Chapter 38 A Wonderful Place to Trade

After taking a bath, Zhang Guodong and Lao Hao followed Lao Cao out of the hotel.

Although the hotel provides special food, it is small compared with the various northern and southern flavors in the town, and it loses the fun of tasting.

There is a food street in the town, where it is open 24 hours a day, especially at night, the lights are brilliant, those various snacks and delicacies are more dazzling, and it looks more attractive, and the aroma of many different flavors on the whole street stimulates the taste buds and opens the appetite.

As soon as you enter the food street, there is a porridge shop at the beginning, where there are not only all kinds of porridge in the north, millet porridge, sorghum porridge, etc., but also porridge in the south can also be eaten, black rice porridge, eight-treasure porridge, white fungus porridge or something, everything.

Lao Cao led everyone into the porridge shop first.

Zhang Guodong doesn't like to drink porridge, but when he looks at the various small porridges that are carefully boiled, as well as the fragrance, the saliva secretion has accelerated a lot. Porridge and side dishes are mixed, most of them are kimchi, Sichuan-style kimchi is one of them, and there are also kimchi in the Northeast.

Lao Hao and Lao Cao chose to drink millet porridge with two platters of kimchi. Lao Cao's three assistants also did the same, and each ordered a small porridge.

Zhang Guodong doesn't like light tastes like Lao Hao and Lao Cao, he has an excellent appetite, and ordered a small bowl of seafood wontons, which are topped with emerald green coriander and white shrimp, soaked in beef bone broth, and delicious.

Lao Hao and Lao Cao were a little envious of Zhang Guodong's good appetite.

When they get older, their appetite decreases a lot, and they dare not eat more things, looking at Zhang Guodong's fragrant food, Lao Cao can't help but say: "Young is good!" ”

Zhang Guodong laughed twice.

Lao Hao also smiled: "Xiao Zhang has been exercising diligently recently, and he should have a big appetite!" ”

"Oh? Lao Hao taught boxing again? Lao Cao was surprised.

Speaking of boxing, Lao Cao became interested. He knew that Lao Hao's Tai Chi was very standard, and when he was young, Lao Hao had a beautiful kung fu. Now that I am old, Tai Chi and other kinds of kung fu have become more and more profound.

Compared with his old friends, Lao Hao's body is obviously much better than others. That's the benefit of health kung fu!

However, Lao Cao envied Lao Hao for having a good body, but he was too lazy to study, so much so that he was a little interested in watching others practice.

Lao Hao smiled lightly: "It's just a competition, Xiao Zhang has a good talent, it's a pity not to learn!" ”

Speaking of Zhang Guodong's talent in martial arts, Lao Cao was surprised. In this era, the concept of so-called talent has long been thinned. Lao Hao likes young people who are aggressive and humble, which is known to old friends. I didn't expect that this little Zhang in front of me could actually enter Lao Hao's eyes. The inner boxing is better than the outer boxing, although the focus is different, but the inner boxing develops the potential of the human body, and the human body is endless.

"What does Zhang do?" Lao Cao asked curiously. ~~~~

"Vegetable seller-" Zhang Guodong was a little embarrassed by Lao Hao's words, he wanted to be modest, but he couldn't be modest, to tell the truth, he almost made Lao Cao spray rice.

"Xiao Zhang is not honest!" Obviously, Lao Cao didn't believe that Zhang Guodong was really a vegetable seller, but fortunately, the topic was mainly focused on boxing, and it was easy to divert away.

Zhang Guodong was helpless, and now no one believed him to tell the truth, so he had to nod and humbly accept Lao Cao's criticism.

It is his wish to exercise well, and now that he is used to exercising, once he doesn't exercise one day, he still feels uncomfortable. It's addictive!

However, as Lao Cao said, the human body is indeed infinitely mysterious, even if the scientific and technological means are advanced, exploring the mysteries of the human body is only a little bit.

