The Witch's Taste

If I can't swim...

Then I will definitely go to rescue him, I can't watch Xia Zili drown in front of me, right?

"Speaking of this." He showed a somewhat depressed expression, "Actually, you can swim, so you didn't need me to rescue you at all."

"It's hard to say." Xia Zili said with a playful smile, "What if my leg cramps?"

"In short, I believe that if I encounter any danger, you will definitely protect me like my sister. That's why I will rush over immediately when you need me."

This is indeed true, whether it was asking her to take care of her younger sister last time, or asking her about family information this time, Xia Zili readily agreed.

Combined with her mother's words, it is obvious that due to some reasons (maybe it is a mysterious factor, or it may be simple attraction of opposites), Xia Zili's affection for her is rapidly increasing.

Thinking about the witch again, Chen Ziang felt a little overwhelmed, so he simply changed the topic again, and said casually:

"By the way, it's almost the end of the year. You should be invited to participate in this year's Red and White Song Contest, right?"

Gao Tianyuan's red and white song reunion battle is an innovative thing created by the island people on the basis of the traditional Chinese New Year custom of the empire—that is, the Spring Festival Gala.

The program group divides the participating singers into a red team and a white team, and then engages in duet PK in turn, and asks the audience to send text messages to vote and score (text messages will charge fees), and finally decide the winner based on the total score.

This thing satisfies the needs of three types of people at the same time: the needs of the masses to chase stars, the needs of singers to be famous, and the needs of the program group to attract money, so it is almost a fixed reservation item of the Gaotianyuan Spring Festival Gala every year.

Of course, any program with a long lifespan, because there is no need to worry about cutting it in half, will often fall into the hands of the TV station's affiliates, resulting in a rapid decline in quality.

In recent years, the red and white song reunion battle has been frequently exposed to various problems such as "specially recruiting experienced singers", "manipulating SMS ratings" and "too many advertisements", but it is still one of the programs with the highest ratings during the New Year.

"No." Xia Zili shook her head and said.

"Really?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise, "They didn't invite Maki Kiritani, are they planning to be criticized and denounced by thousands of people?"

"That's not true." Xia Zili explained, "Ping'an Jing TV Station has greeted our office, saying that considering my influence is too great, whether I am assigned to the red team or the white team, it will almost directly establish the victory of that team, which will cause the show to lose suspense, so this time the red and white song will not plan to invite me."

"Is that so." Chen Ziang was speechless.

At first, I thought it was something tricky inside the TV station, but it turned out that the TV station didn't dare to invite this great god, and it was absolutely impossible.

"But the first song on the program list of the Spring Festival Gala is mine." Xia Zili said happily, "It is said that it is going to draw the audience in front of the TV at the very beginning."

This Chen Ziang can also understand: For example, the hardest part of following a novel is getting readers to click in, and the hardest part of TV program ratings is getting viewers to come to your channel.

After all, as long as the audience is not watching the Spring Festival Gala, they are probably watching programs on other channels, and the possibility of coming is greatly reduced.

"Then I wish you a good start." Chen Ziang said with a smile, "I will watch the Spring Festival Gala then."

"It's none of my business after singing." Xia Zili said immediately, "Can I come over and watch the Spring Festival Gala with you? I've done the math. I can arrive at about 9 o'clock, and I can still catch up with the New Year's Eve dinner."

The Spring Festival Gala starts at 7:[-] p.m. on New Year's Eve, and it takes only an hour and a half from Ping'an District to Qunma District. This is after singing and returning to the backstage to remove makeup, so I have to rush here non-stop...

Chen Ziang was a little hesitant, but thinking that this person might be a witch, he could only bite the bullet and agree in order not to irritate her:

"Okay, as long as it doesn't conflict with your itinerary. But it doesn't matter if you can't come, after all, the TV station may ask you to film an after-event program interview or something..."

"It's okay, I can turn it down." Xia Zili said with a smile like a flower, as if she didn't understand the hint in the second half of his sentence, "Then make an agreement like this, let's celebrate the New Year together~"

Chen Ziang: ……………

He finally understood that although this Xia Zili was not as proactive as Yuegong Lingnai, two out of three sentences would tease you... But it does not mean that she is a fuel-efficient lamp.

174. Chapter 173 I miss her a little bit

The end of the year is approaching.

There are obviously fewer people on the road, and most work units have started to take vacations earlier.

