Chapter 34: Bickering, and kissing during the fight...

Thinking, "I can't be the only one being screwed," everyone quickly finished off the sour mandarin oranges, one slice at a time. Then Ning Sheng exclaimed, "Who slipped unripe fruit into our group's basket?"

"Ji Jingchuan did it!" Song Xiyue, determined to avenge her grudge, immediately raised her hand to complain: "I saw it with my own eyes."

"I didn't. She cried thief."

Both of them had righteous expressions. Ning Sheng didn't know who to trust for a moment, so she turned to him for help: "Lu Zhixu."

Lu Zhixu bent down and picked out the substandard mandarins from the basket. With lightning speed, he put them into the nearest group's pile of mandarins. Then he covered their own plastic baskets with the lids and pressed them down with his hands: "That's it."

Song Xiyue's eyes widened: "Cousin, look at him!"

Lin Jinyi rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward: "You're bullying my sister in front of me, right? You really think she has no one behind her."

She picked up the sour tangerines and walked towards Lu Zhixu pretending to be aggressive, but she turned around and threw them into their baskets while Ji Jingchuan was not paying attention and ran away.

Ji Jingchuan stretched out his voice and shouted: "Shang Que——"

Shang Que sat on the ground

, followed suit: "You are bullying Ji Jingchuan in front of me, right? You really think there is no one behind him."

After she finished speaking, she didn't get up from the ground for a long while. Ji Jingchuan frowned and urged, "And then?"

Shang Que blinked: "And then she thought it was right."

[Ji Jingchuan, you must remember that there is no one behind you.]

[You've really offended Ji Jingchuan. ]

"Shang Que!" Ji Jingchuan was very dissatisfied.

The other two groups laughed when they saw this, thinking that the matter was over. Even Lu Zhixu released his hand that was pressing on the lid and stood up to go into the orchard to continue picking mandarin oranges.

At this moment, Shang Que suddenly ordered: "Ji Jingchuan, Jing Ya, go grab their baskets!"

Hearing the sound, the two men rushed forward quickly and one of them grabbed a basket.

"Hey - you guys are attacking me by surprise!" Song Xiyue reacted and shouted loudly.

Ji Jingchuan said confidently: "What's wrong?"

Jing Ya then explained: "This is called deception in war."

Finally, Shang Que concluded with a smile: "You can do this too."

【Ahhhhhh, I'm dying of laughter. What a robber family.】

It's rare to find one unreasonable person in a variety show, but this show surprisingly managed to find three at once.

[Otherwise, how could the three of you be grouped together?]

The three men looked like scoundrels, as if they were cast in the same mold. Song Xiyue was extremely angry.

"Cousin, cousin, cousin!!!" she shouted.

Ji Jingchuan was not to be outdone: "Shang Que Shang Que Shang Que!!!"

"Brother Jing Ya, Brother Jing Ya, Brother Jing Ya!"

He shouted even louder, raised his chin, and said proudly: "Two to one, I win."

[This is beyond elementary school students quarreling, and even calling someone to call their parents.]

[Hahahaha, what kind of parents are Shang Que and Jing Ya to Ji Jingchuan?]

[Don't underestimate the bond between us three! ]

[In a corner where no one was paying attention, Jiang Chi was already stealing the basket quietly.]

As soon as this barrage of comments appeared, Jiang Chi was noticed.

Ji Jingchuan said angrily: "There is a thief!"

"What thieves? Your group is actually robbers!" Jiang Chi stopped pretending after being discovered, and openly stuffed all the good fruits in several baskets into his arms.

Jiang Yize noticed something was wrong: "If you want to take theirs, just take theirs. Why are you stealing from our group?"

Ji Jingchuan fanned the flames: "That's right, isn't this intentional bullying?"

【Fight, fight.】

The situation escalated and turned into a full-scale war in an instant.

During the scramble, someone accidentally mixed the picked sour mandarins in, resulting in more than five substandard fruits in the baskets submitted by each group.

