"Congratulations to the descendant of Tiexian, Shaw's bucket chicken tastes better than Majia's bucket chicken. This test has been completed!"
Qi Ling's voice suddenly sounded in Gu Zheng's heart. The Shao family's barrel chicken made from Lu Cai chicken actually tasted better than the Ma family's barrel chicken. This really surprised Gu Zheng.
It can be said that during this trip, Gu Zheng found two better traditional snacks among the people and directly completed the test.
This test, which was originally thought to be very difficult to complete, was completed like this, which really surprised Gu Zheng. Looking at it now, this test was not difficult, and this test also brought great benefits to Gu Zheng.
Let’s not talk about the rewards. There will definitely be generous rewards for completing the test. This time Wang’s Roast Chicken is a big gain. Adding another food source to the store will make greater profits in the future. Gu Zheng can earn more.
money.
In fact, his annual income now exceeds that of his father, but no one would think that the money is too much. It doesn't matter if it's more, at least he no longer has to worry about money in the future.
"Master Gu, how does this bucket of chicken taste?"
Boss He smiled and heard Gu Zheng. Chang Feng was very efficient in doing things. The money had already arrived. Now Boss He was very happy.
"The taste is really great, Master Shao, can I discuss something with you?"
The taste of bucket chicken is really good, especially they put Sichuan peppercorns in it, and what Shao's family uses is not ordinary Sichuan peppercorns, but high-quality fairy sesame from Sichuan Province. This is an ingredient with a very good taste, and the price is also lower than ordinary sesame seeds.
Peppers are more than ten times more expensive.
Shaojia Tongzi Chicken is also very famous. Even if it is not made by Lu Caiji, it is still sought after by many people. Licheng is the hometown of longevity, and Shaojia Tongzi Chicken is a local specialty of Licheng. The reason why it has such a good reputation is because they added
This magical hemp.
Qi Ling has detected that the peppercorns used by Tongzi Chicken are also of the second grade.
This means that Tongzi Chicken uses several inferior ingredients. No wonder it can surpass the taste of Majia Tongzi Chicken. Unfortunately, the cost of Lu Cai Chicken is too high, which makes the cost of Tongzi Chicken also increase a lot.
So many people would rather buy cheap bucket chicken with a poor taste than such expensive one.
The Shao family is not as insistent as the Wang family and only sells roast chicken made from Lu Cai Chicken.
"Master Gu, please speak!"
Knowing that Gu Zheng had placed a big order for the breeding farm, Master Shao also showed great respect. Gu Zheng repeated what he had said to Xiang Ming and his son before.
This bucket of chicken tastes great, no worse than roasted chicken. You can also enter his store. He has also made reservations for the bucket of chicken made by Shao's family, not only now, but also in the future.
Just like Xiang Ming, Gu Zheng ordered 500 of them.
Five hundred barrel chickens and five hundred roast chickens can be fully digested by their store. If the barrel chickens and roast chickens cannot be sold out, there is no restriction on dine-in, and take-out and take-out are allowed. Judging from the taste of these two delicacies, as long as
It can get more people to buy and there will be no need to worry about selling.
Moreover, Gu Zheng can also give them some suggestions to make these two delicacies better and attract more people.
An increase of 500 chickens means that the number of chickens released from the cage every day will reach 1,000. This is not a small number. The time for Lucai chickens to be released from the cage is already very long, taking five months to about 150 days.
Calculated based on one hundred and fifty days, if an average of one thousand animals are released from the cage every day, it means that in the future, the number of cages in the breeding farm must be maintained at more than 150,000.
The 150,000 animals are more than ten times the number he currently raises, which means that his breeding farm has suddenly expanded ten times.
Fortunately, this expansion is not a one-off, and the expansion of the breeding farm cannot be completed in a short period of time. After increasing the order again, Boss He has considered dividing the factory into two parts, one at his place and the other in Mangdang Mountain.
In this place, all the chickens are together, and it is impossible to raise them.
