Until Guan Fengyan counted the number of guests and found one missing, he asked, "Has anyone seen Zhong Yulu? Where did Lu Lu go?"
A few people finally realized.
Zou Li was the first to come to her senses, she was about to head into the market to look for Zhong Yulu’s shadow.
Then she saw Zhong Yulu walking back with a face full of frustration.
Zhong Yulu was holding one yuan and walked to Zou Li’s side.
Bai Xing immediately noticed the one yuan coin in Zhong Yulu’s hand and curiously asked, "What did you buy to eat? Still have one left?"
Zhong Yulu raised the one yuan in her hand and forced a smile.
"Didn’t buy anything."
Then she took out that five-yuan note from her pocket.
Bai Xing was shocked, "You even earned one yuan? Impressive!"
If it were before, Zhong Yulu would be very happy to hear such praise from Bai Xing, but now it’s different.
Now Zhong Yulu just wanted to cry.
Just now, she thought she found the task assigned by the show, worked hard to help the elderly vendor sell vegetables, completely ignoring the market’s events, just wanting to grab Uncle Yan’s task before all the other contestants.
But she never expected that after she helped sell all the vegetables, when she asked about the task card, the vendor surprisingly didn’t know!
This elderly vendor’s stall wasn’t even the task location assigned by the show.
Zhong Yulu poured her enthusiasm into completing the task, and in the end, received just one yuan from the elderly vendor, and that was it.
Zhong Yulu was both angry and speechless.
The fans in the chat, however, were unanimous in their praise.
[Hilarious, even though she didn’t complete the task, she helped the elderly vendor, Lu Lu is awesome!]
[Indeed, Lu Lu is really helpful and kind~]
Next to her, Zou Li noticed Zhong Yulu seemed down and quietly asked, "What’s wrong, Lu Lu?"
Zhong Yulu tried to keep smiling, didn’t respond, just shook her head.
The show’s eight contestants hadn’t split up for long before they regrouped.
Aside from Guan Fengyan and Sheng Yaoyao getting some rice, the others still hadn’t gathered anything.
The main purpose of coming to the market this time was to help Uncle Yan complete the tasks and sell vegetables on the side.
But Uncle Yan’s task still hadn’t been figured out, and half of the market time was already gone.
Sheng Yaoyao suggested, "How about we split into two teams from now on, Uncle Yan leads one team to find the task, and the other team follows me to shop!"
Guan Fengyan smiled helplessly, "I can do that, but I’m worried we won’t find the task today!"
Zhong Yulu felt somewhat comforted hearing Guan Fengyan say this, she said, "It’s okay Uncle Yan, we can take our time searching, worst case we’ll try stall by stall!"
Everyone was reassuring Uncle Yan, boasting that they would finish all of Uncle Yan’s tasks today.
Only Ji Xizhi turned to look at the market corner behind them, her gaze calm, and she said softly, "The task location should be over there."
[Where??? Why can’t I see it!]
[Does Ji Xizhi have x-ray vision, how does she know where the task location is?]
[Production team, can you be more proactive, push the camera towards where Zhi Zhi is pointing and take a look! I’m anxious!]
The chat was even more anxious than the contestants.
Guan Fengyan and Sheng Yaoyao raised their eyebrows after hearing Ji Xizhi and immediately trusted her.
"Does Zhi Zhi have a discovery? Where, where?"
They were the first to gather around Ji Xizhi.
Ji Xizhi didn’t explain much, she directly led the large group towards the corner location.
Zhong Yulu watched Ji Xizhi confidently walk to the spot she helped sell vegetables earlier, which she had already checked before—there was no task location there.
Zhong Yulu’s gaze flickered, but she didn’t open her mouth to persuade and just followed behind to watch.
More than half of the morning had passed and there weren’t many people in the market. Ji Xizhi led everyone through the market and arrived at a corner.
An elderly uncle sat at the corner, wearing a straw hat, sitting on a piece of gray cloth, with a pile of handmade brooms in front of the gray cloth, and a snakeskin bag next to it, seemingly filled with brooms too.
Ji Xizhi approached along with the other contestants, the elderly uncle looked calm and straightaway asked, "Do you want a broom? Five bucks each, cheap and good to use! Want one?"
Ji Xizhi glanced down and didn’t answer his question, instead, she asked, "Task location?"
The middle-aged man froze but immediately responded quickly, ".........No!"
Ji Xizhi nodded and then immediately turned back to call Guan Fengyan, "It’s right here! Uncle Yan, you do the task!"
The middle-aged man: "?!" He said no, so how was he exposed?!
The other contestants approached and saw an elderly uncle and a stall full of brooms. The uncle’s stall was secluded, inconspicuous, selling brooms, and he always wore a hat, with head down weaving brooms, looking completely unrelated to the show’s crew!
So no one expected this to be the show’s task location!
Bai Xing even glanced around, "Not even a camera around, is this really the task location?"
Guan Fengyan was hesitant, "Is the show team really this tricky? Filming espionage meets here? Making the task location this hidden!"
Ji Xizhi confirmed, "Yes, it’s right here."
The uncle at the stall heard Ji Xizhi so firmly and was a bit anxious, arguing, "I just said I’m not, why don’t you understand, young lady! I’ve been here for two days, I’m just a broom seller, buy if you’d like, otherwise don’t block my business huh!"
Ji Xizhi: "I saw you move just now."
Guan Fengyan, confused, "Saw what?"
Ji Xizhi calmly added, "Oh, just now I saw him purposely trip the escaping vendor!"
[Damn! I just said this place looked familiar, remembered now, that vendor tripped over here earlier!]
[Amazing, noticing such details?!]
The uncle heard Ji Xizhi’s words, wanted to slap his own hand, but faced with Ji Xizhi’s questioning, he was determined not to admit, self-righteously said, "How can that count, I’m just an ordinary justice villager, isn’t that okay?"
Ji Xizhi: "Does a justice villager argue with me about this here?"