Extra 11

Although Lu Wan was worried, she still cooperated with the arrangement of the program team and went to pick tea leaves with four other young people.

As long as Lu Buyu didn’t make a major incident, she could handle it when she comes back.

Let the shared boyfriend go explore on his own today since this was what the program team had been looking forward to.

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This translation is by Pocketrobbin at S h a n g h a i f a n t a s y . c o m

The group of people walked for more than 20 minutes before finally arriving at the tea plantation.

Looking ahead, emerald green greeted their eyes. The land was covered with clumps of tea trees spreading into the distance.

Women with their hair wrapped, shuttled among the shrubs bending over to pick leaves, and were starting their day’s work.

Except for Lu Wan, the other guests were all excited to come to a tea plantation for the first time.

The program team invited local tea farmers to teach how to pick tea leaves.

Lu Wan directly omitted this step, took the bamboo basket and slung it on her back to begin work.

“Lu Wan, you’re already starting? Do you know how to pick tea? This isn’t a competition.” Wang Zhenzhen said with a smile.

“I’ll finish this so I can go back early.”

Lu Buyu was still waiting for her to save his life, so she had to move quickly.

“Wow, you know how?”

Lu Wan: “En, I’ve done it before. Go on and learn.”

The county she grew up in also had tea plantations. During the tea-picking season, people would be hired externally for eight yuan a catty and both adults and children could do it.

Lu Wan picked tea for some time. When it was spring in Ning County, she would pick tea leaves in the plantation while Xu Yao and a group of people flew kites on top of the mountain.

Picking tea leaves wasn’t difficult. The key was that the sun was strong today.

The program team stipulated that each person must pick a catty of leaves to complete the task.

From what it sounds, picking one catty doesn’t seem to be very difficult.

The other four didn’t take it seriously, but Lu Wan felt that…… this wasn’t very good.

The program team was really wicked. Fortunately, this plantation was full of green tea, which was considered a good harvestable type with its high growth rate.

If changed to something else, a catty would be unbearable.

Picking tea was manual work, which requires constant bending and reaching out. It couldn’t be a mechanical action either. One must find the buds and pinch them off.

Lu Wan had thin calluses on her hands, long fingers, and big palms, so picking tea was fast.

After re-familiarizing herself with the actions, she wasn’t much slower than the tea farmers. After all, she was young and had good physical strength.

The other four chatted while working. Although it was a bit hot, its novelty hadn’t passed, so they didn’t felt it was too hard.

The only thing they were worried about was getting sunburned.

“Lu Wan, don’t just pick tea ah, talk to us.”

Lu Wan said helplessly, “A gram of green tea has about 20 buds. There are 10,000 buds per catty. With your current efficiency, you can pick 30 buds in a minute, which are about 1,800 in an hour. If you want to catch lunch, you need to work faster.”

The other young guests were stunned. As expected of the top scorer in the college entrance examination, her brain turns fast.

They reduced the frequency of chatting and began to work seriously.

Less than an hour later, they started to complain that their fingers were uncomfortable, the sun was glaring, and they’re waist were a little sore from bending all the time.

Several people gritted their teeth and persisted. Looking back, they saw that Lu Wan had gone ahead.

Her action was really fast.

Work started at nine o’clock, and by eleven, Lu Wan finished picking a catty of tea leaves.

She stretched her fingers and glanced at the other four people, all of whom were only halfway there……

She estimated that if they speeded up their pace, it would still take two hours.

The four looked at Lu Wan enviously.

“Oh my, you’re so good at this.”

“My wrist is about to break. How did you do it?”

“Ah, I can’t hold on anymore.”

“When will this end? Can you help me?”

Lu Wan smiled. “You can do it, guys. I’ll go look around first. When you’re done, I’ll go back with you.”

Now that she had finished the assigned work, she had to think about what to have for lunch.

Fortunately, she ate enough in the morning and wasn’t hungry yet.

Although Lu Buyu was in charge of cooking, what he cooks…… She had to be cautious.

This was a mountainous area, quite far from the hospital, so it was inconvenient.

The four young people worked hard, and after another two hours of grinding, they finally completed the task.

It’s now one o’clock in the afternoon.

