Chapter 241: Falling into the Water

The cameraman was puzzled: you two ran out in the middle of the night just to hold a reflection and summary meeting?

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang strolled around, but in the end, they didn't discuss a single word related to the conflict between Li Zhibai and Meng Li.

Li Zhenzhen sat in the workroom, watching them the whole time, listening to their conversation, feeling somewhat helpless.

"The two of them really don't have any trust in me at all," Li Zhenzhen said helplessly to Chen Biqiu.

"Trust between director and actor isn't built by saying a few words; there's a lot of learning involved, don't be anxious," Chen Biqiu said to Li Zhenzhen. "It's lucky that the storm between Meng Li and Li Zhibai today could be tied up smoothly. Chen Ziyan was able to pull in the sponsorship from Study Friend APP in time; otherwise, we would still have to haggle with Meng Li."

Li Zhenzhen asked: "Brother Qiu, if Chen Ziyan hadn't pulled in the sponsorship from Study Friend APP, would you have agreed to Meng Li's request to let Lu Yan He leave?"

"How could that be? If such a request could be agreed to, how could this show be recorded? It might as well become her one-man show," Chen Biqiu denied with a very clear attitude.

Li Zhenzhen looked at Chen Biqiu's attitude, but didn't dare to truly believe that Chen Biqiu would do so.

Preparing for the *Young Days* program made Li Zhenzhen truly feel the pressure as a director. When she was an assistant director before, there was pressure, but it wouldn't be pressed onto her head; most of the time, it was pressure from specific affairs. During this period, however, the pressure came from all directions and was everywhere.

Chen Biqiu's image in Li Zhenzhen's heart also underwent a huge transformation.

If it were before, Li Zhenzhen would have believed what Chen Biqiu said without hesitation, but now she wouldn't.

Before, Li Zhenzhen would only make one judgment: whether this person was a truth-teller or a liar.

Now Li Zhenzhen increasingly realized that whether a person tells the truth or a lie doesn't depend on the person speaking, but on who the words are meant for.

Whether Chen Biqiu would truly insist on principles and bottom lines as he said, or whether he said such things out of a desire for her to believe he was a person who would insist on principles and bottom lines, the current Li Zhenzhen could not make a judgment.

Lu Yan He took a shower, opened his laptop, and began to handle matters for *Jump Up*.

With Jiang Yuqian handing in her manuscript, all the manuscripts had been collected.

Chen Siqi pulled Yilong to design the sample draft of the entire book and sent the electronic version to Lu Yan He's mailbox, asking him to look through it within these two days without fail.

After Lu Yan He downloaded the electronic version, he made himself a cup of coffee.

In the program team's workroom, Chen Mo, who was watching the monitor, saw this and was somewhat surprised, asking: "Making coffee for yourself so late? And instant coffee? Not sleeping anymore?"

Li Zhenzhen heard Chen Mo's words, walked over, and asked: "What's wrong?"

"Lu Yan He just made himself a cup of coffee and opened his laptop. He isn't planning to do a livestream at this time, is he?"

"Probably not," Li Zhenzhen knew Lu Yan He somewhat; she knew Lu Yan He wasn't the type of person who was so diligent that he wouldn't waste a single second. Besides, livestreaming wasn't Lu Yan He's job to begin with. Up until now, the livestream room was just a channel for Lu Yan He to keep in touch and communicate with fans. Lu Yan He shouldn't be livestreaming while recording the show.

Li Zhenzhen watched carefully for a while and said: "He's looking at something, right? A script?"

She asked someone to zoom in on the screen of Lu Yan He's laptop, seeing the dense text on it.

"What is this?" The others all felt strange.

Li Zhenzhen suddenly realized: "This should be that magazine he's making, right?"

"Ah?"

"It should be," Li Zhenzhen said. "You guys don't need to stay here tonight, all go rest. The camera in his room is on twenty-four hours a day, you don't need to watch it. They will probably go out tomorrow."

Once they went out, all groups of personnel would have to follow them out.

Chen Mo, however, didn't rush to get up and leave, but said thoughtfully: "Director, I watched Lu Yan He for a day today, and I feel he is just a very ordinary person, without any distinct personality traits. Apart from the label of being a top student, I don't feel there's anything more special. Why did you want him to participate in this show?"

Li Zhenzhen had always emphasized that the most important thing in a reality show is the people.