Of course, vacation does not mean free time. There are often more things to do in the adult world, such as visiting relatives and friends, shopping for New Year’s goods, surprise blind dates... Yes, surprise blind dates are also standard programs, in order to let parents "have face" in front of relatives and friends.

Chen Ziang was shopping for New Year's goods in a nearby shopping street, when he suddenly received a call from Lu Yunfeng:

"Old Chen, my mother asked if you will celebrate Chinese New Year together this year?"

"What's the matter?" Chen Ziang clamped the phone on his shoulder and asked, "Is your family short of people again?"

"What is lack of people?" Lu Yunfeng corrected him, "I think you are pitiful, so I spent New Year's Eve with my sister, and called you over to have a lot of fun."

"It's because of your pity." Chen Ziang retorted, "Let's not talk about girlfriends when you're too old, you don't even have a few serious brothers and buddies. Let me introduce a few for you."

"Stop!" Lu Yunfeng said, "Late marriage and late childbearing are popular nowadays. It's normal for me to be single at my age, but it's you, have you become sister Yuegong? Or are you planning to fall into the arms of the leader?"

"What's none of your business?" Chen Ziang asked with a frown.

"It's none of my business." Lu Yunfeng said with a chuckle, "So I'm going to ask my mother to ask you, the elders care about the younger generation, it's justified, right?"

"I'm talking about Lao Lu." Chen Ziang said helplessly, "Your mother arranged for you to go on a blind date again, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't tease me with this."

"Yeah." Lu Yunfeng admitted, "I just met this morning."

"How about it?"

"How about what?"

"The good looks, the figure, the work and the family background." Chen Ziang said.

"Your face is not as good as a leader; your figure is not as good as the moon palace." Lu Yunfeng replied, "Work, clock in at work; family background, have both a garage and a house."

"Then there is a lack of a man." Chen Ziang said hehe, "If you can see each other right, go with it."

"The problem is not calling." Lu Yunfeng said with a sigh, "Otherwise, why didn't you and Yue Gong succeed?"

"It's not that we don't call." Chen Ziang quickly corrected.

"If you really want Lang to have a lover and concubine, why didn't you get out together?" Lu Yunfeng asked hehe.

"Because we pay attention to step-by-step." Chen Ziang persuaded him, "Old Lu, don't be too picky, get along with others first, step by step, understand? Maybe one day I will call."

"But what if you don't call me all the time?" Lu Yunfeng said with a sigh, "I'm already on my way, so I'm afraid I'll delay this girl. She has a really good personality."

"Afraid of delay, then make do with it."

"Aren't you worried?" Lu Yunfeng said without hesitation, "You and Yue Gong haven't made it for a long time. When you really turn [-] and drag her into an old girl, what will you do?"

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, then said:

"Is there a possibility that, given Suzuna's family background and her own conditions, she can find a partner in her [-]s and [-]s."

"Then after all, there is no man in his early twenties to find..."

"You don't want to talk about it, you don't have to solve your life-long affairs, you just worry about the eldest lady?" Chen Ziang interrupted him, "Call me on the next blind date, and I will go over and check it out for you."

"It's better not to, the girl is afraid of life."

"I check it remotely and watch it from a distance."

"...By the way, are you really not coming to my house to celebrate the New Year this time?"

"Not coming."

"Could it be that you have an appointment? Yuegong asked for leave and said that he went on a trip, so it's the leader?"

"Don't be kidding, really, who invited her for the New Year's Eve? She was scolded on the first day of the first lunar month?"

"That's true." Lu Yunfeng thought about it, "However, why don't you say that Xia Qingyu doesn't scold others, and just likes to provoke you to scold? Are you the kind of boy in elementary school, in order to attract girls' attention, deliberately doing all kinds of tricks to attract his attention..."

"Hey, the signal on my cell phone doesn't seem to be good, hang up." Chen Ziang hung up the phone quickly, lest he say anything more outrageous.

But this time Lu Yunfeng asked the point.Xia Qingyu's parents are away, and her younger sister is going to sing at the Spring Festival Gala. After singing, she will come to my house to celebrate the New Year. What about her?

I won't spend New Year's Eve alone at home... It's a bit pitiful.

Do you want to invite her to come home to celebrate the New Year, anyway, her sister is also...

As soon as this idea came out, Chen Ziang was startled.

How could I have such a terrible idea!

