It was already 8:30 when Lin Fei and Ji Leyu arrived at the village chief’s yard.
The staff opened the live broadcast room and started the live broadcast for the new day.
The viewers had been eating breakfast and waiting for the live broadcast to start. The moment the broadcast started, they started to post comments one after another.
[Finally, it has begun. Ahhh Fei Fei Yu Yu, Mom is here!]
[What about my Baby Xiao Yu? Let me see him quickly!]
[Have the children eaten? They should be eating breakfast at this point.]
[Are they going to sell potatoes today? Expectant!]
In an instant, the barrages poured into the live broadcast room unscrupulously. The number of people in the live broadcast room also increased rapidly like a flood. This startled the director, who had been watching the data in the background.
Oh my god, why were there more people than yesterday morning?!
He checked each live broadcast room one by one. Later, he found that 70% of the viewers had gone to the live broadcast rooms of Lin Luoqing, Ji Yuxiao, Lin Fei, and Ji Leyu. The remaining 30% were scattered among the eight live broadcast rooms of the other four groups of families.
This was really… the gap was too huge!
Lin Fei and Ji Leyu waited. Then they found that the other children hadn’t arrived yet.
Ji Leyu looked toward the entrance of the courtyard and asked the host, “Why haven’t they come yet?”
The host dragged them into the house and asked them to wait in the kang inside the house to keep warm. “Don’t worry, the village chief will help urge them to hurry up.”
Once he finished speaking, he left the room and contacted the directors in charge of the filming, asking them to go a bit faster.
“I understand. It is just that the guests have just woken up and are busy.” The director following the filming was also helpless. Obviously, he had said he would come to pick up the children to go to the market around 8 o’clock. However, they came over at 7:50 and the people hadn’t even woken up yet, let alone changed their clothes and ate.
“Teacher, let the children go first. There are already children over here who are waiting.” The director following the filming urged the parents.
“But we haven’t eaten yet,” Wu Fei said. “How can we do a task without eating?”
“It is very late now. We said we would be there around 8 o’clock. It is already 8:30.”
“We still have to let the children eat,” Wu Fei said while urging Wen Qinyao to cook for the children quickly.
Wen Qinyao didn’t have time to cook. She could only prepare a bag of milk powder and coax Wu Menglei and Wu Han to drink the milk powder first.
The food they brought when they came had been handed in along with the children’s snacks. The program provided eggs, milk and the sponsor’s frozen buns for breakfast. Unfortunately, these things took time. There was no time to cook them now.
Wu Fei heard her say this and was dissatisfied. “Why didn’t you prepare it earlier?”
Wen Qinyao had also forgotten for a moment. She was a star and her agent had always worried about things around her. Her agent always took everything into consideration. In addition, Wen Qinyao had been tired all day yesterday and forgot to set her alarm clock. She woke up late, resulting in the current result.
There was no ready-made food at home and Wu Han was making a fuss and refusing to drink milk powder. Wu Qinyao had to coax him while combing Wu Menglei’s hair. She was so busy for a while that she wished she had three heads and six arms.
Wu Fei felt that the noise was troublesome and went out to smoke. Wen Qinyao’s fans were so angry that they cursed and started fighting with Wu Fei’s fans on the spot.
The fans of Lin Fei and Ji Leyu saw the two children sitting in the room and waiting for others, but no one came. They anxiously went to other live broadcast rooms to see why the children were so slow.
They got a headache immediately after seeing this. Some of them didn’t want to get up and were crying. Some of them didn’t want to leave their parents when they got up. Some of them ran around the house but refused to eat breakfast. The two older children, Tang Jiale and Geng Shansi, were rushing over.
[F*k, in comparison, our Feiyu babies are really too well-behaved.]
{Tang Jiale and Geng Shansi are also okay. After all, it is their first time to come to the country. They played all day yesterday and it is understandable that they woke up late. The other three children are probably too young and their parents haven’t done a good job. Now it is still chaotic.]
[Even so, you can’t waste other people’s time. Several stories from ‘Stories of Idioms’ can be read during this time.]
[Hahahaha. Fei Fei: If I had known, I would’ve read it at home.]
