Chapter 52: Chapter 52: Fishing for Compliments
When Tuanzi returned after helping ten households till the land, everyone was still pulling peanuts.
She heard her second brother mumbling.
"Auntie...big sister, we don’t aim for speed, we just want each peanut to be coated in dirt, but still visible."
Not far away, there was a large bamboo basket.
Gu Che insisted strongly, so the crew reluctantly lined the bottom of the bamboo basket with a thick layer of plastic to keep the dirt from falling out.
Tuanzi hopped over, grabbed the bamboo basket and peered inside, finding it full of peanuts with dirt on them.
"Will we complete the task soon?"
She hugged the basket with both hands, lifted it up to feel the weight, and was a bit disappointed.
"It’s too light. Even with the dirt, it’s not heavy."
She put down the basket, looking a bit troubled.
"I wonder how many pounds we’ll have in the end."
[Hello, you call this light]
[Just now Gu Che also came to lift it up, but couldn’t move it]
[She really lifted it effortlessly with those little hands, such strength]
With four guests and ten villagers, in less than an hour, they finished processing half an acre of peanuts.
Gu Che wiped his sweat.
"We can weigh it now."
"Pfft."
The top celebrity was stunned, looked down, and found his sister smiling secretly, like a little fox that had just stolen a chicken.
"What’s funny?"
Seeing his sister laugh, he couldn’t help but smile too.
"Hahaha!"
Tuanzi clutched her stomach, laughing, "Second brother, your face, you’re a big tabby cat!"
Gu Che was startled, leaned closer to a camera to check his face.
Having sweated so much earlier, he accidentally wiped his face with muddy hands a few times, and combined with the dust in the air from pulling peanuts, he indeed became a big tabby cat.
[Oh my, his face is too close]
[Adorable!]
[Even a close-up is handsome, this face is as if it was designed by CG]
[Suddenly feel he’s not distant at all, every summer and winter break, I also do farm work, haha]
The top celebrity, usually attentive to his image, frowned slightly.
Tuanzi followed along, continuing to giggle.
"Big tabby cat, second brother is a big tabby cat!"
Gu Che glanced at his sister, seemingly not much better himself.
"Then you’re a little tabby cat."
Tuanzi: "!"
Tuanzi tried to jump up to see her own face.
"Also very dirty!"
She quickly accepted reality, "Then we are the tabby cat siblings, which isn’t bad."
Not bad indeed.
Gu Che thought, at least big brother never looks this messy, he can’t be a big tabby cat.
Gu Che: (*^▽^*)
A conflict arose between the guest and show crew during the weighing.
Director: "No, you guys have too much mud sticking, it’s not acceptable!"
Gu Che argued reasonably: "We handled them according to your requirements, shook off the dirt, didn’t deliberately add any, and this is the weight."
Director: "But the dirt alone must be a hundred pounds."
Both sides reached an impasse.
Tuanzi strolled closer with her hands behind her back.
Seeing the director’s red face and bulging neck, she whispered, "Uncle, bend down."
The director, clueless, instinctively bent down.
Seeing this, Tuanzi didn’t hesitate to grab his clothes and ran off.
"Second brother, Miaomiao took away the bad guy, hurry and weigh it!"
Director Qian: "!"
Director Qian: "I don’t want this kind of flight, at least that type of flight."
Tuanzi didn’t listen, lifting an adult with her little hands, sprinting swiftly, wishing to carry the naughty director uncle out of the village.
By the time she brought him back, the weighing was done.
Without Director Qian, no one else could outtalk Gu Che’s group.
At the weigh-in, it was about four hundred pounds.
Director Qian, after touching the ground, pressed his dizzy head, "The dirt definitely weighs over a hundred pounds."
In Liu Family Village, the yield per acre generally ranges from 500 to 800 pounds. This half-acre can essentially produce two to three hundred pounds of peanuts.
No one paid attention to his protests.
Anyway, they played by the rules, and currently harvested four hundred pounds of peanuts.
"Okay, let’s go find the corn group."
Tuanzi was very curious about the sweet corn.
"Second brother, what can you make with corn?"
Gu Che casually said, "Steamed is very tasty."
Liu Yue chimed in, "Actually, grilled corn is delicious too, you can even sprinkle some seasoning."
Liu Man: "Stir-fried corn with eggs, corn pancake, corn soup, corn chicken, corn with spare rib soup, they’re all delicious, the broth has a sweet flavor."
Tuanzi was practically drooling.
Sounds all so delicious.
Gu Che glanced down at her and noticed she was already daydreaming about tasting all kinds of corn delicacies, chuckling softly.
Tuanzi immediately opened her eyes.
"Second brother, why are you laughing?"
Her senses were sharp, "Even though your smile is handsome and nice, are you laughing at Miaomiao’s love for food?"
"No, I love food too."
Gu Che blatantly fibbed.
What he cared more about was another statement.
"Second brother’s smile is handsome?"
"Yes~"
Tuanzi lifted her head, praising, "Second brother is especially handsome, definitely one of the most handsome...people Miaomiao has ever seen!"
Gu Che: "!!!"
"One of them?"
Tuanzi matter-of-factly, "Because big brother is also very handsome!"
Gu Che: o(︶︿︶)o
[Laughing to death]
[Hearing his sister call him handsome illuminated Gu Che’s eyes. Realizing she complimented big brother too, his spirits deflated]
When the four arrived at the cornfield, the other six were still busily picking corn.
The three groups of guests had distinct styles.
Su Chaomu: "Dad, look, I picked another big one!"
Su Chaomu: "Dad, look, I picked another one! Dad, pay attention to me?"
Su Hanjiang: "..."
Tang Tian: "Son, look, is this corn I picked big?"
Tang Tian: "Son, look, isn’t your dad amazing?"
Tang Jing: "Dad, talk less, work more."
Tang Tian: "..."
Ye Chen: "Dad, put some strength into it, did you not have enough to eat?"
Ye Chen: "Twist like this, then twist like that, can’t you just pick it?"
Ye Chen: "You’re the adult, don’t slack off, you still need to support a son!"
Ye Feng: "..."
Su Chaomu noticed his little friends approaching, immediately ran over hugging a large corn.
"Look, isn’t this one huge?"
Tuanzi sniffed hard.
"I don’t smell any sweetness?"
Su Chaomu, thinking he picked a corn both big and sweet, quickly peeled open some of its husks to reveal the kernels.
"Smell again!"
Tuanzi wiggled her little nose, her eyes lit up.
"Smells so fragrant and sweet, it must be delicious!"
She remembered the guest group’s task and immediately ran to ask the director, "Bad uncle... ahem, director uncle, if we pick more than a hundred pounds of corn, can we cook the extra to eat?"
Director Qian: "...I heard that." How am I bad?
Several adults approached Gu Che and Liu Man.
"How did it become a hundred pounds?"
Gu Che couldn’t hide his pride, "Thanks to Miaomiao, we finished digging the peanuts, got four hundred pounds."
His sister is simply the best, quickly praise her!
Without saying explicitly, the top celebrity’s face clearly expressed his meaning.