At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, there were almost no people coming out to buy vegetables in the vegetable market, and a few people were having a headache looking at the remaining two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes.
"How about we sell them on the street?" Zhang Kui suggested.
"This is feasible. There are not many people in the vegetable market now." Xiang Zhen agreed with Zhang Kui's suggestion, and several other guests were also eager to try it.
Li Zhao finished the last bite of his steamed bun and said, "But if we set up a stall outside, we will be caught by the urban management. The news in the entertainment section tomorrow will be that we occupied the road and were fined by the urban management. Other artists are in the news because they are too handsome, too beautiful or have good acting skills, but we were caught by the urban management. Isn't it embarrassing?"
"That's really embarrassing." Several guests were totally unable to imagine that scene.
“What should we do with these remaining sweet potatoes?”
As soon as I finished speaking, someone came over and asked, "Do you sell sweet potatoes?"
"Yes, yes, we're selling sweet potatoes." Zhang Kui became excited: "How many do you want to buy?"
"These sweet potatoes are a little small." The visitor picked and chose: "Cheaper, cheaper, I want them all."
Zhang Kui was about to nod when Li Zhao grabbed him and pulled him behind him: "Boss, do you want to buy sweet potatoes?"
"Yes." The man was in his thirties or forties, with a slightly protruding belly and a waist bag hanging around his waist. He looked like a businessman.
"To be honest, the sweet potatoes here are the cheapest in the whole market." Li Zhao bent down to pick up a small sweet potato and broke it casually: "Pick any one, they are all red-core, and they are all sweet and soft, high-quality sweet potatoes. Boss, you look very generous, how can you be short of these few dollars?"
"In order to move these sweet potatoes out of the village, we brothers got up before dawn and didn't even take a breath on the way. Please give me a fair price."
"I bought them in one piece yesterday morning. It's already afternoon now. Can you give me a discount? 90 cents a pound."
When they heard the word 90 cents, several guests stood together and tried their best to hide the signs with the prices behind them.
"Brother, you are a straightforward person." Li Zhao smiled and said, "I still have 220 kilograms of sweet potatoes. You are so straightforward, I can't let you suffer a loss. I will give you the remaining 20 kilograms. You can pay for 200 kilograms."
Twenty-nine times eighteen, twenty-two times 0.8 equals seventeen point six. By this calculation, I can earn four more dollars.
This is four yuan, not forty cents or four cents.
It's a huge sum of money.
"That won't do. Everyone on this street knows that I, Li Lao Er, never take advantage of others." The middle-aged man took out two hundred yuan from his bag and put it in Li Zhao's hand: "Here's the money. Help me move the sweet potatoes to the car. No need to change!"
"How can that be so embarrassing."
"These are just a few cents, so what if it's a little more or less?" The middle-aged man patted his bag and said, "Come on, carry it for me."
"Okay." For the extra twenty yuan, the six guests diligently carried more than two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes, followed the middle-aged man, and carried the sweet potatoes to the van.
"Are you celebrities?" The middle-aged man noticed that there was a camera following them and looked at them with pity. "I heard that celebrities had a hard life before they became famous. Come on, your life will be better after you become famous."
The guest nodded repeatedly: "Thank you for your good words."
Program team: “…”
They are a serious TV variety show, so why do they seem like a sinister program that abuses artistes in the eyes of this passerby?
Once again, reputation was damaged.
After collecting the money from selling the sweet potatoes, the six of them stood at the entrance of the somewhat deserted vegetable market and saw some people buying cheap vegetables left over by others. There was even an elderly lady picking up vegetable leaves that the vendors didn't want on the ground.
In all kinds of life, happiness and sadness always occur at the same time.
A hunchbacked old lady was carrying a dirty snakeskin bag and struggling to find a plastic bottle on the ground. Several guests felt sorry for her and bought some meat for the old lady to take home.
The lady selling seasonings watched the scene with a smile, and waited until the old lady walked away with the meat before she said to them, "Young man, do you want to buy some hot pot ingredients?"
"Thank you, we won't buy it." Li Zhao shook his head.
"You young people are just kindhearted. Don't look at this old woman as pitiful now. She was very powerful when she was young." The eldest sister's expression showed disdain, sympathy, and a bit of gloating towards the old woman: "She forced her daughter-in-law to jump into the river and commit suicide. When her daughter-in-law was found, her body was swollen."
Li Zhao noticed that the elder sister was talking about "remains" instead of corpse.
"If you do evil when you are young, you will get retribution when you are old." The eldest sister said, "Only outsiders like you who are ignorant will sympathize with such people."
After hearing these words, the guests felt mixed emotions.
"Let's cut this part." The director team was silent for a moment, and the director sighed.
Human nature often cannot withstand close scrutiny. These matters are too sensitive to be broadcast on the show.
