Chapter 224: Fainted Again, Unexpected Journey Full Of “accidents”
1:30 p.m.
Sister Shang edited photos for half an hour and finally produced nine finished shots that simultaneously showcased her emo vibe and beauty, then clicked to post them to Moments.
When she looked back, she found Shi Jinwei had already quietly turned away to help flip the barbecue grill.
“Weiwei? Weiwei, don’t leave, I still want to hear your troubles…”
Sister Shang called out.
“Time to eat, time to eat.”
At that moment, Teacher Fang enthusiastically shouted from the other side: “Everyone wash your hands, time to eat.”
“Time to eat?!”
Sister Shang’s eyes lit up, immediately casting aside the troubling matters, and walked over with hands behind her back, smiling cheerfully.
The others were also starving, gathering one by one under the shot, looking at the barbecue and fruit in front of them, swallowing saliva.
Poor travel is poor travel, but after busying around all morning, the prepared lunch was still quite abundant.
Chi Ye deliberately chose an edge position, one close to Teacher Shi.
Sister Shang was puzzled by his choice, but soon she seemed to understand.
“Oh dear, this… this one seems undercooked.”
Lu Lanxin took a shallow bite of a piece of lamb, chewed for a few seconds, then her face changed and she spat it out.
“Who grilled this?”
The crowd exchanged glances.
In the program, everyone collaborated, each preparing food they were good at… of course, if really unskilled, they could help out.
As for who had been handling the barbecue just now… only Teacher Shi and Zhang Guowen.
What Lu Lanxin ate was naturally grilled personally by Teacher Zhang.
Zhang Guowen saw everyone looking at him, expressionless: “Undercooked? That shouldn’t be.”
“Indeed it shouldn’t be. Old Zhang set up a barbecue stall when he had no movies to shoot.”
Wu Yibo tried to help salvage his reputation, but still didn’t touch his chopsticks.
“Undercooked?”
Chi Ye was also surprised, picked one up to sniff, put it down, looked at Lu Lanxin: “If it’s undercooked, just power through it yourself.”
Lu Lanxin: “……”
Chi Ye naturally picked up a skewer of lamb skewers freshly grilled by Teacher Shi, with plump pieces of meat, marbled fat and lean, cumin dipping sauce evenly sprinkled, golden oil glistening in the gaps between meat pieces.
He slid off one skewer and couldn’t help praising: “Familiar taste.”
Teacher Shi kept their head down, placing another skewer that had cooled properly—hot but not mouth-scalding—next to Chi Ye.
Sister Shang, a bit far from there, twitched her fair tender nose, instantly salivating; she blinked, then looked at the skewer grilled by Zhang Guowen in front of her: “Um… Xiao Lu, how about we switch spots?”
Lu Lanxin’s face changed—she had deliberately grabbed a spot close to Chi Ye earlier, though Teacher Shi was in between, but… why should she switch with you?
Um… not switching didn’t seem feasible; Shang Youshu’s star power was much greater than hers, and the other wasn’t Shi Jinwei, couldn’t offend Sister Shang.
Lu Lanxin thought this way, hesitating.
Seeing this, Sister Shang smiled: “Sister won’t let you switch for nothing.”
“Hm?”
Lu Lanxin’s heart stirred.
Sister Shang continued: “Sister will let you smell the aroma.”
Lu Lanxin: “……”
The two switched spots; Zhang Guowen’s face didn’t look good, he finished eating the half-raw barbecue, then signaled to the crowd: “It’s fine, that one piece earlier was undercooked, but the rest are done, everyone try some.”
“Come, Xiao Lu, didn’t you just say you were hungry? Eat some quick.”
Lu Lanxin roared inwardly, barely squeezing out a smile: “I… I’m dieting lately, Teacher Zhang.”
“Eat up.”
Zhang Guowen said nothing, just kept shoving raw meat at Lu Lanxin.
On the other side.
Sister Shang switched to Teacher Shi’s side, leaning in with a cheerful smile: “Wow, this… this looks pretty tasty huh.”
“All mine.”
Chi Ye glanced at her: “You want some?”
“……I won’t eat for free, I’ll like your post.”
Sister Shang grabbed a handful of skewers without a word and slipped away.
Chi Ye: “……Why are you like a bandit.”
Sister Shang cheerfully came back, placing the skewers in front of Teacher Shi: “I was joking…”
She looked at Teacher Shi hopefully: “Shi Shi, can I try one skewer?”
“Sure.”
Teacher Shi nodded lightly, glanced at Shi Jinwei not far away who was facing “Zhang Guowen barbecue” with a troubled expression, hesitated a moment, looked at Chi Ye.