Lucai chickens cannot be kept in cages all the time. They must be divided into areas and must be walked around every day. Only one hundred chickens can be raised in one acre of land.
For 150,000 animals, the space alone requires 1,500 acres. It can only be mountainous land, not cultivated land. His place can only accommodate 78,000 or 80,000 animals at most. No more can be accommodated. It is inevitable to establish a branch factory.
With more orders, Gu Zheng gave them an additional three million deposit.
Boss He has no money and it is impossible to expand. In order to allow them to come up with more Lu Cai chickens as soon as possible, all the money comes from Gu Zheng. A total of six million. Gu Zheng and Chang Feng can afford it. Once Lu Cai chickens are raised,
As the number of chickens increases, it won't take long for them to earn back the money.
Not only them, Boss He, Xiang Ming, and Master Shao will all make money, and they can achieve multiple things with one stone.
When he came, Xiang Ming went to pick up Gu Zheng. When he went back, several cars took him away. Gu Zheng sighed very much. He was very satisfied that he could complete one third of the test this time. He didn't expect that he would finish the test at the end.
One-third of it has also been completed, completely completing the test.
The test was completed and two good ingredients were added to the store. Gu Zheng was in a very happy mood.
"Heir of Tie Immortal, congratulations on completing Lord Tie Immortal's triggering test. The rewards this time are as follows!"
Back in Shencheng, Gu Zheng couldn't wait to beg for this reward. This was a test set by Lord Tie Xian. The last time he cured Mr. Liang's anorexia was a test set by Lord Tie Xian himself. The reward was very generous.
After this is completed, the rewards will not be much different.
"Reward, a Huoyuan Dan!"
In the prehistoric space, a small fiery red bright spot fell into Gu Zheng's hand. It was a red elixir about the same size as a glass ball, and there was a flame burning inside the elixir.
"Huoyuan Dan, a medium-level elixir in the fairy world, can enhance the cohesion of the fire element and is of great help in the fire control technique!"
Qi Ling explained to Gu Zheng that this was an elixir that could directly enhance the fire attribute, especially for people who practiced fire attribute techniques. For them, this type of elixir was much more effective than the Xianyuan Dan.
What Gu Zheng practiced was the Tie Xian Immortal Technique. It didn't have any special attributes, but every attribute had them. The Huo Yuan Dan could also enhance him.
Especially after taking Huoyuan Dan, his ability to control fire has improved, which also greatly helps his cooking skills.
"Reward, three methods of food cultivation!"
The reward this time is food cultivation again. Master Tie Xian has learned thousands of food cultivation methods. He learned three methods before Gu Zheng, and now three more methods have been added, which means he has learned six methods.
Compared with the Thousand Food Cultivation Method created by Tiexian, Gu Zheng is still far behind, but after all, he has just started practicing, and he is very satisfied with having these.
"Reward, two more types of ingredients will be improved in the prehistoric space!"
Gu Zheng was stunned for a moment. The reward this time was actually the qualification to improve food ingredients in the prehistoric space.
In the beginning, Guzheng only had three promotion qualifications. One was used for eggs, one was used for water, and later one was used for Millennium Ginseng.
After that, Tie Xian Xian Jue advanced to the second level. The weapon spirit added two types to him, which equaled the qualifications for five kinds of food materials. However, there is only one type left at present. The other one was used in Hangzhou.
Increased table salt.
Now two more have been added, allowing Gu Zheng to improve the quality of ingredients to three types. In other words, as long as there are sub-level ingredients, Gu Zheng can turn them into ordinary levels, and he can use them.
Three more common-level raw materials have been added.
This is definitely a great reward, and Gu Zheng is very satisfied.
"Rewards, cooking skills, steamed fish!"
The man in white from before appeared again. This time, Gu Zheng was rewarded with cooking skills, steamed fish cooking skills. Gu Zheng had learned several cooking skills before, and also had his own cooking skills, but most of them were related to chicken.
