Hu Qiang's Decision

"Here comes the Tom Yum Seafood Hotpot!"

"Wow, it smells so good! Lao Hu, what a surprise, I didn't expect you to really know how to cook Tom Yum Seafood Dinner? I thought you were joking!"

After hearing Ye Zhenzhen's praise, Hu Qiang, who had just brought a pot of Tom Yum Seafood Pot to the table, laughed and said while taking off his anti-scalding gloves:

"What does this mean? Cooking is not that complicated now.

As long as you search the Internet for relevant recipes, prepare the ingredients and seasonings required by others, and then strictly follow their steps, they will basically be the same.

This is far worse than doing experiments with you.

Besides, you just smelled it, but you haven’t tasted the specific taste yet.

Maybe this is just the surface light, and it's not actually to your taste. "

"No." Ye Zhenzhen looked at the pot of Tom Yum Kung with a smile.

“Smell itself is also a rough observation method. Most delicious dishes smell good.

On the contrary, the proportion of bad-smelling meals that taste good is actually relatively small from the perspective of big data.

This pot of tom yum gong you made not only looks great, but also smells great.

In terms of color and fragrance, you have already met the two conditions of color and fragrance.

As for the taste, generally speaking, it is nothing more than sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.

Among them, in addition to the pain of spicy taste, salty and sour tastes are the most sensitive.

So, as long as you don’t put too much salt, too much acid, and don’t put too much chili pepper, the taste won’t be any worse no matter how bad it is. "

Hu Qiang blinked: "As expected of a biochemical scientist, his analysis is clear and logical."

Ye Zhenzhen deliberately covered her face with her hands and lowered her head: "Ah, I'm sorry, I started to show off again. Don't you hate this kind of person who likes to show off his knowledge everywhere, as if he is superior to others in everything?"

Hu Qiang sighed: "When you say these words, it would be better if your expression is more sincere. You say this with a smile, it feels very insincere!"

"Hahaha!" Ye Zhenzhen suddenly put down her hands and raised her head, "Oh, I can't help it. I haven't been able to act since I was a child, so I'm full of you."

Speaking of this, Ye Zhenzhen rubbed her hands and looked at the dishes on the table and said, "Oh, the dishes are all here now, can we start eating?"

Hu Qiang shook his head, took out his mobile phone and said, "Wait a minute, I have to take a photo first."

After speaking, Hu Qiang pointed his cell phone at the dishes on the table and took pictures from various angles.

After the filming, Hu Qiang asked Ye Zhenzhen: "Zhenzhen, what do you think of my picture? Does it look like the Tom Yum Goong dinner ordered at a top restaurant in Thailand?"

"Let me see."

Ye Zhenzhen took Hu Qiang's phone and looked at the pictures inside.

After reading it, Ye Zhenzhen nodded: "Well, basically there should be no problem, but..."

"But what?" Hu Qiang was stunned, "Is there anything else missing? I followed the menu of the top Tom Yum Restaurant in Koh Samui that you mentioned."

"That's not true." Ye Zhenzhen looked at the photos on her phone.

"Actually, the set meal you made is pretty good at least in terms of appearance.

Plus the style of the tablecloth, the arrangement of the tableware, and the open-air environment.

Add these factors together, and the photo itself can basically be fake. Even if you ask a professional to identify it, it will be difficult to tell that you are not in Koh Samui.

But the problem is that you have to send photos to your colleagues to convince them that you are in Koh Samui.

Therefore, if you don’t appear in the photo and you just take a picture of a table of food, they are likely to still be suspicious.

Therefore, I think you should be included in the photo to make it more realistic! "

"That makes sense!" Hu Qiang nodded, "Then let me take a selfie of me sitting at the dining table eating?"

Ye Zhenzhen smiled: "It's better for me to take the photo for you. This way, it will be more believable."

"Why is this?" Hu Qiang, who had already sat down at the dining table, was stunned. "I can't believe it when I take a selfie. How about you taking a picture of me?"

Ye Zhenzhen smiled and said: "You think, if you go to a restaurant to eat, there must be a waiter, right?
If you ask the waiter to take pictures for you, wouldn't it better reflect that you are going to a restaurant rather than in a domestic B&B?
On the contrary, if you take a selfie, not to mention whether it will be exposed due to technical problems, your action itself will also make people doubt your sincerity and suspect that you are posing for the photo and not really eating.

You know, in the restaurants on Koh Samui, I heard that there are a lot of group dining options.

By the way, have you ever heard of group meals? "

"I've heard a little about it." Hu Qiang nodded, "Are you talking about the kind where several people join together to order a group meal, and then order a large table of dishes, but only take pictures and don't eat?"

"That's right." Ye Zhenzhen looked at the table full of delicious dishes.

"I have to say, your cooking skills are really good, you can even compare with a chef.

However, you are too committed to replicating the menu I mentioned and bought too many high-end ingredients.

Look at this pot of soup, it only contains prawns and squid rolls, but there are also a lot of sea cucumbers, abalone and other precious ingredients in it.

In addition, there are also high-end side dish sauces such as tuna sashimi, salmon sashimi, sturgeon roe sauce, and wasabi sauce.

For such a meal, you will probably spend a lot of money buying ingredients. If you eat it in a restaurant, it will definitely not be cheap.

The most important thing is that the amount you made is a bit too much, and it is obviously not enough for one person.

