Chapter 39: Poisonous Candied Haws

Due to Chi Ye's two "saving people" hot searches, in the eyes of fun-seekers, he has now incarnated as the "reincarnation of Hua Tuo," an indispensable element of various dramatic scenes.

"Teacher Chi, some viewers said to remember to livestream next time you 'save people'."

The PD teacher followed in front of Chi Ye, looking at the bullet comments, trying to interact with Chi Ye for the first time.

Who knew, hearing this, Chi Ye was very surprised: "Save people? I'll clarify a rumor here, I actually didn't want to 'save' them."

PD: "..."

Everyone: "..."

"You didn't want to save us." Yang Zi's skin had already been trained to perfection, recovered as before, looking at Chi Ye faintly: "I heard, Xia Xia wanted to save prison coins for me just now, and you didn't let her?"

Chi Ye: "?"

"Teacher Yang Zi, don't misunderstand." Chi Ye explained: "I just simply didn't want you to live too comfortably inside, no other meaning."

Yang Zi: "?!"

Chi Ye, F*** you!

Chi Ye seemed to hear his inner voice, glanced at him, and shouted: "Yo-ho-ho! This electric tricycle is really fun to drive!"

"Pfft."

Xia Xia pursed her small mouth tightly, but still couldn't hold it in.

Yang Zi's face flushed, turning red again!

"Cough cough, everyone, welcome to the 'Hutong Entrance Market' task location."

Li Dao coughed twice, his small eyes scanning the monsters and freaks, guarding against them "getting caught" again, still having lingering fears: "Then, first, we need to confirm that in the following tasks, everyone will not break the law or commit crimes..."

"Eh, don't say this, it's boring."

Huang was unhappy: "We were just fined, it doesn't count as a crime, right? Isn't it your production team's fault?!"

Yang nodded: "Don't look at people with colored glasses, Director!"

Lu educated: "Director, you don't listen to commands."

Lin frowned: "Start quickly, it's winter, my hip joint was shaken crooked just now riding the tricycle."

Production team: "..."

Chi Ye was surprised: "Can a hip joint be fine-tuned after being shaken crooked? Are current models so advanced?"

Lin Jingyi: "?"

Li Dao: "..."

"Then everyone, familiarize yourselves with the environment, and we will officially open in half an hour."

Li Dao didn't dare to BS anymore, fearing that the four would suddenly "become fierce" and "kill" him again.

Mainly, this matter was indeed the production team's big fault, and he also had to notify the teams privately to handle the hot search.

Yes, just now, although it was the "See You" production team's fault, who told the four to be arrested on the spot?

Therefore, the negative impact still had to be eliminated.

Seeing the production team give them space, the four immediately walked out of the camera, each starting to contact their teams, withdraw hot searches, and buy press releases.

It wasn't until ten minutes later that everyone returned to the camera one by one, looking at the "stalls" prepared for them by the production team.

——There were two stalls in total, located on both sides of the street, and there was a temporary small cabin inside for storing ingredients and boiling sugar.

The raw ingredients provided by the production team for the two groups to choose from were placed in a certain room.

"This is... green pepper?"

"Eggplant... cucumber... poisonous long beans?! Stinky tofu?!"

"Where are the hawthorns? Aren't we making candied haws? How to make them without hawthorns?"

Every time everyone saw an "ingredient," their eyes went dark, and by the end, they were already in "Great Dark Heaven"!

The so-called ingredients prepared for them by the production team were mostly vegetables, and there were fruits, but only the hawthorns were pitifully few.

They even saw a beautiful and cute "little turtle"... oh, it should be an artificially raised soft-shelled turtle!

"Candied haws are a winter culture." Li Dao laughed: "In the north, there has always been a saying that 'everything can be candied'."

"So, you have to use these ingredients today to make unique candied haws."

"Unique? You mean long bean candied haws + turtle candied haws?!"

Chi Ye was shocked: "Is this to send all the customers who buy candied haws away?"

Li Dao: "Long beans are not poisonous, and then... this is called 'Turtle-Honey' candied haws in the Northeast."

Everyone: "..."

Turtle: What kind of hellish joke is this?!

"Eh, that's not right." Chi Ye raised an objection: "It's alive."

Li Dao was also very confused, glanced at the ingredient group, and guessed: "Maybe it's fresher when it's alive?"

Chi Ye was silent.

Someone next to him was surprised: "Why aren't you talking, Teacher Chi? This isn't your style."

"..." Chi Ye paused and said: "Um... actually I want to say something, but... how should I put it... um, you guys are really doing evil in a serious way!"

Everyone: "..."

The monsters and freaks were very dissatisfied with the ingredients provided by the production team, but there was nothing they could do.

Looking at Li Dao and the production team members stealing smiles, everyone understood why the production team had that expression when they heard them say candied haws were "easy to do."

F***, what kind of candied haws are these? They are all poisonous haws!

Can they be sold?!

"Alright, everyone start preparing now, the customer flow is about to reach its peak."

Li Dao kindly reminded everyone.

At nine o'clock in the morning, there were indeed more and more people in the market.

Seeing this group of "weirdly dressed" people, they would peek from time to time, and even take out their phones to record.

