Chapter 118
Ai Qingyuan was about to continue his closing statement, but Fu Wenze at the side spoke calmly: "He said he could."
Director: “…Okay.”
Ai Qingyuan wilted for a second.
Jie Xichao stuffed two sweet orange slices into his mouth as a consolation.
He has recently become obsessed with sugar oranges and feeds them everywhere.
The director looked at the others again.
Zou Yi was the first to come back to his senses and said:
"I'm fine."
Fu Wen Ze and Yun Pan also followed behind and said they would give it a try.
Boys of this age are like this. Although their first reaction to the unknown is fear, they all love adventure at heart. At this moment, the youngest Yun Pan looks the most eager to try.
And just like that, this originally scary schedule was finally discussed.
Half an hour later, the car stopped at the accommodation and everyone got off one by one.
The moment they saw the accommodation, everyone's eyes lit up.
This is the second time TP has collaborated with the production team responsible for the group variety show. The first season of the group variety show had good ratings, so the second season had a lot more sponsorship. There is a lot of money, and the program team and members are all comfortable.
This time, in order to prevent unnecessary trouble, the program team directly booked a local inn.
This is a two-story wooden building.
The first floor is the lobby and tea room, and the second floor is the accommodation.
The small building is divided into three connected buildings, which together form a semi-enclosed structure. It is surrounded by flowers and various ethnic decorations, surrounding the open-air public area in the middle, and looks delicate and exquisite.
Almost instantly, everyone forgot what had just happened.
The director smiled and said, "How is it, are you satisfied with the accommodation you agreed on?"
Everyone acted like a good kid: "Thank you, director, you've worked so hard!"
The inn was booked, so there was no need to worry about not having enough rooms. Everyone had a room and chose the one they liked and moved in. I spent the rest of the day in the room resting.
Xie Xichao liked quietness, so he chose the innermost room.
Before he went in, he saw Fu Wenzhe coming out from next door.
He changed into a home T-shirt, leaned against the door and watched him push the suitcase with great effort, then took out a... mini guitar?
Fu Wenze: “…”
"You only have one suitcase," he said, "and you're bringing this thing?"
"What if you get some inspiration?" Xie Xichao thought his question was strange, and tried the guitar, "I see you brought a computer too."
Fu Wenzhe has also started writing songs in the past year, not just writing lyrics, but also writing melodies.
In other words, all members of TP began to learn creation silently after Xie Xichao suffered from hypoglycemia. Up to now, in addition to Fu Wenzhe who already had a foundation, Zou Yi has also got started.
There is a lyric song in this comeback album, which was written by him.
When Xie Xichao said this, Fu Wenzhe's expression paused for two seconds. He wanted to say something, but finally held it back. He just walked over and rubbed Jie Xichao's hair very hard.
Then, he placed the guitar for Jie Xichao while Jie Xichao was still confused.
After doing all this, he said, "Don't be too tired."
He paused: "The sky won't fall."
This has been a common saying among TP members over the years. Xie Xichao responded with a perfunctory “hmm hmm” and pretended to be a good boy: “I know, brother.”
Fu Wen Ze looked speechless, and there was nothing he could do about him.
The two of them tidied up their rooms separately, then sat on the balcony together to enjoy the breeze for a while. When it was time for dinner, they went downstairs to eat together.
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Although the production team was very tough on them on the project, all the requirements they had put forward in the beginning were indeed met.
We stayed in a boutique inn, and for the food, we ate local specialties for the past two days.
There is wild mushroom hotpot with old hen stew as the base, soft, glutinous and fragrant rice noodles, and a variety of sweet and savory snacks. Of course, there is no need to play any games to manage money. You can just go shopping and buy things.
Some brought local specialties for their family members, and those who had no family members also bought some gifts and planned to give them to fans for a lucky draw.
The original rest period was changed to two days because of more time. During these two days, all members of TP had a rare opportunity to completely relax. Of course, all of this was recorded by the camera.
On the third day of filming, everyone gathered.
The challenge officially begins.
