TL: Hua
Rural Labor Experience.
As the name suggests, this meant working in the small countryside where they were staying this season.
Although called ‘labor,’ ‘doing farm work’ would be a more accurate description.
Incredible Journey is nominally a travel show, but it practically involves going everywhere to work and suffer. Having gone through the first two episodes of filming, the guests were already mentally prepared.
But even so, upon seeing the tools the production staff had prepared for them, they couldn’t help but inwardly sweat.
Sickles, carrying poles, manure buckets, hoes, shovels…
“Guests can choose one of these to carry out today’s work.”
Before the guests could speak, the bullet comments had already started an intense discussion after seeing these items.
[Holy crap, is this for real… they really have to go down and do farm work?]
[It shouldn’t be, should it? I feel like even if they go, it’ll just be for show. All programs are like that now: ‘big thunder, little rain.’]
[Who cares if it’s for show or not? What are these things? Can any expert give a brief explanation?]
[I, a post-00s born, only recognize the sickle and the hoe… I’ve never even seen the others.]
[I, a post-10s, don’t recognize anything.]
[Post-10s??????]
[My apologies, I’m old. Post-90s who recognize everything but dare not speak.]
[Is the production team doing this on purpose? Is all this stuff still needed for farm work now? Isn’t everything done by machines?]
[Sweetie, you must live in a developed area. In those economically backward rural and mountain villages, they really do need these tools for farming.]
Many younger children didn’t recognize these tools, but the older Sun Yuetong was intimately familiar with them. Having grown up in the countryside herself, she immediately felt nostalgic as she held the sickle in her hand.
“When I was about seven or eight, I used to take a sickle out with my sisters to cut grass to exchange for money. It’s been many years since I did farm work.”
Gao Zitai, a second-generation rich kid who grew up in a greenhouse, had never been exposed to these things. After hearing Sun Yuetong’s words, he curiously picked up a long bamboo pole with a plastic bag tied to the end and swung it around a few times in the air.
“What’s this?”
Sun Yuetong explained, “It’s for herding geese. I saw people use it when I was little.”
Gao Zitai remembered seeing the geese at the village entrance when he drew the route map for Lin Yanran yesterday. Thinking about how the animal looked white and clumsy, his eyes immediately lit up. “I want this one. I want to herd the geese.”
Seeing Gao Zitai so confident, Lin Yanran immediately warned him, “Do you know how strong the fighting power of a goose is?”
Gao Zitai shook his head blankly, “How strong could it be?”
Hearing Gao Zitai’s words, his fans were extremely worried for this funny character.
[My silly son, you really have zero life experience.]
[Geese have strong fighting power. You can’t handle it, put it back quickly.]
[Son, listen to Yanran obediently. Your small physique will just get you attacked by the geese.]
[Hahaha, actually, I really want to see Gao Zitai herd geese.]
Lin Yanran figured that giving this simpleton a scientific explanation would just confuse him, so he just told him a joke: “Have you ever heard the saying that a homebody equals 0.5 geese?”
Gao Zitai listened, then quietly calculated in his mind according to Lin Yanran’s description.
He wasn’t a homebody, and he loved to work out, so he probably equaled 3 geese??
Herding geese would definitely involve a whole flock!! How could he possibly win!!
Realizing how dangerous the job was, Gao Zitai immediately put the bamboo pole back where it was.
He was originally interested in the woven bag full of sweet potatoes, but before he could ask, Zhang Shanfeng spoke.
“Guests, coming from the bustling city to the peaceful countryside, our purpose for this trip is not just tourism. We also hope everyone can experience authentic rural life.”
After saying that, he pointed to the farm tools laid out on the ground. “So today’s activity is to farm in the countryside in exchange for living expenses.”
He then informed the guests that the production team would not be providing any food today, including lunch, dinner, and drinking water. If the guests wanted to acquire them, they had to buy them with the money they earned from their labor.
In addition, the room the guests were currently staying in was rented to them by the village chief of Xiangning Village. The guests couldn’t take advantage of them, so they also needed to pay the rent.
Zhang Shanfeng waved his hand and said with excessive generosity, “The production team already paid for yesterday’s rent. Today is up to you all to earn!”
Guests: …..
Thank you so much!!
Ignoring the glances that clearly wished to beat him up, Zhang Shanfeng pointed at the farm tools on the ground with a beaming smile. “Of course, we are an incredibly humane show, so we’ve prepared some jobs for everyone in advance.”
