Chapter 8 Why is the origin of the nickname so long?
Chen Xing stood up and pointed at the screen, then changed his tone smoothly: "Great, Captain! I'm on the same team with you!"
Xia Huanming stared at the screen and responded calmly: "Yeah, I saw it."
Chen Xing felt a little sorry that Qi Yinrui joined another team: "Brother Rui, you are in Team 3, what a pity."
Qi Yinrui smiled and touched his head: "I'll play with you when I have time."
Chen Xing nodded: "Yeah."
Xia Huanming in the back row stared at the hand on Chen Xing's head, and his own hands folded on his thighs moved slightly.
"Chen wakes up."
By the time Xia Huanming reacted, the name had already been called out.
"What's the matter?" The big eyes that were excited about being divided into teams looked at him.
Xia Huanming was silent for a few seconds: "This is a competition, not a joke."
Chen Xing felt that what he said was indeed wrong, and said, "Oh, then I'll ask you for advice on acting when I have time."
Qi Yinrui glanced at Xia Huanming and smiled at Chen Xing, "Okay."
Xia Huanming: “…”
After finding their respective team members, everyone picked up their personal bags and headed for their residence. When they left the studio, two buses with advertisements for "Acting First" printed on them had been waiting for a long time.
Men and women were divided into groups and got on the bus. Everyone was having fun and joking as if they were on a picnic, except that there was a small camera on each seat.
Chen Xing sat next to Xia Huanming, put away his backpack, and moved closer to the camera, trying to capture only his eyeballs.
Chen Xing stared at the camera and muttered to himself curiously: "I wonder what the video will look like?"
A male voice came slowly from the left: "Your whole head will be deformed."
Chen Xing turned his head and looked at Xia Huanming. Fortunately, the bus was spacious enough for Xia Huanming to sit safely. Otherwise, with his long legs, he could only sit in the last row facing the aisle.
Chen Xing originally wanted to sit in the first row, but as soon as he sat down, Xia Huanming patted his shoulder and called him over.
Chen Xing asked Xia Huanming in confusion: "Why are you sitting here? Not in front or behind."
"In case I get called unexpectedly," Xia Huanming had already closed his eyes to rest, "It's quiet here."
Chen Xing suddenly realized: "Oh - Captain, you are outside."
Outside means "outsiders of the topic."
It was Xiao Wu who told Chen Xing this word. He said it has become popular recently.
"Almost." Xia Huanming opened one eye. "You mentioned the premiere before... Never mind, let's talk about it after we get off the car."
"What? Ah."
Chen Xing wanted to ask a few more questions when the car crossed the speed bump and shook slightly for a few seconds.
The vibration was most obvious in the back seat. The next second after their knees touched each other, Chen Xing quickly changed his position and faced the aisle.
Xia Huanming frowned and protected Chen Xing's side with his hands, fearing that he would fly off the seat if the car jolts again. He asked, "Why are you sitting like this?"
The scenery outside the car window began to recede as we drove out of the first venue and came to the flat asphalt road.
Chen Xing still kept sitting like this, and gave the reason: "I'm afraid of squeezing you."
Looking at this neither humble nor arrogant attitude, it seems to make sense.
Xia Huanming almost laughed out loud: "So what if I got squeezed? I won't say anything."
Chen Xing said confidently: "It won't hurt to be respectful to the captain."
Xia Huanming clamped Chen Xing's wrist, asked him to turn back, and stared into those smiling eyes: "There's no need to be so respectful."
Chen Xing's smile seemed to have a deep meaning, and he said slowly: "You mean, can we do anything to you?"
Xia Huanming narrowed his eyes and loosened his hand: "Are you trying to trick me?"
"I originally wanted to seize power and usurp the throne, but unfortunately I was discovered." Chen Xing sighed fakely.
Xia Huanming was amused and asked in a low voice: "I heard them call you piggy, why?"
"Are you asking about the origin of the nickname?" Chen Xing stared at Xia Huanming's phoenix eyes. Although he was smiling, his eyes showed no emotion. "If it's about the origin, then it's a long story."
Xia Huanming glanced at the scenery along the way. It would take some time to get there. He turned back to Chen Xing and said, "Can you finish talking before we get to the station?"
Chen Xing nodded: "Yes."
Xia Huanming felt relieved. It was just enough to kill some time. "Then go ahead and tell me."
Chen Xing took a deep breath and began to talk about the origin of this nickname: "This nickname started with the first variety show I participated in. That variety show was about doing farm work in the countryside. At 7:11 am on May 11, 2018, I went to an old lady's house. She had great cooking skills and I still can't find another place that can compare with her in making sweet-scented osmanthus sugar cakes. Her family raised some pigs, and I helped her look after them during those days. Coincidentally, a sow gave birth during those days, and I helped the veterinarian induce labor, and the last litter of piglets was born safely. Grandma kept saying she wanted to give me one, but I refused. Later, in order to get me to accept it, she would shout "piglet" and "piglet" when she saw me. Later, she simply stopped calling me by my name and just called me piglet. I didn't react a few times and responded directly. Then my fans started to play with the meme and called me piglet, which I also thought was cute. This nickname can also remind me of that grandma, so I have been using it until now. Report completed, over."
After Chen Xing finished speaking, he stared at Xia Huanming with the firm gaze of a soldier looking at an instructor.
