Chapter 197: A Day in the Life of a Chinese

"Oh my god, I'm starving, I want a pizza! I have to eat a pizza!"

"Edward, you're overweight, seriously overweight! It's ten o'clock in the evening, and for the sake of your health, I suggest you bear with it. ”

"No, I have to eat!"

"If you must eat, you will have to run three kilometers more for tomorrow's morning run!"

"Oh, I thought about it, and I felt like I could bear with it a little longer. ”

"Look at TV, dear. Divert your attention and you won't feel hungry. ”

"Well, okay. ”

Edward was a strong man over 220 pounds tall and over 190 centimeters tall, capable of running horses on his arms and standing on his fists. When he was younger, he used to work as a fitness instructor, but since he became the owner of a gym himself, his body quickly blew up like a balloon after neglecting exercise.

Fortunately, he was already a "successful man" at this time, and the gym business brought him more than $8,000 a month. There is a perfect wife who dances aerobics at home, two lovely daughters are already in middle school, and a happy middle-class middle-aged life, what is not satisfied?

Of course, people's ** is infinite, so there will never be a time to stop pursuing. The happiness of life made Edward pay attention to the quality of life again, such as a small blue pill that was secretly trending on the market recently......

In addition to this, Edward has recently begun to pay attention to environmental protection. Not only environmental protection, but also environmental pollution everywhere in life.

For example, furniture that uses various glues, such as food that is often eaten. For example, the cosmetics and fitness potions used by his wife.

I don't know if I don't pay attention. It's a shock to pay attention to. It turns out that in the lives of ordinary people. There are so many sources of pollution that can cause health hazards.

As soon as people have money, they are afraid of death. Edward is more or less a man with a little money, so he is also afraid of death.

He is not afraid of spending money on anything he uses at home, he is afraid that it will be unhealthy. He has always been the most active practitioner of various green life and health concepts.

"Look at what TV is, the recent shows are so boring that it makes you want to sleep!" Edward held the remote control in his hand. The TV switch was turned on.

As soon as the 32-inch large color TV at home lit up, an oriental face suddenly popped up.

"Hmm? What is this? A day in the life of a Chinese? What is there to see about this kind of show. ”

Just as Edward was about to change the channel, the Oriental woman who was clearly working on the TV spoke Chinese, and English subtitles were simultaneously typed on the screen.

"Enterprises in our socialist countries do not need profits, so we use the purest natural materials and always maintain the best quality of our products. Our officials' promotions are not based on how much money they make, but on whether the products they produce are popular with the people, so the leaders are always afraid that we will cut corners......"

"I, Wang Shufen, have been doing this work for 20 years, and I have never made any mistakes. The state has awarded me the 38th Red Banner Bearer Medal five times in a row, for the workers of socialist countries. Labor is the most glorious. ”

"Wait a minute, dear. ”

Edward's wife, Catherine, called out to Edward. The woman's talent radar was inexplicably touched, and she always felt as if she had seen the product on the screen somewhere.

……

"Last year, U.S. President Ronald Reagan came to our magic capital and gave his wife Nancy Lumei cosmetics, and I was personally responsible for feeding them!"

"Oh, First Lady!" Catherine suddenly realized, clapped her hands, flipped out a magazine that had obviously been left for a long time from the bedside, and turned a page: "Ruby, Lumei! Yes, Reagan's wife Nancy does have a set of Chinese cosmetics." Oh my God, there's a whole page of articles about this cosmetic product!"

"Pure natural raw materials, original craftsmanship, without any hormones and chemicals that irritate the skin, can be used by any skin type and any age!"

"Oh, this cosmetic is amazing!" Catherine jumped up, snatched the remote control from Edward's hand, and snorted, "Go eat your pizza, tonight's TV belongs to me!"

"Oh my God, it's just such a clumsy advertisement, you're interested?" Edward was unwilling to lose control of the remote control, and snatched a few times, but it was no match for Catherine, who was not physically flexible.

"You know what, this shows that Chinese don't advertise at all, and it's not the same thing as the profiteers who are on TV all day long." Catherine had a good impression of Wang Shufen's obviously clumsy propaganda language: "Look at the pride in her eyes, this is a person who does things with feelings for her own products and career! I believe in a person with feelings!"

"Oh, well, you crazy woman. Edward tugged at the corners of his mouth, deciding not to meet his wife.

