"Husband I love you!!!"
I don’t know if it was because Sheng Yingying’s lung capacity was too strong or because Xia Zhi’s phone had too good a sound quality, but her cry of “Hubby, I love you” was so powerful that it echoed in the empty living room for a long time.
Xia Zhi felt his cheeks getting hot. Although he was calling his sister, he was the one who was embarrassed as a brother.
Jiang Zhixia had never seen such a scene before, and was shocked for a moment by the passionate confession through the phone. He looked down at the phone in Xia Zhi's hand, then looked up at Xia Zhi.
Fearing that his sister would say something bold again, Xia Zhi quickly hung up the phone. Although he looked calm, his slightly trembling fingertips when he hung up the phone betrayed his uneasy heart.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.
"Ahem!" Xia Zhi coughed to cover it up and explained calmly, "The person who just spoke was my sister. She is your loyal fan."
"Sister?"
"Um."
Jiang Zhixia's slightly frowned brows relaxed quietly, with a hint of smile in his eyes.
"That girl is always like this, she says shocking things and doesn't think before she speaks." Xia Zhi's voice became softer and softer, "Don't mind it."
"Of course not." Jiang Zhixia said with a familiar expression, "She's not the only one who calls me that."
"..." Xia Zhi smiled at him, "That's right, your fans all call you that. The public's sweetheart."
Jiang Zhixia looked into his emotionless eyes and asked tentatively, "Do you mind?"
"Why should I mind?" Xia Zhi laughed, "You are not my boyfriend."
After saying that, he turned his head, pretending not to notice the suddenly dim eyes of the person opposite him, and changed the subject, "I'm hungry."
"Okay. I'll do it." The feeling of loss disappeared in an instant, and when Jiang Zhixia spoke again, both his tone and expression had returned to normal, "How about fried rice in the morning? There's still some left from last night."
"Okay." Xia Zhi said indifferently.
Jiang Zhixia went to the kitchen to make breakfast, and Xia Zhi stayed in the room to continue making coffee.
The coffee was brewed, breakfast was ready, and the three people upstairs had just gotten up.
The five of them sat at the dining table eating breakfast, and naturally talked about what happened to Xia Zhi last night.
The excited U University students fought with the black army for a whole night, and finally won the final victory by relying on their powerful fighting power and eloquent speech to defeat the black army who only knew how to copy and paste the same rhetoric.
Just before seven this morning, U University’s official Weibo account released an official announcement to clear Xia Zhi’s name.
In fact, most ordinary netizens were just watching the fun. Now that the truth has come out and it has been proven that all this is false, they no longer have the interest to pay attention to it, and the heat has quickly cooled down.
Coupled with Guangyao's secret operation, the black hot search targeting Xia Zhi has been removed, and the matter has finally come to an end.
Xia Zhi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He was not worried about the impact on his work, but he did not expect that it would affect his parents. So he was quite comforted that the matter could be resolved so quickly.
"By the way," Sang Luo added, "the person behind this has also been found."
"Who is it!" Xiao Han asked, "Is it targeting Xia Xia, or the five of us?"
Sang Luo smiled slightly: "We all know each other, we are old friends."
"Old friend?" The other four looked at Sang Luo in confusion.
Sang Luo took out his cell phone and typed two English letters in the memo.
Four people stretched their heads forward.
[QB]
Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, and inexplicably felt somewhat familiar, but couldn't remember it for a moment.
At this moment, Xiao Han, who was standing by, suddenly slammed the table and stood up, shouting angrily: "Fuck! They are actually poor bastards! Why are they still haunting us!"
Xia Zhi finally remembered that QB was a group that debuted at about the same time as Victoria. They shared the same fate as Victoria, and were not very popular. They could only take on small commercial performances to survive. Because offline commercial performances were limited, a small group like them had to actively fight for commercial performances, so the two groups became competitors and regarded each other as a thorn in their side.
They and QB all dislike each other. Several times when they met in the same commercial performance, the tension spread from the stage to the backstage. Because the two letters QB are the first letters of the pinyin for "Qiongbi", they all call each other "Qiongbi".
QB was not to be outdone and called them the loser dogs duo.
The two groups had deep-seated grudges against each other, and whenever they met, they would always engage in some sarcasm and ridicule, which lasted until Victoria disbanded.
What Xia Zhi didn't expect was that Victoria had been disbanded for so many years, but this group of poor people hadn't let go of their past grudges.