If the people are right, it will look good no matter how you film it. If the people are wrong, no amount of effort will be in vain.

Chen Mo couldn't see the point in Lu Yan He that was suitable for this reality show, hence this question.

Li Zhenzhen said: "At first it was for the gimmick, but later it was for the three of them—Li Zhibai, Yan Liang, and Lu Yan He. I decided on them together. To be honest, Lu Yan He alone is indeed not very suitable for variety shows. He and Yan Liang both have this problem; they aren't very relaxed. But haven't you noticed? Whenever Li Zhibai is present, the atmosphere of the three of them becomes very vivid."

"Doesn't this show that Li Zhibai is the most important person? He is indeed very suitable for recording shows."

"No, at first I thought so too, but later I discovered that Lu Yan He and Yan Liang are interesting; they have their own points, they just need to be stimulated, need to be familiar," Li Zhenzhen said. "The audience needs to build a sense of familiarity with them, and they also need to build a sense of familiarity with our program team and the cameras. Li Zhibai records shows often, is experienced, and his personality is relaxed, not reserved, so he looks good no matter what. Lu Yan He's personality is relatively cautious and introverted; most of the time the material is not interesting, but there are a few segments where, without him, you wouldn't see Li Zhibai's true self, nor would you feel the friendship between true friends."

Chen Mo fell into silence.

"Besides, don't underestimate Lu Yan He. A person who could turn his life around through his own hard work during his senior year of high school, an artist who was handpicked by Luo Yuzhong and Jiang Yuqian to act when he was so washed up he was practically invisible—he must have his own merits; it's just that we haven't found them yet." Li Zhenzhen patted Chen Mo's shoulder. "No need to rush, they'll be there."

Lu Yan He read the entire book carefully from beginning to end, marked every place he felt could be further revised, saved it, and sent it to Chen Siqi's mailbox. When he looked up, he found his neck was sore.

He checked the time; it was already one in the morning.

He yawned.

It was indeed too tiring.

He went to wash his face, prepared to sleep, and checked his phone before sleeping to see if there were any messages he hadn't replied to.

Upon checking, he found that in their *Young Days* group chat, Song Lin Xin and Xiao Yun were still chatting.

Song Lin Xin: I don't dare to sleep anymore. As soon as I close my eyes, in my mind, one moment it's a coffin, the next it's a woman locked by chains.

Xiao Yun: Me too.

Song Lin Xin: How about I come find you? Shall we sleep together tonight?

Xiao Yun: Okay, okay.

Song Lin Xin: I'm coming over!

Lu Yan He smiled and said in the group chat: Is it that scary?

Song Lin Xin: Why aren't you asleep yet either?

Lu Yan He: I had other things to busy myself with just now.

Song Lin Xin: What time is it now.

Qin Zhibai: So, after all this time, you guys aren't asleep at this hour?

Lu Yan He was startled and asked in surprise: Why aren't you asleep so late either?

Qin Zhibai said: I sleep late; if I'm made to sleep so early, I can't fall asleep.

Lu Yan He: A night owl, huh.

Qin Zhibai sent a "night owl" picture.

Chatting online, Qin Zhibai was much more active than talking face-to-face.

Xiao Yun said: We are all not asleep so late, can we gather on time at eight tomorrow morning?

Qin Zhibai: Feels unlikely.

Lu Yan He: Let's struggle to crawl up.

Song Lin Xin: How about we postpone the gathering time?

Lu Yan He: This isn't up to us; everyone has agreed on a time.

Song Lin Xin: That's true.

Lu Yan He: Sleep, sleep.

For people to get familiar with each other, if there is no special reason, it is often a path of growing affection over time.

Li Zhenzhen brought a group of young people into a show, wanting to make them good friends in just over ten days—this idea itself was not very reliable.

Li Zhenzhen also never thought she could really do it, unless it was acted.

Therefore, Li Zhenzhen never intended to make this show a show about friendship from the beginning.

At least she didn't have this intention at the beginning.

What Li Zhenzhen wanted to film was still the process of people going from strangers to familiar to close.

People always have some acting in front of the camera; let alone the camera, even in front of people, there will always be some acting. No one can truly be themselves wholeheartedly.

Being able to have some true meaning is already an extraordinary thing.

Lu Yan He, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang are true friends, and true friends with an emotional foundation.

Li Zhenzhen followed them for a few days and was moved by the way they got along, very much hoping to put it into the show for broadcast.

