After the opening scene, we headed to the old house. Since most of the roads in the village were dirt roads, the production team rented a pickup truck for easier transportation.
Six glamorous celebrities sat in a row in the back of the pickup truck.
Ying Xu was lifted onto a pickup truck along with his wheelchair by the staff. As soon as the truck started moving, the wheelchair began to slide from side to side. Fortunately, Zhao Chengyuan, who was next to him, grabbed the wheelchair, otherwise Ying Xu would have been seriously injured.
Han Mengyao immediately protested to the production team, who had no choice but to stop the production immediately and move Ying Xu to the passenger seat of the pickup truck.
After Ying Xu left, there was an extra seat in the carriage. The director, who had been kicked out of the front passenger seat, looked left and right, and finally squeezed past the cameraman who was about to get on the train, and plopped down in Ying Xu's seat.
Ji Qian noticed that the director was holding a bunch of small cards, clearly indicating that he had come with a mission. However, he pretended to chat with them for a few minutes before finally getting down to business once the car started moving.
“I have some background information about this old house here, everyone can take a look,” Director Liu said, handing out small cards to the people in the car, including Ying Xu who was sitting in the passenger seat.
After posting, Director Liu explained to the live broadcast camera in the car: "We will include this part in the edited version that will be broadcast every Saturday at 8 pm starting from September 23. We hope everyone will tune in on time."
Is there anything that a distinguished viewer like me can't see?
[Please understand, if the live stream broadcasts everything, no one will watch the edited version.]
Yes, after all, shows need ratings.
[Damn it! Why is the edited version of this program released two weeks later than the live version?!]
Half a month?! That's too long, it's making me curious too.
Sigh, let's wait patiently. After all, it's directed by Liu, so it's normal for it to take a little longer.
Ji Qian took the card, which had background information about the old house written on it in white on a black background.
As the director mentioned before, this old house has a history of 500 years, dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
Legend has it that a wealthy businessman surnamed Qian wanted to retire to his hometown due to old age and declining health, so he spent a lot of money to build this old house. However, he unfortunately passed away before the house was completed, and the old house has been vacant ever since.
Decades later, during the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, the surviving members of the Qian family fled to this place. In order to raise funds to make a comeback, they sold the old house at a low price to a wealthy local family surnamed Lin.
After the Lin family moved into the old house, they lived peacefully for more than ten years until the death of their second son. Suddenly, accidents began to happen frequently in the once peaceful home.
First, the eldest daughter-in-law and the old lady drowned one after another. Then, the eldest son was killed by bandits while traveling as a merchant. Finally, after hearing the news of his eldest son's death, the master was devastated and hanged himself in the main hall.
After arranging his father's funeral, the youngest surviving son of the Lin family sold the old house at a very low price and then left for another place, never to return.
The families that moved in later either fell into poverty and became homeless, or even suffered the loss of their homes and families. In short, none of them escaped this fate, and the old house was abandoned.
Even in modern times, the old house has become a forbidden area that villagers dare not approach.
According to villagers living nearby, they often hear men screaming and women humming tunes coming from the old house at night, but when they go closer to check, they find nothing.
Some companies have been interested in developing the old house into a tourism project because of its long history, but each time they sent employees to inspect it, they were blocked by various unexpected events, and in the end, they had to give up.
Ji Qian and his team's mission was to uncover the truth behind the various strange phenomena within the ancient house within three days and two nights.
The background information was so detailed that Ji Qian almost believed it, and this trust lasted until they arrived at the entrance of the old house.
Ji Qian stood at the entrance of the old house, looking at the old lady in gorgeous clothes hanging on the plaque above the door, and the curses in her heart almost burst out.
The others didn't notice Ji Qian's discomfort. Han Mengyao, who was walking behind, even gave Ji Qian a gentle push, urging her to walk forward quickly.
Ji Qian watched the crew members calmly moving things around at the old lady's feet, and her feelings were very complicated.
The old woman hanging there wasn't idle either; she was glaring at Director Liu, yelling at him for making things up and accusing him of being a scholar, not just a bunch of merchants.
Then he said that the house was built during the Kangxi era and had no history of more than 500 years. He said that the house was abandoned after they died and that the Lin family never moved in. He said that the later story was all made up by this kid to embellish his reputation.
Ji Qian looked at "this kid" who looked at least forty years old—Director Liu was standing at the old lady's feet directing the staff, completely unaware that the ghost hanging above his head was cursing him.
Ji Qian didn't know how to remind him, so she could only pretend not to see him and walk into the courtyard.
To avoid appearing deliberate, Ji Qian didn't even go around the old lady when passing by. The old lady's left foot passed right over her head, and Ji Qian felt a chill near the top of her head, just like the old lady's icy heart.
Fortunately, the yard was relatively clean. The production crew set up a long table in the middle of the yard, with six large baskets on the table and their six suitcases on the ground in front of the table.
Once they were in position, Director Liu, who had somehow changed into a gray vest, took a megaphone and addressed them: "Our program uses an immersive filming method and will provide clothing and outfits for each day. Please hand over your phones, wallets, and other items to the production team, and then take out the necessary items from your suitcases and put them into the baskets. Each person has a basket's allowance for carry-on luggage. Thank you for your cooperation."
Zhao Chengyuan, being a veteran of variety shows, had already guessed that the production team would do this, so he didn't put many things in his suitcase. After removing the clothes, the rest of the items could just fill a basket after being pressed down, without wasting any space.
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