Results, this wait lasted for a full minute. Liu Yifeng was getting impatient. "Song Mama, can't you take the next elevator?"
"What's the rush? I told you my son is coming soon!" Song Mama still had no intention of letting them leave first. Instead, she spoke righteously, insisting they all wait for her son.
This unreasonable behavior was not the first time Liu Yifeng had witnessed it. Running into them and their mother and son at this time, he could only consider himself unlucky.
Otherwise, arguing with her over this would only delay everyone's time.
After a long wait, Song Yicheng finally arrived, holding a thick English book of over a hundred pages, which he was reading intently.
"Your son is quite diligent," Liu Yifeng said, looking at Song Yicheng, who hadn't spoken a word and whose entire focus was on the English book. However, his words carried a double meaning.
Clearly, Song Mama didn't catch it. She proudly replied, "Of course, my son is diligent. Otherwise, would he have been able to get through so many days of competition without using the help of the 'Bang Bang Tuan' once? All the questions were answered by him himself."
Liu Yifeng exchanged glances with Xu Muqing and Xia Qianqian. They were all speechless.
With Song Yicheng dedicating all his time and energy to studying, what joy could life hold for him?
Soon, they arrived at the breakfast area.
Many contestants and their families were already having breakfast in the dining hall.
Everyone was already accustomed to Song Mama personally feeding her son breakfast.
However, Xu Muqing was stunned when she witnessed this scene. She had heard from Liu Yifeng that this mother's upbringing of her son had reached a distorted level.
But she never expected her to personally feed her son. This child was at least eight or nine years old and could eat by himself.
Yet, she was still feeding him. Wasn't this treating her son like a disabled person?
Seeing Xu Muqing's astonished expression, Liu Yifeng whispered, "You'll get used to it. This child has been in the program for so long, and I've never seen him feed himself!"
"How can you raise a child like this? He's old enough to eat by himself now. His mother is still feeding him bite by bite. Isn't this pushing her son towards becoming useless?"
"He's already incompetent in daily life. I watched his VCR. This child doesn't know how to use chopsticks, and he can't even eat properly with a spoon," Xia Qianqian chimed in.
Hearing this, Xu Muqing shook her head in amazement, "This is the first time I've encountered such a way of raising a child. It's simply unreasonable!"
"Mom, look, I can use chopsticks myself!" Yaoyao demonstrated her skill of picking up a small dish with chopsticks.
Her use of chopsticks was less proficient than Tongtong's, but much better than Song Yicheng's, who didn't know how to use them at all.
Xu Muqing had cultivated her daughter's independent personality since childhood. At the age of two, she let her eat with chopsticks by herself. She also let her do some chores around the house that were within her capabilities.
This was not because she didn't love her. On the contrary, she believed that as a qualified parent, one should cultivate a child's independent personality so that they could stand on their own feet in society when they grew up.
Although she could support Yaoyao her entire life with her ability, she did not want Yaoyao to rely on her parents. Instead, she hoped Yaoyao would create her own life through her own efforts.
After breakfast, Liu Yifeng drove them to the television station.
They had arrived quite early today, at 8:30 AM.
Since Liu Yifeng didn't know which colleague Director Wang had asked to arrange seats for Xu Muqing and her daughter, he directly took them to the makeup room.
Quite a few people were already getting their makeup done in the makeup room.
Yun Duo'er and Gao Yuan had not yet arrived, and their makeup room was still empty.
Tongtong was too young to need makeup, while Xia Qianqian was assigned an empty seat by the makeup artist and was diligently getting her makeup done.
Liu Yifeng, Xu Muqing, and the others waited outside. Yaoyao and Tongtong were playfully chasing each other.
Because they were running too fast, they didn't notice someone in front of them and bumped right into them. The person's thermos cup fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Liu Yifeng quickly went over and apologized, "Excuse me, are you okay?"
The person who was bumped was a male artist. He looked at his thermos cup that had fallen to the ground and immediately put on a displeased expression. "How do you watch your children? Don't you watch where you're going?"
Liu Yifeng knew he was in the wrong, as Tongtong had bumped into him. He could only apologize again, "I'm truly sorry. My son didn't do it on purpose. Here is your thermos cup!" He picked up the thermos cup from the ground and handed it over with both hands.
The male artist looked at the dented thermos cup and angrily said, "I just bought this thermos cup. It costs twelve thousand yuan. Your son broke it. How do you plan to compensate me?"
When Liu Yifeng heard that the thermos cup cost twelve thousand yuan, he felt the artist was bragging and trying to extort him. He said, "If your thermos cup really cost twelve thousand yuan, I can pay for it at that price. But please show me the receipt!"
"What do you mean by that? Do you think I'm lying and deliberately inflating the price of the cup?" The male artist frowned deeply after hearing this.
Liu Yifeng quickly explained, "You misunderstood. I didn't mean anything else. It's just that twelve thousand yuan is not a small amount, so it's better to be careful."
"I can't possibly carry the receipt with me. If you don't believe me, you can search online and see if this brand of thermos cup costs that much!"
Seeing that the artist didn't seem to be lying, Liu Yifeng took out his phone and searched for the brand as he described. Sure enough, it cost that much.
He was about to transfer the money to him when Xu Muqing's voice rang out, "Don't transfer the money. This cup is a replica!"
Liu Yifeng paused, looking confused, "I searched, and it's not fake, right? This brand does exist, and it's not cheap!"
"You woman, you don't understand, so don't talk nonsense here. I swear this is genuine. How can you say it's a replica?" the male artist said angrily at Xu Muqing.
If one looked closely, a trace of guilt could be seen.
Xu Muqing took the thermos cup from him and said, "This cup of yours is a high-quality replica. Inside the lid of the thermos cup, there is an anti-counterfeit label!"
As she spoke, she opened the lid of the thermos cup. There was nothing inside.
"If this cup of yours were genuine, there should be the brand's initials in this position. However, there is nothing here, so your cup is not genuine.
It originally cost twelve thousand yuan, but this high-quality fake is at most two thousand.
If you think I'm trying to fool you, you can take it to a professional appraisal institution for authentication.
If the appraisal result shows it's genuine, then I will pay for the appraisal fee and the cost of the cup."
The male artist didn't expect Xu Muqing to know so much. He immediately snatched the cup back from her and pretended to be annoyed, "It's just a cup. Taking it to an appraisal institution would only be a waste of my time. Forget it, consider me unlucky today. You don't have to compensate me."
After saying that, he quickly walked away.
Liu Yifeng watched the person walk away and immediately gave a thumbs-up, "Muqing, you're amazing! You couldn't even see inside the lid, how did you know this cup was a replica?"
In the past, he was just a nobody, and everything he bought was cheap.
Although he had money now and lacked neither luxury cars nor houses, he rarely bought such high-end household items, so he wasn't familiar with this area.
If he hadn't searched just now, he wouldn't have known that thermos cups of this brand were so expensive.