On their way back, the production team finally felt guilty and arranged a van to take them back.
The van was a bit old, and there was a strange smell of rust and sweat inside. If someone who was prone to motion sickness got in, they would probably vomit on the spot.
Li Zhao sat in the last row, looking at the scenery passing by outside the window. He couldn't help but think that maybe his biological parents didn't abandon him accidentally, but... didn't want him.
There are mothers-in-law who force their daughters-in-law to death, and naturally there are parents who do not love their children.
"Xiao Li, what's wrong?" Xiang Zhen saw that Li Zhao was not in high spirits: "Are you tired?"
Li Zhao shook his head and said with energy, "I am trying my best to find the way. If the production team doesn't let us go, we can still escape on foot."
The cameraman couldn't help laughing.
"It doesn't matter if you can't remember. We still have mobile maps." Xiang Zhen took out his phone and said, "Let me show you my daughter."
Xiang Zhen has a ten-year-old daughter who looks like a little angel, so he loves to show off his child whenever he has nothing to do. He is a veritable baby-showing maniac.
Li Zhao looked over curiously. The little girl in the photo was very cute, especially her eyes, which were clear and clean, with the childlike innocence that only a child can have.
"Brother Xiang, your little princess is prettier than you." Li Zhao praised, "Did the little girl inherit all the good qualities of you and your sister-in-law?"
"That's not true." Xiang Zhen became interested and said that his daughter could play the violin and got the first place in the class. He even remembered small things like his daughter peeling an orange for him.
Li Zhao listened very carefully, his eyes full of starlight.
"Brother Xiang brags about his children to us a hundred times every day. Now that we have you, we finally have a new person to brag about." Zhang Kui laughed and said, "It's a good thing you are so interested in listening."
"Xiang's family is quite interesting." Li Zhao smiled with narrowed eyes. This kind of perfect family sounds very happy.
When it was getting dark, Li Zhao and other guests finally returned to the village. The program crew sat them down and did not let them go to the villagers' homes to beg for food, but prepared meals for them.
The sweet potato porridge was sweet, soft and fragrant. Li Zhao ate three bowls of it in one go. If there were no camera filming him, he would have eaten two or three more bowls in order to maintain his image as a masculine fairy.
"Thank you to all the guests for selling sweet potatoes for the villagers. The money will be given to the village chief. Thank you to Feifei Milk and Baiyun Automobile for their strong support for this program. Since the sponsors are very satisfied with the performance of the guests this episode, they are willing to donate one million yuan to the local charity for the construction of rural roads."
"Thank you, sponsor. I wish your business is prosperous and your performance increases every month." Li Zhao picked up the teacup and drank a cup facing the camera.
"Sponsor Dad is the kindest sponsor in the world." Zhang Kui moved closer to Li Zhao and competed with him for the spotlight.
After dinner, everyone started walking back. A dog from somewhere heard them passing by and started barking wildly.
Zhang Kui shivered with fear and subconsciously shrank to Li Zhao's side: "Xiao Li, did you hear the dog barking?"
"Yes." Li Zhao pointed to the corner of the wall: "Isn't it there?"
"ah!"
Zhang Kui screamed and jumped onto Li Zhao. When Lao Liu was bitten by a dog, he witnessed the whole process and had a psychological trauma towards this kind of creature.
"Brother Zhang, you are very heavy." Li Zhao ruthlessly threw Zhang Kui down: "The dog is tied up, so it can't bite you."
"What if the rope breaks?" Zhang Kui leaned over and hugged Li Zhao's arm: "Brother Li, handsome Li, my personal safety is in your hands."
Li Zhao glanced at him sideways, and he smiled at Li Zhao ingratiatingly.
Face is small, being bitten by a dog is big.
"Woof woof woof!" the dog barked even louder.
“Be quiet and sit still!” Li Zhao saw that Zhang Kui was really scared, so he turned around and shouted at the dog. The dog, which had been barking loudly, now whined and tucked its tail between its legs, huddled in the corner, and looked at them warily, but did not dare to come forward.
After leaving this dangerous section with dogs, Zhang Kui let go of Li Zhao's arm and asked, "Zhao Zhao, how did you make the dogs afraid of you?"
Because of a dog, Zhang Kui's way of addressing Li Zhao has become a more intimate name.
"The lie is that it found that we didn't break into the master's door, so it let us go."
"What about the truth?"
"It realized that my bark might be louder than its own, and it felt a little embarrassed, so it retreated. It pretended that I was not going to argue with it, in order to maintain its dog dignity."
"I don't believe it." Zhang Kui felt that this reason was even more fake: "You are trying to fool me."
"Well, the real truth is..." Li Zhao stopped and pointed to the fork in the road: "Brother Zhang, we have arrived at your residence."
