Chapter 134 - The feeling of a heartbeat

Di Xingchen woke up early the next morning.

The others were still asleep, so he quietly got out of bed and had just put on his shoes when he saw Pei Xu lying on the top bunk looking down at him, obviously having just woken up, his eyes not yet fully open.

Di Xingchen took one look at him and went into the toilet. When he came out of the toilet, Pei Xu came down too.

Di Xingchen took his toiletries to the bathroom and was undressing when Pei Xu came in.

"Are you going to take a shower?"

"Hmm."

"Don't wash up, let's go for a walk, it's particularly nice out."

Because Pei Xu had behaved so abnormally yesterday, Di Xingchen nodded and followed Pei Xu out of the room, just as they both returned, to see Duan Yihua sitting up.

"Morning." Duan Yihua said.

"Morning."

"Let's go." Pei Xu said.

Duan Yihua watched Pei Xu and Di Xingchen go out, and then leaned back against the wall, squinting and lying down for a while.

The air outside is particularly fresh, the wind is cool, it's just getting light and the crew are still up.

"Where did you run to yesterday, for so long." Di Xingchen asked.

"I don't know." Pei Xu said.

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Di Xingchen pursed his lips for a moment, saying as he walked away, "Did you do that on purpose?"

Pei Xu smiles and says, "A little."

The breeze outside was so cool and soothing, it was soothing on the body.

"I chose the roses." Di Xingchen said.

Pei Xu gave a "hmm" and smiled softly, saying, "My gift is a ring."

Di Xingchen then gave a "hmm".

In fact, their gifts were somewhat similar - one was a bracelet, the other a ring, both to be worn as a token of affection.

Pei Xu said, "My legs are still a bit sore, I ran too hard last night."

Di Xingchen just laughs.

"Just laugh." Pei Xu said, "Did you have a good time yesterday?"

"Which are you asking, Brother Huo or Brother Yan?"

Pei Xu then grunts softly and thrusts both hands into his pockets.

Di Xingchen just laughs again.

"I was running yesterday when the emotions came up and I almost cried." Pei Xu says slyly.

Di Xingchen is still laughing.

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Pei Xu held out his hand and Di Xingchen ducked out: "Are you a crybaby?"

"I haven't cried for as long as I can remember." Pei Xu says tersely.

"Maybe you'll have to cry later." Di Xingchen said and immediately took a few quick steps away from Pei Xu's arm.

The sun was slowly creeping up and they came to stand on a hillock where Di Xingchen stretched out against the sunrise.

For Pei Xu, it was enough to know that Di Xingchen had chosen the rose.

Even if the rose was not his gift.

"The rising sun rises in the east." Di Xingchen said.

He recalls Pei Xu telling him that the rising sun is the rising sun.

"Come on, let's go back, I guess they're all up." Pei Xu said.

"Don't run around at night in the future." Di Xingchen said.

"There's no guarantee." Pei Xu says, "I feel like it's working."

Di Xingchen grunted, "It won't work next time."

Pei Xu reached out and grabbed his arm, but when he didn't, he followed Di Xingchen and walked quickly. The moment was so sweet that Pei Xu couldn't wait for the show to end.

When they got back downstairs, they saw Guo Bing standing downstairs brushing his teeth.

"When did you two run out?" Guo Bing asked.

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"Just went out for a while, a few minutes." Di Xingchen said.

"You two can't do that," Guo Bing said, "you have to ask us to film when you go out, we're missing out on so much good stuff."

Pei Xu smiled and said, "Director, do we have anything planned for today?"

"Big arrangements today."

"Let's make it a date for those of us who didn't date yesterday." Pei Xu says.

Guo Bing gave him a look: "You've changed. Do you remember what you were like when you first came here? And how come you didn't have a date yesterday, it's not a date if you don't have a date with someone you like!"

Di Xingchen smiled at the two of them and went upstairs on his own.

He returned to his room and saw that Yan Zhi and the others were up, some dressed, some washing up.

