Across the ocean, in the United Kingdom, a rich old man drove a Lamborghini tractor across the fields, toiling for a year without yielding anything, but with his unexpected program effects captured the hearts of global audiences.
Not long ago, the second season of "Clarkson's Farm" returned, the old farmer is still irritable, and the rating and popularity are still very high.
And in the corner where no one cares, there is a group of small paste beans in Neiyu who "find no such person" and are also silently forming groups to farm.
Friends who are familiar with internal entertainment routines estimate that the first reaction is the same as that of the shop, and they think that it must be the attention of Zuo Xiubo, but I didn't expect to froze after watching the main film, you guys really farm?!
Let's Farm
Just like this unpretentious name, when I opened this show, I thought I had strayed into the agricultural channel.
Without much introduction, the guests began to work in the field, cutting rice, loading and transporting it, from morning to dark, from the beginning to the end of the show, except for eating, they have been burying their heads in the field.
After one issue, I was stunned that I didn't remember the name of a person, I only remembered that there were still a few acres of rice confiscated, and they seemed to be doing a very new variety show.
From the beginning of the preliminary preparation, the production team revealed a rare sincere attitude.
They recruited more than 200 young people from all over the country to participate in interviews, and selected 30 of them for test shooting.
The so-called test shooting is to let them personally participate in farming, eat and live with local farmers, complete the autumn harvest together, and exercise the basic skills of doing farm work, and finally leave 10 young people who can endure hardships and are willing to work.
The content of the program is to let these 10 young people use half a year to grow enough food on 142 acres of land, and they must do the whole process from sowing seeds, fertilizing, irrigation to harvesting.
Unlike Clarkson's Farm, where people can be hired to do the work, they can't accept help.
Therefore, in order to ensure that these young people can complete the task intact, the program team specially gave them agricultural culture courses before the recording, and trained them in medical, firefighting, cooking, carpentry, bricklayers and other skills.
Most importantly, they have also obtained various agricultural machinery driving licenses, and truly become licensed.
Although I was fully prepared, I was shocked by the sight after getting off the bus.
The program team conscientiously implements the concept of "doing it yourself, starting from nothing" (not willing to spend a penny more), and the dormitory they are provided with is three abandoned rooms, with nothing but dust.
As soon as a few people entered the house, they blurted out: "It's not a person here, it's not a place to live..."
After recognizing the reality, he swept the floor, mopped the floor, wiped the table non-stop... Even the bed I slept in was screwed up one by one, and finally I cleaned up this place after dark to become a place to live.
Judging from the recently updated vlog of the show, they felt that the dormitory was too broken in the later stage and began to remodel.
With the blessing of electric welding, carpentry and cement technology, this four-walled house has now been transformed into a clean and warm house, and a lot of handmade furniture has been added. What you learned in the training was not wasted, all used in practice, and you can simply start another "Dream Transformation Home" column.
Of course, the hardest part is the part of farming.
In the first phase, the rice harvest was rushed.
It is said that from the beginning of sowing, in fact, the rice on more than 100 acres of land has not yet been cut, they need to first harvest the rice, use the money from the sale as a start-up capital, and then start buying seeds and planting wheat.
Anyone who has planted knows that farming time does not wait for people, and a day later will affect the harvest. In order to be able to sow seeds at the right time, the Farming Youth Group immediately went to work, took up the sickle and buried their heads in hard cutting.
I was so busy that I didn't have time to go back to eat lunch, so I squatted on the edge of the field to solve it on the spot.
From 8 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock at night, I worked continuously for more than ten hours, and I was tired until I got up the next day and directly became a zombie.
A look at the progress bar shows 0.04% completion.
The next day, I learned to be smart, immediately introduced modern technology, contacted the village chief and contacted several harvesters, the speed was greatly improved, but various situations followed.
Although they can drive the harvester, they are novices after all and have not practiced in the field.
