When the car arrived at the Tokyo headquarters, I was still asleep, but Kino woke me up and I knew I had arrived at my destination. The sun outside was a little dazzling, and when I raised my hand and looked at my watch, it was almost eleven o'clock. Unlike the birds and flowers of Izu, we are back in the bustling city, and the whole person will follow the nervous city.

The cold-faced god has arrived, and Gao Xiang and they have also arrived, but I haven't seen it, I just went to the meeting with Harada, although I was listening to the whole process, which is a kind of learning. Harada's finished film is very beautiful, as if it is a love memoir of Yaedai, that kind of beautiful love is always very marketable, it will never go out of style, and his promotional slogan is also very beautiful: When the cherry blossoms fall again year, who will you think of?

The promotional film was unanimously approved, sent to post-processing, and the schedule was arranged. Harada and they were busy, but I was sent to the hotel to rest, and I was also tired, so I fell into bed for a while and fell asleep.

When I woke up again, the sun outside the window had sunk in the west, and the mobile phone at the bedside kept ringing, and I picked it up, it was Harada calling, and a small party was arranged in the evening, and Kino would come to pick me up in a while. Harada was a very principled person, he gave me plenty of time to take a shower, put on makeup, and change clothes, and when I was packing up, Kino came and knocked on my door.

We stopped in front of a fugu house, Kino lifted the curtain and let me in, there were not many people inside, but there were many people I was familiar with, the cold face god and Nanda were also in the middle of the banquet, and Inoue Senpai was also there, but there were less Yaeyo and the mysterious person. Kino seemed to see my speculation, and whispered in my ear that Yaeyo and the mysterious man had taken tonight's flight to Hawaii, otherwise they would have become the object of attention as soon as the promotional video aired.

When Kino brought me into the banquet, Nantian pulled me next to him silently, just isolated from the cold face god, who was naturally expressionless, just nodded at me, but Inoue senior was very talkative, plus he hadn't seen me for many days, and he talked to me.

The fugu was delicious, but it didn't suit my taste, so after only a few bites, I stopped and watched them enjoy. According to Inoue, this restaurant is the best restaurant in Tokyo to make a "puffer fish feast", and you can see its abundance just by looking at the dozens of small dishes and bowls on the table.

In general, there are eight dishes in the "Fugu Feast":

The first dish is the main sake, which is made of charred puffer fish fin sake, which is quite chic.

The second course is the "appetizer", that is, the cold dish "cold puffer fish skin". The puffer fish skin is cut into regular slender filaments, and then shredded ginger and sesame seeds are dropped, which is crunchy and tough, and the chew is full of spice.

The third course is the "sashimi" main course of the pressed table, which is a raw puffer fish fillet. The sashimi on a large porcelain plate is lined with dahlias and is decorated with green onion stalks, shallots, orange petals, wasabi paste and puffer fish liver, surrounded by balsamic vinegar, sweet soy sauce, horseradish powder, shredded ginger, mashed radish, and soybean leaves. The food is delicious, soft and fragrant.

The fourth course is the "roasted food", which is the roasted pork white ——— essence nest, which is very oily but not greasy, and before it can be chewed carefully, it gently slides into the esophagus, like eating French cheese.

The fifth course is "Yangyang", which is called "tempura" in Japanese and "fried dolphin helmet" in Chinese, which is made by dragging powder and egg paste from the broken skeleton of the puffer fish after taking the meat. It looks like fried pheasant, but there is no trace of oil, and the crispy aroma is a little light.

The sixth course is the "back bowl", that is, the soup ——— puffer fish head hot pot, equipped with enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, tofu, vermicelli, round rice cakes, celery, Chinese cabbage, green onions and other accessories, the same full pot does not see the slightest oil flower, clear and delicious. The rice cake is soft in the soup, soft and sweet.

The seventh course is the staple dish, which is puffer fish fillet claypot rice, with eggs, chopped green onions, seaweed, and beautiful colors; Served with Japanese-style pickled plums, pickled radishes and sesame pickles, this has a different food charm.

The eighth course is an after-dinner drink, chilled wild orange juice and Jiuzhou green tea. Wild orange juice is sour and bitter, and can be eaten; Green tea, on the other hand, is powdered and stirred in a glass with boiling water, giving it a green green color, but it is more bitter than Chinese green tea.

I stopped early and asked for a cup of green tea to see how sweet they were eating.

"Isn't it unappetizing? I see that you only eat greens. Inoue noticed my calmness and asked me in a low voice.

I shook my head and exchanged words with him: "Although it is delicious, not everyone can enjoy it, to be honest, I didn't like it very much for the first time." ”

Inoue smiled, "It's not because I'm afraid, is it?" ”

Although the puffer fish is very poisonous, it has not scared me to the point that I dare not eat it, and there are so many people, I will not be the only one who is unlucky when something happens. So I poured myself a drink, and then enjoyed the food, all the good things I liked, and these foods are so beautiful, how can I bear to eat them?

"I heard you did well this time?" Inoue also paused and said half-jokingly.