But if other people could become friends, Li Zhenzhen would of course be happy to see it happen.

Li Zhenzhen only slept for four hours that night and woke up early in the morning.

She didn't put on makeup, put on a hat, and went straight to the workroom.

There were only three or four people awake in the workroom; others had directly pulled out folding beds to sleep.

Someone saw Li Zhenzhen coming and hurriedly prepared to greet her.

Li Zhenzhen made a gesture of silence, signaling them not to make a sound, not to disturb everyone's rest.

She sat down in her seat and asked the person next to her who had been watching: "Did anything happen last night?"

This person watching was none other than the assistant director, Zheng Hesong.

"Hehe, you don't know how exciting it was."

Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

Zheng Hesong pulled up a video and said: "See for yourself."

The time displayed was 3:00 AM.

Li Zhibai went to the bathroom at night, but for some reason, perhaps because he was too sleepy, he didn't find his own room when he came back and walked straight into Qin Zhibai's room next door.

He lay down on Qin Zhibai's bed, pulled the blanket off Qin Zhibai, and covered himself with it, not realizing at all that there was someone next to him.

Then, Qin Zhibai woke up with a start.

Under the night-vision camera, Qin Zhibai's expression was also very clear in the darkness.

His whole body was stiff, not daring to move, his eyes carefully glancing to the side.

That expression, Li Zhenzhen could feel it as soon as she saw it: Qin Zhibai was probably scared.

"Who is it?" Qin Zhibai asked in a low voice.

Li Zhibai was already muddled and sleepy, and suddenly hearing someone ask "Who is it?" next to him, subconsciously replied "Your dad."

Subsequently, he himself was also startled.

Who?

He sat up with a start.

Qin Zhibai suddenly seemed to have received a huge fright, letting out a loud roar: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh—"

He actually rolled directly under the bed, "Ghost, help—"

This shout almost blew Li Zhibai's skull off.

At the same time, several other rooms had reactions.

Seeing this, Li Zhenzhen realized that Zheng Hesong had actually edited the cameras from other rooms together.

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang turned on the lights almost simultaneously, looking blank and puzzled.

Peng Zhixing got out of bed at the first opportunity, opened the door, and shouted: "What's wrong?"

The girls upstairs.

Song Lin Xin and Xiao Yun woke up at the same time, subconsciously hugging each other, their faces full of fear.

"What is it?"

"I just heard a scream?"

"Ghost?"

"Don't scare me."

The two little girls were trembling while speaking, while fearfully searching the surroundings.

Among everyone, only Meng Li, because she was sleeping with earplugs, heard nothing and had no reaction.

Then, five minutes later, except for Meng Li, everyone gathered in Qin Zhibai's room.

In the middle of the night, everyone looked sleepy, as if they hadn't woken up.

Qin Zhibai regained his soul and turned back into his usual expressionless self.

Hearing the two of them explain the cause and effect, knowing it was just a storm caused by Li Zhibai going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and returning to the wrong room, a group of people didn't know what to say.

Peng Zhixing sighed helplessly.

"Alright, everyone go back to sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow."

"How about we don't get up early," Song Lin Xin suggested weakly.

Li Zhibai: "Seconded."

Lu Yan He also yawned.

Peng Zhixing saw everyone like this and nodded, "Then let's gather at ten."

"Yay!" Song Lin Xin happily made a V-sign.

Xiao Yun also smiled happily.

Yan Liang yawned and looked at the silent Qin Zhibai, really not expecting that this cold, aloof teenager was actually such a coward.

That roar that seemed to tear the sky apart still echoed in his ears.

Now looking at him again, ha, he had turned back into that expressionless, cold, aloof teenager.

Yan Liang was just thinking about it, but Li Zhibai directly complained: "Xiaobai, you're such a coward?"

Qin Zhibai's eyes were full of resentment, seeming to want to say something, but in the end, he didn't say it.

Xiao Yun said: "You're still talking, if you hadn't gone to the wrong room, Xiaobai wouldn't have been scared like this."

"I wasn't scared," Qin Zhibai said.

The others looked at him silently.

Qin Zhibai emphasized: "Really, I was just having a stress reaction, wanting to scare that ghost away."

Now even Peng Zhixing couldn't help the smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Go, go, go to sleep."

