Standing in front of this shabby thatched house, Ke Jingyang began to doubt his life.
The walls of Room No. 5 were at least made of red bricks, but the roof was covered with a layer of genuine straw. Fortunately, it wasn't raining in Sishui Ancient City these past two days, otherwise the entire house would have been flooded.
...Does this kind of house really still exist in this day and age?
Even though he knew that there were several cameras pointed at him nearby, Ke Jingyang couldn't smile at all.
What the hell! Who could smile when forced to live in this kind of broken house?!
Gu Suisui, who had come along, realized something belatedly. She looked around at this unusual Room No. 5 and exclaimed in a childish, milky voice, "Ke Papa, our house is so broken~"
You–Still–Know! That’s good!
Ke Jingyang was truly disappointed. This little one was too carefree. She had lost the game and gotten such a broken house, but she didn't react at all just now and could still act so excited?!
Now it's good, she finally recognized reality...
However, before this temporary father-daughter pair, who had been greatly hit, could recover from the bad news in front of them, another bad news followed closely.
A staff member walked forward with a task card and said, "Today at noon, the production team will not provide you with lunch. Whatever you want to eat, you have to make it yourself. This is a list of ingredients that our production team has prepared for the two of you. Because you were the last place in the 'Three-Legged Race' game, your group can only choose one ingredient from it."
Ke Jingyang, who had been well-fed and clothed since he was a child and had never cooked before: "...??!" What?! Is the production team planning to starve me and the little one to death?
The production team had prepared a total of five ingredients to choose from. They were white radish, cured meat, crucian carp, tofu, and white steamed buns.
Ke Jingyang thought for a moment and decisively chose the last ingredient, white steamed buns.
The staff member was stunned and asked in surprise, "Are you really sure you want to choose this?"
Although white steamed buns were deliberately added by the production team to make up the numbers, they didn't think any guests would choose it when there were better ingredients available. Moreover, people who had participated in variety shows knew that cooking was a good way to attract fans. Whether the food was delicious or not, it could achieve good results, but there weren't as many shots of squatting on the ground and gnawing on steamed buns.
Ke Jingyang raised his eyebrows and said in a depressed mood, "Sure, I'll choose white steamed buns." He wouldn't be able to cook even with more and better ingredients. He couldn't expect the three-and-a-half-year-old child next to him to cook, could he?
"Okay, these are the white steamed buns you want." After a quick discussion, the people on the production team's side didn't continue to make things difficult for the 'father and daughter' and let them steam the buns themselves or something. They gave them freshly baked white steamed buns.
This was the first time in his life that Ke Jingyang had lived such a poor and shabby life. Not only was he about to live in a dilapidated thatched cottage, but lunch was actually two white steamed buns!!
Ke Jingyang glanced at the little one next to him, who was short and thin, sighed slightly, and simply gave her both the white steamed buns given by the production team. "Eat them, they're all yours."
Gu Suisui shook her head and gave the white steamed buns that he had just given her back to Ke Jingyang, saying in a soft voice, "Ke Papa, I, I'm not hungry yet. You can eat these."
"..." Ke Jingyang didn't expect that Gu Suisui, such a food-protective child, would give him food. What surprised him even more was that he would actually be moved by two white steamed buns one day.
If he had known that this would happen this afternoon, he definitely wouldn't have kept sleeping on the plane earlier and not eaten anything. Even further back, he wouldn't have thrown all the snacks that the little one had brought into the production team's plastic box for confiscating things. Instead, he would have helped her speak up, trying to keep that one bag of potato chips that had slipped through the net.
Ke Jingyang stared at the two white steamed buns in his hand and pursed his lips.
Two steamed buns were nothing. What was with the back and forth?
Besides, he was an adult and not short. It wouldn't matter if he skipped a few meals, but a three-year-old child couldn't do that. Moreover, he didn't believe that the production team would really dare to starve them all the time. Maybe there would be a big meal for dinner.
This time, Ke Jingyang directly stuffed the steamed buns into her two little hands and said in a deliberately fierce tone, "Eat both of these steamed buns, or else... or else I won't give you dinner either."
"Oh, okay, okay qaq"
In this way, under Ke Jingyang's supervision, Gu Suisui was forced to eat all two of the white steamed buns given by the production team.
Seeing that she had finally finished eating, Ke Jingyang unscrewed the cap and handed over the mineral water: "Are you full?"
