Dream of the Yellow Millet
Jiang Yuran and his brother Jiang Yubai were led to the same place. The tables were small tables for 2-4 people. There was water flowing on one side. It seemed to be brought in from the river outside, winding around each small table.
"Just choose what dishes you want to eat. We have everything in the underworld today!" Bai Wuchang waved his sleeves, and the wooden mechanism in the middle of the small table for the two of them opened, and a thin wooden board floated out.
Several rows of long and thin yellow talisman papers were pasted on the thin wooden board, each with the name of the dish and the price written in cinnabar, which looked simple and elegant.
Bai Wuchang flicked his tongue and said as he walked away, "Take off the ones you choose. I'm going to go drink now, you guys take your time!"
Jiang Yubai and his sister looked at each other, then looked at the recipe with interest. The production team also understood the audience's psychology and took the opportunity to move the camera closer.
There are four rows of yellow talisman paper, namely cold dishes, main dishes, fruits and snacks, and wine and beverages.
The names of the dishes are all ancient Chinese, with a line of small notes below, making it look like a proper restaurant.
[I breathed a sigh of relief. The dishes were pretty normal. I wouldn't dare eat the food in a horror theme park... The price was reasonable, too, even a little lower than I thought.]
[Just a quick aside, I don’t dare eat the Sheng Ping Sha one next door. And it’s so expensive! ]
[Looking at the setting, Director Shang is having a dinner party for civil servants in the underworld (dog head)! Of course the food is good. ]
The brother and sister checked many of the boxes and tentatively tore off the talisman paper. In an instant, the yellow talisman began to emit a blue-white flame from the top and floated towards the void.
"This is so cool!" Jiang Yuran's eyes were full of stars. If it was not over budget, she really wanted to order the entire menu.
Jiang Yubai rubbed his hands expectantly: "I wonder how the food will be served later? Will it be those ghost waiters?"
According to the normal setting, the waiters are the waiters. But the process of serving the dishes once again exceeded the expectations of the two people——
The hot dishes were indeed brought by the waiters, but the cold dishes and drinks were placed on trays and flowed along the river to the two-person table.
[Good fellow, diners can brag about this later: I have eaten food delivered by the water of the Styx, have you eaten it before? ]
[I hate it so much, why didn’t I get the lottery! Otherwise I would be sitting here right now QAQ]
[And me, QAQ, this can be considered a semi-legendary Qushui Liushang, right? I’m so envious! ]
The dishes were not so amazing, but they were of chef quality. The key point was that the atmosphere made the brother and sister's appetites whetted, as if they had really become ghosts invited to the underworld to attend a banquet.
Especially when we were halfway through the meal, the music behind the screen changed, and the curtain on the stage was opened, and dancers began to dance with fluttering sleeves. They held folding fans, and between raising and lowering them, their faces changed from peach blossoms to withered bones, which was mysterious and unpredictable, just like Mr. Gu in "Rouge Comb".
[I remember this choreography! It was in a popular costume drama in the past. I was tired of it after seeing it so many times. I didn’t expect it to be re-interpreted like this!!]
[So shocking, so beautiful, combined with Yun Yongxue's new song, there is a kind of beauty that transcends the boundaries between humans and ghosts...]
[The performance alone is worth the price. ]
Jiang Yuran stared at it intently and almost forgot to move his chopsticks, but Jiang Yubai suddenly began to get restless.
Jiang Yuran saw that his brother's expression was not right, so he asked, "What's wrong with you, brother?"
Jiang Yubai's face was full of excitement: "...I feel a little urgent to pee."
Jiang Yuran hesitated to speak: "..."
Ah, this.
[Hahahaha, I am dying of laughter. Just like me, I am afraid to go to the toilet halfway through watching a horror movie.]
[I have experienced this very well! When I go to the toilet during sex, I feel like a ghost face will appear in the mirror! ]
[It's over. I don't dare to put myself in this situation anymore. This is the toilet in Hades! ]
However, physiological conditions do not wait for anyone, so Jiang Yubai had to drag another male diner to find the bathroom together. The program crew found it interesting and followed them with the camera.
Previously, the diners had just arrived and sat down to order their food in a daze, and had not been able to see the entire underworld, so this was a good opportunity to show it to the audience.
The banquet table was placed in the front hall. Jiang Yubai and the male diners did not dare to ask the waiter, so they could only wander around like headless flies. The signboard could be seen in a hidden place.