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Qin Zhibai's mouth moved, seeming to want to explain himself again, but the others had no intention of listening, so he could only give up resentfully.

Li Zhenzhen watched this video, looking at Zheng Hesong in disbelief.

Zheng Hesong spread his hands, smiled, and said: "Didn't expect it, right?"

"I really didn't expect Qin Zhibai to be scared so badly; the contrast is quite big."

Zheng Hesong said: "This segment is interesting, much more interesting than them playing games all night."

Li Zhenzhen said: "Nothing else happened later, right?"

"No," Zheng Hesong shook his head.

Li Zhenzhen said: "You go rest, I'll watch here."

Zheng Hesong yawned, picked up the remaining half of his coffee, and said: "I'll eat breakfast before sleeping, when will breakfast be delivered?"

He turned back to ask someone else.

"Already went to buy it, on the way."

After watching the video edited by Zheng Hesong, Li Zhenzhen finally felt a bit more at ease.

Last night, Li Zhenzhen finally saw something real and soulful from these few people.

This kind of immediate reaction is the least fake.

Zheng Hesong was happy because he filmed an interesting piece of material, but Li Zhenzhen was happy because she saw these young people finally stop "talking and acting" for the sake of the "reality show."

Lu Yan He woke up at 7:30.

Although he slept late and was startled awake in the middle of the night, his biological clock woke him up at this time.

After washing up, Lu Yan He looked out the window.

The weather today was very good, sunny, another bright and sunny day.

There was an unread message on his phone, from Chen Shiqiu, the counselor he had just added yesterday.

Chen Shiqiu sent him an invitation to join a group chat.

The group chat was for the freshmen of their grade.

Lu Yan He replied "Okay" and joined the group chat.

Chen Shiqiu said quite surprisingly: You woke up very early.

Lu Yan He: Chen Laoshi woke up even earlier.

Chen Shiqiu: I have to check the dorms in the morning.

Lu Yan He was somewhat surprised: Ah, do universities still check dorms?

Chen Shiqiu asked again: When do you plan to come to report?

Lu Yan He said: September 2nd.

Chen Shiqiu: Hmm, good, waiting for you to come.

Lu Yan He: Thank you, Chen Laoshi.

Lu Yan He read for a while and went downstairs at 8:30. The first floor was still empty, without anyone.

There was no movement in the group either.

The gathering time was ten o'clock; everyone was probably still sleeping.

Lu Yan He prepared to make himself breakfast.

He was a bit hungry.

The ingredients in the refrigerator were quite rich, almost everything was there.

Lu Yan He was too lazy to fuss, so he prepared to cook himself a bowl of noodles, turned on the fire to boil water, took out the noodles, and fried an egg in another pot.

Meng Li came down at this time.

Lu Yan He heard footsteps and turned back to look.

Meng Li saw him and took the initiative to greet him: "Morning."

"Morning." Lu Yan He realized his smile was a bit stiff, so he immediately added with a smile, "Sister Meng Li, you woke up so early?"

"Wasn't it said to gather at eight? I woke up at seven, and then I saw that the gathering time was changed to ten."

"Everyone was startled awake last night."

"Hmm?" Meng Li was the only one who wasn't startled awake and didn't know what had happened. "What do you mean?"

Lu Yan He simply explained what happened last night.

Meng Li: "I sleep with earplugs, I didn't hear any movement at all."

Lu Yan He: "Do you sleep very lightly?"

"Hmm, I have to wear earplugs when I sleep, otherwise I can't sleep soundly," Meng Li explained.

Lu Yan He saw the water boiling and asked: "Sister Meng Li, have you eaten breakfast? I'm preparing to cook some noodles, do you want to eat some too?"

"Thank you, I don't want any, I don't dare to eat carbohydrates," Meng Li waved her hand, walked to the refrigerator, opened it, and looked. "I'll eat an apple."

Lu Yan He was very surprised and said: "Is one apple enough?"

"It's not enough, but there's no way, I can only eat like this," Meng Li said. "I have to join a crew later, I can't get fat."

"Alright." Upon hearing that she was joining a crew, Lu Yan He didn't speak anymore.

"Will you join a crew later?"

"Yes."

Meng Li asked: "Which crew?"

"It hasn't been made public yet," Lu Yan He said.

Before the crew officially announced it, Lu Yan He didn't want to announce this himself.

Chen Ziyan had said that before the official start of filming, everything had variables.

