Chapter 21: This was Summer
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants to spend summer with Gu YuMian
[Sister Zhuzhu: Huh? Didn't you just say you wanted to quit? Back off? Hahahaha]
[Love to eat dried fish: Sorry, my hands have their own ideas. orz]
[Fireworks: Aah, ah, I was recommended by the goddess of There's a Cloud. I went to Takk to watch his live broadcast! Once I saw his face, I had this familiar feeling! MianMian is in Capital Star! Let's wait for the future. Haha. You'll be addicted, too.]
[Junior B: What are you talking about, Fireworks? Addicted?]
[Small Cloud Clip: This live broadcast really makes me feel special. Wait and see.]
After a while, it was time for the bath. What Gu YuMian liked most about this house was the bathroom, because it was large and could be renovated. When he arrived, he immediately sent an intelligent robot to arrange it.
"You've been tired all day," Gu YuMian held the little Tangyuan. "Let's give a comfortable bath to little Tangyuan. TuanTuan is here to help me, and I'll have dessert for you all later."
The baby panda's round eyes looked curiously from left to right. It didn't seem to hate the bathroom environment, but his short plush legs and forepaws still tightly hugged Gu YuMian and didn't want to come down.
The little snow leopard wanted to sneak him out of Gu YuMian's arms. When Gu YuMian noticed it, he looked away as if nothing happened.
Gu YuMian, "…"
There were many fluffy land animals in society. By nature, many of them were very resistant to bathing.
One, it made them feel uncomfortable and insecure after being washed by the bath water. Two, the narrow and dark environment would make them feel like they were locked in a small cage box, and subconsciously resist it.
But this was not the case here.
As Gu YuMian entered the bathroom, the audience could gradually see all the surroundings—
It should have been a relatively dim bathroom, but it was very spacious and bright.
Soft natural light came in from the frosted glass, the color was lovely and warm, and the anti-skid cushion had no feeling of moisture. A shallow but wide bathtub sat in the corner, the shape and size of which were designed for cubs like Tangyuan and the snow leopard.
[Cloud clip: I like the design of this bathroom!]
[Junior B: I might reluctantly want a bath there… maybe.]
Gu YuMian looked at the barrage and smiled.
"Yuanyuan," he first bowed with a handful of water in his hands and asked the baby panda to test the temperature with his paws, "how is the water temperature?"
Little Tangyuan thought Gu YuMian was playing games with him. He happily pressed two soft claws in Gu YuMian's palm, left and right, and played for a while. Gu YuMian couldn't help laughing, but he didn't rush. On the contrary, the little snow leopard was very unhappy. Several times, he tried to move the paw of little Tangyuan away.
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Half a minute later, Tangyuan held Gu YuMian's right hand and stepped into the shallow bathtub carefully. The bathtub was really shallow. When the baby panda sat down, the water just missed the height of his white belly. He curiously used his claws to lift the water up to his belly.
Gu YuMian sat cross legged beside the bathtub, let the little snow leopard's head rest on his shoulder, then leaned over and took the warm towel to wipe the baby panda's soft hair, while chatting with the two children.
"It's windy outside," Gu YuMian said, holding a towel in one hand and some warm water in the other. "Today, the sky of Capital Star was very blue. We planted a bunch of Chinese balloon flowers 2 in our garden… Do you smell them?"
This bathroom was not a fully enclosed design. It had a half-open shutter, which was light. The air was flowing, and the wind came from the window, taking away all the moisture.
The audience and little Tangyuan shared the same perspective, and at this time, the sense of substitution was strong. With Gu YuMian's words, many people couldn't help but close their eyes. It seemed that the tip of their nose could smell the fragrance of flowers in the wind. Obviously, they couldn't see, but the brain could still fill in the colors, sound and light.
Across the frosted glass to the outdoors was the blue summer sky, the sound of cicadas, the cool wind, and it was not stifling hot. The light fragrance of the balloon flower melted in the wind, which made this summer full of fragrance and romance, like the words and sentences of light and shadow overlapping in a poet's works.
Obviously, it was a bath, but they didn't feel any tension at all. Even because of the picture drawn by the young man's gentle words, everyone seemed to be trapped in the sleepy and windy summer afternoon, and the whole day was filled with all kinds of imagination—
Then, a stream of water with just the right temperature fell on the skin.
All public judges opened their eyes at the same time.
The feeling of wet fur with warm water made people feel at ease and content. The young man's hands gently pressed along with the water flow to straighten out the knotted fur. His technique was patient and gentle, with water flowing from the baby panda's chin to belly then back, every second was comfortable enough to make the audience want to close their eyes and sigh.
The baby panda was sleepy with his eyes closed in this atmosphere. From time to time, his little paw pressed against Gu YuMian's palm as he yawned contentedly. The current took away all the dirt, along with the long journey, and his fatigue was also thrown behind him.
In the air, there was the smell of bath salts mixed with a touch of the balloon flowers, and the light smell of bamboo leaves from Gu YuMian's fingers. His gentle touch was like company, a kind of tolerance, a gentle embrace to hold the whole person in his arms.
Like a big brother that everyone wanted to have in their childhood.
He could take them to fly kites, pick up seashells on the beach, play in the mountains and fields, and carry them home, drowsy on his back back when they were tired, and even help them take a comfortable hot bath. Many of the public judges felt that this moment was the ultimate pleasure, and the next moment was even more unforgettable.
"After taking a bath, we will lay a cold mat beside the floor window to take a nap," Gu YuMian kissed the snow leopard, who was quiet. "When you wake up, you can have dinner. After eating, you can have ice watermelon and drink watermelon juice. Let's move the small table to eat in the corridor. They say that in Capital Star, you can see the constellation Ursa Major. Can you find it?"
Surrounded by warm water, the temperature seemed to be able to flow into the blood vessels, and every cell was in complete ease at this time. Gu YuMian's movements were very slow and his voice was gentler than the summer afternoon wind. He arranged everything in such a proper and appropriate way that people couldn't help trusting him and relying on him. They wanted to follow him to many places and do everything together. Under such a gentle wind, this beautiful and sentimental afternoon would end in a little bit.
But it was not a pity, because it was followed by a gorgeous golden evening. A steaming hot meal, a starry night in the midsummer, a story with iced watermelon and endless listening, and a long and pleasant dream.
The public judges were speechless.
It wasn't until a few minutes later that all the barrages showed up!
[Chocolate Candy: Ah ah ah ah! WTF! What is this feeling? I've had severe insomnia for 30 years, and now I'm sleepy?!]
[Love to Eat Small Dried Fish: So comfortable! Why can't we smash gifts in the evaluation system? I really want to smash fireworks and let everyone come to this immortal little brother's room! QAQ]
[Cloud Clip: I suddenly feel that my summers from the past few decades have gone white, and were never worthy of being called summer!]
[Junior B: When I came in, I thought it would barely make it to an E qualification. Now I even think that I underestimated the anchor, he should be made an S-level. Shit, I'm kneeling for you!]
[A Curtain of Dreams: A-level has been hit. Thank you for letting me, a 200 year old aunt, experience the feeling of being a child being cared for. It's really amazing. Middle age crisis and the trouble of losing hair, insomnia and such, I haven't been so relaxed and happy for a long time, thank you.]
These one thousand public judges came from all ages and classes of Capital Star. From young adult students to middle-aged housewives and even some seniors who were retired and had nothing to do.
The reason why it was difficult for the public to judge was that it was too difficult to please so many people of different identities and ages at the same time. It was just like singing, dancing and game live broadcasting for teenagers, shopping and makeup live broadcasting for young women, and outdoor travel live broadcasting for sedentary office workers. However, Gu YuMian's live broadcast, which was hard to be divided into a specific category, had completely eliminated such a problem for the first time in history. No barrier, no threshold, everyone could relate, and could get a very unique experience.
Except for a few judges, like the one who didn't watch the live broadcast at the beginning, and gave Gu YuMian an E-level score, the rest, more than nine hundred people, were cautious and waited until after they saw the end of the live broadcast. Out of 967 people, very few of them gave a B-level grade, while more than six hundred of them scored him as an A-level grade, and the most amazing thing was that the remaining two hundred people gave him a score of a S-level grade!
It was very carefully processed for the official reviews to be S-rated. Although the public reviews were volunteers from all ages, they had also been trained on the wire, so it was impossible to hit such a high score casually.
Gu YuMian's 'very simple' live audit set the highest average score since the establishment of the audit system!
This data result was also quickly fed back to the official and high-level Star Live executives.
In the afternoon, there were not many things for Fang Lena, the CEO of Starry Sky Live, to do so she was just watching the live broadcast. At this time, she clapped the table and stood up.
"Xiao Zhang!" She called out to her assistant with a strong voice, and pulled out a document on her optical computer, "Go to the personnel department, and ask them to help Gu YuMian submit the application of an S-level anchor review process to the government!"
Even Fang Lena, who had been a veteran for many years, was a little excited at this time. There were no S-level anchors in Capital Star. If the first S-level anchor could be under their name, it would undoubtedly add luster to their flag.
Xiao Zhang was excited, "Okay, do you have anything else you want me to do?"
Fang Lena, "Go quickly. Oh, wait."
Xiao Zhang, "?"
Fang Lena felt the tip of her nose, a little embarrassed. "Ah, by the way, I need a signed photo of Gu YuMian."
Xiao Zhang: "…"
It was over. The Chief CEO was chasing the stars. Was there any need for the new anchor competition half a month later?
Starry Sky would win.
That night, on the microblogs.
The total population of Takk was 700 million. Microblogging traffic and Capital Star were incomparable. Capital Star had a population of 30 billion in the Lower Urban District alone. Every moment, people were sending and brushing through the microblogs. The more sleepy people stayed up late, the more fierce they were.
Xiao Wang was one of them.
But she stayed up not because it was habitual, but because of insomnia. She had tried all kinds of therapy. Sleeping pills were effective at first, but the feeling of palpitation and panic when she woke up the next day… She really didn't want to try it a second time. She stayed up like this and she couldn't sleep until four or five in the evening. She had to get up to work again at seven the next day.
"Oh, I'm too tired," Xiao Wang said as she lay in bed, idly brushing through her microblogs.
[Xiao Ming, a special student who loves to make complaints about Tucao V: Forwarding this microblog post. You will have a good sleep tonight. [Video]]
Xiao Wang, "?"
She had heard of forwarding lottery, forwarding good luck, but forwarding sleep… was this a hoax? But this sentence also scratched her conscience, anyway, insomnia was just that, insomnia. Wasn't this taking a dead horse to a vet?
She pressed forward and didn't know what special settings were needed. After forwarding, the video started playing automatically. The person who released the video reminded the audience to wear their holographic device.
The video was only twenty minutes long. At the beginning, the picture was a bit confusing, and the sound of water was heard. Was this young man a human? Xiao Wang frowned a little uneasily at first.
But soon there was no time to think about it.
The progress bar moved forward little by little.
The gentle touch fell like a feather. The hot air and the fragrance of balloon flowers in the air, the stars and fireworks in summer outlined in the youth's words—
Contentment and relaxation crept up to the nerve endings of her brain which had been extremely anxious, and all the pressure and fatigue were cleaned together.
Even without seeing the end, Xiao Wang's eyelids drooped and her sleepy mind surged up.
"…"
This was the case for almost everyone. Therefore, this microblog had been forwarded numerous times, but there were only a few comments… until the next morning. The comment section was flooded by the people who had personally tested it!
[Vivinot: Twenty years of insomnia, and this is the first time I felt like I could sleep so well! Ah ah!]
[Elegant Flatterer: WTF! I thought it was funny, but I really fell asleep!]
[Tutu Doesn't Like to Eat Pudding: Who is this man? I want his name and phone address in five minutes! I'm in love with him! QAQ]
[Little Comb: Really? When I saw it was human at the beginning, I thought he must be very unreliable. I never thought of this! I didn't find a lot of news in Capital Star. Then I asked my programmer brother to search the whole star. This seems to be a hot anchor from Takk?]
[Prairie Carnation: Takk? A melodramatic person begged him to come to Capital Star! Aaah, I'm ready for the money!]
After a long time, the original blogger sent out another microblog.
[Xiao Ming, a special student who loves to make complaints about Tucao V: Here comes more. He just passed the review, waiting for the official news in two days. [OK] ]
Five minutes after it posted, there were thousands of comments.
Everyone who has seen this short video, including Xiao Wang, was boiling!
The other side.
After the audit, the official sent a notice to Gu YuMian along with other results. Gu YuMian couldn't see the score directly, but the reaction from watching the barrage was not too bad, was it? So he stopped paying attention to it. He took the snow leopard and Tangyuan and laid a mat beside the French window with good sunshine. He took a nap.
He set an alarm clock for himself. When he woke up, it had just become evening. The sunset was so beautiful that he could not speak.
The baby panda slept with his hands in his arms. From time to time, his round head arched into the palm of Gu YuMian's hand. He slept so deeply that there was a milky whining sound in his throat as if he was talking in a dream. While the snow leopard's sleeping posture was more arrogant. He pushed the little Tangyuan far away and cuddled into Gu YuMian. He unconsciously bit the back of Gu YuMian's neck like he was vowing his territory.
Gu YuMian, "…" He now realized why the back of his neck itched while he was sleeping.
"It's time to cook dinner," he said, carefully pulling both of them off his body and covering them with quilts. "What should we have? By the way —"
Stretching out, Gu YuMian suddenly remembered the advertisement he had seen when he just got off the starship!
There was a public service advertisement with a black and white figure in the bamboo forest. Although there was no specific content, Gu YuMian intuitively believed that the black and white figure was a panda. If he could find this ad online, maybe there would be a clue about little Tangyuan.
He logged in to Star Network and entered, "Twenty-four advertisements."
Chapter 22: Little Leopard Goes to School
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants to go to the same school as Little Ancestor Snow Leopard
Gu YuMian thought about it. First, he deleted the line, changed it to panda and then clicked search.
He wanted to see if it would change in Capital Star. However, as in Takk, the AI in his optical computer told him coldly, [Sorry, you don't have permission to view this entry.]
"… All right." Gu YuMian was helpless, "Search, 24\Advertising."
"The search results of [24\Advertising] have been displayed for you."
Gu YuMian was a little nervous for some reason. He closed his eyes and opened them again with a light breath—
[Hero's last year! The twenty fourth ad, shot by a top director, was ignored!]
[24 famous models are used in this luxury brand advertisement!]
[The most commonly used 24 kinds of advertising language.]
Gu YuMian, "…" When the list continued, Gu YuMian was dazed and couldn't find any useful information.
In fact, it was not surprising, because Ershisi Guo's public service advertisement just finished being edited and played in Capital Star, and the main position of discussion was on the micro blogs. Using direct results on the most official search engines, there would always be some lag.
It was not easy to get a clue. Gu YuMian didn't want to give up like this. After thinking about it, he entered, "24 \ \ bamboo forest \ \ advertisement".
[The 24th bamboo forest in Jiao Buxing will become a holy land for advertising!]
[What's the name of the advertisement for two dogs running in the bamboo forest? Broadcast on CCTV on the 24th of last month.]
[Shocked! The 24-year-old bamboo forest had been reduced to advertising consumables.]
Gu YuMian, "…" He entered "24 \ \ black and white \ \ advertisement."
[Black and white film advertising 24 years ago.]
[Check all advertisements using black and white elements over the past 24 years].
Gu YuMian, "…Forget it."
He went into the kitchen, put on an apron and began to deal with the ingredients for the night. In the middle of this, he suddenly had another thought—
"Little A," Gu YuMian told his optical computer in a hurry, "help me search for '24 \ \ Panda'!"
The air was still for a second, and Gu YuMian's heart was in his throat.
Next second, the voice of his optical computer AI coldly sounded again, [Sorry, you don't have permission to view this entry.]
Gu YuMian took a deep breath, "Okay, thank you, you… No, it's okay."
Little A: "…"
Gu YuMian thought of another possibility.
He was limited not only to the right to search directly for panda entries and related entries, but also the right to search implicitly. That was to say, no matter what he searched, the information related to pandas would be automatically blocked, which was fundamentally not feasible.
In fact, Gu YuMian also thought about other methods. For example, let the police directly crack open the panda's optical computer. But an optical computer, an extremely personal and important thing, couldn't be cracked by the police without permission. Even if it could be done, it needed sufficient reasons to get the license to do so. The incident described by Gu YuMian was absurd and without evidence, so it would be impossible to get the license.
Another example was to directly expose the whole story on the Internet, and let the netizens think of ways. This seemed to be the most feasible. Gu YuMian was also tempted to do it several times.
But he soon calmed down.
When little Tangyuan felt insecure, he would disguise himself as a human. This feature was probably not accidental, and the most likely reason for this result was—
"During the evolution of animals in the doomsday disaster, the panda race must have evolved some precious features or abilities, as it had no ability to protect itself. Therefore, after a large scale extinction of the pandas that left only a small part to protect themselves, the cubs evolved to have a camouflage ability that automatically camouflages the race when they feel unsafe."
It may also be the official purpose to block the permission of some special groups to view the entry of "Pandas".
The real situation was exactly the same as what Gu YuMian guessed.
Since some people had started coveting the characteristics of the pandas before, the race started to protect themselves. Besides, little Tangyuan was a good baby. And while Gu YuMian could now take care of him all the time, there were still special circumstances.
The Internet was also a mixed environment. If someone was interested in Tangyuan, Gu YuMian wouldn't dare to think about the consequences. It was better to focus carefully. Speaking of this, he should pay attention to the live broadcasts in the future. It was better not to let the audience discover Yuanyuan's race.
The good thing about this audit was that Yuanyuan's perspective was used by default. Gu YuMian had seen the playback and saw no loopholes.
"I can only go to Starry Sky and squat to see the advertisement sometime." Gu YuMian thought helplessly.
As he was dealing with the ingredients, he was lost in thought. Suddenly, a silver figure jumped onto the cooking table, and then climbed upon Gu YuMian's shoulder using his shirt. So the little snow leopard sprawled down on his shoulder and yawned lazily.
"TuanTuan," Gu YuMian said with a faint sigh and a smile, "you woke up? What about Yuanyuan?"
The face of the snow leopard showed that he had nothing to do with him.
Gu YuMian took a look at the door. The baby panda had been crawling slowly to the kitchen. But he didn't know who pushed him to lie on the ground, like a turtle turned over with its back facing down. His round eyes looked at the ceiling blankly.
Gu YuMian, "…"
He grabbed the back of the snow leopard's neck and placed him down. Then he went to the door and picked up little Tangyuan and patted his back. The baby panda immediately held his palm and whimpered happily. It didn't mean to complain at all. It was really a silly little, naive young creature.
At night, Gu YuMian was tired from the two or three days of running around. After dinner, Gu YuMian held little Tangyuan in his arms and sat with the little snow leopard on his shoulder. Everyone was staring at the stars together. Gu YuMian said in a strange way, "TuanTuan has become more and more rebellious recently… That's right." Gu YuMian thought of one thing at this time, "I have an appointment with Teacher Fang from the first preparatory class in the city under Capital Star. I'm free tomorrow. I'll take you there."
This visit to Capital Star had three purposes.
One was to participate in the rookie competition and the 10th Anniversary of Starry Sky. The second was to help the baby panda find his family members. The third was to see to the problem of the little snow leopard's ability awakening. Gu YuMian had planned everything the day before he arrived at Capital Star.
…Teacher Fang?
The little snow leopard narrowed his eyes slightly and thought of something in his heart.
The next day.
