Chapter 197: A Day in the Chinese "Oh my God, I'm starving, I want to eat a piece of pizza!"

"Edward, your weight is already overweight, Yan zhòng is overweight! It's ten o'clock in the evening, for the sake of your health, I suggest that 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. ”

"See, dear. Divert your attention and you won't feel hungry. ”

"Well, okay. ”

Edward was a strong man over two hundred and twenty pounds tall and over one hundred and ninety centimeters tall, and he could run horses on his arms and stand 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 person" at this time

The gym business brings 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 all kinds of glue, such as food that he often eats, such as cosmetics and fitness potions used by his wife.

I don't know if I don't pay attention, and I'm shocked when I pay attention.

It turns out that in the lives of ordinary people, there are so many sources of pollution that may cause hidden 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.

All kinds of green life and health concepts.

He has always been the most active body walker.

"What TV, the recent shows are so boring that they make people sleep!"

Edward had the remote control in his hand and turned on the TV switch.

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

"Well? What is this? A day in the life of a Chinese? What is so good 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. That's why we use the purest natural materials and always maintain the best quality in our products. Our officers don't get promoted. It's about whether the products 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 had a bad job. The state has awarded me the 38 Red Banner Bearer Medal five times in a row, and for the workers of socialist countries, labor is the most glorious. ”

"Wait a minute, dear. ”

Edward's wife, Catherine, stopped Edward, and 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's Lumei cosmetics. I'm the one who takes care of the feeding!"

"Oh, First Lady!"

Catherine suddenly realized, clapped her hands, flipped out a magazine that had obviously been placed 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 here!"

"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 to her feet and snatched the remote control from Edward's hand.

Snorted, "Go eat your pizza, tonight's TV belongs to me!"

"Oh my God, you're interested in such a clumsy advertisement?"

Edward was unwilling to lose control of the remote control, and after a few robs, he was no match for Catherine, who was 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: "The pride in your eyes. This is a person who works with feelings for his own products and careers! 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 pieces of pizza in the fridge that he took home at noon, and the bacon cheese filling is his favorite, satisfying his delicious appetite for food.

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 so 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 plain bowl full of food was pushed out of the window, and 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, surrounded by kind and enthusiastic workers.

At this moment, the camera decisively gave her a close-up of the food in her hand.

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

Wang Shufen mixed the noodles with chopsticks, and then gently picked them.

The smooth and thin noodles rose with an oily glow and a slight steam, and they slipped into her mouth with a stinging sound.

At the same time, new subtitles were posted on the TV screen, introducing fatty intestine noodles, a unique Chinese food.

"This is a pig's intestine? Oh my God, it's coming at all!"

Americans don't eat offal, a myth that was once very rife in China.

It is regarded as a clear proof of the Chinese eating customs.

But is this really the case?

Let's take a few examples, such as foie gras.

For example, German sausage, Danish roast lamb heart, Italian sizzling pig brain, and Spanish Shirley 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, 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 this does not mean that Americans cannot accept eating offal, but that many times they can't afford to eat delicious offal.

On TV, the braised pork intestines churning and emerging in Wang Shufen's noodle bowl are not only attractive in color.

And the director also gave a crazy slow motion.

A piece of pork intestines, one end in the person's mouth, the other end with chopsticks, and then gently torn - the pig intestines first stretched like a lazy waist, fully demonstrating the elasticity of the ingredients themselves.

Then the middle part thinned and snapped into two, showing its softness again.

Shufen gulped down the food in the bowl.

Edward and Catherine both swallowed unconsciously.

The cold and hard pizza in his hand 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 we're on a date this week. It should be good in a Chinese restaurant. ”

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

"However, are Chinese factories really not profitable?"

Catherine asked Edward curiously.

"Well, they are ** countries, state-owned factories should be like this. ”

Edward, a second-knife international political player, said: "I heard that in China, there are quality problems with products. The director of the factory was going to be dragged 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. ”

"Erudite"

Edward nodded heavily.

"Oh, I want this, this is it!"

Catherine's eyes lit up when she listened, she slapped the magazine on the bed, pointed to it and said to Reagan's wife, Nancy: "Ruby's cosmetics are natural, pollution-free, green and environmentally friendly!

