Yi Baitang took Shang Huaiyan to a scenic spot in the suburbs of Beijing.

The car walked on the familiar road, and when it reached the ground, it turned into a small road on the left, and then drove along the winding section for a while, and finally arrived at its final destination, a village of about seventy or eighty families.

A plaque carved with a dragon and a phoenix is hung on the archway of this village, and the three big characters of "Juewei Village" are clear and eye-catching! Under the archway, there is also a roll-up banner that is pressed down by stone and erected in front of the village, and it still stands proudly despite the sound of the surrounding wind.

It reads:

Juewei Village welcomes friends from all over the world to come for sightseeing, please buy a ticket first, and a fee guide is attached.

Admission fee: 10,000.

One meal per person: 10,000.

Accommodation per person per night: 30,000.

No change, no refunds.

Tong Su was not deceived and refused to bargain.

When he got out of the car, Shang Huaiyan looked at the sign and was silent for a long time.

If he's not mistaken:

"Is this a sky-high village that has ever been exposed in the time of the rule of law......"

"That's right." Yi Baitang replied calmly.

He pulled Shang Huaiyan and went in.

The entrance position of the whole village is quite unique. First there is an archway with a plaque, and then there is a wooden porch, the porch is narrow, like a toll station in many tourist places, and after the toll station, there are fields and houses.

At the entrance at the back of the porch sat an old man smoking a cigarette with his head bowed. There were two tables in front of the old man, one table had a credit card machine, and the other table was much more messy, a handful of greens, a few green onions, and two or three live fish that jumped down from time to time, all piled up on the table, and I don't know why he put the things that should be in the kitchen here.

Yi Baitang jumped over the credit card machine, took something on another table, shook it at the old man behind the table, and then took Shang Huaiyan past the toll booth.

The old man glanced at it, but didn't stop it.

Shang Huaiyan, who was about to take a bank card and swipe it: "......" he said strangely, "What did you take?" ”

Yi Baitang spread out his hand, and a green onion lay quietly in his palm.

Shang Huaiyan guessed: "Is this the code word of your chef association?" ”

Yi Baitang was careless: "It's not a code word, it's just a convention." The chef doesn't have to pay to come in, and he picks the freshest ingredient from the table. ”

Shang Huaiyan thought about it and felt that it didn't seem to be too rigorous: "What if someone in the back sees you pick out the right materials and chooses them with you?" ”

"Hmm......" Yi Baitang's eyes were like streamers, and he slid across Shang Huaiyan's face, "Why do you think that when a bunch of green onions are put together, they are picked at the same time?" ”

Shang Huaiyan: "......"

With such a sinister intention, he was breathtaking!

It was nearly noon, and a dazzling layer of sunlight sprinkled from the sky on the path of the two of them.

On both sides of the road, the fields are boundless, and the seedlings are green; The surrounding canal is like a shining jade belt, surrounding the pond, zigzag, river shrimp, small fish, frogs, grasshoppers, all in the water and fields leisurely, the clouds and mist in the distant scenic area have been dispersed by the sun, only the shade of the verdant trees continues, forming a huge green barrier, horizontal at the end of the line of sight.

Two more steps along the road, and houses appeared in front of the two of them.

Most of the houses here are detached, all two or three stories high, built around the open space in front of them, just circle a circular area, in the circular area, there are many sheds built together, the people in the sheds are much more than Shang Huaiyan expected, each standing in front of different stalls and talking to each other.

The two quickly entered the shed.

Shang Huaiyan glanced at it, and the stall on the left sold cabbage, which was a strange blue-purple color compared to ordinary cabbage. Someone is standing in front of the stall, holding it and gesturing at the stall owner. In front of the right side of the cabbage is a fenced place, in which a cow is slamming left and right, which is not strange, but it is strange that there are twenty or thirty people running with the cow, and it looks like a cow is chasing a man, and it looks like a man is chasing a cow; Without waiting for Shang Huaiyan to take a second look, another cold transport truck stopped in front, after the car was stable, two people got out of the car, one left and one right opened the door of the rear compartment, and one of the slightly smaller boxes came out, with the opening of this box, only to hear the sound of "bang", the smelly sea water gushed out of the box, and an inconspicuous shadow was shaking on the edge of the box.

Yi Baitang: "What is sold here is a new type of hybrid vegetable. The buyer bids two thousand. ”

Shang Huaiyan: "That cabbage seems to have been poisoned......"

Yi Baitang was casual: "The taste is indeed similar to being poisoned." The cow that runs in the cattle farm is Kobe cow. There has always been a tacit understanding in the world of chefs that meat is cut and cooked while the living animal is still moving. ”

Shang Huaiyan: "Kobe beef is all contraband, let alone cattle......"

Yi Baitang said again: "As for the seafood transport truck, well, it's a bit interesting. ”

Shang Huaiyan took a look, and suddenly found that a tentacle poked its head out of the box with streams of seawater, wandering back and forth on the staff around the box.

The staff in blue clothes were very calm, each holding a hose to flush the water into the box.

In a moment, the tentacles grew, and a terrifying octopus that looked almost the size of half a man slowly emerged from the water.

Shang Huaiyan: Confused.jpg.

