Fang Quan is a director, to be precise, he is an experienced reality TV director.

As soon as his "Swap Lives" was launched, it quickly became a golden variety show on major platforms, and it is no exaggeration to say that this variety show is the current variety show leader.

Although this show did not invite any popular traffic stars, in this world where the content of variety shows is the same and nothing new, it is a clear stream.

The model is very simple, that is, let the children in the city and the children in the remote rural areas exchange their lives for three months, let the children in the city endure hardships, feel the hardships of life, let the children in the countryside taste the sweetness, work hard, and then change back after the end.

But reality shows generally have a fatal flaw, that is, it is easy to drive high and go low. Many of the previous very popular programs ended up because of the audience's aesthetic fatigue or the script's lack of strength, and when it finally ended, how much the audience liked it at the beginning, how tragic the scolding was.

By the time "Swapping Lives" reached the last episode of the fourth season, there was already this trend, and as a director who took this show very well, Fang Quan would never allow the previous painful experiences to happen to him.

Therefore, before the filming of the fifth season started, from the selection of people to the selection of places, to the script and so on, Fang was all strictly controlled.

Three city children, two men and one girl, are all rich second generations, with online appearance, distinct personalities, and family background conflicts, and being on the show is definitely a good topic material!

Fang Quan sat in the office, very satisfied with the profile photos of the three children.

Since "Swapping Lives" became popular, even those children on the show have a lot of topics, and many brokerage companies or capitalists with hot eyes want to send some children to this show to increase their exposure.

It's not unheard of in the past, but none of these parties are deeply involved, after all, they are all amateurs, and it's the same to choose anyone, so the selection of people is handed over to the assistant director.

But seeing that there were problems with the selection of people for these two seasons of the show, and the ratings had a downward trend, Fang Quan thought about picking people by himself.

Glancing at the stacks of materials handed over by the assistant director, Fang Quan, who had flipped through it, pursed his lips with a hint of contempt on his face.

If it weren't for the contract, this kind of associate director who only knows how to keep up with money and has no real material at all would have been kicked out of his team a long time ago.

If he hadn't looked at other people, then he could still watch this pick, but compared with the people he picked himself, it was really crooked melons and cracked dates.

After several days of land selection, the decision was made to settle in Licun, a remote mountain village in Liushi that is farther away from a poverty-stricken county.

Li Village is very poor, built deep in the mountains, and there are no cement roads on the road leading to the county, only winding and endless dirt roads with potholes, and cars can only drive carefully when they come in, so as not to accidentally turn off the engine and get stuck or something.

There are more than 200 households in the whole village, and all of them are tiled and bamboo houses as far as the eye can see, and there is no modern atmosphere at all, and the words backward and poor are endless.

As soon as Fang Quan saw this, he decided to shoot here.

Knowing that the current network is very powerful, and now there are people from the program team who want to come here to shoot the program, the relevant departments have long wanted to rectify this poor and backward Li Village, and as soon as they heard the news, they immediately happily contacted the village chief of Li Village.

The village chief is not a village chief in the traditional sense, or a relevant person who has been transferred.

He could understand that this matter would bring huge benefits to the villagers, so he put aside the work in his hand and personally took Fang Quan and the others to visit the entire Li Village.

"Although our Li Village is a little poor, but in fact, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the villagers are all kind people, cough, Fang Dao, what do you think?" The village chief quietly put gold on this village, where most of them are old people and children.

Fang Quan stood at the head of the village and took a breath of fresh mountain air, "That's it!"

It's good that there are few people! There is no appearance of labor, and this makes people feel the poverty of the village even more!

Suitable!

"However, we may also need the cooperation of the villagers during the filming process. Fang Quan said to the village chief.

"I'll tell the villagers, if you have any problems, just ask!" The village chief didn't say a word, patted his chest and agreed.

When negotiating local issues, the first thing to solve is the accommodation problem.

"This is easy to do!" the village chief smiled, "Accommodation is a trivial matter, most of the families in the village have free beds, it depends on where you want to arrange it." ”

The host's family was very happy when they heard that there was a program team to shoot, but when they heard that the accommodation would pay back, how could they not be happy.

After looking at a few houses, choosing a place to stay, and signing the contract, it was already noon. Under the warm invitation of the village chief, Fang Quan and his party had no choice but to go to his house for a meal.

The village chief's house was on high ground, Fang Quan sat on a small chair in the living room, looked out the window, and inadvertently saw a tiled house leaning against the mountain, half collapsed, and half intact.

Seeing that there is still a little vegetable planted in the tiled house, you know that there are still people living here.

With nothing to do, Fang Quan asked casually, "Village Chief, is there anyone still living in that house?"

The village chief followed his line of sight, "Ah, yes, there are people living there. ”

Referring to the people living in the house, the village chief sighed, "Yes, my grandfather is a barefoot doctor in the village, and my grandson is seven or eight years old, and he just read last year after saving enough money." ”

The grandson and grandson are only seven or eight years old, and Fang is thinking about it wholeheartedly.

