Zongye drank some juice, put down the cup, and stroked the screen with his fingers. After a while, he sent her a message back.
"How careful?"
He raised his eyes and saw Jiang Chuyi straighten up across the table full of people with a very serious expression.
Jiang Chuyi: "In short, just be careful. I can't say more."
Souya: “I understand.”
While eating, Jiang Chuyi and Feng Miaotong sounded out the matter.
Feng Miaotong also looked worried. "My PD told me to go to Wang Tan's room with a loud speaker tomorrow and wake him up."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
Feng Miaotong clasped her hands together and muttered devoutly: "Avalokitesvara bless me. I hope Wang Tan's fans won't scold me when the show airs. If they want to scold me, they can scold the production team."
Jiang Chuyi's expression was equally serious. "My PD hasn't told me yet how to wake Zong Ye up."
"Will they be grumpy when they wake up?" Feng Miaotong asked.
Jiang Chuyi had only filmed with them for a few days before, and had not yet understood this, so she was not too sure: "After all, it's just a show, they shouldn't lose their temper, right?"
"Ah, the directors are so brave, they are not afraid of being scolded by the fans of Xibao. I already feel that this show is not simple."
Jiang Chuyi nodded sympathetically.
After all, variety shows are entertainment programs for the public, and they are meant to be fun, so there are many segments where guests are tricked. As reality shows become more and more involuted, the production crews are using more and more unscrupulous means to attract attention.
Feng Miaotong's act of using a loudspeaker to call Wang Tan to wake up is already considered a very "gentle" wake-up service.
Jiang Chuyi had watched a similar challenge reality show while eating before. Sometimes when the guests were sleeping in the room at night, the bed would suddenly break in the middle and sink, or a basin of water would be poured on them without any warning while they were sleeping. There were even more bizarre cases where the guests would climb through windows or get into beds. There were all kinds of strange pranks.
It was 5:30 in the morning, and it was still dark outside. Feng Jia, Jiang Chuyi, and a few VJs behind them were walking through the hotel corridor like thieves.
Stopping at the door of Room 3027, Jiang Chuyi slowly lowered his head, glanced at the gong in his hand, and asked again without giving up: "Do we really have to wake Zong Ye up like this?"
Feng Jia took out the room card and handed it to her, saying excitedly: "Let's hurry up, in a few minutes, Fu Cheng will be awakened by the water."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
As if he knew what she was thinking, Feng Jia chuckled, "Considering the personal safety of the guests, we picked a tall and strong photographer to go and call Fu Cheng."
Jiang Chuyi hesitated, and two minutes passed. She looked at the people behind her in embarrassment. A lot of people were waiting. She took two deep breaths, and finally made up her mind, and gently placed the room card on the sensing area.
With a slight beep, the door opened a crack. Jiang Chuyi poked his head in to check the situation.
The main light in the room was turned off, leaving only a corridor light at the bathroom door. There was a small hill on the 1.8-meter-high bed in the hotel.
Taking advantage of the dim light, Jiang Chuyi tiptoed over.
Jiang Chuyi stopped a few meters away from the bed.
The people who came in one after another were very careful not to make any noise. The person on the bed seemed to be sleeping very soundly and had no idea that a group of people had rushed into the room.
Jiang Chuyi stood there for a while with mixed feelings, sometimes depressed, sometimes cheered up.
Finally, she prepared herself mentally, bit her lip, and with a determined heart, she swung the mallet in her hand, hitting the gongs and drums, and shouted, "Zongye, it's time to get up!"
Suddenly, there was a loud and clear gong sound, and the room seemed to echo with the lingering sound.
After a moment, Zongye frowned, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he opened his eyes, seeming to be dazed for a moment.
At this moment, the world returned to silence.
Zong Ye saw Jiang Chuyi standing stiffly at a glance.
He calmed down for a moment, sat up a little, and turned on the lamp on the bedside table.
Jiang Chuyi was the closest and saw clearly the white sheet sliding down from his shoulder blades—
Souya is not wearing any clothes!
Jiang Chuyi turned around almost immediately, trying to block the VJ's camera with the gong in her hand, and said anxiously: "You can't take pictures of this, you can't take pictures of this."
