It is a competition jointly organized by all well-known catering institutions in the country. Each of the selected catering establishments will send a representative to participate in this big stomach competition. The Four Seasons Hotel, which is as small as her family, is also going to participate in the competition. I think it's better for you to participate in this race as a representative of the Four Seasons Hotel this time. ”

Li Mengxin took a glass of red wine in her hand, shook it casually, and explained.

"The big stomach king competition, it's really different enough, how can this kind of boring competition. Du Lei pursed his lips.

Although he can eat very well, it doesn't mean that he thinks that being able to eat is a very powerful ability to show off.

The Big Stomach King Champion is not like a running champion, gymnastics champion, dance champion and the like, except to prove that you are a rice bucket, there seems to be no glory in addition.

"It's boring, but companies don't care about that. Those catering institutions, holding this competition and sending representatives, are nothing more than increasing their popularity and implanting soft advertisements. At that time, radio interviews and newspaper publications, even if they were a joke, as long as the people liked it, the company also increased the exposure opportunity by the way...... In particular, the champion of the big stomach, the catering institution he represents, will be well-known and remembered by the people at that time, and the benefits will be greatly ......"

Li Mengxin continued to explain.

"Du Lei, we just asked if you were interested, if you don't want to participate, it's fine. Han Yueru hurriedly explained on the side.

"The winner of the Big Stomach Contest has a million prize money. Li Mengxin seduced.

"Rub, so much money, of course participate!" Du Lei slapped his thigh excitedly, his eyes lit up.

He's going crazy with poverty now, if he participates in this big stomach king competition, with his current foodie ability, it's not like playing with him to win a championship, and a million is at his fingertips, this good thing doesn't happen often.

"Hehe, Xiaoru, it seems that this time the hotel of your group can be advertised. Li Mengxin crossed her arms and said to Han Yueru with a smile.

This matter, even if it is decided. The time of the Big Stomach King competition is a week later.

After chatting for a while, Li Mengxin took Han Yueru to go shopping, so Du Lei also left the hotel.

It was already afternoon, Du Lei walked slowly along the shade of palm trees along the road, and walked towards his residence.

The afternoon sun shines on the palm leaves, rippling greenery, like a sea full of life.

Next to the road, there is a very broad lake, sparkling, this is the dragon lake that everyone in Rongcheng knows, the legend has it that there was a dragon in ancient times, lurking in it. Youlong Lake is connected to the Rongjiang River and the Yangtze River.

In the distance, Du Lei also saw another angler sitting by the lake.

I don't know why, when he saw this side of Longhu, Du Lei felt an uncontrollable strong impulse, which stirred out of his bones, wanting to jump into the lake and swim freely.

Find someone else who doesn't pay attention to the location of the lake to prevent others from seeing it, mistakenly thinking that it is a young man who is out of love and can't jump into the lake, and then call the police or something.

Jumping into the cold lake water, Du Lei suddenly seemed to have a feeling of being at home.

The pattern on his chest was bright for a while, and the slightest warm current flowed through, Du Lei waved his hands and feet slightly, and the whole person suddenly became like a swordfish, fusiform in the water.

"This feeling!" Du Lei was surprised.

Du Lei used to swim, but he wasn't very good at it alone, but it was just average. However, at that moment just now, he swam freely in the water as if he couldn't feel the resistance of the water at all, and he was more comfortable than running on land!

It's as if he's more of an aquatic fish than a terrestrial primate.

It is estimated that to participate in the swimming Olympics, Phelps will kneel.

"Is it because of the tattoo?"

Overlord, but the legendary water beast, the descendant of Xuanwu. If it is a tyrant, it is indeed more comfortable in the water than on land.

Du Lei thought for a moment, and then, a secret child, plunged into the lake.

At the bottom of the clear Dragon Lake, Du Lei swam as flexibly as a fish.

He found a very magical state!

That is, he found that in the water, he can actually "breathe". It's as if the countless pores of the whole body are able to absorb the oxygen dissolved in the water.

