Chapter 100 (Catching Bugs)
Yun Mengjin helped Xie Lecheng comb her hair into a style exactly the same as her daughter's.
The two children's hair was about the same length, but Xie Lecheng's hair was messed up by Xie Yuan for a while, so Yun Mengjin spent a lot of effort to comb it smooth.
When she was combing Xie Lecheng's hair, Xie Yuan was standing not far away, glancing over from time to time to learn from her.
It’s not that he suddenly had a change of heart and decided to be a reliable father, but since he had accepted this body, Xie Lecheng was his daughter. In the long life ahead, he would be the only person that little Xie Lecheng could rely on.
Now Yun Mengjin is kind enough to help Xie Lecheng comb her hair, but what if Yun Mengjin is not willing to be kind tomorrow? What if the show is over?
It's impossible for Xie Yuan to just cut off Xie Lecheng's beautiful hair and raise her as a tomboy just to make things easier for himself, right?
So you still have to learn what you need to learn.
But for some things, the brain and eyes feel that you know how to do it, and then the hands say: If you can do it, then you go ahead!
Xie Yuan: “…”
Xie Yuan hadn't come back to his senses from his trance until Xie Lecheng had a beautiful little braid on her head.
...Is that it?
How did you do that? Just twist your hand around and ...
Just when it was quiet, a director suddenly came over and handed task cards to the parents one by one.
Yun Mian and Xie Lecheng each held one of Yun Mengjin's hands and stood on tiptoe to look at the card curiously.
This is a parent-child money-making task arranged by the program team.
The adults went to help fruit farmers in the next village harvest fruit and were paid 150 yuan a day.
The children go to the market to sell fruits. After selling for four consecutive days, each child will be given a pass to the amusement park, and they will also receive 50% of the profits from selling fruits.
As for the other tickets, adults need to buy them with their hard-earned money.
The program crew demonstrated the "double standards" to the fullest in front of the camera and the audience.
The children didn't understand what the profit percentage was. They only heard "selling fruit" and "amusement park" and became excited. Song Yu rushed over to hug Yunmian and cheered happily: "Sister~ Guoguo!"
Yunmian: "Yeah! Let's go find Brother Jiayuan!"
The three kids abandoned a group of difficult adults and ran out holding a task card with a map on it.
After finding Tang Jiayuan sitting on the side of the road staring at the ridges of the fields, the three children sat in a row beside him.
Yunmian tilted her head and asked him: "Brother, do you want to go on a mission with us? Help a farmer to sell fruits. He will give us money after selling them, and he will also invite us to the amusement park~"
Xie Lecheng stuffed the task card in his hand into Tang Jiayuan's arms and looked at him eagerly: "Brother Jiayuan, let's go together. This way, you won't have to go hungry after you earn money."
Little Song Yu nodded solemnly: "Brother, go and sell fruit."
Tang Jiayuan already knew a lot of words. He lowered his head and carefully read the task card. He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously, and said sullenly: "Okay, let's go sell fruit together to make money."
Yunmian: "Hide the money you earn and don't give it to your father~!"
Xie Lecheng: "Earn enough money to buy delicious food, but don't give it to your dad!"
Song Yu: "Make money!"
Children who are very sensible at a young age know the importance of money.
So today's task is mainly based on one word: making money!
The four little kids got on the small tricycle arranged by the director sister in a threatening manner, and arrived at the market, swaying and dizzy all the way.
The first thing the four kids did after getting off the car was to squat on the side of the road in a daze.
They don't get carsick, seasick, or airsick.
I never expected that I would get dizzy on a tricycle!
The four little ones were squatting on the side of the road, their backs forming a small group. From a distance, they looked like four silly little geese that had rested.
Yun Mian took a long time to relax before shaking her head and standing up with difficulty.
The other three little ones also stood up dizzyly.
They unfolded the mission card, studied the crude colorful map on it for a long time, and then wandered around the market aimlessly.
