I'm a web novelist, and you want me to work in the entertainment industry?

A light rain fell during the night, the raindrops tapping on the green tiles and the leaves of the pomegranate trees in the corner of the courtyard, falling intermittently throughout the night.

The rain stopped the next morning.

At 7:00 AM, the live stream started an hour early, which was unusual for them.

The courtyard was filled with the unique fresh scent of rain.

Take a breath, and you'll feel refreshed.

In the courtyard, the outfits prepared by the production team for the six guests were neatly arranged.

A windproof jacket, high-top rain boots, trekking poles, and a bamboo basket.

Everyone picked out a set of equipment and prepared to change into their gear.

"I won't be going up the mountain with you guys," Yan Lei suddenly said. "I'm planning to go to the nearby market and try to earn some money."

"In case your harvest in the mountains isn't great, I can still use this as a backup plan." His tone was unusually calm.

[While this idea is indeed quite good, Teacher Yan, aren't you just trying to show off?]

Yan Lei: I will save the team from this dire situation!

[But what if we don't make any money? Do we have to rely on our children?]

[You all don't understand Professor Yan's deeper meaning! Professor Yan is right; after all, how can an aircraft carrier go up a mountain? It can't even turn around!]

"Teacher Yan is very thoughtful. With you backing us up, we can rest assured," Cheng Che replied with a smile, his face showing no sign of distress.

"Go for it!" Yan Lei waved his hand, as if a radiance was shining upon him.

Cheng Che turned to look at the set of equipment in front of him, but didn't rush to put it on.

"Director Wang, do you have any extra equipment? This set looks a bit too big to me, do you have any smaller ones?" he asked.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zheng didn't think much of it. He waved his hand, signaling his assistant to find him a smaller set of equipment.

The assistant did as instructed—in order to deal with all kinds of situations, the production team naturally couldn't have prepared only six sets.

"Thank you." Cheng Che changed into his gear.

Then he also folded up the extra set of equipment and put it into his bamboo basket.

"?" Tian Xiwei noticed this and paused for a moment, "You're planning to carry the load up the mountain?"

"Just in case," Cheng Che said matter-of-factly. "The terrain in the mountains is so complicated. If something unexpected happens and my clothes get torn, I'll have something to change into."

This was indeed his true thought—although the equipment the production team bought for him was probably of good quality, it wouldn't hurt to do more preparation.

"That seems to make sense." Tian Xiwei nodded, not giving it much thought.

And so, a dozen minutes later, apart from Yan Lei, the group of five people were fully equipped and set off to pick mushrooms on the mountain.

……

……

As you walk up the mountain path, the soil under your feet is still wet.

Last night's rain was neither too heavy nor too light; it just soaked the surface of the soil, but not to the point of making it completely muddy.

The air was filled with the mixed smells of pine needles, soil, and rainwater.

The woodland near the entrance was already covered with deep and shallow footprints, in different directions, probably left by farmers who had come up the mountain earlier.

On the outskirts of the forest, mushrooms are almost nowhere to be seen, but as you venture deeper in, clusters of all sorts of strange and wonderful mushrooms begin to emerge from the damp mud.

White, yellow, green, brown, big, small, long, flat—it really is a colorful and diverse array of things.

"A little girl picking mushrooms, carrying a big basket on her back..." Xia Ziyi was just like a badger that had entered a melon field, humming a song as she skipped and jumped around picking mushrooms.

She didn't care whether they were poisonous or edible; she just put on gloves and threw any mushrooms she saw into the basket, and in no time she had picked half a basketful.

The environment in Yunnan Province is truly amazing, with such a rich variety of species!

[Wow! I'm really interested in this! Picking mushrooms has been a childhood dream of mine!]

I'm particularly interested in the mushrooms Xia Jie picked; are they all edible?

[A Yunnan native shares her experience: Sister Xia picked a basket of poisonous plants, but not a single one was edible... She can go back and have Teacher Yan refine them into poison.]

"It wasn't easy!" Cheng Che exclaimed.

"What's wrong?" Tian Xiwei asked.

"It's rare for Sister Xia to sing in tune."

"..."

"I think she sings very well!" Henry Lau said from the side.

"Dahua, let me tell you something," Cheng Che had a mischievous idea, "If you can teach Sister Xia to sing, she'll be very grateful to you."

"Really?" Henry Lau was intrigued.

"Really, you can ask Sister Nan if you don't believe me."

Liu Xianhua turned to look at Xu Anan, who was intently searching for mushrooms.

Xu Anan thought for a moment after hearing Cheng Che's words and nodded.

Ziyi really loves singing. If Henry Lau could teach her, she would definitely be happy.

Liu Xianhua immediately became energized, straightened his back and headed off, ready to begin special vocal training for Xia Ziyi.

"Ziyi, do you want to learn to sing? I can teach you!" Liu Xianhua patted his chest confidently. "I'm a professional!"

"Really?" Xia Ziyi was indeed very interested.

"Of course it's true. Is there any song you'd like to learn?" Henry Lau asked with a gentlemanly smile.

Talk about my songs, talk about my songs!

"I want to learn 'Fireworks Fade Easily'," Sister Xia said straightforwardly.

Henry Lau suddenly squatted down under an old pine tree and became withdrawn.

"What's wrong with you?" Xia Ziyi couldn't understand this person's thought process.

She thought this person was a bit slow and spoke strangely.

"No, don't worry about me, let me be alone for a while..."

"Okay, sure." Sister Xia nodded, and really left him alone.

"...?"

Henry Lau lowered his head even further.

[Hahahaha, you pathetic wretch, you're just playing around!]

For some reason, I have a feeling that Da Hua and Sister Xia are evenly matched!

Actually, that's not the case, because Da Hua is no match for Sister Xia at all!

On the other side, Tian Xiwei, Cheng Che, and Xu Anan were all diligently searching for mushrooms.

Xu Anan was the first to spot the target.

Under an old pine tree, she found a mushroom with a green cap and a surface covered with cracks.

"Green-headed mushroom." She took out the card, compared it, and found it was correct, a faint smile appearing on her face.

"We've already completed 1/6 of the progress, that went very smoothly!" Tian Xiwei was also energized and worked even harder to find mushrooms.

She noticed that there were significantly more mushrooms under the trees than in the open area, so she began to check each pine tree one by one.

Suddenly, she let out a gasp.

"Wow!"

"What's wrong?" Cheng Che immediately looked in the direction she was looking.

"What great mushrooms!" Tian Xiwei pointed to another pine tree.

It was a "standard" mushroom in the literal sense—red cap, white stem, and white spots on the cap.

It's the kind of mushroom that pops up when you type "mushroom" in your input method, along with the same emoji.

"These aren't ordinary mushrooms," Cheng Che commented. "These are mushrooms from Super Mario."