Chapter 29p2
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Cheng Rongrong didn’t manage to appease the live broadcast room as she had hoped, but this was something she couldn’t know for now.
Yang Ning, calculating that it was almost dinner time, sped up the box opening process after Wang Zhizhi and the others finished dividing the fifty Baby Coins.
Then, Wei Maomao realized she had celebrated too soon.
“Why are there so many ‘Daddy’s Kiss Cards’!” Wei Maomao counted the items her team had received and said angrily, “My daddy says good things are rare, the better they are, the rarer they are, things that are everywhere are worthless!”
“Well… it’s not like they’re everywhere. Maomao, how do you even know the phrase ‘everywhere’…” Yang Ning couldn’t help but retort, then tried to appease her. “It’s only six cards, six out of fifteen boxes, that’s not a lot. There are seven of you, even if you split them evenly, one of you won’t get one, it’s less, not more!”
Wei Maomao: “…” Really, is that how you calculate it? Trying to fool us little ones.
“I don’t want to share.” Shen Zilin said with a serious face. “You said the treasures are better than Baby Coins, but we can’t feel how good they are, so they’re not good, they’re…”
“They’re nothing!” Wen Dongyu quickly finished Shen Zilin’s sentence, which he was too embarrassed to say.
Wei Maomao looked at the two in shock, this familiar sentence… Wait, although she was angry that the drop rate of this card was so high, they couldn’t use this sentence like that, could they?
“We can just ask Daddy for a kiss, and he’ll kiss us, why do we need a card, taking up space in our treasure boxes!” Shen Zilin was furious. “This treasure is false advertising!”
Yang Ning: “…” Why did children these days know so many words! She felt personally attacked…
“Sister Yang Yang, there’s a bag of beef jerky and your dad. Do you want to eat the beef jerky, or do you want to be kissed twice by your dad?” Wen Jiangyue, holding the two “Daddy’s Kiss Cards” in her hand, asked politely and with restraint.
Yang Ning’s scalp went numb, she subconsciously glanced at the cameras pointed at her. She had a feeling that no matter what she chose, her dad would treat her to bamboo shoots stir-fried with pork when she got back.
“Yue Yue…” Yang Ning said weakly.
“Sister Yang Yang.” Wen Jiangyue gently held Yang Ning’s hand and said earnestly, “Don’t do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you.”
Yang Ning’s eyes teared up. “Sister, I’m just a worker, I didn’t put the cards in the boxes. It was the director who said he wanted to give you more parent-child time!”
Wei Maomao clenched her fists, as expected, it was you, ungrateful Shi Dingshan!
But no matter how angry the little ones were, they couldn’t just throw a tantrum on the spot, they couldn’t defeat the program team.
Wei Maomao and her team had dug up a total of twelve treasure boxes. Wang Zhizhi had dug up one by himself, and after learning about the red brick fragments, he dug up three more, for a total of four. Shen Zilin dug up three, Wen Dongyu and Wen Jiangyue each dug up two, and then there was Cheng Tingyan’s one. Good heavens, out of twelve treasure boxes, they actually got four “Daddy’s Kiss Cards”!
One was from the box Wang Zhizhi had dug up himself, Wen Dongyu got one, and Wen Jiangyue… she only dug up two boxes and got two cards.
The remaining three boxes Wang Zhizhi dug up contained fifty Baby Coins, a bag of marshmallows, and a bag of fruit and vegetable cookies.
Shen Zilin’s three boxes contained twenty Baby Coins, ten Baby Coins, and a bag of vegetable chips.
Wen Dongyu’s remaining box contained… a fishing game machine.
The box Cheng Tingyan dug up contained thirty-five Baby Coins, the second-highest number of Baby Coins they had found in a box.
Wei Maomao calculated, she had informed everyone about the red brick fragments when about half of the digging time had passed, which meant that as long as the value of the items in the boxes was roughly equal to the number of Baby Coins they had dug up before they started searching for the treasure boxes, it was worth it.
Plus, they had dug up all the treasure boxes and also searched for Baby Coins for a while… Although the Daddy Cards occupied four boxes, the time they spent digging for treasure boxes was definitely more worthwhile than just digging for Baby Coins.
Oh… except for Wen Jiangyue.