The market in the countryside is not as orderly as that in the city, but it is much more lively than that in the city.
Yunmian held Xie Lecheng's hand, and Tang Jiayuan held Song Yu's hand. The two teams of children walked and looked along, constantly exclaiming in confusion.
"Wow! That doll is so cute!" Xie Lecheng pointed at the blonde, blue-eyed model doll displayed at the store's storefront.
"Wow! Candied haws~" Song Yu looked up at the red candied haws tied on the straw rack and drooled.
"Look there! The chicken's legs are tied. Can't it fly away using its wings?" Tang Jiayuan ran to the old lady selling chickens and asked all kinds of stupid questions.
Yunmian, on the other hand, held the task card and went from stall to stall, politely calling each stall uncle or aunt, and then asked them in a soft voice if they knew the uncle who sold a lot of fruits.
When the sellers at the stalls saw this fair and clean little girl, they all answered her questions with a smile, kindly helped her find the way, and even stuffed two of their candies or snacks into her arms.
So after walking a few steps, Yun Mian's arms were full of food, and even a long bottle of bubble water.
She could only continue to thank these enthusiastic uncles and aunts one by one, and then after a grandma enthusiastically handed her a bag to help her put all the things in, she continued to walk in the direction everyone pointed, holding the task card.
Many viewers were filled with nostalgia when they saw this market.
Most of them were born in rural areas, or have lived in the countryside for some time. The lively and bustling atmosphere is difficult to experience in the city.
Especially when they saw the four children all with curiosity on their faces and being invited by their enthusiastic grandparents to eat and take something, they felt more at ease watching the live broadcast.
People always show more kindness and patience to children than to adults.
For example, at this moment, four children have received a lot of love, snacks and toys before they even arrived at their posts, while four adults have changed into farm work clothes, put on sleeves and sun hats, put aside all their celebrity airs, and listened carefully to the orchard owner explaining to them the precautions for picking fruits.
Netizens all feel that the program crew is clearly double-standard.
This program is designed to put these unreliable parents on the spot.
Because the chief director and planner of the program were both people who had suffered family persecution and had extremely unfortunate childhoods, the two collaborated many times when they grew up, and the idea of producing a variety show that exposes Chinese family parent-child relationships had long taken root in their minds and grew stronger.
Until they actually make this show.
In the interviews with media reporters and the one-person cats planned by directors, two women who are not particularly good-looking but have created countless programs loved by the audience sat in front of the camera and slowly analyzed their own thoughts and ideas as if they were chatting.
Finally, they all laughed and said, "In fact, we did this program on a whim. Before the program was completely over, before these children and parents had played their family roles well, we didn't know whether this program could redeem ourselves or redeem more friends and children who had unhappy childhoods because of their families."
They just want to expose it, to use facts to tell this society that has passed down filial piety for thousands of years, they want to say loudly: not all parents love their children selflessly and greatly, not all parents are competent and perfect, and not all parents are worthy of their children's respect and filial piety!
"We just want to tell those 'children' who are persecuted by their families that we can resist, and there is nothing wrong with our resistance. We should stop enduring the unfair parenting violence and oppression. Children are the responsibility of their parents, not puppets that their parents can manipulate at will."
Yunmian took the notebook and pen handed over by the director sister. From then on, every pound of fruit sold needed to be recorded. Fortunately, the children did not need to learn how to weigh.
But they need to calculate the money, and if they make a mistake, the parents will have to pay for it later.
After the director sister carefully told Yunmian these precautions, Yunmian nodded obediently, and then asked the staff uncles and aunts to help watch the stall, and she walked with her short legs among the crowd coming and going to look for the three lost teammates.
But she was small and short, and the dogs passing by were almost as tall as her. All she could see were adults' legs. Let alone finding anyone, she almost lost herself after running around.
Yunmian stood at the entrance of the busy market, a hint of confusion flashing in her clear eyes.
