No matter how thick-skinned Shan Yanli was, she couldn't hold back her face after hearing Jing Ye's sarcastic remarks.
She never thought that Jing Ye would use such vulgar adjectives to describe her. After all, she was a girl idol, and the most important thing for her was her image. How would her fans look at her in the future?
Now she regretted not explaining things clearly to Ming Fu in the afternoon, which gave Jing Ye the opportunity to disrupt the situation.
At this point, the only thing she can do is to act pitiful and gain sympathy, so that they will not be so petty for the sake of the show.
"How could I be pretending to be active? I did a lot of work. Not only did I clean the pots and collect firewood, I also helped you clean the house."
Jing Ye asked lazily: "Oh, really? Why didn't I notice it?"
What did his eyes miss?
Shan Yanli: "You didn't see it, didn't your sister see it either? There are so many fruit peels and animal offal piled up in front of your house. It stinks everywhere around your house, and flies are flying everywhere. I had to help you clean it up."
Before Ming Fu could say anything, Jing Ye got anxious: "When did our house start to stink?"
The seafood offal and leftover food scraps they process are all buried in pits, so there is no such thing as flies flying around as Shan Yanli mentioned.
Shan Yanli: "I cleaned it, so it doesn't stink anymore."
The work she did was trivial and boring, busy but without any real content. She noticed that even the production crew thought she was boring and most of the time the camera was not focused on her.
Now she insists that she did a lot of work, and she believes that they cannot provide any evidence to refute it.
Jing Ye found it funny and wanted to hear what she had to say.
"Then tell me, what have you done for us without being noticed?"
Jing Ye's tone was full of disbelief, and Shan Yanli didn't want to continue to argue with him. After all, she knew that she would never get any advantage from Jing Ye.
She looked at Xu Weixing eagerly: "Xu Weixing, you must have seen it. I saw you looking at me while I was working."
At this time, Xu Weixing was working, using a pestle to pound the beef jerky in a ceramic pot, preparing to make beef jerky.
Hearing his name, he looked up and saw Jing Ye's smiling face.
"You can do it, Xu Weixing. I was wondering why you were so slow at work, looking around. I thought you were slacking off, but it turns out you were just looking at someone."
I'm just blind. How could I fall for Shan Yanli?
Shan Yanli on the other side was slightly excited and a little shy when she heard this. Could it be that Xu Weixing was interested in her? If that was the case, that would be great.
Xu Weixing frowned unhappily and said in a serious defense, "Captain, don't talk nonsense. I didn't do that."
Jing Ye sneered, he didn't quite believe it: "If you didn't see them, then why were you looking around? They've noticed it, so tell me, what were you looking at when you were lazy?"
Xu Weixing pursed his lips, lowered his head and continued to work: "I didn't look at anything, and I wasn't lazy."
Shan Yanli began to get anxious: "Can't you say a few words for me? Just because Jing Ye is your captain, you don't even dare to tell the truth in front of him?"
Xu Weixing finally got tired of being asked so he threw the pestle into the clay pot, which made a crisp sound.
His cold eyes swept over Jing Ye and Shan Yanli in turn, and he said, "How many times do you want me to tell you that I didn't look at you?"
Jing Ye was stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses: "If you didn't see it, then you didn't see it. Why are you being so mean to your boss?"
Xu Weixing picked up the pestle and continued working, muttering under his breath, "I'm not fierce."
Shan Yanli felt a little unhappy and bit her lip in grievance. She just wanted to have a free meal and helped them with a lot of work. Why were these people so unkind and didn't even give her a way out?
At this time, Ming Fu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke: "I don't know whether he saw it or not, but I did see it."
"Did you see it?" Shan Yanli was about to get excited, but after a look around, it seemed that Ming Fu was still soft-hearted, so it was better to start with.
“I see.”
"real?"
Ming Fu smiled and kindly reminded, "But are you sure you want me to tell you about what I saw you do?"
Jing Ye asked hurriedly: "Afu, what did you see her do?"
When Shan Yanli saw Mingfu's attitude, her intuition told her that things were not simple, and she slowly began to recall what she had done.
But before she could recall the specific events, Ming Fu started to help her recall.
"You came to see me and first helped clean the pottery, but before you finished, you kept making excuses to go to the bathroom. Every time you came and went, you would stop by the place where we were drying preserved fruits and meat. Anyway, I didn't see you helping us with the garbage or cleaning, but I did see you secretly putting beef jerky and small dried fish into your mouth and pockets every time you passed by the meat."
