Chapter 35: Welcome Home
Cui Heng wants to remove the sub-word for the first time, and he wants to be the director of the overall production set, he is under a lot of pressure, and he will choose the drama "Passing Restaurant" to start the first shot, which is after careful consideration, and after considering the films he helped shoot when he was an assistant director, he is still more inclined to costume dramas.
And this film also integrates several cute elements, including a cat possessed by a human soul as an important supporting role, as well as those mouth-watering delicacies, and a warm handsome guy in the restaurant. This TV series doesn't want it to have much depth, just hopes that the audience will smile after watching it, or be hungry enough to go to the kitchen to find something to eat.
Because it is almost a small story in one episode, it is an iron-clad actor and a supporting role for flowing water, and it is very important to be able to invite a male protagonist who is very suitable for the audience's appetite. However, Cui Heng's qualifications are still light, the company's investment allocated to him is not very sufficient, there are indeed no big scenes in the TV series, and if a young director like him wants to sell his works at a good price, he must consider carefully when hiring actors.
Regarding the important supporting roles that will appear in each episode, he has already thought about inviting those actors with outstanding acting skills, but they are not very popular, the key is in the actor, if he invites the popular ones, he can't afford the price, but they are not popular enough, and they will not even be able to support the whole show.
Cui Heng doesn't think that popular artists will definitely be able to meet the standards in his heart, but who lets the audience watch the dishes, sometimes the ratings represent a qiΔ. If you dare to use newcomers across the board, you must first reach the level of director Ma Yicheng.
At this time, Cui Heng saw Yang Tuo's interview, to be honest, he didn't think about inviting Yang Tuo, because Yang Tuo is not cheap for him, but when the rice ball cat saw Yang Tuo on the TV on the sofa, he kept meowing, and the whole cat's face was a little rippling, like seeing a small dried fish that he hadn't seen for a long time.
Onigiri, you're a male cat, as for crushing a man!
Cui Heng was a little jealous, who worked hard to shovel every day, but in exchange for a few ruthless paws, and Yang Tuo, who had only been with the rice ball for less than a month, and walked the cat like a dog, was actually remembered by the rice ball.
Cui Heng pressed his jealousy first, he still remembered Yang Tuo when he saw Fantuan, they also cooperated well on the set at the beginning, and Fantuan will appear again in this scene, which is another thing he is worried about, and the actor he found has to cooperate well with Fantuan, which is also a little difficult.
Why not find other cats? Because you can save money by using rice balls.
Cui Heng called Yang Tuo with the mentality of trying it out, and at the same time he was also crying for the budget, after using Yang Tuo, he was going to pull sponsorship, and he didn't know which investor he could pull, ancient dramas are not as good as fashion dramas, because there is no direct product placement, sponsors are not easy to find.
What's more, it is also a question whether Yang Tuo will take this play, although Yang Tuo said in the interview that he had not forgotten who brought him into the film and television industry in the first place, but people have two skins, who can see the heart?
Yang Tuo didn't agree directly, and said that he would read the script before making a decision, but he didn't let Cui Heng wait too long, and Yang Tuo contacted Cui Heng two days later to say that he was willing to take over the play. Then the two met in the capital and talked about it specifically.
Yang Tuo has no other questions about the script, but he circled the places where the cooking scenes were to be filmed, what a hell, he actually gave him a close-up shot in every episode, and he could guarantee that the audience would not be able to swallow if they really watched his stir-fry scene.
"I just want to make a simple request, can you delete these close-up cooking shots, this is not writing calligraphy, just shoot one hand writing, this is to be a panorama. Have you seriously watched my show on Wu Siyuan, in which I said that I am a cooking waste, this is really not a lie. β
"Those shots can't be deleted." Cui Heng insisted very much, this is a heart-warming drama of food, how can the process of making food be deleted to arouse the audience's appetite. "Actually, don't worry too much, unlike taking calligraphy close-ups, you just need to pose in this kind of shot, and it doesn't matter what the taste of the fried food is."
Yang Tuo looked at Cui Heng with 'you are too naΓ―ve' eyes, and today let him know what is called the profound connotation of not even being able to put on an appearance. "Anyway, you're coming to my house, so you can see my cooking skills for yourself."
