Du Yuanzhe had just come out of the gym when he received a call from Liu Xu.

"Yuanzhe, the crew is planning to arrange for the four of you to participate in an episode of "Weekend Entertainment."

"Weekend Entertainment" is the program hosted by Jin Hao, and Jin Hao had invited him to join in before.

Du Yuanzhe asked, "Brother Liu, when will you record "Weekend Entertainment"? "

Liu Xu said, "It's still early. Director Wang probably wants to air "Weekend Entertainment" a few days before the show airs. This will have the best publicity effect. You won't be recording until July."

Du Yuanzhe understood, so he decided to record "The Country House" first.

"By the way, you have received many advertisements in the past few days, but I have rejected them all for you."

The TV series is about to be aired, and it would be a loss for Du Yuanzhe to sign an endorsement now, and it would also lower his value. Liu Xu is waiting for Du Yuanzhe to become more famous because of "The Legend of Yun Lan", and of course he will not do anything to lower his value.

Du Yuanzhe nodded: "It's up to Brother Liu to decide."

June 20th

After being idle at home for half a month, Du Yuanzhe finally went out to record a variety show. Only Xiaopang accompanied him. Du Yuanzhe lived in the village during the entire recording period. Xiaopang came along just to be able to contact Du Yuanzhe as soon as possible in case of emergency.

Coming out of the airport, Du Yuanzhe saw the car that the program crew came to pick him up. Xiaopang got off the car at the hotel, leaving Du Yuanzhe alone to go to the recording location.

The program team's car only took him to the village entrance, and he had to walk the rest of the way by himself, pulling his suitcase.

Cheung Lam Village

This is a small village in the north. Du Yuanzhe has seen the aerial footage taken by the program crew. It is clearly just randomly divided fields, but it feels very beautiful when viewed from above.

The program team rented a yard in the village, and the guests were waiting for the new members to arrive.

Du Yuanzhe asked the villagers before finding this place. He knocked on the door and walked in.

The people in the house heard the noise and came out one after another. They saw Du Yuanzhe pulling a suitcase at a glance.

Feng Mao immediately went to meet him and said, "Finally someone has come."

Feng Mao is a veteran actor. Many people grew up watching his plays. He has both the experience and status in the entertainment industry. He is the main guest in "The Cottage".

Du Yuanzhe said, "Hello, Teacher Feng. I am Du Yuanzhe. My mother is a fan of yours. She reminded me to ask for your autograph before coming here."

Feng Mao smiled and said, "No problem, any number of signatures is fine."

No one else knew Du Yuanzhe until they heard his self-introduction. They knew they couldn't ignore the new guest, so they came over to say hello.

Han Jinghao, the king of love songs, pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "Xiao Du, is your mother just a fan of Lao Feng? Hasn't she heard my songs?"

Du Yuanzhe knew that Han Jinghao and Feng Mao were enemies in the program group, and said, "My mother also wanted Mr. Han's autograph, but you are too handsome, and my mother was afraid that my father would know, so she asked me to ask you privately... Please ask the program group to cut this part, I don't want to go home and get beaten."

Han Jinghao was very happy to hear this, and raised his eyebrows proudly at Feng Mao: "Don't worry, Xiao Du, I will help you supervise the program team to cut this part."

Feng Mao said sadly: "I used to be a handsome boy who was popular among thousands of girls, but time has made me old, and the wrinkles on my face have blocked my handsomeness."

Jinming, the youngest of the guests, scratched his head and asked in confusion, "That's not right, Teacher Feng. I've seen photos of you when you were young, and you don't look much different from now."

puff--

Du Yuanzhe and others all laughed.

Feng Mao's face froze, and he said angrily, "We should go inside, why are you always staying outside?"

Yang Zhong, who was slightly older than Du Yuanzhe, helped carry Du Yuanzhe's luggage into the house and said, "Yuanzhe, there are not many houses here, and they are all large shops. You can live in the same room with Jinming and me. I will help you put your luggage into the house."

Du Yuanzhe thanked him: "Thank you, Brother Zhong."

Jin Ming asked expectantly, "Will there be another female guest later?"

Every episode of "The Country House" will invite several guests, both men and women.

The only one who knew who the guest was in advance was Feng Mao, mainly to prevent any awkward situations from arising from the fact that they did not know the guest.

Han Jinghao said: "The program crew is too tight-lipped. No matter how I try to persuade them, it's useless. Let's wait. They'll be here soon anyway."

Feng Mao knew that Du Yuanzhe was not familiar with the others, so he asked him, "What kind of food does Yuanzhe like to eat?"

Du Yuanzhe: "I'm not picky about food, anything is fine."

Feng Mao: "Then I'll just do it casually."

"I've heard that Mr. Feng is an amazing cook. I'm in for a treat today."

Jinming asked: "Brother Zhe, can you cook?"

Du Yuanzhe said embarrassedly: "I only know how to cook noodles."