I thought Xia Huanming would just say "OK" or "OK" perfunctorily, but I didn't expect him to actually listen to this story without any funny moments and seriously comment, "Have you ever gone back to see that grandma?"
Chen Xing looked up at the ceiling of the carriage and said, "Yes, but when I saw her last year, she was gone."
Xia Huanming sat up straight and respectfully, looking a little flustered: "My condolences..."
Chen Xing: "He went to Beijing two days earlier than me."
Xia Huanming: “?”
"I went to see her again this year, and she gave me a pumpkin this big." Chen Xing didn't notice that Xia Huanming choked and gestured with his hand to the size of a washbasin.
Xia Huanming stared at Chen Xing's hand with a complicated expression: "I understand."
Chen Xing thought this was a good time and started looking through his phone: "Captain, how about we add a friend?"
Xia Huanming was afraid that the bus would suddenly bump and knock the things out of Chen Xing's bag, so he held Chen Xing's hand and said, "Let's talk about it after we get off the bus."
"Oh, okay." Chen Xing stopped searching the bag.
Afterwards, the program team asked people in the front row to answer questions, and everyone raised their hands enthusiastically.
The quiz contest ended with the third group winning, and each of the three groups received a large bag of snacks.
Chen Xing, who raised his hand but didn't get the chance, sighed with envy: "Ah..."
At this time, Xia Huanming next to him shouted to the front: "Li Mu! Do you have any extra snacks?"
Li Mu, who was sitting in the front, turned around and threw a bag of potato chips to Xia Huanming without saying a word. Xia Huanming put it directly into Chen Xing's bag.
Chen Xing looked at him flattered: "Ah?"
"I don't eat potato chips," Xia Huanming shrugged. "If you accept them, thank Li Mu."
Chen Xing quickly raised his hand to express his gratitude: "Thank you, Brother Mu!"
"It's okay! What's the big deal?" Li Mu was a 25-year-old young man, young and hospitable. He took out two more jellies while talking and said, "I have something else here, do you want more?"
Seeing this, the other people in the three groups thought that this was a good way to enhance friendship and leave a "friendly" feeling to the audience, so they also started to distribute snacks, and the carriage became lively.
Xia Huanming also got some snacks, but he didn't eat them. He gave them all to Chen Xing, so that Chen Xing got more snacks than the person who won the game.
When getting off the bus, Chen Xing's originally shriveled backpack was already bulging. He was so happy that he kept calling Xia Huanming "Captain" all the time.
Xia Huanming glanced at Chen Xing and said calmly, "I have the right to recycle."
Chen Xing shut up immediately.
While the two of them were waiting for their team members, Li Mu came over. He patted Chen Xing's shoulder, pointed at his bulging backpack and smiled: "That's good. You don't even have to eat."
"This is all thanks to Brother Mu. Without Brother Mu's generosity, how could we have enough food and clothing!" Chen Xing said this from the bottom of his heart. If Li Mu hadn't taken the lead, how could there be such a thing as distributing snacks?
"Hahahaha, that's an exaggeration. Just consider it as a gift from me for your song." Li Mu narrowed his eyes in his signature way and nodded to Xia Huanming. "Then I'll be leaving first. Let's chat on WeChat."
Chen Xing heard the person next to him say "hmm" softly.
After Li Mu returned to his team, the members of their second group were also gathered. It happened that the villa where they lived was just in front of the left side of the bus, so they were not in a hurry. They would wait until the dozens of people gathered had dispersed before they went over.
Zheng Qi looked at their villa and asked in surprise: "Why are there so many boxes?"
In fact, there are suitcases piled up at the door of each villa, but there are especially many at the door of Villa No. 2 - in addition to the suitcases, there are also large cardboard boxes with "Fragile, Do Not Drop" labeled on them. From a distance, they look like the loess blocks in the Minecraft game.
Chen Xing raised his hand sheepishly and admitted, "It might be mine. I brought some musical instruments with me. If it's not my turn to perform, I can still take on some music work for other groups."
Zhao Xingyu, who was wearing round-framed glasses, sighed, "Xiaozhu, you know how to live. You even have a full schedule for your rest time. I'll help you upgrade your accounts."
Chen Xing laughed and said, "Hahaha, you're not that busy."
Zhao Xingyu has delicate features, especially his eyebrows, which are so thick that they seem to be connected. If he trims them, he will look like a young man again. Although he is from Hong Kong, his Mandarin is very standard - probably because his mother is from Chongqing. He only speaks a few words in Cantonese or Sichuan dialect when he forgets how to say some words in Mandarin.
How did Chen Xing know so much? Because Zhao Xingyu is also a gamer, and the games he plays overlap with Chen Xing's. This time he also brought a switch and many cartridges, including the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which Chen Xing is obsessed with recently.
Both of them are social phobias, but in just a few minutes they became so close that it seemed like they had known each other for three years.
Zheng Qi put his arm around Chen Xing's shoulders and joked, "Then you have to do a better job for our group."
"Of course, I promise it will sound the best!" Chen Xing readily agreed, with a smile on his face, "I don't even want your copyright fees!"
Zheng Qi stared at the dimples and thought of the little neighbors in his village. Although those little boys had tanned skin, they also had dimples when they smiled.
He was so overjoyed that he started to rub her hair: "I really found a treasure!"
Chen Xing subconsciously narrowed his eyes to enjoy the praise.
"..." After being silent for a long time, Xia Huanming began to give orders, "Put the luggage away first, and then we will move together."
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