“Actually, the production team had already made plans to figure out a way to put you all heavily in debt, and then exploit you ruthlessly,” Xi Xi blurted out all of the production team’s plans.
Mu Li: “How insidious!”
Peng Xiaochang: “How vicious!”
Zhang Xiaoyang: “How shameless!”
Zhang Xiaofeng: “Hmm…”
Hearing Zhang Xiaofeng’s voice, the three of them simultaneously looked at her, making Zhang Xiaofeng blush a little.
She hold back ed for a long time before managing to squeeze out a sentence: “Too bad.”
Mu Li: “You can be even more ruthless.”
Peng Xiaochang: “Not vicious enough!”
Zhang Xiaoyang: “Not shameless enough!”
Zhang Xiaofeng: “…”
“Can you put me down now?” Xi Xi asked weakly.
“Dream on!” Mu Li's face showed a fierce light, “Quick, tell me, what’s your plan?!”
Xi Xi hesitated for a moment, and Mu Li immediately pretended to make a move.
Xi Xi’s face instantly changed: “No, no, I’ll tell you.”
“Aren’t you going out to sea to fish? We’ll make you take out a loan to buy these fishing tools, and then we can make you work to pay off your debt,” Xi Xi stammered in response.
Mu Li: “Isn’t that forced buying and selling?”
Peng Xiaochang: “Vicious!”
Zhang Xiaoyang: “Shameless!”
Zhang Xiaofeng: “…”
Not hearing Zhang Xiaofeng’s answer, the three immediately looked at Zhang Xiaofeng.
Zhang Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and said, “Insidious.”
Mu Li was startled, then said, “That’s my line, but never mind, I’ll lend it to you.
Let’s do an Encore.”
Mu Li: “Isn’t that forced buying and selling?”
Zhang Xiaofeng: “Insidious!”
Peng Xiaochang: “Vicious!”
Zhang Xiaoyang: “Shameless!”
Mu Li and the other three exchanged glances, casually threw Xi Xi into the sea, and then returned to the lounge chairs at the Mushroom House.
“Hmm… it’s still comfortable to lie down!” Mu Li couldn't help but let out a comfortable groan.
“Are we just going to do nothing?” Peng Xiaochang couldn’t help but ask.
“Forget it, what can we do?” Zhang Xiaoyang replied.
Mu Li also nodded and said, “Exactly, some things should be left for the adults to solve.
We are just children; it’s good enough that we managed to get the enemy’s plan out of them.
The rest of the matters should be left to the adults.”
“Hmm… that makes sense.” Peng Xiaochang giggled and continued to lie back down.
Not long after, a commotion came from afar.
“It sounds like Teacher He’s voice,” Peng Xiaochang murmured.
“I heard it too,” Zhang Xiaoyang echoed.
“Shouldn’t we go greet them?” Zhang Xiaofeng asked.
“No need,” Mu Li directly rejected Zhang Xiaofeng’s suggestion, “We are great heroes; we deserve this treatment.”
Peng Xiaochang: “Exactly.”
Zhang Xiaoyang: “Makes sense.”
The three of them simultaneously looked up at Zhang Xiaofeng.
Zhang Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and tentatively replied, “Then… just like this?”
“Mm.” *3
On the other side, Huang Xiaochu and He Lin finally finished their stroll through the village and arrived at the entrance of the Mushroom House.
“What do you think these kids are doing now? They wouldn’t be cooking, would they?” He Lin pointed at the smoking chimney of the Mushroom House and asked.
“I didn’t expect them to be so sensible after coming this time, even cooking for themselves.” Huang Xiaochu grinned, “It seems I can finally get out of the kitchen and have a good rest this time.”
“Among the three of them, only Xiaoyang knows how to cook.
I don’t know if A Li does, but they probably wouldn’t let the new cub cook.” He Lin briefly analyzed, “It seems Xiaoyang is acting like a big brother this time.
When the two of us aren’t here, he can still take good care of his younger siblings.”
