Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zu Qi and others were still on their way back to the crew, but the situation there was completely different.
Who would have thought that actor Qiao Yang, who just came to film a movie, was actually cured of the anorexia that had troubled him for many years.
For a moment, the entire crew became lively.
However, such a happy atmosphere did not last long. It was not until Zhou Hai used up the two mushrooms that Xiao Dengzi took to the kitchen little by little that Qiao Yang began to show symptoms of anorexia again.
Zhou Hai pinned all his hopes on those mushrooms, so he rushed to find the logistics personnel responsible for purchasing.
The found logistics staff was the girl who greeted Zhou Hai that day. After listening to Zhou Hai’s words, the girl scratched her head in confusion: “I put all the mushrooms sent by Director Wang’s friend in the kitchen. There are two whole boxes. It can’t be eaten so quickly!”
“Two big boxes?” Zhou Hai shook his head and said, “Impossible. I only saw two in the basket, so I used them.” So the girl said anxiously: “There are really two boxes. I moved them in personally. I even counted them and put them under the cabinet on the far left.”
“…” Zhou Hai suddenly fell silent and looked at the girl with a strange expression for a while, then he said, “Can you please come with me to see it?”
The girl was startled by Zhou Hai’s suddenly serious expression, nodded blankly, and followed Zhou Hai to the kitchen.
It turned out that the girl was not lying. There were indeed two boxes of freshly picked mushrooms in the cabinet she had mentioned. And since this simple kitchen was usually only used by Zhou Hai and others, the mushrooms that the girl brought over were completely untouched.
Seeing this, Zhou Hai and the girl were stunned at the same time.
“No…” The girl reacted first and turned to look at the pale Zhou Hai suspiciously. “Brother Zhou, the mushrooms I brought are all placed here. Where did you use the mushrooms from before?”
Zhou Hai mumbled for a long time, but it felt like something was stuck in my throat, and he couldn’t make a sound.
Although the origin of the mushrooms he used before was unknown, he had to admit that those mushrooms did improve Qiao Yang’s anorexia.
After coming out of the kitchen, Zhou Hai rushed to find Director Wang who was filming. He waited until they were taking a break before he walked over and called Director Wang to the corner.
Zhou Hai originally thought that the two mushrooms were purchased by Director Wang, but after asking, Director Wang was confused.
“Are you talking about the mushrooms my friend sent me? I left them all to Xiao Fei. If you have any questions, just ask Xiao Fei directly.” Director Wang said truthfully.
“It’s not those mushrooms.” Zhou Hai scratched his hair in frustration, and then described the appearance of the two mushrooms to Director Wang.
The more Director Wang listened, the stranger he felt. In the end, his expression became incomprehensible. He hesitated and said: “Did you get it wrong? Where can you find that kind of mushroom in the market? Even if there is, it may be a poisonous mushroom.”
Zhou Hai thought to himself. Although he didn’t know whether those two mushrooms were poisonous, he knew very well that Qiao Yang could only eat those mushrooms.
The communication was fruitless, so Zhou Hai had no choice but to ask Director Wang to ask questions on the set. He kept asking for a whole day, but nothing came out.
In the entire crew, except for the logistics staff who purchased ingredients every two or three days, the only people who could enter and exit the simple kitchen were Qiao Yang’s team. Others would walk around even when passing by, let alone put things in it.
Zhou Hai, who had gone from hope to disappointment, fell into an insurmountable anxiety. Although he didn’t find any mushrooms, he still had to continue cooking dinner for Qiao Yang.
That night, Zhou Hai tried his best to cook four special dishes and served them to Qiao Yang with great interest.
Qiao Yang had just finished filming. He was still wearing the long robe in the film, with a down jacket wrapped around it. The makeup on his face was not removed. He held his chin and sat at the dining table with a dejected expression.
Qiao Yang reluctantly took two bites of the dishes carefully prepared by Zhou Hai and then put down his chopsticks.
“You have to continue working at night. How can you go into battle on an empty stomach? Eat something to cushion your stomach.” Zhou Hai comforted him like a heartbroken old father.
Qiao Yang looked gloomy, waved his hand and said, “Sit down and eat quickly, I’m not very hungry yet.”
Zhou Hai sighed, sat down opposite Qiao Yang, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started eating in silence. After waiting for a long time, Zhou Hai suddenly remembered something and his eyes lit up: “That’s right!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Won’t Zu Qi and the others be coming back today?” Zhou Hai put down the bowl and chopsticks and slapped his thigh in excitement, “What if they had put the mushrooms in the kitchen?!”
