Liuxiang

Yi Baitang took Shang Huaiyan to a scenic spot in the suburbs of Beijing.

The car was walking on a familiar road, and when it reached the ground, before the distant cloud-covered and mist-like scenery rushed over, it turned into a small road on the left, and then drove along the winding road for a while, and then arrived at the final destination , a village located here, with about seventy or eighty families.

A plaque carved with dragons and painted phoenixes hangs on the archway of this village, and the three big characters of "Juewei Village" are clear and eye-catching!Under the archway, there is another roll-up banner erected in front of the village under the pressure of stones. Although there is a lot of wind around, it still stands proudly.

It reads:

Juewei Village welcomes friends from all over the world to come for sightseeing. Please buy a ticket first, and a paid guide is attached.

Ticket price for entering the village: 10000.

One meal per person: 10000.

Accommodation per person per night: 30000.

No change, no refunds.

No deception, no counter-offer.

When getting off the car, Shang Huaiyan looked at the sign for a long time without saying a word.

If he remembers correctly:

"Is this the exorbitant village that was exposed during the rule of law..."

"That's right." Yi Baitang replied frankly.

He pulled Shang Huaiyan and went in.

The shape of the entrance to the entire village of Juewei Village is quite unique.First there is an archway with a hanging plaque, and then there is a wooden porch. The narrow first floor of the porch looks like a toll booth in many tourist places. After passing the toll booth, there are fields and houses behind.

At the entrance behind the porch sat an old man with his head bowed and smoking a cigarette.There are two tables in front of the old man, one table is equipped with a credit card machine, and the other table is much more messy, a bunch of green vegetables, a few stalks of green onions, two or three live fish that jump down from time to time, all piled up on the table , I don't know why he put things that should be in the kitchen here.

Yi Baitang jumped over the credit card machine, took something from another table, waved at the old man behind the table, and then took Shang Huaiyan through the toll booth.

The old man glanced at it, but didn't stop him.

Shang Huaiyan who was about to swipe his bank card: "..." he wondered, "What did you take?"

Yi Baitang spread out his hands, and a green onion lay quietly in his palm.

Shang Huaiyan guessed: "Is this the code word of your Chef Association?"

Yi Baitang said casually, "It's not a code word, it's just a convention. The chef doesn't need to pay to come in here, just pick the freshest ingredients from the table and it's a pass."

Shang Huaiyan thought about it, and felt that it was not very rigorous: "If someone in the back sees you picking out the right materials, why not follow you?"

"Hmm..." Yi Baitang's gaze flashed across Shang Huaiyan's face, "Why do you think that when a bunch of green onions are put together, they were picked at the same time?"

Shang Huaiyan: "..."

With such sinister intentions, he was amazed!

It was almost noon, and a layer of dazzling sunlight fell from the sky on the road ahead of the two.

On both sides of the road, the fields are endless and the seedlings are green; the surrounding canals are like a jade belt, winding around the pond, and river shrimps, small fish, frogs, and grasshoppers all come and go leisurely in the water, and the scenic spot in the distance The clouds and mists in the sky have been scattered by the scorching sun, and only the shade of green trees is continuous, forming a huge green barrier, which is at the end of the line of sight.

Walking two steps further along the road, houses appeared in front of the two of them.

Most of the houses here are single-family, about two or three storeys high. They are built around the open space in front of them, just to form a circular area. In the circular area, there are many sheds built together. The people in the sheds are more Shang Huaiyan expected much more, each stood in front of different booths and whispered to each other.

The two quickly entered the shed.

Shang Huaiyan glanced at it, and the stall on the left was selling cabbage. Compared with ordinary cabbage, its color was a strange blue-purple.Someone was standing in front of the stall, holding it and gesturing at the stall owner.Right in front of the cabbage is a place surrounded by a fence. A cow is running left and right in it. It is not surprising. What is strange is that there are twenty or thirty people running with the cow. It looks like the cow is chasing people. , and it looked like people were chasing cattle; before Shang Huaiyan could take a second look, another large cold transport truck stopped in front. After the car stabilized, two people got out of the car and opened the rear compartment The door opened, and one of the smaller boxes was taken out. As the box opened, there was only a "crash", and the smelly sea water gushed out of the box, and an inconspicuous shadow was shaking on the edge of the box.

Yi Baitang: "This is a new type of hybrid vegetable. The buyer bids two thousand for one."

Shang Huaiyan: "That cabbage seems to be poisoned..."

Yi Baitang acted as if nothing had happened: "The taste is indeed similar to being poisoned. The cattle running in the cattle farm are Kobe cattle. There has always been a tacit understanding among chefs that meat products are cut off and cooked while the live animals are still moving." The freshest and most tender."

Shang Huaiyan: "Kobe beef is prohibited, let alone cattle..."

Yi Baitang added: "As for the seafood truck, well, it's interesting."

Shang Huaiyan followed the trend, and suddenly found a tentacle protruding from the box with gusts of sea water, wandering back and forth on the staff around the box.

The staff in blue clothes were very calm, each holding a water hose to flush water into the box.

After a while, there were more and more tentacles, and a terrifying octopus that looked as big as half a human slowly emerged from the water.

