I don’t seem to have any acquaintances in Lin’an. Who would call me
Fang Ze looked up while thinking, only to find that the person calling him was really an acquaintance.
An Ruoxi.
"Long time no see." Fang Ze greeted the young lady.
"It's you." Lin Xiaoxin looked at An Ruoxi and remembered that she had almost regarded this girl as a mistress.
"Long time no see, you two." An Ruoxi came over wearing a princess-style dress and pulling a twenty-inch rose gold trolley suitcase.
"Long time no see." Although Lin Xiaoxin didn't know that this young lady had such a familiar personality, she reached out to avoid hitting the smiling person. When she saw An Ruoxi greeting her so enthusiastically, she had no choice but to respond politely.
"Are you coming to An'an to participate in the food festival?"
"Yes." Fang Ze said to An Ruoxi, "Are you the same?"
"I came to see my brother and take part in the food festival." An Ruoxi said with her neck raised.
Fang Ze discovered that this girl had a kind of overwhelming pride that exuded all the time, and she was like a swan with her neck raised when she spoke.
If you can tolerate her bad temper from time to time, you can make close friends with this kind of person, because she will never stab you after goodbye, and she will not even say bad things about you even if she has an opinion against you.
This means that there are many people in life who may seem to have a bad temper, but are surprisingly popular.
After all, making friends with a person with high emotional intelligence will make you very comfortable, but this kind of comfort cannot be used as trust at critical times.
"You are here to prepare to take a taxi." An Ruoxi looked at Fang Ze and said, "There are many people coming to Lin'an today, almost catching up with the number of people who came to Jinling Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum last National Day. It is very difficult to take a taxi. "
"If you really have no choice, you can only take the subway." Fang Ze also said a little helplessly.
He really didn't expect that there would be so many people today. If he had known it, he would have driven here. It would be more convenient, but he might not be able to find a parking space if he drove here.
"My brother sent someone to pick me up. I'm also going to Xianghu. If you don't mind, let's go together." An Ruoxi said cheerfully.
"Okay." Fang Ze agreed after asking Lin Xiaoxin if she had any objections.
Outside the station, a black four-door, five-seat Mercedes-Benz S was parked there.
"Uncle Yang, didn't my brother come in person?" An Ruoxi walked over, glanced at the car window, and then asked a middle-aged man with a beard standing at the door of the Mercedes-Benz.
"The young boss is busy with social activities in Xianghu, so he didn't come over in person." The man named Uncle Yang said respectfully.
"Forget it, I didn't count on him." An Ruoxi's eyes flashed with disappointment, and then she asked Uncle Yang to open the carriage and throw the trolley box in.
"Let's go." After everyone got into the car, An Ruoxi said to Uncle Yang.
"Okay." Uncle Yang heard what An Ruoxi said and started driving.
"We will take the car directly to the infield of the food festival." An Ruoxi turned to Fang Ze who was sitting next to her and said, "Have you bought tickets? If not, I will call someone to prepare tickets for you now."
"That's not necessary. We bought it before we came here." Fang Ze turned on his phone and asked An Ruoxi to look at his electronic ticket.
"That's good." An Ruoxi nodded, and then asked Fang Ze, "Have you ever contacted the transvestite who went to the comic exhibition with you last time? I asked someone to investigate for a long time but couldn't find it. who is he."
Transvestite patient. . .
Fang Ze said with the intention of protecting Xiao Hei's reputation, "He is just a cross-dresser, not a transvestite."
"Does it make any difference?"
"The cross-dressing guy sounds better."
After Fang Ze said these words, the conversation between the two people became silent. However, An Ruoxi had a good chat with Lin Xiaoxin.
Lin Xiaoxin, a little girl, has always had a very changeable personality and can chat with basically anyone.
I still remember when I was very young, Lin Xiaoxin was still a serious seven-year-old lolita.
Lin Xiaoxin's mother took Lin Xiaoxin to the shopping mall, but because there were many people and Lin Xiaoxin's mother was also a bit clumsy, she lost Lin Xiaoxin.
And Lin Xiaoxin was even more nervous. After watching the two cute ladies dance on the dance machine for more than half an hour, she realized that she had lost it.
Mother Lin had already left the mall at this time, and she thought she went home without taking Lin Xiaoxin out.
Lin Xiaoxin, who was lost alone, went directly to the security guard of the mall. After broadcasting in the mall for more than ten minutes, no one came to pick up Lin Xiaoxin, so she had to call the police and ask the police uncle to take Lin Xiaoxin back to the police station.
