Chapter 861 - Lacking Accumulation (1/2)

Among the customers present, the best at the Chinese language was Ling Hong. And thus, he was the first to react.

He had been visiting this restaurant regularly for almost a year now. Ling Hong had long been used to the type of ingredients Yuan Zhou would use. Therefore, the jujube scented water, the Bobai longan, and so on were all ingredients that did not give him as much a shock. But the final ingredient was still too excessive for him.

“Boss Yuan, is your Hui Spring’s water the same Hui Spring’s water that I know of?” Ling Hong reconfirmed.

“Is there more than one Hui Spring’s water in our country?” Yuan Zhou countered with a question.

Ling Hong immediately replied, “Cough, cough, but isn’t the Hui Spring’s water for tea?”

It was inevitable that Ling Hong knew about this. After all, when a wealthy person grew old, he would fall in love with either teas or antiques. Coincidentally, his grandfather was a tea lover. He did not even mention to his grandfather that Yuan Zhou cooked his Herbal Tea Eggs with Keemun Black Tea. Otherwise, his grandfather would probably tear this restaurant down.

After all, his grandfather was still quite strong physically. Just last year, his grandfather tore a Nokia mobile phone apart in a rage after losing a mobile snake game.

And when one talked about tea, one could not avoid talking about the water used. The water his grandfather used to make tea was specifically imported from the Hui Spring. Now, Yuan Zhou was using the water from Hui Spring to soak the longans? Ling Hong could imagine how furious his grandfather would be if he knew.

“Um, the water quality of Hui Spring is good. It is indeed suited to make tea,” Yuan Zhou agreed with a nod. “But it is even more suited to soak longans.”

He sounded like he was speaking perfect sense. Ling Hong was smiling, but inwardly, he wasn’t smiling. Lu Yu, the Saint of Teas had classified 20 sources of spring water as the best in the country, with Lushan’s Gulian Spring as the number one source, while the Hui Spring was the number two source.

In terms of making tea, the Hui Spring’s water was indeed somewhat lacking compared to Gulian Spring’s water. But what kind of joke was it saying it was more suitable to soak longans in? If Yuan Zhou’s words were heard by others, he would be beaten to death.

“Boss Yuan is indeed an eccentric,” Ling Hong stood up and solemnly declared.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Ling Hong was looking at Yuan Zhou with such an odd gaze, this declaration would seem even more sincere. In truth, Ling Hong was comparing Yuan Zhou and his grandfather inwardly.

“Of course,” Yuan Zhou accepted the remark as praise and resumed cooking, leaving behind a group of astonished customers.

Yuan Zhou saw himself as leaving immediately after “acting cool”, so he was feeling very satisfied.

As for Ling Hong, it was unknown what he was thinking now, but he was no longer saying anything.

“Well, now I know why the Longan and Red Jujube Tea is so expensive,” remarked the customer who asked the question blankly.

“I don’t know about Hui Spring, but I do know about Cangzhou’s golden-threaded jujubes,” said the customer.

“Cangzhou is located within Hebei, and the jujubes there are very popular. It was said that when one tears the skin apart, one will be able to see the fruit within surrounded by golden threads. A thread can be pulled to a length of about one or two inches before it breaks. Check and see if that’s the case for your jujubes,” said the customer to Yin Ya. This person was a visitor that had arrived from Cangzhou after hearing Yuan Zhou’s reputation, a perfect example of a leisurely rich person.

Clink! Yin Ya scooped up a jujube with her spoon and started studying it. She even took a bite at it.

“That’s really the case,” before Yin Ya could say anything, Tang Xi nodded and said.

“Even if a lot of people are trying to plant these jujubes with golden threads, those truly with golden threads are very rare. At the very least, I have never seen one,” sighed the customer.

The customer sighed, and his tone sounded somewhat downcast.

The jujubes became famous due to their golden threads, yet it was also because there were too many fake golden-threaded jujubes, its reputation suffered. It was no wonder that this customer who was a local to Cangzhou would feel downcast.

“Don’t worry. Boss Yuan has always used authentic ingredients,” Tang Xi comforted.

“Yeah, Boss Yuan’s place is the few places you can actually eat authentic foods,” said the customer with a nod. It was quite interesting that as a local of Cangzhou, he still needed to visit Chengdu to eat some authentic golden-threaded jujubes.