美滋滋

Ch62 - Borrow Money

“Yo, are you here?” Zhang San and Xiang Zhen were in the same team. Once Li Zhao and Zhang Kui came over, they asked gleefully, “I heard you got third place?”

Seeing that Zhang Kui and Li Zhao were silent, they laughed and pointed to a space in the distance. “Go, there are rivers and mountains that you need to plant.” 

“It’s fine, don’t be depressed.” Li Zhao patted Zhang Kui’s shoulder comfortably. “We are young and physically fit. It is good to plant more trees.”

Young and physically fit?” Zhang San’s laughter came to an abrupt end as he remembered he was more than 10 years older than these two men. He lamented that the years weren’t forgiving.

Once the guests arrived, there were professional teachers who taught them how to plant trees. The actual process was much more complicated than they imagined. It wasn’t just digging a pit and burying the tree.

The program group prepared a deck chair and parasol for the host, allowing him to sit and supervise the six guests planting trees. 

“It used to be a desert here but after years of continuous governance, the desert has become an oasis.” The host held a megaphone and drank something while telling the guests about the difficulties encountered while trying to increase vegetation over these years.

After he finished, he slowly took a sip of juice. “Everyone, refuel. I believe you will complete the task.”

There were two glasses of juice on the host’s table, one of which hadn’t been touched yet. The glass looked very tempting.

“Brother, planting trees is right but I think the focus should be on whether the juice can be shared.”

“Of course not.” The host took another sip of the juice. “It is delicious and quenches thirst. The most delicious thing on Earth.”

Zhang Kui called out, “Devoid of all humanity!”

Xiang Zhen added, “Insensitive!”

Zhang San said, “Heart as cold as iron!” 

Li Zhao shouted, “Deranged!”

Finally, Qian Duoxi said, “A human face and heart of a beast!”

Li Shi, “…”

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to scold the host but he couldn’t think of anything. This was the disadvantage of not reading well when he was a child. He couldn’t even think of an idiom to curse the host. 

“You can scold me. Even if you scold until your throat is sore, no one will come to save you.” The host posed as the villain. “Hurry up and complete your task. Don’t you want to sleep tonight?”

“Really?” Li Zhao stared at the untouched glass of juice out of the corner of his eye. Then like a thunderbolt, he quickly ran to the host, took the cup and drank it. The host saw the juice in the cup entering Li Zhao’s stomach and couldn’t recover for a long time.

Did this person need to fight so hard for a glass of juice? Before his senses could return, the other guests swarmed up and ‘abducted’ the host, negotiating with the program group. If they didn’t provide juice to the guests then the guests would ‘tear the ticket.’