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    On weekday mornings, after the rush hour, the city is briefly silent.

    At the back door of Zhenwei Restaurant, a van is parked, and two young people are moving large baskets of ingredients to the van.

    The ingredients are divided into two parts. One part was delivered early in the morning. The fragrant and crispy winter bamboo shoots, fresh and plump pork belly, and green and tall green onions were sorted and pressed into baskets. The meat was kept fresh in crushed ice.The other part is the ham, bacon, and thousands of knots that Zhenwei Restaurant has prepared.

    In addition, seasonings and kitchen utensils are all selected from the most expensive items in Zhenwei Restaurant, wrapped neatly and placed in the back of the car.

    Xiao Xu moved the last basket of things, clapped his hands, and was about to joke with his senior brother, when he saw a figure approaching in the distance, his whole body suddenly tensed up.

    He straightened up quickly, and greeted the gray-haired visitor: "Master."

    Jia Yang's complexion was not pretty, and he ignored the little apprentices on the side. He squinted his eyes and checked the prepared ingredients. After checking halfway, he scolded: "Where's the salt? Why don't you go there to make clear soup without salt?"

    Xiao Xu thought of the salt shaker he had left behind in the back kitchen, and yelled in his heart that it was not good, so he could only bite the bullet and endure the scolding for three minutes, then trotted back with his senior brother to get it.

    On the way, Xiao Xu ran out of breath, and asked the senior brother beside him in pain: "Master, are you not in a good mood today?"

    "Isn't it?" The senior brother also had an uncomfortable expression on his face, "Cheer up today, so that the master won't get angry again when he comes back."

    Xiao Xu was afraid for a while when he thought of the master getting angry.

    More than a week ago, Director Li found their Zhenwei restaurant and wanted to invite their master Jia Yang to come out and record a show.The cooperation with "Looking for A City" is also a routine. Their master politely agreed to the director face to face, but after the director left, the entire back kitchen staff suffered a whole night.

    Xiao Xu was curious: "Is the master so upset? He hasn't even met the other party's face."

    The senior brother sighed: "That's really annoying. Think about it, when Boss Feng invited our master to the restaurant last year, what was his attitude?After the big banquet, I don’t come to the restaurant very often, and the master made him a banquet, but he still groaned! Since when has our master been disliked by others, can’t we hate it so much?”

    Xiao Xu: "That's really weird. Does Boss Jiang cook really so delicious? I haven't seen a female cook. There are so many cooks in our city, and there are only female chefs with names and surnames. Mi Ting is the only one.”

    As soon as Xiao Xu finished speaking, he was booed by his senior brother: "Hurry up and get your things back. Also, if you dare to mention the chef of Jixiang Building in front of the master, you will be punished."

    Five minutes later, Xiao Xu put the leftover condiments behind the car, and the brother also fixed the newly moved cauldron. Everything was ready, and several people squeezed into the van and drove towards the citizen park in City A.

    This time, the filming of "Looking for City A" has been approved and is going to be held in a citizen's park in City A.

    At eleven o'clock, Li Haichuan had already arranged the scene. Near the big banyan tree in the park square, the staff had built a new white shed for shade. The stoves and kitchen utensils were placed in place in the center of the site.With the small LOGO of the program group.

    On the morning of weekdays, there were not many citizens in the park. Some curious grandpas and aunts stood nearby to watch them work. After a while, they couldn't see any way out, so they left bored.

    This is not the first time for Jia Yang to come to this show. After arriving, he saw the familiar host come up to him.

    The host is an old face, and he spoke very thoughtfully, supporting him both inside and outside the words, which made Jia Yang's face look a little better.

    "Master Jia, today I'm waiting for a feast." Yu Quan smiled, "Have you read the script?"

    "I've seen it, no problem." Jia Yang nodded. The program gave them a lot of freedom to play. They said it was a script, but it was actually talking about what would happen in each link.

    He glanced around and moved his lips: "What about them?"

