Because of the trouble that Fatima had caused to Mr. Lin, the television producer began sending an email to the owners of the Bricken Farm, reminding him to honor last year's agreement and ask them to do a feature on saffron in South Wales.

In the sent demo tape revealed the style of the planned documentary slightly heavy. It describes how the inhabitants of the Persian Plateau and the Hindu Kush cultivated saffron and were sheared by local tyrants from the Middle East and other parts of the world – even if the purchase price was not low, the main scissors gap was still occupied by the major importers, given the harsh environment and the disparity in purchase-consumer prices. The painting was photographed in sunny South Wales, but it became a scene of how European farmers could diversify their farming, at least that's what the producers planned.

There are two small problems here, because Lin Yilong and his family are not front-line workers, they do not have the vicissitudes of farmers' physical work. Although many of the forest farm workers were miners who had worked underground in the mine all year round, the sense of vicissitudes was enough, but they were not up to standard. In addition, the renovation and reconstruction of the previous two years in the previous two years did not have a hint of the atmosphere of a rural farmer, which at first glance made people look like a mansion built in the countryside, rather than a farm with a rural atmosphere.

These two small problems also make it difficult for the producers. What is to be filmed is a documentary with a certain scientific and educational significance, not some well-filmed entertainment program. According to the principles that documentaries need to follow, props and sets are forbidden.

Makeup is not considered, and at the insistence of the producer, Lin Yilong wore his usual casual clothes - jeans and vest shirts - and went directly to the camera.

There were only two main scenes for filming, the first of which was to find a warm welcome from Lin Yilong at the door of a forest farm house, which was fine, even if Lin Yilong didn't look British.

"We just need to take a picture of the flower field. The producer said that saffron as an ornamental flower is not a rare thing in the UK. But there are no fields of flowers that are used as agricultural crops, which is why they came here to shoot.

However, the saffron field at Bleiken Forest Farm is also a developed ridge flower bed with weeds and the like planted in the flower beds.

"The UK is generally wet, and South Wales is the wettest and rainiest region in the UK – not one of them – but the rainy season in Wales tends to be concentrated in autumn and winter, with only 140 rainy days a year, not a lot of cloudy days, and a little more sunshine. In contrast, Glasgow and Manchester had 180 days of rain and it was evenly distributed, giving South Wales and Cornwall and Devon the best relative environment for saffron cultivation than Cheshire and Cumbria. "Lin Yilong introduced to the host of the documentary in the flower field, the time is still in early May, and the saffron hides in the ridges of the field and does not come out, which feels like a wasteland specially left," In the 17th century, saffron was planted in southern Cheshire and the West Midlands, but because of the Industrial Revolution, the monasteries of saffron fields were turned into factories and cities, and even so, this small flower did not disappear completely, and was planted in the flower beds of Cornwall and South West England, and I am proud to say that the flower field we see today is the largest and best in the whole British Isles. In line with modern agricultural considerations, we now use dryers instead of drying them to preserve the stigma, and the rest is delivered to the supplier's packaging location, such as Tesco, Saensbury or Azda, where the spice is available in supermarkets.

"As for the remaining flowers and the remnants of the stigma, they still smell good and are usually sold to perfume makers or, if you are a little more extravagant, put them in your own bathtub. However, although it is expensive, the scent of saffron flowers is not much different from that of irises or lilies, but I must say that the first two types of flowers as food spices do not have the same rich fragrance as saffron.

"The stems can be refrigerated for the next year's breeding, and this year's spring saw plenty of sunshine and the bulbs survived a lot. Lin Yilong said a long sentence, wearing gloves, brushed aside the soil on it, and took out a bulb, "It's not much different from the cultivation method of flowers sold in flower shops or supermarkets, but this thing is a cash crop after all, not a flower." ”

"Cut!" the director shouted, chatting with the producer next to him, and ending the shoot here.

Overall, the footage here is somewhat similar to a normal TV interview, with the film crew taking some time to set the location, no other time wasted, and the shooting time is only half an hour. The half-hour negatives will be placed in the offices of the producer and director to select the most reasonable ones for them, and then extract less than 1 minute of footage, or leave Lin Yilong's introduction completely absent and say it in the form of a voiceover.

"Mr. Lin, thank you. Producer Reynolds shook hands with Lin Yilong.

"It's nothing, wait for mid-September, find a good day, and take a picture of the ripe flower field and it's finished. Lin Yilong said, "I'll contact you then." ”

"Thanks, if it's all right, we'll leave. Reynolds said very peacefully, and then took out 500 pounds for the filming fee, "This is the salary we agreed before, please take it." ”

Lin Yilong stepped forward, nodded, confirmed the amount to Reynold, and signed his name on a receipt.

"If possible, we would like to make a diet film about truffles at Bracken Tree Farm, Mr. Lin. Reynolds saw that Lin Yilong had signed the receipt and made such a suggestion to him.

"I'm the worst truffle shooting location here. Lin Yilong refused, "Although it is not far from Tuscany and Romagna in late autumn and early winter, it is really not a good place. Consider Bath in Somerset or Exeter in Devon, where black truffles are produced in the best places. I'm here, it's a little inconvenient. ”

"That's a pity. Reynolds sighed.

"It's a shame that I know you may not comment on my next question, but I still need to know how you know that I have truffles here, and no one will notice them unless no one warns them. Lin Yilong asked.

"Because I'm working on a documentary about what the 'super-rich' eat, I'm very interested in these things, and I know a little bit of Italian, so I .......," Reynolds replied. ”

"Of course, but I have to ask for the other person's permission first. Lin Yilong replied.