Ten diligent days: the fields are still

Yuan Lai lay on the window and did not sleep all night.

The alarm clock rang on time at four in the morning.

Yuan Lai put on his coat and walked out of the room. Stars were already twinkling outside.

The crew had already risen and gathered to discuss the day's shoot plan. The director of photography, mindful of the difficult mountain roads, had decided to forgo large equipment and switch to handheld equipment, along with drones for aerial photography. This seemed to guarantee no major issues.

"Today may be the entire day in the mountains. We have confirmed that Group A will all go up the mountain, Group B will stay at the foot of the mountain, and Group C will follow. Shooting in the mountains requires good physical fitness. If anyone is sick, on their period, or wants to stay behind, they can be temporarily transferred to Group B."

The audio and lighting teams were also rushing to adjust their equipment. Lin Tingting sat in the director's group, using documents to cover his yawning face.

Seeing Yuan Lai, Lin Tingting shook the paper in his hand slightly as a greeting.

At 4:30 in the morning, Ji Ran brought Xing Zhanyi to the village and first checked the situation of the seeds.

Pick up one at random and rub it gently, the outer shell will fall off, revealing the grayish-white inside.

"Fortunately, the survival rate is much higher than I thought. Let's go to the mountain to check the situation first."

Xing Zhanyi held a sword in his hand and followed Ji Ran about one meter behind him without saying a word.

Lin Qiao had always been with Ji Ran before, why did it change to Xing Zhanyi today?

He's holding a sword in his hand, are you filming?

The brothers got up one after another, cleaned up, washed, changed their clothes, put on microphones, and performed the whole process smoothly in less than ten minutes.

Lu Zhuo distributed the breakfast bought by the program crew into ten portions to ensure that everyone could eat it as soon as they arrived.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Director Yang asked.

"I'm fine. I went to bed early." Lu Zhuo replied.

Director Yang nodded. "That's good. I just can't fall asleep no matter how hard I try."

"What's wrong?" Zhuo Yuan strode to sit next to the table, opened the lunch box, and stuffed a bun into his mouth.

"I just realized it so late that I can still film a show with you guys."

Li Hao supported Zhuo Yuan's shoulders and sat down. He picked up the water and gave him the red envelope. "Director Yang, we can't be sentimental right now."

"No, it's not sentimental." Director Yang glanced at the staff present, "I just wrote it down from my heart. What time did you go to bed yesterday?"

"I went to bed at half past ten." Li Hao replied, looking at the table full of breakfast, and took out the account book he carried with him, "How much is this?"

"There are a total of one hundred and thirty of you." A female voice answered from the crowd.

"One hundred and thirty, right?" Li Hao wrote down carefully in the notebook.

Zhuo Yuan looked at the bear hat on Li Hao's head and couldn't help but pull it. "Brother Hao, why are you wearing a hat all of a sudden? Aren't you hot?"

"Fashion! Do you understand? This is fashion." Li Hao complained to He Haonan behind him, "Why are you imitating me?"

He Haonan was confused, "How can I learn from you?"

"You're wearing a hat!"

He Haonan took off his baseball cap and gestured on Li Hao's head, "What kind of hat am I wearing? What kind of hat are you wearing? I'll imitate you."

Hong Bao stood up and helped Li Hao put on his hat, "It's all crooked."

He Haonan strode back as if hurt, complaining to Jiang Dunhao, "Hong Bao has finally become alienated from us!"

Jiang Dunhao was brought to the dining table by He Haonan and looked at Lu Zhuo inquiringly.

"It's okay, big brother, they have nothing better to do than to put on a show."

Chen Shaoxi and Zhao Yibo walked over together and said in unison, "Wow, Brother Hao."

The two sat down and started to eat breakfast.

Jiang Dunhao counted the number of people, "One, two, four, five, six, eight, nine. Gengyun, why haven't Xiaotong and Yiheng come yet?"

Chen Shaoxi replied, "Hey, Li Gengyun and Wang Yiheng are showing off in the house!"

"Xiaotong should be here soon. He already had his bag with him when I came out." Zhao Yibo took a big sip of water and almost choked because he spoke so quickly.

Two minutes later, Zhao Xiaotong sat down in front of the table carrying a small wicker bag.

Li Gengyun and Wang Yiheng arrived late and didn't notice any changes.

Breakfast was quickly devoured.

"Ji Ran is already waiting for you on the mountain. After eating, let's go."

Everyone scooped out half of the seeds, put them into fine mesh bags, and distributed them to some people. For the other half, each person carried two bags of planting soil and headed up the mountain.

The mountain fog was very thick in the morning, and two staff members were leading the way with wooden sticks and lights.

"Walk slowly and take each step firmly."

