Chapter 84p1
After finishing lunch at the village square, the morning tasks for both the babies and dads came to a relatively successful end.
As usual, before the new task cards for the afternoon arrived, it was the program team’s designated nap time.
Of course, as in the previous days, most people didn’t use this time to rest.
Here, we must specifically mention Shen Zilin, who had fallen into an endless cycle of debt repayment since buying the pig.
Summer weather was unpredictable. In the morning, it was sunny and scorching, but by lunchtime, clouds started gathering, and by the time they finished eating, the sky was overcast.
For Shen Zilin, this kind of noon, with no sun and a cool breeze, was the perfect time to continue earning Baby Coins.
As they were leaving, Shen Zilin looked at the cloudy sky, praying that it wouldn’t rain, then touched his bulging backpack, determined to move his money-making plan, originally scheduled for the evening, to noon.
Just as Shen Zilin set his sights on his destination and was about to set off, his sleeves and pant legs were suddenly grabbed.
“Are you going to dig for Baby Coins? Take me with you.” Wen Dongyu grabbed Shen Zilin’s sleeve.
Shen Zilin looked down, the pig Wen Dongyu was leading had bitten onto his pant leg.
“Okay, let’s go.” Shen Zilin answered concisely, but he couldn’t help but glance into the distance.
He saw Wei Maomao and Cheng Tingyan walking hand in hand to the edge of the square, heading towards home.
It made sense, Cheng Tingyan had already saved enough Baby Coins to buy the watermelon she wanted, and Wei Maomao had also bought a lot of things at the market today, a big bag of various pretty hair ties and two bags of candied kumquats. It seemed the Maomao who wanted to dig for Baby Coins in the middle of the night last night had disappeared.
But… thanks to today’s market, thanks to Wei Maomao’s inspiration, his pig purchase loan should be paid off soon!
Thinking about what he was about to do, Shen Zilin’s heart beat a little faster, but as he walked, his steps became more and more determined.
“Aren’t we going to the place where we dug for Baby Coins and treasure last time?” Wen Dongyu, after following for a while, felt that the direction wasn’t right, they weren’t heading towards the village entrance, they seemed to be going deeper into the village.
“We are going there, but I have something to do before that. Do you know the way? You can go ahead and start digging.” Shen Zilin stopped.
“Let’s go together.” Wen Dongyu said without hesitation.
This morning, at the market, while they were working and chatting, Wen Dongyu learned that Shen Zilin would dig for Baby Coins whenever he had time, and that Cheng Tingyan had earned half of the Baby Coins for the watermelon by digging. He had vaguely known that they would go dig for Baby Coins in the field, but he didn’t know they were so diligent.
Wen Dongyu then looked at himself, he had nothing, he relied entirely on borrowing, he didn’t even work hard, he just kept feeling sad, sad, sad, then going to one family to freeload a bite, to another family to freeload a piece, he was truly too lazy and had no plan!
At the market, Wen Dongyu, following the others, had earned money. Holding the seventy-something yuan, thin and light, but enough to buy several bags of things.
It wasn’t Baby Coins, which could only be used within the show, like tokens for amusement park rides at a kindergarten carnival, it was real money that could be used in real life.
Wen Dongyu, for the first time, truly felt what it was like to have his own money.
The worry, fear, and coldness that had been lingering in his heart seemed to have lessened a bit.
Sadly, the market was only open for a limited time, Wen Dongyu had to return to the village, to the show, he couldn’t continue earning real money. But he was inspired, his motivation surged, he could start with earning Baby Coins, no more laziness, he had to be diligent, have a plan, be like Boss, like Shen Zilin, find a way to survive!
Wen Dongyu secretly idolized Boss and Yan Yan, who had rented the tanghulu stall, and Shen Zilin, who had added a new popular product. Naturally, he wouldn’t leave Shen Zilin at this time and go dig for Baby Coins by himself.
“Okay, I’ll be quick.” Shen Zilin answered casually.
