CH 13

Jiang Baiwan blinked, two blushes appeared on her cheeks. Her eyes drifted a little and she stammered, “T-this isn’t good…… We two aren’t that familiar……”

Li Huacheng was tasked to come out in search of ingredients as well and he happened to meet Ji Chen. Li Huacheng looked at Ji Chen in surprise, only to see President Ji carrying a bamboo basket while walking in front of him in an upright manner, his leather shoes already covered with a lot of mud spots.

Li Huacheng: “……”

He rushed to Ji Chen’s side in a few steps and said in a lowered voice, “You’re really going out of your way just to get a smile from the beauty, ah.”

Ji Chen directly ignored Li Huacheng’s words. “Where to find the ingredients?”

Li Huacheng shook his head resignedly and wanted to reach out to take the basket in Ji Chen’s hand. “Forget it, forget it, let me help you. We’ll find it together.”

“Mr. Li, Mr. Ji.” Suddenly, a woman’s voice came from ahead. “Fancy meeting you here. What a coincidence.”

Li Huacheng followed the sound and saw Tan Mi standing under a tree in a red dress, smiling at them. “Have you come out to find the ingredients for today?”

Li Huacheng blinked, and soon showed a gentle and polite smile. “Yes, it’s such a coincidence that we met Miss Tan.”

“I’m also here to look for ingredients.” Tan Mi raised the basket in her hand. She was answering Li Huacheng’s question, but her eyes were boldly staring at Ji Chen. “Since we’ve all met, why don’t we go together? There’s strength in numbers after all.”

Li Huacheng opened his mouth to agree, but was interrupted by Ji Chen on the side. “No, there’s no need.”

Tan Mi’s hand holding the basket quickly tightened for a moment and then loosened again. Her expression remained the same. She just said to Ji Chen in a joking tone, “Mr. Ji’s refusal is really merciless. It seems that I’m making people dislike me.”

Ji Chen raised his eyebrows, not giving Tan Mi any face. “As long as it’s clear to Miss Tan.”

With that, Ji Chen lifed his feet and walked forward again while Li Huacheng hurriedly followed him, leaving Tan Mi standing alone, her face turning red then white.

“Ji Chen, when will you change your insensitive character?” Li Huacheng began to criticize Ji Chen when they were far away from Tan Mi. He didn’t look like a movie star but an old mother. “In any case, Tan Mi is the sexiest goddess in the entertainment industry for three years. Such a pretty lady, aren’t you afraid that Tan Mi’s fans will scold you to death?”

Ji Chen calmly shook his head. “No.”

Consequently, as Ji Chen was having a hard time finding some ingredients, he suddenly received a special task.

He and Jiang Baiwan were called to the coast alone. When Ji Chen arrived, he still had the basket in his hand and Jiang Baiwan stood beside him with a clueless expression on her face. “What’s happening?”

Ji Chen shook his head. “I don’t know. It seems that there’s some special task.”

The director standing in front of them said, “Welcome, Mr. Ji Chen and Ms. Jiang Baiwan, the random task given to you today is that you must use coconut as an ingredient for lunch.”

Jiang Baiwan suddenly had a bad feeling. She looked at the coconut trees behind the director and asked tentatively, “Director, this coconut…… Does it mean that we have to climb up the tree to pick it ourselves?”

“Miss Jiang guessed right.” Said the fat director without any sense of shame at all. “There are coconut trees here. You two just need to find a way to get one fruit down.” Then, the director waved his hand, and all kinds of props were immediately brought from the side, all of which can be used for picking coconuts.

Jiang Baiwan stepped forward, rummaged through the props, and picked up a pair of straw sandals. “How do you use this? It looks quite unique.”

The smile on the director’s face widened. He explained to Jiang Baiwan, “Miss Jiang really chose the right one. This straw sandal is specially used by the locals when climbing trees. They look simple, but with them, climbing a coconut trees is as easy as pie.”

The director specially invited a local person to give a demonstration and show them both how to climb using it. They saw a dark-skinned local man wearing a pair. As nimble as a monkey, he climbed up the tree without any effort. Jiang Baiwan looked dumbfounded and the bullet screen was also covered with 【Awesome】.

Jiang Baiwan carefully observed and found that the left and right sandals were connected by a straw rope. When climbing trees, the straw rope can be hung on the protruding part of the tree, thus saving a lot of energy.

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