Chapter Thirty-Eight: Pork Chops
Turning onto the coastline road in Hilqi, the humble jeep quietly picked up speed and headed straight for the curved building that stood in the night sky. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Judging from the appearance, roads and greenery, the Hilqi Youyu Seaview Hotel is really the same as its five-star counterparts in China - it has all the pomp and circumstance, even if it is in Elta, it will not be left behind.
Of course, there is a reason why it must be built at great expense: Elta and the Chinese behind it really need to show the ultimate "modern lifestyle" to merchants who come here from all over the world to purchase and trade, as a window to the outside world to show Elta's new appearance - of course, all this is not provided for free, and such a complex enjoyment will inevitably make their purse lose a thick skin.
But even so, these billionaires in the medieval society were still willing to spend their money here, sitting on the top of dozens of floors overlooking the nightless scenery of the first city in the east.
At this time, in the golden lobby, several people slumped on the sofa chairs of the welcome reception, sighing - these were business groups from all the way from the land of mountains and clouds, and the fatigue of the first day of the visit almost broke their legs.
It was an eye-opener for them to see how big a city can be. The old town of Hilqi Port City on the south bank of the river has the scale of the imperial capital, and the new city on the north bank is a modern urban battle, which can naturally amaze the "country villagers" of Shanyun Country.
"Ten years ago, when many of you were still playing with mud," the old man in the merchant group looked up at the crystal chandelier (wholesale purchase price of 1,500 yuan), and began to pour back his memories with emotion, "At that time, the adults of the Bimoon Church who brought me here complained a lot about this city, and it is indeed as they said that this city is also dirty and muddy, and sewage flows. This decade...... Ah no, what the hell has happened in these two years? Hey, yes, they all say that this vicissitudes of life......"
"Old man, no wonder even my father said you were very verbose!" A young man who looked obviously dressed in aristocratic attire interrupted the old man's emotion with a big grin, "Not to mention the old Elta, even the Church of the Two Moons is an old thing, right?" Who doesn't know that the high-rise buildings and halls that are worth thousands of dollars are all from the hands of people from other worlds? ”
Since the trade locks of the Bilunar Church were crushed into steel slag by the Chinese with many ants, but as strong as a city, the information channel of the entire Bilunar Planet has suddenly been opened - the major events of various countries that were originally silenced by the church navigators (of course, no one knows) can be known to people on the other side of the ocean in just a few months.
Of course, this speed is extremely slower than that of Earth, with its transoceanic submarine cables and wireless telegraphy, but it can also be regarded as a change for a country ruled by the Church for a long time.
An old gate was kicked open and replaced by a thoroughfare that led in all directions. In the case of the Merchant Group of the Land of Mountains and Clouds, for example, the Elta Empire needs a magic wand to replenish the foundation of its magical industrial creations, and the Land of Mountains and Clouds also needs industrial products produced in the Elta Empire and China, and the exchange needs between the two countries are almost instantaneous.
It is precisely because of this that the merchant group of the Shan Yun Kingdom is eligible to be taken around by the tour guide and interpreter in Hilqi - except for a few backbones, almost all the other members of this merchant group are young nobles with royal backgrounds.
"Corrupting" them in this unfamiliar and unspoken place (Shanyun Chinese does not belong to the lingua franca of the Western Hemisphere) may eventually gain a huge advantage in vital commercial and diplomatic negotiations, which is also the foreign "small calculation" of the two countries standing together.
"This person from another world, the secret art they know is really unimaginable." As soon as the voice of the old man leading the group in the merchant group sounded, it was overshadowed by the whistle of the young man next to him - the old man looked in the direction of everyone's eyes dissatisfied, but his eyes were also nailed to it.
Entering through the automatic door in the lobby was Miss Wolfe, the "Ruby Pupil", who had just gotten off the jeep.
At this time, she was wearing the standard researcher uniform of the Elta Expeditionary Investigation Team, this set of Elta's rare outfit with her beautiful face and confident eyes, combined with her gestures and gestures, showed her unique temperament, so that she immediately became the focus of the attention of these men in the lobby.
"Not good." The old man is worthy of being a veteran who has seen a lot of battles, and he immediately noticed that the status of this red-haired and red-eyed woman is definitely not ordinary, if these young people in his team want to tease and talk, I am afraid it will not end well, "You all restrain a little...... This...... Ay? ”
Before his head could fully turn back to its original direction, he saw that the young people who had been sitting on the sofa chairs had already gotten up and were attracted by Wolfe's figure—as if the iron nail had been sucked up by a strong electromagnet in the workshop, and the scene was very comical.