Shan Yanli was suddenly shocked. She swore that she was very careful every time she took the goods, and she only took very little each time. There was no camera watching her, and Mingfu had his back to her at the time.
So how did Mingfu discover it?
However, Ming Fu did not explain how she discovered it, but just looked at Shan Yanli with an expression that said, "I just discovered it."
Shan Yanli clenched her palms in panic.
Jing Ye: "I was wondering why half of the dried meat was missing when I came back. I thought Ah Fu had put it away, but it turns out you hid it secretly."
Shan Yanli cried out that she felt so wronged. How could she have secretly eaten half of it? She had only secretly hidden half a pound at most.
Such a huge blame was put on her head.
In order to prove her innocence, Shan Yanli couldn't wait to take out the beef jerky she had hidden.
"How could I take so much? I only took these few pieces, less than half a pound..."
Halfway through her speech, she became speechless and froze in shock.
Why did she suddenly go crazy? Why didn't she just deny it? They wouldn't come to search her. Now she set herself on fire and blew herself up, which confirmed her crime of being a thief.
Now there is only one word in Shan Yanli's mind: regret. She regrets why she admitted it impulsively in the heat of the moment.
Jing Ye looked at the pieces of beef jerky in her hand and said in surprise, "You're such a big eater! It's only been a short while, and there's only this much left?"
In Jing Ye's eyes, Shan Yanli just took away half of his family's beef jerky. The fact that there was not much left meant that she ate a lot, and Shan Yanli had no room for quibbling.
"That's all I took..."
"Yes, the rest is in the stomach."
Shan Yanli felt that she could not clear herself even if she jumped into the Yellow River. She couldn't cut open her stomach to prove her innocence.
She turned to Mingfu and asked her anxiously: "Mingfu, tell your brother, did I take so much beef jerky from you?"
Ming Fu nodded and said, "Indeed not."
Shan Yanli: "Listen to what your sister says."
Then she heard Ming Fu speak again: "It's just that you want more, not just a few pieces of beef jerky and dried fish."
When Jing Ye heard this, she was shocked. Even so much meat couldn't satisfy her ambition.
"It's not enough to clean a few broken cans and a few pounds of beef jerky. What are you still thinking about us?"
Shan Yanli certainly wants a lot, not just a few pieces of beef jerky, not just a dinner, but daily food and clothing, a comfortable shelter, so that she can live comfortably as a parasite.
However, Ming Fu did not say these things directly, leaving some face for Shan Yanli.
"If you're here to help us so we can stay and eat, you should just say it. There's no need to beat around the bush or hide it."
As Ming Fu spoke, he selected some food for tonight's dinner and placed it on a clean banana leaf. There were a few medium-sized shrimps, a few clams, and some grilled meat.
It’s more than enough for a girl to eat.
"But when you came to me, you said you felt guilty about the house and came to help us with the work to make amends. I took it seriously, and just now you blamed me for being stupid and not understanding what you meant."
She handed the banana leaf wrapped with food to Shan Yanli.
"These are my thanks for your hard work. I wonder if they're enough for you."
Things have developed to the current situation. If Shan Yanli still doesn't know how to tread carefully and quit while she's ahead, then she would be a fool.
"That's enough, thank you." Shan Yanli quickly took it, fearing that if she was a second late, Jing Ye would snatch it back.
However, Jing Ye was not as stingy as she thought. This was the decision made by his sister, and he would not offend his sister.
Although he doesn't use his hands, his mouth is never idle.
"You'd better take it easy. Be careful of indigestion if you eat too much beef jerky."
"I won't disturb you while you're eating." Shan Yanli held a few scattered foods in her hands, glanced at the dazzling array of food on their table, and without responding to Jing Ye's words, she turned around and left.
Before Shan Yanli had gone far, Jing Ye poked Mingfu on the forehead and began to educate his sister.
"Are you stupid? You let a little mouse in, and it stole things right in front of you, and you saw it and still condoned it."
He didn't lower his voice when he spoke, as if he was deliberately speaking for Shan Yanli to hear.
Ming Fu smiled, handed him the sharpened chopsticks and said, "Brother, eat."
Jing Ye didn't answer: "I'm already angry enough with you."
Ming Fu still had her hands supported, and Jing Ye was waiting for her to say a few soft words to comfort him.