“Not bad, not bad, let’s sneak in through the back door and take a look.” Huang Xiaochu chuckled mischievously, leading He Lin around the main entrance, directly climbing over the fence, and arriving at the kitchen side window.
“Eh? How come there’s no one?” Huang Xiaochu poked his head in to look at the kitchen, but found it empty inside.
“How could there be no one?” He Lin also leaned over, somewhat puzzled.
The two moved cautiously, and after just two steps forward, rounding a corner in their vision, they discovered two neat rows of beach chairs in the yard, and couldn't help but laugh.
“These kids, they really know how to enjoy themselves,” He Lin couldn’t help but say with a smile.
Little H and Little O discovered He Lin and Huang Xiaochu’s presence before Mu Li and the other four, and bounded over.
The four heard the movement and also discovered the two sneaking around.
Seeing that he had been discovered, Huang Xiaochu preemptively said, “You guys are quite comfortable, aren’t you?
You didn’t even come to greet Teacher He and me, and you’re already enjoying a sunbath?”
With that, he took a few quick steps and arrived in front of the four, giving Peng Xiaochang, who hadn’t even had time to take off his sunglasses, a full set of “love” massage.
Peng Xiaochang was stunned, his expression instantly changed.
He had been smiling just a moment ago, but the next second his face was filled with sorrow.
He hugged Huang Xiaochu and began to wail, “Master, you don’t know how terribly the production team bullied us when you weren’t here!”
Zhang Xiaoyang’s eyes darted around, and he chimed in, “That’s right, Master, they were too cruel.”
Huang Xiaochu was startled, looking at Peng Xiaochang and Zhang Xiaoyang’s slightly exaggerated acting, his first reaction was suspicion.
So he instinctively looked at Zhang Xiaofeng and the new contestant, Mu Li.
What he didn't expect was that Zhang Xiaofeng and Mu Li also began to accuse the production team.
This completely confused Huang Xiaochu: Wang Xiang hadn’t even arrived yet, so how did the production team already start causing trouble?
However, this didn’t hinder his next action at all.
Huang Xiaochu suddenly slapped Peng Xiaochang’s thigh, and a crisp slapping sound immediately rang out.
Peng Xiaochang instantly bent into a shrimp from the pain.
“What’s going on? Are you bullying our kids when the two of us aren’t here?” Huang Xiaochu shot up, grabbed a slipper, and pointed it at the staff, shouting, “Who bullied my kids, stand out!”
The next moment, only Xi Xi was seen being pushed out by the crowd in a sorry state: “It’s him, he’s too bad, he doesn’t even spare children.”
“You guys…” Xi Xi was furious when he saw these people directly betraying him.
Why am I the one who gets hurt, the one who takes the blame, and the one who has to endure Teacher Huang’s wrath in the end?
Seeing that he had been betrayed, Xi Xi chuckled awkwardly and greeted Huang Xiaochu: “Teacher Huang, everything is negotiable.”
“Negotiate what? What’s there to negotiate?” Huang Xiaochu reached out his hand, about to slap him with the slipper.
Xi Xi quickly dodged backward, his face full of fear: “No, no, Teacher Huang, everything is negotiable.”
“Teacher Huang, don’t pity him, hit him.” Mu Li fanned the flames from the side, “It’s him, he’s too bad.
Not only did he want to steal our money, but we were also so hot and wanted to eat a coconut.
It’s one thing that he was unwilling to buy it for us, but he even wanted to trick us out of our money.”
“Exactly, exactly!” Peng Xiaochang also echoed, “He even made us perform magic tricks for him, and if we couldn’t, he wanted us to pay for the coconuts ourselves, but our money had all been taken by them.”
“And, and!” Zhang Xiaoyang also wasn’t going to let Xi Xi off the hook, “He even conspired with Director Wang to design a series of schemes.
They played Miracle Eye with us, saying they wanted to design a way to burden us with huge loans and then force us to work everywhere to pay them back.”
Huang Xiaochu’s eyes widened as he listened: “Are you telling the truth?”