Cooking is the most obvious difference between him and the original owner. Du Yuanzhe will not show off his cooking skills in front of outsiders in the short term.

Jinming's eyes lit up: "We are the same, I only know how to make instant noodles."

Yang Zhong jokingly said, "Brother Jin has finally found a confidant."

Han Jinghao said with emotion: "Young people rarely know how to cook. My husband and I only learned how to cook after we got married."

Jin Ming said: "So it's not that I'm useless, it's that Brother Zhong is too weird."

Yang Zhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is it wrong that I can cook?"

As they were talking, the door rang again, and everyone went together again to welcome the new guests.

Two female guests arrived together.

Du Yuanzhe was stunned when he saw one of them. He knew both of them.

Wei Lingling was also stunned when she saw Du Yuanzhe: "Yuanzhe, you are here too."

He had known that You Yingxue would come, but he didn't expect Wei Lingling to come as well.

Du Yuanzhe said: "Yes, what a coincidence."

Feng Mao looked at the two of them and asked, "Do you know each other?"

Du Yuanzhe nodded: "Lingling and I were college classmates."

"What a coincidence."

As the two female guests walked in, they were about to go back into the house when the wooden door was pushed open again and this time it was Zheng Xiao who walked in.

When Yang Zhong saw Zheng Xiao, his expression changed slightly.

It was Feng Mao who greeted first: "Ah Xiao, long time no see."

Zheng Xiao glanced at everyone, paused at Du Yuanzhe, and said with a smile: "Teacher Feng, for the sake of our acquaintance, please don't torture me too much."

Feng Mao said sincerely: "We warmly welcome every guest and let you feel at home. How could we bother you?"

Du Yuanzhe's mouth twitched. The veteran actor was really thick-skinned. Did you really think he had never watched the show?

It sounds better when spoken than when sung!

Zheng Xiao and others looked at Feng Mao with suspicion, and no one believed what he said.

Feng Mao remained calm in the face of the doubts of several people.

The guests have arrived and several of them returned to the house and sat down.

Feng Mao began to introduce the program team's rules: "Our program generally does not have tasks, and guests can do whatever they want. But we have to eat and drink when we live here, and we need to exchange things with the program team. The price is set by the program team, and everyone is fair."

"You just arrived today. To welcome you, the program team provided us with food for free. You can have a good meal, but if you want to eat well afterwards, you have to exchange things."

Du Yuanzhe and others looked at Feng Mao as if he were a black-hearted businessman.

Han Jinghao couldn't help laughing and said, "Old Feng, if you want someone to do a job, just say so. Why are you talking so much?"

Feng Mao looked helpless: "This is the fault of the program team. They clearly wanted to torture the guests, but they forced me to say this, as if they were very democratic."

The two of them sang in unison and sold out the program group completely.

Jin Ming was laughing on the side. This was not the first time that Feng Mao had stabbed the program team in the back. He always promised them well in person, but turned around and sold out the program team.

Du Yuanzhe asked the question that everyone was most concerned about: "Teacher Feng, what do we need to do?"

Feng Mao said: "There is a peach forest on the mountain not far from us. Now is the season for picking peaches. We can use peaches to exchange ingredients with the program team. In addition, there are fish in the river at the entrance of the village. We can also catch fish and eat them ourselves or exchange them with the program team."

Han Jinghao said at the right time: "We're going to have dinner soon. There's no need to think about these things now. It won't be too late to decide what to do after dinner. Old Feng, why do you always spoil my mood?"

Feng Mao said angrily: "Tell me the truth, did you bribe the program team? Why do I always have to be the bad guy?"

Han Jinghao touched his face and said proudly, "Because no one believes me even if I'm a bad guy."

"After all, attacking appearance is not allowed."

Everyone laughed.

Feng Mao's appearance is only average in the entertainment industry. When he first became popular, the entertainment industry was still dominated by actors with good acting skills. He starred in many classic dramas because of his good acting skills, thus establishing his position in the entertainment industry. In addition, he is humorous and witty, and he became popular again in the past two years because of "The Cottage".

Feng Mao stood up and said, "Xiao Zhong and I will go cook for you, you guys chat first."

He also asked Wei Lingling and the others about their preferences. They each said a dish they liked. After Feng Mao had an idea in mind, he looked at Du Yuanzhe and said with a smile: "Yuanzhe, you will be at a loss if you don't order any dishes."

Du Yuanzhe said: "I can't live without meat. As long as there are pickled vegetables, I will eat them."

Jinming's eyes lit up: "Brother Zhe, we are the same."

Han Jinghao said: "Meat is not cheap, you two have to work hard."

Jinming approached Du Yuanzhe and whispered, "Teacher Han has been driven crazy by the production crew. He has to calculate how much work he needs to do in advance for everything he wants."

Han Jinghao's face was dark: "I heard everything."

Several people laughed again.

Zheng Xiao asked, "Don't we need to help?"

Han Jinghao looked at him: "Ah Xiao can cook?"

