Boss, He Is Chasing Stars Again Chapter 53

Chapter 53 Chapter 53 Shi Xingze turned over, Hei…

Shi Xingze turned over, unable to see Jian Xingzhi’s face clearly in the darkness, looking forward to what story he would tell.

Jian Xingzhi’s calm voice had no fluctuations, like a river flowing quietly in the dark night: “Once upon a time, there was a mermaid who saved a prince who was in a shipwreck. When the prince woke up, the mermaid was afraid that the prince would hate her because of the fish tail, so she hid it. As a result, when the prince woke up, he mistakenly recognized another girl as his savior and wanted to marry her as his princess.”

This is the story of the mermaid. Shi Xingze had heard it when he was very young, but he still pretended not to hear it and asked Jian Xingzhi: “What happened next?” Shi Xingze knew that the mermaid would go to the witch and exchange her singing voice for legs, although the ending was a tragedy.

Jian Xingzhi’s voice was still calm: “Later, the mermaid went to the witch to exchange her sweet singing voice for legs. The witch just looked at her and said to her, ‘Go back. People who will give up on you because of this fish tail will also give up on you for other things in the future.'”

Shi Xingze was listening to Jian Xingzhi’s story with his eyes closed, but when he heard the words, he suddenly said “huh” in confusion. How could this be different from the mermaid story he heard?

Jian Xingzhi heard Shi Xingze’s confused voice, smiled and said, “The mermaid didn’t believe it, so she made a bet with the witch. The witch gave her one day. If the prince recognized the mermaid’s identity, she would give the mermaid the magic potion she wanted.”

“What happened next?” Shi Xingze listened carefully. He wanted to know what the ending of Jian Xingzhi’s story would be.

Jian Xingzhi thought for a while and said: “The mermaid went to find the prince, but the prince believed that the one who saved him was another princess, so the mermaid left sadly. When the witch asked the mermaid, the mermaid said: ‘He can’t even recognize his real savior, why should I turn into a human for him?'”

Shi Xingze felt that this story was not very similar to Jian Xingzhi’s own adaptation, and couldn’t help but ask him: “This story is so different, it doesn’t feel so sad.”

Jian Xingzhi said “hmm”: “My mother told me about it before. I think you will like this ending more.”

In fact, the story told by Jian’s mother was more straightforward than Jian Xingzhi’s version. The mermaid rushed up and slapped the prince directly, calling the prince a fool who could not even recognize his savior, and told him to roll back into the sea and choke.

Jian Xingzhi felt that if he told these things, his image in front of Shi Xingze would sink to the bottom of the sea.

Shi Xingze really liked this ending better.He felt that he was somewhat similar to a mermaid. Because he liked boys, he had to hide his “fish tail”. He was not even as brave as the mermaid because he didn’t want to face the disgusted looks that Jian Xing might receive today.

He felt a little uncomfortable thinking about it, and asked Jian Xingzhi in a low voice: “If it were you, would you hate the mermaid’s tail?”

“Why do you hate her?” Jian Xingzhi’s voice was very soft: “The mermaid’s tail is not a shortcoming. The person who hates her because of this is probably more worthy of being hated, right?”

Shi Xingze felt that Jian Xingzhi seemed very different today, but he did not go into detail.Jian Xingzhi’s voice was calm and pleasant, and he gradually felt sleepy.But after hearing Jian Xingzhi’s answer, Shi Xingze subconsciously raised the corners of his mouth and said in a daze: “It’s great, I feel like I can fall asleep. Good night.”

Shi Xingze felt sleepy, and the last two words “good night” were sticky. Jian Xingzhi felt that his heart softened, and he fell asleep after saying good night in his heart.

When Shi Xingze woke up the next day, Jian Xingzhi had just returned from exercising outside.He sat up sleepily and yawned: “What time is it? Did I get up late?”

Jian Xingzhi just took a shower, wiped his hair and said, “It’s not too late, but I got up too early. The program team said they would provide breakfast this morning, and it’s downstairs, waiting for us to go down and eat together.”

“Okay.” Shi Xingze got up and went to wash up. He didn’t wake up until the cold water hit his face: “Wait a minute, what does the program team mean by providing breakfast this morning?”

Jian Xingzhi was also a little helpless: “I heard what Director Lin said just now, and it seems that the guests will have to deal with the food and drinks themselves.”

Well, it wasn’t a surprise. Shi Xingze was more or less prepared before coming here, so he washed the foam off his face, changed his clothes, and went downstairs with Jian Xingzhi.

Almost all the guests downstairs have arrived, except for Guo Yiqing and Yao Xueling, who live farthest away.But the two of them lived far away and they were girls, so no one else said much.The two of them arrived only fifteen minutes after the meeting time, which made Director Lin a little unhappy.

Lin Xi announced today’s task to several groups of guests: “Today you will randomly select a task card, which contains four problems to be solved for the residents of the ancient town. After the selection, the guests cannot exchange each other. The order of the draw is now announced. The order of the draw is the gathering time this morning.”

As soon as Lin Xi finished speaking, the others looked at Guo Yiqing and Yao Xueling, who were the last to arrive and were late, and felt helpless for a moment.

How unlucky this must be, not to mention the house that was the farthest in the lottery, now it’s even at the bottom of the lottery.

Yao Xueling was a little dissatisfied and said to Lin Xi: “But we live the farthest away. It takes twenty minutes to walk there, and there is no car. Moreover, Shi Xingze and Jian Xingzhi’s rooms are upstairs. Isn’t this unfair?”

Lin Xi was originally dissatisfied with Yao Xueling’s performance in this period, and he didn’t hide it when he heard the words: “The owner of the farthest house such as Ding left a bicycle in the yard. If you pay a little more attention, you can find it.”