    "They?" Yu Quan was stunned for a moment, and after seeing Jia Yang's face, he understood, and smiled, "I just contacted, and said they were on the way, but they haven't arrived yet."

    Yu Quan's news is better than Li Haichuan's. He has heard about the deeds of Feng Qianguan's boss at the Qi's banquet, but because he has no one around him who has been to that banquet, he has not been able to gossip about the details.This meeting Jia Yang seemed to understand something, so he asked curiously, "Master Jia, is Master Jiang really so magical? I heard that the Qi family..."

    But halfway through his words, Jia Yang gave a "pooh".

    Jia Yang: "Look at that little girl, she doesn't eat as much salt as I do. Do you believe she can make that table dish? Pan Xingchang was there that day, who knows what kind of deal there is."

    Yu Quan opened his eyes wide: "Is that table made by Pan Jialou?"

    When Jia Yang came back to his senses, he also felt that he had talked too much, so he pursed his lips to express that he didn't want to say more.

    Seeing this, Yu Quan brought up the topic and introduced him to the resting place: "You can rest there first, we will have a rehearsal in half an hour."

    ...

    Shooting the same program in the studio and outdoors are two completely different levels of difficulty.

    At another place fifty meters away, Li Haichuan was wearing a coat, sweating profusely in the winter, and the sweat stuck to his clothes, but he didn't care about it at all.

    "What's the matter, the group performers, how come there are more than a dozen?!" Li Haichuan communicated with the other end of the phone, speaking very fast, and his temper was rarely irritable.

    Li Haichuan: "Ask for leave? Why did you ask for leave? Chen Jian wants someone? He can't even sit down with his celebrity fans, he wants someone ass!"

    Li Haichuan: "Hurry up and find someone for me! The house is all set up, and it's time to make the most of it!"

    When Jiang Ci arrived, she saw the editor running around in a panic.

    Jiang Ci said hello and asked with concern: "Director Li, what happened?"

    The girl is wearing a white slim turtleneck sweater, a long black woolen coat, and an elegant necklace around her neck. Her long black hair is coiled behind her head.

    After seeing it, Li Haichuan's eyes briefly flashed with astonishment.He wiped his face, trying to restrain his anxiety, but under the other party's concerned gaze, after thinking about it, he explained the current situation: "Originally, we have found dozens of extra performers, and we guarantee that there will be no performances on stage.Leak, but there is a small problem now, only a dozen or so have come for the time being."

    Li Haichuan was worried that Jiang Ci would lose confidence in the show due to his own omissions, and after speaking, he hurried to make amends: "However, Boss Jiang, don't worry about this. I have already contacted and resolved it. Before the filming starts in the afternoon, the extras should be in place..”

    Li Haichuan regretted saying these two words, but when he raised his head, he saw——

    The girl in front of her didn't seem to be affected at all, she was calm and relaxed, and seemed to be looking at the "group performer" not far away with great interest, with a smile on her face.

    "Director Li, your group of performers is a bit abrupt." Jiang Ci raised her chin and gestured with her gaze.

    There were a few onlookers standing near the square, and a dozen strong "group performers" stood beside them.

    Li Haichuan looked back and was suddenly speechless at the scene in front of him.

    Jiang Ci smiled: "Don't worry, didn't you say last time that it will be a public activity. It will be fine when there are citizens."

    Li Haichuan asked anxiously: "How can it be so simple, what if we can't attract people?" Just a few cooks were cooking there. To be honest, without plot settings and post-editing, the scene would be difficult to watch.

    Jiang Ci looked at him puzzledly: "If you can't attract people, how can you call it an activity?"

    Li Haichuan didn't expect this answer, so he choked.

    Jiang Ci patted Li Haichuan on the shoulder: "Don't worry, if a cook can't attract people, then she has worked for so many years in vain. However, it's good to have group performances, so that the scene doesn't get out of control."

    Not far away, the makeup artist's assistant came over to call for someone. Jiang Ci smiled and said goodbye to Li Haichuan temporarily, and went to the rest shed.

    The girl turned and left, leaving a shadow behind Li Haichuan.

