157: Chapter 157 The back seats of the bus are lined up, with four wives flanking from both sides.

"Everyone has worked hard. Here, on behalf of the people of Dali City, I would like to thank you all for your hard work this morning."

"I believe that through this labor, you can all personally feel that the beautiful Erhai Lake has indeed suffered some damage due to our human over-development..."

The Executive Director held a megaphone and gave a heartfelt summary of the morning's environmental protection activity.

Subsequently, he asked the members of the Divas Hit the Road Group to face the camera and take turns expressing their thoughts after the labor.

The members of the Divas Hit the Road Group were very cooperative, including Lin Chen, all saying a few words about protecting the environment and cherishing nature.

Although this segment had some elements of putting on a show for the sake of the program's effect, it must be admitted that such activities can indeed bring some positive social impact.

When it comes to environmental protection, just listening to others or watching the news might not leave a deep impression.

But when you personally roll up your sleeves and clean up those glaring pieces of trash in nature, that intuitive visual impact will make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Think about when we were kids in the countryside, the water in the river was crystal clear, and you could scoop it up and drink it directly.

In the summer, we would go into the river naked to catch fish and bathe, chasing frogs and catching cicadas in the fields recklessly.

But what about now? Look at our next generation.

Many children are locked in concrete cities from the moment they are born; those purely natural joys seem to have been silently stripped away.

Perhaps the deterioration of the environment will not directly affect the survival of each of us in the short term, but if we consider it in the long run, this is definitely something that makes people shudder when they think about it carefully.

The cruise ship gradually docked, and the members of the Divas Hit the Road Group lined up to get off the boat and boarded the Production Team's bus to return to the seaside villa.

It was still raining, and it showed a trend of getting heavier.

Even with the bus wipers turned to the highest setting, they still couldn't clear the rainwater on the windshield, and the convoy's speed was forced to slow down.

"Hubby, do you like rainy days?"

Guli Nazha rested her white, tender, lotus-root-like arm in Lin Chen's palm, enjoying her husband's comfortable kneading.

She tilted her head, looking at the hazy rain scene outside the car window, and asked casually.

Lin Chen massaged her acupoints while saying indifferently, "As long as it's not raining knives from the sky, any weather is fine with me."

"Hehe~" Guli Nazha was amused by his straight-man answer.

Her soft, boneless body naturally snuggled into Lin Chen's broad embrace. She gently stroked Lin Chen's chiseled side profile with her other free hand, her tone filled with nostalgia:

"I actually quite like rain; I've liked it since I was little. My deepest impression was going to my grandma's house when I was a kid. My grandma's house used to be in the countryside, and I would go to stay there for a while every summer vacation."

"Whenever it rained, I would be especially excited, moving a small stool to lie by the window and watch the rain. I also liked to tie a towel blanket around my neck as a cape, imagining myself as a princess in a fairy tale."

Lin Chen chuckled and pinched her cheek, "I thought only little boys would wear bedsheets to pretend to be Superman. Turns out you little girls are this chuunibyou too?"

Guli Nazha giggled, tilted her head to kiss Lin Chen on the chin, and coquettishly said:

"Kids, you know, they all love to fantasize. By the way, Hubby, I suddenly remembered a really interesting embarrassing story. I'll tell you, but you must not tell Yaya and Shishi."

Lin Chen paused, then calmly gestured with his chin at the microphone and micro-camera fixed on the seat in front, "Your request for secrecy seems a bit difficult at the moment."

Guli Nazha stuck out her pink, tender little tongue. She had been too engrossed in the conversation just now and had forgotten that they were being livestreamed across the entire web.

"Then forget it, I won't say it!"

"Very embarrassing?" Lin Chen raised an eyebrow.

Guli Nazha bit her red lips and hesitated for a moment, "Oh, actually it's fine, let's just say it. It was also something from when I was at my grandma's house as a child. That time it rained really heavily, for several days in a row, and the streets were full of accumulated water. Grandma wouldn't let me go out, fearing I would be washed away by the water."

"But I was very mischievous back then. While Grandma was cooking in the kitchen, I snuck on my little rain boots, opened an umbrella, and ran out to the street to splash in puddles. Hubby, you know how in the old countryside streets, there were those deep, open drainage ditches on both sides, right?"

Lin Chen nodded.

Guli Nazha continued, "Usually when it doesn't rain, you can see the drainage ditch at a glance. But that day the water was too big, and it completely submerged the drainage ditch. Looking out, the whole street was just flat, accumulated water. I was having too much fun splashing in the water and completely forgot about the drainage ditch. As a result, as I was walking, I missed a step and fell straight into the drainage ditch!"

"I was short back then, and the water went straight over my head. At that time, my mind went blank with fear, I felt like I was going to drown, and I was washed quite far away by the current."

