Chapter 43: Dog bites dog "You are the best."

After their tour was over, the company arranged a variety show for them. It was a rural-themed variety show, larger than their previous group shows, but with more than just five people, there were also two main stars, Su Wen Ze and Xie Yang.

Li Xi knew Xie Yang. After all, they almost debuted together before. He was a very sincere kid, but when they met again, they could only pretend to be seniors or juniors. Su Wen Ze came with Xie Yang. He affectionately called Xie Yang "Yang Yang". Xie Yang seemed unable to resist him, which made Li Xi worried about Xie Yang.

They first had to go to the home of a grandmother who lived alone to help her with chores. The old lady was old and her thinking was not very clear, and her children were not around. The house was a bit messy, and the meals were simple, and sometimes she would even forget to eat.

They arrived at the old lady's home in two cars. There was a small courtyard and the grandmother was waiting for them at the door. The old woman had been told in advance that these people were there to help her with her work. I don't know if she really understood it, but when she saw these young people greeting and talking to her in a friendly manner, she still smiled.

There are three dogs in my grandma's house, a yellow dog that looks very old, two smaller ones, a white dog with mixed fur, and a short-haired black dog.

The two little ones saw the newcomers and went to greet them curiously. The big dog watched them warily from a distance for a while, then lay back down when it saw nothing was wrong.

The little black dog was very enthusiastic. After Li Xi squatted down and touched it for a while, it was about to turn over on its belly. Another white dog sniffed at Su Wen Ze's legs. Su Wen Ze almost wanted to step back immediately, but he held back. He knew that it would be very unpleasant to show that he didn't like dogs in front of the camera.

He has been afraid of dogs since he was a child, especially this dog because it has white fur and looks very dirty. The messy fur covers its eyes, making it look very sloppy. Su Wen Ze didn't want to squat down and touch it, so he could only pray in his heart that it would go away quickly.

Li Xi turned his head and took a look. The white dog walked away from his legs without being touched. Su Wen Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuan Zhiyan, who was standing next to him, glanced at the puppy and said happily, "Why are you so dirty?" He squatted down and rubbed its head, and even smoothed up the fur covering its eyes, "It turns out its eyes are so big!"

Li Xi said, "We need to trim the hair on its eyes. It can't see clearly anymore."

One of their tasks is to give the three dogs a bath, as it is too tiring for grandma to do so since she is old.

There were seven of them in total, divided into three groups to help grandma: the grocery shopping and cooking group, the cleaning group, and the dog bathing group.

Su Wen Ze's brain began to work rapidly.

He doesn't know how to cook, and cleaning is too tiring. Bathing the dog is a relatively easy job, and most importantly, he shows his love for dogs and being close to small animals, which will attract more fans, and the show he presents will be more interesting than boring cleaning and cooking.

Then even if he is afraid of dogs, he can tolerate it, and he is confident that he can act like he loves dogs.

Of course, he is not the only one who thought of this. First of all, everyone knows that cleaning is the most thankless job. Not only is it the most tiring, it is also the least camera-attracting and it is impossible to capture interesting pictures.

Xie Yang was a junior, so he took the initiative to do the cleaning. He raised his hand and said, "I like to tidy up things when I'm free. It's very relaxing. I'll help grandma tidy up the house."

Su Wen Ze immediately said, "I have bathed dogs before, so I have experience."

Only Xie Yang knew that he was lying, and no one else knew that he was afraid of dogs. Of course Xie Yang didn't say anything and just waited quietly for others to form groups.

Li Xi glanced at the two of them and said casually, "It's hard to divide it this way, why not draw lots?" He smiled and looked at Su Wen Ze: "How about it?"

Of course Su Wen Ze would not disagree. He nodded repeatedly, looking very agreeable: "Okay, drawing lots is the best!"

Tang Ruining stood beside Li Wei. Li Wei heard him sneer in her ear and suddenly praised him: "Baby is really amazing."

Li Wei quietly hit his hand.

The production team quickly made a lottery box. Three people were needed for cleaning, and the other two groups would have two people.