Yi Baitang said: "Basically, you can find most of the precious ingredients in the world here, and the prices are fair, but there are also some bad things," his face showed a slight unhappiness, "There are too few things, there are too many people competing, rare ingredients are often out of print, and there are some strange ones, and one person can't take them...... All right," the slight unhappiness in his words turned to brisk again, "here we are. ”

Shang Huaiyan didn't pay much attention to what Yi Baitang said just now.

He suddenly realized that in this paragraph, Yi Baitang had changed his tone several times.

A qiē change has happened since last night.

It was as if he had picked up a cat from the street and had spent two or three months taking care of it and feeding it carefully, and the time was finally not in vain, and the proud cat was raised, and it opened its mouth to 'meow' to him.

From the outside market to the interior.

Yi Baitang took Shang Huaiyan to stand in front of a stone-built fish pond, the fish in the fish pond were about the size of a palm, swimming around in groups, anyway, it was the kind of fish that Shang Huaiyan couldn't name.

Yi Baitang squatted down next to the pool, put his hands in the water, and motioned for Shang Huaiyan to follow along.

"It's a special ingredient called Pisces, and you can't catch them alone," he explains. ”

Shang Huaiyan wondered: "Then?" ”

Yi Baitang said coldly: "No more." That's what makes them so special. ”

Shang Huaiyan: "......" No, this cat is still as arrogant as before.

"Chef Yi is still the same!" There was a sudden laughter next to him, and then, a young man dressed as an assistant walked over quickly, and said familiarly, "Chef Yi is here to talk to our Manager Wang about business today, right?" The manager is talking on the phone in the office, and Chef Yi waits for a moment to see if he can fish out a pair of pisces with his friends. ”

He turned to Shang Huaiyan again and said: "Pisces is a very peculiar fish, it is said that it has found its lifelong mate since birth, and since then they have been in pairs no matter where they go or what they do, and this relationship will not end until they die." Perhaps it is due to the fact that they are always in a good mood during the short period of fish sui, and the meat of this fish is very delicate and has a faint sweetness, which gourmets who have eaten Pisces meat say that this taste is the taste of love. But at the same time, they are very fragile fish, and if one of them is out of sync with the other, they will be heartbroken at the same time, and the meat will become bitter, like bitter bile soaking the flesh of the fish......"

Shang Huaiyan didn't know how to evaluate this special glass-hearted sesame gallbladder fish.

But at this time, Yi Baitang suddenly shouted: "Stop!" ”

The palm immersed in the water subconsciously retracted, and Shang Huaiyan grabbed a double fish that just swam into his palm out of the water. He turned his head again and saw that Yi Baitang had also caught the same fish in his hand.

Shang Huaiyan looked at it: "Are these two pairs?" ”

Before Yi Baitang could answer, the assistant next to him was already surprised: "That's right, it's a pair, I didn't expect you to catch a pair at once." Pisces are not a pair that is easy to identify, if you don't catch a pair of Pisces at the same time, then-"

The assistant reached into the water and grabbed a fish casually, Shang Huaiyan only saw that the fish, which was originally white and tender, with shimmering pearlescent scales, suddenly became sluggish after a few violent struggles, and then the whole body became gray and mottled, and it was not fresh at all in the blink of an eye.

The assistant pointed to the water again: "Look." ”

Shang Huaiyan saw at a glance that there was also a fish in the water that was gradually becoming gray and mottled, and soon it was motionless like the one in the assistant's hand.

The assistant scooped up the two fish and threw them into the processing pond on the side, conjured up a calculator, and pressed a series of numbers on it: "I wonder if Yi Kitchen sells this pair of double fish?" If it's going to sell, there happens to be an owner who wants to taste them and gives this number—"

Yi Baitang interrupted the other party: "Raise it, I made this fish and ate it myself." Your manager is done with the phone, you can take me there. ”

The assistant turned his head to see that in the glass window at the end of the hallway, the office manager had just finished making a phone call, leaning back in his chair, looking at this place with a not very good face.

He smiled: "That's okay, Chef Yi come with me." ”

"Begonia." Shang Huaiyan took a step behind and said in Yi Baitang's ear.

“？”

"Later, you will negotiate the purchase price directly with her?" Shang Huaiyan asked.

"Maybe there will be some special conditions." Yi Baitang said.

"She doesn't seem to be in a good mood." Shang Huaiyan said softly, "It's mostly related to feelings. ”

"......" Yi Baitang glanced at the woman in the office, but didn't see anything special.

"Trust me. This kind of thing, I won't be wrong, after all, ......" Shang Huaiyan smiled slightly, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a phone call.

He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it, gestured to Yi Baitang, and walked to the side to answer the assistant's call first.

"What's the matter?"

At the same time as he answered the phone, Yi Baitang had already entered the office with the person leading the way, and the door closed in front of Shang Huaiyan's eyes, but the glass window that occupied half of the wall easily showed a qiē in the office.

Shang Huaiyan listened to the assistant while watching:

"Mr. Shang, on the itinerary, you have a business trip in two days, will you hand it over to the people below or ......?"

Yi Baitang walked up to the manager, sat down with his back to him, and they began to talk......

Shang Huaiyan looked at it, gently pursed his lips, and smiled with a little playfulness:

"No, I'll go by myself, I don't seem to have much fun here lately."