Chapter 4: The First Guest

Xijing City, East Second Ring Road, Luoma City CBD.

Ma Yuanjing, who is not confused for more than a year, started from scratch, made some money by relying on import and export trade, and established "Yuanjing Commerce" in the CBD of Luoma City, and now it is also booming, and the company occupies a full three floors of gold floors from 22 to 24 floors.

Ma Yuanjing is a native of Xijing, who has been full of yearning for the sea since he was a child, and when he grew up, he ran around for a living, and he had a soft spot for seafood in the sea.

"Mr. Ma, this video conference has been going on for five hours, and now it's three o'clock in the afternoon, and the unicorn perch in Tangfeng Pavilion that I prepared for you before is already cold, do you want to go and warm it up for you now." The secretary who had made the minutes of the meeting entered the office and asked intimately.

"Forget it, I can't eat this dish anymore, and I don't have much appetite right now." Ma Yuanjing, who was sitting on the chair, pinched the bridge of his nose and said.

"Mr. Ma, there is also a project summary meeting at 4:20, because this overseas video conference is a bit out of time, and there is no need to postpone the meeting by 20 minutes later." The secretary held the itinerary in his hand and inquired about Ma Yuanjing's arrangements.

"Then postpone it for twenty minutes, it's nothing, you can go down first." In the face of setbacks in overseas markets, Ma Yuanjing, who is in his forties, no longer has the energy to move forward bravely when he was young.

I closed my eyes and rested on the back of the chair for a while, and after adjusting my condition, my stomach protested.

"Hey, I haven't eaten a bite of food since I woke up in the morning, and I'm really a little hungry." Ma Yuanjing, who was nervous just now and didn't feel hungry, felt hungry and panicked at this time, so he opened the takeaway platform that he hadn't used for a long time.

"Hey, this shop called Shanhai Food Garden is a bit interesting, there is only one steamed fish in the whole store, I have been traveling south and north for so many years, and it is the first time I have heard of this kind of fish." Ma Yuanjing decided to order a taste with curiosity, and the price of 188 was even worse than Tang Fengge's unicorn perch.

"I didn't expect a steamed fish to have 11 kinds of seasonings, it's really something, so try this ham and bamboo shoot version." Ma Yuanjing, who only loves seafood, thought to himself that this didn't even have a staple food takeaway, but he had to see if he really had the ability or was doing a gimmick.

"Automatic order delivery has been activated." Zhang Mingchuan, who was in a mysterious space, saw another house suddenly appear next to the kitchen, the same style as the kitchen, the only difference was that the door was a warehouse word.

After a while, the aroma of steamed fish wafted out of the kitchen.

"This is automatic order delivery? Finally, the first diner ordered. Zhang Mingchuan also withdrew from the mysterious space, wanting to find out what was going on with this so-called automatic delivery.

Back in the courtyard, after logging in to the platform, I found that the sales volume of steamed fish has changed from 0 to 1, and the order is being delivered, and it is expected to be delivered in 15 minutes.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was standing in the courtyard, did not find the food pick-up staff, nor did he see the plate of steamed fish just out of the pot.

"Ding, your takeaway has been delivered, please go to the takeaway cabinet to pick it up yourself." From the order to the delivery, it only took fifteen minutes, Ma Yuanjing felt a little interesting, so he went to ask the secretary to pick up the takeaway.

Looking at the flat takeaway box in his hand, there was not the slightest peculiarity.

Ma Yuanjing opened the lid, and a burst of fish umami came out, and the takeaway box was made of porcelain on the inner wall, and there was a piece of about a pound lying inside, and there was no green onion and ginger shreds, nor could you see ham and fresh bamboo shoots, it looked like it was just a steamed fish without any decoration.

Ma Yuanjing likes to eat steamed fish first from the oily fish belly, draw out a piece of fish belly, ham and fresh bamboo shoots will be exposed from the belly of the fish, before smelling only the fish umami, now there is a trace of ham and fresh bamboo shoots in the air.

In the mouth of the fish belly, the umami of the fish fills the entire mouth, and then the special flavor of the ham fat and the fragrance of the fresh bamboo shoots spread layer by layer, and finally return to the fish flavor.

After taking a bite, Ma Yuanjing was still reminiscing about the taste, thinking that he had eaten all the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and felt that this seemingly ordinary steamed fish, regardless of the heat, time and the combination of ingredients, was no less than those big restaurants that had been passed down for hundreds of years.

After eating a fish, there was no trace of fish in the takeaway box, Ma Yuanjing, who was barely seven points full, was ready to order another one to taste, as for the unicorn perch from Tangfeng Pavilion that he had eaten in Xijing before, it had been swept into the trash can of history by Ma Yuanjing.

"Mr. Ma, it's already four o'clock, and you can go to the conference room in twenty minutes." Secretary Li, who knocked on the door and came in, only smelled the residual smell of fish in the air, and almost forgot the work she wanted to report when she came in.

"Got it." Ma Yuanjing felt that he had eaten a fish quickly, and it took him forty minutes, so he put down his phone with some pity. Originally, he was still in high spirits due to setbacks, but after the secretary left, he looked at himself in the grooming mirror, and only felt full of energy and radiant.

