Chapter 64

Chapter 64

[Wow, so romantic! A wife leads, and her husband follows.]

[Xie Lanchen: Is it really safe for Ning Xi to do this? Ning Xi: Trust me, I’ve got this.]

[The bike isn’t steady at all. They’ll behave once they both fall off.]

[Hahaha, is everyone allergic to romance?]

Fortunately, Ning Xi turned out to be quite reliable when it came to cycling.

The two of them made it to the villager’s house where Fu Zhi was staying without any major incidents.

“Stop fighting! Stop fighting!”

Fu Zhi was on the verge of a breakdown, desperately tugging at a husky.

At that moment, this husky was engaged in a fierce shouting match with another husky that belonged to the homeowner and was currently tied up.

Although no one could understand what the two dogs were barking about, just listening to the sounds they were making made it clear that the insults were incredibly foul.

“What on earth are you dogs barking about?”

Fu Zhi was truly going crazy.

If this were an ordinary mission, he would have just given up.

But he couldn’t do that with this one.

If he let go, judging by the stance of these two huskies, they would definitely tear the whole house apart.

Just as Fu Zhi felt his life turning dark and hopeless-

“Hah!”

A sharp flick to the forehead landed hard on him.

“You useless snack!”

“Are you trying to kill me?!” Fu Zhi cursed instinctively.

But after he looked up and saw that the person who had just hit him was Ning Xi, his expression changed in a second, revealing a smile of hope after a great disaster.

“Ning Xi!!! I’ve been waiting for you so miserably!!!”

Ning Xi waved him off disdainfully. “Cut the drama. First, tell me how much you’re paying me.”

Friendship without material substance is just a heap of loose sand; it doesn’t even need a breeze-it falls apart after two steps.

Fu Zhi gritted his teeth. “If you can help me solve this trouble, I’ll give you all the money from this mission.”

Ning Xi hummed thoughtfully.

It didn’t seem like a very good deal.

She didn’t exactly need this mission.

Seeing Ning Xi’s expression, Fu Zhi knew the girl was trying to hike up the price on the spot.

“I’ll treat you to lunch today too. Is that enough?”

“Deal!”

Ning Xi agreed readily.

“…”

“Give me the leash.”

“Are you sure you can handle these two mad dogs?” Fu Zhi hesitated for a second before handing the leash to Ning Xi.

Even though he felt Ning Xi was capable of anything, these two dogs were quite fierce…

“I’m sure!”

Ning Xi raised her hand with a sincere look on her face.

“If I can’t handle them, let my future boyfriend be over 185cm tall, handsome, a great cook, wealthy, and talented.”

“…”

[You little brat, you really want it all, don’t you?]

[Taking the payment and the perks, huh?]

[Oh my god, I’ve watched that clip of Ning Xi speaking ten times. Please count me in too!]

Fu Zhi skeptically handed the leash to Ning Xi.

At the same time, he kept a wary eye on the two still-howling huskies.

He was terrified that if he let his guard down for even a second, the two mad dogs would start brawling.

However, in the next second, he saw Ning Xi suddenly let go of the leash and start cheering the two huskies on.

“Go on! Fight!”

The two dogs immediately fell silent and stopped shouting.

Especially the husky Fu Zhi had been holding.

The fierce look in its eyes vanished instantly; its eyes darted around, clearly panicking.

[Good heavens, talk about a dog acting tough because of its owner.]

[Xiao Ha: I was just practicing my scales.]

[Now this is a veteran actor!]

“It works like that?!”

Fu Zhi let out an incredulous sigh.

Because of these two drama-queen dogs, he had lost the earnings from a mission and even owed Ning Xi a meal?

“Does this count as completing the mission?” Ning Xi asked.

“Still have to walk it for another half hour,” Fu Zhi replied.

Ning Xi nodded, picked up the leash, and prepared to head out.

When the husky realized someone was pulling it, it started barking at the other locked-up husky again like a reflex.

Fu Zhi rolled his eyes. Honestly, so much drama every single day.

He quickly followed Ning Xi, intending to walk the dog with her.

But the next second, when he saw the person standing at the door, the smile on his face vanished instantly.

“Why are you here?!”

Ning Xi scratched her head. “Xie Lanchen came with me. It’s just that the barking inside sounded a bit scary, so I told him to wait outside.”

Xie Lanchen nodded from the side, a lazy and relaxed smile always playing on his lips, though his gaze was extremely focused as he looked over.

Standing in the light, he looked as beautiful as a painting.

“Oh no, the ice cream is going to melt.”

Ning Xi slapped her forehead as she looked at the cone Xie Lanchen had been holding.

“Wait, you said you two came together?!”

Fu Zhi’s voice suddenly spiked in volume.

Aren’t they supposed to be doing solo missions today?

How could Xie Lanchen still be with Ning Xi?!
He was going to report this to the Program Team!

[She really knows how to pick out the important parts.]

[Princess, why aren’t you smiling anymore?]