Thank you, God, for educating the average American to either have muscle in their heads, or fat in their heads.

If Hu Wenhai is in a scene, he must shout: Long live anti-intellectualism!

Cannot.

"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 Three Fresh Wontons and 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 to have a slight understanding of international affairs, probably treating the Chinese as a large ** Africa, or a large Vietnam with a strong army.

In short, it is a centralized country, ruled by poisonous vegetables, and the people are all brainwashed, ready to find a country to destroy every minute anytime and anywhere...... The third is that the very few Americans who have been to China have the impression that the Chinese will feel similar to thirty 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.

And the vast majority of Americans.

Either they have an impression of China before 1900 or they 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 is indeed a delicacy for Swedes?

The human aesthetic of fats, sugars and carbohydrates has proven to be regardless of race and national borders.

Real cuisine, for people of all cultures in all countries and all figured out.

Even if it is an American journalist who went to Yulin to cover the dog meat festival.

You will also be attracted by the delicious dog meat hot pot, drop the camera and sit down to eat fragrant meat.

Chinese cuisine is even the most modest to say.

At least it's on the same level as French cuisine.

Americans, who are quite eclectic in their diet, 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 many delicious foods, can't help but ignite their interest.

China is too far away, but Chinatown is close.

Purpose Americans.

Most of them are 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 are you shouting? All the money has been lost! What's wrong, Lao Tzu is very good today!"

"The boss is not good!"

The cook in the kitchen is a Chinese smuggler, 200 US dollars a month for food and housing, this income can't even hire a cleaner in the United States, but he is already very conscientious to change to a stowaway.

Xiao Huang, who helped the cook, couldn't even speak English, so he hurriedly ran out of the kitchen: "Chef." Chef Zhao ran away! He made a documentary, took off his chef 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 the situation for a while, and finally suppressed the anger in his heart: "Does he want to increase the money? You told him that today's salary has doubled." It's all this time, and I treat everyone well on weekdays. It's for the sake of American mixed rice, 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?"

...... "Chinese Day", a documentary written documentary, read as an alternative advertisement for Treenebee, with its strong exotic style and various delicacies in the film, it has set off a lot of "Chinese style" in the United States

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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 Hop Kee Hotel, there are also people who are 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 Chinese rule are eating grass, eating three fresh wontons in the morning and fatty intestine noodles at noon?

Are you kidding!

China's reign of terror was built on the repression of poisonous vegetables, how could the people have a sense of honor?

**China's state enterprises are accustomed to cutting corners, and the people dare not speak out!

But then a lot of "China passes"

stood up and began to confront the spokespersons of Treasure Island in the newspaper.

All kinds of actual numbers jù took out and began to slap in the face, you say that the Chinese are eating grass?

On dry goods!

China has solved the problem of hunger ten years ago, and although meat cannot be eaten openly, it is still no problem to wrap a wonton and eat some water.

It is precisely because there is not enough meat that they eat even the offal.

Only then did I develop such a good way to cook 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 that their state-owned enterprises do not need to pursue profits, so there is no need to cut corners!

It's all state property anyway, and to whom are the remaining materials and costs given?

Workers and factory managers won't take an extra penny for cost savings, is it necessary to cut corners?

If the product quality is not good.

Instead, they will be pulled out and shot!

Relying on 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 to let K Ji of Baodao 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 backward in technology, the impression of affordable materials and good quality of things is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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

However, it turns out that they are really too young, toosimple, and they don't have the pen of K-ji.

The newspapers have not become less suspicious of Chinese mainland, but have become 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.

Soon pushed a lot of neutral Americans to the side of PBS.

Even if you don't have a lot of interest in "A Day in the Life of a Chinese", it is the right policy of the United States to uphold freedom of speech.

Finally, the "right-wingers"

In order to slander these voices that help the Chinese speak, they even invented a "five cent"

The salutation.

The source is said to be someone who broke the news, all the voices in the newspaper that speak for Chinese.

It was all 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 actually took out 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 mao"

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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 NBCCBS and ABC came up, hoping to get the follow-up broadcast rights of "A Day in the Life of a 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 get a ride......"

(To be continued.)

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