Chapter 83 Choosing the Boys (Ch 83)

The two of them went out.

Peng Yuchang was holding a piece of cured pork ribs in his hand and led Qi Jia towards the village.

The young man was very polite. When he met a family whose door was open, he would go to the family and ask if he could exchange the cured pork ribs for eggs.

The villagers knew that he was a star who came to the village to film a show, and they were happy to help him.

But when they heard that they wanted eggs, they all shook their heads. The reason was that due to the construction of a new countryside, there are not many families raising chickens in Tonglu.

Even if they do, they only raise a few and usually eat the eggs themselves.

I heard that they wanted twenty at once this time, and no one has that much in stock.

After failing at one more business, Qi Jia, who had been watching for a while, asked,

“Do you usually go door to door asking questions like this?”

“Ah, what else?”

Although he had failed many times, Peng Yuchang was still full of energy. Just as he was about to launch an attack on another family, he was stopped by Qi Jia.

“Give me the ribs and let me try.”

“Okay, you try it. This requires some skills. If you don’t understand, you can ask me.” Peng Yuchang said straightforwardly.

Qi Jia took the ribs, but did not go into the restaurant chosen by Peng Yuchang. Instead, he continued walking towards the village.

The two walked for more than ten minutes.

Along the way, they passed several Qijias without any intention of stopping. Just when Peng Yuchang couldn’t help but want to ask,

Qi Jia’s eyes suddenly lit up. He left Peng Yuchang behind and walked to an undecorated red brick house. He spoke politely.

“Excuse me, is anyone home?”

Hearing the sound, an old lady walked out slowly from the inner room. She glanced at Qi Jia and

“Are you okay?”

“Grandma, can I exchange my spare ribs for twenty eggs from you?” Qi Jia asked with a smile.

The old lady glanced at the photographer following behind her and remembered what the village chief had said before.

A celebrity was coming to the village to film a show, so the villagers asked him to entertain them well. They immediately understood Qi Jia’s identity.

“Eggs, right? Yes, sit down for a moment and I’ll get them for you.”

The old lady responded with a smile, asked the three to sit down first, and then she turned around and walked back to the house slowly.

“Brother Qi, this is amazing. How did you know that Grandma’s house has so many eggs?”

Peng Yuchang approached Qi Jia with excitement and asked.

“Look under that tree.”

Qi Jia didn’t keep the secret and pointed to the bumpy mud ground under the big tree in front of the door and explained.

“Grandma must have a lot of chickens at home. She dug up the ground like this, so I bet she must have a lot of eggs. I was right.”

“Awesome! You guessed it just by looking at it!”

After listening to Qi Jia’s analysis, Peng Yuchang was simply astonished.

Unexpectedly, Qi Jia shook his head.

“Not really. Mainly because I smelled chicken manure.”

Anyone who has raised chickens in the countryside knows that when there are too many chickens, the smell can be smelled from far away.

The two of them chatted for a few words when the old lady came out with a bag full of eggs, which looked like more than twenty.

“Thank you, grandma. Please accept this sparerib.”

Qi Jia quickly stood up, took the bag with both hands, and then handed over the ribs.

Unexpectedly, the old lady waved her hand and said with a smile,

“Take it back. My teeth are almost falling out. I can’t eat it anymore.”

After saying that, she opened her mouth and showed it to everyone.

“Then you can save it for your family.”

Qi Jia tried to persuade her that if the old lady didn’t accept the cured pork ribs, he couldn’t take the eggs either, as this was the rule of the program team.

“There are only two elderly people at home, and the children are outside. You can take it back.”

The old lady pushed it back again and still refused to accept it.

The situation came to a standstill. Just when Peng Yuchang was about to look elsewhere,

Qi Jia pointed to the bucket beside him and said,

“How about this, grandma? I’ll help you fetch water for the vegetables, and you give me eggs. I can’t take them for free.”

When Peng Yuchang heard this, he was immediately surprised. Since the show started, no star had ever offered to help people fetch water for the vegetables.

In the past, the exchange of labor for goods was at most helping to sweep the floor or something like that.

The photographer beside him was excited after hearing this, and his body was shaking with excitement, like a sieve.

If this scene had really been captured, the director would definitely reward himself handsomely.

“Can you?”

“And you have to carry manure, it’s very dirty and smelly!”

The old lady looked at Qi Jia suspiciously. Although the young man was tall and strong, aren’t celebrities unable to carry anything on their shoulders or with their hands?

Don’t carry water to the manure pit. Not only will it cover the pit, but you will also waste two buckets.

“I grew up in the countryside, so there’s nothing wrong with that. Let’s just say it’s settled.”

Qi Jia made a decision immediately, handed the eggs and ribs to Peng Yuchang, and said.

“Take these back first.”

“Then I’ll come back to help you later.” Peng Yuchang said.

“You’d better stay home and help. There’s only a pair of buckets here, and there’s nothing for you to use when you come.”