"It was only when I saw the familiar toilet sign that I felt like I had traveled through time..." the male diner said tremblingly.
Jiang Yubai was very devilish: "How do you know that the real underworld doesn't put up signposts? The ghost messengers in the underworld also have to keep up with the times."
Male customer: “…”
I beg you to stop talking!
But having said that, Director Shang is indeed a man of great excellence, and every NPC is made to be extremely lifelike.
As the two passed behind the screen, they heard the ghosts hastily preparing before going on stage:
"Where's my pick?"
"Hairpin! Who took my hairpin?!"
"You're stepping on my skirt, get out of here!"
It was exactly the same as what actors would do before going on stage in real life, which was fine, but the scary thing was that it was mixed with the following sentences:
"Ouch, who put my thigh bone in the wrong place?"
"I can't even see my head anymore. Who's hiding? I'm going to get mad!"
"Isn't your head in your hands? You just laughed it off."
Jiang Yubai and the others: "..."
They deeply doubted that if Director Shang was given another month, she would be able to make up one more horror story for each NPC.
The two of them were so engrossed in eavesdropping that they took a long time to move away, and the comments were also reluctant to leave.
As they walked on, the two began to pay attention to the conversations of the NPCs around them. As a result, when they turned around an antique shelf, they bumped into the bone girl who had just stepped off the stage and was holding a pipa.
"oops!"
Jiang Yubai subconsciously took a step back, but the bone girl passed through him directly. Seeing that he was stunned, she turned back and said in a friendly manner: "It's okay. You were still a human not long ago, right? You get used to being a ghost after being around for a long time."
——The holographically simulated characters are untouchable. In other restaurants, even if diners are fully engaged, they will feel a little disappointed when they accidentally discover this: after all, it’s all fake.
But in the "Banquet in Hades", this can completely justify itself and even add a touch of realism!
We are all ghosts, of course we can’t meet each other.
[Oh my god, this is amazing! They actually took advantage of this! ]
[Ahhh, I really had a moment of doubt that the camera of our live broadcast was connected to the ghost realm! ]
[Who knows, maybe we thought Director Shang was setting up a holographic restaurant, but in fact she was taking us through to the underworld (dog head)...]
The staff of the program saw the barrage: "..."
I touched the lens subconsciously. Don't say that, it's scary!
The camera stopped at the door of the two people going to the toilet. Fortunately, there was nothing scary in the toilet except that the lights were a little dim.
Jiang Yubai solved his physiological problem at the fastest speed in his life, and his mind was filled with the horror scene in "Teaching Building No. 18" where the protagonist was trapped in the toilet.
Compared to the "real" ghost, he and the male diner looked like sneaky intruders. When they were about to sit down, Jiang Yubai couldn't help but stop a waiter and asked, "Let me confirm, you are all fake, right?"
The waiter stopped, turned around and said, "Don't be afraid."
Its tone was gentle, and Jiang Yubai breathed a sigh of relief. But before he could finish his breath, he saw the ghost waiter's red lips under the yellow talisman paper slightly curled up, revealing a strange smile.
"We are all decent people with a job and we won't harm anyone."
Jiang Yubai took a deep breath: "..."
Help, I'm even more scared!!
Program team, Sheng Pingsha backstage.
The show started today and the dream builders were waiting in their respective backstage areas, observing the situation at any time.
"How about it?"
Sheng Pingsha paced anxiously and asked the assistant editor shortly after the show started.
He still has some confidence in his design. When watching the trailer before, all the dream builders at least showed a corner of their restaurants, but Shang Jingyan had a completely black screen, and a ghost jumped out at the end.
This is definitely a reflection of not being able to produce anything good!
On the first day, there was not much comparison. Among the five groups of dream builders, at least Shang Jingyan, Hua Feitian, and Sheng Pingsha must have saturated customer traffic because of their high popularity.
Sheng Pingsha was asking about the online reviews. The editor looked at them for a while and said conservatively, "Uh... they're all pretty good."
——In fact, the difference is already vaguely visible. If Sheng Pingsha is “good”, then Shang Jingyan is “stunning”. All the viewers who follow the live broadcast are going crazy!
They have even quickly created a tag #Please invite Director Shang to enter the holographic restaurant chain#, and the number of visitors is currently increasing.
