After everyone received a pouch, the director continued his instructions. “Halfway through the search, we will give you a second pouch of hints. You have six hours, starting from NOW!”
Qin Nuan opened her own pouch to find a piece of paper with a riddle on it. “Two lamps, two fans, four jackhammers, and two drills.”
After reading it, she had an idea in mind already. She walked to the table and picked the rope.
Shen Chang’an saw that she had selected a tool, so she walked over with her own pouch. “Sister Nuan, could you help me to see what my riddle is about? I don’t understand it, so I don’t know what to choose either.”
After saying that, she unfolded her note and let Qin Nuan look at it.
“A hat with two sharp points on the head, a black robe on the body. A nasal voice that everyone can hear loud and clear.”
Qin Nuan was about to say something after reading it when the director noticed them. He picked up the loudhailer and shouted, “You are not allowed to team up for this mission, so you are not allowed to help each other or give hints to other guests.”
After hearing that, Qin Nuan passed the note back to Shen Chang’an and pointed to the table full of tools. “Chang’an, the program staff would never prepare anything that’s completely useless to us. So, all these tools are useful, and you can pick whichever you fancy.”
Then she fluttered her eyes at the director. “Director, saying this isn’t against the rules, right?”
The director couldn’t argue back at all.
After Shen Chang’an heard what Qin Nuan said, she decided not to think too much about it and picked one of the clubs up. “I don’t know what this is for, but at least it’s a proper club, and I could even use it as a support when I have to climb up the mountain.”
With that, she left the courtyard.
Su Wanyu’s pouch read: Its entire body is a treasure, loves green grass, works hard all its life, and is never arrogant. She picked a bundle of grass after reading this.
Zhou Qingshu’s pouch read: A farmer who believes in doing the work himself. He pulls the cart and tills the field but never grumbles. After reading this, he picked the other club.
Hao Bai’s pouch read: The general student population. It took him a few additional moments to guess the riddle and eventually settled on a rope.
After all the other guests had left, Gu Zhengxi finally moved his arm as he remained seated at the stone table. But he wasn’t going to open his pouch. Instead, he flung the pouch onto the table.
Then he ran over to the elderly villager who was still sitting on the floor.
“My dearest, most respected, most handsome grandpa, tell me secretly! Did you lose a cow? A pig? A goat? A chicken, A duck? Where did you lose it? What happened after that? Tell me! Tell me, and I promise to find it for you right now!”
“If you’ve lost one, I’ll find two for you! If you’ve lost two, I’ll find three for you! It’s a sure win deal for you! So hurry and tell me! My lovely grandpa!”
The elderly actor had no idea what to say.
What would be an appropriate response? The director didn’t say that he needed to say anymore after this.
The director was equally speechless.
Everything about this guest was great, except the fact that he had a mouth.
When he saw that Gu Zhengxi was going to start harassing the poor actor repeatedly, the director became afraid that the actor might just answer away, so he got the rest of the staff to take the actor away.
Gu Zhengxi had no other choice but to open his own pouch finally.
“You can make it work. You can be angry with it. It works super hard in the field, it produces 10,000 tons of grain, yet it only takes grass as its meal.”
Gu Zhengxi finished reading the riddle and started grumbling, “What on earth is this? This doesn’t make sense. It eats grass, it works the field, but it produces grain. Which animal produces grain? Also, it works super hard in the field, but you can make it work, and you can go ahead and be angry with it too? Am I supposed to find some stupid guy who only knows how to work and doesn’t anything else?”
After hearing his analysis, the director was even more speechless. The staff passed the last bundle of grass that was on the table to Gu Zhengxi. Wasn’t this riddle simple and clear enough to understand?