[Fu Zhi: I’m just naturally not a smiler. (Smile emoji)]

“Mm-hmm.” Ning Xi stuffed the cone into Fu Zhi’s hand. “Eat up. Don’t say your big sister doesn’t treat you well in the future.”

Fu Zhi stared at the cone, stunned for a moment, before the smile at the corners of his mouth became impossible to suppress.

Ning Xi, that little glutton, actually thought to buy him a cone…

And also…

“You’re not my sister! You’re only a month older than me. How does that make you a ‘big sister’?” Fu Zhi grumbled.

Ning Xi’s hand itched to hit him again, but thinking about what she was about to say, she held back.

“Even one day older counts.”

[Holy crap, so Fu Zhi is younger than Ning Xi?]

[I only knew they were both 21; I never thought about who was older.]

[Sumimasen, Fu Zhi-chan, I really don’t ship ‘Noona’ romances.]

[It’s just a month, is it really that important?]

[How is it not important? Haven’t you noticed that Ning Xi treats Fu Zhi entirely like a frenemy or a younger brother?]

[And every time Ning Xi whacks Fu Zhi on the head, she does it without a hint of hesitation and with such a determined expression. Who else gets my shitty sense of humor? Hahahahahahaha!]

“I treated you to a cone, so how do you plan to thank me?”

Ning Xi waited until Fu Zhi had finished his first bite before she couldn’t hold back any longer.

“You want a thank you?” Fu Zhi asked in disbelief. “I already promised to give you the three hundred yuan from this mission, and I’m even treating you to lunch. You bought me a three-yuan cone and you actually want a thank you?”

“Ye~p~”

Ning Xi nodded without a shred of shame. “And don’t you try to swap concepts, kid. That three hundred yuan and the lunch are what I deserve for helping you complete the mission. They have nothing to do with the cone.”

Fu Zhi choked on his words. “You… you, you, you…”

Ning Xi spread her hands and pointed at Fu Zhi, speaking to Xie Lanchen, “Look, he’s getting worked up again.”

Fu Zhi was truly about to faint from anger.

In the end, he paid off his ‘cone debt’ at the cost of doing Ning Xi’s chores once.

Afterward, the three of them went to walk the dog together.

“This mission has nothing to do with you. Why are you following us?”

Fu Zhi looked at Xie Lanchen, who was constantly sticking by Ning Xi’s side, and found him an eyesore no matter how he looked at him.

[The Princess is at it again.]

“I just happened to want to see if there are any missions nearby to earn some money.”

Xie Lanchen’s attitude was neither humble nor arrogant.

Fu Zhi let out a cold laugh; that excuse was hypocritical enough.

Yet in the next second, after seeing a small pink flag hanging at a villager’s door, Xie Lanchen actually bid Ning Xi goodbye and went to do a mission.

Fu Zhi was surprised.

This Xie Lanchen was actually willing to part with Ning Xi? Wasn’t he worried about him and Ning Xi being alone together?

[Is Fu Zhi stupid? The point today is to complete the most missions and earn money to become number one! Ahhh!!!]

[He turns into an idiot the moment he sees Ning Xi. Get used to it.]

[By the way, has anyone tallied up how much money the guests have earned so far?]

Beep.

The seven guests simultaneously received a message from the Program Team.

“Youai Village Chief:

The current mission completion and remaining funds for the seven guests are as follows:

Xie Lanchen: Completed two missions, earned 350 yuan. Balance: 330.1 yuan (Spent 9.9 yuan on coffee, 10 yuan on errands).

Shen Yibai: Completed two missions, earned 300 yuan. Balance: 290 yuan (Spent 10 yuan on breakfast).

Ning Xi: Completed one mission, earned 200 yuan. Balance: 178.7 yuan (Spent 2 yuan on a lollipop, 5.4 yuan on a drink, 12 yuan on cake, 1.9 yuan on a cone).

Wei Xuan: Completed one mission, earned 200 yuan. Balance: 150 yuan (Spent 50 yuan on breakfast).

Fu Zhi: Completed one mission, earned 150 yuan. Balance: 150 yuan (No expenses).

Ning Mingyue: Completed one mission, earned 150 yuan. Balance: 147 yuan (Spent 3 yuan on soy milk).

Jiang Sheshe: Completed one mission, earned 150 yuan. Balance: 22 yuan (Spent 128 yuan on eyelash extensions).

Statistics as above. guests, please keep up the hard work!”

Upon seeing this message from the Program Team, everyone had different reactions.

Ning Xi was shocked. “How could they list out the details of my drink and cone expenses?”

She had previously bragged about not using group-buying vouchers!

Fu Zhi: “Ning Xi, this cone you bought was only 1.9? How did you have the nerve to make me do your chores once? Huh?

Also, Xie Lanchen and Shen Yibai have already completed two missions?”

Xie Lanchen was even in first place!

Fu Zhi grew anxious. He stopped questioning Ning Xi about the cone and rushed off to find a new mission.

On the other side.

Jiang Sheshe, who had worked hard tutoring a sixth-grader and earned 150 yuan, was currently lying leisurely on a beauty bed complaining while getting her eyelashes done.
“I’m so exhausted today. I’ve lost so many of the eyelash extensions I just got last week.”