He had been swimming underwater for twenty minutes, and he did not have the slightest sign of breathing difficulties.

"Grandma's, I'm an aquatic animal. Du Lei muttered in his heart.

"However, this is good, if you really become an aquatic animal, you will be developed in the future, especially in the ocean, if you find treasures, dig into sunken ships, and become local tyrants in minutes!"

Thinking of this possibility, Du Lei's excited eyes lit up.

"I just don't know how much my body can withstand pressure and how deep I can dive into the water!"

Although you can breathe underwater, it doesn't mean that you can ignore the strong pressure underwater, and the average person can get a diving certificate by diving five or six meters. And the average diver, it's terrible. The world's fiercest record is more than 300 meters underwater, which requires diving equipment.

Du Lei felt that his physical fitness was much better than before, and he didn't know how deep he could dive, but this tour of Longhu Lake was only ten meters deep in total, and he couldn't measure it at all.

Just as he was thinking, a two-foot-long grass carp swam by.

"Wow, this fish is so big, it's enough to eat a meal if you catch him. Du Lei's heart moved, his limbs moved, and he chased after the grass carp.

At this moment, Du Lei's swimming speed in the water was much faster than that of grass carp, and he caught up at once.

However, the grass carp was too flexible, moving up and down, and Du Lei was stunned to catch it a few times, but he didn't catch it.

"Stop!"

After grabbing many times in a row, but not catching it, Du Lei inexplicably gave birth to an irritability, and a strong tyrannical aura was born from his body and passed out.

Just for a moment, the grass carp seemed to have been immobilized, as if petrified, motionless.

Du Lei successfully caught the fish in his hand, and the fish didn't struggle. For some reason, he seemed to see extreme horror in the eyes of the fish.

"Damn, is there something in my body that is similar to the domineering existence in "One Piece"? As soon as I exerted my domineering energy, the fish were all suppressed and didn't dare to move. ”

Du Lei looked incredible.

Next, he experimented a few more times, and sure enough, all the fish that he swept with his "tyrannical consciousness" seemed to have lost all their strength, and they were powerless to escape. Even if a few super fierce big fish still have the strength to struggle, the speed of swimming is almost equal to nothing.

……

As if he had found a business opportunity, Du Lei rushed out of the lake, laughed, ran back home, took several very large laundry buckets, returned to Youlong Lake again, and jumped into the lake.

This time, he used "domineering" to shock all the fish he saw, and then grabbed them and put them into the bucket on the shore.

After a while, several buckets were already filled with fish and turtle pheasants that were constantly bouncing.

"Okay, almost, let's catch these first. ”

Du Lei is ready to go ashore, but he has been penniless recently, and these fish, when they are in the market, can be sold for a lot of money.

But at this moment, his gaze suddenly swept to a cowhide bag under the water.

At this time, the zipper of the cowhide bag came, revealing one of the yellow, orange and orange rectangles inside.

Du Lei's heart jumped violently, and he stepped forward in an instant and pulled out the cuboid-

"Gold nuggets! It turned out to be gold nuggets!" Du Lei was dumbfounded.

Then, he quickly opened the leather bag, and it was all filled with gold nuggets and some gold ornaments.

"It's gone, it's gone!"

Du Lei's eyes began to turn blood-red. These gold nuggets and gold ornaments can be quite numerous. There are more than a dozen gold bars alone, and they are large gold bars, about 500 grams, not counting jewelry, and the value is more than one million.

"It's just that there are gold bars at the bottom of this lake. After Du Lei was excited, he couldn't help but wonder.

These gold bars and ornaments, packed in leather bags, were either accidentally dropped or thrown in.

At this moment, a past incident came to mind, and Du Lei suddenly remembered a robbery case that occurred in Rongcheng a few years ago.

The two gangsters stormed a gold store, swept away all the valuable things in the store, and killed and wounded many clerks with homemade pistols, and fled all the way in a car.

When the Rongcheng police received the report, they were shocked and mobilized hundreds of police forces to surround the city, and finally surrounded the two by Youlong Lake.