“You can choose from weeding, fertilizing the rapeseed, shoveling up carrots, herding geese…”
After speaking, Zhang Shanfeng, who called himself humane, announced the wages for each job. Fertilizing the rapeseed was the highest at 50 yuan, while the others were quite low, almost all around 20 yuan.
Wang Zhen, seeing the highest price, was a little tempted and asked the director, “How do we do this job?”
Zhang Shanfeng pointed to the manure bucket and carrying pole. “Carry the manure and pour it on the rapeseed.”
Wang Zhen was a city kid and had never done farm work.
He originally thought the bucket was for carrying water or fertilizer.
When he heard its actual purpose, he instantly turned around and nearly threw up.
Wang Zhen’s expression was recorded on camera the entire time.
In truth, this job sounds difficult, and no one would blame the celebrities for not wanting to do it.
But Wang Zhen added a gesture of vomiting, which made the audience feel a little uncomfortable.
[You haven’t even been asked to carry it yet, and you look like you’re about to throw up. Do you have to be so dramatic…]
[Sure enough, celebrities have been separated from ordinary people’s lives for so long that they’ve become out of touch with reality.]
[What’s wrong with carrying manure? Back when life was hard, every family did this. Wang Zhen is doing too much.]
Lin Yanran glanced at Wang Zhen not far away, then turned to Zhang Shanfeng and asked, “Do we have to choose from these options?”
Zhang Shanfeng shook his head. “Of course not. The village has many other jobs available, and you can also go apply for them yourselves. If you can’t find anything, you can come back and look for me.”
The guests discussed this among themselves.
They all felt that the wages for these few jobs, none exceeding fifty yuan, were too low, so they decided to go look for work themselves.
Before leaving, Gao Zitai hurried over to Lin Yanran, put his arm around his shoulder, and put on a ‘we’re buddies’ look.
“Brother Ran, you have to cover me again today!”
Gao Zitai’s sudden call of “Brother Ran” made goosebumps rise all over Lin Yanran.
He looked at Gao Zitai, his eyes clearly asking: Are you okay?
Gao Zitai’s sudden act of recognizing him as an older brother not only confused Lin Yanran but also cracked the audience up.
[Hahahahaha. Yanran: You idiot, stay away from me!]
[Gao Zitai’s ‘Brother Ran’ sounds so real. Is this the charm of ‘eating your words’?]
[High Stance1Gao Zitai’s name instantly becomes Low Stance.]
[Yanran is younger than you, isn’t he? That ‘Brother’ came out so smooth.]
[Gao Zitai: I don’t care; whoever has the thickest thigh is my brother.]
Gao Zitai had just started to try and recognize him as an older brother when the cunning Zhang Shanfeng immediately and mercilessly refused.
He learned his lesson in the first episode when Gao Zitai easily won alongside Lin Yanran. With that experience in mind, how could he let Gao Zitai have such a comfortable time this episode?
So, before Lin Yanran could even speak, he helped by directly refusing.
“No, the guests must complete one task by themselves.”
He added, “Remember to come back in the evening to report the wages you earned from your work.”
The only path to hugging a thick thigh and coasting to victory was blocked by Zhang Shanfeng, making Gao Zitai so angry he wanted to bite him.
Seeing that the team-up was unsuccessful, Gao Zitai huffed and followed beside Lin Yanran. “If we can’t team up, fine, I’ll just walk with him!”
Then, like a little puppy, he stuck close to Lin Yanran. Later, in a very obsequious manner, he secretly gave one of the two bottles of water he had obtained from the production team to Lin Yanran.
Afterward, the seven people set off to find jobs on their own.
Sun Yuetong was the first of the seven to find a job.
As she passed a field, she saw an aunt burying her head in mowing wheat and asked if she could help her.
Sun Yuetong had experience weeding as a child, and seeing the sickle made her feel nostalgic for that time. However, the program’s weeding job only paid 20 yuan, which was too low and couldn’t even cover the rent, so she chose to give it up.
The aunt was quick to agree when she heard Sun Yuetong wanted to help her.
The aunt had watched many of Sun Yuetong’s shows. She was happy for the help and immediately offered her a wage of 100 yuan for the day.
The second person to find a job was Fu Anqi.
She walked up to the entrance of a farm and, looking through the wire fence, saw the rabbits in cages and immediately couldn’t move on.
“The bunnies are so cute; I’ll raise rabbits!”
In Fu Anqi’s solo live stream.
Fans immediately commented on how simple she thought raising rabbits was.