Hearing this, Lin Chen nodded.

He suddenly reached out and patted the back of the front passenger seat, saying to the female editor in front with a serious face, "Excuse me. Can you see this woman in my arms? In your line of sight, are there two people now, or am I just talking to myself?"

The female editor was stunned for a second, instantly getting Lin Chen's cold humor, and nodded while trying hard to hold back her laughter, "Don't worry, Teacher Lin, I can see clearly, there are two people."

Guli Nazha also realized that Lin Chen was teasing her. She wiggled in Lin Chen's arms indignantly, pinched his face lightly with her fair, small hand, and coquettishly said:

"Hmph! Hubby, you're so annoying! Your wife is a living person, not a drowned female ghost!"

Lin Chen took the opportunity to grab her mischievous little hand and teased her with a smile, "It doesn't matter if you're a female ghost. Having a female ghost wife sounds quite exciting, and I'm sure that even if you became a female ghost, you would be the most beautiful and seductive female ghost in the world."

"I don't want to be a ghost!"

Guli Nazha pouted her red lips haughtily, tilted her head, and took a light bite on Lin Chen's cheek, leaving a shallow tooth mark.

Then, she said with some lingering fear, "But thinking back on it now, that day I really did take a trip to the gates of hell. I was lucky; it just so happened that the uncle who was a neighbor of my grandma's house was out shopping and saw me floundering in the water. He rushed over and pulled me out. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Lin Chen nodded and said solemnly, "It seems that when I have the chance in the future, I must prepare a generous gift and personally visit that uncle to thank him. If it hadn't been for his righteous intervention, wouldn't I be missing a top-tier wife right now?"

Guli Nazha bit her lower lip, trying to put on a reserved appearance, but the smile in the corners of her eyes couldn't be hidden at all.

She proudly lifted her pointed chin, "Of course! You really should thank him properly. Otherwise, where would you find a wife as understanding and beautiful as me?"

Lin Chen nodded in deep agreement, "That's right, if this deal were missing one out of five, it would indeed be a huge loss."

"Hmph!"

Hearing the term "missing one out of five," Guli Nazha immediately lowered the arm she had been preparing to hook around Lin Chen's neck.

She glared with her big, watery eyes, her cheeks puffed out like a pufferfish, looking exactly like a "this baby is very unhappy right now" expression.

Lin Chen smiled and pulled her back into his arms, patting her back to coax her, "Alright, alright, it was just a joke, don't take it seriously."

"Hmph!"

The road conditions were good when they arrived, and it took less than an hour.

On the way back, because of the heavy rain and traffic jam, they spent nearly two hours on the road.

After finally returning to the seaside villa, the Divas Hit the Road Group wolfed down their lunch like they were in a war.

Then they packed their luggage at lightning speed, boarded the bus without stopping, and rushed to the final check-in location of this trip—Lijiang.

If Dali City is a bright pearl embedded in the southwest of China, then Lijiang is definitely an ink painting with freehand brushwork.

Traveling in Southern Yunnan, Dali City and Lijiang are both essential pilgrimage sites.

This time, the Production Team didn't arrange cool open-top jeeps for them, but rented a spacious and comfortable luxury minibus, so the eight people could finally sit in the same vehicle.

Lin Chen's family of four walked towards the last row of the carriage with great tacit understanding. There were exactly four connected seats there, lined up in a row, which was simply tailor-made for them.

"Goodbye, beautiful Dali City! Mwah~"

Liu Shishi sat on Lin Chen's left side.

As soon as the car started, she couldn't wait to turn around and kneel on the leather seat, her upper body lying on the backrest.

She looked at the Dali City streetscape gradually receding outside the rear window of the car and blew a flying kiss.

"My dear sister, we haven't even left the toll station of Dali City yet, isn't your farewell ceremony a bit too early?"

Guli Nazha sat on the other side of Liu Shishi and somewhat disdainfully reached out to push Liu Shishi's peach-like buttocks, which were raised due to her kneeling position.

Lin Chen couldn't keep his hands off this thing, but as a woman with a normal sexual orientation, she had no interest in it at all.

"What do you know? This is called emotion first. It's not about physical distance, but about the state of mind. Although my body is still on the land of Dali City, my soul has already started to wander."

Liu Shishi turned around and sat back properly, righteously holding onto Lin Chen's arm to defend herself.

Guli Nazha rolled her eyes, too lazy to argue with this woman who occasionally suffered from chuunibyou.

Song Dandan, who was sitting in front, was amused: "Oh, don't say that, Shishi's words actually sound quite philosophical."

As soon as Liu Shishi heard someone supporting her, she immediately became as happy as a child: "Right? Right! It has to be an experienced person like Sister Dandan who can resonate with my soul."