Omelette, chicken blood soup, shredded chicken noodle soup, all have a lot to do with chicken.
His homemade egg fried rice also contains eggs.
This time, he finally learned a cooking skill that had nothing to do with chicken, steaming fish.
Steamed fish seems simple, but it is also very complicated to make. Soon the cooking skills of steamed fish were imprinted in Gu Zheng's mind, as if he had learned it long ago.
There are fish ponds in the prehistoric space, and there are ordinary-level fish in ancient times. Unfortunately, they are not mature yet, so we can’t make a steamed fish dish to try now.
There were no rewards for immortal skills and magic this time, but these rewards have made Gu Zheng very satisfied. There was no punishment for this test, and the harvest was so great. Gu Zheng is now looking forward to it. If there are more tests like this in the future, he will be able to gain something.
More stuff and cooking skills.
The day after Gu Zheng came back, Wang's roast chicken and Shao's bucket chicken were delivered.
Xiang Kai, Xiang Ming's son, delivered it in person. He will be responsible for delivering goods to Guzheng every day. This time, a total of forty roast chickens and forty bucket chickens were delivered. Nowadays, most of Lu Cai's chicken production is
Arrive at Guzheng.
The bucket chicken itself is cold, while the roasted chicken is covered with warm stewed soup. It is still hot in Guzheng's restaurant. The hot roasted chicken is the best when it is freshly out of the pot.
“There’s something new in the store, take a look!”
"Damn, it's so expensive!"
"Are all the chickens here made of gold? Why are they more expensive than each other?"
“It’s okay if it’s more expensive, as long as it tastes good. Things are cheaper elsewhere, but the taste really can’t be compared to here!”
After the store manager posted the types and prices of the new food, people in the store started talking about it. There were two types of new food posted this time, both of which were only sold as a whole.
Wang's roast chicken weighs 188 pounds, and Shao's Tongzi chicken weighs 198 pounds. Gu Zheng did not change the names, but used their names directly to show respect, which they were very grateful for.
Not one, but a pound. It’s close to 200 yuan per pound. The price is indeed not low.
Not only do we sell roasted chicken, but we also sell bucket chickens in half. The roasted chicken is very rotten and the meat falls apart when you tear it lightly. There is no way to sell it separately. The bucket chicken is harder and can be cut in half and sold. Anyway, they are sold by
For sale by the pound, you can buy whatever you want.
It’s just the price that makes many people shake their heads.
Not to mention them, even the store manager was stunned when he heard the price Gu Zheng asked him to write down. He thought that Eighty-Eight’s Chicken Blood Soup and Fifty-Eight’s Noodles were already very expensive, but he didn’t expect it.
The mountain is higher than the other, and the prices of these two kinds of chicken are more expensive.
However, the store manager knows more than ordinary diners. The reason why the prices of these two kinds of chicken are so high is because the purchase cost is very high.
The purchase price of the roast chicken was eighty-one pieces. Originally, Xiang Ming wanted to lower the price to Gu Zheng. After all, wholesale could not be treated the same as retail, but Gu Zheng did not agree. After chatting with Boss He, Gu Zheng found out that in fact, Xiang Ming
The profit margin of Ming's roast chicken is very thin. The cost of each kilogram of roast chicken is close to 75 yuan, and it sells for 80 yuan. It's really not very profitable.
A chicken worth several hundred yuan only earns 20 yuan, and selling ten chickens a day only costs 200 yuan.
No wonder their store is so shabby and the cars they drive are so bad. They can't compare with Boss He and Master Shao. In this case, it's impossible for Gu Zheng to ask him to lower the price. A two or three yuan reduction will mean nothing to Gu Zheng.
, but for Xiang Ming, the profit is equivalent to losing half of it all at once.
Gu Zheng would not eat meat himself and make others unable to even drink the soup. He would simply follow the market price, as long as he could guarantee his supply in the future.