After the drawing of lots, Li Xi and Tang Ruining were chosen to go together to give the dog a bath. Yuan Zhiyan whispered to Rong Xiao: "Brother Ruining must have cheated!"

Rong Xiao smiled: "When luck gets better, it's unstoppable."

The two parties involved were also quite surprised.

Xie Yang and Yuan Zhiyan bought groceries and cooked, while the other three cleaned the room. Li Xi saw Su Wen Ze's forced smile and couldn't help but become suspicious. He turned to Tang Rui Ning and asked, "You really didn't do anything secretly, did you?"

Tang Ruining raised his eyebrows: "Then you should also praise me by saying 'baby is really amazing'."

Li Xi smiled and chased him away, "Go get the dog."

The two decided to wash the two smaller ones first. The black dog had short hair and was easier to wash. Li Xi carried it into the basin and wet its body.

The dog loves to shake itself off when it touches water, splashing water all over their faces. Li Xi held its body and asked Tang Ruining to apply shower gel on it.

These dogs usually just use soap to rub themselves when bathing, there is no such thing as being so particular. It had been a few months since he last took a bath. The foamy water that flowed down was dark black. Seeing this, Tang Ruining rubbed harder. Li Xi covered the dog's eyes to prevent the foam from getting in, and said to Tang Ruining, "Be gentle."

The dog's fur was covered with foam, and it couldn't help shaking when it felt uncomfortable. It was no use for Li Xi to hold it down with his hands, and both of them were covered in foam again.

His hands were also covered in foam, and his sleeves were soaked with water, making it inconvenient to wipe his face. Tang Ruining leaned over and rubbed his face on Li Xi's shoulder. After wiping his face clean, he offered his shoulder, "Come on, wipe it."

The coat Tang Ruining wore today had buttons on the shoulders. Li Xi took one look and said, "No, it's hurting my face."

Tang Ruining turned his head, saw the button, and smiled. This coat was bought for him by Li Xi. It wasn’t actually his type, but Li Xi said he looked handsome in it, so of course he liked it.

I changed the basin of water and blew it dry before washing the next one to prevent it from catching a cold. The black dog was also not used to the hair dryer. It was afraid of the noise. Li Xi held its head and coaxed it gently. Then it hid in Li Xi's arms and Li Xi covered its ears.

The white dog wanted to trim the hair in front of its eyes. Li Xi found a pair of scissors, but was hesitant to start because he was afraid of poking its eyes.

"Hold it tightly." Li Xi instructed Tang Ruining, picking up the hair in front of the white dog's eyes, and carefully and slowly cut the hair that was blocking its eyes short.

All his attention was on his hands and the dog's eyes, while Tang Ruining's attention was all on him, staring at him without moving his eyes away for even a second.

After the haircut was done, Li Xi picked up the white dog and praised it: "Great! It didn't move at all, dear baby."

The little white dog wagged its tail happily, and looked at Li Xi with its big eyes wide open after its fur was trimmed.

"I didn't move either." Tang Ruining said.

Li Xi held the dog and looked at him, "You are great too."

"I want the latter part."

Li Xi raised her eyes to him with her back to the camera, and said in a playful tone like a friend: "My dear, go get a new basin of water, okay?"

"Okay." Tang Ruining was satisfied and simply turned around and left.

The white dog's fur has turned yellow and cannot be washed clean, and there are serious tear marks. But there was no way, they were not as carefully cared for as the dogs in the city, so the two tried their best to wash it clean and comb its fur to make it less tangled. Compared to when they first met, the white dog looked completely new.

Finally, they washed the big yellow dog. This old dog was very quiet, with the skin of its belly hanging down, probably because it had given birth to many puppies. It walked slowly and lay in the basin for them to wash.

"It seems to have a tick on its ear." Li Xi said, turning over its ears to check.

Tang Ruining also lowered his head to look, "Tick?"

"Yeah, they're blood-sucking." Li Xi said, and looked at it again, "There are quite a few of them, all of them are full."

