When he arrived at Bee Hill, he finally arrived home, and Black Nose gave Xiao Yifei a warm welcome home.

Li Qinglin said in surprise:

"Yo, you're a great kid, you actually got it to the United States."

The black nose came up to him, sniffed him, as if remembering his scent, and stood honestly and let Li Qinglin touch its head.

After visiting the villa, Li Qinglin was very envious of the spacious room, bright sunshine and fresh air.

At noon, Xiao Yifei personally made a Chinese meal for everyone. The vegetable seasonings in Isis Space are not yet ripe, but California has a large number of Chinese people, and there are Chinese supermarkets in larger places, so it is easy to buy ingredients and seasonings suitable for Chinese food. It's just that Xiao Yifei hasn't found a Chinese supermarket in Napa Valley yet, but fortunately, pork and daily vegetables are also sold in American supermarkets, so he needs to buy the seasoning from San Francisco. Xiao Yifei bought a lot of spices at one time and threw them in the refrigerator to use them slowly.

After dinner, Xiao Yifei took them to the old faithful geyser, this old faithful geyser is not the old faithful spring in Yellowstone Park, Yellowstone is world-famous, and the reputation of California is much smaller, so people named it California Old Faithful or Little Old Faithful.

The geyser is very close, just on the Tubs Road, less than 1 km from the winery, just a short walk.

Xiao Yifei introduced them to what was on the side of the road from time to time, and Li Qinglin complained about the Napa River:

"It's not a river, it's a creek that lifts it, and a ditch is the best way to describe it."

This is also normal, this is the upper reaches of the Napa River, even if it is the Yangtze River, the most upstream is not much water. The Napa River does not flow much throughout the valley until it reaches a width of 30 meters on the edge of downtown Napa, where it joins several important tributaries, and flows into the San Francisco Bay, where the Napa River is a small river.

Adults pay $10 to visit the geyser, and Xiao Yifei has been here before, and his opinion is that it is not worth $10, and about $3 is appropriate.

Entering the door is the gift shop, which contains some brief information about the geology and formation of the fountain, some photos and a brief history. Through a glass door, you go outside. There is a shallow pond on the ground, and there are some cement platforms in the pond, which is the vent of the geyser, and there are some wooden benches scattered around it, which is convenient for everyone to sit and wait for the geyser to erupt.

Sitting on a wooden chair and waiting for a while, there was a rumbling sound, followed by a puff of white smoke.

"The geyser is going to erupt."

Soon a stream of water came out, straight into the sky, and when the water rose to about 20 meters, it was powerless to rush up, and under the blowing of the wind, it fell like a pond.

Interstitial spring eruptions usually take more than 20 minutes apart, and if the time is prolonged, or the flow is abnormal, it means that there is an earthquake nearby. This is the wonder of this interstitial spring, which can predict earthquakes. To this end, infrared and other equipment were installed here, recording the time of his eruption and sending it to a laboratory to study the correlation between geysers and seismic activity.

The next eruption will have to wait, the operator understands the boredom of everyone waiting, and will feel that the money is not worth spending when leaving, so he raised some sheep nearby, so that everyone can feed the sheep to pass the time.

"Divine beast grass mud horse."

Li Qinglin suddenly pointed to a shed and shouted.

The two women also leaned over to watch.

Xiao Yifei replied to him: "It can be said that it is a divine beast, or it can be said that it is not." ”

"What do you mean?"

"This is a camel horse, and the mythical beast is an alpaca. They count cousins. ”

Li Qinglin had an expression of you just lying to me.

"Really, it's just that camels and alpacas are very difficult to distinguish, generally speaking, alpacas are more than 1.2 meters tall at the shoulder, and camels are less than 1 meter tall at the shoulder."

"Why do I think it's a little alpaca, is it true?"

Of course it is true, but alpacas, alpacas, alpacas, llamas, and camels are commonly referred to as laguars. You just treat it as a mythical beast. ”

After visiting here, everyone returned to the winery, picked up the car, and headed straight to the Indian Hot Springs Resort. After a volcanic mud bath and spa, the fatigue of the journey is swept away. Take a few swims in the thermal pool and soak up the sun on a chair on the shore.

"Hey, it's not fun for you here, it's still fun in the big city."

"You're used to staying in the big city, and how quiet life is in the countryside."

"It's been so long, it's your place, you can also take us to the bar or something."

Xiao Yifei leaned his head and explained in a low voice:

"It's not that I don't want to take you there, you have to go to Los Angeles and San Francisco to find your favorite bars. The bar there is only to your taste, and our bar here belongs to the country bar, where a large group of big men just drink and chat, and don't have your appetite. ”

"Why don't you take us there in Los Angeles?"

