"You are the guests that Hal said, right? Please come in." Martin stepped aside and turned back to the room and shouted: "Jessica, the guests are here, is the meal ready?"
An older lady came out of the kitchen, followed by another young man. Hal introduced: "This is my brother, you can call him Jim. He is studying in college in Los Angeles, and his dream is to be a university student in Hollywood."
star."
Jim smiled cheerfully. He didn't look much like Hal, and he had freckles on his face, but he looked handsome and handsome, and he did have a bit of astrology.
Lucifer stepped forward and shook hands with Jim and said, "I think your dream will definitely come true. I have met many Hollywood stars, but they are not as handsome as you."
"Sir, if you praise him again, his tail will rise to the sky." Martin said as he and Jessica walked back to the kitchen, and then walked along the small door of the kitchen to the yard. After a while
He brought back a live fish and threw it on the chopping board.
Jessica, who was cutting vegetables, turned to look at him and said, "It seems that you are going to show off your skills to our guests again."
With a "bang" sound, Martin knocked the fish unconscious with the wooden stick he was carrying. While cutting off the fish head with a knife, he said: "Yes, the secret of the Martin family... Gentlemen, there is
Who doesn’t like spicy food?”
"Get me one with more chili!" Hal shouted toward the kitchen.
He hurriedly took off his thick jacket, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked Schiller and Lucifer to sit down on the sofa.
Schiller looked at the environment in the room. This is a very typical fisherman's house. There is a large stone fireplace in the center of the living room. The Christmas garland hanging on the fireplace has not been removed. The front of the fireplace is used to entertain guests.
sofa.
On the left side of the sofa is the window, and on the right side is the staircase. On the wall of the stairwell are photos of members of the Jordan family holding various big fish, the stairs and the kitchen.
"My parents are not talkative types. My father is a pilot and my mother is a fisherman's daughter. But you have to believe in their enthusiasm and cooking skills. Everyone in the Jordan family can cook."
Lucifer saw a photo hanging on the wall. Among the many photos with fish, this photo was particularly eye-catching. It was a photo of two young men wearing pilot helmets and a plane.
Noticing Lucifer's gaze, Hal said: "That's not me, but my father and his comrades, or his commander."
Hal stood up, walked to the photo, fumbled with the photo frame with his fingers and said: "My dad was a pilot recruited during World War II. At that time, he was still very young and almost died in an air crash.
Well, his commander saved him."
Schiller also walked over and looked at the special one among the photos on the wall. Two young men wearing pilot helmets smiled brightly, giving them a special atmosphere of the war years.
Then, Hal pointed to other photos on the wall and introduced one by one which member of their family they were and where they caught such a big fish, until the steaming meal was brought to the dining table.
Schiller was a little surprised to find that the dishes here were not mainly seafood, but instead included a lot of beef, mutton and staple food. While setting the plates, Hal said: "Most of the aborigines in Beach City have experience in offshore fishing.
, if you stay on a boat for three months and can only eat seafood every day, you will never want to eat any fish again in your life."
Lucifer immediately nodded, expressing his agreement, and then cut himself a piece of chicken leg.
Hal pursed his lips and pointed Schiller to look at the fish-based dish in the middle of the table, and explained: "My father saw that you were not a fisherman, so he specially added a seafood dish. This is my father's dish."
It specializes in delicious dishes with flavors you can’t find anywhere else.”
Schiller took a look at the fish placed in the center of the table. He found that it was not like the way Americans usually handle fish. It was not a fillet or fish fillet, but a whole fish that had been grilled and stewed with seasonings.
Lots of chili peppers and spices.
"I learned this from a comrade of mine. After he returned from a plane crash, he learned the skill of grilling fish from a primitive tribe." Martin said: "They would stuff the belly of the grilled fish.
The herbs are then stewed, and the taste is quite good, not fishy at all."
Schiller opened a piece of fish with a fork, inserted it and put it into his mouth. He found that, as Martin said, the fish was very tender, the skin was crispy, not fishy at all, and the spicy taste made people go out in a flash.
Sweated all over.
At the end of the meal, the fish became the most popular dish. Hal, Jim and Lucifer were all screaming from the spicy food, but they still happily put the fish into their mouths.
Schiller's diet is also relatively light, but Gray Wu seems to like chili peppers very much. He said that it can provide different nerve stimulation to the symbiote, so although Schiller seems calm on the surface, Gray Wu is very spicy in his mind.
Squeaking and screaming.
After the meal, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan went out for a walk and walked their dog. Jim went to town to buy things for the start of school. Schiller, Hal and Lucifer sat down around the sofa next to the fireplace.