Unexpectedly, Xu Weixing next to him suddenly moved, leaned over Jing Ye, and slowly took the chopsticks from Ming Fu's hand.
"It's good that you're full, Captain. I was just worried that you wouldn't have enough to eat."
"What are you doing here?" Jing Ye lost his composure in an instant and tried to snatch back his chopsticks.
As a result, Xu Weixing was faster than him. He turned slightly and Jing Ye missed the opportunity.
"Captain, you're a grown man, why are you still acting like a child? Just eat your meal properly instead of playing around."
Xu Weixing looked at him with drooping eyelids and spoke in the tone of an elder educating a younger person.
In order to maintain his steady image as the captain, Jing Ye straightened his clothes and ignored him.
"That was given to me by my Ah Fu. Why are you so presumptuous to snatch it away?"
Xu Weixing tightened his grip on the chopsticks and said nothing.
Jing Ye: "You can't come and grab my chopsticks just because your sister didn't help you take them. Give them back to me quickly."
"I've used it before, do you still want it?" Xu Weixing actually used it and put it into his soup bowl.
Jing Ye: “…”
Ming Fu couldn't bear it any longer and gave him another pair: "Brother, stop making trouble. There are more here."
Then she pulled him aside and told him in a very low voice why she had not exposed Shan Yanli's secret hiding of beef jerky in person.
"If I had told her then, she would have definitely played pity, saying she was hungry. She didn't take much, so we wouldn't have known what to do with her. If she had continued to take advantage of us, we wouldn't have known to just kick her out. But the situation is different now. We've exposed her greed in public, so she's too embarrassed to continue taking advantage of us. This has saved us a lot of trouble in the next few days."
Jing Ye couldn't understand: "Why not chase her away? I chased her away the first time I saw her."
Xu Weixing: "Captain, you have to consider the audience's opinions."
Jing Ye was stunned for a moment.
Anyway, he was not there at the time. If A Fu had coaxed Shan Yanli away like he did, some people would probably say that she was stingy and was reluctant to even give a piece of beef jerky to help with the work.
After some thought, he decided that his sister's approach was more appropriate.
Xu Weixing: "Captain, if you had half the emotional intelligence of your sister, you wouldn't have so many haters."
Jing Ye: “…”
Ming Fu smiled and said, "Brother, did you hear that? You shouldn't be so impulsive when speaking."
Jing Ye glanced at Xu Weixing, giving him face by pointing out his weakness in public.
The three of them had dinner in harmony.
Shan Yanli was still feeling resentful because she heard Jing Ye calling her a little rat.
She felt so wronged. She had just secretly eaten a few pieces of beef jerky, so why did he expose her in public? He even called her a little mouse.
She could imagine how the audience watching the show looked at her. Her haters must be having a great time.
In fact, Shan Yanli was really wrong about this. Not only her black fans were celebrating, but even ordinary passers-by couldn't stand it.
[Fuck, I really didn't notice that the dignified Shan Jie actually stole meat]
Shan Jie's work was so boring and uninteresting that even the program director couldn't stand it and cut away a lot of her footage. It's such a pity that no one saw Shan Jie stealing the meat.
Shan Jie's anti-reconnaissance ability is really strong. She always strikes when there are no camera positions. Could she be a veteran?
[No matter how experienced I am, I was still discovered by my sister. So what’s the saying? Don’t try to reach out, or you will be caught.]
[My sister is really kind and didn't expose her in public. It was her greed that forced her to reveal the truth.]
[My sister is really nice, but she's also really soft-hearted. If it were me, I would catch Shan Jie red-handed right there and then.]
[Now I really want to see how and when Shan Jie stole it, and include it in the famous scene]
【I also want to see +1】
There were so many people who wanted to see it that Director Guo suddenly asked, "Did you film it?"
Assistant Director Xiao Zhao: "We should look for it and see if there's any footage that shows it."
Director Guo: “If you find it, edit it.”
If the audience wants to watch it, we will see if we can make a collection of it.
Shan Yanli didn't know at the moment that her act of stealing meat might be exposed. She didn't even have time to worry about the audience's opinion. What she cared about most was the problem at hand: whether she could have a place to sleep at night.
Pei Haotian and his junior fellow apprentice had almost finished building their house. They copied the brother and sister's house and built a similar house.
They couldn't weave palm mats, so they could only use straw mats to cover the bed. It was a bit hard, but at least it was ok to sleep on.
They finished building the house and it was almost dark.
