Kung Fu Baby with 17 Doting Brothers-Chapter 423: Escalating the Topic

The middle-aged man looked even more embarrassed.

He put on a poor act, opened his phone, and said, "Oh, indeed, the payment failed."

There was no camera pointed at his phone, but judging by his expression, everyone present, including the audience, knew he was just trying to find a way out of the situation.

Tuanzi folded her arms and huffed, "Then pay again."

The man quickly made the payment, and after confirming the sound of the transaction, he slipped away past the other villagers. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

The other villagers looked disdainful and a bit annoyed, "Not many people in our village are like this, don’t misunderstand."

Tuanzi nodded cooperatively.

Her thought was, as long as they come often, it’s all good.

[Ancient Martial System: However, that person just now is unlikely to come back during the live show.]

Tuanzi wrinkled her nose.

[Miaomiao: We’re not that bothered, but every time he comes, we have to watch whether he pays or not.]

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Even the kids knew they had to pay for what they ate!

The audience had already started spamming the chat.

[Miaomiao looks very angry]

[They’re little business owners now, just imagine if someone came to your store and didn’t pay, wouldn’t you be mad?]

[Clearly a repeat offender]

[Not necessarily, maybe it was just a spur-of-the-moment chance seeing the kids in charge.]

[It seems not everyone in the village knows this store is filming a show.]

Most were angry but, perhaps having encountered similar people in life, since the money was returned, the kids were engrossed in calculating their earnings, the focus quickly shifted back to them.

Some took the opportunity to bash rural areas, claiming country people were uncultured, not as refined as city people.

[For those ahead, if you were reasonable, you wouldn’t generalize individual actions to a group.]

[Let’s put it this way, for most people in the country, if you go back three or five generations, they’re from rural areas, are you cursing your ancestors? Aren’t you afraid they’ll come in your dreams to scold you for being unfilial?]

[I would hope their ancestors would rise up and dance at their bedside at midnight]

Someone trying to skip the bill was just a small episode, the kids quickly immersed in the joy of harvest.

At first, they relied on Lu Feiyong to calculate manually, but soon, the system taught Tuanzi how to use the calculator on the counter.

She held the calculator, larger than her palm, and pressed the keys with a clatter, her face flushed with excitement, "We earned one hundred and thirty!"

It was either no business at all, or as soon as they opened, they earned this much, Tuanzi was so excited she stood up and did a twirl.

The other kids were also quite happy.

Lu Feiyong scratched the back of his head, "Looks like having promotions definitely attracts buyers!"

At first, he thought people would only buy stuff worth a few bucks, but after the buy five get one free promo, they bought a lot!

"Since they’re products about to expire, if people want them, we should sell them at a discount."

The chubby little boy was ready to grab a piece of cardboard to write on and place it outside.

But before that, he wanted to spend their five yuan salary more.

Tuanzi had already returned the lollipop to Zhong Yi.

She tried to act cool, "Five yuan, just enough for everyone to have one each, yours is already spent."

Zhong Yi took the lollipop, put it in his mouth, not knowing if he understood or not.

The other kids excitedly ran back and forth in the supermarket, picking carefully.

But soon, they realized something.

Ai Fengyi looked at her brother, bewildered, "Everything’s so expensive, one yuan doesn’t buy much."

She fiddled with a packet of instant noodles, "This alone costs two-fifty, we can’t buy it even if we pool our money together. But I want to eat ramen."

When selling, it didn’t seem like it, but buying made Ai Tanbo feel everything was expensive, making money was hard, couldn’t buy anything.

"Mom doesn’t allow eating this."

He tried to stay sensible, stopping his sister from fiddling with the instant noodles packet.

"You can’t eat it."

Ai Fengyi went to grab some spicy strips, which was a big bag costing two yuan.

Actually, there were one yuan spicy strips too, but she thought it was too little, wanting to buy a big bag with her brother.

Ai Tanbo shook his head sternly, "No, you’re not allowed to, Mom doesn’t either."

The little girl pouted, "But, it’s only because Mom isn’t here that I dare eat it!"

If Mom were here, she wouldn’t dare ask.

But now that Mom wasn’t around, her brother was in charge.

The little girl unconsciously mimicked Tuanzi’s actions, rubbing her face, her big eyes darting around, spotting one yuan crunchy noodles, her eyes lit up.

"Don’t look, don’t look."

Ai Tanbo hurriedly covered his sister’s eyes.

"If you can’t see it, you won’t want it."

[That makes so much sense]

[I noticed kids are very interested in these snacks, but instant noodles aren’t that tasty and they’re expensive]

[If they haven’t tried it, they’d naturally want to. My kid was always interested in spicy strips, when I didn’t let her eat, she always found ways. After trying once, she never wanted it again because it was too spicy. Rearing kids is better to guide than to block.]

[Doesn’t the show crew manage them? Aren’t they encouraging the kids to eat junk food? Isn’t this conveying the wrong message?]

[You’re blowing it out of proportion, the show just gave them a five-yuan limit, whether to spend and how to spend it is up to the kids.]

[But kids want to buy junk food, isn’t this sending the wrong message? If my kid watches the show and starts liking junk food, it’s the show’s fault.]

[...]

[First of all, the audience for this cute kids show probably doesn’t include small children, right? If they could watch TV, I believe kids would prefer cartoons. Secondly, children’s habits need parental supervision and correction. If your kid likes eating junk food, you as a parent should stop it. Finally, these kids aren’t eating much, they said their family didn’t allow it.]

[Don’t say more, these people just don’t want to manage their kids; when something happens, they blame others.]

[Like some parents always blaming cartoons or games for corrupting their kids, when in reality, if they didn’t play on their phones and paid more attention to their kids or took their kids’ phones away, how would the kids have the chance to play games?]

[Yes, if you interact with your child more, they won’t have time to play on their phones. If you give them a phone for convenience, and then blame them for playing on it, the responsibility falls on others when it’s actually yours because they’re your kids—you have the responsibility to guide them.]

[Either don’t give them a phone, or don’t blame them for being attracted to things online, being a parent isn’t easy, it requires a lot of effort, you should be mentally prepared before raising a kid]

The director, also watching the livestream, noticed some people escalating the topic to say they were deliberately guiding kids wrong by encouraging them to eat junk food, he was a bit confused.

When did he guide anyone?

This small supermarket also had many toys, maybe the kids would buy toys?

The debate in the chat continued to escalate.

[To the person arguing nonstop, let me ask, did you ever eat snacks as a kid? Didn’t you throw a fit when your parents didn’t buy them for you? Weren’t you happy when you ate them? Didn’t you feel like the happiest person then?]

[You experienced this joy, don’t you want your child to enjoy it too?]

[I feel that as long as kids eat their meals properly, letting them have snacks once a week, like a few candies or a packet of cookies, is fine. If you block them when they’re young, when they leave home for school, they might binge on snacks where you can’t see, which is even more dangerous.]