Shang Huaiyan: Confused.jpg.

Yi Baitang added: "Basically, most of the precious ingredients in the world can be found here, and the prices are fairly reasonable, but there are also some disadvantages." There was a slight displeasure on his face, "There are too few things, and the competition There are too many people, rare ingredients are often out of print, and there are some weird ones that can't be taken away by one person... Okay," the slight unhappiness in his words became brisk again, "We're here."

Shang Huaiyan didn't pay much attention to what Yi Baitang said just now.

He suddenly realized that in this passage, Yi Baitang had changed his tone several times.

Everything changed from last night.

It seemed that after he picked up a cat from the street, he took good care of it and fed it carefully for two or three months. At last, the time was not wasted. The proud cat was matured, and it began to 'meow' and act like a baby to him.

From the market outside to the interior.

Yi Baitang took Shang Huaiyan to stand in front of a stone fish pond. The fish in the fish pond were about the size of a palm, swimming around in groups. Anyway, they were the kind of fish that Shang Huaiyan couldn't name.

Yi Baitang squatted down beside the pool, put his hands into the water, and motioned for Shang Huaiyan to do the same.

He explained: "This is a special ingredient called Pisces, which cannot be caught by one person."

Shang Huaiyan wondered: "Then?"

Yi Baitang said coldly: "There is no future. This is their biggest special."

Shang Huaiyan: "..." No, this cat is still as arrogant as before.

"Chu Yi is still the same!" Suddenly there was a laugh from the side, and then a young man dressed as an assistant walked over quickly and said familiarly, "Chu Yi is here to talk to our manager Wang about business today, right? The manager is talking on the phone in the office, how about Yi Chu wait a moment and see if he can fish out a pair of Pisces with his friends?"

He turned around and said to Shang Huaiyan: "Pisces is a very strange fish. It is said that it has found its life partner since birth. Since then, they have been in pairs no matter where they go or what they do. The relationship will not end until death. Perhaps it is because they always maintain a happy mood during the short life of fish. The meat of this fish is very delicate and has a light sweet taste. The taste is rated as the taste of love. But at the same time, they are a very fragile fish. As long as one of the fish is out of sync with the other fish, both will be heartbroken at the same time, and the meat will become bitter. It's like bitter bile soaking the flesh of a fish..."

Shang Huaiyan didn't know how to evaluate this special fish with glass heart and sesame gall.

But at this time, Yi Baitang suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

With a subconscious retraction of the palm submerged in the water, Shang Huaiyan grabbed a Pisces that just swam into his palm out of the water.He turned his head and saw that Yi Baitang also caught the same fish in his hand.

Shang Huaiyan looked it over: "Are these two a pair?"

Before Yi Baitang could answer, the assistant next to him was already amazed: "That's right, it's a pair. I didn't expect you to catch a pair right away. It's easy to identify whether Pisces is a pair. Pisces grab at the same time, then—”

The assistant reached into the water and grabbed a fish at random. Shang Huaiyan only saw this white and tender fish with pearlescent scales. After a few violent struggles, it suddenly became sluggish, and then its whole body became dark and mottled. Nothing new in the blink of an eye.

The assistant pointed to the water again: "Look."

Shang Huaiyan saw at a glance that there was also a fish in the water that was gradually becoming dark and mottled, and soon became motionless like the one in the assistant's hand.

The assistant picked up the two fishes and threw them into the processing pool beside him, created a calculator, and pressed a series of numbers on it: "I don't know if Yichu will sell this pair of Pisces? If you want to sell it, there will be one A proprietor wanted to taste them and gave this number—”

Yi Baitang interrupted the other party: "Here, I will cook this fish and eat it myself. Your manager is finished talking on the phone, you can take me there."

The assistant turned his head and saw that in the glass window at the end of the aisle, the office manager had just finished making a phone call, leaning on a chair, and looking here with an uneasy expression.

He smiled and said, "Okay, Chef Yi will follow me."

"Baitang." Shang Huaiyan took a step behind and whispered in Yi Baitang's ear.

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"You will directly negotiate the purchase price with her later?" Shang Huaiyan asked.

"Maybe there will be some special conditions." Yi Baitang said.

"She doesn't seem to be in a very good mood." Shang Huaiyan said softly, "It's mostly related to feelings."

"..." Yi Baitang glanced at the woman in the office, but didn't see anything special.

"Trust me. I won't be wrong about this kind of thing, after all..." Shang Huaiyan smiled slightly, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a phone call.

He took out his mobile phone to take a look, gestured to Yi Baitang, and walked aside first to answer the assistant's call.

"what's up?"

When he answered the phone, Yi Baitang had already entered the office with the person who led the way, and the door was closed in front of Shang Huaiyan, but the glass window occupying half of the wall easily showed everything in the office.

While watching, Shang Huaiyan listened to the assistant say:

"Mr. Shang, according to the itinerary, you have a business trip in two days. Should you hand it over to the people below or...?"

Yi Baitang walked up to the manager, sat down with his back to him, and they started talking...

Shang Huaiyan looked at it, slightly raised his lips, and smiled playfully: "No, I'll go by myself, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly interesting here recently."