Some of the filming for the Traveling with Babies production team took place in public places. Sishui Ancient City was also a national 5A-level tourist attraction, many tourists come here every day. Even if they put up cordon lines, there were still many passersby who secretly took photos.
And that night, the candid photos were posted online by netizens, causing an even bigger sensation than the last time they filmed at XX Park.
By early the next morning, the topic “Ke Jingyang suspected of filming a variety show at Sishui Ancient Town” had already made it into the top five trending searches on Weibo.
Fu Yingyu, who was filming in the Tit for Tat film crew, also saw this trending search. Originally, she didn't care about this matter at all. She was just about to swipe across the screen and scroll down when she suddenly recognized the person in a behind-the-scenes photo that had been released—
Isn't this little girl with the bun hairstyle standing next to Ke Jingyang little Gu Suisui?!
Why did she go to participate in a variety show? And... with Ke Jingyang??
There was a lot of discussion about this matter online right now. It was spreading like wildfire, and people were saying all sorts of things. Some netizens were even digging up who the little girl holding hands with Ke Jingyang in the photo was.
Fu Yingyu stared at the comments section under the Weibo post and skimmed through it. She frowned, then opened her phone's address book and dialed the phone number that she had saved but never dialed.
After two "beep" sounds, she was informed that the number she was calling had been turned off.
At this time, her manager, Hao Peng, walked in from outside the dressing room. Seeing her sitting in the chair with a slightly solemn expression, he asked in confusion, "Yingyu, why are you suddenly frowning? Did something happen at the company?" Recently, because of the planned termination of the contract, he had become a bit nervous about the outside world, constantly worried that upper management would catch wind of it before Fu Yingyu and Qin's Entertainment had successfully negotiated.
Although the progress was going smoothly now, and he believed that Fu Yingyu would soon be a artist under Qin's Entertainment, Hao Peng wasn't sure if there would be any changes if the people at Tianhao Entertainment found out in advance.
Fu Yingyu pursed her lips and said, "Suisui and Ke Jingyang went to participate in a variety show together." She had tried to call the little one's phone earlier, but it was turned off. She had also seen her in the behind-the-scenes photos online just now, which meant that the rumors were most likely true.
"Suisui? She and Ke Jingyang went to participate in a variety show??" Hao Peng was stunned for a moment, then realized that this was a good thing and smiled, "Isn't that great?"
Ke Jingyang's manager was Lu Yuanzhi, who was Qin's Entertainment's top-notch manager. He had single-handedly made several first-line stars popular. How could the variety show that he allowed his artists to participate in be bad?
But it was Qin's Entertainment again... This little girl seemed to have a wide network of relationships in Qin's Entertainment. The two male stars she knew weren't ordinary people.
But Hao Peng had overheard Gu Suisui's mother say on the set that day that she hadn't signed with a management company yet.
Could it be that Gu Suisui would also sign with Qin's Entertainment in the future??
Hao Peng thought about the connection between the little girl and Qin's Entertainment's artists and felt that it wasn't impossible.
Fu Yingyu was worried about this very thing. She said in a deep voice, "Participating in a variety show with Ke Jingyang might not be a good thing. You know, very few people in our industry who become famous suddenly through bundled marketing aren't cursed by rival fans."
Especially for male stars like this, whose fans were 70% or more female, if someone wanted to use him to climb up, the fans would tear you apart until you doubted your life before the main party even spoke up. Fu Yingyu had seen the actions of those crazy fans. When someone became popular, there were many troubles. Once Suisui did something wrong on that variety show, she might be completely blackened by Ke Jingyang's fans.
Suisui was still just a child, and she didn't know if she could withstand these things.
Hao Peng was surprised that Fu Yingyu would care so much about a child who had nothing to do with her. Back when she herself was being bashed online, she’d always acted indifferent—cool-headed, carrying on with work like nothing happened, her mindset incredibly strong. But now, with Suisui, nothing bad had even happened yet and she was already this anxious?
Is this what they call “being overly concerned leads to chaos”?