    After two seconds of silence, Li Haichuan raised his hand, and with a strange expression... touched his chest.

    It's very strange, what Boss Jiang said, if someone else said that to him, Li Haichuan would definitely say that he was brazen and pretending.

    But, hearing what the girl in front of him said, he felt strangely... a little bit of peace of mind.

    Li Haichuan exhaled and continued to work.

    ...

    After checking the execution script and debugging the recording equipment, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the filming of "Xianwei City A" officially started.

    In the afternoon, the sun shines down through the gaps in the leaves of the big banyan tree, shining brightly everywhere, which is very beautiful.Outside the isolation line set by the program group, more than a dozen old men and women stood sparsely, watching the filming curiously.

    After being prompted by the program group, they all kept quiet politely.But this shooting is not a live broadcast, if something happens, Li Haichuan will edit it out.

    "Looking for City A, let's start a delicious journey in City A with you. When the delicious ingredients and exquisite cooking skills collide, how amazing the light will shine, let us wait and see—"

    Yu Quan read the usual opening remarks of the show, and after finishing the reading, he introduced the two groups of chefs invited this time in turn.

    In the past, their programs would invite two to three groups of chefs to cook the same dish each time, and each restaurant would have a slightly different approach to the same dish, and there was no such thing as which was better.However, they were all filmed separately at that time, and it was the first time that the two groups of people were brought together in this way.

    "The one on my left is the head chef of Zhenwei restaurant in our city, Master Jia Yang." Looking at the prompt card, Yu Quan introduced Jia Yang's resume with a smile on his face, and wanted to talk about his resumeIt's really unusual. He has won many awards and published his own works.

    Listening to his proud resume being read out, Jia Yang straightened his back calmly.

    "And the one on my right is our Feng Qianguan's chef and also Feng Qianguan's boss, Master Jiang." Yu Quan turned to Jiang Ci with a smile, the corner of his mouth was a little stiff.

    It's really... There were not many introductions to this Master Jiang in the previous scripts.Such deeds as hosting Qi's New Year's Banquet and being popular in the live broadcast room are not easy to say on the show. In the end, the only person who can introduce her is the technical consultant of "Delicious Variations".

    Although they informed the crew, and the crew was happy to introduce it, but this show might not be aired until the year of the monkey...

    Sure enough, after listening to Yu Quan's introduction, the elders and aunts nearby all followed their hearts and stood near the Zhenwei Restaurant.

    Yu Quan continued to read the words if he didn't notice what happened next to him.One of the dishes they are going to cook today is pickled Duxian.

    Pickled, refers to salty and delicious cured meat, Du, refers to simmering and slow cooking, and fresh, refers to fresh ingredients used in dishes.

    In this sunny and slightly cold winter day, a pot of steaming hot and delicious soup with small bubbles will undoubtedly add a touch of color to this winter day.

    After the process of the first part of the program was completed, Jiang Ci started to move.

    Pickled Duxian is the taste of spring.

    Under the warm winter sun, the girl stood in front of a clean operating table, her eyes drooping slightly, and her movements were not too fast or too slow to change the knife with the fresh ingredients.

    It's not the knife skills used for showing off, nor other amazing cooking skills. She just holds the kitchen knife and handles the ingredients patiently, so that the bacon, ham and fresh bamboo shoots under her hands are all changed into just right small pieces.piece.

    The simple movements that seem to be commonplace, but she made a pleasing to the eye.

    The crisp, tender and white bamboo shoots were cut into a large pot, and after preparation, they were put into bamboo baskets and put aside. Just looking at the crisp and tender color, it tempts people to swallow their saliva.

    Immediately afterwards, the oily and reddish bacon was cut into small square slices of uniform thickness, and the square slices were neatly arranged on the white porcelain plate. After a while, the ham slices that had been cured for a long time were also placed on theTogether for company.

    The pork belly is taken from the fattest part of the pig’s belly. It is red and white, beautiful three-layered flower, which has been cut into thick square slices. Looking at it makes people want to eat meat.

