"Are you Xiang Tiange? Hello, hello, I am the manager of Yang Qian and Dai Yuni, and my name is Wu Lan. Yes, they are members of the band. Let me introduce you..."
On the afternoon of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Wu Lan rushed to Hecheng from Shanghai with the band members and Bao Wenxiao, who was called by Yang Shihan to help. Du Xun, who had already rushed back to the city, chartered a minibus to take them there.
The large team pulled together to Xiang Tiange's village.
It was quite a hassle. When flying, everyone's instruments had to be checked separately. Jiao Hailong was the worst. His drum set was too big to take over, so he had to ask Du Xun to borrow one for him in Holland.
Set up a professional performance-level drum set, and send a minivan to take him to Longliao Village, Heyang County.
But even so, everyone still took a plane and a car, and arrived at the destination when the sun was about to set in the afternoon.
A small village that looks relatively remote and backward!
Are you really proposing here?
Wouldn't it be a little too... outrageous?
Originally, they wanted to mutter the word "shabby" in their hearts, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed wrong. The songs prepared by Yang Qian were quite touching and very thoughtful.
Of course, once it comes, let's make peace with it.
Under Xiang Tiange's arrangement, everyone stayed in the homes of several villagers.
There was no way, there was no hotel or hotel in the village, so Xiang Tiange had to coordinate with the village chief to squeeze out so many empty rooms for them to stay, and all the rooms were replaced with new sheets and sheets in advance.
Fortunately, the conditions in Longliao Village are pretty good. There is hard ground everywhere. The villagers they live in have small Western-style houses in their homes with bright and clean windows. The environment is not bad.
Three women, Wu Lan, Bao Wenxiao, and Feng Siwen, live together in Xiang Tiange's cousin's house. Their father works away from home and did not come back during the Chinese New Year this year. The family is full of women, so they don't have to worry too much about safety issues.
"Everyone put down your luggage first, and then come over to my house for dinner. The food is almost ready!"
Xiang Tiange was worried that the reception was not good enough, so he went from house to house to see if they had settled in well, and asked them to go to dinner together.
"Lunch or dinner?"
Jiao Hailong touched his belly and asked with interest.
It's a bit early now, just after 4:30, which is too early for dinner and too late for lunch. Moreover, they actually had a meal in downtown Hecheng at noon, arranged by Du Xun, and then came by car.
"Have dinner, have dinner."
"Isn't it a little early to have dinner? It's only half past four."
Jiao Hailong was very puzzled.
"It's late. We usually eat at five or six o'clock. It used to be almost five o'clock."
At first, Xiang Tiange thought they didn't know that rural people eat early, but then he saw the drummer's figure and he understood.
"Don't worry, although we have had dinner early, we are planning to have a barbecue tonight. Even though we are in a rural area, we can also enrich the program here!"
Xiang Tiange added with a smile.
"No, no, I just want to know the arrangements for the evening. Maybe we should find a venue to practice again tonight."
Jiao Hailong waved his hand quickly.
In fact, they really don’t have to worry about being hungry, because just looking at the dinner alone, everyone is really going to be full!
“Seafood dinner? Wow, so much seafood!”
When Jiao Hailong and other team members arrived at the small courtyard of Xiang Tiange's house, it was not completely dark yet. However, the star lamps lit up clearly illuminated the dishes on the table, and not all the dishes were ready yet.
The steamed crabs, prawns, shrimps, garlic oysters, etc. that have been brought to the table have everyone amazed.
Except for the lack of lobster, the seafood prepared by Xiang Tiange's family was no worse than the annual banquet enjoyed by Yang Qian and others.
And the key is that these seafood are all very big, like palm-sized prawns, and oysters bigger than a palm, which attracted everyone to take pictures in their hands. Unfortunately, they can't post it on WeChat Moments. Wu Lan repeatedly gave orders.
, you can post it to Moments later, but if you post it now, the secret will be exposed.
"So fierce. No wonder a friend of mine who is also from Hecheng often asked me to come to Hecheng to drink and eat seafood."
Jiao Hailong sighed.
"Seafood paired with wine is a gout feast! Just eat seafood and we'll talk about it after drinking."
Feng Siwen patted his plump shoulder.
"Xiang Tiange, isn't the feast you prepared for us too sumptuous? It cost you money."
Zhong Yi looked a little embarrassed.
"Don't misunderstand me! These seafood were arranged by Teacher Yang. He said it was a Chinese New Year and asked everyone to come from home to help. I was really embarrassed, so he gave us a special fund and asked us to buy seafood. We must let everyone
Eat well and drink well!”
Xiang Tiange smiled.
Obviously, Yang Qian’s financial support is behind this.
Although when it comes to entertaining guests, the hospitable Longliao villagers will definitely try their best to buy some seafood and other delicacies, but they will not buy such a big one. A seafood feast of this size and size is just a burden for ordinary people.
Too heavy.
There are also many delicious dishes being brought from the kitchen one after another, such as milky white and sweet fish soup, steaming grouper, lamb stew with fragrant sauce, soft and delicious peanut braised pig's trotters
etc.
It cannot be said that the dishes made by Xiang Tiange's family and the aunts who came to help from the village are exquisite and luxurious. In fact, they are all very simple cooking methods.
But as a documentary said, "High-end ingredients often require only the simplest cooking methods." These steaming-based family meals perfectly retain the original and most delicious taste of the ingredients.
"It's delicious, it's delicious! Thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law, auntie!"
Everyone ate very happily. Wu Lan, Feng Siwen and other people who were concerned about their figure even sighed that they didn't dare to step on the scale when they went back.
Of course, after this meal, the small mountain village that was originally relatively simple and remote in their eyes quickly changed their perspective and they started to like it.
...
Dai Yuni returned to the city with Yang Qian today, but the main arrangement was to treat Yang Qian's master, Ouyang Xiaoqing's father, Ouyang Cheng, to dinner.
Ouyang Cheng, whose daughter was away in Hecheng, was much lonely and devoted more of his energy to his work as a reporter.
It was not easy for Yang Qian to make an appointment with him. He had been busy in the past few days, but he finally had some time today.
Ouyang Cheng was quite considerate of his apprentice. Knowing that he was annoyed by being chased by reporters for interviews, he did not reveal the news to the station and secretly went over to have dinner with his apprentice.
In the evening, Dai Yuni came back and prepared to pack her clothes.
"Are we going to Xiang Tiange tomorrow? Do we want to spend the night?"
Dai Yuni picked up a small hand luggage bag and prepared to pack her and Yang Qian's clothes.
"Yes, you can pick up some clothes and bring two sets of good-looking clothes."
Yang Qian nodded.
"Get some nice clothes? My clothes are all nice!"
Dai Yuni is very tasteful even in her casual clothes.
"Um, I just want to get two sets of clothes that are easy to appear on camera and look good when taking pictures. Didn't Hanhan say that he would take pictures for us? You take them and put them on before going to the beach."
Yang Qian had already prepared an excuse.
"Yes, watch the sunset! I have to choose carefully!"
Dai Yuni remembered it, and she immediately started thinking about it with great interest.
What clothes should I take?
They brought three large boxes back to Hecheng, two and a half boxes of Dai Yuni's clothes, while Yang Qian only had a pitiful half box.
Not only that, Dai Yuni went shopping these days and bought a lot of clothes...