As soon as the baby panda stepped out, it would automatically disguise itself as an adult, but it was very hard for it. After Gu YuMian repeatedly confirmed that the smart home and security system in the house were perfect enough, he only took the snow leopard out with him.
"TuanTuan, Capital Star is really prosperous." Holding the snow leopard in his arms, he asked him to look down through the window. "It seems that this country is well governed."
The little snow leopard wagged his tail, squinted and raised his head to rub Gu YuMian's ears.
Nonsense, this was the country he governed.
This was the most bustling area in the Lower Urban District. From the suspension device, he could see the flow of people in the business district, even on weekdays. All kinds of things that were black technology in Gu YuMian's eyes were all over the street, but despite the huge crowd, it was not chaotic and everyone moved in order.
Gu YuMian was still looking down with great interest. The snow leopard glanced up lazily. He nestled back in Gu YuMian's arms and closed his eyes. His long tail circled the man's wrist to prevent him from leaving his side.
Although this place was under his governance, he still didn't like Capital Star, no matter which city it was.
They were going to the best preparatory school in the Upper District, which specialized in training the young who were not awakened or had difficulty in awakening. There were many successful cases indeed. Gu YuMian had checked many materials. At the beginning, Gu YuMian just wanted Xue Tuan to be happy, but in the long run, with his life span, he would probably not be able to accompany little Xue Tuan all his life, so he should at least be able to awaken and stand on his own.
In fact, there were more advanced training measures in the Central and Upper Urban areas, but Gu YuMian did not have a pass for the Central and Upper Urban areas.
The other side.
In the best preparatory school of the Upper District in Capital Star, the atmosphere was particularly dignified.
"They're almost here, and there are ten minutes left. The whole staff should take their places immediately," said Mr. Fennick, a brilliant blonde man in an old suit and a pair of black framed glasses sitting on the bridge of his nose. In front of him stood a row of professors, teachers and students, who could not show any flaws
The old Dean, who was over 300 years old, bowed solemnly with his teachers and students, "Yes, Grandpa."
Fennick, "Hmm?"
The old Dean coughed and quickly changed his words, "Yes, Teacher Fang."
Fennick nodded and prayed desperately that Mr. Gu would not be too keen.
In half an hour.
"Mr. Gu, and your family. This is the situation of Gu Xue Tuan," Fennick pushed his glasses and put the report on the light screen for Gu YuMian to see, "We are very lucky to have had a new breakthrough in our technology about half a year ago. Any albino cub who has been trained for more than a year will be able to successfully awaken in adulthood. There have been many successful cases, but they have not been extended to the whole galaxy. For the training, the time taken each day will be half a day. During the day Xue Tuan will be sent here and he can be picked up at night, or the school will be responsible for the pick-up."
—The time schedule had been carefully planned out. His Majesty had not appeared for a long time. If this continued, there would be panic in the cabinet and politics, so they needed to find a compromise.
As long as there was an excuse of "going to school", the monarch could be the Emperor in the daytime and sleep comfortably beside his human in the evening.
Gu YuMian glanced at the name tag on Teacher Fang's suit, which said 'Fang Nick.' It was a strange name.
"But Xue Tuan is not an albino." Gu YuMian held the snow leopard in his arms, scratched his ears, and the snow leopard listened absently as he dozed off. "He's just a species, er, you may not have seen. Are you sure the general albino training method is applicable to him?"
Last time he registered with the police station, the information of the little snow leopard said that he was older — the age of interstellar awakening could only be applicable for those who were underage, but it had been detected that the life span of the little snow leopard had exceeded twenty years.
That was to say, although the little snow leopard was not an albino, he did not awaken at the normal age, which was very strange.
"…"
This question immediately made Teacher Fang pause for three minutes. Mr. Gu's speech was strange. Although only a few people knew that His Majesty was an albino, he was indeed certified by the most authoritative scholar in the whole empire. Of course, the difference was that he was a albino with all spiritual and power levels that surpassed the sky, a special case in the special case.
Fennick coughed and said, "Yes, it'll work."
Gu YuMian, "…" Can it work? Was this school really reliable?
In other words, from the moment they entered the school, although everything seemed to be in order and the tidy classroom was full of students, there was a sense of strangeness.
"Mr. Gu, will you pay for the training now? The earlier you start, the better." Fennick looked at Gu YuMian intensely, with the expression of a leaflet boy who was selling inferior tutoring classes to his parents. "Now, there is still a discount."
Gu YuMian, "…Well, I'll think about it again." This famous teacher looked very unprofessional. The more doubts Gu YuMian had in his mind, the more careful he was about the child going to school. "I'm sorry, I'll give you a reply later…"
The little snow leopard nestled in Gu YuMian's arms and glanced at Fennick coldly.
Unable to do anything right, fool.
Fennick had cold sweat slide down his forehead. "…Wait! Actually, I'm a temporary worker," said Fennick in a hurry. "I'm a substitute. I don't know a lot of things. I'll let our professor come out and talk to you."
"Yes." The more than 300 year old Dean timely pushed open the door, "I'm sorry, I'm the professor. I just asked for leave to have dinner."
Gu YuMian, "?"
"If Mr. Gu is not at ease, I will explain the principles and processes of the training to you." The old Dean smiled kindly and went on.
Two hours later.
Gu YuMian's head was heavy, his feet were light and his head was dizzy when he came out of the office. The old Dean said Fang Nick was a visiting professor from the Capital's Medical University. He had fooled him. But regardless, his teaching skills were first-class. Gu YuMian tried hard to understand and find holes while listening to the lectures. His brain was almost on strike.
However, after listening to the lecture and checking the materials for self-understanding, he thought the training was okay and paid the required amount. As he was starting school today, Gu YuMian followed the old Dean to send the snow leopard to the report room. After registration, the head teacher took over. The old Dean and the head teacher seemed to have something to discuss. 'Fang Nick' also went along with them, and Gu YuMian walked out by himself.
The little snow leopard would go to school in the daytime. Gu YuMian would be a little lonely.
"…Right!" Gu YuMian walked to the school gate and suddenly remembered one thing— he couldn't search for panda information on the Internet, but it didn't mean he couldn't ask someone else to do so on his behalf. That 300 year old Dean seemed to be very knowledgeable. Maybe he could ask him about it himself?
Gu YuMian's heart rate increased and he almost ran when walking. When he got to the front door of the report room, he didn't expect the door to be unlocked, so he pushed it open—
"Professor, I want to ask you…"
The rest of his sentence died in his throat.
The air was still.
The report room was the same as how Gu YuMian remembered it to be when he left. It was an ordinary office structure with two bookshelves and several chairs.
The golden haired teacher, Fang Nick, was bowed down with a silver gray military coat in his hands. The old professor and his assistant were all bowed at 90 degrees, with cold sweat on their foreheads, and the atmosphere was very dignified.
His little Xue Tuan had disappeared and, surrounded by all the people in the middle, was a man.
The man sat on the chair in tailored military trousers that outlined his long and powerful legs. The legs of the trousers were bundled into the boots and he gave off a lazy air. He was absentmindedly adjusting his tie, and his knuckled fingers were a little impatient.
Silver hair, thin lips, gray-blue pupils.
A tall and handsome man.
Hearing the sound, he raised his eyelids and looked at Gu YuMian who stood a few meters away, "…"
The atmosphere gradually stagnated.
Meanwhile, on a micro blog.
[ Starry Sky Live: Here comes the new anchor! Gu YuMian [Video], the anchor from Takk, will announce the review rating tonight. Please look forward to it.]
[Junior B: Ah ah, here I am. This is a fairy! Let's go and have a look!]
[Small Cloud Clip: Will sit in the front row on a small bench! Immortal anchor! Ask him to start broadcasting quickly. I want to spend money on him! QAQ. In addition, I guess he will be A-grade or above. After all, I gave him a S-grade score at that time! Hahahaha!]
[Tropical fish like to spit bubbles: Junior B, brother, have you been stolen? Didn't you just say a week ago that you didn't want to see a human again in your life? Besides, are you kidding me. A-grade?! There are no more than 40 A-grade anchors in the whole Capital Star. How can a man from Takk possibly be of that grade?]
[Prairie Carnation: It was recommended by Xiao Ming. It's really useful. I'm determined to see this broadcast.]
[A Curtain of Dreams: Forwarded and liked. Old friends should watch if you have insomnia.]
Because of the new talent competition, Starry Sky often sent some new anchor's propaganda lately. However, Gu YuMian's comments of praise were far more than the other new anchors from other stars. Starry Sky's Chief CEO, Fang Lena, even ordered a praise and forwarding in person, which immediately made many people envious.
However, as for the rumors that Gu YuMian could be rated A-grade… Many people were still dubious. After all, A-gradel was too difficult. Many popular anchors were only B-gradel or below.
This was just a small corner of a micro blog.
Capital Star had a huge amount of news bursting out every moment.
For example, today's hot search that ranked in the top 10.
[One of my family's favorite beans fell ill! QAQ]
[Ershisi Guo's Agent temporarily sent a micro blog a few days ago, saying that he would stop performing in the near future.]
[Ershisi Guo should rest from his illness.]
All of Ershisi Guo's fans were very distressed.
For various reasons, Ershisi Guo did not register his own micro blog, and all transactions were managed by the agent and the studio. It had been several days since the micro blog was sent out by his agent, but because Ershisi Guo was very popular, the tag was still on the hot search for two or three days.
In today's top ten hot search, another tag was that an egg shaped rescue capsule's fragments were found on Takk.
This tag was thrown away by fans.
Because of its fatal defect, the egg shaped rescue capsule was completely eliminated after the war.
—Most people knew that the creatures in the capsule would shrink in size, even their memory to intelligence. However, few people knew that the last batch of egg shaped rescue pods were more special, and because they were special and precious, they were sought after by many retro enthusiasts.
The defect of 'changing to cub form' in this batch of rescue pods was intermittent. As time went on, individuals who returned to their cub stage could occasionally return to their original age. The time was very short at the beginning, but it would gradually increase until the individual would become completely stable.
Ershi Guo's silver gray starship was equipped with these last batch of egg shaped rescue pods.
Gu YuMian's house, a quiet villa.
The security robots faithfully patrolled around to prevent danger. The chubby panda cub sat on a soft cushion, and the intelligent home system sent a few small robots in the shape of dolls to play with it, but it soon began to become unhappy.
The young man who reassured it was not there.
This sense of doubt and insecurity was transmitted to the cerebral cortex, where a certain hormone secretion index rose, and then—
There was a flash of white in the room.
A little boy who looked about nine years old was sitting on the ground. He was wearing black back belt pants and a white shirt. He had a lovely round face and his round black eyes blinked blankly.
Ershisi Guo was used to appearing as a giant panda, because although he was an adult, his human form was set at nine, which was really irritating.
All the memories came up to him in a flash. From the beginning, when he watched the live broadcast to when he went to Takk by his father's starship, then went into the life-saving cabin and became a cub—
"!" The little boy sprang up from the ground, climbed up the cupboard, found his optical computer and unlocked it.
His parents were still on vacation in ancient Earth and he couldn't count on them. The only one he could contact right now was…
His agent!
Chapter 23: Shuo Han
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo would like to follow Shuo Han for eternity
The air was quiet.
The man, with a tie in one hand, reclining on the swivel chair, and his left foot in military boots resting directly on the edge of the desk in front of him, stared at Gu YuMian. In the words of the Internet, this posture was special. Ordinary people couldn't really imitate it. He looked like a gangster by accident.
But this person looked like he was posing for the picture of a magazine cover.
He looked more than twenty-years old. His skin was cold white, his nose was straight, his lips were thin and slightly pursed, and there was a lingering gloom and impatience in his eyes, between his handsome and beautiful eyebrows. He was like a jade statue who was above the material attractions of the world, free of worldly cares.
Gu YuMian had never seen such a powerful man.
He had a very pressing manner, with a kind of arrogance that looked down on everything and said nothing, as if he had been imbued with a high position for many years.
The gray-blue eyes of the man looked at Gu YuMian and narrowed slightly a moment later.
Gu YuMian, "…"
For a moment, those eyes gave him a familiar feeling, and he felt that he had looked into them each other day and night. He had a doubt in his heart, but soon this thought made him feel absurd.
First of all, Xue Tuan had not awakened yet, which was proven by the tests he had undergone, unless everyone joined in to cheat him. Secondly, Xue Tuan was just a rebellious kid with a bit of a bad temper. Where he was, strangers were not allowed to be near him, or he would even become violent enough to frighten people.
No one expected Gu YuMian to come back. Ten seconds later, it was Mr. Fennick who responded. He took a careful look at the person to his right, cleared his throat, and asked calmly, "Mr. Gu, what's the matter?"
The old professor was also an intelligent individual. After only a second's loss, he quickly linked up the causes and consequences and reflected on what the situation was. He slowly straightened his back, thumped his waist, and walked to pour water for Gu YuMian.
Gu YuMian also looked at the man for a few seconds, smiled at him, and soon politely withdrew his sight.
The man was still looking at him. His eyes didn't make Gu YuMian uncomfortable, but they did have a strong sense of existence, which made Gu YuMian a little uncomfortable.
"Excuse me, but I'll take up some of your time. Let me ask… No, I came to see how the formalities of Xue Tuan are going," Gu YuMian said quietly, "has the class started yet? "
Since it had been nearly ten minutes since he left the office last time, this was the most likely reason.
The old professor had made a mistake, "Yes, I just asked the head teacher to take him to the class."
Except for the assistant of the professor, who was a little flustered, everyone else had adjusted to the abrupt intrusion. Fennick, who had been in politics for so many years, was the most convenient one for the monarch to use.
Fennick pushed his glasses and asked, "He should be in the classroom now. Does Mr. Gu want to see the monitor?"
"Okay," Gu YuMian nodded. "I will be troubling you."
The light screen in the middle of the air reflected the situation of the classroom. The little snow leopard followed the head teacher into the classroom, lazily jumped to the platform and took a look at the monitoring camera.
Gu YuMian looked at him carefully for a long time.
There were no flaws and he was really his family's little snow leopard. There was an introduction for new students.
When Fennick looked at the human, he was relieved that it was over. Unexpectedly, Gu YuMian paused and looked at the man who was silent all the time. He was a little sorry and asked, "I forgot to tell Xue Tuan something. Can I see him now?"
"…" The man casually looked at Gu YuMian and turned to his optical computer.
"Yes," said Fennick, with a slight change of face and a quick smile, "I'll ask the head teacher to bring him here."
Gu YuMian nodded and Fennick made a gesture to wait.
Fennick called using his optical computer, dialed the head teacher's number, and didn't hesitate to act. It was quickly connected there. Gu YuMian could see what the head teacher said to the students on the monitoring screen, walked out of the classroom and got on the phone, "Hello, Mr. Fang. What can I do for you?"
Fennick glanced at Gu YuMian and said, "Ah, Gu Xue Tuan's parent wants to see him. Please bring him here."
"Okay." The head teacher said as he hung up and went to the classroom.
Gu YuMian didn't let go until the last second, "It's all right. Teacher Fang, I'll tell Xue Tuan what I had to tell him later in the evening, so I won't disturb his class introduction. "
"Well, Teacher, I'm sorry," Fennick looked at Gu YuMian helplessly and said into the optical computer, "it's not necessary now. You can continue your class."
He thought to himself, His Majesty's intuition about this human was really keen. Fortunately, they had made all kinds of preparations.
Although Gu YuMian really made everyone like him by nature, even Fennick wanted to waggle his tail to let Gu YuMian play catch with him, he didn't expect the human who looked harmless and gentle on the outside to be a master of hiding needles, and could not be provoked.
He hung up.
Gu YuMian looked at the people in this room, and felt that he had been a little too sensitive. He felt too unreasonable and nodded his head, embarrassed, "Sorry, I didn't think much about it earlier. Then I'll go back first. I won't disturb you."
Originally, he wanted to ask about the baby panda, but it seemed that they were busy. Gu YuMian thought it was inconvenient to disturb them any longer.
Fennick looked at the man in the middle and just nodded, "Okay, it's hard to find a suspension device in this area. Do you need someone to send you?"
How could Gu YuMian have the nerve? "No…"
"I'll take him." The silent man suddenly stood up and whispered.
Gu YuMian found that he was so tall, even taller than himself. With long legs, he walked to Gu YuMian's side in a few steps, looked down at Gu YuMian, and threw the suspension device control card in the air.
The fierce momentum lasted a few seconds to where Gu Yu Mian nearly couldn't breathe, but soon it suddenly left and he couldn't feel it anymore.
Gu YuMian wanted to refuse, but the man walked out the door first.
When he reached the door, the man turned and looked at Gu YuMian standing still for two seconds. He was silent for a moment and said, "Afraid of me?"
Gu YuMian, "…"
It was a challenge.
All right, let's go.
Fennick and the professor didn't stop him. What could Fennick want to say? He swallowed after seeing His Majesty's eyes and bowed as they walked out the door.
This was the first time Gu YuMian had seen this type of suspension device. He couldn't help thinking that the rich were different. As compared to the device he had taken to arrive here, the suspension device before him was a flying heavy locomotive motorcycle in the air. The man stepped onto it with his boots and raised his chin to him.
Still a cool guy.
The man threw a pair of goggle-like things across the air to him. Gu YuMian raised his hand and caught them. After wearing them, he felt that his whole body was covered with a different technology — this was not a pair of common goggles. They had a series of functions such as adjustment to prevent dizziness, speed measurement and even monitoring his heart rate, an emergency call option for help, so as to fly safely at high altitudes.
Gu YuMian sat in the back seat in a proper way. Without handrails, he could only hold the man's narrow and tight waist, so he sat in a daze.
The man glanced at him and said, "You sit in front."
Gu YuMian, "?"
This person had a commanding and convincing tone when he said anything. Gu YuMian did what he said without asking why. The man changed positions with him, sat behind Gu YuMian, reached for the handles of the motorcycle in front of him, and inadvertently encircled Gu YuMian in his arms.
Gu YuMian, "…!"
Gu YuMian was a slender and thin young man, and the man had an obvious military origin and a larger build than Gu YuMian.
The light smell of tobacco mingled with the smell of cedar. Gu YuMian could see his fingers holding the handles. His fingers were long and pale, and the knuckles were a little tight. It seemed that the man was a little more nervous than Gu YuMian himself.
"This is not good," Gu YuMian regretted a little. Although the man was not taking advantage of him and wasn't doing anything crooked, he was not used to being so close to other people by nature… What's more, it was frightening to think about what would happen when the suspension device went into the sky in a moment, "Sir, it's too much trouble, I'll take the public suspension device back—"
The man's voice interrupted him, "Shuo Han."
Gu YuMian, "What?"
The man, holding Gu YuMian in his arms from behind, moved his head to the side and whispered beside Gu YuMian's ear, "My name is Shuo Han."
From this perspective, Shuo Han could see that there were half a set of teeth marks on the white and clean neck of the youth, which was the mark he made yesterday in his cub form.
—It pleased him.
So close to each other, Gu YuMian could even feel the cool touch of the other's lips against his skin.
The man was a little different from what Gu YuMian saw a dozen minutes ago. In the office, this stranger did not come near him and was irascible, and gave off an antisocial atmosphere. At this moment, he became lazy and absent-minded, like a lion who was comforted by someone close to him. This feeling gave Gu YuMian an unspeakable familiarity.
"Shuo Han." Gu YuMian repeated the name. The name 'Shuo' seemed a little familiar.
"Mn," said the man, raising his eyebrows, "It's time to go."