Feng Jia stood at the door and smiled: "The male star is fine, Teacher Jiang."
Zong Ye seemed to realize what was going on. He picked up the T-shirt next to him and put it on.
By the time Jiang Chuyi received instructions and had to turn around again, Zong Ye had already put on his clothes.
He half-hugged the quilt with a helpless expression, leaning against the head of the bed, his black hair a little messy.
Seeing her turn around again with a sad face, Zongye was silent for a while, smiled gently and shook his head, and asked in a low voice: "Is this what you said last night, asking me to be careful when sleeping?"
Having just woken up, his voice was still a little hoarse. Souya's voice was originally a bass cannon, and now it was a little hoarse, which was almost alluring.
Jiang Chuyi's eyes wandered and she nodded nervously.
Zong Ye looked at her, not knowing what she was thinking.
"When will you get up?" Jiang Chuyi asked cautiously, "I still have to read the task card to you."
"I..." Zongye paused, "Wait a minute."
For some reason he couldn't get out of bed right away.
Because he has the physiological reaction that normal men have in the morning.
Especially since she was still staring at him by the bed.
Jiang Chuyi and Zong Ye looked at each other for a few seconds, realized something, and turned around without saying a word.
Under the camera, her cheeks turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Feng Jia saw the whole scene. She held onto the door frame with her hands on her chest, and was about to faint.
After a few minutes, Zongye threw back the quilt and got out of bed.
His expression had returned to normal and he greeted the camera.
When walking past Jiang Chuyi, Zong Ye said, "Teacher Jiang, please wait for a while. I'm going to wash my face and wake up."
After Jiang Chuyi finished reading the task card and informed Zong Ye that he would fly to Changsha today, the filming of the "wake-up call" segment was completed.
They went to the lobby to have breakfast together.
While riding the elevator down, Feng Jia huddled in a corner, picked up his phone, and frantically sent messages to the small group.
Feng Jia: "The bare-faced Xiao Zong who just woke up is really overwhelming... So tender, so tender, and most importantly, such attractive abdominal muscles. How can Teacher Jiang be so indifferent... ? I really wanted to kick all the photographers out for a moment and leave only the two of them in the room [crazy]"
Feng Jia: "Is there anyone who is still awake who can reply to me? No one is knocking with me. I feel like I am the loneliest person in the world..."
Feng Jia: "I will remove all the cameras in Souya's room tonight, trick Teacher Jiang into coming over, and then lock the two of them in a room alone for three days and three nights!!!"
Screenwriter A: "That's enough, stop showing off!!! We can't see the real-time scene like you, don't tempt people here... I have already informed the DIT team... As soon as the master tape arrives, I will start working on "Crazy"
Feng Jia: "I just heard Teacher Zong say that Chuyi asked him to be careful when he went to bed last night... What the hell is that?! Although men have the habit of sleeping naked, Teacher Zong 100% guessed that Jiang Chuyi was going to wake him up today, but he still! Especially! Scheming! Didn't wear any clothes!!! He just wanted to show his wife his abdominal muscles, you know..."
Screenwriter B: "It's just a way for the young couple to please me, woo woo."
*
In the lobby, several young guests sat around a table, each with dark circles under their eyes.
While eating breakfast, they complained about the program crew's complicated routines.
Xu Jiayu's tone was particularly unbelievable: "I was sleeping soundly, and a deafening song "The Most Dazzling National Style" sounded in the room. For a moment, I thought I drank too much last night and slept in the KTV..."
Ji Kai comforted him: "Brother, we are almost the same. I don't know what they did. There was a lot of clanging and hammering. I thought it was a construction team that came to dig into my room."
After that, they asked Wang Tan, "What about you?"
Feng Miaotong drank soy milk and lowered her eyes guiltily.
Wang Tan spoke slowly: "Someone took a junk collector's loudspeaker and put it on my pillow, shouting, 'We're collecting refrigerators, color TVs, old washing machines, bicycles, old newspapers...'"
Jiang Chuyi couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and whispered to Zong Ye: "I just struck a gong, is that okay?"
"It seems like the force with which you hit the gong is quite strong." Zong Ye laughed.
