Chinese food saves the world

During the lunch time, the Longjing Shrimp, which can be called the state banquet level, has been unanimously sought after. In the evening, Chinese restaurants are preparing to launch a famous Chinese dish that is well-known both at home and abroad-Buddha Jumping over the Wall.

The production process of this delicacy is extremely cumbersome. Eighteen kinds of raw materials such as abalone, sea cucumber, scallops, tendon, and king oyster mushrooms need to be cooked by various methods such as frying, frying, cooking, and frying. , and then put it into the Shaoxing wine jar, and in order to share the aroma while maintaining its own characteristics, it needs to be simmered for more than six hours before it is done, and the overall cooking time is as long as nearly ten hours.

Almost as soon as Hao Leti arrived at the Chinese restaurant this morning, she began to process all kinds of ingredients for Buddha Tiaoqiang. It was not until the evening that this nutritious and tonic dish was stewed just right.

Although cooking takes a long time, because more time is spent waiting, when it comes to the actual dinner time, Heleti is more leisurely than usual.

During the slow simmering for many hours, there was almost no aroma coming out of the Shaoxing wine jar, which made diners who were already accustomed to the tangy aroma wafting from the kitchen more curious about this delicious dish.

There are several tables of new faces in the Chinese restaurant tonight. One of them is a young gentleman who is wearing a shirt and trousers and sitting alone at a table.

The table for four was monopolized by him?There is simply no sense of public morality!

But soon, some people began to feel that this introverted, elegant, and even a little rigid young gentleman looked familiar, as if they had seen it before?

Someone in the queue exclaimed, "It's Francis Dollar! The Wall Street upstart who made a net profit of $15 billion by shorting the subprime mortgage crisis—"

"I heard that he just turned 25, but he has already studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and even obtained an MBA degree from Harvard Business School!"

"At the beginning of the year, Dollard successfully predicted that the stock price of subprime mortgage companies would plummet or even go bankrupt. Now Wall Street calls him the "empty god of the new century" and "the new rich man of hedge funds."

"I just read his interview this morning when I was drinking coffee. I heard that he even lived in an orphanage in Missouri for a few years when he was a child. Who would have thought that he would become a financial giant in charge of tens of billions of assets now."

The sound from the waiting area didn't reach Francis Dollard's ears, or even if it did, he didn't care.

His eyes were focused on the kitchen - would Hollett still remember him?

A cleft-lip boy who had lived with her for three years at the Springfield Orphanage and the Morgan Lee Memorial Orphanage, a cowardly ugly guy who always needed her protection from bullying.

When Francis Dollard was born, the obstetrician who delivered him said he looked like a bat with a flat nose. is flat.

Francis' mother screamed in horror at the first sight of him, and then she left the hospital alone, abandoning the ugly guy without hesitation.

A few days later, Francis was sent to an orphanage, and about a month later, an Asian baby girl whose mother died of postpartum hemorrhage was sent to Springfield Orphanage.

Her name is Holliday.

Francis is born with facial defects, but maybe it is the so-called stupid theory that God will open a window when he closes a door for you. He is very smart, especially in terms of memory. He can remember things clearly when he is less than two years old, compared to ordinary children , can be called extremely talented, but it depends on who you compare with——

In front of Hollett, who can read before one year old, all the children in the orphanage should probably be called stupid.

Young children seem to have a natural obsession mentality. Francis Dollard hid in the corner many times secretly observing Heleti like a bedbug. He wanted to be friends with her, but he dared not take a step forward.

Since Francis can remember, he has been ridiculed and abused because of his ugly facial defects, and even beaten is commonplace. A red-haired and fat boy who is a few years older than him beats him almost every day to vent his anger.

In the eyes of Francis, who is not yet three years old, Heletty is dazzling and superior, and he is just an ugly thing born with facial defects.

But they became friends anyway—

One dusk in the cold Missouri winter, in the dilapidated bathroom of the orphanage, the stupid red-haired boy rushed up and pulled his hair and slammed it against the mirror so hard that it almost cracked, and his forehead was already stained with blood, Francis thought. He might die in this old bathroom, and that wouldn't be on anyone's mind for more than three days.

His face was wet with blood, but he didn't cry until he heard a young girl's voice in the distance, "Ms. Guardian Smith is coming here."

