APCF -Chapter 15 (2)

After sending off the police officers, during breakfast, Director Zhao incessantly apologised to the guests. Especially towards Liu Ziyu who received a fright and Qi Xingchen who got injured last night, Director Zhao had carefully comforted them for a very long time.

Inadequate security measures by the programme team lead to a knife-wielding burglar breaking and entering. If this section was aired, they were afraid of being drowned by all the spittle from the fans. Therefore, other than apologising, Director Zhao hinted that he hoped everyone would cover up this matter altogether.

Both Qi Xingchen and Liu Ziyu expressed their understanding, and could only express their understanding. If they insisted on holding the programme team accountable, the gains from it do not make up for the losses from offending MaimangTV.

Once everything was settled in Aunslev Village, it signified that the journey to the three villages had ended, and they should set out towards the next destination.

Everyone dragged their suitcases downstairs in succession. Qi Xingchen had fewer items, hence after he had carried his suitcase down, he had also helped to carry Luo Qiuman’s ones down.

Luo Qiuman did a headcount of everyone on the first floor, “We’re still missing Tao Tao, did Tao Tao not finish packing yet?”

“I’m not sure,” Liu Ziyu answered, “She said she couldn’t find something.”

“Then I’ll go help her—”

Once Luo Qiuman heard this, she was about to help Tao Tao search for it together. Mid-sentence, Tao Tao came out with a deathly pale face, interrupting Luo Qiuman.

“I’m sorry everyone, I’m really sorry……”

Luo Qiuman: “What happened?”

“Our money……” Two streams of teardrops slipped from Tao Tao’s eyes, as her voice trembled, “Our travel funds, they are all lost!”

…

Yesterday night when the burglar was escaping, he had taken something from the bedside cabinet in passing. The lights were off, and in addition, Qi Xingchen was shoved aside by the burglar, thus he did not get a good look at what the burglar took.

Now they knew, what he took with him was the coin purse containing the travel funds that Tao Tao was in charge of keeping.

The trip still had three days remaining, yet they had no more money. This was a major blow for the guests. The floor of the villa immediately sunk into silence, leaving only the sound of Tao Tao sobbing.

Qi Xingchen recalled that the original text did indeed have the plot of a burglar stealing the money, followed by the male protagonist’s consolation. But the female protagonist was not to blame for the money being stolen, and he went up the stairs to support Tao Tao: “Don’t cry, it wasn’t your fault.”

“It was me who did not fulfil my responsibility, I shouldn’t have left the travel funds outside, I should have carried it on myself for safekeeping!”

“You also wouldn’t know that a burglar would come in, right?” Qi Xingchen said in a gentle voice, “We can still think of another way if the money’s gone, but if you end up falling ill, we would have to stay at the hospital for three days, and our mission would be a failure.”

Hearing “mission failure”, Tao Tao gradually stopped crying. Luo Qiuman came up again to soothe her for a bit, saying that everyone did not blame her, Tao Tao then finally felt better.

Without the travel funds, the programme still had to be recorded, the programme team was even more ecstatic by this turn of events. They shot a supplementary part of them losing the money, forcibly bending “breaking in and burglary” into “stolen along the way”. They then left the comfortable Aunslev Village in high spirits.

When they reached the edge of the village, Qi Xingchen took out some change from his pocket, “I still have around 200 here, it was left over from last night’s purchase of ingredients. This should be enough for us to get to Odense.”

Odense was the former place of residence of Anderson, and it was also one of the more popular tourist areas of Denmark. Luo Qiuman was surprised: “Xingxing, didn’t you bring this money out with you last night? How did you bring it back untouched?”

“Because there was Bo Ye…… ge.”

Once he mentioned the two words “Bo Ye”, that statement containing “Xingxing” abruptly rushed into his mind. He felt his earlobes heating up and his voice was muffled as he changed the address.
“Bo Ye-ge used his charms to help us exchange for an entire basket of vegetables.”

“……I see, let’s first use this money to get to Odense,” Zhang Yunfei said, “When we get there, we can then take our time to reach a decision.”

Tao Tao nodded and took out her phone, prepared to call for a cab. At this moment, Bo Ye stopped them: “Wait a minute.”

“What’s wrong?”

Bo Ye turned towards Qi Xingchen, “You haven’t gotten the tetanus shot for your arm yet.”

All along, Qi Xingchen had not revealed that he got injured. The crowd only knew about it when Bo Ye had said it in the morning, and they all felt that the knife from the burglary crime might not be clean, thus he needed to get a tetanus shot.

Afterwards, when they realised that the money was lost, everyone was busy consoling Tao Tao, completely forgetting about this incident.

Now that Bo Ye had mentioned it, Zhang Yunfei patted his forehead: “Right, how did I forget about this? Let’s first bring Xingxing to get the injection ba.”

“Injection……” Tao Tao briefly displayed some hesitation.

Zhang Yunfei did not hear it clearly: “Taotao, what did you say?”

Tao Tao bit her lower lip and did not answer.

Qi Xingchen sighed and knew what Tao Tao had meant — there were only slightly more than 200 kroner left. If they used it for the injection, following that, were they going to live on air?

He took the initiative to say: “It’s alright, the wound has already formed a scab, I don’t need the injection.”

“No way.” Bo Ye shook his head.

“Getting the injection would delay us, I’m worried that we won’t be able to reach Odense today.”

Bo Ye cast a sidelong glance at him, the little fan had purposely not brought up the issue of money and made the excuse of being worried about affecting their itinerary in order to protect their teammate in front of the camera.

But it was indeed not good to draw on their final reserves right now. If they did, it would be easy to raise discord when the programme is broadcasted. He called Director Zhao to the side and spoke a few lines with him.

Not long later, the two of them returned. Director Zhao spoke earnestly to Qi Xingchen: “Xingxing, your injury was caused entirely by our lack of security. I’ll bring you to the hospital now for the injection, all of the transportation costs and medical fees will be covered by the programme team.”

Qi Xingchen gave an “En”, only realising then that Bo Ye had gone to find Director Zhao to negotiate with him.

The conditions of the medical treatment in Scandinavia was unlike back in their country, booking a doctor’s appointment for an injection could waste an entire morning. With limited time to shoot, Director Zhao definitely would be unwilling to do this.
Just that, if Bo Ye had requested it personally, they would not dare to disagree.

After the purchasing of medicine yesterday night, he owed the fake idol another favour. Qi Xingchen was not one to express his deep gratitude through words, nodding to give thanks.

Bo Ye had the same indifferent expression as before, clasping his arms while jutting his chin at him: “Get in the car, little monkey.”