The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 264

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In the end, this game wasn’t a fight between organizations, but a battle between petty thieves trying to steal bundles of money from the garlic field and a group of farmers who had hidden money in their field.

‘No wonder they disbanded the opposing organization members so quickly.’

I had wondered where they were planning to send the disbanded organization members, but it seems they intended to send them to Song-i, who would be alone doing farmer roleplay while guarding the garlic field.

“…That’s true. It would be strange for organization members to fight over a garlic field that has an owner.”

“Right. Normally, if bundles of money are buried in a garlic field, they would belong to the field’s owner.”

“That’s quite an unusual owner.”

Our team’s cast members approached them with awkward laughter.

“Should we pretend we’re seeing them for the first time, or should we act like we know them?”

“What exactly is their setting? So are the farmers and that organization different people, or the same people?”

Muttering words that could have been soliloquies or complaints directed at the production staff, we stood facing them, and the opposing cast members explained the situation themselves.

“After our defeat to you, we became farmers!”

“Our Elder Choi graciously took us in!”

Elder… Choi. Are they talking about Choi Song-i?

Seeing our Song-i, who grew up in the city and claimed she’d never stepped on soil since childhood, being treated like a rural village chief made it hard to hold back laughter.

Song-i stood confidently in the middle of the cast members, facing us.

Then she said:

“What kind of money is that? It has an owner, so don’t covet it and go back.”

“Well now, young miss. Originally, all money has an owner. But how is that owner determined? Like this, like this.”

Lee Tae-hyeon acted skillfully, clenching his hand and raising it toward the sky.

“The person holding it in their hand is the owner. Isn’t that right?”

“Wow, look at that. Complete thief mentality.”

“Something that looks like it’ll blow away in the wind, but only the mouth is alive!”

At Joo Na-hyeon’s words, Lee Tae-hyeon let out an awkward laugh as if scratched and stepped back.

“Anyway! We can’t let those thieves ruin the garlic field of our Elder Choi, who took us in and fed us and! Raised us and! Well, didn’t raise us but! Anyway!”

Kang Hyeok picked up a farming tool while being contrary with a somewhat foolish tone. Kim Gwang-cheon snickered at him mockingly.

“Do you peaceful farming folks even know how to throw punches? You think we’re a joke.”

“You don’t know anything. You need strength to farm too. Are you looking down on farmers right now?”

“I’m not looking down on farmers, I’m looking down on you guys!”

Another childish argument began.

The production staff, who had been watching this for quite a while, cut off the conversation at an appropriate timing and intervened in the proceedings.

“Yes, to summarize, the farmers need to protect their money and Ryu Ji-ye’s organization wants to take that money, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then we’ll now start the final game for the bundles of money in the garlic field.”

“No way, production staff!”

Naturally, the farmers rose up in protest.

“It’s our money! No, it’s originally our Elder Choi’s money, so why do we have to play a game with those thugs betting our money!”

“This isn’t right! Our losses are too big! Games with big losses shouldn’t be played. That’s not a game, that’s gambling, gambling!”

Then the production staff surprisingly agreed readily.

“You’re right. If it’s simply a game betting the money bundles, the farmer team, who are the original owners of the money, would be at too much of a disadvantage. So to make the game fair, we’d need to bet something that would be good for the farmer team to win too.”

We have to bet something too? My eyes naturally rolled around. We don’t have anything to bet.

We haven’t received anything, and the money bundles in the garlic field are just pretend anyway since there’s no actual.

Then Kim Gwang-cheon, who was standing behind me, let out a small “ah” and said:

“Okay, okay. Fair play, let’s do it! Here, wait and see.”

Then he opened the car trunk and brought out a black bag.

‘…Was there such a thing?’

Come to think of it, it seems like Kim Gwang-cheon was carrying it like a prop before we first got in the car…

Kim Gwang-cheon opened the bag to show us.

“…”

“…Wow.”

