, so openly brazen.
Searching for the skipping rope - There were a limited number of skipping ropes but only four hints. The four hints were "white wall", "tobacco", "running water" and "rice straw". When they found the place, they would need to secretly signal the other party with "I want to eat buns". If the other party replied with "Eat eat eat, you only know how to eat", that meant they had found the location. First come, first get. The last team wouldn"t get any hint.
"Just a reminder, this game won"t only determine which team obtains the red flower, but also your lunch. Depending on the sequence of your arrival, your lunch will also be different," Chu Qin beamed. The camera pointed towards the area where the food rations were stored.
From left to right, the wicker baskets of different sizes were opened in succession. They contained ingredients of varying levels of richness; the difference was Heaven and Earth. Moreover, standing behind every portion of ingredients was the corresponding cook. They ranged from high cla.s.s chefs of five-star hotels to the village auntie, before coming to the director who was specially in charge of preparing dark cuisine.
"What are you blanking out for, hurry and run," The Zhong family"s big brother was the first to regain his wits. He dragged his brother along and ran.
They needed to find the skipping rope within the shortest amount of time and jump rope twenty times in a row. The Zhong family"s big brother swiftly calculated multiple spots in his mind.
"Ge, where are we going to find it?" Zhong Yibin had zero intentions of pondering it over, looking towards his elder brother impatiently.
Zhong Jiabin helplessly explained. The white wall should mean finding a household with white walls. There was more than one house in this village with white walls and they would need to go through them one by one, on top of signing secretly to the other party. This would waste a bit of time. Tobacco likely referred to someone who smoked tobacco; compared to a wall, a person would be harder to find. Running water meant flowing water so it would definitely be near the brook on the fringes of the village. Rice straw should refer to the place where the villagers stacked up their rice straw.
The first two weren"t easy to find but the last two were more obvious. The best thing to do was to ask around. Zhong Yibin, who had once again been a.s.signed a task by his big brother, went up to ask a villager. "Big brother, is there any special building near the river?"
The big brother who was lugging a hoe racked his brains and smiled shyly. "There"s a waterwheel at the riverbank, as well as a mill."
Zhong Yibin"s eyes lit up. He winked at the camera and continued his inquiries. "Where are the rice straws in the village usually piled at?"
The villager thought for a while. "Rice straws are placed at home." Stacked at home - that was even harder to find. The Zhong brothers promptly made a decision and first went to the riverbank to search for the waterwheel and tofu mill.
Yu Tang, who was following behind the two, narrowed his eyes slightly. He caught hold of the villager and continued to ask. "Where do you all usually sun the rice straw?"
"When there"s rice straw, we usually sun them at the empty s.p.a.ce meant for sunning foodstuffs in the center of the village," The villager replied honestly.
"Then let"s quickly go to that empty s.p.a.ce," Yu Lin shook his elder brother"s arm.
Yu Tang was silent for a moment. Dragging Yu Lin along and walking towards that location, he quickly saw the area for sunning rice straw. The entire ground was covered in rice straw that was currently being sunned. There were several aunties presently arranging the rice straw. Upon a close inspection of the environment, Yu Tang narrowed his eyes a little. Grabbing onto Yu Lin, he left. They hadn"t walked far when they b.u.mped into Mu Chen and Mu Sha, who were walking around aimlessly.
Seeing the two of them, Yu Tang revealed an unnatural smile and dragged his brother away.
Mu Chen stared distractedly at them and patted Mu Sha. "Let"s follow them." Those two had clearly already found a location and didn"t want others to know about it.
Yu Tang seemingly didn"t notice them following and directly brought them to the rice straws. Mu Chen took the lead and went over. He stopped an auntie and asked deeply, "I want to eat buns!"
The auntie covered her mouth and smiled bashfully. "My house has some."
Mu Chen laughed awkwardly. "Thanks." Following that, they went to find another auntie to ask. After asking along the way, they finally met a young lady who replied with "Eat eat eat, you only know how to eat".
As br.i.m.m.i.n.g with confidence, Mu Chen wanted the lady to hand over the skipping rope. According to the lady, they could only obtain the skipping rope if they cleared up the rice straw neatly.
All… clear up… neatly…
Mu Chen glanced at the rice straw field that was equivalent to the size of a basketball court. It was closely packed with rice straw; they didn"t have a clue where to start from. Therefore, they started working on clearing the raw straw. Mu Sha didn"t have a choice but to take up the pitchfork to clear the rice straw.
Yu Tang dragged his brother along to lounge on the pile of rice straw, basking in the sunlight. "Good luck, do well."
Mu Chen and the viewers were extremely doubtful of Yu Tang"s behavior. Could it be that he had already abandoned the compet.i.tion after seeing the rice straw s.n.a.t.c.hed away? That being said, the feeling of wanting to win had already taken over and Mu Chen no longer paid any attention to this paid of brothers, starting to concentrate on pushing the gra.s.s.
"Wow wow! It"s here!" Mu Chen lifted up a pile of rice straw while dripping with sweat, finally getting hold of the skipping role that had been hidden beneath. At this moment, the sparkling skipping rope was akin to a glimmering gem that everyone was fond of.
At this moment, Yu Tang suddenly made a move. With an unfathomable speed, he leapt off the tall pile of gra.s.s and simultaneously s.n.a.t.c.hed the skipping rope. Treading on the pile of gra.s.s, he climbed up to the top and swiftly returned to his younger brother. He clasped his younger brother underneath his armpit and broke into a run.
Mu Chen was already petrified. By the time he regained his senses, he instantly climbed up the pile of gra.s.s. Yet, he did not have Yu Tang"s nimble body and could not make it up no matter how much he tried. "Director, he"s breaking the rules!"
Yu Tang waved the skipping rope in his hands in delight. "n.o.body said we couldn"t s.n.a.t.c.h it right?"
At this time, Chu Qin walked out and said seriously, "He didn"t break the rules." Mu Chen was thoroughly thrown into the abyss of despair.
On the other side, the Zhong brothers had reached the riverbank and had already completed the task of adding oil to the waterwheel to grind out soy milk. They found a skipping rope beneath the grindstone.
The pair of brothers were all above 1.8m and skipping rope together would make the difficulty level a little high. Hence, they could only do their best to lean close, to the point where their faces were nearly plastered together.
"I"m going to start!" Zhong Jiabin reminded his brother mildly and started swinging the skipping rope.
"Ao!" Zhong Yibin jumped once. His leg got tangled with the skipping rope and he pounced into his brother"s arms.
"Alright, let"s do it like this then. We"ll skip while carrying each other," The Zhong family"s big brother tested the length and felt that this way was the best. He instructed Zhong Yibin not to let go and jumped while carrying him.
Seeing this scene, the viewers on the internet had already broken out into an argument over the issue of "Zhong Qin" and "Jia Yi".
[Ah ah ah ah, the brothers are still more meng!]
[As if, he was clearly feeding Chu Qin lovingly in the morning!]
[… Your fans are really chaotic…]
The author has something to say:
Small theater:
Er Bing: Gege, this isn"t too good right
Big Brother: Don"t move, I"m about to start
Qin Qin: It"s only skipping rope, what are the viewers getting to excited over
Er Bing: This phrase would have a different meaning under another situation
Qin Qin: What?
Er Bing: Don"t move, I"m about to start
Qin Qin: o(>﹏<)o
Translator"s corner: YT…. I"m speechless…
Side note: Chapter 83 will be split into two parts due to its length. Will try to split it nicely to minimize the disruption in flow.