[Fei Fei passed by with a paralyzed face and gave a thumbs up.]
[Hahaha, I can imagine it!]
Ji Leyu was bored, so he played a game with Lin Fei.
Lin Fei had never been interested in playing games. But just as he would accompany Ji Leyu to watch TV, he would also accompany Ji Leyu to play games.
It was just for Ji Leyu to be happy.
The two of them were playing when Tang Jiale and Geng Shansi walked in one after another.
“The two of you are actually here.” Tang Jiale was surprised. “Have you eaten?”
Ji Leyu nodded.
Tang Jiale curled up his lips. “I haven’t eaten yet. My mother said I was going to be late, so she stuffed me with a bottle of milk and asked me to leave quickly.”
Geng Shansi nodded from the side. She did eat some buns, but time was tight. Her mother didn’t braid her hair today and just tied it up in a thick ponytail.
Ji Leyu heard this and laughed. “I ate egg custard, steamed sweet potatoes and buns.”
Tang Jiale and Geng Shansi instantly showed envious expressions.
“Was that egg custard delicious?” Tang Jiale couldn’t help gulping.
Ji Leyu nodded. “It is super delicious. My father made it. It was golden and soft with soy sauce. He made it specially for me and my brother. It is one bowl per person.”
Tang Jiale thought, ‘…Suck suck suck, I want to eat it.’
Netizens laughed. [Xiao Yu, you are too bad! Why are you showing off so openly?]
[Lele next to him is already greedy, hahaha.]
[Xiao Yu said it was his father. So Chairman Ji made it? Chairman Ji can even make egg custard!]
[You shouldn’t underestimate people. Our Chairman Ji can do anything!]
[So today’s breakfast was made by Chairman Ji. Chairman Ji is such a good man. He got up early to make breakfast, so that his wife and children can sleep more.]
[Ahhh every man, come and learn. Isn’t this more confident than you are?!]
After a while, Yang Wenjing also came. Now only Wu Menglei and Wu Han, the twins, hadn’t arrived.
[Why are Wu Menglei and Wu Han so slow?]
[stop talking. They are still being hugged and coaxed to drink milk powder. I’m stunned. They are already late but they are still stuck there.]
[Wu Menglei and Wu Han are young. Such young children can’t skip their meals.]
[I didn’t say that they aren’t allowed to eat. However, they knew that the children had to gather this morning. Why not get up early to cook something for the children to eat? Doesn’t everyone have to wait now? Just their children are children? Tang Jiale also hasn’t eaten yet? If he knew this, he might as well have come after eating.]
[It is normal for children to have no sense of time but adults shouldn’t do this, right? Ji Yuxiao can get up early to make breakfast for children. Why can’t Wu Fei?]
[Don’t mention Wu Fei. If he could help then Wu Menglei and Wu Han wouldn’t be so slow. This is just like widowed parenting.]
Wu Fei’s fans jumped up immediately after hearing this. [These words are too ugly. What is widowhood? Don’t use such personal attacks!]
Wen Qinyao’s fans were so angry that they cursed. [Isn’t she widowed? Then why did Wu Fei do nothing like he was dead!]
[A chairman as big as Ji Yuxiao can get up early to prepare breakfast for his children and Lin Luoqing. Why can’t Wu Fei? He is more capable than Ji Yuxiao?]
[In terms of fame, he isn’t as big as Lin Luoqing. In terms of money, he isn’t as rich as Ji Yuxiao. However, he acts greater than Lin Luoqing and Ji Yuxiao. Anyone who doesn’t know anything would think he was a popular top artist, has won the Best Actor Award and has a rich and powerful family!]
[They don’t deserve it. Lin Luoqing and Ji Yuxiao have successful careers and teach their children well. Wu Fei has the nerve to let Wu Han and Wu Menglei learn from Lin Fei. He should take a look at himself first. Don’t just make your children study hard. He should study hard himself.]
For a long time, the barrage was full of angry fighting.
It wasn’t until 9 o’clock that Wu Menglei and Wu Han finally arrived at the village chief’s courtyard under the escort of Wen Qinyao and Wu Fei.