Oh no, I seem to have lost everyone. What should I do?
Will they be secretly captured by bad guys?
Yun Mian felt a little flustered and wanted to cry. She stood there blankly, pursing her lips and sniffing. She told herself to be strong while continuing to look for her three lost friends in the huge crowd.
On the other side, the other three children also panicked for a moment after realizing that they were separated from their friends.
Every child didn’t think that they were lost and ran far away. When they tearfully asked for help from the staff behind the camera, they all asked the same question: “…Are they lost?”
The audience who had expected this scene long ago: "..."
You guys really don’t think there’s anything wrong with you, guys?
If you weren't so happy when you let go of your hands and ran to your favorite shop, we wouldn't be so gloating now.
How about it? Are you panicking now? Are you anxious now that you can’t find anyone?
The only one who really felt sorry for him was the kid Yunmian who was focused on his task of selling fruits from beginning to end.
It's really hard for the child to have three unreliable friends.
Maybe the crew felt that the child standing in the crowd with tears in his eyes and looking around blankly was a bit pitiful, so the director simply drew an arrow on a small wooden board as a signpost, and pointed the direction to the aggrieved and helpless child behind the camera.
As a result, after going around in circles, Yunmian returned to the fruit stall where she started.
The remaining three little fools who had lost their way also reunited here with tears in their eyes.
The children couldn't wait to hug each other after seeing each other, and then complained to each other: "How did you all get lost? I looked for you for a long time!"
Anyway, in the world of children, they are smart and clever and can never get lost!
Yun Mian looked at the three people accusing each other, rubbed her face in confusion, and couldn't figure out how their thinking mode worked.
But no matter what, it’s great that no one got lost!
Next they will start selling lots of fruits on this stall~
Four kids sat in a row on small stools, but each one was shorter than the other. The fruit shelves were much taller than them. They could neither see the customers buying fruits outside, nor could the customers see the four small fruit sellers.
Xie Lecheng looked up and felt as if they were sitting in a wide and tall well.
"I know. This is the story our teacher told us about sitting in a well and looking at the sky." As the most knowledgeable child, Tang Jiayuan immediately thought of the famous fable.
While Yunmian led everyone to move their small stools to the front of the fruit stall and sit in a row, she was very curious to know what the story of "sitting in a well and looking at the sky" was.
Soon after, a few other kids sat in front of the fruit stand, with their hands folded in their pockets, listening to Brother Jiayuan telling the story of the little frog in the well chatting with the bird.
When Tang Jiayuan was telling the story, his speaking speed was steady, his articulation was clear and his pronunciation was good. In addition, the scene of four fair and tender little cubs sitting together in front of the stall attracted the attention of all passers-by, so more and more people gathered at the market to listen to the story.
After Tang Jiayuan finished telling this story, Yun Mian held up her face and couldn't help feeling distressed: "The little frog is so pitiful~"
Song Yu and Xie Lecheng nodded in unison: The little frog is so pitiful!
Tang Jiayuan scratched his head in confusion: "Why is it pitiful?"
The teacher clearly didn’t say that.
Yunmian puffed up her cheeks and said slowly, "The little frog has been at the bottom of the well since it was born and has never been out of it. Why can't the frog grow wings like a bird?"
Xie Lecheng also said gloomily: "Yesterday I saw an uncle drawing water from a well. The well was so deep and scary. Will the little frog have a nightmare if it stays in the well alone?"
Song Yu held a grapefruit as big as her head, rested her chin on it, and asked innocently, "Brother, why isn't the bird in the well?"
The three illiterate kids asked a series of questions. Tang Jiayuan was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head in shame: "I don't know either. I'll ask the teacher next time I go back to school, and then I'll tell you the answer, okay?"