He got out of bed, put on his slippers and walked out of the bedroom. Recently, he was losing weight, and he only ate two apples at night, and he was hungry at ten o'clock.

There are also two midday take-home pizzas in the fridge, and the bacon cheese filling is his favorite, satisfying all his good food needs.

Edward took two pizzas out of the fridge and heated them slightly in the oven. Finally, with two pieces of pizza on the plate and a few olives, I returned to the bedroom with the plate.

Compared to the cold dining table, although TV shows are annoying, the bed and wife are always pleasing to the eye, aren't they?

"Oh, it's delicious!" Edward took a big bite of the bacon pizza, reveling in the protein and carbohydrate satisfaction of the cheese and bacon.

In between eating, his gaze also drifted unconsciously towards the TV.

"This is our canteen, and everyone in the factory eats here at noon. We don't need to spend money to eat, and the factory will meet all the workers' requirements for food. ”

As she spoke, Wang Shufen on TV really ordered a meal from the chef, but she didn't need to pay anything.

After a while, a bland bowl full of food was pushed out of the window, under the kind greeting of the master. Wang Shufen took her food away.

She placed the bowl in her hand on the table in the cafeteria. I am surrounded by kind and enthusiastic workers. That's when it happened. The camera decisively gives her a close-up of the food in her hands.

Emerald green vegetables, chopped green onions and coriander, and braised pork intestines with a rich color and texture - just looking at them is enough to make people secrete a lot of saliva.

Wang Shufen stirred the noodles with chopsticks, and then gently picked them, and the smooth and thin noodles rose with oily shine and slight heat, and they slipped into her mouth with a stinging sound.

At the same time, new subtitles were posted on the TV screen. We will introduce fatty intestine noodles, a food unique to China.

"This is a pig's intestines? Oh my God, it can't see it at all!"

Americans do not eat offal, a myth that was once very popular in China and was seen as a clear proof of the evil eating habits of Chinese. But is this really the case? Let's take a few examples, such as foie gras, German sausage, Danish roast lamb heart, Italian sizzling pig brain, and Spanish sherry lamb kidney......

However, it is true that it is rare to see offal on the ordinary table of the average American. It's not that Americans don't eat. It's a matter of pure craftsmanship. With Americans' fast food habits and rough cooking techniques, it's really hard to get the offal right. But that doesn't mean Americans can't accept eating offal. It's delicious offal, which many times they can't afford to eat.

On TV, the braised pork intestines churning and emerging in Wang Shufen's noodle bowl are not only attractive in color, but the director also gave a heartbroken slow motion.

A piece of pig intestines, one end in the person's mouth, the other end with chopsticks, and then gently tear -

The pork intestines first stretched out as if they were stretching their waists, fully demonstrating the elasticity of the ingredients themselves. Then the middle part thinned and snapped into two, showing its softness again.

Watching Wang Shufen gulp out the food in the bowl, Edward and Catherine both swallowed unconsciously with a mouthful of saliva.

Seeing the cold and hard pizza in his hand again, his stomach was obviously hungrier, but Edward had no more to continue eating it.

"Damn, this is something that the average Chinese worker can eat?" Edward was visibly frustrated, but then perked up, "Honey, I think our date this week should be a good place in a Chinese restaurant." ”

Catherine smacked her lips and nodded, "Well, I think so too." ”

"However, are Chinese factories really unprofitable?" Catherine asked Edward curiously.

"Well, they're communist countries, and state-run factories should be like this. Edward, a two-knife international political scientist, broke blindly: "I heard that in China, there is a quality problem with the product, and the factory director is going to be pulled out and shot." And their factories are not to make money, but to produce products and then distribute them to citizens for use. From this point of view, there is really no need to do anything in pursuit of profit. ”

"So, there is no need for Chinese cosmetics to add chemicals to deceive consumers?"

"Well, that's right. The "erudite" Edward nodded heavily.

"Oh, I want this, this is it!" Catherine's eyes lit up as she listened, slapped the magazine on the bed, pointed to it and said to Reagan's wife, Nancy: "Ruby's cosmetics are natural, pollution-free, and green!

Thank you, God, for educating the average American to either have muscle in their heads, or fat in their heads. If Hu Wenhai saw this scene, he must shout: Long live anti-intellectualism!

"But where can I buy this kind of cosmetics?"

Thinking of this, Catherine became worried.

Chapter 198 Five cents and five cents

"Three fresh wontons! 15 sets of three fresh wontons in five servings!"

