Chapter 14: Late Night Fright

There was only one line on the chat screen. After the application was approved, Bai Ye didn't talk to him. Qi Xingchen didn't know what he could say either, and his hand scratched around on the screen before it finally locked up.

Qi Yuji, who received the photo, exploded and called Qi Yunxiao: "Brother, you've seen Xingchen's photo, right?"

"Uh," Qi Yunxiao asked, "what's wrong?"

"Can't you see the furniture is from the '90s? Xingchen's been pampered since she was a child. Can she live in that?"

Qi Yunxiao sighed: "Try to get used to it, boys have to go out and suffer a bit, otherwise they won't be able to hold up in the future."

Qi Yuji skimmed his lips, the elder brother is right, the younger brother has already become an adult, it is true that he can not be protected under the wings and not let go.

But she was still heartbroken, thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we put some money into McMansion, Xingchen's suffering can't be in vain, let McMansion cut more footage for him when he cuts the movie."

"I don't need you to remind me of this, I've already done it." Qi Yunxiao's voice was faint, "What do you think I bought the hot search to fourth for?"

Qi Yuji thought for a few seconds and suddenly realized, "Oh...... I know! With Xingchen's fame, it's hard for him to get to #4 on the Hot 100, but if he can get there, it means there's a push behind it. After McMansion knows about this, they can take care of Xingchen more, and maybe they'll continue to show Xingchen's footage in order for us to buy heat!"

Qi Yunxiao hooked her lips, "That's right, Xingchen won't let us help him behind his back, so we have to find another way."

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As Qi Yunxiao expected, after so many years in the entertainment industry, the director and the producer are both veterans, so they guessed that Qi Xingchen has a backer behind him and treated him a bit better.

With Qi Xingchen digging a big hole for the director, the guests had a rather cozy three days. They spent the daytime wandering around the village and chatting, and at night they went to the neighboring farmer's house to save money to buy food and cook, which made them self-sufficient.

Among the guests, Zhang Yunfei, who started his career long ago and became famous early, has always been served by an assistant; Liu Ziyu, who has never touched the water of spring; and Bai Ye, whose father is in politics and mother is in the business world, is a young man who can't distinguish between grains, so naturally, the heavy responsibility of cooking falls on Luo Qiuman and Tao Tao.

Seeing that Luo Qiuman had already cooked for two days, Qi Xingchen felt sorry for him and volunteered, "Sister Qiuman, I'll make dinner today."

"Can you cook at your young age?" Luo Qiuman didn't believe it.

Qi Xingchen smiles, "It might not be good, but it's guaranteed to be cooked. It's settled huh Qiuman-san, I'm going to buy food now."

Afraid of Luo Qiuman's disapproval, Qi Xingchen picked up the bags and headed out. At that moment, Bai Ye came in from outside, and seeing him lugging several bags, he curiously said, "What are you doing?"

Qi Xingchen: "Buying groceries."

"By yourself?"

"...... Not particularly can," Qi Xingchen eyeballed and said pitifully, "You accompany me, senior."

Recently Qi Xingchen has been keeping an eye on the male and female leads, so to speak, wherever there is Bai Ye, there is him. What's better is that the male lead doesn't seem like he's developing a crush on the female lead, or the male lead has moved on and isn't showing it.

So when you go out, you have to drag Bai Ye along with you, just in case he's not around for a while, what if the hero and heroine suddenly explode in love?

Bai Ye, not surprised by Qi Xingchen's request, took the bag from him and headed out.

Walking up to a farmer, Qi Xingchen called out to him, "Elder."

Bai Ye thought the title was a bit strange and said "hmmm".

"This is a good carrot place, let's go in."

The farmer and his wife were leaning against a tree chatting when Qi Xingchen greeted them in Danish and then asked in English, "How much are your carrots?"

The farmer returned a Danish phrase.

Qi Xingchen, who knew only a few simple Danish words and could not distinguish the meaning of the words, asked Bai Ye in a low voice, "What are they saying?"

"They said that his family carrots were going to be grown for their own consumption and not bought out."

