Chapter 28 p1
Yang Ning had only mentioned that there were mystery treasures buried in the field, without specifying the number of treasures, unlike when she mentioned there were 200 Baby Coins.
Half an hour had passed, and only Cheng Rongrong had dug up two treasures. On the one hand, it showed that there were definitely not that many treasures, on the other hand, it highlighted Cheng Rongrong’s good luck.
Speaking of good luck, Wei Maomao suddenly remembered that in the third season of “Where’s Baby Going” in her previous life, although there were no Daddy Coins or Baby Coins, Cheng Rongrong’s luck in many games was quite good. She received envy from her peers and amazement from the adults, later, even marketing accounts amplified her good fortune during her growth, giving her the reputation of a kind-hearted national little sister blessed with good luck.
In her previous life, Jin Youliang was the main director, and he wanted to create conflicts and topics. After watching the show many times, Wei Maomao had strongly suspected that Cheng Rongrong’s good luck in the games was likely manipulated by the program team. After all, only when the guests received vastly different things would there be a strong contrast, leading to stimulating topics…
But this time, Shi Dingshan was still around. Jin Youliang was just an assistant director, he couldn’t arbitrarily shape the show like he did in her previous life, he shouldn’t have the need to play those tricks, right?
Wei Maomao couldn’t help but wonder, had she misunderstood everything? Was the good luck in her previous life not manipulation by the program team, but Cheng Rongrong herself actually having good luck? Could she continue this good luck even with Shi Dingshan as the director and completely different games?
This was the most likely explanation, but as Wei Maomao thought about it, leaning on her shovel, she still couldn’t convince herself.
Now that she was here, she had to see for herself the doubts she had from watching behind a screen in her previous life.
Earlier, after receiving the tools, when Yang Ning announced the start of the timer, everyone rushed into the circled area. The place was so big, everyone tacitly scattered, each choosing a random direction and starting to dig. Wei Maomao was no exception.
Wei Maomao was still small and not very strong, after digging for a while, she was basically just circling within a couple of square meters.
Now that she had doubts, she started to feel… the world outside was quite interesting.
Wei Maomao thought to herself, tossed her little shovel aside, and began to wander around the area.
Cheng Tingyan, who was closest to Wei Maomao, had already dug up an area three or four times the size of hers. Wei Maomao glanced over guiltily, just as she was about to tiptoe away and continue running along the ribbons, she saw Cheng Tingyan sticking her shovel into the ground and panting. Standing not far behind her, Wei Maomao clearly saw a distinct red mark on the palm of Cheng Tingyan’s right hand, which was hanging by her side.
But Cheng Tingyan didn’t rest for long, she didn’t even take a few breaths, and before her breathing had stabilized, she pulled out the shovel and started digging again.
She was working too hard…
This shovelful of dirt from Cheng Tingyan seemed to dig into Wei Maomao’s heart, making her feel a pang of pain. Wei Maomao suddenly felt that even if she never got to eat popcorn, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Passing by the others’ digging areas, Wei Maomao only glanced at the approximate size of the areas they had dug up, not approaching to disturb them.
It wasn’t until she had narrowed down her search area, going around and around, and saw an unattended, particularly deep, and somewhat large hole that she quickly ran over, squatted down, and examined it carefully.
The three Baby Coins Wei Maomao had found were buried at about the same depth, similar to the depth of the first Baby Coin she had seen Cheng Tingyan dig up. And this hole was obviously much deeper, coupled with its somewhat regular shape, it should have been where one of the two treasures Cheng Rongrong had dug up earlier was buried.
After poking around in the hole and turning over the soil, Wei Maomao looked at the opening for a while before standing up and continuing to search for the second one.
“Boss, I’ve already found eight Baby Coins! How many have you found?”
Passing by the large area that Wen Dongyu had dug up, Wei Maomao felt a blow to her heart.
She couldn’t help but touch the small coin purse Yang Ning had given her, it was thin and flat…
“Good job! Keep going!” Wei Maomao said to Wen Dongyu and quickened her pace to leave.
As the saying goes, sharpening your axe will not delay your job of cutting wood, but was she really sharpening her axe now… Wei Maomao tightened her chubby hand on the coin purse.