Sheng Pingsha understood something of his implication, and his heart skipped a beat. He rushed over to look at the computer in his hand, and was faced with the scene where the "Feast of the Underworld" was unveiled.
This clip has been edited by some bloggers and has become a popular video, with many people complaining in the comments section:
[Is this a holographic restaurant? The setting is comparable to a movie! ]
[Program group: Small Kitchen; Director Shang: Luxury Film and Television Base. ]
[Ahhhh, how can I get there? I’m in a hurry! ! ]
The editor had no time to stop him and could only watch Sheng Pingsha's face become extremely ugly.
Sheng Pingsha’s small kitchen is also very good, but compared with the creativity of Shang Jingyan and Hua Feitian, it seems extremely mediocre.
The largest projection in front of him was his own live broadcast room. When the ongoing part he arranged appeared, the audience's response was mediocre, not at all as enthusiastic as Sheng Pingsha had expected.
How could this happen? Sheng Pingsha became increasingly anxious. He was very proud of the design. Wasn't that what the young man surnamed Shang did? Why didn't the audience buy into his adaptation?
The diner who was chosen by lottery was an old fan of Sheng Pingsha, but after seeing the human leg, she silently chose only vegetarian dishes when ordering.
[Hahaha, I am dying of laughter. I am also timid and I dare not order meat from a restaurant with this kind of setting.]
[Am I the only one who noticed this? Shengpingsha's price is so expensive, probably the highest among the five groups. ]
[It's normal to have a fame bonus. 】
Sheng Pingsha frowned deeply. Why didn't he order meat dishes? How would his plot develop? He would have the hero follow a justice plot.
He contacted the staff, and soon the waiter brought a plate of stir-fried pork and green peppers, smiling happily: "This is our boss's gift to you for free because he thinks you like him!"
Diner: “…”
I don’t dare to eat it anymore!
Even a blind man could see the reluctance on the diner's face. Sheng Pingsha said angrily, "You won't even eat something for free, so why are you asking for such high standards?"
He was upset, so he started browsing the program tags on Star Network, but the more he looked, the angrier he got.
There was nothing directly to complain about in the barrage, but in the follow-up section, many viewers directly expressed their dissatisfaction.
[What kind of human flesh inn is this? This really turns people off! Isn’t the original Jianghu inn good enough? ]
[Although I am not superstitious, isn’t this a bit unlucky? Who wants to think about “they will become food ingredients” when eating? ]
[It's very sad. I really like the inn in "Moonlight River", but now I feel that it has been ruined by the creator himself. 】
Some of them are obviously his fans and have feelings for "Moonlit Night"; some are simply viewers of "The Wandering Kitchen".
[I haven't seen this dream builder's work, nor have I seen Shang Jingyan's. But if you ask me, Shang Jingyan's is more interesting, haha.]
[The martial arts restaurant is not saying anything very creative... I don't understand what you guys are talking about. Do you mean Sheng Pingsha learned from Shang Jingyan? ]
[I feel sorry for the audience who drew the lottery. It feels like there is something stuck in my throat and I don’t know whether to continue eating (dog head).]
Sheng Pingsha was furious: "Why?!"
They both have the same horror style, so why are the evaluations of him and Shang Jingyan so polar opposite?
Sheng Pingsha found himself in a dead end and couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
The editor knew, but didn't dare to say it. He had been with Sheng Pingsha for so many years, and he knew his temper very well.
The latter suppressed his anger and twirled the beads in his hand.
It doesn't matter... It doesn't matter. He comforted himself. He still had a backup plan, he must win the championship this time!
Sheng Pingsha's eyes gradually became gloomy. This was his chance to appear in the public eye again after many years, and he must not let it go!
After comforting himself for a while, he asked unwillingly, "Where is the little girl named Hua?"
I thought the editor would praise him this time, but he didn't. Sheng Pingsha lost his composure instantly, snatched the laptop to look at it, and was shocked.
Hua Feitian is so bold that she opened a snack supermarket instead of a formal restaurant! ?
Hua Feitian has indeed abandoned the concept of an orthodox restaurant, and everyone who has seen it has to admit: nothing is more in line with her "romantic punk" style than the current design!
When diners enter her restaurant area, they appear in an old and dilapidated teleportation cabin. When the door is opened, the bustling night market scene comes into view.
This is not an ordinary night market. Its background is an imaginary chaotic era. The diners are tourists on the Black Star Ship. The black ship stops at the energy transfer station halfway, and the tourists also get off the ship to move around.