"Cough cough, then... let's pick the ingredients first."

Teacher Huang coughed twice, took a basket of poisonous long beans first: "Jingyi likes to eat this, eat more."

Lin Jingyi: "..."

"What evil did Jingyi do in her past life, that you have to take revenge on her like this."

Chi Ye shook his head, "standing up for" the technology person, pointing at the stinky tofu: "Besides, Jingyi clearly likes to eat this the most, you don't understand Jingyi girl at all!"

Lin Jingyi: You two are enough!

"Oh?"

Teacher Lu heard this, glanced at the stinky tofu, then looked at Lin Jingyi's dodo plump lips, and started thinking.

Chi Ye looked back in surprise: "Does stinky tofu have to listen to commands too?!"

Teacher Lu twisted his mouth, smiled evilly: "... Naughty!"

Chi Ye: "..."

"Teacher Chi, Teacher Chi, the little turtle is so cute!"

Xia Xia peeked, and the moment the "little turtle" appeared, her pair of charming peach-blossom eyes didn't leave it, because this turtle looked very special, with a kind of ugly-cute cuteness.

"Fine, then we want 'Turtle-Honey'!"

Chi Ye was doting, decisively taking the Turtle-Honey.

The turtle glanced at this side, feeling relieved inside.

Such a beautiful young girl, she survived!

"Then fine, everyone divide the hawthorns and strawberries..."

Yang Zi saw that the CEO and the expert hadn't had time to "lead everyone" for the time being, so he immediately acted as the big garlic.

Hmm... wait.

The CEO was considering letting the stinky tofu listen to commands, but what about the expert?

He glanced over and saw Teacher Huang was "seriously" picking ingredients, while on the other side, one hand behind his back, away from the camera, started quietly stealing the production team's vegetables and fruits.

Eggplant, long beans, hawthorns, corn...

"What are you doing?"

Others couldn't see Huang's actions, but Yang saw it clearly, confused: "You're acting so sneaky, what are you doing?"

Teacher Huang saw this and hurriedly made a "shh" sound, then chuckled: "The ingredients here are so abundant; with all these things, what tasks do we still need to do?"

"I'll steal some back, and then I'll make a 'Manchu-Han Feast' for everyone!"

"Is that so, that's so good?"

Yang Zi's eyes lit up, and then...

He turned around, raised his hand and shouted: "I report! Huang is stealing things here!"

Everyone: "?!"

Production team: "??!"

Chi Ye was shocked: "Shen Qingyu came to participate in the show?!"

Teacher Huang: "..."

"Stealing things?!" Li Dao hurried over, looking at the various ingredients in Teacher Huang's hands, speechless for a moment: "Teacher Huang, you say you... what are you doing!"

Teacher Huang stared at Yang Zi, cursing inside that this grandson was really not a thing.

On the surface, he shook his head and called Yang Zi's "nickname": "No, Yang is slandering people, I'm just simply looking."

Chi Ye PTSD: "Everyone protect the things on your body, toilet brush, Teacher Huang's mentor Shen Qingyu!"

Teacher Huang: "?!"

"I understand the things, what does the toilet brush mean?"

Chi Ye was confused: "Don't you know? Someone on the internet broke the news that Shen Qingyu likes to steal other people's toilet brushes..."

Peng Chen: That's right, it's me!

Everyone: "..."

Chi Ye dared to say such things about other artists on the show, but others still had some taboos, so they didn't say much more, picked their ingredients, and went to their own stalls to prepare.

Chi Ye's group also came to their stall.

He scanned the Boxing Champion who had been like an invisible person the whole time, then looked at Lao Foye who was happily holding the little turtle, and immediately felt under great pressure.

Fortunately, Teacher Shi was already busy, carrying pots and pouring water, her hands and feet as nimble as ever.

"Teacher Shi, do you know how to make candied haws?"

"Yes."

Chi Ye was overjoyed: "Have you done it before?"

"Yes."

"Then we'll rely on you, you're okay with boiling this sugar, right?"

"No problem."

Chi Ye: "..."

He suddenly discovered in surprise that the Boxing Champion usually spoke little, and in the state of working seriously, she seemed to have entered a human-machine state.

This had happened several times.

He thought about it, curiosity arose, and he tested: "Teacher Shi, I'm hungry."

"Don't be hungry."

"I want to die."

"Don't die."

"I'm not living anymore."

"Don't live."

Chi Ye: "?"

You've really entered standby mode, sister?!

"... Uh." Shi Daifu also reacted, raised her head, her apricot eyes soft and weak.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Chi Ye actually saw resentment in them.

"Um... then that's it, I'll go see Lao Foye."

Chi Ye felt guilty, turned around and came to Lao Foye, and saw Xia Xia at this moment stretching out her onion-white fingers, poking the little turtle's head. Every time she poked it, the little turtle would shrink back in fear, and then curiously poke its head out again.

"... Fun, right." Chi Ye asked.

"Fun, fun!" Xia Xia stood up, and made a "military order": "Teacher Chi, I'll handle the little turtle!"

Chi Ye was surprised: "Do you want to give it a massage or a beauty treatment?"

