On the first day of arriving in Wenjia Village, he was dismounted by his own research object, Professor Parker felt a little faceless, Americans are also good-looking, face is not only Chinese, so Professor Parker decided to go to the restaurant, by the way to investigate the food conditions here, after all, to live here for a few months. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Parker said that he had been to China once, but that was more than ten years ago, and Parker did not like to eat Chinese food, even if it was improved by the United States, he did not like it, because he felt that Chinese food was too greasy and not good for his health. So he will eat Western food whenever he has the opportunity, and it is authentic Western food, fortunately, in his memory, eating in China is very cheap, his income in the United States is average, but spending dollars in China has a special sense of pride as an American. To this day, he still remembers the god-like feeling of spending dollars in the past.

"Jamie, call Susan, let's go to the restaurant at noon today to find out how the most expensive restaurant here is!" Parker left the crowd and turned to a curly-haired, young man with glasses next to him.

Parker feels that since he is here, it is not easy to work in China, so let's have a meal to boost morale!

When the little glasses man called Jamie heard this, he immediately nodded, and then trotted towards the stilted building where he was staying.

Now it seems that these researchers can no longer afford to live in the villa area, it is very simple, the friendly price is gone, and their funds to live in stilted buildings have been discounted, that is, these international people have the treatment of living in stilted buildings, such as Mr. Jia, in order to save money in the dormitory of the laboratory, four people in a room! Even the treatment of the waiter in the Wenjia Village restaurant is not as good.

Professor Parker doesn't have such an awareness now, he thinks about how expensive prices in developing countries will be in the past ten years. So he took the other two assistants and swaggered straight towards the restaurant.

When I arrived at the door of the restaurant, I looked inside and felt that the environment inside was very good, spotless and clean, so Professor Parker opened his mouth and said: "It is indeed much better than before, when I came to it before, it was like this kind of small village, let alone a restaurant, and even a decent house was rare......."

As soon as he entered the courtyard, a waiter came up to him, and although he was not very standard, he absolutely understood English and asked Professor Parker, "Sir, how many of you are?" Chinese or Western? ”

"Western food, we like the real taste of Western food, not the kind that has been improved by the Chinese market!" Professor Parker also made a point of emphasis.

The waiter smiled and said, "Sir, please rest assured, the chef of our restaurant has four years of experience in a three-Michelin-starred restaurant!" Western food: Authentic French taste! ”

Hearing the waiter say this, Parker's expression was faint: "I hope so!" ”

After speaking, he said to the waiter: "I still have some companions, I'll come over later."

"It's okay, my colleague will lead them up later, everyone, please" said the waiter turned to one side, and kept this posture all the time, leading Parker and the others to take the elevator to the western restaurant on the third floor.

"The environment is not bad!" Parker sat down by the window, looked at the surroundings of the restaurant, and felt that the decoration and furnishings were of a very high standard, so he couldn't help but nod secretly.

Turning his head and looking around, he found that the table next to him was almost full of people, although there were many people, but it was unusually quiet, there was no Chinese eating in the restaurant as described in the American media and making loud noise, but it was similar to him going to some high-grade restaurants in the United States, and everyone maintained dining etiquette.

When a few sat down, soon a waiter came over and asked a few to drink something, a few people looked at the tea list, and found that the tea is very expensive, and the coffee is not cheap, that is, the mineral water is free, so they asked for a few glasses of mineral water.

After ordering the mineral water, Parker paid attention to the waiter's expression, and did not find any expression fluctuations in the waiter, so he couldn't help but praise the standard of the waiter here. Even if Parker eats in the United States, sometimes he will be stingy and will be looked down upon by the waiter.

It's just that what Parker doesn't know is that there are almost no people who come to Western restaurants to eat now, and there are almost no people who order tea and coffee, and every guest likes to drink this kind of strictly filtered spring water produced by Wenjia Village, not only because it is free, but also because it is rumored to be rich in trace elements, and everyone says that it is beneficial to the human body.

The waiter didn't despise him because the people who knew it, and the regular customers liked to drink it, and these waiters were used to it, and it was the surprise that someone ordered food, water, and coffee.

The waiter was doing well, but now that Parker had read the tea list, he was a little uneasy, and he always felt as if the purse in his pocket was a little difficult to breathe.

"Waiter, please show me the menu" Parker raised his hand, and immediately a waiter walked over, bending slightly to listen to Parker's request.

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When the people who sat down got the menu, they collectively took a breath of cool air, and they were all stupefied by the price on the menu.

On the first page, it is written in Chinese and English: special dish, starter, French baked snails, 675 yuan, soup: blue hat mushroom truffle soup, main course: truffle juice and beef steak, which is also divided into two kinds of truffles in Chinese and French, each of which is more than 2,000, so to speak, except for salad, almost no dish is under 600 yuan.

A hundred dollars for a salad? It would be strange if Professor Parker didn't sweat!

Don't think that just some professors in China are poor, a large part of American professors are also poor!

Take Parker as an example, the annual salary is the appearance of a white-collar worker, don't look at the annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, it is very popular, go to taxes or something, and get it is almost 40,000 US dollars, not to mention the old, but the lower is small, and the wife is not working, isn't the family's expenses all money? Of course, there are also professors and professors in the United States who are incomparable, such as the famous professors of law, who can start at 200,000 US dollars, some professors have luxury houses and cars, and some professors just eat chaff vegetables, which is exactly the same as in China.

