Chapter 233: The Abalone Feast (2)

The incubator for abalone has a volume of 20 liters, which is about the same as an ordinary microwave oven, and the four full thermostatic humidors are obviously beyond Liu Ziqing's expectations, and he didn't even react for a while. Until Huang Xuan said loudly: "Hey, don't want it?" Liu Ziqing hurriedly took the box from Huang Xuan's hand, and because it was closed, he couldn't help asking, "How many?" ”

"36 big abalones, and some small ones." Huang Xuan made a shoulder relaxed downward stretch, the abalone is not heavy, but the incubator is not light, although it is portable, but there are large batteries similar to notebooks, control ICs and pure copper heat exchangers, together, there are enough weights of 5 kilograms.

"36?" Liu Ziqing's eyeball has a strong connecting nerve.

Huang Xuan made a smiling gesture and said, "Since it's an abalone feast, naturally you can't have one per person, what does Mr. Li say?" ”

"Master Li originally expected that if there were two three-headed abalones...... Liu Ziqing paused, and then asked hesitantly, "How big is the big abalone?" ”

"Well, most of them are three-headed abalones, including the six two-headed abalone I chose, and the family should rarely eat them, so try them."

The connecting nerve of Liu Ziqing's eyeballs stubbornly withstood the test, and he swallowed back all the words that came to his mouth, made a gesture, and said, "OK, I'll go and hand it over to Master Li." He had secretly decided in his heart to stay away from his crazy boss.

In the kitchen, Li Wenji stood behind the preserved egg, watched him stir the old soup with a spoon, and said: "Boiling abalone with broth, the most important thing is the heat, if the fire is too big, the Jinhua ham will be easy to disperse, and the soup will be thick, if the fire is small, shark fin and bird's nest will not be stewed, and the aroma of the chicken will not come out, and the taste will be weak......

As he was talking, Liu Ziqing and Li Qing walked in with incubators, and the former said loudly: "Master Li, the abalone has been brought over." ”

"Oh, how?" Li Wenji also came over with great anticipation, he would agree to this abalone banquet, a big reason is also to see Huang Xuan's strength, and cook a few 3-head superb net abalone. Ordinary wild three-headed abalone can be won for 500,000 yuan, and domestic abalone has a record of less than 100,000, but such a superb three-headed net abalone is not something that anyone can eat or buy. In his mind, Huang Xuan should not be reluctant to eat himself.

Liu Ziqing's expression was very strange, he carefully put the incubator on the table, took the incubator in Li Qing's hand, and next to the two boxes, and said, "Why don't you take a look first?" ”

He felt that if he repeated Huang Xuan's words, it would completely test the hearts of everyone present and create chaos.

Like many Hong Kong people, Li Wenji opened his shoulders and shrugged his shoulders, took off his gloves, and greeted: "Andy, come here to help." ”

Andy is a young man in his 20s, still a small chef of Fulin Hotel, who has just been promoted from side dish to master, and is qualified to cook a dish, but he is serious and is favored by Li Wenji, so he has the opportunity to go out with the master like preserved eggs.

With a low agreement, Andy ran to Li Wenji's side, took two wooden plates, and waited for Li Wenji to take the abalone.

The first incubator opens.

Liu Ziqing took a look at it, and they were all abalone smaller than the palm of his hand, which was one size smaller than what Huang Xuan took out the day before yesterday.

Li Wenji was cautious.

He held out the abalone with both hands, and at the same time seemed to explain to Andy: "The reason why dried abalone is better than fresh abalone is that the key is to be soft-hearted. ”

Li Wenji said as he flipped over the abalone and said: "The best four-headed net abalone, with a square heart and elasticity, is at least 300,000 yuan." He looked up at Liu Ziqing as he spoke, and exclaimed, "Your boss has strength." ”

Liu Ziqing didn't speak, he was still waiting for Li Wenji to open other incubators.

Li Wenji was talking, but his hands were non-stop, and he fished out the abalone and laid it flat on the wooden plate. The box was layered, he took out the 6 on the first layer, and it was 6 again, Andy next to him swallowed his spit and said, "That's 3 million?" ”

"Why?" Liu Ziqing had also done his homework, and snorted: "If this wasn't in a house, I would have called it security just now, and I was trembling when I held it in my hand." ”

"A thief who knows the goods like this can be regarded as a thief." Li Wenji said with a smile, spread out the abalone on this floor, and then picked up the lower layer.

