Chapter 174: Earning a Sum of Foreign Exchange!

Regarding Pei Shuo being so concerned about little friend Lu Xueyan’s results, the staff member was also momentarily stunned.

“Uh, well let me see, huh…?”

The staff member picked up the phone, inquired for a bit, and also laughed:

“The fastest actually wasn’t little friend Xueyan haha, the one who sold out the fastest was actually little friend Duanduan?”

It turned out it was Zhou Ziyan’s little friend Gu Duanduan. After his first pricing attempt failed because it was too high, and due to his fear of the meat spoiling, his second attempt was a direct, hasty, super-low-price blowout sale.

A whole basket of fine chicken thigh meat, sold in one go for a total of only 15 yuan!

Regarding this, although the staff knew it was sold too cheaply, according to the program rules they couldn’t actively remind him. They could only say that all little friends had to be responsible for their own choices.

But fortunately, there was a consolation prize for the fastest seller—an extra snack gift pack. For little friend Gu Duanduan, who hadn’t been able to eat snacks all day, this was simply perfect.

After Pei Shuo learned the reward was a snack gift pack, his originally furrowed brows actually relaxed a bit.

Because of Xueyan’s health condition, snacks naturally shouldn’t be eaten too much.

So, letting Gu Duanduan take this prize was fine, as long as the ultimate grand prize went to Xueyan.

At this exact moment, inside the village committee activity room, the parents who were exerting physical effort to tidy up the venue for the evening activities, although unable to see the cubs’ specific actions, could receive real-time updates on their points, which meant their sales revenue and sales progress.

Watching as Gu Duanduan and several other little friends sold out one after another, although their sales revenues varied from low to high, the parents also breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, they were curious how Xueyan’s basket of potatoes could be sold for such an “astronomical” sales figure?

In the final second, it even added 50 points in one breath!

Lu Li, who became the focus of everyone’s attention, was actually also very curious. Unfortunately, he would have to wait until Xueyan returned to ask and find out, or else wait to watch the program video himself after it was broadcast.

“What’s going on with only this kid Pei Shuo? That big rooster wouldn’t be unsalable, right? Could it be that he can’t even sell it for 15 yuan??”

Only Lan Yu was very puzzled.

Right now, the lowest sales revenue was little friend Gu Duanduan’s 15 points. The unit price for Pei Shuo’s chicken, no matter what, shouldn’t be unable to sell for even 15 yuan, right?

Could it be that they really had to go hungry tonight? Or was this kid Pei Shuo willing to injure the enemy by a thousand and himself by eight hundred, just to retaliate against her, this unreliable parent, making them both eat bran and swallow vegetables tonight!?

Just when Lan Yu was experiencing a rare moment of anxiety in her life, the scoreboard finally flickered, and Pei Shuo’s big rooster actually sold for 71.24 points in one breath!?

“Oh my, this kid is amazing!”

“Congratulations, congratulations, this doesn’t seem to be dead last, right?”

The parents also successively smiled.

Although theoretically, the chicken provided by the program team weighed at least three or four jin (1 jin = 0.5 kg), and in many places with slightly higher prices, it would cost ninety or a hundred yuan each. However, in the countryside where prices are low and they had no scale, managing to sell it for this price was truly not easy.

“But why does this number have change and fractions?”

Best Actor Fu pondered over this number, feeling it didn’t look like a normal sale in a vegetable market.

With Fu Shuilan saying this, the other parents also became curious, and were even more eager than the audience to see the video tape right away.

The truth was, it indeed wasn’t sold in the vegetable market, and it was even sold for a sum of foreign exchange!

Just as Xueyan accompanied Pei Shuo and led the big rooster to an area near the entrance crowded with tourists, a little blonde tourist, who was originally wailing and wanting to buy a big toy gift box in the scenic area, took a fancy to this handsome rural big rooster at first sight.

But actually, Pei Shuo was somewhat reluctant to sell this handsome big rooster to this little customer.

Because this little customer inexplicably reminded Pei Shuo of Louis.

“Mommy, I just want this handsome big rooster! Must have! Absolutely!” (English)

The little guy excitedly looked at this handsome big rooster wearing a bandana, instantly throwing the plastic toy gift box from just now out of his mind.

He felt that walking a big rooster pet on the city walk like Pei Shuo was simply too cool.

“Not for sale.” (English)

Before Xueyan could open his mouth for Pei Shuo, Pei Shuo coldly answered “not for sale” in English.

The shocked little customer and Xueyan: ?!

“What did he just say?” (English)

This little customer murmured uncertainly.

“He, he said he is very happy to sell it to you!!” (English)

Xueyan suddenly covered Pei Shuo’s mouth. In a moment of desperation, a soft English sentence was so cute it stunned the cameramen nearby.

