As Li Qiaohui asked everyone to remove the plastic wrap covering the bowls, she explained, "Look at the surface, aren't there many holes? If there are many holes, it means it's almost fermented, and then..."
The guests from other groups all removed the plastic wrap from their bowls, but Xu Miaotong held onto her bowl and didn't move for a long time.
"What are you doing? Take off the plastic wrap." Gao Li asked in a low voice, puzzled.
Xu Miaotong gave him a wink, signaling him to mind his own business.
It was at this moment that ashes, like those left after burning paper, suddenly fell from the sky.
Although there wasn't much ash, it landed evenly on the guests' heads and bodies, and even in the fermented rice milk that each group of guests had just removed from their plastic wrap.
Only Xu Miaotong's family had relatively little ash on them, and their rice porridge was spared.
Li Qiaohui looked up and saw Pan Yayin in her room on the second floor, taking a basin and dumping ashes out.
Li Qiaohui immediately flew into a rage, stood up, pointed at Pan Yayin, and yelled, "What are you doing now?!"
Pan Yayin blinked feigning surprise and said in a smug voice, "Oh dear, I forgot there were people downstairs, and I was just dumping trash downstairs as usual. Sorry, sorry!"
Just as Li Qiaohui was about to roar in anger again, Pan Yayin slammed the glass window shut.
Li Qiaohui wanted to rush up and punch Pan Yayin right now, but she held back, bowing her head and bending over, apologizing to the guests repeatedly.
"I'm so sorry, my daughter is so naughty and got you all dirty. I'm really sorry."
Feng Wenhe patted the dust off her clothes, her disdain barely concealed.
Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi both brushed the ash off Chi Naozi's clothes and head first before taking care of themselves.
Xu Miaotong brushed the ash off her clothes and said generously, "It's okay~ I'll wash it off. Kids are just mischievous."
She was fine if she hadn't spoken, but the moment she opened her mouth, Li Qiaohui wanted to stab her with her eyes.
But Li Qiaohui knew that the most important thing now was to apologize to all the guests, so she quickly lowered her head again.
[What was with that look Aunt Li gave me just now? Tongtong said it was nothing, so what was with that look she gave Tongtong like she wanted to kill her?!]
[Tongjie was clearly speaking up for Aunt Li! What was Aunt Li trying to achieve by looking at Tongtong like that?! Among the guests present, besides Tongtong, who else stood up for her? Not only is she ungrateful to Tongtong, but she also treated her like that. She deserves to have raised her daughter like that!]
The way Aunt Li looked at Xu Miaotong shows that Aunt Li is an innocent person! Xu Miaotong can deceive Pan Yayin, but she can't deceive Aunt Li!
[This is ridiculous! What did Tongtong lie to Pan Yayin about? Pan Yayin herself was acting like a madwoman, scattering ashes, and our whole family was covered in ashes too!]
Are Xu Miaotong's fans blind?! Look, why did other guests' rice cereal have ash in it, but Xu Miaotong's didn't? Why did other guests remove their plastic wrap immediately, but Xu Miaotong hasn't?
[Tongtong was just a beat too slow; before she could react and pull off the plastic wrap, Pan Yayin had already scattered ashes. Was Tongtong's good luck her fault?]
[I get it, you can never wake up someone who's pretending to be stupid, that's exactly what Xu Miaotong's fans are saying.]
"Director Jiang, we're all in this state, do we still need to complete the mission?" Feng Wenhe asked Director Jiang through the live broadcast camera with some displeasure.
"I don't know what's falling on us. Hopefully it's not paper money burned for the dead." Feng Wenhe frowned as he looked at the ashes stuck to his body that he couldn't shake off.
“It’s not paper burned for the dead, it’s just ordinary exercise paper—” Pan Yayin shouted in response to Feng Wenhe from the second floor.
Li Qiaohui's face turned ashen as soon as she heard her voice.
She yelled at the second floor, "Come down here and apologize to everyone!!"
However, there was no sound at all on the second floor.
Clearly, Pan Yayin silently refused.
Li Qiaohui was even more furious.
"Forget the apology, I just want to go back and change my clothes and take a shower as soon as possible," Feng Wenhe said, her face not looking too good.
Director Jiang saw what happened behind the camera and rushed over.
Upon seeing Director Jiang appear, Feng Wenhe asked, "Director Jiang, shall we continue with the mission?"
Director Jiang smiled apologetically and said, "No need, that's enough for today's task. Everyone go back to your rooms and wash up."
Xu Miaotong was displeased upon hearing this.
She asked, "Is there no cash bonus today?"
“Since the missions have all been suspended, there are naturally no rankings and no rewards,” Director Jiang replied.
Xu Miaotong was even more unhappy.
Pan Yayin did all this so that she could win first place in this mission, get the highest reward, and salvage her reputation.
Now that the mission is over and the reward is gone, her family only has 4 yuan left in assets. So why did she tacitly allow Pan Yayin to do so much?!
"If there's no reward, how are we supposed to buy ingredients from your production team?" Xu Miaotong said. "You can let us change our clothes, take a shower, and come back to continue our tasks."
“Now that things have come to this, it doesn’t matter whether we do the task or not, but if we don’t even get the rewards, how are we going to buy ingredients? Are we going to be asked to buy on credit again?” Feng Wenhe said.
Among the five groups of guests, his family and Xu Miaotong's family had the least assets, so they had the strongest reactions.
Zhuo Ranjun, whose family only had 8 yuan left in assets, also agreed with Feng Wenhe's words.
"Director Jiang, we didn't get the reward this time because of your production team. You should compensate us," Zhuo Ranjun said.
Director Jiang did some mental calculations and then said with a smile, "Then I'll give each family four eggs and half a pound of meat. If you still feel that the ingredients aren't enough, you'll have to do what Teacher Feng's family did yesterday and find other guests to do tasks to earn money."
Xu Miaotong originally wanted to insist that everyone come over later to continue the task, but Feng Wenhe and Zhuo Ranjun had already agreed to Director Jiang's conditions.
Xu Miaotong could only feel sullen inside.
The opportunity that could have made her stand out has been lost again!
Before leaving, Qin Yuanyao asked Li Qiaohui for the rice syrup from the fermenting sugar cake they had made.
Seeing this, Xu Miaotong took advantage of Li Qiaohui's inattention and took away their two bowls of rice milk as well.
On the way back, Chi Nao asked Qin Yuanyao curiously, "Sister Qin, why did you bring this back?"
"I'll search for some videos online later. Once the rice milk has fermented, I'll make you steamed rice cakes with white sugar and rice cakes, okay?"
Chi Nai's almond-shaped eyes sparkled as she happily exclaimed, "Okay!"
In a flash, she noticed something and asked, "Huh? But I spilled the rice batter for making rice cakes! Sister Qin, how are you going to make rice cakes?"
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