At this time, both of them were exhausted and hungry. Wei Xuan had originally planned to go out to find food, but he suffered a great loss at the hands of Jing Ye's sister, and his plans were completely disrupted. Now not only was he starving, but his second boss was also starving with him.
Not only are they starving, but their neighbors next door are feasting on them.
Wei Xuan couldn’t understand. Wasn’t he here to help Pei Haotian overcome his difficulties?
The two men's stomachs rumbled like drums, and the sounds came one after another.
But Wei Xuan had no better solution. It was dark today. It was his first day on the island and he was not familiar with the environment. It was dark and he didn't dare to rush into the island to look for food.
Just then, Shan Yanli came with the food she got from Mingfu.
She resisted the urge to eat any of it, and just to show her sincerity, she even took out her hidden beef jerky.
"You must be hungry, right? This is what I earned through my labor. Do you think I only care about myself? No, I'm worried that you won't have anything to eat at night, so I went to help them."
After listening to Shan Yanli's words, Wei Xuan had a complicated expression.
After getting to know Shan Yanli over the past two days, Pei Haotian became more direct in his speech.
"Do you really think my ears are just for show?"
Even though they were just a short distance away, they heard everything Shan Yanli did clearly.
Shan Yanli has lived for more than 20 years, and there has never been a day as embarrassing as today.
Her face turned pale and blue, and her shoulders shook, as if she was about to cry.
It’s just that Pei Haotian seemed to have suddenly become kind and didn’t care about her past.
"Forget it, don't feel wronged. I know you are pitiful too. If you want to live here, just stay. Our house is big enough. We use straw mats to separate the two rooms. You can sleep on one side and we can sleep on the other side."
Shan Yanli's tears, which had not yet flowed, miraculously stopped.
"Really?"
"Can we really let a girl like you sleep in the wild? I'm not as cold-blooded as them to watch you have no place to sleep."
Shan Yanli cried with joy. She knew that she had made the right choice to join Pei Haotian's group. Although Pei Haotian was not very capable, he was the most gentlemanly of all the guests.
"Well, this..." She pushed the banana leaf forward and introduced it attentively, "It's still hot, so eat it quickly."
Pei Haotian glanced at the food in front of him casually. Although he was so hungry that he could eat a cow, he didn't look tempted at all.
"These things of yours came in an ignominious way, so I won't eat them. I understand you. You haven't had good food with me, so you're craving these. Just eat them by yourself."
"I did work, and this is what they paid me. It's the fruit of my labor."
Pei Haotian still didn't want to eat and signaled Wei Xuan not to eat either.
"From now on, my junior apprentice and I will take care of the food problem. As long as we have something to eat, you will be indispensable. So, please stop doing those sneaky and dishonorable things."
Shan Yanli felt so ashamed that she lowered her head and suddenly felt embarrassed to eat.
"Oh, I see." She put away the food.
Pei Haotian: "Brother Wei, is it okay to hold on for the whole night?"
Wei Xuan answered readily: "Of course no problem."
He has no problem with it, he is just worried that the second boss can't hold on.
"Okay, let's go to bed early. After a good rest, we can get up in the morning and find food on our own."
A few people packed up simply and began to rest in the cover of night.
At this time, their filming for the day was also over.
Infrared photography doesn’t produce good results, so filming will stop at night and the drone will fly back to the production crew to recharge.
Their filming was over, but the discussion about Pei Haotian was extremely heated, mainly focusing on the words he used to educate Shan Yanli.
[Oh my god, our brother Tian has such a positive outlook on life. I’ve learned a lot.]
What does it mean to let bygones be bygones? What does it mean to be magnanimous? Brother Tian is truly the epitome of this. Woohoo, what a generous person!
Brother Tian's self-control is truly amazing. Anyone who has worked hard knows how tiring it is after a day of physical labor. He's truly exhausted and hungry, yet he can still resist eating the food that Sister Dan brought back. His self-control is truly strong. I admire him~
[Some people have criticized Tian Ge before, I don’t understand. How can such a high-quality idol like Tian Ge still be criticized? Are they blind? ]
What is a high-quality idol? Brother Tian is the epitome of a high-quality idol. Earlier, Bai Yinyin offered him food, but he also refused to accept it to avoid suspicion. This is his professional ethics as a high-quality idol.