He asked curiously, "They haven't disbanded yet?"
"In fact, it's almost the same as disbanding. It's only thanks to Xu Yuan that they can barely survive in the circle." As the boss of an entertainment company, Sang Luo knows more about the things in the circle than they do. "Xu Yuan hooked up with a sponsor, and he has gained a little fame in the past few years. Don't tell me, although Xu Yuan is narrow-minded, he is really good to his brothers. Now that he is famous, he has not abandoned those useless teammates and will occasionally bring them to show their faces on a show."
In fact, Xia Zhi only remembers the name of a group now. As for the members, her memory is already very vague, and the name Xu Yuan also feels a bit unfamiliar.
"Xu Yuan?" Xiao Han couldn't remember clearly. He looked up and thought carefully for a long time before he suddenly realized, "Oh, that's the one who fought with Lao Jiang!"
Fight? Xia Zhi looked at Jiang Zhixia in surprise.
Jiang Zhixia frowned slightly, and his expression looked a little ugly, but he did not deny it.
Sang Luo and Cheng Yunan were also very calm, as if they knew everything. But Xia Zhi had no impression at all.
"Have you fought with Xu Yuan? When?" Xia Zhi couldn't help but ask.
"Eh? Xia Xia, don't you know?" Xiao Han was quite surprised.
"I don't know." Xia Zhi frowned and asked, "You all know?"
"I know." Cheng Yunan said, "It was when we were invited to participate in a TV event with Qiongbi. Lao Jiang and Xu Yuan had a big fight in the stairwell, and then the organizer disqualified both groups from performing."
Xia Zhi was even more confused. He knew that he was disqualified from performing, but he was feeling a little unwell that day, so he had been resting backstage before going on stage. He did hear some noise during the performance, but he had just taken some medicine and was so sleepy that he didn't go out to see it.
Later, he was woken up by Sang Luo, who told him that the performance was cancelled and they didn't have to go on stage today. Xia Zhi was disappointed but not surprised, because they often encountered such things. Young artists have no human rights, and whether they participate or not depends entirely on the organizer's words.
Xia Zhi only remembered that when they took the subway home, the five of them were unusually silent, especially Jiang Zhixia, whose face was dark and gloomy. But he didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that he was just in a bad mood. Now thinking back, he realized that Jiang Zhixia's expression at that time didn't seem to be lost, but angry.
He asked, "Why are you fighting?"
Sang Luo, Cheng Yunan and Xiao Han shook their heads in tacit agreement.
"I don't know," Xiao Han told him, "When we arrived, they were already fighting each other. We didn't have time to ask and rushed over to help Lao Jiang fight."
"..." Xia Zhi was speechless, "It would be fine if you didn't try to stop the fight, but why are you still interfering?"
"Because we have been wanting to beat them up for a long time," Xiao Han narrowed his eyes, looking fierce, "Lao Jiang would not have quarreled with others for no reason, it must have been Xu Yuan who provoked him first. Besides, Xu Yuan is a bad-mouthed person, he must have said something nonsense again! Such a bitch, just beat him up!"
Xia Zhi was helpless and wanted to ask something else, but Xu Tian and the staff came in and prepared to start today's recording.
The show received very good response when it aired yesterday, so Xu Tian seemed to be in a very good mood, and the staff members were all beaming and full of energy.
Xu Tian also knew that Xia Zhi was framed last night, so he ran over to show concern for him as soon as he entered the house.
"Teacher Xia, are you okay? Did the things on the Internet affect you?"
Xia Zhi smiled and shook his head: "I'm fine."
"That's good." Xu Tian felt relieved and said, "Teacher Xia, don't take it too seriously. Most netizens are reasonable and won't believe such groundless suspicions. This matter will soon be over."
"Yeah, I know." Xia Zhi said, "I don't take it to heart. Director, don't worry. It won't affect the filming."
Xu Tian scratched his head awkwardly and denied it flatly: "I'm not worried about the filming."
Xia Zhi smiled but said nothing.
They were leaving Jingwu Village soon. The villagers had taken good care of them during their stay, so they wanted to say goodbye to everyone before leaving. They also bought gifts for all the villagers and asked Sang Luo's assistant to purchase them and mail them all.
All the gifts were delivered yesterday, and today we are preparing to send them out.
There are more than several hundred households in the village, and it is not realistic to deliver the gifts to them one by one. So they entrusted it to the village committee and asked the village party secretary to help distribute it. However, they personally delivered the gifts to those who they visited the most and had the closest relationships with.