"Oh." Qi Xingchen said, "Tell him he only needs a few, and ask him to help us even it out."

Bai Ye: "......"

Bai Ye grimaced for a moment and translated what Qi Xingchen said.

The farming couple looked at each other and didn't say anything. They had grown their own vegetables for their own consumption all these years and had never sold them.

Qi Xingchen saw that the couple was hesitating and put her hands together to curry favor, "I've been around a lot and you have the loveliest and freshest carrots in your yard, if you'd be willing to sell me a few ......"

He pointed to Bai Ye: "I'll let him sing you a song. He's a big star in China, he's very famous!"

Bai Ye froze, not realizing that he had just been a "senior", but now he was lying in a basket like a melon being sold by his fans.

Qi Xingchen was oblivious and was still selling his wares: "Look at this radiant face, look at this figure, if you like dancing, I'll let him give you a dance."

"......" Bai Ye whispers in displeasure, "Why don't you jump."

"Because I'm so vague, there's no value in watching!" Qi Xingchen tops it with a straight face.

The cameraman and his assistant laughed out loud, and the farmer and his wife were amused by Qi Xingchen's use of the word "cute" to describe carrots for the first time.

The wife takes a shovel and digs out a dozen carrots, throws them in a basket and hands them to Qi Xingchen, "Here you go."

Qi Xingchen was happy to have accomplished his goal: "How much is it?"

"No money, it's yours," said the farmer, "he's so pretty, just right with these CUTE carrots."

"He" naturally refers to Bai Ye. Qi Xingchen breathes a sigh of satisfaction, thanks the couple repeatedly, and then heads majestically to the next house with a small bamboo basket, humming Ai Dou's song.

As he walked away, he also bragged to the camera, "The decision to pull Elder Kashiwa out just now was simply too wise, otherwise how could I have gotten back a dozen free carrots!"

Bai Ye: "......"

So in the minds of his fans, he's worth a basket of very CUTE carrots?

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With the help of Pachinko, Qi Xingchen has managed to cheat his way back to a lot of fresh small vegetables.

Luo Qiuman wanted to stay in the kitchen to help, but Qi Xingchen pushed her out, "Qiuman, you've been tired for two days, try my cooking today."

"Okay, you can get it yourself?"

"Don't worry, no problem."

The acrobatic troupe plus the troupe master was nearly twenty people, after the acrobatics declined, in order to save unnecessary expenses, the troupe master decided not to hire aunts, and everyone took turns to cook every day.

At the age of eight or nine, Qi Xingchen could already shred two potatoes in five minutes when he couldn't memorize all three hundred Tang poems.

Only to see his knife blades flying, it didn't take long for him to finish handling all the vegetables. An hour later, four dishes and one soup, enough for six people, were served on the table.

The guests tsked and marveled, but Bai Ye looked at the table and didn't say anything.

-First reaction to get up in the morning to fold the quilt, young age will do so many dishes ...... What exactly did the little fan go through?

Qi Xingchen does just home cooking, not much fancy, but it's pretty good for limited funds.

They ate and chatted and praised each other, and after they had eaten their fill, they all went back to their rooms to recuperate. When the room fell silent, Qi Xingchen remembered Bai Ye's avatar.

The real-life presence of ear returns made him sleepy, and fearing that always rolling over would affect Zhang Yunfei, he put on his clothes and prepared to go to the yard to check on Xingchen.

While walking towards the stairs, there was a rustling sound coming from Liu Ziyu's and Tao Tao's room, which should be someone rummaging for something.

It is so late, are they still not sleeping? Qi Xingchen didn't understand the girls, lifted his leg and continued walking. The first step doesn't wait--

"Ah..."

The rummaging sound suddenly changed to a terrified scream.

It's Liu Ziyu!

At that moment Qi Xingchen thought nothing of turning around and kicking in the door of Liu Ziyu's room.

The room is dark and the window is wide open. By the light of the moon, Liu Ziyu was on his knees on the bed, crawling desperately towards the door of the room!