With such a lineup, intercepted two robbers with homemade earthen guns, but as a result, they injured many police officers, and it took a day of stalemate before the robbers were taken down.

This incident caused a huge repercussion across the country at that time, and people accused China's criminal police of being really his special garbage!

But it's just two men with Hanyang earth-making guns.

After the robbers were arrested, the police did not get the robbed gold in the car.

Later, through the confession, it became known that these two witty robbers threw all the gold into the lake. In case he is killed, he will save the cheapest of these strips.

Later, the police sent some divers to the lake to salvage it, and they really found it. It's just that it wasn't all salvaged.

It seems that the gold in the leather bag in Du Lei's hand at the moment is the fish that slipped through the net back then.

"The proportion of gold is heavy, and if you fall into the lake, you must be deeply trapped in the soft silt, and it is impossible to salvage it all without a trace. In the end, the cost of salvage becomes relatively huge—"

Thinking of this, Du Lei's eyes became brighter and brighter, "Maybe, there are other gold." ”

Thinking like this, he couldn't hold back any longer, swam at the bottom of the lake, and continued to search for gold.

After that, Du Lei found three more scattered gold bars.

"Hey, it's done. It's just that there are so many gold bars, what to do with it. ”

Surrender to the state?!

What are you kidding, I'm not Wu Xie of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", pick up a bull's head and hand it over to the state.

In the afternoon, Du Lei carried a few buckets of fish and came to the aquatic market, intending to sell them.

He now has a million dollars worth of gold, but he can't afford to sell those things for the time being. In the short term, I still have to rely on selling fish to make a living.

The aquatic market is crowded with people and an endless stream of people. Du Lei simply put the big bucket on the side of the road and stopped walking around.

I found a piece of torn newspaper, spread it on the ground at random, and sat on it, saving even the booth fee.

Generally, fish sellers generally pay attention to the importance of stalls, and they will constantly use oxygen generators to inject oxygen into the water, for fear that the fish will die, which is as casual as Du Lei.

"Boss, how did you buy this fish?" A young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses who looked like a gentleman stared at the swimming fish in Du Lei's bucket and looked at it carefully.

Du Lei saw that a customer came to the door, got up from the ground, and introduced: "These are wild fish, I caught them in the lake in the suburbs. Herring carp, silver carp, grass carp, all ten pieces. ”

Du Lei has seen the price of fish in the aquatic market, and these fish are generally seven or eight yuan.

Comparatively speaking, wild fish species absorb a variety of natural essences and have higher nutritional value, while farmed fish have low nutritional value due to hormones and other factors, fast growth rate, high yield, and lack of natural breeding process.

Coupled with the supply and demand reasons, the supply of wild cannot be the same as that of farming, and the supply can be increased in a relatively short period of time when the demand is large.

For these two reasons, the price of wild fish is generally much higher than that of captivity, which is why Du Lei quoted this price.

In fact, no one has ever been able to accurately assess the price of wild fish.

The young man pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile: "Well, it's not too expensive, if it is a purebred wild fish species, even if the price is raised a little more, there will be many people willing to buy it." ”

The young man seemed to be very honest, which made Du Lei have a good impression of him.

At this time, the young man pointed to a fish in the barrel and asked Du Lei: "Boss, what kind of fish is this? Why is it so strange? Do you know it?"

A strong hope and blazing fire flashed in the eyes of the young man, but it was very vague and disappeared in a flash, and even Du Lei didn't notice it.

Du Lei looked at the barrel and found that the young man pointed to a strange fish he had caught in Youlong Lake in the morning.

The body length is about half a meter, it is extraordinarily slender, the whole body is as white as snow, without a trace of variegated flaws, Du Lei has never seen such a pure white fish species since he was a child. The fish also has a pair of lip whiskers growing from its mouth, swaying gracefully in the bucket.

"I don't know. Du Lei said very shamefully.

