Hey, hey, hey, I advise you to be careful with what you say and do!
Jiang Lin turned his face away: "It's cold, I don't want to drink."
The streets were deserted, with colorful parasols standing in rows. Rain fell down the umbrellas, splashing water.
The director team's express delivery was five heavy boxes. The two of them took a lot of effort to move them to the car. Jiang Lin muttered quietly: "What a scheming director team."
When Pei Xu was filling out the express delivery form, Jiang Lin glanced at it and asked, "What are you sending to Beijing?"
"The wealth of Pei Village."
"Just open your mouth. It's unnecessary for me to ask you."
The car slowly stopped in front of a store, and Pei Xu said, "Get out."
Jiang Lin held the seat belt with both hands, unwilling to unfasten it. "You said you would take me to a big meal, is it spicy hot pot?"
"Yes, the spicy hotpot in this restaurant is very good." Pei Xu opened his umbrella and got out of the car, walked around to the other side and opened the door, "Big star, since you are here, try it."
Pei Xu was holding the vegetable basket behind him, while Jiang Lin was picking and choosing in front of the refrigerator. "This corn is not fresh, and the kernels are a little wrinkled."
Pei Xu suggested: "Would you like to eat some vegetables?"
"The vegetables are a little old."
Pei Xu leaned close to his ear from behind and whispered, "Just take some. Look at the look in the boss's eyes as if he wants to kill you."
Jiang Lin turned his head inadvertently and saw the boss standing at the checkout counter, staring at them with a somewhat speechless look.
The boss opened the steaming soup pot and started working. Jiang Lin crossed his legs and started browsing his phone. Pei Xu, who was sitting opposite him, noticed a few small scars on his fingers.
"Big star, how is your experience of rural life?"
"Very tired, very hard! I am not talented enough to understand Mr. Tao's leisurely mood when he saw Nanshan Mountain."
Pei Xu's mouth curled up slightly, and he inadvertently moved his body to block the angle of the camera at the door, and whispered: "Don't variety shows have scripts? If you just symbolically cut a few sugar canes, won't you have the material?"
Jiang Lin put down his phone and said disdainfully: "I advise you to be careful with your words and actions! Do people outside the circle think that money in the entertainment industry is especially easy to make?"
Pei Xu tapped the table unconsciously: "What is the purpose of your variety show?"
Jiang Lin shrugged and said calmly, "I don't know either. I said this is my first time participating in a variety show without a script or pay. Do you believe me?"
"I believe there is no script, but as for the zero pay." Pei Xu leaned back and looked at him, "The jacket you are wearing is the income of a family in Peijia Village after selling all their sugar cane. I don't believe it."
"Just because I have money doesn't mean I have to get paid for appearing on the show."
Pei Xu subconsciously asked: "What do you want if there is no pay?"
"My brain is full of water." Jiang Lin said self-deprecatingly. He touched the tip of his nose and said guiltily: "You also know that I am...unemployed, how can I be qualified to choose?"
The boss brought up the hot spicy hot pot, with the red oil floating on top, which was extremely tempting and aroused Jiang Lin's appetite.
Pei Xu took out two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, opened one pair and handed it to Jiang Lin.
"What kind of powder is this? It's really delicious!" Jiang Lin exclaimed.
Pei Xu looked at him, tilting his head slightly, with a satisfied look on his face, and said, "This is our local handmade sweet potato noodles. You can see the real ingredients. You can't eat such authentic ones outside."
Jiang Lin took several big gulps of the food, which was spicy and fragrant, and beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead.
"Forget about the real sweet potato noodles. I can only eat soba noodles. Managing my body is a basic job requirement for idols."
Pei Xu shook his head: "Tsk tsk tsk, you have to hide at home during typhoons, and you are still losing weight?"
"If I don't keep in shape, I'll get fat when I'm on camera. My haters will post a lot of posts to smear me when they see the slightest mistake. Some fans who are extremely obsessed with appearance will also stop following me because I'm fat. I don't want to disappoint them."
Pei Xu raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded: "With such self-control, you will succeed in everything you do."
Jiang Lin put down his chopsticks and said proudly, "I am an idol who stood out from nearly a hundred trainees and debuted as the center. I am good at singing, dancing and acting."
Pei Xu smiled and added: "Now I can also cut sugarcane."
Jiang Lin leaned on the edge of the table with both hands while watching Pei Xu eat. He said helplessly, "I have to cut sugar cane! Can I watch two old people getting up early and working till dusk to cut sugar cane while I sleep at home until noon? If the show is broadcast, I will be scolded to death."
“What if the show doesn’t perform well and fails?”
Jiang Lin stretched lazily, "Even if I'm not destined to become famous again, I'll go back to Beijing and continue to make a living."
Perhaps the encounters in life are really magical. If Jiang Lin had not participated in this program, he might never have known about Peijia Village in his life.
After the heavy rain, there was a pool of water in the potholes in the yard. Jiang Lin expected that the situation in the field was not good. He picked up the intercom and asked, "Director team, do you have water shoes?"
"have."
"Lend me a pair."
The director team ruthlessly rejected him. Jiang Lin complained: "You are so stingy! You didn't even lend me a pair of waders."
Jiang Lin had no choice but to wear a pair of fashionable Martin boots to work in the fields.
