Chapter 207 (First Update) (Many Comments)
207:
[Xiao Xi is really amazing!]
[You can recite ancient poems from memory and do math problems—Xiao Xi, you're practically the perfect child!]
[Smart, academically gifted, meticulous, considerate, and quick-witted—does our Xiaoxi have any flaws?]
[It seems... we haven't found anything yet!]
[Mainly because Xiaoxi has a great personality and gets along well with everyone.]
[Is that good? That's fantastic! She's practically the group's darling!]
[Hahaha, Nannan is still holding Xiaoxi's hand!]
"Not bad, not bad! You're really smart~" the voice rang out again, "Since you're so smart, I'll tell you a secret~"
"Is it a password?" Tao Tao asked excitedly.
"Hahaha, there's no password. This box contains stones, nothing special. The real treasure is up ahead."
"Huh?" Zhang Ning exclaimed in surprise.
"Keep walking forward, and you'll see a shovel. I've buried the treasure chest underground. Whether you find it or not depends on your luck!"
After that, the other person fell silent.
"So this box doesn't contain treasure, it contains stones," Yang Shu concluded. "We need to keep going to find the real treasure chest."
"Then let's go," Tao Tao said boldly.
Zhang Ning then led everyone forward again.
Ye Qingxi followed them, shining her flashlight forward, constantly keeping an eye on her surroundings, afraid of missing the shovel and other lost "treasures".
He hadn't gone far when he saw the shovel that the production team had provided.
"Shovel," he said quickly.
Zhang Ning looked in the direction of his flashlight beam and exclaimed in surprise, "There really is one!"
He ran over quickly and picked up the shovel.
But the next second, Zhang Ning was a little confused, "He only said that the treasure chest was buried underground, but this place is so big, how are we going to find it?"
"It should be near the shovel," Ye Qingxi said. "Everyone, take a close look and see if there's anything that looks like something has been buried there."
“Okay,” the others responded.
However, He Lei scratched her head, wondering how she could tell that something was buried in this place.
Finding treasure is really hard!
What is a problem for four-and-a-half-year-old He Lei is not difficult for Ye Qingxi.
He knew perfectly well that this was all arranged by the production team, and the production team knew they were just children, so they couldn't make things too difficult for them. Wherever the shovel was, the box would inevitably be nearby.
Even if we assume they really didn't find it, there must have been some clues.
Ultimately, they will definitely be allowed to return home with the treasure.
So Ye Qingxi kept her head down, using the shovel as the center and a radius of two meters, carefully searching little by little.
Huo Zinan followed him, watching silently—though he felt he couldn't discern anything either.
But since Ye Qingxi is watching, he'll watch too.
Zhang Ning searched high and low but couldn't find any place where the treasure was buried, so he simply picked up a shovel and dug here and there.
"It seems like it's still quite difficult for them," Zhang Ye remarked.
“There should be other clues,” Tao Rui said. “We’ve come this far, we can’t let the children go back empty-handed.”
Mu Shaowu nodded.
The program director watched and instructed the staff responsible for the voice communication in the cave to prepare, and to start the microphone three minutes later.
He had long anticipated that the children would not be found, so he had made plans accordingly.
After all, guiding them to the location of the real box is the second hurdle.
Finding the box is the final challenge.
With such a large hole and them being so young, how could they possibly find where the box was buried?
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
The director was laughing when he suddenly heard Ye Qingxi shout, "Brother Zhang Ning, come and dig here."
The director glanced at where he was pointing and instantly exclaimed: !!
no!
How did he find out?!
That's impossible!
When Zhang Ning heard Ye Qingxi call him, he grabbed a shovel and ran over.
Everyone else gathered around as well.
Tao Tao asked, puzzled, "Xiao Xi, why are we digging here?"
He didn't think there was any treasure buried here.
"Because the soil here is wet," Ye Qingxi explained. "The soil in other places is dry, but it's different here, so I think there might be something buried here."
director:……
“And it’s summer now,” Ye Qingxi said. “Everything dries very quickly, so the fact that this place is wet and hasn’t dried yet means that it wasn’t wet a long time ago, but just recently. That means it probably got wet when they were hiding the treasure and hasn’t had time to dry yet.”
Tao Tao suddenly understood: "Xiao Xi, you're right!"
director:……
No, honey, do you have to be so smart?!
The director was having a real headache.
This is a mark left by the production team—it has a certain uniqueness, but it is not easy for people to notice.