Gu YuMian realized that things were not going the way he thought, "That, wait —"
Shuo Han gripped the handles of the motorcycle and pressed the clutch. Weightlessness suddenly surged up, the wind whistled, and the things around quickly became smaller!
Gu YuMian, "Aaaaaah!"
Although he was not afraid of heights and such, he was afraid of roller coasters. And this feeling was hundreds of times more terrifying than a roller coaster. His brain was blank for a second, and every cell was screaming!
Shuo Han didn't expect his reaction to be so big. He looked down at him a little perplexed, but he couldn't bear to suddenly stop the acceleration phase. After a while, Shuo Han habitually kissed his ear and said soothingly, "I'm here, don't be afraid."
After the kiss, both of them froze.
"…"
Twenty minutes later.
The fast-moving heavy locomotive stopped at Gu YuMian's door, and Gu YuMian climbed out of the car as if his whole person was made of wood.
This was the first time we've met, right? I don't know him?
Gu YuMian knew that he was straight, and he didn't discriminate against gays, but Shuo Han didn't look like… Could an ordinary, single, straight man play like this? But his first reaction might be to ask? No, it was too embarrassing.
"Then I'll go home, Mr. Shuo. Thank you for today," Gu YuMian said politely as if in a dream. "You should come by to play sometime."
Shuo Han looked at him with his eyelids down and his thin lips slightly pursed, "Okay."
He kept looking at Gu YuMian's back until he turned and could no longer see him. Then he closed his eyes, stepped on the clutch and started the suspension device again.
Don't worry.
In the villa.
The little boy in the suspenders was holding the optical computer in his hand. After the fingerprint was unlocked, he immediately saw hundreds of missed calls from his agent. He put his finger on the dial key, and the second before he was about to press it, his face began to show hesitation.
Now, was it right to leave here?
Thinking rationally, he was now in an unstable state. He didn't know when he would change back to his cub state. It may take a long time to completely recover. Combined with his memory, he recalled that he had heard vaguely from his father that the egg shaped rescue capsule equipped with the star ship of his choice happened to be the last egg shaped rescue capsule in the most unstable state.
Other relatives of the Guo Family were living in the Upper district but shunned the world and did their own thing. They rarely came out to inquire about their ancestors. His parents were also on holiday in ancient Earth, so he couldn't get in touch with them for a short time.
His cub state was a very unsafe form and he had no self-protection ability. Of course, there was his agent, but compared with his own health and safety, the agent should be more towards his interests. If he knew his current situation, what would his agent do?
At least for sure, his agent would not let him go through this special period peacefully and carefree as he was now at Gu YuMian's side.
And the main thing was—
It was not easy to leave Gu YuMian. Although he was not one hundred percent certain that he was their ancestor, he couldn't bear to leave, call it his selfishness!
Was it wrong to rely on his identity as a little infant who knew nothing about anything?
He didn't think so.
To sum up, the best solution now should be to stay around Gu YuMian and try to contact his parents and relatives in the Upper Urban area. He should also try to avoid being found out by Gu YuMian and his agent. He'd better not expose it to his fans during Gu YuMian's live broadcast and let them find out. He'd take the next step when he was more stable.
The nine-year-old boy sat on the ground with a solemn face. His delicate and lovely face was flat, and his brow was wrinkled with bitterness and hatred. After five minutes, he figured out all the things he needed to. The little boy quickly got up, opened the optical computer intrusion security system to delete the monitoring records in the villa, at the same time, let the optical computer project the light screen into the air, and began to tap the light screen on his tiptoes.
There was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door. At the same time, the little boy knocked on the last film return, and the time limit for returning to adulthood was up.
A wave of exhaustion and sleepiness surged to his brain—
Ten seconds later.
The chubby panda cub lay on the soft carpet, curled up into a small sesame Tangyuan ball, unconscious. The home robot carefully covered him with a quilt, and the light near noon sun sprinkled on him, making him look lovely and charming.
"How can you sleep on the ground?" Gu YuMian entered the living room, crouched beside the baby panda, and rubbed his head gently. "Yuanyuan's really asleep."
Gu YuMian didn't know that his life was almost going to change dramatically. Fortunately, everything came to an end. He held his little fat sesame Tangyuan and saw the adult optical computer that had been automatically locked on the ground. It was the optical computer that little Tangyuan brought when he first came.
Gu YuMian, "?"
He picked up the optical computer and looked at it. He didn't see any difference. He put it back in the cabinet.
That afternoon.
After picking up the snow leopard from school and making sure that everything was as usual, Gu YuMian logged onto the Starry Sky platform again.
Capital Star and Takk were not on the same server. His account for Capital Star was newly sent by Starry Sky. He had only used it once for the live broadcast during the audit yesterday, but it had an increase of thousands of fan followings.
Gu YuMian was confused, "I know part of them are from Takk. They came over the wall. The rest…?"
Gu YuMian glanced around.
The new account also had a preexisting contact with a label of 'Agent' with the username of 'Sugar Sugar.' The title was exclusive to an official staff of Starry Sky. As soon as Gu YuMian went online, this 'Sugar Sugar's' private message immediately arrived.
[Sugar Sugar: Hello, MianMian. I'm your temporary agent Sugar Sugar at Capital Star. Please give me more advice later. =3=]
They sounded like a cute girl.
Gu YuMian sent a voice note, "Mn, Sugar Sugar, hello. Please give me more advice."
[Sugar Sugar: Aaaaah! MianMian called my name! Aaah! My life is worth it!]
Gu YuMian, "?"
Little Tangyuan was still sleeping. The little snow leopard nestled in Gu YuMian's arms, looked at the screen, and with a little displeasure, he reached out his claws to brush Gu YuMian's hair. Gu YuMian held the paw and pinched the paw pad.
Sugar Sugar quickly deleted the last message.
[Sugar Sugar: Sorry, my twin sister just stole my optical computer, that was not me.]
[Sugar Sugar: MianMian, today's contact with you is actually because we hope you can make a video. It's almost the same as a normal live broadcast but you can record the video while live broadcasting, and then edit it later. There is a video as a 'representative work,' which is more convenient for your subsequent promotion and publicity. Starry Sky will officially announce you tonight.]
Gu YuMian thought it was like YouTube in his last life, so he nodded.
It was true that his live videos had been circulated on the Internet before. Some of them were very popular, but the recording from the perspective of fans was not the same as that of his own production, and there were many things that the audience didn't care about.
[Gu YuMian: Okay, I'll try it tonight.]
Live broadcasting and video recording could be done at the same time. They would have the same content anyway.
The baby panda slept on Gu YuMian's lap. Gu YuMian held the little snow leopard and gently helped the little brat fluff his fur from the back of his ear to his tail, thinking as he did so. What was he going to do tonight?
"Summer, night…" Gu YuMian soon had an idea.
From Takk to now, all his live broadcasts were basically indoor, and the audience of those content would also suffer from aesthetic fatigue. And it happened that tomorrow was the weekend. The snow leopard didn't have to go to school. Since he had been busy, he didn't have a chance to take the cubs out to play. Why didn't he take advantage of this opportunity—
"Let's go picnicking and camping in the mountains and watch fireflies and stars. Would TuanTuan like to go? What about Yuanyuan?"
Little Tangyuan was still asleep, but subconsciously knew that Gu YuMian was asking him questions. He was very fond of the venue and gave a little gurgle sound. Although the little snow leopard didn't know what his human was thinking, he indulged him and yawned lazily.
So it was decided.
Gu YuMian was a man with strong action ability. In fact, he had thought about it before. He secretly checked the strategy before coming to Capital Star. Now, he could go out as long as he added some materials to the packing list.
At six o'clock in the evening, Gu YuMian opened the broadcast on time.
Within half a minute, the number of spectators kept rising, and countless barrages rushed across the screen!
Chapter 24: Picnic
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo finds Little Tangyuan very adorable
Six in the evening.
"Hello, everyone. I'm the host, Gu YuMian," Gu YuMian said to the camera with a smile and made a brief self-introduction, "These are my babies, Xue Tuan and Tangyuan. We are now in the mountains on Capital Star, and we're going to have dinner soon."
Gu YuMian turned on the privacy protection settings for little Tangyuan, so that under all perspectives, the camera would automatically avoid him and the audience would not see the whole body and face of the baby panda, and there would be no problem of privacy disclosure. Today, as last time, he set up the first angle of view following little Tangyuan.
The little snow leopard still occupied Gu YuMian's shoulder as usual, and his long tail lazily swept along the young man's collarbone.
The baby panda had just been cuddled by Gu YuMian as they climbed to the top of the mountain. His small round and fluffy head happily rubbed against Gu YuMian's palm that was trying to help smooth his hair. Only when threatened by the snow leopard did he move away.
The suspension device could only be driven to the foot of the mountain. For such a long distance, Gu YuMian had been trying to reconcile the little snow leopard's unilateral contradiction with Tangyuan. Fortunately, there was a small robot to help carry the ingredients and cooking props for the picnic, otherwise it would have been a bit hard.
But when he got to the mountainside, he found that all the hard work was worth it.
The environment here was really wonderful — the vast sky was unfolding in front of them without any shelter. Beside their rented cabin was a lake. In the evening, the mountain wind brought the summer air.
The tent and cooking props were placed properly, so Gu YuMian had time to look at the barrage.
[Junior B: He's finally on air. I've been waiting for a long time… Wow, are we outside? The view is quite beautiful.]
[The dog who took the postgraduate entrance examination with great effort: My mother forced me to watch this. What's this live broadcast for? (In addition, my mother gathered her Red Sunset Sisters Group to give the host some praise?!) I think my worldview is going to collapse.]
[There's a Cloud: Welcome host to Capital Star, sending a firework and wish you all the best! It's the first time I've heard the saying of picnic and camping.]
[Stomach's Rumbling: I was recommended to this by the previous hypnotic video. I'm looking forward to it. I hope I can sleep well tonight by watching the live broadcast!]
[Cat's Meow: Mian Mian, Mian Mian, what shall we eat tonight?]
Since this was his first time doing an official live broadcast on Capital Star, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room far exceeded the average within five minutes. Of course, after all, Capital Star was such a big planet, and Gu YuMian was broadcasting live here for the first time, and the current data was not on any recommended position.
Some of the audience came over the wall from Takk, while the previous "hypnotic" video, including the thousand public judges, attracted a lot of audience members among relatives and friends.
"We'll have beggar's chicken, 1 cream and mushroom soup 2 and some sparkling fruit wine tonight," Gu YuMian, holding the paw of the snow leopard and scratching the chin of the baby panda, answered the question on the bullet curtain. "Yuanyuan mainly drinks milk and can't taste a lot of food, okay?"
[Junior B: Wow, I've never heard of these dishes.]
Little Tangyuan happily made a whirring sound. His round head wanted to get close but was pushed away by the little snow leopard.
Gu YuMian smiled helplessly, shook his head, and began to deal with the ingredients.
"Beggar's chicken is a dish in my mother's hometown. Few people know it now," Gu YuMian explained. "It's a traditional folk dish, but I think it's also suitable for picnics."
After all, since it was a picnic, the cooking utensils were not as complete as those at home. Gu YuMian set up a portable stove on the edge of the lake and connected the small benches with them to form a small platform for processing the food materials. He sat cross-legged on the picnic cloth to prepare the food materials.
He roughly disassembled the whole chicken to make it smoother and tender with white vinegar and then cut two layers of the viscera in the middle.
The minced pork with pork belly had already been prepared beforehand. Gu YuMian stir-fried it in a little ginger powder and oil in a pot to make it fragrant. After that, he quickly scooped it up and mixed it with jute oil and minced mushroom. He added a very small amount of salt, mixed it up, and then filled it into the crosscut gap of the chicken.
"It's easy… In fact, garlic and red peppers can be added, but the stomachs of my two babies can't stand things too spicy and might choke," Gu YuMian held the snow leopard who came to inspect the progress of dinner with his chin raised, He put him into the collar of his sweater coat, and let him stand up, as he continued speaking, "If you like, you can try other ingredients when you make it. Maybe it'll be a surprise."
[Cat's Meow: To be honest, I tried to make the dishes MinaMian has made, with the same ingredients and steps, but why do I make such dark cooking? Kneeling.]
[Cloud Clip: Wow, it's a little fragrant before it's baked. I can imagine what it will taste like! To suck and slobber.]
The baby panda slept on Gu YuMian's knees. From time to time, he moved his nose to smell the fragrance from Gu YuMian's cooking materials and then felt his fluffy stomach in a daze.
Gu YuMian couldn't help but want to laugh. He wrapped the processed tender chicken with lotus leaf in two layers and wrapped it with thick thread. Originally, the lotus leaf should be covered with porcelain clay, but Gu YuMian could only find a similar fine clay.
He put on disposable gloves, mixed the white wine into the fine mud then wrapped the whole lotus leaf chicken in the fine mud, put it into the alcohol oven, and baked it in a slow fire. In ancient times, on Earth, it would be left alone for over six or seven hours. Fortunately, with the technology of the interstellar age, after setting up the alcohol stove, he only needed to wait another 20 minutes to finish the work.
"During the waiting time, we will also boil the cream mushroom soup. I used light cream with very little lactose to avoid lactose intolerance. The final taste will not be particularly sweet."
Gu YuMian set up another alcohol stove, put the soup in the pot and boiled it for a while, he then put in the ginger slices and cut two pieces of butter. When the soup was bubbling, he poured in the sliced mushrooms and simmered them over low heat.
"The ginger slices will be taken out after boiling for a while. You don't need to keep them for the whole time." Gu YuMian said, pouring the soup and half of the mushrooms into the blender, adding the flour and cream, and mixing it all with a small amount of salt.
At this time, they could see the thick texture of the milky cream soup, and smell the salty and sweet smell mixed with cream and mushrooms. The little snow leopard stepped near the pot and sniffed. His eyes narrowed slightly. Gu YuMian guessed that he was very satisfied.
"After stirring it up like this, pour it back into the pot and cook it again." Gu YuMian took the snow leopard back to his arms and said, "The rest of the mushrooms can also be put in at this time and cooked together. Now we just need to wait."
[A Handful of Moonlight: I smell it. It's a bit wonderful. That chicken and this soup… I am looking forward to them! I really want to eat it, but I recently said that I wanted to lose weight…"
[Little paw: Did you hear me swallowing?!]
But there were also audience members who had been struggling with the matter of roasting chicken in clay from the very beginning — baking with the clay wrapped in the food to be eaten, and then asking them to eat the clay? It was a little scary.
[Dasheng and meow: Sorry, I'm not trying to pick a fight. But I sincerely want to ask the anchor, do you want us to eat earth?]
"Eat earth?" Gu YuMian couldn't help repeating the word, but thought, "What are you little audience members thinking?"
He held the baby panda in his arms, and the little snow leopard popped out its small head from the collar of his sweater and slept lazily with his chin on the fabric. Gu YuMian touched little Tangyuan's ears and joked with him, "How about Yuanyuan? Do you want to eat earth?"
The baby panda didn't understand it at all but knew that Gu YuMian was asking him a question, and immediately gave out a ring of calls to approve all the words of Gu YuMian unconditionally as if to say that he really wanted to eat earth.
Gu YuMian thought little Tangyuan was cute and funny and couldn't help laughing. He held the little guy in his arms and poked his forehead, "You."
The laughter was very low. It was a mix of helplessness and connivance and hearing the voice of the young man mixed in the evening wind, the atmosphere was tender and intimate. The mountain wind was cool in the midsummer evening. All the audience members had the same visual angle as the baby panda, and all of them felt as if they were gently coaxed in Gu YuMian's arms.
Patient, gentle, indulgent, coaxing.
Sea salt mixed with the light fragrance of bamboo leaves lingered in the nose. A mild temperature came from his shirt and the young man's arms became a shelter from the wind and rain. Compared with all the external touch, inner satisfaction and relaxation were the most striking.
Audience: "…"
Audience: "…?"
Audience: "!"
After a few seconds of reaction time, many new audience members who had never spoken before were blown out at this time!
[Ballpoint Pen and Bunny: Ah, ah, I blew up! I'm going to be blown into fireworks by the voice of the anchor! I'm sorry, I swore to hate humans all my life before! QAQ I betrayed the organization!]
[AUI: Awsl! I drooled when I smelled the delicious food. Now the drool is even more rampant.]
[Early to bed and early to rise: Who can stand it? I can stay by this man's side every day, I can eat earth all my life!]
The little snow leopard had been dozing off. He woke up immediately and turned into a vinegar jar.
The grey-blue eyes were cold. The snow leopard reached down to push the baby panda's head away. His sharp claws came out. Fortunately, Gu YuMian noticed when he opened his eyes. He immediately hugged and coaxed the little snow leopard and kissed his ears. A family conflict that was on the verge of breaking out was finally strangled in the cradle.
The regular alcohol stove, which was set to make a 'Ding Dong' sound, indicated that the chicken and soup were done. The thick fragrance of the cream of the mushroom soup had gradually spread in the air as it cooked. The rich and delicious scent made people involuntarily imagine the temperature, taste, and flavor—
Gu YuMian sprinkled a small layer of chopped parsley on the surface of milky thick soup, took two spoons, and fed the little snow leopard and baby panda a little.
The cream and mushrooms were stirred and boiled until they were thick and creamy white. The taste was mellow and full-bodied. The smell of milk was not greasy. The sweetness of the cream and the saltiness of mushroom in the soup were perfectly combined. It was so beautiful that it flowed from the esophagus to the stomach in a warm gulp!
Although it was summer now, the evening at the top of the mountain was not hot, but it was a little cold because of the convergence of the sun, the water vapor, and wind near the lake. At this time, a bowl of warm cream mushroom soup before the meal not only appeased the thirsty spleen and stomach but also laid a good foundation for the next taste of the delicacy. After a few delicious spoons of soup went down, the expectation of this evening's mountain picnic suddenly increased a lot.
The little snow leopard narrowed his eyes and raised his chin in a reserved way, while the baby panda was more direct, touching his white belly and making a happy little sound.
[Vivian: This cream soup tastes great! It's really amazing. Although it's a thick soup, it's not greasy!]
[There's a Cloud: It's fragrant, mellow but not greasy. It's really good to drink.]
[Cat's Meow: Seconds! I'm looking forward to the chicken!]
The special effects of several big gifts exploded at the same time, and the audience began to increase gradually.
"The chicken can't be eaten by Yuanyuan, for fear that it won't be digested." Gu YuMian poured a glass of milk for little Tangyuan and said, "If you want to taste it, I'll switch to the perspective of TuanTuan now."
Gu YuMian took the chicken out of the alcohol stove, wearing insulating gloves to remove the fine soil on the surface of the roasted piece, and showed the lotus leaf wrapped in the chicken inside. He took apart the thick line bound with the lotus leaf, and the lotus leaf also opened up.
The fragrance overflowed!
The surface of the chicken baked in the mud mixed with white wine was crispy and golden, and its color was very attractive. Because it was surrounded by lotus leaves and influenced by the smell of wine, the strong fragrance was not greasy and choking at all, and it made people stir up when they smelled it. Stretching out chopsticks gently, the chicken even crumpled away from the bone, it was just right outside and inside.
Gu YuMian was afraid of it being too hot. He first took a piece to cool it before feeding it to the snow leopard—
It was crispy and golden on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside. It was fragrant with the lotus leaves and wine. It was not a dish that people would instantly get the taste of. The carefully prepared tasting ginger and pork belly wrapped in it, perfectly matched the taste of roast chicken.
Three seconds later.