    Porcelain white hands hold the emerald green scallions, twist them around and fold them, and the beautiful knots of the onions are thrown into the pot. After a while, the ginger slices are also ready.bud tip.

    The ingredients are blanched in water one by one, and after simple processing, they are placed in a clay pot to simmer and seasoned.Because of the requirements of this program, Jiang Ci specially prepared a few more ceramic pots with larger capacity, put all the ingredients in them, and simmered them one by one.

    To make a pot of spring taste in winter, you don’t need to be impatient or violent. You just need to let various ingredients with different flavors collide softly in the slow cooker, and then, the vibrant umami taste will be natural.grow out.

    This umami flavor full of vitality, invisible but with irresistible force, slowly diffused.

    "What scent is that?"

    In the cold wind, the first nose that smelled this smell moved in surprise, and the eyes above the nose slowly opened wide.

    ...

    After Yu Quan finished the first process of the show, he took a break for two minutes and then hurried forward to shoot the material.

    Compared with the first scheduled session, the second session gave him a lot more freedom. There were only some questions that he had to ask in the script, and he could play freely in the rest of the time.

    Yu Quan was going to shoot two groups of chefs, and under Li Haichuan's gaze, he couldn't do it too clearly, and both sides chatted for a while.However, after asking all the necessary questions, Yu Quan took the initiative to go to Jia Yang to chat.

    Based on his past experience, he can almost confirm that the last classic shot must have been shot by Jia Yang.

    Zhenwei restaurant is hard to find during holidays, even on weekdays, it is often full. This is a taste that has been affirmed by the old gourmets. It can be imagined that the final delicious pickled and fresh products have to rely on the chef in front of them.

    Yu Quan was smiling, and while holding it, he brought up a topic to lead Master Jia to talk, and talked about some revealable details in the production process, as well as the secret recipe to make the food delicious.

    However, after he finished asking around, when he raised his head, he saw the field manager winking at him crazily, so much that even the nearby uncles and aunts couldn't help but stare at him.

    Yu Quan: "???"

    "Go over there, go quickly!" The field manager gestured anxiously.

    Yu Quan turned around, and was stunned for a moment. I don't know when, the main photographer didn't shoot them at all, and they all went to Jiang Ci's side!

    Yu Quan was puzzled, so how did the footage of his conversation with Jia Yang look like?

    Yu Quan was confused by the situation in front of him, and suddenly dropped a little bit.

    And ten meters away from them, the girl had already carried out the process to the last step, and the ingredients were put into the pot one after another, the movements were smooth and beautiful.

    However, this is not the point that attracts photography and director.

    The point is... on her side, across the isolation line, a group of old men and women were looking out enthusiastically with their heads up.

    "Little master, your surname is Jiang, right? When will this salted Duxian be eaten? Are you doing an activity?" An old woman in purple Sockpuppet/vest stood outside the isolation line, staring straight at the stove.a cauldron.

    "It still needs to be stewed for more than half an hour." Jiang Ci smiled. "If you can stay in our show, you will have a chance to taste the food when it comes out of the pot."

    "Is it Feng Qianguan's Boss Jiang?" Another aunt in a brown-red coat squeezed out, holding a large silk fan in her hand, "Old Zhang always recommended it to us, so it was you!"

    "Old Zhangtou?" Jiang Ci was a little puzzled.

    "Skinny, with a wrinkled face, an old man who goes to your store to eat every now and then!" the aunt described.

    Jiang Ci guessed: "Uncle Zhang?"

    "It should be him, from our dance team." Auntie replied casually, obviously her interest was also diverted, and she didn't want to mention Lao Zhang anymore, but just stared at the stewed clay pot expectantly.

    The aunt looked at it for two seconds, and then asked: "Boss Jiang, our dance team is here today, can you all come to eat?"

    Jiang Ci smiled: "You just told me this, I'm sure it's okay, but now I'm not sure." Jiang Ci pointed to the queue next to him, "If you want to taste it, you may have to queue up quickly."