"Yingyu, don't worry too much. I think Suisui is quite likable, so the situation you mentioned shouldn't happen. Even if Ke Jingyang's fans are crazy and hate people using their idol for bundled marketing, they wouldn't deliberately target a child who doesn't understand anything."
Besides, this was an era of looking at faces. As long as little Gu Suisui didn't grow ugly, it was only a matter of time before she became popular.
Hao Peng had seen this little girl's performance when filming on the set. It was much better than many stars in the industry who only knew how to glare in front of the camera. Once the little one's movie was released, she would definitely gain a large number of fans.
After listening to his words, Fu Yingyu's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly. She felt that what her manager said might be right. Maybe she was just worrying unnecessarily.
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At the same time, Gu Suisui and Ke Jingyang, who were at the center of the topic, were unaware of this. They were sitting at the stone table in front of their thatched cottage, eating breakfast.
Breakfast, of course, was provided by the production team.
Ke Jingyang was right. The production team didn't dare to starve these guests all the time. Last night, to welcome their arrival, they had also carefully prepared a big meal and arranged some songs and dances to liven things up.
And although this thatched cottage looked very broken, it had actually been reinforced. For safety reasons, the production team couldn't really let the temporary father and daughter live in a "dangerous" house.
Last night, Ke Jingyang and Gu Suisui, this temporarily formed father-daughter pair, had lived together. The big bed in the thatched cottage was actually made up of two single beds combined together. After the two of them finished washing up, Ke Jingyang designated the territory in advance. He would sleep on the left bed, and she would sleep on the right bed. The two of them would mind their own business.
But when Ke Jingyang woke up this morning, he found that at some point, the little one had run from the right bed to the left bed. Not only had she stolen his quilt, but she had also hugged his arm tightly and wouldn't let go.
Thinking of this, Ke Jingyang looked up at Gu Suisui, who was sitting across from the stone table with a carefree expression, and felt very depressed.
No wonder he always felt like he couldn't breathe last night when he was sleeping and was inexplicably a bit cold. It was all because of this little one!
"Little Gu Suisui, are you done eating? We should leave after you're done." Ke Jingyang was originally known for being picky. It was absolutely impossible for him to sleep on a hard wooden bed.
But perhaps he was too tired from mooching meals, having dinner parties, and doing personal interviews yesterday. Even though there was only a single bed, even though he was sleeping in a thatched cottage, even though there was a restless child sleeping next to him, he still slept soundly until dawn.
Gu Suisui stuffed the last bite of bread into her mouth and said vaguely, "...Ke Papa, I'm done eating."
In order to experience the local customs, the production team had given each of them a set of local ethnic minority clothing to change into.
Gu Suisui's favorite thing was the silver-white headdress in this whole set of clothes. Not only did it look particularly beautiful, but it also made a crisp and melodious sound when walking.
When the guests came to the meeting point wearing the clothes specially prepared by the production team, the staff also told them what the task they had to do today was. The adults were to go to a time-honored pastry shop in the ancient city to learn how to make dragon's beard candy, while the adorable children were to find the ingredients needed for cooking lunch today.
Each of the five adorable children was carrying a small woven basket and walking aimlessly through the small alleys of the ancient town with the task cards given by the production team.
Children are naturally curious, and they’d often forget about the task altogether as they got distracted by everything around them. After some occasional guidance from the staff and half an hour of wandering, they finally found the first item on their list at a shop entrance, carrots.
After finding the ingredients, how the five adorable children would distribute these things and how much each person would take became a big problem for them.
Chang Qingyan, who was five years old and had just learned arithmetic, carefully counted the carrots on the ground, muttering, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5... There are exactly five carrots here. Let's each take one."
The production team had deliberately placed five carrots at this task point, neither more nor less, and even the sizes were about the same.
"Okay!" Gu Suisui, who didn't realize that she was the youngest of all the children, agreed the most readily.
The carrots were not big, and the other children present didn't object to the distribution method proposed by Chang Qingyan. Each of them took a carrot and put it in their small basket.
Later, the five adorable children found fresh pork, chili sauce, pickled sauerkraut, etc. in other places in the ancient city. After all the ingredients were found, they started walking back with their respective things.