"Mm, I'm full." Gu Suisui looked very well-behaved. Her long eyelashes swept across, casting a shadow on her eyelids. Suddenly, she shouted in surprise, "Ke Papa, I think I smell food!"
“?” Ke Jingyang instinctively reached out to touch her forehead. Just as he was about to worry that this little one might be hallucinating from hunger, the next second, he too caught the mouthwatering aroma of food drifting by.
He remembered that Room No. 1, which was where Qu Mingshan and his son lived, seemed to be next to the thatched cottage.
Gu Suisui's nose was particularly sensitive. Following the aroma of food wafting from not far away, she pulled Ke Jingyang around the white fence for most of the way and finally came to the door of a large mansion.
He saw that the sign at the door was also marked with the logo of the Traveling with Babies production team.
Sure enough, after seeing this conspicuous logo, Ke Jingyang confirmed that he hadn't remembered it wrongly. This was indeed where Qu Mingshan and his son lived.
Look at the place where other people live!
The area of one residence was worth more than ten of theirs, not to mention the appearance was countless times better than theirs. This was the house that a real wealthy family should live in! Looking at the thatched cottage where they lived, Ke Jingyang didn't know what to say at all!
Ke Jingyang looked down at the little Gu Suisui, who had a longing look on her face, took her hand, and said as if he had made up his mind, "Let's go, I'll take you to mooch a meal at someone else's house!"
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Qu Mingshan, who was wearing an apron, heard a knock on the door. When he opened the door, he found that a tall and a short person were standing at the entrance of his residence, all looking at him expectantly.
...What's going on?
Qu Mingshan didn't know what the situation was with the others. After the production team gave him a task card, he started preparing lunch with the ingredients in it.
After hearing that the two of them had taken last place in the game just now and had now been reduced to gnawing on steamed buns, Qu Mingshan wanted to laugh a little, but he felt that he was being a bit unkind, so he forcibly held back his smile and said generously, "It's not a big deal. Our group got a lot of ingredients. You two can come and eat with us."
Gu Suisui's nose twitched, smelling the increasingly rich aroma of food in the air. She was very excited and said in a sweet voice, "Thank you, Uncle Qu~"
Qu Mingshan smiled, "You're welcome. Come in quickly. After I put the last dish, stir-fried cured meat with tofu, on the table, we can start eating."
Ke Jingyang and the others had come at the right time. Qu Mingshan and his son were just about to start eating.
After putting all the dishes on the table, Qu Mingshan smiled and said, "You can try my cooking."
Perhaps it was because he was too hungry, but Ke Jingyang thought that Qu Mingshan's cooking was simply too delicious. He praised without being stingy, "Brother Qu, you can definitely become a chef with your cooking skills."
Gu Suisui took a bite, and her eyebrows and eyes curved into crescents because it was so delicious. She also chimed in, "So delicious~"
In addition to these two dishes, Qu Mingshan also cooked a pot of mushroom soup. This kind of small mushroom was a unique variety in this area of Sishui Ancient City. It was simply too delicious to use for soup!
Ke Jingyang drank two large bowls in a row before reluctantly ending the battle. Gu Suisui also drank all the mushroom soup in her bowl, without wasting a single drop.
"If you think it's delicious, you can come and eat again next time."
Every chef is very happy when they see that the food they make is very popular. Originally, Qu Mingshan was worried that there were only him and his son, and they definitely wouldn't be able to finish so many dishes that the production team gave them at once. Now that four people were sharing them, they could all be finished.
Qu Mingshan's son, Qu Xiyue, was six years old this year and was a very delicate-looking boy. He looked at the beautiful little girl in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "Sister Suisui, there's a fruit tree in our yard. Do you want to go pick fruit with me?"
In fact, Qu Xiyue had always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to this beautiful little girl. But there were too many people when they were playing the game earlier. Qu Xiyue was a little shy, so he didn't dare to take the initiative to ask her to play. Now that there were less than half the people, he dared to muster up the courage to speak.
Gu Suisui had a good impression of this father and son who had invited her and Ke Papa to eat. Now that this older brother had taken the initiative to ask her to go pick fruit together, she was immediately happy and said, "Okay!" (/≧▽≦/)~
In fact, Gu Suisui had been filming in the film crew since she transmigrated and rarely had the opportunity to meet people of the same age, let alone play with them.