Love Variety Show (Twenty-Nine)
Everyone looked in the direction Xiao Yuan pointed.
Various money-making projects are clearly written on the beautifully printed board.
Feeding pigs: 20 yuan
Bathing pigs: 100 yuan for 10 pigs
Fishing: 15 yuan per kilogram
Farming: 150 yuan per mu
Fruit picking: 10 yuan per pound
…
There are so many kinds of farm work that it is really amazing.
And the money that can be earned from these farm work is really outrageously cheap.
Ruan Qi, who grew up in the countryside, was the first one to be unhappy.
She pointed at the line about 'farming for 150 yuan per mu' and frowned at the production team, saying, "Back home, I get 200 yuan per mu for farming, and they provide food. You're trying to drive down prices and disrupt the market!"
"That's right. The price you set is too unreasonable. One hundred yuan to bathe ten pigs? My little Teddy, which weighs less than ten pounds, costs forty or fifty yuan to bathe once. You are bullying us." Ji Beibei echoed loudly.
The other guests also rolled up their sleeves, looking like they were going to fight you until you explain clearly.
However, the director of the program team was not afraid of boiling water.
He sat behind the camera, spread his hands, and said indifferently, "This is my territory, I have the final say. The final right of interpretation of this program belongs to the director."
Guests: ...
Damn, my fist is hard.
Everyone wanted to hit someone, but the reality was that they couldn't change it by just beating up the director.
So, no matter how dissatisfied you are, you have to accept it.
"A quilt costs 200 yuan, and we need two. That means we need to cultivate at least two mu of land?" Si Lin's eyes widened, a look of despair on his face. "How much is an mu of land? Can we cultivate two mu in one day?"
Shi Su: "Don't forget we still have to earn money to buy food. The program team stipulated that pork is 50 yuan per pound, rice is 20 yuan, and vegetables are 10 yuan... If everyone wants to have a full meal, it will cost at least several hundred yuan, right?"
"Damn, the production team is too cruel. With so much money, how many pigs do we have to wash?"
"Now I just hope those two guests don't order too expensive dishes. We really can't afford them..."
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
Just as everyone was talking about the two upcoming guests, the phone rang in the villa.
"The phone's ringing? Who's it?"
"Who could possibly be calling here? It's probably a customer, right?"
"Don't just stand there, go in and answer the phone."
Shi Su took the lead, pushed open the door of the villa, and walked in quickly.
The interior of the villa has a warm country log style, with wooden floors, wooden tables and chairs, warm-colored soft furnishings, and exquisitely crafted small ornaments.
As soon as everyone came in, they fell in love with the decoration style here.
However, the phone in the living room was still ringing, so everyone rushed over without even having time to appreciate the room.
"Who will answer it? Teacher Shi, will you answer it?" Si Lin looked at the oldest person, Shi Su.
Shi Su shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, I'm socially anxious and I hate answering the phone. Xiaomei, you answer it."
"I'm a private person. I only send messages and don't answer calls." Ge Mei refused sternly and turned to look at Ji Beibei. "Beibei, you're so familiar. You answer it."
Ji Beibei immediately took a step back: "I can't do that. I'm only one of the best... Teacher Xiaoqi, you're the prettiest, you take it!"
Everyone pushed the call back and forth, and the phone had been ringing for almost a minute. If no one answered it, it would automatically hang up.
Ruan Qi had no choice but to walk forward and press the hands-free button.
"Hello, this is the 'Lovers' Romantic Days' production team. May I ask who you are?"
Ruan Qi's voice was soft, her tone was slow and polite.
A low laugh came from the other end of the line.
"I am your guest."
This guest used a voice changer, so it was impossible to tell who he was or whether he was a man or a woman.
Ruan Qi raised an eyebrow and was about to continue asking questions when the customer on the other end of the phone suddenly said, "Are you Ruan Qi?"
Ruan Qi paused and nodded.
"I'm Ruan Qi. May I ask who you are?"
"I'm your die-hard fan." The guest spoke slowly, but his words were like a bomb.
All the guests gathered around the phone exclaimed.
"Wow—the person who came turned out to be a fan of Teacher Xiaoqi!"
"Is it a male or female fan? Is it someone from the entertainment industry?"
"The other party is so blatant, Master Xi, why don't you say anything?"
Xi Jiu's eyes did indeed darken a bit.
He held Ruan Qi's hand and was about to answer the phone for her when another voice suddenly sounded on the other end of the line.
"I'm also a fan of Teacher Ruan!" This should be another customer, and his tone was much more cheerful than the previous one. "Teacher Ruan, I want to eat boiled fish and pork ribs stewed with yam!"
