Chapter 896 - 895: She Doesn’t Need to Know How to Cook

Foodies are always on the same wavelength, it’s almost always about food. They even brought after-meal digestive tea, I’m impressed.

In comparison, what Shu Ran brought is quite unique.

"Honey citron tea, I made this myself. And there are makeup remover wipes, face masks, mosquito repellent patches, cooling patches that everyone can use together. I didn’t have much food at home, mostly fruits and vegetables which are hard to bring, so I just brought some vacuum-packed beef and chicken breast."

"Beef and chicken breast are fine, but I’m very impressed with the makeup remover wipes and face masks, that’s awesome, let’s all apply face masks together tonight." Guan Yu eagerly leaned over to take a look.

Shi Yuhuai, standing next to her, introduced his somewhat empty luggage:

"There’s not much food at my place either, apart from fruits and vegetables. I cleaned out all the food for the next week. Sliced bread, avocado, oats, meat floss, daily nuts, and purple cabbage. I intended to bring eggs, but they’re not easy to carry."

Li Yang was puzzled: "Brother Huai, don’t you have snacks at home? Did you eat up all the snack bundles from the bet before? Also, I see your fans keep reminding you not to snack before the show."

Shi Yuhuai: "...My manager took them all away."

"Pfft, how pitiful."

It was Mu Qiu’s turn. She thought what Shi Yuhuai brought would suffice only for breakfast, but if they had to eat those for lunch and breakfast, they’d be sick of them in no time.

"I brought something more down-to-earth. A bag of mung beans, a small bag of rice that can be used to make mung bean porridge, and a bit of pumpkin, sausages, corn, tofu skin, konjac silk, seaweed threads. Boiling these and mixing them makes a good salad. Also, something else—"

She took out something from the sealed bag to show everyone.

"These are merch items made when the original book was published, little character name tags, and hats. You can pin these name tags on the hats."

Based on the similarity of the book characters to everyone, she distributed a hat and a little name tag to each person.

Guan Yu: "These are quite pretty, mine is a little yellow hat, and the avatar is so cute."

She smiled amicably: "Glad you like it."

After saying that, she turned to look at Cheng Zhirang, adjusting the little name tag pinned on his hat: "Cute style, maybe it doesn’t quite match you. But you could secretly wear it for me."

Cheng Zhirang smiled at her: "Sure."

He took out items from his suitcase one by one: "I brought a bit more than you all, it’s hard to buy stuff in the crew. I had my assistant buy them outside Linhai Airport. Vegetables, fruits, seafood, and the eggs already on the table. Also, a medicine pack, let’s have some cold medicine just in case. There’s heatstroke medicine too, come to me anytime."

"As expected of the guardian, even if we didn’t bring anything, you could still support this whole family’s life." Guan Yu said with a laugh.

"So, can we start making lunch now, Brother Cheng?"

Cheng Zhirang remained unmoved: "Why ask me?"

"Didn’t we agree yesterday..."

"Agree on what?" He countered, "I didn’t promise anything."

Guan Yu was speechless: "Then let’s discuss who will cook lunch? I can’t cook."

Li Yang: "Neither can I."

Shu Ran: "Me neither."

Shi Yuhuai: "Nor can I."

Mu Qiu naturally looked at others: "I can help out."

Cheng Zhirang refuted entirely: "I asked your managers before I came, Shi Yuhuai can cook simple dishes, he usually makes his own low-fat meals. Shu Ran and Guan Yu can cook too, especially Guan Yu, you can cook several big dishes. And Li Yang... You really can’t cook much, but you can do chores and wash dishes."

The four of them: "..." Could it be like this?!

Mu Qiu said leisurely: "See, setting up a persona too early easily backfires."

Li Yang scratched his head: "Why do I feel like being the only one who truly can’t cook is so embarrassing?"

"Actually, asking the manager isn’t very accurate," Guan Yu racked her brains to explain, "My manager always thinks I’m competent in everything, but I’m really not that excellent."

"Then both of you have been falsely advertising, saying Li Yang can cook but he only knows how to make instant noodles, saying you can cook several big dishes but you can’t. Can you really not?"

Guan Yu: "...I can."

As for the exposed Shi Yuhuai and Shu Ran, the two of them wisely kept their mouths shut.

Feeling stifled, Guan Yu pointed at Mu Qiu: "What about Mu Qiu, she can cook too!"

Mu Qiu: "I never said I couldn’t cook, but I consider myself only capable of assisting."

Cheng Zhirang also said: "She doesn’t need to cook since I can."

"Yikes—"

So cheesy it could make a dog sick.

Everyone took out what they needed and piled it on the marble table, organizing it a bit.

Li Yang was like he had ADHD, holding his instant noodles, looking around everywhere.

"Is our episode’s theme just team building, just cooking? No other games?"

Mu Qiu leisurely said: "I don’t think it’ll be that simple. Since many have overlapped with the preview, it should be like the preview with some mini-games."

"Then why hasn’t the task card arrived? Where’s the director? We haven’t seen him all along."

Guan Yu: "The director should feel fulfilled knowing there’s someone who misses him this much."

"Hey hey hey."

Speak of the devil, as Guan Yu’s words just fell, the director’s voice rang out in the villa.

"Good afternoon, guests. Welcome to the final episode of ’Different Variety Show’. In this last episode, there are no NPC distinctions, no new guests joining, no punishments or rewards, this is a team-building event uniquely yours from the beginning to the end.

This team building’s expenses are out of your pocket, the labor is all yours, and what you can rely on is what you brought. There are no additional supplies. The production team has prepared some mini-games for this event, which will be announced later. Before starting the games, you’ll need to work together to prepare a lunch. Of course, if you feel it’s unnecessary to eat, you don’t have to prepare. All activities abide by everyone’s mutual consent.

At 3 PM, we’ll start the games on time, so you can now have free activity time."

"Does free activity include driving a tricycle back home?" Guan Yu shouted at the speaker from which the sound came.

The director’s voice came through again: "Why don’t you fly to the heavens?"

"Pfft, hahahahaha, brutally burned!" Li Yang threw his head back in laughter, "The director is getting more bad-tempered!"

"Laugh, laugh, laugh, all you know is how to laugh. Go over there with your instant noodles!" Guan Yu glared.

Then she looked slightly fawningly at Cheng Zhirang: "Brother Cheng, what do you think we should do in this situation? Just a few simple dishes for six people should be fine, right? If not, we can stew that fish and cook it with instant noodles."