Chapter 151: The End of the First Recording [Second Update]

Xu Ling, watching from behind, was completely melted by the baby. To actually use candy to buy fish? This was destined to be one of the major highlights of the show!

The elderly woman selling fish smiled and said, "This is candy, not money!"

The baby looked up at her, speaking in a soft, lisping, and indistinct voice, "Moneys gone."

Gone?

The fish vendor asked, "Are you saying your money is gone?"

The baby nodded. "Gone!"

The old woman was utterly charmed by her adorable appearance and smiled. "Alright then, I'll just give you this fish."

"Thank you, Grandma～"

The baby stretched out her little hand, handed the candy to the old woman, and said, "Money."

The fish vendor took the candy, accepting it as the little one's payment for the fish.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Doudou, who was standing nearby, threw another tantrum. He pointed at the baby and yelled, "She has no money! Why does she still get to buy fish?!"

Ni Qiqin sighed tiredly, "Little sis here lost her money, but she gave candy for the fish instead. You don't have any money left now, so what are you going to use to buy things?"

Zhang Doudou was momentarily speechless, but his aggrieved and dissatisfied expression seemed to tell Ni Qiqin that another storm caused by an unruly child was about to hit!

She was utterly speechless yet helpless, and could only rush to soothe Zhang Doudou before he started acting up. Otherwise, she simply couldn't stand this child who wasn't cute at all and yet loved throwing tantrums so much!

And thus, the moment to witness the baby's miracle arrived!

The little one was so exceptionally cute that, despite having no money, she managed to buy a whole basket full of ingredients purely through "cuteness payment"!

Perhaps because she was too adorable and charming, coupled with the production crew smoothing things over behind the scenes, none of the uncles, aunts, grandpas, and grandmas asked her for money, no matter what she laid her eyes on.

However, the other three children failed to enjoy this kind of special treatment, which fully demonstrated just how endearing a child who is cute, well-behaved, and polite can be in the eyes of others!

None of the other three children spoke sweetly, nor were they well-behaved or polite. As for the baby, her little mouth was truly sweet when addressing people, and she was exceptionally polite—she knew how to say thank you and address everyone as uncles, aunts, grandpas, and grandmas.

By comparison, the uncles, aunts, grandpas, and grandmas selling the groceries naturally favored this little darling.

After all four little ones finished shopping, Ni Qiqin led them back.

The baby was the most remarkable among the four children. Without spending a single penny, she managed to buy a basket overflowing with ingredients—vegetables, chicken eggs, duck eggs, fish, pork, you name it, she had it!

As for the other children, aside from Zhou Jian's son, who bought several items with his twenty yuan, the other two appeared somewhat meager.

Zhang Doudou had spent all his money buying two fish and a large swamp eel.

Ya Ya, who went shopping hand-in-hand with the baby, used her twenty yuan to buy only a bunch of Chinese cabbage, a single fish, and a few eggs.

Therefore, without a doubt, Yu Zhile's family won the grocery shopping task once again.

Ni Qiqin helped the baby carry the groceries. Perhaps out of gratitude, the baby stopped being afraid of her, allowing Ni Qiqin to hold her hand all the way back home.

Along the way, Ni Qiqin was practically over the moon with joy!

Looking at such an adorable little darling, she found herself for the very first time genuinely wanting to find a partner, get married, and give birth to a daughter just as well-behaved and cute.

Yet, upon second thought, if the child she gave birth to turned out not well-behaved and cute like the baby, but instead cried, made a fuss, and threw tantrums just like Zhang Doudou, that would simply be unimaginable...

Fortunately, Zhang Doudou and Zhou Jian's son had headed back first. Otherwise, seeing them would have just annoyed her, as she feared that brat would grow envious and jealous of the baby's basket full of ingredients and start crying and making a fuss to swap things back.

Before long, after returning with the baby, Yu Zhile and his wife were somewhat surprised to see the basket brimming with ingredients that Ni Qiqin carried in!

Qin Haiyu asked in disbelief, "Can twenty yuan really buy this much stuff?"

The baby trotted over happily. Ni Qiqin smiled and said, "It's not that twenty yuan can buy this much stuff; she didn't spend a single cent and still brought all this back! Because she lost her money on the way!"

Yu Zhile picked up the baby and said, "The production crew must have pulled strings for us through the back door!"

Ni Qiqin shook her head. "No, this was bought entirely by your baby's charm! Everyone saw how well-behaved and cute she was, and how sweetly she spoke, so whatever she wanted, those uncles and aunts simply gave it to her."

Yu Zhile patted his daughter's head and smiled, "Awesome! The baby learned how to make payments with her face at such a tender age!"