"Did I scare you?" She felt guilty again and muttered, "I reminded you yesterday to be careful when sleeping, but you may not have understood what I meant."
"If you hadn't reminded me, I might not have slept so deeply."
"Ah? Why?"
"I thought you had something to talk to me about at night." Zongye lowered his head, peeling eggs, and said slowly, "I went to bed at about five in the morning."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
*
After finishing breakfast in twenty minutes, the director gathered the listless people on an empty terrace and asked Feng Miaotong and Jiang Chuyi to stand in front.
The two looked at each other, stepped out of line and stood still.
Just when everyone was puzzled, the director Xuan began to read the task card: "There are a few new friends waiting for us in Changsha, and you need to split up to find them. So before you set off, you need to divide into two teams, red and blue. It just so happens that there are two female guests as captains, Miaotong is the red team, and Chuyi is the blue team. Everyone choose your own team!"
There was silence at the recording site.
Xu Jiayu questioned: "Director, you made it so exciting right from the start? If we all choose one female guest, wouldn't the other female guest be embarrassed?"
The director waved his hand and said, "Here are the rules. I'll give you five minutes to discuss it among yourselves. By the way, the captains are not allowed to look back until they have made their selections!"
Feng Miaotong instantly became nervous and said with a sad face: "It's over, it's over. No one will choose me, right?"
"No." Jiang Chuyi comforted her.
Although I rarely face this kind of situation where I have to "choose" from the audience, when it's my first time recording a show, everyone's emotional intelligence is generally high and they won't deliberately embarrass anyone.
Jiang Chuyi was not sure about others, but at least Xu Zhi and Quan Yongning would definitely stand on their own team tacitly.
Jiang Chuyi and Feng Miaotong both had their backs to them, and were unaware of the ongoing team assignments. They could only guess whether someone was standing behind them based on the wind in their ears and some movements from the director team in front.
I don’t know what happened, but I heard some teasing sounds from the crowd.
Feng Miaotong tried her best to restrain her urge to turn around and look.
After the two elder brothers discussed it, Xu Zhi went to Feng Miaotong's team, and Quan Yongning stood behind Jiang Chuyi.
Ji Kai bumped into Wang Tan’s shoulder.
Under the earnest gaze of his PD, Wang Tan clicked his tongue and walked slowly towards the Red Team.
Fu Cheng walked straight towards Jiang Chuyi.
Ji Kai was quick to grab him.
"Is there something wrong?" Fu Cheng's face darkened.
He was woken up by water in the morning and has been suffering from low pressure ever since.
"I'm going to join Teacher Jiang's team and fight with her." Ji Kai stated his intention.
Fu Cheng said impatiently: "Go find Wang Tan."
"Zong Ye and I both stand on Jiang Chuyi's side. Who do you want to replace?" Fu Cheng asked back.
Ji Kai elbowed him: "Of course it's your turn. Why do you want to be on the same team with Teacher Jiang?"
"Because..." Fu Cheng pulled the microphone at his collar and whispered to Ji Kai, "You and Wang Tan talked too much and were too noisy."
Ji Kai: “…”
He cursed in his heart.
Soon, several people chose their teams, and the director shouted, "Female guests can turn around and confirm their teammates!"
Jiang Chuyi turned around and saw Zong Ye standing in front of her.
"What's wrong? Are you surprised?" he asked.
Jiang Chuyi shook her head.
As expected, Feng Miaotong and Jiang Chuyi's teams were evenly divided into three people.
Jiang Chuyi took the team uniform handed over by the staff and distributed it to his team members.
On the way to the airport, Quan Yongning held a team meeting on the bus and discussed with them: "The place where we are looking for people is on Pozi Street near Wuyi Square. The flow of people is quite dense. Zong Ye and Fu Cheng are too popular. It is best to do the tasks separately."
Jiang Chuyi nodded thoughtfully.
"How about this, I will be in the same team with Fu Cheng." Quan Yongning said to Jiang Chuyi with a smile, "You will be in the same team with Zong Ye. After we find someone, we will send a message in the group and then reunite. How about that?"
Jiang Chuyi: "Okay, no problem."
