After the empress transmigrated, she became the judge of the entertainment industry.

Of course, Ye Wanyin couldn't lie on the dusty bed and cry, so she found a corner, squatted down, and pretended to shed tears for a while.

Then no one came to comfort him.

She roughly understood that the production team wouldn't interfere too much in the minor conflicts between the guests, and might even be happy to see them happen.

So soon she stood up, wiped away her tears with a brave expression, and went to check on the mission.

She sorted out her thoughts and decided that, compared to everything else, her top priority right now should be to perform well on variety shows.

So, if you fail to get close to someone, the only way to turn things around is to work hard on completing tasks.

Ye Wanyin went to receive her mission and then went out, hoping that she wouldn't have to sleep on a dusty bed tonight.

After a short while, Ye Sanqing also returned to the courtyard.

She first counted the firewood she brought back that day with her staff in front of the camera, and then divided it into two piles according to its dryness.

Since several sections were logs, they needed to be split before they could be used, so Ye Sanqing hesitated for a moment.

The extra firewood was just enough for the next two days, and she originally wanted to use the extra points to exchange for a basket and flashlight for mushrooms. If she exchanged them for an axe, she would be temporarily unable to use those two items.

It would be better to get a machete instead. If you go and collect firewood again, you can probably earn back those three things.

After thinking it over, Ye Sanqing used his points to exchange for a machete and also picked up fire tongs.

Thankfully, the fire tongs don't require points to redeem! But they need to be returned before dinner.

So Ye Sanqing decided to go and return quickly, and ran off with his empty basket on his back.

When Yin Xiangming finished cleaning and came out, he only saw a figure gradually disappearing into the distance.

Yin Xiangming: ? Who is it, Master Ye who moves at lightning speed?

He had just heard Ye Sanqing return and originally planned to finish his work before coming out to see if there was anything he could do, since his mother had said he needed to perform more in front of the camera!

When the results came out, the person had vanished without a trace, leaving Yin Xiangming somewhat bewildered.

"Hey." Deng Lingxuan came out of her room; she felt much better after a nap. "Where are they?"

"...They're all gone." Yin Xiangming's painful moment has arrived again!

"Nonsense, why would I ask you if I were here?" Deng Lingxuan rolled her eyes. "I'm asking where they went."

“My mom and Brother Ji went to the village intelligence office; Teacher Ye came back a while ago, but I don’t know where he is now; Master Ye also came back, but he ran out and I don’t know where he is now; Xiao Sheng and Teacher Pei went fishing and haven’t come back yet, I don’t know where they went fishing,” Yin Xiangming answered in a very formal manner.

"..." Deng Lingxuan rolled her eyes again. Did she really think she didn't know where her uncle and Old Pan had gone? And after all that talk, didn't she still not know where anyone was? Did this really need three sentences to explain?

"Asking you is pointless, I'll just send the message myself." Deng Lingxuan took out the phone provided by the production team.

Because they didn't want them to contact the outside world to send supplies, their personal cell phones were handed over to the production team for safekeeping during lunch, and they were given temporary cell phones instead.

This includes everyone's contact information, as well as a large group chat, to facilitate communication among them.

[Deng: Is anyone there? @All members]

Ji Wan replied the fastest: 【I'm here, what's up?】

Deng Lingxuan felt uncomfortable with her default name, so she immediately changed it to "Ling'er".

[Ling'er: Where are you all? I've woken up and I'm so bored.]

[Ji: We're heading back now. We've gathered a lot of information, and I'll share it with you all when we get back.]

[Ling'er: That's not what I was asking! Can someone actually talk?]

Pei Canxing looked at her phone, then at Sheng Hanyu, and finally at the bucket.

There are three crucian carp, each about the size of a palm, in the bucket. That's all the catch so far.

Hmm... this is definitely not enough for eight people.

Sheng Hanyu was quite satisfied, after all, no air force meant victory!

He calmly continued fishing, then noticed Pei Canxing's gaze. "What's wrong?"

"Deng Lingxuan is asking where everyone is. How should we reply?" Pei Canxing said. He actually wanted to say, "I don't want to reply to her. Do you want to reply to her?" but he decided against it for the sake of the camera.

"Just say she's fishing," Sheng Hanyu said nonchalantly. "She wouldn't come fishing anyway. What about the others?"

"Brother Ji said he and Teacher Pan are on their way back, and no one else has said anything." Pei Canxing sent the message as instructed, and sure enough, Deng Lingxuan ignored them.

“Yin Xiangming is probably still in the courtyard and hasn’t come out yet,” Sheng Hanyu said. She immediately focused her attention when she saw a fish bite the hook, but the fish only took one bite and swam away.

He then continued, "What about the firewood-gathering team?"

"They haven't made a sound, maybe they're still busy, or maybe the signal is bad in the mountains—wait, right?" Pei Canxing checked the latest message again, "Teacher Ye said she took on a task to help villagers tidy up the weeds in their backyards and is currently working on it. Deng Lingxuan said she's going too."