After entering the police station, the two police uncles showed Lin Xiaoxin a lot of delicious snacks, and then tried to ask Lin Xiaoxin for her home address and the phone number of Lin Xiaoxin's parents.
But after seeing the delicious food, Lin Xiaoxin thought about it and thought that if she gave out her home phone number now, she might not be able to finish all the delicious food.
So, she pretended to be stupid and chatted with a group of police uncles in the police station for more than an hour. She ate all the snacks and then told Father Lin's phone number, which made the whole family go crazy. He Lin's mother came to pick her up.
Therefore, Fang Ze has not been confused by Lin Xiaoxin's seemingly innocent appearance since he was a child. He knows that this little boy is actually very scheming.
Nearly an hour later, the black Mercedes-Benz finally passed through the congested highway and arrived at Xianghu.
The area of Xiang Lake is not as large as that of West Lake, but it is not particularly small.
However, the area of the largest island in Xianghu Lake is not small. Especially after the Lin'an Municipal Government invested heavily in renovation, a six-story ancient building style Xianghu was built directly on the island in Xianghu Lake. building.
The infield of this food festival is within this ancient building.
The island in the center of the lake was originally not connected to the mainland and could only be accessed by boat. However, for the convenience of this food festival, the organizers specially built a temporary small bridge that can be used by cars for sex, so there was no problem.
The black Mercedes-Benz entered the island and stopped.
Although the island in the middle of the lake does not have much area except for the ancient buildings, there are also few parking spaces.
However, this black Mercedes-Benz obviously had its own parking space. After entering the island in the middle of the lake, it quickly parked in a parking space blocked by two small green trees.
Several people got out of the car, and a staff member in ancient costume came over, verified their tickets, and then led them to the restaurant.
"I'm going up to find my brother, do you want to come too?"
"No need." Fang Ze waved his hand and said, "We probably can't go up there, so we can just stay down below."
Although Fang Ze bought infield tickets. But no matter what time, truly top-notch services cannot be bought with money alone.
So even if he bought the most expensive ticket, Fang Ze couldn't go up to the top floor.
If he looks for Li Zihao and Chen Jian, it is possible to get the above quota. But Fang Ze would generally rather owe money than owe others favors.
Favors become worthless if they are not used wisely.
The first floor of Xianghu Building is already very large, and chefs who come from all over the world cook at separate booths for diners to taste.
Of course these are just appetizers.
The real start of the food festival is after noon, when heavyweight chefs arrive. They will cook dishes for all the guests on the first floor to taste, and then the guests will score.
Those with high scores can advance and go upstairs to cook.
According to the discussions of the diners nearby, Fang Ze finally understood the mechanism of this food festival.
The top chefs cook for the guests upstairs. Some less top-notch but very famous chefs will cook on the first floor for guests who have bought tickets and then rate them based on their ratings. The four chefs with the highest points will advance and start climbing the stairs together with the top chefs.
The rules for climbing floors are the same as those on the first floor. Only a limited number of chefs on each floor can be promoted to a higher floor to cook. The only condition for promotion is that the score is high enough.
Start climbing from the bottom floor. On each floor, there are some chefs who can stand on that floor without promotion and just rely on their reputation. They will join the chefs who have been promoted from below and start climbing up from below.
On the sixth floor, which is the highest, it is said that in addition to some powerful and wealthy bosses, there are also several top gourmets. These gourmets will update their reviews online simultaneously. In other words, if a little famous chef can climb from the first floor to the sixth floor.
As long as he can get a fair comment from the gourmets on the sixth floor, his net worth will skyrocket, and the hotel and restaurant he belongs to will also become a new Internet celebrity restaurant.
This temptation for chefs is self-evident.
What's more, everyone in the catering industry knows that the cost of ingredients is actually limited.
The more upscale the restaurant, the greater the profit, and those private clubs and private restaurants that serve the powerful and wealthy are even more profitable.
And there is only one premise for all of this: fame.
The Xianghu Food Festival happens to provide the best platform for those chefs who are capable but have no chance to become famous.
The three of Fang Ze ate around one by one and found that even the delicacies before the official competition were cooked with great care and were extremely delicious. It seemed that the chefs on the first floor also worked hard.
"How does it taste?" Fang Ze turned to ask Liu Pleiades, an expert in this field.
"There are indeed more and richer condiments used in it than in our world. However, the chefs have ignored a lot of small details and have not played out the true role of these condiments at all. They only blindly pursue skills and ignore Skills."
(End of chapter)