He took his toiletries to the bathroom where Hu Ying was taking a shower and said through the flap, "Did Pei Xu get you up? He's so good at taking chances. When did you come back yesterday and where did Yan Zhi take you?"

Di Xingchen said, "You were asleep when we came back."

"I fell asleep yesterday while lying down and didn't even take off my clothes." Hu Ying also had a dream yesterday about Di Xingchen.

Pei Xu then came upstairs as well, and when he did, Wen Nuo had just gotten out of bed and asked, "Brother Pei, when did you get back last night?"

"Didn't pay attention to the time." Pei Xu said.

Huo Cheng was still lying in bed when Pei Xu went over and called him, saying, "Director Guo says we have an important mission today and it's time to get up."

Huo Cheng rolled over, looking tired, squinted at him for a moment before sitting up, scratched his head, looked rather down and asked, "Did it say where to go?"

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"Down in the country."

The fourth edition of "Red and Blue Signals" has reached a new record high in terms of viewership, and a phenomenal variety show has been born. With the rising ratings, the TV station has become more cautious. Recently, the control on entertainment variety shows has been further tightened, and "Red and Blue Signals" is mainly focused on the luxury element, which is suspected of over-promoting materialism, so the TV station had a small meeting with the programme team, hoping to add a little bit of positive energy to "Red and Blue Signals".

But "Red and Blue Signals" is in the end a romance variety, the main focus of the romance pink bubble, positive energy can also be added, but only if it is not abrupt, like the previous trip to the northern city, they worked with the local tourism department to promote the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, the positive energy was added particularly well.

Writer Liu and Guo Bing had been thinking about it all day yesterday and they finally came up with a great idea.

Doing public service.

It's also almost the end of the year, and there are small mountain villages around here, so they can go and deliver warmth to the widows and orphans and children left behind.

But they are in an area where tourism is well developed and the local mountain villages are not tourist attractions but also go for the farming style, apparently each one is getting well off. The programme team contacted the local authorities and ended up targeting several remote mountain villages in other counties.

"We are sending food, pork, rice, cooking oil, etc. We hope that through our programme, more viewers will pay attention to the poor mountainous areas and participate in our country's poverty alleviation projects. We hope that through our show we can bring more viewers' attention to some of the poor mountainous areas in our area and participate in our national poverty alleviation projects." Guo Bing said, "Our initial plan is to split into three teams, two from the Zhang family village and two from the Li family village, and we will assign four guests to go to the Xiaosong Temple as it is a special location and each person has to climb up and down the stairs."

Because it was for a good cause, everyone was very motivated. Hu Ying was even a bit excited.

Duan Yihua asked, "So how do we divide the eight?"

Guo Bing said, "The three villages are not far from each other, they are all in the same mountain, so we will enter the mountain together and then set off in groups. Cheng, Pei Xu, Di Xingchen, Yan Zhi, you four will go to Xiao Song Temple, Lin Qingning, Wen Nuo, you two will go to Zhang family village, Hu Ying and Duan Yihua will go to Li family village."

He thought Hu Ying and others would have a problem with it, but they all agreed.

Guo Bing was quite moved.

We all have a heart to do good.

All three villages were a long way from where they now lived, at least a two-hour drive. By the time they reached the foot of the mountain, the programme staff in charge of purchasing had already bought everything, and one person had prepared a basket for them.

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"I'm strong and can load more." Huo Cheng says.

The staff then added another piece of pork to his back basket, "That's about it, I reckon it's 50 or 60 pounds."

Huo Cheng said, "I've carried more than that in junior high school, and I have experience carrying things up hills."

He said as he added another bucket of oil to his back basket.

Although they all have a heart for charity, most of them are unable to carry their shoulders and hands, like Wen Nuo, to whom the programme team gave two bags of rice, more than 20 catties.

"It's too little," Wen Nuo tries with the basket on his back, "I'm not that useless, I can add two more bags without any problem."

"You're just carrying it up now and you don't feel tired, but you'll know how heavy it is when you walk a few miles." Pei Xu said, "If you climb the mountain again, these two bags of rice will be enough for you."