Yang Tuo's kitchen is very clean, and all the kitchen utensils are complete, which looks bright at first glance. There are also a lot of ingredients in the refrigerator, and there are a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Cui Heng is self-sufficient all year round, he has an ominous premonition when he sees Yang Tuo's kitchen, it is too clean, this is the cleanest place in the room, and there is no oil stain on the range hood, which shows that Yang Tuo is really not very hands-on.
"I'll make you a simple stir-fried greens." Yang Tuo didn't talk to Cui Heng, and directly showed that he was unreliable in cooking.
Yang Tuo's steps at the beginning were very normal, he took out two green vegetables, peeled the leaves layer by layer, washed them with water, and then cut off the green vegetables, and was ready to start frying.
Yang Tuo first poured oil into the pot, Cui Heng watched the time of hot oil on the side, and when he felt that it was about the same, Yang Tuo poured the vegetable stalk into it first, first stir-fried for about half a minute, and then added the vegetable leaves. There was nothing wrong with it, but not long after Yang Tuo put in the vegetable leaves, Cui Heng watched the vegetable leaves zoom all at once.
A pungent smell floated out in an instant, and the rice balls that came with Cui Heng turned out to be sleeping comfortably on Yang Tuo's sofa cushion, and when it smelled this smell, it exploded and screamed, this is really abusing the cat's sense of smell!
Cui Heng was dumbfounded, this is not scientific, how did Yang Tuo do it, he looked at it from the side, and obviously felt that there was no problem at all, how could it cause a mutation?
"How did you do that? I don't think there is a mistake in the steps, and the stir-fry action is normal! β
Yang Tuo opened the window to ventilate, and he could only shake his head at Cui Heng to indicate that he didn't know, "Do you think I can take close-ups like this?" β
"It should be fine to practice, right?" Cui Heng said with an unnatural expression, and he himself was a little unconvinced.
The rice ball came to Yang Tuo's feet and patted him with the cat's tail, "Meow~" Don't be sad, we can't cook, just leave such a troublesome matter to Xiao Cuizi.
Yang Tuo and the rice ball are both spiritual connections, he understood the meaning of the rice ball, and he was actually comforted by a cat, but he was not comforted at all.
Yang Tuo hugged the rice ball, Cui Heng looked at the person and cat in front of him, it was really good to look at the appearance, but with the background pattern, the pot of burnt unknown vegetable leaves was not beautiful at all.
"There is still half a month before the start of the TV series, I will practice seriously, but to be honest, I am not very sure, you have to think about it, if my level can't be improved, what will happen to those close-up shots?"
Yang Tuo is really not embarrassed by Cui Heng, he really has no choice.
The dark skills of this culinary scum have followed him for many years, and he has had a guess in his heart, maybe in the process of cooking, because of the too hot love for food in his heart, those ingredients themselves can't withstand his spiritual wave attacks? This kind of very irresponsible speculation can only be held in the stomach, and no one will say.
However, Yang Tuo also thought about how to deal with it, "But in addition to cooking on the stove, I can show other skills, by the way, my knife skills are very good." β
Yang Tuo said this and was about to give Cui Henglu a hand, he put down the rice ball, washed his hands, and took out a cantaloupe from the refrigerator. "Look, I can carve a rice ball right away."
Cui Heng obviously didn't believe it, he saw Yang Tuo's ability to fry the vegetables just now, and said to Yang Tuo that he could carve a rice ball with a cantaloupe, so he thought that Yang Tuo was a swollen face and a fat man.
"Meow~" The rice ball is much better than Cui Heng, a human who has no confidence, it supports Yang Tuo when it opens its mouth, and it also puts on a good posture, and it actually puts its claws together. This posture has never been done in front of Cui Heng, which made Cui Heng cry in his heart again, whose cat is this, a traitor cat!
Yang Tuo smiled at the rice ball, and didn't say a word about Cui Heng's distrust, letting him see the real kung fu. The knife used was the unpretentious kitchen knife that cut vegetables just now, but Cui Heng found that there was an afterimage in front of his eyes. Seeing Yang Tuo holding the cantaloupe in one hand and the kitchen knife in the other, Yang Tuo found a point to start, and then the kitchen knife circled around the cantaloupe.
