Although the program of exchanging children has been criticized a lot, it still has a high viewership rate. Moreover, this time the program team deliberately chose a particularly poor rural area where there is a serious water shortage and the main source of drinking water is rainwater.
We dug a water cellar at home and connected the water when it rained. After sedimentation, it becomes domestic water. We rely on the water in this water cellar for drinking and using. But conditions are much better now. The government paid for digging a well, so we are no longer as unable to guarantee drinking water as before.
The city children in this program are all from Shanghai. They come from well-off families and have been pampered since childhood. They have no shortage of food, clothing, or water. There are six children in total, four boys and two girls.
The oldest are sixteen years old, a boy and a girl, and the youngest is Lu Qian.
The sixteen-year-old boy is named Zheng Jiaze. He is addicted to games and has a bad temper. He dares to challenge his parents at home.
Yang Qian, a sixteen-year-old girl, wears heavy makeup and dresses very maturely despite her young age. She has a bad temper, swears all the time, and rolls her eyes at everyone she sees.
Zhu Jiaxue, a fifteen-year-old girl, was sent here by her parents for a very strange reason. She is very frugal. She has saved up all her pocket money and New Year's money since she was a child and hardly spends any of it. She is also reluctant to throw away the plastic bags at home and uses them as garbage bags. At such a young age, she is even more frugal than the older folks.
Zhu Jiaxue is not only frugal herself, she also supervises her parents to be frugal. She asks them to drive less, walk more, and use the air conditioner less every day so that they can stay calm and cool. She also does not allow them to eat shark fin, and requires them to bring a water cup when going out. She even supervises them when using toilet paper.
The parents had lived through a lot of hard times when they were young. When they finally became rich, they wanted to enjoy themselves. However, they gave birth to a stingy daughter. As a result, they dared not enjoy themselves at home, and they dared not throw away leftovers. If they did, their daughter would blame them like a sutra, and it would give them a headache.
Out of desperation, they had to send their daughter to participate in the program, thinking that they could fight poison with poison. The child had suffered enough in the countryside, so she would surely enjoy herself when she returned home, right?
Li Wulin, a 15-year-old boy, is a very picky eater. He dislikes all the delicacies at home and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. Although the Li family is wealthy, they cannot afford to let this child squander the family money. After learning their lesson, his parents sent the child here to suffer.
The fifteen-year-old boy, Sun Wukong, has a very impressive name, but is as timid as a mouse. He wears glasses, is fair and thin, like a little chicken, and is extremely cowardly. His parents hope that he will come to the countryside to build up his courage.
The only one left is the fat and fair Lu Qian, who is the youngest.
The six children all came from Shanghai and didn't know each other, but the older children were quite caring towards the youngest, Lu Qian. Only Yang Qian was as irritable as ever and rolled her eyes at everyone, including Lu Qian.
We arrived at our destination, a village called Yangweiba. The village was not very big, and there were very few middle-aged men and women in the village. It was mostly populated by the elderly, the weak, the sick, and children. All the middle-aged men and women had gone out to work.
The village is covered with yellow sand, with almost no green to be seen. Only a few lonely trees and grass sticking to the ground can be seen. It looks very desolate. The main source of income for the village is sheep.
Every household raises sheep, and only by selling the sheep can they make money, which they rely on to buy daily necessities, send children to school, see a doctor, etc.
Six children and the program team stood at the entrance of the village. The wind brought not only yellow sand, but also the smell of manure. Someone was watering the vegetable field at the entrance of the village, and there were a dozen children looking at them curiously.
"Fuck... the chickens don't pee, the birds don't lay eggs, what a hell of a place!"
As soon as Yang Qian got off the car, she stepped on a pile of sheep dung, which made her so angry that she couldn't stop swearing.
Among the six children, only Lu Qian and Zhu Jiaxue were the calmest. The other four had gloomy faces. They had never seen such a poor place in their lives. Even a poor person couldn't stay there.
The program crew was already used to the spoiled nature of city children, so they were smiling throughout the whole process and announced that they would confiscate everything the children brought, including snacks, mobile phones, and money.
"Fuck... Are you idiots? You want to starve me to death? I want to go home!"
Yang Qian was about to get in the car with her suitcase. She didn't want to do this crappy show anymore. She had thought she could become famous in the show and become a star in the entertainment industry in the future, but now she just wanted to go home.
"I want to go home, too."
Zheng Jiaze and Li Wulin also wanted to get on the car. One of them loved playing games and the other was picky about food. They didn't want to stay in this shabby place for even a minute.
Sun Wukong looked around and waited. If the other five left, he would leave.
Anyway, he doesn't want to be the first to stand out.
Zhu Jiaxue and Lu Qian were very calm. They handed over their things obediently and behaved very steadily.
Sun Dasheng glanced at them, hesitated for a long time, and handed over the things.
The remaining three shouted in the car for a while, but no one paid any attention to them. They also faced the reality and got off the car cursing. They still wanted to bargain with the production team, but the production team ruthlessly confiscated all their belongings except for their spare clothes.
They will then stay in this village for a month. Each child will have an adoptive family and will live and eat with the new family without any preferential treatment.
Lu Qian's new family is a poor household in the village. They have three children. The eldest son is 18 years old and is a senior high school student in the county. His academic performance is pretty good. His teacher said that if he performs steadily, he can be admitted to university.
The second daughter is sixteen years old and also has good grades, but she dropped out of school last year and helps with housework.
My youngest daughter is thirteen years old and is in the first grade of junior high school in town. Because her family is poor and cannot afford to live in the school, she has to walk to school before dawn every day. The round trip is more than fifty miles a day. It is dark when she returns home every day, and she still has to help with housework.
The male owner of the new house was named Ma Chengwu, an old man with a haggard look. Actually, he was not very old, only forty years old, but he looked like he was in his fifties or sixties, and his back could not even be straightened.
The hostess was called He Chunmei. She wore a headscarf every day and was dark and thin. I had never seen her take a rest. She was either working in the fields or at home, and she rarely spoke.
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Lu Qian called them Dad Ma and Mom He. The couple liked him very much. On the first day he arrived home, they killed a chicken and made chicken soup for Lu Qian.
But at dinner time, Lu Qian saw the family's youngest daughter, Ma Xinghua, wiping tears in the yard.
"Sister Xinghua, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Qian squatted beside Ma Xinghua and asked with concern.
"Nothing, go eat."
Ma Xinghua wiped away her tears, forced a smile, and gently called Lu Qian to go for dinner. She knew that she couldn't blame Lu Qian. The program crew gave her family money, so her family had to treat her brother well.
But she had raised that chicken for a long time and originally wanted to sell it to the town so that she could get the money to send her second sister to school.
Otherwise, my second sister would marry a bachelor in the village, and her life would be like my mother's, and she would never be able to turn her life around.
"Sister Xinghua, are you worried about the chicken?"
Although Lu Qian was young, he was very smart and could see the reason at a glance.
Because when He Chunmei was killing the chicken, Ma Xinghua was hiding in the corner crying, and he saw it all.
"No, I got sand in my eyes. Brother Xiao Qian, go eat. I'll go get some pig grass."
Ma Xinghua shook her head vigorously, picked up the basket and went out to collect grass, as Lu Qian was a distinguished guest.