"You should listen to Pei Xu," Lin Qingning said to Wen Nuo, "he often goes to the countryside to do charity work and has experience."

"Do you do a lot of charity work?" Di Xingchen turns his head to Pei Xu.

Pei Xu says: "It was all with my mother."

The eight of them were limited in what they could carry, and the rest of the staff carried most of the rest on their backs and shoulders. Of the eight, Huo Cheng had the heaviest basket, followed by Yan Zhi and Pei Xu, Di Xingchen and Duan Yihua had about the same, and the lightest were Wen Nuo, Hu Ying and Lin Qingning, all with two bags of rice.

The first part of the trail was the steepest, so the group held hands and walked down together, then descended into the depression and found an abandoned train track. Hu Ying couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so beautiful here, you could take a big picture. It feels quite beautiful to live here, look at the lake over there."

"You might be okay to come here for a tour, but you won't want to stay here for a long time." Huo Cheng says, "If you go further in, you might not even get a mobile phone signal."

"Oh that doesn't work, I can't leave the internet." Hu Ying says.

Go through a dark cave, turn north and you start to climb up the hill.

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The mountain road is narrow, mainly dirt, and densely wooded, with the occasional family or two passing by, but all that remains of their houses are ruins. The road gets steeper as you go up, with less dirt and more rocks, and Hu Ying says as he walks along, "You know how they built these brick houses? How much labour is involved in that?"

Just as he finished speaking, his feet slipped and he sat down with a thud, the back of his head hitting the back of the basket, causing him to wail in pain.

Di Xingchen quickly reached out and pulled him up. Hu Ying was in tears of pain and said, "What kind of road is this?"

"Now you know how hard it is for the people who live here, don't you?" Guo Bing said.

"How many poor families are there today? How nice to give them tens of thousands of dollars each!" Hu Ying said.

"There are many more poor areas in the country, and what they lack is not just food, but the main point of our trip is to promote this poverty alleviation project in our country. Guo Bing said.

"Hu Ying thinks too simply, poverty alleviation is not a problem that can be solved by taking a few hundred thousand or a few million, the state has invested many hundreds of millions." Lin Qingning says, "It is destined to be a long span, costly livelihood project."

Hu Ying blushed a little at that, "So."

Hu Ying is a true hothouse bloomer.

This was his first time to go deep into the countryside. He had only travelled to the countryside before and experienced farming.

It took them more than forty minutes to reach the village of Zhang family, Lin Qingning and Wen Nuo entered the village and the remaining six of them continued on their way.

Di Xingchen looks up at the small Song Temple, which is to the right of the village of Li family, and sees an eave peeking out from the trees, a very rustic and unique shape.

"That's the village's temple of the Queen Mother." A staff member said.

"It doesn't look like it's far." Di Xingchen said. "It doesn't look far, but to get up there, it will take at least an hour and a half. Let's go."

The four of them continue to climb, Yan Zhi in the lead, followed by Di Xingchen, with Huo Cheng behind him and Pei Xu at the end.

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But their sorting was completely random and fortuitous, and further up the mountain the path was even more difficult, so no one was in the mood for love and affection and all that stuff, and everyone was pulling me and me and pulling you, helping to cheer each other up.

Di Xingchen lifted the basket behind him, because of the climb and the heat, everyone was dressed very thinly, he wore a T-shirt underneath and a thin shirt outside, the basket was strangling his shoulders with red marks and the stinging pain was very obvious when he was soaked in sweat.

"What's wrong?" Huo Cheng, who was behind him, asked.

Di Xingchen smiled and said, "I'll take a break."

Huo Cheng reaches out and picks up a bucket of cooking oil from his back basket.

Di Xingchen was busy saying, "You can't even fit in your back basket."

"I'll carry it." Huo Cheng said and carried the bucket of oil up the hill.

Di Xingchen went after him and asked for it, but Huo Cheng didn't say anything, but just held on to the oil in his hand and wouldn't give it to him. Yan Zhi, who was at the front of the group, looked back at him, his face flushed and obviously exhausted.

