The others didn't pay much attention to Lin Yichen, so he could only pester Ye Mubai.
He sighed incessantly, "Sister Mubai, why are you so slow? Look at Sister Zhaoxi, she's already planted several rows."
"See, you really need to lose some weight. Otherwise, you start panting after just planting for a little while. Your efficiency is too low."
Lin Yichen was wearing a full set of gear, but he hadn't even bent his waist once.
Xie Siheng couldn't listen to this anymore. "Yichen, stop constantly picking on Mubai. You should move a bit yourself."
Lin Yichen curled his lips in grievance and finally began to bend down to plant the rice seedlings.
However, the ones he planted floated up after a short while, and Ye Mubai had to help him replant them.
"Sister Mubai, you are so good to me," Lin Yichen smiled, wiping the sweat from Ye Mubai's face from the side.
Ye Mubai smiled good-naturedly, "You are a younger brother, after all."
On the other side, Jiang Yanchen hesitated for a moment before touching the seedlings planted by Ji Zhaoxi next to him.
Ji Zhaoxi's peripheral vision sharply caught Jiang Yanchen's movement. Seeing that he wanted to dig up her seedlings, she quickly ran over.
"Jiang Yanchen, why are you digging up my seedlings!"
Although the two of them were already very familiar with each other on the trending search lists, this was their first real conversation on the show.
Jiang Yanchen looked at her panting figure and froze for a moment. "Sorry, I just wanted to see how deep you planted your seedlings because mine keep floating up."
Ji Zhaoxi had thought Jiang Yanchen wanted to take revenge on her.
She bent down and taught him, "Just insert them 2 to 3 centimeters deep. Don't go too deep, or the core will rot. Yours are planted too shallowly, which is why they float up."
Jiang Yanchen listened carefully and tried planting a few. Ji Zhaoxi gently tugged at the seedlings he had just planted. "That works."
"Thank you."
"No problem."
Several cameramen snapped away at the two of them, and Ji Zhaoxi very cooperatively struck a few poses.
Jiang Yanchen was taken aback, watching Ji Zhaoxi suddenly start posing next to him.
He looked at Ji Zhaoxi, then at the cameramen in front, and silently took a step back, yielding the camera to her.
Unexpectedly, Ji Zhaoxi followed him, determined to perform her rice-planting right beside him.
Jiang Yanchen choked up.
Forget it, let her be.
Ji Zhaoxi was the first to complete the task. Her great rice-planting enterprise was finished, but her main quest had not yet begun.
She was still looking for someone who could help her steal some screen time.
Jiang Yanchen kept his head down planting seedlings without speaking, so all the screen time she piggybacked off him was invalid.
Just then, Li Qiuchi suddenly cried out.
She hadn't worn a sun hat, and her sweat had washed sunscreen into her eyes. She instinctively wanted to rub them.
The other guests surrounded her, a crowd of people talking all at once, but no one actually stepped forward to help her.
Ji Zhaoxi shoved Lin Yichen aside. He lost his footing and fell flat on his butt in the field, his face turning pale and green.
"Don't rub them!" Ji Zhaoxi quickly stopped her.
She had Li Qiuchi turn to the side, then used a water bottle to rinse her eyes. When Li Qiuchi felt a bit better, Ji Zhaoxi used a wet wipe to clean off all the sunscreen around her eyes.
She pulled out a clean towel from who knows where, ran over to the well water opposite them to wash it, and handed it to Li Qiuchi.
This entire sequence of actions was as smooth as flowing water.
"Use this as a compress," she smiled gently at her, and then once again revealed her golden left profile to the camera.
Li Qiuchi applied the towel and stared at her blankly.
She was just about to thank Ji Zhaoxi, only to watch helplessly as Ji Zhaoxi ran to the side and smiled, delivering an advertisement to the camera.
"Mofang Wet Wipes, takes away summer greasiness in a second, bringing you back to the peak of your beauty!"