The young man snickered for a while, but did not show it: "There are many kinds of fish, and there are countless of them. It is also normal to not know. However, I think this pure white fish is really beautiful, and the ornamental value must be good. I don't have any other habits, but I like to raise some ornamental fish and cultivate my temperament. Otherwise, you can sell this fish to me. I don't need to weigh it, I'll pay 200 yuan. ”

Du Lei was overjoyed, this pure white strange fish weighed only a few catties at most, and it could be sold for 200 yuan, which far exceeded his estimate.

"How embarrassing is this? This fish weighs only a few pounds, and it can't be sold for this price. Du Lei's heart blossomed, but he pretended to be embarrassed and replied duplicitously.

"It's okay, it's okay, this snow-white fish is so beautiful, in my opinion, it's worth the price. The young man looked very eager to buy this strange fish, and there was a hint of impatience in his tone, and he looked left and right at the passers-by from time to time.

Such a strange move made Du Lei puzzled. Generally speaking, customers buy things at a price that can be pushed down, so they try to push it down, how can a young man buy things like this? The seller seems to be impatient when the price is lowered.

Could it be that he is a gentleman, or is he brain-dead?

"Little brother, this arowana must not be sold to him!"

At this moment, a clear, slightly old voice came.

Du Lei looked up and found that an old man in Tang costume walked over slowly, staring at the snow-white strange fish in the barrel with motionless eyes.

"Old man, what do you mean?" The young man's face changed, and Du Lei heard a trace of resentment from his tone.

The old man glanced at him with disdain, then focused his gaze on the fish again, and sneered, "What do you mean? Tsk, you actually want to spend 200 yuan to buy this mutant Arowana, your kid's heart is not ordinary black!"

The young man's eyes were blazing with anger, no wonder, he was finally able to make a big profit, but he was destroyed by the old man in front of him, how could he not be angry?

"Old man, don't talk nonsense, I paid two hundred yuan to buy this silver arowana, and the price is very reasonable. ”

What? Silver Arowana? So, this guy knows the species of this fish? That's it, just now he asked himself pretendedly.

Thinking of this, Du Lei was furious.

Obviously, the young man in front of him regarded him as a turtle who didn't know anything from the beginning!

Even if you take this fish home and cook it and eat it, you won't sell it to him!

"Hehe, silver Arowana, don't tell me, you can't see that this Arowana is one in a million mutant varieties of silver Arowana - snow Arowana. Young people, be honest!"

The old man paid no attention to the young man's anger and corruption, and still reprimanded him like a son.

The young man's face was blue and red for a while, and a hideous color gradually appeared: "Old man, you are too nosy!"

Annoyed and angry, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and push at the old man.

When Du Lei saw this, he was ready to stop it.

He just wanted to make a move, but someone was faster than him. I saw a ghost-like phantom, like a spiritual snake out of a hole, rushing towards the young man, and then, with a sound of "Peng", the young man was knocked out like a sack and fell far to the ground.

"So fast!"

Du Lei was shocked. The phantom just now was the old man's right hand thrown out in an instant. It's just that the speed of protruding is like a lightning speed, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see clearly.

The old man still stood in place, maintaining his original posture, standing with his hands tied, his face indifferent, as if it was not his hand at all just now.

The strength of the old man's hand was very measured, and the young man was knocked out by a blow and fell to the ground, and did not seem to be injured.

trembling and getting up from the ground, the young man's arrogant attitude did not restrain in the slightest, but stared at the old man with red eyes and gritted teeth: "Old man, this time I admit it." However, please also leave your name, I have written down this account by someone!"

"Haha, it's just a clown jumping off the beam, the old man is afraid that you won't make it!" The old man laughed loudly and said proudly: "The old man is flat Liuhe!"

What a domineering name! Du Lei smashed his mouth, looked at the old man who burst out of Wang Ba's anger, and thought secretly. Looking at this posture, could it be that this old man is a figure with a head and a face?

"Ping Liuhe, okay, I'll write you down, the mountains don't turn around, and I'll find the old man to settle this account sooner or later." Ping Liuhe, hum, huh, old man, you-you-" The young man said in a fierce voice, suddenly as if something was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say any more.

