After listening to Chen Zhe’s passionate remarks, everyone in the team was a little skeptical.

If it weren't for Chen Zhe who created a miracle of ratings, they might have laughed out loud on the spot.

Want to make a documentary into a popular phenomenon-level work?

Do you want to make money with a niche and unpopular type like documentaries?

Isn’t this a fantasy?

However, since these words were said by Chen Zhe, no one dared to question them. Only the deputy director Meng Xuehua asked weakly:

"Director Chen, since you are so confident in this documentary project, can I ask, what are you going to shoot for this documentary?"

Chen Zhe smiled brightly: "Food documentary."

"Food...documentary?" Meng Xuehua tilted her head, "Do you want to shoot the chef to cook?"

"It's not just the chef who cooks, I want to photograph the past and present of a dish - from the growth, picking, and obtaining ingredients until it is transported into the kitchen, cooked by the chef, and finally it is transported to the table...

As the saying goes, 'food is the most important thing for people', I think such a food documentary must be loved by everyone. As long as our production is excellent enough, this column will definitely be popular." Chen Zhe said.

"So that's the case..." Meng Xuehua nodded slightly, and the rest of the team also agreed.

In fact, there are many categories of documentaries, and food documentaries are also considered to be the most widely-received category among all documentaries.

If Chen Zhe could really do this food documentary well, maybe this show could really make money, or even become popular.

"Director Chen, what is the name of this show? Do you have any ideas?" Meng Xuehua asked.

"Some." Chen Zhe smiled and nodded, saying, "Just call it - "Life on the Bite of the Tongue."

"Life on the Bite of the Tongue?" Meng Xuehua repeated the name repeatedly, only to find that the name is both meaningful and catchy, and very down-to-earth. It is simply a wonderful name.

"That's called "Life on the Bite of the Tongue"!" Meng Xuehua immediately agreed.

...

After a few days of planning, Chen Zhe quickly determined the content of the first episode of "Life on the Bite of the Tongue".

Because the creativity of this documentary comes from another world's "Bite of the Tongue", Chen Zhe did not waste too many brain cells in his conception.

After confirming the recording content, Chen Zhe led the filming team to the primeval forest located in the southwest. The environment here is quite rich and surrounded by dense towering trees.

"Life on the Bite of the Tongue", the subtitle of the first issue is called "Gifts of Nature", which mainly explains the fresh and delicious natural ingredients in nature. The primeval forest in the southwest is such an excellent natural food library.

After coming to the virgin forest, Chen Zhe asked Meng Xuehua to contact the local guide, and the selection of guides was also very strict. This guide must be a person who has been wandering in the virgin forest for many years, and is very familiar with wild ingredients and knows how to cook.

Soon, Meng Xuehua found a suitable candidate. This candidate was a native of the Snow Mountain Tribe in the Southwest. His name was Nima. Brother Nima was in his early forties. He had dark skin, long hands and feet, and strong limbs. He was a good player in picking food in the deep mountains.

Under the leadership of Brother Nima, Chen Zhe and the filming team carried heavy machinery to the primeval forest, walking through the dense woods that covered the sky and sun, stepping on the muddy and slippery humus on the ground. At a certain moment, Chen Zhe seemed to have an illusion and felt that he had returned to the island where the wilderness survived.

It is not easy to shoot a high-quality ingredient. Chen Zhe and his filming team even had to travel more than ten kilometers to find it. Even the big brother Nima who led them couldn't help but say in broken Mandarin:

"Director Chen, your crew is really hard. They actually traveled a long distance to film me picking ingredients in the woods. I saw food programs on TV before, no one cared about where the ingredients grew. They were all filming ready-made goods bought from the vegetable market..."

After being told by Brother Damn, a photographer behind him couldn't help but complain:

"Yes, Director Chen, is it necessary for us to go to the deep mountains and forests to shoot ingredients? Are the audience interested in this kind of content?"

Because the photographer has to walk with a heavy machine on his back, he will inevitably feel depressed. Chen Zhe also understood the photographer's hard work and comforted patiently: "Thank you, Master, hold on for a while. Our "Bite of the Tongue" is about shooting things that other food programs cannot shoot.

The subtitle of the first issue is called "The Gift of Nature". If you don't go deep into nature, how can you find the Gift of Nature?"

"This..." the photographer sighed and said in compromise, "Okay, I'm just a video player and I don't know much about the control of the content. I've all listened to Director Chen."

"Thank you for your trust, I will definitely not let you all your hard work be wasted." Chen Zhe said.

Meng Xuehua next to him also cheered: "Yes, everyone must believe Director Chen. Do you know how much money you have won after the "Masked Singer King" program? 670,000! All of these are the credits of Director Chen.