Chi Ye didn’t even lift his eyelids: “Don’t mind her.”
Shi Jinwei’s chest tightened, paused, closed her eyes and opened her mouth to bite.
“Hey, Weiwei, come here quick, the taste is really great!”
Sister Shang exclaimed, got up and ran over, dragged Shi Jinwei here, shoved two lamb skewers at her, her red lips glistening with oil: “So tasty, really!”
Shi Jinwei: “……I’m not too hungry.”
“Eat it, eat it, just try, trust me.”
Sister Shang didn’t mind, shoved it right to Sister Qianzi’s mouth.
Sister Qianzi twitched her nose, glanced at Chi Ye, saw he wasn’t paying attention to her at all, just focused on eating skewers, then looked at Teacher Shi.
Teacher Shi was a bit awkward, said softly: “You eat, I have plenty more.”
“……Thanks.”
Sister Qianzi’s impression of Teacher Shi subtly changed; she said no more, lowered her head and ate in small bites.
“Huh, all gone?”
After feasting here, Chi Ye reached for another skewer, but found the skewers in front of him divided clean by Sister Shang and Sister Qianzi, a bit displeased: “You guys eat that much?”
“Teacher Chi, don’t slander us, our appetites aren’t big.”
Sister Shang emphasized: “It’s that Teacher Shi grilled them too well.”
Chi Ye: “……”
He looked at Teacher Shi, saw Teacher Shi still grilling.
He took a skewer from the grill, meeting Teacher Shi’s almond eyes like autumn water, paused, slightly guilty: “I won’t eat for free, I’ll taste-test the saltiness for you first.”
Teacher Shi: “……”
Chi Ye felt this was a bit off, asked caringly: “You haven’t eaten yet…”
Before finishing, he paused, because he saw the skewers in front of Teacher Shi—more than him, Sister Shang, and Sister Qianzi combined.
“……Here.”
Teacher Shi’s face slightly reddened, shoved over a big handful of freshly grilled skewers to shut Chi Ye up.
Chi Ye silently took them, suddenly said: “Don’t silence me, I saw nothing.”
Teacher Shi stared at him for a few seconds: “Mm, won’t silence.”
Chi Ye slapped his thigh: “Done for, in movies, saying that means getting offed next second.”
“What silencing? What are you talking about?”
Sister Shang’s eyes darted, leaned over: “Can you elaborate?”
“Sure, let’s elaborate on the secret to slimming that little belly…”
Sister Shang “fumed”: “Chi Ye you’re mean, saying that about me, I’ve no self-esteem left, nothing short of twenty skewers will fix this!”
“Didn’t plan to fix.”
“You won’t, fine, I’ll fix it myself!”
“……”
……
Laughter and cheer on Chi Ye’s side, while Zhang Guowen and others on the other side ate with grimaces.
Lu Lanxin was truly scared; eating meat charred on one side and raw on the other… really no accident?
She was still young, didn’t want to die.
This Teacher Zhang, more vicious than Teacher Huang; Teacher Huang at least knew cooking, felt like Teacher Zhang was treating her like Japanese.
Not sure if illusion, but her stomach was now “gurgling” badly, feeling very off…
While everyone ate, Teacher Fang and Ding Zhen sang together the theme song from Teacher Fang’s youthful lead in 《White Snake》… great emetic effect; Wu Yibo, to applaud his old buddy, had retched a few times.
Teacher Fang and Ding Zhen paled a shade seeing this.
Fortunately, Teacher Shi was thoughtful, not only prepared separate barbecue for Chi Ye, but also shares for Shang Youshu and Shi Jinwei; after seeing Teacher Fang and Ding Zhen’s performance end, she proactively sent some over.
“Thanks, thanks.”
Teacher Fang was moved.
“Crab~ Crab~”
Ding Zhen also showed a pure innocent smile.
Zhang Guowen frowned at this side, then at Chi Ye’s side.
Inexplicably disgusted inside—both old pervs; Shang Youshu and Shi Jinwei were “targets” they usually wanted but couldn’t get.
But from start to now, Shang Youshu and Shi Jinwei never came to “interact” with them, all clustered by Chi Ye—guess they really didn’t want to mix in the film circle huh.
Zhang Guowen cursed inwardly, lightly coughed to draw attention.
He scanned around, then in his signature “gentle” voice: “This barbecue, actually not just about taste and appearance, but fire control, knife work, ingredient selection—all have their arts.”
He picked up his skewer, gestured: “Like this skewer, might not look great, but taste is actually good…”
Mid-sentence, he fumbled and the skewer dropped to the grass.