Tang Ruining opened its ears. Li Xi was afraid that he would reach out and grab it, so he quickly said, "Don't grab it directly. The insect's mouthparts will break inside and it may get infected. I'll go ask if there's any alcohol."

After getting alcohol and tweezers, Li Xi poured alcohol on the ticks, then slowly pulled them off with tweezers, threw them on the ground and stepped on them to death.

The yellow dog cooperated very well and let them help him deworm. After they dealt with all the worms, they checked it carefully to see if there were any left, and then gave it a bath and blow-dried it. By the time they had finished everything, it was almost dark and they were both extremely tired. Li Xi thought, it was a good thing that he was the one who came to wash the dog. If it was Su Wen Ze, he probably wouldn't care if he saw the bugs and would just wash it casually and get away with it.

They spent the whole afternoon washing the dog in the yard, so the old man moved a chair and sat nearby to bask in the sun while watching. Li Wei tried to chat with her and asked, "Grandma, how long have you raised these dogs?"

Grandma took a moment to react. "It's been many years." She pointed at the big yellow dog. "I've raised it for a long time. All its puppies were given away, and some were lost. Only it is still here."

The big yellow dog came over and lay down beside grandma. Grandma touched its head and smiled.

They were in the yard the whole time and had no idea how the other people's work was going. There was a delicious smell of food wafting through the house. Yuan Zhiyan couldn't be relied upon, so Xie Yang should be a good cook.

Li Wei went to the kitchen to get some meat and vegetables and shared them with the three dogs.

The dining table couldn't accommodate so many people, so the production crew had already placed two tables together in the yard, with grandma sitting in the middle.

The people at the table were in different states. Among the three people cleaning, only Rong Xiao looked energetic, while the other two looked average. Rong Xiao was a very hardworking person and finished his work quickly. Su Wen Ze usually doesn't do much housework, but he has to appear very active in front of the camera, which is a double mental and physical exhaustion, and it really makes him tired.

Wu Xingye felt that as a newcomer who had just debuted, Su Wen Ze should do more work, so he was a little lazy. He spent a long time fetching water, pretending to look for something to kill time, and then spent a long time washing the mop. But Su Wen Ze was not a pushover. When he couldn't see Wu Xingye, he would call him, "Brother Xingye, this box here is too heavy. Can you come and help me?"

His tone sounded like he was acting coquettish, and the box did look very heavy, so there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it.

Wu Xingye came out with a smile, and both of them were cursing each other in their hearts.

So now the two of them sat far away from each other and didn't want to look at each other.

"You two are amazing. You cooked so many dishes." Li Xi praised Yuan Zhiyan and Xie Yang.

Yuan Zhiyan chuckled, "It was all done by Xiao Xie. He is so capable, so I just helped out a bit."

Xie Yang said embarrassedly: "I definitely won't be able to finish it if Brother Zhiyan is not here."

Su Wen Ze quickly adjusted his state and said with a smile: "Yangyang's cooking skills are very good. He is the best cook in our team!"

"Brother Xingye and Brother Rongxiao, you have worked hard today. You should try the braised pork made by Yangyang. It is especially delicious." Su Wen Ze continued.

"Wen Ze is the one who works the hardest. You should eat more. You are too tired today." Wu Xingye said with a smile, "You don't usually do so much work."

Su Wen Ze also laughed: "Yeah, Brother Xingye is the same, right? How can we usually have so much work to do?"

Rong Xiao raised his glass, interrupting their inexplicable conversation, and said, "Come on, let's have a toast. Everyone has worked hard today!"

"Grandma, come here, let's have a toast." Rong Xiao said to her. Grandma laughed cheerfully, not really understanding what everyone was saying.

Everyone raised their glasses. Tang Ruining glanced at the fake smiles on Su Wenze and Wu Xingye's faces, then leaned close to Li Xi's ear and whispered, "Dog bites dog."

Li Xi lowered her head and smiled, then put a piece of meat into his bowl: "Well, you are the best."