Chapter 360: Simple and Direct Grouping
Serves them right!
Fang Yifei was watching the live broadcast and felt a bit satisfied when Ran Yu publicly undermined Chi Youyou.
"Is this Youzi planning to enter the entertainment industry?"
Song Xingruo just came over from the old house to find her and saw her watching the live broadcast of the Farm variety show, "When I left, my grandpa was watching it too. He doesn’t even know what’s going on, but he’s particularly fascinated by Youzi. Every time there’s a live broadcast, he has to buy something, and the house is full of things bought from her broadcasts!"
Though the taste is not bad...
But she didn’t reach for anything in front of Fang Yifei, just complained that the old man must have been brainwashed to be like this.
Fang Yifei smiled without changing her expression, "Older people might like watching her sort of outdoor live streaming. It’s understandable that Grandpa Song likes her. By the way, should I come to the old house tomorrow to have dinner with you and your grandaunt?"
"Sure! My grandma has been wondering why you haven’t come by lately."
Song Xingruo naturally sat down next to her, "I told her you’ve been really busy lately, shooting commercials, attending fashion week, unlike me who’s so free and can hang around in front of her all the time!"
"You, well, my grandaunt just loves you."
"Absolutely! But speaking of this Youzi, it’s peculiar that she’s on a reality show and still wears a mask. How much does she have to hide?"
There were quite a few people who thought the same as Song Xingruo.
Chi Youyou looked at Ran Yu, then at the others, just about to speak when Su Jinxiao lazily interjected, "We didn’t have a rule against wearing masks, right? Didn’t you wear a hat?"
Ran Yu was embarrassed...
Wearing a hat and wearing a mask, are they the same?
Chi Youyou glanced at Su Jinxiao; was he speaking up for her?
"Ran Yu fairy brought up a question everyone wants to know, so I’ll explain a bit. Actually, Miss Youzi is still a university student. She started because she liked farming and sharing it with others, leading to live streaming. She wants to separate her personal life from being a streamer. Our show respects her choice, so we specially allowed her to wear a mask!"
Director Pan listened to the instructions in his earpiece to wrap it up as the topic picked up buzz. Naturally, they needed to be succinct.
[A university student?]
[If you don’t want to show your face, then don’t join the show!]
[Wants fame and privacy too. Ha! Is there a difference between this and showing off while pretending otherwise?]
[Hey, no need for harsh words! Celebrities and internet influencers are just normal people! We’re not here just for Youbao’s face; we like watching her streams and enjoy her fruits, okay?!]
...
"Thank you all for participating as scheduled in our reality show — ’Farm Life.’ Are you all ready?"
Director Pan wasn’t sure about the comments section, but on set, they weren’t given any more time for small talk and went straight to the topic.
As for small talk, they’d have plenty of opportunities in the future!
There are a total of 9 resident guests participating this time: Youzi, Nan Zhi, Jinshu, Su Jinxiao, Ran Yu, Bai Yan, Ye Jia, Chen Ling, and Zhou Ziyue.
They will be divided into three groups, each creating a different farm. Once the farms begin operating, they will compete!
This is a real-life management slow-paced variety show, but there will also be competitive formats to stimulate economic consumption on the farms.
"Because the three farms are in remote areas, and the farm owners are all quite old, they have already started to decline. This time, we give all guests the task of helping the farm owners rejuvenate the farms!"
[Sounds interesting, like playing a management game!]
[Yes! I can imagine I’m managing a farm virtually!]
[Actually, I really hope my idol is in a group with Youzi. I can guarantee, among these people, only Youzi truly knows how to work!]
[Don’t bring hate to your idol! Our Bai Yan is from humble beginnings! He grew up on a farm; he knows everything!]
[Don’t worry, the program team will definitely arrange everything. Looking at this lineup is enough to see, there are those who can do farm work, and those who can’t do anything!]
...
"We will use the simplest and most straightforward method to divide into groups! Drawing lots!"
[No way, is the program team kidding? Drawing lots?]
[Absolutely, what if one group ends up with everyone who can farm, what about the other two groups?]
[Don’t worry, they can still invite guest appearances later, bringing in those who can help!]
[Really is simple and blunt!]
[I don’t want Youzi to be in the same group as my Su Shen!]
[Ha, I think your Su Shen is quite willing, he even spoke up for her just now!]
[That’s because our Su Shen is a nice person! Unlike Ran Yu who has such low emotional intelligence!]
...
What reality shows love most is intense discussion, whether it’s good or bad comments. If it’s not intense, the directors would definitely have overnight meetings to discuss if there’s a problem.
Seeing the feedback in the comments section, the chief director was very pleased, grinning from ear to ear with his phone in hand.
"So, who will draw first?"
"I will."
Nan Zhi volunteered. Among them, she was considered the most experienced, so her going first to draw made sense.
With her leading the way, the others all stepped forward to draw a ball.
"Now we come to the most thrilling moment!"
[The program team is really funny, making such a fuss over drawing lots!]
[But I like this kind of fresh show!]
[Haha, I really want to see what they look like playing games!]
...
"Everyone can directly open the ball in their hand. Each ball has a number, and the ones with the same number are in the same group."
Chi Youyou opened the ball in her hand, and inside was a bright red number 1.
Before she could speak, she heard others announcing their numbers, either 2 or 3.
So who ended up in her group?
She looked over and saw Su Jinxiao holding up a number 1, along with...
The international movie star Jinshu...
Jinshu glanced at Su Jinxiao, then at Chi Youyou, shrugged, "Yes, it’s us three in a group."
[What! That Youzi is actually in a group with two great idols!]
[Oh my gosh, this is incredible luck! Unreal!]
[So envious and jealous!]
[Sure there’s no behind-the-scenes manipulation, with Youzi, Bai Yan, and Chen Ling all having experience, exactly one in each group?]
[Who knows!]
...
Besides the bewildered audience, even the people on site thought the group allocation was quite a coincidence.
Nan Zhi was a bit upset seeing Jinshu and Youzi in the same group. If she was paired with Jinshu, they could have formed a ’couple team’ and she could have gained some popularity!
So lucky for that Youzi!
"I swear on behalf of the program team, there’s no manipulation at all!"
The production director quickly raised a hand to get some attention, they were actually prepared for a scenario where one group would have no help at all, having three people who didn’t understand agriculture would also be interesting.
But now it turned out so evenly distributed.
Well, let’s proceed with plan A then.
"Now, our three group members will begin two months of farm management, let’s all look forward to it!"