The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 93 The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms

While she was sound asleep, she suddenly received a phone call asking if she had killed the mosquitoes. Gu Lanxi was lucky she didn't lose her temper!
Hearing who was calling, and remembering the excuse I'd made up when I hung up the video call earlier, I instantly understood what was going on and felt a pang of guilt.
"Have you been waiting for my call?"

Lu Nanting was too embarrassed to admit it.

"No, I drank too much and have a headache."

The time it takes to sober up after being drunk varies depending on individual differences, the amount of alcohol consumed, the alcohol concentration, and physical condition.

Lu Nanting was truly drunk, but not completely intoxicated.

To fully sober up, it takes at least eight hours.

He wasn't thinking clearly at the moment. He was somewhat rational, but not much, otherwise he wouldn't have called her at this hour and disturbed her sleep.

"hehe."

Gu Lanxi felt like laughing for no reason.

A few days ago, he participated in a variety show, and the host said that his style had changed drastically. He was still stubborn and said that he was 100% a cool guy. But then he called her in the middle of the night and started acting cute.

When it comes to coaxing people, Teacher Gu is very experienced.

"I'll sing you a song, and you can see if I sing well?"

"it is good!"

"Okay, don't say anything~"

"Ah."

Zhang Mingyuan lay on the sofa with a resentful look on his face, listening to Gu Lanxi hum a lullaby.

Just as I was about to fall asleep, I thought to myself, "That old man is still drunk, he's probably fast asleep."

Suddenly, he said, "The interval is wrong. That last phrase was a third interval, not a fourth interval. Come on, pause and let me sing it for you."

Then, disregarding the lives of others, he started demonstrating.

He truly lives up to his reputation as a versatile warrior; even while lying there singing, his breathing remains as steady as a rock.

When it comes to music, Lu Dingliu has always been very serious.

Zhang Mingyuan's drowsiness vanished instantly.

Gu Lanxi's eyes widened...

So what is she doing all this in the middle of the night?

Lu Nanting was still rambling on, explaining to her what it meant to be out of tune.

“Every piece of music has its own unique key and interval relationships. When singing or playing, if you don’t follow these key and interval relationships, it will sound discordant…”

All ambiguity vanished completely.

Just as they were getting into the conversation, Gu Lanxi suddenly asked him coldly, "So, Teacher Lu, should I VIP you for 1699?"

Lu Nanting's mind cleared instantly, and he shrank by thirty centimeters in a flash: "Falling down, no need..."

"Hmph, shut up and go to sleep!"

"Okay~"

Regardless of how aggrieved he sounded, Gu Lanxi hung up the phone.

What a pity!
I should have used this quick and ruthless method first, and instead sang him a lullaby!

Seeing that Lu Nanting had completely behaved himself, Zhang Mingyuan suppressed a laugh.

That's why they say evil people need to be tormented by other evil people.
"Laugh out loud if you want to! After all, people without wives don't understand this kind of thing."

Zhang Mingyuan pretended to be dead, but someone kept babbling on and on:

"Hehe, how could I be afraid of my wife?"

"This is all love! You clearly don't understand."

OK, single people wouldn't understand.

Ha ha.

Zhang Mingyuan rolled his eyes and ignored him from beginning to end.

Reasoning with a drunkard, discussing integrity with a deadbeat, and talking about loyalty with a scumbag...

He's not an idiot.

The person in question is asleep, but the studio staff are still working.

"Thank goodness we had that idiot Xiao Han to step in!" Not only did he cheat on his wife, but he also tricked her into having an abortion and played multiplayer games. It's absolutely outrageous!

At times like this, it's better to die for a fellow Daoist than for myself. Anyway, they're all rotten stuff, so it doesn't matter if they get any rottener.

"He's such a talented person, helping him revise his essays. He doesn't deserve many titles. We could easily crown him a 'Time Management Master.' Let's pull down his schedule, then pull down the timelines of his dates with several girls, make a comparison chart, add some catchy background music, and send him on his second debut!"

"Pfft~ Sweetie, you're so ruthless!"

"A cancer in the entertainment industry, everyone should get rid of him. Okay, enough talk, think about your bank balance and get to work!"

"OKK!"

Gu Lanxi didn't care about any of that.

I was woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night and sulked. When I woke up the next day, my eye sockets were slightly dark.