“What a pity.”
Lu Lanxin said this, but inwardly thrilled—could they all drop to the ground?
“No worry, still edible.”
Zhang Guowen had a brainwave, instantly triggered his persona instinct, picked up the skewer, faced the crowd… mainly the shot: “The meaning of our program is in the word ‘experience’.”
“Poor travel, can’t waste any food; back in the countryside, I often ate stuff dropped on ground, rinse and good, waste is shameful…”
With that, he swallowed the skewer whole.
Crowd stared dumbfounded.
Zhang Guowen showed his signature mild smile: “No need to copy me, I’m used to it.”
“……Whether copy or not, Teacher Zhang, didn’t you know a dog peed there earlier?”
Chi Ye couldn’t hold back: “Pretty dirty there, of course… not saying your mouth is dirty.”
Zhang Guowen: “?!”
“Cough cough, ptoo! Urgh!”
He retched violently, spat out, didn’t hear Chi Ye’s latter words.
“Dog here too?”
Sister Shang surprised: “How’d I not see?”
“Oh, joking, didn’t expect Teacher Zhang to take it seriously, sorry ha.”
Zhang Guowen, just straightening, went dark, blood pressure spiked: “Chi Ye, you…”
Chi Ye tilted head at him: “What?”
Zhang Guowen paused, thinking still recording… though this bit might not air, but… damn, same words, we’re not done!
“Enough, enough, no fighting, recording program.”
Wu Yibo’s face also grim—mainly from Chi Ye, no shred of “respect”; kid clearly leveraging his current red-hot unrivaled top streamer status to mess with them.
He stared at Chi Ye seconds, then smiled: “Xiao Chi, everyone’s been hot, but guess how many stay hot? Leave room…”
Chi Ye glanced, too lazy to speak, waved to program team director: “Director? Come settle this, what’d I say before coming? Or I leave?”
Program team director pale as wax, rushed over, grabbed Teacher Wu: “Wu bro, give face, say less, ok?”
Wu Yibo silent two seconds: “He’s bullying, you blind?”
“……Who bullied who first?”
Wu Yibo stunned.
Director explained: “He said he likes to act like a diva.”
Wu Yibo stared at director: “One traffic star, you lick him like that?”
Director, hearing it so harsh, got dissatisfied, paused, seriously: “Wu bro, film circle too far from us…”
“Your star power bigger in circle, but variety shows look at traffic and popularity… get me?”
Wu Yibo paused, smiled: “Fine, got it, that’s it.”
“Hey, good.”
Director’s back soaked in cold sweat.
Truth be told… business-wise, he’d unhesitatingly pick Chi Ye.
Mango TV not movie channel, but TV station; to mend ties with Chi Ye over last 《Xing Ni》 incident, definitely lean Chi Ye.
Even further, with 《Jian Ni》 Director Li, Teacher He’s ties, personally closer to Chi Ye.
But didn’t mean willing to offend Zhang Guowen, Wu Yibo… and film circle.
How to put…
Just say Chi Ye big Buddha, him on program really causing trouble!
Director inwardly sighed, glanced Chi Ye, signaled: live dad, stop, or site fight?
Chi Ye indicated: brought bodyguards.
Mm…
Sister Shang excitedly bit lower lip, finger under table poked Chi Ye lightly: keep going! Keep going!
This what I wanna see, wanna watch this!!
Chi Ye: “Poke again and I act like a diva.”
Sister Shang: “……Don’t be mad, just poking, won’t talk.”
“……”
……
After this interlude, program recording atmosphere turned stiff and awkward.
Zhang Guowen and Wu Yibo outwardly no longer interacting with Chi Ye; Lu Lanxin, Fang Min et al sighed.
—Entertainment industry, who’s hot has right; Chi Ye now hottest, more terrifying no reliance on any film circle, so movie emperor comes no dice.
Shi Jinwei silent whole time, just head down, her emotion level and mood unreadable.
Even Ding Zhen this unspoiled pure boy, after vaping one e-cig, sensed off atmosphere.
“No~ pro~ blem~?”
With his unique accent, asked his “special teacher” Teacher Fang.
“Don’t say see random, it’s fine.”
Teacher Fang comforted.
“—Incident, incident.”
Just then, Lu Lanxin’s assistant’s panicked voice from outside: “Xin Xin fainted.”
Crowd stunned, all confused two seconds.
Fainted?
Fainted again?
Chi Ye noted Sister Shang’s shocked gaze, speechless: “Am I idiot? She scared, faking.”