Shen Zilin didn’t know what Wen Dongyu was thinking, he was currently preoccupied with what he was about to do, since Wen Dongyu said so, then he could tag along.
And so, Wen Dongyu, unknowingly, became the first witness to the official rise of Shen Zilin’s business empire.
It was said to be “on-site” because the other witnesses were the countless viewers in the live broadcast room.
“Oh my god, I knew it, Little CEO Shen usually doesn’t seem to have a sweet tooth, why did he buy so much candy at the market, he spent over twenty yuan on candy and snacks out of his seventy-something yuan, it turns out he was planning this!!!”
“Hahaha, is this even allowed? He didn’t even ask the program team, he just did it? Will the program team acknowledge it… Wouldn’t he lose money if they don’t acknowledge the candy and snacks?”
“Of course, he can’t ask first, it’s all about presenting them with a fait accompli, catching the program team off guard. Set up the operation first, it’s easy for the program team to say ‘no,’ but it would be awkward for them to disband everyone after they’re already here.”
“Hahaha, the program team can’t refuse, first of all, the grandma in the headscarf already set a precedent this morning, secondly, the babies digging for Baby Coins is completely within the rules!”
“Right! Aren’t the children in the village also babies! The program team can’t discriminate!”
“Little CEO Shen is truly too cunning, too cunning, hahaha, it turns out he’s not just like a CEO, he’s already a CEO! I want to call Yan Yan over and tell her, what’s the point of working so hard, it’s better to rest, wait a few days, then freeload on Little CEO Shen’s express train and buy another watermelon.”
“I’m dying of laughter, so CEO Mao can also avoid bed-wetting for a few days, is that it?”
“Hahahahaha! You guys are so annoying, can we move on from CEO Mao’s bed-wetting incident!”
“Absolutely not, even after thirty years, I’ll still remember the keywords ‘Yan Yan,’ ‘Baby Coins,’ ‘digging,’ ‘watermelon,’ related to CEO Mao’s bed-wetting, hahaha.”
…
Yang Ning didn’t understand the amusement of the viewers in the online live broadcast room.
Just like she didn’t understand why that disposable task location, which was supposed to be abandoned after the “Treasure Hunt” task on the first day of filming, had become the babies’ regular money-making spot… And how she, an ordinary employee stationed at the Baby Supermarket, occasionally participating in nearby tasks, had become the pitiful person who had to secretly bury coins in the field every night.
Last night, thanks to Shen Zilin’s efforts, Yang Ning had buried 42 coins in the field in the middle of the night. After finishing, she heard that Maomao had also wanted to dig, but was stopped and planned to wait until the next day, when the field was replenished to two hundred coins.
Okay, Yang Ning understood, her workload next time would probably be at least seventy or eighty coins.
Yang Ning, feeling sorry for both the babies who dug and herself who buried, mentally prepared herself for the new day.
But!
Clearly, her preparation wasn’t enough!
Before lunch, new cakes and pastries arrived at the Baby Supermarket. Although the babies didn’t buy them, these freshly made pastries were the freshest of the day. Yang Ning, as usual, put the new goods on display and took down the ones from the previous day, which were still within their expiration date, as today’s staff benefits.
Because the program team had included afternoon tea as a reward in today’s task, there were more goods than usual. Yang Ning worked for a while before she could eat her lunch.
But before she could even finish half of her lunchbox, a message popped up in the group chat.
[Shen Zilin is digging for coins!!!]
Yang Ning quickly gathered the digging tools, grabbed the tools and lunchbox for the babies, and rushed to the Baby Coin digging spot, waiting and eating while she waited.
Yang Ning, too busy, overlooked the three exclamation marks after the message. And because she had left her phone in the store to charge, she also missed the subsequent messages with even more exclamation marks.
But this oversight was short-lived, because Yang Ning soon… witnessed it with her own eyes.
A group of children, huddled together, the only instruction coming from the earpiece connected to the program team was “let them dig”…
Yang Ning’s vision darkened, what dig, she had only brought two sets of digging tools, even counting the ones they used when the babies dug together last time in the warehouse, they only had seven sets in total.