"?!"

Lao Foye was slightly angry: "Teacher Chi, why do you look down on people!"

Chi Ye was impatient: "Is it a massage or a beauty treatment?"

Xia Xia thought about it carefully and said coquettishly: "Massage!"

Everyone: "..."

Chi Ye had already stood up, turned back, and shouted to the director group: "This won't do, it's unfair, we have two fewer people here, and now looking... it's three fewer people, only Teacher Shi knows how to do it, four people on the opposite side, this is unfair!"

Li Dao was very surprised: "I understand two fewer people, but how did you calculate three?"

Chi Ye: "I don't know how either."

Li Dao: "..."

He paused and pointed to Teacher Lu's group: "It doesn't matter if you don't know, look over there."

Chi Ye was startled and looked over.

At this moment, in front of Lu Xiaoming's group's stall.

"This sugar boiling has a lot of attention to detail, too much heat won't do, too little won't do, specifically how to boil it, you guys just listen to me."

Teacher Huang's small class started, and he first intimidated the other three as soon as he came up.

But, they were all experts, who would obey him?

Yang Zi was the first to be unconvinced!

"That's not right, sugar boiling is indeed a difficult job, but I actually think the most difficult thing is the technique."

Yang Zi talked eloquently: "After the candied haws are strung, the white sugar is boiled into an amber color. When rolling the syrup in an instant, let the syrup stick to the fruit pulp to form a layer of crispy sugar skin. During this period, if the technique is wrong, it won't be successful."

Teacher Huang: "?"

Squinted: "You checked these on Kuaishou just now, right?"

"?!"

Yang Zi was "exposed," furious: "What are you saying! How is that possible, I've done it before!"

"You didn't even turn down the Kuaishou sound... wait." Teacher Huang's eyes were suspicious: "This wouldn't be something you deliberately did because you wanted to get on the hot search, right?!"

Yang Zi: "..."

F*** you Huang Jianfeng, you can insult me, but you can't insult my hot search!

"Cough cough, everyone, can you listen to me for a second?"

Teacher Lu had been frowning on the side, wanting to interject but couldn't, and finally had a chance, immediately speaking bluntly: "I might not understand technique and sugar boiling, but I'm familiar with doing business! I was a store manager at a Chinese restaurant!"

"So, everyone listen to me, let's unify our steps, divide the work and cooperate, everyone listen to my command, and there will be no problem!"

"No, you haven't done it, what are you commanding?"

"Xiaoming, don't be stubborn with me about this, Yang Zi is a young master, he hasn't done it at all, but I've really done it before!"

"..."

The three old people started arguing, their voices getting louder and louder, and their faces gradually turning red.

Lin Jingyi shouted with a clip-voice on the side: "You guys don't fight anymore!!"

Unfortunately, no one listened to her.

She watched the three elderly people in their sixties silently, and after calling a few times to no avail, she could only despair and go to fetch the water bucket herself — the production team didn't care about your ingredient water bucket transportation, it all relied on the guests themselves.

Now that the three dads weren't going, she had to go!

Fortunately, she had applied antifreeze before going out today, so she wasn't afraid of being frozen.

But what heavy work had the technology person done before?

She panted and carried half a bucket of water all the way, but when she was about to reach the door, her feet slipped, and she fell as usual.

"Ouch!"

"Are you okay? Jingyi!"

"What happened, what happened?"

"Who told you to go do work! Girl, you just watch from the side, we'll do the work! You have to pay attention to your nose!"

Teacher Lu was very domineering.

Lin Jingyi: "..."

I want to give you a slap now!

"I can't hold it anymore, family members, who would dare to think about it." Chi Ye was stunned watching this scene: "Lin Jingyi can be forced to do work?!"

He waved at Li Dao: "... It's quite fair, it's really not unfair."

Production team: "..."

Now you know what a wealthy battle you are fighting?

Chi Ye looked over and found that the Boxing Champion had already started boiling sugar in an orderly manner, and Lao Foye... Lao Foye was still "massaging" the little turtle.

Chi Ye: "..."

"Teacher Chi!"

Seeing Chi Ye come over, Xia Xia's eyes sparkled: "I've decided!"

"Hmm?"

Chi Ye was surprised: "Decided on a new massage technique?"

"No." Lao Foye shook her head and said coquettishly: "I've decided what candied haws to make!"

"Oh?" Chi Ye was curious: "What?"

Xia Xia's pair of peach-blossom eyes flashed and shone, longing: "Um... I'm going to carve strawberries into a rose, um... to make it taste better, it's best to add some additives, strawberry essence... um, what else?"

Chi Ye reminded: "Industrial pigment, formaldehyde solution!"

"Oh? Right, right!" Xia Xia nodded repeatedly, looking for approval: "Teacher Chi, what do you think?"

Chi Ye sighed: "What do I think? I think it's too good!"

"Really?" Xia Xia clearly didn't believe it.

"Really." Chi Ye nodded and suggested: "But for such a precious body as Lao Foye, I suggest you do something else before making candied haws."

"Hmm?" Lao Foye was curious: "Do what?"

Chi Ye: "Be a human." ===== CHAPTER 40 =====