The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 153 The trip to Wuchuan
The investment promotion meeting held in Wuchuan was led by the County Investment Promotion Office, assisted by the Hohhot Investment Promotion Bureau, and jointly organized by small and micro enterprises in the county.The main purpose is to attract outsiders to invest in the county, to connect small and micro enterprises, and to find a way out.

The three towns and six townships in Wuchuan are mainly agricultural, and they are located in the basin. There is only one road out of Sichuan, and there is no train so far. Relatively speaking, the economy is still relatively backward.

Before [-], Wuchuan was successively under the jurisdiction of Jining and Pingdiquan, then under the jurisdiction of Wulanchabu League, and after [-], it was directly under the jurisdiction of Hohhot.

In addition to agriculture and animal husbandry, the building materials industry and clean energy industry have formed since [-], but the growth of the tertiary industry is slow.

Since [-], the tourism industry has realized the transformation from sightseeing to compound.

Wuchuan County is rich in tourism resources, including Hadamen Forest Park, Daqingshan Summer Resort, Liqigou Nature Reserve, Daqingshan Anti-Japanese Base Site, etc.

Director Gao of the Hohhot Merchants Bureau contacted the Provincial City Chamber of Commerce and the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce. These two chambers of commerce have many companies that have done well. They are going to pull the leaders of these companies to Wuchuan to conduct on-the-spot inspections and communicate with local small and micro enterprises. Strive to promote cooperation projects, and then introduce funds to drive economic development.

Sun Yucong, the chairman of the Provincial City Chamber of Commerce, had no intention of investing in the county, but Director Gao invited him, so he had to save face and arranged for Gu Yi to contact several business owners to go through the motions.

Gu Yi arranged for this matter to be familiar.I successively found two bosses in the building materials business and one in the grain and oil business, plus Lao Tan.Of course, a notice was also issued to all merchants in the name of the chamber of commerce, which means that whoever wants to go can do whatever they want. Anyway, when you go to a place, you just visit the place, then have dinner, and go back home after dinner.As for whether you can find good projects to invest in, that is a personal matter.

This morning, Gu Yi drove to the dumpling restaurant early.After Lao Tan got into the car, he found a woman wearing a cheongsam sitting in the back seat. She looked 42 or [-], but her actual age was definitely more than that. She looked young because of her exquisite attire.

Gu Yi introduced the woman as Wang Dong of the New Agriculture Industrial Park, a native of Beijing.I was also invited to inspect the potato project.He was familiar with Gu Yi and was an old friend, so he went together.

Gu Yi drove, Lao Tan sat in the co-pilot, and started to Wuchuan.

Take the Huwu Highway to Wuchuan, and cross the Daqing Mountain. It is all winding mountain roads, which is very dangerous.

Gu Yi drove very slowly, introducing the scenery on both sides of the road and the customs of Wuchuan while driving.

"This road has only been open to traffic for more than a year. Before it was repaired, it was the old road. You have to climb the top of the mountain, which is always dangerous. But the scenery on the top of the mountain is good. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see Hohhot at a glance, and Wuchuan can be seen clearly. There are many trees on the mountain, densely packed Yes, cool off." Gu Yi said with great interest.

"The scenery on both sides is very good, with beautiful mountains and clear waters." Wang Dong said.

The scenery on both sides is really good. The mountains are high and green. The road is built on the mountainside.

Fortunately, the highway is a one-way street. One side of the gully leads to Wuchuan, and the other side leads from Wuchuan to Hohhot. The two roads echo each other across a gully of nearly [-] meters, reducing the danger of passing cars.

Below the gully is a river with gurgling clear water.

"Sister Wang, you didn't go to the top of the mountain. I promise you like it. I can't drive a car today. It would be fine if I drove an off-road vehicle. When I come back, I will take the old road and take you two to the top of the mountain." Gu Yi said.

"I'll have time in the future." Wang Dong said.

"I just entered the mountain, so I have to walk in the mountain for an hour. There is a flat valley in front of me for another 10 minutes. There is a farmyard there, and the whole is very good. Many people in Hohhot drive here on weekends to eat some farm food. , Drink some white wine, and don’t leave, I have a place to live, a small heated kang, I’m always comfortable.” Gu Yi said.

"And this place?" Old Tan asked curiously.

