CHAPTER XXV
When the plane arrived in Nagoya, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening, and the person who greeted us took us directly to the hotel, and set a time to leave tomorrow. After taking a shower, I leaned in front of the window and blew my long hair when the phone rang.
It was actually a cold-faced god, "If you haven't slept, come to the hall, I'll wait for you here." ”
I was stunned for a moment, did he go to Japan too? Hurriedly put on a set of sportswear and went downstairs, the cold-faced god sat on the sofa in the hall, saw me, stood up, "Hungry, I'll take you to eat something good." ”
"What's there to introduce?" I didn't want to make myself look embarrassed and got along with him naturally.
"How's the eel tea?" The cold noodle god knew that I liked to eat, and after a few hours on the plane, although there was a meal on the plane, he should have been hungry by now.
I thought for a moment, "Let's say it's good, if it's not delicious, I won't pay." ”
With a smile on his face, he led me to the car and drove into the night. I rolled down the window and the weather in March, not very cold, was windy, and it was very comfortable to blow on my face. I liked the feeling and looked up at the cold-faced god who was focused on driving, and met his eyes just in the same place.
After driving for about 20 minutes, the surrounding scenery began to change, no longer a cluster of high-rise buildings, but as if entering a residential area. I'm a little curious, is there anything good to eat in this kind of place?
"It's here," Cold-faced God stopped the car, next to a small store with an eel in the middle of the curtain.
Pushing the door into the house, there is not much space inside, there are only four tables, and the rest is a row in front of the restaurant, there is only one chef in the store, and the customers are only the two of us. Maybe it's too late!
"Two eel teas." The cold noodle god sat down in front of the cooking table, and I sat down next to him and watched the chef make it live.
The usual way to eat eel is "kabayaki", in which the cylindrical eel is cut open, salted, skewered with bamboo skewers, grilled, steamed over a strong fire, and then soaked in a sauce jar before coming out and grilled again. The process of one section, two roasting, three steaming, and four roasting, there is a Japanese saying: "Cutting for three years, skewering for eight years, and roasting for a lifetime", the portrayal of eel could not be clearer.
Eel cha is a type of chazuke, which was called "soup stain" in the Heian period, and is eaten by pouring sauce and soup into a rice bowl and stirring it. Eel rice bowl is a combination of kabayaki eel with rice and some sauce drizzled with it, while eel chazuke has a different way of eating it in addition to its unique sauce.
Cut the eel into thin strips and serve in three steps, including chopped green onions, seaweed, mustard sauce and a teapot of fish bone broth. First, the eel and rice are served in a bowl like a regular eel bowl, and then mixed with chopped green onions and seaweed. Finally, the soup is poured in and the wasabi sauce is added to your liking, and it becomes an authentic eel chazuke.
The lightly charred eel has a sweet taste and is soaked in a rich sauce, which is unexpectedly refreshing. It's really "delicious tongues are going to fall off".
"Boss, one more." I finished my serving, put the bowl on the counter, and yelled at the boss.
The boss was stunned for a moment, then smiled and remade a copy for me and put it in front of me, "It's the first time I've seen such a girl who can eat." ”
I gave my boss a smile, "It's rare to come and eat once, how can you do it if you don't eat enough?" ”
The cold-faced god nodded, "Don't worry, eat until you're full." "I lit a cigarette, and the cold face god chatted with the boss while watching me eat, from which I knew that this shop has been open for more than 80 years, passed down from generation to generation, and is now the fourth generation of the owner.
I listened to their conversation while eating, and it seemed that the cold noodle god liked the taste of this restaurant very much, and every time he went to Nagoya, no matter how busy or tired he was, he would find time to come here for a meal
"2,300 yuan a copy, a total of 6,900 yuan." When I checked out, I realized that the eel tea was so expensive, and I stuck out my tongue, anyway, someone had a treat, and I pretended not to know.
"Have you eaten enough?" Sitting in the car, the cold-faced god asked me.
I nodded, when I was a pig, I ate two servings, and the bosses all looked at me like that, and if I couldn't eat enough, it would be over. I looked at the cold-faced god next to me, "When did you come to Japan?" ”
The cold-faced god poured the car out before answering me, "This morning." ”
"Why do you have to come to Japan, anyone can come out of this errand!" I asked tentatively.
The cold-faced god looked at me, "I believe in your tongue and dedication to food. ”
"I might as well say I can eat it!" I smiled and said to him, and suddenly, I realized that the tone I was talking to him was too delicate to be the tone of a subordinate to a superior, so I sighed, looked out the window, and stopped talking.