Because it's summer and the land dries out too quickly during the day, they specifically wet the ground after sunset before the babies arrive, to ensure it's still wet when the babies walk there.
But now, Ye Qingxi has guessed their intentions so easily, this... this...
This is unreasonable!
Upon seeing this, the staff member in charge of the cave's voice communication hesitated and asked the director, "Director Wang, should I continue using my microphone for a while?"
Director Wang: ...
"What's the point of continuing? He's already found him, does he still need our hints?!"
Staff member: ...So, he's off work?
Director Wang simply couldn't understand it.
"Are kids these days really that smart?" he asked his assistant.
The assistant was also puzzled, "He is quite smart, but I've never seen anyone this smart."
The main thing is that he is very organized and has a very logical way of thinking, which is very difficult for a child.
After listening, Zhang Ning also felt that Ye Qingxi was right.
He quickly swung his shovel and began digging.
As they were digging, the shovel suddenly seemed to hit something, making a "snap" sound.
Zhang Ning: !!!
"There's something!" Zhang Ning exclaimed excitedly. "Xiao Xi, you're amazing! Your brain works so well."
Tao Tao stared at it longingly, wanting his brain even more.
Viewers in the live stream exclaimed in surprise: "No way, it's really down there?!"
Wow! Xiaoxi, you're amazing!
Xiao Xi is really smart!
Actually, when he was analyzing the situation, I thought his analysis made a lot of sense.
[The main issue is that there weren't any special markings in the cave, but that shouldn't be the case; we can't just let them dig randomly all over the cave. So, the soil in that area was different from the soil in other places, which became the special marking.]
[But this feeling shouldn't be something Xiaoxi, at her age, should be thinking about!]
[It's reasonable to suspect that this should also be a hurdle, otherwise they would have only cleared two hurdles to get the treasure. Usually, it's three hurdles, isn't it?]
[No way, isn't Xiao Xi...]
[Did they eliminate the third round of the show in one go?]
[Hahaha, our Xiaoxi isn't that brave, is she!]
However, soon, as Zhang Ning swung his shovel, the treasure chest slowly emerged.
All the babies: !!!
Live stream viewers: !!!
The dads in the monitoring room: !!!
"Xiao Xi was right after all," Zhang Ye said in shock.
"Xiao Xi is really smart!" Yang Jin exclaimed.
Tao Rui looked at Mu Shaowu beside him and said, "If Taozi were half as smart as Xiaoxi, I can't even imagine how happy I would be as a father."
Mu Shaowu never expected things to develop this way.
But his son is really smart!
Therefore, Mu Shaowu accepted all the praise without question.
Not only did he accept everything, but he also bluntly stated, "Xiao Xi is like this, very smart. You don't know, he has a lot of clever ideas, and I don't know what's in his little brain. Sometimes even I, his father, can't compare to him."
[Hahaha, someone's got their tail wagging again!]
[Mu Shaowu: I'm a professional at praising my son!]
[Mu Shaowu is really something; he gets so obviously happy whenever someone praises his son!]
[I strongly suggest that anyone who wants to talk to Mu Shaowu but doesn't know how should just praise his son. No need for any formalities; as soon as you start praising him, Mu Shaowu will start smiling.]
[Now who can say that our Young Master Mu is born without a smile? [Tactical lean back]]
It was at this moment that the production team posted an official message on Weibo.
V from "Look the Daddy": [The treasure hunt was originally supposed to have three stages, but as you can see, the third stage is gone [facepalm].]
Viewers who hadn't yet watched the live stream asked in confusion: "Why?"
Viewers of the live stream burst into laughter: "Because Xiao Xi wiped him out!"
"Huh?" Viewers who didn't watch the live stream were confused.
Viewers who watched the live stream replied to her: 【Haha, you'll see when you watch it! Little Xi is so smart!】
Someone in the live stream quickly reported: [Report! The production team posted on Weibo that there were indeed three rounds originally, and the last round was supposed to be finding a box, just like the first two rounds, where staff would verbally test the participants and then give them hints about where the box was buried. But now, that's gone [laughing and crying emoji]]
Hahaha, it's actually true!
[This is hilarious! I knew they wouldn't let them dig around randomly in the cave; they must have given them a hint first.]
[The production team: We never expected anyone to find the box beforehand!]
[The production team: I will remember you, Ye Qingxi! I will remember you for the rest of my life!]
[Xiao Xi is so smart, I'll remember him for a lifetime, won't I? I'll remember him for a lifetime too!]
