Participated in a love variety show and was forced to debut and rise! /You are a variety artist

Not only Li Yichen, Qin Xiaoyue and Ye Liwei, but also Wang Gaoming and others from the program team responded.

"Oh, okay, okay, let's go this way... Na, Na... the guest has been picked up."

Kang Yong shouted twice into the room, then turned around and explained: "My wife, Cheng Na, is also my boss."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed.

"Hey, here we come."

Before he finished speaking, a woman in smart clothing appeared in front, with a smile on her weathered face: "Welcome, welcome, I'm making coffee, everyone, come and get a cup and have a taste."

The house is filled with various coffee utensils.

"This is a simple cupping room we specially built to make it easy to brew a cup immediately after the coffee beans come out."

Cheng Na gave a brief introduction and said apologetically: "I don't have a place to sit. I'm sorry. Usually there are rarely so many people here at the same time."

"It's okay, it's the same if we drink standing up."

Li Yichen took a deep breath. This cupping room was filled with the delicious aroma of coffee from a well-known coffee shop. He looked at the coffee equipment one by one. He recognized a few of them and didn't recognize most of them.

On the south wall of the cupping room, cabinets are filled with various trophies and certificates.

Li Yichen looked closer and exclaimed: "Nanwu Province Green Bean Competition, last year's washing group, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, all included!"

As Li Yichen exclaimed, the photographer carried the camera to the award certificate and took a close-up.

"Haha, the weather was good last year, so I was relatively lucky."

Cheng Na was in a good mood after being praised, and beckoned: "Host Li, come and try this cup, Geisha, the winner of LOD last year."

"Biao Wang Geisha, then I will definitely try it."

LOD is one of Colombia's top coffee quality competitions. Last year's auction price of Gesha, the winner, exceeded 8000 per catty.

Li Yichen has been coveting it for a long time and has been reluctant to buy it.

The cup made by Cheng Na is about 300 ml, and the cost is close to 300 yuan.

When I took the coffee, the first thing I smelled was a very strong orange flavor. After a brief sip, in addition to the orange flavor, I could also feel a bit of lemon acidity. The taste was smooth and after drinking it, I felt sweetness in my teeth.

"As expected of the King of Biao. It's really different from the coffee I usually drink."

"Oh, let me try it."

Wang Gaoming couldn't wait to take a sip, feeling that it was a bit better than the cup in his hand. He couldn't help but wonder: "Mrs. Boss, what is this cup in my hand?"

"Director Wang's cup is cold-shock washed White Mountain Geisha." Cheng Na smiled: "It's also from Colombia, but the production area is different. White Mountain Manor experiments with many new ideas every year, and it has always been the learning goal of our manor."

Li Yichen curiously took the coffee cup from Wang Gaoming's hand. It smelled of obvious lemon aroma and tasted very round and full, which was also very good. However, in comparison, his cup of Wang Guixia tasted better, after all, it was expensive.

"Give it back to you."

Wang Gaoming: "..."

……

After tasting the coffee, Kang Yong and Cheng Na formally conducted pre-contracting on-the-job training for Li Yichen, Qin Xiaoyue and Ye Liwei.

The group of people came to the coffee garden in front of the coffee manor, where there were patches of coffee trees scattered in perfect order.

The coffee tree has small five-petal white flowers that exude a slight aroma of jasmine tea.

There are also small red and green fruits hanging on the tree.

“Coffee fruits do not ripen at the same time. Now one batch matures in one or two days, and another batch matures in one or two days. They are picked as they ripen.”

"For novices like us, is there anything we need to pay attention to when picking?" Li Yichen asked.

"What should I pay attention to? We all pick it by hand here. You see, like this, just twist your thumb and index finger and it comes off."

Cheng Na skillfully demonstrated the hand-picking method, and then added: "The coffee tree was delicate before it matured. Now that it is mature and rough, treat it casually.

We have visited coffee estates in Brazil before. There are estates there that specialize in producing low-grade coffee. In order to save labor, they will directly scrape the fruits from the entire branch during harvesting. Or estates with better terrain conditions will also use The harvester automatically picks fresh fruits.

One of the most violent harvesting methods we have ever seen is to remove all the leaves, flowers, mature and green fruits from the entire coffee tree at once, leaving only the bare coffee tree. Such a coffee tree , it will take at least two years to return to normal production.

So, don’t be too nervous, it’s okay, we are already very gentle. "

"That puts us at ease."

Li Yichen, Qin Xiaoyue and Ye Liwei breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Haha, don't worry. When our family started growing coffee, we didn't know anything about it. We just heard other people say that growing this small bean can make money, so we started growing it."

"Then what? Is it done?"

"Nowhere, we lost all our money. None of the trees we planted in the first batch bore fruit." Cheng Na recalled: "The two of us became the joke of the whole village. At that time, I really wanted to die. Yes.

