There are many kinds of hostess.
In order to prevent Papaya from exposing it on the spot, she had better play the exact opposite of the fungus.
Elegant, dignified, well educated, straight back and looking straight at each other whenever and wherever - just like Yan Qing.
Thinking of this, Ning Ning quickly adjusted her posture and expression, turned her head to look at Pei Xuan, with a reserved attitude, like a lady: "Who is this?"
"The new servant." Pei Xuan looked at her playfully, "What do you think of him?"
Ningning turned to look at Papaya and smiled at him: "You look so young, how old are you?"
"… Sixteen." Papaya replied, looking at her hand on her knee.
However, when she just adjusted her sitting position, Ning Ning turned the clasped hands upside down, palms facing up, the back of her hands against the skirt, and the wound on the back of her hand was also pressed on the skirt. Those physical characteristics that easily revealed her identity, unless He took her hand and looked closely, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see it.
"Why don't you study at school at this age?" Ning Ning asked in a soft voice, with compassion from the elders to the younger and those with better conditions to those with hard life, "You came out to work so early, what difficulties did your family encounter? Yet?"
"...En." Papaya peeked at her from time to time, with doubts in her eyes, as if she was looking for the similarities and differences between her and her sister.
Ning Ning was confident that she would not be seen by him, but when she caught a glimpse of Pei Xuan out of the corner of her eye, she couldn't help feeling cold.
He was still looking at her with that playful look, and there was a cold light in his eyes.
… what did she do wrong
No, it wasn't that something was wrong, it was that she was doing it too right.
Who is the fungus? A submissive little girl who grew up in a patriarchal family. Like young people nowadays, she also likes to chase stars and dreams of becoming an actress, but having a dream does not mean that she has acting skills.
In fact, even a genius, when acting in front of people for the first time, will be unable to perform normally due to nervousness, not like Ning Ning, who suddenly entered the role, and the skilled seems to have stepped on the stage countless times and acted countless times. The second play is normal.
"...I made a mistake!" After figuring this out, Ning Ning was in a cold sweat, and she said to herself, "The object of my acting is not Papaya at all, but Pei Xuan. As someone who has never acted before , I shouldn't play a perfect hostess in front of him, I want to play a seemingly perfect hostess who is actually full of flaws!"
So while she was talking to Papaya, her back began to hunker down little by little.
Just like a person who has not received etiquette training, after forcing himself to sit upright for a while, he began to have backache and involuntarily returned to his original shape.
"Hmm." Pei Xuan coughed lightly beside him and asked softly, "Miss, are you tired?"
Ning Ning straightened up again in a conditioned reflex, frowned again, leaned back on the sofa as if giving up on himself, and even his tone became lazy: "Yeah, I'm tired, I really want to drink some water."
When she said this, she didn't move, and only looked at Pei Xuan with expectant eyes. Pampered, bossy, and used to the attentive care of men.
"... Papaya." Pei Xuan shifted his gaze from her to Papaya, "Pour a cup of hot water for Miss."
"Oh." Papaya immediately went to the kitchen, and when she came back, holding a water glass in her hand, "Miss, your water is here."
Ning Ning looked at the water glass he handed over. If she reached out to take it, her hand would be exposed in front of him, so she looked at Pei Xuan again: "I can't even move a finger when I'm tired."
Pei Xuan glanced at her, took the water glass from Papaya's hand, fed her a drink one by one, halfway through the feeding, turned to Papaya and said, "You can go first."
After Papaya left, he turned the glass in his hand, his eyes fell on the lipstick mark on the rim of the glass, and he said with a smile, "This is not very decent."
Ningning tilted her head to look at him, as if she didn't know how many times she had just revealed her flaws, and asked with a little anticipation and a little nervousness: "How did I behave just now?"
"It's alright." Pei Xuan smiled, and by the way picked up the napkin on the table and wiped the edge of the cup, the lipstick dyed the napkin red.
Seeing his actions, Ning Ning's face showed a trace of embarrassment. He turned his face away and asked, "... By the way, why is my brother here?"
"I saw him looking for work everywhere, and he found him on the pier. It's pitiful." Pei Xuan replied, "It happened that I had a shortage of people here, so I hired him to work for me."
"What can he do for you?" Ningning asked.
Pei Xuan pretended to ponder. After a while, he smiled and said, "How about being your actor?"
Ning Ning pursed her lips: "I don't understand what you mean."
"If even the people closest to you don't recognize you." Pei Xuan raised her chin and stared at her like a snake, "Your acting skills are qualified... By the way, I'll have someone drive you back, Your brother just ran so fast, nine times out of ten he went to the restaurant to see if you were there."
Ningning: "…"
All the way back to the hotel.
When Papaya arrived in a hurry, Ning Ning had changed back to her original clothes. While washing the dishes, she looked at him in surprise: "What kind of wind is blowing today, are you here to pick me up?"
