—If she had a father, what would her hopes be
When Lin Momo heard Lin Cheng's question, she was stunned for a moment.
Lin Momo had never thought about this question before, but now, she actually already has a father, but no one knows it except herself.
Lin Momo tilted her head slightly and looked at Lin Cheng in a daze.
"Don't know?" Lin Cheng asked.
Lin Momo shook her head and pointed at Lin Cheng and said, "It looks like you."
Lin Cheng is her father.
Thinking of this, Lin Momo secretly felt happy in her heart.
Lin Momo's answer was beyond Lin Cheng's expectations, but it was an unexpected surprise.
In the dimly lit car, at an angle that Lin Momo couldn't see, Lin Cheng raised the corner of his mouth into a smile.
After a pause, Lin Cheng asked again: "Besides this, do you have any requests for Dad?"
Lin Cheng looked at Lin Momo seriously, as if he was going to take note of the girl's request.
However, Lin Momo just looked at Lin Cheng with a little confusion and shook her head.
"I don't know..." She felt that people like Lin Cheng were very strange.
After all, apart from Lin Cheng, Lin Momo's knowledge of "father" is very limited.
Lin Cheng seemed to understand the reason why Lin Momo was confused and stopped asking.
"If you can't think of it, take your time to think about it. When you figure it out, you can tell me." Lin Cheng said in a softer tone.
Hearing this, Lin Momo nodded as if she understood.
—
Because it was already late when the two set out, there was not enough time to pack before checking in. Therefore, the program crew did not send Lin Cheng and Lin Momo directly to the small restaurant where they were going to record the program, but first sent them to a temporarily arranged hotel.
The program crew's car quickly arrived at a temporary hotel.
From the moment Lin Cheng and Lin Momo got off the car, the filming of their first episode of the show officially began.
In the live broadcast room, the father and daughter appeared on the screen, and the comments in the barrage area began to increase:
Ah, it’s finally here!
Finally waited for it!
Why did you come so late? The other groups of videos were all aired in the afternoon.
Didn't the production team say before that it seemed that the delay was due to schedule issues? This was the reason the production team came up with for Lin Cheng and Lin Momo's "lack of time".
I was so scared, I thought Lin Cheng and Momo were going to be replaced in the same group!
I also thought that when I heard that the program group was planning to do some kind of family elimination waiting list, I was worried to death. Although Lin Cheng and Lin Momo's group has gained some popularity through several live broadcasts and the Saturday video broadcast, compared with other groups, this father-daughter combination is still the least popular.
I don’t want Group 1 to be replaced. I like watching Lin Cheng’s Group 1’s live broadcast the most.
I also think that after watching so many of the other groups' personal interactions involving love, it is quite interesting to watch Lin Cheng and Lin Momo's real life survival story.
Yes! Not only is it interesting, it’s also very cool, haha.
…
On the other side, Lin Cheng took Lin Momo into the hotel lobby.
By the time we got to the theater, the directors were already waiting in front of the hall.
Seeing Lin Cheng and Lin Momo coming, the director immediately smiled and greeted them, "Dad Lin and Momo, stay the night."
Lin Cheng also pulled Lin Momo and the other members of the director team aside and asked "How are you doing in the evening?"
Seeing this, the director was a little surprised.
When the father and daughter came in, she noticed the smile that was always on Lin Cheng's face.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Lin Cheng's mood at the moment seemed very different, and completely different from his previous state.
—I don’t know what happened, or maybe it’s because he finally became popular after the first episode of the show was aired
The director muttered secretly in his heart, took a few steps forward, and walked in front of Lin Cheng and Lin Momo.
"Because it's already very late today, and considering the distance and safety issues, Dad and baby need to stay here temporarily for one night. Here is your room card." The director said as he handed a room card key to Lin Cheng.
Then, the director said, "Although I really want to let you rest right away, I have to take up some of your time to assign you tasks for the next week."
"Do you remember what your family background was at the end of the last episode?" the director asked.
"The owner of the small restaurant!" Lin Momo replied, excitement in her voice.