Fortunately, my parents, his parents, and his parents all supported us and helped us survive. The people behind the scenes helped us raise more money.

At that time, I thought, when I plant the seeds again, I can’t fail, and I can’t fail.

I searched everywhere for information, studied, and inspected, and it took about a year before I dared to start planting. "

"Did it happen that time?"

"That's right. But growing beans has just begun. At that time, the cost of harvesting fresh fruits was about 16 yuan per kilogram, and the average price we sold raw beans was [-] yuan.

How many kilograms of fresh fruit produce one kilogram of green beans?

6 kg.

After working hard for a year, in the end, I still had no money to make.

At that time, there was no concept of making specialty coffee, so I just thought that I should study hard, raise it well, and sell more fruit to make money. "

"This journey has not been easy."

“It’s not easy. Some people on the Internet keep saying that we don’t have good coffee here and it’s not as good as abroad.

Do they really know what good coffee is?

It takes six years for Geisha to bear fruit. During these six years, you can't make a penny, and you have to keep adding money. After six years, the yield will only be one-third of that of Katim. A quarter, if the seedlings are not taken care of properly and get various diseases, several years of investment will be wasted. "

“It’s actually not easy to make a cup of delicious specialty coffee.”

Li Yichen sighed: "You must survive before you can talk about your ideals."

"Yes, you must survive first, then you can have the present."

Cheng Na took Kang Yong's hand and said, "The total output of our various coffee gardens last year was 87 tons, and this year it is estimated to be close to [-] tons."

"congratulations."

"Haha, thank you, thank you.

We have experts, peers, baristas, roasters, and cuppers from all over the world here every year to exchange new ideas or customize coffee beans.

In recent years, we have also begun to use a few acres of land to try growing several varieties of Geisha.

The planting land of our manor is distributed between 1000 and 2000 meters above sea level. 2000 meters is the snow line. The highest land is at an altitude of 1900. It can be said that it is planted at the extreme position. Geisha species. If you are interested, I can drive you up and have a look later. "

"Okay, then it's up to you."

Li Yichen showed great interest in coffee-related things, not because he was procrastinating and didn't want to pick avocados to pay off his debts.

Chapter 405 "The House in the Village" Pilot Film

After the three of them finished the training, they tried to pick a small basket of coffee beans to practice their skills. When they returned to the yard where they lived, Taiyang was almost off work.

Since they accidentally had lunch at the coffee manor at noon, the program team now requires them to make up for it with dinner.

"Oh!"

Ye Liwei's broadcast voice was full of momentum, and she split an ugly piece of firewood in front of her with a "swish". During the gap between picking up firewood, she changed to a clip sound, complaining in a low voice that the rules set by the program team were unreasonable: "Hey, who would eat twice in one night? It's not us."

"Sister Ye, we can have dinner and a midnight snack."

"Yes, sister Qin, you are a bit smart."

"hey-hey."

Qin Xiaoyue smiled naively and watched Ye Liwei's gradually becoming more proficient in chopping firewood. A sense of pride arose spontaneously. Ye Liwei was able to master chopping firewood in just two days. This was taught by her step by step: "Sister Ye, come on, as long as you continue chopping. Two pieces is enough.”

Ye Liwei: (?_?)

Qin Xiaoyue: O(∩_∩)O

Li Yichen, who was chopping vegetables in the kitchen, looked through the window and noticed Ye Liwei's chopping of firewood in one go: "Li Wei's chopping is probably one-eighty-eighth of my skill."

Wang Gaoming sneered: "One in 88? How did you calculate it? You seem to be doing it a lot, right?"

"When?! Don't talk nonsense. Xiaoyue was all taught by me."

"I'll play it back."

"...I feel like today's kitchen knife is particularly easy to use."

"what."

Wang Gaoming sneered again, turned around and left the kitchen, showing a soft and hard state.

Without Wang Gaoming's interruption, Li Yichen cut vegetables a little faster.

The main thing is that there are only vegetables to cut, so it’s not difficult.

So far, they have owed the program team a huge sum of 200 yuan, and they really don't dare to increase their debt until new income comes in.

So for the last two meals in Dingpei Village, Li Yichen decided to focus on green and healthy meals.

late at night.

After Qin Xiaoyue and Ye Liwei finished their supper and completed their personal interviews, they left the village overnight with their respective agent teams.

Li Yichen slept another night, and the next morning he went to Lin Province with his assistants to participate in a new product promotion event for Armani cosmetics to perform his duties as a spokesperson.

……

In the evening in the lobby on the first floor of Dongchuan TV Station, you can still see people coming and going with coffee cups in their hands.

Especially those dark circles as thick as splashed ink. Most of them are precious editing and post-production work of various program groups. Just after the last all-nighter, they come out to look for food for a while like a ghost, and then go back to start the next all-nighter.

"Director Wang."