This is by no means Cui Heng's exaggerated words, but Yang Tuo's speed is too fast, so that he looks like the kitchen knife is stuck to the melon, and he didn't have time to see how the upper half of the cantaloupe was cut off by the kitchen knife little by little, and it was only three minutes before and after, and he saw that the lower half of the cantaloupe still maintained its original appearance with green skin, but the upper half had been carved into a kitten with his hands folded and looking up at people, and the terrible thing was that even the cat hair was carved out of the roots.
"Are you really human?" Cui Heng took the cantaloupe, and he opened his mouth to ask this question.
Yang Tuo regarded this as a compliment, "I just divided all my talents into knife work, and didn't leave a little for cooking." You can't envy it. β
Cui Heng didn't want to be envious, he just felt that he had opened the door to a new world.
The rice ball looked at the cantaloupe cat for three seconds, then it opened its mouth, bit off the fruit cat's head, chewed it and swallowed it. Sweet and tastes good.
Cui Heng saw the cantaloupe cat with half of his body left, and felt even worse, he was first destroyed by the burnt greens, and now he has witnessed the ferocity of the rice balls, so he won't eat with Yang Tuo today.
"Put the rice ball here for you, you cultivate your feelings, I have a lot of things to do in the past half a month, "Passing Restaurant" is launched in Hengdian, I want to check the set of that restaurant and so on. You brought the rice balls, and I packed up all the stalls of its family, and I also made a list of things that you should pay attention to not eating, and I believe you will get along happily.
As for the close-ups of the cooking, let me think about it, the knife work can be put in, but it is impossible not to take a shot of the pot. You get tired and try to practice hard. β
Yang Tuo and Fantuan sent Cui Heng away with one person and one cat, and Xi Fu was ushered in that afternoon, and he finally came back from a meeting in the United States. This is also the truth that Yang Tuo's family has enough ingredients, because Xi Fu is back, and he doesn't go out to eat as soon as he comes back, and it's more comfortable to cook it himself at home. So Yang Tuo specially prepared the ingredients and waited for Xi Fu to come back.
It was not the first time that Xi Fu felt wise that he recommended Yang Tuo to Xi Wang, it was because Yang Tuo signed in to Qiankun Entertainment that he could live in the Rose Garden, and the two of them walked for five minutes. It was noon when he got off the plane and returned to the capital, took a shower and took a nap, and went to find Yang Tuo after he was full of energy.
They had been in contact before, Yang Tuo bought the ingredients to help with the preliminary processing, and then sat back and waited for Xi Fu to come back to do the reception banquet, what a reasonable distribution.
It's not the first time Xi Fu has come to Yang Tuo's house, there are his special slippers here. When I entered the door this time, I saw a little guy I had never seen before. When Yang Tuo opened the door for Xi Fu, the rice balls were still nested in Yang Tuo's arms and refused to come down.
"Welcome back, I'm waiting for you." Yang Tuo was so excited to see Xi Fu, this time Xi Fu had been away for a long time, and his head was full of nostalgia for Xi Fu, well, the dishes he cooked.
Xi Fu originally thought that they could have a hug for a long time to reunite, but this time there was an extra rice ball cat between the two.
"Yes, I'm back." Xi Fu first smiled at Yang Tuo, and then he looked at the rice ball cat strictly, staring at the rice ball and wanting to jump off Yang Tuo's arms. However, what neither Yang Tuo nor Fantuan expected was that Xi Fu actually learned to meow, "Meow-"
When Fangiri heard Xi Fu's cat meow, his little heart trembled, and he immediately jumped out of Yang Tuo's arms and fled to the sofa. Little Cuizi helped, it heard a very terrifying sound.
Xi Fu looked at Yang Tuo innocently, "I just want to say hello to it, am I so scary?" β
There must be, Yang Tuo shook his head decisively, "The cat in the rice ball is not aesthetically good, you are very good, so let's not be polite, you are also hungry, I have cut the meat, and I will wait for you to come to the pot." β