Chapter 60: The Flowers Are Gone Chen Xing felt dizzy.
When the contestants arrived at the ferry with their suitcases, it was still daybreak. Seagulls flew over the masts of the fishing boats, and a streak of golden and red sank into the azure sea, rising and falling under the wooden stakes at the ferry.
When on the shore, the smell of the sea was not that strong, but when he reached the ferry, Chen Xing could taste a salty and wet smell every time he breathed.
And it's quite cold.
Chen Xing rubbed his shoulders and glanced at Xia Huanming who was playing with his phone next to him.
Xia Huanming was wearing a black windbreaker with a fluorescent edge and black long sleeves underneath. The cold light gave his hair a cold halo, and his face was expressionless and cold.
He stood straight as if he couldn't feel the cold, in stark contrast to Chen Xing.
“It is said that there are people selling coconuts on that island.”
These words suddenly floated into Chen Xing's ears.
Chen Xing turned his head suddenly, and Qi Yinrui behind him gave him a sly smile.
Qi Yinrui was wearing a dark brown coat and a mouse-gray turtleneck sweater covering his neck.
In fact, there are many comments saying that Qi Yinrui’s clothing style is also good and very suitable for office workers.
"Great, I want to eat coconut meat," Chen Xing turned around and pulled the hem of Xia Huanming's coat, "Brother Rui said there are coconuts over there."
Xia Huanming raised his eyes and was about to speak, but Qi Yinrui whispered in Chen Xing's ear again: "He is from Hainan and has eaten more coconut meat than you have eaten rice. Why are you asking him?"
Chen Xing nodded thoughtfully: "Yes."
Xia Huanming: “…”
...this old fox.
Xia Huanming ignored Qi Yinrui who was trying not to laugh, and spoke to Chen Xing with a bit of grievance: "I haven't been back for a long time, you can eat if you want."
Chen Xing stroked his hair and said, "Then let's eat together."
Qi Yinrui: “…”
Qi Yinrui lowered his head and typed.
The next second, Xia Huanming received a message on his phone.
[Qi Yinrui]: Your acting skills are getting better and better
[Xia Huanming]: Thank you for the compliment
Two minutes later, the last group of contestants arrived on time and everyone stood in front of the host waiting for arrangements.
The host was like the leader of a tour group, with a bee hanging from his ear. He held up a manuscript and said, "It's like this. Because this episode is a public welfare drama, we need to promote it in the early stages. Considering that the contestants don't have enough time, we invited several guests this episode. The guests don't have to participate in the performance, but are mainly for external publicity. In short, the specific allocation depends on the arrangements of each group."
When people heard that a guest was coming, the scene suddenly became lively.
Li Mu asked curiously: "How many guests are there?"
The host replied: "Two people in each group are friends of a certain group member. OK, let's turn around and invite the guests to come on stage——"
The contestants all turned around and found that a row of guests were already standing on the shore.
Chen Xing originally turned around with the intention of watching the fun, but he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the crowd and he froze in place instantly.
Xia Huanming noticed Chen Xing's unusual reaction and asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Xing excitedly pulled Xia Huanming's clothes, his voice trembling: "My friend is here! He's the one who waved."
Chen Xing pointed in a certain direction among the crowd.
Xia Huanming looked in the direction his finger pointed and saw that among the many guests, there was only one girl waving.
The girl had a cute bun and delicate light makeup. She had a long face but big, bright eyes, which made her look somewhere between cute and elegant. She wore a light-colored ruffled top and a knee-length slim denim skirt. She waved at them with one hand and carried a white suitcase with the other.
Xia Huanming's first impression of her was: full of youth.
It’s not surprising that I’m friends with Chen Xing.
Chen Xing said proudly: "How about it, beautiful, right?"
Since he was Chen Xing's friend, Xia Huanming answered truthfully: "Yes."
The guests walked over with brisk steps and stood on both sides at the host's signal.
The host introduced the names and groups of the students one by one.