Wow, two big dishes right away.
Everyone's eyes went dark. Si Lin tremblingly took the notebook on the table and wrote down the words "Boiled Fish" and "Pork Ribs and Yam".
"Okay, I've made a note of it. Is there anything else you want to eat?" Ruan Qi asked.
The cheerful guest immediately replied, "Let's have a fruit platter. I'll just order these three dishes. Um... uh, is there anything else you'd like to eat?"
The other party should be talking to his companion.
Soon, the first customer's voice was heard on the other end of the phone again.
"I want to eat scallion tofu and steamed fish, and a stir-fried vegetable dish."
These three dishes are relatively simple and use very few ingredients, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, I've got that." Ruan Qi glanced at the menu Si Lin had written, read it aloud, and finally asked, "Do you two need anything else?"
"No need," the first guest replied slowly. "Of course, if possible, Xiao Qi, could you pick a bunch of wild flowers for me?"
Oh no!
Here are the flowers!
All the guests had gossip in their eyes and looked at Xi Jiu in unison.
Xi Jiu narrowed his eyes, reached out to pull the little girl away, and spoke in a deep voice into the phone: "Okay, I'll pick some flowers for you later. What do you want? White chrysanthemums or yellow chrysanthemums?"
[Puff——Hahahahaha! This man is angry!]
[I'm so amused. Master Xi, are you going to pick white and yellow chrysanthemums and place them on the other person's grave?]
【Xi Jiu: Come here, I will not only pick flowers for you, but also dig a grave for you.】
Xi Jiu's undisguised hostility made everyone laugh uncontrollably.
A burst of earth-shaking laughter also came from the phone.
The laughter was obviously coming from the second guest, while the first guest sighed softly and said sarcastically, "Jealous men are really ugly."
A vein popped out on Xi Jiu's forehead.
Seeing that the two were about to start arguing over the phone, Ruan Qi quickly changed the subject.
"We will prepare these six dishes well. When will the two guests arrive?"
"Afternoon." The first customer spoke slowly. Even with the interference of the voice changer, one could still hear his gentle tone. "Take your time and don't be anxious. It doesn't matter if it's not delicious. As long as it's made by you, I like it..."
A second vein popped up on Xi Jiu's forehead.
Ruan Qi's scalp tingled, and she quickly interrupted the other person: "Okay, we'll do it well. Be careful on the road, I'm hanging up first, bye!"
Ruan Qi finished speaking in one breath and quickly turned off the hands-free button.
But when she turned around, she found that Ji Beibei and the others were looking at her with extremely gossipy eyes.
Ruan Qi: “…”
“…What are you looking at me for?”
Ji Beibei, who was enjoying the fun, raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "Teacher Xiaoqi, do you know those two people on the phone? They seem to be very familiar with you."
Ruan Qi secretly observed Xi Jiu's expression and shook his head.
"They used a voice changer, so I couldn't tell. But..."
However, she did feel a sense of familiarity with the tone of the first guest's speech, a bit like... A person popped up in Ruan Qi's mind, but she quickly suppressed it.
It shouldn't be him. That person has such a calm personality, how could he possibly come to participate in a variety show?
Ruan Qi put all her chaotic thoughts aside and said softly to everyone, "No matter who the guest is, we have to entertain them well. Let's discuss what ingredients to prepare first."
The two guests ordered a total of six dishes. Among them, the scallion tofu, stir-fried vegetables and steamed fish were not difficult to make, but the boiled fish and stewed pork ribs with yam were a bit difficult to make.
"I can stew pork ribs with yam, but I can't make boiled fish." Shi Su said, looking at everyone, "Who among you can make it?"
Among the four groups of guests, except Xi Jiuge Mei and Shi Su, the others cannot cook.
Ge Mei is a singer and usually doesn't eat spicy food. She doesn't even dare to touch Sichuan dishes like boiled fish, let alone make it herself.
This puts pressure on Xi Jiu.
"Mr. Xi, can you make boiled fish? If not, let's ask the guests to change the dish." Boiled fish is complicated and tedious to make. Si Lin was worried that Xi Jiu couldn't make it, so he took the initiative to suggest changing the dish.
Unexpectedly, Xi Jiu actually nodded.
"I can."
"I don't know if the guests will agree to change the dishes. How about we wait until they arrive and talk it over...Huh? You can??" Si Lin said halfway and looked at Xi Jiu in shock, "Master Xi, you can make boiled fish? You can even make such a difficult dish?!"