"... Who will pick you up! I'm just passing by!" Papaya said so, but she still rolled up her sleeves and came over to help her wash the dishes.
The water is calm, but the heart is not calm.
"What does Pei Xuan want me to do?" Ning Ning thought to himself, "No, I should change my mind - what does he value about me?"
good looking? There are too many good-looking people, and she rarely takes care of herself now. If a woman doesn't know how to take care of herself and devotes herself to making money all day, her charm will be reduced a lot in the eyes of men.
Fishing tickets? This possibility is most likely, is it going to go the old way? Deceiving her favor, making her despair, and then harvesting the movie tickets sent to her by the Cinema of Life while she was in despair
... Then why get him involved? Ning Ning looked at the papaya beside him.
"...Have you used the hand cream I gave you?" Papaya asked while washing the dishes.
"Used." Ning Ning said.
"Then go and rest." Papaya immediately bumped her with the shoulder, knocked her away from the edge of the pool, and looked at her like a prodigal, "This hand cream is very expensive, don't waste it if you use it. ."
"Then I won't need it next time."
"... I bought it for you, you can use it!"
Amid the commotion, the dishes were finally washed. After talking to the boss, Ning Ning and Papaya returned to their small rental room. One took care of Chen Ju, who was still in a coma, and the other went to the kitchen to warm up the dishes. The perks of this job, the leftovers in the store can be packed.
"Brother." Ningning decided to find out about the other party's situation when the meal was over, "You said you went out to work, what exactly did you do?"
The chopsticks holding the vegetables paused in the air, and Papaya said without changing its color: "Make props."
Ningning: "... Huh?"
"Aren't you going to enter the film and television industry in the future?" Papaya clamped her chopsticks in front of her twice, making a crackling sound, and said with a smirk, "I'll go in first and become a prop master, and then you will come in, My senior can still give pointers to you."
Seriously speaking, Ning Ning almost believed it. She wanted to laugh with him, but she couldn't laugh when she knew the truth. So Papaya laughed wickedly for a long time, slowly restrained her smile, and asked her carefully, "What's wrong?"
"What does a prop master do?" Ning Ning asked.
"It's just for those TVs, movies, and props." Papaya replied.
Ningning: "A costume movie or a modern movie?"
Papaya: "Modern."
"Oh, I usually watch police and gangster movies. After the people in them are shot, blood will spurt out of their bodies. How did they do that?" Ningning asked.
pawpaw:"… "
"Also, in the gang movie you liked to watch before, the elder brothers and younger brothers of the gang used knives to slash at each other, and smashed people's heads with beer bottles." Ning Ning asked, "The beer bottles are real and fake. ?"
Papaya looked at her quietly for a moment, then smiled: "It's fake."
Ning Ning also laughed: "I know it's fake, how did you make it?"
It's made of sugar.
The white sugar is heated and melted, solidified in the bush head mold, and can be used the next day.
"...It's made of foam." Papaya replied, and then impatiently took a large piece of vegetables for her, "Okay, I've just entered the business, I'm still doing errands everywhere, I don't understand many things, wait I'll learn from the master for a few days before answering you!"
"...En." Ning Ning lowered her head and took a chopstick, but she had no appetite. It tasted like chewing wax in her mouth. She swallowed it reluctantly, and suddenly said, "Is it okay for you to be raised by my sister?"
The sound of cooking rice on the other side suddenly stopped.
"Raise you until you graduate from university." Ning Ning said, "Then you can find a better job and earn money to support me."
There was silence in the room, and after a long time, the sound of grilling rice was heard again from the opposite side, in a hurry and upset.
"I'm full." Papaya packed up the tableware and chopsticks in front of her and went to the kitchen. When she walked to the door of the kitchen, she suddenly stopped and said in a muffled voice, "...Give me some time."
Ning Ning looked back at him.
"Let me finish the job at least for two months." Papaya turned her back to her, not knowing what to say, "I will not be a prop master if I get these two months' wages."
Speaking of props masters, in fact, they are basically props...
The next day, the two went out one after the other, hiding from each other, and met again at Pei Xuan's house.
Ning Ning put on the dress that Pei Xuan prepared for her, put on bright lipstick, and sat on the sofa in the living room.
Two people stood opposite him, one was Pei Xuan, who was polite and elegant, wearing a black dress, like the housekeeper of this family, re-introducing the people around her to her.
"This is Papaya, the new servant. He will serve you when I'm not here." He smiled, "But because he talked nonsense yesterday, I'm going to give him a little punishment."
Ning Ning stared at the young man in front of him.
He also changed into a dress, probably prepared for him by Pei Xuan. It was similar to the servant clothes of a western manor, which matched the western-style villa in front of him very well.
On the face, wearing a mask.
A mask with only eyes and no mouth.
"As punishment." Pei Xuan said with a smile beside him, "From now on, he can only listen, he can only see, he can't speak."