The guests came from all walks of life, including amateurs and artists. For example, Huang Canni’s friend is an employee of the human resources department of a company. When he heard that he could take a vacation here, he agreed.
The host teased her: "Aren't you afraid that our program team will lie to you? You said you were here for a trip, but it turned out to be a survival show."
The girl replied: "I did think it was a scam call and didn't answer it. Later my agent told me it was real, but my boss didn't give me leave at the time."
Host: "Then why did your boss agree to let you come again?"
The girl scratched her head embarrassedly: "When the boss heard that I was going to be on the show, he said that if I became famous on the show, he could recruit more people, so he gave me a day off."
The host smiled and said, "Look, he is the boss and has such a business sense. What does your company do? How many people are you short of now?"
At this moment, Huang Canni in the audience suddenly lowered her head and tried to hold back her laughter, while the other contestants looked confused, waiting to hear the answer.
The girl said to the microphone seriously, "I'm making condoms."
"Maternity condom..."
"set……"
This sentence echoed slowly on the sea through the microphone. The scene instantly fell into silence, and even the busy crew members were stunned.
Ten seconds later, the crowd burst into laughter.
"Hahahahaha! Sister, you are too straightforward!"
"In one sentence, our program suddenly changed from being for all ages to being for only 18."
"No, this is too adult, isn't it?"
The host calmly took control of the situation, thanked the girl for her answer, and continued to introduce other guests.
Among the other guests were many industry elites, but Chen Xing was still most impressed by this girl.
After all the introductions were completed, the guests returned to their respective groups to meet their friends.
The lunch box without lid group welcomed two guests, one is Chen Xing’s friend Xu Yuancai, and the other is Zhao Xingyu’s French friend Mathis, which is pronounced as Matisse.
Matisse is about the same height as Chen Xing, thin, with a face covered in freckles and a particularly prominent hooked nose under his brown hair. His Mandarin is not very standard, but his Cantonese is quite authentic.
Zheng Qi patted Zhao Xingyu on the shoulder and asked, "How do you know a foreigner?"
Zhao Xingyu said: "There are many foreign students in Hong Kong. We live in the same dormitory."
Wang Baiyue praised: "I didn't expect you to know French."
Zhao Xingyu smiled and said, "What French? We always chat in Cantonese, and sometimes in English."
While three people were chatting here, Chen Xing started chatting with Xu Yuancai.
Chen Xing looked at Xu Yuancai and said happily, "Why are you here?"
Xu Yuancai put her hands on her hips proudly and said, "Well, if I said we'll meet in a month, it means we'll meet in a month."
Chen Xing recalled the WeChat messages Xu Yuancai had sent to him, and suddenly realized: "So she had kept it a secret from me at that time! Did the other people in the band know about this?"
Xu Yuancai shook her head: "No one knows. I signed a confidentiality agreement."
At this time, Xia Huanming came over, extended his hand and greeted politely: "Hello."
"Hello, actor Xia Huanming. I just watched Overwatch a while ago. Your performance was very good," Xu Yuancai shook hands with him generously. "Just call me Cai Cai. Netizens all call me that."
Chen Xing helpfully added: “Her live broadcast account is also called this.”
Xia Huanming's eyes wandered between the two people standing side by side and he nodded slightly.
After the two let go, Mathis came over, and Xu Yuancai said confidently: "Bonjour, Iris."
Matisse was surprised and said happily: "Oh~Vous parlez fran?ais?"
Xu Yuancai smiled: "I'm a French man."
Matisse was surprised and said: "Tu parlesme un vrai fran?ais."
Chen Xing knew that Xu Yuancai could speak French, but when he heard the two of them talking and suddenly started laughing, he muttered to himself in confusion: "What are they talking about?"
Xia Huanming next to him said calmly, "Cai Cai said hello, her name is Iris, Matisse said Cai Cai actually knows French, Cai Cai said she learned it before, Matisse said her pronunciation is like a native speaker."
Chen Xing: “?”