Guo Yiqing said to Yao Xueling with some regret: “I’m sorry, I went back too late yesterday, and I didn’t look carefully in the yard. If I had known, we would have come here on bicycles.”

Yao Xueling actually saw that bicycle yesterday, but she didn’t want to ride on that old bicycle. What would happen to her image?As a result, I didn’t expect that Lin Xi would make such a move during today’s draw.

Without saying anything, Lin Xi took out the lottery and motioned for Jian Xingzhi and Shi Xingze to draw first.

The last time it was Shi Xingze who drew it, so this time Shi Xingze pulled Jian Xingzhi’s sleeve and said to him: “Xingzhi, it was me who drew it last time. You can draw it this time. It doesn’t matter if it’s harder. We’re unlikely to be lucky all the time.”

Jian Xingzhi originally wanted to refuse, but Shi Xingze said so and even paved the steps, so Jian Xingzhi had no choice but to go up and draw lots.He was nervous for a long time, but quietly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the contents. He handed the note to Shi Xingze and showed him the contents.

“Help the old man pick citrus and transport them to the city to sell. After completion, you can get reward funds. The reward fund is one hundred yuan plus funds equal to the sales of citrus. It seems pretty good.”

When Shi Xingze came, he saw many people bringing baskets of citrus to sell along the way. It shouldn’t be difficult to sell.

In other words, as long as they help the old man pick oranges and transport them to the sales point in the ancient town, they can get one hundred yuan of funds. The additional funds will depend on how many oranges they can sell. The more they sell, the more they get.

Ran Xiangling and Shu Shui also drew lots. Ran Xiangling and the others were the chickens and ducks who took care of the townspeople. If they had more than one chicken and duck until the evening, they would complete the basic task. The reward would be 80 yuan. If they picked up an egg or duck egg, they would be rewarded 1 yuan.

The stated tasks were somewhat physically demanding, requiring them to go to the river and learn to row and ferry guests to the other side.Considering the physical strength and technology required for this task, the program team specially selected a section of the narrower downstream river as the task point, and awarded two yuan for each successfully transported guest.

Now only Guo Yiqing and the others have not yet drawn the lot. This time, Yao Xueling couldn’t beat Guo Yiqing to draw the lot. Guo Yiqing took her lot and opened it without thinking. She suddenly smiled and said: “It turns out that I went to the restaurant to help. It’s okay, okay.”

Yao Xueling but.He curled his lips and looked down at the clothes he had specially changed into.

Although Lin Xi had warned them in advance that some tasks might require some work, Yao Xueling looked at Jian Xingzhi, gritted her teeth and changed into a slim-fitting light blue dress, which was more eye-catching than Ran Xiangling and Xia Xia who were wearing jeans.

Not to mention Guo Yiqing, Yao Xueling didn’t care at all. He was just a comedian and wanted to block her way.

But she didn’t expect that they were so unlucky. She was dressed like this and had to go into a place full of oil smoke like the kitchen. Yao Xueling subconsciously wanted to ask for help, but Lin Xi stared at her and she didn’t dare to provoke him anymore.

Shi Xingze and Jian Xingzhi received a note from Lin Xi with the location of the orchard, asked the townspeople about the approximate distance, and decided to walk there.

On the way, Shi Xingze and Jian Xingzhi were chatting. Shi Xingze asked him: “You have never come to a place like this to pick fruits, right? Speaking of which, this is my first time. I have only picked strawberries with my parents before.”

“This is indeed the first time.” Jian Xingzhi had never picked citrus before, so this was a rare opportunity, and he was looking forward to it.

The two walked for a long time, until Shi Xingze began to wonder if there was something wrong when the villagers said it was not too far away. Finally, he saw a sign for an orchard not far away. Shi Xingze stopped at the door and finally arrived!

Shi Xingze walked over and asked his uncle: “Uncle, our task is to pick citrus. How many can we pick to be considered qualified?”

The uncle sat on a small horse, fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan, pointing to several large empty baskets behind him, and said in less than standard Mandarin: “Fill all these baskets, and then carry them down the mountain to sell them.”

Jian Xingzhi counted the bamboo baskets behind his uncle. There were six bamboo baskets in total and three pairs of poles. It was not difficult to guess that they were the oranges they would transport soon.

Jian Xingzhi and Shi Xingze looked at each other and felt that this task was not as simple as they imagined and it would test their physical strength.

Shi Xingze couldn’t help but ask his accompanying PD: “What if the girls get this? They shouldn’t be able to carry so many baskets, right?”

The accompanying PD replied: “The tasks are divided into stages. After picking and putting into baskets, it costs 60 yuan.”

So that was the case, and it was reasonable. Shi Xingze nodded in understanding.

Jian Xingzhi rolled up his sleeves, picked up four bamboo baskets with both hands and walked into the orchard first. He put on his gloves and imitated the actions of the people next to him, picked a few citrus and put them into the baskets.

Shi Xingze saw that he had started to move, and he picked up the remaining baskets and followed, starting with the tangerines that were not too tall, and preparing to pick them one tree at a time.

Shi Xingze was not used to standing on tiptoes and bending down at first, but later his speed gradually caught up with Jian Xingzhi’s.

Shi Xingze took a breath and was about to reach out and pull down the high branches to pick the citrus. Jian Xingzhi was one step ahead of him and easily pushed down the branches in front of Shi Xingze: “I’ll help you, you pick them.”

Jian Xingzhi was taller than Shi Xingze, and the shadow cast by his tall figure seemed to be able to wrap Shi Xingze’s entire person in the shadow.

Shi Xingze picked off the tangerines on the branches, secretly held them in his palms and smelled them. It was indeed a very sweet citrus smell.