"It's the first time I've been to Los Angeles myself, and you know that the security in Los Angeles is complicated, and I don't even know where it's fun or safe, so how to take you to play. Next year, I'll take you next year. ”

"Okay, you said it yourself, I'll take a small book and write it down for you."

"Do you need to be so exaggerated, be careful that Xu Shuyun cleans you up."

After a pause, he continued:

"Actually, it's not that you can't find the best place, those resort hotel bars can find what you want, and the people who come here are some worth or tourists like you. But, do you dare? ”

"Hey, I'm so grumpy, I really don't dare."

"Well, as a sign of my apologies, I'll give you a good meal in the evening."

"You seem to only be able to cook at home, what's so good."

"No, eat out, please have a French meal, or a two-Michelin-starred restaurant."

In foreign countries, the best restaurant is a three-Michelin restaurant, and this Michelin is the Michelin company that makes tires. They also have a book called the Michelin Guide, which tells people where to eat and where to play, and also gives a rating for restaurants and so on. Because the Michelin Guide fascicle of the restaurant and inn is covered in red, it is considered the "red book" of the gastronomic world.

According to our Chinese thinking, it is difficult for us to imagine that a tire manufacturer would go to rate restaurants, and it feels like two completely unrelated industries. In fact, as long as you look at the history of Michelin and then integrate it into French romanticism, this question is not difficult to understand.

Michelin has a history of more than 120 years, in the era of Michelin's establishment, cars and tires are still relatively new, as a pioneer in the industry, it is natural to have a long-term plan for the development of the company. During the Universal Exposition in 1900, the Michelin brothers, the founders of the Michelin company at the time, were optimistic about the prospects of car travel. They believed that if car travel was booming, their tires would sell better, so they gathered together restaurants, maps, gas stations, hotels, car repair shops, and more to help with car travel and published the Michelin Guide in the size of a personal booklet, and it has been out of control ever since. In 1926, the Michelin Guide began to mark restaurants with asterisks, and it was from that that time that the "Michelin star" was officially launched.

Michelin's judging is rigorous and impartial, even to the point of being harsh, and once the inspection is complete, the inspector is not allowed to appear at the restaurant for several years to ensure the fairness of the next inspection. And the Ombudsman has to pay out of his own pocket. There are only 106 three-Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, and their star ratings are divided into three levels:

One star: It is a restaurant that is "worth visiting", and it is a particularly excellent restaurant in its same style of eating;

Two stars: the restaurant's cooking skills are very high, and it is a restaurant that is "worth a long detour" to visit;

Three stars: It is a restaurant that is "worth a special trip" to visit, and it is said that it is worth a special trip to dine with a delicious taste that will never be forgotten.

He chose a restaurant called Midwood. The restaurant at the Midwood Resort on the edge of St Helena's town has been awarded two stars since the new chef the year before, and in 2011, it will become a three-star restaurant. At that time, the three-star restaurant in Las Vegas stopped rating for economic reasons, and there were only two three-Michelin restaurants in Napa in the entire western United States.

Who knows that Li Qinglin doesn't do it:

"Pull it down, I'm not used to French food. Not to mention the stinky rules, the boss has a plate with a mouthful, and eats a meal for a few hours, and forgets what he ate in front of him after eating. You're all over the price. ”

Xu Shuyun and Li Qinglin are a couple, and she also thinks French food is boring. The rest of Xiao Ya had never eaten French food and abstained directly, so Xiao Yifei's proposal was rejected 2:1.

"Okay, you have the final say, if you don't go with two Michelin stars, then I'll take you to Chinese food"

"There are also Chinese restaurants here?"

"Of course."

"I thought about it for a while, but forget it, who knows if he is fooling foreigners with Chinese food."

Xiao Yifei shook his head:

"Not really, I've eaten it, and the taste of what they make is okay."

"Forget it, Chinese food is more authentic in China."

"If we had known you were asking for this, we should have gone to another hot spring resort."

Indian Hot Springs Resort is strange, they only have hot springs, spa, accommodation and other services, but they do not provide food and beverage services, and guests can only eat out. Another resort Xiao Yifei mentioned is the Sol Resort, which also offers services such as hot spring spa accommodation, and their restaurant is very good, named one of the 7 best restaurants in Napa, and received a Michelin star in 2013. Xiao Yifei lived here when he led the team to negotiate the acquisition of the Monterena winery, and he knew these situations very well.

Xiao Yifei's favorite dish at Sol Resort is the "Luckypig", a stuffy pork foreleg with egg skin, shredded tofu and peanuts, and some sesame sauce with some Chinese flavor in it. This dish can also be said to be the most popular dish in this restaurant, and Xiao Yifei also orders this dish every time he comes.

Before going to bed, Xiao Yifei reminded Li Qinglin:

"Don't toss too hard tonight, you have to work tomorrow."