The Era of Emerald

After Christmas Eve is Christmas. In the West, this day is usually a festival of family reunion.

Although it is said to be Christmas, in fact, Christmas is not the birthday of Jesus. December 12th was originally the birthday of Mithra, the Persian sun god (the god of light) believed in by the ancient Roman Empire.Until 25 AD, the Christian court in Rome designated December 336 as the birthday of Jesus.

Christianity even dares to fabricate the birth date of the Holy Son it believes in, and is still preaching some teachings there...

Christian you bunker.

After learning the "truth" about Christmas, Zhuang Minge complained in his heart.

It was precisely because today was Christmas that Zhuang Mingge brought Karin to Michael Corleone's private villa to attend the annual family Christmas gathering.

Here, Zhuang Mingge finally saw his two "cheap older brothers"—Francisco Corleone and Marcelo Corleone. Both of them are currently working in the family business. The Lusconi, Agnelli and other families have increasingly close contacts, and perhaps they will soon work in the so-called joint ventures jointly founded by these families.

Zhuang Minge warmly said "Merry Christmas" to his family when he entered the door, and took Karin straight to the kitchen.

Today, Zhuang Mingge is going to present a special Christmas gift to his family in this world.

"Tony, are you going to cook yourself at noon today?" Karin asked standing beside Zhuang Mingge.

"Ah, I'm going to cook one dish today, but it's just a little more troublesome."

"What delicious food do you want again?" Karin, who had a sumptuous meal yesterday, asked Zhuang Mingge curiously.

"Hey, you'll know soon. By the way, Karin, where are the bean sprouts I bought from the supermarket yesterday?"

"I asked the servant to put it in the refrigerator." Karin replied, "Could it be that you want to use those big bags of bean sprouts to make something?"

"Hey, fried shredded pork with bean sprouts?" Karin suddenly remembered Zhuang Mingge's dish that she had eaten before, and said, "I'm looking forward to it."

"Since you're looking forward to it so much, come over and help."

10 minutes later……

"What, what! All these bean sprouts need to be hollowed out with needles?!" Karin looked at the bean sprouts piled up on the table in disbelief, and said, "Tony, are you sure you are not joking?" ?”

"...I don't think it's realistic either?" A chef who stood by and prepared to help the young master said the same thing: "Besides, hollowing out the inside of these bean sprouts seems to be a completely meaningless thing. .”

"You know, the so-called Chinese food—especially those court dishes, is to take this kind of meaningless thing to the extreme—even if this is done, it is just to improve the taste a little bit. However, for those who regard the dishes as their own glory and cooks of life, never treat these things as meaningless."

As Zhuang Mingge said, he dug out several bamboo sticks of the same length from the kitchen, and while distributing these bamboo sticks to the chef in charge, he said, "You guys can help cut the bean sprouts to the same length as these bamboo sticks. , Remember to pinch the head and remove the tail, and throw away the ones that are not long enough... I will prepare some other things first."

In this way, throughout the morning, a group of cooks were cutting bean sprouts on the chopping board, while Zhuang Mingge, who had done other preparations, sat opposite them, hollowed out all the cut bean sprouts with a needle, and then made yesterday's bean sprouts The special meat puree made from the part of the lean ham that was left on purpose was poured in bit by bit.

Although such a job is almost impossible in Karin's eyes.But in Zhuang Ming's singer, it was an extremely simple matter.In just a few seconds, a single bean sprout was processed.

"It's amazing." Karin couldn't help sighing as she watched Zhuang Mingge process these bean sprouts quickly.

"Practice makes perfect." Zhuang Mingge raised his head and replied, "Karin, if you also practice how to process these bean sprouts every night like me, and practice for a month, you will be as proficient as me."

"..." Karin was speechless to Zhuang Mingge, the chairman of Florence, not to learn some professional knowledge but to delve into Chinese cuisine.

Finally, before lunch, Zhuang Mingge finished all the processing of these bean sprouts.

After filling these bean sprouts, Zhuang Mingge fried the processed bean sprouts, and asked his helpers to pour the pre-cooked broth on top of these bean sprouts, and finally put a mold on it, and placed these bean sprouts on top at a time to form a A three-dimensional phoenix.

"Oh~" When this dish was finally brought to the table by Zhuang Mingge himself, the whole family was amazed.

"Ice Crystal Phoenix, this is my Christmas present from Antonio Corleone to you."

"This Christmas gift is really good, my son." Old Corleone looked away from the ice crystal phoenix and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to have the talent to be a chef."

"Haha, if I don't work in the football industry anymore, maybe I will think about it." After Zhuang Mingge said, the father and son laughed together.

When the family was full of wine and food, Michael Corleone led Zhuang Mingge into his study.

"Antonio, this time I'm here to tell the elders of your family their opinions on the transfer of shares in Florence." Old Corleone bluntly pointed out the topic of the conversation.

"Oh? So, those old men have finally made a decision?" Zhuang Mingge sat down on another chair and said, "What did they say?"

"At the end of this season, that is, before July 7 next year, hand over 1 million US dollars to the family, and all the shares of Florence will belong to you." When Michael Corleone said this, he was obviously a little depressed In his opinion, Zhuang Mingge's purchase price of 4000 million US dollars at the beginning is already very reasonable. After all, both parties to the transaction are members of the Corleone family, and the manager of Florence is actually his own son. Tens of millions of dollars are just such a big fight, "Those nasty old guys! Aren't they just a Florence? As for embarrassing a child like this? Don't worry, if they dare to do this again in the future, I will go to them and die!"

"Don't say that, father." Zhuang Mingge smiled, and said that the situation seems to be much better than he estimated. He thought that the elders in the family would ask him for hundreds of millions of dollars like vampires, "wait As soon as the Christmas break is over, I will transfer the full amount of $4000 million to the designated account."

Old Corleone was taken aback when he heard the words, then laughed, pointed at Zhuang Mingge and said:

"Good boy, even your father is hiding it from me, tell me! When did you earn so much money?"

Zhuang Mingge knew in his heart that even if people in his family didn't know that he had made hundreds of millions of dollars from gambling in the World Cup in the United States, they would know that he made a fortune on the exchange rate changes between lira and peso a few days ago, so Zhuang Mingge decided to tell the truth .

"A few days ago, I took advantage of the Italian lira and Mexican pesos to make a fortune, but I didn't expect that the profits I made this time were just enough." Zhuang Mingge answered Old Corleone's question.

Now it seems that these people are not as greedy as I imagined. They are purely to get back the original investment, and get back some US dollars as a profit from this investment. After all, the family paid 3000 million for the acquisition of Florence. Huge sum of dollars, you are not good at all, right?

And even if his "cheap father"'s statement was not from his heart, it was a kind of comfort and hint to Zhuang Mingge, indicating that the family would no longer have any conflicts and disputes with him about the Florence issue.

That's good... Zhuang Mingge thought in his heart.

After finishing the conversation with old Corleone, Zhuang Minge took Karin back to Florence and continued to live a shameless life...

In this way, a few days of Christmas holidays passed quickly, and the time soon came to New Year's Day in 1995.

On New Year's Day, Zhuang Mingge, who had been in bed with Karin for a few days, reappeared in the headquarters in Florence full of energy. The long-awaited 1995 finally came!

ps: Chapter No.16 of "Addition and Completion Plan"