Perhaps because she was a bit distracted, Wei Maomao didn’t pay attention to where she was going and tripped, falling face-first into the dirt. When she got up, she was completely covered in dirt… Such luck, Wei Maomao patted the dirt off casually, her muddy paws making her little dress even dirtier.
Just as Wei Maomao had made a mess of herself and was about to question her own suspicions, another deep hole appeared before her.
Cheng Rongrong wasn’t here either…
Wei Maomao looked around, Cheng Rongrong was still digging diligently in the distance, in an area she hadn’t been to.
This was truly interesting.
Perhaps due to children’s tendency to stick to what they know, after going around, she found that everyone was basically still digging where they had initially rushed to, at most, they had just expanded their area a bit.
And these two large holes weren’t close together, and they were quite far from where Cheng Rongrong was now.
Of course, she couldn’t rule out the possibility that some children just liked to move around… Wei Maomao restrained her thoughts and squatted down, starting to dig in the second hole.
After digging for a while, her mud-caked paw stopped.
Just then, Wang Zhizhi’s voice came from afar.
“I found it!”
Wang Zhizhi’s joyful and excited voice broke the stiffness that had just settled over Wei Maomao.
Wei Maomao turned around and saw Wang Zhizhi not far away, holding a small wooden box, his face full of joy.
Yang Ning and Wei Maomao arrived at Wang Zhizhi’s side almost simultaneously. The former announced that Wang Zhizhi had found a mystery treasure and also announced that half an hour had passed. As for the latter…
Wei Maomao, who had run over, squatted on the ground and started digging in the hole where Wang Zhizhi had just found the treasure.
As expected…
Before Yang Ning and Wang Zhizhi could ask anything, Wei Maomao decisively stood up, two small, hard objects clenched in her chubby hand. She tightened her grip, seemingly not feeling the pain from the objects pressing into her palm, and ran towards Cheng Tingyan.
“Yan Yan…” Wei Maomao ran to Cheng Tingyan, who was still digging diligently, and reached out to pull her, but seeing the black mud on her hand, she awkwardly stopped her hand in mid-air.
“Why are you so muddy? Don’t you have a shovel?” Cheng Tingyan looked at the little chubby bunny, who was now trying to rub the mud off her hands, with amusement and surprise, and said softly, “Shall I take you to wash up?”
“No, no, no.” Wei Maomao refused repeatedly, then, disregarding her image, beckoned Cheng Tingyan over and whispered, “Come dig here, come with me.”
With that, Wei Maomao led her a few meters towards the edge of the field, near the ribbons.
“Dig here!” Wei Maomao pointed at the ground, then, without waiting for Cheng Tingyan to speak, she ran to get her shovel and dug a few times.
Cheng Tingyan: ???
“Okay, you continue digging.” Wei Maomao, having used up her remaining energy, sat down on the ground, panting.
Cheng Tingyan was confused by the little chubby bunny, but this spot was still flat, looking like it hadn’t been dug before, there should be Baby Coins here, right? It was all the same where she dug…
But Cheng Tingyan didn’t expect that after digging for a while, following the shallow hole the little chubby bunny had made, her shovel hit something hard.
“This is…” Cheng Tingyan looked at the brown object in surprise.
“Wow, Yan Yan, you found a treasure!” Wei Maomao urged. “Dig it out quickly and see what it is!”
Cheng Tingyan felt a bit dazed, she didn’t know if her surprise was because she had found a treasure, or because… she had found it in the spot Wei Maomao had told her to dig.
But before she could think too much, her hands instinctively followed the little chubby bunny’s instructions, clearing the dirt around the wooden box, leaving only the box itself in the hole.
“You dug this up.” Cheng Tingyan bent down, picked up the box, and handed it to Wei Maomao.
Wei Maomao, sitting on the ground without any grace, twisted her body away. “Yan Yan dug it up.”
“You chose the spot, you dug the first few shovels, so you dug it up.” Cheng Tingyan looked at the little chubby bunny lying on the ground with amusement. “The ground is dirty, get up, I’ll dust you off.”
“Yan Yan dug it up!” Wei Maomao stood up, hiding her hands behind her back and refusing to take the box, then whispered, “Aren’t you going to ask me why I chose this spot?”
