The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 448 Tea Picking and Chatting

"Hello, Teacher Wang." Luo Ming greeted politely.

"Hello Wenwen, I've heard of you a long time ago, but I've never had the chance to meet you. Today I finally get to meet you."

"It is my honor to be remembered by Teacher Wang."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two went into the house together at Xu Lang's invitation.

At the same time, Wen Wan had just arrived at Hunan Airport.

Wen Wan and her assistant got directly into the program crew's car and rushed to the Mushroom House carrying their boxes.

Wen Wan arrived at the Mushroom House at 2 pm. Compared with Luo Ming's unrestrainedness in ordering food, Wen Wan seemed much more restrained. She only ordered a Hunan specialty, stir-fried pork.

The relationship between Luo Ming and Lin Shuwen is well known in the entertainment industry.

In fact, not many people know about the relationship between Wen Wan and Rong Mu. Only Sister Shan and Ji Wenhong, the previous director of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", know about it within Huayue Entertainment.

Although Xu Jianxing has some status among the new generation of actors in Huayue Entertainment, it is naturally impossible for him to know about such things.

Therefore, Xu Jianxing was much more natural when facing Wen Wan than when facing Lin Shuwen.

"So you want us to prepare the ingredients ourselves?" Wen Wan asked.

Xu Jianxing nodded: "Yes, didn't you order stir-fried pork? You don't need to prepare the chili, but you have to help the fellow villagers to get the meat."

"Sister Wen, what did you order?" Wen Wan tilted her head and asked curiously.

"I ordered a lot, but Mr. Wang only knew about the Gathering of Heroes and the Pearl Jade Soup. He didn't know what the remaining two dishes were, so he asked me to get the ingredients for the remaining two dishes myself."

After listening to what "Lin Shuwen" said, Wen Wan understood. She had also participated in variety shows and knew that this was just for the show effect.

Variety shows! It's always like this, Wen Wan doesn't mind cooperating with the production team to improve the show effect.

"So what do you want us to do?"

"Picking tea."

Luo Ming and Wen Wan looked at each other and it was obvious that neither of them was good at this kind of work.

Luo Ming's hometown is Shanxi. Relatively speaking, the more common crops in Shanxi are corn, millet, wheat, sorghum, and soybeans are occasionally grown.

Before entering high school, Luo Ming would go back to his grandparents' village to pick corn during the National Day.

There were no harvesters at that time, and corn had to be harvested manually. Luo Ming's grandparents, together with him and his mother, made up a family of four and could harvest almost an acre of corn a day.

So Luo Ming had done farm work, but he had never really picked tea.

Not to mention Wen Wan, a native of Shanghai who doesn't even recognize a few crops. Working in the fields is beyond Wen Wan's ability.

"Sister Wen, Wanwan, your task today is to fill these two small baskets with tea leaves."

"You call this a small frame?" Wen Wan asked, looking at the frame which was about the same size as an ordinary schoolbag and could hold a big watermelon.

"There's definitely something wrong with this frame. I remember the frames used for picking tea on TV were all the size of small winnowing baskets. This frame is too big!" Luo Ming also said.

"Then we can just pick half. If the two of us can pick one frame together, we'll pass the test and get the meat you want. Jianxing and I will figure out the rest of the ingredients."

Since Wang Shanshan said so, Luo Ming and Wen Wan had no choice but to agree.

Then the two of them set off.

There are still many families growing tea in Xiangxi. In the village chosen for the third season of "Longing for Life", tea is the main cash crop.

The same is true for this village. As long as you walk into the countryside or the nearby mountains, you can easily come across tea trees. Some are planted one by one here and there, while others are planted in a whole field.

Luo Ming and Wen Wan followed the people arranged by the program team and came to the yard of an old lady's house.

This aunt's family grows a lot of tea. There is a hillside and a mountaintop, all covered with tea trees.

With the help of the program team, after the two sides "negotiated" the terms, Luo Ming set off with Wen Wan and the aunt's daughter.

After walking for about ten minutes, the two of them and the staff of the program team arrived at the tea garden.

Looking around, you will see a sea of ​​tea with rows of tea leaves neatly arranged, with some fruit trees and flowering trees in between.

When the breeze blows, the fragrance wafts into your nose, with a faint scent of tea and flowers.

"Are these all tea trees?" Wen Wan asked curiously.

"Yes, they are all tea trees. The tea leaves or buds we pick are called fresh tea leaves, and what we brew with water is called tea. Tea is an agricultural product made from fresh tea leaves through different production and processing methods." The aunt's daughter replied.

“Is the tea making process complicated?”

"It's very complicated. As soon as the fresh leaves are picked from the tea tree, we need to consider entering the production stage. We have to start calculating the time for each step, and know what time to do with the fresh leaves." said the old lady's daughter.

Wen Wan nodded, not quite understanding.

"How do we pick tea leaves?" Luo Ming asked.

"First of all, we don't pick fish leaves. Look," the old lady's daughter pointed to a tea tree and introduced to Luo Ming and Wen Wan what "fish leaves" are, what "true leaves" are, and what "bamboo shoots" mentioned by the tea fairy Lu Yu are. "

After Luo Ming and Wen Wan wrote it down, the aunt's daughter continued, "After you have identified the tea leaves, you can start picking them. First, you need to pay attention to the newly grown buds and leaves on a tree that meet the picking standards. You need to pick them all and not leave any behind. Secondly, according to the purpose of production, you can pick the buds, one bud and one leaf, or one bud and two leaves. The standard of picking fresh leaves is unified, which will facilitate unified operation during production.