[Anqi, no! Rabbits are cute, but raising them isn’t as simple as you think!]
[That’s not an easy job, sweetie. Look for a different job.]
However, Fu Anqi couldn’t see the messages. After speaking, she happily went to apply for the job with the owner and successfully secured it.
After these two found work, the other guests also successively found jobs with different villagers, such as burying sweet potatoes, cutting chives, and feeding chickens.
Lin Yanran and Gao Zitai walked a long way along a mountain path and arrived at a hillside.
Now, only the two of them hadn’t found work.
To prevent the guests from deliberately slacking off and delaying finding a job, the production team set a rule.
If a guest hasn’t found a job after 10 a.m., 10 yuan will be deducted from everyone’s total wages for every hour that passes.
Gao Zitai actually wanted the chicken-feeding job earlier, as he was interested in small animals.
But Wang Zhen rushed to take it, so he had to reluctantly give up the job to the other person.
Gao Zitai looked at the time. Seeing it getting closer to 10 o’clock, he also started to worry.
Just as he was feeling anxious, Lin Yanran stopped and pointed ahead. “There are sheep over there.”
Gao Zitai followed Lin Yanran’s gaze and indeed saw a flock of sheep grazing leisurely.
“You can go ask that man if you can help him herd the sheep.”
Gao Zitai naturally liked fluffy animals. Hearing Lin Yanran’s suggestion, he immediately ran forward.
However, after running a couple of steps, he suddenly remembered the incident with the geese and immediately turned back to ask Lin Yanran, “These sheep look quite docile. They shouldn’t be as aggressive as the geese, right?”
Lin Yanran shook his head.
Seeing this motion, Gao Zitai’s heart sank.
Just as he was about to give up on the job, he heard Lin Yanran say to him, “I’ve never herded them…”
[Hahahahahaha]
[Why is the conversation between Yanran and Gao Zitai so funny?]
Without Lin Yanran to gauge the risk, Gao Zitai felt uncertain.
However, with time about to run out, he didn’t care anymore. He bit the bullet and went forward to apply for the shepherd job.
Fortunately, he was lucky, and the shepherd did not refuse him.
So, in the final minute, Gao Zitai successfully secured the job as a shepherd, finally avoiding the deduction of money.
But Lin Yanran was not so lucky. Since Gao Zitai got the job, he naturally couldn’t.
So, precisely at 10:00 a.m., the staff following each group announced a piece of news to the guests—
“Because Yanran did not find a job within the stipulated time, 10 yuan will be deducted from everyone’s total wages today.”
The wages for farm work were not as high as the previous time in France, ranging only from a few dozen to two hundred yuan.
So, even one yuan was extremely precious.
And the production team’s rule this time was quite cruel.
The deduction wasn’t just from the individual’s wages but from everyone’s total wages, so anyone who was late in finding work was a huge disadvantage to the entire team.
After all, deducting ten yuan from seven people totaled seventy yuan, which could be the entire day’s wage for one person. This was no small expense.
Hearing this unfortunate announcement, the guests all stopped what they were doing.
However, everyone except Wang Zhen was worried for Lin Yanran.
In Incredible Journey‘s main live stream and the live streams of the individual guests, when people heard this news, some immediately started to stir up trouble.
[What’s wrong with Yanran?]
[Didn’t they say he was great at games? How did he become a burden?]
[A direct deduction of seventy yuan. He won’t be able to make that back even if he works for free today, will he?]
[I’m afraid he won’t find a job by 11 o’clock and everyone will keep getting penalized.]
[Sigh, he’s been acting all picky, not doing this or that, and now look what happened.]
[Are you going to mock him based on taking things out of context? When was he picky? He clearly saw Cao Zhengpeng wanted the chive-cutting job, so he made an excuse not to do it, right? And just now with the sheep, he clearly saw it first but still suggested Gao Zitai go. Is that what you call picky?]
However, those who want to stir up trouble don’t care about the reasons.
The final outcome now is that everyone was penalized because of Lin Yanran, and others might have to work extra hard to make up for his “mistake.”
Therefore, many people who hadn’t watched Lin Yanran’s first-person live stream saw this result and started complaining, demanding that he take on the full financial loss himself that evening.
This group rushed to Lin Yanran’s live stream and scolded him, but they only saw him continuing to walk forward calmly in the video, seemingly unaffected by the deduction.
He crossed the hillside and came to an area full of mandarin oranges.
Every fruit tree was laden with bright yellow fruit, looking especially tempting.
However, these oranges were enclosed by a fence.