The first project is rainforest hiking.
This was the first project and the easiest one.
Because rainforest hiking is a local tourist activity, for TP, it is equivalent to taking pictures and having fun at the same time.
Before coming, everyone was notified to change into comfortable long-sleeved shirts and long pants.
Everyone was mentally prepared. As the team leader, Zou Yi looked up many guides and packed mosquito repellent spray in his bag the night before.
However, no one expected that TP would have internal conflicts before it even started.
The reason is——
"I want to be in a group with Brother Xi Chao." Yun Pan said seriously, "I brought a lot of food and drinks, which I can share with him."
Ai Qingyuan sneered: "Keep it for yourself. When you see a fun little butterfly, you go chasing it. Can you support him when he can't walk? Can you hold him in time when he's about to fall? Can you comfort him when he's out of breath?"
Yun Pan: “…”
Xie Xichao: “…”
"No." Xie Xichao tried to join the conversation, "Well, I don't need it..."
Soul comfort :)
Fu Wenze said: "I can."
Xie Xichao:?
Facing his old enemy, Ai Qingyuan was furious: "You are nothing!"
Zou Yi said: "I can do it too, and you guys stop arguing. The director team cut off this part..."
The director team kept shooting.
His eyes were sparkling, and the expression "Wow, so lively" was almost written on his face.
"Anyway, Xichao must be in the same group with me." Fu Wenzhe tried to make the final decision.
Ai Qingyuan glared at him: "Don't steal my lines!"
Yun Pan stepped forward and stood in front of Jie Xichao, looking like he was trying to protect his bride from a bully, looking very majestic. As a 20-year-old boy, he proved his determination with his actions.
Xie Xichao was very touched.
He threw one in each hand and said calmly:
"I'll be in a group by myself."
Others:?
They were about to talk again, but Xie Xichao said quietly, "Whoever is in a group with me, I will write a special high-pitched part for him next time we come back."
He paused and added: "It's a whole paragraph."
No one spoke.
Everyone drew lots silently and divided into groups.
Jie Xichao and Yun Pan are in the same group.
The boy came over happily and hugged his arm. Everyone received their numbers and followed the guide.
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We argued for a long time before setting off.
In the end, Xie Xichao was one of the people who didn't think it was too difficult.
The route they were taking this time was longer and more remote than a typical one-day tour route. Although there is a guide leading the way, it is still a bit difficult for people with insufficient physical fitness to follow the guide throughout the entire journey.
At the beginning, everyone was very excited.
This road is remote, and accordingly, the scenery is also very good.
At the beginning, almost every time a strange plant was seen, the shouting of TP members - mainly Ai Qingyuan and Yun Pan - could be heard in the camera.
There are towering ancient trees that require more than a dozen people to hug, colorful rafflesias, and gurgling, clear streams. Almost every step they took was a scene they saw for the first time in their lives.
Everyone was talking and walking.
He doesn't look tired at all.
But as the journey got longer, fewer people started talking.
At this time, the importance of physical fitness is reflected.
Xie Xichao has been training with Fu Wenzhe for the past two years. My physical fitness has improved a lot.
The opposite of him are Ai Qingyuan and Yun Pan.
Especially Yun Pan.
Children do not eat well when they are young, are malnourished, and have poor physical fitness. When he grew up, he became greedy and loved to eat junk food, but he had to control his weight. His lung capacity is about half of Jie Xichao's.
Not long after they walked, Jie Xichao heard his panting.
He slowed down his pace, and despite people trying to stop him, he took the bag from the person with one hand, and with the other hand he took the phone and took a picture of a colorful butterfly resting on the tip of a leaf.
The butterfly flapped its wings and flew into the deep forest.
And the frozen moment of its life will remain forever in Xichao's mobile phone.
Xie Xichao saved this photo in an album on his mobile phone named "Inspiration". When I turned my head, I saw Yun Pan's somewhat embarrassed look.
Yun Pan whispered: "...Brother, please give me the bag. I can do it."
Xie Xichao teased him: "What did you just say, protect me?"
