Allure

Chapter 18

When it was dark, the welcome Mercedes-Benz of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, led by several Audis from the city government, ended another day's trip and parked in front of the hotel. The doorman opened the door. Manager Feng and several hotel management staff Christine greeted him at the entrance of the hotel. It was not uncommon to receive guests who were more important than Zuo's father and daughter, but it was rare to see guests who valued as much as the leaders of the city.

No, senior city officials, the mayor, and a dozen people from the general office of the municipal party committee got out of the car and shook hands with Mr. Zuo one by one. , Several members of the municipal party committee and Zuo's father and daughter went straight to the elevator.At this meeting, Minister Xu, who was the host, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he rested and waited in the hall, Manager Feng came up and asked if he needed to prepare a dinner. Minister Xu said that he had eaten, and that the afternoon trip was to go to Luzhou While visiting the Erxianzhuang scenic spot, Manager Feng looked at Minister Xu's figure, probably he was the most tired one, and smiled secretly as he listened to Minister Xu's complaints.

Waiting for a while for the leaders of the municipal party committee to come downstairs, and after seeing them off, Manager Feng dragged Minister Xu who was about to leave. The relationship was already good, and when he heard that he wanted to use the words of the leader to try something rare, now Minister Xu would not leave. , followed Manager Feng to the Chinese dining room on the first floor, and asked the waiter to bring it up. It seemed that it had been prepared long ago, and it arrived in a short while. When he looked at the thing, Minister Xu stared straight at it, and was stunned.

what?A pot of clear and yellowish soup, with a few round eggs in it, Minister Xu thought for a while, and he could almost figure out that it should be the driver who said it, and in the blink of an eye, the fake version came out.

"Try it, how is your taste different from that day's? I'll wait until I see nothing to invite Mr. Zuo to taste it later." Manager Feng invited him diligently, and started to scoop up the soup and eggs for Minister Xu.

"Fine, you. You can take advantage of this loophole." After Minister Xu was surprised, he couldn't help but laugh.

"I can't think of a way. I still want to take down the hospitality unit of Zuo's Aluminum and Zinc Chemical. You always take Mr. Zuo to eat outside." Manager Feng put the soup in front of Minister Xu, and smiled as an invitation. pose.

Minister Xu held the spoon and reminded beforehand: "The family said that it seems like it will take a week just to prepare, so you can do it in two days, okay?"

"Basically, the first-class chef made the dish. You don't know Fan Shengyuan, the veteran of our shop, he is famous for his soup. The eggs are selected local eggs, and we also replace the egg yolks with soft-shelled turtle egg yolks." Yes. Three hours of high fire and several hours of simmering, you can taste it, try it." Manager Feng persuaded.

Minister Xu scooped up a ladle of soup, licked it lightly into his mouth, and sipped it carefully. It had the unique scent of bastards and the unique taste of Cordyceps, but this taste... can't be put into words, it's specious.The fat on Minister Xu's fat face trembled. Manager Feng's expression became richer, and he waited for something to come out of his mouth. Unexpectedly, there was no sound. mouth, the corners of the mouth turned to the left for a while, and turned to the right for a while, looking very embarrassed, because the words of evaluation could not come out.After a long while, he simply took another egg and put it on the plate, holding two halves, and felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out.

Take a closer look at the color of the egg white. It is white and dark, light and dark with bright colors, and the egg is golden yellow. It is because the taste is not deep. After tasting it and sipping it, it is even more difficult. It also tastes like soup. , but like sipping sawdust, the taste of eggs is very strong, and there is always something wrong with what I ate that day.

Minister Xu couldn't speak for a long time, Manager Feng became anxious, and kept urging: "Oh, Minister Xu, are you saying something, are you trying to panic me to death?"

"It doesn't taste right... By the way, I know." Minister Xu suddenly remembered that the guy from Shan Yong used a knife to cut open the body of the egg. What Thieves saw was a round and elastic egg. There is still a bit of toughness in the mouth, unlike this kind of thing that will rot when you squeeze it, and immediately pointed out: "It has been boiled over a high fire, and it will rot when you squeeze it, and it is a bit old after cooking, yes, there is still a big problem."

