Chapter 419 415. Ma Zhitao's unexpected discovery
"September 23? A performance outside?" Director Zhang was puzzled for a moment, then immediately said with surprise, "Did you, Mr. Luo, help the troupe get a performance? No, it's called a commercial performance now. Thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much."

You're overthinking it.

Luo Yihang shook his head. "It's not a commercial performance, it's a small outdoor performance. Let me tell you from the beginning."

Luo Yihang briefly talked about the city's plan to develop tourism and hold a celebration event.

It will include content presentation and promotion in multiple dimensions such as food, specialties, culture, etc.

Among them, the Guoguo Opera, as a national intangible cultural heritage, needs to play an important role in the cultural sector.

These are Secretary Wang’s exact words today, they are very profound.

To translate it, it means that big things are about to happen and it's time to get out and work.

"The exact details have not been finalized yet. The date will start from the Harvest Festival on September 23, and last for three days before and after, or until National Day."

"It's an outdoor performance. Because there are other art forms, the time given to the Gugu opera won't be too long. Each show is about 10 to 20 minutes, and there are about two or three shows a day."

"There are still more than two months left. Time is tight and the task is heavy. Captain Zhang, you need to prepare in advance."

Luo Yihang said finally.

It's mainly a matter of time.

So Luo Yihang got the confirmation today and he was really going to do it.

Come and notify the troupe to prepare.

Captain Zhang naturally had no objection to this. He accepted the task and waited for arrangements.

Time doesn't matter.

"We have a lot of repertoire in our opera that is suitable for performance in the big market. It is lively, short and concise. If we pick a few scenes to rehearse intensively, two months will definitely be enough."

Daji...well, it seems to be about the same.

Speaking of it, this kind of place where you can eat, play, watch plays and buy things, isn’t it just a big fair?

At most it's an enlarged version.

This is a good idea. If it is done well, it can be continued and a big market can be held every weekend.

Usually I make a small one to take care of the locals and surrounding areas.

Hold a big event during festivals to attract visitors from all over the world.

Director Zhang was also very happy. Although no money was mentioned for this performance, it looked like it would be a big deal. With the city's publicity, maybe they could attract a few people to the theater.

He obviously didn't believe that the "indecent" videos being filmed nowadays would be of any use.

Since they were talking about attracting audiences to the theater, Luo Yihang asked casually, "Captain Zhang, why didn't we use the ticketing website to watch our troupe's performance? Can we only buy tickets on site?"

Head Zhang smiled bitterly, "I thought about getting one, but when I asked, I found out that there was a service fee. There aren't many people watching here, so we can't sell many tickets, and it's not enough to pay them. In addition, we need to get a ticket machine and connect it to some system. So we didn't do it."

It seems so. In the theater, people still use torn paper strips as tickets for the performance.

Asking them to set up a system to manage ticketing online and offline, and add a ticket machine or something, would be another expense.

"That won't do. We have to do it. Otherwise, tourists won't know when the show will start, who will be there, and they'll come all the way here and find that there are no tickets. That's a shame."

After Luo Yihang finished speaking, he saw that Director Zhang was about to frown again, so he waved his hand at him and said, "I'll take this opportunity to report it to the city government. Since we are all on the literary and artistic front, we can organize a performance with the drama troupe and the opera troupe and hold it together."

Since we are developing tourism, tourists cannot just eat and drink when they come, they also need to be exposed to art.

Various performance groups in the city work together to serve tourists.

But the Gugu Theatre doesn’t even have a ticketing network, which is very inconvenient.

Anyway, there is not much money. If the city thinks it is feasible, they can do it together.

If you don't want to mess with Luo Yihang, you can just pay for it yourself.
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Come out from Captain Zhang.

Luo Yihang walked around the theater and took another look.

Damn, this is really a trick, even the male courtesan has come out...

Stimulate!

Get away from the troupe immediately.

Luo Yihang went to the Municipal Party Committee again and talked to Secretary Cao about the "big fair" and "artistic influence".

Secretary Wang has been very busy recently, and has been in meetings all the time. He only meets Luo Yihang in the morning when he has time. It's the same with Secretary Cao for such a small matter.

By the way, I also had lunch at the Municipal Party Committee.

In the afternoon, Luo Yihang went to Qiangwa's place again. There was nothing serious to do, he just went there to chat.

As a result, I happened to meet Ma Zhitao at the food factory. He came out of the workshop holding a jar and was heading towards the testing room.

"Hey? Expert Ma, why are you here?" Luo Yihang shouted.

Ma Zhitao turned around and saw Luo Yihang, and he also shouted in reply: "I came here to extract something."

One is at the gate and the other is at the workshop entrance, they are far apart.

Luo Yihang said "oh" and was about to leave.

But Ma Zhitao stopped him and said, "Boss, it's a good thing that you are here. I think I found a new thing that should be very useful, but I don't know what it can do specifically."

That's what I said.

Luo Yihang became curious and did not go into the office building to look for Qiangwa. He turned around and walked quickly to catch up with Ma Zhitao.

Asked: "What is it?"

Ma Zhitao raised the jar in his hand and said, "This is what I just extracted from the mushrooms. These are the mushrooms that you asked me to grow in the fruit fungus bag."

Luo Yihang took the jar and took a look. It contained small yellow crystalline particles.

"seasoning?"

Ma Zhitao nodded, "It should be considered as a flavor enhancer in seasoning."

As he spoke, he took out a ziplock bag from his pocket, which was filled with dark brown powder.

"This is the original version, dried mushroom powder, which is the mushrooms grown in fruit mushroom bags and dried and ground into powder. I want to see what ingredients are in it now and compare how much the ingredients have changed after extraction."

Seasoning is good stuff.

Luo Yihang became more interested and didn't even notice that he mentioned fruit mushroom buns twice.

Urging Ma Zhitao to get to work quickly.

Luo Yihang also followed.

The two entered the testing room and placed the yellow crystals and dark brown mushroom powder onto the machine respectively.

While waiting for the results.

Luo Yihang asked Ma Zhitao: "How effective is this thing? The original one, dried mushroom powder."

Ma Zhitao became excited and started chatting with Luo Yihang.

"I caught a heat cold last week, and I spent the day at home lying down on my day off. I didn't want to move."

"It was evening, and I was hungry. I didn't feel like ordering takeout, and I had no idea what to eat. So I just decided to cook a bowl of noodles. The noodles were ready, but I had a cold, my nose was blocked, and my mouth had no taste. I couldn't eat the white noodles."

This foreshadowing is really long. Luo Yihang complained: "Why don't you start from when Pangu created the world and get to the point."

"Oh." Ma Zhitao responded.

"The point is, our mushrooms, especially shiitake mushrooms, can be added to soups and noodles to enhance the flavor and make it taste better. That's why I thought of adding some shiitake mushrooms."

"But I only have dried mushrooms at home, which are the ones you asked the kitchen to make for stewing chicken."

"The dried mushrooms need to be soaked, which takes a long time. I have already cooked the noodles."

"So, I just ground it into powder and added a few spoonfuls to the noodles."

"Guess what, the taste changed completely. It was so delicious that I ate a whole bowl of it and even dreamed about it in the middle of the night."

In other words, after adding this thing, it can make unpalatable things taste good.

Enhanced MSG?

"Then why do you extract it?" Luo Yihang asked again.

"Dried mushroom powder is insoluble in water and will sink to the bottom. If you put too much, it will stick together into lumps. After extraction and crystallization, it will become soluble in water," Ma Zhitao replied.

Hmm, well, more like MSG.

(End of this chapter)