Chapter 86 Let’s go on a date living together

The room has its own bathroom, so Rongzhen went in to wash up first.

When she came out in her nightgown and drying her hair, she saw Chu Xicheng standing under the lamp, looking up at something.

The rooms in the inn are decorated in an antique style. The lamps are hung on the wall. When the lights are turned on, the light shines on the bed below, creating a full atmosphere.

"Is there any problem?" Rongzhen put a towel on his head and walked over to ask.

She didn't think Chu Xicheng would stand there and observe aimlessly for a long time.

Chu Xicheng nodded slightly, then looked away slightly at her beautiful figure, "Well, I found something."

Rongzhen wanted to go forward and check out the situation out of curiosity, but he blocked her in front of the light, held her shoulders, turned her around with his big hand, and pushed her forward.

Rongzhen frowned: "What are you doing?"

"Go back to the bathroom and blow dry your hair, or you'll catch a cold."

Chu Xicheng pushed her back into the bathroom without saying a word, found a hair dryer for her, and went out with two extra towels.

Rongzhen peeked out from the sanitary napkin door and saw that he had covered the two lamp holders above the bed with towels. Her face changed as she realized something.

The production team is so inhumane that they installed the camera there.

If you're not careful, won't you be seen from head to toe?

Rongzhen thought it was too dangerous to wear a nightgown, so she quickly retracted her head and took out her long-sleeved and long-pants home clothes from the suitcase.

After she locked the bathroom door and changed her clothes, Chu Xicheng came over and knocked on the door and asked, "Are you done? Do you want me to blow you?"

"No, I can do it myself." Rong Zhen finished it in a few seconds, opened the door and went out with her hair blown fuzzy.

Chu Xicheng laughed out loud when he saw it, and couldn't help but rub the top of her head, which felt prickly.

Rongzhen turned her head away, "What are you laughing at? Stop touching me."

Chu Xicheng walked in with his tall figure, instantly occupying most of the small bathroom. He squeezed toothpaste and replied with a smile: "Did you not apply essential oil before blow-drying? Did you turn the hair dryer to the highest setting?"

Rongzhen nodded. That’s right, what’s wrong?

Chu Xicheng gestured for her to touch her hair, which was all burnt.

Rongzhen really didn't notice it. When she touched the top of her head, she found that the outer layer was indeed dry and prickly.

"It's okay, let's just leave it like this." Rong Zhen gave up treatment and turned to leave.

Chu Xicheng grabbed her collar with one hand and said with a mouthful of toothpaste foam, "Wait, it's not too late to mend the fence after the sheep have been lost. Watch me."

He searched in the cabinet next to the sink and picked out a hair care oil prepared by the program team. He opened it and poured some into the palm of his hand, rubbed it quickly a few times and then applied it to Rongzhen's hair.

Rongzhen turned her back to him and felt the heat spread from her head to her neck along with his hand, gradually turning her cheeks red.

His slender fingers shuttled through her hair, with a gentle but noticeable force, occasionally accidentally touching the half-hidden pink earlobe.

Rong Zhen swallowed hard, breaking the quiet atmosphere of ambiguity that had quietly grown, and said in a disastrous tone, "Do you feel like you're petting someone like that? Do you have a cat at home?"

Chu Xicheng paused, wiped her hair for the last time, and patted her head. "I don't have a cat at home, but I have one now."

Rongzhen immediately slipped away. She once had the code name Kitty, but it wasn't a real Kitty.

A light laugh came from the bathroom behind him, and the door was immediately closed.

Listening to the sound of water splashing from inside, Rongzhen opened the window to ventilate, hoping that the wind would take away the burning heat on her cheeks.

Alas, male beauty seduces me and ruins my practice.

Suddenly there was a thunder in the sky, accompanied by the sudden cool night wind, and bean-sized raindrops hit the grass and trees outside the window with a crackling sound.

Rong Zhen lay in front of the window, enjoying the breeze and listening to the sound of rain hitting the banana leaves. Her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Just as she was about to close the window and go to sleep, Chu Xicheng's question came from behind her.

Chu Xicheng: "Do you want to sleep outside or inside?"

This statement can easily be misunderstood, and those who don't know might think they are sleeping in the same bed.

Rong Zhen woke up and rubbed her eyes, instructing him: "I'll sleep in the window bed. Please move the screen to the middle."

Chu Xicheng didn't say much. He turned around and placed the screen next to the coffee table between the two beds, dividing the small room into two spaces.

As Rongzhen lay down, she heard him ask from behind the screen, "What activities do you think the production team will arrange for us tomorrow?"

"Judging from their inhumane behavior today, it's probably not a simple matter." Rong Zhen's words made everyone in the live broadcast room and the director laugh.

The audience in the live broadcast room were waiting to laugh at the fun, while the director was laughing in a dilemma.

"Why did you participate in the dating variety show before?" Chu Xicheng suddenly changed the subject and asked this question.

Rongzhen closed her eyes and was about to fall asleep. She answered casually, "I was originally planning to find a good partner, but in the end I found out..."

Chu Xicheng: "What did you find?"

"I discovered that making money is more important than finding a partner."

"Are you short of money?"

"Nonsense, who would complain about having too little money?"

After muttering the last sentence, Rongzhen finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep.

The person on the other side of the screen heard her deep sleep and the sound of wind and rain outside the window, and soon fell asleep with her.

At six o'clock the next morning, the program team's wake-up bell rang on time, ding-ding-ding-ding, sounding similar to the school bell when they were young.

