Actually, according to Director Liu's initial plan, today's recording should have started in the restaurant on the first floor.
But things didn't go as planned. Since the guests were all gathered in the banquet hall for some reason, he had no choice but to reluctantly record the opening segment there.
After reiterating the rules mentioned yesterday morning, Director Liu stared at Ji Qian with a meaningful expression and announced the new rule he had just added:
"No guest shall attack the production team without cause, in any form, in any way, or for any reason."
Ji Qian felt targeted, but knowing she was in the wrong, she didn't say much and could only shrug and accept the rule.
Since Ji Qian's dining privileges have expired, she will have to fend for herself like the other guests during today's recording.
Ji Qian was quite optimistic about this matter. Although she couldn't cook, she was very good with a knife, so she could easily be a helper in chopping vegetables.
So, during the breakfast that followed, everyone had the opportunity to see a dragon carved from a potato as thin as a hair and a cucumber.
Ji Qian was clearly very satisfied with her work.
Specifically, while everyone was discussing the next steps, Ji Qian was intently gnawing on the head of a cucumber dragon.
I must say, this cucumber dragon carving is even better than the ones in restaurants.
Even the scales are clearly visible; my sister Qian is truly amazing!
Unfortunately, the potato shreds were cut too thinly. Ying Xu originally wanted to stir-fry them, but in the end, she could only make them into pancakes.
With Ji Qian's knife skills, she's wasting her talent by not working in the kitchen chopping boards.
Sister Qian, do you still remember that you're a female celebrity?
I never noticed Ji Qian's mouth was so big.
She really doesn't care about being a celebrity at all...
It's not just celebrities who are concerned about their image; it feels like they're losing their personal dignity as well.
I feel like I could have a heart attack for her manager.
Looking at Ji Qian's grimacing face on the screen, Liu Xia felt as if her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, had finally died.
Han Mengyao couldn't stand it any longer, so she took the initiative to interrupt Ji Qian's actions:
"Qianqian, do you have any plans?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Qian quickly finished the rest of the cucumber before speaking slowly and deliberately:
“We still have an indigenous person with us, right? I’m going to ask him to show us around the area as a local.”
To be honest, if Ji Qian hadn't mentioned it, Han Mengyao and the others would have almost forgotten about that 'ghost hostage'.
In the monitoring room on the first floor, Count Lanruer, who had been hanging there all night, had changed his feelings for Ji Qian from hatred to fear.
After all, as a noble young master born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he had never suffered such hardship even while he was alive.
Therefore, when Ji Qian stepped into the monitoring room again, Earl Lanruer behaved exceptionally obediently, and his words even carried a hint of flattery:
"Miss Ji, please rest assured, I am not like those ghosts. Please ask me anything, and I will answer everything I know!"
Perhaps because the breakfast had been so to her liking, Ji Qian, seeing Earl Lanruer's fawning manner, offered a few words of comfort before getting to the point:
"Yesterday I saw a very small wooden door at the bottom of the stairs. I'm very interested and would like to go inside and take a look. Could you show me the way?"
Count Lanruer, who had been all smiles, suddenly looked troubled after hearing Ji Qian mention the small door. He carefully considered his words before speaking:
“My father said that place was forbidden and that I was not allowed to enter without permission.”
Ji Qian noticed that when Count Lanruer mentioned his father again, there was a clear hint of fear in his eyes.
Therefore, Ji Qian didn't intend to make things difficult for him, but instead kindly expressed:
"Where is your father? I can speak with him in person."
Count Lanruer felt somewhat embarrassed when the matter was brought up:
“My father was a devout believer who firmly believed that people would return to heaven after death, and that ghosts were just a transit point before going to heaven.”
"so what?"
Realizing that Ji Qian hadn't understood him, Earl Lanruer resignedly lowered his head and said in a barely audible voice:
"So, in order to get to heaven as soon as possible, he committed suicide a second time with holy water on a sunny day."
"Suicide? He succeeded?!"
As the saying goes, there are all sorts of ghosts in a big forest. Ji Qian had seen ghosts who wanted to commit suicide because they didn't want to be trapped in the world, but she had never heard of anyone who successfully committed suicide.
Fortunately, Count Lanruer's next sentence successfully pulled Ji Qian's crumbling worldview back on track:
"No, but he accidentally drank a few mouthfuls of holy water when he poured it on himself, and became a bit crazy. Sometimes he doesn't even recognize me."
Ji Qian felt that the old count's mental state was really hard to assess, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.
Ying Xu, however, keenly noticed the unusual nature of Earl Lanruer's words:
"Wait, you just said 'second suicide,' so your father committed suicide?"
Count Lanruer made no attempt to evade the matter and readily admitted it:
"Yes, my father made the decision to leave on his own back then."
"Wait, isn't it said that people who commit suicide can't go to heaven?"
Although Han Mengyao is not religious, she has studied metaphysics on her own because she is interested in it.
“My father believed that doctrine was merely a tool used by the Pope to control humanity, and that the great God would surely understand his difficulties and personally welcome him into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
"...Your father is truly a complete idealist."
After briefly touching on this topic, Ji Qian brought up the matter of having Earl Lanruer lead the way again.
After several rounds of persistent pleading, Count Lanruer finally reluctantly agreed, but he had one more condition:
"Let's make this clear first, if we get into any danger, you can't drag me down with you."
Although she didn't understand why she was perceived this way by the other person, Ji Qian readily agreed.
Count Lanruer first solemnly straightened his clothes, then walked out of the monitoring room with a death-defying air and headed towards the stairwell that Ji Qian had mentioned.
The small door that Ji Qian mentioned is located in the triangular gap behind the first-floor staircase.
Because the location was so well hidden, even the staff responsible for scouting the area failed to discover it, so naturally no camera equipment was installed inside.
To ensure the smooth progress of the recording, the assistant director urgently brought in six head-mounted camera devices.
Before the operation began, the assistant director mustered up his courage and conducted a half-hour ideological education session with Ji Qian on the theme of "Protecting Foreign Cultural Relics".
Director Liu, who was originally in charge of this work, was taken back to the rest room for emergency treatment after seeing the tragedy in the monitoring room, and it seems he won't be able to come out anytime soon.
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