Chapter 63: Los Angeles
Times have changed, and there is no more damning word.
She was born in the most prosperous era of Peking Opera, but was reborn at the end of its declining years. After all the hard work, no one listened to him when he stood on the stage and shouted loudly, and how many people were willing to grit their teeth and sink their hearts to learn drama?
"In short, you will die of this heart in "If you think about it". Xiang Rong said conclusively.
"After the year, we will start recording the group comprehensive, so you can adjust your status in advance. ”
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The limited group "Six-Pointed Star Girl" finally had its first group variety show on the occasion of its establishment half a year ago.
"Meet the Hexagram" is an interactive reality management show produced by the contracted company Lewen Media, and the girl idols will go to the other side of the ocean, parachuted into the Gold Coast, California, and run a Chinese restaurant from scratch.
The program team said hello in advance, and the recording of the group comprehensive started from the dormitory villa, and the girl idols carried heavy suitcases and stepped on the plane to the other side of the ocean.
Xu Chunqiu's intuitive feeling about going abroad actually started from getting off the plane.
After all, the plane is a relatively confined space, and it takes off from the capital airport, and the black-haired and yellow-skinned people more or less account for a lot of weight, but as soon as it landed, it was like a drop of water falling into the sea, Xu Chunqiu only felt that he was surrounded by the atmosphere of a foreign country all of a sudden.
At the same time as the novelty came, there was fear.
The words on the signs are all in English, and the surrounding environment is noisy and intermingled, and it is still English.
And the scariest thing is that she doesn't speak any English.
In addition to Xie Lang, a rich second generation, who grew up in an international school all the way from a young age, and soaked overseas every now and then during the holidays, and his mouth was not good, most of these trainee-born girl idols also stayed in junior and senior high school and couldn't speak a few words of fluent English.
But even so, it is much better than Xu Chunqiu, she is from the Republic of China, and her cognition of English is still at the level of "hello", "thank you", and "sorry", and no matter how difficult it is, she can't understand it at all.
Now in a foreign country, she is illiterate.
The damp hot wind was blowing, and in February and March, when Beijing still had to wear down jackets, in Los Angeles, the customs staff only wore a uniform with short sleeves.
"FirsttimetoLosAngeles?" said the staff casually, flipping through her passport. It was a black lady who looked like a big tonnage, and her fat was crumbling on top of each other, like a giant chocolate cake.
Xu Chunqiu stared at her black face and black eyes, feeling a little apprehensive, she didn't understand half of the sentence, just smiled and nodded.
“.”
She stamped Xu Chunqiu's passport smoothly, and then called the next one.
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The time of landing is in the evening, since you want to open a store, you must have a storefront, and the store prepared for them by the program team is in the southwest of Los Angeles, around Malibu Beach, one of the most prestigious beaches in the entire city.
In addition to the most typical blue sea and blue sky in Southern California, it also has a variety of rocks of different shapes, and the sea and sky in the distance converge into a line, which is indescribably beautiful.
As soon as the girl idols settled, the director team released the task.
"Welcome to Meet the Six Pointed Stars. ”
"In the next few days, you will be running this Chinese restaurant 'Six Pointed Star' together, with a target net turnover of $5,000. ”
"Good luck to you. ”
Catering, from the division of labor, it is roughly divided into two parts: the front hall and the back kitchen, Xie Lang is the best English among them, and he is responsible for the front hall hospitality, except for her, only Wu Hanxing is a trainee who entered the company halfway through the university, and his English is barely read.
All four of them, except for them, went to the back kitchen.
The kitchen is also spacious and bright, several people look at each other, and the front hall can't be done, which doesn't mean that it can be useful in the back kitchen.
"Who knows how to cook?"
I don't know who started the conversation first.
"If instant noodles can also be called cooking......" Qin Meng said embarrassedly.
Those of them who are trainees, since they joined the company, they eat in the canteen, and their cooking skills are the best that they occasionally cook instant noodles for themselves.
"But," Qin Meng's words changed, "Have you watched "Returning to the Garden"?"
Who doesn't know that Xu Chunqiu's kung fu in one meal in "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home" has solved the legendary temper cannon battle and laughing.
Thinking of this, the eyes of several people turned to Xu Chunqiu in unison, and their scorching eyes almost stared at her body with a hole.
The task of the chef was handed over to Xu Chunqiu in such a vague way.
Xu Chunqiu: ......
Don't look at me, this one really won't.
The four stoves, half induction and half gas, were things that she didn't have in her time. Xu Chunqiu stared at the large string of buttons and knobs, and he didn't know where to start.
Forget it, let's see what's in the fryer first.
Xu Chunqiu opened the huge three-door refrigerator, and it was empty.
"I think we'll probably have to go buy the ingredients tomorrow morning. She closed the refrigerator door and said.
A few $100 bills were pasted on the door of the refrigerator with magnets, which were the purchase funds advanced to them by the program team.
"You don't need to go to all the people for procurement, you can go to two people, I think. ”
"And only one of them can speak English. ”
"The other one had better know how to cook, or else he would be blind. ”
So the task of procurement fell on Xu Chunqiu and Xie Lang.
"Procurement, no problem!" Xie Lang replied happily, but when she saw the procurement funds advanced to them by the program team, she almost exploded.
“???”
"Seriously, what can you buy for 500 dollars?"
It's not enough to stuff his teeth, Xie Lang thought sincerely.
Having said that, early the next morning, Xu Chunqiu and Xie Lang still set off early and went to the largest supermarket closest to the storefront.
Xie Lang was used to being extravagant, so the responsibility of managing money was temporarily handed over to Xu Chunqiu.
Then they realized that it was really a wise thing for Xu Chunqiu to be in charge of money.
"Qiuqiu, I want to buy this. ”
"Buy the bigger one. ”
"I want chili peppers too, and baby greens. ”
"Tomatoes too, which can be used as a side dish. ”
“......”
As soon as Xie Lang entered the supermarket, he immediately threw everything into the car like a wild dog on the loose, like a shopaholic. Xu Chunqiu felt like a young mother who took her children to the supermarket, struggling to calculate.
Sober up, we've only got five hundred dollars.