If he said it now, and it turned out not to be him later, how awkward would that be.

Besides, Chen Lingling had also said that he couldn't talk about acting in *Phoenix Terrace* externally in the early stages.

Meng Li saw him not saying anything, pouted, didn't pursue the question, but instead, as if suddenly remembering something, said: "Do you like acting?"

"Like, very much."

"You've only acted in one play and you have such a feeling?"

"Hmm," Lu Yan He nodded. "I was very lucky; filming the first play made me like acting."

Meng Li's expression was somewhat surprised and somewhat complex at this moment.

Lu Yan He felt that she seemed to have something she wanted to say, but, of course, Meng Li didn't say anything in the end.

Lu Yan He put the noodles into the pot to cook, seasoned a bowl, and his movements were very skillful.

Meng Li saw this and asked: "Do you often cook for yourself?"

"Cooking is rare, cooking noodles is more frequent," Lu Yan He said. "This is the most convenient."

"Isn't ordering takeout more convenient?"

"I don't have much money, cooking for myself is more money-saving," Lu Yan He frankly admitted.

Meng Li once again showed an expression of doubt and surprise.

"You've debuted for several years, don't you even have the money to order takeout?" Meng Li subconsciously thought Lu Yan He was saying this to act pitiful in front of the camera and questioned him.

Lu Yan He heard her questioning intent.

He smiled helplessly and said: "Before June of this year, I had almost no work."

Lu Yan He didn't want to sell misery, but, after careful consideration, he thought it was right to tell the truth about everything he had experienced.

He had an uncle who didn't know when he would jump out to accuse him.

He also had one or several enemies who didn't know who they were.

Letting others think his past was happy and beautiful was lying, and it was of no benefit to him at all.

Lu Yan He knew his personality flaw was being too serious—he couldn't act as recklessly as Li Zhibai.

Then, let everyone clearly know his past.

The weak are always easier to get the audience's sympathy than the strong.

The strong are always easier to get the audience's worship than the weak.

Lu Yan He was only nineteen now, and he was more likely to get the former.

Chen Ziyan had said that as an artist, you can be aloof, but don't be aloof in front of the audience.

Everything about you is decided by the audience.

At that time, they had discussed that if there was a suitable opportunity, Lu Yan He might as well talk about his past.

"I really wasn't popular at the time, and the fans I gained when participating in competitions also gradually left," Lu Yan He said. "I don't know if you've seen the videos of me participating in competitions and later participating in some shows. At that time, I belonged to the type who didn't dare to say a word."

Meng Li: "Before coming, I did see some. Were you quite inferior at that time?"

"A bit, maybe," Lu Yan He nodded. "But my appearance at that time wasn't caused by inferiority, but because many times I couldn't understand what you were talking about, couldn't integrate, so I could only stay by myself."

Meng Li saw Lu Yan He clip the cooked noodles into the bowl, mix them evenly, and sit down at the dining table.

She sat on a chair next to him and asked: "Then how did you change? You are indeed very different from before."

"If I don't change, there's only a dead end," a glimmer of light rose in Lu Yan He's eyes. "It had already reached that point, so I could only force myself to change."

Meng Li looked at Lu Yan He thoughtfully.

Chen Mo had a prejudice against Lu Yan He.

If asked why Chen Mo entered this line of work and became a variety show PD, Chen Mo would say it was because she liked watching these shows since she was a child.

This was not a lie, but it wasn't true enough.

The truest reason was because Chen Mo's grades were very poor, and she dropped out of school without even finishing high school.

Such an education could not support her in finding a decent job.

She had worked in many places, but none lasted long, until she entered Chen Biqiu's team.

Making shows didn't require an education, only that you could sacrifice your own life and devote yourself wholeheartedly. No day or night, completely inverted.

When Chen Mo knew she was going to be Lu Yan He's PD, she was actually quite disgusted. She didn't like Lu Yan He because he was too positive. Chen Mo didn't like this kind of artist—diligent, positive, upward, liked by mainstream values.

In Chen Mo's heart, this kind of artist had no human flavor.

Chen Mo liked artists with attitude and self.

Even if it was Meng Li.

Meng Li was selfish, acted crazy and stupid, had a bunch of shortcomings, but she was dramatic enough and would never shape herself into a perfect goddess image.

This was what Chen Mo found most disgusting.

Following Lu Yan He, watching his footage from yesterday to today, Chen Mo's heart was full of rejection.