One was the captain and the other was a senior. The two of them made the final decision. Zongye and Fucheng didn't say a word. They were arranged clearly like this and had no right to speak.
When they arrived at the airport, Jiang Chuyi urged Zong Ye and Fu Cheng before getting off the car: "You two should put on your hats, masks, and sunglasses. It's best not to be recognized at first glance."
Zong was amused by her serious look. After a moment of silence, he responded, "Got it, Captain."
Seeing that the two of them armed themselves obediently, Jiang Chuyi nodded with satisfaction, waved the small flag in his hand, and shouted: "Follow me, don't get lost."
Fu Cheng: “…”
*
Since Jiang Chuyi was appointed as the team leader, she has developed a sense of responsibility. She is like a tour guide taking elementary school students on a spring outing, always paying attention to any movement of Fu Cheng and Zong Ye.
Although the "Stars Glitter" has been rumored for a long time, it has not been officially announced yet, and the schedule is also kept secret. So when they were shooting outdoors, although they were accompanied by several VJs and bodyguards, they only attracted curious passers-by to stop and watch, and did not cause a bigger commotion.
Arriving at the first mission point, the blue team began to act in groups according to the plan. Quan Yongning and Fu Cheng were responsible for finding a building, while Jiang Chuyi and Zong Ye were responsible for finding a snack street.
The codeword given by the program group for the meeting was: [The king of heaven covers the earth, and the director is 1.5 meters tall.]
In June in Changsha, even the air seems to be filled with heat waves.
Jiang Chuyi covered her eyes with one hand to block the glaring sunlight. She flipped through the phone given by the production team, studying the clues and locations they had given her.
She stood at the door of a small shop and looked around for a long time, muttering, "Taking shrimps out of a jar means catching shrimps. Does that mean I have to go to a crayfish shop to look for them?"
Souya: “Maybe.”
"And the math problem about the reservoir. The number I just solved is 24. Does that mean the store is related to 24?"
Souya: "How did you figure that out?"
Jiang Chuyi replied with a little pride in her tone, "Mental arithmetic, how's it going? Is it amazing?"
Zongye nodded and smiled, "Great."
He stared at the sweat on her face and suddenly asked: "What are you doing now..."
"What?" Jiang Chuyi turned around and looked at him.
Zong Ye paused, without finishing his words, and stretched out his hand, motioning for her to give him the phone.
Jiang Chuyi handed it over doubtfully.
Zongye took it, pulled up the memo, typed a line of words, and handed it to her:
[You are not on your menstrual period now]
Jiang Chuyi subconsciously glanced at the camera a few meters away, turned sideways, and answered him in a low voice, "No, what's wrong?"
Zongye returned the phone to her and said, "Wait for me here."
He went to a convenience store across the street.
He came back a few minutes later with a small fan and a bottle of ice water in his hand.
Jiang Chuyi took the ice water he opened and hesitated for two seconds before she thanked him.
She asked confusedly: "Wasn't the phone confiscated? How did you buy water?"
Zongye whispered, "I brought two hundred dollars in cash."
Jiang Chuyi was speechless and thanked him again.
Zongye smiled, lowered his eyes and fiddled with the switch of the small electric fan, "I'm not as smart as the captain, so I can only be a logistics person."
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
After adjusting the windshield, Zongye pointed the small fan at her, "Is it cooler?"
Jiang Chuyi looked at the lens with fear and trepidation, "Thank you, I'll take it myself."
After all, they were recording a show, so Zong didn't say much and gave her the fan.
Zong Ye is tall, and even though he is wearing a mask and only an ordinary blue team uniform, he is still very eye-catching in the crowd.
Two young girls walked by hand in hand. They looked back several times and whispered, "That guy looks so handsome. There's a camera filming him. Who is he? An internet celebrity or a star?"
"I do not know."
The two searched on this street for a long time, but the director team didn't give any clues.
Until the night gradually fell, finally, in a shrimp restaurant, Jiang Chuyi asked awkwardly for the thirtieth time: "The king of heaven covers the tiger of earth."
The proprietress looked at her with a smile and said, "The director is 1.5 meters tall."
Before I could feel happy, I heard a surprised scream in my ear: "Mong Ye?!"