Some people are blindly arrogant, do not listen to the master's words, do not let those who go to the edge of the field, have to challenge themselves, and as a result, they break the machine;
Failure to take into account the fact that the land was too wet, causing the harvester to get stuck in the mud for a while, unable to extricate itself;
There are also people who can't see the road clearly when working in the dark, and roll the wires into the machine.
All kinds of operations are dangerous and delayed, so angry that the harvester master curses.
In addition to man-made failures, there are also weather problems that farming is most afraid of.
Overnight heavy rains caused water to accumulate in the fields, and they needed to drain the water before they could start growing wheat.
Some land can be pumped directly with a water pump, but some land is rolled into one by one by car, and only manual digging of water channels can be made.
On the other side, the main drainage canal is blocked by some silt and garbage, and the collected stagnant water cannot be drained, and it needs to be dredged.
The sky was not beautiful, it was snowing, and at night at minus a few degrees, several people soaked in sewage and opened ditches, freezing numb their hands and feet, and lost their expression management.
They encouraged each other, did not complain, and finally the loud water flowed out of the mouth of the cave, everyone cheered excitedly, and at that moment, the agricultural program became youthful and enthusiastic in seconds.
And the reality is that the next day there will be more work to continue to open the ditch, and there is still more work waiting after the ditch is completed, and the matter of farming is not over, and it cannot be stopped.
This is the real farming life, not idealistic pastoral songs, only day after day, repetitive boring labor, but also worry about sudden bad weather or disasters, so that the year's efforts are all in vain, which is a terrible thing for farmers.
Still, seeing food pouring out of the machine is a real healing.
The content of the "Let's Farm" program is as real as a documentary, without deliberately sensationalizing or elevating the bridge, but a few people unconsciously create some variety show moments when farming.
When threshing rice, they did not know how to operate it and thought that the threshing machine was broken, so the ignorant teenagers actually spent 300 yuan to find villagers to rent an old machine like antiques, and paid a deposit of 2,000 yuan.
The result is to spend money and effort to invite back an ancestor, but if you can't use it, you will be embarrassed to return it.
Afraid of being overwhelmed by the account, in order to overwhelm the other party in terms of momentum, several guys set out in groups of big cars and cars, as if they were going to "fight on the battlefield".
The funny thing is that the momentum passed, found that he had brought less machines, and ran back to get it in ashes.
Ready to drive a van to buy fertilizer dozens of kilometers away, the two who took the initiative to invite Ying to get on the back of the car looked at each other, delayed, why? Forgot how the manual gear turned on.
What's even more remarkable is that they are really serious about farming.
The program group invited flying guests for the sake of wool, and the teenagers passing by did not want to leave more shots, and after saying hello, they had to go to work in the field first.
Don't forget to tell the guests: "Put down your luggage and come quickly." ”
In order to let the audience feel the realism of farming and have a sense of participation, in addition to the main film, every Monday to Thursday at 9:30 a.m., the program team will also conduct a live broadcast, without chat interaction, simply monitor their work.
When the show was broadcast, the Farming Youth Group had been working hard in the field for more than two months, and in the material video, they were too skilled to do the work.
The hand playing the guitar is not sloppy at all to sprinkle fertilizer, and some netizens have commented that the skill can compete with her grandmother.
In addition to growing wheat, they also set up planting greenhouses, planting vegetables and flowers, digging fish ponds, raising chickens and ducks and sheep, and the chicken shed and sheepfold were also built by themselves.
Recently, ten people also registered the company together, ready to sell agricultural products later, the company landed in debt of 260,000 yuan, carrying a heavy load.
Variety shows are always controversial.
For this group of young people who are still very mushy, spending a lot of time and effort to farm, to say that simply to experience life, it must not be, there must be a red mind, but in this stupid, slow and difficult way to do it, but people feel sincere.
The audience has also gained a more realistic understanding of the land and farming as they grow along the way.
As a reality show, "Let's Farm" also made a positive demonstration for the internal entertainment of "thirsty people for a long time".
The land does not deceive, what is planted is what you get.
It's the same with doing shows, sincerity is always a must-have!