The purchase price is eighty-one pounds, including the transportation fee. The high-speed rail transports it back and forth every day. In addition, there are only forty roast chickens, so the transportation cost is not low. Fortunately, there are forty bucket chickens to share the transportation fee, otherwise the transportation fee will be high.
It will be higher.
Even so, it costs 20 yuan per catty to actually transport it to the store, which is equivalent to their cost being one hundred yuan per catty.
The cost price of one hundred and one kilogram does not take into account the store and employee costs. After calculating these, selling for one hundred and eighty-eight is really not high. After all, opening a store is a business and it also needs profits.
As for bucket chicken, the reason is that bucket chicken uses better raw materials, and the cost of raw materials is higher than that of roast chicken, so the price is higher.
Master Shao sells bucket chicken for ninety-one pounds, and his profit is a little higher than Xiang Ming's, but it's still less than ten yuan, about eight yuan. Because of this, he is not willing to make more of this kind of bucket chicken, except for high-end customers.
, not sold in stores at all.
The profit of eight yuan per catty is about the same as that of ordinary bucket chicken, but the cost is several times higher. Anyone would choose a source of goods with lower cost. Xiang Ming is an exception. He promised his master and abides by it.
promise.
After the two new foods were put out, some curious people went to buy some and try them.
The roast chicken and bucket chicken are both made from Lucai chickens, which are large. Basically, several people buy one together. Everyone who tried it gave a thumbs up. The taste of the roast chicken really did not disappoint them.
It's extraordinary, especially when you're drinking chicken blood soup and eating roast chicken, not to mention how comfortable it is.
Since it tastes good, they can accept the higher price. The forty roast chickens and forty bucket chickens that day were sold out in half a day.
Xiang Kai spent a long time in Gu Zheng's shop today before going back. Gu Zheng's shop was an eye-opener for him. He had never thought that there were still people doing business like this, selling at such high prices, but the business was so booming.
Chicken blood soup, eight hundred and eighty-eight bowls, is sold out every day. Chicken blood soup made by Gu Zheng, eight hundred and eighty-eight bowls, many people are rushing to get it, and even more people are complaining that Gu Zheng has not made it recently.
The chicken blood soup is gone, so they can't drink it.
These people, as if money is not important at all, do not care about money at all.
Coming out this time also made him secretly determined that he would never stay in a small town in the future. He must come out. Life in a big city was what he yearned for. He would stay in Shanghai and this big city in the future.
His father has promised to teach him the recipe and technique of roast chicken. He also said that after he finishes learning, he can cook it in Guzheng, but he can only cook it here. Lu Cai chicken must be used to make Wang's roast chicken. If he changes to
If it becomes other ingredients, he will not recognize this son.
Two kinds of chickens, 80 chickens a day, were sold out every day. Many people asked the store to increase supply. Unfortunately, the farm only had these supplies, and more supply would not be enough.
However, all this will improve in five months. Boss He has been very busy recently, expanding the factory and increasing the scale of breeding.
The six million given to him by Gu Zheng allowed him to free his hands and do something big.
At this time, the Shangping steamed bun restaurant incident also completely broke out, triggering a public discussion on food safety. Not only Shangping and Sucheng, many restaurants in Shanghai were also undercover and randomly inspected, and then announced their
Food safety situation.
Many electronic food products are not up to safety standards and have been exposed. There are also some stores that use gutter oil and are severely punished. Others, such as those who make poisonous steamed buns, have been caught. These people will also be sentenced in a short period of time.
Can't get out at all.
In addition, there are many stores whose food safety standards are fully up to standard, so you can use them with confidence.
In addition, there are a few stores that sell food that is not only harmless to eat, but also good for health. Most of them are stores that focus on health preservation. Among them is Guji Chicken Blood Soup.
Gu Zheng's store was also randomly inspected, and their appraisal report made the people at the Food Safety Bureau a little unbelievable.
