Chapter 30

After buying the ingredients, the proud fathers happily carried bags full of meat, vegetables and other food back to the village.

The director had expected the fathers to cause some sudden situations to add some laughs when editing later. However, except Ji Mochen who was very sociable, after a while, he called the peddler "brother" directly.

Of course, this could be understood. This place was too remote. You couldn't even get delivery. You had to drive two hours to the county seat to pick up your online shopping.

Therefore, most of the villagers were elderly and left-behind children with low consumption levels. Few people bought meat and eggs every day. These few fathers were completely new long term customers for the peddler.

Of course, from a humanitarian perspective, the peddler only earned that little. If you still haggled with him, you would definitely be scolded. But the fathers were also poor. If you wanted to scold, go scold the program team. After all, they were doing this for the children.

On the way back, the fathers started proposing recipes based on today’s ingredients. Finally they decided that since the ingredients were not much, they didn’t all need to cook. They would just go to Geng Ming’s house to cook everything and pack it into thermal containers to bring back, because by then the children would also have woken up.

With the friendship built from catching chicken yesterday and from going to market together this morning, the relationship between these fathers quickly warmed up. When the fathers came back with ingredients around 6 o’clock, the live studio opened at 7. So when the audience logged in, they saw the cute babies were sleeping soundly, while the fathers were missing again.

The audience thought the director was playing the trick of letting the babies find their fathers again. Fortunately, they soon found the fathers’ live stream.

【Ahhhhh! How could I get to see so many handsome uncles gathered together!!】

【Haha, what “old” handsome guys.】

...

But soon, the audience noticed something wrong.

【Strange. Where did they get the ingredients? If I remember correctly, except Ruo Ruo’s family which had some food left yesterday, other families should have run out of ingredients except the small bag of rice given for free right? 】

【+1. I also remember people guessing there would be tasks again for breakfast next morning.】

【So now it’s...The program team gave directly? Less fun.】

【Understandable. Maybe they were more lenient on the first day. And the celebrities this season are quite well-known. The program team probably also fears backlash from fans.】

...

While the audience were guessing, the Dad Is Home program team posted a message on social media:

Want to know where the fathers got the ingredients? Please stay tuned to the Dad Is Home Special every Sunday on Strawberry Channel.

The audience response wasn’t bad. It had been so for previous seasons. The so-called Special was mainly for audience who couldn’t watch the live stream all the time. Not only that, each family also had standby recording equipment that didn’t show on the live stream. Those footages would also be edited into the Special.

Unfortunately, previous seasons didn’t have high popularity, so neither the live nor the Special had many views or discussions.

But now it’s different. Even though it’s only the second day since launch, Dad Is Home already topped multiple hot search trends. With this type of teaser from the program team now, audience would surely be very curious.

For example, what exactly happened with the “lost necklace” between Ji and his daughter?

And where did the fathers get the ingredients they were using now? ...

Within minutes, the shares and comments on this status from the program team already exceeded 100,000 each. The executive director laughed ear to ear with teeth invisible.

After the fathers packed up breakfast and went back to their own home, the babies also gradually woke up one by one. The only one who had trouble waking up was Ji Ruochu. But Ji Mochen had his way. He clipped a piece of aromatic pancake with chopsticks and brought it close to his daughter’s nose tip.

“Chirp!” Almost instantly, the little one on the bed opened her eyes.

“My baby girl, wake up for breakfast!”

“Breakfast?” The little one blinked left and right eyes alternately, clearly not fully awake yet managed to capture the key word accurately.

Her fox-like eyes blinked and blinked, sending the live studio audience into prairie dog screams.

【Ahhhhh! The baby glanced at me!】

【So cute...】