“Why?” Cheng Tingyan had gotten over her initial surprise, now that she thought about it, it was probably because rabbits dig holes, it was the little chubby bunny’s luck.
“Because I discovered the secret to finding treasures.” Wei Maomao grinned mischievously, then turned her head and saw that Yang Ning seemed to have noticed they had found the box and was walking towards them, she quickly said to Cheng Tingyan, “Yan Yan, digging is too tiring. Let’s stop digging, okay?”
Such a sudden jump in topic?
Cheng Tingyan almost couldn’t keep up with Wei Maomao’s train of thought and replied instinctively, “You rest, I’ll dig some more, do you want me to take you to wash your hands?”
As she spoke, Cheng Tingyan looked at the muddy dress behind Wei Maomao, unable to bear it any longer, she reached out and patted the little dirty bunny.
Wei Maomao, who was formulating a sentence, was caught off guard and patted on the butt twice by Cheng Tingyan, she jumped up in shock.
“You, you, you…” Wei Maomao covered her butt, shocked and embarrassed.
Cheng Tingyan looked innocent, not understanding what was wrong.
She was just a six-year-old! And she was just a three-year-old fool!
Wei Maomao told herself fiercely in her heart.
“Your hands are all red from digging, I saw it! You’re not allowed to dig anymore, wait for me here!” Maybe because she was startled, Wei Maomao was now like a paper tiger putting on a brave face, with a childish domineering air.
It was… strangely cute…
Cheng Tingyan couldn’t help but laugh. “I’m not…”
But she was cut off by a “fierce” glare from the little chubby bunny.
“Yan Yan dug it up!” Wei Maomao announced loudly to Yang Ning, who had walked over.
After Yang Ning made the announcement and left, Wei Maomao was ready to start her plan. But after thinking about it, she decided to take Cheng Tingyan with her, to prevent her from hurting her hands again.
“Yan Yan, are you happy that you dug up a treasure?” Wei Maomao asked as she pulled her along. “Now that we found one, let’s go rest.”
“Mmm, happy.” Cheng Tingyan nodded, then added, “I only dug up five Baby Coins, I still want to…”
“No, you don’t.” Wei Maomao hummed. “It’s so tiring, I don’t want to dig anymore, you shouldn’t dig anymore either.”
“Popcorn…” Cheng Tingyan still wanted to argue.
But before they could say anything more, Wei Maomao had already found her first target.
“Wang Zhizhi, do you want to find more mystery treasures?” Wei Maomao pulled Cheng Tingyan to a stop beside Wang Zhizhi, who was digging furiously.
Wang Zhizhi, wiping his sweat, with three streaks of dirt on his face: ???
“I’ll tell you how to dig up mystery treasures. You dig, and when you find a treasure, you share half with me and Yan Yan, okay?” Wei Maomao asked seriously.
“I can dig them up myself.” Wang Zhizhi pointed at Yang Ning in the distance. “I already dug one up myself, why should I share with you?”
“You dug for a long time and found one. I’ll tell you, and you’ll find one every time you dig.” Wei Maomao emphasized. “Time is running out.”
“…” Wang Zhizhi looked at this smallest, chubbiest, and strangest little sister and didn’t say anything.
“Oh, then I’ll go find someone else.” Wei Maomao pulled Cheng Tingyan and turned to leave.
“Alright, if you’re not lying to me, I’ll share half with you.” Wang Zhizhi was still young, he didn’t know what playing hard to get was and immediately called out to them.
“Look at this, when you see this in the ground, dig downwards.” Wei Maomao opened her palm, showing Wang Zhizhi the three small pieces of broken red brick in her hand. One was picked up from Cheng Rongrong’s second treasure spot, one from where Wang Zhizhi had found his treasure, and the last one, naturally, from where Cheng Tingyan had just dug up the treasure.
“Just this?” Wang Zhizhi looked unconvinced.
“Mmm.” Wei Maomao nodded. “We have a deal, right?”
Wang Zhizhi: “…”
In the end, he didn’t even know how he came to believe her and even made a pinky promise. By the time he realized it, he was already on the way to search for broken red bricks.
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