Lin Yanran walked a few steps along the fence and saw an elderly man picking fruit.
Lin Yanran stopped and greeted him first, “Grandpa, what are these mandarins called?”
The elderly man stopped what he was doing. “Papagan Mandarins.”
The elderly man then saw the cameraman following Lin Yanran and knew the young man was one of the celebrities the village cadre had mentioned.
The simple and honest grandpa picked one up and offered it to him, “Want to try one? It’s homegrown.”
“Thank you.”
Lin Yanran took one, peeled it, and put it in his mouth.
It was sweet, with a slight tartness, different from the purely sweet ones sold in the market.
“Grandpa, you didn’t add any sweetness enhancer, did you?”
The grandpa’s eyes flashed with surprise after hearing this, and he immediately gave Lin Yanran a thumbs-up.
“It’s not called sweetness enhancer anymore; it’s called de-acidifier. But it’s all the same thing, just a change of name,” the grandpa laughed, peeling one for himself. “But don’t worry, these mandarins are for my grandson to eat, so I’ve never used any of that.”
The live stream audience, listening to the conversation and looking at the bright yellow mandarins, started drooling uncontrollably.
[Wow, all-natural? It looks so delicious! I love the natural flavor of fruit like this. Where can I buy it?]
[Wuwuwu, I really want to eat those original-flavor mandarins. I feel like everything on the market now is sickeningly sweet.]
[Those must be the ones with the sweetness enhancers.]
[I’m curious how Yanran even knows about stuff like sweetness enhancers?]
[Hahaha, he’s quite focused on health preservation, so he probably pays attention to these things.]
While the bullet comments were discussing, Lin Yanran walked up to the grandpa’s large basket. “Are you picking so many to sell?”
The grandpa nodded. “Someone is coming to collect them tonight, so I’m picking some to sell to them.”
Successfully finding out the key point, Lin Yanran asked, “Can I work for you?”
The village cadre had already informed them that celebrities would be coming to do farm work.
However, the notice they received was that participation was voluntary.
The grandpa looked at Lin Yanran. The young man seemed bright, and he didn’t have the celebrity attitude when chatting, so he agreed.
However, the grandpa did not offer a fixed price but instead paid by the pound.
The more he picked, the more he would naturally earn.
Lin Yanran agreed and stayed with the grandpa, starting to help him pick the mandarins.
The grandpa first taught Lin Yanran how to pick which were good fruits and which were secondary quality and then let him pick on his own.
Lin Yanran was the last one to find a job.
People who had watched the other six guests work came to his live stream to watch him, assuming he wouldn’t do very well either.
Some who wanted to see Lin Yanran make a fool of himself even started calculating how many pounds he would need to clip to pay off the “debt” he owed the group.
However, to everyone’s surprise, the face slapping came swiftly.
Initially, Lin Yanran was in the familiarization phase and clipped quite slowly.
But soon after, his movements gradually sped up. The mandarins were clipped and tossed into the large basket with great efficiency. The speed was so quick that the viewers keeping count on the bullet comments couldn’t keep up.
The grandpa came to check on Lin Yanran after clipping one basket and found that the young man had already clipped nearly two!
He looked at the fruits Lin Yanran had clipped, and they all met his quality requirements.
Seeing the high speed and quality, he immediately smiled and praised him, “Young man, you’re quite skillful. You’re as good as the professionals.”
The audience in the live stream heard the grandpa’s praise and looked at Lin Yanran’s skilled and efficient movements, completely astonished.
[Help, Yanran, were you trained on how to clip orange before?]
[How can he do so well even learning on the spot?]
[Some people just have strong learning abilities.]
[He is so amazing; he can even be outstanding at farm work.]
Lin Yanran helped the grandpa pick mandarins for nearly two hours. At noon, he went down the mountain with the grandpa to his residence in the village.
Grandma Sun, the grandpa’s wife, already knew about Lin Yanran helping pick fruit and enthusiastically invited him to stay and have lunch at their home.
After eating, the grandpa told Lin Yanran to rest for a while before going back in the afternoon. He then went out to run some errands.
Grandma Sun settled Lin Yanran down to watch TV in the living room, then called her grandson, An Xiaoming, outside to sunbathe and do his homework.
While watching TV, Lin Yanran overheard Grandma Sun talking on the phone with Grandpa, mentioning that the school had just informed them about some mobile phone homework that she didn’t know how to complete.
So, he walked out of the living room and asked the grandma if she needed any help.