When I arrived at the hotel, the cold-faced god put me down, he didn't live here, and now he was going back, and when he left, he only said, "Be careful." "Watching his car leave, I turned around and entered the hotel, it was already a little later, but I didn't feel tired at all.
The next day, we were accompanied to the street to taste Nagoya's specialty snacks: dry fried chicken wings, fried shrimp rice balls, pork chops in sauce, braised hoof tendons, and finally brought back prawn crackers and some Japanese snacks. At the end of the day, the stomach is full of delicious food, and if life is like this every day, you will be happy.
"Sure enough, it's a pig." When I went online, Su Mei said this about me.
After staying in Japan for a week, I gained almost a kilogram, and every day was a different meal, first the Minister Wang of the food and mouth department was not good first, and gave me the task of eating and drinking outside, so I ate and drank during the day, and sometimes I had to pester the production master to show me the production process, and I would also get started to practice, and when I returned to the hotel in the evening, I would write out the day's itinerary, things I had eaten and the production process in detail, and then send it back to Shanghai for their reference. I didn't sleep more than five hours a day, and after a week, my body reached a limit.
The cold face god has not appeared since he appeared in Nagoya, but every time I go to a place, he will send me an email to introduce the local food and places, and also arrange the itinerary, so I receive his email every day, and in my opinion, it is also a special enjoyment.
At the end of the week, we basically set the guidelines and policies for solar eclipses, and selected ten kinds of dry snacks as packaging exteriors, which can be sold in bags; Six kinds of Japanese-style dim sum, which are now made and sold in paper packaging, do not provide tables, and are also responsible for take-out; Then there are ten kinds of meals, which are made on the spot and provide tables. There are more than 20 kinds of food in total, and it is estimated that there are four workstations, two for sale, and two with dining stations.
After my plan is provided, I can also return to China. Along the way, I changed from a small travel bag to three travel bags, maybe the cold face god said hello in advance, I ate and took it this week, collected a lot of specialty food, and didn't want me to pay.
The first thing I did when I returned to Shanghai was to call everyone and inform them that they were all coming to my house for food. Fang Zhongyu is indispensable, and Lu Xiao will come when he smells it, I also made an appointment with Gao Xiang, because it is a weekend, everyone has time, and when he came, he also brought his girlfriend by the way.
It's the first time I've had such formal contact with his girlfriend, Jiang Xia is a typical southern girl, not tall, very delicate, speaking with a Hubei accent, very good at playing and crazy girl. Far downstairs, I heard her voice, he called Gao Xiang "my brother", everything is said, how is my brother, how is my brother, how is my brother, at the end of the day, Fang Zhongyu and Lu Xiao were stunned by him.
However, the attraction of eating is still greater, the Thai food brought by Fang Zhongyu last time is still there, and this time I also brought it together, because they are all specialties I picked, and the taste is naturally very good, Fang Zhongyu ran downstairs to buy beer, and a group of people sat on the floor and ate around the coffee table.
"How much do these things cost?" Lu Xiao asked while eating shrimp cakes.
I took the beer from Gao Xiang: "About 170,000 or 80,000 yen!" ”
"Isn't that more than 10,000 yuan?" Gao Xiang shook his head, "Now you have thrown in two months' salary, I see what you will eat next month?" ”
Fang Zhongyu didn't care, "It's okay, Xiao Xia, come with me next month, I'll buy vegetables and come over, you can do it." ”
"And me! And me! Lu Xiao also raised his hand, "I'm here to eat too," Seeing Fang Zhongyu's eyes glaring at her, he continued, "I'll buy vegetables." ”
"Thank you." I took a sip of beer, "These are paid for by the Japanese branch, and I didn't spend a penny, and I paid for my daily food and drink expenses, and I brought back so much by the way." ”
Lu Xiaoxian became happy, "I said why is it so delicious, I don't need money!" Then I'm going to have to eat more. ”
"Don't eat it all, save me some of this." Fang Zhongyu saw the direction of Lu Xiao's hand with sharp eyes, and first hugged the one in front of him into his arms.
The two of them fought over a rice ball, which made us laugh a lot.
Lu Xiao went back first in the evening, Gao Xiang and they were too far away, I left them to live, a few years ago, because Su Mei said that he was coming, I bought two new sets of bedding, and now it also comes in handy. It turned out that Gao Xiang said that I would sleep with Jiang Xia in the room, and he and Fang Zhongyu would be in the living room, but Jiang Xia had to sleep with his brother, she was nothing, but she made a few of us red-faced, and in the end, there was no way, it became the two of them in the house, and Fang Zhongyu and I nested in the living room.
