Chapter 323 Departure
"Hi everyone, this is Tara."

"I'm Zhao Yan. It's nice to see you all again. Did you miss us?"

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"Now we have left the mountain city and arrived in another city. Do you know where this is?"

"Yes, we came to Spring City. I heard that the environment here is like spring all year round and is very suitable for living. And most importantly, I heard that this is the first in Asia and the second in the world for flower trading market."

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Watching Park So-yeon's increasingly skilled opening, Huang Xu nodded slightly, with a satisfied smile on his face.

Compared to her unfamiliar state a few days ago when she was recording the pilot in Seoul, she has undergone tremendous changes now.

During the recording, my performance became more and more natural and relaxed.

Although it cannot be compared with those professional hosts, it is enough to meet the needs of program recording.

And it's not just her, the rest of Tara's team are also performing better and better.

They are now slowly finding their own personalities and starting to show them in the show.

At this moment, Tara and the others were chatting with each other in front of the camera according to their own personalities.

The few of them chatted freely for about ten minutes, basically talking about their nostalgia for the mountain city and their yearning for the spring city.

Seeing that they had run out of topics to talk about, Park So-yeon looked directly at Huang Xu opposite her.

"PD Jin, we've arrived in Chuncheng. Where should we go first?"

"You haven't given us any plans for the shoot yet."

"Oh~?"

"No shooting plans today?"

Park Ji-yeon and a few others followed Park So-yeon's words and began to attack Huang Xu in response to this matter.

This is also a request that Huang Xu made to them.

As long as they entered the filming stage, they tried not to stop talking.

Regardless of whether what you say is right or wrong, or what effect it can achieve, as long as you can speak, there will always be a shot.

The effects can be achieved slowly through practice, but if no one speaks up, it will be difficult for Huang Xu and the other production team members.

Therefore, although several people were attacking him, Huang Xu's expression was very happy when he looked at them.

"PD Kim, this is where you're wrong."

"We will follow you to shoot, you have to give us a subject."

"But now there is no theme, no plan, what do you want to do?"

"Are you asking us to figure it out on our own?"

"Or have you been slacking off these days and are not ready yet?"

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Listening to the criticism of him by several people, Huang Xu was not angry. Instead, he commented on their performance.

The one who performed the best first was actually Park Ji-yeon.

She always remembers her status as the youngest member and can act recklessly in anything.

The second is Lee Joo-ri.

She seems quiet and doesn't talk much.

But every sentence is on point and plays a catalytic role.

It can be said that half of the credit for the current lively situation is due to her exaggeration.

The performance of others was quite satisfactory.

However, Huang Xu was not angry. After all, everyone is good at different things, and they are not professional variety show hosts.

They just have to try their best.

Anyway, the highlights of their show are not the various interactions among them, but their looks and figures, as well as their reactions after seeing the various delicious foods and beautiful scenery of China.

They just need to make sure the scene isn't too cold or awkward, then there won't be any big problems.

Huang Xu looked at the few people who were at a loss for words after criticizing him for two or three minutes, then took out a task card and handed it to them.

"what is this?"

Several people looked at the task card handed over by Huang Xu and seemed very curious.

Why is the process different from before in the mountain city?

Huang Xu looked at the puzzled people and gave an explanation.

"The mountain city is your first stop in China. It is for you to adapt. Now you have been here for several days and have gradually adapted to life in China."

"In the next show, your challenge will officially begin."

"Nani?"

"why?"

"Before the show started, didn't you say that our trip was purely for eating and having fun?"

"Why is there such a challenge?"

After hearing Huang Xu's words, the atmosphere became lively again.

However, this time they did not make a fuss for too long. Under the organization of Park So-yeon, they opened the task cards given to them by Huang Xu.

But after they saw the content clearly, they were just stunned.

Especially Park Ji-yeon, relying on her own personality, directly picked up the card and shouted at Huang Xu.

"PD Jin, you're going too far, aren't you?"

“Why do you have to write the content of the card in Chinese?”

"Don't you know I don't know Chinese characters?"

"Is it possible that you just don't know him?"

Huang Xu did not give Park Ji-yeon any face this time and spoke directly to her.

"I remember that the company arranged Chinese courses for you a month ago so that you could learn Chinese."

"Now you can't understand, can you blame me?"

"Ah~~, you are so bold to say that."

After hearing Huang Xu's words, Park Ji-yeon became even more angry.

“Is Chinese so easy to learn?”

"I have been studying for a month now, and I have only learned simple daily expressions. How can I possibly recognize these Chinese characters?"

"Yes, yes, Chinese is really difficult. How can we understand everything in just one month?"

"That's right. We've only been studying for a month. How is it possible that we know so many Chinese characters?"

At this time, Park Hyomin and Ham Eunjung also followed Park Ji-yeon's words and began to attack Huang Xu.

Huang Xu watched their performance without any refutation or intention to pay attention to them.

After a while of making a fuss, they saw that Huang Xu had no intention of responding, so they had to stop and then gritted their teeth and started studying the task cards.

"I know this word. This is what we mean."

"Then there is this word, which means need." "This is nation"

"This is."

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Although they had only studied for about a month, with their joint efforts, they spent five or six minutes and finally slowly guessed the content on the card.

"Our mission is to buy local ethnic costumes and then check in and take photos at specific locations, right?"