"Excuse me, the second master of Ping Zhong Mouping, the president of the Ping Group, and the fourth master of the peace of the four seas, who are you old?"

As if thinking of something, the young man's face turned pale in an instant, his legs kept trembling, a trace of fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and behind the thick lenses of his gold-rimmed glasses, a pair of eyes were full of fear.

The old man snorted coldly and said, "It's the old man's two unsuccessful sons. ”

The bad premonition became a reality, and the young man could no longer stand the fright, his body shook, and he fell to the ground softly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was you who was old, how offended, you don't care about the villain, just forgive me-" The young man lay on the ground in panic, and kept kowtowing to the old man, sweat pouring out of his forehead.

He never thought that the old man in front of him, who was not ordinary, would be a super god in Rongcheng City-Ping Zhongmou's father who sought peace all over the world. I don't know whether I live or die, and I want to do something to him, thinking of this, the sweat on the young man's forehead is even more.

Ping Zhongmou is okay, although he is the controller of the Ping Group and has all the power, but after all, he is a positive person in society, and he should not be like him. But Ping Sihai is different, Ping Sihai can be said to be a veritable underground emperor in the Rongcheng area, if this matter is not handled well today, maybe it will not be long before he will be thrown into the Rongjiang River by some people.

When passers-by at the fish market saw this, they all gathered around and whispered about it.

"Huh, isn't this guy old?" asked an aunt who was shopping for vegetables.

"Ping Lao's temper has always been very good, and he will not take the initiative to find fault. Looking at it like this, it is estimated that this young man has provoked Ping Lao. ”

"Ping Lao's eldest son Ping Changkong is a major general of the military, the second son Ping Zhongmou is the controller of the Ping consortium, and the third daughter married into the Han family, a financial giant in Rongcheng, especially the fourth son, who is an underground bastard in the Rongcheng area. ”

……

"Forget it, let's go, pay attention next time, don't feel like a bully when you see the old and weak. ”

"Thank you, thank you, Pinglao!" The young man got up from the ground, straightened the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and then bowed gratefully to Ping Liuhe and disappeared into the crowd. The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed.

The old man did not leave, but came up again with interest, focused his eyes on the body of the snow dragonfish, and admired: "This snow dragon fish is more than forty centimeters long, and the most rare thing is that it can be seen from the slender and solid body that it is not artificially cultivated, or it is a fish species that has been put into the farm halfway." Snow Dragon itself is one of the most mutated species among silver Arowanas, and it is extremely rare for it to grow to such a length in the wild......

The old man's eyes flickered, and he seemed to like the strange fish that Du Lei inadvertently caught, and he commented for a long time.

"Hey, how can the lip whiskers of this snow dragon fish be so long? The average snow dragon fish, although it is produced by the mutation of the silver dragon fish, but it only has the characteristic of 'albinism', and the lip whiskers themselves will not become longer, this snow dragon fish, the lip whiskers are two or three times longer than the lip whiskers of ordinary arowana, which is very ......rare."

Ping Liuhe has been raising flowers and fish for decades, and he thinks that his research on flowers, grasses, insects and fish has reached the level of a master, but at this moment, he can't eat it accurately.

"This snow dragon, it can't be mutated again, right?"

Ping Liuhe was surprised in his heart, raised his head and said, "Little brother, you fish, I will give 300,000 ...... No, 400,000, buy it, what do you think?"

"What? 400,000?"

Du Lei was frightened.

Although the words of the young man with gold wire glasses and Heping Liuhe just now revealed the rarity and preciousness of this snow dragonfish, Du Lei never thought that such a slightly more beautiful strange fish would be worth so much money.

"What? Isn't it too low, yes, ordinary Arowana is almost the price. This snow dragon fish, it seems, is peculiar among snow dragonfish. The fish whiskers are so long, maybe they are mutations of mutants. The price can be discussed. ”

"Haha, it's not low, it's a deal" Du Lei was so happy that his mouth was about to crack to the back of his head, and he smirked. When he met an honest person like the old man, even if he could raise the price again, he would be embarrassed.