This girl had a good tongue. Xia Yu adored her very much, so she could not help smiling and said, “Yes, please.”

“Sister, I promise you won’t regret.” Seeing Xia Yu take her recommendation, the girl said happily, “Sister, our chickens are all local chickens raised by ourselves with grain, not forage.”

“Facts speak louder than words. We will know it after we taste it, but we should say some ugly words first. I won’t pay if it doesn’t taste good or authentic.” Shen Qiang was also interested in the girl’s words and said with a smile on the side.

“It’s utterly true. I promise you will want to eat more if you have it. By the way, since you two have no other companions, you don’t need to order too much food in case it is wasted. I guess a chicken hotpot is enough for you. What do you think?” Xiao Shuang advised them.

“Other restaurants want customers to order more food so that they can earn more money. But you just do in the opposite way.” Shen Qiang smiled and said on the side.

“I just said that it would be wasted if you ordered too much food. We’re honest and conscientious. We can’t trick you into spending extra money in order to earn more money.” Xiao Shuang looked at them carefully for a while again and smiled, saying, “Though you’re rich, your money is also hard-earned. Right?”

“Little child, you really have a good tongue.” Xiao Shuang’s words made Shen Qiang feel amused. “Well, we’ll listen to you. Let’s order a native chicken first, and tomorrow we’ll taste other dishes in your restaurant.”

“Good!” Xiao Shuang took the order with delight, but she didn’t leave at once. Instead, she looked at Shen Qiang and said as she was not convinced, “You don’t look older than me. Why should you call me a little child?”

Xiao Shuang hummed twice in a row and then left. She gave the order to her father.

Her father, Boss Huang, was an honest and tolerant person. He just watched and stood aside when Xiao Shuang was chatting with them. And he had heard what they had just said.

He didn’t take the order handed over by Xiao Shuang but turned to his wife and children, saying, “Catch a chicken quickly. The customers must be hungry after a long journey.”

“OK. I’ll do it now.” Xiao Shuang rolled up her sleeves. She went back to her room and brought out a ladle of grain to scatter it on the ground.

The chickens saw the food, and all of them vied to eat. Xiao Shuang looked at her brother and gave a hint to him. He had a tacit understanding and stood on her right.

“Catch a bigger one.” Boss Huang said to his families.

In the beginning, Xia Yu was watching them catching the chicken aside with Shen Qiang. She felt it was interesting, so she involuntarily felt like having a try. “Can I join you?”

“OK!” Xiao Shuang agreed without hesitation.

Xia Yu took a look at Shen Qiang and found that he had taken on a gesture to join in them to catch the chicken. Xia Yu had preferred the Luhua chicken among them, which had beautiful feathers. She pointed at it, and others understood her and were ready to catch it.

Though they had many people, those chickens were very clever. Before they could approach them, those chickens all fluttered away. They tried to outflank the Luhua chicken several times, but it had a narrow escape from them every time they were about to catch it.

“This time I won’t let it escape.” Shen Qiang said with confidence when he cornered the chicken. However, as he dashed at it, it fluttered over his head while waving its wings and got out of the wall. What was left in Shen Qiang’s hands was just several feathers falling from the chicken.

The fact that he did not catch it again amused Xia Yu, and she laughed her head off on the side.

“It’s too hard. Let me have a break first.” Shen Qiang could hardly catch his breath out of tiredness, so he just sat down on a bench aside, taking deep breaths constantly.

Guoming just went out to keep catching the chicken. But shortly after he went out, he came back with the chicken in his hands. “Da Bing helped us catch it.”

Da Bing was their neighbor and happened to pass by when the chicken fluttered out. He knew that they were catching the chicken. So, he just helped to catch it.

Boss Huang took over the chicken from his son and slaughtered it on the side. Xiao Shuang pulled some beautiful feathers off its body to make a nice shuttlecock quickly after the chicken was dead completely.

She raised her foot and kicked it several times to see if it was good after it was done. Then she came to Xia Yu and handed it to her. “Sister, this is for you.”

“Thanks.” Xia Yu took it from her and kicked it several times to have a try.

She recalled those days when she kicked the shuttlecock before high school. But later, the heavy pressure from the overloaded homework and the college entrance examination dampened her spirits, so she never played it again.

“Sister, you’re a good player. Let’s have a match after I finish my work.” Xiao Shuang said and then ran to meet some other new guests.

“Sister, it may take a long while for them to prepare the meal. How about hanging out?” Shen Qiang suggested.

After they finished walking around and came back from outside, Boss Huang happened to finish the chicken cuisine. Shen Qiang put one piece into his mouth and really felt it was rather delicious, which tasted different from what they usually ate indeed.

They went back to their rooms after the meal. These days they were so tired that when they lay down on the bed, they fell asleep without any dream through the night.

Xiao Shuang got along well with Xia Yu after they spent one day together. They became WeChat friends as well. They even made an appointment that they would get together again when Xiao Shuang went to S city the next time.

“Sister, there is a production crew shooting a TV show here in a village nearby. Why not go and have a look since you are waiting for a person here and have time?” Xiao Shuang asked Xia Yu out with excitement.