Lao Hao glanced at Zhang Guodong with a smile and explained: "The third child of the old Cao family is a well-known expert in traditional Chinese medicine, with deep academic attainments in meridians, and now he is the vice president of the National Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and his research is the development of human potential, which is very authoritative!" ”

Zhang Guodong was surprised, it was really not simple.

Lao Cao laughed twice, and said modestly: "Okay, you old Hao, how can those little guys in your family be simple again?" ”

But on his face, he was very proud.

The children are blooming everywhere, and they have made achievements in various fields, which Lao Cao is very proud of.

The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they were talking about family life, but the shock to Zhang Guodong was relatively large. Vice President of the National Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine? That's an unusual character.

You must know that the health of many central leaders is in the hands of these people, and they are very angry.

After talking, laughing, eating and drinking, Zhang Guodong and his entourage went out of the small porridge shop to continue shopping in the food street, sausage snacks, Sichuan flavor, some sweet, slightly spicy, but definitely a good thing, plus fresh soup, much better than spicy skewers. Zhang Guodong set his sights on it.

Everyone has a string of sausages and bamboo skewers, and Zhang Guodong paid out of his own pocket to give everyone a plum cabbage button meat and fragrant rice, one of the three treasures of Huizhou.

The small box is filled with plum cabbage and fragrant rice, and a large slice of cooked pork belly with red sauce mixed with black plum cabbage, with a burst of meat aroma with the heat, which makes people's mouths water. And you can eat it while walking in your hand, salty and umami, the meat is soft and rotten, fat but not greasy, and the plum vegetables are rich and fragrant.

Plum cabbage button meat is often called burnt white, because of different regions and the name is quite a lot, its characteristics are that the color sauce is red and oily, the soup is viscous and delicious, the button meat is slippery and mellow, fat but not greasy, and the food is soft and mellow. When you chew a piece and your mouth is full of oil, you will feel that it is not fatty at all. Plum cabbage absorbs oil, and the pork belly will carry the fragrance of plum cabbage, the mellow fragrance of pine nuts, and the combination of plum cabbage, pine nuts and fatty pork belly can really be said to be just right.

Although there is a gap between plum vegetables and the vegetables grown in Taoyuan, the first time I ate it, the novelty made up for this shortcoming, and Zhang Guodong ate a mouth full of oil.

Fragrant rice is additional, and its method is actually very simple, similar to Zhang Guodong's steamed rice and fried radish at the same time, the reason is similar.

Pair the two, and the taste and appetite will rise.

Lao Hao and Lao Cao didn't finish eating, and they smiled bitterly.

"It's delicious, but I don't dare to eat more, it's so painful! Lao Hao, I can't let Zhang Guodong choose to eat, there is a good snack on this street, suitable for the public, you can't eat it! Lao Cao said. Especially for us old men! ”

"Haha, I'm old, it's not okay to be old! Let's go, let's go! Lao Hao said.

Zhang Guodong blushed and hurriedly swallowed the last string.

Eating too much meat is used to him and the other three, but Lao Hao and Lao Cao can't, and digestion becomes a problem. Looking at the delicious food but not daring to eat more is indeed a kind of torment.

Lao Cao introduced a dish called Mao Xuewang, but it was Sichuan cuisine. Duck blood, bean sprouts, ham, yellow eel, pork and daylily are the mainstays, of course, yellow eels can only be farmed, wild can not be eaten.

A plate of hairy blood, red soup, duck blood into slices, and daylily dress, is a delicate dish. But it's not cheap, just rush to the raw materials, and a dish will cost dozens of yuan.

Lao Cao introduced that this dish is suitable for the elderly to eat to prevent arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and the like. Chinese cuisine actually has a lot to do with traditional Chinese medicine.

As the so-called dietary therapy, there are Chinese medicinal materials in every dish, which are very precious.

Another example is condiments star anise, cloves, etc., which are Chinese medicinal materials themselves, but they exist as condiments in food. This gave Zhang Guodong a lot of insight.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that the vegetables and the like in daily life, when combined slightly, seem to have the effect of Chinese herbal medicines.

