Duan Fulin's expression changed.
A drip irrigation system! It's a fully automated system! Much better than their mechanical watering!
"OMG OMG OMG! Everything's good! No punishment at all!"
"This drip irrigation system is amazing! Fully automated! Does that mean we just sit and watch it water the plants?"
"No way the show crew is this nice! Something's up! Maybe they don't even know how to install it!"
"Yeah, like that tractor—they needed a license for that too."
"They gave something unusable, right? Hahaha, amazing!"
Meanwhile, Director Jin was roaring, "What happened!"
After checking the issue, the props team leader personally came to apologize.
"I'm really sorry, Director Jin! It's my fault—I mixed up the contents of the envelopes yesterday!"
Director Jin: "..."
This props team leader is known for being meticulous! And they made a mistake at such a critical moment?!
What kind of luck does Qiao Xi have!
"Forget it, it's fine," Director Jin gritted his teeth, "They don't know how to install the irrigation system, and they don't have a license for the farm machine. The other things won't affect the farming progress, so it's okay."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
On the field, Qiao Xi was smiling, as if she had anticipated this.
After all, she had used her "koi luck"; how could it not be good?
She turned to Yi Han and said, "You do the cross-cup punishment."
"No way. I disagree," Yu Siyan spoke up.
"Oh?"
Qiao Xi looked at Yu Siyan, holding up her broom.
"Agree, agree! Siyan, what are you doing! It's just Yi Han and Qiao Xi drinking cross-cup wine!"
"Don't get beaten, man; your life is important."
Yu Siyan gritted his teeth and closed his mouth.
Yi Han chuckled and stepped forward, pouring a glass of wine.
He waited for a while, but no one came over, so he turned around.
Qiao Xi also turned and looked at Fan Zhiying, "What are you standing there for?"
Fan Zhiying: ?
In the end, Fan Zhiying and Yi Han drank the cross-cup wine.
She downed the glass in one go and turned it upside down.
"I finished! You take your time!"
"Aren't we missing one person for the Peach Garden Oath?"
"Zhang Fei, don't think I can't recognize you just because you used Fan Fan's face!"
"Laughing all the way to the bank, everyone's turning into Qiao Xi."
"Yi Han's face went from red to black in just a second."
"After finding out Yi Han and Fan Zhiying were the ones drinking the cross-cup wine, the young master nearly lost it."
"Admit it, Yu Siyan, you're moved!"
The next punishment was to hold hands and sing a duet. This time, Fan Zhiying refused.
"I'm not doing it," she turned away.
Qiao Xi thought for a moment and then said to Yu Siyan, "Then we'll do it."
Yu Siyan's dark eyes brightened, and he pretended to be reluctant, "Alright."
In the tree.
Cheng Xi said over the phone, "Yeah, he's about to sing a love song with the young mistress, smiling like a fool."
For this duet, Li Dazhuang provided top-notch sound equipment, 360-degree surround sound, all lined up in the yard.
One handsome, one pretty, they stood in the center.
Yu Siyan extended his hand.
Qiao Xi: ?
He squinted, grabbed her hand, pulled her closer, and whispered, "Didn't the note say to hold hands and sing?"
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
"Damn! Damn! Damn!!!!!!"
"Unbelievable, I'm screaming under my blanket!"
"He really—I'm dead, I can't believe there's no heartbeat!"
"Yu Siyan, you better wake up! Wake up!"
"I don't believe this is the script! Even if you shut me up today, it's still the script!"
Qiao Xi "oh'd" and didn't pull her hand back.
Instead, she turned to Dazhuang and said, "Play the song! The one I just selected!"
"Leave it to me! Don't worry!" Dazhuang said in his not-so-fluent Mandarin.
He had learned a couple of phrases from Qiao Xi these past two days, and the whole village was now having a "Mandarin popularization" event. Most people could say a few words.
The accompaniment quickly started.
"Dun dun dun—"
Qiao Xi suddenly leaned into Yu Siyan's ear and asked, "Can you sing it?"