Then he pinched the man's red face and said, "It's okay. I'll hold it for you for a while and return it to you after we have a rest."
On the other side, Zou Yi, who was in the same group with Ai Qingyuan, looked at Fu Wenzhe a little embarrassedly as he took his bag.
He whispered: "Actually, I..."
Ai Qingyuan said from the side: "Hey, Captain, don't be polite to Fu Wenze. Look at his muscles, he has nowhere to use them. It's not like he'll die just carrying something."
Zou Yi: “…”
Fu Wenze: “…”
Fu Wenze was too lazy to pay attention to him and said to Zou Yi: "It's okay, I'll get it."
He is always a man of few words, but he always keeps his word.
So Zou Yi took his water bottle and followed him silently.
Just like that, the five of them walked and strolled together.
By the end, everyone took turns holding something. Walk and take a rest.
It was not until sunset that they finally followed the guide to the end.
Under the moonlight, everyone, including the production crew, took a group photo with the strangely beautiful rain forest behind them. In the photo, several young men who have already reached the top of the idol circle look shabby and dusty, almost without their usual shining appearance.
But the smiles on their faces looked genuine and from the heart.
In the camera, Jie Xichao was gently embraced by Zou Yi on the shoulders, and both of them were smiling. A few petals were scattered on the stream behind them, swirling gently with the flowing water. Everything looked quiet and beautiful.
*
After the rainforest, the group rested well for a few days.
During this period, Xie Xichao, Fu Wenzhe and Zou Yi, the three of them, traveled around the city to collect folk songs and gathered a lot of materials.
Zou Yi joked that if they continued like this, they would have to think through the concept of the twenty majors in advance.
After he finished speaking, he paused and suddenly looked at Li Xichao.
Xie Xichao was busy taking notes and didn't notice his gaze. He said naturally, "What's wrong with the 20th degree? It's already the 6th degree, so it's not that far away."
Zou Yi paused for two seconds, then smiled and sighed: "Don't push yourself too hard, baby."
“We’ll all be sad.”
Jie Xichao looked up at him and was pinched on the face.
He is twenty-four years old this year. As he grows older, his image in the eyes of his fans becomes more and more handsome. That calm and controlling aura has caused sour maternal love in so many people.
Only in front of close people, such as parents and teammates.
He is still the weak young boy who just woke up from the intensive care unit.
Xie Xichao felt a little itchy on the face after being pinched by him. He smiled and said, "Brother, stop making trouble," then lowered his head and continued writing.
At night, they walked back together.
The riverside is sparkling, and girls and boys in ancient costumes are taking artistic photos. In a blink of an eye, it seemed as if we had returned a thousand years ago.
Of course, what is coming will come.
A few days later, they started their second project.
Bungee jumping.
It is also one of the projects that Ai Qingyuan fears the most.
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The day before bungee jumping, he tossed and turned in bed, and even ran to Xichao's room for comfort.
Xie Xichao had been playing flying chess with them the day before and was extremely sleepy when he returned to his room. He heard a knock on the door and went to open it in a daze. Someone suddenly gave him a hug, and he was so scared that he almost used his cell phone to call the police. A second before dialing, Ai Qingyuan suddenly grabbed his hand and said in a vicissitudes of life:
“…Yes.”
Xie Xichao said: "Wait a minute."
He thought of the camera in the corridor and felt a splitting headache: "Can you consider the innocence of both of us..."
There are no cameras in the room.
But there are in the corridor.
Xie Xichao found it hard to imagine how people would react when this segment was broadcast.
Ai Qingyuan said indifferently: "Hey, brother, what's wrong with climbing into bed in the middle of the night? This is not the point."
Then, he continued to hold Xie Xichao's hand tightly, looked into Xie Xichao's eyes, and said sincerely and sadly: "Xichao, what do you think I should do tomorrow?"
"I'm really scared." He said tremblingly.
Xie Xichao: “…”
What should I do?
The next day, he pushed the man down with his coach with a blank expression on his face.