Chen Xing turned his head suddenly, and Xia Huanming looked at him innocently.
Chen Xing: "No, you can do this too?"
Xia Huanming nodded as a matter of course: "I chose French as an elective course in college."
Chen Xing quickly pointed at Xia Huanming and said to Matisse, "Matisse! He can speak French, too."
Xia Huanming: “…”
Chen Xing is now like a parent who asks his child to speak a few words of English when he meets a foreigner when taking his child out.
In the past, Xia Huanming would have found an excuse to slip away, but now it was different. He wanted to perform well in front of Chen Xing, so he went up and chatted with Mattis for a few words.
From an observer's perspective, the scene was inexplicably funny: the three of them were chatting in French, and Chen Xing next to them looked like a clear-headed college student who was taking advanced mathematics on his first day, with confusion in his eyes, but he was trying very hard to listen to them.
As he listened, Xu Yuancai and Xia Huanming suddenly put their hands on his shoulders at the same time. Xia Huanming even poked his cheek and said something in French.
Chen Xing asked confusedly: "What's wrong?"
"He asked if you were born this white or if you were mixed-race," Xu Yuancai said. "I said you don't like sunbathing, and Xia Huanming said you were born and raised in Hunan and have looked like this since childhood."
"Oh, thank you~" Chen Xing said.
Several people laughed together.
Seeing that the time was almost up, the host asked everyone to get ready, with the captain going in front and the team members following the captain to get on the boat in an orderly manner.
Chen Xing was walking at the end of the team, and Xu Yuancai asked Chen Xing: "But is it okay for you?"
Chen Xing looked at her: "What?"
Xu Yuancai pointed at her own solar plexus and said, "Aren't you seasick?"
Chen Xing weighed his bag and shook his head, "It's okay, I brought motion sickness pills. The program said it only takes ten minutes, so I definitely didn't ask..."
No problem whatsoever.
Less than five minutes after the boat started sailing, Chen Xing felt dizzy.
A cold feeling of nausea suddenly surged up from the bottom of his stomach, and he threw himself over the railing, vomiting all over the place.
"vomit……"
Chen Xing hunched his back, his fingers almost digging into the metal railings, his knuckles turning white.
The azure sea was right before his eyes, with tiny ripples sparkling with golden light, as if a handful of diamonds were scattered on the water.
It was originally a very beautiful picture, but he just couldn't appreciate it.
Every rise and fall of the waves was like someone stirring his stomach with an iron spoon.
He closed his eyes, but the darkness continued to spin, as if he had been thrown into a never-ending drum that would not stop until his bones were shaken apart.
He heard someone behind him say with concern: "Is he okay?"
Matisse's broken Mandarin was mixed in: "Do you want to take a rest?"
Unfortunately, he couldn't answer.
The sound of the wind, the engine, and other people's voices gradually became distant and blurred. Chen Xing could only hear his own rapid breathing and nauseating dry coughs.
Chen Xing only ate a little breakfast, but he didn't expect that he still couldn't escape this disaster. Now he has gone to feed the fishes.
“Ugh…Ugh…”
Chen Xing felt a hand patting his back gently, and he caught a glimpse of Xu Yuancai's worried face out of the corner of his eye.
He wanted to thank her, but he had trouble swallowing, let alone speaking.
The nasal cavity was full of fishy and sour smell, and the mouth was burning and stinging.
Fortunately, at this moment, a bottle of water was handed to him.
He recognized this hand - it belonged to Xia Huanming.
Chen Xing unscrewed the bottle cap with trembling hands, rinsed his mouth, and spit out the sour taste in his mouth.
Xia Huanming used a tissue to wipe Chen Xing's mouth. Chen Xing said weakly, "Thank you..."
In just a few minutes, the person who was full of energy before boarding the boat now had a pale face, his eyelids were too heavy to lift, his lips had lost their color, and his whole body was shaky.