Hua Feitian is particularly good at describing chaotic areas where no one is in charge, which is a reflection of her disordered inner world, and many people feel that it is inconsistent with her appearance and family background.
The same is true for this energy transfer station. Stalls selling various snacks are jagged and crookedly stacked together, with no end in sight. The entire scene is open to the sky, and when you look up you can see the vast starry sky of the Desolate Star.
【!! Hua Dao’s design is so bold, I was really shocked. 】
[This is very much in line with her style. Several of her works flashed through my mind. I'm not trying to disparage her, but the only ones who can reflect their personal style in this design are Director Shang and Director Hua.]
[+1, I feel so immersed in this. It seems like I have traveled through time and space and become a traveler on a deserted planet...]
The leading customer looked around. Hua Feitian also did a great job with the details. There was water on the ground and she needed to be careful to avoid the puddles. There were words in various accents floating around, mixed with slang that she couldn't understand. The sounds of steaming, frying and cooking snacks mixed together, full of the smell of fireworks...
[Wow, I'm envious when I see this. When I was a kid, I would pass by a night market after school. Of course, it wasn't as chaotic, but it was very similar.]
[Yes, yes, I was full after walking from beginning to end and lying down. ]
[What I miss most is the mixture of all kinds of flavors! Heavy seasonings should make it very mixed, but in the end, it all adds up to a unique and enticing flavor...]
"No wonder Hua received full marks in the objective questions of the entrance examination, it's amazing." The diners said admiringly. To reasonably construct a mixed night market, the dream builder must have a very high level of "common sense questions" in reality.
She stopped in front of a stall with great interest. The stall owners were two tall orcs with bear heads. One was a male, and it - or he was slicing a strange-looking fish. The sliced meat was skewered by a female orc next to her and grilled directly on the charcoal fire. It was sprinkled with oil and fragrant powder, and the smell was so strong that people drooled.
The official Alliance has only discovered that humans are the only race in the universe. This is what is written in the textbooks.
Orcs, mermaids, Zerg and the like are all the fantasies of dream builders, so the audience is quite interested in watching them, and some people even shout in the comments [I want ruarua bear head].
“How much is this?”
the diner asked.
The stall owner held out a bear paw: "A string of five star coins."
It’s not expensive, just the price of an ordinary snack.
The diner bought a bunch of them out of curiosity and tasted them carefully before confirming: "This is actually the meat of the cutlassfish."
She walked and ate all the way. This night market was obviously a mixture of races. The stall owners included bear-headed orcs, mermaids lying in water tanks, and blue-skinned humanoids...
The foodie is a loyal fan of Hua Feitian. She recognized that many of them are races that have appeared in Hua Feitian’s works before, and she felt like she had found an Easter egg.
As she bought snacks, the fun gradually turned into tasting what these imaginary delicacies were like in real life.
A fried snack that looks like a tree branch.
"This is a potato, fried so crispy, it smells so good."
The pieces of flesh dug out from the worms -
"It looks like a blue crab? Oh my god, there's even crab roe, but they're selling it for the same price as regular crabs. Director Hua is really generous!"
A kind of egg called "edible stone" -
"Isn't this fried smelt, a specialty of our southern hemisphere? It's hard and durable, and it changes color with the temperature. It makes me laugh to death. No wonder Director Hua designed it to be a temperature-sensitive stone!"
[Wow, I want to go to Hua's show too. Is there any investor who can take a look and turn this season's show into a chain restaurant? ]
[I watched five groups, and Director Hua and Director Shang have the potential to win first place. ]
[Ahhh, it's so hard to choose. Never mind. It's not like one person can only go to one. I'll go to both!]
The customer walked all the way to the end, her hands were almost full. She touched her stomach and found it was already full.
"Burp... I really can't eat anymore."
She said contentedly, "Nothing can stimulate appetite better than a food stall, absolutely!"
The Banquet of Hades live broadcast room.
The Jiang siblings finished their meal and both burped.
Jiang Yubai flipped through the bill and made a wicked joke: "According to the banquet rules, participants should not have to pay, and there should be no prices on the menu."
If both the host and the guests are having a great time, why should we ask the guests to pay?
But he just mentioned that he thought it was a small bug, not that he really didn't intend to pay. The idea of the Hades' Banquet was too amazing, and this little thing was not worth mentioning.
