"Acquaintance, who is it?, do you know you very well?" Cheng Aiguo asked casually.

"Colleague, Jiang Xia, Propaganda Department of the Chengkang Municipal Party Committee. Chu Tianqi said the identity of the acquaintance.

Cheng Aiguo said "oh": "Jiang Xia, is she alone?"

"She's alone. Chu Tianqi replied.

Cheng Aiguo nodded lightly: "Okay." ”

Chu Tianqi exited the house and quickly brought a woman in, it was Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia is wearing a lake blue dress today, and on her feet is a pair of light gold heeled strap sandals. Her long hair, which is usually tied up, is draped over her shoulders, and she has a hairpin with a light blue pattern pinned to it, and she wears light makeup on her face. Compared with the usual professional clothes, Jiang Xia today has less of the color of a woman in the workplace and more of a lady's temperament.

Jiang Xia smiled and walked straight to Cheng Aiguo: "Hello minister!"

Cheng Aiguo said in an official tone: "Comrade Jiang Xia, such a coincidence." ”

"Yes, it's a great honor to send a friend to stay here today, and to meet the minister. I have admired the minister for a long time, but I didn't have the opportunity to see him, and I take the liberty to disturb today, and I hope the minister will forgive me. Jiang Xia smiled, "I want to pay tribute with wine, I wonder if the minister can give this opportunity?"

"Drinking? Speaking of this, Cheng Ai's Chinese tone changed, "However, you have to answer me a few questions." ”

"Please be merciful with the minister, and try to make the problem as easy as possible. When Jiang Xia spoke, she looked at the other party, "If my answer satisfies you, can I give you a few more glasses?"

Cheng Aiguo didn't answer the other party's words, but directly asked the question: "What kind of wine is this wine, and what is the particularity?"

Jiang Xia poured some wine into the empty glass, put it in front of her, sniffed, picked up the cork and sniffed it, then took a small sip and gently smacked the taste. Then he took another sip, continued to taste for a while, looked up and thought about it before saying: "This wine is crystal mellow, the aroma is long, the taste is mellow, the taste is fragrant and long, it must be sorghum wine, it should still be Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum roast." The brewing of sorghum liquor has to go through seven steps: raw material crushing, batching, cooking and gelatinization, cooling, mixing, cellar fermentation, and steaming wine, but Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum roasting has its own uniqueness. In the raw material crushing stage, the crushing fineness of general sorghum wine requires that the raw materials account for more than 60% through a 20-hole sieve, while Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum burning requires more than 75%, which is more convenient for cooking and makes the starch more fully utilized. Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum roast ingredients also have characteristics......"

Listening to the other party's eloquent conversation, Cheng Aiguo sometimes frowned, sometimes stared, and sometimes pondered.

Jiang Xia noticed the other party's expression, stopped and asked, "Minister, isn't it right?"

"You're so complete that you can't help but be suspicious, as if you knew the answer in advance. While speaking, Cheng Aiguo glanced at Chu Tianqi.

"Minister, I don't understand what you mean, how can I have an answer?" Jiang Xia denied, "Please make it clearer to speak. ”

Cheng Aiguo said: "It's not strange that you can distinguish sorghum wine, but you actually know that it is produced in Qingfeng Prefecture, which is a bit too strange." Who gave you the answer?"

"Giggle......" Before she could speak, Jiang Xia laughed first, "Minister, I did judge that this was sorghum wine by the color, aroma, and taste of the wine. I wasn't sure that it was Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum roast just now, but now it is undoubted, and the answer is what you gave. ”

"What do you say?" Cheng Aiguo asked rhetorically.

"When I first entered the house, I smelled the strong smell of balsamic vinegar, found the bowl of sour turf, saw the bowl of noodles, and also noticed the other dishes on the table, so I thought of a place - Qingfeng Prefecture, Woyuan City. Since the table is full of Qingfeng Prefecture delicacies, it should naturally be served with Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum. Speaking of this, Jiang Xia pursed her lips, "Of course, this is just my speculation, and I won't know that I am right until you give the correct answer." ”

"Haha, it looks like I missed the question. Cheng Aiguo smiled and picked up his cup, "Comrade Jiang Xia, you are worthy of being the Minister of Propaganda, and her eloquence and thinking are very good." ”

"Minister, I respect you. While speaking, Jiang Xia had already poured a full glass of wine and bumped into the other party's wine glasses.

After drinking the wine in the cup, Cheng Aiguo spoke again: "Sit down and say, I still have questions." ”

"Thank you, minister!" Jiang Xia hit the snake with the stick and sat directly on the seat that Chu Tianqi had let go.

Chu Tianqi brought Jiang Xia a new set of tableware, and he also took a new chair.

"Comrade Jiang Xia, listen to what you mean, you know a lot about these foods, let's not talk about sour and fragrant crust and powder, let's talk about these things. Cheng Aiguo stroked the eight bowls of dishes served for the second time.

Jiang Xia's gaze swept over the eight large bowls again, and said slowly: "This is tiger skin balls, this is fried chicken, silk chowder......" She said to think about it, think about it, said the name of the eight dishes, and then asked hesitantly, "Minister, this is the eight big bowls in Qingfeng Prefecture, right?"

