Chapter 10 has a twist.
At the foot of the mountain, the director looked at a pile of herbs on the ground and fell silent.
"Uh... these herbs..."
Tu Yao looked at him with bright eyes: "Uncle, you recognize these, right? This is Dendrobium officinale! This is Gentiana scabra, and this is Isatis indigotica..."
Tu Yao introduced them one by one, and concluded with a smug look: "Valuable!"
director:……
The director wiped his face; he recognized the item and knew it was valuable.
But... the problem is that it's too valuable!
His original plan was to guide the guests to the bushes over there and find as much as they could, keeping the budget firmly within a few hundred.
Based on value, the goods that could be exchanged were just some ordinary daily necessities.
I never expected you two to dig these things up!
How much stuff can you get in exchange for these herbs?!
But obviously, he didn't need to calculate it; Tu Yao had already done it for him.
"Uncle, we'll give you the Dendrobium officinale for 300 yuan per jin, the Gentiana scabra is of very good quality, 50 yuan per jin, and the Isatis indigotica is a gift from me, so..."
Tu Yao did the math: "These are worth 755, but I'll give you a discount, so it'll only be 750!"
"750 yuan, my brother needs a new quilt and mattress, a toothbrush, toothpaste, laundry detergent, slippers, a mop, and shower gel, as well as one meat dish and one vegetable dish for the next week, without cilantro or scallions. Thank you, Uncle!"
Everyone: ...
Very polite, yet not very polite.
Tu Chaoxi silently watched his silly sister ask for this and that for him. As he watched, he reached out to cover the corner of his mouth, but couldn't hide it and burst out laughing.
"Uh, I'm sorry, director."
He added, "Two more pairs of socks, please."
director:……
After a two-second silence, he hesitated and said, "...Um, Teacher Tu, Xiao Mao, I might not have explained it clearly. Well...the ingredients you found must be the ones arranged by our production team."
"And the guests have to find it themselves; they can't let someone else do it for them."
He tried to bring the runaway "brother and sister" back on track, and then pointed out that Tu Chaoxi and Tu Yao were suspected of cheating.
But this time, the viewers in the live stream were the first to object.
"Then you really didn't explain it clearly. Shouldn't these program rules have been stated from the beginning? When can they be added afterward?"
Is the director trying to renege on his promise?
No cheating! These medicinal herbs were all painstakingly found by my sister and Tu Chaoxi!
Tu Chaoxi's expression also turned sour. Gentian root and isatis root were not hard to find.
However, Tu Yao found these two Dendrobium officinale plants near a damp, moss-covered mudflat deep in the jungle.
This girl is so serious, she almost slipped and fell on the spot.
Tu Chaoxi scoffed: "It doesn't matter if it doesn't count."
The director's eyes lit up, and the next second, he continued:
“You should compensate them for the basket of cow dung that Ma Zhiyuan smashed.”
Tu Yao immediately popped out from behind him and snorted loudly, "That's right! Pay me back for the cow dung!"
There wasn't enough to begin with, and then half of the basket was trampled away!
Everyone: ...
The director looked pale: "Cow dung...do we need to compensate for the cow dung?"
"Why shouldn't they compensate? They spent the whole morning picking them up, and Teacher Ma just squatted down and they were all gone. What kind of logic is that!"
Tu Yao continued to emerge: "Right! What kind of logic is that!"
The two worked together, one spouting nonsense and the other acting like a bully.
The director rubbed his temples, and after a moment, said, "...Okay, okay! It'll stand! I'll change it for you!"
What else could they do? Did they expect the entire production team to abandon their duties and spend their time searching for cow dung in the whole village?
"However, I'm warning you in advance that we can't do that anymore!"
If they keep changing things like this, they'll probably empty their production team's coffers.
Tu Chaoxi was satisfied, and so was Tu Yao.
[I'm dying of laughter. I thought Tu Chaoxi had fallen on hard times and was afraid to offend anyone. Sure enough, he's still the same old him.]
[Hey newbie, has things changed? Everyone's taking Tu Chaoxi's side now.]
[I'm not helping Tu Chaoxi, I just genuinely like my younger sister.]
[+1, one thing at a time.]
"...I can't go back; anyway, it's still just ruins to me!"
[Exactly, I have principles. Putting everything else aside, his absence from rehearsals and his disregard for his fans are something I can't accept.]
[Wait...it seems like some of the ruins have been rebuilt, look at the trending topics!]
Just as this comment appeared on the screen, Tu Chaoxi's phone suddenly vibrated.