The little snow leopard squinted his eyes in satisfaction, licked the corners of his mouth, and after a while, he reached out to pluck the chopsticks from Gu YuMian, apparently urging Gu YuMian to give him another bite. The baby panda couldn't help but want to also eat. He held Gu YuMian's wrist pitifully. Unfortunately, Gu YuMian was afraid that they wouldn't be able to digest it and so he dared not give them some more to eat.
After a quiet moment, the barrage was completely crazy!
[White cat floating green water:! Ah ah ah! oh my god!]
[Early to bed and early to rise: Not enough to eat, one more bite, hurry up!]
[Vivian: Delicious! It's really delicious! I've eaten all the food in the whole of the Upper District, but I haven't tasted this kind of food ever! Wuwuwuwu?!]
[A little wind: It's a kind of taste from when I was a child. The anchor really worked hard. Thank you. Rose in September, my heart only for you, a firework to you.]
One gift after another exploded.
The mountain was a semi-developed mountain. Tourists could choose a place to have a picnic and camp in the area. Gu YuMian's place was well chosen. There was no one there, but he could hear the laughter of other tourists who were talking and drinking in the distance. They were not alone.
Gu YuMian prepared a small amount of bubbly fruit wine. The wine was chilled, and it was very suitable for stewed chicken. Bubbles in the tip of the tongue jumped, with the sweet fragrance of wild fruit, the corner of this summer was also dyed with a sweet light color.
They all sat on the picnic cloth, Gu YuMian took care of the baby panda, making it drink a cup of milk while feeding the little snow leopard roast chicken and bubbly fruit wine, and he also tasted one or two chopsticks of meat. At this moment, all kinds of noise around them seemed to have gotten quieter.
At this time, the barrage gradually calmed down, and everyone was immersed in the summer night on the mountain.
It was the most beautiful evening on the whole mountain.
The golden-red sunset spread on the lake in front of them. Looking up, they could see the vast sky. The mountain wind passed by their ears, and they could smell the scent of the evening and the mountain forest alone, mixed with cooking smoke.
The alcohol stove was out, but the bonfire raised by Gu YuMian was still burning. In the forest, where the birds were retiring for the night, the light of the bonfire was reflected on the quiet lake, like the scene often described in fairy tales.
Full of food and drink, the baby panda burped after touching his belly, and the little snow leopard nestled and slept in the young man's arms. Gu YuMian poked at the bonfire with the branch of a tree, and sparks burst out.
"It's a good time to tell stories," Gu YuMian said softly. "Well, what do you want to hear? A long time ago… "
Cicadas rang, the sunset faded, and was slowly replaced by the stars.
Summer nights were always unforgettable.
It was a Friday evening.
Many people had just finished a whole week's work, lay on their sofas tired and watched TV, played games or opened WeChat to brush the stereotyped circle of friends. Many family trips and weekend camping that were planned many days ago were pushed to the corner by fatigue and laziness. Many times they said they would go out for a walk, but they failed to cash in one time.
No stars and fireworks, no fireflies, it was just another boring summer evening for them.
At such a time, the cover of Gu YuMian's studio was very simple, and it was still automatically intercepted by the system. It was dusk, by the mountain lake, the bonfire was out, and the cream soup and clay stewed chicken were roasting and beeping on the alcohol stove.
The white and handsome young man was facing the camera, lying lazily on his shoulder was a little snow leopard and there was also another fluffy animal in his arms. He seemed to be talking about something interesting. The butterfly-like eyelashes hung down, and there was a dimple next to his lips.
—Free and romantic.
Half-past seven in the evening.
In Gu YuMian's live broadcast room, the number of viewers that ushered in began to skyrocket.
Gu YuMian was gentle and indisputable, and his favorite stories were the plainest and complete ones, which always had a happy ending.
"A long time ago, there was a little brown bear," Gu YuMian sat cross-legged on the picnic cloth, little Tangyuan and the little snow leopard were each holding one of his arms, feeling the cool mountain wind on a summer evening. "He forgot to take an umbrella on a rainy day in summer, so he walked in the forest for a long time, looking for a mushroom or a large lotus leaf to use as shelter from the rain."
This story explained how that little brown bear met a little rabbit, little yellow duck, and other little friends who were also taking shelter from the rain. They found a small wooden house in the forest together, where an old grandfather lived.
The grandpa gave them big lotus leaves to keep out of the rain, warm towels to dry off, and cookies and hot milk to eat. He read them storybooks, and several days after the rain stopped, the little brown bear and his friends would go to accompany the grandpa every day. But one day, the grandpa disappeared.
"It turns out that Grandpa went to visit friends in the city and met a truck. He…" Gu YuMian momentarily paused. "Later, the old man got tired of the city and went back to the cabin in the forest. At this time, the little brown bear made an umbrella out of the lotus leaf given by the old man. They all learned to bake cookies and waited for the old man to come back."
The baby panda was lying in Gu YuMian's arms and burping with his fluffy white stomach exposed. At this time, he looked at Gu YuMian blankly and sincerely, then patted his head again, as though trying to remember something. The little snow leopard opened his eyes, stretched out his paws and pressed them on the corner of Gu YuMian's eyes, and was held and kissed by Gu YuMian.
"See the big bear?" Gu YuMian looked up into the sky with the two cubs. "Well, see the Big Dipper? Those seven stars? Doesn't it look like a spoon?"
Seven stars dotted the sky, and if one drew a line to connect the stars, it would really look like a spoon. It was like it was scooping up the night and trying to be careful. The long tail of the snow leopard glided lazily over Gu YuMian's ear, and the baby panda lay contentedly in Gu YuMian's arms.
—It was the first visual angle of little Tangyuan. The audience's sense of smell, hearing, and touch was magnified several times on this quiet summer night. Stars decorated the midsummer sky, and the bonfire beside the lake crackled and sparked.
The comfort and satisfaction of being full of food and drink, gently surrounded by their closest person, lying barefoot under the stars, chatting. The cicadas sounded out in long chirps, the tip of the nose could smell the grass, the soil and feel the moisture which belonged only to the summer night on this mountain.
Because the panda was half-lying down, he could feel the clean, tender, and moist grass with his feet from time to time, which was a little itchy and novel touch.
Gu YuMian's fingers had been caressing his back and pressed on his joints gently, like warm water flowing gently, to eliminate the tiredness accumulated in the whole day. He was speaking many words in a low, sweet voice.
It was really lovely to be accompanied, lying on the grass at the top of the mountain on a summer night, chatting and watching the stars. What's more, Gu YuMian was so gentle and reassuring that the summer heat had disappeared, the panic and uneasiness had settled down, and the long cicada chirps gave a kind of dream-like happiness.
The live broadcast was on for an hour and a half.
Half an hour ago, Gu YuMian's live studio had the 'Latest Live Broadcast' natural recommendation position. Relying on the little exposure of this recommendation position, the number of viewers skyrocketed to the real-time popularity list in the living quarter. The number of viewers in the real-time popularity list began to skyrocket, breaking through 100,000 in just a few minutes!
[Farmer and Snake: New report, I saw it live! What's the matter with this live broadcast? It's clear that there is no unique content, and the rhythm is languid, but the experience is really amazing!]
[Lili doesn't eat bread: The atmosphere is very comfortable now! I remember when I was a child, I lived in the country with my grandparents during the summer. At night, I would wave my fan and count the stars while listening to all kinds of stories and legends. I know why my grandparents loved it there. QAQ]
[Vivian: All the stories have happy endings. So why am I crying?! It's sour and sweet.]
[Lamp goo: The new anchor is really impressive. It's only his first day today, and there are 100,000 viewers. He also knows astrology.]
In the case of a large population base of Capital Star, 100,000 was not much, but Gu YuMian just started broadcasting on the first day. Even if there was a fan base of Takk, it was mighty.
"Alright," Gu YuMian smiled at the rising number of spectators. He looked at the time and said, "Let's go back to the tent, rest, and drink some iced watermelon juice."
Although he had rented a cabin, Gu YuMian found that the cubs preferred the feeling of a tent, so he set it up. The small tent was placed directly on the grassland, a little far away from the lake. It was not placed too close, to avoid the sudden rain and flood at night, which would also flood the small tent.
The light was warm and yellow, and several cushions were scattered around, including Gu YuMian's book and coat, the snow leopard's exclusive pillow, and the baby panda's milk bottle. The cushions and quilts had the clean scent of just being basked in the sun. The tent isolated the wind and rain and made it a safe place.
Now the atmosphere was perfect, which made Gu YuMian feel very comfortable.
"If only there were fireworks." Gu YuMian, holding the snow leopard and Tangyuan, couldn't help but imagine, "Eating watermelon, stepping on the water and watching fireworks by the river. When I looked it up before, I saw that Muluoda Mountain sometimes sets off fireworks."
For Gu YuMian's graduation trip, they went to Japan and saw a fireworks conference in Osaka. There were local teenagers and girls in yutakas and a summer festival with various stalls. The fireworks were reflected on the quietly flowing river, which was really an unforgettable scene.
But there seemed to be no fireworks and summer offerings in the interstellar age. It was a pity to think about it.
[Cat's Meow: I'd like to see fireworks, too. I've only seen fireworks once since I was a child.]
[Tourist 01: Excuse me, I can't understand the beauty of fireworks. It's noisy and dazzling. It's a waste of money.]
[Wholesale Mice: Anchor is really a local bun from the countryside, hehe. Muluoda Mountain will only set off fireworks on important days, but it doesn't do an excellent job in this field. Is this a live broadcast for tourism? Can I ask this human to get out of the broadcast circle? Using a broom is pretty much the same.]
[Wholesale Mice: By the way, would you like to see fireworks? Okay, please pay for the fireworks and ask for the permission of the government. By the way, His Majesty just arrived in the next city over today. No one dares to approve this permission now. If you can't do it, don't force it. You're just a pauper.]
[Small Cloud Clip: What's wrong with this studio? The host doesn't care about the fireworks that much.]
With such high popularity, it was inevitable that some rude people also joined the new broadcast. After all, many small anchors had been struggling at the bottom of Capital Star but complained about their efforts every day. One hour of Gu YuMian's broadcasts was worth one month's income for some people. When they saw Gu YuMian's achievements, their eyes were red with blood.
Immediately, many fans in the audience started to throw out gifts to help Gu YuMian suppress the terrible people, and comforted Gu YuMian and told him not to care. Gu YuMian was very moved. He didn't pay much attention to the speech of the rude person, but the little snow leopard squinted at the bullet curtain.
Gu YuMian thought about it, smiled, and said calmly, "It must be a big day. Isn't it a big enough of a day since His Majesty arrived in the Lower Urban District today?"
The 'Wholesale Mice' first said that fireworks would be released on a significant day, and then said that His Majesty arrived in the Lower Urban District today. Gu YuMian immediately put in a word to the dilemma. According to them, Gu YuMian's desire to see fireworks today was wishful thinking, but it was equivalent to indirectly denying His Majesty's prominent position, neither of which was right.
[There is a Family in the Mine: I was stunned for a while before turning the corner, ha ha ha ha ha ha! I tried to laugh very quietly, Gangjing, 1 how does it feel to fight with yourself?]
[Vivian: Ha hahaha! The host is very wonderful!]
[Yuyu wants to be an idol too: What kind of fairy anchor is this? Crisis management and mentality are all very strong, four or two thousand jin 666]
The elite Gangjing: "…" Fuck.
This episode was soon revealed. Gu YuMian asked the snow leopard and Tangyuan to sit on the cushion and let them play for a while. At the same time, he put a safety protection robot in the four corners of the tent, and then stood up by himself, "TuanTuan, YuanYuan, you rest in the tent. I'll get the watermelon."
The baby panda was about to fall asleep again. The little snow leopard sat up and wanted to go out with Gu YuMian. Gu YuMian was afraid he would accidentally fall into the water later and didn't let him leave.
Gu YuMian had washed the watermelon in the lake. Now it had been put aside to dry, it was estimated that the taste of the watermelon would be exquisite. The live broadcast followed the host. After Gu YuMian left the baby panda, the perspective changed from the baby panda perspective to the omniscient viewpoint, following Gu YuMian.
Gu YuMian came out with a small night light.
The night in the mountain was quiet, and they could hear the sound of the water flowing, and the Star River shone on the clear and bright lake water. In the distance, another group of campers were drinking, but the conversation was quiet. Gu YuMian could occasionally hear the light sound of glass clinking.
"The lake is very shallow, with round pebbles and fine sand below. Because of the melting water of the snow mountain, the water quality is naturally cold," Gu YuMian explained. "I hung the watermelon in it, which is similar to that of a well water watermelon. It tastes more natural and better than an iced watermelon."
In fact, many of the audience had never heard the saying of well water watermelon, so it aroused their curiosity.
"This lake is live water, and I forgot to tie the rope to my watermelon…" Gu YuMian half-knelt down and touched around for a while, but he couldn't find the watermelon. He said, "It's been carried inside by the current." Now he could only go down to find it. Fortunately, the water was not deep.
"You must not learn from me. I am a failure." He laughed at himself.
Gu YuMian took off his shoes and socks, barefoot, pulled up his trouser legs to his knees, exposed his white and beautiful legs, and walked into the water. But the audience almost looked straight, and the screen was painted with "Brother, I can do it."
A few minutes later, Gu YuMian managed to find his watermelon. As soon as he turned around, he saw the little snow leopard sitting solemnly beside the lake, looking at him a little displeased. When Gu YuMian came back, he stretched out his paws and pressed his forehead.
"TuanTuan?" Gu YuMian was a bit surprised and reached out to pick him up. "What's the matter? I'm going back."
[Small Cloud Clip: Xiao Xue Tuan just ran out of the tent when the anchor was in the water. That little expression was like saying, "How can my stupid man go out for so long and go into the water without permission? Don't you know I'm worried?"]
[There's a family in the mine: Really, I'm crying!]
As Gu YuMian returned to the tent, the camera switched back to Tangyuan's perspective. The baby panda was also waiting at the edge of the tent, crawling slowly to hold Gu YuMian's hand.
"Then, let's cut the watermelon."
Gu YuMian put out a mat and two small night lights outside the tent and began to cut watermelon here.
The watermelon skin with full and smooth color still had transparent water drops, which gave one a cool feeling. Gu YuMian asked the two children to lean aside and carefully divided the melon into two parts with the knife.
The watermelon meat was light red. Gu YuMian also had his own way of choosing watermelons and choose a few ice sugar watermelons 2 The two light red watermelon slices were sparkling and delicious under the small night light. The deeper the red was in the middle, the sweeter they would be.
Gu YuMian didn't further cut the watermelon into small pieces but took out two spoons. The little snow leopard and little Tangyuan shared half of the watermelon. He first fed the sweetest part to the children.
"It's not easy to lose any when eating watermelon with a spoon," Gu YuMian said. "How is it? Is it delicious?"
[Guji: I didn't think it would be so delicious! It's really tasty!]
[Junior B: What's the matter with the anchor? I haven't eaten watermelon before. How can I pass his hand and soak water? It's so delicious! Kneel down for you!]
[There's a Cloud: This watermelon tastes sweet and juicy but not unctuous. It's really delicious.]
[Girl Star: It's really delicious. Come on, anchor! Sending you two fireworks!]
The temperature of the watermelon was just right after sitting in the melted snow from the mountain. The cold would not burden the teeth and stomach and would relieve the summer heat and enhance the taste and flavor of watermelon. The watermelon, carefully selected by Gu YuMian, had the taste of fruit and sweetness. It was cold, sweet, and juicy, very refreshing. On this kind of summer night, which was a little hot, cicadas were chirping a lot, and it was a wonderful thing to eat the ice sugar watermelon, which had been chilled by melted snow water.
The little snow leopard nodded modestly, and the baby panda rolled directly onto his white belly, making a sound to show that it was delicious.
Barrages rolled in one after another, and numerous gifts swarmed in. Gu YuMian reached the top five in the real-time popularity of the living area, and the number of viewers increased by another 30,000 or 40,000 in just over ten minutes!
Even more remarkable was what was to come.
When the sweetest part in the middle was fed to the baby snow leopard and panda, respectively, Gu YuMian diced the rest of the watermelon and neatly put it in a transparent bowl. He poured the sparkling wine he had drunk for dinner into a bowl, and then put it into the portable refrigerator in the tent for quick freezing.
Three minutes later, he took out the small bowl. The reddish watermelon cubes were frozen with the fruit wine. It looked like small pieces of watermelon were frozen in the transparent ice. It was very delicate and lovely, just looking at it. Because it was ice, Gu YuMian didn't dare to give the children some, and only one person tasted a small piece.
Audience: "!"
The ice formed by the bubbly fruit wine tasted fresh and delicious. The ice fruit wine melted in the mouth, and then you could bite into the frozen sweet watermelon. The sweet and sour fruit wine and the sweet watermelon blended seamlessly. The crispness of ice and the flavor of the watermelon matched each other, which was the beauty of this method.
Only a small piece of it could make people squint and feel numb, and forget about the summer heat.
[There is a family in the mine: This! Yes! What! You! Are a God! Immortal! Eat more! AHH!]
[Vivian: Ah, ah, ah. Now I know what I am missing! Ah, ah, ah!]
[Small Cloud Clip: Please open a shop and let me spend money, please! You can cook more food. Wuwuwu!]
[Cat's Meow: Mian Mian, my roommate said that he wanted to eat the bubbly fruit wine and watermelon jelly you made, and now he died!]
[Girl Star: I ask the host to open a lottery. I beg you!]
"The kids can't eat too much ice," Gu YuMian decided after thinking about it, holding the two cubs in his arms.
Although there were only five people, the whole atmosphere of the barrage was ignited directly. After tasting this kind of taste, who didn't want to eat it himself?
Countless special effects of gifts flashed on the screen like water, the bullet screen became all kinds of wishes, and the popularity of Gu YuMian's live studio was steadily pushed higher and higher. Gu YuMian took the snow leopard and the panda to sit on the mat in front of the tent, looked at the stars, ate watermelon, listened to the mountain wind and cicadas, and all the noise of the whole city was far away.
At this time, the little snow leopard suddenly jumped to Gu YuMian's shoulder, the long tail covered his eyes, and at the same time stretched out his paws and pressed them against Gu YuMian's ears.
The baby panda arched in Gu YuMian's arms without knowing why.
Gu YuMian, who suddenly lost his sight, "TuanTuan?"
He was just a little confused, and a subtle premonition came up in his mind, and then the next second….
Whoosh — BANG!
He opened his eyes to a bright flower, which exploded in the quiet night, and reflected in Gu YuMian's pupils. His eyes widened a little bit. After the first firework, another two or three bundles were launched at the same time. The colorful sky was as bright as day, and then turned into splashing sparks and fell to the earth again.
Most of the people in the lower part of the city could not help poking their heads out of the window to watch the blatant and beautiful fireworks. They continued to talk, exclaim, and praise.
The whole city saw this sensation.
Gu YuMian was stunned, and so was the barrage. Some people couldn't help but think of the things that the internet troll had said about fireworks before. The little snow leopard's eyes drooped and looked at his human's face. The gray and blue eyes showed shallow satisfaction. He laid down on Gu YuMian's shoulder, yawned, and his long tail brushed against Gu YuMian's earlobe.
For him, it was easy to put on a fireworks show.
There was no particular reason to say he wanted his human to be happy.
Meanwhile.
The popularity of Gu YuMian's live studio soared at a speed that no one could imagine, reaching a small peak in the lottery. Then the fireworks — the fireworks appeared like it was for him alone, and the best viewing location was where Gu YuMian was located.
