Chapter 601 "New Journey to the West" (End)
When Zhang Ping'an came out of the inn, he met Li Shengji who had just arrived on the road. He smiled and asked, "Where to go?" Zhang Ping'an responded simply to "order restaurant". After the two nodded, he continued to complete the task, and Zhang Ping'an set out towards the hotel alone. The restaurant where he had dinner with Luo Yingshi and others last time was in the mall next to the bell tower, and it was not far from the inn, so he chose to walk alone.
Walking in the center of this historical city, I felt very comfortable inexplicably, especially looking at the tourists coming and going around, listening to them talking tones from all over the place, Zhang Ping'an's mouth was filled with a comfortable smile. This time the shooting was not from the countryside of South Korea, but China. Although without his promotion, this program would have been born in Luo Yingshi, this time Zhang Ping'an brought it ahead of time.
Zhang Ping'an was still very happy to be able to participate in the production of this program. After all, Luo Yingshi's outdoor variety show shooting has solid strength, which is no less expensive than "Three Times and Three Meals". Relatively speaking, this time the filming of China is a cost-effective way because it has been overseas. Although Luo Yingshi's team has also gone to Europe, the United States and other places to shoot landscape and other travel programs, this is the first time to come to China!!
When he arrived in front of the bell tower and watched the vehicle surrounding the historical building, Zhang Ping'an shook his head with a smile on his lips. Because he had just bought coffee, he would come here again... He did not stop too much, but went directly to the restaurant. He told the manager about today's shooting in the restaurant hall, and they promised to provide a large private room for them to shoot the program.
After arranging the shooting time, Zhang Ping'an returned to the inn again. After he came back, all of them arrived, and Jiang Hudong put on punishment-like thermal underwear in the temperature of more than 30 degrees.
After they arrived, they didn't eat, so Zhang Ping'an gave them money and asked them to buy hamburgers by themselves. Jiang Hudong was unwilling to run away and was willing to not eat. But those younger brothers couldn't stand it and wanted to eat it, and he was the last one to arrive, so he had to bite the bullet and go out to buy hamburgers.
After eating a little, all of them began to enter the afternoon break. Zhang Ping'an told writer Li Youzhen about the program schedule tonight: "Dinner has always been the highlight of the program, and today is the first day. We must make them full, so if this is OK, we recommend a few dishes for them, and then ask them to order their own meals with the Chinese menu until they order the meals we recommend. If the orders are wrong, let them keep eating them and keep eating them..."
As he said that, Zhang Ping'an handed the restaurant menu to Li Youzhen. Luo Yingshi, who was standing beside him, looked at the menu, and the number of '100' was clearly written on it, and he smiled and said, "You are too bad, are you? We found the one we recommend in a hundred dishes? If you order the wrong one, how much do they want to eat?"
Zhang Ping'an said with a wicked smile: "I don't know, we will only recommend one dish to them at that time and let them choose from these hundred courses!"
Luo Yingshi smiled and said, "Hahaha... In the past, we tried every game to prevent them from eating, but now you are letting them eat unlimitedly."
Zhang Ping'an said: "On the first day, we have to let them eat enough, right? And it's the first time our staff has been here, so today is a good meal for everyone."
"Okay, then let's arrange it like this."
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As night fell, Chang'an City lit up the lights, and ancient buildings looked particularly beautiful under the light rendering. The "monsters" wandered all the way, leisurely coming to the restaurant, preparing for the start of the program. Zhang Ping'an went to the private room to explain the rules of the game to them, and then handed them a menu with a hundred dishes printed on them.
When he came out of the private room, Zhang Ping'an also reminded them: "Remember, you have to finish a dish before you can continue to order food."
The staff of the program team have already started to serve the dishes in full, and when Zhang Ping'an held the bowl and ate two bites, he was about to get up, Luo Yingshi said, "Ping'an, you sit and eat, I'll go and stare."
Zhang Ping'an smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll just eat something casually. You can take everyone to eat well, and if there is not enough food, add it. Anyway, our program's budget is sufficient."
After they ordered a few dishes, Zhang Ping'an went in and took a look. They were still drinking wooden barrel chicken soup. After Jiang Hudong saw Zhang Ping'an coming in, he immediately protested: "We can't finish the soup, let's finish the chicken."
"Okay!" Zhang Ping'an had no idea that these people had started trying beef...