Upon closer inspection, it was Chen Meiling.
His agent.
Tu Chaoxi gave a cold laugh and avoided the camera.
The moment the call connected, a barrage of insults came from the other end!
"Tu Chaoxi, what kind of trouble are you causing now?! You've gotten smarter! You know how to send your bunch of stupid fans to cause a scene here!"
"Did you leak the contract information?!"
"Let me tell you, no matter how much you struggle, it's useless. The company has already given up on you. You just stay on that lousy variety show until your contract expires!"
After Tu Chaoxi's incident, Chen Meiling decisively chose to abandon him and instead promoted a promising newcomer.
She admitted that Tu Chaoxi was indeed good-looking, talented and hardworking, and also knew that most of the accusations in that diary were taken out of context by that rich girl.
However, clarifying the matter would be too troublesome and could easily offend the people in Hong Kong, so she was too lazy to do it.
Unexpectedly, Tu Chaoxi's fans were so troublesome. They somehow found out about the original contract and made a scene on her Weibo, even trending on social media!
The call wasn't on speakerphone, but Chen Meiling's high-pitched voice was still incredibly loud. Those around her turned pale instantly.
Especially the director.
A terrible variety show? No, how is his show terrible?
Yes... the conditions are a little worse, but can you call that a waste?
Tu Yao's face turned green. She had just successfully positioned herself as a fan of her cheap older brother, and then she was called an idiot.
Enraged, she snatched the phone away and shouted, "You're the idiot! You're the biggest idiot ever!"
Chen Meiling: ...
Chen Meiling had never been scolded so bluntly before, and she almost couldn't catch her breath.
"Who are you! Show some respect to me!"
Tu Yao declared confidently, "I'm a fan of Tu Chaoxi!"
She disliked the agent intensely when she read the original novel.
First, she tricked Tu Chaoxi, who desperately needed money, into signing a 20-year contract with a pitifully small profit-sharing ratio. When Tu Chaoxi got angry, she clung to him like a vampire, sucking his blood.
Not only did he leech off others, but he also cheated on both sides, repeatedly raising funds in Tu Chaoxi's name to line his own pockets and demanding gifts.
He kept the valuable gifts for himself and threw away all the cheap letters and handmade items.
After the so-called "delicate and frail" charge in the diary was exposed, a series of related charges were also revealed, and in the end, they were all pinned on Tu Chaoxi, who knew nothing about it.
Fans couldn't accept that their sincerity had been trampled on by their idol, and they all ran away overnight.
That's why the progress bar on her forehead is dropping so fast!
Tu Yao grew angrier the more she thought about it: "Do you know that many of the letters you threw away were written by fans with physical disabilities? Tu Chaoxi worked so hard to rebuild their confidence through singing and dancing, and you just threw them away!"
"There's still a two-year anniversary concert to go, and you actually cut the concert program so that he would take that shady online sales job!"
"I'm so angry! What did Tu Chaoxi do to you? What did the fans do to you?! Are you out of your mind?!"
The "selling contract" has already topped the trending search list.
Fans who had previously unfollowed the stream returned to the live stream after seeing this.
Upon entering, I was immediately stunned by this resounding rebuttal.
As they listened, when Tu Yao recounted the efforts her fans had made over the past two years, they were overwhelmed with emotion and tears welled up in their eyes.
When they heard how Chen Meiling had trampled on their sincerity and distorted Tu Chaoxi's image, they were furious!
【Good, good, good! So they really are using us as pawns!】
[I'm so upset! I was so convinced of Tu Chaoxi's existence, but then the next day I saw on the trending topics that he threw away the handwritten letters we wrote to him. Who could stand that? I immediately stopped being a fan. So it's all fake, right? It was Chen Meiling's doing?!]
[She cut the concert program, and to shift the blame, she lied and said Tu Chaoxi was too tired.]
[I thought he'd gotten arrogant. His debut was so difficult, and he's already acting like that after only two years? I thought I was terrible at judging people!]
[The most important thing is that contract. Didn't Chen Meiling just admit it?! So the contract is real? Are you crazy, man? Selling yourself at such a young age?!]
We were initially inclined to ask our sister, hoping to test her claims, since she spoke so confidently. Who would have thought it would actually be true...?
So who is this girl?! Help! How does she know?!
Fans kept flooding into the live stream room.
The other netizens watching were stunned.
[What...what happened? Is it Chen Meiling who's behind this??]
[He always acts so fierce, but turns out he's a pitiful little thing?]
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