Zheng Xiao shook his head: "I just think it's not good to just sit and wait for food, you can help wash the vegetables or something."

Han Jinghao laughed and said, "You have to learn to be thick-skinned. We are just waiting for Lao Feng to prepare the food and serve it to us."

Jin Ming also said: "After coming to this show, I have become much more shameless."

He had thought about helping, but he didn't know how and would only cause trouble if he went into the kitchen.

Zheng Xiao looked at Du Yuanzhe and said, "Yuanzhe, we just got here and it's not good for us to be idle all the time. Why don't we go to the kitchen and see if there's anything we can help with?"

He knew that Du Yuanzhe was the second son of the Du family and estimated that he had never been to the kitchen in his life.

Du Yuanzhe knew that Zheng Xiao had bad intentions, so he said, "We don't know anything and probably can't help much."

Wei Lingling echoed, "When my mom was cooking before, I wanted to help, but she kicked me out, saying that I would just mess around, and that if I stayed there, I would be helping her."

Zheng Xiao's face froze.

Han Jinghao laughed and said, "You must have done something to make your mother so reluctant to let you enter the kitchen."

Wei Lingling said embarrassedly: "A few years ago, I wanted to cook a meal for my mother's birthday. I followed the recipe exactly, but I almost blew up the kitchen."

Du Yuanzhe also laughed: "If we could learn to cook just by looking at recipes, there would be no dark cuisine."

Du Yuanzhe thought of Xia Ningmi who managed to successfully cook Braised Pork with Preserved Vegetables, and realized that she was at least much better than Wei Lingling.

Of course, Du Yuanzhe didn't know how many times Xia Ningmi had failed before.

Seeing him laughing happily, Wei Lingling said, "It's ok to laugh at Teacher Han because he can cook, but how dare you, someone who has never been to the kitchen, laugh at me?"

Du Yuanzhe said confidently, "I know myself well and I won't go into the kitchen if I don't know how to cook."

Wei Lingling chuckled and said, "You are so proud."

After a few people changed the subject, no one paid attention to Zheng Xiao's question anymore.

You Yingxue saw that Du Yuanzhe and Zheng Xiao were not on good terms, and also knew that Wei Lingling was helping Du Yuanzhe. Her gaze fell on Wei Lingling, with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

Jinming looked at the two and asked, "Are Brother Zhe and Sister Lingling good friends?"

Wei Lingling nodded: "We were classmates and entered the entertainment industry together. Yuanzhe helped me a lot."

Du Yuanzhe said: "I originally thought that this little girl was weak and timid, and I couldn't let her be bullied for the sake of being a classmate. Later I found out that she was an expert in Sanda, and she could beat three of us without any problem."

Han Jinghao was surprised: "Lingling knows Sanda?"

Wei Lingling has a sweet appearance and is only about 1.6 meters tall. She looks like the type who needs protection.

Wei Lingling said: "I can't be considered a Sanda expert, I'm just interested in self-defense, so I learned some Sanda techniques."

“That’s pretty impressive too.”

Jinming sighed and his body moved unconsciously.

Han Jinghao looked at You Yingxue and asked, "Has Yingxue learned any self-defense skills?"

He didn't go to the kitchen because he was responsible for talking to the guests and giving each guest a shot. Logically, he should have chatted with Zheng Xiao for a while, but he didn't have a good impression of Zheng Xiao, so he just skipped him.

Zheng Xiao was well aware of the status theories in the entertainment industry. When he saw Han Jinghao and You Yingxue talking, he knew that they had ignored him. He felt even more gloomy and his face twisted for a moment.

You Yingxue said: "I have also learned some, and I also learn when filming. For example, when we were filming "The Legend of Yunlan" this time, the instructor also mentioned self-defense when teaching us sword moves."

She obviously knows how to promote something, and with just one sentence she changed the topic to "The Legend of Yun Lan".

Han Jinghao knew they were here to promote the show, so he said, "I saw the trailer. Ah Xiao and Yuan Zhe are also in this show, right?"

Zheng Xiao nodded: "Yes, I have read the original novel and I really like the role of Qingyang Zhenren. After hearing that the novel was going to be adapted, I tried to contact Director Wang. After passing the audition, I signed the contract."

Jin Ming was surprised and asked, "Brother Xiao also passed the audition?"

Zheng Xiao smiled and said, "Director Wang is very strict in selecting actors. Every actor has to audition and can only be accepted if he approves them."

After hearing what he said, Du Yuanzhe and You Yingxue remained silent.

Wang Ligang is indeed very strict in casting, but he is not a stubborn person. In other words, no one who can become a famous director is a reckless person. He will compromise when necessary, just like the male and female protagonists of this drama, who were both chosen by capital.

Wang Ligang might actually let Zheng Xiao audition, but he will definitely not follow strict standards, as long as Zheng Xiao's acting skills are acceptable.

Du Yuanzhe has been working with Zheng Xiao for a few months, and it is obvious that his acting skills are not that good. It can only be said that he has acting skills, but not much.