The five people walked in the village with the filming team. The villagers were used to it and greeted them with a smile, and they also smiled back.
However, I soon discovered that the village was particularly lively today. There seemed to be a lot more people than usual, and most of them were young faces.
So when they passed by a villager they were more familiar with, they stopped and chatted for a while.
"Aunt Li, there is another wedding in our village. It is so lively in the village today." Cheng Yunan asked casually.
Aunt Li was also puzzled: "No one in the village is getting married. I'm also confused. There are many new people in the village today."
"These are not people from the village." Everyone was surprised.
"No, I don't even recognize him."
Everyone looked at each other, chatted with Aunt Li for a few more minutes, and then left.
Sang Luo guessed: "It's probably netizens who heard we were recording a show and came over to watch the fun."
"This is unavoidable." Xiao Han shook his head helplessly, "Fortunately we are leaving soon, I hope we won't disturb the lives of the villagers."
But, as Murphy's Law says, the more you worry about something happening, the more likely it is to happen.
Starting from the second day, they found that there were more and more people in the village, mostly young people. They wandered around the village with their mobile phones, but no matter how they wandered, they would eventually wander to the vicinity of the B&B.
Their purpose is self-evident.
At first, the production crew just politely drove them away, but this method only worked when there were few people; later, when there were more people, the staff couldn't keep up, so they simply set up a cordon. But in this way, those people couldn't come in, and they couldn't go out either, so they could only stay in the house, which had a significant impact on the filming.
Later, even the villagers of Jingwu Village were affected.
The village party secretary came to complain with a sad face, saying that many outsiders had come to the village these days. They took photos of them as soon as they left the house and asked about their situations. They were so scared that they dared not go out, could not do farm work, and the vegetables in the fields were all wilted in the sun. He asked them to think of a solution.
But they are also busy now. The director team came to discuss with them and decided to stop filming. No one had any objection. In fact, even if the production team didn't say anything, they would have taken the initiative to raise the issue.
Due to various reasons these days, the shooting plan was forced to be delayed, resulting in their originally planned half-month shooting plan not being completed as scheduled.
However, Jiang Zhixia had cleared out half a month's schedule at the beginning. Now that half a month was about to be up, the crew of "The Widow" called him every now and then to confirm Jiang Zhixia's joining time. No matter what, he had to show up on the crew.
As for Sang Luo, the fact that he secretly came to record the show without telling his man was finally exposed. A big shot in Europe sent a threatening text message across the time difference - just wait at home! Then he booked a plane ticket to return home overnight.
Sang Luo has been feeling uneasy these days. When he thinks about what will happen to him when he returns, his waist starts to tremble. But he has to go back, otherwise some angry man will probably rush to Jingwu Village and tie him up and take him home. How can he lose face if a CEO is taken home like a chicken
Cheng Yunan had just received news that Xiao Zhuzhu had been feeling unwell these days and had stayed in the hospital for two days. The old father, who was obsessed with his daughter, could not sit still and wanted to fly back to his daughter overnight.
The production team now has enough material on hand to last for three more episodes, so they have decided to suspend filming and leave Jingwu Village. As for the next two episodes, they will discuss them in detail after returning to City A.
The date for Uncle Hua's appointment was approaching, so when Xia Zhi and the others left, they took Uncle and Aunt Hua with them.
The news of the program crew's departure spread quickly, and the number of people coming to the village dropped sharply in the following days. The villagers finally dared to leave their homes.
The production crew left in a hurry and didn't have time to clean the house. When Aunt Qingxiang and Aunt Niu found out, they came over spontaneously to help them clean the house.
The two were sweeping fallen leaves in the yard when suddenly a short and fat young man wearing a military green vest rushed in.
"Oh, I'm so scared." Aunt Hua and Aunt Qingxiang were so frightened that they almost dropped their brooms.
"Who are you?" Aunt Qingxiang asked the stranger in front of her with one hand on her waist.
The young man forced a smile and asked politely, "Auntie, did any celebrities come here to film a show recently?"
"Yes, it's Xia Xia and the others." Aunt Qingxiang asked, "You came to look for them. Unfortunately, they just left this morning."
"Oh, I'm not here to see them." The young man smiled awkwardly, walked a few steps inside and asked tentatively, "Auntie, do you know them?"
"Yes, of course I know him."
"Can you tell us what kind of people they are?"