"No, I call you brother. Can you take me back? I remember that the neighbor's family also has a dog." Zhang Kui smiled at Li Zhao flatteringly: "Tell me the truth about why the dog is afraid of you."
"Alas." Li Zhao sighed: "Others send beautiful women home, why is it that when it comes to me, I send a foot-picking man home?"
"Hey, I don't mind you treating me like a beauty."
"My eyes and my brain say no."
"Forget it, let's get back to the topic of dogs."
"When I was a kid, a kid deliberately let a dog out to scare me..."
"How old were you then?" Zhang Kui was stunned. He looked at Li Zhao in disbelief. How could there be such a disgusting child in the world?
"I don't remember, maybe eight or nine?" Li Zhao thought carefully for a while, "But that's not important. At that time, I couldn't outrun the dog, so I just barked at it."
“Who won in the end?”
"Of course I won it with my strong willpower." Li Zhao smiled: "Brother Zhang, what do you think after hearing this story?"
"What?"
"Eight-year-old children are not afraid of dogs, are you still afraid?"
"I knew you were making up a story to lie to me. Are you still brothers? Are you brothers?!" Zhang Kui jumped up on the spot, very angry and determined: "I don't care, you have to send me back anyway."
Li Zhao smiled: "Let's go, let's go."
The next morning, the guests were taken to the fields by the program crew to work for another day.
Li Zhao was very much loved by the guests because of his good farm work. On the morning when they finished recording and were about to go home, they invited him to their homes.
The six guests live in different cities. Li Zhao, Xiang Zhen and Zhang Kui all live in Beijing, and the program team booked the same flight for them.
"Zhao Zhao, the night before last, you said that a kid let a dog bite you. Is that true or false?" Zhang Kui was still a little upset about this matter. Emotionally, he hoped that it was false.
"Of course it is..." Li Zhao smiled: "It's fake."
Because at that time he not only barked at the dog, but also fought with it with a stick.
He understood the meaning of this idiom very early on: a dog takes advantage of the power of its master.
But he has been smart since he was a child. He can beat dogs and fight geese. He is really awesome.
After getting off the plane, their respective assistants came to pick them up. Zhang Kui and Xiang Zhen waved goodbye to Li Zhao: "Zhao Zhao, see you next time."
"See you next time." Li Zhao put on his mask and pushed the ceremonial car around. He didn't see Dake, but saw Qin Xiao instead.
"Mr. Qin." Li Zhao pulled down the brim of his cap and asked, "Are you picking someone up here?"
"I'm not here to pick up anyone else, I'm here to pick you up." Qin Xiao smiled: "Mr. Ting knew you were coming back today, so he came with me to pick you up."
"Thank you." Li Zhao quickened his pace: "Thank you for troubling Mr. Qin."
"Saying thank you is too polite." Qin Xiao brought Li Zhao to the parking lot, and when he opened the car door, he saw Yan Ting sitting in the back seat.
"Tingting." Li Zhao got into the car: "Didn't I tell you not to come pick me up?"
"I just happened to have nothing to do, so I stopped by with my colleagues to visit." Yan Ting handed the yogurt he had prepared long ago to Li Zhao and said, "Go back and have a good rest."
Li Zhao drank the yogurt happily and leaned on Yan Ting's shoulder: "It's better to go home."
Yan Ting held out his hand to support him, remaining silent.
Qin Xiao, who was driving, looked in the rearview mirror and saw Yan Ting carefully protecting Li Zhao, then he retracted his gaze.
The show "Return to the Mountains" does not have a high ratings among many variety shows. In addition, the program crew does not like to hype things up, so the guests' unlucky expressions are more noticeable than the show itself.
At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, the official Weibo account of the "Return to the Mountains" production team, as per old rules, released a program preview.
Retreat to the Mountains V: In the beautiful and peaceful Qingxi Village, how will the guests experience rural life? Please watch "Return to the Mountains" on National Channel 9 at 9 o'clock this evening. @Xiang Zhen@Zhang Kui@Zhang San@Li Shi@Qian Duoxi@Li Zhao.
The official account has less than 20,000 followers, and half of them are zombie fans added by the Weibo platform. Even if they post something, not many netizens will pay attention to it.
But today is different, it finally has some presence.
"Li Zhao? Is that the Li Zhao I know?"
"23333, no, the national TV station's rural program doesn't match Li Zhao at all. What kind of magical match is this?"
"My mom likes to watch "Return to the Mountains" very much. When she was young, she was a fan of Xiang Zhen. I remember that Li Zhao was not among the guests on the show?"
"It's obvious that the guy upstairs doesn't like to watch TV with his mother. During the recording of the show, guest Liu was bitten on the leg by a dog and has withdrawn from the show."