The number of visitors quickly exceeded 150,000, followed by 200,000, and then—
His live broadcast squeezed into the top 10 of Capital Star's one-day popularity list, which had not changed for months.
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Chapter 26: Video
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants to touch Little Ancestor Snow Leopard's soft paw
Unlike Takk, the live broadcasts on Capital Star had developed for many years and were approaching a mature and stable period. To some extent, stability also meant class solidification and polarization — a large amount of traffic was firmly fixed by the most popular anchor, and the rest of the anchors could only barely drink the rest of the congee.
Of course, the government had tried to control this situation, but it had not achieved much.
In terms of the popularity list of that day, this list was to select the top ten live broadcast rooms with the highest overall popularity every day to display on the home page recommendation position. For four months, no new faces had appeared on the popularity list of the day. It was only occupied by the popular anchors of the ten or so districts that came and went, and at most, the only change would be in their popularity positions.
It was inconceivable that Gu YuMian, as a new anchor who just passed the rating assessment and had his first live broadcast on Capital Star, was able to make it to the popularity list of that day. What an astonishing and incredible thing.
The discussion of melon eaters had spread from the microblogs to the Starry Sky forum, and the post-bar was not immune.
[1L: This anchor was recommended by 'There's a Cloud' before because he is a human being, I had made complaints about it. But I didn't think he was going to catch fire.]
[2L: On the first day, he directly parachuted into the top 10 of the popularity list of Capital Star. Let's not talk about the problems of a human and the countryside. The data is too strong. Shall we witness the rise of a new generation of top current gods?]
[3L: Don't rush to a conclusion. The rating result hasn't been released yet. He may not necessarily be B-Rank. Besides, his race is really hard to not notice, let's see the final results of the rookie.]
[4L: His live broadcast is really good-looking! I've been suffering all day now. I want to eat everything.]
[5L: His live broadcast itself is unique, and the last fireworks! After a whole hour, my girlish heart completely exploded and cracked. Although the fireworks should have nothing to do with the anchor… But really, even though it was a coincidence, it was also beautiful! 1551] 1
At the same time, the micro blog's "fireworks for a person" tags had also fired off a wave of popularity.
[ Things in Love V: I will contribute, and put thick code here. Today, I was watching the live broadcast of a new anchor. The anchor said that he wanted to see fireworks. He was immediately beaten by a gangjing and said that there could be no fireworks blah blah blah at this time. As a result, everyone saw that the fireworks were really set off at 9 o'clock last night! For an hour!]
"Generally, fireworks will be announced in advance and would start at six or seven o'clock. This time, the fireworks were very sudden. And the anchor had the best viewing position! It's like, these fireworks were only for him! QAQ It's so romantic and sweet."
But soon, everyone felt that this statement was just nonsense. His Majesty had just arrived in the Lower Urban District, who could get the permission to put on such a large firework display at this time? Was it His Majesty's order? That was even more ridiculous. 2
The biggest possibility was that a politician in the lower city just happened to let off fireworks to please and welcome His Majesty.
…
When Gu YuMian was broadcasting, the number of fans had increased from thousands to tens of thousands, and many gifts had been received. At that time, his popularity was high, and the audience was very reluctant to part. But Gu YuMian was going to sleep with the children. Finally, he said he was very sorry and turned off the broadcast.
The summer night in the mountains was tranquil. There was only a small yellow lamp left in the tent. Gu YuMian lay in the quilt and could hear cicadas and water from afar. The baby panda had a very optimistic and naive character and soon fell asleep holding Gu YuMian's hand.
The little snow leopard was nestled at Gu YuMian's neck and firmly occupied his vision and arms of Gu YuMian. He fell asleep freely and lazily.
In the tent, only Gu YuMian was still awake.
"TuanTuan, how did you know the fireworks were going to go off?" He reached out his hand and scratched the chin of the snow leopard. His voice was so light that he asked himself, "Or did that even happen? Why do I feel that you are hiding a lot from me…"
The little snow leopard moved his nose in his sleep. A moment later, he unconsciously kissed Gu YuMian's ear. Gu YuMian could feel the slight wet touch on his ear itching a little bit. This little guy seemed to be trying to please him and let him not worry.
Gu YuMian couldn't help but want to laugh, and some of his thoughts suddenly disappeared.
—His little Xue Tuan had always been very smart. This little thing was nothing. He went through recent events in his brain and planned for the future. Gradually, he fell asleep, and the only sounds were the even breathing of the snow leopard and Tangyuan.
This live broadcast also let Starry Sky's Operation Department see the commercial value of Gu YuMian's videos. It was hard to say just what an anchor as him would be rated. Gu YuMian could appeal to the public judges, and not necessarily the audience. But the popularity of this first live broadcast was enough to represent the fact.
—Most of the Starry Sky audience liked Gu YuMian!
Also, president Fang Lena was helping Gu YuMian apply for the review process of an S-level anchor.
If it passed, Gu YuMian would become the first S-class anchor ever!
Several people in charge of operations held a brief meeting to discuss the publicity and training for Gu YuMian. So, in the afternoon after camping, Gu YuMian's temporary agent, Sugar Sugar, found him.
[Sugar Sugar: Mian Mian, we have discussed carefully here at Starry Sky. We can't let you know, but we can give you some advice in advance. Your anchor rating is very high. You may even have a chance to reach a higher level in the future.]
[Sugar Sugar: So, we'd like to wait for you to cut out the video first, then make an advertisement, and then we'll have an official publicity together. The shooting time is preliminarily set for next Friday afternoon. Are you free? The information about the advertisement has been sent to you. Please let me know if you are dissatisfied.]
Advertising? Gu YuMian was stunned. He didn't think that one of the new support projects was advertising rights.
"It turns out that I am almost an internet celebrity," said Gu YuMian, who sat on the carpet along with the baby panda since the little snow leopard went to school.
Little Tangyuan was playing the 'clapping game' with him happily. When Gu YuMian asked him questions, he laughed in a daze and made a small sound.
In his last life, the primary income of online celebrities actually came from advertisements, both hard and soft. Advertisements were very lucrative. Gu YuMian, as a high school student, happened to know this. A multi-million dollar advertisement would give someone six figures and let them rent a house in the center of Shanghai for two years.
But it was strange to go straight to the anchor to shoot an ad. Advertising should be about star artists and models, right?
Gu YuMian couldn't figure it out. He was a little worried that he couldn't do it well. After all, he had no relevant experience. Gu YuMian went to ask Sugar Sugar again, and then he understood.
[Sugar Sugar: This brand is very good. It also has relevant cooperation with the Imperial Academy of Sciences. There is no problem with the quality of its reputation, but the publicity and exposure can't keep up. What's more, the director of this ad is too strict. Recently, both the traffic and the stars can't get into the director's eyes, so they wanted to find an anchor… Then we sent all the information about some anchors, including you. The director picked you. Maybe it's just right for you.]
[Sugar Sugar: It's alright. It's also an opportunity. You don't need to be too nervous, just try it. The chance of success is not great. If it happens, it'll be good for you.]
[Sugar Sugar: It's more than ten days before the rookie competition. Your main task now is to stabilize your live's popularity and shoot the video when you have time.]
This brand was really good. Sugar Sugar had seen the process of picking people, so she tried to help Gu YuMian win. But because the product positioning was really biased, finding several tens of millions of pink net bloggers for a promotion was almost impossible.
Therefore, when Gu YuMian got such an opportunity, Starry Sky's top-ranking anchors didn't have any objection. Several of them were still secretly waiting for Gu YuMian's to fail.
—Now that Sugar Sugar said that, Gu YuMian's heart settled down.
He had seen the materials and the advertising plan, and thought of what it would be, then set his mind to create his video. The technical threshold of interstellar editing was much higher. As long as there was an optical computer, it could be cut without learning a new program.
But the core was the same.
On Friday afternoon, the little snow leopard still went to school, and only Gu YuMian and the baby panda were in the villa.
"First of all, I have to have an artistic cell brain," Gu YuMian said, looking at the video he had been struggling with for several days, but he was very helpless. "YuanYuan, I don't think I am the artistic material."
The footage of the video was from the last live broadcast. From three hours of footage of his live broadcast, it was challenging to extract essences for a few minutes' video, keep a narrative rhythm and make people understand and feel empathy for the whole story. Gu YuMian thought this touched his blind area of knowledge.
Little Tangyuan curiously climbed into Gu YuMian's arms and looked up at the semi-finished product projected on the light screen.
Gu YuMian stayed up for a few days to edit the video. He was so sleepy that he put his chin on baby panda's head to rest. As a result, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he was finally overcome with sleepiness.
Five minutes later.
The little boy with the appearance of a nine-year-old in back belt pants sat in Gu YuMian's arms and looked around blankly. He first felt that he was held in the arms of Gu YuMian, like being held by a big brother, which was very reassuring.
Then he saw his fingers — eh, he was back again?
This kind of thing of intermittently returning to normal was really a new life and a unique experience. The little boy's round eyes blinked. After a while, his eyes were suddenly attracted by the circulating video on the light screen.
Um...
At first, the little boy just looked at it casually. Then, his expression gradually became serious.
As some older fans knew, Ershisi Guo's undergraduate study was not in the Department of Performance, but in the Department of Directing. Although it was often said that he only relied on his race's natural advantages and family background, Ershisi Guo indeed had a real academic background, and the microfilm he directed and acted by himself had won the Rookie Award.
He could tell which was the stone and which was the real thing.
—For example, in the current 8-minute video, professional people could see a lot of loopholes, such as a slight inflection and a wrong time axis, but it could not cover up the fact that it was a piece of jade. Unpolished jade was also jade.
The little boy was really itchy. He couldn't help making some minor and inconspicuous changes, removing the inflection and rhythm injuries, and trying to maintain the same length of time, so Gu YuMian wouldn't notice any difference.
In half an hour.
When Gu YuMian woke up, the baby panda was sleeping in his arms, and the light screen had been switched off automatically. He glanced at the video and sighed again. I've changed to many versions. I can't really change it again. I'm going to send it to Sugar Sugar first. I can't watch it again.
Ding Dong.
At Starry Sky's headquarters, Sugar Sugar's work optical computer lit up, indicating that a new SMS message had been received.
Fang Tang 3 left her desk to pour herself a coffee. The optical computer was still on because she was still transferring a file with a partner.
As it happened, Starry Sky's server was being updated and repaired. The company's intranet was pumping. The video sent by Gu YuMian was directly sent to her partner's mailbox.
Fang Tang, who went to pick up the coffee, was temporarily called away by her supervisor and ordered several things. When she got back to her seat, she was scared by the bombardment of messages from her partner in the chatbox.
[You sent me an extra video. It's wrong?] 14:40
[I'm sorry, I accidentally started it. Why can't I close it?! There should be privacy.] 14:43
Twenty minutes of blank, and then—
[Miss Fang, is this video for the contribution to the Rookie Cup? I'm sure this will definitely win first place!] 15:00
[If it's not for contribution, you should advise him to contribute immediately. Just now, our chief judge teacher has seen it. He said, "good" directly. Now he is analyzing the content rhythm and technique in one frame.] 15:00
[Besides, I work in the Academy of Sciences… Well, my friend has also seen it. Now he is asking me who is the person making the video and recording the video. Do you know?] 15:00
Sugar Sugar: "…"
Sugar Sugar: "?"
Upper Urban District, Academy of Sciences.
A handsome young man in a white coat sat expressionlessly in the chief position, watching the video playing on the private optical computer. His appearance was too young. All the staff around him were at least one hundred years old. Several light screens were floating in the air and rolling all kinds of data at full speed. From time to time, there were tube collisions and light instrument sounds. The whole environment was very serious and full of a sense of technology.
This was the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
—The only center of all knowledge achievements of the whole EmpireEmpire, the cutting-edge site of all new achievements, gathered all the talents of the Empire for nearly a hundred years. This young man, who had just reached adulthood this year, was already the Chief of the Academy of Sciences. He was a genius among the geniuses.
He lived on his own when he was very young. Few people, including his parents, knew that this teenager had not eaten for two weeks and lived on the strength of the nutrient solution. It was not intentional, he just had no appetite.
According to the doctor, it was due to the long-term mental pressure and the high-intensity work of the Academy of Sciences that caused him to lose all his desire for life activities, including appetite and long-term insomnia. But now that the work was at a critical juncture, he couldn't withdraw at this time.
This video was transmitted by a friend. It was only over eight minutes in total. After watching it once, it replayed automatically.
A holographic video, the background music was a very gentle romantic back wave. At first, the picture was just a few fuzzy colored blocks, and then gradually cleared up, and color from the beginning gradually became a rich image.
Twilight, bonfire, mountain wind.
The beep of the soup on the stove, the mountain wind and cicadas in his ears, and the delicious food on the tip of his nose. The young man's arms gave him a sense of inexplicable satisfaction that could make his heart feel soft, and he became enclosed in a small world that would not be invaded by wind and rain.
The video used color as a clue to connect several small pictures one by one.
Obviously, there was no plot or lines, but it was extremely gripping. With human emotions, it was constantly sinking in and in-depth. It seemed that he could touch the soft and boundless midsummer night in the mountains. After dusk, there were stars all over the sky. Then, there was th=e sweet watermelon and conversation under the night sky. It was a story that couldn't be told.
But it did not feel complete. Something was missing, something strange, something unfinished. All things were in a hurry to finish before the cicadas' chirp, with a little bitterness and sweetness.
In this atmosphere, he could taste something subtle and introverted. The mood was affected by this night, waiting for a brewing point to overflow—
Bang!
The colorful fireworks burst out unprepared.
Numerous color blocks and pictures rushed in, and the piano sound also cut in at this time. The sound of the piano was like the water pouring out, embracing the whole world, like a shower with fire coming into the world. It released all the emotions that belonged to this season and this night at this moment.
The shock of that moment was unspeakable.
After the high tide, the music became gentle again and entered the ending part. The last shot was fixed on a book that had the word "Summer" on the front page.
A pair of slender white hands closed the book, and the video stopped abruptly.
"…"
In the Academy of Sciences, the boy closed his eyes.
He could feel the sleepiness and appetite that had not been felt for a long time, and his empty stomach was convulsing and warning, which had not been felt before. He even wanted to go into the video and be hugged by the youth, to taste the chicken, find out whether the thick soup was delicious or not, and then eat frozen watermelon.
This kind of feeling was unexpectedly… very nice.
—After a long time, he finally came back to life.
Chapter 27: Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants to eat sweet and sour pork ribs TvT
After sending the video to Sugar Sugar, Gu YuMian began to prepare for the advertisement. Today was Friday and it was four o'clock in the afternoon.
"The location was Galaxy Tower in Area C…" Gu YuMian packed a small bag with a milk bottle, hot water bottle and other things, and lifted the baby panda into his arms. "YuanYuan, you're going out with me today, and I'm going to work hard for a while."
Last time when he sent the snow leopard to school, he had been gone for less than an hour, so Gu YuMian dared to leave little Tangyuan at home alone. But this time, he would be gone for at least several hours, so Gu YuMian thought about it and brought the baby panda with him.
"Chii?" The baby panda held the milk bottle and sucked in a daze. After Gu YuMian picked him up, he rubbed Gu YuMian's cheek with his round head happily. Obviously, he didn't understand what Gu YuMian was saying.
"Please ask the school to send Xue Tuan to the Galaxy Tower after classes. There will be no one at home."
For more than a week since the snow leopard started attending school, Gu YuMian had tried his best to pick up the snow leopard in person every day, but occasionally he would ask the school for help. The high tuition included transportation, so there was no problem.
When everything was ready, Gu YuMian set out with the baby panda.
Half an hour later, Galaxy Tower.
Revolving door, smooth marble floor—the hall of the Galaxy Tower looked magnificent and bright. This was the most important shooting place for advertisements, magazines and photos in the Upper Urban District. There were many handsome men and beautiful women or animals with excellent appearances in their original shape.
Even in a place with such a high average face value, Gu YuMian's appearance was outstanding — perhaps due to his special temperament.
Gu YuMian himself didn't know that when he was standing out, he had a kind of atmosphere of being introverted, after years of working with animals. His crow-like eyelashes were drooping, gentle, but at the same time, he still looked a little fascinating.
As he stood in the hall waiting for a few minutes with the baby panda who looked like a human baby, the amount of people who stopped by him went up. Others came up and handed out business cards to ask him if he had signed on with another company, how old he was and whether he wanted to be an intern. After knowing that he was a human, they were shocked and embarrassed.
"Mr. Gu, come with me," the advertising crew sent a staff member over to help relieve the siege. The man looked at the sleeping baby in his arms and asked, "This is Mr. Gu's child? Do you need someone to accompany him later?"
Gu YuMian had to bring him to the studio because he was in a special situation and couldn't keep the two children alone at home for a long period of time, and couldn't find someone to trust with their care. He had said so in advance.
"Please, if you can, I hope Yuanyuan can be in my sight." Gu YuMian nodded.
The staff originally had an inexplicable affection for Gu YuMian. Seeing that Gu YuMian himself was carrying a baby, they immediately filled in a sad script that his wife died of illness and this single father had to broadcast live to earn money for his son. The staff felt very sad.
"Mn, I'll ask our life assistant to help you with the baby. She's experienced."
They chatted and walked into the elevator. Just as the door of the elevator was about to close, a man stepped in. The man's appearance was a middle-aged man, with heavy lifting lines and a serious expression. He was saying, "… Ah, yes. It's Takk. He should have been ejected. What, the record had been deleted again?!"
Hearing the word 'Takk,' Gu YuMian subconsciously raised his ears. Seeing someone else in the elevator, the man stopped talking and hung up.
"Mr. Xu." The staff greeted the man.
Ershisi Guo had been missing for a long time. Xu Kelai was in a mess and had no time to spare with being polite. He nodded unconsciously. His line of vision passed over the staff member and landed on Gu YuMian's face and then the baby in his arms, and quickly moved away.
Xu Kelai was Ershisi Guo's agent.
Bringing up such a famous star as Ershisi Guo was the peak of his career and it brought him numerous honors and benefits, but recently he had suffered an unprecedented crisis. There was already a clue, but a week ago, all relevant information and records were suddenly deleted, and the clue was broken again. Ershisi Guo had been missing for so long. It was reasonable to call the police, but…
Alarming the police would surely result in the public coming to know of his disappearance, and various public opinions would be harmful to the reputation and commercial value of Ershisi Guo. Finally, Xu Kelai pressed on, and continued to secretly search for him.
Seeing that he had been able to schedule Ershisi Guo's schedule out for two months without taking a break, Xu Kelai was more like a businessman who worked for the benefit of himself rather than for the sake of the artist.
"…"
The elevator got to the 13th floor where the man got off. Gu YuMian couldn't help looking back.
The staff looked at him curiously and explained, "That's Mr. Xu, very strict… But also very powerful, he brought out the current most popular superstar."
"The most popular superstar?"
"Yeah, Danny." People and fans in their circle didn't like Ershisi Guo's real name, because it was too weird. Danny was the character name from Ershisi Guo's famous movie, which later became his nickname. The staff raised their chin to the huge billboard outside the window and was a little proud, "That one."
Gu YuMian took a look at the billboard. He didn't expect that the pop star was a little boy of nine years old. He was wearing braces and pants, and a pair of cool sunglasses to represent a luxury brand.
"He's lovely," Gu YuMian poked the soft cheek of the sleeping baby, and Tangyuan snored and blew a snot bubble. "My little Tangyuan looks a little like this big star."