"What kind of people are they?" Aunt Qingxiang thought for a moment and said, "They are all very well-behaved and kind, and they are good-looking, but none of them like my grandson. What a pity. Tsk."
"They don't like my niece either." Aunt Niu came over and said something, but after feeling sorry for herself, she started to speak in a good way, "Oh, they are excellent people, so it's normal for them to have high standards. By the way, young man, do you have a girlfriend?"
"Me?" The fat young man was stunned. "I haven't yet."
"How old are you? You look a little old. It's easy to find a partner." Aunt Qingxiang asked, "What do you do?"
"Entertainment reporter."
"What kind of job is this? I've never heard of it." The two aunts whispered to each other.
Seeing that they were going off topic, the young man quickly changed the subject: "Auntie, I want to ask, what did they do when they were filming the show in the village?"
"How would we know?" Aunt Niu waved her hand. "We are usually very busy, and there is a lot of work to do in the fields."
The young man's eyes lit up and he asked hurriedly, "Didn't you say that they had a good relationship with you? Then have they ever helped you with farm work?"
Aunt Qingxiang smiled and waved her hands: "They are all city kids, with delicate skin and tender flesh. I feel bad for asking them to help me with work."
"So they've never helped you with farm work?" The young man rolled his eyes and asked, "I see that we still have a lot of rice planted in our village. It will take a lot of time to harvest it all."
"Of course not."
The young man pretended to be casual and said, "I heard that one of the five stars is a big boss, very rich, and he didn't help? No wonder they say the richer people are, the more stingy they are."
When Aunt Qingxiang heard this, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared. She narrowed her eyes and looked seriously at the young man in front of her. The more she looked, the more she felt that the young man had shifty eyes and looked like he had bad intentions, so she became alert.
"Why are you asking that?"
"No, nothing, I was just asking." The young man felt a little guilty.
But Aunt Qingxiang was not the simple, gullible and ignorant rural woman he thought she was. Aunt Qingxiang was a well-known shrewd person in the village, with a sharp eye and a sharp mind.
She narrowed her eyes and stared at the young man for a long time, then suddenly widened her eyes and shouted, "Oh! I know! You are trying to trick me, right? You want me to say bad things about Xiao Sang and the others, right?"
"What?" Aunt Niu hasn't reacted yet.
"No, no, you misunderstood!" The young man denied it flatly, but when he waved his hand, he accidentally threw the recorder out.
"Ah!" Aunt Qingxiang pointed at the recorder on the ground and said to Aunt Niu, "I've seen this thing on TV. It's called a recorder. It can record people's voices and can be used to do bad things!"
"Oh, you actually want to record our conversation." Aunt Niu pointed at the young man and said firmly, "You are a bad guy! Do you want to harm Xiao Sang, Xiao Xia and the others?"
"It's not me!" Seeing that something was wrong, the young man turned around and ran away.
“Hey! Don’t run!” Aunt Qingxiang and Aunt Niu hurriedly chased after him.
As the two ran out of the door, they saw three middle-aged men carrying sand and stones walking towards them, so they quickly waved and shouted: "Quick! Stop him! He is a bad guy! He recorded our conversations!"
When the middle-aged man heard that it was a bad guy, he hurriedly left his sand and stones to stop him.
The young man pulled back and tried to run back, but someone pounced on him and pinned him to the ground.
"Who are you and what bad things have you done?" One of the middle-aged men with the fiercest appearance asked harshly.
"I'm not a bad person, and I haven't done anything bad! They misunderstood me!" The young man was pinned to the ground and denied in panic.
Aunt Qingxiang and Aunt Niu arrived just in time, snatched the recorder from his hand and said to the men, "He was using this thing to record our conversation just now. He wanted to trick us into saying bad things about Xiao Sang and the others! He was probably targeting Xiao Sang and the others."
"What! You said bad things about Xiao Sang and his friends?" The middle-aged men were shocked and angry. One of them suddenly realized, "I know. You must want others to think that Xiao Sang and his friends are not good to us in the village!"
"Those five children were so kind to us. Not only did they send us a rice harvester, they also donated money to build roads for us. Before they left, they gave money and gifts to every household." Another of the oldest middle-aged men accused them harshly, "How dare you harm such good children! You are such a bad person!"
The young man lay on the ground and tried to struggle to deny it, but Aunt Qingxiang suddenly came over and spat at him.
"You're not good-looking, and you're such a wicked person. You deserve to be unable to find a partner! Bah!"
(End of this chapter)