"What's the big problem?" Manager Feng was a little discouraged. After two days of preparation, he still didn't get into the mouth of the expert.

"It's a stone pot. If you cook it in a pressure cooker, the taste will be the same... Also, your taste is very obvious. The bastard tastes like bastard, and the Cordyceps tastes like Cordyceps. It's like combining several flavors together. It’s a piece, they made it with all kinds of fragrances, but that kind of smell is not overwhelming. If you don’t distinguish it carefully, it’s just a kind of smell. It smells bad." Minister Xu put down his spoon, and finally found something wrong with this copycat version, after all, he has been using public funds for decades, and this level is still there.

"Ah!? It can't be so far away, right?" Manager Feng said in amazement. After all, it was the chef who made it. The gap is really unacceptable.

"It's still so far away, you are just fooling around and have never seen the world, don't be ashamed of Mr. Zuo's place, I can tell that you have added MSG to enhance the taste, isn't it wild bastard? The soup color is not right, people It’s full of gold and jade, you are a piece of earthy yellow... Smack, smack, don’t show your eyes, go and fool those local rich men, I’m going home to drink a bowl of rice soup, I’m losing weight, and my blood lipids have become high again after eating these two days.”

As he was talking, he got up and was about to leave. Manager Feng kept getting up to send him off, and he asked for advice on a few differences. He sent people away, then turned around and found the driver who had just returned, and pulled him straight to the private room. The bastard" went.

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On the ninth floor, in room [-], a group of leaders in the city were sent away. Zuo Xiying carried the bottled mineral water and poured it into the kettle, while Zuo Nanxia had already placed a travel tea tray, and took out a tea bucket from her bag , first sniffed the smell of tea habitually, and said with a sigh of relief: "The overall environment is lower than ours at that time, where there are infrastructure constructions, where there are residential buildings, Erxianzhuang is well built. It’s the same as the Rich Man’s Courtyard, but it’s a bit reckless. Luzhou is special because of its ‘chivalry’ culture, which can’t be seen from the historical sites.”

It was a scenic spot to visit in the afternoon. According to legend, it was the hometown of Qin Shubao who sold horses. Her father was quite critical of the single-family manor that was built like a fortress. No, the water will float to the top, and it tastes bitter and astringent.”

"It's better to be in the countryside. I really want to live in my hometown on the mountain beside the reservoir." Zuo Nanxia laughed.Looking at her daughter and smiling, and listening to the sound of boiling water, Zuo Nanxia reminded again: "Don't forget to take your medicine."

"En." Zuo Xiying responded lightly.

"Go to bed early, the Lu Academy has invited me again, and I will come to another lecture tomorrow, saying that the teachers and students strongly requested it... Hehe, I reckoned, it's just another top hat for my old man." Zuo Nanxia said again.The daughter smiled, put her hand on the handle of the pot, and the switch jumped with a click. When the water boiled, she could only see the pot with one hand, and the lid with the other. Taoism called the white crane to take a bath, wash the tea set and increase the temperature of the tea set, and Zuo Nan went down to put a handful of tea leaves into the pot. This is called Guanyin entering the palace. Several processes were carried out in the daughter's slender hands, and the serving was graceful and light, pleasing to the eye. Filter the tea into the cup, and the seven small bowls of tea are clear and bright, green and light yellow. The face is in a comfortable state of enjoyment.

"Xiying, why don't you rest tomorrow and don't go to Luyuan with me." Zuo Nanxia said inexplicably.

"It's okay, Dad." Zuo Xiying resigned, a figure flashed in front of her eyes, which made her frown, but she relaxed immediately.This subtle movement was seen by the father, who leaned over and asked in a low voice: "The one named Shan Yong, did you leave the phone for him?"

"Yeah. I'll keep it." Zuo Xiying suddenly smiled, and the smile was playful.

"Didn't you see him call you?" Zuo Nanxia asked strangely, as if he hoped his daughter would have such a suitor.

"I left a phone number, but it's missing a few digits. I guess he can't guess it. He might call me senior sister tomorrow." Zuo Xiying said with a smile. Makes people happy.