[This baby really leaves the production team at a loss!]
Ye Qingxi, who had left the production team at a loss, was reaching out her hand, ready to work with her friends to lift the box out of the pit.
They counted "one, two, three," and together they pulled on the handles of the box, lifting it to the ground.
It's a small wooden box with a lock on it, but if you get close, you'll see that the lock isn't locked and can be easily removed.
Ye Qingxi removed the lock from the box, opened it, and everyone curiously peered inside, only to find the treasure chest stuffed with many things.
“This bear is the same one we just saw,” Zhang Ning said.
“The same goes for slingshots,” Ye Qingxi said.
"And guns!" Tao Tao exclaimed happily.
He Lei stared intently at the Barbie doll inside.
Huo Zinan looked at the fire truck next to the Barbie doll inside.
"Let's divide the things up," Zhang Ning suggested.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Xiao Xi, you found this treasure chest, so you can choose one first." Zhang Ning, as the oldest among them and the pioneer who paved the way, took the initiative to speak.
After he finished speaking, he asked the others around him, "What do you think?"
"Yes." Everyone nodded in agreement.
Without Ye Qingxi, they wouldn't have been able to find the box, and naturally, there would have been no treasure, so no one objected to this.
Ye Qingxi: ...
Ye Qingxi really didn't want anything.
His mental age is far beyond what he's used to.
In addition, the Mu family all thought he was only five years old, and the toys they bought for him could fill his bedroom, which had never been lived in since it was renovated, so Ye Qingxi really didn't lack toys.
But he didn't want it, and he was afraid of spoiling everyone's fun, so he thought for a moment and took out the slingshot from the box.
“I want this,” he said.
The viewers in the live stream were somewhat surprised: "He doesn't want the gun?"
We don't need fire trucks either.
"Is it just a slingshot? This slingshot is quite ordinary."
[Was Xiaoxi doing this on purpose? Did she deliberately pick something that no one would likely choose, so that the ones everyone likes would still be in the box?]
[Waaaaah, my baby is so well-behaved!]
I wouldn't be sure about others, but with Xiaoxi, it's certainly possible.
Xiao Xi is so... thoughtful!
He's so young, yet so wonderful! It breaks my heart!
Our Xiaoxi is such a considerate child!
[Others: Nothing in this world is perfect! Me: [Little Xi Baby.jpg]]
I really hope our baby will only meet good people in the future! Otherwise, with his personality, he'll definitely suffer.
Yes, yes, it definitely will!
Zhang Ning was somewhat surprised to see him with a slingshot.
"Is this all you want?" he asked.
Ye Qingxi nodded.
Zhang Ning: ……
Zhang Ning thought he was really modest.
"Alright then," Zhang Ning said. "Who wants this teddy bear? There are two in total."
Yang Shu quickly raised her hand, and Tao Tao also raised his hand.
Zhang Ning then handed out the two teddy bears one by one.
Next came the gun, the fire truck, and the Lego panda hidden under the teddy bear.
He Lei wanted a Barbie doll, so she naturally gave the little rabbit diamond bracelet to Yang Shu.
Yang Shu happily thanked her, and also said "thank you" to Ye Qingxi, who had found the bracelet.
"You're welcome," Ye Qingxi said with a smile.
After distributing all the items in the treasure chest and those they had found earlier, everyone left their current location and continued on their way.
By the time they emerged from the cave, it was already dark.
When Ye Qingxi looked up, she saw a sky full of stars.
"It's so beautiful," he couldn't help but exclaim.
The others also looked up and began to watch.
“We couldn’t see so many stars before when we lived here,” Zhang Ning said.
“We can’t see it from our house either,” Tao Tao chimed in.
"Then I'll knock down a few for everyone, and we can each take one home."
As Zhang Ning spoke, he took out the pebbles he had put in his pocket and shot them into the night sky.
He gave himself the voiceover "whoosh whoosh whoosh," which almost made Ye Qingxi burst out laughing.
He looked at Zhang Ning, then at the others standing around him, and finally at the star-studded night sky.
Although it was for recording a show, and before he came, he only thought about preventing He Yao from gaining fans, and preferably letting Mu Shaowu gain fans instead.
But when she actually arrived here and spent time with these children, Ye Qingxi felt that she was actually quite happy.
They are all still young and innocent. Despite their different personalities, they are all very pure children.
They would all approach him and hold his hand.
It seems he has made new friends.
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