Chapter 249 - 228: Extra-Thick Sweetheart Filter
Chapter 249: Chapter 228: Extra-Thick Sweetheart Filter
Ji Xizhi watched as the boatman expertly covered his mouth, and she understood.
It seemed the crew still didn’t intend for the boatman to talk to her.
[A chance encounter, Director Wang’s two hundred was well spent, bravo!]
[Parents can’t talk to Ji Xizhi, but there are still kids, hahahaha!]
[Director Wang: I didn’t expect this, now I have to bribe kids too!]
[Ji Xizhi: Building connections in Xianyu Village progress at 2%…]
Since the boatman couldn’t speak, Ji Xizhi didn’t initiate a greeting to avoid making it difficult for him.
She left the small yard and took the chance to give a few reminders about Li Songting and Li Songling to the young mother.
Having accepted money for selling salted fish, Ji Xizhi naturally intended to make sure the additional tutoring satisfied her customers.
Even if something is a freebie, it’s still protected under consumer rights laws.
Ji Xizhi spoke earnestly to the young mother.
Beside her, the boatman holding a bucket with two fish inside stumbled upon Ji Xizhi, blanking out as he stood at the doorway, too embarrassed to enter the house and unable to chime in.
He could only listen silently.
Especially when Ji Xizhi praised his daughter Li Songling for being smart, the boatman’s eyes lit up quite a bit.
His fondness for Ji Xizhi surged.
Additionally, today the boatmen in the village were all talking, saying the crew was harsh on the young girl, deliberately not allowing her to board the boat or help with her luggage, among other things.
The boatman had formed a preliminary little pity filter for Ji Xizhi.
Now that little pitiful Ji Xizhi was willingly coming over to tutor his children, the reinforced kind-hearted pity filter was permanently welded in his mind.
The boatman even felt remorseful to the point of his heart trembling.
Ji Xizhi stood at the door, mostly speaking to the young mother about praising and encouraging Li Songling frequently, but before she finished talking, a bucket spontaneously appeared in her hands.
The fish in the bucket were still fresh.
The boatman handed the bucket directly to Ji Xizhi, looked at her deeply, then bolted into the house without saying a word.
[Ah, it’s fish again, fishy fish ~ Delicious fish, the fish Director Wang loves ~]
[Director Wang might jump into the sea once he sees the fish!]
The boatman’s series of actions left the young mother stunned. After a moment, she smiled and explained to Ji Xizhi, “Lingling’s father is not very good with words; he just wanted to give you some fish but was too shy to say it. People in the village go fishing every day, and these are freshly caught from the sea, very fresh. Steamed, braised, or made into soup—all delicious. Take them back and eat them; I see you have a lot of colleagues. If you need more, just come by anytime!”
The young mother’s explanation made the action seem much more reasonable.
Yet Ji Xizhi stared at the fish in the bucket, inexplicably pausing.
She felt that the boatman’s gaze earlier contained a hint of pity?
And the two boatmen this afternoon had seemed to look at her the same way?
Why would they think she was pitiful?
Ji Xizhi didn’t quite get it, but as it was already late, after the young mother mentioned wanting the children to sleep, Ji Xizhi decided not to linger and opted to leave.
After seeing Ji Xizhi off, the young mother returned home to find the boatman hadn’t gone to eat but changed his shoes, glanced at the homework on the table, and waited in the yard.
Seeing her return, the boatman immediately got up: “What was all that about today?”
The young mother explained with a laugh and cry: “Lingling and Tingting mistook the young girl for the Fish Goddess. The young girl is kind; over the next few days, she’s coming to tutor Lingling and Tingting as a home teacher! And she’s even a graduate student from Qing University. Lingling and Tingting were delighted today. Oh, and you! When sending fish, at least tell me in advance. Suddenly giving them away like that—forget making the young girl jump—you scared me too!”
The boatman was entirely unconcerned about giving away fish; all he could think about was one word: Qing University tutoring!
His family wasn’t wealthy, and his two children had fallen behind in school due to illness. He worked long hours to earn money, hoping to send his children for extra classes to catch up with their school progress.
Now they had a home tutor coming over, and one from Qing University no less.
The couple hundred in his pocket suddenly lost its appeal.
Boatman: “Wait, I’ll go out to repay some money… No, it’s too late, forget it. You pack my things; I’m heading out with Old Ding’s family in the morning for some good catch so you can give it to them tomorrow.”
Earlier, when the crew came to the village and paid residents to not speak to the young girl, he had felt they’d lost a huge sum of two hundred, but now it seemed like their family hit the jackpot!
Where can you casually hire a Qing University graduate student for two hundred!
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Ji Xizhi left the boatman’s house but didn’t return to the cruise ship right away.
With a bucket of fish in hand, she strolled leisurely by the sea.
Bathed in warm light, accompanied by the sound of waves, the sea breeze gently swept over Ji Xizhi’s shoulder-length hair, revealing her smooth, fair neck along with her partially bare ankles, making Ji Xizhi’s beauty breathtaking.
The PD followed closely behind.
Working tirelessly with the camera, supposedly capturing a reality TV star, yet each frame of Ji Xizhi’s seaside walk had a cinematic quality.
The live stream fans were almost moved to tears by the beauty.
[So hazy and beautiful, my heart feels like it’s no longer mine, wanting to cross mountains and seas to reach Ji Xizhi!]
[The entire entertainment industry should follow the standards of the Life Experience crew staff, so beautiful. How did the PD manage to capture Ji Xizhi’s beauty so well, and this isn’t even footage—it’s live!]
[It’s not just the PD capturing the beauty; Ji Xizhi is inherently beautiful in her candid photos! Snapshots galore, I need to print them out and fill my room!]
With the screenshot buttons almost overheating, Ji Xizhi’s fans in the live stream were overjoyed in getting fresh wallpapers.
A voice broke this tranquility.
“Xixi, what’s going on? Why haven’t you been answering my calls? Do you know how many times I’ve called you?”