Jiang Hexi's burns this time truly prove what she said before: lazy people have lazy luck.
However, this lazy bliss comes at a price.
She looked at her scalded thighs, sat on the bench, and listlessly tore apart a cabbage, feeding Yan Wang's four pet ducks.
To be precise, there were twenty-four ducks, including twenty ducklings that quacked and squawked around their mother.
All the guests at the Stone Courtyard had gone to the shores of Sanxi Lake to keep busy, leaving her all alone in the courtyard.
She spoke casually to the cameraman:
"What's so interesting about me sitting here feeding cabbages? It's rare for me to be recuperating, why don't you two put down your cameras and take a break?"
The cameraman said, "Xi-mei, do you know how many people are watching you feed the ducks in the live stream right now?"
"How many?"
"Fifty thousand people."
While Jiang Hexi was still in a daze, the PD who was filming her continued, "Now it has risen to 60,000 people."
She watched the mallard duck tearing at the cabbage and squeaking as it ate its rice, and suddenly it all made sense:
"Are the netizens just laughing at me?"
The cameraman didn't dare to say anything, his shoulders were shaking from laughing so hard that the camera was swaying slightly.
[Xi Mei prayed for good fortune and got it; after burning both her legs, she's now so bored she's practically growing weeds, and has even started feeding the King of Yan's ducks.]
[She wasn't satisfied with slacking off alone; she couldn't stand seeing others busy and had to drag them along to slack off too.]
【Xi-mei, if you're going to work, there will always be work to do. You rarely get a chance to rest, so just live in the moment.】
The person upstairs knows how to use Xi Mei's original words to be sarcastic.
Jiang Hexi was tearing cabbage leaves to feed the ducks when Li Youtian came to the door, wiping the sweat from his brow and saying:
"Is this the duck you wanted me to bring to Professor Luo?"
"Twenty-four ducks, all of them were a gift from Yan Wang to Professor Luo as a greeting."
Li Youtian took a plastic box into the duck coop and started grabbing the ducks. He caught them accurately every time, and he put the whole family of ducks into two large boxes and carried them to the door.
Jiang Hexi followed him slowly out the door.
Li Youtian stopped in his tracks, turned around, and said, "Your leg injury hasn't healed yet, what are you doing following me?"
Jiang Hexi said matter-of-factly, "I'll take the ducks to the shore of Sanxi Lake and then go check on how the garden is coming along."
"Your leg injury hasn't healed yet, why are you going out and causing trouble? Go back inside and rest."
"I stayed in the house all day and I'm covered in mold."
Jiang Hexi looked around outside the door but didn't see his electric tricycle. She asked in bewilderment, "Uncle, where's your vehicle?"
Are you sure you want to ride in my car?
"I'm sure, otherwise, would I be dragging these two legs there?"
After she finished speaking, Li Youtian led an oxcart out from the path outside the wall.
[Xi Mei was stunned; the village bully's ride was actually an oxcart!]
[Li Youtian, a well-known fish farmer in the village, certainly has a unique car.]
[With someone as proud as Xi Mei, making her ride in an oxcart around the village is practically killing her!]
Jiang Hexi tactfully raised her objection: "Uncle Tian, where is your electric tricycle?"
"Lu Jiukai went to the flower nursery to pick up seedlings."
Li Youtian carried the two boxes of ducks onto the oxcart and pointed to a pile of hay, saying, "Xi-mei, sit there."
Jiang Hexi looked at his two uncooperative legs and, under Li Youtian's repeated urging, awkwardly got onto his oxcart.
An oxcart is not much faster than walking, especially since it is an oxcart used for carrying people and goods.
Jiang Hexi watched a group of children running and playing past the car, disappearing at the end of the street in the blink of an eye. She muttered to herself:
"Uncle, how long will it take for your oxcart to reach the shore of Sanxi Lake?"
"It will be there in forty minutes, very quickly."
"Keep bragging. At this speed, it won't take us even two hours to reach Sanxi Lake, let alone forty minutes."
“There are many people here, and I’m afraid the oxcart will run into people.”
"Uncle Tian, the car has to be moving first."
Provoked by Jiang Hexi, Li Youtian's already volatile temper was completely ignited.
"Xi-mei, sit down properly."
He cracked his whip, striking the ox hard on the neck. The ox, excited, took off running wildly down the road.
Jiang Hexi had never seen a yellow ox run so fast, and she was so frightened that she clung tightly to the railing on the vehicle.
"Uncle, your oxcart has no metal shell, no seat belts, and no airbags. If you crash it, the whole thing will be a car full of people!"
"So hold on tight, and don't let go."
"Uncle, my hair is a complete mess. Could you please make the cow run a little slower?"
“This isn’t a car that you can stop with a tap on the brake. My ox runs like crazy and can’t be stopped easily.”
Jiang Hexi, her face deathly pale, cried out in utter terror:
"What can we do? Uncle Tian, you can't let it keep running like this! Aaaaaaah!"
"The ox will stop running when it gets tired. If it really can't take it anymore, I'll help you jump off the cart."
[Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck! Who would have thought this cow could run so fast when it goes berserk!]
[Xi Mei's first concern wasn't whether she was in danger, but whether the wind had messed up her hairstyle.]
These two were completely bewildered in the wind, and along with the two boxes of ducks, they were all quacking loudly—it was absolutely hilarious!
[The ox will naturally stop running when it gets tired! Hahahaha, that reason couldn't be more reasonable!]
In my opinion, Xi-mei's leg is beyond saving this time...
When Director Chen saw this scene in his interview vehicle by Sanxi Lake, he was so flustered that he immediately jumped up from his chair.
He instructed the crew filming him to bring out a megaphone, stick it out of the car window, and shout towards the oxcart in front of him:
"The oxcart ahead, please slow down! The oxcart ahead, please slow down!"
"Li Youtian, your oxcart is speeding on the road. Please stop the ox immediately and pull over to the side of the road."
Li Youtian's booming voice, so powerful it drowned out the loudspeaker, made people's heads ache:
"This ox can't stop; if it stops, it won't be able to run anymore!"
"The road ahead is wide and there are no people or cars. I'll only stop it as a last resort!"
Director Chen clutched the walkie-talkie in his hand. He had almost forgotten that the village bully had argued with the five-man financial group because he wouldn't listen to advice.
Even through the walkie-talkie, he could still hear the conversation coming from the other end:
"Uncle, how come your ox doesn't get tired after running for so long?"
"It'll be here soon. It also wants to graze by the Sanxi Lake. It'll be here soon."
The assistant director was genuinely worried for Jiang Hexi, and also worried about his own career.
"Director, what if something goes wrong?"
What could Director Chen do? He couldn't very well have his interview vehicle rush forward and force the oxcart to stop.
"Trust the village bully. With his many years of driving experience, Xi Mei will most likely be fine."
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