The children of the princes and nobles slowly paced Wolfe's path with smooth or funny whistles—but at the very moment when they were about to stop in front of Wolfe, there were suddenly more figures in black and plain clothes between Wolfe and the young men.
Seeing that he was about to embark on the right path of picking flowers, he was blocked by life, and the leading nobleman was naturally young and vigorous, but he was soon frightened by the characters in front of him.
The big men in civilian clothes next to them don't talk about it for the time being - their body muscles that can't be covered by their shirts are enough to make these nobles chill, just talk about these men in black clothes and black sunglasses who took the lead in gathering, their skin is not as pitted as the Elta and the people of Shanyun Kingdom, but just like the stunning beauty in the back, the skin reflects a unique luster under the reflection of the crystal lamp.
These people are supposed to be "people from another world". After reacting, he glanced at the surrounding nobles a few times, and he could only slowly retreat back without losing his face.
"Enjoy the prosperity of this place in peace, but don't touch things you can't touch, like her." The leader of the man in black restrained his hostility, and left a warning in the ear of the leading nobleman as the rest of his entourage dispersed—perhaps to the nobleman's surprise, he did not use Elta's lingua franca, which the nobles did not understand, but Shanyun Chinese.
The expeditionary investigation team is a direct unit under the command of the Fifth Department of the General Staff, and Wolf is the official - in fact, the core member of the expeditionary investigation team, so her safety will naturally be guaranteed by the cooperation of the entire General Staff in the other world, after all, there is no second such person who dies.
After all, this Hilqi Seaview Hotel is also a place where the interests of many countries converge, there will always be a lot of entanglements and conflicts, and more is an opportunity to collect information that may be secret within each country - the Second Department of the General Staff has a secret office on the top floor of this hotel, in which it can monitor the flow of people inside and outside the rooms of the hotel building and listen to the conversations in rooms, corridors, elevators and other places, and will naturally set up secret posts in important places such as the lobby to stop key people.
The Chinese agents of the Second Department of the General Staff and the Elta policemen who are stationed here to work together are the Chinese agents who have just come out to relieve Wolfe. And while they relieved Wolff, Wolfe was still more than ten meters away from them - she herself just looked ahead suspiciously, not realizing what was happening, which showed that she was skilled in her work.
"Did something happen? Mr. Agent? Facing the agent of the Second General Staff Department who had just turned around, Wolf expertly pierced his identity (because she recognized the outfit in the expedition, and only "agents" or "dignitaries" could wear it on her body - it was definitely impossible for an unprotected dignitary to appear alone, and it could only be an agent who was stationed here).
"Everything is fine, Miss Ruby." The agent here was not surprised at all that his identity was revealed, "Your commander has asked me to bring you good night wishes, and I wish you a good night's sleep." ”
"Thank you." Wolf pinched the purse with his hands down, nodded reservedly in return, and took the elevator upstairs under the covert protection of plainclothes Elta police.
The agent here had just pinched Khan and was glad that everything was fine, but the room service over there was just about to go crazy - in the kitchen of this big hotel, the phone rang non-stop at this time of day.
"This pork chop must be turned over when the color is right, otherwise it will stick to the bottom of the pan and the color will not look good...... Hey, who's going to answer that call? Jin Tuzhi, the general manager of the catering department of Seaview Hotel, happened to be holding the handle of the pot and just turned over the golden pork chops in the frying pan at this time, and he didn't care to answer the call from the housekeeping department, "Then everyone is optimistic, when the breadcrumbs are like thorns, they must be fished out, drained and cut while hot, and then served with sauce to ......."
As soon as he took the hot pork chops out of the pan and drained the oil on the rack with a wire mesh spoon in his hand, he felt someone clicking on his back - he turned his head to see that it was the chef apprentice he had just sent to answer the phone.
When I looked closely, he still had a slip in his hand. Jin Tuzhi didn't say a word, wiped the oil and sweat on his hands, picked it up and looked at it, and almost died of scare in the kitchen on the spot.
"My Allah Allah!" Jin Tuzhi pinched the long customer order, and read the content of the dishes on it three times, but he was really dumbfounded. "This tonkatsu alone costs two, two! Roll all the dishes on the menu! I'm a pig, who in this hotel can spend so much money? ”
Looking down at the signing part of the order under the dotted line, Jin Tuzhi was stunned - the number on it was clearly written that the person who paid the bill was "115" - 112 He knew that it was to send three meals and supper to the brothers of the General Staff on the roof, but what about 115?