“It’s true!” Peng Xiaochang shouted, “If you don’t believe me, ask little sister.
Little sister wouldn’t lie.”
Huang Xiaochu instinctively looked at Zhang Xiaofeng and asked, “Little sister, is what they said true?”
The degree of surprise in Zhang Xiaofeng’s eyes was no less than Huang Xiaochu’s, but she hesitated for a moment and then said, “Probably something like that.”
Xi Xi, who was standing by, was already on the verge of despair: Heavens, how did these things turn out like this when they came out of their mouths?
“Misunderstanding, Teacher Huang, there must be some misunderstanding here!
The situation is like this…” Xi Xi quickly shirked responsibility and tried to explain the whole story.
But he had only spoken half a sentence when he was directly interrupted by Huang Xiaochu: “What else is there to say?
Would little sister lie?”
“No, I didn’t say little sister was lying,” Xi Xi quickly explained.
“Then what else is there to say?” Huang Xiaochu, holding the slipper, pointed at Xi Xi and said with a look of indignation, “I never thought, I never thought, that you would even bully little sister.”
“Oh, no… oh… I…” Xi Xi was completely unable to explain himself anymore.
Half an hour later, in the courtyard of the Mushroom House, Xi Xi sat pitifully face to face with Wang Xiang, while beside Xi Xi, Huang Xiaochu, wearing slippers, had one foot on a stool, and held a slipper in his hand, looking arrogantly at Wang Xiang.
Peng Xiaochang imitated him, placing one foot on the other side of the stool, encircling Xi Xi in the middle.
Zhang Xiaoyang and Mu Li had no place to stand, so they each brought over two more stools, mimicking Huang Xiaochu’s posture, glaring at Wang Xiang.
Only He Lin and Zhang Xiaofeng stood to the side, covering their mouths, wanting to laugh but forcefully holding it in.
“Director Wang, what’s up, speak up?” Huang Xiaochu at this moment looked just like a local ruffian.
“Speak what? There’s nothing to say.” Wang Xiang pretended as if nothing had happened.
“Director Wang, you’d best be honest.
We have a hostage here,” Mu Li reminded him fiercely.
“This person is too embarrassing, we don’t want him anymore.” Wang Xiang stood up, preparing to leave.
Xi Xi grabbed Wang Xiang’s hand and wailed, “Director Wang, I did it all for the production team!
You can’t just abandon me like this.”
Wang Xiang sneered, “You not only revealed the production team’s plan but were also caught by them with a handle, ruining the production team’s plan.
Someone like you is useless to keep.”
“No, Director Wang…” Xi Xi quickly explained, “They forced me to do that.
I will always be your person.”
Wang Xiang wanted to say something else, but was directly interrupted by Mu Li: “Is the act over?
Who told you to leave?
If this matter isn’t made clear, you’ll stay here just like him.”
“Right! Stay here!” Peng Xiaochang couldn’t be more excited; his mouth was already stretched to his ears.
Mu Li, who was standing by, couldn’t bear to watch and quietly reminded him, “Brother, you should rein in that expression.
Anyone who doesn’t know would think you’re trying to flirt with a girl.”
Peng Xiaochang quickly managed his expression, then slapped the table and repeated his line: “Right! Stay here!”
Mu Li’s mouth twitched, and he sighed helplessly: “Brother, with your acting skills, I’m worried you won’t have food to eat after this show airs.”
Everyone was suddenly amused by Peng Xiaochang’s appearance, and the previous tense atmosphere vanished.
Huang Xiaochu also couldn’t help but smile, forcefully slapping the table with his slipper, and continued, “Stop fooling around, we’re talking serious business.”
Mu Li quickly nodded: “Exactly, today we’re laying it all out.
If you don’t give us an explanation, neither of you will leave here in peace.”
With that, everyone immediately formed a circle, surrounding Wang Xiang and Xi Xi inside.
“Then… what do you want?” Wang Xiang somewhat conceded, sitting back down and asking tentatively.
Mu Li and the others exchanged glances, revealing a smile of successful conspiracy.