CH 22

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The six guests take the group as a unit and stand in one place in twos. The loudspeaker sounded again at the right time.

"Now that you have been divided into teams, we will announce the first task of this vacation."

"Members of each team are tasked to cook a dish based on the theme of the poem in their hands, which will be tasted and judged by local residents."

"The results will directly affect your living conditions tonight.

"The purchase and cooking of these dishes requires the cooperation of all team members, and no outside help is allowed. Now the program team will distribute the start-up funds for the task to everyone."

After the three groups of guests received the start-up funds from the program group, they started their respective procurement sessions.

The dishes of Zhong Manyun's group and Huo Yitong's group have clear themes, one is "wine" and the other is "spring spirit". Only the topics of Wen Jin and Ruan Jinghong's group are relatively mysterious.

Seeing that the other two groups of guests had already left the courtyard one after another, Wen Jin came to Ruan Jinghong holding a note with a poem on it, with a very kind expression on her face, as if the chill at that moment before was just Ruan Jinghong's illusion.

"How do you understand these two verses?"

Ruan Jinghong saw that Wen Jin had already started to devote herself to the task, so she didn't dare to neglect, relying on her knowledge of Chinese language which was acceptable during her studies, she replied earnestly: "What the poem says is that the most difficult thing to keep in the world is the one that is gone forever. The time and the falling flowers and leaves of the tree. The years are fleeting, and the beauty is late."

Wen Jin nodded, "Indeed, time cannot be retained, but it can be commemorated. There is a saying that 'only time and food cannot be disappointed'. It is also suitable to make food that can make people feel the tranquility of time is also relevant to the theme.

Ruan Jinghong thought about it seriously, "But...what kind of food can make people feel that the years are peaceful?"

"Anything is fine."

As Wen Jin spoke, she already had an idea in her mind. She took a few steps to the gate of the courtyard, turned her head to look at Ruan Jinghong who was still standing there, and urged, "Why are you standing there, come along."

Ruan Jinghong glanced at the camera next to her, took two steps forward, and said politely: "Teacher Wen, please lead the way, and I will follow you well."

If Wen Jin still can't see that this little one is deliberately keeping a distance from her, then she will have lived so many years in vain.

She felt inexplicably aggrieved, but she couldn't get angry in front of the camera, so she turned around and walked alone.

While unfolding the map to look at it, she said seemingly unintentional: "The terrain here is really complicated. If someone gets lost without a map, it will be troublesome."

Ruan Jinghong, who was slightly directionally confused, was a little panicked when she heard the words, and couldn't help but catch up to the first two steps.

The two came to the farmer's market, and there were a variety of fruits and vegetables everywhere.

The space here is limited, and Ruan Jinghong couldn't stand too far away from Wen Jin, so she took the initiative to ask, "Teacher Wen, what do we want to buy?"

Wen Jin saw that Ruan Jinghong, who had walked all the way with her without words, came to talk to her, and felt a little better, but not much.

"Think about the foods that impressed you the most when you were a child, and buy them according to your heart."

After Wen Jin finished speaking, she put the money envelope given by the program team into Ruan Jinghong's hands, and said calmly: "I was just responsible for looking at the map to find the way, and now I want to rest for a while."

Ruan Jinghong took the envelope, with a big question mark on her small head: Does this mean I need to buy them myself?

Ruan Jinghong, who is rarely in a foreign country, is getting a headache at this time, but the actress said she was tired and wanted to rest, so she couldn't have the slightest objection.

Wen Jin watched Ruan Jinghong come to the stall selling ingredients with a sad face, feeling inexplicably joyful that she had succeeded in a prank: You're the one who avoided me just now.

Most of the people who sell things here are natives, and their English is not very fluent.

For someone like Wen Jin who is proficient in multiple languages, this is naturally not a problem. But for someone like Ruan Jinghong who has spent half of her life in China, there is a big problem.

Wen Jin didn't really intend to let go of it, she thought that when the little one gets beaten and hits a wall, she would naturally come back and ask her for help.

Buy according to your heart.

Ruan Jinghong remembered the chicken noodle soup she used to eat when she was a child. At that time, she was in the period of growing up and consumed a lot of energy. When she was a child, she was carefree and not as quiet as she was when she was an adult. For a while, she jumped around like a monkey, and she always felt hungry every time she came home.

