Chapter 70: The Show Begins
Xuan Xia checked her own ranking, then looked at first place.
So now the distance between her and first place was separated by a Hong Kong, right.
Moreover, judging from this ranking, currently in the Mystic Sect, those under 45 years old making a living from this numbered possibly just over 2000 people.
The number was much smaller than she had imagined.
But that was normal, after all, many charlatans who swindle people were not included.
Her gaze returned to the front of the list.
In the rankings from first to tenth place, seven spots were all surnamed Cui, and the remaining three spots were each taken by the Zhu, Chen, and Yun families.
After tenth place, the surnames began to become more diverse.
And the seven Cui family members occupying the top ten were clearly from the same generation, because all their names contained the character “Cheng”.
The top rank was Cui Chenglou, and second place was Cui Cheng Zhi.
Unfortunately, there were only names, no other more detailed information.
If possible, Xuan Xia really wanted to give some suggestions to the developer of this app, like adding some personal information, and putting up photos or something, to make it convenient for everyone to admire the top rank big brother together.
……
The app was really too simplistic, but Xuan Xia still went through all the names on the list.
She mainly wanted to see if there were any surnamed Ren.
In the end, she really found a few within top 100, but unfortunately none of those surnamed Ren had the character “Yao” in their names.
After looking through the list and confirming there was nothing else to see, Xuan Xia exited the app and replied to Qu Xingxuan with a thank-you message.
Unexpectedly, Qu Xingxuan replied with a message not long after.
『Qu Xingxuan: Have you seen your own ranking?』
『Qu Xingxuan: Don’t be discouraged! Someday, we can all rank within top 100.』
Xuan Xia thought for a moment and replied to him: “Okay, let’s encourage each other.”
The message had just been sent when Qu Xingxuan’s next one came in.
『Qu Xingxuan: Actually, we can form a team too. During summer vacation, we can team up together, I can do the calculations, you have so many talismans, we can definitely make a career out of it!』
Xuan Xia:……
In plain words, he was actually just coveting her many talismans, right?
The idea was good, but Xuan Xia had to regretfully reject him.
“Sorry, I have work.”
『Qu Xingxuan: !!!』
Qu Xingxuan’s regret, unwillingness, and disappointment were all contained in these three exclamation marks.
Xuan Xia didn’t know how to comfort him and could only say: “Rest early.”
『Qu Xingxuan: Rest what rest, I haven’t finished my test papers!』
After sending this, Qu Xingxuan threw his mobile phone away in grief and indignation, and continued to bury his head in doing the test papers.
Xuan Xia also put down her mobile phone and found a posture for sleeping.
***
The next day, Xuan Xia woke up to the sound of roosters crowing and dogs barking.
Opening her eyes, Yang Wanxiu was already up and quietly packing things.
Yang Wanxiu turned her head and saw her, smiling and saying good morning, “Xia Xia, are you not used to it? Cities aren’t like this, but the countryside is all like this.”
She came from the countryside, so she was not unfamiliar with such mornings.
Xuan Xia said: “No.” Having experienced it.
In just this short time, the sounds outside became even more lively, so Xuan Xia simply got up too.
They lived in a small building, and as soon as they went out, they could see the situation in the village. At this moment, the Nuoxi altar required for the Nuoxi ritual had already been set up in the open space.
The Nuoxi altar was built in the style of a palace, with various colored paper cutouts and all kinds of memorial texts pasted on it.
She didn’t know when this had been set up.
Xuan Xia and Yang Wanxiu went downstairs and happened to run into the hurried Hong PD. Just as they were about to greet him, Hong PD ran straight to the side without even sparing them a glance.
The two looked at each other, not knowing what had made Hong PD so rushed.
Mother Chu had already prepared breakfast and, seeing them come down, told them to hurry and eat breakfast.
Yang Wanxiu asked one more question: had the other staff already gotten up?
Mother Chu said: “Them? They seemed to hardly sleep at all last night.”
Yang Wanxiu clicked her tongue and whispered to Xuan Xia: “Did they play that long last night?”
Xuan Xia made no comment and pulled her to go eat breakfast.
They had just started eating when Zhou Shiqing came over.
The few exchanged good mornings and each had breakfast.
The place here was just this big, so everyone didn’t bother eating separately and all sat together.
In a moment, Hong PD and the others arrived one after another, but each had a different sickly complexion.
“What’s wrong with everyone?” Xuan Xia asked curiously.
Hong PD had a bitter face, half-slumped on the table, “Don’t mention it, diarrhea, it’s killing me.”
“You all have diarrhea?” Xuan Xia raised an eyebrow.
“Exactly.” After Hong PD spoke, he looked at Xuan Xia and Zhou Shiqing, and also glanced at Yang Wanxiu, saying strangely: “You guys are fine?”
Yang Wanxiu replied: “We’re fine.” And looked to Xuan Xia for confirmation.
Xuan Xia expressed concern to Zhou Shiqing: “Teacher Zhou, are you okay?”
Zhou Shiqing lazily glanced back: “I’m fine.”
So only Hong PD and them had issues?
Strange.
Hong PD also found it strange: “Everyone ate the same things, how come the two teachers are fine?”
Zhou Shiqing immediately glared at him discontentedly: “What?”
No need to say more, Hong PD immediately knew he was wrong.
“I didn’t mean that, Teacher Zhou, don’t mind.”
“Maybe Teacher Zhou and I ate less?” Xuan Xia smoothed things over.
She thought Hong PD and them probably ate too spicy and their stomachs couldn’t handle it, leading to diarrhea.
Hong PD subconsciously glanced at Yang Wanxiu, thinking, she didn’t eat less either.
How was she perfectly fine?
But there was no use dwelling on it. Hong PD rubbed his stomach, feeling it coming again faintly.
He immediately stood up and said to everyone: “I’ll step away for a bit.” Then he ran off.
Xuan Xia looked at Hong PD’s back, then turned to ask the others: “Have you taken medicine? I brought some.”
Here it must be said that Yang Wanxiu was very thorough; although only out for two days, all kinds of emergency medicine were packed in the luggage, not afraid of any mishaps.
Someone replied: “Yes, thank you Teacher Xuan.”
Another said: “We’re mostly okay, just Teacher Hong is a bit more serious.”
Right, because he ate the most. Everyone thought silently in their hearts.
“Then maybe the medicine isn’t right, later give the medicine I brought to Hong PD to try.” Xuan Xia said to Yang Wanxiu.
Yang Wanxiu nodded.
As soon as they finished eating, she went to get the medicine, and when Hong PD came back, had him take the new medicine.
Here, after Hong PD took the medicine, he felt a bit better and hurriedly organized everyone to start work; the workload wasn’t finished yet.
But just after starting work not long, several people’s stomachs began acting up one after another, and the filming work had to be temporarily suspended.
Father Chu, passing by, shook his head: “Wait a bit, the show is about to start, have them go see the master craftsman. I think they offended the deities.”
Xuan Xia: Hmm?
Father Chu had a good impression of Xuan Xia, so he explained more to her: “They, last night offended the deities and got a small punishment as a big warning.”
Xuan Xia: Hmm???
She wanted to ask Father Chu for the specifics when suddenly a loud and long “The show is starting—” rang out from the village.