Qiao Yang thought about it and thought it was possible. But then he thought about Zhou Hai’s attitude towards Zu Qi not long ago, and suddenly became worried again: “We have a problem with them, I don’t know whether they will help.”
After hearing this, Zhou Hai also thought of those unpleasant things. He was ashamed and embarrassed for a while, and his face turned blue and white. He gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s ask Zu Qi and his party first.”
After arriving at the destination, people did not rush to the crew but returned to the hotel to rest.
After spending half an hour unpacking the suitcase, Zu Qi rubbed his sore arms and stood up. At a glance, he saw three mushrooms on the bedside table.
After being left like this for three days, the mushrooms still retained the color of being just picked from the space. Each one looked plump and firm. When you got closer, you could also smell a faint fragrance of mushrooms.
Zu Qi remembered that Xiao Dengzi took two and put them in the kitchen. He didn’t know if anyone had touched them in the past three days.
Although the Three Lucky Treasures said that these mushrooms were not poisonous and that their tribe often picked them, washed them and ate them raw, Zu Qi was a little worried, so he got dressed and went to the set to take a look.
Unexpectedly, when he opened the door, a tall figure was already standing outside.
“Brother Duan?” Zu Qi asked in surprise, feeling embarrassed at the same time. The conversation between Duan Kai and Jin Yu in the bathroom was always lingering in his mind, so he didn’t pay much attention to Duan Kai on the way here.
Duan Kai was still wearing dull black clothes and black trousers, and his handsome face was as cold as a layer of frost. He nodded slightly to Zu Qi: “Want to eat?”
“Oh, okay.” Zu Qi said. He pulled out the room key card from the door, then took a step forward, “Let’s go.”
Duan Kai saw this and raised his eyebrows: “Were you going out?”
Zu Qi said with a smile: “I originally planned to go to the set to have a look.”
Duan Kai said oh and stopped talking, so the two of them walked towards the elevator in silence. He didn’t know if it was Zu Qi’s imagination, but he always felt that Duan Kai seemed to have something to say to him.
Therefore, Xiao Dengzi was not called when they got off the elevator, and Zu Qi didn’t say anything, but continued to walk beside Duan Kai without saying a word.
They came to the restaurant in the hotel and sat down to order their meals. Duan Kai said calmly: “I hope you won’t tell anyone about what happened that night.”
Zu Qi was stunned for a moment before subconsciously replying: “Oh, okay.”
But the next second, he suddenly realized a problem – how did Duan Kai know that he and Xue Jue were in the bathroom?
Seeming to see Zu Qi’s doubts, Duan Kai took the initiative to explain: “Later, I saw you and Xue Jue coming out of the bathroom, and you kicked the toilet in the middle, and I heard the sound.”
Zu Qi: “… “
That was to say… when Duan Kai was pressing Jin Yu against the door, he actually knew that there was someone in the cubicle, but he just didn’t know who the person was…
Zu Qi didn’t understand the past entanglements between Duan Kai and Jin Yu, but in terms of Duan Kai’s attitude towards Jin Yu that night, he felt that Duan Kai behaved like a scumb*g.
And at this time, when he heard Duan Kai say such words calmly, he suddenly felt a particularly strong feeling of rejection towards Duan Kai.
However, this matter had nothing to do with Zu Qi, and as an outsider, he had no qualifications or position to express any thoughts.
Zu Qi paused and then smiled: “Don’t worry, we didn’t see anything, and we won’t talk nonsense outside.”
Duan Kai nodded: “Thank you.”
After a moment of silence, Zu Qi finally couldn’t hold it back, and said in a joking tone, “Have you ever thought about what if the people in the cubicle were not me and Xue Jue? If it were someone else, maybe they would spread it when they turned around.”
After saying that, Duan Kai fell silent.
Zu Qi thought Duan Kai would answer his words, so he waited silently.
Unexpectedly, even after they finished eating, took the elevator upstairs, and parted ways in the corridor, Duan Kai didn’t mention this topic again.
Seeing this, Zu Qi didn’t feel like saying anything else, so he said goodbye to Duan Kai and returned to his room.
It wasn’t until he saw the three mushrooms still placed on the bedside that Zu Qi suddenly remembered that he planned to go to the set. However, seeing that it was getting late outside, he had to give up on the idea, instead he took out the emerald wrapped in a small bag from the bottom layer of the suitcase.
Zu Qi held the emerald in his hand and felt the scene in front of him flash. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived in space.
There was no distinction between day and night in the space. Every time Zu Qi came in, the scene he saw was blue sky, white clouds and endless prairie.