I shook my head, "I really didn't help much," I glanced at Harada, "the really talented person is him." ”

"Kuji is a great planner, and I feel that among all the ideas, this one is the best." Inoue took a sip of the wine I had poured for him, "It's hard for him, I can think of such a good idea, I can guarantee that no one will be better than him." ”

"When I read the book, I thought the same way, he can string together the chaotic things we think of, form such a touching story, and I can shoot the picture so beautifully, it's the first time I've seen it." I looked at Harada, who was almost drunk, and was joking loudly there, and I had always seen him serious, but now it might be really hard to see him.

"I've heard that you've made a lot of gains," Inoue pointed the finger at me, "said that guy Kuji, you made a good drink." I didn't expect you to do this. ”

I laughed, a little embarrassed, unintentional, but let everyone do something for a while, it's really rare, "My dad runs a winery, I grew up in a winery, I used to work there during holidays, and I am very familiar with the sake brewing set." I used to like it very much, and I always did experiments in the workshop, and I don't know how many jars of wine I brewed. ”

"I've never asked, where did you learn your Japanese so well?" Inoue asked, "University?" ”

"Hmm!" I raised my glass, "I took a foreign language in college because the foreign teachers were very handsome. ”

Inoue almost squirted out, and he didn't think I'd say something like that, "Really? ”

I smiled, and everyone seemed to notice us, "At that time, the teacher was an international student, seven years older than us, he was a very cheerful person, and the class was very interesting. "At that time, I was very interested in studying Japanese, and I knew a lot about Japan in order to get good grades and get his attention. There are a lot of girls who take his classes, and many of them come because he is so handsome. ”

"At the beginning, for him, I took Japanese for three years in college, and I was more attentive than Japanese majors, and I passed the Japanese level 1 and TOEFL exams at school, and I almost transferred to the Japanese department for this reason, but the school didn't approve it." I put down my teacup and said, "I was very motivated to study at that time!" ”

"And then?" Inoue listened intently, and then asked me.

"Later?" I pursed my lips and thought, "Later, when he left, we learned that that guy was actually gay and liked men." I've even cried secretly for this! ”

The wine on the well finally squirted out and pointed at me, "Liar, I was deceived by you, and I really think you are telling the truth!" ”

I laughed, and so did the university, and they had been paying attention to our conversation for a long time, probably since I started talking about handsome guys, and several of them stopped to listen, and then they couldn't help but laugh when they heard what I said.

The atmosphere also reached a small*, and everyone calmed down, and then drank wine and ate meat. I didn't have much of an appetite and still sat there watching them eat, drinking only tea.

After a while, a waiter came over and placed a fried rice in front of me, whispering in my ear that it was the cold noodle god who called for me. Although he doesn't talk to me, he still cares about me, and the fried rice is very simple, and it is fragrant in the mouth.

All night, the cold face god didn't say a word to me, and it can be seen that it seems that Nantian deliberately separated us and distracted us, although he didn't know his intentions, but it was obvious that he didn't want us to communicate. It was Inoue who took me back to the hotel, who told me something to pay attention to, and then touched my head and watched me go upstairs, there are still many things to be busy tomorrow, and the promotion of the cherry blossom festival will officially start tomorrow.

When I walked into the elevator, Inoue ran over again, stopped the elevator, and asked me, "Is it true about that foreign teacher?" ”

I laughed, thought about it, and told him, "That's true." He is the Prince Charming in our hearts, and he will always be kept, and he is a very good memory. ”

Back in the room, open the mailbox, there was Su Mei's email, she said that she was not in good health this time, and she didn't contact me, but told me not to worry, it's not a big deal, and she is now looking for a job in Beijing, and there is no news yet. The date was daytime today, I hadn't been in touch for a long time, I didn't know about her illness, I sent an email to greet her, turned off my computer, and stood in front of the window, and the bustling night view of Tokyo outside, which was one of my favorite views to see.

At the meeting on the second day, the company arranged my work, because my Sakura wine idea is good, they hope to launch a season of products, in line with the company's Sakura food strategy, yesterday the food department has selected two people to cooperate with me, and now they are in place.

At the meeting, Harada's promotional video was played, and I always thought it was difficult to express my creativity in one minute, but Harada did it, and he clearly conveyed what he wanted to express to everyone, not only me, but everyone present felt moved, and everyone also knew that the effect of this promotional video after its launch may not be worse than that on Valentine's Day, but only better.

After the meeting, I met Gao Xiang downstairs, they were training the content of the food promotion and sales activities of the cherry blossom festival, he saw me, smiled and nodded, it was a greeting, they were arranged in the company's staff dormitory, and I was not with me, I don't know where Jiang Xia is now, what arrangements do they have?

I had a brief exchange of ideas with the technician at the factory, who gave me a lab to use it, and although he didn't like my way of doing things, he gave me a lot of advice.

China's wine culture is broad and profound, and since I was a child, I have followed my father in the winery, and I have seen and listened a lot, and I may also be a little rough.

My favorite is the manufacture of "Li", I heard my father say that the sweet wine that can be made in a day is called "Li" in ancient times, just as we know a famous saying of Zhuangzi wrote: "The friendship of a gentleman is lighter than water, and the friendship of a villain is sweet".

