Chapter 246 (1/2)
Zhao Pingchuan and Zhao Pingshan looked at each other. They were surprised that Gu Zheng heard their conversation just now, but they nodded together.
This is also an unexpected harvest. Although it's not sure, it's at least a source of information. It's more delicious than the small shop just now. Gu Zheng already wants to try it.
In fact, the taste of the small shop just now is not particularly bad, but the ingredients limit their taste. Without good ingredients, it is not easy to become the best food of the same kind. Although this kind of snack is not like those century old brands, it is difficult to surpass without ordinary ingredients, but it should at least reach second-class.
Ordinary grade ingredients are hard to find, and inferior ingredients can still be found. There were more than one kind of inferior ingredients in the snack festival in ancient times. There were many inferior ingredients in the last Hangzhou food competition.
This shows that the use of inferior ingredients is still very extensive. At the beginning, Gu Zheng said, ”this is really great.” the landlady was a little happy and immediately said, ”it's all right. If you're not in a hurry, just wait a minute. Today someone came to buy our land. My old man went back to discuss the price with them and is expected to come back in the evening. I'll ask him to make some bowls for you.”
”Sell land? Sell what land?” Zhao Pingchuan was stunned and asked curiously.
”It's not our family's more than ten acres of land.” when talking about this, the landlady also frowned and sighed.
”What's a good place to sell?” Zhao Pingshan was also curious. He remembered that he had heard the owner of the store say that their family had more than ten mu of land, which was not big, but it was handed down from generation to generation. It can be said that the rice noodles they ate depended on the harvest of that land.
”It's not because of our boy.” the landlady sighed, glanced at the young man standing next to her, and then said: ”When he went to school in Shencheng, he had a partner, and now it's time to talk about marriage. But the girl is a child in the city and doesn't want to marry in a remote place like Qisong County, so he made a condition that he should pay at least a down payment to buy a house in Shencheng. The old couple agreed that the house price in Shencheng is so expensive, even if it's so expensive It's just that we can't take out the down payment. There's really no way. My old man thought that if he couldn't, he would sell the land. In this way, the down payment will almost come out. ”
”Mom, stop talking.” the young man heard this, his head lowered, and obviously didn't want to talk more about it.
”Come on, son, you don't have a burden. You're the only one in our family. You just have to get along well with other girls and live a good life. Don't say selling land. If it's not enough, we'll pay for the small shop.” the landlady looked at the young man with doting eyes and touched his head to make him less burden.
Every family has a difficult Sutra to read. Seeing this reason, Zhao Pingchuan didn't say much. He chatted with the landlady again. He looked back at Gu Zheng and asked, ”master Gu Zheng, the owner of this store doesn't come back until evening. Otherwise, we'll come again at night. Anyway, the city is close to here. Why don't we take you to other places around the city during this afternoon? ”
Knowing that someone else has something to do, Gu Zheng can't help it. He can only come back in the evening.
But just as the brothers Gu Zheng and Zhao Pingchuan were about to leave, a roar of tractors came from afar. With a black smoke, an old tractor stopped at the door of the shop.
On the tractor, a dark middle-aged man with pleated face jumped down in a hurry. When he was about to enter the store, he saw Zhao Pingchuan and them.
”Isn't this boss Zhao? You've come to my house to eat noodles again.” he was stunned for a while, then squeezed a smiling face and said, ”I'm really sorry. I have something to do today. I'll make noodles for you myself another day.”
With that, he ran into the shop without waiting for Zhao Pingchuan to reply.
”This man!”
Zhao Pingchuan was so embarrassed that he turned around and introduced to the guzheng: ”this man is the boss of the Lejia snack bar. His surname is Hu. We all call him old man Hu. He made the noodles and flat food we had before.”
”What happened to him in such a hurry?” guzheng nodded and looked curiously into the shop.
”I don't know. I'll ask him when he comes out.” Zhao Pingchuan is familiar with old man Hu and plans to ask him later.
Not only them, but also the landlady was surprised to see old man Hu coming back: ”are you back at this time? The land is sold out?”
”I didn't get my ID card. How can I sign a contract to sell land? I'll come back and get my ID card.” old man Hu went into the shop and rummaged around. It turned out that he came back specially to get his ID card.
”Tell me about you. You don't have your ID card for such a big land sale. The ID card is placed behind the photo frame of our business license, and I'll get it for you now.” the landlady quickly helped him find out his identity without complaining about him.
”Hey, I haven't sold land before.” waiting for his wife to get his ID card, old man Hu finally had time to catch his breath.
”Here you are.” the landlady found out her ID card, handed it to old man Hu and asked, ”how much can the ten acres of land be sold at last, enough to pay our Xiaole a down payment in Shencheng?”
”It's strange to say that today, those people followed me to our field. They only bought the wheat planted in our field. They didn't want anything else, and the price was the same as that of the land.”