Wen Jiangyue had already dug up four Baby Coins before she told her about the red brick fragments. She had spent time digging up two Daddy Card boxes, and in the remaining time, she only dug up one Baby Coin… She lost out.
They had been sharing the items while opening the boxes. Now, including the three Baby Coins she had dug up herself, Wei Maomao had twenty-three Baby Coins and a bag of snacks mixed with marshmallows, vegetable cookies, and vegetable chips…
The appearance of the Daddy’s Kiss Cards was something Wei Maomao hadn’t expected. After all, although most of the prizes from the little games in her previous life were won by Cheng Rongrong, they were still decent items. She hadn’t expected this time…
Wei Maomao, considering herself the mastermind behind this treasure hunt, naturally felt responsible for Wen Jiangyue’s loss. But the question was, should she take three Baby Coins from her fund for buying things for Yan Yan, or from Yan Yan’s fund for buying things for her…
Just as Wei Maomao was hesitating, Cheng Tingyan gently tugged at her.
This tug pulled her out of the crowd, all the way to the edge of the empty field.
“Maomao… I’ll share half of the Baby Coins I dug up with you.” Cheng Tingyan said, opening her previously closed hands, revealing a handful of Baby Coins.
“I don’t want them.” Wei Maomao quickly backed away, trying to return to the group.
“Wait, there’s one more thing.” Cheng Tingyan sighed softly. “There’s something I haven’t figured out.”
“What is it?” Wei Maomao quickly came back.
“Everyone dug up good things, each of them has at least a dozen, or even more, Baby Coins. Wen Jiangyue only got two ‘Daddy’s Kiss Cards,’ I want to share some Baby Coins with her. But I can’t decide whether to give her some from the ones I’m saving to buy you things, or from the ones you’re saving for me…” Cheng Tingyan put the Baby Coins back in her pocket and rubbed her forehead with her eyes closed. “It just feels wrong either way, it’s giving me a headache.”
But Cheng Tingyan didn’t expect that in the brief time she closed and opened her eyes, the little chubby bunny in front of her was actually… crying?
“Maomao, what’s… wrong?” Cheng Tingyan was shocked and instinctively reached out to wipe the tears from the little chubby face, this time even forgetting to take out her handkerchief.
“Waa… Yan Yan, you’re so nice…” Wei Maomao also wiped her own tears.
Wei Maomao understood, she understood the kindness towards Wen Jiangyue in Cheng Tingyan’s dilemma, she also understood her desire to save money to buy her popcorn, and she understood her acknowledgement of her sincerity in wanting to save money to buy things for her. Facing a similar predicament, having similar feelings…
This useless three-year-old body, truly couldn’t handle even a little bit of touching emotions.
Cheng Tingyan, her hand covered in tears, laughed in exasperation. “Why are you crying about this! How am I nice!”
The little chubby bunny cried even harder. “Yan Yan is nice in every way. Let’s just spend our Baby Coins together! Then we won’t have to worry about which ones to use!”
“Oh, right, we can do that! Maomao, you’re so smart!” Cheng Tingyan was delighted, then she shook her hand and took out a blue handkerchief with a bamboo leaf pattern from her shoulder bag to wipe the crying bunny’s face. “This is my last handkerchief… Don’t cry anymore today.”
The little chubby bunny nodded vigorously while sobbing.
After wiping her face, the two discussed for a bit. Wei Maomao took ten Baby Coins, and they put the rest of their Baby Coins in Wei Maomao’s bag, planning to buy things and eat together later.
“Here, I’ll exchange one Daddy Card with you.” Wei Maomao walked to Wen Jiangyue’s side, grabbed the cloth coin purse at her waist, and stuffed the coins in.
“Wait!” Wen Jiangyue, hearing the clinking sound from her waist, quickly reached out to stop her. “I should give you one anyway, why did you say you didn’t want it before… I’ll get it for you, don’t give me Baby Coins!”
With that, Wen Jiangyue took out a Daddy’s Kiss Card with one hand and reached for the Baby Coins Wei Maomao had just put in her purse with the other.
“No, we’re exchanging.” Wei Maomao, her tears not yet dry, put on a slightly aggrieved expression, her eyes and nose turning red. “I want to exchange, if you don’t let me, I’ll lie down on the ground and cry, kicking my legs and getting mud all over us!”
Wen Jiangyue: “…” She hadn’t realized the chubby little sister was like this.