Seeing his daughter's smile was very happy, Zuo Nanxia nodded to the side, as if he disagreed, and said straightly: "This is wrong, isn't it the same as playing tricks on others? Young man, be happy when you should be happy."

"Hmph, who told him to play tricks on me first."

Zuo Xiying said proudly, her cheeks flushed.If you only had the second half of the meal in Thief's Village, you might still have a good impression, but now, it's at best a mixed bag of good and bad.Zuo Nanxia seems to have something on his mind, he hesitates to speak, but seeing his daughter is so happy, he has to follow his daughter's temperament, some things can only be followed by fate.Zuo Nanxia thought secretly, and when he picked up the third cup of tea, the doorbell rang, and Zuo Xiying gasped, got up and opened the door.The waiter of the hotel stood in front of the door, holding a box, and saw that it was for his father, thanked the waiter, turned and sat in the room.

"Who is it?" Zuo Nanxia asked.

"It's a gift again." Zuo Xiying smiled, and lit up the things in her hand.

No one asks if you are poor in the downtown area, but you are rich in the mountains and have distant relatives. During this trip to Luzhou, everyone I met became relatives. The city government, the city's investment promotion bureau, the city's cultural bureau, and some ministries and bureaus beat around the bush, in the name of the unit There were quite a lot of souvenirs and local products, and there were already a dozen of them piled up in one corner of the room, and just about to throw them together, Zuo Xiying gasped, raised her hand a little, and asked her father in surprise: "Dad, doesn't this seem to be souvenir."

"Bring it here and let me see." Zuo Nan went down.But when I raised my eyes, I was surprised. The white wood with purple tinge, I could tell at a glance that it was a small box with thin poplar nails. Who sent it?"

"The waiter didn't say anything, only that someone put it on the front desk." Zuo Xiying said, also attracted by this rustic thing.Asked strangely: "What is it, Dad, wrote your name."

"Yeah, good word, Zuo Nanxia kisses me personally, has practiced Weibei, and doesn't wear a title, just call me by my first name." Zuo Nanxia made a joke, and the daughter laughed along, found something hard to open the box, and directly Picked out a tea knife, opened it after a short break, and took a deep breath as soon as it was opened, kept his eyes fixed, and immediately showed ecstasy.Zuo Xiying was also taken aback, and after a while, she screamed in surprise.

what's that?Twelve lifelike zodiac animals, with the fragrance of wheat, can be recognized at a glance as portraits of steamed animals, but what is surprising is that all the face dolls that are as big as palms are lifelike, such as the naive pig doll, the majestic tiger baby, and the strange shape Zuo Xiying couldn't help reaching out to touch the portrait of a dragon, and after a closer look, she exclaimed in surprise, "There are two little black beans on the eyes... This is a baby sheep, and even the horns are squeezed out, dad , Dad, look at this, the little mouse, the little paws can be clearly distinguished... Wow, it looks like a work of art, who can bear to take a bite of this kind of pasta."

Zuo Xiying was like a little girl, happy, happy, and smiling, but Zuo Nanxia played with a face tiger and explained: "This is a custom in Luzhou, called 'filling the warehouse', the earliest record in the city records can be Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, there was a common decree that "cangs are filled with kitchens, and lamps are lit to fill the offerings." The reason why it is called filling the warehouse is to pray for a bumper harvest of grains and a full warehouse... The material used is millet noodles, but it is so beautiful, I really haven't seen it before, it's even better than your grandma's craftsmanship."

Zuo Nanxia was also interested in enjoying it, but his daughter was even more interested than him. After reading them one by one, Zuo Nanxia told another anecdote. As he said that, he tore off a noodle sheep, hey, there really are, deep red red bean stuffing, Zuo Nanxia handed half of it to his daughter, tasted it, maybe because he was in a good mood, even the taste made the father and daughter praise it endlessly After a few bites, Zuo Xiying remembered something, got up and took the camera, complaining about her father's gluttonous appetite, that she couldn't eat all the twelve zodiac signs, so she hurriedly took a few photos for preservation.

