Back at home, Zheng Weijie took off his coat that was stained with a little smoke and fire, and his wife poured him a cup of tea and brought it over.

"Well, I didn't drink today."

Zheng Weijie took a sip of hot tea and put it down.

"Your barbecue tonight?"

The wife smelled the cumin on the clothes, and it was a little strange, Zheng Weijie's previous entertainment, most of the previous entertainment, accompanied those investors and actors to eat big meals in high-end restaurants, but I didn't see any time when he ate barbecue.

"Well, yes, barbecue with Mr. Xu."

Zheng Weijie nodded.

"It's a little weird that your new boss."

His wife helped Zheng Weijie prepare a change of clothes and quipped.

"yes."

took a hot shower, Zheng Weijie was lying on the sofa, his wife was watching the recent hit idol drama, their children had just entered kindergarten and had fallen asleep now, when Zheng Weijie's film and television company was acquired, he thought he was going to return to the days of poverty, but the changes after that were unexpected, at least for now, he does seem to have a new job to complete.

Zheng Weijie's mind was not ordinary, he recalled some of the ideas that Xu Rui had told him at night.

"Barbecue is a thing that almost everyone has eaten, whether it is rich or ordinary people, from snacks to large, it is the most common food."

Time jumped forward a little two hours, near the phantom animation, in the back street of Ningjiang University, in a barbecue restaurant, Xu Rui said to Zheng Weijie.

In front of them was a barbecue served on stainless steel plates, from the most basic kebabs to grilled pork belly, roasted potato chips to roasted baby cabbage, almost every variety of varieties in the store, and they ordered one of them.

Since they had to drive at night, neither of them drank alcohol, but replaced it with the store's glass bottle of soy milk.

"I think it's important to make a food documentary, so that the audience can watch this film and have a feeling, oh, I've seen it, and then go deeper from here to gradually discover the story behind it."

Xu Rui ate a skewer of mutton skewers and said to Zheng Weijie.

"I think the theme of barbecue is very good, very close to the people, but there is a problem, Mr. Xu, I feel that the barbecue stalls in the country seem to be similar, basically just kebabs and other things, it's okay to shoot one episode, I want to shoot a few more episodes, I feel that the material is not enough."

Zheng Weijie looked at the soy milk in the glass bottle and said his opinion.

"Even if the story behind it is different, the food is always repeated, and the audience will get bored watching it."

When it comes to barbecue as an entry point, Zheng Weijie was very surprised, at first he thought it was a good idea, but if he thought about it carefully, it didn't seem that there were too many shots.

According to Xu Rui, this is a documentary of 30 to 40 minutes per episode, a total of five to six episodes, and Zheng Weijie can't imagine how to make a shooting outline only to support so much content with only barbecue.

Can't you start with raising sheep and shoot all the way to make mutton skewers, or shoot mutton skewers with different flavors?

"Do you have any ideas?"

Xu Rui didn't answer, but asked rhetorically, but judging from his expression, he seemed to have a plan in his heart, and he just wanted to ask Zheng Weijie's thinking, which was more like an assessment than a simple question.

"Well, I'm not very familiar with documentaries, but according to the routine of other documentaries, it should be from the geography, that is, the barbecue in various places, then the food source, such as seafood and ingredients on land, and finally the different styles of stories, joys, sorrows, and so on."

Zheng Weijie analyzed according to his own understanding and the mode of the documentaries he had seen before.

During this period, Xu Rui just listened quietly and ate two skewers of barbecue by the way.

From time to time, students came in groups, some sat down and asked for two bottles of beer, some stood in front of the stall waiting for the roast to be taken away, and some were alone, just eating by themselves, without any feeling of loneliness and loneliness.

"It's a very academic idea, but I think it's a bit rigid."

Xu Rui waited until Zheng Weijie finished speaking before expressing his opinion.

"If this is a documentary broadcast on a TV station, then there should be no problem with this production idea, it is very orthodox, but our platform is the Internet, it is Hatsune Video Network, and when the audience is watching, there will be a lot of barrage, so we also have to take into account the barrage, and even when producing, we must add some small elements that can cause barrage."

Listening to Xu Rui's explanation, Zheng Weijie suddenly remembered that the Phantom Media where he is now located, its main platform is the first barrage video website in China, with the unique interaction method of barrage, so thinking about it, the conventional documentary mode based on seriousness seems to be a little less interesting.

"Like, cats."

Xu Rui saw that Zheng Weijie was digesting what he said, so he continued.

"Everyone likes cats very much, and all kinds of cats are also very cute, and in Huaxia, it is normal to raise cats, especially in the catering industry, raising cats to attract wealth, we can intersperse some cat shots when shooting, which can give the audience fresh visual stimulation in the barbecue."

Zheng Weijie thought about it and realized that this was not an idea from the perspective of shooting techniques, but from a psychological level, through interesting things that do not affect the main line to alleviate the fatigue caused by watching similar scenes for a long time.

This Xu Rui has something.

"I think we can start with the order of ordering when we shoot barbecue."

Xu Rui took a sip of soy milk and then explained.

"First of all, it's meat dishes, all kinds of lamb skewers, beef skewers, pork belly skewers, this is the first episode, and then, the second episode, eat some special barbecue, such as offal and the like, highlight the novelty, the third episode should order vegetarian dishes to relieve your greasy, take a break, eat something tasteful, chewy, this is the fourth episode, followed by gnawing bones, chicken wings and pig's trotters, the fifth episode is also available, and the last one is the sixth episode, Director Zheng, what do you think of this idea?"

His statement was very casual and not formal at all, but Zheng Weijie could follow Xu Rui's words and imagine some pictures.

It's the fat sheep sizzling on a smoky barbecue, the roasted leeks garnished with peppers and cumin, the chewy beef tendons, and the cityscape that can be seen every night.

It is not a classification of ingredients from the place of origin, processing methods, etc., but from the order of ordering, one episode is like a dish, and it is indeed quite a novel idea.

And this is very much in line with what Xu Rui said about the relaxed and happy atmosphere in the Internet, which has a beginning and an end, and the form is scattered but the spirit is not dispersed.

"That's a good idea."

Zheng Weijie did not say out of flattery, but from the bottom of his heart, after Xu Rui mentioned this, he seemed to have some ideas, and he couldn't wait to start filming immediately.

However, the barbecue is best in summer, on the side of the road, with a cold beer, a few friends eating, drinking and chatting, counting the preparations, they will not start official filming until May or June.

And estimate the post-editing, production, and a certain season, and wait until the documentary is officially broadcast, it may have to wait another summer.

Thinking of this, Zheng Weijie asked again.

"The name of this documentary, I wonder if there are any ideas?"

"Well, this one."

When Xu Rui heard this, he gently put the bamboo skewer in his hand that had finished eating the meat on the side of the baking tray.

"Why don't you just call it a string of life?"