Not only that, Xueyan also neatly packaged all the remaining vegetables and snack feed in the backpack, and solemnly handed it over to the other party along with the big rooster.

He even tried to teach the other party in English how to better raise this beautiful big rooster.

Listening to this, the little customer was completely bewildered, his gaze shifting from staring at the big rooster to staring at Xueyan.

The other party’s two foreign parents also went from initial surprise, to shrugging indicating “buy it, buy it”, and finally to looking down with full smiles at the interaction and chatting demeanor of the few little guys, clearly having completely accepted this shopping request.

Of course, the price of 10 dollars for a big rooster was also quite a good deal.

As for whether it could be kept in a hotel suite, that was probably something the other party’s parents needed to worry about.

But looking at how the little guy cherished it so much he tried to directly hug and kiss it before being stopped by everyone, it probably wasn’t impossible.

Converting 10 dollars, wouldn’t it be just about the fractional 71.24 yuan?

Pei Shuo was actually quite satisfied with this number too, because this way Xueyan was the undisputed first place—!

Director Guo and the crowd of staff members were also amazed by Pei Shuo and Xueyan’s wonderful journey of earning foreign exchange. A perfectly normal vegetable selling task actually resulted in selling abroad.

In a certain sense, these two little guys were truly variety show prodigies.

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And the trailer for the second episode was soon released as promised.

Moreover, the explosive editing points of the second episode’s trailer surpassed the previous episode.

Not only did it teasingly reveal all the explosive points from this episode’s material, but each point also threw out a hook capable of fully baiting the audience’s appetite.

At the beginning, a cartoon matching-and-guessing game with the cartoon avatars of the 5 little friends and the 5 designated vegetables and live poultry made countless viewers start getting frantically curious about who ultimately drew the live fish and the big rooster.

Following closely, scenes of Lin Yujia, the little boiling kettle, shedding tears before speaking, little princess Emma fleeing in panic from an auntie after attempting to quote a price, and Gu Duanduan carefully checking his basket, also made their appearances one after another.

But the most discussed, undoubtedly, were still the scenes involving Xueyan and Pei Shuo.

The scene of Pei Shuo and Lan Yu appearing in coarse cloth and linen, a massive image reversal, made countless viewers laugh boisterously  until their tears came out.

Some netizens even specifically Photoshopped a [Before Returning to the Village] VS [After Returning to the Village] comparison picture.

And the scene where Xueyan struggled to drag a large bamboo basket almost as tall as himself, conducting market research everywhere in the vegetable market, while hands from the side intermittently reached into the basket, initially frightened countless viewers into thinking there were thieves trying to steal vegetables in the market.

Lu Ting and the others in the living room even had grim expressions and directly stood up.

“Holy crap, what bastard dares to steal our family’s vegetables!?”

Lu Huai almost rushed over to hug the TV and interrogate it.

If they were found by the family, even if this program was already filmed, Lu Huai swore he would personally go to this whatever water town, drag these people out one by one in front of Xueyan to apologize!

That’s right, Lu Ting’s plan attempting to arrange for Old Fourth to go abroad to relax for a while, avoiding Lu Huai discovering the variety show 《Baby? Baby!》, had completely failed from the very beginning.

Because as soon as Lu Huai arrived home carrying his schoolbag, he heard the program footage replaying repeatedly on the living room TV, and stood silently in place watching for a long time.

By the time they realized Old Fourth was unusually quiet, Lu Ting and the others discovered with stifling horror that the post-examination Old Fourth had actually quietly watched the replay of the first episode from beginning to end—!

But what made Lu Ting subtly uneasy was that Old Fourth was actually so calm he had no reaction at all, simply finishing his meal and then joining the whole family to start watching the second episode.

And once the program trailer aired, Lu Ting was also firmly attracted by the content, completely unable to care why Old Fourth was so calm.

Fortunately, as the trailer played, the viewers who had originally mistakenly and terrifyingly thought it was vegetable stealing quickly discovered something was wrong.

【Wait, this doesn’t seem like stealing vegetables, but rather stuffing vegetables into our Little Pear’s vegetable basket!?】

【Then why exactly is this? Vegetables can be bought and multiply??】

But the program team clearly had no intention of revealing the answer in the trailer. Instead, very calculatedly, they played an interview reflection from the parents after watching the cubs’ vegetable selling performance at the very end:

“…But I think this result also has a lot to do with the communication skills of the few little friends. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] I thought Xueyan’s personality would be relatively shy, not very likely to actively communicate with strange foreign little friends. I didn’t expect that after joining the program, Xueyan was indeed actively trying to do this kind of interaction.”

Parent Lu Li, interviewed afterwards, had a very wonderful expression when interviewed by the production team after watching the video tape from Xueyan’s perspective.

