With the help of this van, Lin Cheng and Lin Momo were able to deliver food much faster than yesterday. Before 9 o’clock in the evening, they had already delivered all the orders—even though there were three times more orders than before.

On the second day of using a van for delivery—now that they have gotten more familiar with the route—the father and daughter team’s delivery time became even faster.

After delivering all the orders for the day, it was still only around eight o’clock in the evening when they returned to the small restaurant.

On the way back, Lin Momo couldn’t wait to start doing calculations. She opened her small account book in the car.

“Today we spent 1,350 yuan on groceries. There were 11 tables of customers at noon, and a total of 1,573 yuan was collected. A total of 134 box lunches were sold in the evening, which is 1,340 yuan… 

“Dad!” 

Lin Cheng looked down at Lin Momo and asked, “Done calculating?”

“Yeah,” Lin Momo nodded and replied a little excitedly, “I’ve finished the calculation. Today, excluding costs, we made a total of 960 yuan!” 

This was the day they earned the most this entire week! Lin Momo never thought that she could earn so much money in only one day.

Unlike Lin Momo’s excitement, Lin Cheng seemed very calm about this income.

After parking the car into the alley, Lin Cheng knocked on the still-dazed Lin Momo’s head to remind her, “Get out of the car.” 

“Oh, yeah.” Lin Momo followed Lin Cheng out of the car.

However, on the way back to their small restaurant, Lin Momo still kept muttering, “It’s a shame, if we could only earn 960 yuan every day in the future. In this way, we can earn 6,720 yuan a week. In a month, It’s almost 28,800, so one year is…”

Before Lin Momo could calculate her family’s annual income, she saw the director team waiting outside their shop.

Seeing these people, Lin Momo’s happy expression was completely wiped from her face, and she instinctively took two steps back.

… …

When the team director saw Lin Momo hiding back, she thought it was a little strange. She quickly controlled the expression on her face and asked Lin Momo with a smile, “What is this, we haven’t seen each other for a week, has Baby Momo forgotten us?” 

“No…” Lin Momo shook her head. It was just that when she saw the people from the program team, she suddenly realized that their recording for this week was about to end.

Lin Momo didn’t want the recording to end yet…

After hearing Lin Momo’s answer, the director smiled again and continued to talk to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. “Congratulations to dad and baby! You have successfully completed another week of different life experience.”

“Did baby have a good time this week?” the director asked Lin Momo.

Lin Momo nodded, “Happy.”

“Then is your mission completed?”

Lin Momo continued to nod and gave the money to the director.

There was a total of 3678 yuan here, which was over a thousand yuan more than the 2100 yuan required by the program task.

As for the more than 4,000 yuan it cost to repair the car, Lin Cheng used a very sophisticated method to include it into their store opening costs and daily expenses. Lin Momo didn’t have the slightest clue of this particular spending.

“Congratulations, you successfully completed the task!” the director said to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo. “Then, let’s invite dad and baby once again to come and draw the life you will experience next week.” 

After the director finished speaking, a staff member brought out the familiar lottery box in front of the father and daughter.

… …

Over at the Lin family.

Looking at the lottery box brought out by the program team on the livestream, Old Master Lin asked Zhou Ming next to him, “What are options this week?” 

“This week there are a total of 8 options. They include a community worker, TV station intern reporter, zoo keeper, stock analyst, voice actor, hotel sleep tester, supporting actor, and piano shop boss.” 

Because there would be an actual lottery again this time, there were serious concerns that the star teams might overturn due to unsuitable [Family Background]s, and so the options selected by the program team were not too bad for anyone.

Listening to Zhou Ming’s words, Old Master Lin nodded and continued to stare intently at the live broadcast footage.

… …

Back with the Lin team, this time it was Lin Momo who would draw the [Family Background].

Lin Momo looked nervously at the box for a long time before finally pulling out a card.

She opened the card, and—like before—there were 6 pieces of information on it:

[Home Address]: Room 4, Room 307, No. 23 West Street, Film and Television City 
(the house was built by a local homeowner and is specially used as a rental. A total of 6 households rent rooms in the house and share the living room, kitchen, and bathroom.)

[Dad’s Occupation]: Extra Actor in Film and Television City.

[Annual Family Income]: 0-100,000 yuan (daily income is about 0-500 yuan).

[Transportation Equipment]: Electric vehicle rental.

[Financial Situation]: The family has no fixed deposit yet, and the rent is 35 yuan/day. Due to accidental damage to some crew equipment, there is a debt of 3,000 yuan, which needs to be paid off within two weeks. The total hard expenses for the week are 1,745 yuan (245 yuan for 7 days rent + 1500 debt payment)

[Available funds this week]: 150 yuan.

… …

Lin Cheng read the information on the card expressionlessly, but Lin Momo’s eyes lit up when she saw the word ‘actor’.

“Dad,” Lin Momo pulled Lin Cheng’s sleeve and asked expectantly, “Is an ‘extra actor’ the kind of actor who plays a supporting role for the other actors?” 

“Well, kind of.” To be precise, it’s a supporting role of the supporting roles…

“So, you can also film a lot of scenes, right?” Lin Momo asked. It seemed that in her eyes, as long as he could film, he could make a lot of money.

Seeing Lin Momo’s face full of expectant joy, Lin Cheng nodded without reminding her that they had a task to raise 1745 yuan and their living expenses for the week was only 150 yuan.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

After assigning the task, the director team left.

Not long after, the car arranged by Chen Yu to pick up Lin Cheng and Lin Momo also arrived.

Looking at the car that took her back every week, Lin Momo tried hard to hide the loss and reluctance on her face.

Lin Momo let go of Lin Cheng’s hand, buried her head down, and quietly climbed into the car driven by Zhou Qi.

Just when Lin Momo was about to wave to Lin Cheng and say ‘Goodbye, Dad’, she saw Lin Cheng also getting into the car.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: To recap, the [Small Restaurant Owner] had a fixed expenditure of 8,250 yuan a month (1,200 loan payment + 6,800 yuan rent + 250 yuan for auto expenses like insurance). So the Lin team needed to earn a little less than 2,100 yuan to cover this week’s expenses. But they were also given a working capital of 8,000 yuan for operating the restaurant + 1,000 yuan for daily expenses. 

Lin Cheng tucked the cost of car repairs to their ‘restaurant operations’, since they used it for deliveries anyway, and sneakily hid the expense from Lin Momo.

Just for contrast, during their [LPG Deliveryman] stint, the Lin team was only given 200 yuan for that week’s daily expenses and was required to earn 600 yuan…. They really suffered then 🙁

But next week is even worse. 150 yuan for the week’s daily expenses and they need to raise 1,745 yuan 😭