They don’t know if they watched this show “The Confrontation of the Rivers”, but they actually have some knowledge of Chinese cuisine?
Lee Seung-ki said that "meat" means "pork", and the dish they needed to order had the word "ox" written on it. Jiang Hudong knew the "ox" in Chinese characters because they also had the twelve zodiac signs in Korea, so they still knew the Chinese character "ox".
When Zhang Ping'an sat back to the restaurant for dinner, Luo Yingshi went to watch them order food. Who knew that Luo Yingshi would come out with a dark face in less than ten minutes. Because they had just come out the dish recommended by Zhang Ping'an, they used the word "beef" to order food next to each other.
Zhang Ping'an said with a wry smile: "This is completely different from what I expected..." It was a very failed planning.
Luo Yingshi said with an idea: "In this way, if you hold the dragon ball and treat it as a shuttlecock, kick five of them, we will give you one more immediately."
"What about failure?"
"Failed, let's take back this dragon ball that should have been sent to you!"
This is the first time Luo Yingshi proposed "gambling". He didn't know at this time what impact would this proposal have on the program in the next "gambling" nature? What are Porsches, Lamborghini, Iceland travel, and various gambling lottery draws will have serious consequences because of this precedent!
Of course, that will happen a long time later. However, today the God of Luck will not stand on their group of "sinners". So Zhang Ping'an easily took back a star of dragon ball!
As night fell, Zhang Ping'an bought a few hundred yuan skewers and some iced beer to return to the inn and invited the staff to eat together. Of course, without affecting tomorrow's shooting, everyone would drink two iced beer appropriately to drive away the heat of early summer.
The sound of performers in the program team drinking beer upstairs soon reached downstairs, while Zhang Ping'an and Luo Yingshi sat in a casual position in the patio, drinking and chatting about the show's expectations.
Luo Yingshi was holding a skewer of lamb skewers and gnawing: "We are under a lot of pressure this time. We have invested so much, and I wonder what the advertisements we contacted on Station N are like?"
Zhang Ping'an took a sip of beer and said his thoughts: "Season 1, I think... it is a casting of our program for directions. If we can get good online clicks and let the TV station see the benefits, then the program can be moved back to the TV station."
"We have signed a broadcast contract for two seasons," said Luo Yingshi.
Yes, online platforms are not stupid. If they only have one season contract, of course they are unwilling to cooperate. So from the end of April this year to May next year, the second season must be produced within a year.
"Wait until this place starts to air and see the reaction. Well, I think it's best to shoot the second season in winter. This will create a summer and a winter!"
"Hehe..." Luo Yingshi looked at Zhang Ping'an with a treacherous smile: "I heard that you are discussing a new work with you again?"
Zhang Ping'an smiled and nodded and said, "Well, I'm discussing a new work. My planning is almost done. I'm going to start after the first season ends."
"It seems that we need to deepen our cooperation." Luo Yingshi raised an eyebrow at Zhang Ping'an and said.
"Three Times and Three Meals" planned by Zhang Ping'an and this "Journey to the West" were all liked by Luo Yingshi.
Because Zhang Ping'an's production style is a bit strange, he can shoot static and comfortable "country" and can also take hardships with everyone to shoot such outdoors, so Luo Yingshi is really willing to cooperate with Zhang Ping'an, especially this time Zhang Ping'an firmly supports his problem in casting.
"Aren't we working together now?" Zhang Ping'an responded.
Luo Yingshi said: "I watched the food program "Jianghu Showdown" you made, and you pulled Bai Zhongyuan out to shoot variety shows. I think you plan to tamper with food in the future? How about it, let's work together to shoot a food program?"
Zhang Ping'an responded: "There are too many food programs now, both "Please Come on the Refrigerator" and "Wednesday Food Reception". Moreover, when I was filming "The Confrontation of the Rivers and Lakes", I agreed to SBS, and next time I made a food program with them. I have thought about the idea and let Bai Zhongyuan be the host!"
Luo Yingshi smiled and said, "I knew you didn't act kindly when you brought Bai Zhongyuan out to do the show. How do you plan to use him?"
"Take it slow. Recently, many people have watched the live broadcast of cooking on "Little TV". So... I plan to create a program where Bai Zhongyuan teaches cooking."
Once he was teaching cooking, there were more designs. Luo Yingshi said in surprise: "Bai Zhongyuan has many secret recipes in his hand, are he willing to take them out?"
Chapter completed!