In this case, it would be a bit too much.Lao Hu, given your situation, you shouldn’t be so extravagant if you usually eat at work, right? "

"Indeed." Hu Qiang nodded, "I usually eat in the company, at least in front of others, and I am very frugal. I always eat ordinary box lunches, and the price will not exceed the standards of my colleagues."

Hearing this, Ye Zhenzhen smiled and said: "So, you were very frugal before, but now there is such a huge contrast. It is not right to eat so many high-end dishes by yourself.

The key thing is that if you take a selfie even though these dishes are not touched, it will be hard not to make people suspect that you are ordering food as a group, but in fact you didn’t eat it at all, but secretly went back to your room to eat instant noodles. "

"Oh, that makes sense!" Hu Qiang nodded, looking like he was being taught, "The devil is hidden in the details, right?"

Ye Zhenzhen smiled and nodded: "Yes!"

Immediately afterwards, Ye Zhenzhen said: "On the contrary, I will help you take the picture. I can try to help you remove all the confusing places and only take pictures of you and the food on the table.

If you show that you are eating, it is best to be a little showy and pretentious.

In this way, when the other party sees you actually eating these dishes, they will truly believe that you ordered these dishes yourself.

Coupled with your deliberate showoff and artificiality.

They will think that you deliberately spent a lot of money to order this meal just to take photos back and make them envious.

This is just human nature, right? "

"Oh, it's amazing!" Hu Qiang applauded, "Zhen Zhen, you are really amazing! You have mastered all the details, and you can even be a detective."

Ye Zhenzhen smiled: "No, I just started with a little bit of psychology and just discussed the matter."

Next, as Ye Zhenzhen said, Hu Qiang sat down at the dining table in an orderly manner, picked up a piece of tuna sashimi with his chopsticks in a slightly showy and exaggerated manner, and slowly dipped it in some wasabi. Sauce, open your mouth wide and put it in your mouth.

During the whole process, Hu Qiang moved very slowly, while Ye Zhenzhen took random photos with her mobile phone, capturing every step of Hu Qiang eating sashimi.

In addition to eating sashimi, Hu Qiang also ate some ingredients in the Tom Yum soup, such as abalone and sea cucumber.

Of course, the scenes of Hu Qiang holding abalone and sea cucumbers with chopsticks and putting them into his mouth were all specially filmed.

Especially when Hu Qiang put it in his mouth, with a satisfied expression on his face as he chewed it, I wanted to take a lot of pictures.

After Ye Zhenzhen said "click", Hu Qiang stopped showing off, stood up and came to Ye Zhenzhen to see the quality of the photos she took.

When he saw the ugly expressions of those deliberately pretending to eat a big meal, Hu Qiang suddenly felt dark.

"This... Zhen Zhen, is it really okay for you to make me look so ugly?"

Ye Zhenzhen chuckled: "Of course that's good, this will make it more real!

You think about it, the waiter is not a professional photographer and doesn't know how to capture the camera, so it's understandable that he didn't take good pictures.

On the contrary, if the capture is particularly good, then there will be a problem.

When ordinary people take pictures, if they don’t deliberately look for a lens, most of them will not take good pictures.

The purpose of taking these photos is to make people believe that you are really having a Tom Yum seafood dinner in Koh Samui. It is really comfortable and enjoyable, and it is not a talent show, which is very good. "

"Okay." Hu Qiang nodded, "I guess you're right."

But soon, Hu Qiang suddenly frowned.

"and many more!
Zhen Zhen, since you all know that the dishes I cooked are a bit excessive and have too many expensive ingredients, why didn’t you dissuade me when I bought those high-end ingredients?
I even remember that you helped me pick out these sea cucumbers, abalone, tuna, and even that expensive jar of wasabi sauce!

What's the purpose of doing this? "

Ye Zhenzhen blinked: "Of course it's because I want to eat!"

Hu Qiang was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "I see, it makes sense!

But Zhenzhen, is it really okay for you, a rich second generation, to let my poor neighbor pay such a heavy blow? "

Ye Zhenzhen shrugged: "What are you afraid of? Anyway, I don't know what others think of you, but I know very well that you are definitely not an ordinary office worker, and you definitely have other ways to make money.

Otherwise, you, a small manager of an ordinary company, would not be able to rent a house like 2201 by yourself and live in such a leisurely, low-key and luxurious life. "

Hu Qiang was stunned again and stared at Ye Zhenzhen with his mouth open: "You, you..."

"Don't worry!" Ye Zhenzhen suddenly stretched out her index finger and blocked Hu Qiang's mouth.

"I just inferred from your daily life and attitude that you are not short of money and have other ways to make money.

But I have no intention of asking you about other sources of money, or how much money you make.

All I know is that it is impossible for people like you to do anything illegal.

As long as you make sure you don't earn money by breaking laws or regulations, it doesn't matter. Who doesn't have a little secret yet?

I guess……"

Speaking of this, Ye Zhenzhen narrowed her eyes at Hu Qiang and smiled, then walked up to Hu Qiang in two steps and whispered in his ear:
"You have always refused to accept that Ouyang Murphy and have always emphasized that you want to live a single life.

Could it be that you just don’t want her to know your little secret about making extra money? "

When Hu Qiang heard these words, his pupils suddenly tightened.

Ye Zhenzhen smiled slightly and continued to whisper in Hu Qiang's ear: "Don't worry, I..."

"Zhen Zhen? What are you doing!" (End of Chapter)