Until Lu Yan He said that sentence: "If I don't change, there's only a dead end."

The cameraman in her group, He Zhong, was sitting next to her, holding a bowl of instant noodles and eating it "slurp, slurp."

He Zhong was also wearing headphones and heard the sentence Lu Yan He said.

He Zhong curled his lips and said: "These eighteen or nineteen-year-old kids really dare to say anything; they've only just started and they're already at a dead end."

Chen Mo looked at him and didn't speak.

If Chen Mo didn't like Lu Yan He because of her own growth experience, He Zhong simply couldn't stand these artists.

He was disgusted with all artists.

Many people have a misconception that people who work in this line of work like this line of work.

In reality, it is not so.

Everyone is just here to make a living, just to make money. Many times, it's not about liking or not liking; they don't have the capital to choose their work based on their own preferences.

Probably because too many unexpected things happened on the first day of filming, from the program team to the artists, everyone held a mindset of "something might happen at any time" for the subsequent filming. However, nothing happened, and the subsequent recording suddenly became very normal.

Meng Li didn't go crazy again, and Li Zhibai also controlled his temper and didn't clash with Meng Li again.

Everyone went to the supermarket together, ate and drank, played games in the "Young People's House," and chatted.

Peng Zhixing acted as a go-between, and there were many topics discussed.

Lu Yan He didn't expect that chatting would become the main content in this show.

Because there were no main tasks that general shows have, and no burden, everyone in the Young People's House specifically found things to do, played all kinds of games, and then chatting between games became the main content of this show.

The information density was very high.

Living together like this, it was hard not to get familiar with each other as soon as possible.

However, such getting along was also easy to fall into a kind of fatigue, because it was always the same few people; what should be said, what could be said, after two or three days, would dry up.

Shows need information volume; you can't have a group of people doing their own things, nor can you always do repetitive things.

The first recording was for five days. By the third day, everyone already had nothing to do.

Without main tasks, everyone stayed in this house every day, and it would indeed feel boring.

By the morning of the fourth day, everyone sat together, but there was really nothing to do, and in the end, everyone held their phones and did their own things.

Until this moment, Li Zhenzhen finally appeared again.

For the first few days of recording, Li Zhenzhen basically hadn't appeared. According to her requirements, the program team's staff should disappear from these artists' world as much as possible, letting them rely only on themselves.

Li Zhenzhen said: "For the first few days, everyone got familiar with each other. Everyone might be very puzzled that we haven't given everyone any tasks or scripts, not knowing what to do in the show. Actually, we have also been focusing on the concept of handing all the initiative to the guests; we only do the filming."

Li Zhibai said: "But now everyone is quite bored, and there's nothing to do, every day is just eating, drinking, and playing games."

Li Zhenzhen nodded and said: "Yes, so, from now on, our director team has decided to change our thinking."

"Hmm?" The others were stunned.

Li Zhenzhen said: "Starting today, we will assign tasks to everyone, and everyone needs to earn living expenses by completing tasks."

A group of people were stunned, looking at Li Zhenzhen in astonishment one after another.

Li Zhenzhen said: "We didn't want to do this originally, but now it seems that if we don't do this, we won't be able to film usable material later."

Li Zhenzhen's words made the artists look at each other.

Once Li Zhenzhen left, Peng Zhixing spread his hands helplessly and said: "It seems our boredom has also been discovered by them."

Lu Yan He had never recorded a reality show before, and he didn't know what the recording scene of a reality show was really like. Without comparison, he thought reality shows were just like this.

Li Zhibai, however, was not surprised at all.

"If they don't adjust their filming strategy, this show will have no content to film."

Obviously, Li Zhibai had long felt that the current recording had problems.

Half an hour later, they would gather on the first floor again, and Li Zhenzhen would announce the tasks assigned to them by the program team.

The director team reminded them to change into a set of clothes convenient for working outside.

This reminder surprised everyone.

Working? What kind of work?

Although puzzled, everyone still obediently went to change clothes.

Actually, the boys had nothing to change; they were originally wearing shorts and short sleeves, wearing a pair of sneakers, and could do anything.

But Lu Yan He happened to need to receive an email.

Xin Zixing sent him a message saying she had sent him an email about the recording plan for the next issue of *City Travel Notes*.