"Yes, you will know when you get to the place in a while. It's a good place, with green mountains and green waters, and people in the mountains. It's pure original ecology."

What Gu Yi said aroused the interest of Lao Tan and Wang Dong, and they couldn't help looking forward to it.

After turning two mountain bends and driving forward for about ten minutes, a relatively wide flat depression appeared in front of me, and I saw a courtyard with a wall from a long distance. Red Lantern.

Gu Yi slowly parked the car outside the door, and the three got out of the car.

This is a paradise in the mountains.

In the past, it should have been a small hill, but the road passed through here, half of the hill was cut off, and the other half was flattened by the owner of the farmyard, and it was repaired into flat land, a courtyard was built, and it became a farmyard.

The courtyard wall is not high, about 1.5 meters, and the scene inside can be clearly seen from the outside.

There are ten main rooms in a row in the courtyard. The windows are lattice windows from the Republic of China, painted with red paint and inlaid with small pieces of glass, giving people a feeling of going back to the past.There are five wing rooms on the east and west sides, which are also old-fashioned and have a sense of age.

There is a well in the center of the courtyard, with a Lulu handle on the mouth of the well, and a well rope wrapped around the Lulu handle, straight down into the well.Beside the well are two buckets, a pole, and a water trough hewn out of stone.

A woman wearing an apron came out of the east wing, glanced at the three of Lao Tan standing outside the gate, then turned around and entered the main room.

"This place is good, a place for self-cultivation, green mountains and green waters, fresh air, no one disturbs, so quiet." Wang Dong said with emotion.

"Then what are you talking about? Look, the main room is all private rooms, with floor tables and kangs, just like in the countryside. You can sleep directly on the kang after eating. The east wing is the kitchen and the resting place for the staff. The west wing is the guest room. , there are beds and kangs inside.

There is no menu at his house, so you have to make a reservation in advance before you come. It costs [-] yuan for less than eight people, and [-] yuan for eight to twelve people.The night before was a big meal, including fish and meat, small stupid chickens, etc., all of which were farm meals, and it was guaranteed to be enough.The next morning is simple, porridge, pickles, steamed buns. "Gu Yi introduced.

"This place is guaranteed to be fine in the morning, and it will be foggy." Wang Dong said.

"Well, I lived here once. I drank too much the day before and didn't get up in the morning. I got up early and walked around the mountain to breathe in the fresh air-the little stupid chickens in his family are really delicious. They are purely free-range. Eggs are good, if they are fried and browned, we can’t buy them, they are all from chicken farms.” Gu Yi said.

The three of them watched for a while, Gu Yi and Lao Tan smoked a cigarette each to finish their addiction, then got into the car and continued to drive to Wuchuan.

After arriving in Wuchuan, a short meeting was held in the conference hall of the exhibition hall. There were more than [-] people attending the meeting. Except for the China Merchants Bureau, they were all businessmen and small business owners from Hohhot. He was the only one who engaged in catering like Lao Tan. Own.

Of course, he didn't come here to attract investment, but mainly came for "a must in the back mountain".

After the meeting, everyone came to the exhibition hall.Many local businessmen and small business owners set up their booths in the exhibition hall, enthusiastically introduced their products to the visitors, and distributed business cards from time to time.From their point of view, these people from Hohhot are Gods of Wealth, and if they find their own products and projects, that's all right, just invest a little.

What they lack is funds.

Maybe they will be disappointed. Few of these visitors really have investment purposes, and most of them just come to have a look and go through the motions.

Gu Yi and Wang Dong came on behalf of the chamber of commerce. At this time, they were talking warmly and cordially with the deputy county magistrate who was in charge of this investment promotion meeting and the leaders of the China Merchants Bureau. A patterned laugh.

Lao Tan wandered aimlessly from booth to booth, and slowly walked to the exhibition area of ​​agricultural and sideline products, and a booth attracted him.

This is an egg seller, and a banner with the words "Baishan Cordyceps Chicken Breeding Base" is displayed above the booth.

Cordyceps chicken?
Quite novel.

The first thing Lao Tan thought about was that there are still chickens raised with caterpillar fungus?How much is that chicken worth?Cordyceps can cost tens of thousands of yuan per catty.Instead, he smiled, thinking that it is impossible to raise chickens with Cordyceps, they should be free-range chickens, the kind that eat worms on the grass on the hillside.

