It is impossible for the children of the machinery factory to understand, so Li Zhendong directly handed it to the nine subordinates from Yun Province and Sichuan Province. He sat back in his chair with a smile on his face, picked up his teacup, and took a sip of tea.

Although the things were handed to Du Tao, Tian Xiaogang and others, Dagang, Yu Lian and a mechanical factory disciple also surrounded them at the same time. Da Gang and a few people were soon disappointed, this thing was black, and it was too far from jade, treasure or something, just one glance, and a few people lost interest.

Things passed to everyone's hands, everyone was serious to look at over and over, some people's eyes showed a confused look, some people showed a thoughtful expression, some people showed a strange look, after a turn, a group of people began to discuss and discuss, talking about their own opinions, from time to time mixed with the dialect of Yun Province. Li Zhendong didn't bother the argument between them, and drank tea leisurely.

This group of people finally stopped talking, and everyone's feeling is not quite right! How could this thing be this?

Li Zhendong put down the teacup, "You have also seen things, let's talk about it, who has seen or heard of it?" ”。 A group of people looked at each other, and then spoke, there were three people who had seen this kind of thing, and there were two people who had heard of it, and there were only four people who had never seen or heard of it, that is, there were only four people who didn't understand it at all.

"Tell me, then, what is this thing for?" Li Zhendong did the math, it's very good, there are so many people who know this thing.

Cheng Peng, a retired soldier from the transportation brigade of a small county town in Hunan Province, stiffened his head and spoke in a loud voice: "This, Li Gongzi, we have all seen this thing you gave, and I have this thing at home, but," Cheng Peng said here. It seems that there is something unspeakable.

"Just say it," Li Zhendong nodded.

Cheng Peng gritted his teeth, "We locals don't eat it, this kind of thing is used to feed pigs." At this time, several people agreed, and some people started, and everyone was not afraid of Li Gongzi's blame, it must have been Li Gongzi's mistake.

French cuisine is recognized as the highest level of cuisine in the Western world, and it is famous for its culinary skills. The taste is delicate and the tableware is gorgeous. French cuisine is not a place where people are full, but an attitude of enjoying life. The exquisiteness, complexity and complexity of French cuisine are amazing, and a main meal often lasts four or five hours, with appetizers, seafood, meat, cheese, desserts and the like. The most important thing is to see the Western food culture represented in this atmosphere.

Caviar, foie gras and truffles are known as the "three kings" of French cuisine and enjoy a high reputation.

Among them, truffles, with their high price, rare production, strange smell and extreme praise from the Western food world, give this actually inconspicuous thing a bright halo. All sorts of people are trying to explain, 'What exactly is a truffle?' ’。 The ancient Greeks believed that truffles were plants that grew from autumn rain accompanied by thunder and lightning, but the ancient Romans believed that heat, rain, and thunder caused the land to grow sick and cocoons and grow truffles. After the XVIII century. Only Europeans know that truffles are just a kind of fungus that grows underground. However, there are a few that have been studied. I don't agree with it being classified as something like mushrooms. Some even believe that it does not belong to plants. Looking at the explanations of truffles in some authoritative dictionaries in Western countries, some say that they are "plants with a special smell", some say that they are "mushrooms without roots", "different rhizomes", and one of the most bizarre explanations is "mineral plants with animal characteristics", which is simply a contradictory explanation.

The truffle grows in the ground, without sunlight, and is a black patch. The growing conditions for truffles are harsh. Suitable host trees, soils, and more unique climatic conditions. The most common host trees of this kind are oaks, oaks, hazelnuts, pines, etc., and the mycelium of truffles symbiotically forms mycorrhizae in the roots of some tree species, and grows into truffles at the end. Truffles generally grow between eight and thirty centimeters underground. Most of them grow vigorously in autumn and ripen in winter. The most suitable soil is limestone-based soil. Weakly alkaline, the soil is loose and breathable. Plenty of rain is needed in spring, hot and dry in summer, with proper rain, and temperatures dropping to freezing in winter. The northern Mediterranean region has these conditions. Therefore, the three major production areas of the world are located in this area. Provence in France, Piedmont in Italy, northern Spain. Therefore, because of the harsh conditions suitable for the growth of truffles, there are not many such areas, and the yield of truffles is naturally not high.

When eating, there is a very special phenomenon about the unique aroma of truffles, that is, almost everyone has their own opinion. Some people describe it as having a noble fragrance, like musk, pollen, mint, others say it resembles garlic, shallots, turf, wood blocks, and others describe it as a musty, crystalline, stinky socks and other extremely strange smells.

Regarding the effect of truffles, after the 16th century, French cuisine began to pay attention to the taste of the food itself, and after the 17th century, the unique aroma of the truffle itself began to replace many traditional spices. In modern times, it is known as the natural 'Viagra' in the West. In fact, to uncover the mysterious aura of truffles given by these centuries of culture, some scientists' research on truffles shows that truffles are rich in protein, eighteen kinds of amino acids, including eight kinds of amino acids that the human body itself can not synthesize but cannot be missing, as well as unsaturated fatty acids, a variety of vitamins, zinc, manganese iron, calcium, phosphorus, selenium and other essential trace elements for the human body. Therefore, regardless of its artificial praise, it itself has a high nutritional and health value.

Some people think that truffles can only be wild and cannot be cultivated, so the price is bizarrely expensive. In fact, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a Frenchman sprinkled ripe truffle spores on the soil and planted small oak saplings, and seven or eight years later he reaped a good harvest in the forest, a process that lasted almost ten years. So the truffle is a plant that cannot be completely cultivated artificially. Due to political, cultural, economic and other reasons in history, the price became more and more expensive, gradually detached from the vision of ordinary people, and was slowly placed high on the altar of food for sacrifice, becoming synonymous with luxury and nobility. It is one of the most expensive foods in the world. Some people say that truffles are gold to eat in the mouth.

In 1951, a piece of 1.8 kilograms of white truffle fetched a whopping $5,000. In 2,000 and 4 years, 1.1 kilogram of truffles [equivalent to 2.2 pounds] was sold for 41,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to 140,000 Chinese dollars per catty of truffles. In the year 2006, 1.5 kilograms of white truffles were sold for a whopping 12,000 Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to about 125,000 euros. In the year 2009, Mr. Ho, the gambling king of Australia, paid a high price of US$250,000 for an 800-gram white truffle at the International Truffle Auction Fair. Each gram is more than 300 dollars, which is already more than six or seven times the price of gold. The white truffle, which is produced in the Piammonte region of Italy, is the most expensive variety in the world, and can cost up to six times the price of the same amount of gold. (To be continued......)