Lu Yan He opened his laptop, downloaded the email attachment, but it showed the network signal was weak, and it wouldn't download for a long time.

Lu Yan He could only let it download there first.

Half an hour later, this email attachment still hadn't downloaded.

Lu Yan He could only give up and go downstairs to gather with everyone first.

Almost everyone had changed into shorts and sneakers; only Meng Li insisted on wearing an exquisite short skirt and high heels.

"Meng Li, are you really okay like this?" Peng Zhixing asked. "Didn't the director team just say? Let us change into clothes suitable for working."

Meng Li shook her head directly and said: "I won't work, I'm not here to work, I'm here to be responsible for being beautiful."

A few words left everyone not knowing what to say.

Li Zhenzhen came out, saw Meng Li's attire, and was obviously stunned for a moment, looking somewhat unexpected.

Li Zhenzhen asked: "You're just wearing this?"

Meng Li: "I'm just wearing this, what's wrong?"

Li Zhenzhen shook her head and didn't say much; anyway, she had reminded her.

"The task assigned to you today is to go fishing," Li Zhenzhen said. "There is a reservoir nearby, and we have arranged for people to teach you how to fish. You need to rely on yourselves to catch twenty fish to exchange for tomorrow's living expenses."

Lu Yan He asked: "What if we don't catch twenty fish?"

"Then everyone will only have steamed buns to eat tomorrow," Li Zhenzhen said.

Lu Yan He: "..."

That's still living, then.

"That's fine," Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought you wouldn't give us anything to eat."

Yan Liang nodded and said: "Steamed buns sound pretty good, it's only for one day, and tomorrow our first recording will end, so we don't have to eat for too long."

"Sounds like it, even if it's not delicious, we only have to endure it for one day," Song Lin Xin said.

The artists' reactions were completely beyond Li Zhenzhen's expectations.

In Li Zhenzhen's expectation, how could these artists endure only eating steamed buns.

As a result, they all said they could endure it?

Li Zhenzhen smiled helplessly.

Peng Zhixing said: "We will still try our best to complete the task and try to eat a bit better; I don't want to only eat steamed buns."

"I don't want to eat steamed buns either." Fortunately, Xiao Yun raised her hand pitifully, "Everyone, let's work hard and catch twenty fish."

A group of people, under the arrangement of the program team, left the Young People's House and headed to the nearby reservoir.

Their cameramen also hurriedly followed.

Chen Mo didn't follow.

She said to Zheng Hesong: "I'm going to change the batteries and memory cards for the cameras in Lu Yan He's room. He Zhong just said that the batteries for those cameras in Lu Yan He's room are only enough until 9:00 PM tonight."

Zheng Hesong nodded.

Chen Mo took the tool bag and went up.

Fishing at the reservoir, Lu Yan He didn't know what was good to film.

However, Meng Li created the biggest joke.

While everyone was learning fishing techniques from the master brought by the program team, she was the only one posing for photos by the reservoir.

She said righteously: "If you ask me to fish, I definitely won't be able to catch any, you guys fish."

Regarding her attitude, everyone felt it didn't matter; as long as she didn't go crazy like the first day, she could do whatever she wanted.

A group of people sat by the reservoir fishing, the sun was shining brightly, the temperature was high, and Lu Yan He only felt the sweat rolling down his body.

Just at this moment, his phone suddenly rang.

Lu Yan He answered the phone immediately.

"Hello, Sister Zixing, the email you just sent me, the network here is quite poor, the attachment hasn't downloaded," Lu Yan He said. "I haven't seen it yet."

Xin Zixing said: "It's okay, that's not urgent. I want to tell you that the Jiangzhi episode is ready to be launched."

Lu Yan He was very surprised and asked: "Is the post-production so fast?"

"Hmm, we want to catch up before the summer vacation ends and launch it quickly," Xin Zixing said.

Her idea was actually to attract a batch of tourists to Jiangzhi through this film.

For the documentary *City Travel Notes* to produce something, reputation is one thing, and being able to bring real money feedback to the city is another.

The reason why the Langhua episode was successful was because it made many people have great interest in the city of Langhua, and various search data soared.

Whether *City Travel Notes* is a flash in the pan or can be done truly and long-term, the Jiangzhi episode is critical.

"At that time, I still need to ask you to forward and promote it. In addition, we want to cooperate with your livestream room to do a livestream promotion program, is that okay?" Xin Zixing said. "Jiangzhi Culture and Tourism has some agricultural assistance projects that want to be combined with this program launch to do an activity."

