Chapter 275: A Bite Of China
Ouyang Yating noticed that Xiang Chuan’s emotions seemed off, so she didn’t continue asking.
The live stream screen came to the fishing part at the end of the first episode.
At first, when they saw it was fish, the bullet comments became active again.
Ever since Xiang Chuan used some processing methods and scallion ginger to solve the muddy smell issue of freshwater fish, the market has started supplying a small amount of fish to Yue Xiang Restaurant. Families with better conditions at home can eat fish every week, and even the lowest-income families can have fish once a month without issue.
So for edible fish, modern people already think there’s nothing left for them to broaden their horizons with.
Until a fish head bigger than two palms appeared on the screen.
[Ah? Fish head?]
[No way, were fish this big before?]
[Huaxia specializes in eating fish heads? Are their dietary habits this amazing?]
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The huge fish head on the screen really scared modern people. The fourth traditional sea fish being large was one thing, after all, historical records show there were even bigger sea fish before.
But these on the screen… they’re freshwater fish, right? Can freshwater fish grow this big?
Xiang Xue and Lin Ming almost simultaneously looked at Xiang Chuan and raised this question.
“As long as the climate is suitable, nutrients are sufficient, and there are no natural enemies, anything can grow huge. People in the ancient era were short and short-lived, then civilization developed, dietary and living conditions were assured, and by the 21st century, right now,”
Xiang Chuan pointed her thumb at the A Bite of China screen.
“average lifespan can reach over seventy years, and height shoots up to around 1.6 or 1.7 meters. We’re the same now; after going into space, with material conversion technology providing energy to improve the environment, medical technology developing to eliminate diseases and epidemics, no more natural disasters from terrain and climate, lifespan doesn’t also whoosh—like bamboo—straight up to eight hundred years.”
Is this onomatopoeia used like that? Viewers inside and outside the live stream room complained in their hearts.
But her words did make the eyes of the Agriculture Bureau and Historical Research Institute employees in front of their screens light up.
The biological data recorded in the Twelfth Fleet database is basically the standard from the Tianyuan calendar, so the natural reserves, ocean areas, and production escort ships’ creatures, poultry original forms, ecology, growth environments in each fleet—these ancient records were lost in the river of history with the Dark Virus Crisis.
To ensure normal supply of ingredients, the Agriculture Bureaus of the Twelfth Fleet take a conservative attitude toward poultry ecology development, fearing blind promotion would cause the original ecology to collapse. This is also one of the main reasons why ingredient variety has trended toward homogenization over twenty thousand years. Even in the Third Fleet, which is bold in agriculture, even a small cut on a pig requires issuing a draft to publicize to the entire fleet.
And the documentary Xiang Chuan brought out perfectly fills the gaps in these creatures’ ecological environments and evolutionary directions. Moreover, this documentary and live stream are watched by the entire fleet’s people, with sound and image combined plus ancient unique artistic expression, then combined with some extra supplements from the Agriculture Bureau, it’s enough to let people not in agriculture-related industries intuitively understand the Agriculture Bureau’s future development direction.
As the leader of Yue Xiang Group, Xiang Weiguo naturally understood this right away; he took a deep look at the big screen in front of him.
The Agriculture Bureau and Information Bureau are really sly, selling a favor to the little daughter, playing pitiful to the big daughter, smoothly getting this top documentary of an ancient power in the big daughter’s mouth from ancient times, equivalent to letting the two departments gain fame at zero cost, and letting the Historical Research Institute and Cultural Affairs Bureau drink soup heartily too.
If this documentary were handed to his own group to operate, Xiang Weiguo believes he has the ability to make all shops and agricultural product brands in the Third Fleet hang the Yue Xiang name.
When water is full, it overflows. Xiang Weiguo recalled this ancient saying his big daughter kept mentioning recently when he wanted the group to participate in other major agricultural product developments.
Xiang Weiguo understands the reasoning; after all, except for the fleet exchange period, for a long time in the future, each fleet will operate independently. If Yue Xiang Group dominates alone, even with the current government, Xiang Xue Live Stream Room viewers, and Xiang Chuan’s information turbulence records suppressing those protest voices, it will eventually face backlash one day.
So even if Xiang Weiguo is unwilling, he can only let Xiang Chuan lend the resources in her hands through the Agriculture Bureau, distribute them to large and small enterprises and noble groups in the Third Fleet, transferring their envy, jealousy, and hate toward Yue Xiang Group, letting them follow behind the government to share the meat.