The bag was filled with gold bars (probably fake). How did we get that… Huh?

“Wait a minute.”

I urgently closed the bag lid and asked:

“Don’t tell me this is what we needed for our deal…”

Kim Gwang-cheon grinned.

“That’s right, boss. If we can’t bring back those money bundles, the deal and everything else will fall through anyway, right? Let’s empty out all the money we’ve been saving for the deal and have some fair play!”

Ah, this seems like forced logic, but anyway, it appears these gold bars were indeed given to us to use this way.

The farmers brightened up and seemed to discuss among themselves, then Joo Na-hyeon spoke:

“Good! We accept that proposal.”

And the game began.

“This game is ‘Find the Money Bundle.'”

The game content was simple. Just find the map that tells you where the money bundle is buried in this vast garlic field by going around various places in the village, and the team that finds the money bundle first wins.

The unusual point was that the production staff told us the location of the map in advance.

They even designated the routes to the map so that the teams’ paths wouldn’t overlap.

“Hey, production staff. This makes it no fun. It’d be more interesting if we pushed each other around, huh? Knocked each other down and fought while looking for the map.”

“Right. A pure running competition is a bit, hmm, disappointing?”

Kim Gwang-cheon and Joo Na-hyeon spoke with ambiguous expressions.

Even from my perspective, it seemed too easy, as if they had drastically lowered the difficulty because idols were appearing.

Then the production staff smiled confidently.

“It won’t be as easy as you think. We’ve prepared various obstacles along the way that you absolutely won’t be able to ignore.”

What could they have prepared that they emphasize “absolutely” won’t be able to ignore?

The production staff started the game immediately before the cast members could ask anything more.

“Huh? We’re starting like this?”

The team members were flustered and reflexively started running along with the production staff’s “game start” call.

“I don’t know what the obstacles are, but we need to run fast, boss. Joo Na-hyeon is quite fast, so if we don’t run diligently, we’ll lose.”

“The village is much bigger than I thought. When I looked at the map, I thought it was manageable, but it’ll take quite a while to reach the location.”

“The map is really ridiculous too. Did they call this thing a map!”

Everyone was grumbling non-stop.

We had already consumed a lot of energy in the previous games, and having driven long distances ourselves, we were getting tired at just the right time to have to do large-scale running across the entire village, so it was understandably tough.

Lee Tae-hyeon seemed to be getting tired and said while walking and examining the map:

“This map is marked too simply for us to find it ourselves. I think we’ll have to ask the villagers while searching.”

Everyone agreed with his words. It was called a map, but it just had lines drawn roughly with only major shops, restaurants, and bus stops marked, so it wouldn’t be easy to figure out unless you were a local.

Fortunately, it wasn’t far from the garlic field to the village where people would be, so after walking a bit, we were able to meet an elderly villager.

“Excuse me, sir, may I ask for directions? Do you happen to know where this place is?”

Lee Tae-hyeon asked in a very polite tone and showed the elder the map.

But the elder frowned, checked the map with the magnifying glass hanging around his neck, and shook his head.

“I can’t read such small letters. The drawing looks like worms crawling around too.”

“Haha, right?”

“Try going over there.”

Grandfather pointed to a building visible a little distance away.

“Go there and ask.”

From its appearance, it was probably a village community center or welfare center.

“Thank you, sir. Take care!”

We politely greeted grandfather and headed there.

And as soon as we entered, we knew.

“They’re here, they’re here!”

Grandmothers and grandfathers who looked excited yet nervous.

And gazes trying hard to pretend not to notice the cameras.

In contrast, clothing and makeup that clearly showed they had dressed up nicely.

And one more thing, hands that roughly grabbed us saying celebrities had come and forcibly dragged us into the village community center.

“Oh my! Celebrities really are different! Seeing you in person, you’re more handsome and good-looking!”

So this is what it means to be an obstacle that can’t be ignored.

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