"3 sets of fat sausage noodles and two bowls!"

"Zuo Zongtang chicken 1 takeaway!"

The Hop Kee Hotel in New York's Chinatown is a very famous hotel in the left, and the decoration and service are not like the fly restaurants in other Chinatowns, but the layout is very in line with the American understanding of Chinese culture - Japanese style with Chinese elements, but in the bones it is the minimalist style of Americans.

In the eighties, in the eyes of the vast majority of Americans, there were three images of China. One is the kind of person who adds American news to Canadian news, and at most Mexican news to international news. For such people, China, a distant country, is probably still a feudal society with pigtails on the back of their heads.

The second is that they have a slight understanding of international affairs, and probably regard the Chinese as a large communist Africa. Or the militaristic plus Vietnam. In short, it is a totalitarian state. Poisonous vegetables rule. The people are all brainwashed, and they are ready to find a country to destroy it every minute anytime and anywhere......

The third is that the very few Americans who have been to China have the impression that Chinese will look at North Korea 30 years later.

In short, no matter what kind of person it is, it is very rare for the United States in this era to say that it really understands China. The vast majority of Americans, on the other hand, either have pre-1900 impressions of China or have unrealistic prejudices.

However, food knows no borders, even if it's canned Swedish herring. Wouldn't anyone want to try it and believe that it was indeed a delicacy for the Swedes?

The human aesthetic of fats, sugars and carbohydrates has proven to be race- and borderless. Real cuisine is something that people from all countries and cultures can figure out. Even American journalists who go to Yulin to cover the dog meat festival will also be attracted by the delicious dog meat hot pot, throw away the camera and sit down to eat fragrant meat.

Chinese cuisine, even if it is the most modest, is at least on the same level as French cuisine. Americans, who are quite eclectic in their diets, are still very receptive to food. In order to support the front line during World War II, Roosevelt called on ordinary people to eat water, and everyone ate with relish.

Anyway. All of a sudden, Chinese food was so popular.

The day after the show "A Day in the Life of the Chinese" aired on PBS, its influence was unleashed.

Americans' curiosity about the mysterious country of China. Coupled with the discovery that ordinary Chinese actually enjoy so much food, they can't help but ignite their interest.

China is too far away, but Chinatown is close. Most of the Americans who watched the show were interested in going to Chinatown to taste Chinese food.

However, such a film also has some not-so-good results. For example-

"It's a big deal, boss!"

The owner of Hop Kee Hotel is personally supervising the accounting collection, and today's daily turnover is almost catching up with the income of the past month, which is the first time for Hop Kee Hotel.

The corners of the boss's mouth, who was counting the money, grinned to the root of his ears, and suddenly heard such a shout from the kitchen, and accidentally scattered Franklin in his hand.

"What's the shout, the money has fallen off! What's wrong, Lao Tzu is so good today!"

"The boss is not good!" The man who helped in the kitchen was a Chinese smuggler, who paid $200 a month for food and lodging, an income that he couldn't even hire a cleaner in the United States, but he was already very conscientious when he was replaced by a stowaway.

Xiao Huang, who helped the cook, couldn't even speak English, so he hurriedly ran out of the kitchen: "Chef, Chef Zhao is running! He watched the documentary, took off his chef's uniform and ran away." ”

"Run, Lao Zhao, where is he going? It's just started to serve guests today, and everyone outside is going to the Statue of Liberty, isn't it a pit for me at this time?"

The boss sorted out his emotions for a while, and finally suppressed the anger in his heart: "Does he want to increase the salary? You told him that today's salary has doubled." It's all this time, I treat everyone well on weekdays, for the sake of being American, pull the brothers!"

Helping Chef Xiaohuang swallowed his saliva and said nervously: "He, he said that the bowl of three fresh wontons was made by his master, and he is going back to the mainland to find his master!"

"Huh?"

……

"A Day in the Life of the Chinese", a documentary, read as an alternative advertisement for treenewbee, with the strong exotic style in the film and the various delicacies that make people hungry just by watching, successfully set off a lot of "Chinese style" in the United States.

Americans, who were originally blind to China, are curious to know what China looks like now, which has been shrouded under the Iron Curtain for half a century.

Such a film completely satisfies the curious character of many Americans.

However, in addition to the owner of the Heji Hotel, there are also people who are unhappy and do not look down on the good Chinese.