As long as we follow Director Chen to do this "Life on the Bite of the Tongue", our bonus will definitely not be short!"

When the money was mentioned, the masters carrying the camera were indeed excited and were full of energy.

“What about the bonuses for “The Masked Singer”?”

"Director Chen is so awesome..."

"Follow Director Chen to have meat to eat!"

"I didn't catch up with the "Masked Singer King", this time "The Tip of the Tongue" is a good opportunity!"

"You must hold Director Chen's thighs tightly, so that you can eat meat. Even if you don't have meat, you can drink soup with it..."

Chen Zheze smiled and encouraged, "Come on, everyone, this time I promise not to let everyone work in vain."

...

After trekking in the dense primeval forest for two hours, the guide Nima finally led the filming team to find a precious ingredient - Matsutake.

This kind of matsutake grows at the roots of a big tree and changes very quickly. The freshest matsutake umbrella cover shrinks together. Once the umbrella cover is opened, this matsutake misses the best stage of consumption.

Because this time, Brother Dama led the filming team to rush along, and the large-scale action slowed down the pace, the Matsutake he found was not of good quality, and the umbrella cover had already shrunk.

Damn Brother Damn said with regret: "What a pity, this kind of matsutake is not the most delicious."

He then introduced: "Originally, there were a lot of matsutake mushrooms in the forest, but later the number of matsutake mushrooms gradually became smaller.

Matsutake could have been seen on the outside of the forest before, but now this high-quality ingredients can only be found in the depths of the tropical rainforest...

In addition, Matsutake is also closely related to rainfall. Last year there was more rain, there was more Matsutake in the forest. This year there was less precipitation, so there was less Matsutake in the woods."

Chen Zhe listened carefully to Brother Dama's introduction, and took this passage seriously as he shot it.

After Brother Nima picked enough Matsutake, everyone left this area and began to walk towards a higher terrain in the original forest.

In addition to Matsutake mushrooms, another precious ingredient growing in this lush forest - bamboo shoots.

High-quality winter bamboo shoots are now when they sprout. Fresh and tender winter bamboo shoots are one of the most delicious ingredients. They keep moving forward along the muddy and wet old road in the forest. Soon, Brother Dama found the location of the bamboo shoots with his rich experience.

Bamboo shoots are more cunning than matsutake mushrooms and often grow in deep soil.

When Chen Zhe and other program crew members saw nothing, Brother Dama had already keenly discovered the pointed small corners of bamboo shoots.

He carefully dug out the bamboo shoots, and Brother Dama smiled happily.

"The bamboo shoots are fresh! This bamboo shoot is very fresh! Some of them are eaten now, and the winter bamboo shoots are the best!"

Seeing the simple smile of Brother Nima, the filming people recorded all this with cameras. For these simple and hardworking foragers who live in nature, getting natural and the best ingredients is their simplest happiness.

And just as he saw Brother Nima showing a happy smile, the deputy director Meng Xuehua, who was standing next to Chen Zhe, seemed to suddenly appreciate Chen Zhe's intention to create.

"Capture the happiness and happiness of these working people in the process of obtaining ingredients? Use the camera to record the joy and satisfaction of three meals a day? Director Chen, you are indeed a genius, this idea is really excellent..." Meng Xuehua sighed silently in her heart.

...

Chen Zhe and the production team set off at four or five in the morning, but it was already one or two noon when they returned to the village.

The crew members of the filming team were so tired that their backs were sore and their backs were sore that they were dying.

Director Chen Zhe and Deputy Director Meng Xuehua were also quite tired, with dirty mud on their shoes and trousers legs.

But everyone’s work is far from over, and we still need to record the cooking process of matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.

Of course, freshly picked winter bamboo shoots and matsutake must be cooked as fast as possible, and they are not even available to nearby towns or hotels in the city.

If you delay for one more minute, the freshness of the two precious ingredients will be wasted, so Brother Dama started to process the ingredients directly on his chopping board, and cut the matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots with an old but still sharp kitchen knife.

"Zheng--!"

"Zheng--!"

"Zheng--!"

As the sound of the kitchen knife cutting open the matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots, Chen Zhe saw the beautiful cross-section of these precious ingredients.

The cross-section of winter bamboo shoots is crystal clear as a piece of beautiful jade, while the cross-section of Matsutake mushroom is snow-white, as if it is made of snow.

The camera was like taking a careful shot of Brother Nima cooking ingredients. The camera completely recorded these matsutake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots from where they originally grew to the dining table.

By around 2 o'clock noon, a sumptuous banquet of mountain delicacies was completely cooked, and the recording of the first issue of "Gifts of Nature" came to an end.
Chapter completed!