After tasting one, they were reluctant to part with the remaining eleven, and the father and daughter talked a lot about filling their positions.When the second pot of water was boiled, the father and daughter came over almost at the same time. Zuo Nan let down a touch of silver hair and asked suspiciously, "Huh? Who sent it?"

"That's right, it can't be given by that unit, right?" Zuo Xiying asked in amazement. Holding the wooden box, the father and daughter studied it. The thin poplar wood slices still smell like wood. They are trendy, so they should be new. Not long after.I took them out one by one, and after looking through them, I found that there was a label of "Jiayun Takeaway" on the bottom of the box, and a delivery phone number was left.The father and daughter looked at each other, and Zuo Xiying found the phone, followed the number and dialed it. After a while, the beeping stopped, and Zuo Xiying said to her father in great disappointment:
"No one picked up."

What a strange gift, the father and daughter have guessed for a long time and still can't agree.

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The other end of the phone is actually on the main road opposite the Kailaiyue restaurant. The phone is in the hands of Shan Yong, holding the phone in one hand and holding the number in the palm of his hand with the other. Except for the four "X", all match up , and the four missing numbers were numbers that surprised him, 1, 4, 8, 0.

The moment he met the other numbers, Shan Yong was so happy that he turned his mouth. He turned off the phone and replaced it with another card, but the missing four digits made him very confused. He took it out of his pocket and found it.数字代表的意义，好多，比如53771代表我想亲亲你；比如53981代表我想揍扁你；比如5421我只爱你；比如5491代表我去找你……单勇一直认为应该是左熙颖A joke for him, the joke should be in the number, but the number doesn't seem to make sense.

And Shan Yong also thinks that it shouldn't be meaningless, otherwise Zuo Xiying wouldn't have such a narrow and seductive smile.But all digital communication is almost homonymous, saying 1480, 1480, 1480... the "1" must be you, and the "4" must mean "yes", yes, it should be you, what is 8?
"Are you... you are eight... BA, BO, BENG... are you an idiot?" Shan Yong suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he recited strangely, eight is stupid, zero is an idiot, not what an idiot is.I suddenly understood what Zuo Xiying meant. If you can't find the answer, you are an idiot. Now that you have found the answer, the answer is: You are an idiot!
All of a sudden, Shan Yong was amused. If this game hadn't been for copying Lei Dapeng's idea, it would really be a fool and a fool. This time, Shan Yong was complacent. The phone, dialing Zuo Xiying's number, was connected, and a long-lost voice came from the receiver: "Hello, hello."

Shan Yong didn't speak, and felt blood rushing to his forehead for a while, he was really nervous.

"Hey, who are you looking for?" Zuo Xiying's voice came again.

"Looking for you, Senior Sister, I found you after more than 1000 phone calls." Shan Yong said exaggeratedly.

"It's you!?" The other party's voice changed, surprise, surprise, and then he laughed, a very teasing and playful laugh, probably snickering at this idiot who really made more than 1000 phone calls, Shan Yong smiled and said: " The missing number is 1480. I found you in a day, so I’m not stupid, right? Sister, you promised me, I have a lot of philosophical questions to ask you.”

"Well, but, but today...it's too late today, I'm resting." Zuo Xiying softly gave a reserved answer.Unexpectedly, Shan Yong imitated Zuo Xiying's uncertain tone with a smile and said: "But...but I'm standing under your window, looking up at you!?"

"what!?"

Surprised, Zuo Xiying rushed to the window, opened the window, looked down at the street with traffic lights like dragons, and then saw Shan Yong standing far away waving at the other side of the street, as if afraid of Zuo Xiying I can't see it, put my hand in my mouth, let out a hiss, a sharp whistle, the sound reaches the top and turns a corner, jumping up to a higher syllable.

The whistle was blown up to several scales, so melodious, so loud, it was cheerfully catching up with "Joyful", Feng Sao had surpassed "Phoenix Seeking the Phoenix", it seems that whether it can move the senior sister, the suspense has become smaller and smaller...

(There is a chapter on the overtime code, and you can change it to recommend, click, and save. It seems that you can’t be lazy. As soon as you are lazy, some people will say that I am not kind.)
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