For example, KMT on Treasure Island will certainly not sit idly by and watch Americans develop a favorable impression of Chinese mainland.

Soon, someone in the newspaper began to write articles refuting the contents of "A Day in the Life of a Chinese." The people under the rule of Communist China are eating grass, eating three fresh wontons in the morning and fatty intestine noodles at noon? What are you kidding!

Communist China's reign of terror was built on the repression of poisonous vegetables. How can the people have a sense of honor?

State enterprises in Communist China are accustomed to cutting corners. The common people dare to be angry but dare not speak!

But then many "China experts" stood up. They began to fight-for-tat with the spokespersons of Treasure Island in the newspapers.

All kinds of actual data came out and began to slap in the face, you say that the Chinese are eating grass? China has solved the problem of hunger ten years ago, although the meat cannot be eaten openly, but it is still no problem to wrap a wonton and eat some water. It is precisely because there is not enough meat that they even eat offal and develop such a good way of cooking offal!

As for the repression of poisonous vegetables, otherwise you are saying that President Reagan is establishing diplomatic relations with a poisonous vegetable regime and developing friendly strategic partnership building?

It is precisely because China is a socialist country. Their state-owned enterprises do not need to pursue profits, so there is no need to cut corners! Anyway, they are all state property, and to whom will the remaining materials and costs be given? Workers and factory directors will not take an extra penny for saving costs, so is it necessary to cut corners? If the quality of the products is not good, they will be dragged out and shot!

With the advantage of the honeymoon period between China and the United States in the eighties, the United States even sold the F-14 at this time, of course, it is impossible for the K Ji of Baodao to be too blatant to pour dirty water on Chinese mainland.

In this way, the newspaper fought for a few days, and K's pen quickly discovered the problem. The more fierce the speculation on his side, the more Americans are interested in China. In this way, although Chinese mainland is technologically backward. However, the impression that things are affordable and of good quality is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After discovering the problem. K-Kee's pen quickly died down and decided not to add fuel to the fire.

However, it turns out that they are really too youngtoosimple, and without the pen of Kji, the doubts about Chinese mainland in the newspapers are not a little less, but more and more intense.

Ahem, what's going on here, K's pens are completely confused, I don't know why Americans suddenly have so many angry red necks.

The problem, however, is that many of these attacks on China have a distinctly McCarthy flavor. Right-wingers have even openly clamored in the newspapers to give PBS a little "color."

Such remarks quickly pushed many neutral Americans to the side of PBS. Even if I am not very interested in "A Day in the Life of a Chinese", it is political correctness in the United States to maintain freedom of speech.

In the end, in order to slander these voices that help the Chinese speak, the "right-wingers" even invented the title of "five cents." The source is said to be that someone broke the news that all the voices in the newspaper speaking for Chinese were planned by the Chinese embassy behind the scenes. For every word written in the newspaper, the Chinese pay them five cents.

But then someone investigated and came up with another document. A receipt showed that a pen holder who attacked Chinese mainland for K Ji in the early days actually concocted a piece of false attack articles at the price of 5 cents per word.

So many Americans turned their heads and called those who opposed Chinese mainland "five cents."

A tearing drama, regardless of the final result, at least the documentary "A Day in the Chinese" has been completely hyped up.

This time, not only PBS, but even NBC, CBS and ABC have come up, hoping to get the follow-up broadcast rights of "A Day in the Chinese".

"Hahahaha, what's the matter, Counselor Jing, I just said that this hand will definitely work, right? Now we in China are not worried about whether our reputation in the United States is good or not, but whether our reputation is good enough. In order for Americans to import more Chinese products, there must be enough Americans interested in China. ”

"Well, I don't have Mr. Hu's cleverness in this regard. If I had known that there would be such an effect, I wouldn't be this counselor, how good and comfortable would it be to be a big boss like Mr. Hu?"

Jing Bin shook his head with a smile, since the hit "A Day in the Chinese" set off a wave of China fever in the United States, the evaluation of him by his superiors immediately increased several levels. If during his tenure, Sino-US trade can continue to expand, and when this term ends, there will naturally be a better future waiting for him.

"People from several major TV stations are in contact with the embassy and want to win the player of the next documentary, Mr. Hu, which one do you think is better for?"

Hu Wenhai pondered for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "Actually, I have a reluctant request, which can be regarded as a little selfishness of mine." Actually, I have an ad on hand, and I hope to take a ride......" (To be continued......