After Gu Biao stayed at the Zhaolong Hotel, he didn't have too much personal entanglement with Han Ting, and the two sides just talked about some preparations for the meeting, and went their separate ways.

At dinnertime, Gu Biao washed up and cleaned up, and first called the Xiao family to confirm that Xiao Sui was there. Then let the bodyguards drive the convoy to pick up Xiao Sui and spend Valentine's Day together.

The Spring Festival of '83 was just two days before Valentine's Day. Although there is no habit of celebrating Valentine's Day in China, Gu Biao has. On this kind of day, you must accompany your real girlfriend, which is a man's responsibility and bottom line, and it should be adhered to.

Han Ting understands very well, in fact, she has never had any commitment requirements for Gu Biao, and she also knows what she is doing, and she is very measured.

A convoy of several Mercedes-Benz cars drove out of the Zhaolong Hotel, arrived near Fudan, picked up Xiao Sui, and then pulled back to the Zhaolong Hotel, and sent the revolving restaurant to a candlelight dinner.

Just the convoy in and out and the female guests going up and down attracted a lot of onlookers and heated discussions from the citizens who watched the play at the entrance of the hotel.

"Eh, the big boss's convoy is back. I said it must be the big foreign boss who came to open the International Technical Society. ”

"It looks like a Chinese, it is estimated that it is a big boss of Hong Kong businessmen, the tycoon of the Xiangjiang electronics industry." ”

"Look, there's an extra woman in the car, it must have been picked up by the convoy just now. Whose little girl is so lucky, she is a foreign tycoon. ”

"Where, where?"

"You're blind, you didn't see the glass revolving door flash in just now. ”

"It must be a very familiar little girl. ”

Xiao Sui and Gu Biao were separated for three or four days, and when Gu Biao came to her as soon as she arrived in Hujiang, she was quite moved in her heart.

Although she has been studying in Fudan and is in the second semester of her senior year, she has really not come in to spend more than two months since the Zhaolong Hotel opened, mainly because she has no luxury needs alone.

"Husband, you just came, don't you really have to be busy with business first?" was led by Gu Biao to the revolving restaurant on the top floor, Xiao Sui was still a little reluctant in his heart.

Gu Biao took advantage of the fact that the waitress didn't look in this direction, and quickly pecked Xiao Suiying's lips: "What business is there to be busy with on Valentine's Day, it's rare for a lover to spend all my time with you, and I spend all my time with you tonight." ”

Xiao Sui's thinking mode of ordinary life has not been completely Westernized, and it is obvious that there is no Valentine's Day string. It's just that after listening to Gu Biao's reminder, he also realized that there was such a thing, and accepted all this with surprise in his heart.

It's not surprising that in 1983, 99% of people in China didn't know what Valentine's Day was.

Gu Biao and Xiao Sui occupied a group of ordinary tables by the window, and when the menu was delivered, Gu Biao took the initiative to take it, and did not ask his girlfriend what she liked to eat.

He already knew Xiao Sui's taste very well, so he ordered it directly.

"Baked snails with mozzarella cheese, filet mignon, pan-fried cod, mushroom borscht – don't you have a list of chefs here?"

"I'm sorry, sir, no. The waitress apologized very nervously, not even knowing what Gu Biao meant.

"It's okay, so be it. Gu Biao is not embarrassed, just to remind the level of the service industry.

Hotels in the mainland, even if they are five-star, are not too demanding. Limited by the times, Gu Biao ordered four dishes very plainly, except for the baked snails and the cheese origin, the other three dishes did not have a place of origin.

Didn't even get a chance to order a chef and ask for the chef's name.

This is a far cry from the days when Gu Biao was in Paris, where you are in a top restaurant in Paris, and the key is not to order any food, but to order people first (if the restaurant has two or more chefs who meet the three-Michelin standard)

After ordering people, you don't even need to order what to eat, and you can match it directly according to this style.

The difference is that some people listen to a song saying "which song do I want to listen to", while others listen to "who am I going to ask to sing for me".

"Is it necessary to be so particular about eating by yourself? Xiao Sui said with a smile.

Gu Xiao: "Actually, there is no need, I hope that we Chinese will have money in the future, and don't rely on ruining rare and expensive raw materials to save face." Wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly and less wasteful to spend money on hiring masters? ”

Xiao Sui: "Will the Chinese have so much money that they have to divide the high and the low like this?"

Gu Biao: "Soon, it will be ten or eight years." ”

Pan Shiyi's group, in the 80s, went to the White Swan in Guangdong, and they have formed a way of "Miss, please order me a dish for 10,000 yuan" to show off their wealth, which is essentially no different from Lafite, who had to open for 82 years in later generations.

There is nothing wrong with correcting the environmental protection of the rich.

Xiao Sui thought thoughtfully: "Where did you learn all this?

Gu Biao smiled confidently: "Then you have wronged me, Xiucai doesn't go out, and he can know the world." I knew this basic skill four years ago, when I was a sophomore at the Foreign Affairs University. We have a specialist in the history of state banquets in our diplomatic etiquette class – do you know the Marquis de Talleyrand and Antonin Calem?"