"Don't say that. He looks a little more like you." The staff member laughed, "Your child is also very cute, lucky."
Gu YuMian was very happy and hugged little Tangyuan. He wished the staff could say more. Others praising his cubs made him several times happier than himself being praised, which was the same for all parents in the world.
The studio had been set up, but the director seemed to have some delays and hadn't arrived yet. The coordinator took a look at him and said, "Here's the anchor from Starry Sky, the makeup artist… Oh, he doesn't need makeup. It's all right."
Gu YuMian, "?"
"If you grow up looking like this, we don't need to waste our foundation." The person next to Gu YuMian explained in good faith.
Gu YuMian, "…" If they said so…
The script had been sent to Gu YuMian two days in advance. He had seen it many times. At this time, he opened the document on his optical computer and began to read while waiting. After a while, the director still hadn't arrived. Instead, a call came to his optical computer first.
"Hello?"
"Galaxy Tower, is it? Your child is here too," said the other side, and after a moment's silence, "We're almost there. Come downstairs."
Gu YuMian didn't respond for a second, "I'm sorry, who are you?"
"…"
On the other end of the phone, cold sweat slipped down Fennick's forehead — as soon as this sentence came out, he could clearly see with his naked eye that the air pressure around His Majesty had dropped a little lower and his thin lips were tightened. Just after a video conference, he had been annoyed by the old men in the cabinet. Now he was grumpy.
"Shuo Han." The man said coldly, "Forgot?"
Gu YuMian remembered, but he was very wronged. He took a look around him, held his cell phone, went to the stairway and pressed the button for the elevator, "Mr. Shuo, I haven't forgotten. It's because you said so little to me and I didn't hear from you for a while — I don't mind if you talk more to me in the future."
Shuo Han, "…"
In the future?
His human… wanted to stick to him?
Shuo Han held his optical computer in one hand, his eyelids drooped lazily, his appearance was still careless, and the satisfaction that emerged in his grey blue eyes was inadvertently revealed.
It was much like a beast that was about to get angry being suddenly comforted in an instant, and couldn't help showing a little satisfaction of a big cat.
Fennick, "…"
Once again, Mr. Gu had a high EQ. The ability of crisis management was excellent.
Five minutes later.
"Xue Tuan." The little snow leopard sat at the front desk waiting for Gu YuMian, like a rich cat, and yawned lazily. The look in his eyes when he glanced over made Gu YuMian think he was adorable.
Gu YuMian also held the sleeping little Tangyuan in his arms, let the snow leopard jump onto his shoulder, and then asked the front desk lady with a little doubt, "Has the gentleman who dropped off my child left?"
The girl was stunned. Gentleman? Was that the man with sunglasses who looked like Mr. Fennick? She nodded, "Just left."
"Mn, thank you." Gu YuMian nodded and took the children back to the elevator. He could not help sighing. He had wanted to thank Shuo Han face to face. Maybe he was really angry?
Back on the thirteenth floor, the director had arrived. The director's appearance was a mature woman with big wavy, curly hair, and flaming red lips. She didn't look as picky and mean as the legend said, but her gaze when she looked at Gu YuMian didn't seem friendly.
"Gu YuMian." She flipped through Gu YuMian's information at will and threw it aside, "Aren't you a human anchor? Single with children, too. Such vulnerable things. Before shooting, I will say that there will be no green lights for you, no matter whether you are a vulnerable group or not. I don't care if you are famous online or not. If you don't meet my expectations, you can go away."
Gu YuMian, "…"
The surrounding staff immediately cast the eyes of heartache and sympathy, while some looked on like they were watching a good play.
The little snow leopard sitting on Gu YuMian's shoulder was not happy. He sat up straight and looked at the director coldly. Gu YuMian quickly pacified him.
Actually, the director was right. Gu YuMian guessed that she represented the voice of many people.
That's right.
At this moment, the internal discussion group of the advertising group was also constantly giving hints — there was such a live director sitting in the town, and they usually didn't dare to speak loudly at work, so they just quietly set up a group to gossip online.
[Lu Daxian (lights): This anchor just came here and was beaten by the Queen. It's terrible. OTZ]
[Anna (make-up): I like him so much. When I just got close to him, my tail almost couldn't hide. His face and temperament are amazing. I really want a way of communication! But in a word, how long can he last? Last little star's record was half an hour.]
[Blue Blue (logistics): Although he looks okay, I really don't like humans. The Queen's words are not wrong. Many human beings have no ability to rely on the weak groups to treat them well. PS, I guess twenty minutes.]
[A Salted Fish (props): 35 minutes.]
…
Gu YuMian carefully listened to the requirements and interpretation of the guide speech, prepared a little and started shooting. In the interstellar era, the threshold for advertising had also declined, and the system automatically captured the angle and did the fine-tuning, which did not require a high displacement for an actor.
They start shooting for the first time.
This was an advertisement to promote the fully automatic kitchen system. The studio was also built into a semi-open kitchen like the one he had at home. Gu YuMian put on his apron, and put an onion, ginger, garlic, radish and various other ingredients in front of him.
The shooting adapted as he moved to complete the segment first, then there would be the dubbing, editing and processing later.
Xiao Dao made a circle with her fingers and Gu YuMian smiled at the camera, "Hello, everyone, I'm here to make dinner for my children today. This dish is called sweet and sour ribs."
This was what he had discussed with the crew in advance, and the kitchen system had been set up for him.
Gu YuMian washed the prepared spare ribs with water, put them into the pot, let the kitchen system automatically fill the pot with water to boil, and then he held a big spoon to skim the floating froth. The spring onion and ginger were prepared early. After the spring onion was washed, it was cut into segments. The ginger was cut into slices and neatly stacked in a bowl for later use.
The kitchen system automatically poured out the water for the ribs, and then added fresh water. Gu YuMian bent his eyes to the light screen of the kitchen system beside the kitchen counter and said, "Thank you."
The two words "thank you" appeared on the screen.
The added clear water in the pot gradually started to heat up. Gu YuMian then put in the spare ribs. He put the sliced onion and ginger into the pot and continued to cook for a set time.
"While we cook the ribs, we'll mix the juice we'll use later."
The assistant director, wearing a holographic device, looked at the picture with great concentration. And the director leaned back a little bit, her face was not clear.
Gu YuMian added cooking wine, three spoonfuls of soy sauce, a little sugar and vinegar into the bowl, then added some water, and mixed them well. When a 'ding dong' sound prompted, signalling that the ribs were cooked for enough time, Gu YuMian marinated them in the sauce and quickly tasted them.
With the help of the kitchen system, all the steps were going fast. Gu YuMian's action was not tight or slow, everything was handled in order. It was a pleasure to watch the white and slender fingers holding the knife and cutting the onion, ginger and garlic.
Gu YuMian added a proper amount of olive oil into the hot pot, and directly fried the ribs until they were slightly golden on both sides. The marinated ribs made a sizzling sound when they came in contact with the hot oil. The hot steam floated up, and the sweet and sour fragrance was mixed with the smell of fried ribs which were slightly crispy on the surface. 1
Even people who didn't wear a holographic device could smell it directly.
[Anna (make-up): It's a little fragrant now. Saliva can't help but secrete.]
[Pudding Meow (photography assistant): I just wore a holographic device. He smiled and said thank you to the light screen of the kitchen system. I was really electrified! There is a kind of feeling that the heartbeat slows down for a while. It's lovely. I hope the later clip can keep this shot.]
[Lu Daxian (light): I'm really hungry! And just looking at his movements are good for the heart and steady. I want to live with him, I'm going to have a meal after work.]
[A Salted Fish (props): It's almost been five minutes. I haven't called the card yet. Can I extend my time?]
At present, everything seemed to be going very smooth. It was a little inconceivable.
This was not the case. The assistant director could see the director's expression at a glance and knew that she was already thinking about when to call the card. It was just a matter of time.
But…
"I think we can use this," the assistant director lowered his voice and played it back to a certain second for the director to see. "Here, the interaction with the kitchen system is not in the script, but he thought about it. It worked, didn't it?"
In that lens, the golden red light came in from the side. The young man in a white shirt held the spoon in his hand and bent down to thank the light screen with a smile.
Gu YuMian was born with a beautiful appearance full of smoke and fire. The glow of the setting sun on his eyes and brows was blooming, and the color was steaming. The whole picture had an extremely moving beauty.
In particular, the kitchen system timely said "thank you" in return. The interaction of just two or three seconds suddenly brought the cold conceptual system to life.
There was no lack of a sense of life, a sense of humanity, a sense of technology.
Director, "No need, it's a waste of time."
It was true that those two or three seconds were very good, but the whole thing did not meet her expectations.
At this time, there was a shooting accident.
The albino beast brought by Gu YuMian, despite the obstruction of the life assistant, slowly stepped into the camera from the side, and his tail swept over Gu YuMian's ankle. Suddenly, he jumped onto the cooking platform, and lazily jumped up to Gu YuMian's shoulder.
Director: "…"
She had been tired and fidgety for a long time due to this small advertisement. She had eaten fast food for several days and just wanted to finish work soon. She couldn't help pinching the bridge of her nose. The sound of "Cut!" was just stuck in her throat and her hands raised—
In the shot, Gu YuMian scooped out the fried ribs until they were golden and crisp. Boiled the jujube red sugar and rice vinegar directly under the low heat in the pot to make the sugar vinegar juice. The crystal clear sugar vinegar juice was spread on a layer in the pot, and he put the fried ribs directly into the pot and stir fried them, before he added a small half-spoon of salt to improve the taste.
Gu YuMian's wrists slightly moved, so that the ribs were evenly wrapped with the sweet and sour juice. Finally, he collected the juice. When collecting the juice, he added a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, and the dish was about to be completed.
The whole dish was bright and attractive. The sweet and sour flavor of the pork ribs spread in the air with the sound of residual hot oil bubbling making a 'zizi' noise. Just one breath could make people's stomach full of greedy insects!
"…"
The director's hand fell down.
No, no calling cut. Just for this dish, she wanted to at least wait for him to dish it out.
She swallowed and slowly sat back in place.
Chapter 28: Newcomer Warm-up
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants to hug Gu YuMian
Gu YuMian put the sweet and sour spare ribs onto the plate and sprinkled them with white sesame seeds and sliced scallions. Using his knife skillfully, he carved a radish rose embellishment next to the plate of sweet and sour pork ribs. 1
—The crispy pork ribs under the light sparkled like a red jujube crystal. The sweet and sour juice cooked with ice sugar was fragrant. It was placed on a white porcelain plate neatly and delicately. They could imagine the tender, sour, sweet, and mellow taste from the outer crispy pork ribs from just looking, let alone the strong fragrance that made them greedy.
The little snow leopard entered the view, but the director didn't say anything, so Gu YuMian continued. Gu YuMian lifted the plate, and the little snow leopard lowered his head and sniffed. Then he pressed his paw on the man's forehead to express his satisfaction. Gu YuMian's eyes softened, he picked up a chopstick and fed him a bite, "Darling, be careful, it's hot. Remember to spit out the bone after eating."
After a few seconds of dead silence, the internal discussion group began to send out crazy messages!
[Puppet Cat is Never a Slave (logistics): Ah ah!]
[Little Lulu (Assistant Photographer): I hate holographic devices! Do you know the feeling of seeing, smelling, but not eating? The camera is less than half a meter away from him and his dishes! TAT]
[Blue Blue (logistics): Really Intense… It's too embarrassing for anyone to hear my stomach rumbling.]
[A Salted Fish (props): I was just beside Director Na, and I watched as she was about to shout. When the ribs came out of the pot, she shut up and sat down slowly! Amazing!]
[Fish like birds (lights): Huh? She was going to call cut? I think the effect is really unprecedented! And I have a hunch. There's still high energy ahead. Let's see how he is going to deal with the filming.]
The plate of sweet and sour pork ribs was finished, but the recording was not complete.
The assistant director looked at it, and suddenly there was a flash of inspiration in his brain. He said in a hurry, "Switch the perspective. Don't use God's perspective in this section. Change it to that baby's perspective!"
Director Na, "Ah?"
Assistant Director, "Director Na, don't be confused! I'm here."
After that, the person in charge of filming almost grabbed the control device to pop up the light screen and began to adjust the parameters on the spot. The ultra-micro camera soon moved to the little snow leopard, and the perspective started to switch.
The angle of view was soon switched, and two seconds later.
Director Na and Assistant Director: "!"
Two people initially wanted to argue, but the words were caught in their mouth and disappeared.
—Their sight hadn't been cleared yet. The first thing they felt was the amazing feeling at the entrance of sweet and sour pork ribs.
The ribs were still a little hot. When they bit into them, it was even crispy and delicious. The ribs with delicious meat were fried with sweet and sour sauce to make it taste just right, even and tasty. It was not old or chewy. The tart, sweet, and natural ice sugar and rice vinegar was boiled into a sweet and sour sauce that added some brightness. Because the spare ribs lacked a lot of meat, one mouthful was not enough, and they even wanted to suck the sauce from the bones.
Although they didn't actually eat it, and it was just the feeling of data simulation, the director and the director of photography still swallowed their saliva unconsciously.
They thought this was enough. However, it was not over.
Gu YuMian put an empty glass on the counter, and the kitchen system automatically injected light honey water into it. After tasting the crisp and mellow taste of sweet and sour pork ribs, the honey water thoroughly washed away the little bit of greasiness left. The feeling from throat to stomach was very fresh.
Gu YuMian held the little snow leopard gently, which was a very safe posture. The little snow leopard raised his head and squinted its eyes to rub Gu YuMian's chin.
"Is the sun setting?" Gu YuMian scratched the little snow leopard's ear, "Hmm?"
The snow leopard lazily closed his eyes and leaned a little closer to Gu YuMian's arms to express his acquiescence.
The kitchen system timely decreased the transparency of the floor to ceiling windows, and the golden-red sunset entered without reservation. Lying in Gu YuMian's arms and basking in the sunset feeling, it was comfortable enough to relax all the tense nerves in the whole body.
Outside the high-rise buildings were the city's bustling lights, and in the distance was the ocean and the mountains that had stood for thousands of years. Before the sunset, the stars had climbed to the corner of the sky.
—The holographic device faithfully reflected all the feelings, and the substitute feelings of all the onlookers were stronger than ever before.
Gu YuMian had a very light scent of sea salt and bamboo leaves. When his palm touched his skin, the too gentle touch brought a wave of light currents to their blood vessels. His body temperature and breath infiltrated with the embrace.
Being held in such a way, they could even hear his steady heartbeat, and all the restless and anxious emotions went quiet. Slowly, there were only a few voices left between heaven and the Earth.
Cicadas and sunsets, tea on the stove, and a light wind.
"…"
After a few seconds of silence, the internal discussion group of the advertising crew had utterly exploded!
[Little Lulu (photography assistant): Ah, ah, WTF! It feels great! Why do I want to be held high by him?! This holographic device is killing me. I'm not a competent photographer. I totally forgot about my work when I watched it. I want to sleep in his palm!]
[Blue Blue (logistics): Although I don't have a holographic device, I feel calm when I watch him.]
[Anna (make-up): It seems that I'm in love again, but he is destined to be a man I can't get. What should I do?]
[Fish like birds (lights): I'd like to ask, does Director Na's face hurt? Just now, her smile was really too much. Hahahaha! If she just called cut, she would have regretted it all her life. I'm afraid of what would have happened if she had said it.]
[A Salted Fish (props): I quietly took a picture of Director Na's expression [picture]. You know, I think her face is blue, white, red, and purple. It seems that her heart is perplexed and complicated 23333] 2
The director and assistant director were silent together, and it was a long time before they could open their eyes. The assistant director almost clapped the table and stood up. The director was in a perplexed mood, and her expression showed a blank dullness — she had just joined. She was completely immersed in the atmosphere created by Gu YuMian.
If Gu YuMian's performance at the beginning was just satisfactory, the effect at this moment was far beyond all their expectations!
"But what does it have to do with the kitchen system?" The director slowly asked the last question.
Assistant director, "Mmm…"
At this time, the shooting was over. Gu YuMian held the snow leopard, thanked, and took the water from the staff member. The last segment of the snow leopard running over was also a temporary one. He thought about it and proposed, "Why don't you make up a few shots and let me be the 'system'?"
Director and Assistant Director: "!"
Kitchen system personification!
Gu YuMian, in the advertisement, was no longer an ordinary chef, but a personification of the kitchen's system.
The purpose of the kitchen system itself was to improve the quality of life. At that time, the advertisement would take the little snow leopard's perspective as the main perspective. Gu YuMian would take care of him as the 'kitchen system,' make a meal for him, help him drink a cup of honey water, and hold him under the sun.
The idea itself was great and innovative. Since advertisements were interspersed in games and TV dramas, and most of them were holographic. The holographic version could give full play to the effect of this advertisement.
With their keen sense of smell from being engaged in this industry for many years, it told them that this time, it was stable!
"By the way, I made extra of the sweet and sour pork ribs," Gu YuMian put the snow leopard down and brought out a plate. The little snow leopard couldn't overeat since it was too sweet. Gu YuMian had done it on purpose. The crew had worked so hard for so long, but he didn't have to work hard to cook.
"If you don't mind, everyone can—"
Everyone: "!"
Of! Course! We! Don't! Mind!
Gu YuMian hadn't completed his sentence when almost everyone rushed over, and one person after the other picked up a plate of sweet and sour ribs with chopsticks. Even the steady assistant director hurriedly went over with chopsticks, and his German Shepherd ears were exposed. This showed how delicious it was.
The feeling of holographic data and real direct eating was not the same. The assistant director was eating beside the director while praising loudly on purpose, "It's terrific to eat, and this little anchor was so intimate. I'll pay attention to him when I go back tonight. Tsk, the taste of this sweet and sour sauce is excellent. The ribs are also crispy."
Director: "…" Shit, she wanted to eat.
But she had just said cruel words to Gu YuMian, and she almost threw him out when while filming — she had to admit that she was really influenced by her personal emotions. Maybe it was a trick. She was ashamed and regretful now, and thankful it didn't lead to a big mistake.
Since the advertisement had bothered her for a long time, and something happened at home, she randomly selected someone from the list of anchors given by Starry Sky. Unexpectedly, she had picked the most hated human race. All kinds of messy things piled together, she was in a broken state of mind. From the beginning, she didn't pay attention to him, and she was just perfunctory and didn't speak carefully.
She didn't know if anyone else saw it. Still, Gu YuMian must have, and he didn't talk about the overall situation and shooting progress at that time. If she now ate Gu YuMian's food shamelessly, what was the point?
The director hadn't eaten for a long time. She was starving. What's more, all her colleagues around her were eating. The fragrance kept floating to her nose, and she couldn't resist it.
Seeing that Gu YuMian's plate was only one left with ribs, the director could not help but walk over slowly and ask in a low voice, "That, can you…"
The people around still talked as usual, but their ears were all standing up one after another. They quietly paid attention to the movement with a good mood.
The next second…
The little snow leopard, who had been sleeping quietly in Gu YuMian's arms, suddenly stretched out and jumped to the porcelain plate. He picked up the last spareribs, and the grey-blue eyes gave the director a slight sneer.
"A child can't understand," Gu YuMian held the snow leopard and pinched his paws, but he didn't blame him. He smiled apologetically. "Director Na, I'm sorry."
Gu YuMian knew that the snow leopard wanted to help him out. Although he was not polite, he did not want to blame his cub.
Yes, he was eccentric.
"… It's okay." The director had lost once again, and her face was burning.