Let's put it this way, some people can't look down on Chinese professors who can't act, and similarly American professors don't have a few Hollywood movie stars, this is a normal phenomenon, it is estimated that there may be differences under the rule of Jin San, and this is the case in other countries.

What's even more bitter is that Parker is still engaged in zoological research, what can this category make a fortune? It is estimated that it is difficult to find funders, and research funds have to be funded, where will the money come from to eat in high-end restaurants? Even if you hold back for a month or two on your wedding anniversary, take your daughter-in-law out to eat at a good restaurant, your daughter-in-law can be happy for a month, where can you enjoy this standard of living!

As a result, a professor of nearly fifty and two assistants flipped through the menu while cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Parker knew that if he and the others had a meal here, it was estimated that the investors behind him would immediately jump to their feet, and this meal would have to cost at least nearly 3,000 US dollars. Pay it yourself? Don't be silly! In the next half a month to a month, he and his assistants had to tie up their mouths.

"I don't think we'd better stop eating Western food, take us to a Chinese restaurant!" Parker flipped through the entire menu from beginning to end, and felt that he could be scared enough just by looking at this menu, so he decided to try it at a Chinese restaurant.

When the waiter heard this, the smile on his face remained unchanged, and he stretched out his hand to ask Parker to follow him.

Just when the Parker had walked less than ten steps, they turned around and found that they were already seated in their original seats, and the couple with a child had already begun to point to the menu and order. The way the two reached out to poke the menu, Parker's heart trembled.

After passing a few tables, Parker also looked at the dishes on their table, and had to admit that from the presentation alone, these dishes were quite standard, at least surpassing the restaurants he had been to in Los Angeles.

Parker said in his heart: When did the Chinese even have such a small mountain village so rich?

The waiter led the servant downstairs to the Chinese restaurant, but the servant continued to sweat after looking at the menu, this list is not necessarily cheaper than the western restaurant on the third floor, and the most suitable for his own people to eat is estimated to be the so-called golden fried rice, 275 yuan a piece.

But sitting here, six people each holding a piece of fried rice to eat? Although Parker can be thick-skinned, but forty dollars for a fried rice? Parker felt like he had to go crazy.

Parker also understands that he is in the wrong place today! Originally, these people came with a large bag of things, but they were afraid that they would come to a small mountain village in China, and the poor would not have anything to eat.

Now I found out that there is everything to eat in this mountain village, the only thing that makes me embarrassed is that the wallet in my pocket is not enough to support the consumption here, I originally brought what steak, dried fruit, I feel that I must make the people here very envious, and now it seems that there is a bitter self-knowledge, but when I came, I felt that there was nothing to eat, and now when I arrived at this restaurant, I found that in addition to making it myself, my group could hardly afford to eat anything!

"Is there anything cheaper in your restaurant, it's really too expensive for us," Parker said as he closed the menu and spoke to the waiter.

At this time, Parker completely did not have the impression of coming to China ten years ago, at that time, he could easily enter any restaurant in China with a dollar wave, without thinking about the price at all, waiting for him to come back ten years later, he felt that he could not find that feeling at all, the feeling that the dollar is omnipotent, so that Professor Parker at this moment is nostalgic.

Maybe I don't have enough dollars! Parker glanced at the menu at hand, and thought to himself.

The waiter was still very enthusiastic when he heard this, and opened his mouth and said, "Then you can go to the restaurant next to you, and the cost of each person's meal is about one hundred and fifty to two hundred!" Do you want me to take you there? ”

Although this price still made Parker feel a little expensive, but after two scares, Parker thought the price was very cute, so he nodded to the waiter.

In this way, the six foreigners who had just arrived in Wenjia Village spent forty dollars each to eat their first meal in Wenjia Village, and it was a very memorable meal, and they began to wonder who was a third world country as an American.

When the group of six returned to the small building on stilts where they lived, they met Professor Jia's student, Liu Guangyong, at the door.

Liu Guangyong had been waiting for them for nearly forty minutes, and he had also looked around the village, but no one noticed that this group of people had entered the restaurant in Wenjia Village that allowed ordinary people to have heart attacks when they read the menu.

"Professor Parker? I'm here to deliver you a meal card! Liu Guangyong reached out and took six paper cards, which were stamped with the school's seal.

"It's too expensive to eat here!" Parker said with a sigh of relief.

Susan said, "The cheapest meal costs forty dollars a person!" ”

When Liu Guangyong heard this, he immediately said, "You won't be going to the restaurant in the villa area over there, right?" ”

"Huh? Are there any other restaurants? ”

Liu Guangyong pointed to Liyu Bay not far away: "There is a small home-style restaurant over there, and it is about twenty or thirty yuan for a person, but the dishes used are all picked from outside, not locally produced, and the dishes in the restaurant area in the villa area over there are all self-produced, or imported by air, and the price is naturally fatal!" ”

Liu Guangyong thought of their suspicious price, and immediately shook his head with a wry smile, what made Liu Guangyong even more indignant was that the business of such a high restaurant was quite good, and a meal of several thousand yuan seemed to be like a night market stall eating thirteen spiced lobsters for the people in the villa area.

His monthly salary is not enough for others to have a meal, I have to say that Liu Guangyong's heart is empty when he thinks about it, but now Liu Guangyong also sees the helplessness in the eyes of Parker and others, and suddenly feels a little better: It turns out that Americans are the same!

I have to say that Liu Guangyong's Ah Q spirit is quite good.