"Where is Master Ye?" Sheng Hanyu frowned. If they had finished gathering firewood and gone back, Ye Sanqing should have been speaking in the group chat. He began to suspect that although Ye Wanyin had gone with them, she hadn't done any work at all, so she still had the energy to deal with weeds.

"He hasn't said a word." Pei Canxing seemed to understand something. "Wait, is Master Ye gathering firewood by himself right now?"

This is outrageous. He never imagined that Ye Wanyin would simply skip the punishment tasks and dump them all on Ye Sanqing.

However, it's also possible that Ye Sanqing found her in the way and chased her away...

Sheng Hanyu gave him a look that seemed to say, "It should be just as you think."

“This doesn’t seem like a good idea,” Pei Canxing said. “For Ye Er’s sake, we’re just killing time anyway, so why don’t we go and see what’s going on?”

"We can also go into the mountains to fish and take a look around while we're at it."

"The fish here are too small, aren't they?" Pei Canxing didn't know anything about fishing and was simply puzzled.

"The water here isn't deep enough; it's about this big." Sheng Hanyu hadn't originally planned to go to the fishing spot in the mountains today; she intended to spend half the afternoon here before looking for an easy task.

But right now... well, the fish are just too small!

"Shouldn't we take these back first?" Pei Canxing asked, helping him pick up the bucket as he stood up to pack up his tools.

"It's closer to go directly into the mountains, at that fork in the road just now."

So the two of them went into the mountains.

The couple I ship is truly, truly real.

I'd like to see who says they're not related; everything yesterday was just an attempt to cover it up!

[Attention Ye Wanyin's fans! Your sister ran away because she didn't want to gather firewood. I recorded it!]

Could it be that he anticipated being a third wheel and kindly left?

[Exactly, the fact that so many of you are spamming "So lucky" just proves that there was something going on between them, doesn't it?]

[She even predicted it! She's so good at predicting! Now ask her to predict when it will rain!]

[As everyone knows, shipping couples has nothing to do with the actual celebrities. If you take shipping fans' words as evidence, then you're destined for tragedy.]

[But upon hearing this, they immediately got up to go find Master Ye. Isn't that love?]

[To be rational, couldn't it be because he was worried about Master Ye being alone on the mountain... no, couldn't it be because he knew that annoying Ye Wanyin wasn't there that he went there?]

[Worried? The trees should be the ones worried.]

[It's another case of group exclusion! Such blatant facts are right in front of you, yet you just can't see them!]

As Ye Sanqing watched the sky gradually darken, he didn't venture too far into the darkness, but instead went in the other direction from where the tree had fallen earlier.

She remembered there was a pond in that direction and thought she could go check it out if there was still time.

Sheng Hanyu also headed towards the pool, and saw Ye Sanqing halfway there.

Hearing a noise behind him, Ye Sanqing quickly turned around, gripping his machete, and saw it was the two of them. He waved to them.

Sheng Hanyu caught the fleeting murderous intent in her eyes.

What kind of person would sense someone approaching from a distance greater than a greeting and prepare for a fight?

Ye Sanqing is truly a person worth exploring.

He kept this discovery in mind, took a few more steps closer, and said with a smile, "I've come to see if we've secured dinner."

Ye Sanqing glanced at his bucket. "I'll also check if we've got dinner sorted out."

Pei Canxing looked at the firewood in the basket and said, "Is this enough?"

“These are the second batch,” Ye Sanqing explained, pointing to the half-filled baskets. “I’ve already sent them back. These together will last until the day after tomorrow.”

"Did you pick them up by yourself?" Pei Canxing remembered the camera and deliberately emphasized this point.

“Yeah, Ye Wanyin followed us here for no reason, but she went straight back without even going into the mountains. I don’t understand.” Ye Sanqing shook his head. “After I got back, I saw that it was still early, so I quickly came back before it got dark to get more, just in case.”

"Now that we've almost finished preparing the firewood, Master Ye, would you like to help us prepare the fish?" Sheng Hanyu asked.

Ye Sanqing readily agreed. The location was already quite close to the pool, so it was just along the way.

However, she still asked, "Did you bring a flashlight? It might be difficult to walk when it gets dark."

"Yes." Sheng Hanyu took the flashlight out of his backpack and showed it to her.

"Alright, then lead the way." Ye Sanqing nodded, casually picking up the basket from the ground and tossing it behind him.

Pei Canxing: You moved too fast. I hope Ye Er doesn't see this and say I don't know how to take care of people!

Before long they reached the edge of the pool.

Above the pool is a low waterfall, which appears to be a stream that meanders down from the mountaintop and then gathers into the pool here.

Ye Sanqing glanced at the water, which was of unknown depth, and spotted the shadow of a large fish.

“There’s a fish’s shadow there,” she said, pointing to the faint shadows appearing and disappearing underwater.

Sheng Hanyu nodded, changed to a different fishing rod, took out some bait, and began to prepare.

"Wait a minute," Ye Sanqing asked, "how deep is this pool?"

"You don't want to go swimming, do you?" Sheng Hanyu recalled the first time he met her, when she was squatting by the lake with an expression that said, "I'm so bored, I really want to go swimming."