Now that the sweet and sour pork ribs were all finished, she looked a little stupid standing there. She stopped, turned around, took two steps, and changed her mind. "I apologize to you. I was wearing colored glasses on purpose. I was wrong," She turned to Gu YuMian and said sincerely, "I'm sorry."
Everyone could hear the director, and the studio was a little quiet.
Gu YuMian's eyes fell quietly on her face.
She was really regretful and ashamed of her actions. Because the sweet and sour spare ribs were finished, their cooperation would be over soon, and there would be no further contact in the future. If it was not for her conscience, Director Na didn't need to slap her own face in front of so many subordinates and apologize to Gu YuMian seriously.
She was not a bad person.
After a while, Gu YuMian's eyes and expression relaxed, and dimples appeared near his lips.
"It doesn't matter." He said seriously.
An hour later, at the end of the work, the director dragged her tired body away from the Star Tower and went to the parking lot to get her suspension device. She was so hungry, her front was touching her back. Just as she was about to start the suspension device, a waiter rushed over and knocked on her window, "Lady, a gentleman asked me to give this to you."
The director was stunned. She had a premonition in her heart. After a while, she opened the paper bag and looked at it—
Inside was a small box of sweet and sour pork ribs.
Director: "…"
Tonight, she would immediately pay attention to the live broadcast of Gu YuMian and throw ten… no, twenty fireworks!
In a flash, ten days passed quietly.
Over the past month, a total of one thousand new anchors from all over the world gathered in Capital Star and finally settled down on this day. These new anchors were all the best on their own planet. They came sooner or later. This time, they were definitely ambitious.
[Sugar Sugar: MianMian, tomorrow will be the start of the rookie competition. I've handed you the documents about the competition system. Are you nervous?]
Gu YuMian, "Should I tell the truth?"
[Sugar Sugar: Just say you're nervous.]
After a few days of contact, Sugar Sugar knew Gu YuMian's temperament.
Gu YuMian had no choice, "Mn, I'm nervous."
He was holding the baby panda and the little snow leopard in his arms, and he was extremely distressed, but not about the rookie competition.
Lately, he looked for an opportunity to go online to watch the advertisement with the bamboo forest, but he didn't see it again. He was also at a loss when he thought of asking someone. He thought about going to the microblog, but he didn't expect the microblog search to be blocked. All sorts of clues were broken again.
"I'm really not detective material," Gu YuMian thought. "There should be something simpler, but I can't think of it."
He didn't dare to discuss it with others. He came here not too long ago, was busy with live broadcasting and cubs, and he didn't make any friends. But fortunately, after so many days, the baby panda looked happy and had gained a few pounds. Although the little snow leopard still rejected him, his attitude was much more relaxed than at the beginning. He was obviously used to the small creature.
This was Gu YuMian's greatest relief.
On the other hand, his optical computer was still beeping.
[Sugar Sugar: By the way, Mian Mian, the ad that was shot before was launched today! We're going to announce you one hour after the advertisement is put out tonight. Please register a microblog and send the cut video. First of all, I wish you success in the competition.]
Gu YuMian was declared by the press officer. Although it seemed to have been pressed for more than ten days, it was actually an action that Starry Sky attached great importance to. Tonight was Guan Xuan's advertisement, tomorrow was the competition, and with the popularity, it would undoubtedly be a great advantage for him.
Gu YuMian was very grateful, "Thank you. Sorry for troubling you."
Of course, Starry Sky was also in line with their own interests. This opportunity gave Gu YuMian the ability to maximize his interests. Not to mention the first, Gu YuMian would be the top three seed players in this rookie group, just missing a chance to go to a bigger stage to shine.
The rookie competition was his chance.
That night, Gu YuMian signed up for a microblog, and Starry Sky soon added a "V" to him.
He really had a good personality, and obviously, many fans were in his audience, but he had been procrastinating to register. Before, he didn't use microblogs on Earth. At this time, he was holding his optical computer and didn't know how to use it. The official side tagged his official microblog, which he needed to forward. Gu YuMian thought for a long time before entering:
[ Starry Sky Live – Gu YuMian V: Hello, I'm Gu YuMian, a Starry Sky anchor. Please give me more advice later on [love] / / Starry Sky live V: New anchor Starry Sky live – Gu YuMian V, the official rating is A-rank (there are less than 50 A-ranked anchors in Capital Star) [picture] [stick]. The representative work here [Video], no matter how you look at it, the public lord have drooled.]
Unexpectedly, Gu YuMian, as a whiteboard with no followers, had just sent out his microblog, but the number of comments began to explode geometrically.
[Cat's Meow: Oh, oh, oh! He's here, it's MianMian!]
[Hamster likes eating melon seeds: Are you the leading actor of that kitchen system advertisement? Ah, ah, ah, I bow! I just ordered that kitchen system. Although it's a little expensive, I can live a fairy life in the advertisement when I think of buying it! Ah ah!]
[Vita lemon tea: awsl, I was trying to catch up with the drama. After watching the advertisement, I immediately felt that the drama was boring. I've been waiting to see the ads on my optical computer (I've seen the ad ten times in just an hour). I am not crazy, right?]
[Muli Lovesickness: I'm crazy, too. The advertisement is so beautiful. It's amazing. I've placed a passionate order for the kitchen system. I want to ask if the system will really become the person in the advertisement. If not, when I buy the system, will I be sent the anchor?!]
[Warming Cup Medlar: Who came up with the anthropomorphic idea of the kitchen system? It's immortal. What's the perspective? It's also very novel.]
It turns out that just one hour after the advertisement was put into use, there had been a lot of discussions. The idea of systematic anthropomorphism was indeed relatively innovative, coupled with the holographic perspective of the first person. A lot of people were initially using the holographic mode to watch dramas or were playing games, and they wanted to skip the advertisement. Unexpectedly, they suddenly tasted the crispness and sweetness of the sweet and sour pork ribs on the tip of their tongues. No matter what the state of such a dish was, they suddenly thought it wasn't dull.
It was just a series of critical strikes before it slowed down.
Tender and sentimental embrace, sunset and cicada chirp, proper food, and honey water delivered in time, mostly when the handsome man in the kitchen system mimicked the beauty of immortals and revealed small dimples with his eyelids hanging slightly, and called out "master."
Girls' hearts exploded in a second. And regardless of gender, the comfort of watching the advertisement was not fake. This strategy had achieved tremendous results. In just one night, the sales from the advertising popularity and the kitchen system had been growing crazily. Gu YuMian's new microblog had also taken advantage of this trend, and overnight, hundreds of thousands of fans rose.
The next day was the official start of the rookie competition.
Gu YuMian got up, as usual, prepared food and materials, thought of the newly registered microblog yesterday, and went in and looked over it for a while… huh?
He rubbed his eyes and then again.
He was very slow to accept the fact.
Sugar Sugar sent a message to remind him that he needed to be ready. Gu YuMian was just about to close his microblog when suddenly, he was attracted by another hot search.
—#Ershisi Guo seriously ill?#
Gu YuMian was stunned, "Twenty-fourth Wok?"
Chapter 29: Pork Belly
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo will go crazy for the Dongpo pork belly
He clicked the hot search title. The large picture at the top was the same one he had seen outside the Star River building. The little boy 'Danny' looked nine-years-old, and his race…
Panda!
In addition to the poster photo, there was also a picture of Ershisi Guo in his animal form. He looked like a panda about two-years-old, with soft claws and a round and simple appearance, holding a bamboo, and looking into the camera at a loss. It seemed that he had been secretly photographed by fans at lunch.
"… It's lovely." Although he had been a zoo-keeper for a long time already, Gu YuMian still had no resistance to these soft black and white balls. Ershisi Guo's loveliness was almost the same as his family's Xue Tuan and Tangyuan. The pandas of this era, compared with the chubby ones from Earth who were loved unconditionally, were not outdone. 1
In addition to Tangyuan, ErShisi Guo was the second panda he saw in this world. They were probably relatives.
"In this way, it makes sense that they have similar eyebrows and eyes." Gu YuMian said to himself.
Gu YuMian, after all, was a normal person from Earth. Even after looking for a while, he couldn't seem to find a high-definition picture of Ershisi Guo. Moreover, the change in the appearance of the panda from its cub state to its two or three-year-old form was quite large. So at this time, he didn't consider the fact that Ershisi Guo had returned to his cub state.
He looked up 'Ershisi Guo' in the search engine and microblog again. Unexpectedly, he was blocked due to lack of permission, but it was enough to give him some information. At least, there was now a way to help little Tangyuan find his home. He just needed to find a way to contact the big star.
Besides…
This 'Danny' was a panda named Ershisi Guo. While such an idea was absurd, and also frightened him, he couldn't help the inexplicable feeling that grew within him. His heart began to beat wildly.
"Wok? Why Wok?" Gu YuMian thought, "Is there some relation to Big Wok?"
He searched the term 'Big Wok,' 'Second Wok,' and 'Third Wok,' but nothing special seemed to pop up. The search engine showed him several new saucepans. He didn't know if it was because Big Wok was not famous, or because the information was invisible to him.
Gu YuMian browsed for a while in the entry' Ershisi Guo seriously ill.' It appeared that the microblog and search engine had blocked his search permission. And only when there was such a hot search like this, he could browse through it.
At the top was a video released by Ershisi Guo's studio. It was a little boy with the appearance of a nine-year-old, wearing a hospital gown, clasping his hands to the camera, and sounding distressed. "I'm sorry I need to stop performing for a while due to my recent poor health. I'll see you in three months."
It was released more than a month ago, and now it was still on the hot search of the Capital Star traffic — Gu YuMian couldn't help but wonder, this kid was trendy.
[Danny star backup: Good morning, the best Danny baby in the world needs to take good care of his illness. This shovel will always wait for you to love you [love] [picture]]
Ershisi Guo's fan name was little shovel. This was a fan station.
[My family's Wok: [crying] Although he apologized, I still want to say that agent really stinks. Two or three years ago, he didn't know Danny well, but now he's using his baby as a tool to make money… It must be related to the baby's illness now, Tsk.]
[Danny's numbness: Angry platoon, Danny's agent is living in the Upper Urban District. He is now stretching his hand farther and farther, and sooner or later, he will be punished.]
Agent? Gu YuMian thought of the serious middle-aged man he saw in the elevator of Star River Tower last time. That was close. He just thought about contacting the agent… But now, if what the microblog fans were saying was true, this would take a while.
Despite being a big star, Ershisi Guo's privacy was well protected. Gu YuMian only knew about the history and representative works of Ershisi Guo since his debut through the hot search and the homepage for fans. He knew nothing about his family.
Only some old fans vaguely revealed that other relatives of Ershisi Guo's family were 'living in the Upper City area, and coming out only occasionally,' 'many other relatives were celebrities,' and "the family was very rich.
It was said that Ershisi Guo was soft in appearance but independent at heart. He didn't want to use the support of his family when he first started his career. He entered the Capital Film University and hid his race and identity. He began to fight from the dragon suit… At that time, the agent had a good understanding of him.
Even though people could see that the agent had become excessive recently, Ershisi Guo still didn't fire the other party.
He didn't know whether to say the panda was stupid or that he knew how to repay favors.
"…"
There was not much personal privacy information on the Internet, which showed that the ability of Ershisi Guo's team was actually good, but the personality of the agent needed to be discussed. It took Gu YuMian an hour to collect and sort out all the information he could get. At least now he knew where he was going. He was full of energy for a while.
The start of the Rookie match was today.
Today was a Friday, and from this day till the next Friday, the first round of the rookie competition would be held. Because of the large number of participants in this round, selection would only be conducted based on the total popularity, and there were no additional items. Additional items would be added in the future.
The officials were willing to throw money, and coupled with its attraction, Starry Sky's Rookie Competition had a high degree of attention and topics. In addition to Capital Star, the best newcomers from every other planet would participate in the competition. This meant that the anchors of each affiliated planet and the Capital Star would be fighting against each other
Gu YuMian thought about it and said, "Oh, so I'm the only hope in the whole star."
… He really was.
Last night, Keri from Takk's Starry Sky platform sent a small video to wish him all the best. Some fans in Takk pulled banners to wish him well. Gu YuMian was a little embarrassed and moved.
There were a total of one thousand new anchors in the rookie competition, and as many as five hundred would be screened out in the first round. Then five hundred would be narrowed down to two hundred in the second round, and similarly, two hundred to one hundred in the third round. Then, those who were in the top one hundred would go through the primary selection — Takk's biggest expectation for him was to pass the primary selection.
[Sugar Sugar: There will be a break after the primary selection. In this period, we may organize the one hundred anchors to carry out offline publicity and friendship. This has not been determined yet. You must do well.]
Gu YuMian: "Mn."
Gu YuMian didn't know what his advantages were, let alone where Sugar Sugar's confidence in him came from. Although it was only the first round, Gu YuMian had also made preparations conscientiously — not just for the live broadcast, of course, but also for a very special day.
… According to the calendar of Ancient Earth, today was Children's Day, the 1st of June. 2
The seasons of Capital Star were not the same as that of Ancient Earth. May was midsummer, and August was Autumn, but the calendar was the same. Although there was no Children's Day in the interstellar era, Gu YuMian, according to his own habit, would take his children to have a happy time.
When Gu YuMian was ready for everything by noon, little Tangyuan had just woken up.
The baby panda nestled in Gu YuMian's arms and rubbed his eyes, while the little snow leopard just came home from school, and immediately stared at the baby panda with a displeased expression. He pressed his two claws against the baby panda's round head, trying to push him out.
Of course, the baby panda had been fed a lot of delicious food recently, but his body length was not very long. Gu YuMian planned to wean him later and let him start eating just bamboo.
"Chi?" Little Tangyuan held his bottle and looked at the little snow leopard and Gu YuMian in a daze. After thinking about it and putting down the bottle, he slowly moved to hold Gu YuMian's hand in his arms.
"…" Gu YuMian sighed and felt his head in his heart. Because he had just learned about Ershisi Guo this morning and thought that little Tangyuan might probably be the offspring of Big Wok, he was in a complicated mood.
—Gu YuMian's complex and focused expression as he looked at little Tangyuan, was interpreted in the eyes of the little snow leopard as emotional.
… Click.
The little snow leopard was silent for a moment. He arched his little head into Gu YuMian's arms and flashed his sharp claws to threaten the baby panda away. He couldn't help but occupy his human's arms. He looked down at the baby panda sitting on the ground with a mocking gaze, and the words in his gray-blue eyes were clear and white: This is mine.
—Not for you.
He was very aggressive and unreasonable.
Gu YuMian, "…"
It was six o'clock in the evening. The rookie competition area opened on time, and the first round of popularity calculation officially started.
Like most new anchors, Gu YuMian turned on his live broadcast as soon as he arrived at six. As usual, he chose the baby panda's perspective and opened the privacy protection settings for the baby panda, and then greeted the audience, "Hello, my name is Gu YuMian. Today, we will have Dongpo pork belly for dinner. The dessert is yogurt ice-cream. After that, I'll help Xue Tuan and Tangyuan comb their hair, and we will celebrate children's day together."
In more than half a month since he came to Capital Star, Gu YuMian had already accumulated a batch of regular fans. Coupled with yesterday's publicity and the popularity of continuous fermentation after the use of kitchen system advertising, the number of fans soon broke 30,000 within two minutes after the launch of his live broadcast.
Gu YuMian couldn't help bending his eyes as he looked at the growing number of viewers and many of the familiar IDs.
[South China Tiger Will Never Blind Date: Here it is! Throwing two fireworks at Mian Mian and wishing for a smooth journey through the rookie race!]
[There's a family in the mine: What else are we going to eat and play today? Super, super excited, fly rubbing hands.]
[I'm Yangou. I'm proud: Little brother, what is Dongpo pork and children's day? No matter, I'll wait first! Because the advertisement made by the anchor has made me order the kitchen system. Although it couldn't make such delicious food, it's also very easy to use. It's worth more than what it's worth. If you haven't bought it, go and buy it.]
[Moose: Does anchor live in District D? I heard today that there is a project going on. When you go out, you should pay attention to safety.]
"Thank you, I'll pay attention," Gu YuMian nodded and continued to explain. "Dongpo pork is a dish I like very much. It's half fat and half thin meat. It's said that it was invented by a man named Su Dongpo, so it's called Dongpo pork."
Gu YuMian grew up in Jiangnan. 3 He had only been to Sichuan 4 when he was a junior high school student. Dongpo pork had a kind of special feeling for him. When he was a child, he lived in Jiangnan with his grandparents. At the time of the Chinese New Year's festival, he did not want to eat cakes, so a bowl of delicious Dongpo pork was served. It was a very happy day.
Last time, he found that the little snow leopard liked this sweet dish, so he thought about making more for him.
"I have chosen to make pork belly," Gu YuMian said. "The cut is half fat and half thin meat, so to avoid the extra oil, we need to boil it in water first."
Gu YuMian put the pork belly into the boiling water five minutes ago, then pulled them out to cool, and cut them into two-inch square pieces. The pan had already been prepared for a long time with a lotus leaf at the very bottom. Gu YuMian put green onions and thickly sliced ginger that had been washed, peeled, and cut on top. The cut pork belly was neatly stacked on it.
"My grandma taught me to put the lotus leaf on the bottom," Gu YuMian said. "When steamed, it will have a little fragrance of lotus leaf. And it will also help trap oil… YuanYuan."
The big lotus leaf aroused the baby panda's interest. He blinked his round eyes, and his soft claws held a lotus leaf on top of his head, just like a green round hat on his head. It was funny and lovely. Gu YuMian couldn't help laughing for a moment.
The audience could only watch from the perspective of the baby panda, and couldn't see the appearance of little Tangyuan, but they could see the smile on Gu YuMian's face clearly. The bullet screen immediately brought out a large area of 'awsl' and 'brother.'
[Throwing cosmetics: There's too much sugar in the small dimples of MianMian. Wuwuwuwu. I'm going to faint because of the sweetness.]
The little snow leopard was not happy for a second.
He hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and touched the remaining lotus leaf with his claws. Then very slowly, and a little resentfully… he also moved the lotus leaf to his head. After that, the little snow leopard pretended to look at Gu YuMian casually, and showed a lazy expression that didn't want praise, but was just playing around.
Gu YuMian, "Oh, does TuanTuan like green hats, too?" 5
Little snow leopard, "?"
Bullet screen, "Hahahaahaha!"
Gu YuMian's eyes were bent up, he took the little snow leopard, who had a wooden face, into his arms and kissed his ears. "Okay, I'll play with you. We'll continue to make Dongpo pork."
Snow Leopard, "…"
The tip of his ears began to burn slowly, and he put his paw out on Gu YuMian's nape. For a second, he forgot what he was angry about.
[Hahahaha, the green Hatter, although he's an old man, he's funny.]
[You're a bad old man, you're so mean to the baby. Lol.]
[Xue Tuan looks like he is shocked! 2333]
Gu YuMian now had reasonable control over the rhythm of the live broadcast. He had a fair degree of relaxation. He interspersed some casual jokes and interactions during the dull preparation of food materials. The atmosphere in the live broadcast room immediately became relaxed and warm, and it was much better than doing things in silence at the beginning.
The number of spectators rose steadily and soon approached 100,000.
The rookie competition was divided into four small areas of ABCD. Gu YuMian was divided into area D. Now, he had firmly occupied first place, and the popularity data had more than doubled when compared to the person who held second place. Even if it was all four areas, Gu YuMian was the first anchor to reach 90,000 and 100,000 in just half an hour.
The old audience members could see Gu YuMian's progress in detail, and his performance was getting better and better. They were all feeling gratified.
