The Useless Stepmom Brings Her Kids to Reality TV Shows to Photograph Them - Chapter 356
Chapter 356: Even A Thief Would Have Felt Bad Robbing A Place Like This
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Wait a minute.” Tutu quickened his pace. “There is only a wasteland or a river around us. This cannot be a camping site! ”
“Tutu, stop asking questions. We’ll find out soon,” said Wheatley. She was tired even thinking about walking for two hours.
After crossing fields, the wilderness, and a river, they finally saw a few houses.
“We’re almost at our destination.” The director pointed to the houses ahead.
Xia MO seemed to have realized something. “Wanwan, is it possible that we cannot stay in the village for the show anymore, and we’re being taken to a new place?”
There had been too many speculations about this mission, so Lin Wan no longer trusted anything.
“We’ll find out when we get there,” she said.
At first, everyone thought there were just a few vacant houses. However, they saw people as they got nearer.
It seemed that the people had been informed of their arrival. They gathered around. They vaguely knew the guests from the livestreams.
The people were dressed plainly. Most of them were elderly, and a few were even disabled.
The women fell silent. They smiled at the people, but they felt sorry for them.
“Our mission today is to get to know these villagers,” said the director. “This village is Lanwei Village. Not many people live here. Those who do are pretty old. Their houses are mostly made of mud and straw.”
These houses were much smaller than those in Lan Village, and their living conditions were worse here.
Lin Wan felt sad looking at the tiny village and its people.
The Festival Group wasn’t trying to extort the guests. However, they wanted to spread awareness about the conditions of the people living here. The living conditions of the people here had improved greatly after they had begun the variety show.
They started with the first house. The children fell silent as they looked at the bare walls and dilapidated surroundings. They weren’t smiling anymore.
The house had no running water and no electricity.
Li Zexuan had once filmed in a similarly harsh environment. He had visited Yongming Village, which was similar to this one. However, he was still shocked.
Li Zekai held Li Zexin’s hand. “Brother, even the house where Peipei’s pet lives is better than this.”
Tutu was silent. His grandma’s house had two cats and a little house in the backyard for them. They even had a small toilet and an automatic food dispenser. Even animals had better lives than this.
The villagers had received a notice that informed them of the guests’ arrival. They had cleaned up the place.
Li Yanchen quietly looked at the people. He resolved to put people to improve the living conditions of this village once he returned to Yun City. He wanted to help.
Even the comments had stopped for a while before they appeared again. [There are mostly elderly people in this village.]
[It’s heart-wrenching to watch. I also came from the countryside, but my village is quite well off. We have two-story buildings and cement roads. There are not any buildings and corporations, but everything else is good.]
[These mud houses must be a hundred years old. I didn’t think people still lived in mud houses anymore. I never thought a secluded village would be near the Lan Village.]
[It’s sad.]
[The saddest part is not only their harsh living conditions but also the lack of people in the village. I heard that people can’t get married here to start a family because there are very few people.]
[I think it’s also because people don’t want to stay because of the lack of access. The young people must have gone out of the village to make a living. Only the elderly are left behind.]
[I can’t bear to see this. They smile in welcome even though their lives are so difficult.]
The director arranged for two staff members to take the children to play and look around.
In the first house, Lin Wan talked with the elderly living there. She felt so sorry for them. She held Li Yanchen’s hand for comfort. He patted the back of her hand.
The Festival Group had prepared some things for the people in the village. The staff members handed out food and some money. The people refused to accept them in the beginning. It was only after the guests and the staff members insisted that they accepted them in gratitude.
The second household belonged to an old man. Corn and dried chili peppers hung from the eaves.
The old man’s hair had all turned white. There was only a bed, two chairs, and a table inside the house. He also had a dog. There was nothing else.
Even a thief would have felt bad robbing a place like this.
Li Meng had written scenes like these in her stories but seeing it in front of her was still a huge blow.
She asked about the health conditions of the elderly in the village. Some of them were very sick. She decided to donate money from her foundation to take care of the medical bills for the people living here.
With Li Meng taking the lead, the other guests also expressed their wish to do something for the people living here.
The director was moved. He had never intended to ask for any kind of money from the guests. His only goal was to show them that some people in this world lived such lives.
Outside the house, the children were in no mood to play and enjoy themselves. They sat down.
“I thought Auntie Wang’s house was the most rundown, but I didn’t know there were people who had an even more difficult life than Auntie Wung.”
The children had thought that the houses in Lan Village were not as good when compared to their houses in Yun City. However, the houses in Lan Village at least had running water and electricity. It was different here.
Li Zekai was very sad. Tutu was also silent. These children had all grown up in rich households. Their understanding of the world changed by seeing this downtrodden village.
Doudou felt like this was all a dream. She bit her tongue to make sure. “This is all real…”
“The old people here are all so pitiful. They are old enough to be my grandparents.” Doudou remembered her grandparents. They always took a walk in the park and walked their dogs. They loved it when she went to visit them.
Tutu lived with his grandmother. She bathed in milk every day to maintain her skin. He took a video of the place and sent it to his grandmother and asked her not to waste milk anymore.
Huo Meijun, who was watching the livestream, felt guilty.
“Tutu, I promise I’ll listen to you and stop doing it,” she texted back.
Tutu couldn’t understand why there was such a big difference in the way people lived. His grandparents owned a company, his father was rich, and here people were almost dying.
Feifei burst into tears when he saw an old man limping by..
