The first scene of "The Little Chef of Shengjing" takes place on the street. The sun is shining, the street is crowded with people, vendors are shouting, and the atmosphere is relaxed and lively.
When the people of the Dawu Dynasty saw this scene, they felt as if the early morning of the Liangjing market was brought onto the screen. It didn't have the shocking opening of "The World's Number One", but it made people feel familiar and particularly involved.
After a series of long shots, the scene changes and the camera stops in front of a small restaurant.
A young woman with a cute flower-bud hairstyle was busy in front of the stove. She was wearing a light yellow dress and an apron, and her hair was tied with two ribbons of the same color as her dress.
The woman's name was Yu Zhengzheng. She was only sixteen years old and ran her own small restaurant on the busiest street in Shengjing.
Today is the first day of opening.
Land is very expensive in Kyoto, and her shop is very small.
A large pot took up almost half of the shop. Small wontons cooked until they were translucent and pink were floating up from the bottom one by one. Next to the pot was a pot of boiled clear soup warming up.
Yu Zhengzheng was scooping soup into a row of large white porcelain bowls in front of him. As the clear soup poured into the bowls, chopped green onions and oil floated up, and the fragrance wafted far away.
A customer nearby shouted, "Young shopkeeper, your wontons are so delicious."
Yu Zhengzheng's eyes were bright and lively, and the two dimples on the corners of her mouth looked particularly sweet. "This is called Qianlixiang. It smells good and tastes even better."
After she finished speaking, she put down the big soup spoon, picked up a specially made small bamboo basket and scooped out the wontons. With skillful movements, in less than a minute, seven or eight bowls of wontons were out of the pot at the same time.
Yu Zhengzheng took out a small black porcelain bottle from under the stove and carefully sprinkled a little powder on the wontons, completely stimulating the already fragrant soup base.
The guests could no longer sit still and stood up one after another, taking their bowls to eat nearby.
The wontons are fresh out of the pot, with thin skin and large fillings, a pink lump in the middle, and the green onion and oil as a backdrop. They are really delicious in color, aroma and taste.
Regardless of the steam, the customer took a spoon and scooped half a spoonful of soup with a wonton. He blew on the hot steam and couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth. He breathed hard from the heat and gave Yu Zhengzheng a thumbs up, praising him with his tongue sticking out: "It's so delicious!"
The sound of swallowing saliva could be heard in the screening room. The picture conveyed information directly and accurately. Without much thinking, the audience only felt that the bowl of wontons in front of them was a delicious delicacy.
It's a pity that you can see it but can't eat it. The audience lowered their heads to grab a handful of popcorn and slurped it into their mouths. It seemed delicious.
On the screen, the diners were all conquered by the young cook's cooking skills. At this time, three young men in rich clothes approached with laughter.
They had just returned from horse racing in the field outside the city and were looking for a place to spend the morning, so they followed the scent and found the place.
The young man in red walking in the middle is Jing Hao, the prince of Chu known as "Ghost-Seeing".
He was eight feet tall, handsome, and had a violent temper. No one in Shengjing City dared to provoke him.
Apart from anything else, this pair of "dandy prince x quirky little cook" is the double ceiling of character setting and appearance that Lu Yao picked out from more than a dozen similar works.
The two actors are young, their acting is natural, and their looks support their characters. The plot and characters are also worthy of the two actors' looks. The overall adaptability is high, and there is no obvious sense of disconnection during the viewing process.
Jing Hao brought his study partner to Yu Zhengzheng's shop, ordered three bowls of Qianlixiang wontons, and teased the young cook in a naughty way.
Yu Zhengzheng was good-tempered and didn't care about the teasing. He brought the wontons and turned around to continue greeting the guests.
Jing Hao felt bored and lowered his head to eat wontons, but he was startled.
He had been living a life of luxury since childhood, and was used to eating delicacies from land and sea. Nowadays, there were few foods that caught his eye. But at this moment, he was amazed by this ordinary bowl of wontons.
Not only Jinghao, but also his two study companions were captivated by the delicious food and ate it like little pigs.
Yu Zhengzheng turned around and saw this scene, lowered her head and pursed her lips, but unfortunately Jing Hao noticed it.
