Chapter Ninety-Eight: Three Pools and the Moon
Ji Jiusuan, who was wandering around the West Lake, was thinking about how to make a menu, and he had to rent an experimental kitchen to test his mind.
He knew that no matter what kind of food it was, it had to go through constant experimentation before it could be served to the guests, so in order to solve the problem of the restaurant entrusted by Kazahara Cui, he had to cook and practice by himself.
Under the pleasant scenery of West Lake, he sorted out the remaining cocoa tree information while walking, and walked in nature, without feeling the passage of time at all.
Cocoa has a long history, three thousand years ago, the Mayans in the Americas began to cultivate the cacao tree, called cacau, they dried and crushed cocoa beans, added water and peppers, mixed into a bitter drink, and later spread to the Aztec Empire in South America and Mexico, the Aztecs called it xocoatl, which means bitter water, and they specially made a hot drink for the royal family, called Chocolatl, which is the source of the word chocolate.
In terms of varieties, there are three types, the first is Criollo, the top grade of cocoa, with a unique aroma but scarce production, accounting for only 5% of global production, followed by Forastero, which has the highest production, accounting for about 80% of global production, with a spicy, bitter and sour smell, mainly used in the production of ordinary popular chocolate.
The combination of these two flavors is Trinitario, a hybrid of the two beans, named after the island of Trinidad that produces about 15% of the product, and is considered a treasure of cocoa, along with Glioro, and only these two beans can provide the acidity, balance and complexity of a good chocolate.
According to the possible yield and quality, Ji Jiusuan decided to take the bean variety is Taliao, with Tulio and Bai Jiulian, the dishes of the catering have been fixed for three points, and the fixed three points of dishes have determined the equipment required for the restaurant, except for the decoration problem, the others have been almost solved, and then he will come up with a plan to give Feng Yuan Cui, and explain to him the use of 3 million RMB.
On the boat, Ji Jiusuan went to the three pools to seal the moon and explore the mystery left by the wind chimes.
"Xiao Yue, is there a dessert military division or a catering military division?" Ji Jiusuan, who was sitting on the bow of the boat, suddenly asked.
"There must be, but you don't call yourself a military advisor, you all call those people marketing chief, strategy chief, but there are too many subdivisions of positions, except for the company's CEO, no one has the final decision-making power, so it is very difficult to expand a restaurant business to the world. Xiao Yue replied, at this time, he was slowly experiencing the feeling of recovering Jindan's strength, and it was too good to regain the basic power, and he was in a happy mood.
"Now it's evolved into me as a layman trying to beat an insider, and suddenly I feel that the last time Professor Shi's commission was much simpler, I had to start practicing my hand speed wildly. Ji Jiusuan said.
"The owner is worried about the chef?" asked Satsuki.
"I can't do it myself, how can I convince the public?" Ji Jiusuan said.
"If you have to become an all-professional master to convince the public and implement strategies, then the military advisor will be in vain. Satsuki said.
Ji Jiushu thought about it after hearing this, he knew that his thinking had fallen into a misunderstanding, interlacing was like a mountain, and it was easy to be overconfident and inaccurate in the use of strategies, and in turn, he might not be confident enough and do it himself, so that there was probably still a long way to go before the real military advisor.
Get off the boat, look at the spring waves of the West Lake, the cool breeze calms the hot atmosphere close to summer, and the Leifeng Pagoda not far away reminds people of the beautiful story of the White Snake.
Continue to walk for a few minutes, he deeply sighed that this place is like a fairyland, forgetful and sorrowful, and at the same time slowly walked towards the place where the moon is printed in the three pools, it is rumored that the stone tower was originally built by Su Shi in the Song Dynasty, three stone towers, the tower is 2.5 meters high, 2 meters above the water, it is composed of the pedestal, the round tower body, the treasure cover, the six-sided pavilion, the gourd top, the tower body is spherical and hollow, there are five small round holes around the body, the hole edge is decorated with relief patterns, its use is a mystery, Ji Jiu counts today's line, it is for this.
"The Star Guide Stone is not responding?"
Ji Jiu was surprised, wasn't the clue left by the wind chimes this?
Suddenly, a man walked up to him, looked at him with a smile in his eyes, and said, "The Star Guide Stone is not used like this. “
“!?“ Ji Jiu was alerted instantly, was he being targeted?
"I didn't have my eye on you, it was the stone that drew me in, are you looking for the wind bell?" the man asked.
After calming down a little, Ji Jiu brushed the faces of the people he had seen in the past few months, and said intently, "Have I seen you?"
"Bang Bang!"
This person applauded Ji Jiusuan, and was even more convinced of Ji Jiusuan's guess, this person definitely has nothing to do with the Feng Shui Investigation Department, could it be someone from the Oriental Thunderbolt Society?
But the rumored mysterious organization can't come to him in person, especially on this occasion.
"Remembered?" the man asked with a smile.
"It's a guest at Lin Tao's restaurant, I've heard your voice. Ji Jiu said with certainty, he was ninety percent convinced.
"Hahaha, you are worthy of being the owner of the legendary Phantom Root, so do you think, am I here to find you, or am I here to find the wind chime?" the man continued to ask, after laughing.
Ji Jiusuan clasped his hands to his chest, and replied with a calm look: "Sure enough, there is a problem with that restaurant, but this time you are not here to find me, nor are you looking for wind bells, but you are planning to leave this place through the star guidance stone, am I right?"
"Have you studied this stone?" the man smiled, his face finally serious.
"The stars guide, the three pools of the moon, to solve the mystery of the stars and the moon, this stone that is gradually heating up must be a teleportation stone, whether it is teleporting to a far away place, or another parallel world. Ji Jiusuan held the stone that was gradually glowing and hot, and deduced directly.
After listening to Ji Jiusuan's analysis, this person couldn't help but feel that his original opinion was correct, and said slowly: "Most of the inferences are correct, but there is one thing you didn't expect. “
"Star Guidance Stone, is it a trap?" asked Ji Jiusuan.
"No, that stone is what we prepared for her, the woman of the wind chime traveled the world with her culinary talent, but when she was about to open the store, she suddenly changed her mind, that is, she met our time cooking meeting, ordinary demons we are not interested in, but extraordinary talents have the opportunity to reach this step and enter our time cooking meeting. The man said.
Ji Jiusuan frowned, and said in a slightly low tone: "Your unilateral statement can't explain the sudden disappearance of the wind bell and the severance of contact with my father. “
"Hehe, she is too confident, and it is not easy to enter the assessment of the time cooking meeting, which caused such negligence. “
After speaking, the person's hands and hands swayed slightly, releasing a strange energy that did not belong to the immortal qi, all of which were still within a hundred zhang, almost suffocating quiet, and after three breaths, the surrounding lake suddenly rippled layer by layer, and the person's crystal clear eyes reflected the time wheel, and activated the formation of the three pools of the moon at the time of the dusk and night!