Xia Huanming was so heartbroken that he was afraid that Chen Xing would fall down if he wasn't careful, so he held Chen Xing's arms tightly with both hands, and Chen Xing leaned on his shoulder.
He heard Chen Xing whimpering in pain.
“…”
Under normal circumstances, this action would be enough to make Xia Huanming happy for a long time, but now he could only tremble in his heart and frowned like Chen Xing.
Xia Huanming stroked Chen Xing's back and comforted him softly: "I'll take you to rest."
The person in his arms nodded slightly.
Xu Yuancai also said, "Go quickly, I'll go find some plastic bags to prevent him from vomiting again."
Xia Huanming helped Chen Xing back to his seat.
Seeing this, the people from other groups quickly stood up and let Chen Xing lie down properly.
Xu Yuancai rushed over holding a plastic bag and said worriedly, "It happened when we went out to play before. He vomited even more violently than now. We almost called an ambulance after we got off the boat."
Others heard this and sighed: "Oh, what a suffering."
"I'll tell the production crew to let Chen Xing rest first after we get off the boat."
"Um."
…
Chen Xing, who was resting with his eyes closed, vaguely heard these words. The voices were getting closer and farther away. Suddenly, he felt like vomiting again. He sat up abruptly. A plastic bag was placed in front of his mouth in time, and he spit some white and transparent liquid into it.
After he vomited, Xia Huanming sat next to him, wiped his mouth again, and patted his back gently.
Chen Xing rinsed his mouth, said thank you to Xia Huanming, then slowly lay down, curled up, holding his aching stomach.
He didn't know how long it was before the boat finally reached the shore.
A pair of arms gently lifted him up and let him fall into a warm embrace, because Chen Xing heard the rapid and strong heartbeat.
Then, the familiar scent of tuberose and jasmine lingered around his nose.
"We're here, can we stand up now?"
Xia Huanming's gentle voice rang in my ears.
Chen Xing slowly opened his heavy eyelids, and his sight gradually focused on Xia Huanming's handsome face that was so close to him.
The morning light shone on Xia Huanming's ink-black hair, casting a soft golden edge on the ends of his hair and clearly outlining his three-dimensional facial features.
Chen Xing thought that this light was really beautiful and showed all of Xia Huanming's advantages.
But now he had to exert a lot of effort just to stand up, so he had to keep the compliments to himself and talk about them later.
"It should be possible." Chen Xing stood up slowly, not noticing that Xia Huanming's hand had been protecting him more than ten centimeters away.
If it were any other time, he would definitely praise Xia Huanming for being attentive.
Alas... People just can't get sick. Once they get sick, they will lose all their patience.
Chen Xing thought with regret.
With Xia Huanming's careful support, Chen Xing staggered out of the cabin.
When his feet stepped on solid land, Chen Xing still felt dizzy, as if his body and head were separated, and his whole body felt light as if he was stepping on cotton.
Xia Huanming comforted him: "It's okay, I'll hold you, don't worry about falling, the luggage has been loaded into the car."
Chen Xing thanked them quietly: "Thank you, I'm sorry to trouble you."
When Xu Yuancai saw Chen Xing coming out, she hurried over to ask Xia Huanming after putting down her luggage: "How is he now?"
Xia Huanming shook his head and held Chen Xing's arm tightly: "It's not very good, you still need to rest."
After getting on the bus, it was still ten minutes away from the dormitory.
The production team played some games during the show, but Chen Xing was not interested at all. He hugged his clothes, leaned on Xia Huanming's shoulder and joked to himself: "This is probably the episode where I talk the least."
Xia Huanming patted the back of Chen Xing's hand and said softly: "...No one will blame you."
Perhaps because of his illness, Chen Xing's thoughts were more hazy than usual, and memories came flooding back.
He was also drowsy that day, holding the unexpected birthday present and drowsy while sitting on the shaking bus.
My mood now is not much different from that time.
My heart seemed to be gently grasped and released, and every beat was accompanied by a subtle numbness.
How can you be so gentle all the time?
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