As expected, the production team was ready to stir up some drama. The guests would have toplete a task, and their choice of tent would be based on their ranking.


    The director had a staff member hand out a booklet to each person. The task was to find nts in the nearby woods that matched the pictures in the booklet. The person who found the most would win.


    The guests were instructed to form pairs.


    "Yvonne, I''m with you," Shirley said immediately, grabbing Yvonne''s arm.


    "Okay," Yvonne nodded. Unlike the other guests who rushed off, she took her time flipping through the booklet, memorizing its contents before she and Shirley set out.


    Once they entered the woods, Yvonne broke off a branch from a low shrub and used it to poke through the undergrowth as she searched.


    "Yvonne, aren''t you going to check the booklet?" Shirley asked, following behind her.


    "No need, I''ve got it memorized," Yvonne replied. She then bent down, pulled a weed from the ground, and handed it to Shirley.


    Shirley took the nt and quickly flipped through her booklet. Sure enough, she found a matching picture.


    "Yvonne, you''re amazing! A photographic memory!" Shirley eximed. “Geez, with you around, there''s nothing for me to do."


    "Who says there''s nothing for you to do? You can keep praising me,” Yvonne said with a smile.


    "You got it," Shirley grinned,unching into a continuous stream ofpliments. Buoyed by the praise, Yvonne''s search for nts became even faster.


    The result was no surprise: Yvonne and Shirley won first ce, earning the first pick of the tents.


    Among the six tents, two were top-of-the-line luxury models.


    Shirley, ever straightforward, immediately chose the most luxurious one. Yvonne, however, picked a mid-range tent.


    She knew there were industry seniors and elders among the


    guests, and it would be impol


    for


    two young actresses to take both of the best spots.


    "Yvonne, why did you pick a small tent? Oh well, it doesn''t matter. We can just stay together," Shirley said, putting her arm around Yvonne.


    "Sounds good," Yvonne replied with a smile.


    After all the guests had chosen their tents, they each took their luggage and settled in.


    Around noon, the production team organized for the guests to go buy ingredients for lunch.


    The area was deserted, and the nearest vige was about a kilometer away.


    When they arrived, they discovered


    that most of the vigers had already moved out. After The Thompson Group bought thend, the vige was ted for demolition, and nearly everyone had relocated.


    The guests walked into the vige and found one family that hadn''t left yet.


    They lived in a simple three-room


    house with a yard full of fresh


    vegetables. There was also a jujube,


    the


    tree though it was too early in the


    spring for it to bear fruit.


    A young woman was pumping water from a hand-pump well in the yard. When she


    saw them approaching, she greeted them warmly.


    “Hello, can I help you?" the young woman asked.


    "Hi," Yvonne smiled and introduced herself. "We''re from the XX production team,


    and we were hoping to buy some vegetables."


    “Oh, you need vegetables? I grew all of these myself. Please, take whatever you want, no charge," the young woman replied with a smile.


    "Thank you so much!" Shirley said, happily heading into the garden to see what was avable.


    Yvonne, however, walked over to the young woman and helped her pump the water, striking up a casual conversation.