Wen Qinyao apologized in an embarrassed manner. The host was busy with the cue process and told her to be punctual next time. Then he turned around and asked the children to put on their small baskets and get ready to leave.
Wu Han cried in a heartbreaking manner, making Wu Menglei want to cry as well.
Ji Leyu glanced at the two of them and felt that they were really troublesome.
It was good that it had nothing to do with him.
He held his and Lin Fei’s thermos cups. He lined up with Lin Fei, put the small backpack in the trunk of the bus and got on the bus.
Lin Fei chose a position by the window and sat down. Ji Leyu naturally sat beside him.
Lin Fei thought for a while. Then he stood up and told Ji Leyu, “Sit on the inside.”
“Why?” Ji Leyu asked him.
“You can enjoy the scenery,” Lin Fei said calmly.
He still remembered that Ji Leyu had been lying on his stomach in the car window and looking out on the way here. He must like looking at the scenery outside the window.
Ji Leyu really liked it, but he was sleepy now and didn’t want to look at it. He took Lin Fei’s arm and asked him to sit down.
“I want to sleep,” he said. “You can look, Brother. I’ll sleep next to you.”
Lin Fei hummed and sat down again.
Ji Leyu handed both thermos cups to Lin Fei. He leaned his head against Lin Fei’s shoulder, hugged his arm and closed his eyes.
The parents in the live broadcast room seemed afraid of waking him up. Their strength while typing decreased.
[It is so cute. Fei Fei and Xiao Yu are so loving.]
[Fei Fei really dotes on his younger brother. He was already sitting on the seat. Then he thought about how Xiao Yu could enjoy the scenery by the window, so he stood up again and gave it to his younger brother.]
[Xiao Yu is also very good. He chose to let his brother watch the scenery while he sleeps.]
[Xiao Yu is really clingy to Fei Fei. He even hugs Fei Fei’s arm while sleeping [covers face].]
[Isn’t this normal? If I had a brother like Fei Fei, I would directly use 502 to glue the two of us together!]
[Hahaha, that is me!]
Lin Fei looked at Ji Leyu’s little head leaning on his shoulder. Then he turned to look at the scenery outside the window.
The wind whistled through the open windows. Lin Fei sat in the car, looking at the dusty mountain peaks that seemed to have not been cleaned. He watched the cattle and sheep walking in groups on the frozen river. The high-flying birds chirped loudly, causing the sparrows on the branches to fly past. At this moment, Lin Fei suddenly felt that he was indeed still too young. There were many things he had never seen before.
At 9:35, the bus stopped in the town. The host, led by the village chief, came to the town market with the children.
The new year was approaching and the market was at its busiest. Many adults and children would come to the market to buy some new year’s good and delicious things.
The moment Lin Fei and Ji Leyu appeared, they immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
They were all wearing clean and beautiful down jackets. They looked well-behaved and cute. At first glance, they were obviously children from the city. However, they were carrying a small back basket. Lin Fei even held a snakeskin bag.
The village chief took them to the place where vegetables were sold at the market. He asked them to unload the small baskets one by one. He distributed plastic bags for the potatoes and said with a smile, “Now you can start selling potatoes.”
The curious crowd had already gathered around, staring at the group of little children followed by cameras. They wondered what these children were filming.
Yang Wenjing and Wu Menglei were afraid and hid behind the directors following the filming.
Wu Han wanted to cry, so he shouted to Wu Menglei, “Sister.”
Even Tang Jiale was a bit stunned for a while.
Lin Fei calmly took out the price sign he had made yesterday from his small backpack and leaned it against the small basket.
Ji Leyu followed suit.
The watching uncles and aunts took a closer look in surprise. They saw his young and neat brushstrokes and couldn’t help laughing.
“What is a small potato? It says three small potatoes for one yuan,” one aunt asked curiously.
Lin Fei looked at his small basket, took out three small potatoes that he thought were suitable, put them in a bag and handed them to her.
The aunt laughed and teased him, “How about the medium one?”
Lin Fei picked out two slightly larger ones for her.
“What about the big one?”
Lin Fei was forced to pick another big one.
The crowd of onlookers instantly laughed. There was no malicious intention. They simply thought the child was quite cute.