But the temperature here was much lower than in reality. Fortunately, Zu Qi was prepared early and wrapped himself into a rice dumpling with three layers inside and three outside. Apart from being a little troublesome to walk, it was very warm.
He found the vegetable seeds and saplings that he had put in in the morning in the marked bushes, and then walked through the forest to the small hills where the Three Lucky Treasures’ people lived.
Zu Qi came to them for two purposes this time.
One was to give them vegetable seeds and saplings and let them try to plant them on the land. The second was to try to bring the people here to reality, provided that the parents of the Three lucky treasures could persuade others to agree to trade with him.
With a feeling of uneasiness, Zu Qi found the door of Three lucky treasures’ house on a familiar road.
Now that the space had ushered in a severe cold winter, the cool wind blew on Zu Qi’s face one after another. Even though Zu Qi was wearing a mask and a hat, the exposed areas still felt like being pricked by needles.
Maybe it was too cold outside, but Zu Qi didn’t see a single person along the way.
He knocked twice lightly on the weak-looking wooden door. After a short wait, the door was opened. Dabao, who was also wrapped up and round like a ball, stood in front of the door, raising his little head and looking at Zu Qi. He then called him brother in a sweet voice.
Then, Erbao and Sanbao jumped out of nowhere, hugged Zu Qi’s legs one on the left and the other on the right and kept calling Zu Qi brother in their tender and sweet children’s voices.
Zu Qi’s heart almost melted when he was shouted at by the three adorable children in front of him. With a fatherly smile on his face, he responded one after another.
Until a cold wind that almost penetrated his bones hit him from behind. Zu Qi, who was blocking the door, shivered violently and quickly pushed the Three Lucky treasures into the house.
The Three lucky treasures’ parents were making furniture in the back room. They brought in large pieces of wood with suitable color and shape from outside and were smoothing the surface with stones.
Out of the corner of their eyes, they saw Zu Qi approaching with three pieces of calfskin candy. The Three Lucky Treasures’ parents immediately put down what they were holding. After the Three Lucky Treasures’ translation, Zu Qi was pleasantly surprised to learn that they had agreed to his proposal.
However, they had one requirement, that was, they could terminate the previous transaction with Zu Qi at any time.
Zu Qi readily agreed.
The parents of the Three Lucky Treasures wanted to find all the clan members, but Zu Qi stopped them.
After obtaining their consent, Zu Qi took the Three Lucky Treasures and their parents through the dense forest, and then came to the fixed location where he entered and exited the space.
After talking, Zu Qi found out that the mother of the Three Lucky Treasures was named A Tao and her father was named A Shu. They were both names that A Kuan had translated for them before.
Although they couldn’t understand what Zu Qi said, they were very sensitive to their names.
Zu Qi asked A Tao, A Shu and the three children to line up in order. He took out the emerald and stood in front of them. Then he closed his eyes…
When he opened his eyes again, Zu Qi had returned to reality. Unfortunately, he had come back alone, and there was no three Lucky Treasures and their family around.
Zu Qi was stunned, and quickly held the emerald, closed his eyes and re-entered the space. When he opened his eyes, he saw the bewildered Three Lucky Treasures, and A Tao and A Shu who were completely out of state.
Five pairs of curious eyes stared at Zu Qi, as if they hadn’t recovered from Zu Qi’s sudden disappearance and sudden appearance.
Zu Qi: “…”
After thinking for a long time, he asked Dabao: “Did you close your eyes just now?”
Dabao shook his chubby little head and said honestly in a small voice with a Northeastern tone: “No.
“Tell your parents and ask them to close their eyes with me later,” Zu Qi said, squatting down and telling Erbao and Sanbao, “If you don’t close your eyes, you might not be able to come with me.”
The two children were so frightened that they quickly closed their eyes and hugged their parents tightly with both hands.
After Dabao communicated with A Tao and A Shu, Zu Qi held the emerald and tried again, but the result still didn’t work. He was still the only one who could return to the real world.
Zu Qi was not discouraged and tried several times in succession, but all ended in failure.
Even A Tao and A Shu, who were quite hopeful at first, gradually looked disappointed, but they did not complain at all and continued to try according to Zu Qi’s method.
In the end, Zu Qi was desperate.
He planned to give up this plan and think of a better way to move the apples out of the space. But currently, it seemed that the only way was to go in and out of the space in person and transport the things out one by one…
Just thinking of these, Zu Qi felt exhausted. He looked up and saw A Tao and A Shu both sighing. So, Zu Qi had to cheer up and reached out to pat A Shu on the shoulder.
“It’s okay, let’s just think of another solution.” After Zu Qi finished speaking, he was about to ask Dabao to translate his words.
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