Soon, Ke Xuan searched for a place called "Lin An" on his phone's map.
The exact location was unknown, but it was 62 kilometers away, a one-and-a-half-hour drive.
"This should be it, but isn't it a bit far?"
Ke Xuan handed his phone to the young girl. His finger accidentally tapped something, and the map suddenly switched to satellite view mode.
Seeing the tiny village road situated far from the city, nestled amongst the mountains, Ke Xuan was speechless.
"Director, you really have a thing against mountain villages, don't you?"
The cameraman behind them stifled a laugh.
The bullet comments were also highly amused.
— This show should be renamed from now on, how about "Guests Complaining About the Production Team's Daily Lives."
— The person above, you're trying to kill me with laughter, but the production team really spares no effort in tricking these guests.
— But it's understandable. "New Home" has always been innovative, with each "new home" having a different style.
— Coming to a place like this, and thinking about yesterday's task, the production team isn't planning on having the guests chop wood to build their own houses, are they?
— It shouldn't be that bad. If they have to build from scratch, how long will it take? The filming doesn't have that much time.
— It should be the same as before, the production team prepares a bare shell house and then lets the guests decorate it themselves.
— Wait, shouldn't the problem now be why they found it so quickly? The other groups of guests are still wandering around like headless flies.
— Yes, with how much the production team loves to trick people, they shouldn't have made it so easy for the guests to find the answer, right?
— And when they arrived, there was no process at all, so you couldn't tell how they found it.
— Perhaps it has something to do with that phrase about their way of earning money?
— Just a reminder, it's the *location* of earning money, not the *way* of earning money. Even if it's the way, how did Jian Sheng determine it was this place, and find it so accurately?
— There are too many doubts anyway. I'll remain observant and wait to see what the production team says.
The owner of the calligraphy and painting shop was a young woman dressed in a qipao. She was flipping through a book behind the counter and stood up to greet them upon their arrival.
Her appearance wasn't stunning, but she possessed the charm of a classical beauty, with an elegant and intellectual demeanor in her every move.
"I didn't expect you to arrive so soon."
The beautiful proprietress chuckled, looking at the two with some curiosity.
Jian Sheng uttered a soft "Oh?" "Sister, do you know us?"
The beautiful proprietress smiled, "Yes, I'm even watching your livestream."
Ke Xuan instinctively glanced at a book titled "Stories to Astonish the World" placed on the counter.
The beautiful proprietress cleared her throat lightly, opened the book, and revealed a tablet hidden inside.
Ke Xuan: "..."
Everyone in the livestream: "..."
— Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Why does it feel like playing on a phone while pretending to study in class?
— It's over. I was just admiring her, but the classical beauty image I had in my mind just shattered.
— Is this how fairies watch livestreams? Even the tablet they use for livestreams has the scent of a book.
— Hahahaha, the person above understands subtlety. What a smell of a book! It's clamped by a book, how could it not smell like one!
— What kind of divine variety show is this? Why is any random beautiful proprietress so elegant and pretty?
Seeing their confused expressions, the beautiful proprietress cleared her throat twice and explained, "I've opened a calligraphy and painting shop, so I, as the beautiful proprietress, need to act in a way that matches my identity, right?"
"Having a scholarly air can better fool, cough, I mean, introduce others to buy calligraphy and paintings."
— Beautiful lady, you were about to say "fool," weren't you? We all heard it. It's definitely "fool"!
— Now we all know you were secretly watching the livestream behind the book!
— That's true. When I first saw this shop and the image of the beautiful proprietress reading a book from the livestream, I felt it would be a disservice to such a place and atmosphere if I didn't buy something.
— I don't want to expose you, the person above. Do you want to buy calligraphy and paintings? You clearly have a crush on the beautiful proprietress!
After explaining, the beautiful proprietress looked at the two with her autumn-water-like eyes.
"I've told you the reason. Can you satisfy my curiosity and tell me how you found this place?"
At this moment, the tablet, which the beautiful proprietress had taken out and placed on the counter, suddenly beeped.
The beautiful proprietress looked at it, exclaimed, "It's out of battery, out of battery! Where's my charger? Where's my charger?" she muttered while searching everywhere under the counter.
"I remember putting it right here. How can I not find it? Oh no, if I don't find it soon, my tablet will shut down!"
Jian Sheng moved her fingers, her voice soft, "Sister, did you take the charger home last night and forget to bring it?"
The beautiful proprietress froze. After a moment of careful recollection, she exclaimed, "Ahhh! Oh no, I really left it at home! What do I do now? I can't watch the livestream!"
After her annoyance, the beautiful proprietress suddenly realized and asked in surprise, "Sheng Sheng baby, how did you know my charger was left at home?"
Wouldn't a normal person's first reaction be that she was careless and misplaced it?
However, after asking, the beautiful proprietress felt she was overthinking. The young girl might have just said it casually.
Just as she was about to ask them to watch the shop while she went to buy a tablet charger, she heard the young girl say, "That's how I knew, just like knowing the answer is here."
Understanding the rules of this world, Jian Sheng knew that science was highly promoted now, and things like fortune-telling and physiognomy were labeled as feudal superstition, with strict censorship and crackdowns online.
For the sake of the show, Jian Sheng dared not directly say she had calculated it.
It wouldn't be good if this show was banned because of her.
Others, unaware that such a young girl could think so much, became even more confused by her vague explanation.
The beautiful proprietress looked at the cardboard with the word puzzle written on it, then at the tablet that was about to run out of battery, and tentatively asked:
"Sheng Sheng baby, besides this word puzzle, Director Hu also left something else for you in the shop. Do you know where it is?"
This time, the beautiful proprietress stared intently at the young girl. She saw the girl's fingers seem to move, as if drawing something in the air, or like a child counting on their fingers.
After only two seconds, the young girl walked towards a display cabinet.
It was a wooden cabinet displaying various small items with words written on them.
The young girl stopped at a certain spot, looked up, and waved to Ke Xuan, "Uncle Ke! Sheng Sheng can't reach, Uncle Ke, hug me!"