Nine-tiered fairy lotus

Chapter 116 Visiting Exhibits and Purchasing Diseased Plants

Ping An Hotel is close to the streets in the city center, with convenient transportation and a lot of traffic.

The hotel is a 12-storey modern building with an underground garage underneath, totaling 13 floors. The 1st to 3rd floors can be used for catering, entertainment and leisure. The consumption is regarded as high-end in the local area. If it is changed to a metropolitan city, it can also be regarded as a mid-to-high-end.The decoration inside is gorgeous, and the service is great. Because it is a private room, the temperature is adjusted to the most comfortable as soon as you enter the door, which is amazing.

The hotel's dishes are also very particular. Although they are not as good as those professional restaurants that mainly tease the taste buds, they are also unique. At least those who stay in the hotel can't find any obvious faults.

Start with four cold dishes, cold grilled eggplant, stewed beef, wine-flavored drunken tribute balls and Shaoxing drunken chicken. They are all special dishes of the hotel chef, knowing that the boss is coming to prepare them specially.They each have their own taste, but they are all delicious, and these people are also in Luo Ping's favor.Especially for Hu Tu and Chen Guotao, two people who have not seen much of the world, it is a gorgeous experience.

Hu Tu even guessed how it was made and what seasonings were put in it while eating, but no matter how strong his senses and imagination were, he couldn't think of how to make such a taste.Immediately said with emotion: "Good food is like a work of art. It tastes delicious, smells sweet, and the ingredients are familiar, but how many procedures go through behind each dish, what are the key points and difficulties, and I can't taste it at all."

"There is a specialization in the art industry." Luo Ping continued, "It is the job of the chef to master the cooking methods. People who eat them only need to eat their taste, and they don't have to know the cooking methods." Then he greeted, "Everyone, try this Drunken chicken, it is made of free-range chickens raised on the hillside, and it tastes very good."

In fact, he didn't need to say hello, everyone's chopsticks have never been heard.It's past noon, and everyone is hungry. At this time, eating is no longer a luxury, because everything tastes very good.Seeing this, Luo Ping ordered the dishes to be served quickly, and then the table was filled with stir-fried vegetables, boiled vegetables, and delicious soups.

Hu Tu likes two of the dishes the most, one is Maxiang Chicken, and the other is secret-made Jiwei Shrimp, which is satisfying.From the beginning to the end of the meal, his mouth never stopped. After everyone was full, he stopped in satisfaction.Luo Ping couldn't help feeling: "People who are growing up eat too much, old, old."

However, Luo Ping's emotion aroused the dissatisfaction of Song Deqing and Li Dehou, who were the oldest people on the table.Song Deqing scolded: "I think you are indeed old, even older than me!"

After the meal, Li Dehou, Song Deqing and Chen Long, who had other arrangements, left together, while Hu Tu and Xiao Liang stayed to see Luo Ping's collection.

Luo Ping's collections are for play, so they are all displayed, but antiques are valuable after all, so only important places are displayed.For example, in the luxuriously decorated presidential suite, in the special counter in the lobby, in the walls inlaid with bulletproof glass, and in the room where he often lives.There are also those placed directly outside, which look quite old, but they are all modern works of art, specially designed to make old things.

The ones downstairs can be ignored directly; the things in the hall and walls can be seen at any time, without Luo Ping personally leading them; those in the presidential suite are a major selling point of the house, and Luo Ping will not take people to see them for no reason.So they went directly to the upstairs room to see Luo Ping's private collection.

Because there is no time to come here often to take care of it, most of Luo Ping's collections are antiques.As soon as you enter the door, you can see the yellow rosewood wardrobe in the center. After walking two steps in, you can see four paintings hanging on the wall, namely Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong and Zhang Daqian, all of which are works of famous artists. The paintings are worth millions.

On the balcony is a red sandalwood case from the Qing Dynasty, more than one meter long, with a bonsai on it. The leaves have withered and yellowed, and it is impossible to tell what it is.

Seeing the bonsai, Luo Ping sighed and said, "I don't know if I'm out of my mind. I would buy such a pot of gold marbles. Don't look at this bonsai. It's only one meter high. I heard that this bonsai The tree is 150 years old, alas, it’s a pity that it has become like this bird in less than half a year in my hands.”

He briefly talked about what happened after he got the bonsai, and let Hu Tu and the others briefly understand why there is no good bonsai.

It turned out that Luo Ping bought this golden marble at a bonsai art auction. He remembered well that the tree was about 150 years old, and it had a 20-year-old exquisite flowerpot. The bonsai was 120cm high and 130cm wide. Like a big fat boy.When he bought this bonsai, he spent 68 yuan and took good care of it for the first two months. Later, because of trivial matters, he asked his family to take care of it.

The family pushed left and right, and pushed the matter to his daughter who had no right to speak, but his daughter looked good in front of his wife, but she was a bully at other times, how could she remember to water the flowers? thing.Every half a month, when I think about it, I come here, and I don’t care about it after pouring water.

Fortunately, the golden marble was pretty tough, and it was fine all the time, so Luo Ping didn't take it to heart.It wasn't until one winter afternoon that Luo Ping came to the hotel and saw the dying golden marbles on the balcony due to wind, frost, water shortage and drought. He didn't know that a tree that had been raised by others for more than 100 years could also be raised to death.

He immediately found the "good girl" from home, and taught him a lesson, but his daughter ridiculed him, saying that he didn't understand flowers and plants and insisted on being arty, and who can blame him if he screwed up.What she said was so reasonable that Luo Ping didn't know how to object, but he was a man after all, and he sternly rejected his daughter's unreasonable request for hush money.

"But I didn't lose all the dregs left." Luo Ping explained, "Although the tree is hopeless, at least there are still people waiting to use its corpse as a decoration, and it can be sold for 5000 yuan. I know What does that bastard mean, he feels that I have raised his tree to death, and his heart hurts, and he beat around the bush and scolded me."

Although it was really inappropriate to snicker in front of Luo Ping, the shoulders of the three of Hu Tu trembled, and it was obvious that they had endured a lot.

"You can laugh if you want to." Luo Ping said nonchalantly, "Anyway, I don't plan to raise this thing anymore."

After laughing for a while, Hu Tu said: "Brother Luo, why don't you sell this tree to me, I want to try to see if I can revive it."

Luo Ping looked at Hu Tu with some doubts, and found that he didn't seem to be joking, so he said: "They are almost dead, how can we save them? To tell you the truth, I have already consulted experts, and even that bastard If you say it’s hopeless, I advise you not to make such an effort.”

"It can't be saved anyway, so why not let me try." Hu Tu couldn't guarantee that he would be able to revive it, but with Hu Xiaolian around, there was always some hope, so he really wanted to give it a try.

(End of this chapter)