The School Beauty Became My Live-in Maid to Pay Off Her Debts

A week later, after finishing Lin Shuang's guest scenes, the filming task of the "Dust Settles" crew at Huai City Film Studio also came to an end.

The next scenes of the film will take the crew deep into the mountains to a village for on-location shooting, to better restore the scenes set in the script.

In the village, there are no more scenes for Lin Shuang, he's mainly offering companionship, and the village where they are going to shoot is called... Ji Family Village.

Great, this means more time for companionship.

Nobody knows how Director Ren Hongyu found such a deeply hidden village, he said he liked the long history of the village, which is quite quaint, thus giving it that cinematic feel and vintage flavor when filmed.

The bus turned around the mountain road a few times, and after passing a mountain pass, a small village scattered in the valley finally appeared in sight.

Lin Shuang shook awake Su Wan, who was leaning against him, and Yu Zhishui, who was sticking close to Su Wan, as these two actresses slept all the way.

"Wake up, it's dinnertime!"

Yu Zhishui, the little dummy, made some cute sounds like "Ah woo ah woo~", "Mmm... Sister Wan, don't grab it from me... I still want to eat..."

This just-awakened dazed state of a girl is really adorable.

But Lin Shuang couldn't let her babble on! She seemed to be saying something inappropriate!

He took Wanwan's hand and covered her mouth, and the little dummy bit down on the thing fed to her mouth.

"Mmm... doesn't taste good..."

"Yu Zhishui! So much saliva!"

Now both girls were awake, and Lin Shuang felt he was indeed a little genius.

The bus smoothly parked at the entrance of Ji Family Village, Wanwan snuggled up and rubbed against Lin Shuang's chest, as if trying to wake herself up—after rubbing, she really did perk up and got off the bus energetically.

Shuishui pretended to be packing, continually taking things out of her bag and putting them back in. She only snuck over and gave Lin Shuang a peck when everyone else had almost gotten off.

"Being a girlfriend is still more convenient than being just friends~"

No need to dress up so sneakily!

Lin Shuang laughed, patting her back, and followed her off the bus.

The village chief of Ji Family Village came to greet the crew with a few villagers, and Lin Shuang immediately noticed the high-jumping little Lingmeng.

Director Ren Hongyu whispered to Wanwan, "Wasn't this little girl one of those who came to see you on set the other day? What a coincidence."

Wanwan replied with a smile, "Teacher Ren, you still remember~"

"Although my memory is average as I age, having a bunch of pretty girls standing together is quite unforgettable, like a blooming garden."

Well... by the way, among the "blooming garden" Director Ren mentioned, there's one "Lin Youyou" mixed in...

Being dressed like a girl is great! While Su Wan and Yu Zhishui are filming above, down below they're sharing "sisterly bonds", all affectionate and lovey-dovey.

That scene was recognized by Director Ren as one of the best performed by the two female leads, really getting the gritted-teeth feeling spot on~

"Since you know each other, you can stay at her place."

"Okay, Teacher Ren."

In this village deep in the mountains, naturally, there are no hotels; the crew members will stay in rooms prepared by the villagers.

Consider it as a homestay, or a farmstay.

Director Ren exchanged a few greetings with the village chief, and little Lingmeng already came up to lead Lin Shuang, Wanwan, and Shuishui back to her home.

She enthusiastically waved her arms, "Warmly welcome the 'Dust Settles' crew~"

Lin Shuang giggled and poked her pigtails, "How warm?"

She spun her eyes around and then waved to Wanwan, "Sister Wan, help me block!"

Shuishui volunteered energetically, "I'll block for you, Sister Lingmeng~"

Wanwan stepped humorously with her long legs and blocked the other side, now the other crew members' view from behind was completely blocked.

Little Lingmeng jumped up, wrapped her arms around Lin Shuang's neck, and gave him a nibble, "Warm welcome, master~ hehe~"

"Sister Lingmeng, also welcome us!"

"Dinner will be sumptuous~"

"I remember your cooking skills are as bad as mine!"

"I'll make you look at me with new eyes today."

Everyone laughed and arrived at Little Lingmeng's home, which had a quite large courtyard. Lingmeng's mother was leisurely lying in a rocking chair listening to a radio; upon seeing her daughter bring friends home, she warmly rose to greet them.

She spoke in slightly accented Mandarin, "Ru Hua's friends are here, come in and sit, make yourselves at home."

Lin Shuang blinked, "…Ru Hua?"

The smile on Little Lingmeng's face had already spread to Wanwan and Shuishui's faces!

Ru Hua's mother was a beat slow to react, patting her forehead, "Oh, look at my memory, Ru Hua reminded me not to call her Ru Hua, isn't that right, Ru Hua?"

"Mom! You did that on purpose!"

"Ru Hua is a pretty-sounding name after all."

"I think so too."

The mother, with a proud look for her daughter, "Our Ru Hua is the village belle of Ji Family Village."

Wanwan and Shuishui finally burst out laughing.

The village belle, Ru Hua, nudged them towards the room, "Oh! Mom, stop talking!"

Mother, shaking her fan with a face full of smiles, sat back in the rocking chair rocking.

The room was already carefully tidied, certainly not up to big city standards, but very clean and comfortable, giving a warm feeling of returning home.

Su Wan and Yu Zhishui's room was next to Little Lingmeng's, and Lin Shuang, the only guy, was assigned to another side.

This arrangement... seems very suitable for a sneaky visit.

Sure enough, just as Lin Shuang finished unpacking, Little Lingmeng dashed in.

She hooked the door with her foot, turned around and jumped into Lin Shuang's arms.

Lin Shuang caught her, spun around twice, patting her back, and hummed a tune, "In the village, there's a village belle called Ru Hua~"

The village belle's lips shut off his voice, forbidding him from singing.

"Mmm... a village belle packed and sent to your doorstep upon arrival~"

This village belle is really sweet and tasty.

"It's only a warm welcome for master."

The village belle hooked one hand around his neck, and with the other pulled a corner of an item out of her bag.

Lin Shuang's eyes lit up: it was a witch clothes.

"Let's go, master, I'll take you to the little temple on the mountaintop to wish for blessings."

"Hmm? There's also a little temple in this Ji Family Village?"

Long, long ago, it was in the little temple of Ji Family Village that Lin Shuang found Little Lingmeng and brought her home, growing her into a Witch girl.

"Though it's not that old Ji Family Village anymore, I'm still the Witch here~"

Fate is truly wonderful.

"Every four years, I return to the village to wish for blessings on behalf of the villagers."

"Hmm, because you're the village belle?"

"Master! Don't mention that embarrassing title! No way!"