The grandma, seeing Lin Yanran was young, figured he would understand these things and explained the tasks to him.
“This electronic social security card requires the child to scan their face, and there’s some other information that needs to be filled in on a mobile phone. I’m too old to do these things.”
These tasks would only take a few minutes for a young person.
But for the grandpa and grandma, who are in their sixties and seventies, simply being literate is a good achievement, so dealing with these modern technological things was truly difficult for them.
After understanding the situation, Lin Yanran quickly helped them complete the tasks.
He also patiently helped the grandma’s grandson, An Xiaoming, with the safety education platform that the grandma had trouble with, as well as the Young Pioneers’ lecture session announced by the school.
Afterward, Lin Yanran patiently taught the grandma how to handle these things in the future.
His language was very simple, and he showed no impatience. The grandma was smart and quickly learned.
After finishing these tasks, the grandma immediately went to her grandson to help him with his homework.
Guiding her grandson through homework was what gave her the biggest headache.
Now that the national “Double Reduction” policy was in place, first and second graders weren’t given extra homework, which made things a lot easier for her as a guardian.
However, the child’s parents felt it wasn’t good for the child to just play all weekend, so they bought him workbooks and asked him to do them at home.
But the workbooks his parents bought were for advanced thinking and logic. The child’s foundation wasn’t solid, so he didn’t understand many questions. Being a person in her seventies, she didn’t know how to teach it either, which caused a lot of distress.
She looked at the completely wrong answers in the child’s workbook and pointed out to him, “The shadow is longest in the morning.”
An Xiaoming quickly erased the answer, drew the line to the answer his grandma mentioned, but then didn’t know how to do the next two questions.
Lin Yanran heard this and walked over to An Xiaoming, looking at the question.
It was a matching question, asking to determine the length of the shadow of the same tree at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 p.m.
“Brother!”
An Xiaoming saw Lin Yanran approach and politely greeted him.
Lin Yanran patted his head and asked, “Do you know why the shadow is longest in the morning?”
An Xiaoming shook his head.
“Then shall we do an experiment?”
First-grade children love these kinds of activities. As soon as An Xiaoming heard Lin Yanran wanted to do an experiment with him, he became immediately interested.
“Yes, yes, please sit down, Brother.”
Lin Yanran didn’t sit down. Instead, he quickly drew a tree on An Xiaoming’s drawing book.
He cut it out and taped it to a box.
“This is the tree in the workbook.”
Then he asked Grandma for a flashlight.
He turned on the flashlight and told An Xiaoming, “Pretend this is the sun.”
“Do you know where the sun rises?”
“Yes, yes, the horizon!”
Lin Yanran nodded, pointing to the table. “Let’s pretend this is the horizon.”
Then, he slowly raised the flashlight from under the table.
An Xiaoming followed his instructions, using a pencil to mark the shadow at each point on the table.
After the experiment, Lin Yanran didn’t need to explain further. An Xiaoming himself corrected the answers.
“Brother, I like it when you explain problems to me.”
Meeting An Xiaoming’s expectant gaze, Lin Yanran nodded. “You do the work. If you can’t figure it out, I’ll teach you.”
After that, Lin Yanran started tutoring An Xiaoming.
Watching An Xiaoming do the problems, Lin Yanran found that he was actually quite smart, but some foundational things hadn’t been learned well.
Upon inquiry, An Xiaoming admitted that he sometimes zoned out during class and missed some of what the teacher was saying. Later, he was confused and didn’t know the methods the teacher had taught.
However, he was afraid to ask the teacher, so he just kept muddling through.
After hearing this, Lin Yanran flipped through An Xiaoming’s math textbook. Combining the areas where he found the student was falling behind, he re-explained the concepts using the methods in the book.
An Xiaoming was very quick-witted. With Lin Yanran’s re-explanation, he immediately understood.
When he returned, Grandpa stumbled upon this scene.
The grandma happily told him what had happened and warned him not to interrupt Lin Yanran tutoring their grandson.
The grandpa didn’t dare to go up and interrupt them, but Lin Yanran saw him.
Lin Yanran stood up and asked the grandpa, “Is it time to leave?”
The grandpa quickly waved his hands. “No, no, you don’t need to go. I’ll go myself.”
Lin Yanran looked troubled. “But if I don’t go, I won’t get paid, and I won’t be able to complete today’s task.”
Hearing this, the grandpa thought, It’s just wages; that’s easy!
So, he slapped his thigh and promised generously, “You help me tutor Xiaoming with his homework, and I’ll give you double your wages!”
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