The cameraman was dazed for a moment. Were they supposed to shoot an ad for this segment?
The director, witnessing everything: ?
He remembered that this was the advertising line assigned to Li Qiuchi, wasn't it?
During the break, an old grandmother brought over herbal tea and plain steamed buns.
Jiang Yanchen couldn't eat at all. Even though he had barely eaten anything last night and hadn't eaten this morning, he was very hungry, yet he still couldn't swallow a bite.
The old grandmother looked at them with a smile. "It's really been hard on you young people."
Lin Yichen laughed, "We're not tired, Grandma. This is all what we should do."
"Grandma, you look exactly like my own grandmother. Whenever I see you, I think of her."
Hearing this, the old grandmother chuckled happily, "Really? Then you can just treat me as your grandmother."
It was very cool under the shade of the trees. The village children often played on the ridges of the fields, darting back and forth, their laughter echoing everywhere.
Ji Zhaoxi sat on a low stool, applying medicine to the cuts on her body.
Even though they were just tiny bloody scratches from the weeds, she absolutely wouldn't allow it!
The old grandmother told them some stories about the village, and Lin Yichen was the one keeping the conversation going the whole time.
Ye Mubai looked at Lin Yichen with some envy. Ever since she arrived on this show, her role in the program seemed to have been replaced by him.
Even though she had only been here for a day, she constantly felt an immense amount of pressure, to the point where she was too embarrassed to even speak a few words.
A tube of ointment was suddenly handed into her line of sight. Ye Mubai froze for a moment and whispered, "Thank you."
How did Ji Zhaoxi know that the palm of her hand had been scratched?
Actually, after this whole day, she found that Ji Zhaoxi was quite different from what she had imagined.
Ji Zhaoxi was actually very quiet, and when she wasn't speaking, she looked especially innocent and honest, giving off the vibe of a very well-behaved girl at first glance.
Of course, it was a completely different story when she opened her mouth.
Ji Zhaoxi showed no reaction on the surface, but when Ye Mubai looked at her with surprised eyes...
She felt absolutely thrilled inside!
She couldn't help it, she was just this kind of attentive person.
After Ye Mubai applied the ointment, she returned it to Ji Zhaoxi and asked cautiously, "Zhaoxi, how did you know my hand was hurt?"
Even Lin Yichen, who had been by her side the whole time, hadn't noticed.
Ji Zhaoxi said calmly, "When you picked up the cup just now, your palm flinched a bit."
Ye Mubai looked at her in shock, her feelings becoming complicated. She hadn't expected anyone to pay so much attention to her, even if Ji Zhaoxi had just noticed it by accident.
Ji Zhaoxi pretended not to see her touched gaze.
She wondered if the camera had captured it. Her gesture of handing over the medicine just now was truly like something out of an idol drama.
Nearby, Jiang Yanchen leaned against a tree, covered his face with his hat, and closed his eyes.
Lin Yichen's gaze kept drifting toward Jiang Yanchen. He also wanted to piggyback off Jiang Yanchen's screen time, but he was afraid Jiang Yanchen wouldn't give him any face.
When they headed back that evening, it was Ji Zhaoxi who drove the tricycle to take them back.
She drove in the front, while the other few huddled in the cargo bed in the back, refusing to make eye contact with each other. They awkwardly looked in all directions, making the scene quite comical.
Ji Zhaoxi had a blast driving. When it was time to get off, she even pulled a drift, nearly throwing the other guests in the back out of the vehicle.
[I'm dying of laughter, why are the ones in the back suffering so much]
[How does Ji Zhaoxi know how to do everything? She's so amazing]
[If driving a tricycle makes her amazing, then my grandma is amazing too]
[Still better than that overgrown baby who keeps slacking off! Still better than that top-tier male idol who doesn't even dare to touch a leech!]
[Is it just my imagination, or why do I suddenly feel that Ji Zhaoxi is actually quite good-looking?]
