I’ve Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show

Chapter 48: Chapter 45: Pretending to be a vagrant last night, today he really became one Chapter 48: Chapter 45: Pretending to be a vagrant last night, today he really became one Chen Xixi also walked back last night, but the other guests chased a thief and went into the police station for the second time, starved and exhausted before returning to the dormitory. By the time they lay on the bed, they were almost on the verge of breaking down.
So, when Qian Yue’s voice penetrated the door and reached their ears, they found it particularly annoying, and directly pulled the blanket over their heads to block out the noise.
However, this did not stop Qian Yue from continuing to do as he pleased.
Qian Yue’s voice came through the loudspeaker non-stop: “The free dormitory period has expired. Please, guests, quickly take your luggage and valuables and leave! If you do not cooperate, we will not mind enforcing it!!”
What expiration? Leave? Enforcing??
The intermittent keywords suddenly made their drowsy brains realize that the situation was not simple!
All the guests sat up in a near-death state: “!!”
[Damn!! The production team is too ruthless! Kicking them out at this time, how are they going to survive!!]
[Are they forcing them to break the rules? If they don’t go out to work or borrow money, ask friends for help, next they’ll have to sleep on the streets!]
[I knew it! Five million certainly isn’t that easy to win, and if it was that easy, the production team would be broke!]
[Sleeping on the streets is nothing, the main thing is, how to deal with meals?]
[Don’t they have eggs?]
[How can you eat raw eggs? They don’t even have anything to cook with…]
[Hahaha, I’m dying of laughter! The experience of begging while lying down last night can come in handy today!]
Zheng He lifted his hand to rub his face and forced himself into startup mode.
Was it because he was so tired last night that he was hallucinating?
It must be!
Within two seconds, plagued with body aches and unable to forcibly start up, Zheng He fell back down and once again entered shutdown mode.
Three minutes later.
“What are you doing?! Let go of me! Those are my eggs! Eggs can’t be thrown away!”
Zheng He was pushed and dragged by the staff, forcibly driven out of the dormitory.
His hand was holding eggs and a bag of dried noodles, cursing as he patted down his disheveled clothes.
Then, he turned around and saw the other four people, just as sleepy and tired, sitting on their luggage.
The other four also each held a bag of eggs.
Looking a bit miserable.
Even the usually calm Chen Xixi had some dark emotions in her eyes at this moment.
She wanted to turn to the dark side.
They were living just fine, and then they were suddenly kicked out by the production team, which was way too damaging!
She had 2009 yuan in her hand, but if she had to find a place to live, it would probably be another considerable expense.
It’s easy to mooch for food, but mooching for a place to stay is a bit more difficult.
Apart from underneath an overpass, she hadn’t heard of any free places to stay in the city area.
Chen Xixi sat on the silver suitcase, propping up her chin with her hand, her eyelids drooping slightly, deep in thought.
Wan Chen let out a sigh: “Last night pretending to be a homeless person, today I actually became one…”
Zheng He glanced at Chen Xixi, then said to Wan Chen and the others in a somewhat smug whisper, “You see, wasn’t I right to take you begging last night? Sleeping on the street wasn’t in vain. It’s like getting used to it in advance!”
Getting used to it my ass!
Wan Chen couldn’t help but give Zheng He a disdainful look.
Zheng He: “So what else can we do besides begging? If we’re not sleeping on the streets now, where else can we sleep?”
Wan Chen didn’t speak. He had his own plans, which he intended to use at the very last moment—a surprise move at a critical time would catch Money-saving King off guard.
So what he needed to do now was to go with the flow, lower everyone’s guard, especially Chen Xixi’s, to make her underestimate him. That way, it would be easier for him to win once the show reached its finale.
“I don’t know,” Wan Chen said in a muffled voice. “But I don’t want to sleep on the streets again.”
Jin Cheng was even more clueless. Apart from topping up in online games, buying limited edition sneakers and sports cars, he knew nothing about survival.
Han Qianyi, who dreamed of becoming a star, was usually all about looking good and pretty clueless about practical life matters.
Seeing Wan Chen and the others were too weak, Zheng He couldn’t get anything useful out of them, and his gaze on the trio gradually turned to contempt and disdain.
The next second, he turned his attention to Chen Xixi.
He sat down on the step next to her, looked at her, and tentatively asked, “Do you have any good ideas?”
Chen Xixi honestly replied, “Not at the moment.”
Zheng He sighed with a sense of loss, “If only we could have a chance to get rich overnight now, then we’d have a place to stay and money to spend.”
Han Qianyi frowned and added, “Isn’t the show we’re participating in right now an opportunity for us to get rich overnight?”
Zheng He smiled faintly, with a wishful expression, “But I’m talking about a chance to get rich overnight within the show.”
Wan Chen glanced at Zheng He, “No nesting dolls allowed.”
Even Chen Xixi was out of ideas; Zheng He felt they might really end up sleeping on the streets—not pretending to be homeless to beg but genuinely becoming homeless beggars…
Zheng He, with a face full of despair, half-jokingly said, “Why don’t we just rob a place? The production crew didn’t say we couldn’t rob people.”
Wan Chen: “Robbery isn’t against the rules, but it’s against the law. I’m not keen on visiting the police station again any time soon.”
[Hahaha, “not keen on visiting the police station again any time soon”—I can feel Wan Chen’s resignation from this sentence!]
[Zheng He is a bit criminal-minded, thinking about robbing people.]
[Bro! This is a live broadcast, stay awake please!!]
The next second, various regional police department accounts started following Zheng He and calling him out.
[Does Chen Xixi really have no ideas, or does she just not want to tell Zheng He?]
[Given Chen Xixi’s level of stinginess, I think she just doesn’t want to tell Zheng He and the others.]
Chen Xixi had just woken up, her mind was indeed void of good ideas.
Just then, Qian Yue walked out of the dormitory. Smiling, he looked at the five dispirited guests and said, “Don’t be discouraged, the production crew hasn’t completely abandoned you.”
Chen Xixi looked up at Qian Yue and asked calmly, “What do you mean?”
Qian Yue’s expression turned even more mysterious, “There’s a place nearby called Shiyuan Village. The production crew has arranged everything there. The rest is up to you.”
Zheng He had never heard of this village. He asked with curiosity, “Shiyuan Village? Where’s that?”
Qian Yue: “Why don’t you just look it up on your phone?”
“Oh right.” Zheng He reached into his pocket for his phone, couldn’t find it, then suddenly remembered that his phone had parted ways with him last night…
In the end, Zheng He borrowed Han Qianyi’s phone and used the navigation to check the location.
Not too far from here, seems like the production crew has a conscience.
About an hour later, the five lugged their suitcases and carried a bag of eggs each as they made their grand entrance into the village.
Zheng He, with a furrowed brow, gasping for breath, said, “Didn’t Qian Yue say the production team had arranged everything? Why is no one here to greet us?”
Arranged everything?
Would the production team be that kind-hearted?
Chen Xixi spoke calmly, “Prepare yourselves mentally, I think the production team’s arrangements might be the opposite.”
Since no one came out to greet them, they had to take the initiative to attack.
Chen Xixi randomly knocked on a door, and soon it opened. Just as she was about to put on a sweet smile, the old man who opened the door cheerfully said, “Girl, if you want to stay, it’s two hundred a day.”