Part 3 of Chapter 55
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Please Like Her 06 – With people like them, the last thing you should do is reason with them.
Ye Lu put down his bowl, grabbed a steamed bun, and chased after Fatty, shouting, “What’s gotten into you, kid? Why suddenly so into sports? Well, never mind, it’s worth encouraging! Keep it up! I’ll join you!”
Everyone else : “?”
They couldn’t understand, but they were greatly impressed.
Even the online audience couldn’t comprehend it.
[Fatty runs so fast… he’s really an agile chubby guy.]
[Is it just me, or does it seem like Fatty is running like a ghost is chasing him?]
[Ye Lu : I’m not a devil or anything!]
Of course, they wouldn’t know that from Fatty’s perspective, there might indeed be a ghost chasing him, but that ghost wasn’t Ye Lu.
Meanwhile, Ye Lu couldn’t fathom why Fatty suddenly developed such a love for exercise, but he felt very pleased. He even imagined what Fatty would look like after losing some weight. When that happens, it would all be thanks to him, as he saved a young punk’s youth!
Half an hour later, when Fatty, who had run until he was almost about to collapse, returned, took a short break, and today’s recording began.
The program team would help renovate the school’s teaching building and build a library for them. However, the number of books the library could have depended on the performance of the guests.
The program team announced the first task: Find library cards.
There were a total of fifty library cards hidden in the school, with each card representing two hundred books, up to a limit of ten thousand.
They had a limited time of one hundred minutes, and the more cards the guests found, the more books would be added to the library.
This was a very challenging yet meaningful task. However, after searching for twenty minutes and collecting twenty cards, the task almost came to a standstill.
Because all the cards placed in obvious locations had already been found, and thirty cards remained unfound.
“No wonder they gave us so much time; these cards are not easy to find,” Ye Lu complained, running his hand through his hair in frustration, crawling out from under a long table, still empty-handed.
Shang Lu looked directly at the program team and asked, “Can we get some help?”
The director: “?”
Help? Where would they find help?
But a seasoned director wouldn’t refuse a reasonable request from Shang Lu since she could bring more excitement to the show.
The director agreed, saying, “It’s up to you.”
Shang Lu looked at and waved her hand towards Fatty, and said, “Come over here!”
Fatty, who was thinking of hiding in the corner to slack off quietly, was shocked.
Fearing Shang Lu, Fatty could only nod obediently and ask, pretending to be casual, “What… what’s the matter?”
Shang Lu went straight to the point and asked, “Your maternal grandparents live in the upper village, right? There are often a bunch of kids playing at the entrance of that village. Have you seen them?”
“Yes, I have,” Fatty nodded. “I often play with them too.”
“That’s great,” Shang Lu patted Fatty on the shoulder. “Go over there the fastest you can and call those kids. Tell them that the Brother and Sister who beat them three times yesterday are looking for them. As longs as they come over, there will be plenty of snacks tonight. Got it?”
Fatty nodded, his face showing a bit of reluctance. But before Shang Lu could get a clear look at him, he had already turned and run outside.
Wuwuwu.
How fast is “the fastest”? He really couldn’t run anymore.
Half an hour later, Fatty returned panting heavily, with a group of kids running behind him.
He shouted from a distance, “Sister Ghost! I’ve brought everyone to you!”
Shang Lu, who was rummaging through drawers, was puzzled.
—Sister Ghost? Who is Sister Ghost?
Ye Lu, who was trying to climb a tree, burst into laughter. “Sister Ghost? Hahaha!”
Ye Lu had climbed halfway up the tree but couldn’t stop laughing. He slipped and fell to the ground, still laughing uncontrollably. “Sister Ghost? Hahaha!”
Fatty covered his mouth and realized that he had inadvertently spoken his thoughts out loud, and he was dumbfounded.
The next moment, he stood in place and burst into tears, wailing, “Sister Ghost, let me explain! I didn’t recognize you, I really didn’t know you were a ghost, please don’t eat me!”