[Wow, wow, wow, I want to recommend my Tiange to everyone. Tiange is worth it! ]
[Brother Tian received an elite education since childhood, so of course he has his own values and bottom line]
When Pei Haotian's fans were promoting Pei Haotian as a high-quality idol on the Internet, trying to make him a hot topic.
Their top idol Pei Haotian was currently nestling in the newly built cabin. He closed the door and gorged himself on the food Dan Yanli had brought back.
Not polite at all, nor as solemn and fake as he is in front of the camera.
Shan Yanli was a little confused at first, but now she has accepted Pei Haotian's change of expression.
She actually thought Pei Haotian was a true gentleman, but it turns out his benevolence, righteousness, and morality were all just an act.
Wei Xuan was holding the food at first, but seeing that Pei Haotian was eating less and less food, he no longer cared about his face and grabbed a shrimp and stuffed it into his mouth.
Ming Fu didn't pack much food for Shan Yanli, just enough for one girl. How could it be enough for three people to eat? Moreover, two of them were tall and strong men who had done physical work all afternoon.
There was not even enough food to fill my stomach, and the food was gone.
After eating that little bit, I was still far from full.
Lying in the cabin, Pei Haotian and Wei Xuan's stomachs began to rumble again, one louder than the other, occasionally mixed with the sounds coming from Shan Yanli next door.
If they hadn't eaten anything at the beginning, Renren might have fallen asleep by now.
But the problem is that they ate it and it tasted delicious, with their mouths and hands filled with the aroma of the oil.
The brother and sister next door and Xu Weixing had eaten and drunk their fill, and still had the energy to go for a walk on the beach. After the walk, they came back to rest, chatting and laughing, and it took them a long time to calm down.
Finally, everything next door quieted down, but on Pei Haotian's side, the three people's stomachs were still not quiet.
Pei Haotian was so hungry and irritable that he couldn't fall asleep. He tossed and turned like a pancake for almost an hour.
Then he sat up suddenly, breathing heavily with anger in his heart.
"Brother, can't you sleep?" Wei Xuan asked. His voice was clear and it was obvious that he was not asleep either.
Pei Haotian asked unhappily: "Can you sleep?"
"You have to sleep even if you can't." Wei Xuan said.
What can I do? I can't wait until dawn.
"I closed my eyes and fell asleep after a while."
Pei Haotian didn't know what he was thinking. He was silent for a long time, and suddenly knocked on the straw mat in the middle.
"Hey, are you asleep?"
Shan Yanli really didn't sleep, partly because she was hungry and partly because it was her first time being in the same room with two men. She would be lying if she said she wasn't scared.
She originally wanted to pretend to be asleep and not answer, but Pei Haotian suddenly knocked on the straw mat, which scared her and she started to burp.
So she could only reply: "No."
"Do you want to eat meat?" Pei Haotian suddenly asked this question without any reason.
Shan Yanli thought of the meat she saw at Mingfu's place this afternoon and their sumptuous dinner today, and couldn't help swallowing.
"Of course."
"Get up whenever you want."
Shan Yanli sat up immediately.
"Then what?"
"Then it's time to go out and do what you're good at."
"Ah? What's your old profession?"
Pei Haotian lifted the straw mat and looked in the direction of Shan Yanli in the dark.
"What did you do over there this afternoon? Go do it again now."
Shan Yanli's heart skipped a beat. Was Pei Haotian asking her to steal?
She bit her lip: "But I...I don't want to go..."
"If you don't want to go, then get out and sleep." Pei Haotian said in a cold and hard voice, "You don't want to do any work, you just want to get benefits everywhere. Nothing in the world is that easy. If you want to work, do it. If you don't want to work, get out."
Shan Yanli was a little panicked: "But, but, we are in the same group, it's so dark outside, you can't, you can't kick me out!"
"We are indeed a team. Being in a team means we are partners and need to work together. I have no obligation to provide you with food, drink, toilet, and sleep for free. Brother Wei and I have provided you with shelter, so shouldn't you return the favor and solve our food problem?"
Shan Yanli knew that Pei Haotian's gentlemanliness and magnanimity were all pretended in front of the camera. Now that the camera was gone, he could show his true face without restraint and cruelly drive her away.
Now Shan Yanli knew that she had no choice but to follow Pei Haotian's arrangements, otherwise she would have a harder time in the next few days.
She compromised and said, "What if they find out?"
Pei Haotian snorted coldly: "Since we can attract small animals on the island, they eat and eat all day long and hoard a lot of food, can't we also attract small animals?"
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