“You can tell the difference quite clearly.” The aunt in front of Lin Fei struggled to speak Mandarin. “What can these potatoes do?”
“Shredded potatoes,” Lin Fei answered her. “You can also make French fries.”
“What are French fries?” The aunt wondered.
“Just cut the potatoes into strips and fry them in oil.” Ji Leyu tilted his head and helped Lin Fei answer.
Lin Fei nodded.
The aunt looked at him and wanted to touch his head, but was too embarrassed to do so. “What a smart child.”
She took out three yuan and handed it to Lin Fei. “Here, I want all three bags.”
“Thank you,” Lin Fei said politely.
The crowd of onlookers saw that someone had made a successful purchase and also rushed after. Soon, they surrounded Lin Fei’s small stall.
“I want a small bag.”
“I want a small bag and a bag with two big ones.”
“Little boss, I want three small ones, three medium ones and three big ones.”
Lin Fei looked up at him. “You can’t buy it like that.”
“Why?” The buyer deliberately teased him.
Lin Fei pointed at his price card and said seriously, “You can buy six medium ones, but you can’t buy three of them.”
Netizens laughed. [Our little boss is good at math. It can be a multiple of two, but a number that isn’t a multiple of two isn’t possible.]
[Fei Fei is really smart. Kiss kiss Fei Fei.]
[Fei Fei is so well-organized. It is really smart to think about the pricing in advance.]
[His hands-on ability is also very strong. He wrote the price card directly when he thought about it.]
[No wonder why he is the top student in elementary school with certificates stuck all over the wall. Little Fei Fei’s mind is really quick.]
[Now it is little boss Fei Fei. Hahaha, what a cute little boss.]
The adults heard him say, ‘You can buy six medium ones, but you can’t buy three of them.’ They thought he was cute and smart, and they liked him very much. They crowded around and wanted to buy his potatoes.
The moment Lin Fei gave the potatoes to the people here and collected money, he saw someone else squeezing over and shouting, “Little boss, I’ll buy one catty.”
Lin Fei remembered Lin Fei saying it was one catty per one yuan, so he gave three small ones.
Another uncle was immediately reluctant. “Oh, I came first. Baby, give it to me first.”
Lin Fei looked here and there. Finally, he said to them, “Line up.”
Huh? The uncles and aunts huddled together and looked at him curiously.
Lin Fei said seriously, “Line up.”
He stretched out two hands. He first raised his left hand and then raised his right hand. “One team on the left and one team on the right.”
[Awesome, my Fei Fei. He knows to wait in line.] Netizens couldn’t help exclaiming.
[It is worthy of our little boss. He is already very good at doing business at such a young age.]
[Hahaha, Fei Fei is so serious and cute.]
[I feel like the grandparents, uncles and aunts in front of him are stunned. Why do they still have to line up?]
[The aunt on the right has an aunt’s smile on her face. It is simply another me.]
[The uncle in the middle is also very kind. The look in his eyes feels like looking at his grandson.]
[Who doesn’t want to have such a grandson? So handsome, so obedient and so smart.]
[If I could have such a baby, I would definitely hold him every day and never let go!}
[Me too!]
These uncles, aunts and grandparents in front of Lin Fei originally wanted to join in the fun. They wanted to tease him because he was young, good-looking and a child from the city. Therefore, they gathered around to buy his potatoes. After hearing him say this, they felt that he was smart and like a little grown-up. He could still sell potatoes in a decent manner.
Therefore, the man in the middle raised his arms and everyone lined up. Soon, two long lines emerged.
The host had just finished coaxing Wu Han, Wu Menglei and Yang Menglei. The moment he looked up, he saw that this side had already lined up and suddenly felt that the world was uneven.
Fei Fei was too awesome!
Not only was he not intimidated by people, but he also prepared a pricing board a long time ago. He divided it into large, medium and small potatoes and knew to let people line up!
How did Lin Luoqing and Ji Yuxiao teach them?
Compared with the other children who didn’t know anything or had no concept about selling things, Lin Fei seemed to have successfully started a business. He was just waiting to collect money!
Proofreader: Wei
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