Soon, the notification bar at the top of the circle of friends started to vibrate.
[Song Zilian: Your conditions here don’t look very good. Let me upgrade them for you.]
[Ji Xinyao: Thank you, that’s not necessary. You can live in a small single room, which is fine.]
[Song Zilian: Do you want to eat anything? I’ll give you some.]
[Ji Xinyao: I’ve had a work meal. If I eat it again, I’ll get fat to death.]
[Shi Yin: You are in the southeast and I am in the northwest, just like love has traveled eight hundred miles and gone in opposite directions.]
[Ji Xinyao:???Talk like a human being.]
[Shi Yin: The movie has started filming, do you want to make a cameo? 】
[Ji Xinyao: When I get back, you’ve already finished everything. Find someone else. Cooking is in progress.]
[Shi Yin: What to cook? What did you go to the Lion City to shoot? "Food Adventure Team"? "Xunwei" international version?]
[Ji Xinyao: I won’t tell you if I signed a confidentiality agreement.]
Ji Xinyao stared at her phone for half an hour, and Andrewson didn't respond to her. She thought she had to think of other ways to attract his attention.
This is when Ji Xinyao saw Gong Jianping replying to her.
[Dad: The weather in Lion City is hot, so be careful to prevent heatstroke. Dad has done academic exchanges at the National University in Lion City for several years and has a few old friends. You can contact them if you need it. ]
Later, Ji Xinyao received several WeChat business cards pushed to her by Gong Jianping.
[Ji Xinyao: Thank you dad, I will contact these uncles if necessary."
[Dad: Pay attention to safety when you are outside alone. Although the crime rate in the Lion City is relatively low, you must be on guard against others. 】
[Ji Xinyao: I understand. Dad, you don’t have to worry about me. I came with the program team. There are more than ten of us. We have support from the local area. I won’t be in danger.]
After Ji Xinyao finished answering, she immediately added the WeChat business card that Gong Jianping pushed to him, said hello, and introduced herself. The other party also said some polite words and told her to contact him if she needed help in the Lion City.
After finishing her work for today, Ji Xinyao made a voice call to Song Zilian as agreed.
"You have only been gone for a day, and I feel as if you have been away from me for a week." Song Zilian said dejectedly.
"You went on a business trip for three days, and I didn't complain that much."
"It means I miss you more." Song Zilian said firmly.
Ji Xinyao thought about it and couldn't deny it.
"I also have work. Look, I'll make a video call to you as soon as I'm free."
"I thought you had forgotten about this. I didn't remind you just now. I wanted to deliberately test whether you were lying to me."
"Song Zilian, you are so childish, like a child."
"I can also be more mature."
Song Zilian cleared his throat. He was lying on the bed, but he stood up instantly.
"You hang around for a while, and I'll see if the conditions there are good."
Ji Xinyao felt a little annoyed.
"Then you should be more childish, there is no need to add unnecessary fatherliness."
Song Zilian burst out laughing.
"But seriously, how are you doing there? Everyone is easy to get along with, right?"
"It's not bad, but I'm not happy with an aunt. But it doesn't seem to be a big problem at the moment. Maybe we can get along better after we get to know each other in a couple of days."
"You have such a good attitude."
"You also know that I came here to investigate my biological father's affairs. There is no need to take other episodes too seriously, as long as they don't become my hindrance or touch my bottom line. Just let it go gently.
"
She looked at the next schedule. Basically, everyone was assigned a cameraman, and they were asked to search for ingredients for three days, then cook on the fourth day, and rest on Saturdays and Sundays.
The TV station was a state-owned enterprise and even those who produced variety shows had days off. She had never heard of it on those online broadcast platforms.
The next day, Ji Xinyao took the information of her mobile phone number and began to slowly search for ingredients.
What she makes is Italian seafood risotto. Although many ingredients can be substituted, rice, shrimps, chicken broth or thick soup, wine and onions are indispensable. The program team will prepare some common seasonings, so there is no need for them to come.
Yes, it would be better if you could find more concentrated seafood or uncommon ingredients like parsley and saffron.
"Let's go find the rice first. The most important thing in risotto is rice."
The Lion City is actually a fairly small island country, and most of its goods rely on imports. However, because it has the second largest port in the world and is located between the two oceans with the most prosperous trade in the world, it strangles the throat of water transportation.
, so the economy is quite developed and materials are abundant.
"I have seen Teacher Sun go looking for white rice in our previous program. He went directly to farmers' houses to ask if they had any unwanted rice, and got a lot of broken rice. But there are no farmers growing rice in this environment in Lion City?
." Ji Xinyao asked while flipping through the rice information she received in the supermarket yesterday.
Since the program team has planned to come to the Lion City to record the program, the people on the program team must have a deeper understanding of the agriculture in the Lion City than she does.
"Actually, Lion City has its own domestic rice, but it is produced by their agriculture. Because there is less land in Lion City, there is even less land for farming. The National Agricultural Research Institute is currently promoting a vertical planting technology.
There is currently a small amount of rice supplied to the outside world, but because the technology is not mature enough and has not been promoted on a large scale, we still mainly import grain from several surrounding countries."
Ji Xinyao checked the rice she took photos of, and it was indeed produced in neighboring countries.
But luckily she took a photo instead of copying it by hand, so she recorded the QR code.
She scanned the QR code and immediately found out where the rice was shipped from, which ship, which container number, and who the dealer was.
As long as she goes to the port to find a dealer and negotiates with him, there is still hope of getting rice.
"Let's go to Warehouse No. 13 of Pier 2. I saw Italian-made Maladri rice shipped from them."
The driver was a local, and he quickly found the address Ji Xinyao mentioned. The workers at the dock had just finished their work and were chatting together.
"Hello, I'm sorry to bother you. We are a program group from China called "The Wandering Kitchen", and we came to the Lion City specially to do a program." Ji Xinyao imitated her look at Sun Hailong in previous programs, and reported to herself
Home door.
The workers stood up immediately.
"We are filming a variety show. Which TV station are you from?" the workers immediately asked excitedly.
Lion City is also a Chinese country, and Chinese account for three-quarters of the national population, so they can understand Ji Xinyao's words, but there are slight differences in the pronunciation and intonation of the two sides.
"We are from Xijing TV, and our program "Wandering Kitchen" is broadcast every Friday evening from 7:30 to 9:00."
Ji Xinyao wanted to make the introduction clearer and gain the other party's trust.
"I know about your show. I sometimes see it when I watch tik-tok."
The Lion City and China share the same roots, and it is common to watch each other's programs. Tik-tok is the foreign version of Douyin.
Once she heard that the other party knew about this program, Ji Xinyao became more confident.
"It's like this. We at "Wandering Kitchen" need to go to various places to find ingredients that have been discarded and no longer needed. I found out that your place is a warehouse for imported rice. I wonder if you have any rice that needs to be thrown away?"