On the way here, everyone had carried empty baskets, which was easy. But on the way back, each child’s basket held more or less something.
"Sister Suisui, is it too heavy? Let me help you carry some." Qu Xiyue had gone to pick fruit in the yard with this beautiful little girl yesterday, and the two kids had already formed a strong friendship.
In fact, when they were dividing these ingredients just now, six-year-old Qu Xiyue and five-year-old Chang Qingyan had already taken an extra jar of chili sauce because they were stronger than the other three children.
But seeing that Gu Suisui seemed unable to carry it, Qu Xiyue still took the initiative to share some of the ingredients for her, taking the pork from inside. If his small basket hadn't already been full, he would have even wanted to share more for her.
Gu Suisui smiled and said sweetly, "Thank you, Brother Xiyue." The weight of the small basket was much lighter all of a sudden. This older brother is really nice (/≧▽≦/)~
Qu Xiyue lowered his head shyly and said, "Y-You're welcome. You're a little sister, so it's right to take care of you." Dad said that Sister Suisui was the youngest of them, and he should take care of her more when everyone was looking for ingredients together.
He would definitely complete the task perfectly!
Seeing that another girl in the group had someone helping her carry things, Huo Ling'er, who already disliked carrying things too much, wanted to put the ingredients in her small basket into Chang Qingyan's small basket.
However, Chang Qingyan was also an honest child. He immediately pursed his lips and said with an unhappy face, "Ling'er, don't put things in my basket. I can't carry it anymore either."
Huo Ling'er had always been a popular little princess in kindergarten. Many children wanted to play with her. Now that she was rejected on the spot, she felt extremely wronged and angrily threw the basket containing the ingredients directly on the ground.
Chang Qingyan was the only child in his family, and his father was a well-known director. He had also been pampered since he was a child. He didn't care whether Huo Ling'er was angry or not. Anyway, he felt that he hadn't done anything wrong. He had already taken an extra jar of chili sauce, and he couldn't even carry it himself. Why should he help others carry things?
"If you don't want to help, then don't help. I don't care." Huo Ling'er glared at Chang Qingyan, picked up the basket, and ran away angrily. The cameraman arranged by the production team quickly chased after her.
Lin Doudou, who was always following behind the older brothers and sisters and was only half a year older than Gu Suisui, was a little confused. While walking, he forgot his small basket on the ground.
The children's side was constantly having problems, and the progress on the five adults' side wasn't much smoother either.
What they had to learn was the traditional handmade dragon's beard candy making. Watching others do it seemed quite simple. There were only a few steps, and there wasn't much technical content. But when they actually did it themselves, they realized how much effort it took.
Especially one of the steps, which was to repeatedly knead the softened maltose and pull it into thin strands. Don't think that maltose is soft and that it should be easy to pull it thin. In fact, this was a very physically demanding process, and the average person probably couldn't do it.
For example, in this time-honored pastry shop where they had come to learn, the person in charge of pulling the maltose was a strong man who was 1.8 meters tall. Over time, several muscles on his arms had been developed.
At first, they each tried it, but it either ended like Zhang Huijin, who lacked the strength to even begin pulling it, or like the four dads, who worked too slowly. By the time the maltose had slowly cooled and hardened, they hadn't pulled it many times, and in the end, it became a lump. The maltose could only be discarded.
Later, the five celebrity parents realized that fighting alone wouldn't work. They cooperated in pairs, taking turns pulling the maltose. With their concerted efforts, they finally made some progress, but even so, after half an hour, everyone except Zhang Huijin, who was cheering them on from the side, was covered in sweat.
While the guests were doing the tasks, the people on the production team were also working overtime.
The popularity brought about by the news of Ke Jingyang's suspected participation in a variety show this time completely exceeded the production team's expectations. The official Weibo account of Traveling with Babies had only been registered for two days. They had originally planned to announce the guest lineup after the first episode was filmed, but now that this small accident had occurred, they decided to move this time forward.
At exactly twelve o'clock that day, the Traveling with Babies production team announced the guest lineup on the official Weibo account.