At that time, grandma would cook a bowl of chicken noodle soup for her. The old hen was boiled with Chinese herbs and could be stored for several days.

Take a handful of dried noodles and a bowl of chicken soup each time, boil the soup into the noodles, and serve it with large pieces of chicken, which are both fragrant and filling.

Those years were quiet and good, maybe it is her gluttonous insects that evoked her memory, the unforgettable taste of childhood.

Ruan Jinghong decided to buy an old hen first, but...

Why do the poultry here look a little different from those in China?

She came to a poultry stall owner, first asked in English if there was an old hen, and successfully received a puzzled look from the stall owner.

Ruan Jinghong thought that there was something wrong with her spoken English, so she changed the order of the words and asked twice, in exchange for the stall owner's face full of confusion.

Only then did she realize that the stall owner might not understand English, but she would not give up easily, so she decided to use another way of expression.

Wen Jin, who was waiting to be asked for help, saw such a scene. At this time, Ruan Jinghong, who was standing in front of the booth, was flapping her hands like wings, and while flapping, she simulated a "cuckoo" cry.

She seemed to think that this was not vivid enough. She made small wings with her hands for a while, and then put them together in front of her mouth to form sharp beaks, then changed her tones to several 'coo coo coo', with all her strength. She completely forgot that she is still a female artist in front of the camera.

Wen Jin was so shocked by the sudden scene in front of her that she couldn't speak for a long time: Is this... imitation? Usually those TV dramas only let you act as a human being, which is really a shame.

The emperor's heart was in the right place*, and under Ruan Jinghong's hard-working body language, the stall owner finally understood what she meant, took out an old hen from a cage beside him, and asked in not-so-fluent Chinese: "Sister, what are you doing?"  Do you want to buy chicken?"

*hardwork/sincerity pays off

What, this stall owner can speak Chinese?!

Ruan Jinghong nodded with embarrassment, and after a friendly exchange with the stall owner in Chinese, she successfully bought an old hen.

Next, some herbs and noodles are needed. Ruan Jinghong asked the poultry stall owner to do a temporary translation for her, and the next progress went on smoothly.

Not long after, Ruan Jinghong came to Wen Jin with a lot of spoils, her face was full of joy, "Teacher Wen, I've finished shopping, do you think there is anything left?"

Wen Jin looked at the little one in front of her, with a chicken in her left hand and a bag of seasoning herbs and dried noodles in her right, with chicken feathers stuck in her hair.

Wen Jin guessed that she wanted to have noodle soup.

"That's enough, we can go back." Wen Jin said, but her footsteps did not move, she waited for the little one to ask her...

"Okay, let's go then." Ruan Jinghong spoke without waiting for Wen Jin. She was carrying a large amount of ingredients in both hands and bouncing back, with the chicken feather on her head curling up and down with her movements.

Wen Jin let out a long breath and stood where she was.

At this time, Ruan Jinghong suddenly thought of something, turned around, stepped back a few steps, and came to a position one meter away from Wen Jin.

"Teacher Wen..."

Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore.  Wen Jin thought in this way, and silently pinched her fingertips.

"Can you show me the map that the program team gave you?"

Wen Jin:?

Your two hands are like this now, where will you hold the map in your hand?

Besides, as far as the map drawing level of the program team is concerned, are you sure you can understand it?

Even so, are you still unwilling to ask me?

Ruan Jinghong didn't know what Wen Jin was thinking at this moment, otherwise she would definitely feel very wronged.

She wanted to avoid suspicion, but her behavior just now was purely to enable her group to better complete the task.

At this moment, Ruan Jinghong had more than ten pounds of ingredients hanging on each of her thin arms, and her hands were actually quite sore.

But she thought in her heart: This variety show has just started, and the tasks assigned by the program group are so tiring, and I don't know what will come out later.

The task reward this time is linked to the living conditions in the future. Teacher Wen has not experienced any hardship obviously. I must work harder to complete the task and not let her suffer injustice in this show.

Teacher Wen took care of me so much before, even if it is for reciprocation, I should still put in more effort now.

Thinking like this, Ruan Jinghong felt that she was full of strength again.