Chapter 276: A Bite Of China
No matter how fiercely people outside were fighting over a takeaway meal, the live broadcast room had a temporary grand feast prepared in advance by Xiang Chuan. Even though its flavor couldn’t compare to the mouthwatering ingredients like ham, bamboo shoots, and fresh live fish shown in the documentary, it at least prevented any mishaps in the live stream room, such as the streamer stopping the broadcast due to extreme hunger and running off to eat.
The main thing was, Xiang Xue had indeed thought about temporarily leaving the live broadcast room to raid the kitchen for some hot rice and hot dishes.
Fortunately, Lin Ming beside her noticed her intention right away and unhesitatingly stuffed the entire potato family bucket from his hand into Xiang Xue’s.
Potato, this pure starch food, becomes fragrant and crispy after deep frying, but compared to the full fish banquet on the screen that makes people drool, there’s still too big a gap. However, starch can fill the stomach, which is enough.
Xiang Chuan, sitting on the sofa nearby, witnessed these little interactions between the two streamers and chuckled softly “hehe” twice.
—See, the benefits of preparing snacks in advance are shown just like this.
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As the end of the first episode of A Bite of China simply linked up all the characters who had appeared, it meant that today’s live stream had come to an end.
But how could the viewers let go of streamer Xiang Xue and Xiang Chuan watching nearby so quickly? They all demanded to play another episode or replay it once, having Xiang Chuan and Xiang Xue provide commentary on segments fused with ancient knowledge.
—Too good, one playthrough isn’t enough at all!
The dense bullet comments in the live stream room summed up simply to this meaning.
Unfortunately, if it were usual, Xiang Chuan might really have indulged their wish for a second-run live commentary.
But after watching the first episode, Xiang Chuan’s stomach was starving like crazy right now. Although she had the potato snack gift pack and roasted steamed bun slices to help her persist through the first episode, everyone knows how high the quality of the first season of A Bite of China is. It’s not only in the depiction of humanities and food aromas, but even more in how it makes every viewer feel like they could devour a whole cow while watching and after finishing.
Xiang Chuan was feeling exactly that right now.
Of course, as a multi-run viewer of A Bite of China, compared to modern people, she had some immunity to a greater or lesser degree, so right now she was just thinking of having Little Star help make some fried rice or pan-fried dumplings to tide her over.
The others in the live broadcast room were in a worse state. Right now, they even hoped the kitchen AI could immediately prepare a rich grand feast. Even Ouyang Yating, who was quite polite at Xiang Chuan’s home, couldn’t hold back and joined the ordering queue.
—The things in the documentary look way too delicious!
This was probably the inner feeling of all viewers in the Third Fleet who were scrambling to order takeaway right after watching this episode of A Bite of China.
Right now, even people from other companies had contacted Xiang Weiguo, getting straight to the point that their own company could assist with the Yue Xiang Group’s takeaway transportation, so they hoped Xiang Weiguo could arrange for the eateries to prepare more ingredients, letting them successfully order takeaway tonight.
Xiang Weiguo who received the information gave a dry laugh twice.
Did he not want to? Right now, almost all the eateries under him were handling an order volume 40% higher than the usual peak dining time, and this didn’t even include the dine-in orders.
Were they short on takeaway delivery robots? No way, what they were most short of now was ingredients!
Xiang Weiguo ordered his own late-night meal from the kitchen AI while contacting the usual close ingredient suppliers and the Agriculture Bureau.
Judging by the current momentum, late-night takeaway orders would probably continue until late into the early morning. Plus, now that all the high schools had started summer vacation, the students couldn’t go back to the school canteen to eat. To eat ancient dishes, they could only rely on takeaway from Yue Xiang Restaurant.
The good news was, Xiang Weiguo could finally earn the students’ money.
The bad news was, this craze would probably last the entire summer vacation, and the original planned total amount of ingredients for Yue Xiang Group now seemed insufficient for the eateries’ upcoming consumption rate.
Right now, Xiang Weiguo was a mix of pain and happiness.
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Xiang Chuan naturally ignored the viewers’ requests for her and her sister to live stream a second run.
But fortunately, the video website and the Agriculture Bureau official website bailed them out.
The first episode of A Bite of China had already been uploaded for free on the video website and the Agriculture Bureau official website!
This immediately caused the number of bullet comments in the live stream room to drop sharply. Probably most people were now holding the takeaway just delivered to their door and opening the first episode to watch another round.
When the Information Bureau and Agriculture Bureau came to discuss the broadcast process with the Xiang Chuan sisters earlier, they had thought Xiang Chuan would demand payment. Who knew Xiang Chuan actually agreed to upload it for free.
Xiang Chuan: If it weren’t for so many non-charged TV series being turned, I would really consider including the documentary in the charged category too.
Xiang Chuan had said at the time:
“Right now, my sister and I aren’t short on money. For a type like a documentary where historical research value outweighs drama, bringing it out to serve the people is also a good choice.”
The person in charge from the Information Bureau and Agriculture Bureau at the time were so moved by these words that they patted their chests, promising to keep a close eye on this live stream’s process and ensure no issues arose with the server.
Now, no need to think, one could guess that the Agriculture Bureau and Historical Research Institute were pulling all-nighters to repeatedly review every minute of scenes from the first episode of A Bite of China.
Documentaries are great~ Real footage of the living habits and food culture of people in Earth nations at that time~ Also recorded some purely natural scenes~
The government employees working overtime at the Agriculture Bureau and Historical Research Institute right now were all mixing pain and happiness as they posted similar sentiments on SNS.
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At the dining table.
Xiang Chuan was gnawing on soup dumplings on one side while waiting for the fried rice with two big chicken legs to come out. Bored, she opened her light screen, browsed SNS, and saw everyone in the fleet discussing A Bite of China.
Just right, she spotted these emotional posts from Agriculture Bureau government employees.
As expected of professionals, their focus was different from ordinary viewers.
Xiang Chuan nodded admiringly.
At the same time, Xiang Chuan noticed her email had prompts for nearly thirty unread messages.
Earlier in the live broadcast room, for streaming convenience, she had directly turned off the message notifications.
No need to think, it must be Class Eight Grade One those gluttons asking her for insider info on when dishes made from these ingredients would go on sale or such~
Xiang Chuan sighed inwardly about young people’s vigorous appetites while opening her email inbox.
She guessed right, classmates from Class Eight Grade One had indeed sent her quite a few emails, but among these twenty-plus emails, nearly three-quarters were from the production escort ship department heads whose contact info she had exchanged before.
Xiang Chuan recalled the bitter days when Liang Gong’s mother smilingly arranged one investigation task after another for her, and she and the Class Eight Grade One crowd were overwhelmed by the dense text.
No way? Again?
This half month bronchitis, arm muscle strain, toothache all came rushing like deadline chasers to find me ()
