Chapter 51: A Little Record
The fish caught by Xiao Ai was not too big, only a dozen centimeters long, and he threw away the belly of the fish by the river on the spot and cleaned up the internal organs. However, the scales have not been removed, and they have been preserved intact.
Then it's time to make a fire.
In ancient times, it was very troublesome to make a fire in the wild, there were no lighters and matches, although the fire folds that often appeared in martial arts novels were real, but that thing was a consumable, and ordinary people couldn't afford to use it, and the fire sickle and flint to make a fire were the main ways.
Xiao Ai took out the fire sickle bag from the small bag he carried, took out a small piece of flint, and a ball of dry mugwort wool, hit the flint with the fire sickle, and after a few strokes, it ignited the moxa velvet, and then carefully added some dry leaves and branches, and after a cloud of smoke, the flames came out.
"When grilling fish in the wild, the most important thing is the fire, you can't put the fish directly on the fire, otherwise it is easy to burn the skin of the fish, but the inside is not cooked, and the branches that are not too dry will produce smoke, which will make the grilled fish full of smoke smell. The best thing to do is to light the fire with dead branches, and when the dead branches are about to burn out, then grill the fish with coals......"
With the background sound, the fire lit by Xiao Ai has gradually lost smoke, and the flame has stabilized for a while and then begins to become weak, and leaves a lot of red coals, at this time Xiao Ai will stick the fish in the branch and put it on the fire to roast slowly.
The camera focused on the fish that slowly changed color for a while, and then cut to Lin Yi's face, obviously the aroma of the grilled fish had made the hungry Liu Xiu's index finger move.
"In ancient times, there were very few varieties of seasoning, and even salt was very precious......"
With the voiceover, Xiao Ai took out a small cloth bag from his pocket and carefully pinched out a little yellow-white crystal, but it was coarse salt. Ancient salt is not like the refined salt with iodine and calcium added to the supermarkets sold today, which has been finely ground. Xiao Ai grinds the coarse salt with pebbles, then sprinkles it little by little on the belly of the fish whose skin has been burned, and then puts the whole fish on the coals that have no flame, covers the whole fish with coals, and then covers the coals with sand for smoldering.
After waiting for a while, Xiao Ai touched the surface temperature of the sand, it was no longer hot, and when he opened the sand, he saw that most of the coals in it had burned out, and as the fish was exposed, a rich fragrance spread, Lin Yi suddenly sniffed vigorously, looking salivating......
Xiao Ai took out the fish, replaced it with a branch and inserted it, and then carefully peeled off the skin of the fish that had been burnt - that's why the fish scales were not scraped off, the existence of fish scales can prevent the fish from being burned, and at this moment, the fish scales and the fish skin were easily peeled off, and the fish meat was not wasted at all......
"It looks delicious......"
"This actor is also too dedicated, isn't he afraid of being stuck by fish bones?"
"This show is very interesting, it obviously teaches cooking, but it is filmed like a TV series, and it is very interesting to watch. ”
"This show is too fake, isn't it? Just put a little salt, maybe it's delicious!"
"I remember when I was a child, I was at my grandmother's house in the countryside, and I often went to the river to catch fish, there was no seasoning, not even salt, and every time I was grilled, but it always felt delicious, how many years, I still remember the taste......"
"Wife, how about we eat grilled fish at noon?"
The first episode of "Food - Food Through Time and Space" was broadcast as scheduled, without any publicity in advance, not to mention online marketing advertisements, and even this station had no advertising, which can be said to be the most low-key program premiere in history.
But even so, when the ratings came out, many people were already surprised.
At 11:25, the program officially launched, and the real-time ratings were only 0.013%, which was basically the same as the original program last week. However, at 11:30, Xiao Ai appeared in the show, and the ratings had risen to 0.019%, which was about the same as the highest record of the original program......
Xiao Ruyu was overjoyed, it was obvious that this was a lot of viewers who changed the channel, and they accidentally saw this show, so they stopped attractingly.
That's not all, when Xiao Ai started grilling fish, the show went to the key time, through exquisite lenses, high-definition shooting of grilled fish, the attraction of the show grew rapidly again, and soon exceeded 0.02 percent, all the way to the continuous rise, has reached 0.029 percent!
Don't look at it just a few tenths of a percent, but that's a pretty good result!
If it is an evening program, it is not difficult for the ratings to reach a few percent, or even more than ten percent, but this is a noon file, around half past eleven at noon, at this time, most people are still at work, how many people watch TV? At present, the first program in real-time ratings is only a few 0.5 percent, and the tenth place is less than 0.2 percent!
As the bottom-ranked Jinhai TV in satellite TV, the ratings ranking has always been outside the top 40, and the highest record in history has never entered the top 20, and it is not even comparable to the cartoon channels of some satellite TV! But at this moment, the ratings have risen by more than a dozen places in one go, and it will soon break through the top 30, can it not be surprising?
What does it mean to have high ratings? It means that advertising fees can be higher and you can earn more!
Xiao Ruyu has already begun to calculate, if the first episode of the show can break through the top 30, then this show will definitely not lose money......
"Mr. Xiao, look!"
At this time, the show had been broadcast until Xiao Ai finally grilled the fish, and under the close-up shot, the fish skin was peeled off little by little, revealing the snow-white fish, slightly exuding a faint heat, which seemed to make people smell the smell of fish through the TV screen, and then Lin Yi gobbled up the fish, that posture, people couldn't help but be infected when they saw it, and they couldn't wait to get one to eat with him.
And at this moment, the ratings have soared again, 0.04 percent, 0.05 percent, 0.07 percent, 0.09 percent......
This broke the record of the highest ratings in the noon session of Kim Hae Terrace?
How could it go up so fast?
Mr. Xiao was surprised and delighted, this is too scary, isn't it? Isn't it just grilling a fish and eating a fish? How can it suddenly grow so much? Even if the show is well filmed, it is impossible for it to become famous all of a sudden, so that everyone can watch it? After all, we don't advertise, we can only rely on the audience to change the channel, stay after seeing it, and slowly accumulate popularity. It can't be that at this moment, all the audience is changing the channel, so that all of them happen to be changed to Gimhae Terrace, right?
Lin Yi didn't know Xiao Ruyu's thoughts, otherwise he would definitely say: Impossible? How can it be impossible? We have the blessing of our ancestors, what else is impossible?