Li Tiezhu’s dislike of people had a great characteristic, that is, serious and calm, even with a little taste of humility to ask for advice, it was very emotional for the audience, for the disliked people, they were very angry but could not tear their faces off yet.
Su Basha then was angry but still kept a smile, “Li Tiezhu, there’s no way to answer this question, because my recipes are different every day, and they are carefully designed by a professional team. However, I can say one thing, and that is that for my programmes, my events, the standard of food for all artists is not less than one thousand five hundred a day, and the staff varies from five hundred to eight hundred.”
Liu Mei hugged Su Li Hui and laughed there, a little bit of gloating.
Li Tiezhu was not in a hurry to retort, but looked at the other artists, some smiled bitterly some nodded, but more bowed their heads and pretended to be dead.
Su Basha added: “You are also a top stream in the variety art world, what is the standard of food expenses when you are on variety art?”
Li Tiezhu said, “This matter is divided into two aspects. Firstly, the high school students I know live at a standard of around fifty to sixty a day, which is considered wealthy, and most of the ordinary people I know are actually below that standard, able to eat enough and have enough nutrition. I know a girl who plays tennis, she’s one of the richest high school students I’ve ever met, living on about a hundred and fifty a day for nutrition in total, and often buys me milk tea.”
Su Basha: “That’s an ordinary person you’re talking about ……”
Li Tiezhu: “That tennis player is called Zheng Yanzi, this year’s French Open women’s singles champion. She said you invited her to Bazaar Night this year, but she was unavailable.”
Su Basha: “……”
Liu Mei: “When I first came to Jingdu, I lived on 80 cents a day.”
Li Tiezhu added: “But then, the second aspect …… when I was on the variety show, in addition to the primitive and mushroom house of cooking by myself, the food cost was basically not less than one thousand five hundred yuan a day, written into the contract. The best even reached the standard of two thousand five hundred. So, from this perspective, Auntie Subasha is used to it, whereas the viewers can’t understand your point of view, I’ll clarify it on your behalf so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.”
The pop-ups reacted strongly in this piece:
“Is this eating dragon meat? Six hundred and fifty isn’t enough.”
“Su Basha looks so disgusting.”
“Really annoyed with this old woman.”
“A month’s living expenses are four times my salary, so damn rich and arrogant.”
“Is the standard of food for artists so high? Didn’t they say they eat boxed meals?”
“It seems that celebrities can’t be trusted in their sunshine photos.”
“That’s an ordinary person, huh …… just she’s a human being?”
“Zheng Yan Zi is only one hundred and five.”
“I have two bags of instant noodles a day, am I not worthy of being a human being?”
“Tiezhu said is true ah? He’s fifteen hundred too?”
“What the hell is going on here?”
“The entertainment industry is really all over the place, and Tie Zhu is extravagant too. Oh!”
“Other artists are like this, Li Tiezhu can’t be special, right?”
Su Basha was shocked to find that Tie Zhu seemed to be a friend, and his attitude was much more amiable, “Nah, I’d say six hundred and fifty per day isn’t enough, right? We’re all below the average level of artists now.”
This belongs to the robber logic.
Li Tiezhu was also not spoiled: “There is a difference! Here we are cooking for ourselves, but in the show, the fifteen hundred and fifty dollars is for the finished product, in addition to the labour and shipping costs, the bulk of the money is all paid to the IQ tax. You’ve all eaten the 1500 meals before, right? What the hell? It costs 20 at most, no more. The reason for this is simple: the people who sell the food are all ‘relatives’ of the programme or TV station! For example, a certain TV station’s designated support package! I wouldn’t dare to say in other shows, but this one is fine either way.”
Guo Da Lin came out to round up the conversation again, “Right! This is Penguin’s programme, you’re Penguin’s first brother, so you can say anything.”
Indeed, this was also the reason, if it was any other show, although Li Tiezhu disliked people, he wouldn’t shake out all the dark secrets and cats behind the scenes, there was still a difference between offending people and killing their parents.
Su Basha carefully said, “Then, six hundred and five …… is enough?”
Li Tiezhu also had a headache: “Put it to you this way, the earth eggs are two yuan a piece, or a large one, and the milk is five yuan a bottle, very fresh. If you want to consider organic, pure natural and branded or something, Uncle Zhou?”
Zhou Erkang picks up, “Organic earth eggs are also at most three yuan a piece, double yolked eggs.”
Su Basha: “That cheap? You guys don’t lie to me, I’m a regular cook, I’m a very good cook, the eggs are all the best that Auntie buys, twenty or so a ……”
Some people were already laughing and snickering.
Meng Zoe suddenly said to Su Basha, “Hey? Auntie, do you still need a nanny at your house?”
Su Basha: “Ah?”
There was a reason why Meng Zoey was inviting blackness, because this one was really bitchy: “I’ve found out that the secret to getting rich lies in two places, one in the criminal law and one in your home. You are so cute!”
And she gives a thumbs up.
Su Basha finally got it and felt humiliated, Tiezhu wasn’t annoying, this Meng Zoey was disgusting.
Li Tiezhu was a bit stunned, Meng Zoey this sister’s style is hard enough ah!
You should call Meng Zuo Demon is right!
Guo Da Lin cutie was online again: ”Sister Meng, my dad is short of a nanny, he keeps saying he’s not happy anymore lately. I can’t imagine how happy my dad is, but I’m thinking it’s always right to find someone to take care of him.”
Meng Zoe: “Screw you!”