Lu Yan He heard this and said: "That's fine, but I have never done this kind of activity."

Xin Zixing said: "If you're okay with it, I'll find a team to do it, and I'll contact your livestream platform."

"Okay."

Xin Zixing: "Yan He, thank you. This show has always been troubling you."

"Sister Zixing, let's not be so polite. I also like this show very much, let's work together to make it long-term."

After hanging up the phone, Li Zhibai on the side asked him: "Xin Zixing called you?"

"Hmm, the second episode of *City Travel Notes* is about to be broadcast," Lu Yan He said.

Li Zhibai: "Do you plan to keep doing this show?"

"Plan to," Lu Yan He nodded. "Told you, I like this show very much."

Li Zhibai asked: "Then what about *Young Days*? You've recorded this show for a few days, how do you feel?"

Lu Yan He pondered for a moment and said: "Not too much feeling yet."

"Is it the same as you imagined?"

"Not quite the same," Lu Yan He said. "The show I imagined was like a group of people going out for an outing, being able to meet many new friends, but after coming here, it's basically still with you and Yan Liang, no different from usual."

"Hmm, because everyone acts as a group," Li Zhibai said. "Recording for these few days, it really isn't very interesting."

Lu Yan He: "However, I feel there is actually another very important reason."

"What reason?"

"You and Meng Li caused such a big thing on the first day. Although you two reconciled inexplicably later, we still feel a bit awkward, not knowing how to face you two. As long as you two are present at the same time, we will consider your feelings," Lu Yan He sighed and said. "At least I am like this, suddenly a bit nervous, not knowing how to deal with everyone."

Li Zhibai looked at Lu Yan He and said: "What's the rush."

"I haven't asked you yet, why did you suddenly reconcile with Meng Li?"

"Not reconcile, continue to argue?" Li Zhibai gave Lu Yan He a look, signaling the microphone on Lu Yan He's body.

Lu Yan He silently closed his mouth.

After a while, Li Zhibai said again: "If it's really not fun to record, persist, persist. After this recording is over, let's not come to record next time."

"Nonsense, the contract is signed, how can we not come to record," Lu Yan He said.

Li Zhibai: "If you really don't want to record, there's always a way."

"Don't be impulsive. It's our first time recording a reality show, how can we say we won't record if we don't want to," Lu Yan He said. "Let's record for now, actually it's not unhappy."

"Ah—" Meng Li let out a scream.

Everyone looked in surprise, only to see Meng Li, for some reason, didn't stand steady, and her whole body fell into the reservoir.

"Meng Li!" Peng Zhixing was the first to throw away the fishing rod in his hand and jumped down.

Li Zhibai was the second.

He also followed and jumped down, diving into the water.

Lu Yan He and Yan Liang hurriedly ran to the place where Meng Li fell into the water.

The people from the program team were stunned.

The water in the reservoir was very deep; falling down like this was no joke.

Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Zhibai and Peng Zhixing grab Meng Li.

The program team didn't prepare life jackets, but fortunately, there were long bamboo poles and boats nearby.

After Meng Li was rescued, her face was pale and she was trembling.

Now it was impossible to continue fishing, so a group of people returned to the "Young People's House."

A mess.

The girls went to accompany Meng Li to soothe her emotions.

Li Zhenzhen was also there.

Lu Yan He and the others sat in the living room downstairs, looking at each other.

"Why did she suddenly fall down?" he asked Qin Zhibai.

When Meng Li fell into the water, Qin Zhibai was closest to her.

Qin Zhibai said: "Seems like she stepped on air."

Lu Yan He said: "Fortunately, nothing happened, she was rescued in time."

Yan Liang also nodded and said: "Yes, fortunately, nothing happened."

Two hours later, Meng Li's agent, Li Xia, came.

Li Xia was furious, like an angry lion.

As soon as she arrived, she was furious at the program team.

"How can your program team be so careless? You actually let Meng Li fall into such danger!"

"If something really happened to Meng Li, can you take any responsibility?"

"Not recording anymore, we absolutely will not record this show!" Li Xia was furious. "If we continue to record, will I see Meng Li in the hospital next time I see her?!"

Li Xia took Meng Li away with a very tough attitude. This time, there was no hesitation or intention to negotiate. ===== CHAPTER 242 =====