After working hard for half a day, everyone sat in a row at the entrance of the orchard and ate the extra sour tangerines.

Lin Jinyi frowned in frustration and complained, "I told you not to snatch it, don't snatch it. Now you're fine, right?"

Jiang Chi retorted confidently, "Who told you to stuff it into our basket in the first place? Sister Shengsheng is the biggest victim. She didn't do anything the whole time."

When Song Xiyue heard this, she immediately stood up for her cousin: "I already said that it was Ji Jingchuan who did it, but you insisted on throwing it to our group."

Lu Zhixu spread his hands: "Your group is the closest."

【Lu Zhixu: Randomly select a lucky person.】

[Looking at Song Xiyue's expression, it seems like Ji Jingchuan was the one who did it in the beginning.]

[It must be him. Song Xiyue isn't familiar with the others, so she wouldn't do something like this. Ji Jingchuan, on the other hand, is known for his bad behavior.]

On the other hand, Ji Jingchuan, the instigator, did not feel guilty at all. He continued to peel the tangerine peel diligently and handed the flesh to Shang Que.

Not all substandard mandarin oranges are unripe. Some are just less than 6 cm in size and taste very sweet. For business magpies who like oranges, this is not a big deal.

While everyone was bickering, their hands kept moving to finish the mandarin oranges.

The wind blows gently, the greenness of the mountains surges, and time passes quietly and comfortably.

Today's dinner was eaten in the village. There were more than a dozen tables of buffet. The villagers were very hospitable and gave them a lot of mandarin oranges before they left.

As night fell, everyone who had finished a day of live streaming returned to their rooms early to rest.

Perhaps it was because she had eaten too much acid during the day, but Shang Que was feeling a bit bloated. She tossed and turned for a long time, unable to fall asleep, so she simply got out of bed and decided to go out to digest her food.

When I pushed open the door, I found someone already standing in the yard. Jing Ya was leaning against the millstone, his shadow lengthened by the bright moon.

Shang Que walked over lightly and patted his shoulder: "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Jing Ya wasn't frightened. He turned around and saw that it was her. His originally calm expression suddenly became lively. He raised the corner of his lips and asked in confusion, "Ji Jingchuan kicked you awake. Is this the sleeping posture inherited from your family?"

"No, I sleep very well."

"Really?" Jing Ya reminded her, "Who was it that was able to kick me off the two-meter-wide bed while I was sleeping?"

Shang Que denied it: "Who? Anyway, I have no impression."

"Of course you don't remember. I fell down so loudly but you didn't wake up." Jing Ya praised her, "Your sleep quality is really good, Shang Que."

"Shut up."

Knowing that she would get angry and embarrassed if he continued, Jing Ya stopped and calmed down.

Shang Que leaned against the millstone and sat up, gazing up at the starry, moonlit night sky. After a moment, she suddenly thought of something and turned to ask, "By the way, how did you perform that magic trick yesterday?"

Jing Ya raised his eyebrows slightly: "Want to learn?"

If it was just a simple fancy shuffling, Shang Que would know a little bit about it, but she thought about it for a long time and still couldn't figure out how the Ace of Hearts happened to be shuffled to that position.

However, before she could nod, Jing Ya immediately said angrily, "Don't tell anyone, ex-girlfriend."

“…”

"You haven't forgotten that we broke up, have you? Ex-girlfriend."

Shang Que uttered an "Ah" and pretended to be dumb and asked, "Did you break up?"

This question instantly brought Jing Ya's memory back to a few years ago, when he was about to graduate and had a disagreement with Shang Que over whether to return to China or stay.

They were both too young at that time and had extremely similar personalities: both impulsive and stubborn. They often quarreled when they were together, but they would usually make up after a while.

But during that argument, Jing Ya suddenly received a message that he had to rush back home to deal with the mess. The tone of his grandfather on the phone was very anxious, and he urged him several times to return home as soon as possible.

The situation was serious, and Jing Ya didn't know how long it would take to resolve it. He could only promise Shang Que, who was still in a cold war with him, that he would come back and discuss the matter then.