"Huh, so small?" Andy screamed. Liu Ziqing also turned sideways to see, sure enough, they were all small abalone under 20 heads.

The preserved egg on the side stretched his head over to take a look, and by the way, he gave Andy a shoulder, and said, "I don't understand, it's not easy for Xiao Bao to show his heart, and these are what rich and noble people eat." ”

"How much is it worth for such a small amount?" Andy, who had just seen the four-headed abalone, said dissatisfiedly: "I can also eat this." ”

"Eat?" Preserved Egg scoffed and said, "These are not on the table." ”

"Don't get on the table?"

Seeing that Liu Ziqing was also listening, the preserved egg said seriously: "Don't look at these abalones are only 28 or 30 big, but they are authentic Jipin abalone, only soft-hearted, stewed over slow fire and then put in the refrigerator, take one and eat it when you want to eat it, just like dim sum." ”

"Dim sum?" Andy added his lips and said, "This abalone should also have 1,000 yuan, right?" ”

Li Wenji picked out these small abalone one by one and said: "Almost, in the 80s, many Hong Kong tycoons also liked to eat like this, but now few people eat it, abalone is getting less and less, and now 28 abalone can be served." ”

"Hong Kong eats so many abalone every year, of course." Preserved Dan looked at the fire from the side and said, "I'm afraid that by the time I can make a feast, I won't even be able to see 4 abalones." ”

"It's almost gone now." Li Wenji shook his head and said: "Two years ago, there were still people who wanted to try two abalone at a high price, and no one sold them until 5 million, I don't think no one sold them, but there are no two abalone in this world, and occasionally there are heirlooms, it is really better to put them in a safe, according to the current rate of appreciation, it is definitely higher than investing in the stock market." Think about it, 3 catties of abalone are more than 3 taels of three-headed abalone, not to mention net abalone, even Jipin abalone will grow for thirty or forty years, two abalone to use 5 catties of abalone, 100 years can not grow, the bigger the abalone, the slower the grow, I have not seen two abalone for almost 5 years. Your master made a state banquet for Deng Xiaoping back then, and he saw two abalones, it was all 40 years ago...... "The master Li Wenji said is naturally Yang Guanyi.

As he was talking, Andy next to him said in a muffled voice: "Chef, look at it, this abalone seems to be a little too big." ”

"Huh?" Li Wenji didn't care about it, he twisted his head as he said something, and with a "hmm" sound, he almost bit his tongue.

In the second incubator, there were two abalones in a straight position, with ingots, the edges were upturned, just equal to the palm of an adult's hand, and Li Wenji let out a long exhalation sound, as if he wanted to spit out the air in his lungs. He gently grasped the lower end of the abalone with his hand, took it over his head, and placed it on the lamp, and in the light, the red "color" came through the edges.

"Two-headed abalone." Li Wenji whispered: "This is the two-headed abalone." ”

The people in the kitchen stopped and looked at the pilgrim-like Li Wenji, who was lucky to see two abalone for a chef who only started making abalone in the 90s.

Andy put the wooden plate in the incubator in the kitchen, turned around and handed over the plate again, Li Wenji carefully put the two abalone on the upper layer on the plate, solemnly as if he was really carrying the ingots.

He took a breath and wanted to look at Liu Ziqing, but he didn't look, so he opened the second layer of the incubator.

A series of exclamations rang out.

The chef here, whether it is from the Fulin Hotel or Li Wenji invited from a nearby hotel, whether he originally understands it or not, I heard him introduce two abalones just now, each of which is 5 million yuan and has no price, isn't there already 20 million here?

Li Wenji held his breath and shone the two abalone in the light, and the same red light came out of his body, which was a sign of sunbathing, and he moved his shoulders flatly, and put them on the plate that Andy was holding. The latter was worried that he would miss it, so he had changed his favor to hugging.

Steady, but slowly, Li Wenji opened the third layer of the incubator.

Two equally dazzling abalones.

The two dried abalone are actually not big at all, only ten centimeters high, with an obvious waist curvature, long and thirty centimeters, but in the eyes of everyone, they are huge, like diamonds.