Di Xingchen took the top ten pounds of pork out of his basket and put it in his own basket. Huo Cheng had so much stuff on his back that he didn't even notice that a piece of meat had been taken off his back, and he just gasped for breath as he climbed up.

Di Xingchen stood still to catch his breath when he suddenly felt someone holding his backpack. Go and help Brother Huo."

On hearing this, Di Xingchen ran to Huo Cheng's back basket.

He feels that Huo Cheng has really carried too much.

Huo Cheng looks back and sees another sack of rice missing from Di Xingchen's basket, but that sack is in Pei Xu's hand.

Huo Cheng then clutched the oil drum in his hand even tighter.

With such a long and heavy climb, the difference in their physical strength was evident, with Huo Cheng and Pei Xu being the most fit, followed by Yan Zhi and him. By the time they finally made it to the Little Song Temple, all four of them were sweating profusely. They were greeted by the village cadres outside the temple and went up to see the elderly and the children left behind, and then walked around the village with the village cadres leading them.

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When they heard that a TV station was coming to record the programme, almost the whole village came, mostly old people and children left behind, with very few young adults, and the village chief said they had all gone out to work and would not be back until the Spring Festival.

When they came out of the kitchen, they found only Pei Xu sitting in the courtyard.

" What about Brother Huo and Brother Yan?" Di Xingchen asked.

" Yan Zhi went to the programme team to ask for mineral water." Pei Xu said with a smile.

Di Xingchen glanced at the tea bowls on the table, the village head's house was also limited, there were too many people here this time, not all the tea bowls were new, some of them obviously had oil stains, Yan Zhi has a cleanliness fetish and did not drink a single sip of the tea in the bowl.

"What about Brother Huo?"

"Went around the village." Pei Xu says.

"Brother Huo is a bit quiet today." Di Xingchen said.

"There seems to be something wrong with his company." Pei Xu said.

"Odd."

Di Xingchen stood on a stone pier looking down at the village headman's house, which was on the highest ground and had a panoramic view of the entire village, and he saw Huo Cheng standing alone under the temple of the Queen Mother, followed by a camera teacher, who was also a long way away.

Huo Cheng went inside the temple of the Queen Mother.

"You took your shirt off, is your shoulder okay?" Di Xingchen asked back.

Pei Xu just rolled up his T-shirt and showed him that it was just a little red and surprisingly okay, he had broad, strong shoulders and a nice muscular upper arm line.

On the contrary, Di Xingchen's own shoulder has two bloody marks.

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"I'm already the least memorized." Di Xingchen said.

"Your skin is too tender." Pei Xu said with a stare.

Also white.

I've never seen anyone with better skin than Di Xingchen.

"Did you used to come to villages like this?" Di Xingchen asked.

Pei Xu says: "We are mainly building schools and helping to solve the schooling problems of children from poor families, mainly in the area of education."

A loving man shines.

Di Xingchen feels that Pei Xu is shining.

"How long have you been doing this?" Di Xingchen asked.

"For years, I've been making these with my mother when I was a kid, then I went to school abroad, took a break for a few years, and continued when I came back. I quite like making them."

Di Xingchen admired and envied him, saying, "In the future, if I can afford it, I want to do charity work too."

Pei Xu looked at him with a smile and said, "Then we'll do it together and I'll take you."

When he saw Di Xingchen laughing, he said, "Really, doing charity work is not just about having love and money, it's about having a reliable team to get it off the ground."

Di Xingchen took one look at Pei Xu and suddenly felt that Pei Xu was so handsome.

jjwxc The male lead is not a tug king, he is not aloof, he has a very warm heart. The main character is a lonely man who likes to keep to himself.

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Pei Xu sits on a low bench with his long legs bent and his hands resting on his knees, the bruises on the back of his right hand are noticeably more prominent because of the way he has been carrying things, the back of his hand is a reddish white and there is a bruise under his little finger.

Next to them, the camera crew, Little Li and Little Wei, look at the two people in the camera with an aunt's smile on their faces.

These two sit together and the less they talk the sweeter it gets!