The director smiled and nodded, and asked the staff beside him to hand the first envelope to Lin Cheng.
The envelope contained two keys and some documents.
"The two keys are your shop key and the family's van key. Please keep them safe."
After that, the director handed the second envelope to Lin Cheng and explained, "Inside this is 8,000 yuan of working capital you need to run the restaurant in the next week, and 1,000 yuan of other funds, a total of 9,000 yuan, which can be used by dad and baby at your discretion."
"Since the occupation you drew last week is a small restaurant owner, there are no job restrictions, so Dad and baby can arrange the store opening hours by yourselves. However, please note that all expenses and profits and losses of the store during this period will be borne by you."
"What I want to say is, is there any problem between dad and baby?" asked the director.
"No." Lin Cheng said.
Lin Momo also shook her head, indicating that she understood.
Seeing this, the director nodded and said the same old phrase: "Then in the next week, please do your best, baby and daddy!"
A few cameramen were left behind to follow the scene, and the director crew retreated to the side.
Lin Cheng took Lin Momo to their room.
—
Probably because she slept too long during the day, when she came to the hotel room, Lin Momo was as restless as a clockwork, not feeling sleepy at all.
Lin Cheng took the mobile phone provided by the program team and used the hotel's wifi to check the information about their store on the Internet. Lin Momo took the paper and pen she got from the hotel front desk and began to write and draw attentively.
Lin Cheng would glance at Lin Momo from time to time.
When Lin Cheng thought that Lin Momo was tired from writing and drawing and would go to sleep obediently, he saw Lin Momo jogging towards him with a stack of papers in her hand, looking excited.
"dad."
"I'll give you one."
"What?" Lin Cheng asked.
"Recipe!" Lin Momo said seriously.
The previous recipe was left at home, so she wrote another one based on her memory.
Although she unfortunately missed a few main dishes and Lin Momo really couldn't remember them, she still remembered most of the simple home-cooked dishes.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng raised his eyebrows and his eyes fell on the menu in front of him.
At first glance, Lin Cheng saw a dish written at the very end: 'Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes'.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: Crack three eggs into a bowl and stir with chopsticks. Add a little bit of oil to the pan, heat it up, add the eggs, and when all the eggs are fried until fluffy, add a little bit of oil and a little bit of minced ginger. Stir-fry for a few times, then add thumb-sized tomato pieces and stir-fry together. When you can smell the aroma of tomatoes and oil, add the previously fried eggs and stir-fry together. After frying for more than twenty times, add salt…
"It was given to me by Zhao Xiaobao's grandmother." Lin Momo said from the side.
Lin Cheng: “…” I see.
The 'colloquial' recipes are indeed very different from the recipes on the Internet.
And the continuous mention of "a little bit" is definitely not for saving money or fuel
"This dish made by Zhao Xiaobao's grandmother is super delicious."
"There's another one!" Lin Momo pointed at the green pepper and potato shreds below and said to Lin Cheng, "This one is Grandma Zhou's specialty."
"This is Auntie Xiao Yang's specialty..."
Lin Cheng looked down in the direction where Lin Momo pointed.
Below are the recipes for fried peanuts, smashed cucumbers, roasted eggplant, etc.
Next to each recipe, Lin Momo drew a very detailed diagram.
"Look, to make an egg, just beat it in the same way, stir it in the same way, and stir it in one direction..." Lin Momo pointed at the diagram and explained to Lin Cheng using gestures with her hands.
When Lin Cheng saw the schematic diagram that Lin Momo drew of the process of beating eggs into a bowl and then breaking them up, the corners of his mouth twitched: Girl, do you think you can't even beat eggs
"There is one thing. Grandma Li said that when cutting onions, you should bend your fingers to avoid cutting your hands."
"Yes, yes..."
Lin Momo kept talking, so much so that Lin Cheng, who was standing by, opened his mouth several times, wanting to tell the little girl how to cook, but he never found a chance.
Lin Cheng interrupted her only when he saw Lin Momo yawn.