At noon, Pei Xu saw his boots and teased him, "Mr. Kong Xu, how about I take the photo for you and shoot a set of fashionable photos of you cutting sugarcane?"
Jiang Lin unloaded the sugar cane skillfully, "Fashion blockbuster? I don't trust your straight man skills."
Pei Xu said unconvincedly: "It's not necessarily a straight man's technique."
Jiang Lin smelled something strange and approached him with a sly smile.
Pei Xu took a step back, "What are you doing?" A trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
"I thought Dr. Pei studied hard, made progress every day, and had never been in a relationship. It turns out that his photography skills were trained by his ex-girlfriends."
Pei Xu turned his face away, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said to him: "I guess you must like a dish called shrimp and eggs."
The weather was gloomy and the villagers were working hard. There was less laughter and joy in the fields than usual. A few electric vehicles with honking horns entered Peijia Village, breaking the tranquility.
Several uncles and two middle-aged women parked their cars on the village road next to the big banyan tree and shouted, "Hand over those bastards!"
The villagers quickened their pace, unloaded the sugarcane, and gathered together.
"Stop shouting." Aunt Li stopped them, "Who are you? Who do you want us to hand over?"
An auntie on the other side said angrily: "We are from Liujia Village, and we are here to look for some thieves who stole things."
The other party kept saying that he was looking for the thief, which made several villagers from Peijia Village present unhappy.
Pei Zongsong stood up and asked: "You came to our village to look for someone. Do you have any evidence to prove that they are from our village? And who are you looking for?"
An uncle from the other side stood in front of the two women and held up his mobile phone to play the surveillance video for the villagers of Peijia Village to watch. "This is the surveillance video in our yard. These kids took advantage of us working in the fields to sneak into our house and steal things."
The woman next to him clapped her hands excitedly and said, "I lost a gold necklace! And 3,000 yuan in cash."
The uncle stepped forward and added: "More than 2,000 cash was lost from my family, and a bag of stripped copper wire that I had saved in the house was also stolen!"
Another uncle's face turned red with anxiety: "The watch my daughter bought for me is also missing. I have never seen such a bad child."
The villagers came back from the fields to watch and talk about it. The villagers had already recognized who the child in the video was, but no one dared to say it.
Jiang Lin and Pei Xu watched from the outside and asked in a low voice: "Is this really a child from your village?"
Pei Xu nodded silently at him.
"This is too bold! He started stealing things at such a young age. He will definitely end up in jail when he grows up."
The villagers of Liujia Village threatened everyone: "If your village doesn't hand over the person, we will wait here. If we still don't see him by dark, I will call the police."
Grandma Song pulled Pei Qi aside and whispered, "Village Chief, we can't hand it over! Otherwise, how can Xiu and the others withstand this blow?"
Pei Zongli heard her words and came over to her and said righteously: "Grandma Song, children are ignorant, and we adults cannot follow suit. This is against the law, how can we cover up the truth?"
Pei Qi glanced at the excited villagers of Liujia Village, his face solemn, and said to Grandma Song: "Go find Xiu and Alan first, and then quietly come to my house and wait for me."
Grandma Song immediately walked towards the field.
"Ali, we can't keep making trouble like this. Please ask these people to come to the village committee and sit down first. We can discuss how to solve the problem later."
Pei Zongli pushed through the crowd and said politely, "I know everyone is quite emotional right now, and it's normal to get angry. The children are not at home right now, so why don't you go to the village committee and sit down and have a glass of water, and then we can talk it out."
The villagers of Liujia Village said excitedly: "Who knows if he is not at home or if you have hidden him?"
Pei Zongli comforted him, "The children are really not at home. If we wanted to hide it, you wouldn't put down your work and come back."
"So how do you plan to solve it?"
Pei Zongli said kindly: "Everyone go to the village committee first, we will also send people to find the children separately. After all, there is only one surveillance camera here, so we have to ask the children to come back and explain it in person, right?"
The villagers of Liujia Village gathered together to discuss for a while, and then said slowly: "Then we will trust you for the time being, but our patience is limited. If you are still missing after dark, call the police immediately! We will go to the police station to talk about anything else."
Pei Zongli led them to the village committee.
"Pei Xu, your dad is great." Jiang Lin praised.
"Old Comrade and Seventh Master are the second and first in command in the village. They have the final say in the village." Pei Xu gave a thumbs up.
"Do you know those kids?"
The two walked towards Pei Qi's house. "Yes, I know them. Those kids are twelve or thirteen years old. Two of them are in the first grade of junior high school, and one is in the sixth grade. They are all left-behind children, and their grandmother is raising them at home alone."
Grandma Song led the two grandmas into the yard, and Jiang Lin urged Pei Xu: "Hurry up."
The five people crowded into Pei Qi's room. Liu Chunling whispered, "It's hard for us to make a decision. Do you think we should hand him over or not?"
Grandma Xiu hurriedly wiped her tears and said, "Don't go to the police station. If this gets out, how will the children have the face to go to school in the future?"
Grandma Alan held Pei Qi's hand tightly and said, "We will compensate the children for whatever they stole, but we don't have much money at home now." Tears welled up in her eyes, "All the money his parents earned in the past few years was spent on living expenses and my medical treatment."
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