Jing Shizi raised his voice and asked, "Are you laughing at us?"
Yu Zhengzheng lowered the corners of his mouth that were curled up, and said seriously: "No."
Jing Hao was unhappy, dropped the spoon and got up and left.
The two study companions gulped down their soup, dropped the silver coins and chased after them.
The first meeting between the young cook and the prince ended on a bad note.
It was thought that the two would never have any contact again after this, but the prince was a petty person, and he would make trouble for the young cook every day, but his troubles were always resolved. The sense of a pair of happy enemies almost overflowed the screen.
The guests who watched the premiere were all men, but they were also attracted by this novel and vivid story.
The prince was not likable at that time, but the young cook was smart and virtuous, which won her great favor.
Eighty minutes passed quickly. The young chef's cooking skills were so good and her business was so popular that some of her competitors were secretly using tricks on her. Her small restaurant was about to face a huge crisis.
At this tense moment, with a "bang", the lights in the screening room came on and the show ended.
The guests all looked confused: "Is this the end? What's next? Nothing more?"
Suddenly, the black screen lit up again, and the audience who had stood up sat down again.
In the scene, the young cook is in crisis, and the playboy who has always been at odds with her appears, as if to support her. Finally, the two of them face each other calmly for the first time, and the young cook takes the initiative to call the prince to stop, saying that she has something to say to him.
Just when it came to the exciting part, the screen went black again.
Then a voiceover appeared, announcing that five days later, the second screening of "The Little Chef of Shengjing" would be held, continuing the daily life of the happy enemies between the quirky little chef and the overbearing prince...
The customer’s reaction was even greater than before, and we will have to wait five days for the follow-up.
After watching the short clip just now, how are they supposed to spend these five days
Rong Shenghua and Le Han looked at each other, neither of them felt comfortable, but there was nothing they could do.
The show schedule was very tight and the store clerk had already come to urge them to leave. The audience reluctantly stood up and walked out while complaining.
Rong Shenghua smacked his lips, remembering that there was a wonton shop in the West Market, and suddenly said, "I want to eat wontons."
Le Han's mind suddenly popped up the Qianlixiang wontons made by Yu Zhengzheng, and he licked his lips: "I haven't eaten it for a long time. I watched "The Little Chef" today, and I kind of missed it."
Rong Shenghua: "I thought about it again and again, the Wu Ji wontons in Xishi look similar to those made by the young cook."
After leaving the cinema, the two went to Wu Ji together.
After that day, some wonton shops in the city often saw customers who wanted to eat Qianlixiang wontons.
The wonton stall owner was puzzled, what are Qianlixiang wontons
After learning the origin of Qianlixiang wontons, the young cook made other dishes, and customers began to come to the restaurant to order roast duck, boiled beef, and stir-fried tripe with double peppers.
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A cup of tea after the premiere, the radio began to notify the audience for the second show to enter.
Lu Yao stood on the other side of the ticket gate, set up a small platform alone, and checked the tickets himself.
She remembered the numbers of the forty tickets she had given out last night and marked them, and told Zhu Zhu to come to her to check the tickets if she met any customers with the corresponding ticket numbers.
Zhu Zhu didn't understand the shopkeeper's intention at first, until the ticket checking, when the first man held a ticket she had given away yesterday.
She knew this man, the husband of Ms. Li who sold tofu pudding on the street.
Last night, she clearly gave the ticket to Madam Li, and she happily said that she came here with her mother today. How come it was her man who came
At this moment, Zhu Zhu didn't understand why and felt a little choked up in her heart. Only then did she vaguely understand the shopkeeper's thoughts.
The shopkeeper had anticipated everything.
Zhu Zhu held back her anger and raised her hand, pointing: "Sorry, this ticket needs to be checked over there."
The man glanced at Lu Yao, and without moving, he approached Zhu Zhu and said, "Zhu girl, we are all acquaintances, I will check the tickets here. Hurry up, I can't wait to watch the movie."
Lu Yao had expected this and said loudly, "The ticket in your hand is a special ticket for women to watch movies at the cinema. Men are not allowed to watch movies with this ticket."