"Yes, congratulations."

Huang Xu looked at the smug expressions on their faces and clapped his hands at them to express his encouragement and praise.

Then he asked the writer to hand over the cash he had prepared.

"This is the money for your transportation and shopping this afternoon. Please keep up the good work."

"Ah~~?"

"Is this gone?"

“Where do we go to buy it?”

"You'll need to find out for yourself."

After Huang Xu finished speaking, he stopped talking and even stepped aside from where they were standing.

Seeing this situation, Tara and the others frowned, and it was obvious that they were not very satisfied with Huang Xu's arrangement.

The reason is just as I said, they have only been learning Chinese for a month.

However, Chinese, as one of the most difficult languages ​​to learn in the world, is not that easy to learn.

It was already very rare that they were able to guess the content on the card by guessing.

Now they are asked to find out where to buy clothes by themselves, and then check in and take photos at specific places.

This is really making things difficult for them.

But seeing that Huang Xu had already made his attitude clear and asked them to rely on their own efforts, they could only look at their captain Park So Yeon.

Among the few people, Park So-yeon is the one with the best Chinese proficiency.

And a few people were just able to recognize the contents on the task card, most of them thanks to Park So-yeon.

So they looked directly at Park So-yeon, the hidden academic master who also had the best Chinese proficiency among them.

They placed all their hopes on Park So-yeon.

However, Park So-yeon felt a little guilty at this moment as everyone was staring at her.

She knows herself well. She is just an idol, an ordinary person, not a top student.

The reason why she was able to recognize so many Chinese characters was mainly because she was more attentive and serious than other people when she was studying before.

Now that I'm suddenly being watched by several people and their hopes are placed on me, I feel a little guilty.

However, looking at the hopeful eyes of his teammates, he could only take a deep breath and forced himself to nod.

"Let's go, I don't believe we won't be able to find the place."

Then he led everyone and began to look for passers-by for help in his poor Chinese.

Huang Xu, along with the program crew, followed them all the time, watching their actions and ensuring their safety.

To be honest, the performance of these people exceeded Huang Xu's imagination.

According to Huang Xu's plan, they should make a lot of jokes or encounter some difficulties.

But the reality is that these girls relied on their outstanding looks and their foreign identities to get help from the young man.

After seeing Tara and the others, he showed great enthusiasm.

Although the language communication was not smooth due to the low Chinese proficiency of the few people, the young man quickly understood their intentions through gestures and the task cards in their hands.

Of course, more importantly, behind them, there was a large group carrying various recording equipment, which let him know that Tara and others were now recording a program.

So he did not show any impatience and explained to several people very patiently.

And after seeing that several people really couldn't understand, he took out a piece of paper and marked in detail the addresses they needed to go to on their task cards.

In this way, Tara and her friends only need to hand the card to the driver and they can reach their destination directly.

After several people received the cards with the address on them, they all showed expressions of being saved on their faces.

Then he looked at the camera and Huang Xu behind the camera provocatively, and then several people started to hail a taxi.

Then the group split into two cars and came to a local commercial street selling local clothing.

After arriving at the destination, the few people were shocked by the scale of the place before they even entered.

Because this is a street that is basically full of shops selling various ethnic costumes.

As a well-known tourist city, although it is only 2013 now, there are not as many short video platforms as in later generations to publish photos and videos.

But now, many people, after coming here, will buy or rent a few sets of ethnic costumes and take photos as souvenirs.

So a few people stood at the street corner, looking at the bustling crowd inside, and were shocked by the clothes of different colors and styles on the people.

Originally, they thought that the traditional ethnic clothing Huang Xu mentioned would be like Korean hanbok, with only a few styles, and they only needed to choose different colors and materials.

But when they got here, they discovered that there were so many styles of clothes.

And most importantly, from the fact that these clothes have basically no connection in style, it can be seen that they belong to different ethnic groups.

At this time, it was Huang Xu's turn to appear on the stage.

"Chuncheng is located in Yunnan Province, on the southwestern border of China. It has a total of 25 ethnic minorities, making it the province with the most ethnic groups in China."

"Among the ethnic minorities currently living here, the largest number is the Yi people, who number about five million, accounting for more than half of the total Yi population in China."

"The next is the Bai people. Almost all the Bai people in China live here."

"Then there are the Hani, Dai and Zhuang peoples."

Following Huang Xu's introduction, everyone at Tara showed surprised expressions.

“Why are there so many ethnic groups here?”

“And why are they still a minority when there are tens of millions of people?”

"Of course it's because, compared with the Han population, the numbers of these ethnic groups can only be considered minorities."

"And China has 56 ethnic groups, and the ones you saw today are less than half of them."

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After Huang Xu briefly explained to a few people, he took out another pile of cards and continued to speak to them.

"Next, please come and draw your own pictures. You will need to purchase clothing styles later."

"No."

Following Huang Xu's words, Tara and the others felt as if the sky had fallen.

When they first learned that there were so many ethnic groups here and that each ethnic group had different clothes, they had a bad feeling.

Now it has come true.

If buying clothes is an elementary task that anyone with hands can do, then asking them to buy clothes of a designated ethnic group is not that easy.

There are so many nationalities and so many different styles now, let alone them, even many locals may not be able to distinguish them clearly.

Especially their Chinese is still at the beginner level.

(End of this chapter)