Xi Jiu said lightly "hmm".
"Xiao Qi likes spicy food, and I can cook most Sichuan dishes."
[Wow, what a beautiful love! Master Xi, you really love her!]
[Qiujiu CP is indeed the sweetest! I can still be obsessed with it for a hundred years! ]
Because his lover likes it, he specially went to learn Sichuan cuisine. Such dedication is really shocking, and all the guests present were fed with dog food.
Si Lin covered his stomach and burped, saying, "Since Master Xi knows how to make boiled fish, I'll have to trouble you and Teacher Shi to cook tonight."
"Okay." Xi Jiu remained silent.
Shi Su: "Cooking is no problem. But as for the ingredients... for six dishes, we might need a lot of ingredients."
Not to mention anything else, just a dish like boiled fish requires several side dishes.
And they have to earn money by doing farm work to get these side dishes.
Ruan Qi thought for a moment and said, "I just took a look. There's a field behind the house with a lot of vegetables planted there. We should be able to use them. As for the other ingredients, we can exchange them with the production team. Let's all think about what ingredients we need and then we can calculate the price together."
Several guests gathered together and did some calculations with pen and paper.
Boiled fish requires a fish, bean sprouts, and green vegetables; yam and pork ribs stewed with yam require yam and pork ribs, plus ingredients for the other four dishes and various seasonings. After calculating all these things, everyone was horrified to find that they needed to earn at least 800 yuan.
"Eight hundred? Why is it so expensive? Did I calculate it wrong?" Ji Beibei looked devastated.
Si Lin scratched his hair and frowned, "I calculated correctly. Prices are quite high. A fan of spare ribs costs seventy or eighty yuan, and a pound of pork is fifty yuan."
Ge Mei: "Eight hundred yuan is a conservative estimate, and that doesn't include fruit, drinks, or beer. If that's all included, it would probably be at least a thousand yuan."
Everyone: ...
Under normal circumstances, one thousand yuan is not a lot of money for any of the guests here.
But at this moment, it is too difficult to earn a thousand yuan.
"Farming an acre of land earns 150 yuan. If you want to make 1,000 yuan, you have to plant... seven acres?" Ji Beibei's eyes widened. "Seven acres? How much is that?"
Ruan Qi, who was familiar with farm work, replied, "One mu of land is 666 square meters. Based on the physical strength of a normal person, each person can only cultivate 1 to 1.5 mu per day, and that's the limit. After cultivating that much land, you might not even have the energy to breathe. Therefore, earning 1,000 yuan through farming is unrealistic."
It is definitely impossible to plant seven acres of land in a day, but it is still possible to plant four or five acres.
The program team has set up so many money-making projects. In addition to farming, everyone can also do some farm work within their ability.
After some discussion, Ruan Qi and the others finally came up with a plan—
The four male guests went to farm at least four acres of land and could earn six hundred yuan.
Ruan Qi and the other three girls went to catch fish, pick fruits and bathe the pigs. With so many tasks combined, they were sure to earn four or five hundred yuan.
"If everyone is okay with that, then it's settled. We'll get started after breakfast."
Shi Su made the final decision.
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Because of the huge workload, everyone had a very filling breakfast.
After dinner, it was almost seven o'clock. The guests had no time to admire the villa. After pushing their suitcases into the bedroom, they hurriedly changed into their work clothes.
Ruan Qi grew up in the countryside and often went to the river to play, so the task of catching fish was given to her.
"Is the baby okay?" Xi Jiu looked at the little girl in the onesie with a worried look on his face. "The water is very cold. Will she get frozen?"
"No."
Ruan Qi fastened his overalls and said to Xi Jiu with a smile, "The temperature this month is just right. The water is cool, but not freezing. Don't worry, Jiujiu. I used to play in the river with my brother when I was a kid. It's okay."
Xi Jiu was still a little worried.
He checked Ruan Qi's work clothes several times to make sure they were leak-proof, and then repeatedly reminded her: "If you feel tired, go ashore and rest. When I finish planting the land, I will help you catch fish."
This month is the time for planting rice. The four male guests' main job today is to go to the fields to plant rice, so Xi Jiu has changed into a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and a pair of rubber boots.
This usually reserved man was dressed like a rough peasant for the first time. Ruan Qi found it strange and couldn't help but stare at him for a while longer.
"Even if Jiujiu is wearing rubber boots, he's still the most handsome guy in the village. Don't worry about me. I grew up in the countryside, so I'm used to these things. But you've never done farm work before. Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable?"
Today is a handsome rough guy from the countryside and a little girl fishing~
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