But thinking about it carefully, Xia Zili is indeed quite strange to come to my house to celebrate the New Year even though she has her own sister around.

just ask.

Chen Ziang sent a message to Xia Zili, asking if it was convenient for her to make a phone call.

After a while, the phone rang.

"Ask my sister." After listening to Chen Ziang's question, Xia Zili replied, "My sister never celebrates the New Year with me. Every time when the New Year is approaching, she will leave the Gaotianyuan Star District to go to other places, and her mobile phone is also disconnected."

"Isn't it just a new year?" Chen Ziang asked in surprise.

"Yes." Xia Zili replied, "Maybe it's something about the empire, I don't understand either."

"That's right." Chen Ziang didn't think much, and continued to chat with Xia Zili for a few words before hanging up the phone.

It should not be returning to the empire, because it would take several months to go from Gaotianyuan to the god capital of the empire, even through the wormhole!It is simply impossible to rush over.

The nearest to the empire is the Temple of Heaven. Although it is farther than the Rose Nebula, because of the construction of the star gate, it will be enough for about a week in the past.

Considering the seven-day holiday for the new year, if she came back to work after the Lantern Festival, she would probably go to the Temple of Heaven.

In this way, there is no need to worry that she will be poor when no one celebrates the new year... huh?In that case, do you want to invite her to celebrate the New Year with her?

Hey, she's not coming anyway, is she?It can also show loyalty in front of the leader.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Ziang gave up this idea.

One is that Xia Qingyu is smarter, and it would be boring if she noticed it.

Another reason is simpler: What if she did say yes?

After returning home, putting the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner into the refrigerator, Chen Ziang lay on the sofa and continued to read the messages on his phone.

Suzuna still hasn't sent an email, and doesn't know what's going on with her.

Alas, those who celebrate the New Year have to wander in the universe, how pitiful.

Miss her a bit.

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Inside the Rosette Nebula, Treasure Hunter.

In the bridge command room, the crew members were working intensely, fearing that they would be optimized away by the boss due to poor work performance.

It's not the optimization of dismissal, but the neck was cut off by a strange shadow, the body was thrown out of the spaceship to burn the engine, and the head was hung on the bridge for three days.

Although this new female boss looks like a cute and sweet girl on the outside, she acts so cruelly and ruthlessly that she is quite perverted even among interstellar pirates.

So much so that among the crew, those desperadoes who were really pirates now call her Big Sister and actively regard themselves as her dog's leg - as Tsukimiya Suzuna said, the more accustomed to using violence, the easier it is for a person to succumb to irresistible and powerful violence.

On the contrary, the group of the captain's direct descendants are relatively law-abiding. Although they usually don't talk at work, they secretly discuss with the captain about rebelling against the boss.

The captain, Lin Yuan, was also an interstellar pirate in his early years, but he was not a gangster in dry-board combat, but a pilot on the bridge. Now he has washed his hands of gold for many years.

In terms of personality, although he is not a good person, he also knows how to advance and retreat, take into account the overall situation, and knows the principles of being able to bend and stretch.

He could see that with the boss's unpredictable and strange ability, no matter whether it was a sneak attack, an ambush, or taking advantage of the number of people to siege, it was nothing more than giving away the head.

Even when discussing the course correction with the boss, the professional vocabulary and clear logic that came out of the other party's mouth showed that this sweet girl boss probably also had long-term experience in piloting starships... In other words, even if the entire ship was killed, she would probably be able to drive to the nearest star area by herself.

The reason why she didn't kill us all was not because she couldn't, but because she didn't want to!

She's just too lazy to steer the boat herself!

175. Chapter 174 New Year’s Eve

In the private gathering, several people were still jumping up and down, encouraging everyone to find a chance to kill the boss.

The following grams are on!

Lin Yuan tried a few words of persuasion, but seeing that he still couldn't persuade him, he felt a little depressed after returning.

As the boss said when he first arrived, "A spaceship is like an isolated island, and the mainstream laws and rules outside are completely inapplicable here."

Because of this, internal fights are often extremely fierce, and almost always end with one of them being killed.

If the boss knows that someone is plotting to kill her, then I will not report the knowledge...

Before he knew it, Lin Yuan strolled near the boss' rest cabin.

At the door of the rest cabin, there are two burly men guarding the door, one on the left and the other on the right.

These two came from the same pirate as Lin Yuan. I don't know their real names. Anyway, everyone calls them "Golden Knife" and "Iron Ring".