Chapter 1495 - 579: The Cat Is Fascinated by Human Babies! Plans for a Food Documentary!

Chapter 1495: Chapter 579: The Cat Is Fascinated by Human Babies! Plans for a Food Documentary!

Especially seeing Shen Jiayue always by its side, it mewed happily, jumped to the top of the tree, and used its paws to knock down several red dates that were left on the branches and had long since dried out.

"You’re amazing, darling! You even know how to get dates for mommy to eat. Come down, it’s too dangerous up there."

Dundun jumped down from the tree and ran to the rockery to play for a while.

After the people in the restaurant finished their lunch, they brewed some tea and chatted for almost an hour before leaving separately.

Although it was the weekend, almost everyone was quite busy. This is the difficulty of being a doctor—the higher the medical skill, the less personal time you have.

Lin Xu drove back to the shop.

As soon as he entered, Dundun excitedly jumped into Shu Yun’s arms while meowing.

"You’re so happy, darling! Did you have something delicious to eat today?"

Shen Jiayue said:

"Didn’t really eat anything, just focused on observing my niece. It seems to really like the look of human babies. Unfortunately, the little girl is only two months old. When she gets older, she can play with Dundun."

Lin Xu took a round in the back kitchen, picked up two boxes of snacks, and drove to the Huixuan Building.

Upstairs, Chen Yan and a few others were there, and Zeng Xiaoqi was a bit curious:

"Boss Lin, is the boss’s cousin-in-law really from CCTV? Not just producing outsourced programs for CCTV?"

After the commercialization of television stations, many programs started to be outsourced, even CCTV is not immune to this trend. Some entertainment and variety shows are produced by outsourcing.

The television station is only responsible for broadcasting and revenue sharing.

If it’s someone like that, then there can’t be any collaboration, because the TV station takes the big share, and the contractor takes the small share. Joyful Media might not even get a sip of the soup.

Lin Xu said:

"He used to be in the Comprehensive Channel, now he’s been transferred to the Documentary Channel as a minor leader, preparing a food program, intending to recapture the glory brought by ’A Bite of China.’ Specifically, you all can discuss it later."

Lin Xu does not get involved in operations, he just plays a leading role.

Chen Yan knew Luo Jiayao, on the day of Lin Xu’s wedding, she even stuffed a red envelope into the arms of the baby held by Shi Wenqing.

But knowing is one thing, she hadn’t expected that he was from CCTV.

Young people gathered together don’t like to meddle, but if it were middle-aged women, they could uncover all the details within five minutes.

Zeng Xiaoqi opened the snack box, took out a piece of Black Sugar Shaqima, and planned collaboration while eating.

"It’s best to have two programs, one as a daily broadcast food tutorial. Although the Documentary Channel’s ratings are not high, as long as it’s done, it will surely boost the ratings, and then, on this basis, shoot a food documentary."

Chen Yan quite agreed with this:

"That’s possible, but the documentary cannot be like the overly emotional storytelling in ’A Bite of China,’ where food is just an embellishment—there are too many complaints. If we’re going to do it, we should return to the essence of the documentary—recording the changes and developments of food as an observer, that’s all."

The two were really into the conversation, but Chen Yuanyuan was more concerned about the benefits:

"What about the program’s naming rights, how will that be handled? CCTV isn’t going to give that to us, right?"

Dou Wenjing said:

"We can negotiate a revenue share. How much specifically depends on the cousin-in-law’s influence in the Documentary Channel. If he has decision-making power, we’ll make it our focus for the year. If his influence is small, we’ll treat it as a distribution channel."

The company has accumulated so many video scripts, after some revision of the opening and ending, they can be broadcast on TV.

Soon, Luo Jiayao drove to the Huixuan Building downstairs.

Lin Xu and Chen Yan went downstairs to greet him, and then they started chatting in the office.

Today is the weekend, no one is working at the company, so trivial errands fell to the two general managers.

Chen Yuanyuan made a pot of tea, and Dou Wenjing went to the kitchen shooting area to get some small plates. After washing them, she put the snacks Lin Xu brought on them.

As for Zeng Xiaoqi, she prepared a lot of materials, planning to have a good discussion with Luo Jiayao.

This is her specialty, and she is also the key figure in this cooperation talk.

When Luo Jiayao came upstairs, Chen Yan specifically took him to the food shooting area to have a look around, letting him see the professionalism of Joyful Media in making food programs.

"Wow, such a big kitchen! You guys really go all out for making programs."

Although CCTV can easily do setups like this, it’s usually covered with advertising logos all over the place—range hoods, woks, stoves, full kitchens, and so on.

These are the old methods of making TV programs in the past.

It’s rare to see someone fund building a kitchen themselves.

After looking around, Luo Jiayao sat down and started talking with Zeng Xiaoqi about specific cooperation projects.

Lin Xu did not participate, sitting on the sofa on the side, engrossed in playing games on his phone.

For him, being a chef on the screen is fine, but discussing the specific process of making a program is a bit beyond his scope.

It’s better to leave professional matters to professionals.

Moreover, Zeng Xiaoqi has been working in a TV station for several years and is quite familiar with the system’s norms.

While playing, Lin Xu suddenly remembered the matter of making Zeng Gao and sent a message to Che Zai:

"Find a big basin, soak twenty pounds of long glutinous rice, and add more water, then soak five pounds of red kidney beans. Tomorrow, I’ll make a dessert snack that Shanxi people love to eat."

The ingredients for Zeng Gao are simple, just long glutinous rice with red dates and honey dates. Lin Xu adds red kidney beans mainly to enrich the texture.

Glutinous rice is divided into two types: round glutinous rice and long glutinous rice. Relatively speaking, long glutinous rice is stickier and tastes better, while round glutinous rice is more suitable for secondary processing, like rice cakes or sticky rice cakes.