After receiving the young man's confirmation, Chu Heng smiled and nodded, then looked at Zhao Yu and others who were full of joy, shook the list in his hands, and continued: "Everyone, please be quiet. Now I will announce the ranking of the products."
Everyone immediately fell silent, and Shazhu and the other cooks looked at him with bated breath.
"Ninth place, number forty-three."
"Hey, our team, write it down quickly."
"Eighth, sixteenth, seventh, thirty-eight..."
As the rankings were announced little by little, the expressions of the four groups of cooks were wonderful. They were beaming at one moment and sighing at the other.
After a while, Chu Heng announced the last nine names, leaving only the first one unannounced, and the atmosphere in the venue instantly became tense.
According to the current ranking, Zhao Yu is first in the group, followed by Silly Zhu, Broom Eyebrow, and another one who has no name. The difference between them is not too big. No matter who the first place falls on, it can help their group.
win.
A bunch of guys didn't dare to take a breath at this time, after all, it was about fame and fortune.
"The first is..." Looking at the guys with their hearts jumping into their throats, Chu Heng, who was afraid of being beaten to death, did not dare to play tricks and directly announced: "The first is the No. 10 product of He Yuzhu's team, congratulations.
.”
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Silly Zhu and others were immediately ecstatic and laughed excitedly.
The others sighed with regret.
Especially the group of Broom Eyebrows who finished fourth in total points. They all looked as if they were mourning for their heirs, their faces were as black as the bottom of a pot. A small reward would be a small thing, but an embarrassment would be a big one!
"Okay everyone." Chu Heng stood up at this time and said with a smile: "Now it's time for us to go to dinner. Everyone has been working hard for so long. I have ordered two tables of food here. I won't go home until I get drunk today. Let's
Celebrate in advance!”
"Hey, I'm really hungry now that you tell me. Let's go for a walk and eat."
Shazhu, who won the first place, had a red face. He happily stepped forward and pulled Chu Heng and his team members out of the room, and the others followed him.
After a while, a large group of people arrived on the first floor, and Chu Heng even forcefully invited Hu Deping, the deputy lobby manager, to come over and go to the restaurant together.
After a while of changing glasses and drinking wine, they dispersed at around four o'clock in the afternoon and went back to their respective homes.
At this time, the banquet upstairs had already ended. Gree and a group of foreign businessmen had gathered in the room upstairs. The originally spacious room was crowded with people, and they were discussing how to serve truffles and truffle sauce.
When setting prices, what reasons should be used to lower prices?
"They have limited understanding of the market, so we can make a fuss about it."
"Okay, what is the price range?"
"The price will be negotiated based on 10% of the market price first, and it cannot exceed 30% at most. What do you think?"
"It's not a big problem. China is in urgent need of foreign exchange. Sometimes, they sell many things at low prices for foreign exchange."
They have not done this kind of thing once or twice, they are already familiar with it. After talking for a while, they finalized the matter and then sharpened their knives and waited to make a fortune.
…
The next morning.
This group of foreign businessmen who were interested in truffles received an invitation from the agricultural products export company and asked them to go to the export building in the afternoon to view truffle samples.
So a group of people met again in the morning, had a meal together at noon, and came out of the hotel before one o'clock, preparing to go to the exit building on Donghuamen Street.
The Forty-Nine City Hotel is on East Chang'an Street. The two places are not far apart, just over three miles away. They are familiar with the road and can get there in a few steps.
But none of these people were willing to leave. Those who had cars drove, and those who didn't took taxis, headed towards Donghuamen Street in a mighty manner.
At this time, there were taxis in Sijiu City. Most of them were imported Warsaw and Shengli cars, but they were few in number and the price was a bit high. It cost 20 cents per kilometer, so these taxis were usually found in Xinqiao.
Places like restaurants or the Four Nine City Hotel basically don’t attract domestic people.
It was more than three miles away, and a group of ghosts arrived in a blink of an eye.
Then they were invited in by people from the agricultural product company who had been waiting for a while, and finally came to a negotiation room.
There is a long oval table in the room, with a row of porcelain plates on it, more than ten in total. Each plate contains about a pound of truffles according to variety. The five most valuable ones are put together with the rest.
There is a gap in the middle of the next level.
"Gentlemen and ladies." The speaker was a middle-aged woman wearing black glasses. She was a deputy section chief of the commodity price department of an agricultural product company. She spoke English with a slight accent to the ghosts around her.
The guys introduced: "What are on the table in front of you are some edible truffles from China. The first five are the most valuable, and the last dozen are less valuable. You can come and check it out. If you have any other needs, just ask.
.”
"Thanks."
After hearing this, everyone thanked him and immediately stepped forward impatiently.
Riad Nour is a specialist in a French trading house and a truffle enthusiast. He claims to know a lot about this delicacy. He went straight to the first five kinds of truffles. He first took out a piece from the first plate that was still stained with soil.
He took a look at the shape of the bacteria, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, then turned to look at the girl with glasses and said: "Madam, can you give me a knife?"
"Hold on."
The bespectacled woman turned to signal to a colleague beside her. The colleague immediately came out of the room and came back with a dozen knives.
After Noor got the knife, he carefully peeled off the soil-adhered skin of the truffle, cut out a clean piece and put it in his mouth, squinting and savoring it carefully.
Then he quietly went to check out other varieties of truffles, and it took him a while to taste all the truffles.
When he put down the last truffle, his face was still expressionless, but if you look carefully, you can still see a hint of joy in his eyes.
The quality of these truffles is surprisingly good!
Not even worse than their local ones!
Nuer smacked his lips, felt the aroma remaining in his mouth, and turned to look at Gree and other foreign businessmen.
Then Gree spoke first and said to the bespectacled woman: "The quality of the truffles in your country is pretty good. I plan to order a batch and bring it to the market to try. I wonder what the price will be?"
Seeing that someone actually wanted to buy it, the bespectacled girl was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "As for the price, we will have to wait a few days before our leader will discuss it with you."
Gree and the other foreigners were suddenly filled with questions.
You want us to come today without discussing the price?
One of them suddenly frowned and asked: "Since we have to wait a few days before we can negotiate the price, why did you ask us to come now?"
The bespectacled woman looked at him strangely: "You said you wanted to see samples."
"..."
A group of people almost suffered internal injuries.
As a rule, they all start negotiating the price directly after viewing the items, and I have never encountered this kind of thing where they don’t quote the price after seeing the goods.
Now they had no reason to be dissatisfied. Gree gritted his teeth uncomfortably and asked: "Then when exactly will we talk? I still have to go to Xiaobaga to discuss business. If it's too late, I won't wait.
"
"This..." The bespectacled woman looked bitter and said, "I can't be sure about this. Our leader is a little busy right now. I will try my best to urge you. You should wait for notification for details."
"Please hurry up, our time is limited." Gree frowned, turned around and communicated with others, thinking that his visit could not be in vain, so he went to check out other products, and left after three o'clock.