The three little ones nodded obediently. Yunmian seized the opportunity and held a big red apple to happily promote it to the onlookers: "Grandma and Grandpa, do you want to buy some fruit? We have tasted it for you just now, it is super sweet~"
Xie Lecheng squeezed the orange and yelled: "If it's not sweet, I don't want money. Uncles and aunts, please buy some, please~"
Song Yu hugged Youzi and begged: "Please~"
Tang Jiayuan already looked like a little adult. Although he was introverted and shy, he still stood up in front of his three younger brothers and sisters and blushed a little before asking those who had gathered around to watch the fun if they wanted to buy some fruit. He already had bags in his hands, ready to distribute them to customers who wanted to buy fruit.
It would probably be hard for any soft-hearted adult to refuse the pitiful request of four cute little puppies to buy some fruit.
Everyone took the bags with a friendly smile and began to select and buy based on the enthusiastic recommendations of the children.
However, the director crew behind the camera and the netizens who were watching the live broadcast were mesmerized by the questions and shock of the children after the story just ended.
Who hasn’t heard the story of sitting in a well and looking at the sky?
But in their impression, doesn’t this mean that the frog has a narrow vision and will never understand how vast and beautiful the sky and the world that the bird sees are?
Isn't it just telling everyone that we should look at problems from a higher perspective and more comprehensively, and not be like the frog who made mistakes and then was self-righteous?
But why did the children sympathize and ask questions from the frog's perspective after hearing this?
And it is obviously a very educational story, but after being bombarded with questions like these, the story seems to have changed inexplicably.
Why must it be the frog at the bottom of the well and not the bird? Why can the bird have wings to fly while the frog can only see the sky at the mouth of the well? Why is there such a terrible difference between what the bird and the frog see and know?
If there hadn't been that little bird passing by, would the frog have never known what the outside world is like in its entire life?
Maybe humans are just too good at thinking and questioning, and maybe education often allows people to constantly reshape their worldview.
Of course, it is also possible that they were confused by the children's childish questions and became a little pretentious.
But no matter what the reason, many people suddenly asked in the barrage: "Are we the frog or the bird?"
Does the frog know that it is such a frog?
Does the bird know how far away its world is from the frog?
Are each and every one of us frogs or birds?
The director looked at the sudden surge in comments in the background, flipped through the content of everyone's discussion, glanced at the four children who were trying hard to count on their fingers, and decided to leave this question for a separate questioning during the diary session in the evening.
Since adults’ thinking is so complex and changeable, why not listen to the story of the frog and the bird from a child’s perspective?
Yunmian had no idea what the director sister was writing down. After she stumbled and calculated that the apples the grandma bought were worth thirteen yuan and seventy cents, she looked back uneasily for brother Tang Jiayuan's approval, wanting to know whether her calculation was correct, whether she would lose money, or whether she would make the old lady spend more money.
People who came to the market were not in a hurry. Seeing the four children counting on their knuckles, no one rushed them. Instead, they smiled and chatted with the villagers around them, waiting for the little kids to work out the final answer.
During the whole process, the system squatted on a crisp persimmon on the stall. From the beginning to the end of the market at noon, it never waited for the host to ask it or ask for help.
The system scanned a little girl who was holding her face and eating an apple with big mouthfuls. Suddenly, it was discovered that as the worlds passed by, the host seemed to be becoming more and more independent and strong.
Even though she had no memory of the previous mission worlds, the little girl's soul seemed to gradually become tougher.
Just like today, something that could be easily accomplished by just shouting, but she counted one finger at a time from beginning to end. If she counted wrong, she would blush and apologize to others, and then count again.
The division of labor among the four children was quite clear. Tang Jiayuan and Yunmian were responsible for counting and keeping accounts, while Xie Lecheng and Song Yu were responsible for answering everyone's questions, handing them bags, and taking the fruits to the staff for weighing.
It is a very old-fashioned scale. Unlike the electronic scale, you can just put it on and input the amount to get the total price. This is also a deliberate arrangement by the program team. They want the children to learn to cooperate with each other, and at the same time, they want to let the children lose some money if they make mistakes in calculation, and cheat those unreliable parents.