It just so happens that he has no candidates for a child in the countryside.

"He only studied at the age of seven or eight last year?, what about his parents?" Fang Quan was a little surprised and asked tentatively.

What age is this, and it's all compulsory education, and it doesn't cost much to go to elementary school.

"The village is very poor, and the grandparents usually don't have much income, parents?"

The village chief didn't want to say deeply, but Fang Quan thought about it and didn't continue to investigate.

For the time being, this is true, but the family is obviously too poor and too small. It is estimated that the three young people who live are a bit hanging. Besides, the three children are all golden bumps, and they are too shabby, and it is estimated that there will be opinions.

Let's take a look first.

And the house of the owner of the tiled house, which was talked about, was silent.

An old man and a young man are looking for firewood and game on the back mountain with a bamboo basket on their backs.

The thin boy of seven or eight years old was thinly dressed, his complexion was dark yellow, he looked malnourished, carrying a bamboo basket larger than others, and followed the old man without saying a word, and fine beads of sweat covered his forehead without saying a word of tiredness.

Yan Xu bent down, picked up a dead branch under the tree, and threw it into the bamboo basket behind him.

There are a lot of dead branches and rotten leaves in the back mountain, weeds one by one, and there are many wild vegetables that can be eaten.

Yan Xu has been living for half a month in such repeated days.

Yes, only half a month.

Because Yan Xu is not the original owner of this body at all.

Picking up another dead branch, Yan Xu straightened his waist and wiped the sweat on his forehead, looking at the sky and breathing a sigh of relief.

As an orphan who was sponsored by someone to grow up, he relied on his own efforts to build a family business, and the days of enjoyment did not last long, but he woke up and became the current Ye Yanxu.

is still called Yan Xu, but there is an extra surname, which is like an extra belonging.

Even if life in the mountain village is tired and poor, because of the extra grandfather, Yan Xu can still bear it.

"Come over here, Xiao Xu, look what is here!" Grandpa Ye, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around to greet Yan Xu, with a smile on his wrinkled face.

What kind of surprise, right?

"It's coming!" Yan Xu could roughly know what it was, but he still walked over.

Li Village is deep in the mountains, the mountains here have not been mined, although not as good as in the past, but there are still a lot of game, I heard that there are wild boars and other large animals in the depths of the mountains. Anyway, Yan Xu followed his grandfather to catch rabbits.

In the dense knee-high grass, a nest of small eggs was hidden.

Grandpa Ye had already peeled off the nearby grass, revealing the place where there were six eggs in this nest.

The eggs are not big, not much different from ordinary eggs, but they are a little smaller, and they look like they are stunted.

"This is a Woshan egg, and it is very tightly hidden, but unfortunately I don't see the pheasant. Grandpa Ye shook his head with some regret, picked up the eggs and put them in Yan Xu's basket as he spoke, and advised: "Be careful, don't break it, go back and give you an omelette to eat." ”

Yan Xu responded, careful not to shake the frame on his back. After all, if nothing else, these eggs are probably the biggest meat of the day.

It doesn't matter if he eats by himself or not, if he can't do it, he will secretly go down to the river to fish or something, there are so many things in the mountains, there will always be something to eat.

But Yan Xu felt sorry for his grandfather, although he came halfway and had no ability, it was undeniable that Grandpa Ye gave him a lot of warmth, and this kind of family warmth was something Yan Xu had never experienced.

The family is poor, and Grandpa Ye has never read any books, but when he was young, he learned something from others to eliminate illiteracy, and later bought some medical books by himself when he got sick. If there is a headache and brain fever in the village, it can be said that Grandpa Ye has cured it.

Although the Ye family has land, the land is still a little far away from the Ye family, and there are old and young people in the family, farming is not an easy job, the old ones are not suitable, who will take care of the small ones if something happens? The small ones are not suitable, how can a child be the one who can take the lead alone?

And even if Grandpa Ye wanted to rent out the land, no one wanted it. After all, Li Village is full of old and weak women and children, and they can't finish cultivating their own land, who has the time to rent it?

So after thinking about farming, Grandpa Ye gave up and exchanged a nearby field with others, and the grandfather and grandson just planted some vegetables that they could usually eat on this field.

The grandfather and grandson went up the mountain this time, because the herbs for treating colds at home were almost gone, so they went up the mountain to find some to pick them back.

The grandfather and grandson set out in the morning and stayed on the mountain until about two o'clock in the afternoon.

When I went down the mountain, I happened to see the figure of Fang Quan and his party leaving, accompanied by the village chief and others, and it looked quite lively.

Yan Xu glanced at it and retracted his gaze, he was very hungry now and was in a hurry to go back to cooking.

"Grandpa, I'll go back to cooking first. ”

Grandpa Ye was about to pull someone to ask about the situation, when he heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay, be careful." ”

After all, their family lives relatively remotely, and unless someone comes to ask for medicine, they generally don't go out to deal with people, so they don't know that the program team is going to shoot.