The brothers were scattered among the lighting technicians' team, and Yuan Lai could barely tell who was who by their clothes.

"Hold on to the trees, speak loudly if you have anything to say, and don't get separated from the main group."

Everyone was nervous along the way.

By the time they finally reached their destination, it was almost dawn.

Ji Ran pointed to the small flat area in front of him and said, "Leave four people here. No need to hoe the ground, fertilize or water. All you need to do is use a shovel to dig a hole ten centimeters deep and three centimeters wide, then place the Epiphyllum seeds in it and cover with soil. Don't press the soil down. Insert bamboo sticks next to it and cover it with a layer of film. The whole process is complete. It's very simple."

Ji Ran took out a rainbow night-blooming cereus seed and said, "When you plant it, you must peel off the outer layer of skin. Be very careful when peeling it so as not to damage the inner membrane. If the inner membrane is broken, the seed will be useless. Do you understand?"

"understood."

Li Gengyun raised his hand and asked, "Are there any requirements for the planting distance?"

Ji Ran took out a schematic diagram with some huge black dots drawn on it.

"Yes, the planting pattern is also very important. Epiphyllums are planted in clusters. The first step is to determine the location of the first seed and plant it according to the previous method. The second seed, you see, must be planted 20 centimeters behind the first seed. The third seed is also 20 centimeters from the first, and 10 centimeters from the second seed. In short, it is planted according to a fan-shaped pattern, with the first seed as the center of the circle, and the other seeds forming a quarter of a circle around the first seed. This is a cluster."

Zhao Yibo continued to ask, "Are there any requirements for the terrain? Does it have to be flat? Can it have a certain slope?"

Ji Ran replied, "The terrain is not important, as long as it's not too outrageous. The distance is the straight line distance, so it's about the same."

After saying that, Ji Ran led a part of the team to the next planting site.

Jiang Dunhao, Lu Zhuo, Li Gengyun and Li Hao stayed at the first planting site.

Li Hao took out the shovel from his backpack, aimed at a place and shoveled the first handful of soil.

"Ten centimeters deep and three centimeters wide, it will be difficult to operate in practice!" Li Hao looked at the hole in front of him that was getting bigger and bigger, and deeply doubted the accuracy of the data.

Li Gengyun was talking to Lu Zhuo. When he heard what Li Hao said, he squatted down, took the shovel, filled the hole, and shoveled again. "Dig vertically, don't dig horizontally. She just said the approximate data, it's okay as long as it's about right."

Jiang Dunhao looked at the pit in front of him with great satisfaction. He reached in to measure the depth, untied the net bag, took out a seed, carefully rubbed off the skin, put the grayish-white seed inside into the deep pit, and filled it with crushed soil again.

"Second brother, give me the bamboo sticks and plastic wrap."

Insert three branches at the edge of the pit, then surround it with multiple layers of plastic wrap, cover the bottom with gravel, and then insert a few small holes on the surface of the plastic wrap to ensure air permeability.

"Look, my center of the circle is planted!"

Li Gengyun looked up and gave a thumbs-up. "Great, big brother! Then we'll plant around you."

After recording the video, Yuan Lai ran in front of the crowd and sped up to catch up with the team in front.

Suddenly, she heard something moving in the woods, getting closer and closer to the filming location.

Yuan Lai returned decisively and bent down to pick up the thick branch on the ground.

"Everyone be careful! There are snakes on the mountain!" Yuan Lai ran to the lighting technician, took out a spare high-intensity flashlight, shone it into the distance, and issued a warning.

The forest was silent.

But she definitely didn't hear it wrong just now.

She was very familiar with that sound, the sound of skin rubbing against the ground.

Li Gengyun hid behind Jiang Dunhao and looked around panicking. "I thought realgar powder would be effective. I hope it's not a poisonous snake."

But it was too late. Yuan Lai had already seen the snake, his old friend, the golden viper, which was poisonous.

She kept her flashlight pointed in the direction of the viper, and the strong light made it afraid to move forward.

The crawling sounds in the forest became more and more frequent. Yuan Lai took out the package, took out the prepared realgar powder and sprinkled it in front of himself.

"Don't spread the powder all over the place, gather together and spread it in a circle first."

As Yuan Lai took a step forward, someone grabbed his clothes.

Li Hao said from behind, "Where are you going?"

Yuan Lai turned around and said with a smile, "Brother Hao, we're not going to alert the enemy. We can't just wait forever. We still have so many seeds to plant."

"Then you can't go either. If you delay, it's delayed. Let's go down the mountain and come back when we have all the equipment."

How can it be complete? The entire program crew wore long sleeves and long pants, high-top shoes, carried snake and insect repellent, and had various tools in hand.