Behind her by the nightstand stood a masked man, who by his build would be an adult male.

Qi Xingchen immediately reacted to the burglary!

"Help, help! Help me!"

Seeing help coming in, Liu Ziyu shouted for help. The thief was just trying to steal something and leave, but when he heard the sound, he was shocked and in a hurry, he grabbed Liu Ziyu by the hair and dragged her back.

In a panic, the man drew an object from his pocket. The object emitted a piercingly cold aura as the moonlight wavered.

That's a knife!

"Help me oooooh I don't want to die!"

Liu Ziyu was dragged back by her hair, her legs trembling with pain and fear of the unknown, and she looked up and yelled at the door.

Immediately after, see the person is Qi Xingchen, her heart thumped, only one thought left - finished.

It doesn't matter which boy rushes in now, it can't be Qi Xingchen, because she has already offended Qi Xingchen thoroughly in the past two days.

They are two actresses who sleep and must cover the camera before sleeping. Qi Xingchen will definitely use this opportunity to get back at her by pretending she didn't react and then watching her get hurt by the thugs.

...... Dumbass Qi Xingchen!

Liu Ziyu was afraid and hated, and gritted his teeth and prepared to show goodwill to Qi Xingchen first, after all, his life was the most important thing.

However, without waiting for the opening, Qi Xingchen rushed forward with an arrow step and kicked the thief directly on the arm where he was tugging Liu Ziyu!

"Hiss--" The thief grimaced in pain and let go of his hand. Liu Ziyu escaped from his clutches and rolled out of bed.

This series of process looks complicated, in fact, from Qi Xingchen rushed in to save the hostage in just two minutes. Tao Tao in the same room rushed to pick up Liu Ziyu, Zhang Yunfei on the second floor and Bai Ye on the first floor heard something wrong and finally arrived at the scene.

"Fuck!"

Seeing that they have so many helpers, the thief naturally did not dare to stay longer, cursed Qi Xingchen in English, pushed Qi Xingchen away vigorously, and then casually took something on the nightstand, jumped out of the window and left in a hurry.

All that was left were the curtains that flopped in the wind.

"Xingchen!" Zhang Yunfei slapped on the light and poked his head into the already empty yard, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Qi Xingchen covered her small arm and shook her head.

"Then you take a rest, I'll go to the side and inform Director Liu to call the police. Bai Ye, you help Ziyu and Tao Tao pour a glass of water to calm down."

The director and the others had rented a villa next door as a temporary office and resting place, the two courtyards were almost ten meters apart, Bai Ye nodded, "hmmm".

The filming accident is not a small matter, Zhang Yunfei accounted for it and left in a hurry, Bai Ye went to the kitchen on the first floor to pour three cups of warm water. Bai Ye went to the kitchen on the first floor to pour three cups of lukewarm water. When he came back with the water, he found that Qi Xingchen was not in the house.

"Where is he?" Bai Ye asked.

Tao Tao answered while calming Liu Ziyu: "Back to the room."

The image of Qi Xingchen covering his small arm flashed before his eyes, and Bai Ye's brows furrowed involuntarily.

Not long after Zhang Yunfei returned, Bai Ye saw that the two girls had stabilized, handed them over to Zhang Yunfei, and carried his jacket out the door.

Forty minutes later, Qi Xingchen, who had taken his second shower of the night and was struggling to put on his T-shirt with one hand, heard his cell phone chirp twice.

It's WeChat, Bo: [Is it sleeping.]

Qi Xingchen's hands stopped where they were tugging at his clothes-- Why did Bai Ye ask him if he had slept? Did he want to ask about the circumstances of the incident? But Bai Ye didn't seem like such a nosy person.

Qi Xingchen's arms were uncomfortable, plus he was very tired after the bath, and returned, [Already lying down.]

The whole sentence reeked of "I don't want to see you right now," and while anyone with a sense of humor wouldn't continue the conversation, Qi Xingchen was satisfied with his answer.

As a result, the other party not only didn't know better, but also replied back in seconds, [Open the door.].