Thinking of this, Zhang Guodong paid attention to Chinese herbal medicines.

Although the raw materials of Mao Xuewang's dish are relatively 'ordinary', after being secretly prepared, the taste is very unique, and Zhang Guodong eats it very refreshingly.

The food court is very long, and there are many tempting foods, but the stomach capacity of the people is limited, so they can only go home.

Thinking about spending half of the next few days in Tongguan Town, Zhang Guodong is not in a hurry. It's not too far from the city, and you can go back in an hour at most.

The purpose of this visit to Tongguan Town is to see the flower and tree market, but things are unfortunate, Lao Cao said that there will be a batch of new flowers and trees the next day, it is best to stay for one night, and go to see the next day.

Lao Hao and Zhang Guodong discussed it and agreed.

It is well known that only new goods can produce treasures.

There was nothing to do one night, and the next morning, Zhang Guodong woke up almost at the same time as Lao Hao, and then went out of the hotel to exercise.

Seeing Zhang Guodong so conscious, Lao Hao nodded in the back, very appreciative. It's good for young people to be diligent!

The two parted ways, Zhang Guodong needed to warm up and run before boxing, and now he runs 8,000 meters, which is 2,000 meters longer than at the beginning, which is just right for his physical condition.

Get on the road, speed up, run along the road, and there are cars whistling by from time to time.

After going back and forth for 8,000 meters, Zhang Guodong felt that his body was warm, and he was panting violently, reaching the limit. Riding the hot iron, a set of five elements boxing roared out, relatively stable, driving the whole body meridians and skin bones in the tremor, so tempered, the intensity is very great, but the effect is very good, can sweat profusely.

Zhang Guodong went back relatively early, and Lao Hao has not come back yet. However, it was still early, and Zhang Guodong began to take a bath and clean. Lao Hao came back after a while.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the door rang, but Lao Cao appeared in high spirits.

"Let's go down and have breakfast together, and after breakfast, go to the market!" Lao Cao said.

New arrivals have just arrived, the market opens at nine o'clock and ends at twelve, and there are only three hours of time a day, and private transactions are not among them. But for connoisseurs, three hours is enough.

If you stay for too long, you may lose your eyes, gambling on flowers and trees is the same as gambling on stones, the risk is also not small, and it is necessary to maintain a good mental state. Perhaps the difference is that it is entirely possible to gamble on the stone, and bet on the flowers and trees to have at least one tree or a pot of flowers.

After breakfast, Zhang Guodong followed Lao Cao and Lao Hao and the three assistants to change bread and drive out of town. About a kilometer or so, everyone arrived at a greenhouse vegetable patch.

There are thousands of vegetable greenhouses in the eye, which are extremely spectacular. The selection of the trading market was beyond Zhang Guodong's expectations, but it had to be amazed by the organizers.

Since it is a black market, confidentiality is naturally extremely important, otherwise it will be served by someone in a pot, and it is estimated that there will be a big loss.

Moreover, these hundreds of greenhouses are almost identical, and it is really not easy to find out where the black market is located from them immediately.

After parking, Zhang Guodong saw that there seemed to be a lot of vans parked here, which seemed very ordinary, but there were many of them, dozens of them.

"A lot of people make an appointment to come together, otherwise there are more cars here!" Lao Cao explained. "I don't know if there is any treasure in today's new goods?"

At this time, a man came over, his eyes were sharp, he glanced at Zhang Guodong and a few people, and then saw Lao Cao, and his vigilance suddenly relaxed: "Boss Cao, who are these two people?" ”

refers to Zhang Guodong and Lao Hao.

Lao Cao is a regular customer here, and so are the three assistants. However, it is clear that the other party is wary of bringing strangers here.

Lao Cao smiled and said: "These two are my friends, and I also want to see and understand, Ah Biao, lead the way!" ”

Ah Biao glanced at the two of them again, nodded, agreed, and led the way in front. There are acquaintances who introduce it, it is the rule here, otherwise no one can get in.

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