Yuan Lai believes that she is worthy of the title of Snake Daring Ambassador, after all, she is a person who survived from the snake's mouth.

It’s a pity that the Banlan is not here. If it were here and had natural enemies, the golden viper would not be so blatant.

But there are so many people in the program crew, and no one took the initiative to provoke them, so why did these venomous snakes suddenly go berserk?

Yuan Lai's stick hit the grass, and the viper disappeared from the circle of light.

While pounding the ground vigorously, she walked in a large circle around the production crew. Several staff members did the same movements as Yuan Lai, which lasted for about three minutes.

When Yuan Lai listened again, the friction sound was gone.

She felt relieved and returned to the crowd, "Let's plant it first."

Grabbing his phone, Yuan Lai headed to the next group's filming location. Here were Zhao Yibo, Zhuo Yuan, Zhao Xiaotong, and He Haonan. It looked like Chen Shaoxi and Wang Yiheng were in the third group, along with Ji Ran and Xing Zhanyi.

This group was much faster, having already completed three plantings and also planted bamboo branches in the last one.

He Haonan took out the plastic wrap, ripped it, broke off a piece, and wrapped it on the top to prevent it from being pierced by the sharp bamboo branches.

"How should we put it? The main goal is speed." Zhuo Yuan measured the distance with his hand and shoveled down neatly, "But this pit is really hard to dig."

Zhao Yibo wielded his shovel, his head buried in the dirt as he dug. Rainbow Epiphyllum seeds lay nearby, their water droplets dampening the ground.

"My pit is perfect, exactly square." Zhao Xiaotong was very satisfied with his masterpiece. He patted his dusty hands and wanted to get the flower seeds.

Suddenly, his whole body tensed up, he looked in the direction of Zhao Yibo, and anxiously patted He Haonan, who was closest to Zhao Yibo.

Yuan Lai also saw it.

A viper had crawled to Zhao Yibo's feet and picked up the net bag containing flower seeds in its mouth.

"Zhao Yibo!"

He Haonan lowered his voice as much as possible and warned Zhao Yibo.

"What's wrong?" The moment Zhao Yibo turned his head, the viper suddenly retreated, biting the net bag and diving into the woods.

But the net bag was tied to Zhao Yibo's waist. When the viper pulled it, Zhao Yibo fell down and his body was dragged along.

"Yibo!"

Both the three brothers and the staff reacted quickly. One of the female staff members happened to be on the snake's escape route, and she directly grabbed Zhao Yibo's feet.

But no one expected that this viper was so strong. Even with two people dragging behind it, its speed did not slow down at all.

As they chased the snake higher and higher, many of them became exhausted and gradually fell behind.

Yuan Lai quickly climbed up a protruding cliff and saw that only three brothers were still holding on.

Zhuo Yuan's face was covered in sweat, and the corners of his mouth trembled, "Yibo..."

He Haonan grabbed Zhao Xiaotong's arm and climbed up with great effort, but in the end He Haonan was pulled down by Zhao Xiaotong.

He Haonan was surprised at Yuan Lai's extraordinary physical strength. He reached out to Yuan Lai, wanting Yuan Lai to pull them up.

Yuan Lai shook his head, "You guys go back, I'll go save Yibo."

"What are you talking about!" Zhao Xiaotong disagreed, and stood up by leaning on the tree next to him. "How could we, a group of grown men, let a girl like you go to rescue someone? If you tell anyone about this, you'll be in trouble! Xiao He, step on me to get up."

Yuan Lai didn't stop at all, but got up and continued to chase.

One minute later, Zhao Yibo would be in more danger.

The female staff member was left behind halfway and was helped up by Yuan Lai.

"Yibo! Yibo was taken away by a snake...over there..."

The female staff member cried with tears on her face, "I didn't catch it...it was too painful..."

Yuan Lai hugged the female staff member and quickly stuffed the medicine An An gave her into her mouth. "Don't be afraid, I will save him."

After putting the female staff member down, Yuan Lai lost his way.

The direction the female staff member pointed to was a dead end. Going forward, there was a cliff at the end.

If the viper dragged Zhao Yibo here, he would basically be doomed.

Yuan Lai knocked on the stone with a stick, and a faint echo came from the valley. She decided to return to the female worker's place to reconfirm the direction.

She had clearly used a stick to test the road ahead and found it to be solid, but when she stepped on it, she fell into a cave.

The cave was densely packed with vipers of different sizes, with fewer big ones and more small ones.

Yuan Lai's scalp tingled and he got goose bumps.

The viper that dragged Zhao Yibo away was the largest one in the cave, and the bag of Epiphyllum seeds had been basically eaten up, leaving only the black skin on the ground.

Zhao Yibo was covered in blood and unconscious.