The longed-for village system

Chapter 165 Chen Qing's Little Moves

Lao Wang and others in the live stream chat naturally saw it too. To be honest, they also wanted Chen Qing to play it again, since the impact on people's hearing just now was too great.

But can they force Chen Qing? Chen Qing's status is very different now; he's someone who was personally praised.

"Teacher Ye."

"Hey, it's Xiao Chen! What brings you here!"

As a villager, Chen Qing was naturally familiar with the teachers at the school. The two exchanged a simple greeting. Teacher Ye was slightly surprised to see Chen Qing and the others arrive, though he knew they were from the program crew.

"Hello, Teacher Ye. We just came to see you and the children," Teacher He replied to Teacher Ye.

"Thank you for your help, Teacher He and Teacher Huang."

Peng Peng and his sister went to play with the other children, while the adults continued chatting with the teacher. Chen Qing naturally accompanied them, since not everyone is comfortable in front of the camera.

Moreover, Chen Qing was worried that Teacher Ye might not explain the situation clearly because of the camera, which would reduce the program's ability to help. Since the program team wanted to do good, he would do his best to do it well, which was also his contribution as a member of the village.

As he expected, Teacher Ye only mentioned that the desks and chairs were old and needed to be replaced, and didn't dare to say anything else. At this point, it was naturally Chen Qing's turn to step in.

"In today's society, we emphasize all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. Teacher He and Teacher Huang, I think we should have some sports equipment and more extracurricular reading books nearby. What do you think?"

“I think what you said makes a lot of sense, and I support your idea,” Teacher He immediately agreed.

Teacher Huang naturally wouldn't object; he'd be happy to trick Lao Wang and the others, especially since Chen Qing's words were absolutely correct. Students should now respond to the national call for all-round development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor.

It's the same old formula and routine, which viewers are happy to see. As expected, these three still love to mess with the production team.

Watching the live stream, Lao Wang was helpless. After all, these three were people he couldn't afford to offend! He could only think of spending some money to earn a good reputation for the show.

After playing with the children for a while, everyone prepared to go back to prepare dinner. On the way, Chen Qing left the camera's view. He thought he had avoided all the cameras, but he was still caught on camera.

Chen Qing quickly ran to a box, then took out his phone and scanned the QR code on it. Everyone knew what Chen Qing was doing.

Donate! They stopped in front of this box while they were strolling around earlier and know that the QR code on it is for anonymous donations from villagers.

"Did you see that, you keyboard warriors? Who said our Brother Chen doesn't donate? He did donate, didn't he? He even donated secretly."

"A bunch of parasites who only know how to type on keyboards. Before criticizing others, they don't even look at what contributions they have made to this society."

"Why bother talking to these keyboard warriors? Do you think they understand? They're just mindless haters."

"I'm curious how much our Brother Chen donated. He must have the family finances under Goddess Xiao Gu's control now!"

"Poor Chen, it's so hard for a married man to earn some extra money. He's probably been completely drained." "The person upstairs suspects you're being suggestive. How could young Chen be drained? Our goddess Xiao Gu is being so reserved!"

The conversation among netizens quickly went off-topic, and if the moderators in the live stream hadn't warned them, they would have gone over 249 km/h.

Old Wang and the others breathed a sigh of relief. They had to admit that these haters were very good at finding opportunities. Just because Chen Qing asked the production team to donate more things, these haters seized the opportunity. Fortunately, Chen Qing donated anonymously in the end, otherwise their production team would have started to whitewash the situation.

Back at the Mushroom House, Teacher Huang went straight into the kitchen to prepare dinner for everyone, while Teacher He, Chen Qing, and others started washing the dragon fruit they had picked that morning. They would then process it into slices and dry it to make dried dragon fruit.

"Pengpeng, Nongnong, you two wash the dragon fruit peels. Sister, Xijun, Xiaochen, and I, the four of us, will slice them," Teacher He instructed the group.

However, they soon encountered their first problem. The younger sister, holding a knife, turned to check on the group. After observing the thickness of the dragon fruit slices that Teacher He and Liu Xijun had cut, she asked uncertainly, "Brother Chen, how thick should we cut this dragon fruit? Two centimeters?"

Look at how Liu Xijun's slices are of varying thicknesses, some as thin as one centimeter and others as thick as two centimeters. In contrast, almost every slice of Teacher He's is more than two centimeters thick. I really don't know how she cuts them. Can such thick slices even be dried?
When his younger sister asked, Teacher He and Liu Xijun stopped what they were doing. To be honest, they had forgotten about this and thought that slicing was enough. Now it looks like the thickness and size of the slices they made were obviously different.

After getting his tools from the kitchen, Chen Qing responded to his sister's question, "Each piece should be about 5 millimeters thick; it can't be too thick."

"What about making it thinner?" Pengpeng, who was cleaning the surface of the skin, chimed in.

"Sure! I'll support you as long as you have the technology. You can dry them and use them to make tea."

Apart from Teacher Huang and his knife skills, who else here has decent knife skills? He'd be satisfied if they could cut something less than 1 centimeter.

Sure enough, when he arrived at the greenhouse, he saw the dragon fruit pieces on the two boards and said, "Teacher He, Sister Xijun, you need to cut these in half again. If they're too thick, they won't dry properly later."

Seeing their slightly trembling hands, Chen Qingzhen was afraid that they might accidentally cut their own hands, which would mean that their Mushroom House would be missing a worker.

"Teacher He, Sister Xijun, just lay the dragon fruit flat and cut it horizontally with the knife. This way you can cut it neatly and won't cut your hand."

The two followed Chen Qing's instructions and found it much easier; their hands stopped shaking and their speed naturally increased.

Under Chen Qing's guidance, the younger sister also sped up her work. With the help of the group, 300 dragon fruits were all turned into small pieces in just one and a half hours.

"Peng Peng is in the pot."

Chen Qing, Peng Peng, and Nongnong carried out the large pot, and then everyone began to place dragon fruit slices on it, while the rest were placed in the sun to dry.

More than an hour passed after these tasks were completed. At this time, Teacher Huang, who was working in the kitchen, was also nearing the end of her work, and everyone began to gather in front of the kitchen counter to watch and wait for their meal.

"Alright, kids, bring the dishes to the table! Let's eat!" Teacher Huang called out to the hungry young people, and after everyone was seated, she raised her glass. "Welcome back to Nongnong and Xijun. Thank you all for your hard work."

(End of this chapter)