That night became the torture of me and Fang Zhongyu.
We never thought that the girl was so open now, knowing that there were two big living people outside the door, so they screamed in the house and grabbed the ground. It's really earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods, embarrassing people have become the two of us, I slept on the sofa, Fang Zhongyu slept on the ground, the two of us blushed together, and we didn't dare to speak, nor did we dare to look at each other.
Next time, there will be no next time. I was really angry, when I got up in the morning, I didn't give them any good looks, Gao Xiang saw my appearance, knew that I minded, but he was embarrassed to get up, and hurriedly pulled Jiang Xia away, Jiang Xia seemed to be fine, it seems that our ability to accept is really failing.
Although I don't have a cleanliness fetish, I really can't stand such a thing, and when I get up in the morning, I tear off all the sheets and covers they slept on and throw them away, and sure enough, I still can't do this way of life for them.
All the preparations have been completed, and there are still four days before the exchange meeting, and we are all in the school program and posters, leaflets, etc., and the business staff is relatively busier than us.
Su Mei and Lao Bai were coming over this afternoon, and I couldn't leave, so I notified Fang Zhongyu to pick them up and take them to my nest. By the hour before I got off work, I was already distracted. Today is the final preparations, and tomorrow we will be stationed at the venue and take care of everything.
"Is there something wrong?" Nanda saw that I was constantly looking at my watch and came over to me and asked.
I shook my head, "It's nothing, I'm a little anxious when a classmate comes over today." ”
Nantian smiled, "There is still an hour, and everything must be prepared today." ”
After Nantian left, I went to the pantry and poured myself a cup of coffee, and by the way, I was lazy, not wanting to run into a cold-faced god inside. Maybe it's just opened, and there are still some materials on the table.
"Are you free at night? Have a meal together. Seeing me, the cold-faced god came over and whispered in my ear.
"I have classmates coming over today, and I want to get together in the evening." I slowed down the pouring of my coffee, and he didn't leave, but leaned against the table and drank his coffee.
"Then when the exchange meeting is over, you will definitely be very busy these days, so I won't bother you." The cold noodle god finished his coffee and threw the cup into the trash, "When the time comes, free up time." ”
I nodded, but I didn't dare to look up at him, we don't usually have much personal friendship, to be honest, I just don't hate him now, and I don't like him to the extent that I like him, just being with him, I feel very relaxed. He is like an elder and a partner, and I don't know if it's the age gap that makes me think this way.
Finally, before getting off work, everything was basically solved, and I had always walked home, making an exception to take a taxi back. When I got home, everyone had already arrived, Su Mei saw me and gave me a big hug, Lao Bai also stretched out his arms and ran over, but was blocked by Fang Zhongyu.
Su Mei wanted to eat Nanxiang Xiaolong, and we arrived at Yu Garden again, fortunately, it was not a holiday, and there were not many people, so it didn't take long to line up with us. Lao Bai has a very good appetite, he ate two cages alone, and I ate almost 300 yuan after a meal, which is really distressing.
It was not yet eight o'clock when he came out, Fang Zhongyu proposed to go for a while, so we found a PUB on Zhunhai Road and sat down. Lao Bai and Fang Zhongyu haven't seen each other for a long time, and they talked very happily, and it was quite interesting to talk about the bad things back then. Just like Su Mei said, who is looking for what birds, you can see at a glance that they were also all the way back then.
Lao Bai and Su Mei made eye contact from time to time, which made me see something different, maybe there was no love between them as Su Mei said, at least Lao Bai liked Su Mei, which was too obvious.
"Natsu-chan?" I didn't expect to meet acquaintances here, and what I didn't expect was to meet Leng Mian Shen and Nantian, as well as a few people from the marketing department, the person who called me was Gao Xiang, and they also came to PUB for recreation after eating.
"How did I run into you?" Lao Bai had a good relationship with Gao Xiang back then, and he didn't let go as soon as he grabbed Gao Xiang, and when they saw us like this, they just said hello and sat down on the side.
Su Mei leaned over to me gently, "Is that the tallest one?" She asked me softly.
In front of so many people, I was afraid, afraid that the cold-faced god would pay attention to me, and I was afraid that others would know these things, so I patted Su Mei's leg under the table as an answer.