“Let’s eat together.” Cheng Tingyan took out her bag of snacks, mixed with marshmallows, vegetable cookies, and vegetable chips, and offered it to Wen Jiangyue, interrupting her thoughts of returning the coins. She then turned to Wen Dongyu, who was looking over curiously. “Do you want some too?” Although Sister Yang Yang said the fishing game machine cost 100 Baby Coins at the convenience store, you couldn’t eat a fishing game machine.
“Thank you, Yan Yan!” Wen Dongyu reached out without hesitation.
Slap, he was slapped by the little chubby bunny.
“Wash your hands before eating snacks.” Wei Maomao pulled Wen Jiangyue along. “Come on, let’s wash our hands.”
Shen Zilin watched for a while, took out three Baby Coins from his cloth bag, caught up with them, and handed them to Wei Maomao. “I want to exchange for a marshmallow too.”
Wei Maomao glanced at Shen Zilin, she didn’t see the gluttony in his eyes like Wen Dongyu’s, but instead a kind of… tolerance and approval? Wei Maomao felt like her eyes might be failing her, but she could probably guess that he had noticed they were subsidizing Wen Jiangyue.
Wang Zhizhi, who had also noticed, quietly munched on a cookie, sigh, why didn’t anyone want to exchange his Daddy Cards!
After receiving Shen Zilin’s Baby Coins, Wei Maomao raised her chin. “Come on, let’s wash our hands.”
No matter what, Yan Yan was the best! She had originally only thought about calculating Wen Jiangyue’s loss and making up for the three-coin difference. But Yan Yan thought she had the least and was willing to give her ten.
Calculating this way, Cheng Rongrong, who had dug up four Baby Coins and three boxes, with two boxes containing Daddy Cards and one box containing five Baby Coins, became the one with the least Baby Coins.
Wait!
Wei Maomao had a sudden realization.
They were all washing their hands and eating snacks… Then…
Wei Maomao glanced back at Cheng Rongrong, who was standing beside Yang Ning. They couldn’t let Cheng Rongrong be alone now, there would always be some moralists who would use this to criticize Yan Yan.
But she didn’t want to call her over…
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Maomao walked back to Cheng Rongrong, shook her bag of mixed snacks, and asked kindly, “Rongrong, do you want to exchange three Baby Coins for candy?”
“…” Cheng Rongrong shook her head warily.
Wei Maomao happily ran away. Thanks to Shen Zilin, sharing had turned into a business!
Because they still had dinner to eat, they only had a few bites of snacks after washing their hands and were then urged by the staff to go to the dinner venue.
Wei Maomao, hand in hand with Cheng Tingyan, walked under the setting sun. She watched Wang Zhizhi give Wen Dongyu a piece of cookie, listened to Wen Jiangyue talking softly beside her, and the sweet taste of marshmallows lingered in her mouth. It was so nice… It seemed like she didn’t crave popcorn that much anymore.
Oh, Shen Zilin, Shen Zilin was called to the back of the group by Cheng Rongrong.
Meanwhile, the dads, who should be preparing dinner, were pausing their work, listening to the staff briefly describe the children’s activities while they were separated in the afternoon.
The others were fine, but halfway through the explanation, Wei Chengli started feeling dizzy and had to hold onto the table.
He had called Liu Ming earlier, and she had relayed some information, but she had been very brief. This staff member was being very detailed… How they cried while eating, how they threw up, how they continued eating after crying and throwing up…
His poor baby, and him, who was about to become pitiful… What were they going to do!
Wei Chengli’s head was buzzing, he didn’t even hear someone talking to him for a long time.
“Director Wei… Director Wei?” After calling out several times without a response, Wang Qingchuan couldn’t help but pat Wei Chengli’s shoulder.
Then, he met a pair of lifeless eyes.
“Um…” Wang Qingchuan felt a bit sympathetic, but he had to harden his heart. He pointed at the soy sauce bottle on the stove not far away and hinted, “Director Wei, that’s the soy sauce from our show’s sponsor, it’s actually quite tasty, you know what I mean?”
He felt a bit embarrassed, but it was his old friend’s company.
“Do I need to add it when I cook later?” Wei Chengli, who had been lost in thought, asked uncertainly.
Wang Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, then coughed. “Ahem, no… um… what I meant was, maybe you shouldn’t add it.”
Wei Chengli: “…”
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