Although this method is stupid, it is the four parents who bear the risk. Even the audience is happy to see it happen. They want to know how weird it will be when they have to pay money for their children after working hard to earn money.
But to their disappointment and surprise, none of them were wrong.
Little Tang Jiayuan seems to have a particularly good talent for mathematics. Sometimes, even if Yunmian makes a mistake in calculation, he will correct it immediately.
So much so that later on, Yun Mian simply held a pen and quietly kept account. No matter how Tang Jiayuan told her how to write it, she would concentrate on writing it down stroke by stroke.
When it was time to close the stall, the stall owner took the account book with a smile, and then gave a lot of leftover fruits to the four children who had been busy all morning, asking them to take them home and eat them slowly.
The apple that Yunmian was chewing on was forced upon her by this uncle.
The little girl sat on the wobbly tricycle, looking at the road getting closer and closer to the old house, and suddenly she missed her mother a little.
Coincidentally, at this moment, Little Orange also said in a low voice with a bit of loss in his heart: "Mianmian, I miss my daddy..."
The three children looked at her.
Xie Lecheng held the orange in his hand, and his fingernails left small crescent-shaped marks on the orange peel. He said sullenly, "The director said that Dad went to pick fruits, but my dad is so stupid and lazy. What if he is found out for being lazy? Will he be scolded and beaten?"
Although his father is always a little excessive, Xie Lecheng actually likes his current father a little bit.
Because her father used to beat her, scold her for being a burden, and say that she was a black spot in his life from the moment she was born and would never be popular again.
Xie Lecheng couldn't understand many of the curses and complaints, but she just felt that her father was extremely scary every time he glared at her with a gloomy face.
But after coming here and being with everyone, Dad seems to be getting better.
Daddy no longer scolds her or hits her, and he still calls her Little Orange. Last night, she had a nightmare and woke up from it, and her daddy patted her back and put her to sleep.
Children's intuition is always very sharp. Xie Lecheng doesn't know what happened to her father or what changed about him, but she inexplicably wants to hold on to her current father. Even though her father always pretends to be pitiful and lazy and likes to deliberately make her angry, but... she still likes this father and hopes that her father will never become as terrible as before.
"Grown-ups don't hit grown-ups."
Yun Mian patted her on the head and said softly, "Don't worry, your father is so tall, no one will bully him."
But soon, the director sister who was following the filming asked them if they wanted to go and see the adults work and have lunch together there.
The four children nodded in unison, their eyes sparkling with curiosity about the adult world.
Mom and Dad are working. They always say that making money is so tiring, but the children have never seen it.
Curious! Want to see!
So the tricycle rumbled towards the fruit orchard in the next village.
When they arrived at the place, the four children walked in carefully hand in hand. Their curious look made many netizens laugh, and emoticons were created one after another.
The four young children, who had little experience, were quickly stunned by the huge orchard filled with the fragrance of fruit and wood. For a moment, all the netizens exclaimed "Wow".
The further they walked in, the more fruit trees there were around them. Yun Mian even couldn't tell which direction she had just walked in was.
They were small and had short legs, and after walking for a long time they finally found some familiar figures in the woods.
Tang Jiayuan put his finger to his mouth to signal the three kids to keep quiet. The three kids immediately covered their mouths with their hands, then hid behind the tree and furtively watched their parents who were working hard over there.
"Mianmian, my dad is really being lazy!" Little Xie Lecheng glared angrily at someone who was picking fruits slowly under a tree not far away. He was as slow as a sloth. After others had picked several fruits, he reached out to pick a fruit from the branch and then slowly put it into the box.
Good-looking people look good in everything they do, but even Xie Yuan, who is known as the top vase in the entertainment industry, does not have any added benefit from the appearance filter in the eyes of children.
Being lazy is being lazy, no matter how good-looking you are, it is still being lazy!
Finally finished writing...
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