Liu Ziqing looked at Li Wenji's pilgrim-like posture, and knew in his heart that with his own plan, if he wanted to cooperate, he would already be inseparable.

Huang Xuan was laughing with his grandfather at this time, Huang Jindi was an old-fashioned person, he liked this feeling of Sun Chenghuan's knees, the long table he had prepared was also "kicked out" of the living room by him, and it was replaced with a large round eight-immortal table made of rosewood, which was an old furniture in the Guangxu period, which should be Huang Xuan's great-great-grandfather, that is, Huang Jindi's grandfather left, it is said that it was captured trophies, and the officers who were born with mud legs did not know how to do it, so they burned two and left two. Later, I knew that it was valuable, so I kept it in the old house, and Huang Jindi liked it, so he took it out. Huang Sugui can't say anything no.

Huang Jindi made it clear that it was given to Huang Xuan, so the two uncles also understood what their father thought.

The waiter Hou invited from the hotel was on both sides of the hall, ready to serve tea and water at any time, there were many people in the room, and even the tea seemed to be drunk quickly, Zhou Li stood behind Huang Jindi, tested the water temperature for him, and took some small things out of reach, while Zhou Lian was in and out of the room to command.

Zhang Xinyi led Xiao Mink Meimei into the main entrance, pulled her to Huang Jindi's side, and said, "Dad, this is Ren Ruochan, the goddaughter I recognize." ”

At this moment, Huang Jindi was less majestic and more warm, and saw that the little mink was beautiful and beautiful, which fit the eyes very well, so he said: "Good, good." ”

He sat on the big Taishi chair, held the handle and asked, "Ruochan, how old is this year?" ”

Unexpectedly, seeing Huang Jindi asking questions like the elders in his hometown, and being Huang Xuan's grandfather, Xiao Mink knelt on her knees, kowtowed respectfully three times, and said, "I'm 16 years old this year." ”

These three heads, kowtowing in modern times are a little unaccustomed to it, but Huang Jindi, who kowtowed, was full of comfort, stood up, personally pulled up the little mink eyebrows, and said happily: "Such a beautiful girl, come, sit next to grandpa." ”

His thinking is still up to date, but the elderly, especially the retired elderly, always need the respect and attention of the children, the little mink Meimei very appropriately met Huang Jindi's requirements for his children and grandchildren, he immediately became happy, his hand in his arms "touched" "touched", and asked Zhou Lidao: "What about my bracelet?" ”

"Here it is." Zhou Li hurriedly handed over the small box in his jacket pocket to Huang Jindi, today is a family banquet, as an elder, he naturally has to bring a lot of small gifts to make red envelopes.

"Come, this is a greeting gift from grandpa." Huang Jindi said and took out a pair of jade bracelets from the box, the green "color" was full, delicate, in the words of connoisseurs, it was full of green.

Diao Chan naturally recognized the value of this bracelet, the Han Dynasty jade and jade were the heaviest, the second was copper, Wang Yun was Sima, and the wealth and goods in and out of the family were frequent, but such a full jade jade was also rare, but Xiao Diao Meimei did not shirk, and reached out to ask Huang Jindi to bring the bracelet to her.

Yang Li also walked over with a smile and said jokingly: "What a lovely little girl, since your grandfather likes it, your aunt will also give you a meeting gift, things are not as good as grandpa, you can't dislike it." ”

She took Ruochan's hand, took out the gift she had prepared, and said, "This is a brooch, try it, is it appropriate?" ”

Xiao Mink smiled before saying a word, and said, "Thank you, aunt." ”

The brooch is made of diamonds, with a forked tail and a bright red gemstone at the tip, and the polished edges are also very valuable. Although Huang Yanbang eats public meals, the Yang family has a lot of family background, which is obviously prepared by Yang Li herself.

If Yang Li gave such a valuable gift on weekdays, Huang Yanbang would always be a little unhappy. But today, one is a family banquet, Xiao Mink's eyebrows are well-behaved, and the other is that she likes Huang Jindi, her father has given such a heavy gift, Yang Li sent a brooch again, and he didn't say anything anymore, and kept smiling and watching.

With Huang Xuan's aunt starting up, the aunts also took out the prepared gifts, and the little mink eyebrows circled, basically getting together a whole line, looking at Huang Xuan is happy and envious.

That is, he is one year old, and he has such treatment.