Several people were tired and hungry, their faces were flushed from the sun, and their foreheads were covered with sweat. They were no longer as neat as they were before they departed.

As they stood at the intersection, they saw Lu Wan walking over carrying a chicken.

That’s right, a chicken that was alive and fluttering.

Several people were shocked. Where did Lu Wan get the chicken?

How…… brave was she to carry a live chicken?

Seeing the doubts on their faces, Lu Wan explained with a smile, “I helped repair the fence of the old lady in front and she gave me a chicken.”

Everybody: “…”      

The people in the program team were also dumbfounded. Not only did Lu Wan complete the task quickly, but she was actually able to find work for herself and earn money.

No— It’s to earn chicken.

Wrong, wrong, the rhythm was completely wrong.

It was as if they were being led by the nose.

Lu Wan: “I got paid for my work. This is fine, right?”

Cameraman: “……”

As long as you’re happy.

Lu Wan: “You guys go back first. I have to deal with this chicken.”

“What do you mean by dealing with it?” Wang Zhenzhen asked with wide-eyed eyes. Could it be what she thought?

Lu Wan: “Kill it. We will eat this later. The water is already boiling and I borrowed a pot from that grandma’s house. The house we got isn’t very convenient.”

Everybody looked in disbelief, suspecting that they had heard it wrong.

Kill chicken? This was too advanced.

Not only were the young guests shocked, even on the program crew, only few had the courage to kill chickens……

After all, everyone buys fresh food which was handled in supermarkets nowadays.

The staff of the program team wanted to shout, ‘What the hell is this, are you still an eighteen-year-old girl?’

The young girl, Lu Wan, killed the chicken quickly.

She was in a hurry, so she just gave away all the entrails.

Before killing the chicken, she also kindly reminded the cameraman not to shoot the scene as it was too bloody.

When Lu Wan stood up with the washed chicken, the jaws of her several young companions almost fell to the ground.

They started out shocked, incredulous, and even felt it was a little cruel, but now there was only reverence left.

This was too strong!

Wang Zhenzhen stared at the chicken in Lu Wan’s hand. It had already been coated with seasoning and carefully wrapped in lotus leaves.

She recalled yesterday’s Twice-cooked pork dish and felt starving.

She swallowed her saliva and asked, “What are you going to do with this chicken?”

Lu Wan: “I’ll go back and see if it’s doable. I plan to make Beggar’s chicken.”

Alas, she didn’t know if Lu Buyu had blown up the kitchen.

The others: “……”

I want to eat chicken.

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After watching Lu Wan leave, Lu Buyu walked back happily and was even singing a song.

“I have a little donkey that I never ride^[1]Chinese Children Song titled 《I have a little donkey》……”

Cameraman: “……”      

“The red star shines, glowing with rays; The red star flickers, warming our hearts^[2]Chinese Patriotic Song titled 《Red star shines》……”

Cameraman: “?”

Lu Buyu: “Older Brother is the best in the world, and a child with an older brother is like a treasure^[3]Taken from the Chinese Children Song titled 《Mom is the best in the word》.”

Cameraman: “!”

Haven’t you got enough?!

This top star with fine features, walking on a field path while singing, really looks like he was in an idol drama.

Not to mention that he wasn’t just an artist. He sang very well.

This changed the tone of the entire show.

As long as there was only Lu Buyu alone in the frame, it would become an idol drama. He simply brought his own filter.

When Lu Buyu came home humming a ditty, the program team came to hand out the task.

Today he would cook three home cooked dishes, stir-fried pork, home style tofu and eggplant.

Lu Buyu felt that there was a small problem.

He had looked up how to cook these dishes and knew all the steps, so he wouldn’t overturn.

A new problem aroused when he couldn’t light a fire.

After failing for the third time, smoke filled the entire small wooden house.

Lu Buyu and the cameraman fled the scene together.

The corners of Lu Buyu’s eyes were a little red from the smoke. Frowning, he decided to take a look at how the other guests were doing.

He went to House No. 1 and House No. 3 respectively.

The guests of these two groups weren’t very good at lighting fires, but at least they have the experience from their failure last night and this morning.

After tossing and stumbling for a long time, they finally succeeded in lighting a fire.

