Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show

By the time diners started getting hungry in the late afternoon, Lin Cheng had already completed the previous ‘single’ orders, and began to deliver gas to the merchants along the food streets that Lin Momo had specially marked.

The gas tanks that these merchants required were the small kind, and Lin Cheng’s tricycle could pull more than 20 of such cans at a time. Completing one shop’s order was already equivalent to a dozen or more cans delivered.

The efficiency of the two improved a lot all at once.

After completing another order of 16 cans of gas, Lin Cheng came out of the hot pot restaurant.

Before, when Lin Cheng finished delivering the LPG to the stores, Lin Momo would get off the tricycle and say ‘thank you’ to the boss.

But at this time, Lin Momo was not beside the tricycle.

Lin Cheng’s chest tightened when he didn’t see the girl, and his heart started pounding hard.

Lin Cheng looked around, head turning quickly this way and that, only to discover that Lin Momo was standing by the door of a fried skewer shop not far away, chasing the boss for ‘sales’.

“Uncle, if you ask us for gas, we will deliver it to you immediately, no need to wait.” 

“And if you submit an order on the mobile phone app, you can avail of the promo: 1 can free for every 30 orders.” 

But the boss chased her away. Undaunted, Lin Momo immediately ran to the owner of the next shop.

“Uncle, do you want to replace the gas tank in your shop?”

… …

From across the road, seeing the girl working so hard, Lin Cheng felt as if something was being etched in his heart, and he had an indescribable feeling. The exhaustion of carrying dozens of cans of gas was also swept away at this moment.

“Lin Momo,” Lin Cheng called out. “Let’s go.”

“Okay!”

Lin Momo trotted over and handed the work phone to Lin Cheng excitedly.

“Dad, I received another order for 8 cans of gas, and it’s at the restaurant over there.” Lin Momo pointed to a snack bar not far away. Probably because she’s been talking too much, trying to drum up sales, her voice was now a little hoarse.

“Well, let’s go and deliver gas.”

“Okay!”

… …

Although the distance the two needed to travel was much less after planning out an efficient route, it was still not an easy task to deliver one or two hundred cans of gas in a single day.

It was almost midnight by the time Lin Cheng sent the tricycle back to the delivery station and brought Lin Momo back to their residence.

Since this was the last day of filming for this episode, when Lin Cheng and Lin Momo returned to the residential area, the team director1 and several assistant directors were already waiting for them downstairs.

“Welcome back!” 

In front of the camera, the team’s director recited the prescribed lines to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. “You got the family background of [liquefied petroleum gas delivery man] for this episode. Today, your one-week family life experience is finally over.”

Then, the director smiled, looked at the two and asked, “How was it? How do you feel about this week’s life?”

Lin Cheng looked at the director and said one word, fraught with meaning, “Wonderful.”

Hearing the word ‘wonderful’—people couldn’t help but think too much.

With Lin Cheng’s answer, and remembering the ‘dire situation’ this father and daughter team went through this week, the smile on the director’s face wobbled, and she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

This was all the fault of the program group, and she won’t bear it!

In order to add some juicy material to promote the show, the program group has decided to set a ‘special’ family background among the five teams for this first episode.

Of course, the other four teams could not accept such a family condition. In the end, this ‘special’ option naturally fell on Lin Cheng’s father and daughter team.

The director laughed to hide her embarrassment and picked the next question from the script. “If there is such an opportunity, do you still want to experience this kind of life for another week?” 

“No.” Lin Cheng simply spit out the word.

… …

If this was in other normal times, the star would definitely be scolded by the audience for such a shameless answer: low EQ, non-cooperative, arrogant, relying on his big name.

However, the people who had followed the livestream for a week and watched Lin Cheng and Lin Momo’s miserable lives throughout could fully understand and empathize with Lin Cheng’s answer at this time.

[Haha, Lin Cheng is too straightforward.]

[Lin Cheng spitting out the truth.]

[If it was me, I wouldn’t want to either.]

[Second. ]

…

Upon hearing this unexpected answer, the team’s director was stunned, but she quickly changed the subject, using her years of experience dealing with live camera work.

“I think Momo has been helping Dad with work this week, are you tired?”

“A little bit,” Lin Momo said truthfully.

The director smiled and said, “Then, let’s take stock of the tasks you completed this week, shall we? According to the family background you drew, you need to save 600 yuan to pay off the ‘foreign debt’ this week…”

“Yeah,” Lin Momo nodded. She walked over and handed a wad of bills and some change to the director.

When she returned to Lin Cheng’s side, Lin Momo didn’t notice the obvious stiffness and surprise on the director’s face when she received the money.

“Is this all the money you saved this week?” the director asked.

Lin Momo nodded. 

The director asked again, “How much is it?”

“A total of 612 yuan and 5 jiao.” Lin Momo replied.

The director couldn’t believe it. She spread the money in her hand and counted it herself.

It was indeed 612 yuan and 5 jiao. Without question.

The director and assistant director at the scene looked at each other, and they both saw disbelief in each other’s eyes.

Originally, they did not believe, or even thought it was possible, that Lin Cheng father and daughter team would be able to complete the task on the very last day. A script outlining the punishment was even prepared.

Unexpectedly, the other party actually completed the task.

… … 

The barrage in the stream channel was also very lively at this time.

[This dad and baby team actually completed the task? !]

[I thought they couldn’t finish it.]

Although the other four groups also have tasks, they are different from Lin Cheng and his group.

Bai Yulin’s task was only to pay 800 yuan for water, electricity, gas and Internet access, and his salary as a dance teacher was not low, so the task was easily completed.2

The task of the actor Gao Yuankai’s family was to purchase a TV set for the new home this month, which costs 4,000 yuan, which was 1,000 yuan a week, and the monthly professional income he has drawn was 20,000 yuan, so it was not difficult to complete the task.

Although the rich father’s family had to complete the task of 3,000 yuan in total including the housing loan, car loan and other expenses, but his professional salary income was high enough, plus there was a commission, he completed the task easily.

Duan Bei’s task was to pay 300 yuan for one week’s temporary residence, which was also not difficult.

Only Lin Cheng’s group had serious low-income issues and outside debts due to a ‘previous accident’. If they were not careful and didn’t work hard, they would not be able to complete the task.

Footnotes

This is not the evil Lord Palpatine chief director who makes the decisions in the background. It’s the lady team director who interviewed Lin Momo before and was made to ask that ‘special’ question back in Chapter 5.2.I think this 800 yuan is also a monthly fee so this team only needed to pay 200 yuan. The text wasn’t clear, but 800 yuan for a week seems too expensive just for utilities, as per 2020 cost of living.