The sweetest in the entertainment industry

Chapter 682 was really tough.

Song Lanxiang is a sociology student at F University and has just entered her senior year.

Back in September, the college held a mobilization meeting to prepare for the graduation of their class.

The process was very efficient; she quickly found a supervisor, who then immediately held a topic selection meeting to help her determine the direction and topic of her graduation thesis.

Song Lanxiang's title is tentatively titled "The Impact of Widespread Mechanization on Autumn Harvest Labor of Left-Behind Elderly in Rural Areas".

As a sociology major, she came from a rural area and did not plan to pursue postgraduate studies or stay in the city to work after graduating from university. Instead, she planned to take advantage of the nationwide poverty alleviation campaign to return to her hometown and become a village cadre, contributing to socialist construction.

She was very satisfied with the topic, and her supervisor also felt it was very relevant to reality. In addition, she didn't have many classes in the first semester of her senior year, and it wasn't time to go out for an internship. Song Lanxiang quickly searched for literature, wrote a review article, and determined the research direction. She planned to visit the corresponding regions and collect enough data during the autumn harvest season before the thesis proposal presentation in December.

The beginning is always the hardest. She had never done this before, and as a girl, she didn't dare to go too far. She initially set her sights on the area near the school, thinking that it would be easier to handle any problems that might arise. Once she gained experience, she would be able to handle other places with ease.

That day, she set off early in the morning with dry food and a water bottle on her back, wearing a straw hat she had bought specially, and riding a shared bicycle.

She took Line 10 and transferred to Line 5, arriving near her destination in about two hours.

The next step was to go to the villages to collect data from the elderly people left behind in rural areas.

It's a busy season, and as a poor student, she can't afford to do things like delivering eggs, so she's prepared to help others with chores. Even the clothes she's wearing today are old ones.

Song Lanxiang thought about many details along the way, but she never expected that she would be unable to complete the first step.

In rural areas, not every household keeps a dog, but there's always one in several households that does. Forget about getting close to elderly people to knock on their doors and try to get on their good side to do a survey; the dogs will start barking even when you're still quite a distance away from their houses.

When strangers arrive in the village, one dog starts barking, and all the dogs in the village start barking too. And that's not all; the village dogs don't really like being on a leash, so as they bark, they all come running over.

In rural areas, most dogs are kept as pets. The elderly don't bother to vaccinate them. If they get bitten, the injury is a minor issue, but if they get infected with rabies, the thought of it is terrifying!

Song Lanxiang was terrified, but she didn't lose her composure. Seeing the dogs getting closer and closer, she quickly ran to the roadside, grabbed a tree, and desperately started climbing up.

She was incredibly unlucky; it was a persimmon tree.

As we all know, late October is the harvest season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, and it is also the time when persimmons ripen in large quantities.

In the village, every household likes to plant a few fruit trees in front of or behind their houses, and once a neighbor starts planting them, several other households in the surrounding area are likely to follow suit.

Right now, the tree that Song Lanxiang climbed was laden with bright yellow persimmons.

Persimmons are a fruit with an extremely high yield. Large, round persimmons hang heavily on the branches, which are already under a lot of weight. In addition, the branches of this tree are notoriously brittle. Song Lanxiang had only climbed a short distance when the branch as thick as her arm snapped off with a "crack".

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Song Lanxiang's last shred of composure crumbled instantly upon this shock! A scream resounded through the sky!

The dogs ran closer and saw that this outsider not only didn't keep a low profile, but also barked and howled. And to make matters worse, he even climbed a fruit tree! Unforgivable! They barked even louder!

Chinese rural dogs that guard the house are very intelligent. Even if the owner has only taken them to the family's vegetable garden a few times, they can recognize that it is their own.

This tree of persimmons belongs to a little glutton who's still in kindergarten. Every day on his way to and from school, he licks his fingers in anticipation as he passes by this tree.

Upon seeing this, the leader, the four-eyed Iron-Clad Gold, flew into a rage and began to climb the tree trunk! Its large mouth seemed to want to bite her to death from afar!

Song Lanxiang was so frightened that she almost fainted. She grabbed the tree trunk again and climbed up as fast as she could.

This time, she had learned from her experience and only dared to touch the thick main trunk. Since she wasn't very big, she gained temporary peace of mind.