Her voice was immature, but her tone had a kind of indifference that did not match her age. The red-haired boy almost let go of her hand in fright when he heard her voice, left the thin three-year-old boy and turned and ran away.

Francis' eyes were stained red by the flowing blood, and his vision was blurred, but at that moment, he felt -->>

Heleti, who walked in the dark, seemed to be the God who saved him.

Although she was a month younger than him and two inches shorter.

He's never met anyone smarter than Holliday, the younger Asian girl who taught him how to read and write when he was three years old, always looked gloomy and withdrawn, but she never So showing the slightest disgust, let alone the scolding and intimidation that have long been commonplace for him.

For the first time, Francis felt that the orphanage was a warm place. He tried to make himself look more pleasing, and don't lose her because of his autism——

Hollett is his only family member, his God, his mentor, and his sister.

They eventually separated, and Holliday left Missouri for adoption, and a few months later Frances was adopted by a charitable banker couple living in New York.

Congenital facial defects turned out to be one of the reasons why he was adopted. His adoptive parents sent him to undergo deformity plastic surgery when he was five years old. The doctors used cartilage from his ears to extend the bridge of the nose and stitched him up with a wonderful technique. of the upper lip.

The operation was considered a success, leaving only a tiny, almost negligible cleft scar on his lip.

Since the age of five, Francis has collected every newspaper that reported Heletty's genius deeds, desperately striving to make himself outstanding, hoping to meet her again at Caltech one day.

But during his high school year, she disappeared in a kidnapping case.

Francis didn't believe her death at all. He resented the FBI's sloppy investigation. He even decided to rely on himself to find her. From that day on, nothing was more important to him than getting ahead and gaining power.

On the day of the trial of the century, Francis Dollard flew from New York to Los Angeles, but he did not dare to appear in front of Hollett—

He was worried that Heletty had forgotten about him, maybe the few months in the orphanage were too insignificant to her, why should she always remember a stupid guy who looked like a bat?

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In the kitchen, before the Buddha jumped over the wall and turned off the fire, Hao Leti had already prepared the side dishes - a plate of coir raincoat radish, a plate of ham mixed with bean sprouts, a plate of fried bean sprouts with mushrooms, silver shredded rolls, and sesame sesame cakes. .

There was nothing to do in the back kitchen, and Holliday helped the two waiters serve dishes, and Francis Dollard saw the thin girl walking towards him.

She put a few side dishes on the table first, and then brought out the Buddha jumping over the wall. Just slightly opened the lotus leaf that sealed the mouth of the altar, and there was a strong aroma. After several hours of stewing, more than a dozen ingredients and wine were perfect. Mixed, it is simply fragrant.

The thick soup in the altar is thick but not greasy, the delicious ingredients are rotten but not rotten, soft and tender, and it is delicious to take a mouthful of steaming hot food.

The diners in the Chinese restaurant were almost salivating, but at the table where Hao Leti served the food, the only customer just sat quietly.

He is extremely elegant and handsome, as if born with aristocratic temperament, and there is a hint of gloom in this temperament.

In his charming blue eyes, there are restrained and strong emotions, and the small flaw at the corner of his mouth even adds a bit of strange beauty.

Francis stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch her, but he hesitated to take it back, "Halety, long time no see, I'm Francis."

As if worried that she would not be able to remember him, he emphasized, "Frances Dollard."

His voice is deep and deep, because of the previous deformity of the lips, he still cannot proficiently pronounce the "hiss" syllable, but it does not appear harsh and unpleasant, but instead forms a very pleasant tone.

Hollett didn't sound surprised at all, "Frank, of course I know it's you, otherwise you might have to line up until the middle of next month to come in for dinner."

Hollett's familiarity flattered Francis like a child with a Christmas present delivered by Santa Claus himself in a sleigh.

His facial deformity repair surgery was very successful. Even though there was a small crack at the corner of his mouth, his face was still amazingly handsome, and he always behaved like an elegant gentleman on weekdays, polite, strict and restrained.

But he's at a loss now, and he can't help but start worrying if the scar on the corner of his mouth might offend Heletty.

Hollett sat down beside him, took out a bowl of soup and put it in front of Francis, "Try it."

Francis, known as the "Wall Street sky god" and "the new hedge fund rich man", obeys her just as he did when he was three years old.

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A few minutes later, when the big-breasted sweetheart learned of the relationship between Hollett and the young banker, she couldn't help but think aggrievedly——

How many good brothers does she have?