Cheng Aiguo did not answer the other party, but put forward a new request: "There are still delicacies in Qingfeng Prefecture, you can say it." ”

"There are not only eight bowls in Qingfeng Prefecture, but also eighteen bowls, except for those on the table, I can't name the others. In addition, Aomine Prefecture is famous for its dumplings, pea jelly, bean batter, sugar sesame leaves, and dried tofu. Jiang Xia wrenched her fingers and said, "By the way, there is also yellow cake, which is the most famous snack in Qingfeng Prefecture." Qingfeng Prefecture has a colloquial saying of 'porridge in the morning, cake at noon, and simmered yam in the evening', and there is also a proverb: 'Thirty miles of noodles, forty miles of cakes, twenty miles of white noodles are hungry and your waist is broken'. Knowing this, other snacks are not clear. ”

"That's a lot, and it basically makes you talk about the food in Qingfeng Prefecture. Cheng Aiguo said slowly, "It's just that I'm still a little confused, listening to what you said, how could I mistake the tiger skin balls and steamed balls in the eight bowls." ”

Jiang Xia "giggled", lowered her head, and her voice became very low: "I have only eaten the local sour and fragrant land, as well as the powder, and the others are all on paper." In May of the year before last, I went to Qingfeng Prefecture with a group of reporters organized by the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, and it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Because we were busy with work, we were only prepared with sour crust and powder, saying that we would serve eight large bowls and other delicacies in the evening. At the end of the evening, everyone was already hungry, especially on the way back to the station, and after looking at those food pictures, they were all hungry. When I first arrived at the station, I suddenly received a call from the city TV station, and I was transferred back with an urgent task, so I had to nibble on instant noodles, look at the local food picture album, and leave Qingfeng Prefecture drooling. ”

"Hahaha, the true image of the description. Cheng Aiguo laughed happily.

"Yellow cake. With the waiter's soft singing, two plates of yellow cakes were served. One plate is a golden authentic yellow cake, the other is a fried cake, and there are more than half a bowl of bean noodles.

Cheng Aiguo scooped a spoonful of bean noodles into the bowl, sandwiched a piece of yellow cake and put it in the bowl, used chopsticks to cut the yellow cake into smaller pieces, and tossed a few times in the bean noodles. Then he picked up a small piece of yellow cake and put it in his mouth, and while eating, he said indistinctly, "A taste that will never be forgotten for a lifetime." ”

Looking at Cheng Aiguo, who nodded while eating, Chu Tianqi couldn't help but laugh in his heart: This is like a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee at the deputy department level, but like an uncle next door. Thinking about it again, he didn't think it was funny anymore, he knew that being an official was tired, especially a person in a position like Cheng Aiguo was much more tired than himself, and it was rare to have such a time to show his nature.

……

When I got back to my hotel, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. I was about to take a shower when my phone rang.

Picking up the phone and looking at the caller ID, Chu Tianqi pressed the answer button and said "Hey".

A female voice came from the phone: "Tianqi, have you returned to the hotel?"

Chu Tianqi said: "I'm back." ”

"How about a once-in-a-lifetime taste, is the minister satisfied?" asked the other man.

"What do you say?" Chu Tianqi smiled, "This is the most I have ever seen him eat, and I have never seen him drink so much." ”

"That's good, as long as you don't mess with you. The other party's voice was soft, "Tianqi, thank you for the introduction." ”

"I guess I'm going to thank you for pointing out this nice place. Chu Tianqi asked, "How did you know about this restaurant?

"Who doesn't know the 'taste' of Dingye City? I'm a journalist, so of course I know more. It was because I knew that there were two secret meal kits in the guest room area that I asked you to book one of them. "I don't know if its specialties are so authentic." However, I have heard that many of the ingredients there come from the food origin, especially the special cuisine of Qingfeng Prefecture, which is directly transported to the water of Qingfeng Prefecture and stored in a constant temperature warehouse. ”

"Really?" Hearing the other party's statement, Chu Tianqi realized that if this was the case, the price of the dish would not be expensive at all. He asked again, "How did you know what Minister Aomine had experienced?"

The other party "hehe" smiled: "Confidential." Then the topic changed, "Tianqi, are you alone?"

"No, me and the driver. Chu Tianqi lied, and then said, "It's not early, goodbye." ”

"Good night!" the other man's voice softened.

Chu Tianqi didn't reply again, but quickly hung up the phone.

It was Jiang Xia who called just now, and the two were separated in the 'taste' meal bag. At that time, Chu Tianqi and the other three left, and Jiang Xia went to continue to accompany her non-existent "friend". After coming out of the restaurant, Li Jian and Zhou Zikai's driver were already waiting outside. Driven by Li Jian, Chu Tianqi sent Cheng Aiguo home, and then went back to their respective rooms with Li Jian.

Jiang Xia has said many times that she wants to visit Cheng Aiguo and ask Chu Tianqi to introduce her. Chu Tianqi kept shirking, he didn't know what Cheng Aiguo meant. Jiang Xia publicly supported him many times at the Standing Committee, making him feel that he owed the other party a favor, so he politely proposed Jiang Xia's request to Cheng Aiguo in mid-April. At that time, after listening to Chu Tianqi's words, Cheng Aiguo asked a few more questions and gave a sentence "Chance encounters are more natural".

Chu Tianqi understands that "chance encounters" are indeed more convenient, if they feel that they can be absorbed into the same camp, they will absorb it, and if they feel that Jiang Xia is not available, everyone will not feel embarrassed, and there is a basis for advancing and retreating. So, he designed today's chance encounter, and specially made up a lesson about "Qingfeng Prefecture County Chronicles". Judging from the situation on the spot, the effect is very good.

Jiang Xia actually has such a detailed grasp of Cheng Aiguo's resume, and her on-site performance is also very eye-catching, it seems that she is not as simple as she usually shows in front of herself. If you think about it carefully, how can a woman in her thirties become a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee at the deputy department level if she does not have a little bit of the city government? It seems that she is simple, and she will have to look at her with new eyes in the future. Usually, Jiang Xia and herself are always a little tired, and they still think that the other party has something, but now it seems that it should be just a strategy of the other party. Of course, you can't despise the other party for doing this, it's just that your understanding is a little crooked. Thinking of this, Chu Tianqi couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and secretly said in his heart: She is not a fuel-efficient lamp.