The recording ball has a special setting, only following the show guests for filming, and will not capture any other staff from the production team.
With so many people present, it wasn't redundant. It was a matter of form: live broadcast was one format, while the footage shot by the cameramen served another purpose for the production team. After the live broadcast ended, the team would edit out the footage from the cameramen's alternative perspectives, then post-process it into videos for the star network, which many netizens also enjoyed.
Lu Wanqing was not very familiar with the production team's methods, but Wei Xingzhou was different. Having been in the entertainment industry for so many years, Wei Xingzhou was almost entirely familiar with all of the team's ploys. He saw a staff member and immediately walked over to take the task card.
Every detail of this episode was filmed in the style of variety shows from the ancient Earth era. The primary reason for this was the special guest, Lu Wanqing. To fully leverage this selling point, the production team had specifically altered the entire format of the variety show. Featuring Lu Wanqing, a person from ancient Earth, and an ancient Earth variety show format, launching together would be even more captivating.
Wei Xingzhou took the task card and began to read it.
Lu Wanqing and Xiao Cuicui also leaned in to look.
"The production team wants us to go to the farm first," Wei Xingzhou said.
"Farm?" Lu Wanqing asked, puzzled.
Xiao Cuicui nodded. She saw the text on the task card: "Yes, it's to the farm!"
While they were discussing it seriously, the hovercar had arrived at the entrance. Everyone got into the hovercar and set off.
In the production team's live broadcast room, the viewership for Wei Xingzhou and Lu Wanqing's stream had exploded to thirty billion in just a few minutes.
Director Li Xiaogang watched from backstage, his face muscles almost frozen into a smile. This was truly excellent. Lu Wanqing's traffic was indeed well-deserved, and their variety show was destined to become a massive hit across the entire interstellar network!
As Li Xiaogang thought about this, he discreetly glanced at the other guests' live streams. It was a stark contrast; those streams had only a few billion viewers. In previous episodes, that would have been considered quite outstanding. But compared to the thirty billion in Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou's stream, it wasn't even a tenth of theirs. It was truly… comparing people made one furious.
However, Li Xiaogang didn't underestimate the other guests, as these individuals had been specifically arranged.
For a variety show to become popular, it couldn't solely rely on the popularity of Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou. Their production team needed to have its own substance, to genuinely capture the audience's interest while watching the show, only then could they retain these viewers, and their future shows would be even more well-received.
But at this very moment, even Director Li Xiaogang couldn't have predicted that outside the production crew, Bai Chuchu's jealousy was already beyond control.
She had gone to such great lengths, and finally managed to get close to Director Li, seeing her chance to join the cast was imminent. Yet?
The thought of what Director Li had said to her that day made her expression extremely unpleasant.
Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou were the guests for this episode. No wonder Director Li was unwilling to let her join.
But so what if the guests were Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou? Why did they have to be so high and mighty? Was it simply because they were born well? Born better than others, so no matter what they did, they had to have a sense of superiority?
Even for a variety show, they would exclude her!
Bai Chuchu was also watching the live broadcast. She looked at the barrage of comments, densely packed with viewers expressing their affection for Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou. Hatred suddenly surged uncontrollably in her heart.
Bai Chuchu suddenly thought of something, opened her personal device, and sent a message to her friend, simultaneously transferring a large sum of money to them.
At the production set, Lu Wanqing and Wei Xingzhou, with Cuicui in tow, arrived at the farm arranged by the production team in their hovercar.
It was truly a farm. At least, in Lu Wanqing's eyes, it was a familiar farm, one with the kind of life-filled atmosphere from the ancient Earth era.
Lu Wanqing felt a sense of daze. When she was a child, her grandmother's house looked exactly like this. She hadn't expected to see an identical house in the interstellar era.
"Mommy, these farms are all built in the style of ancient Earth farms. It's a retro style. Does it resemble the farms from your era?" Xiao Cuicui asked happily, looking at the farm ahead and then turning back to her mother.
Lu Wanqing's eyes suddenly welled up. She turned her head away, avoiding the direct camera lens, and struggled to hold back her tears.
After regaining control of her emotions, Lu Wanqing turned back to look at the farm before her and smiled, nodding. "Yes, it's very similar."
"Mommy?" Xiao Cuicui keenly noticed the change in her mother's emotions.
Xiao Cuicui couldn't help but walk over to her mother and ask softly with concern, "Mommy, what's wrong?"
Lu Wanqing forced a smile and then said, "It's nothing, it's just that this farm is made so well. It's almost exactly like my grandmother's house."
Xiao Cuicui was startled. She stared blankly at her mother.
Strangers might not know, but those close to Wei Xingzhou knew that the owner of this farm was none other than Wei Xingzhou himself.
Because of Cuicui, Wei Xingzhou had spent many years researching ancient Earth materials, especially data from Lu Wanqing's era. He had built this farm based on some information he found online. He had originally thought he was just replicating the architecture of Lu Wanqing's era, but now it seemed…
Could this farm have been modeled after the courtyard of Lu Wanqing's grandmother's house?
"Let's go inside," Lu Wanqing said with a smile, holding back her tears.
"Okay," Wei Xingzhou quickly replied with a smile.
Wei Xingzhou didn't want to reveal the secret that he owned this farm. He pretended to be unfamiliar with the place, taking Cuicui around the farm, looking here and there, also giving the viewers in the live stream a visual feast.
"It's so beautiful here, there's an indescribable artistic conception," a viewer commented in the live stream.
"Yes, I also think it's beautiful. But I didn't expect it to be the same as Goddess Wanqing's grandmother's house. So, is this kind of architecture actually from Goddess Wanqing's era?" someone else said.
"Mommy, there are rooms over here. We can rest here!" Xiao Cuicui quickly found a room upstairs and immediately called out to her mother.
Lu Wanqing went over and looked at the room. It was indeed exactly like the room from her memory. The bittersweet feeling of recollection intensified within her.
"Mm," Lu Wanqing nodded.
There were many rooms in the farm. Lu Wanqing subconsciously chose the location of the room her grandmother had specially reserved for her during the ancient Earth era, and then said to Wei Xingzhou and Cuicui, "I'll stay in this one."