The fragrance brushed by, and Yu Siyan felt a bit lost, "No."
"Then hold the lyrics."
She handed him the lyrics, "You sing part B."
"Okay." He smiled and looked down.
The next second, he was stunned!
"This scene is really shippable."
"Gotta say, Qiao Xi looks stunning without makeup."
"And it's all-natural! The arrogant young master and the crazy female star! I'm in love!"
"Why does Siyan's expression seem off?"
"He's falling in love, right? This duet is perfect~"
The prelude played for a while, but Yu Siyan still hadn't started singing.
"Sing!" Qiao Xi urged.
Yu Siyan gritted his teeth, his face changing from black to red, then red to green, like a traffic light, constantly switching.
"I... can't sing this!"
He tried to walk away, but Qiao Xi pulled him back.
"Sing!"
"No!"
"Sing!"
Yu Siyan was nudged.
Gritting his teeth, he finally sang a line: "Thank you for visiting! My little monster!"
Qiao Xi smiled: "You are the most beautiful love letter I have ever written~"
Yu Siyan closed his eyes: "Buttoning up the happiness of a home!"
Qiao Xi: "Loving you, come rain or shine~"
The crowd: "Ugh, so cheesy!"
Comment section: "Ew, too sweet!"
Only Fan Zhiying frowned: "Isn't this... the theme song of a parenting show?"
"What show?" Yi Han asked.
The next second, Yu Siyan's shout provided the answer.
Yu Siyan: "Dad! Dad! Where are we going!"
Qiao Xi: "With you, I'm not afraid of the sky or the earth!"
"What??????"
"Qiao Xi, what??????"
"A golden opportunity, and you chose this song?!"
"I knew something was off the more I listened!"
Next, Qiao Xi smiled contentedly: "This is the first time being your dad."
Yu Siyan's face darkened: "Our feelings are a bit complicated..."
La la la...
La la la...
"..."
"My feelings are complicated too."
"I've gone from being confused to laughing like crazy with just one line."
"Is anyone still into this ship?"
"In summary: Yu Siyan wants pink bubbles, but Qiao Xi just wants to be his dad."
After the song ended, Qiao Xi spent half an hour trying to coax him, but it didn't work.
Yu Siyan buried himself in Li Dazhuang's house and refused to come out.
Qiao Xi then told everyone, "We're taking a day off today!"
"Huh?" Fan Zhiying was stunned.
Similarly, the news reached the fields.
Zhou Ninghuan: "No farming today?!"
Ye Sisi: "Why?"
Duan Fulin: "Maybe they think they don't need to work so fast with the automatic watering system?"
"You're getting cocky, Qiao Xi."
"Have you installed it yet? You're daring to slack off?"
"It's over, it's over! The other two teams are going to win!"
"Come on, guys! This is the real-life version of 'The Tortoise and the Hare'! Hahaha!"
The other two teams were instantly motivated, sweating it out in the fields!
"Go, go! We have to beat Qiao Xi!"
On the other side.
Qiao Xi finished her dinner and then asked, "Where's the young master?"
Fan Zhiying, with a mouthful of food, replied, "Still at Dazhuang's house. Zhou Ninghuan sang that song to him; he's tried to hang himself eight times this afternoon."
Clang.
Qiao Xi set down her bowl and squinted, "Zhou Ninghuan sang that song to him?"
"She noticed!"
"Humph, Zhou Ninghuan, you're dead!"
Fan Zhiying was stunned: "Yeah."
"Unbelievable!" Qiao Xi got up, "Two tigers can't share one mountain, and one dad can't have two sons! He wants to compete with me? I'm going to teach him a lesson!"
Fan Zhiying: "..."
Comments: "..."
Qiao Xi stormed into the field, drenched Zhou Ninghuan with a hose, and then headed to Li Dazhuang's house with a bowl of food.
She cleared her throat and knocked on the door.
"Siyan, time to eat."