Due to the experience of the last time, the method I used is very simple, not using the traditional manufacturing process of Japanese sake, but using the method of making Chinese sweet sake, using grain sprouts as raw materials, mixed with a certain proportion of polished rice, the grain sprouts have a sweet taste, but the preparation method of liquor is simple, the next day I can make a sake suitable for the light taste of the Japanese, and then with the spice recipe faxed by my father, mixed in proportion, it becomes a new style of liquor.

When the first pot of sake came out, many professional sommeliers came to the Japanese factory to taste the new products, and the tasting of sake is also a very deep knowledge, and when I was 18 years old, I got a sommelier certificate, and I think it took a lot of homework to do it. In a hall of tasting, there are seven or eight sommeliers, scattered to sit in different positions, with test reports in front of them, sommeliers must have good living habits, can not eat irritating food, can not smoke, can not drink, can not rub perfume, otherwise there is a certain impact on the judgment of taste.

Someone brought water and placed it in front of everyone for gargling. The first thing is pure sake, and there is no pure sake made by cherry blossoms, so everyone raises their glasses and looks at the light to check the color of the sake. This is the first of the three steps of wine tasting.

The purpose of wine tasting, in addition to measuring its physical and chemical indicators, is also to carry out sensory identification, according to the color and aroma of the wine to make a judgment, the first step is to look at the color, raise a glass to the light to observe the color of the wine.

Except for the sauce flavor type, the flavor type and a small number of strong flavor types with a slight yellow head, the other flavor types of liquor should be colorless and transparent. If there is turbidity, precipitation, suspended solids, etc., it is unqualified.

The second step is to smell the incense. Pour the wine into the glass, close to the nose and slowly inhale the aroma into the nose. You can only inhale into the wine, not exhale into it.

The third step is tasting, and wine tasting is the most important thing.

Each kind of wine contains five flavors: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and astringent, and these five flavors must have an appropriate ratio to have a good taste. If the sweetness is too much, you will feel greasy; If the sourness is less, you will feel light; If the bitterness is less, there will be a feeling of confusion; Appropriate astringency can add to the aftertaste of the wine; Spicy, can play a stimulating role.

Take a sip of wine during the tasting. The sensitivity of the tongue to various flavors is different. Sweet taste buds in front of the tongue; The sour taste buds are on the tongue; Bitter taste buds at the back of the tongue; Astringency is the saliva secretion affected by the astringency of wine; Spiciness, on the other hand, is the excitement of the taste buds caused by alcohol.

Dessert wine is not my specialty, but there are many other tasters who have given us a lot of useful advice, and by the next day, the wine has been blended to the satisfaction of almost everyone. That's the difference between commercial prices and personal preferences, you can make everyone feel good, but it's not the best you want, that's it.

We started work here, and the publicity was also very lively, listening to Gao Xiang on the phone, the promotional video caused a great sensation, and the two people involved went abroad to enjoy it, and the person who was left to explain the incident was Harada, who was caught and unlucky.

The cherry blossom festival is scheduled for March 28th, and Gao Xiang's cherry blossom food is almost ready, and now many companies and families are already making reservations. On the phone, the phone asked me if I wanted to go to enjoy the cherry blossoms together, and I refused, although the cherry blossoms are beautiful, but after seeing them in one place, there is not much novelty.

The 28th is Friday, and many companies have a half-day holiday to organize employees to go to cherry blossom viewing. Since yesterday afternoon, the people who organized the sale have been very busy. They have opened stores in various office buildings and office rooms, and have also organized special sales staff in major supermarkets, and the company's strategy is to combine various ingredients in advance, and customers only need to choose according to their own tastes.

The group sale will only be held until 1 p.m. on the 18th, after which only the staff on duty will continue to do so, and the rest will participate in the cherry blossom viewing party organized by the company at Ueno Park, which is organized every year by the Tokyo head office.

"Do you want to go along?" On the morning of the 28th, halfway through the sales campaign, the cold-faced god called.

"I don't want to go to Ueno anymore, I want to organize my own time." I answered truthfully.

The cold-faced god was silent for a moment, "Do you need me?" ”

I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows here, so I smiled and said, "Okay, you come to pick me up in the afternoon, and I'll take you to a good place." ”

So we set a time and place, and then we started to deal with the smiling faces of the guests, I love this way of working, although it is tiring, but it is very reassuring. Sakura wine is expected to sell well, many people are buying in boxes, because we design small bottles when packaging, you don't have to use a cup, you don't have to drink it directly with a bottle, you don't feel too much to drink, and the people in the packaging design team put three or four kinds of cherry blossom wine in a box, mixed sales, and got many approvals. For the sake of time, after getting the production license, we only produced 5,000 cases of finished wine, and after all the short sales in one morning, we got a lot of orders, and many bars and liquor shops also began to book, but we made some bright spots.

After a hurried meal at noon, I returned to the hotel to take a shower, changed into a pair of jeans, put on sneakers, and the phone in the room rang, and the cold face god whispered on the phone: "Come down, I'm in the parking lot." ”