It wasn’t until she saw the message from the Program Team that she suddenly sat bolt upright.

“I’m actually the lowest ranked?!”

[Sister, you only earned 150 yuan, yet you spent 128 on eyelashes. How could you not be the lowest?]

[Boss, maybe skip the eyelash extensions while you’re in Ling Village.]

[Jiang Sheshe: What do you know? Even in Ling Village, one must live with dignity.]

[Hahahahahaha, you guys are savage. There won’t be any bamboo shoots left on the mountain at this rate!]

[By the way, did you guys notice? Xie Lanchen’s delivery fee for that coffee was more expensive than the coffee itself.]

[Whatever you do, don’t let Ning Xi see that, or she’ll have another meltdown.]

[Ning Mingyue is actually quite thrifty; she only bought a cup of soy milk for breakfast.]

[Hahaha, that’s because she ran into Wei Xuan. Wei Xuan treated her to breakfast. Otherwise, how could Wei Xuan have spent 50 yuan on just breakfast?]

At that moment, Ning Mingyue was helping a farming household clean up.

It would only take a few minutes to complete the task and earn 200 yuan.

She looked at the message from the Program Team, her eyes lingering for a few seconds on Ning Xi’s 178.7 yuan and Xie Lanchen’s 330.1 yuan before she lowered her gaze.

Today, she had to take first place.

At the very least, she had to help Shen Yibai take first place.

That way, they would secure the right to allocate the room assignments for tonight.

On the other side, Ning Xi only needed to walk the dog for a little longer to earn three hundred yuan.

She looked at a child’s toy car that a little boy was sitting in by the roadside, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

“Come on, Xiao Ha, let’s go for a spin.”

Ning Xi sat on the toy car she had temporarily borrowed in exchange for a lollipop, then tied a rope to the car and the Siberian Husky respectively.

Xiao Ha instinctively awakened his sled-pulling bloodline and began to sprint down the road, dragging Ning Xi behind him.

His speed kept increasing.

He even overtook a child who was riding a bicycle.

Ning Xi was thrilled. “Ahhhhhhh-!”

Xiao Ha immediately became even more excited, his speed continuing to ramp up.

[Xiao Ha: Your screaming is like my adrenaline.]

[I don’t recommend Ning Xi playing like this. It’s too dangerous-unless you let me try it too.]

[Wait, am I the only one curious about how Ning Xi is going to brake later?]

[Ning Xi, danger!]

“Okay, Xiao Ha, stop!” Ning Xi shouted at Xiao Ha.

She was afraid of tiring him out.

But Xiao Ha was completely caught up in the moment. He ignored Ning Xi’s attempts to stop him and even tried to accelerate while rounding a corner.

Ning Xi: …

Seeing a dirt pit not far ahead, Ning Xi finally resorted to the most primitive braking method-

Foot braking.

The soles of her shoes were practically throwing off sparks before the little car finally came to a halt.

At that point, Ning Xi was only a few centimeters away from falling into the pit.

Xiao Ha was forced to stop, his dog eyes staring at Ning Xi with a look that was both clear and foolish.

It was as if he were saying: I’ll do it again next time, hehe.

[Hahahahaha, Puppy Ning has met a real dog.]

[I told you Huskies are wrecking balls; these things have too much energy.]

[If you walk by the river often enough, you’re bound to get your shoes wet.]

The netizens were dying of laughter at Ning Xi and Xiao Ha.

Then, they saw Ning Xi squat down and stroke Xiao Ha with the gentlest movements of her life.

“Xiao Ha, let me perform a magic trick for you.”

As she spoke, Ning Xi pulled out a slap-wrap measuring tape from somewhere.

“Look, this thing can automatically wrap around my wrist!”

With a flick of her hand, the tape indeed coiled itself around her wrist.

Xiao Ha’s clear, foolish little eyes blinked as he watched Ning Xi, seemingly getting a bit excited.

Ning Xi demonstrated it again right under Xiao Ha’s nose.

Xiao Ha’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Ning Xi raised the tape for the third time-

And then, with a direct flick, she wrapped it around Xiao Ha’s snout.

Xiao Ha looked utterly bewildered. “Woof woof woof?”

Looking at Xiao Ha, who had been “sealed” by the measuring tape, Ning Xi put her hands on her hips triumphantly. “Hahahahahahahahahahaha!”

[Xiao Ha: I’m not a real human, but you’re a real dog.]

[The Dog: Bring that broken tape with you when we go to court.]

[Ning Xi: Isn’t it just because this dog didn’t work hard enough?]

In the end, Xiao Ha admitted defeat, completely exhausted.

Ning Xi also completed her task and received her 300 yuan payment, leaving her with a balance of 475.7 yuan (after spending 3 yuan on lollipops for herself and the little boy who lent her the toy car).

[Youai Village Chief: Lunchtime is here! All guests can head to the Youkoufu Restaurant in Ling Village for your meal. The Program Team has already booked the second floor in advance~]

And so, after a morning of individual tasks, the seven guests finally gathered once again.