"This show is quite interesting. There is no script, the content is very real, and the guests are humble. An actor like Li Zhao who plays in idol dramas will only drag down the other guests. Even if the production team wants to find a popular young star to increase the popularity of the show, they should not look for such a young person."
"The people above are really funny. How can they be called fresh meat if they are not young people?"
The quarrel among netizens brought unprecedented attention to the program, especially the staff who managed the Weibo, who was so excited that he burst into tears. As a deserted official Weibo, he finally understood the feelings of fans quarreling in the comment section, which was really touching.
The show officially starts at nine o'clock in the evening. Pear fans and pear haters all sat in front of the TV or turned on the national TV station's online broadcast platform.
The show opened with a dark street and sleepy-looking staff, who later kindly marked the time at the bottom of the screen.
Three thirty in the morning.
The barrage area suddenly became lively.
"It's three in the morning and the production crew is as inhumane as ever."
When the program crew's car drove into a luxurious residential area and blurred out the name of the residential area, netizens became excited again.
"Only the rich and powerful can live in this community. I heard there are villas there, and the prices are very expensive."
"I told you guys in the villa area not to leave. The production crew drove the car into the villa area. Who is this guest? He's so rich."
Even at around four in the morning, there were still uniformed security guards patrolling the neighborhood, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.
"I think the breathing of the show's staff has become quieter."
“Hahahaha, this shit show also has guilty moments?”
When they saw that the main door of the luxurious villa opened and the person who walked out was Li Zhao, who was wearing pajamas and had messy hair, the entire barrage area was full of exclamation marks!
"!! How could the Li Zhao family be so rich?"
"!!!!!"
"It's clear from the first glance that Li Zhao has no experience in recording a show. I wonder if the production crew has the habit of doing surprise shows in the middle of the night."
"Ahhhh, the production team really understands the audience's curiosity. They even gave a close-up of the interior of the villa. I, a poor person, can only offer my knees to hug their thighs."
When everyone found out that Li Zhao denied the ownership of the villa in front of the camera and said that it was lent to him by a friend, netizens felt complicated.
"What a straightforward guest! He didn't even use such a good hype opportunity." Regardless of the circle, tall, rich and handsome people are always likable.
"I just want to have a friend who is willing to give me a villa to live in. Unfortunately, my friend thinks the same way."
The barrage area was filled with comments, almost covering the entire screen. Many netizens could only adjust the transparency of the barrage font in order to continue reading.
The show started out normal until Li Zhao took fifteen yuan and squeezed onto a shabby pig-carrying tricycle, and then the barrage section exploded.
"What kind of state have the unscrupulous production crew put the guests in just to save money?"
"Most people would never imagine how smelly the pig trucks are."
"Seeing that Li Zhao can still talk and laugh with me, I want to take back what I said before, mocking Li Zhao as a spoiled gigolo. This is not a gigolo, this is a mudslide."
"What the hell is this about postpartum care for sows? Did Li Zhao forget that he is a guest on the show, not a veterinarian?"
"It seems that the later part of this story has given up on saving it, and it is only accompanied by a series of ellipsis marks."
"I just want to know if the air smells especially sweet when the production crew's car follows behind the pig truck?"
"In the previous episodes, they were the ones who tortured the guests. Now there is finally a guest who can torture them. No one can escape this fate. Hahahaha."
The program was interspersed with footage of several guests. Everyone was amused by the guests going to the villagers' homes to beg for food. Suddenly, the scene changed, and "However..." appeared on the dark screen.
The moment the screen lit up, you could hear the piglet screaming.
The camera gradually moves upwards, and the piglet's four hooves leave long traces in the mud. However, the person dragging the pig is a cold-blooded killer, who pulls him forward.
The camera took a close-up of this "ruthless killer".
Li Zhao? !
The camera replays the scene where the old man invites Li Zhao to eat bacon. Li Zhao happily agrees and then drags the piglet to the old man's house.
Added later.
For the sake of bacon, I am willing to cross mountains and water and lock you in a pigsty.
“Hahahahahahahahahaha.”
The barrage section went crazy.
The production crew went crazy, too.
Because they watched the click rate of the online streaming platform increase, and the TV ratings followed suit, even surpassing a very popular variety show in the same time period.
The entire production team of "Return to the Mountains": "..."
Who bought the wrong ratings?
The author has something to say: Baby Tingting came to Baby Zhaozhao's charity sale stall with his own little gold coins.
But he only saw an empty stall.
He pulled at his heavy trouser pockets filled with gold coins, took out some yogurt from his backpack and gave it to baby Zhao Zhao: "I'm just here to take you home."
The laptop I'm used to using suddenly broke down at noon. The laptop I selected in the afternoon can only be returned tomorrow. Today I used a gaming laptop to write, which is very inconvenient.
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