Su Mei gave me a knowing look and smiled warmly, "Isn't it quite manly!" ”
"I'll talk about it in the evening." I felt my face heat and a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, Lao Bai and they are still reminiscing about the past and have not found my abnormality. When I went to say goodbye to them, the cold face inadvertently touched my hand with his hand, my hand was hot, but his hand was cold.
Gao Xiang also stayed in the evening, but Lao Bai was more conscious than Gao Xiang, and left the room to me and Su Mei, and the three of them were crowded in a small area in the living room, chatting while drinking, so lively.
Su Mei and I nestled in bed, only lit the lamp, and spoke softly, for fear of being heard by people outside. Earlier, I went online and told Su Mei about Gao Xiang and Jiang Xia, and Su Mei smiled a few wrong words, she said that she had never seen such a hungry person, and asked me why I didn't find a tape recorder to record it and put it on them the next day.
"Hearing Gao Xiang like that, don't you feel uncomfortable?" Su Mei asked me softly, "How can you say that it is also someone you like, in front of you, you are not uncomfortable?" ”
I laughed, "Still uncomfortable?" Daewoo is much more uncomfortable than me, turning over and over on the ground, and finally getting up to knock on the door to warn, if I hadn't stopped me, Gao Xiang and some of them would have made a fool of themselves! ”
Su Mei also smiled, "Daewoo must not be able to stand it, and he didn't become a werewolf and eat you?" It seems that you are not charismatic enough, and the two of you have lived together so many times and are fine. ”
"We're buddies, don't think about it." I twisted her arm, "Daewoo isn't that kind of person!" It's your family's old white, has it been eaten and wiped clean by you? ”
Su Mei's eyes were almost bent, "Is it me who was eaten and wiped clean by him?" ”
"Ah~" I reached out and tapped her forehead, "What does it feel?" ”
Su Mei blushed and slapped my hand away, "There's nothing to discuss with you, you are much more experienced than me, and what are you saying about me!" After saying that, he hid under the quilt, revealing only a pair of eyes.
"Eyebrows~ Don't talk about me like that," I pulled her out, "I'm going to be embarrassed to see you for the first time!" Did you fall in love with someone after Lao Bai? ”
"That's it!" Su Mei covered her head again.
Maybe our laughter alarmed the three people outside, and I heard Lao Bai shouting outside, "What are you laughing at?" ”
I got up and said to the door, "Lao Bai, the eyebrows say she likes you." ”
Su Mei couldn't stay any longer, got up and covered my mouth, and didn't let me say any more. Lao Bai outside the door also shouted, "Meizi, I like you too, and the thief likes it." ”
Outside, Fang Zhongyu and Gao Xiang also laughed, and we couldn't sleep, so we simply got up and ran outside to chat and drink with them. I leaned on Fang Zhongyu's shoulder, next to Gao Xiang, I actually found that the current Gao Xiang is not as important as Fang Zhongyu to me. It turns out that the crush will also fade over time.
"You don't know, Lao Bai, Xiao Xia came back from Japan a while ago and brought these things," Fang Zhongyu pointed to the food on the table, "Thinking of calling me and Shoko to come over and eat together, Shoko brought his little girlfriend with him, but the two of them spent a long time in the back room at night, making me and Xiao Xia depressed outside!" Fang Zhongyu mentioned Gao Xiang's troubles in front of everyone.
Gao Xiang didn't expect Fang Zhongyu to have this hand, and he was suddenly turned red-faced. Fortunately, Lao Bai came out to play a round, "Daewoo, don't talk about Xiangzi, you see Xiangzi's face is red." We're all grown-ups, don't tell us you're still a virgin, I despise you. ”
Fang Zhongyu didn't expect Lao Bai to point the finger at him, the two of them didn't deal with each other when they were in school, Lao Bai and I were mortal enemies, and Daewoo always helped me, making the two of them look like rivals. "Eyebrows, you see, what's so good about this kind of man? It's a pity that you follow him, otherwise, you just follow me, you see, I'm not better than Lao Bai. After speaking, Fang Zhongyu also put a POSS out.
Su Mei and I were about to burst out laughing, Su Mei fell on Lao Bai, I leaned on Gao Xiang, pointed at Fang Zhongyu and couldn't speak. Only Gao Xiang didn't laugh, only covered his mouth there, shrugged his shoulders.
That night, we leaned on each other and chatted, and then I couldn't support it at first, leaned on Fang Zhongyu's shoulder, and fell asleep listening to them chatting.
In the morning, the alarm clock woke me up, and the five of us slept on the floor of the living room, and I was still holding one of Gao Xiang's arms.