Amid the sound of Ai Qingyuan's "zhierwa" screaming, the irritability that had disturbed my sleep in the middle of the night last night finally ended.
I feel refreshed in the morning.
Fu Wenzhe, who was standing next to him, had already put on his equipment and was standing beside him.
Xie Xichao asked him: "Are you nervous?"
Fu Wenze shook his head: "No."
"I suddenly thought of the time when I first entered the draft." He smiled, "It was the same as these two days. Every day when I opened my eyes, I was faced with challenges that I had to face, but I didn't know the results. It felt quite exciting."
Two years passed in a flash, and they had reached the top.
It's hard to say which one is more like a dream, this moment or that second.
Fu Wenzhe didn't talk to him much, and quickly jumped under the guidance of his coach. The top of the venue was completely silent. Jie Xichao raised his head and saw the continuous mountains not far away and the clear and high sky.
He took a deep breath and put on the equipment.
Zou Yi is the last one.
He was always very careful. Although Jie Xichao said that he was in good health, he instinctively didn't want to leave the person alone. Jie Xichao also knew that he was taking care of her and accepted his kindness.
At this moment, Zou Yi helped to organize his equipment.
Then he patted Jie Xichao's hand.
"Come on," he said.
Xie Xichao smiled and said "OK", then closed his eyes.
Next second.
He was like a free bird.
He felt his rapid fall in the whistling wind, and had never felt the existence of his life so vividly.
*
——Although after the bungee jumping, everyone on TP said that this was simply not a variety show for human beings, the director team did not stop torturing them when they saw that all of them were still alive and well.
In the next few days, TP participated in various challenges as indicated in the project list.
Rafting, whitewater rafting, shooting.
Of course, there are also some projects that are not so exciting. Just like during the break in the project, we still went to the amusement park together. Two years later, everyone heard the high-pitched duet of Ai Qingyuan and Yun Pan in the haunted house again.
besides.
They also took on other challenges.
for example--
eat.
When the food was brought up on five small plates covered by upside-down bowls, everyone's eyes were still filled with confusion.
They just went on an aerial cable car ride last night. At this moment, their legs were still weak and they all bit the dried fish fed by the captain with lifeless eyes. Seeing such a scene, I was no longer surprised, but rather alert.
Sure enough, after the director announced the names of the dishes, everyone's faces were stunned.
Ai Qingyuan couldn't help himself any longer: "Director, this time we are recording a group show, not some kind of human survival test, right?"
The director looked innocent: "These are all local specialties. They are very nutritious."
Yun Pan grabbed Zou Yi's sleeve and howled loudly: "Captain, I don't want to eat bugs, wuwuwu..."
Zou Yi coughed.
"...looking forward to it." he said.
I don’t want to eat either.
After recording to this point, and seeing everyone's eager looks, the director finally regained a bit of humanity and thought: "Let's do this."
"Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God." He said generously, "Come here, bring the freshly bought flower cakes over, and let's roll the dice. I'll let the only lucky winner go."
The staff quickly brought out the fragrant freshly-baked pancakes, and then quickly covered them with lids under the eager gaze of everyone.
What followed was a dazzling array of fake moves.
Everyone in TP tried hard to keep their eyes open, trying to see his movements clearly.
But I don’t know if this staff member learned magic for a while before entering the entertainment industry. In short, they didn’t see anything. The flower cakes were mixed together with a group of insects and grasshoppers.
In the dead silence, Xie Xichao silently raised his hand: "Well, I have a question."
The director looked at him lovingly: "Hmm?"
"Can I recommend myself?" Xie Xichao whispered, "I mean dice."
Ten minutes later, Jie Xichao was silently chewing the sweet flower cake, looking at his teammates with distorted faces as they stuffed high-protein food into their mouths. Amid their screams of "Ahhh, this must be a conspiracy", he quietly touched the head of the small dice in his pocket.
The other person turned it around in his pocket proudly.
After following its owner for so many days, it finally found its own value.
*
……that's all.
Half a month passed in a flash.
Soon, it was the last day of TP group variety show recording.
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