"Let's go to sleep." Lin Cheng said.
"Wait, there is a little bit."
"Go to sleep."
"Yes..."
"I'll watch what happens next." Lin Cheng said again.
After hearing Lin Cheng's words, Lin Momo reluctantly nodded: "If there is anything you don't understand, you have to ask me."
Seeing Lin Momo's serious expression, Lin Cheng smiled secretly, nodded, and said "yes", before finally coaxing Lin Momo to sleep.
In the room, Lin Cheng tucked the quilt for Lin Momo and said, "Good night, go to sleep."
"Well, good night, Dad."
Lin Cheng touched Lin Momo's head before turning around and walking out of the room.
After Lin Cheng left, Lin Momo, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes again, raised her hands to cover her forehead, and smiled blankly.
—This is the place where Lin Cheng touched her head just now. She feels warm now.
…
The next morning, after a simple packing, the program crew's car took Lin Cheng and Lin Momo to Liuming Street, where they would live for a week.
is a secondary road next to the main road.
There is a residential area behind the road and a main road in the front. There are some business buildings around it, and the flow of people is not too much but not too little.
There are more than thirty small shops on the whole street, most of which are small supermarkets and restaurants, as well as milk tea and snack shops.
Lin Momo and her friends’ shop is also among them.
—
As Lin Momo was looking forward to it, the program crew's car drove all the way inside and finally stopped in front of a store.
The shop is sandwiched between a small noodle shop that has been in business for many years and a small supermarket. There is a glass door at the entrance. There are several rows of dish names posted on the glass door. However, due to long-term exposure to the sun and rain, the names have been oxidized and turned white, and it is difficult to see what they are. The only thing that can be seen is the big words "Shop Transfer" posted next to the door.
At this time, the store door was locked with a big lock. As there was no light inside and the glass window was covered with dust, it was impossible to see what was going on inside the store.
But you can totally imagine the depressing scene inside...
Lin Momo stood beside Lin Cheng and pulled Lin Cheng's sleeve.
"Dad, is this our store?" Lin Momo asked.
Lin Cheng glanced at the words "Liu Ming Restaurant" on the door which were already missing some parts, and then looked at the house number next to it. It was indeed No. 17.
Lin Cheng: "Yes, here."
Lin Momo: “…” It felt a little different from the restaurant she had imagined.
At this time, the audience in the live broadcast room also started discussing:
Oh, I thought that this time Lin Cheng and his team wouldn't have to go through the same problems as in the previous two episodes, but I never expected this.
This small restaurant must have been closed for a long time due to poor management. Are you sure Lin Cheng and Momo can reopen the restaurant
I think it's difficult. I think it's better to sell buns for a period than to make a living for a period.
Is it true that the production team didn't deliberately want to make fun of Lin Cheng and the others? Why do they always suffer in the same group? Some netizens questioned whether the production team was behind the scenes.
At this time, in the program group’s office, the chief director was speechless as he watched the live broadcast, and he felt wronged.
—For once, I swear there is really no shady operation!
If it was a behind-the-scenes operation, the director would like to give Lin Cheng's group the responsibility of the operation.
These places were randomly selected from the options posted by netizens on the Internet.
Although there are many shops on Liuming Street, it is an old street and most of the shops have been in business for more than ten or twenty years. The program crew’s attempts to transfer a certain shop and rent it to them as a temporary recording venue were unsuccessful.
In the end, there was only one small restaurant left, which closed down automatically.
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edge.
Lin Momo looked at the small restaurant in front of her. Although it was different from her imagination, when Lin Cheng said it was theirs, Lin Momo did not mind it. She took out the key impatiently and ran to the front to open the door.
The key was inserted into the keyhole, and with a "click", the lock opened - it was indeed our shop.
Lin Cheng pushed the door open, and the father and daughter walked into the store one after another.
The overall situation of the store is similar to the description on the previous family background card: the whole store is not big, less than 30 square meters inside and out, and the space on the first floor is divided into two areas: the dining area in the front and the small kitchen in the back. Further in, it is divided into two floors below, where sundries are stored downstairs and people live upstairs.