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Zhang Mingchuan in the courtyard did not find anything unusual until he showed that the order had been confirmed and signed.

received the information that the platform account showed that 188 yuan had been received, and Zhang Mingchuan's heart also relaxed.

The constant pursuit of perfect quality in the mysterious space has made Zhang Mingchuan's requirements for his cooking skills also change, and now he has begun to think about buying seasonings and ingredients that are more suitable for each dish, so as to make up for the lack of ingredient quality.

Coming to the mysterious space again, Zhang Mingchuan curiously walked to the warehouse door that suddenly appeared, wanting to see what was inside, but the locked warehouse door stopped his curious footsteps.

Zhang Mingchuan had no choice but to put away his curiosity, took out a bamboo basket from the kitchen, and entered the desolate world again, looking for the dried mushrooms required by the task.

"Judging from the introduction, there should be no danger, the main creatures are elk and sturgeon." As he spoke, Zhang Mingchuan had already entered the mountain of Mencius.

The peach and plum are forests, the catalpa trees are towering, and there are all kinds of mushrooms growing on the fertile land.

Herds of elk are drinking and playing by the river, and it's all like a paradise.

This time, the target stem fungus mainly grows on decaying pine trees, and its body is shrunken, and the folds are often mixed with pine needles, which is easy to pass by if you are not careful.

Zhang Mingchuan looked up and looked around, peach and plum trees mainly grew at the foot of the mountain, and pine forests were concentrated on the mountainside.

Walking along the river to the mountain, Zhang Mingchuan found that the fish in this river have thin ends, narrow backs and straight bellies, and are known as one of the three delicacies in the world, caviar, which refers to a sauce made from the eggs produced by this sturgeon.

"This desolate world is really a heavenly existence, and there are so many caviars that are hard to find in the outside world." Zhang Mingchuan, who doesn't know how to make caviar, can only quietly watch the stacks of banknotes swim here.

Teasing the curious little elk from time to time on the road, Zhang Mingchuan unconsciously climbed halfway up the mountain and entered the pine forest.

"It's a chicken fir! It's a red mushroom! It's porcini mushrooms! "Dian Prefecture was once known as the kingdom of wild mushrooms, there are thousands of wild mushrooms growing in the dense mountain forests of Dian Prefecture, but under the uncontrolled exploitation of people, there are originally thousands of wild mushrooms, and now there are few wild mushrooms that people can know and use.

At present, this untouched mountain forest is simply a paradise for wild mushrooms, forming a mutually beneficial ecological chain with elk.

"We must remain humble in the face of nature, and learn to be grateful for nature's gifts." After loading the chicken fir porcini mushrooms in half a bamboo basket, Zhang Mingchuan stopped and put it away, after all, there was still the target task of dry mushrooms to pick.

Just as Zhang Mingchuan was immersed in the happiness of harvesting full of mountain goods, the wind suddenly rose in the sky.

Zhang Mingchuan, who was sitting under the tree resting, looked up and saw a huge shadow flying over his head.

Zhang Mingchuan, who saw what it was, even abandoned the bamboo basket in place, and hurriedly got up and hid himself in the shadow of the dense pine forest, which was an instinctive fear in the face of unknown creatures.

In the blink of an eye, the green-haired dog with a body length of at least five meters had flown to the Biyang Lake at the top of the mountain, and the "dog that can fly without wings" was completely beyond the scope of Zhang Mingchuan's common sense, and Newton's coffin lid was almost uncontrollable.

The green-haired dog patrolled his territory at the top of the mountain, took a sturgeon that had just caught a 200-pound sturgeon from the lake in his mouth, shook off the water traces on his hair, turned around and rose into the air again, and flew away to the southeast.

Zhang Mingchuan, whose face was full of astonishment, felt that this mountain was like its canteen, and this Biyang Lake was its rice basin.

Seeing such a huge and ferocious scene of foreign beasts predating, Zhang Mingchuan, who was hiding in the shadows, couldn't calm down for a long time.

Seeing the green-haired dog disappear without a trace, Zhang Mingchuan exhaled heavily.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, Zhang Mingchuan, who eased his mind in the shade of the tree, set off again, passed through the small half of the pine forest, and finally found a piece of decaying pine trees suitable for the growth of dry fungus, one by one dry fungus quietly grew on it, the pine needles mixed in the folds are its best camouflage, and the dry fungus exudes a faint fragrance unique to pine trees after being removed.

Zhang Mingchuan, who can leave the desolate world at any time, immediately became more courageous, carrying a bamboo basket of wild mushrooms, planning to go to Biyang Lake on the top of the mountain to explore and see if he can find some clues about this strange beast.

"I have heard that there is a heavenly pond on the top of Changbai Mountain in Liaozhou, known as the fairyland of the world, and the Biyang Lake on the top of this mountain is not picturesque, and the mountain river is still gushing out of this Biyang Lake, which seems to be a living water." At the top of the hill is a blue lake, and countless sturgeons try to swim up the river and rush into the bottomless Biyang Lake, so that several sturgeons that are not large enough are washed to the shore by the surging water of the lake.

"Ants are still stealing life, not to mention sturgeons that have grown to such a big size." Zhang Mingchuan, who couldn't bear it, shed tears of emotion from the corners of his mouth.