Rong Zhen woke up in shock from her dying dream, jumped out of bed in a panic and ran out, shouting, "It's time for class! I'm late!!"

Chu Xicheng pulled her back in time and touched her forehead: "You don't have a fever, are you confused in your sleep?"

Rongzhen pulled his hand away and regained consciousness, breathing a sigh of relief. "The ringtone the program crew played was too scary. It instantly brought me back to my school days."

The production crew was acting inhumanely early in the morning. When they went downstairs and saw the empty dining table, they felt that to say that the production crew was inhumane was an understatement.

The two veteran guests came forward and said, "Time is limited. We will start our first date in the morning with the theme of loving breakfast."

As the name suggests, a man and a woman prepare a loving breakfast for each other while on a date.

As for the ingredients, the program crew naturally did not prepare them, and they needed to find them during the date.

The meeting place is decided by drawing lots.

Li Jin clutched his rumbling stomach and complained, "The director is really good at making trouble."

They are really amazing, asking people to go on a date with an empty stomach and then have to look for food.

When drawing the location, Rong Zhen let Chu Xi take over. With his luck as the male lead, he is definitely better than her, a supporting role and cannon fodder, right?

In the end, Chu Xicheng drew the magpie bridge by the river.

It sounds like a good date spot, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the food.

"Let's go there first." Chu Xicheng took the map and led her to the destination.

According to the map, the location was not far from the inn. The two of them arrived in just over ten minutes. The production team was quite considerate.

The so-called Magpie Bridge River is actually a winding ditch with a wooden bridge built on it called the Magpie Bridge. Lovers walk up from both sides to meet each other, which is called the Magpie Bridge Meeting. The bridge is hung with marriage locks.

Rong Zhen read the introduction on the sign at the bridgehead and marveled, "What a business acumen! It should be very popular after it opens."

"I'd like to take this opportunity to say something auspicious." Chu Xicheng suddenly said.

Rongzhen turned around in surprise, "Yours?"

Chu Xicheng shook his head: "It's just that my family has a stake in it."

That’s pretty good too, big capitalist!

Rongzhen really wanted to eat at a wealthy family, but unfortunately, Chu Xicheng was also here for the first time and had no idea what was edible by the Queqiao River, so they needed to look carefully.

The ditch is not wide, and the stream inside is crystal clear. The small fish swimming in it are only as long as a little finger at most, so it is impossible to catch them and eat them.

There are lush aquatic plants and quite a few wild vegetables by the river, but Rongzhen only recognizes purslane and Houttuynia cordata.

Chu Xicheng is not as good as her. He has never seen what wild vegetables look like.

Rong Zhen led the way along the ditch, picking purslane and Houttuynia cordata, while Chu Xicheng followed behind her, picking up leftovers. After walking for a while, a reed patch appeared in front of them.

The two of them went in to look for it with a nonchalant attitude, and luckily picked up four pheasant eggs and two handfuls of fresh reed shoots, also known as reed shoots.

In addition, when Chu Xicheng was wading through the reeds, he felt something stuck on his trouser leg. When he came out, he found that it was a crab, so he took it away.

Feeling that the harvest was good enough, the two of them decided not to be greedy and went ashore to go back.

The audience in the live broadcast room was speechless.

Instead of having any hint of ambiguity during the date, they made it feel like a wilderness survival game.

If Rongzhen heard this, she would definitely say, who would be in the mood for a date or flirtation when they are hungry? Those are things you only have time to do after you have eaten.

When they returned to the inn, the others were still there.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Rong Zhen quickly occupied the kitchen and made breakfast with Chu Xicheng.

Thank God, Chu Xicheng is not a lazy person and can share half of the workload.

Estimating the time when the other three groups would return, Rongzhen quickly went to the kitchen to fry two egg pancakes and cook a pot of wild vegetable soup.

Chu Xicheng was responsible for making a dish of stir-fried crab with bamboo shoots, and the dish looked and smelled quite good when it came out of the pot.

When they prepared the food and brought it to the table, a staff member appeared and handed them a small sign, without saying what it was for, and just asked them to take it.

Rongzhen took a look at it but didn't see anything special, so she put it away.

After lunch, the staff appeared again and gave them two keys. They were required to find the corresponding marriage lock on the Magpie Bridge before noon, otherwise they would have to find lunch on their own.

Before leaving, Rongzhen asked, "Are the others like us?"

Staff: "Of course not. We will act in groups on the first day and then as a group on the second day."

Rongzhen nodded to show that she understood.

Although the program crew was not very kind in some aspects, it must be said that the activities they arranged were quite relaxing, with a natural and leisurely atmosphere.

The two returned to the riverside of Magpie Bridge. There were two rows of bright marriage locks hanging on the railings of Magpie Bridge, and there were estimated to be at least hundreds of them.

Men go on the left and women go on the right. Rongzhen chose the right side and started trying her luck. She picked one that was not hers, and she picked another that was still not hers.

Chu Xicheng went to the left and tried again, his movements neither hurried nor slow.

The two people choose different methods. Who will find the right lock first?

Rong Zhen tried several times but failed. She turned around and found that Chu Xicheng used a completely different method from hers, and she also wanted to know the answer.

So she raised her voice and asked, "Do you want to make a bet with me? Let's see who finds the right marriage lock first."

Chu Xicheng paused with interest, "What's the bet?"

The bet is that whoever wins can make a small request to the other party.

The key points are underlined, which are small requirements.