Because no one had cleaned the store for a while, at a glance the whole store was full of dust. Boxes, lunch boxes, wine bottles, and garbage that the previous owner had not had time to clean up were scattered all over the floor. Five tables and more than twenty stools were placed in a haphazard manner in the store.
"The store has everything that should be there." Lin Momo said while pulling Lin Cheng.
Unlike other people who were desperate when they saw such a scene, seeing that the store was fully equipped with tables, chairs and benches, Lin Momo began to calculate the assets in their store with hope in her eyes.
Seeing Lin Momo rolling up her sleeves and getting ready to start working, Lin Cheng stopped her.
"Eat something first and then clean up."
“I’m not,” hungry…
Before she could utter the last word, Lin Momo's stomach growled in a very appropriate manner.
Lin Cheng walked into the kitchen and looked around.
Compared to the dirty and messy dining area outside, the kitchen inside is much more tidy and only needs a simple tidying up and cleaning before it can be used.
Lin Cheng took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. He originally planned to clean up the kitchen first, and then go to the nearby fresh food store to buy some ingredients to show off his cooking skills to his daughter.
As a result, when I opened the refrigerator, there was no electricity, and when I turned on the faucet, there was no water.
Lin Cheng tried the gas stove again, but there was no gas.
After Lin Cheng made several phone calls, he found out that the water, electricity, and gas of the store had all been cut off because of long-term non-payment. To reopen them, he needed to go to the business hall to reapply and pay the additional fees.
Helplessly, Lin Cheng could only go to the small noodle shop next door to buy a bowl of noodles for Lin Momo.
—
It was not meal time, so there were not many diners in the noodle shop. The owner, Lin Cheng, was very enthusiastic.
"Have you bought the shop next door?" While the clerk was cooking noodles, the boss started chatting with Lin Cheng.
"Yeah." Lin Cheng nodded.
"What are you going to do?"
"It's a small restaurant."
Hearing this, the boss nodded, but soon frowned again.
“The people who come to our street to eat are either nearby residents or employees of small companies in the surrounding area. Most of them are old customers. You may not necessarily get business if you open a new store,” the boss said sincerely.
Lin Cheng's expression remained unchanged, and he just said, "Let's give it a try."
At this time, Lin Momo, who had been waiting for Lin Cheng for a long time, ran over.
Seeing Lin Momo next to Lin Cheng, the noodle shop owner raised his eyebrows and asked, "Really?"
"My daughter." Lin Cheng introduced.
Hearing Lin Cheng's introduction, Lin Momo felt a little happy and called out to the noodle shop owner, "Uncle."
"So cute," the boss smiled, then looked at Lin Cheng and said, "Your daughter looks quite like you."
"One?"
"Well, just one." Lin Cheng replied.
Hearing the other party say that Lin Momo looks like him, Lin Cheng was also in a good mood.
The two chatted for a while longer.
The noodles were cooked. Seeing that Lin Momo loved it, the noodle shop owner took another paper bowl and filled it with cherry tomatoes for her.
Back in their own shop, Lin Cheng glanced at Lin Momo and said, "You stay in the store, I'll pay the bill."
Lin Cheng just checked on the Internet and found that the place to pay the water, electricity and gas bills is not far from the street.
"I'll go with you." Lin Momo put down her bowl and chopsticks, stood up and said.
Lin Cheng glanced at the sun rising outside and rejected Lin Momo's "application to go with him" without a second thought.
"If you don't want to go out and turn into black coal, just stay here obediently." Lin Cheng said to Lin Momo half-jokingly.
Before leaving, he reminded Lin Momo worriedly: "I will be back soon, don't run around."
"Oh." Although she was unwilling, Lin Momo nodded obediently.
Before going out, Lin Cheng glanced at the small van parked in the alley beside the street, which looked like it could fall apart at any time. He decisively gave up the idea of driving out and turned around to leave on foot.