All their products, including roasted chicken and bucket chicken, are harmless and are safe food, so that's it. However, their chicken blood soup actually contains more than 80 substances that are beneficial to the human body. Drink them regularly.
Chicken blood soup has only advantages and no disadvantages.
Among the foods tested, Guji Chicken Blood Soup is the best food for the human body.
As soon as this announcement came out, the original attack on Guji Chicken Blood Soup was self-defeating. Everyone understood that there was nothing wrong with Guji Chicken Blood Soup, and they just didn't bother to distinguish it.
Good things are good. Even if you don't tell the difference, the business will recover later and become popular again.
Now that the appraisal report is available, business has become even more popular. Some people are still a little guilty because of their initial suspicions, and are more supportive of Guji Chicken Blood Soup. Guji Chicken Blood Soup is becoming more and more famous in Shanghai, and there are already
Many foreign tourists came to taste it, and its fame gradually spread throughout the country.
Three days later, the official website of the Food Association issued a new announcement, announcing the holding time of the 16th Chinese Food Competition and the list of contestants.
There are three hundred contestants from all over the world. The Chinese Food Competition has nationality requirements. Only people with Chinese nationality can participate, but their work location is not restricted.
Many famous chefs work abroad, including Gu Zheng's father Gu Ming.
The list of three hundred people is basically the top active chefs in the country. Except for a few seniors who have participated in many competitions and are no longer participating in the competition, the remaining masters in the cooking world are all here. The list of three hundred people has their work.
Location, as well as personal information such as age, place of origin and past achievements.
Gu Zheng's name was among the three hundred people, followed by his age, twenty-three, and his results, first place in the Hangzhou Food Competition.
As soon as the list came out, it aroused heated discussions among the chef community, not just for this one, but for every previous one.
As the most grand event in the domestic chef industry, the Chinese Cuisine Competition attracts a lot of attention. Most people in the food industry are paying attention to this competition. Every year in the competition, some people who are not usually well-known suddenly become famous.
There are also some people who are not familiar with the competition.
These people will become the targets of many hotels.
Gu Zheng was also studied by them, but they all gave up after finding out that Gu Zheng was the owner of Guji Chicken Blood Soup Shop.
Many people know about Guji Chicken Blood Soup and know that their business is very good. How could such a big boss poach him to be his own chef? This is simply unrealistic.
As expected by Gao Lao and the others, Gu Zheng was the youngest among all the contestants. However, what surprised them was that there was another contestant under the age of twenty-five, a contestant named Song Bai, whose age was
Twenty-four years old, only one year older than Gu Zheng.
In one competition, two players under the age of twenty-five appeared, which was very surprising.
Moreover, Song Bai's information is very simple. He only has his place of birth and nothing else. He was recommended to participate in the food competition. The person who recommended him was a senior in the food industry, a highly respected senior. With such a senior recommendation, he
You can also participate in competitions.
There are more people studying him than studying Gu Zheng. After all, no one knew who this person was before, and suddenly he appeared, and they all thought about whether they could invite him over.
As long as you participate in the Chinese Food Competition, even if your cooking skills are average, there will be people rushing to get it, not to mention that it is impossible to participate in such a competition with ordinary cooking skills. Everyone must have their own characteristics.
The competition will be held in two months. After the list came out, Uncle Hu, Mr. Gao, and Mr. Wu all called to let Gu Zheng prepare for the competition with peace of mind and strive to achieve a good result in the Chinese Food Competition.
Even Gu Zheng's father, Gu Ming, also called and told him about his experience in participating in the food competition.
Everyone attaches great importance to this competition, but Gu Zheng himself doesn't care. Now he has another cooking skill of steamed fish, as well as ready-made ingredients. In addition, he has the qualification to choose his own cooking skill, plus
He has already learned fried eggs, chicken blood soup, shredded chicken noodle soup and egg fried rice. Gu Zheng has many cooking skills that he can use in competitions, and he has no worries at all.
"Master, do you have time?"