Although Lu Li felt that Xueyan’s ability to be so brave and proactive to speak English and communicate with the foreign little guest also had the factor of being frightened by Pei Shuo’s stiff “not for sale”.

After all, missing this big rooster’s heaven-sent major client, finding the next one quickly would probably not be so easy.

And Lan Yu was even simpler and cruder:

“Oh my, our Xiao Shuo is just very amazing haha! [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] I am truly very moved. Yes, as soon as the program filming is finished, I will definitely reward him with a good meal!”

Lan Yu’s joyful appearance made everyone in the production team drop a sweat.

So, what exactly was this parent responsible for throughout the whole process? Specifically being carried by the cub?

As for the viewers in front of the TV, they already wished they could immediately and instantly watch the next episode right now.

【Damn it, I am truly already counting the seconds waiting for tonight’s program broadcast—what exactly did Little Pear chat about with the foreign little friend in English?】

【I’m different, I just want to know what kind of malicious director could time the trailer edits like this!】

And what made Director Guo Rui and the crowd in the production team nervous, apprehensive, yet excited was that as soon as the second episode of 《Baby? Baby!》 officially started broadcasting, under the blessing of multiple traffic factors, it directly broke the highest viewership record of the first episode.

This was probably truly going to be a hit!

Moreover, as the content of the second episode played, the viewership ratings were still steadily rising.

After the answers to the vegetables and live poultry drawn by the little friends were successively revealed in the program, discussion posts on major online platforms were already flying high.

There was the theory faction trying to analyze who was most likely to win, the emotion faction stating who must win, and the utilitarian faction stating the result wasn’t important, whoever had the most highlight moments in between was the most successful.

But undoubtedly, in all the votes and discussions, this time Xueyan’s vote count didn’t hold an advantage.

【Although Little Pear is truly explosively cute, I also feel Little Pear is like a very beautiful little crystal person, the kind that should be kept in a glass music box, truly out of tune with the vegetable market.】

【+1, based on Lu Li’s usual doting appearance, just the smell of the vegetable market would probably make Little Pear feel quite uncomfortable.】

【Director Guo is a bit bad in this episode, and drawing potatoes is too heavy! Our baby carries it very laboriously Director Guo! Physical strength happens to be a weak point, the sales speed will definitely be slow.】

Lu Huai got angrier and angrier reading these analysis posts online. The key was that wanting to refute was actually quite hard to refute.

Because even Lu Huai himself hated the messy vegetable market, and didn’t recognize many vegetable names, let alone Xueyan who was still in kindergarten?

“If I had known earlier, I should have let Auntie Cheng follow along as a flying guest to record the program, what is Old Dad even doing!?”

Lu Huai, getting angry, felt that Lu Ting was very unreliable.

Lu Ting, suddenly getting the blame shifted to him: ?

Does this kid really think after finishing the examination he is the ancestor of the whole family? Is his skin itching??

“Not necessarily.”

Unexpectedly at this time, Lu Xun, whose expression was originally equally grim, actually pressed Lu Ting down.

“If it really was dead last, Old Third shouldn’t have spoken like that during the interview just now.”

If it truly was dead last, the focus would definitely be on encouraging Xueyan not to be discouraged and to keep trying next time, and it was highly unlikely to be an attitude expressing humility that he didn’t expect Xueyan to bravely try and such.

Clearly, it was leaving an out for the other guest families.

With Lu Xun analyzing it like this, the atmosphere in front of the TV changed again.

“Eldest’s analysis, it makes some sense…”

Lu Ting rubbed his chin.

Even Auntie Cheng on the side started looking forward to it again.

As a result, the very next scene was Xueyan being frightened by the big rooster Pei Shuo drew.

The little guy hid a bit nervously behind Old Third’s leg, revealing half a small face looking at the parent and softly saying:

“Brother, I seem to be a bit afraid of big roosters…”

This scene again hit with such cuteness that the full-screen bullet comments surged wildly.

There were netizens threatening to catch all the big roosters and eat them for Little Pear, there were also netizens wishing they could transform into a big rooster to scare Little Pear (?), and there were those purely hit by cuteness so much that only the word “cute” was left on their keyboards.

But no matter which one, it seemed to reinforce the viewpoint in the prediction posts, which was that Little Pear might have a tiny, tiny disadvantage in the vegetable market battle of the second episode.

“It’s fine, didn’t that kid from the Pei family also start with a 30% deduction? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Their family is definitely not doing well either, just throwing smoke bombs earlier.”

Lu Ting verbally comforted like this, but his hand was already prepared to call and interrogate Guo Rui at any time, asking if this kid didn’t want to continue filming this program.

Mainly because he couldn’t bear to see his sweet cub’s sad appearance.

Watching it is not okay, watching it is not permitted!