Xiao Sui shook his head: "Of course the Marquis of Talleyrand knows that the French foreign minister in the Napoleonic era." But who is that Antonin? What does this have to do with our dinner today?"

Gu Biao shrugged: "It's okay, isn't this boring." In addition, Talleyrand was not only Napoleon's foreign minister, but also a legendary figure from the Bourbon dynasty to the Great Song to Napoleon's proclamation to the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty.

In terms of mediation skills, I think Talleyrand should be the number one in history, and Kissinger and I are ashamed of ourselves -- otherwise, how could it be possible to make him a foreign minister no matter which dynasty gained power? By analogy, can you imagine a person who served as foreign minister for 50 years in the late Qing Dynasty, the Beiyang warlords, the Republic of China, and the current dynasty? That is a change of dynasty in the N hostile camps.

As for Antonin Callem, whom I have just mentioned, those who do not study diplomacy may not know that he was a pastry chef by training, who served as the royal chef of the Marquis de Talleyrand for 30 years, and also served Talleyrand's 'French cuisine diplomacy' for 30 years.

In those 30 years, from the cunning Austrian Prime Minister Metternich, who created the 'Vienna Holy Alliance Order System', to the Tsarist Foreign Minister Czartoresky, and then to the British royal family and nobles who were exchanged for a vote, they were all invaded by Talleyrand's cultural export, and they were proud to invite Antonin to preside over the state banquet. Although the French lost the war, it was from the time of Talleyrand that the international norm that 'French cuisine is the most noble in Europe' was formally established.

Therefore, if a country wants to export ideology in food culture, the key is not whether your food is good or not. No matter how well the dish is described, it is also internationally shared, and foreigners can learn it. The key is to praise the artist, the person, and the connotation of the artist cannot be copied.

When King George III celebrated his 70th birthday, he did not invite Antonin Callem from the Marquis of Talleyrand to preside over dessert, and the banquet did not have the classic art cake in the shape of the palace, because Callem's schedule could not be scheduled.

When the time came for Tsar Alexander I to celebrate his birthday, George III was ridiculed by the European kings for several years, and the Austrians considered him to be nothing more than a 'barbarian with only money', and he couldn't even invite the French foreign minister to cook for his birthday.

One important point is that the inheritance of artists in ancient China is too narrow, only calligraphy and painting can barely be the hands of 'artists', and even porcelain and handicrafts are only made by 'craftsmen', and cannot be elevated to the level of artists, let alone cooking.

In this regard, we can't even catch up with ourselves, and we are still emphasizing 'utensils', and when we have money in the future, how can we use environmentally friendly, non-replicable, and waste-reducing models to compare and pretend to be forced? I say that I am a 'tea artist' who makes porcelain, and a 'cooking artist' who cooks. ”

Gu Biao's later generations saw a Japanese drama "Your Excellency the Prime Minister's Cook", which is about this kind of "helping the prime minister win diplomatic negotiations by cooking well". Many Chinese viewers who are not familiar with diplomatic history may think that "isn't this just a broken thing as exaggerated as the little Chinese master/the spirit of the spring king".

But in fact, people really have historical prototypes. Historically, Foreign Minister Talleyrand has really done it more than once because of the quality of banquets and the determination of international treaties on major national events.

It was only later that the coarse and barbaric poor countries of Britain and Russia also learned to behave, the cooking level of the imperial chef also improved, the gap and information asymmetry with French cuisine gradually narrowed, and diplomatic work became more and more formal, and major matters were rarely decided at the wine table, so Talleyrand had no chance to continue to do so.

Gu Biao was idle, and he was idle, until all four dishes were served.

Xiao Sui listened leisurely, and was infected by her husband's witty words, it seems that the steak and cod that don't even know the chef's name and origin are not so difficult to swallow.

Naturally, she was obsessed with these things, which were made by masters.

The key is not the dish, but who to chat with the meal, there are people like Gu Biao who talk and laugh, eating vegetables is also a forced style of the state banquet, and no matter how rich the soil buns are, they can't replicate the experience.

Xiao Sui's heart is full of the satisfaction of a literary young woman.

After eating the four dishes, Gu Biao wiped his mouth and took out a small box, which contained a six-carat diamond ring.

He hasn't given Xiao Sui a big diamond ring much, but he will officially graduate and return to China next year, this is his last Valentine's Day before graduation, and there is nothing to hide.

Xiao Sui was flattered by this, and couldn't help crying with joy, and let Gu Biao fiddle with it and put it on.

She didn't ask for money, and Gu Biao didn't say anything.

In this situation, how cheesy it is to raise money.

Xiao Sui was like sleepwalking, leaning on Gu Ao, and Gu Biao left the revolving restaurant with only two people around his waist, and stepped into the elevator with vague steps.

"Husband...... My feet are weak. Xiao Sui murmured softly like a cat.

"Soon to arrive, take a deep breath, it's not like I haven't seen the world. After a few shots, he threw Xiao Sui into the house.

A night of thanksgiving without words.