Now he only hopes the soybean seedlings in the fields contracted by his own group grow up quickly; once soy sauce mass production and other by-product production lines are built, the imbalance in Xiang Weiguo’s heart will probably dissipate with the rolling in of money.
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The three siblings in the live broadcast room didn’t know what nonsense their own dad was entangled with; they were all focused on watching the old man on the screen sitting on the sled preparing to chisel ice for fishing.
Yes, Xiang Qi was there too. He’s usually busy; even after dinner he often slips back to his room. During school, he occasionally comes to the live broadcast room a few times to chat with them; during finals he’s so busy his feet don’t touch the ground, doesn’t even go home, let alone watch the live stream.
Those TV series Xiang Chuan brought out, he sometimes opens them when idle and bored; compared to Empresses in the Palace, he prefers the banter-filled My Own Swordsman; today’s newly aired Prison Break hit his strike zone, making him even hesitate whether to adjust his evening work plan to follow the trend and chase the drama in his little sister’s live stream room.
Xiang Qi, as Agricultural University Student Council President, heard about A Bite of China right away too, but hearing it was a documentary, his inner expectation was just some dull content explanations, not holding much anticipation, and until just now he was just hiding in his room watching the live stream with other viewers.
As a result, after watching the bamboo shoots part, he couldn’t sit still, slipped downstairs straight to the live broadcast room; the three sofas were full, so he simply had Da Xing get a hovering backrest chair and sat next to his little sister, continuing to watch with relish on site.
People always can’t escape the true fragrance law.
Gotta say the imaging equipment in the live broadcast room is great; Xiang Qi was glad his little sister begged dad back then to buy the top configuration on the market at the time. The built-in repair function let everyone in the live broadcast room enjoy lossless sound and image experience first time, even making them feel like they smelled the enticing aroma when seeing the steaming fish head pastry lens.
When the fishing team on the screen pulled up the cage, and a whole long cage of big fish piled on the ice, the bullet comments in the live stream room brushed out the most “Wow!” of the night.
Xiang Chuan chewed on roasted steamed bun slices dipped in ketchup, thinking to herself: this fish is so fat, stewing it with tofu skin tomatoes would definitely be delicious.
When the final all fish banquet appeared, everyone inside and outside the live stream room felt their eyes weren’t enough.
So much fish! So many ways to cook it! Wow!
Countless viewers swallowed their saliva for the nth time tonight, opened the long-unused Yue Xiang Restaurant takeaway app in collections, thinking even if they can’t eat this all fish banquet or fish head pastry, they gotta at least have a steamed fish.
As a result, opening the takeaway page, the weekend-limited steamed fish and fish soup were long sold out; not giving up, they clicked branches in other street districts, thinking even paying extra transportation fee is fine, but after clicking through the entire residential area even commercial district branches, couldn’t find a single Yue Xiang Restaurant with steamed fish or fish soup.
Some popularity couldn’t take it, directly posted complaints on SNS about this issue, and soon got replies from other diners.
[It’s just you ordered too late, I ordered a whole chicken soup home to eat with wife and daughter after work this afternoon, there was still steamed fish and fish soup in the store then. Just after watching the fish head pastry segment I got craving too, wanted to order fish soup, but it was sold out. You guys are so fast ~!]
[Fish soup is expensive, I usually don’t dare order it; today watching the live stream, got craving, wanted to order one, hesitated half a minute on payment page before confirming, and in that half minute, the fish soup that just showed sufficient stock turned sold out, how could you guys do this wuwuwu…]
[Haha I got one, originally after watching the matsutake part at the beginning I wanted to buy chicken soup with edible mushrooms, but today’s chicken soups had no edible mushrooms, so planned to give up, but seeing fish head pastry I decisively swapped the chicken soup in my order list to steamed fish, after ordering refreshed back to home and saw steamed fish sold out, close call, truly hand slow no.]
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Similar comments appeared in various comment sections complaining about not getting steamed fish and fish soup.
Some residents planned to take a step back; can’t eat fish, eating some chicken or beef is fine too, but found the meat dishes that originally had sufficient stock on the takeaway page either sold out or only small quantities left, scaring these craving guys to quickly pick one that looked good and order, fearing if they hesitate one more second, they couldn’t even get a pepper steak.
At this moment, Xiang Weiguo in the live broadcast room also received the report from the eatery general manager; he looked at the A Bite of China first episode screen that had started entering the distant sea fishing part, and took a deep breath.
Ancient documentaries are terrifying as this.