Li Tiezhu: “Phew~”
Meng Zoe grunted, “What’s the appeal? I’m still not helping you speak, Tiezhu you heartless.”
Also flying winks.
This sister is familiar with herself! And it was ambiguous.
The others laughed and the atmosphere came back.
Li Tiezhu wondered, “You don’t know how to speak, and you’re doing all the help you can. Well, I don’t blame you, sit down, so, I think it, this six hundred and fifty can be enough for you guys to eat and drink for a few days. But my point is still, everyone lives on their own, and the collective funds are best taken for projects. After all, everyone has different requirements for food, and it’s not fair or necessary to share it equally.”
Zhou Erkang: “Right, I think it’s the same, living on your own.”
Zhang Tang: “This is the way to better advance the project.”
The three of them made a lot of sense, but ……
Liu Mei: “We are a collective! How can we be divided? We have to stay together even if we eat the chaff.”
Su Basha: “Ideal life starts with living, let’s try how long we can eat on six hundred and fifty first, then we can discuss it.”
Meng Zoe: “What kind of project are we doing? Aren’t we here to have fun?”
The other ladies agreed.
Zhou Erkang and Zhang Tang looked at each other and leaned helplessly on the back of their chairs, the straight group failing in their last struggle.
Li Tiezhu happily sat down and said to the two of them, “Lie down flat! There’s no other way.”
He wasn’t angry at all, it’s none of my business. Not only not angry, but also very happy, this kind of chaotic inefficient embarrassing to the extreme programme, or the first time to see ah, interesting.
Don’t call it Peach Blossom Dock, call it the Oddball Show.
Logically, everyone began to pay money, soon fifteen guests urged each other, all paid money.
Everyone looked at Li Tiezhu.
Li Tiezhu: “I’m not a guest, I don’t pay money. I’ve been on close to a hundred variety shows in two years, and I haven’t paid out for a single one!”
Guo Da Lin: “I’ll testify to this! He went on our comedy show, and even took the watermelons from our backstage, and hugged two big ones home to honour his future in-laws. So, let’s not think about letting him pay, we have to prevent him from going along with things.”
The group joked and continued with the topic.
Chen San: “Last question, how to arrange dinner tonight.”
The answer given by the ladies was: the first dinner on the first day, of course, a big meal! A bit of extravagance.
The aunts and sisters bounced in place, screaming with joy.
The men shook their heads and laughed at the contrast.
The meeting came to an end and everyone left.
Li Tiezhu, Zhou Erkang and Zhang Tang naturally walked together, the three of them simultaneously wearing inexplicably weird smiles, looking at the ladies in front of them who were still letting loose and getting high with complex expressions.
Zhang Tang: “Tie Zhu, you’ve followed the programme the whole way until now, what are your thoughts?”
Li Tiezhu said, “I’m only here for one episode, but now I suddenly have an urge to come back for a few more episodes, it’s too …… too weird!”
Zhou Erkang: “Then you come, come to see the play, how much I want to be you this role ah, much easier, now the heart is tired.”
Zhang Tang: “Tiezhu schedule is tense, immediately going to guest star in the film of Brother Jing and Brother Teng, followed closely by his own new film is to start shooting, which has time ah.”
Li Tiezhu said, “I can still come and see it tomorrow, if the programme team welcomes it.”
How could the programme team not welcome it?
To be reasonable, the disorder and awkwardness of this show had surpassed almost all large variety shows at the moment. Although it also carried an alternative sense of comedy, Li Tiezhu still served as a good reprieve.
For example, the programme team’s flawed script at the beginning, such as the awkward laughs exchanged when they first met, and then the classic six-five-zero.
To a certain extent, Li Tiezhu and Guo Dalin held up the lower limit of this programme.
Soon, the afternoon rushed by, and it was time to make dinner.
In the kitchen, Su Basha commanded Ruoxu, leading seven or eight people to hustle and bustle, preparing the first meal in Peach Blossom Dock.
Thanks to the programme’s camera editing, it still looked quite structured.
There was also a blatant voiceover, “The meeting wasn’t exactly a success, but the dinner was skilfully coordinated, and everyone finally grew to have a tacit understanding.”
However, what Li Tiezhu saw at the scene was not the case.
Li Tiezhu was wandering around with his hands behind his back, never helping.
A large group of them, holding various finished and semi-finished foods, pounded away for almost two hours, their hands busy. In the meantime, it was more like this one said a few words, that one spoke a few words, and the scene was once very chaotic. A floor of vegetable leaves, egg shells and water, one rag even flew up to the hanging cupboard, anyway, all of these must have been the work of the show’s staff afterwards.
“Heh, heh heh heh …… is so funny.”
Li Tiezhu silently sigh, he suddenly had a bold idea, take the time to let the zoo four little ones do their own food and chores, and watch the show like a grandpa, I think it must be more than this, I do not know if it will put the house on point.
Meng Zoe stirred a pot of sh*t yellow paste, Li Tiezhu watched and frowned.
She said, “Nasty! What kind of eyes are you looking at? This is authentic Xichuan spicy hot pot! It doesn’t sell well, but it’s really tasty.”
Li Tiezhu nodded: “You said it.”
“What do you mean? You’re a Xichuan man, you wouldn’t have never eaten spicy hot pot, right?”
“There’s no such thing as spicy hot pot in Xichuan.”
No matter what, the dinner was cooked and everyone ate it, none of them died violently on the spot, it was considered a success.
Li Tiezhu was very cautious, symbolically ate some, then, drove his own little black man back to his home fifty kilometres away, he was not to spend the night in this show.