But this four-eyed Iron-Clad Gold is a loyal dog that would bark at someone's door every day for months after its puppies were pushed on the butt. Seeing that she not only wouldn't come down but was also staying in the tree, how could it give up so easily?

Then one person and several dogs remained in a stalemate.

It was also her bad timing that she came. The weather was nice today, and the families at the edge of the village were all busy in the fields. They had just harvested the rice but hadn't had time to transport it back. They were already short-handed at home, and now there was no one at home.

She didn't know how much time had passed when she finally heard a series of "puff puff puff" sounds. Taking advantage of her good position, she looked into the distance and saw an electric tricycle carrying seven or eight sacks slowly driving towards her.

As she got closer, she could see that there was a woman driving in front, and in the back of the truck, there were not only sacks, but also two old men fanning themselves with straw hats.

As soon as the car approached, the dogs scattered, except for the four-eyed dog that remained, howling angrily at the tree.

Song Lanxiang was almost in tears. Seeing this, she immediately took off her straw hat and waved it frantically, yelling, "Help me~~~~"

It's so heartbreaking that anyone who sees it or hears about it will be moved to tears.

Gu Lanxi glanced at her and stopped the car.

The two elderly farmers on the bus helped her off the bus. They saw her hiding in the tree and had broken a large branch. Although they felt sorry for her, they didn't immediately start scolding her.

"Little girl, what are you?"

Song Lanxiang was from out of town and couldn't understand the local dialect, so Gu Lanxi kindly helped translate for her.

"Grandpa is asking you, where did you come from?"

Then, after thinking for a moment, he added, "What are you doing here?"

Song Lanxiang quickly explained her purpose.

These elderly people may not speak Mandarin very well, but they watch a lot of TV, so they can understand it without any problems.

Although he didn't understand what a survey was, he realized that this was a student from F University who had come for serious business, so he quickly waved the dog away and told her to come down.

Song Lanxiang came from a remote mountain village and spent more than three years of her university years studying diligently. She never cared about the entertainment industry. When she saw Gu Lanxi, she only thought she was pretty and did not recognize her. She thought she was a young person from an old man's family who had come back for the autumn harvest.

After following the old man home, without saying a word, he started rolling up his sleeves to help unload the rice, and then quickly spread it out on the dam to dry.

Gu Lanxi was driving a combine harvester to help people harvest rice. She didn't usually help with transportation, but the old lady insisted on following the old custom that if you hire someone to help with farm work, you have to provide meals. In addition, other families would charge 100 yuan per mu for harvesting rice, but she only charged 80 yuan. As soon as Gu Lanxi arrived in the morning, the old lady said that the chickens had already been killed. Gu Lanxi had no choice but to stay for a meal.

In return, she offered to help with the delivery.

This family has only two elderly people left. A bag of wet rice weighs about 100 kilograms. Even if there were tools to help, it would be difficult for the two of them to manage.

I never expected to run into Song Lanxiang here.

Seeing that she didn't recognize her, Gu Lanxi chatted with her about her graduation thesis.

Gu Lanxi had attended university and pursued postgraduate studies. One thing that Xiao Yuanbao would definitely collect when she became a fan was her self-published "Collection of Essays by Gu Lanxi". When Song Lanxiang mentioned these things, Gu Lanxi became interested and not only had an in-depth conversation with her, but also offered many constructive suggestions.

Gu Lanxi was intelligent and insightful, and she was very tactful in her interactions with others. Song Lanxiang had never met such a person before. When the conversation got exciting, she immediately found paper and pen to take notes.

After helping the family dry their rice, they went to ask the old man for help.

"I was scared by a dog, so I climbed a tree and damaged someone else's tree. I don't know whose tree it is. Grandpa, could you show me the way? I need to go and pay for the damage."

Song Lanxiang was very hardworking and quickly helped the old man spread out the rice to dry, together with Gu Lanxi.

Gu Lanxi went to the kitchen to cook lunch with the old lady, while she followed the old man from house to house in the village.

Such a down-to-earth and hardworking college graduate from a prestigious university is considered a talent by the elderly!

In particular, she also studied the elderly left behind in rural areas. The elderly talked with her for a long time, gesturing and gesturing, which increased their sense of identification with her. Seeing that they could help her, they naturally would not stand idly by.

This chance encounter was just a small, pleasant thing in their lives. After it was over, they each had more important things to do and soon went their separate ways.

Neither of them expected that they would meet again just three days later!