Ni Qiqin sighed with emotion, "What this actually reflects is the gap in family education. Although your baby is the youngest among the four children, she is the most polite and obedient one. Because of this, the production crew is planning to hold a parent-teacher meeting tonight. Before that, you'll have to cook your own dinner."

Qin Haiyu took the fully loaded basket of groceries from Ni Qiqin and prepared to start cooking.

Yu Zhile put down the baby he was holding and said, "Baby, go play with Auntie Lingling. Mommy and Daddy are going to cook dinner, okay?"

"Okay!"

The baby trotted straight towards Xu Ling. Aside from her parents and grandparents, Xu Ling was the person she felt closest to, which was precisely why Qin Haiyu had brought Xu Ling along to record this show.

Inside the kitchen, Yu Zhile instructed, "Wife, just wash the rice and cook it. Leave all of this to me!"

Qin Haiyu asked, "Is anything you cook actually edible?"

"You have that little faith in your husband's culinary skills?"

Yu Zhile said, "You're pregnant right now, so you're only responsible for being my assistant!"

Qin Haiyu retorted, "No way! If you cook, the baby and I will starve tonight!"

Yu Zhile helplessly replied, "Wife, there are several cameras recording right here in the kitchen! Have some mercy, or else once this show airs, the whole world will know that my cooking is completely inedible!"

"It's true anyway!"

Qin Haiyu went to cook the rice first, soaking the vegetables in the rice-washing water. Then, staring at the abundance of ingredients, she said, "Husband, you should make a fish head soup! Chop the remaining fish into pieces and pan-fry them, then make a scallion pan-fried egg, braised pork belly, and stir-fried green vegetables."

Yu Zhile said earnestly, "No problem! That's a piece of cake!"

Qin Haiyu asked, "Do you even know how to make them?"

Yu Zhile coughed softly and said, "Wife, you'll have to teach me!"

"I knew you wouldn't know how!"

Qin Haiyu smiled. She began sorting and washing the vegetables, then instructed her husband on what to do first, what to do next, and what to do last, so they could prepare dinner in the shortest time possible.

As the saying goes, when husband and wife work as a team, labor is never tiring!

In about an hour, Yu Zhile and his wife had already finished four dishes and a soup, while the fathers and mothers of the other three families were still slaving away in their kitchens.

Ni Qiqin brought the cameraman over to film the finished dinner prepared by Yu Zhile's family, and her mouth watered just looking at it. She praised, "Not bad at all! Just looking at it makes you hungry!"

Yu Zhile proudly declared, "Of course! As the head of the household, one must have the bearing of the cook of the household! This is all a piece of cake!"

The cameraman chuckled softly. He had come over midway to film close-ups of the kitchen, and the numerous fixed cameras in the kitchen had recorded their entire cooking process. When this segment was broadcast later, he could guarantee that viewers would definitely flood the comment section with sarcastic remarks, calling him shameless and so on!

After all, these dishes were successfully made only because Qin Haiyu directed the entire process from start to finish!

Otherwise, if Yu Zhile had fiddled around on his own, it definitely would have been unwatchable and inedible! Because this guy didn't even have a clue about how much oil, salt, soy sauce, or vinegar to add. At a single glance, it was obvious that Qin Haiyu was normally the one responsible for cooking at home!

In front of the cameras, Qin Haiyu's family and Xu Ling were eating dinner together. As the host, Ni Qiqin needed to taste the dinners of all four families, so she simply began freeloading a meal at Yu Zhile's house.

After finishing her meal there, she went to the other three households to sample their culinary skills. Aside from the dishes made by Zhou Jian's family, which were quite decent, she was utterly speechless regarding the other two families.

And thus, right after dinner, the production crew temporarily set up a parent-teacher meeting under the banyan tree at the entrance of the village to discuss the topic of family education.

And this was precisely the underlying meaning and purpose of the show!

Because today's fast-paced rhythm of life makes it difficult for parents and children to find opportunities to share family happiness, this show was not meant to parade the gossip-filled lives of "celebrity parents" and "star kids." Instead, it aimed to present parents with an educational program, while simultaneously drawing the audience's attention to the lives of left-behind children and the elderly.

Thus, the recording of the first episode concluded with the end of the parent-teacher meeting.

After Yu Zhile and his wife returned to their temporary home here, they sat by the doorway, listening to the chirping of insects and birds in the fields while gazing up at a rare expanse of starlight, chatting about daily life with great comfort and contentment.

Yu Zhile gently held the baby's tiny hand, patting it softly as he sang the theme song of the show...

"Daddy, Daddy, where are we going?
With me here, there's nothing in the world to fear.
Baby, baby,
I am your towering tree,
Accompanying you to watch the sunrise throughout your life..."