But in Shang Que's view at the time, such an approach was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.

So half an hour before the flight took off, Jing Ya suddenly received her text message. Shang Que asked: Will you go back to China to fight for the family property and give me half of it?

Jing Ya replied "share" without thinking, and before he could send "all for you" another message popped up. Okay, share then.

A few seconds later, looking at the bright red exclamation mark on the screen, Jing Ya was so angry that he laughed.

All the contact information was blocked by her. Jing Ya stubbornly found Shang Que's school email and sent her an email, asking her to wait.

The next moment, the email address was also blocked.

Thanks to her, Jing Ya, upon returning home, took out his anger on his foolish father and his illegitimate son. His methods were incredibly ruthless, and upon taking office, he ruthlessly brought down both of them and their minions. He took over the company, reorganized it, and stabilized the previously shaky enterprise in just a few months.

The next time I saw Shang Que was when she was abroad. She became famous for playing a supporting role in a movie and was hailed as the "mysterious oriental elf" by foreign entertainment circles.

Her poster was projected on the screen of the building in the city center. Below the screen, Shang Que, who had just attended the award ceremony, walked out on the red carpet. Under the frequently flashing lights, she was even more dazzling than in the poster.

Jing Ya was standing across the street, and at that moment, he seemed to suddenly understand why she insisted on staying.

The gears of time keep turning, and people always have to move forward. Over the years, he didn't pay much attention to how Shang Que was doing, but he always knew something about her situation.

For example, she was popular abroad for a while, but it seemed that the circles there deliberately excluded and suppressed Asian faces, so Shang Que terminated her contract with the company that wanted to limit her acting career and resolutely returned to China.

For example, after she came back, she had good resources and her acting skills lived up to expectations. The first role she took on became a hit.

Shang Que is really talented. Even though Jing Ya has never been a fan, he can always hear about one of her dramas being a hit every now and then.

Watching her radiant presence on screen, Jing Ya gradually understood and accepted her original decision to separate. He was also moving on. He never felt that he and Shang Que were on a straight line, drifting further and further apart after their initial encounter. Perhaps one day, at the right time, they would meet again, reminisce about the past, and begin a new story.

It is difficult to suppress the longing, but Jing Ya managed to do it for several years. Until that day in the jewelry store, he mistakenly thought Shang Que was buying a wedding ring with another man, and he was calm.

The surface of the lava was broken, revealing the magnificent waves underneath.

If Shang Que wants to marry someone, why isn't that person him? Why shouldn't that person be him?

*

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shang Que stopped joking and asked with pursed lips: "Are you angry?"

"Um."

This answer is not surprising. Anyone would be angry if they were broken up and blocked for such an inexplicable reason.

However, just when Shang Que was about to apologize, Jing Ya suddenly said, "I'm a little angry with myself. I should have said that I didn't want to share any of it. I gave it all to you."

"That way I won't fall for your trick."

Shang Que opened his lips, but didn't know what to say.

At this moment, Jing Ya suddenly turned around and kissed her. He placed his hand on the millstone beside her, tilted his head slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Can we not separate?"

Shang Que reacted and slapped him on the mouth. The sound of "pa" was particularly crisp in the silent night.

A trace of panic flashed across her eyes. She glared at Jing Ya and said angrily, "Who allowed you to kiss me randomly?"

"Why aren't you all asleep yet?"

A voice suddenly rang out, and the two of them subconsciously turned around to see Ji Jingchuan yawning and standing at the door. He frowned and said, "I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the door open. I thought there was a thief. What are you two doing?"

Jing Ya: "They're bickering."

Shang Que:?

They kissed during the fight, right?

She calmly kicked Jing Ya and said in a low voice, "Shut up."

When Ji Jingchuan heard this, his mind raced. The only reason he could think of for their quarrel was the card game in the car. Suddenly, he came to his senses and confessed, "Stop arguing, both of you! I was the one who secretly played that A!"