They turned to look.
A dozen excited little girls gathered in front of the store.
The two of them spent so much time on this street that it was easy for Zong to be recognized, and some fans had already rushed over after hearing the news.
As soon as Zongye's name came out, all the people eating in the restaurant focused their eyes on him.
Although bodyguards stopped them, some staff members tried to communicate with them, saying that they were recording a show. But the fans obviously didn't listen to them.
In addition to them, a new group of people soon arrived. Mixed with passers-by who were just looking for fun, the crowd broke through the bodyguards and poured into the store.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the two were surrounded.
Seeing that the situation was out of control, Feng Jia immediately made a phone call, anxiously giving the address to the program team and asking them to send more people over as soon as possible.
Although the store had arranged staff in advance and prepared emergency measures, it still couldn't stop this group of fans who were so enthusiastic that they were about to lose their minds.
Jiang Chuyi had never encountered such a situation before, and her mind went blank.
Zongye reacted quickly, immediately grabbed her wrist and moved to the wall with difficulty.
The lady boss yelled: "Be careful, don't damage anything in my store!"
Zong Ye leaned his elbows against the wall and used his back to lean against the crazy crowd, leaving a corner in front of him for Jiang Chuyi.
It was obvious that his strength alone was no match for a group of people. He was squeezed so hard that he had to stick close to Jiang Chuyi from time to time. He had to turn around and say, "Everyone calm down. Be careful not to be trampled."
Jiang Chuyi saw with her own eyes the painful expression on Zong Ye's face, and finally reacted and shouted loudly: "Stop pushing!"
But their voices were completely drowned out by the screams.
Jiang Chuyi tried hard to block the hands that were touching Zong Ye.
The fan in his hand was also swept to the ground in the chaos.
Jiang Chuyi was anxious and afraid, shouting in vain: "Don't squeeze him! Don't squeeze him! And don't step on my little fan!"
The two people squeezed into the corner gradually couldn't breathe, and the feeling of suffocation became stronger and stronger. Zongye was still struggling to hold on, trying to leave a little space for her.
Jiang Chuyi watched his face getting paler and paler, anxious and collapsed, and frantically confirmed: "Are you okay? Zongye? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Zongye?"
"I'm fine." Zongye shook his head lightly, his ears buzzing, and he managed to utter a word of comfort to her, "Hold on a little longer, someone will be here soon."
When the program crew arrived, the crowd was finally evacuated.
Jiang Chuyi and Zong Ye were helped to sit on chairs.
The accompanying doctor immediately examined them and found that Wan Xingzong had only a few superficial injuries. Several staff members kept apologizing, saying that it was a work error and promised that similar situations would not happen again in the future.
Zongye used a cotton swab to disinfect the wound and said casually, "It's okay."
Jiang Chuyi whispered to Chaozong and apologized, blaming herself: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I took too long."
Zongye paused while applying the medicine, turned his head slightly, and said to her, "My problem has nothing to do with you."
He even smiled at her.
"No, it's my fault for not being a good captain." Jiang Chuyi felt very uncomfortable when he saw him laughing, and said incoherently, "It's because I delayed for too long. It took so long that you were discovered. If I had been smarter and completed the mission earlier, nothing would have happened."
Zongye put down the medicine bottle in his hand and asked, "Why are you crying?"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cry."
While apologizing, Jiang Chuyi's tears fell faster and faster.
The emotions seemed to have suddenly found an outlet. Jiang Chuyi's vision blurred and he kept repeating "I'm sorry".
A bunch of people looked at each other in shock. She herself felt very embarrassed and immediately turned her back and wiped her tears with her hands.
Zong Ye immediately stood up, walked to Jiang Chuyi and squatted down.
His eyes stayed on her face. He wanted to raise his hand to wipe her tears, but had to restrain himself.
He whispered, "It's okay, Chuyi, don't be afraid."
"I... am not afraid." Jiang Chuyi's eyes were blurred with tears, "I just feel a little sorry for you..."
Zong Ye was quiet.
She realized that there were people all around her, and tried hard to control her tears as she added, "I'm sorry that the little fan you gave me got stepped on and broken."
(End of this chapter)