Going closer and seeing the introduction clearly on the display board, it is indeed a free-range little stupid chicken.The eggs on the booth look like stupid eggs, and they cannot be adulterated.

So I chatted with the booth owner.

The stall owner was in his forties, surnamed Bai, a very burly man.Served as a soldier, and worked as a farmer at home after demobilization.In the past two years, I contracted a barren hill to breed a new breed of prairie chickens.If you say that the barren mountain old Tan he contracted passed by on the way here, it was just in front of the farmyard.

"My family's Cordyceps chickens are purely free-range. There are more than [-] chickens. They are not fed any feed in the mountains. They eat grass seeds and bugs on the mountains and drink mountain spring water. The largest chicken is only three The average weight is two and a half catties. The eggs laid are pure stupid eggs, which are delicious and can’t be bought in the market at all.” Boss Bai introduced to Lao Tan.

"How much is the egg?" Old Tan asked.

"Six yuan a catty." Boss Bai said.

"It's expensive enough. The eggs in the market cost three yuan." Old Tan laughed.

"What kind of egg is that? It's incomparable to mine. You'll know it once you eat it. I'm a purely stupid egg." Boss Bai said immediately.

"Where's the chicken? How much is one?" Old Tan asked.

"58."

Lao Tan summed it up in his heart, a chicken is calculated at two and a half catties, 58 a chicken, or 23 catties.In the market, the small stupid chicken is [-] pounds, which is five yuan more expensive.

"Your chicken is quite expensive." Old Tan said.

"You don't know Mr. Tan, I'm a new breed of prairie chicken. It doesn't grow very big, and it grows slowly. It only weighs two and a half catties a year. You also know that although it is free-range in the mountains, it seems that there is no need to feed it. Xia Qiuxing Yes, in winter, in spring, there is nothing on the mountain, so we have to feed food. In addition, there is everything on the mountain. My two thousand chickens are the rest of the three thousand, and the rest are eaten by foxes, weasels, and wolves. Yes. There are also chicken stealers, I can’t see it.” Boss Bai said with a dejected expression.

It's not easy to do anything.

Lao Tan actually has the intention of trying this Cordyceps Chicken.

Now the chickens used in dumpling restaurants are off-shelf chickens, which are fine to eat, but there are no free-range chickens that are delicious.He also tried the little stupid chickens bought in the market and put them in cages. After the test, it was the same as the off-shelf chickens, and there was no difference.

The little stupid chicken is a little stupid chicken, but the raising method is different.They are all raised according to the method of chicken farms, and they are fed with feed hormones. They cannot be distinguished from the appearance, but the meat is not good, and they can be eaten in one bite.

This is also the case when you think about it carefully. Now that the countryside is rich, there are fewer chickens.Even if you raise a few of them to eat yourself, who will take them out and sell them?So those sold in the market are not serious little stupid chickens.

There is no such thing in the market, so can the restaurant sell it for real?
When I was in Ganqika, I chose a prairie chicken, but it was out of stock two years later. The chicken breeder said that he could not make money and stopped raising it.

Lao Tan has always wanted to find a little stupid chicken who can supply for a long time.It is a dumpling restaurant that sells Northeast dishes, and stewed chicken with mushrooms is a must.If you want to do it well, you can't do without a little stupid chicken.

But Boss Bai's chicken is a bit expensive, and whether it can be supplied for a long time is another matter.The most important point is that I don't know how his chicken is. If it works according to what he said, you can give it a try.

Old Tan asked, "Do you have any chickens that have been killed?"

Boss Bai shook his head and said, "No, I'll just bring a few boxes of eggs today."

"Oh, that's it - give me your business card and the location of your chicken farm. I'll go and have a look when I have time." Old Tan said.

　June will be over, thank you all for your support to Lao Tan all the time.To be honest, I never thought I would be able to write. When I started typing with a large spoon, I used one finger, very stupid.

　　I have been in the kitchen for more than [-] years, and my mind is full of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, frying and cooking, and the fire in the kitchen is sweating profusely.

　　Now, I just want to write down the experience of these twenty years.The years are long, bitter, joyful and bitter. It can be regarded as a memory of the past, and it is also an explanation for myself.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)