Shang Lu : “…”
Finally, after understanding the cause and effect, Ye Lu laughed even more wildly, as if his laughter switch has been pressed and couldn’t stop.
Shang Lu never expected that Fatty had seen one of her early horror movies, and her appearance had left a psychological trauma on the kid. She had to explain for a long time that it was just acting, and she really wasn’t a ghost.
[Hahaha, Shang Lu’s face says ‘absurd,’ ‘ridiculous,’ and ‘doubting life.’]
[From another perspective, it also proves Shang Lu’s acting skills, reaching the level of becoming a childhood trauma for kids, hahaha.]
[Shang Lu : I have to admire having fans like you.]
After finally calming down Fatty and proving that she was a human, Shang Lu felt exhausted and then looked at the other kids—
Wait, why are there so many people?
Shang Lu looked at Ye Lu and said, “Stop laughing.”
Ye Lu made an effort and replied, “Hahaha—oh, sure, hahaha, what did you say?”
Shang Lu asked him, “Did we see so many kids yesterday?”
Ye Lu looked a bit puzzled and replied, “At least ten more.”
One of the kids raised their hand somewhat shyly and said, “I wasn’t there yesterday, but Fatty said there were snacks, so I came on my own.”
Hands were raised one by one; evidently, all these additional kids were the same.
Fatty whispered, “I thought you were Sister Ghost, and I was afraid the mission wouldn’t go well, and you’d get mad. So, I brought in more people.”
Shang Lu sighed, “…”
Well, it was a good thing after all; more people meant more power.
So, Shang Lu took out a library card and showed it to them, “Remember this card. The more you find at school, the more snacks I’ll buy for you at night, okay?”
“Okay—!!!”
A group of kids answered in unison.
They immediately dispersed and started rummaging through boxes and cabinets.
[Shang Lu, I’ve caught you hiring child labor! Quickly admit your mistake and become my wife!]
[Hahaha, we can all live together as a family of three!]
[Make it four, include me (confidently wicked smile)]
…
Watching a little boy lift a stone to check the bottom on the ground, Ye Lu was somewhat speechless, “There is no need to search this kind of place…”
Before he could finish his sentence, the little boy found a library card under the stone.
Ye Lu : “?!”
He kept quiet, as the location where the program team hid the cards was even more cunning than he had imagined.
But—
As for the kids who ran to the restroom, did they need to hide cards there? The program team wasn’t that extreme… or maybe they were, who knows?
Ye Lu turned to look at the program team.
The assistant director wiped sweat from his forehead and said, “No, we really didn’t hide any in the restroom.”
In the end, thanks to the collective effort of the kids, they found all the library cards within half an hour and completed the task ahead of time, not leaving a single one behind.
The program team: “…”
They never expected this kind of outcome.
[Hahaha, these kids are incredible. They really conducted a thorough, 360-degree search, leaving no possibility unexplored.]
[Are these kids? These are the country’s special agents in the making!]
[As a side note, they must be really good at playing hide and seek]
[After all, there are more than thirty kids, and each place has to be checked at least a dozen times in rotation. There’s no way there could be anything that slips the net, hahaha]
…
All the kids who find library cards will hand them over to Shang Lu, who will then hand over the thick stack of library cards to the production team. Task completed ✔️.
Lin Yanyan, who was persistently searching for cards on the playground, had complete admiration in her eyes for Shang Lu.
The program team also respected the rules and immediately announced that ten thousand books would be placed in the library.
And these kids who came to help are mostly from this elementary school. At this moment, they are all cheering one by one.
There was a lot of commotion outside, and Teacher Qi Qin also came out. After learning about the program’s arrangements, she was very happy, and her eyes were almost squinted from smiling.
That’s great! In the future, the children can have a better learning environment and more books to enrich their spiritual world.
I admire this teacher, she seems to genuinely care for those children. She had a higher education but chose to teach in her hometown (while the elderly mock her for not earning much – though if she stayed in the city she probably would)
It was mentioned she helped Xiao Mi buy her school books?
Thank you for the chapter