Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 227: We Can’t Afford This

Yu Xia was silent for a long time, looking at Xie Qingci’s attractive face, resisting the urge to scold him for being shameless, pulling the atmosphere back to a normal level.

"Let’s quickly discuss, we need to go to the first mission point now. I remember it’s about a dozen kilometers from here, how should we get there? What about eating? The money is definitely not enough, we need to come up with some ideas, and we need something to tell time."

She spoke without stuttering, really giving off an efficient vibe like she’s negotiating a deal in an office.

But Xie Qingci glanced at the toilet next to him, reconfirming that this place was not suitable for a conversation.

He slightly held his breath and said, "One hundred yuan for two people to live and eat for five days is definitely not enough, the production team can’t be just testing how we save money and starve, so there must be a way we can earn money. Remember that extra reward? Maybe it’s for us to earn money and then reward us with points."

Yu Xia’s eyes lit up: "That’s very likely!"

She rubbed her chin, pondering as she voiced her plan: "If we can earn money, then why don’t we just take a taxi to the mission point? A dozen kilometers wouldn’t cost much, we can earn it back after completing the task."

"How do we earn it?"

"Solutions are always more than difficulties, earning a hundred yuan isn’t hard, is it? If worse comes to worst, borrow a guitar and have you busk." She seemed very confident.

Xie Qingci looked down at her, two seconds later, he sighed softly.

"Facing the difficulty of earning a living at such a young age."

"... You can’t even feed yourself enough." She shot him a discreet glare, warning him to speak properly.

Then she promptly made him decide: "So, the first question, should we take a taxi? Seems like there’s no other way, we can’t ask someone to scan a shared bike for us, and we might get caught by the production team before we even go halfway. As for buses... hey, buses in this area might be a better option?"

Xie Qingci thought for a moment, nodded, and said: "As long as people don’t recognize us, but taking the bus requires change."

"That’s simple! Let’s go, I’ll take you to eat first."

Having the money in her hand boosted her big sister vibes, her posture when pushing open the bathroom door was quite exceptional, she straightened her back and pulled the stall door open with a swipe.

The door formed an angle with the wall, just enough to pinch Xie Qingci inside, the door panel collided with him, creating a bit of elasticity, causing him to be retreated a half step backward.

He closed his eyes in speechless silence for a moment in the corner.

Yu Xia swaggered out, even tightened her high ponytail, swaying the ends of her hair, nearly dazzling Xie Qingci’s eyes, as she carried her backpack and walked out.

Then they were face to face with a janitor aunt holding a mop.

The aunt looked at the two of them, surprised and shocked, then glanced at the disabled sign on the door, then looked at them again.

This time, her expression carried an indescribable complexity, as if saying, "Why do good young people love doing those things in such public places."

Yu Xia’s expression stiffened, her face flushed with heat, she grabbed Xie Qingci’s backpack strap and rushed outside.

Xie Qingci held back his laughter, leisurely striding with his long legs to match her pace.

Yu Xia stood by the creek in the park, taking deep breaths facing the budding willow trees for a long time to suppress the awkwardness just now.

Then reattached her hat, pulling the collar of her jacket high to cover her chin, gesturing for Xie Qingci to continue following.

"Come on, I’ll buy you food."

Not far from the park was a small convenience store, there weren’t many people buying things at this time.

They slipped inside as stealthy as night killers, silently standing in front of the fast food cold cabinet, looking again and again.

There was still a faint icy mist inside, Xie Qingci’s clearly jointed fingers probed into it and took a bottle of yogurt from the top shelf.

He remembered that Yu Xia’s habit of drinking yogurt included this brand.

But just as he took it down, Yu Xia lightly slapped him on the back of his hand.

She looked at him with a spendthrift’s gaze, whispering, "This yogurt is nine yuan, we can’t afford it."

Xie Qingci: "But I remember you used to really like..."

Facing her widened eyes, he had to put it back again.

Yu Xia touched her ear, took out a box of black pepper beef rice from the bottom shelf.

"There’s a microwave here, we can heat it later. Can you eat black pepper beef?"

Xie Qingci didn’t say anything, looked down at the price, took it back and put it back.

"Fifteen yuan, too expensive."

Yu Xia picked it up again, stuffed it to him: "Earlier I said yogurt was expensive because it doesn’t fill you up, this is a proper lunch, fifteen yuan isn’t expensive. Or do you want to eat wonton noodles?"

Xie Qingci still didn’t want to buy, turned his head to look at the shelf behind him, whispered to her: "Why don’t we buy bread, we can eat anytime."

Yu Xia glanced at the quantity and price, refuted: "Too little, you definitely won’t be full, and it’s expensive."

Thinking about even going for wonton noodles, they had to stay within a low price range, certainly wouldn’t be enough for him, so she simply decided—

"Okay, let’s find a noodle shop and eat noodles later, we’ll just move quicker. But you with your build can’t easily be filled, we’ll buy some bread to eat on the road."

With this, the bread doesn’t need to be too expensive. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Xie Qingci obediently nodded.

She looked up and down every shelf, picked up a caterpillar bread, and then threw him a bag of bubble cookies.

"You love this."

Xie Qingci glanced at it, he had never seen it before.

"I don’t love this..."

She didn’t look back, still comparing prices and sizes: "That’s not important, the important thing is that these two add up to exactly eleven yuan, we can get nine yuan in change."

Xie Qingci shut up.

At the checkout counter, there were two people waiting to pay as well, Yu Xia deliberately pressed down on Xie Qingci’s hat hard, standing in line.

He was tall and big, his presence directly shadowing her figure.

Because they dressed differently and with that military backpack, they seemed out of place with others, several people in the store were subtly watching them.

Although for now, they hadn’t been recognized, but he didn’t like others staring at her.

Yu Xia focused her gaze on the cashier sister’s hand, studying the promotional discount rules, so she didn’t notice him.

There were also many things near the cashier, buns, pancakes, oden, all emitting heat and aroma.

Xie Qingci pulled on Yu Xia’s clothes from behind, whispered: "Do you want to eat oden? It’s hot."

She worried he’d be hungry, he worried about her too.

Yu Xia felt a bit tempted, but still refused, with the same reason.

"It’s expensive."

Xie Qingci sighed.

The comments on the barrage were constantly erupting.

[Damn, I felt heartache watching this, can’t the production team gave more money?]

[Makes me want to comment ’poverty-stricken couples lament everything’ hahahaha]

[Yu Xia is really looking after her brother, always considering whether he is full, sob sob sob sob]

[They get along so naturally and harmoniously, way better than the saccharine couple next door who can’t even crack a smile]

[Yu Xia as the head of the family holding the financial power × obedient little wife Xie Qingci hahahahahahahaha]