The two were looking around for the checkout counter when there was a commotion at the door, as if a big shot at the party was entering.
"Who is that fairy?" Jiang Yuran stood there wanting to watch the fun for a while, but when the woman passed by them, she suddenly stopped.
The woman was elegant and graceful, wearing a golden dress with brocade rivers embroidered on the hem, and her eyes seemed to embrace everything.
Someone recognized her: [I guess, this is the Queen Mother Hou Tu? ]
Hou Tu looked at them for a while and laughed: "Which family is so thoughtless that they even lured the souls of the living here?"
Jiang Yuran and others: “?”
So this is our setting?
The surrounding Ox-Headed Horse-Faced Guards and Black-Clothed Ghost Messengers all came over after hearing this:
"Oh, it's true!"
"Let me take a look... They didn't eat anything they shouldn't have, so they should be fine, right?"
"Why did you invite the living souls here? I was wondering why they smelled something wrong!"
[What? Dull.jpg So the diners are not gods, but just ourselves who have mistakenly entered the banquet. ]
[Hahaha, this setting is so fun! ]
【What should we do next? 】
"It's nothing serious, it's just some karma. In the eyes of the living soul, these karmas have their own price - you see the bamboo stick, there is a price on it, right?" Queen Hou Tu said with a smile, "Pay gold, silver and treasures, and the karma will be settled."
All the diners were stunned: they could actually make the setting come true in this way!
A waiter calculated for a while, then said after a moment of hesitation: "Just pay in your mortal way."
When he paid the money and walked out, Jiang Yubai was still in a daze and shook his sister: "Pinch me, am I dreaming?"
Jiang Yuran attacked without mercy, and Jiang Yubai jumped up and down: "Ouch, hiss, hiss, hiss... it hurts! You really pinched me!"
These are not fake, but when I turned around, there was only an ordinary door closed behind me, and next to me was a commercial street full of modern atmosphere.
Jiang Yubai actually felt a little bit of imperceptible disappointment in his heart, but when he thought about it carefully, it couldn't be any better.
This kind of story seems to be common in ancient strange stories, in which the soul of an ordinary person accidentally gets into a banquet of ghosts and gods, opens his eyes and sees scenes that cannot be seen in the mortal world, and finally returns to the human world, leaving only the story to be passed down.
The word "seemingly true" is often the core of Chinese supernatural stories.
The sun is shining brightly, and the sound of stringed instruments from the underworld still seems to linger in my ears, like a dream.
"Brother, don't be distracted." Jiang Yuran called back to his senses, "Look, the program team has added a voting channel!"
"Vote?" Jiang Yubai leaned over, his eyes lighting up.
It turned out that because the tag #请尚导/花导进完整holographic餐厅链# was trending, the program team seized the trend and added an honorary voting session: "Which dream builder's kitchen do you most want to stay open for a long time?"
He also said that the final champion will have the opportunity to obtain sponsorship from Boss Qin and open the restaurant as a chain.
——If Director Shang can win the championship, won’t he be able to eat at such a restaurant in the future?
The vote had only been launched for less than three minutes, and no one had noticed it yet. Jiang Yubai immediately rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll vote right now!"
Backstage at the Hades Banquet.
The initial popularity of the five live broadcast rooms is not much different. The majority of them are still the original viewers of "Star River Wandering Kitchen", and most of the fans of the dream builders also choose to open all five groups at the same time to observe the situation of their opponents.
But as time goes by, the popularity values vary more and more, with Shang Jingyan having the highest popularity, followed by Hua Feitian and Sheng Pingsha.
The new viewers are all recommended by previous viewers, and they will go straight to the recommended live broadcast room as soon as they arrive, which leads to the widening gap.
[Yan Yan!! Our heart rate has increased again!] X71 was looking at the backstage. It never stopped paying attention to the data. The electronic sound was tinged with excitement. [Doing variety shows can also increase heart rate. Yan Yan is really amazing! Sheng Pingsha must be looking very unhappy now. Who told him to be so mean!]
Shang Jingyan leaned back on the recliner with his chin supported by his hand and said modestly: [Nothing, just a normal performance.]
She was about to go to the Star Network to check the public opinion, but suddenly a strange friend request popped up on her light brain, and the reason for the request read:
[Hello, is this Director Shang? I am sorry to bother you. I have something to discuss with you about Sheng Pingsha. I have no ill intentions. I hope Director Shang will approve it.]
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