”How could this happen?”
The landlady suddenly widened her eyes and couldn't believe there was such a thing in the world.
Old man Hu didn't understand what the group wanted to do, but in a flash, he suddenly thought of Zhao Pingchuan who met outside the shop just now, slapped his thigh and ran out of the shop with his ID card.
Gu Zheng was still talking to Zhao Pingchuan. He saw old man Hu running out in sweat. He opened his mouth and asked, ”boss Zhao, you are from a big city and have seen the world. Let me ask you. Have you ever seen someone who doesn't just buy the crops planted in the field?”
The reaction of Zhao Pingchuan and Zhao Pingshan brothers was similar to that of the landlady. It was incredible to hear about it at first.
But Gu Zheng on one side could not help frowning when he heard this.
”Old man Hu, you don't have any gold in your field, but you don't know?” Zhao Pingchuan teased old man Hu.
”My family's land is the kind of wheat from my grandfather's generation. It has never changed. How can I grow gold? I'm not afraid of being cheated, so I want to ask you.”
Old man Hu shook his head again and again. He lived most of his life. It was the first time he saw someone spend money on buying land and only buy the crops planted in the land. It was so strange that he was afraid of meeting a liar, so he came out to ask the Zhao Pingchuan brothers.
”We have never met such a thing. When you trade with them, pay attention to the money. Anyway, as long as the money hits your card in the end, they have nothing to cheat you.”
Seeing that old man Hu still valued it, Zhao Pingchuan stopped teasing him and gave him a pertinent suggestion.
”This is the truth, but I just feel a little uneasy. I believe that our land is worth hundreds of thousands of fast money, but the crops planted in the field sell hundreds of thousands. How can I think and feel uneasy.” old man Hu is an honest man, and he doesn't feel much happy about the pie falling from the sky.
Without knowing the reason, he couldn't be down-to-earth.
”That's right, master Gu Zheng, what do you think?” Zhao Pingchuan also couldn't understand the key, so he had to look at Gu Zheng and listen. Gu Zheng didn't have any ideas.
Gu Zheng frowned and thought for a while. He suddenly smiled and said, ”maybe old man Hu's family planted really gold.”
”Master Gu Zheng, don't make fun of me.”
Zhao Pingchuan thought that Gu Zheng was making fun of himself and smiled bitterly.
”I'm not kidding. If you sell more than ten mu of Alpine wheat, let alone the price of more than ten mu of land, it's perfectly reasonable to turn it ten times.”
Gu Zheng shook his head. He wasn't kidding again.
In fact, at the beginning, Gu Zheng didn't think much when he heard that the family wanted to buy land, but when old man Hu said about the man who bought the land, he realized that the crops planted in old man Hu's field were by no means ordinary crops.
If you think about it carefully, you will know that the reason why the noodles and flat food in the Lejia snack shop opened by old man Hu is so delicious is that in addition to his superb cooking skills, the most important thing is the ingredients. Qiling has also identified that the ingredients of their family are noodles and flat food grown and processed by themselves. Needless to say, the raw material for processing and supporting noodles is the wheat planted in his family's field.
The milling tools in old man Hu's house will certainly not be too fine, but even in this way, they can be made into noodles and pasta with inferior ingredients. It can be imagined that the crops planted in his field will never be ordinary.
If it is really a very rare crop, the price will never be cheap. Maybe it will be profitable for the man to buy it only with the money to buy the land.
”You can't guess anything just here. Why don't we go to old man Hu's field and have a look? Maybe we can know why those people only buy crops instead of land.”
Thinking of this, Gu Zheng offered a suggestion.
Zhao Pingshan and Zhao Pingchuan themselves were very curious. Seeing Gu Zheng, they also proposed to go and have a look together. Of course, they had no opinion.
”Who is this?”
Old man Hu knows the Zhao Pingchuan brothers, but he doesn't know Gu Zheng. Zhao Pingchuan and his brothers are famous bosses around the city. It's certainly not easy for them to treat people with such respect. Therefore, old man Hu was also very polite to Gu Zheng and asked carefully, ”who is this?”
”This is master Gu Zheng, who is also the first winner of the Hangzhou food competition. I came here to taste the noodles and flat food we recommended you to make. Master Gu Zheng knows a lot more than us. Maybe he knows why people who buy your land only want crops instead of land.”
Zhao Pingchuan forgot that old man Hu didn't know Gu Zheng, so he quickly introduced Gu Zheng's identity.
”It's master Gu Zheng.”
When old man Hu heard this, his face immediately showed envy. Although he is only a snack bar owner, when he worked outside when he was young, he also dreamed of participating in a food competition. Unfortunately, his talent is limited and he can make snacks. If he really wants to make a big meal, he can't cope at all.