After the two plates of cicadas were served on the table, Li Mu himself did not use his chopsticks. Instead, he invited Peng Yuyan and Larry Page to try them first. Huang Lei and He Jiong immediately understood. In terms of the effect of the show, it must be so that people dare not dare to People who try make attempts are what the audience likes to see the most.
At this moment, the cameras from several positions also showed close-ups of Peng Yuyan, Larry Page and the cicada monkey on the dining table. Peng Yuyan's expression was slightly tangled, but he soon showed the unique temperament of a middle-aged man, and he was swaying. He raised his head and said to himself: "Hey, it's just a cicada monkey. It's nothing special. I'll go first!"
"Okay!" Huang Lei clapped his hands exaggeratedly and said with a smile: "I think if Xiao Peng can accept fried cicada monkeys today, he can try silkworm chrysalis tomorrow."
Peng Yuyan was about to pick up the cicada with chopsticks when he heard this and asked with a confused expression: "Teacher Huang, what is a silkworm chrysalis?"
Huang Lei said with a bad smile: "I can't describe it to you, but it is also a very delicious thing."
Peng Yuyan asked: "Delicious? What does it taste like?"
Huang Lei said seriously: "It's hard to describe the taste, but the texture is very unique. Have you ever eaten pissed beef balls?"
"Of course I have." Peng Yuyan said: "There are many Hong Kong-style snacks in Taiwan. To be honest, I quite like the pissed beef balls."
Huang Lei nodded and said with a smile: "That's good. The taste of silkworm chrysalises is similar to that of pissed cow balls. Although it is not as elastic as pissed cow balls, it also explodes like pissed cow balls... "
Peng Yuyan hurriedly said: "Then I think I can do it. I like the taste of peeing beef balls the most, it's great."
"That's okay." Huang Lei said, "No matter what dishes the new guests order tomorrow, I will make you a silkworm chrysalis, so that you can enjoy it."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Teacher Huang, if you continue to chat with Yu Yan, the cicada will feel cold."
"Oh, yes!" Huang Lei said hurriedly: "Come on, come on, Yu Yan, let's have a taste of this salt and pepper cicada monkey."
Peng Yuyan pursed his lips, picked up a cicada monkey and looked at it carefully for a moment, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and asked Huang Lei with no confidence: "Teacher Huang, which part of it should I eat? Is it the back or the middle or the middle? …Do you want the head removed?”
Li Mu smiled and said: "This thing is full of treasures. Of course, all of it can be eaten. You just need to put it in your mouth and chew it."
"Ah..." Peng Yuyan's expression became a little more panicked.
At this time, Li Mu said to Larry Page in English: "Larry, every part of the golden cicada is edible, so just put it in your mouth and taste its deliciousness."
Larry Page waved his hand instinctively: "I think I won't come anymore. This thing is really unacceptable..."
Both Peng Yuyan and Larry Page couldn't accept it when they saw the fried golden cicada at close range.
Li Mu asked Larry Page: "Larry, do you usually eat shrimp?"
Larry Page nodded: "Eat."
Li Mu smiled and asked him: "You can eat shrimps, why can't golden cicadas eat them? What do you think we are worse than shrimps?"
"This..." Larry Page couldn't say it at once.
Are you saying that shrimps are prettier than golden cicadas? In fact, both of these things look quite ugly if you look closely.
Seeing that Larry Page was speechless, Li Mu whispered to him: "The Chinese people will instinctively have a better impression of foreigners who can accept Chinese customs and food. What is in front of you is to cater to the entire Chinese people." good chance."
What Li Mu said is not nonsense. The people of every nation and country have very high emotions for their own culture. Foreigners who can accept their own culture will have a better image in the eyes of their own people. Foreigners are regarded as The story of the conquest of Chinese food is something that every Chinese people love to hear.
When Larry Page heard what Li Mu said, he immediately understood Li Mu's good intentions, and suddenly felt a little grateful in his heart, so he stopped worrying so much, gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and picked one up. , close your eyes and throw it into your mouth, then force yourself to chew it quickly.
Originally, Larry Page's brows were frowning, but when he started eating, his brows quickly relaxed.
Larry Page himself never expected that this thing, which looked so disgusting, would taste so good!
Crispy, crunchy, fragrant, slightly salty, slightly spicy, plus the unique taste of cumin, it is simply delicious beyond description!
Peng Yuyan on the side did not expect that Larry Page, a foreigner, could be faster than him. Unwilling to be outdone, he did not have any worries and directly picked it up and put it into his mouth.
The sound of "click, click, click" sounded. Peng Yuyan's eyes widened and he said vaguely while eating: "It's really delicious! It's countless times more delicious than I imagined!"
Larry Page was also very involved in eating. After finishing one, he subconsciously picked up the other one and then put it into his mouth naturally.
Li Mu shook his head and smiled, and tasted one himself. The taste was exactly like the memory of his childhood, even more delicious than what he felt at that time. After all, Huang Lei's method was more particular about pickling and salt and pepper. When he was a child, I don’t pay much attention to it at home. I just wash it and put it in a frying pan, fry it, sprinkle some salt on it and it’s basically ready to serve.
