On the way back to her tent, the little girl noticed her fourth brother's perpetually furrowed brow and cautiously checked her fingers. "Fourth brother, are you angry with Ruan Ruan?"
"Hmm." Su Yan replied vaguely, his face expressionless.
The little dumpling pouted slightly, "Is it because I went to help Brother Gu Chen?"
Su Yan helplessly put the little dumpling into his tent. "Yes and no. Brother is angry because you've been naughty. Brother has been telling you to stay away from Gu Chen, so why did you still go and help him?"
The little dumpling lowered her head, looking down at her nose and contemplating her thoughts. Her chubby little fingers pointed and said, "Because Ruanruan sees that all the other children have fathers or older brothers, but only Brother Gu Chen is alone. And he is only an eight-year-old child. Ruanruan thinks he needs help the most!"
Hearing the little dumpling's voice, which was a bit muffled but still cute and soft, Su Yan immediately deflated.
From an adult's perspective, he felt that Gu Chen's motives towards Xiao Tuanzi were impure, and he also felt that someone like Gu Chen was too dangerous, so he didn't want Xiao Tuanzi to get close to him.
From Xiao Tuanzi's perspective, Gu Chen is just an eight-year-old child, and a rather pitiful one at that, who needs help.
Oh well, never mind.
If the little dumpling wants to help Gu Chen, let her go. Anyway, with her older brothers protecting her, even if Gu Chen really has the guts to do something to the little dumpling, he won't dare to do anything to her.
Su Yan picked up the little dumpling and said in a soft voice, "Little Ruanruan, your fourth brother was overthinking things just now. I shouldn't have deprived you of your freedom to make friends and help others."
The little dumpling's bright eyes shone even brighter. "Fourth brother, it's okay. We children won't argue with ignorant adults!"
Su Yan looked up at the sky speechlessly, feeling as if a crow had just flown over his head.
Then look at Gu Chen next to her, who is clearly suppressing a mischievous grin. It's all that brat's fault. In his precious little sister's eyes, he's become an immature adult!
"Su Yan, I just discussed it with Teacher Chen and Zhou Ming. The production team won't be providing ingredients, but we can still find some wild produce to eat. There's definitely no shortage of chestnuts in the forest at this time of year. Let's see if we can pick some wild mushrooms; that will solve our dinner problem for tonight," Zhang Cheng said as he approached Su Yan.
"The biggest problem now is that the terrible production team isn't even providing us with water, so finding a water source is a huge hassle."
Although Mount Emei has abundant water resources with countless streams flowing down the mountain roads, these streams are hidden in the ravines of the mountains after entering the uninhabited forests, and are not easy to find.
"Okay, I'll go get some water," Su Yan replied.
"Dudu's dad, I can also go find bugs with my brothers! The bugs you fried yesterday were so delicious!" The little dumpling looked like a little foodie with his mouth watering.
Zhang Cheng couldn't help but pat her soft hair. "Good job, little softie, lead your brothers to find bugs for us all to eat. You're so great, little softie!"
"Yes! Little Softie is the fattest!"
The little dumpling, completely oblivious to the concept of humility, gave itself a thumbs up.
Su Yan put her down, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Gu Chen standing to the side.
“Gu Chen, come with me to find water. Although he’s young, he seems to know a lot about geology. If we run into any trouble, we can help each other out.”
Gu Chen knew exactly what Su Yan was up to; he just didn't want him to stay with Xiao Ruanruan.
He didn't care. He was only eight years old. Even if he only lived to be eighty, he still had seventy-two years left!
As soon as Su Yan and Gu Chen left, the four children huddled together and each took a small stick to start looking for insects.
The little dumpling even directed Dudu to pick a large leaf from the side to release the insects.
Zhang Cheng, Chen Guoqing, and Zhou Ming then searched for chestnuts and firewood nearby.
Before leaving, the three even came to check on the production team.
How do you sleep at night?
Photographer: "We also set up tents."
The three exchanged a glance. "It's still early, let us help you set it up!"
As he spoke, he helped set up the production crew's tent.
This made Yu Kun's face darken, and the cameraman staring at the monitor was speechless.
They set up numerous obstacles just to see them embarrass themselves and complain, and ultimately create some conflict, thus generating buzz for the show.
But who knew that they were not only a loving family here, but also had the energy to shine and contribute?
Since he's so helpful, why doesn't he just give each of them a red scarf?
Yu Kun silently complained to himself!
After setting up the tent, the three of them even asked the production crew what they wanted to eat that night and whether they wanted to go find chestnuts together.
After learning that the production team had compressed biscuits and bottled water, the three of them happily gave the four little monkey children a few instructions and set off to find their dinner.
With all the adults gone, Yu Kun rolled his eyes and walked toward the four monkey children. "Dudu, Keke, Qingzai, Ruanruan, do you want to go find mushrooms? There are lots of mushrooms in this forest, and finding mushrooms is a lot of fun."
"Great! I want to find mushrooms! I've never found mushrooms by myself before!" Qingzai wasn't really interested, but his eyes lit up as soon as Yu Kun said there was something fun to do.
Dudu and Keke were clearly also somewhat interested.
Yu Kun instantly realized that when Zhang Cheng and Su Yan returned and found the children missing, they would definitely blame and shift the blame to each other, and might even start fighting. That would naturally become the topic of conversation.
All that was known was that the little dumpling, who was focused on finding bugs, dropped the stick, stood up, and toddled over to her three older brothers. She looked up at Yu Kun with her little face and said, "Captain Big Beard, no, my brothers and I can't go find mushrooms. Finding mushrooms is the adults' job. Our job as children is to find bugs."
Yu Kun's little eyes darted around again. "Little Ruanruan, we can go over there to find bugs too! There are more bugs over there!"
His voice was full of temptation, but the little dumpling remained unmoved and shook her head firmly, "No, my brother will be worried if he doesn't see me when he comes back."
Dudu, Qingzai, and Keke, the three little ones, also realized, "That's right, Dad (brother) told us to look for bugs here. If we leave, they'll be worried when they come back and can't find us."
"Besides, I read in an encyclopedia that many mushrooms in the forest are poisonous and can't be eaten," Dudu said.
"Yes, there are poisonous snakes in the forest. If we encounter them, we might be bitten to death if we can't defeat them."
"Maybe there will be big lions and big tigers too..."
The kids chattered away, telling stories of the horrors of the forest, completely ignoring Yu Kun.
Yu Kun was both exasperated and amused. This year's guests were so difficult to manage; he couldn't even handle a few mischievous kids. He was on the verge of tears.
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