How many children were there…
Yang Ning quickly scanned the crowd, ah, at least fifteen…
Had they brought all the idle children in the village?
Yang Ning, feeling dizzy, relayed the program team’s answer, then told them to share the two sets of tools first and went to the warehouse to get the remaining five sets.
When she returned, she discovered that all the babies… were already digging.
Tree branches, stones, broken wooden boards… There was no tool they couldn’t think of…
Right, these were children who grew up playing in the village, they must have dug in the ground countless times.
So the question was.
Yang Ning looked at Shen Zilin, who was sitting on the small stool she had originally prepared for herself, how old was he… to be acting like a foreman…
“One!” A little boy with a buzz cut rushed out from the field, holding a coin in his hand, and ran straight to Shen Zilin.
“Great! Thank you!” Shen Zilin took the coin with his left hand and took out a handful of candy from his bag with his right hand. “We have strawberry, banana, milk, coconut…”
“I want coconut!” The little boy took the candy, stuffed it into his mouth, took two bites, and said solemnly, “Delicious, save a coconut one for me, I’ll be back soon!”
Shen Zilin readily agreed, took out a coconut candy, showed it to him, then put it in his pocket, putting the other flavors back in his bag.
Yang Ning: “… “ He was truly a reasonable foreman.
She now wanted to know, when Shen Zilin went to the market to buy these “wages,” did the program team realize what he was planning… She couldn’t be the only one who was shocked!!!
Of course, Yang Ning wasn’t alone.
At least Wen Dongyu, who had witnessed the entire process of Shen Zilin carrying a bag of snacks, finding the children in the village, asking who the leader was, negotiating the deposit, commission, and rewards, then finally, under the leader’s summons, obtaining a group of child workers, was much more shocked than Yang Ning.
The more shocked he was, the more he learned.
He wasn’t smart, but if he followed smart people, he could survive!
Wen Dongyu, while digging, made up his mind.
Many hands made light work, the children in the field were scattered, one after another, they came up to exchange their Baby Coins for candy from Shen Zilin.
Yang Ning, after watching Shen Zilin for a while, then looking at the children in the field, finally couldn’t help but ask, “Did you also hire Wen Dongyu?”
“No, he’s digging for himself.” Shen Zilin replied.
“Then Wen Dongyu saw your method, it’s so much faster, why is he still digging by himself…” Yang Ning asked again.
Shen Zilin looked up at Yang Ning and smiled. “One candy costs thirty cents outside, and can be exchanged for one Baby Coin. Here, one candy costs five Baby Coins. He doesn’t owe the program team any Baby Coins, why would he use five thirty-cent candies to exchange for one thirty-cent candy?”
Yang Ning: “… “ Right! Why! Was it because she was overwhelmed by the group of children that she didn’t even think of such a simple logic! Speaking of which, although the little CEO didn’t seem to know multiplication yet, his logic was impeccable…
Sob, sob, sob, why was she so stupid?
Ah… Yang Ning belatedly glanced at Shen Zilin’s cameraman.
Her stupidity was even broadcasted live…
Yang Ning took a small step back, ready to escape.
At this moment, Shen Zilin opened his bag, took out a candy, and handed it to Yang Ning. “Sister Yangyang, have some.”
“You need these candies to exchange for Baby Coins…” Yang Ning, who was trying to escape, said awkwardly.
“These candies are enough for me to pay off my pig loan, the program team’s things are too expensive, I’m not buying anything from them after I pay it off.” Shen Zilin stuffed the candy into Yang Ning’s hand. “I saw it, you were the one who buried the Baby Coins, thank you, Sister Yangyang.”
Yang Ning looked at the strawberry milk candy in her hand, aww~~~ Little CEO was so sweet~~~
Little CEO was right! Evil program team!
The strawberry milk candy, sweet and milky, made Yang Ning, who had almost cried from her own stupidity, feel a bit better. Her escape slowed down.
At this moment, Wen Dongyu also approached, following a child who had found a Baby Coin.
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