As Qi Jia spoke, he skillfully carried two buckets on his shoulders with a pole and adjusted the balance.

Then I followed the old lady and walked towards the farmland.

The photographer ran around excitedly, composing the pictures of the two people, changing the focus, and taking pictures non-stop.

Let me talk about two things.

Peng Yuchang returned to the Mushroom House carrying a bag full of eggs and pork ribs.

Chef Huang, who was squatting at the kitchen door, eagerly waiting for the eggs to be put into the pot, hurriedly came up, took the eggs and asked.

“Why did you take so long? Where’s Qi Jia?”

Peng Yuchang briefly recounted the story of the two people exchanging eggs. He Jiong and Huang Lei were both stunned.

I wonder who this general is, so fierce, is he not an idol at all? He has to pick up manure at the beginning!

“Pumbaa, go back and see if you can help.”

Huang Lei and Peng Yuchang finished their conversation and then turned to Liu Xianhua, who was sitting in the yard, playing the violin.

“Xianhua, please don’t pull it so early in the morning. The villagers will be scared if they hear it. Please help sweep the floor. The guests will be here soon.”

…

While they were talking, Qi Jia had already arrived at the vegetable field carrying a bucket filled with manure water.

The manure water is collected from the toilet of the old lady’s house. In rural areas, manure water is often mixed with clean water as fertilizer to water vegetables.

The old lady’s vegetable garden is about 300 meters away from her home, on a slope.

There are Chinese cabbages, Chinese cabbages and a few tomato trees planted in the field. Qi Jia needs to fill up the water at the bottom of the slope and then carry it up the slope.

When Peng Yuchang came, he saw Qi Jia carrying two buckets full of water, climbing the slope barefoot.

The photographer was just like him, barefoot, with his trouser legs rolled up, and he kept taking pictures.

“Brother Qi, I’m here to help you.”

Peng Yuchang carefully stepped on the ridge of the field and staggered to the vegetable field.

After saying that, he didn’t know what to do, so he could only rub his hands and turn around in embarrassment.

“Help grandma pull out the weeds in the vegetable garden.”

Fortunately, Qi Jia reminded him and asked him to find a job, so he immediately squatted on the ground to help.

“Hey, young man, don’t pull that out. It’s a vegetable seedling, not a weed.” The old lady laughed and cried, waving her hand to stop Peng Yuchang’s impulse.

“Oh, old lady, today’s event is quite grand. We caught two celebrities to help you.”

A familiar lady passed by and made a joke after seeing him.

“The two guys were kind-hearted. They said they couldn’t take my eggs for free, so they had to help me. You can’t say they were very professional.”

The old lady straightened up, greeted her neighbor, and praised him with a smile.

“Haha, there is such a good thing, big star, can you help me water my land? I will give you eggplant as a gift.”

The woman found it interesting. It was the first time she heard that a celebrity could carry water to water the vegetables. So she pointed to her own vegetable garden and laughed.

Qi Jia looked up and saw that her eggplants were round and beautiful. She thought that they could be used to stew the cured pork ribs.

So he readily agreed, “No problem, I’ll help you after I finish pouring this bucket of water.”

Peng Yuchang, who treated vegetables as weeds, was eager to restore his self-esteem, so he jumped up and said when he saw this.

“Brother Qi, I’ll come, I’ll come.”

After saying that, he walked straight up to the woman and spoke very politely.

“Sister, let me help you.”

Seeing that Peng Yuchang was quite strong, the woman didn’t think much about it and handed him the carrying pole with a smile.

However, it was obviously the first time for Peng Yuchang to do this kind of work. He was seen frantically imitating Qi Jia’s behavior.

I squatted down and used all my strength to lift the two buckets. After staggering for two steps,

He didn’t stand firmly, his legs went weak, and he fell to his knees in the ditch with a plop, which made the woman laugh.

Peng Yuchang’s face turned red with embarrassment. He looked up and saw the photographer pointing the camera at him with his mouth wide open. He immediately felt worse than if his house had collapsed.

I hurriedly got up and looked at the mess below me. I felt like crying but had no tears.

“Peng Peng, go back and change your clothes quickly, otherwise the mud will stick to your pants and it will be difficult to wash once it dries.” Qi Jia said while holding back his laughter.

After hearing this, Peng Yuchang nodded quickly and fled away in embarrassment.

…

More than forty minutes later, Qi Jia and the photographer walked barefoot.

One of them carried shoes in his left hand and vegetables in his right hand, and the other carried a camera and returned to the Mushroom House.

Before I entered the house, I could hear several people chatting inside through the courtyard wall, including two female voices.

“It must be other guests coming.” The photographer took off his pants and farted.

Qi Jia’s heart moved. This voice sounded a little familiar?

(Four chapters in a row, dear readers, do you think I am awesome? [proud with arms akimbo.jpg])