While having breakfast, Gu Lanxi instructed her assistant: "This house hasn't been lived in for a long time, and there are too many weeds around it. Please have someone come and remove the weeds, and also spray some insect repellent. The mosquitoes are too fierce at night; I spent half the night swatting them."

Weren't the other three also swatting mosquitoes all night?

He nodded immediately after hearing her explanation.

It's okay for other people to get bitten by mosquitoes, but actors need to be on camera, so having mosquito bites is no big deal.

Upon receiving the suggestion, the logistics department immediately made the arrangements.

In the following days, the entire internet was relentlessly attacking Xiao Han, determined to destroy him completely.

Lu Nanting was busy with work, working non-stop, and the hype gradually died down.

Gu Lanxi's work is back on track. Apart from the occasional injury while filming action scenes, she's actually doing alright.

That day, after work, she was rubbing hot safflower oil on her calves in the break room when she overheard her fellow actors chatting:

"The film crew has a piece of equipment that broke down and they're waiting for a new one to arrive. We have a couple of days off, do you guys want to go out and have some fun?"

There are countless beautiful places around here. Staying in the village playing on your phone is not as good as going out for a walk.

After spending more than ten days together, everyone in the crew had become familiar with each other, and upon hearing this, they immediately responded enthusiastically.

Gu Lanxi couldn't help but screw on the cap of the safflower oil, pull down her trouser leg, and lean over to ask, "Where are you going?"

"How about we go hiking?"

Someone made an enthusiastic suggestion.

Who wouldn't want to enjoy the magnificent landscapes of our motherland and become a modern-day Xu Xiake?

“No, it’s the rainy season, climbing mountains is dangerous, and most of the mountains here are undeveloped. There are poisonous snakes and wild animals. If something happens, it will not only delay our progress, but the medical conditions here are poor. Suffering a little is a minor matter, but losing our lives is not worth it.”

Gu Lanxi rejected it outright.

Upon hearing this, everyone agreed and immediately abandoned their mountain climbing plan.

After much discussion and at the suggestion of the locals, they decided to go out and pick mushrooms.

"It's the season for picking termite mushrooms. These things grow in clumps. There are a lot of them in the cornfields, and in the mixed coniferous forest west of the village, there are Yunnan pines, alpine pines, oaks, golden oaks, and Qingfeng oaks. There must be a lot of porcini and green-headed mushrooms there too. Now is the time to harvest these."

Some experts were very knowledgeable and spoke eloquently about it. Fearing that people might not recognize them, they even found photos and posted them in the group.

"When the time comes, we'll set up a human net and sift through that large area. Whether we find anything or not depends entirely on luck. If we do find something, we shouldn't eat it indiscriminately. We should bring it all back and have the locals carefully identify it before letting the cooks prepare it."

The small village is located deep in the mountains. All the young people have gone out to work, leaving behind only the elderly and children. When you finally see a young person, it's usually a young mother who has stayed home to take care of her child.

The surrounding area is suitable for mushroom growth, and no one has properly collected them for many years, so there's no worry about not having a harvest.

Everyone agreed immediately, and Gu Lanxi was so excited that she got up at 4:30.

In early August, it was still a bit chilly in the morning, and Gu Lanxi and the other three wore brightly colored single-layer windbreakers.

"Tuck your trouser legs in to keep out snakes, insects, and rodents."

One last reminder: lock the doors and windows, and the four of you, carrying the cloth bags and small shovels specially purchased by the crew, head straight to the meeting point.

As the crowd gathered, some people complained that the cloth bags provided by the film crew were not big enough, so they even carried baskets from the villagers' homes.

A group of people were all ready to go at the village entrance. Gu Lanxi couldn't resist taking a selfie and sending it to Lu Nanting:

"Brother, look, a little girl picking mushrooms."

Even with the background blurred, you can still see just how lively and exciting the scene was.

Before dawn, a light bulb was held up by a bamboo pole and stuck at the entrance of the village, which made the atmosphere even more atmospheric.

Lu Nanting calmly put down his phone, looked up at the rolling mountains, and turned to ask Xiao Jiang, "Do you think it's better for us to ride a donkey or take a tractor?"

Lu Dingliu: I told you long ago, I'd ride a donkey to see you!
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