He took out a bottle of wine and a few glasses.
"I heard that you want to open a bar in Beach City? It's a good idea, but do you want to target locals or tourists?"
"I don't know, do you have any suggestions?" Lucifer asked, leaning on the sofa with his hands on the back of the sofa.
"Of these two customer groups, you can only choose one because their consumption styles are completely different. Among the cities on the West Coast, Seaside City is relatively conservative. Most of the aborigines here work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
The night life is not rich."
"If you want to satisfy their preferences, the bar must not only sell alcohol, but also some snacks, desserts, and even pet food. You can think of it as a comprehensive convenience store."
"Of course, to sell these things, you must have various licenses. It is not difficult to obtain a license, but you have to review it every year, and someone will come to inspect it."
"And if you want to get along locally, you have to maintain a good reputation. You can't go against the people here. You have to talk about some fashionable topics. It's best to understand fisheries. This is still quite difficult for a foreigner.
of."
"It's much simpler for tourists. Just like the nightclubs in other places, the ones here are the same. Drinking and carnival, rock and roll on the dance floor. Tourists have traveled thousands of miles to a city so far away, but they still like these things."
"If you can invite a few popular West Coast singers to stay here and create a cool graffiti wall, students from several nearby city universities will be attracted to you."
Hal originally thought that Lucifer would choose the latter model because he was afraid of trouble, but Lucifer touched his chin and said: "I just want to know which of these two styles of bars has a higher turnover, and is more
Stablize?"
"During the peak tourist season, of course nightclubs targeting tourists are more popular. Tickets can be sold at high prices, and drinks can also be expensive. But if the peak season is over, it may be deserted. The good thing is that you can take advantage of this
Time to travel."
"Bars targeting locals are much more troublesome. The sales volume will be very stable throughout the year, which means you have to constantly purchase, replenish and tally goods."
"Then let's do this." Lucifer agreed immediately.
Hal took a sip of wine, looked at him in surprise, and said, "I didn't realize that you are an old-school person. It's not easy to open a tavern like this. You have to deal with all kinds of locals, and
You have to make people like you."
Schiller shook his head and said, "I can see that you don't want him to choose this."
"Because this kind of bar is really thankless, and the money you make in a year may not be as much as that kind of nightclub makes in a quarter." Hal didn't seem to agree, so he looked at Lucifer again and persuaded: "And that kind of bar
It’s not something that one person can do alone. Someone has to look after the store when buying goods, and local people will trust more bosses who have stable family relationships.”
"It doesn't matter." Lucifer waved his hand and said, "I can ask Maizi to come and visit the store. Oh, she is my girlfriend...well, you can also say she is an ex-girlfriend."
"Haven't you seen it yet? What he fears most is being idle." Schiller smiled and shook his head and said: "He couldn't open the bar in Los Angeles, either because he was losing money or because no one came during the off-season.
He is too idle to kill himself."
"Then why don't you use this time to travel?" Hal asked.
"I have been traveling for tens of thousands of years." Lucifer said helplessly: "My footsteps have measured every inch of land on this planet. I know the grandfather and great-grandfather of every tree and every stone here."
"Forget it, let's not mention this, Schiller, you said before that you and Hal collaborated on a business that might be helpful to my bar. What is that?" Lucifer asked with some confusion.
Schiller and Hal looked at each other. Schiller leaned on the armrest and said, "You should also know. Hal has another profession, the Green Lantern who maintains the peace of the universe. Of course, you stay on Earth.
After so many years, we should also understand that every person on earth has a strong sense of civilized responsibility and collective honor."
"Therefore, even though he might become the greatest Green Lantern, Hal still chose to stand firmly on the side of mankind, seek the welfare of all mankind, and actively took a series of actions."
"What did you do?" Lucifer had a bad feeling.
"At the same time, Hal's good social image allowed him to make many friends among the Green Lantern Corps. His profound sense of justice inspired his friends and inspired their sense of racial honor."
"So the Green Lanterns have carried out some cooperation and put the green lantern energy and green lantern ring into use at a more microscopic level without endangering the security of the universe or affecting their own work..."
"speak English."
"We steal electricity."
Lucifer's eyes widened, and he stayed on the faces of Hal and Schiller for a while. The bad premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger, so he asked: "...how much did you steal?"
"Not much." Schiller smiled.
“Not much is how much???”
Hal snapped his fingers.
Lucifer saw, outside the window opposite the sofa, a green mountain appeared out of thin air on the calm sea.