When they were in the small kitchen of the restaurant just now, they already knew that this "home" was truly impoverished. Forget about other food, they hadn't even seen a single grain of rice!
"There are vegetables in the backyard," Mo Xuan said, looking at everyone.
This statement immediately made everyone present smile. It was good to have vegetables; it was certainly better than making them cook with empty hands.
They say even a clever housewife cannot cook without rice, and this saying is absolutely true!
"Then let's go take a look quickly!" Tang Li said immediately.
Mo Xuan and Xiao Jun walked at the front, leading the way. In fact, it wasn't that complicated; they could see the vegetable patch just by walking out the back door.
In the vegetable patch, all the vegetables were thriving. Many of the cold-resistant vegetables planted last year were now quietly blooming.
However, these flowers were all edible. Some were blooming chive flowers, some were garlic scapes starting to form, and some were leafy greens.
As soon as the few people stepped into the backyard, they were immediately stopped by the staff.
It was as if the staff had taken out a blackboard and started drawing on it.
Soon, the white surface of the blackboard was covered with words.
Looking at the words on it, even the netizens who were watching the live broadcast couldn't help but exclaim "holy crap!"
"My God, how can they charge so much for vegetables? Why don't they just rob people!"
"You upstairs are too funny. So, they're not robbing? They're just robbing subtly!"
"Hahaha, 80 yuan for a jin of baby bok choy? I'm telling you, program team, if you don't change the price immediately, I'm going to sue you!"
"80 yuan for a jin of baby bok choy is one thing, but surely it's better than those chive flowers that have already bloomed? Two liang of chive flowers cost over 100 yuan!"
"My heavens, I've never seen such outrageous prices. It's utterly insane (but brilliantly done)."
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"Director, that's too expensive, we can't afford it!" Xiao Jun quietly calculated. If they were to follow the current prices, a small amount of vegetables like this would cost several hundred yuan!
"It's alright, it's alright. We've already thought of a solution for you. After all, we heard that the vegetables here are not cheap. So, to allow you to experience a truly simple life, you just need to earn funds with your labor."
After the director finished speaking, he immediately had several vegetable baskets and a small sickle brought out.
Each person took a basket and a small sickle, put on wide, round straw hats, and stood there in the vegetable field.
What's going on? Weren't they in the small courtyard just now? How did they end up here!
"Alright, did everyone understand?"
"Understood! Cl-ear-ly!"
Their response was so loud that it startled everyone who was still in a daze back to reality.
It turned out that after the program director gave them the vegetable baskets, he led them to the vegetable field.
Every day, the farm stay needed a lot of vegetables. Usually, Father Shen or Mother Shen would go to pick them, so even though it looked simple, the ingredients for a meal were quite a lot!
Seeing everyone scattered around, gathering in groups in the vegetable field and working enthusiastically.
Because the varieties of vegetables in the field were different, the harvesting methods were naturally different.
Zhong Sheng and a few others were assigned to the baby bok choy patch. They just needed to use the small sickles to cut off the baby bok choy that had already formed scapes and arrange them neatly, then set them aside.
At first, when they saw the uncles and aunties, they were almost enraged. Some of the uncles and aunties looked quite old, yet they were still here working.
They couldn't help but feel like they were useless compared to these uncles and aunties, unable to learn anything!
Only after they carefully watched the entire process of harvesting the baby bok choy did they start to slowly and cautiously pack them up.
As it was their first time doing such a thing, they were unfamiliar with many aspects.
Therefore, their speed could only be described as snail-paced. However, as they continued, everyone's hands became more skilled, and their speed increased considerably.
Since they were only meant to understand the rules of the game, the few of them only managed to harvest a small section of the baby bok choy patch.
Then, they successfully "tricked" the director into giving them several portions of vegetables.
And so, the ingredients for today's lunch were secured.
Zhong Sheng, as expected of Zhong Sheng, quickly harvested all the vegetables and began stir-frying them.
Before long, four dishes of greens appeared on the table, all of which they had secretly brought back from the vegetable garden behind them!
The program crew naturally wasn't blind and noticed their small actions. However, since it was the first day of filming, the director wasn't that heartless.
They had borrowed them from the farm stay and promised to return them once they had money!
It had to be said that Zhong Sheng's cooking skills were truly excellent. He managed to make these simple vegetables look so appealing!
Having been hungry all morning, everyone's eating speed had clearly increased significantly!
"Is it that exaggerated?" Zhong Sheng asked, looking at everyone eating.
"Not at all / Not at all!" Zhang Xingxing then handed Zhong Sheng a pair of chopsticks, urging him to taste them properly.
This time, it was no trivial matter. Zhong Sheng's speed of eating vegetables was so fast it almost created afterimages!
After they had eaten their fill, they embarked on a new round of tasks.
Due to some old injuries sustained from filming years ago, Zhong Sheng could not do strenuous labor for long periods. Therefore, he was left behind to prepare dinner for everyone.
All the money they earned from their work would be kept by him!
Zhong Sheng naturally understood that everyone was doing this for his well-being and readily agreed, promising that hot dishes and hot soup would be ready for them upon their return!
Everyone was waiting for this very promise, as Zhong Sheng had already won over everyone's hearts with the lunch they had today!
However, for them, who were penniless, eating hot dishes and hot soup was truly difficult!
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In the afternoon, they still had to go to work, but the location of their work had changed.
This was a dragon fruit greenhouse. As soon as everyone heard the news, they agreed without hesitation.
A dragon fruit greenhouse!
They had never seen what a dragon fruit tree looked like, and being naturally curious, everyone was extremely excited!
When they arrived at the dragon fruit greenhouse, they were even more surprised.