Because she had never seen it before since her childhood. She tried her best to persuade Xia Yu to go there with her.

Originally, Xia Yu did not want to go there, but now she was indeed waiting for someone and was very bored just as Xiao Shuang said, so she agreed at last.

Shen Yan slightly frowned. He wanted to say something but held it back at last. But finally, he followed Xia Yu and Xiao Shuang to go there.

Villagers liked to watch the scene of bustle. Xia Yu was about to ask about the crew’s whereabouts when they got out of the car. But Xiao Shuang took the hand of Xia Yu to run to the place of many people directly.

It was true that the crew was right here to shoot a TV show. As Xia Yu and Xiao Shuang were running, a child who ran out of the side suddenly ran into Xia Yu’s legs directly and then fell down to the ground, which was unexpected.

This boy who fell down to the ground was 4 or 5 years old. He didn’t cry. His big black and white eyes looked at Xia Yu with a bit of timidity. She bent to help him stand up from the ground.

He was in a very old cotton-padded jacket, which was not very thick. His sleeves looked so black because of dirt that the original color could not be seen, which meant that he had worn this cotton-padded jacket for a very long time.

Xia Yu touched his little hands and felt sympathy for him at once. “Hello, kid! What’s your name?” Xia Yu wondered in her mind where he came from.

But the boy didn’t answer her. He pursed his lips tightly. Then he turned around and ran away quickly from her sight.

While she was a little embarrassed, Xia Yu touched her nose, wondering if she scared him. But she said those words in a gentle voice. She looked again in the direction where the boy ran away and just saw a familiar face at a glance. Xia Yu stood up out of surprise.

The person was standing with the villagers and staring at Xia Yu with a smile.

Xia Yu ran to her in a hurry. “Cai Yanyan, are you shooting a TV show here?”

“Yes. Xia Yu, I thought I had dim eyesight. Unexpectedly, it’s really you!” Cai Yanyan held Xia Yu’s hands and jumped up with excitement.

“Xiao Qiang and I came here to look for someone, and we put up at a farmhouse in a neighboring village. I was told that there was a crew shooting a TV show, so we came here to have a look. I didn’t expect to meet you.” Xia Yu felt very excited as well because it was delightful to meet a friend here.

“Really?” Cai Yanyan smiled and said, “What a coincidence! Have you found that person?”

“Not yet. It is said he will come back in two days.” Xia Yu told her straightforwardly, not hiding it from her.

“So, it means that you need to stay on here for two more days. We can stay together to have fun for two days, right?” Cai Yanyan was very glad to hear this. She had a lot of interesting things to share with Xia Yu.

“I’m afraid so.” Xia Yu glanced at the boy aside and found that he was just looking at her. She then asked Cai Yanyan, “Do you know this child well?”

“He’s called Yangyang, invited by our crew as an extra. Though he is young, he is very clever.” Cai Yanyan introduced this boy to Xia Yu and then waved at him. The boy came over, and she touched his head with her hand and said with a smile, “Aunt Xia is Mom’s friend. Call her Aunt Xia!”

Yangyang acted as Cai Yanyan’s son in the TV series. In daily life, he was ingratiating in speech and always called Cai Yanyan Mom. Hearing that Xia Yu was Cai Yanyan’s friend, he called her in a sweet voice at once, “Aunt!”

Xia Yu then realized that this boy was required to dress like this according to the script’s requirements. Though it was in the countryside with bad conditions and it was very normal to wear old clothes, people were less likely to wear such dirty clothes like beggars.

Xia Yu was relieved after hearing Cai Yanyan’s explanation. She touched his head with her hand while he smiled at Xia Yu at once, with his cute protruding canine teeth exposed.

He was too well-behaved. Xia Yu started to like Yangyang who was so cute at once. She remembered there were some chocolates in her bag, so she took them out and gave them to him.

He took over them with excitement at once and ran away after saying thank you to Xia Yu.

“Don’t run too far. We still need to shoot later.” Cai Yanyan shouted to the back of the boy.

“I know, Mom. I won’t run too far.” The boy replied while running.

Xia Yu and Cai Yanyan stood in situ and had a short chat. Then the assistant director came over to inform Cai Yanyan to prepare for the shooting. So, Cai Yanyan held Xia Yu’s hand and said, “Wait a moment. I have a gift for you.”

Before Xia Yu could reply, Cai Yanyan walked to the shooting site.

“Sister, you are so awesome. You even get to know a celebrity. Can you get a signature for me later?” Xiao Shuang flushed out of excitement on the side. It was her first time to stand so close to a celebrity in her life.

“A celebrity? If you want, you also can act.” Shen Qiang frowned and said, “Did you see that kid? He seems to be from this village, right? Isn’t he an actor as well now?”

“It’s not the same. The kid is an extra while that person is a real celebrity.” Xiao Shuang argued. Though she was a villager and wasn’t experienced in worldly affairs, she still knew such a simple truth.

“She is a celebrity? What’s her name? Tell me! What TV shows has she taken part in?” Shen Qiang sneered and pursed his lips in disapproval, with obvious disdain.