At this time, the pork belly was piled neatly on the lotus leaf at the bottom of the dish. Gu YuMian added a proper amount of rock sugar, dark soy sauce, and low sodium soy sauce to it, before finally pouring in a cooking wine which could replace the originally needed Shaoxing wine. 6
"The height of the wine should be no higher than that of the meat," said Gu YuMian. "Here, wine is used instead of water to remove the smell of the meat. Finally, the meat that is cooked will be more soft and delicious."
He put on his gloves and put the pot on the stove. He turned the pot to a high temperature until it began to boil then turned it down to a low temperature. Before, he had to wait for two or three hours on Ancient Earth. Now, this technology only required a few minutes.
Looking at the smothered meat over the gentle fire, Gu YuMian observed the color and shape of pork belly under the transparent lid. When it was about time, he uncovered the pork and gently poked them with chopsticks. They could be directly pierced, indicating that the meat quality was enough to crumble.
At this stage, the surface of the pork belly had absorbed the sugar color of the rock sugar, which was bright. When the lid of the pot was opened, the sharp fragrance wafted out!
The baby panda was also curiously pulling at the edge of the pot. Gu YuMian was afraid that he would burn himself, and he held him in his arms. After little Tangyuan was picked up, he immediately forgot about the Dongpo meat and rubbed his head happily in Gu YuMian's arms.
[Annana: It's nice to see it! Is it ready to eat now? When you started cooking, my colleagues heard my stomach rumbling, orz]
"Not yet," Gu YuMian shook his head. "It's better to steam it a little longer."
The critical point of Dongpo pork was the taste. Gu YuMian took the stuffy meat out of the pot one by one, but the meat skin face up into a heat-resistant glass box, covered it and put it into the steamer, and then steamed it for a particular time with high fire.
"Mn," After a few minutes, Gu YuMian carefully observed for a while, and then opened the steamer when all the color and state indicators were up to standard and took out the Dongpo pork belly. "Now it's okay. Be careful."
At the moment of opening the glass lid, an intense salty, sweet and mellow fragrance escaped.
The agate color made from the rock sugar had completely penetrated into the surface of the pork belly. The surface had a layer of thick sauce made from the mixture of sugar, onion, ginger, and cooking wine. The pieces of pork belly looked bright, crystal clear, and extremely attractive!
After several processes, the skin of the pork belly was thin and tender. One could imagine the taste of the sweet, glutinous, crispy, and not greasy pork. Since the meat was really glutinous, fragrant, soft, and tender, Gu YuMian almost couldn't hold it when he picked it up with chopsticks. Before he could switch the perspective and feed it to the little snow leopard, the bullet curtain had already erupted faster than ever before!
[Liyuan Spring and Autumn Festival: Hurry up and hurry up!]
[Pudding Cat: It looks so delicious, is it?! My saliva flowed all over the place I want to eat! I really want to eat! Besides, how much is this man? I'll buy him then become broke!]
[Junior B: It's super delicious. Why do I want to eat it so much? I might have been a piece of pork in my last life!]
[There's a Cloud: Ten fireworks for the anchor. The progress of the anchor is really great. I wish the rookie competition a smooth and successful success in all aspects of cooking and control.]
At the same time, the number of spectators exceeded 100,000.
—The traffic of the entire D-area was being sucked away by him alone. The highest audience, except Gu YuMian, was only 40,000. This was equivalent to having no competition.
Meanwhile.
Capital Star Upper Urban City, Academy of Sciences.
The expressionless teenager sat on the swivel chair and stared at the light screen with a gaze that was more serious than when he was doing thorough research. Holding a bowl of white rice in his hand, he took a look at the live broadcast and had a bite of rice.
Other researchers: "…" It's over. It seems that the task was too tight recently. The boss was finally driven mad by the pressure.
On another world, Takk.
Keri was eating bread while watching the live broadcast. At this time, the bread in her hand fell down. She thought she was dreaming, "Wait, what's the matter, it's a hundred thousand!?"
For the first time, Starry Sky's staff at Takk looked at each other.
At this moment, everyone was feeling, in the old Earthen words, like a college student was supporting the whole village. They thought it would be better to have a normal school, but didn't expect the other party to be accepted to Harvard.
withChapter 30: Sweet Potato Yogurt
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo wants Gu YuMian's cooking
At half-past six, half an hour after the start of the rookie competition, the audience was 100,000.
With such a large population of the whole Capital Star, it didn't seem like a lot — but Gu YuMian had been on air for half an hour now.
Anyone familiar with the broadcast rules knew what was going on.
"Half an hour before the start of broadcasting is the screening period of natural and artificial recommenders…"
Half an hour before the start of the broadcast, the live room hadn't been entered into the system, so it wouldn't be recommended. Generally speaking, the audience in this time, in addition to the start of the broadcast, had skyrocketed — the old fans who used to stay in the spot had entered the live room, and the audience would tend to be stable within half an hour.
As a rookie anchor, Gu YuMian had far fewer old fans than 100,000.
The publicity of that advertisement and the official publicity of Starry Sky were indeed useful, but it couldn't be so powerful only in the past night. Besides, it was only half an hour. Many people didn't know that Gu YuMian was on air.
On Takk, Keri counted the data with her fingers, "About 80,000 of the 100,000 fans are new audience members from the Capital. With this momentum, it won't be a problem if the audience breaks a million in an hour."
What was the concept of breaking a million in an hour?
After the recommended position, the new audience members would flow in. The general recommended position would start within the first hour. First on the 'latest live broadcast,' then on the popularity computing system to compete with other anchors for the 'real-time popularity list' and 'current-day popularity list,' as well as the system allocated manual recommended position.
At present, the top-ranking anchor, the regular visitors of major advertising endorsements and reality shows in the whole star could maintain an average audience of about 50 million. In the first hour, in addition to the old fans, there would be hundreds of thousands of audience members.
But Gu YuMian was a new guy.
A lot of people on Takk thought they were going to faint.
In the live studio, Gu YuMian was not affected by the results or comments from the outside world, and the rhythm was still stable.
Pieces of the red Dongpo pork were neatly placed on the lotus leaf in the white porcelain bowl, and he poured the thick sauce over the top, making it look bright and beautiful under the light. Mixed with lotus leaves and boiled rock sugar white wine, the sweet and mellow pork belly made the audience want to eat it with their fingers.
When using chopsticks, the body of the bamboo chopsticks even slightly sunk into the pork, and the mellow and fragrant sauce flowed down the chopsticks.
Gu YuMian simply changed to a small porcelain spoon, held a small piece of Dongpo meat with the spoon, blew on it to cool, and fed it to the little snow leopard, "TuanTuan, come and taste my masterpiece? Be careful."
Dongpo pork belly was one of Gu YuMian's best dishes, he was a professional. Ever since the age of four, he had begun to stay with his grandparents. Even with his eyes closed, he knew how to cut the product, how to pick the right seasoning, and what temperature everything needed to be.
The snow leopard glanced at him, pulled the handle of the porcelain spoon, then stretched out his paw and pressed it on Gu YuMian's wrist. Then he lowered his head and tasted it very carefully.
—The first thing that spread between his lips and teeth was the fresh and mellow flavor of the rock sugar and pork belly.
The half fat and half thin pork belly was steamed and immersed in the rock sugar liquor, which was crisp but not crumbly, sweet and glutinous but not greasy. The sauce was sweet and had melted into the delicious pork belly. The cut, which had been carefully selected, was thin and tender. And there was no need to bite down with a little force. The taste of the first bite was immediately amazing! 1
A few seconds later.
The little snow leopard's long tail stopped in the air, then began to move faster. He squinted his gray-blue eyes in satisfaction and nudged Gu YuMian's hand.
… One more piece.
[Fig Fruit Pigeon: Ah ah ah ah ah ah, is this real?! It's soft, flavorful, and not boring. I almost swallowed my tongue! 5555!]
[Junior B: How can it taste better than I can imagine? Brother, I'm dizzy. I'd like to give you an early greeting!]
[There's a Cloud: It's so amazing that I can't think of words to boast. It's really delicious. It's hard. This dish should only be in the sky. No fireworks are not enough to explode our admiration. Here are five fireworks for you.]
[There's a Family in the Mine: Hurry up! Another piece of Dongpo meat! Seeing the live broadcast from Mian Mian, the fried chicken in the high-end restaurant suddenly doesn't seem fair! QAQ]
[Bald Scientific Research Dog: My eldest brother is watching this live broadcast eating white rice. I thought he was exaggerating. I climbed up and had a look… Now, fuck, give me a pot of soil I can eat with relish!]
Too many barrages came out at the same time, and the gift effects exploded in turn. Gu YuMian couldn't see what the audience was talking about at all — even if the interval frequency of the barrage was set, it didn't help, which made him a little helpless.
Gu YuMian didn't pay much attention to the data at this time. Otherwise, he would find that the reason why there are so many bullet screens was that the content was good, and the audience was skyrocketing.
—After half an hour's shielding period, Gu YuMian was listed on the real-time popularity list of the living quarter, and the traffic of this recommendation began to lead to Gu YuMian's live broadcast room. From half-past six to now, the number of spectators had increased by tens of thousands in just a few minutes.
As Keri guessed, millions of people would be watching in an hour.
"Mn, don't worry. I've made a lot today. You can eat slowly." Gu YuMian scratched the little snow leopard's chin. But the baby panda was very curious while holding his bottle. He stretched out to hold Gu YuMian's arm and asked Gu YuMian to feed him.
What could Gu YuMian do? Who could resist the coquetry from the little Tangyuan? He patted his head and cut a small piece of Dongpo pork to feed the baby panda against the angry sight of the little snow leopard.
"Chi!"
A moment later, little Tangyuan opened his eyes and rolled onto his white belly on the spot to show that it was delicious. Gu YuMian scraped his nose and said, "Okay, YuanYuan should drink your milk. Be careful not to upset your stomach."
In addition to Dongpo pork as the main course, Gu YuMian also served a dish of stir-friedbamboo shoots. 2 This dish was easy to make. Wash the bamboo, slice it, and blanch it. Put it in cold water immediately and then dry it. Heat it in olive oil, add onion and a little salt and stir fry the bamboo directly, but the taste was exquisite.
The characteristics of stir-fried bamboo were fresh and salty, light, and refreshing. After eating the Dongpo meat that had a strong sweet, soft, and savory taste, and then tasting a refreshing, light but tasty fried bamboo—the taste was absolutely unique.
Gu YuMian thought it was very delicious, and the repercussions of the barrage were very good. The little snow leopard even unconsciously scratched his head under Gu YuMian's palm.
[Vivian: The Dongpo meat is really delicious! However, I realized that the anchor set up the privacy protection settings for little Tangyuan. Up to now, we still don't know what kind of animal little Tangyuan is.]
[Girl Star: It's so cute that two fluffy babies compete for favor. 555 I'm rusty. I don't know if I should envy MianMian, Xue Tuan, and Tangyuan.]
[Lights up Drunk: The taste of stir-fried shredded bamboo shoots is excellent, and it's not only delicious but also inexplicably comfortable as a whole!]
It was just before nightfall. In the late evening, the soft twilight sprinkled on the floor from the ceiling window. Gu YuMian was holding the snow leopard in his arms, and the baby panda was lying on his lap, holding the milk bottle and drinking the milk.
The background sound of the news on the TV light screen was noisy and lively. In the kitchen, the sound of stewed pork ribs soup with kelp 3 as it steamed felt like every scene in the house.
"YuanYuan rolled on the ground again today? There's a lot of grey on you." Gu YuMian whispered.
The little snow leopard glimpsed at the little Tangyuan, while the baby panda stretched out his paws to touch his ears. Gu YuMian knew that he couldn't understand, but he thought that his cubs were lovely in every word and deed, and he couldn't help laughing. As he fed the snow leopard dinner, he took a small brush to help the baby panda brush the dust and knotted hair on his body, and then talked about the exciting things he came across recently and the small things in his life.
It was an ordinary scene that most people had experienced.
But somehow people couldn't open their eyes.
From the first angle view, the baby panda could hear all kinds of hot and noisy sounds, news broadcasts, cicadas, and Gu YuMian's steady breath. The mellow smell of the pork ribs soup with kelp was at the tip of his nose. On this pleasant summer evening, the rays of the setting sun that fell on his body were warm and gentle.
The hand of the young man holding the small brush was soothing. The soft brush felt like a light wind, a ray of which blew through the skin.
At this time, the audience had reached 700,000, but even with so many people, it was not noisy.
—Everyone was quiet.
The breath and heartbeat sank into the fireworks and night of this world, the satisfaction and sleepiness after a meal climbed up the nerve endings, a lot of sounds were faintly heard in the ear before fading one by one, leaving only a comfortable silence at last.
"…"
—It was one thing in the eyes of the audience, another in the eyes of professionals like Sugar Sugar and Keri.
"… It's great to be able to control the field and master the rhythm."
In addition to professional skills, it was also essential to be an anchor with several hidden abilities. For example, having the skills of crisis management, such as control and so on.
Gu YuMian's live broadcast seemed to be slow in pace and uncomplicated in content. It was just cooking, eating, and chatting. But in fact, the Dongpo pork belly at the beginning attracted a small peak. At this time, the rapid growth period of the audience's barrage, and the audience's mood was extremely warm.
But just like the bowstring drawn too tight, it was not good to keep the mood in the studio fast-paced. The audience would soon feel tired. The wisest thing to do was to leave the audience with the content they wanted to follow, and the rhythm should be relaxed.
It was easier said than done, but Gu YuMian achieved it. He could let it go and get it back.
And now, it was ending.
From the official backstage of Starry Sky, they could see Gu YuMian's data, which was almost against the sky — even in this stage of live broadcasting, which could be called the 'transition,' his audience number was still snowballing, and what's more, the audience retention rate—
Up to 87%.
Whether it was because of curiosity, boredom, mistakes, or any other reasons, regardless of the professional race of men, women, old and young, nearly ninety percent of the people chose to stay.
The dinner was coming to an end.
"After dinner later, TuanTuan and YuanYuan will go to the yard to help me take down the sun-dried quilt," Gu YuMian said, holding two cubs. "There will be snacks later… Let me see. How about yogurt, sweet potato puree, and soymilk?"
Because it was a little cold at night, Gu YuMian was afraid the original plan for the yogurt ice-cream would be bad for health, so he replaced it. It was just that today's dinner was also Chinese food. It was okay to have another Chinese dessert as a night snack.
"By the way, let's sleep on the floor in the sunroom for Children's Day tonight, eh?"
There was floor to ceiling windows on both sides of the sunroom. The ceiling was also transparent. At night, they could directly see the stars in the sky.
He didn't know why, but it gave Gu YuMian a sense of freedom and reminded him of his childhood. Going to a friend's house, and a few people laying on the floor with pillows, eating snacks, playing games, watching movies, and talking about topics that were rarely talked about. Sleeping on the floor with a soft sun quilt to look at the stars, Gu YuMian thought he would see the elves on the ground.
He was not alone in this feeling, and the response of the barrage was extremely warm.
[I can lay on the floor! There's a feeling of whispering with my little sister back when I was a girl.]
[Ah, although I still don't know what yogurt, sweet potato puree, and soymilk are, I blow them up in advance.]
[I'm looking forward to spending this evening with MianMian = 3 =]
"…"
The other side.
At the same time, the most active Entertainment Forum in the Lower Urban District of Capital Star also held several posts to discuss the new round.
As one of the most cutting-edge and emerging human anchors, Gu YuMian soon got a special post, with a misleading title: [A new human anchor, live cooking chat, a slow pace, 40 minutes now the audience is close to 400,000? This is a fake feed.]
Guess with your fingers; it must be a troll in an anonymous forum. As for the purpose, it didn't need to be said that it was to discredit Gu YuMian's reputation and trample on his sudden popularity. However—
It was counterproductive.
[1L: Last year, government officials rectified the live broadcast market. After checking all kinds of data swiping and improper content, I hope you know [link], the system will automatically clear the false data, once every three minutes.]
For such a big thing, Starry Sky had already sent people to guard the media to refute the rumors the first time.
But after dispelling the rumors, the whole building's direction was changed.
[2L: There's no fake data now. How can an anchor be slow? It's a human. It's forty minutes and four hundred thousand viewers? This is exploding?! I'll go to watch it.]
[3L: I'll go too. I'll come back later]
[4L: Me too.]
…
So more traffic was introduced into the live broadcast from the forum. Most people who were curious and went to look never came back to repost their responses.
They were all locked up in the studio and didn't come back.
[256L, Fuck!! Immortal! Thank you for letting me see such a fairy! Although I know, you are a troll, but still want to thank you! wuwuwu!]
Only a few people come back to leave comments like this, which made people confused. At the same time, it continued to attract a large number of curious viewers to enter the live room to start a new cycle.
Original Poster: "…" Fuck.
It was seven o'clock in the evening. The number of real-time viewers in Gu YuMian live room was now 1.02 million, ranking seventh in the real-time popularity of living quarters. This set a new record for the fastest growth of a Starry Sky broadcaster.
At the same time, because the popularity was high enough and all indicators were up to standard, the system automatically assigned the recommended position to Gu YuMian — the 'Star Anchor' with the most considerable exposure rate in the whole living area. However, it was not on the home page.
… The second round of skyrocketing started with the popularity of the studio.
Gu YuMian's quilts were in the yard. Without support, they were directly used as mats. The quilts were thin, and the baby snow leopard and baby panda had more than enough strength to carry them. They could always eat more later.
What's more, two fluffy cubs with lotus leaves on their heads were walking home with quilts. They looked so cute.
… If you ignored that snow leopard occasionally pushed Tangyuan to sit on the ground when Gu YuMian didn't pay attention.
Gu YuMian, "…"
"TuanTuan, YuanYuan, you have worked hard," He squatted down to take the quilt, rubbed the small heads one by one, and picked them up together. "Let's make yogurt, sweet potato puree, and soymilk, and then bring them back to the sunroom and eat them while playing."
[Lemon Cat: Soymilk? What is it? I know yogurt and sweet potatoes, but it's the first time I heard that they could be put together? Fly rubbing hands, will it taste better than Dongpo meat before?]
"Yogurt and sweet potato puree is very simple," Gu YuMian smiled. "It's delicious, too. I like it very much."
As night fell, Gu YuMian turned on the warm yellow kitchen lamp. The baby panda was sitting on his usual chair, stretching out his claws to hold Gu YuMian's hand from time to time, while the little snow leopard lay lazily on Gu YuMian's shoulder, dozing off.
Gu YuMian steamed the sweet potatoes in the pot, then peeled them and pressed them into a paste. Gu YuMian chose yellow sweet potatoes with a wet, soft, and sweet texture. After being mashed into a puree, they showed an orange color and looked very delicate under the light. It was not difficult to imagine the taste of these sweet, soft, and waxy morsels.
After being pressed into a puree, he did not do anything else with it.
"It's okay to mix a little cheese and fruit in the sweet potato puree, or add strawberry and blueberry puree," Gu YuMian explained. "It will taste better, and it will be a surprise to eat."
[There's a family in the mine: I'm astonished now. I'm looking forward to it. orz]
[Anna Su: Gu YuMian, a man who waltzes on to my cute point and expectation point.]
What the audience said was so funny that Gu YuMian could not help bending his eyes.
It was really very simple to make sweet potato puree. After finishing it, he poured a layer of yogurt in and embellished it. Milk in the soft sweet potato puree was delicate and delicious.
Soymilk was a little more troublesome.