They began to cross the second hurdle—— Cooking.

Everyone was so busy that after passing on the experience verbally, they asked Lu Buyu to go back and try again.

Lu Buyu, who was still in the first stage, went back on the wooden house after learning from them.

After the fifth failed attempt, he and the cameraman escaped from the wooden house once again.

The cameraman thought it was outrageous that his life would be in danger while shooting. He might choke to death even if he was one minute late in escaping.

Looking at the billowing smoke, those who didn’t know would think something was on fire.

After waiting for the smoke to dissipate, Lu Buyu got in again.

He didn’t believe it. It was easy for Lu Wan to start a fire yesterday, and the other guests were also successful, only he couldn’t do it.

Another half an hour later, Lu Buyu was lying on the grass spread-eagled.

His face was all gray and his clothes were dirty, but he couldn’t care less about cleanliness now.

Lu Buyu squinted his eyes slightly. The sun was blazing.

Ah, he felt like crying. He’d never been so frustrated before.

The cameraman adjusted the lens, trying desperately to find a good angle. There’s no need to mention that it still looked like an idol drama.

Sigh! A young master in distress.

The more Lu Buyu thought about it, the angrier he gets.

He failed not once or twice, but ten times.

He was very confident that he could make a table of dishes, but didn’t expect to not even be able to make a fire.

The point was that why could everyone else do it but him?

Alas, when Lu Wan left in the morning, he promised to prepare a meal and wait for her to come back.

Anyway, it’s not a big deal if he didn’t eat. He could just treat it as a diet to cleanse his stomach. But what about when Lu Wan return?

Lu Buyu sat up from the grass. No, he couldn’t give up.

Once again, the top star made his way to the small wooden house.

Ten minutes later, along with the billowing smoke, Lu Buyu escaped coughing again.

Well, it turns out that some things couldn’t be done with determination alone.

For the first time, he suffered a huge failure in his life.

“I’m really exceptionally stupid.”

“Really dumb. I can’t even handle this.”

“Sigh. What shall I do? I can’t even start a fire. I suck.”

“I may not be a good brother. After all, a good brother won’t let his sister go hungry.”

Lu Buyu muttered to himself with lowered head. The corners of his eyes were red whether from the smoke or depression.

Cameraman: “……”

Wasn’t this normal? The other guests also struggled for a long time yesterday.

Furthermore, don’t cry. You crying just makes it more like an idol drama……

Although it was tragic, he felt like laughing for no reason.

The cameraman then thought about it. Well, two groups of guests had already cried yesterday.

Some people who engage in art have simple thoughts and rich emotions. Maybe because of certain pureness, they could do a good job in their career?

Lu Buyu looked up and asked, “That-, can eggplant and tofu be eaten raw?”

Cameraman: “No.”

Lu Buyu buried his head low again. Oh, he couldn’t make salad.

He shouldn’t have come to this show. He couldn’t do anything well, really.

When Lu Wan came back with the chicken, she saw Lu Buyu sitting outside the house hugging his knees with a dull expression on his face.

She walked over and asked, “What happened?”

Not bad. He didn’t light the house on fire. It’s just that the smell of smoke was a bit strong.

Lu Buyu didn’t want to speak.

Yeah, he had never been a good brother even in the past. He even screwed up every little thing today.

He’s pretty worthless.

Lu Wan: “Wait a moment ah, we’ll eat chicken.”

“Oh.” Lu Buyu was still wallowing in his emotions.

He reflected on himself and it turned out that he was nothing.

Lu Wan got some mud and put it on the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, before placing it in the middle of the fire pit.

She quickly built the fire and kept it burning brightly.

Beggar’s chicken was delicious when cooked with firewood, and it was just right for today.

Lu Wan walked out after it was done and sat next to Lu Buyu. She asked, “What’s the matter?”

Lu Buyu had now calmed down. He admitted to himself that he sucks and that he just needed to try again.

Now being asked by Lu Wan, his emotions came up again.

“I can’t make a fire. I’ve tried several times and even asked others how to do it, but I still can’t.” Lu Buyu’s mouth flattened.

It’s not because I don’t want to cook. I didn’t deliberately give up. It’s because I don’t know how to make fire.

It’s the fire that held me up.