Finally, the picking method is to use the index finger and thumb to pinch the fresh leaves, because there is no squeezing force at the broken part; while the action of "pinching" with the fingernails is more likely to make the broken part of the fresh leaves black. "

"It sounds quite complicated." Luo Ming said.

"It is quite complicated. The general tea leaves have one bud and two leaves. You should follow the general standards."

Luo Ming and Wen Wan nodded and began picking tea leaves.

At the beginning, their movements were clumsy and they picked very slowly. But after picking more and more, they became more skilled and their movements became faster.

In May, the days are already longer.

The two started at 3 o'clock and worked until 7 o'clock. Before dark, they finally completed the task and got the meat.

"Picking tea is so tiring! I feel like my waist is going to break." Luo Ming said while holding his waist on the way back.

Wen Wan also felt tired, but compared to Lin Shuwen's body, Wen Wan had been practicing dance for many years, so her waist was relatively flexible, so bending over all the time was no big deal for Wen Wan.

It was already 7: and dark when the two returned to the mushroom house.

Luo Ming sent a message to Lin Shuwen, and Lin Shuwen used administrator privileges to allow the two souls to temporarily return to their places.

As soon as she returned to her body, Lin Shuwen staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Lin Shuwen felt like her waist was about to break. What did this guy do today?
"Sister Wen, are you okay?" Wen Wan hurried over to help Lin Shuwen.

"It's okay, Wanwan, aren't you tired?" Lin Shuwen asked tentatively.

"It's tiring! Picking tea leaves requires bending over all the time, which must be tiring, but I have a basic dance foundation, so I feel okay."

Lin Shuwen suddenly realized that he had gone to pick tea, no wonder his waist hurt so much.

"Wenwen, Wanwan, you're back. Did you bring the meat?" Xu Lang walked out and asked.

"I've brought it back. Can my teacher, Mr. Wang, prepare it?" Wen Wan said as she handed a large piece of meat to Xu Lang.

"As long as you have the ingredients, you can make it. Teacher Wang's cooking skills are amazing."

"What about my food?"

Lin Shuwen learned from Luo Ming that he deliberately came up with some funny names of dishes in order to create a show effect.

Xu Lang shook his head after hearing this. "Teacher Wang and I haven't guessed what the shattered little green dragon and the specially prepared slightly spicy sweet and sour sauce baked pork fillet are. Wenwen, why don't you prepare it yourself?"

"Okay!" Lin Shuwen agreed immediately.

Even though Xu Lang and Wang Chang couldn't guess it, it was impossible for the other people in the program team not to guess it, so to put it bluntly, these two dishes were for Lin Shuwen to show off her cooking skills.

Then Lin Shuwen followed Xu Lang to the kitchen.

"Teacher Wang, Wenwen said she wants to cook the two dishes we couldn't guess herself."

"That's great!" Wang Chang agreed without hesitation: "I've heard that Wenwen's cooking skills are also very good."

Wang Chang prepared all the other dishes, including the stir-fried pork that Wenwan ordered.

Then he gave up his position as chef.

Lin Shuwen took a cucumber out of the refrigerator, washed it with clean water, peeled a few cloves of garlic, then smashed the cucumber, smashed the garlic into minced garlic, and spread it on the cucumber.

"Sister Wen, is this the little green dragon that was torn into pieces?" Wang Shanshan, who came in to serve the dishes, asked in surprise.

"Yeah! Cucumbers are green. Wouldn't they be shattered into pieces if you hit them like this?"

"Sister Ewen, now that you mention it, it seems to be true. What is the specially prepared baked pork fillet with slightly spicy sweet and sour sauce?" Wang Shanshan asked curiously.

"What dish has three tastes of sour, sweet and spicy, and is made with our pork?" Lin Shuwen asked.

Wang Shanshan thought for a few seconds and then said, "Could it be shredded pork with fish flavor?"

"Congratulations, you got it!"

Then Lin Shuwen fried the shredded pork with fish flavor.

In front of the camera, Lin Shuwen's knife skills appeared to be very skilled. Not to mention other things, just the way she shredded carrots looked better than Wang Chang's.

After the fish-flavored shredded pork came out of the pot, everyone in the Mushroom House sat around together.

Today's dishes are quite rich. The cold dishes include mixed radish and smashed cucumber, the hot dishes include stir-fried meat and shredded pork with fish flavor, and the soup includes cabbage soup.

"Welcome Wenwen and Wanwan to our Mushroom House, cheers!" At Xu Lang's invitation, everyone raised their glasses and clinked them together.

There is no rule of not talking while eating or sleeping in the Mushroom House. Instead, the main time for guests to chat is during meals.

Xu Lang first started the topic around "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", talking about the TV series and Wen Wan's experiences over the years.

Wen Wan had almost finished her topic, so Xu Lang changed the subject and asked, "Wen Wen, I heard that you are going to release a new album?"

(End of this chapter)