The five people in front of the camera were full of praise for their food, and the staff behind the camera also ate with great enthusiasm. Due to the large number of people, nearly a hundred cicada monkeys were eaten in a short time.
After Peng Yuyan ate more than a dozen, the movements of his hands did not stop at all. While eating, he said: "Teacher Huang, Teacher He, I think we can catch some more tomorrow night. This food is so delicious, and it is so delicious." It’s so easy to catch, it would be a shame not to catch some and eat them.”
"Okay." Huang Lei said with a smile, "Then I'll catch some more tomorrow night."
Li Mu came up with an idea and said, "You can find some tape tomorrow, one with stronger stickiness, and wrap it around the tree a few times in the evening. By the time it's past ten o'clock, the cicada monkeys will basically be stuck to the tape."
"Is this okay?" Peng Yuyan asked in surprise.
"Why not?" Li Mu said with a smile: "When these things break out of the ground, they start to climb trees, and when they climb to the branches, they start to shed their shells. I don't know how many of them will crawl out one after another throughout the night. Just catch them directly like we did today. By accident, either they haven't come out yet, or they have already climbed up and are out of sight. If you wrap them with tape in advance, everything that climbs up will be stuck in the past few hours, which is very efficient."
Huang Lei said: "This is a good idea. You can try it tomorrow."
The five people shared almost a hundred cicada monkeys, and the one who ate the most was Peng Yuyan. Larry Page also ate at least ten monkeys.
Seeing that it was almost late at night, Li Mu asked Larry Page: "Larry, you are not going back to the city tonight?"
Larry Page nodded and said, "It's too late to go back. The transportation here is not so convenient."
Li Mu asked: "Then where do you live?"
"The staff arranged a bed for me," Larry Page said.
Li Mu nodded and said: "Okay, you can go back to the city with me tomorrow."
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Li." Larry Page said, and then added: "I have contacted the head office, and our legal affairs will draw up the merger agreement in the shortest possible time. At that time, I will first I’ll send it to you for review, and if there’s no problem, we’ll sign the contract as soon as possible and complete the process as soon as possible.”
"Okay." Li Mu nodded and said, "But there is something to explain first. Before Google acquires Muye & Baidu, I will sign a technical declaration agreement with Baidu. Muye & Baidu will give up all claims on Baidu's technology patents. , you have no objection to this, right?"
Larry Page subconsciously wanted to say that of course he had objections, but after thinking about it carefully, he still didn't say it.
Google's acquisition of Muye & Baidu is itself a highly premium deal, because Muye & Baidu has other valuable things besides the US$10 million in start-up capital invested by Li Mu and a search engine model built entirely with Baidu technology as its core. It's Baidu's patented technologies, but now, Li Mu has to give up all claims on Baidu's technologies in advance, which means that after Google acquires Muye & Baidu, it won't get any of Baidu's core technologies.
As a result, the originally extremely uncost-effective merger and acquisition became even less cost-effective. Li Mu was equivalent to spending 10 million US dollars to build a shell, and then sold it to Google at a premium of hundreds of times. Calculation period, the actual premium may exceed a thousand times.
However, the reason why Larry Page did not express his objections is because he has now realized that the main significance of the acquisition of Muye & Baidu is the peace agreement with Makino Technology, the resource support of Makino Technology, and the reconstruction of investors and capitalists. Confidence in Google, in this case, whether Muye & Baidu has Baidu’s patented technology is essentially irrelevant.
Since it is irrelevant, there is no need to protest to Li Mu. After all, Li Mu himself is also a shareholder of Baidu. He must also consider Baidu's interests. If he still seizes Baidu's technology patents and does not let go, this is just adding trouble and causing trouble. If not, something unexpected might happen.
Instead of doing this, it is better to follow his wishes and sign the contract as soon as possible.
So Larry Page made his own statement and said, "Mr. Li, I have no objection to your decision."
"That's good." Li Mu nodded, reached out to him, and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to cooperate."
Larry Page also extended his hand. Although his heart was bleeding, he echoed with a smile on his face: "Happy cooperation!"
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After dinner, Larry Page stood up to say goodbye and returned to the room assigned to him by the program team. The on-site director also stopped the camera team and announced that today's filming was over.
Just when the staff was preparing to pack up the equipment and evacuate, Li Mu pulled the program director aside and told him: "Be careful when editing today's program. Never mention Larry Page." Qi’s identity, not to mention the word Google, and the word Google, when editing the program, you only need to explain to the audience that he is a friend of mine, do you understand?"
Even if Google agrees to its conditions and decides to acquire Muye & Baidu, Li Mu does not want to do any publicity for Google in China, because it will have a considerable impact on Baidu's business. If hundreds of millions of viewers of this show will remember it, Google, that was really a huge blow to Baidu, and it also gave Google a huge boost in its domestic development.
Li Mu cannot let Google push Baidu into a corner in China, because in his view, as a boss, you cannot let down your employees; as a boss, you cannot let down your younger brothers.
Of course, with him here, he will not allow Baidu to repeat the profit-seeking mistakes of his previous life, because in Li Mu's values, any company or individual that joins the Makino technology ecosystem and its own industrial system cannot do evil!
(End of chapter)