    The auntie in the red coat looked back and said "wow" on the spot in fright. She was in her fifties and ran back in shock: "Wait, I'll call them here."

    Jiang Ci called from behind: "Be careful when you walk."

    ...

    Jia Yang answered Yu Quan's question, he could feel that Yu Quan was leaning towards his heart, he felt satisfied in his heart, and it was more pleasant to brag.

    He patiently arranged the ingredients into a beautiful circle of flowers in the pot, and was about to listen to Yu Quan's praise, but the shape on his hands paused for two seconds, but he didn't hear the host's next sentence.

    Jia Yang: "?"

    He raised his head, and saw the host who was still asking him just now, with a dazed expression on his face, and then ignored his movements and walked straight to Jiang Ci's place!

    After the host passed by, he still couldn’t get in the conversation at all——Jiang Ci was chatting too enthusiastically with the onlookers, and everyone wanted to talk to her. Yu Quan tried to get in a few times, but none of them succeeded.of.

    Jia Yang stared, feeling the veins on his forehead start to throb, and the movements of his hands also paused.

    "Master! There's too much salt!" Xiao Xu cried anxiously.

    ...

    Several cameras in different positions are fully recording the scene in front of them.

    When the park visitors passed by, they all stopped. They were smothered by the fragrant wind, and the expressions on their faces were soft and joyful. The children stepped on their feet and looked around curiously, and the old man could not help but lick his dry lips.

    Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Haichuan's heart skipped a beat.

    The aroma that belongs to gourmet food has the irresistible power of human beings.The fresh fragrance full of vitality is gradually permeating the nearby air, and a gentle and huge force begins to penetrate the citizen park—more and more tourists are gathered here.

    Gathered to Jiang Ci's side.

    Li Haichuan: "...!!!"

    Li Haichuan: "Spouse! Where's the group?!"

    "Director Li, Director Li, the extra group performances are arranged." The assistant reminded in a low voice, "Just now you said that there are enough people, so there is no need to arrange."

    "There is no need to arrange it." Li Haichuan said anxiously. While the current situation made him ecstatic, he was so anxious that he was beating drums: "Quickly, arrange the group performance to Master Jia! At least let the scene be more even!"

    After listening to the order, more than a dozen group performers quickly gathered to Jia Yang's side. Including the ones already there before, there were a total of thirty or so.

    Xiao Xu was surrounded by more than 30 big men a few meters away, with a complicated expression on his face.

    Well, now he doesn't dare to look at the master's expression at all.

    ...

    City A TV station is working on many projects at the same time.

    Wang Mao is in charge of the line of variety shows. Last year, his choreographers worked hard and achieved many successes.

    "Wang Mao, the programs in charge of this year are very good and have a good harvest." The old leader was also very satisfied with him, and the two walked through the bright aisle of the TV building together.

    "Hehe, we still have to keep working hard." Wang Mao said politely. When he passed by, he looked at the small crowd gathered outside the building with satisfaction in his eyes.

    The expressions on the faces of the crowd were all excited, holding banners and light boards in their hands, waiting for their idols to appear after filming the show.

    "That's Chen Jian's program, right?" the old leader asked.

    Wang Mao opened his mouth and was about to answer, when he suddenly ran past an employee recklessly in front of him, almost bumping into him, which shocked the old leader beside him.

    Wang Mao recognized that this was Zhou Mei from Taili, and she was also an old employee who had been working for several years, so she was dissatisfied: "How reckless, what are you doing here?"

    Zhou Mei was stunned for a moment, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry. I was too anxious. I just received a call. The filming location needs to send more staff to maintain order. I'm looking for someone."

    "Maintain order?" Wang Mao was a little at a loss. Which program on the station needs to maintain order recently. He didn't think of it for a while, and only the most similar name popped up in his mind.

    Wang Mao: "What's wrong with Chen Jian's program group? There are too many celebrity fans here?"

    "No, it's not." Panting, Zhou Mei shook her head and said, "Hai Chuan asked for it. Our program has attracted too many citizens!"

    Wang Mao: "?"

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