, now the parents can separate from your children.
The children will follow me to take the cable car down the mountain and then board the bus. As for the parents, you’ll need to work hard. What tools your children can obtain depends on your performance in the next hour.”
Huang Yiping smiled meaningfully.
Not just Gu Sihan, but several others regretted having boarded this pirate ship.
They had thought bringing their children to the show to muddle through would boost their popularity.
Who would have thought they were truly here to suffer? Probably except for Di Youyou and her brother, everyone else’s stomachs had been singing the “Empty Fortress Strategy” nonstop since earlier.
They absolutely couldn’t skimp on dinner tonight; everyone was determined to give it their all. Let’s see what new tricks Huang Yiping could come up with?
As highly educated individuals, naturally, no one wanted to perform too poorly on the show.
Meanwhile, Huang Yiping was also setting traps for the children.
“Oh dear, what should we do?
There are seven of you children, but we only have three cable cars. Each cable car can only seat two children, so one person will be left alone!”
The youngest among them were Gu Mingzhu and Di Youyou.
The other five children could already understand the implication in Huang Yiping’s words.
Li Taiyang’s expression was the first to turn grim.
His father had told him earlier that he was the oldest among the seven children and, as the big brother, he needed to take good care of the younger siblings.
But Li Taiyang was genuinely scared now. He had never been separated from his father to act alone before, and this uncle wearing black sunglasses with a sleazy tone was very unpleasant.
He really didn’t want to be left alone on the mountain.
The second oldest, Zhao Yanan, had a straightforward personality, but her mother had just made an agreement with Yun’er’s mother, saying they should help each other with anything.
Her family had already promised to take care of Ji Yun’er, so Zhao Yanan couldn’t go back on her word.
Zhao Yanan walked straight over to child star Ji Yun’er and took her little hand, her intention clear without words.
Gu Mingzhu reacted quickly. Di Youyou had stolen the spotlight all by herself that morning, and they were the same age. If they had to do heavy work later, not only would Di Youyou be unable to help, she would probably hold them back.
So Gu Mingzhu immediately chose Ma Lili, one of the “sisters in misery” who had gone hungry with her that morning.
At least her brother had given their family money that morning. Gu Mingzhu believed Ma Lili wasn’t the type to turn a blind eye to money.
By following her, if nothing else, money was definitely something that wouldn’t be in short supply.