Seven days later, Gu Zheng suddenly received a call from Wuyou. This call made Gu Zheng very strange.
He just came back from Lecheng three days ago and went back to appease the white cat. He would go back every once in a while to cook something delicious for the white cat so that it could stay there and give the Emei sect one more cultivator.
A level guardian beast.
"I haven't had much to do recently. Is there something going on behind the scenes?"
Gu Zheng asked casually. When he went back, Elder Wuyou didn't say anything. He called suddenly just a few days ago. This made him instinctively think that something happened again within the sect, and it was still two elders.
Things that cannot be solved.
"There is nothing going on inside the door. Everything is fine. We just got the news that a Tianshan Snow Lotus is about to mature and be born!"
Elder Wuyou said quickly, while Gu Zheng relaxed a little, as long as nothing happened inside the sect. The Emei Sect had only a small number of people, and he didn't want anything to happen frequently, which would make him, the leader, too tired.
"Tianshan Snow Lotus, didn't we just receive one?"
Not long ago, Zhen Fengtang did receive Tianshan Snow Lotus. It was an ordinary-level Tianshan Snow Lotus. The quality was very good and it had been sent to the underground treasure house by Wuchou. Even if a new Snow Lotus was born at this time, it should not alarm the Great Elder. After all, there is no place on earth.
The raw materials grown by oneself can only reach the ordinary level at best.
"This is different. The snow lotus born this time is a thousand years old, and the thousand-year-old Tianshan snow lotus must be bound to Tianshan snow lotus seeds. The "Snow Lotus Pill" refined from Tianshan snow lotus seeds can allow cultivators to break through at the late stage of the fifth level.
, increasing the success rate to more than 50%!”
Elder Wuyou said quickly, not everyone in the late fifth level can advance to the level of immortal cultivator, many people can reach the fifth level, many sects have never lacked the strong people in the fifth level, but they have been there for hundreds or thousands of years.
There has never been a single cultivator of immortality.
The reason is that it is too difficult to break through to the realm of immortal cultivators in the late fifth level, and once you fail, there is no possibility of advancement.
Tianshan Snow Lotus Seeds, which are rare in the world, can increase the success rate of promotion to 50%. This effect alone is enough to make many people crazy.
Normally speaking, there is not one out of ten cultivators in the late fifth level who will break through and advance to immortality. There is not even a 10% chance. If it increases to 50%, you can imagine what those cultivators in the late fifth level will be like.
reaction.
After all, advancing to become an immortal cultivator is equivalent to having a stronger longevity and more powerful power. No one does not want to break through to this realm.
"Is that so? The Great Elder wants this snow lotus?"
Gu Zheng understood what was going on. Such a treasure was very attractive to inner strength practitioners. Elder Wuyou was already at the late fifth level, so it was right for him to desire it.
"Yes, we have to get it!"
Elder Wuyou said quickly, there was something Gu Zheng didn't know about, and Elder Wuyou didn't mention it either. Elder Wuyou wanted the thousand-year snow lotus, not for himself, but for Gu Zheng.
He is very old, and even if he breaks through, his achievements will be limited. Gu Zheng is different. Gu Zheng is still young. Once he is allowed to break through, his future achievements will be even more brilliant. He wants this Tianshan Snow Lotus Seed, and he also wants to give it to Gu Zheng.
Keep it.
"If the Great Elder has any plans, just tell me!"
"The Millennium Snow Lotus is about to mature. We need to rush to Tianshan Mountain as soon as possible. Wuchou and I will set off now. Leader, you can go directly to the foot of Tianshan Mountain to meet us..."
Wuyou Dachang said this, telling Gu Zheng many details about this trip to the Tianshan Mountains.
After a while, Gu Zheng hung up Elder Wuyou's call, frowned slightly, and decided to rush to Tianshan as soon as possible. Early the next morning, Gu Zheng rushed to the airport and headed for Tianshan.
The people of the Emei Sect have already taken the lead. They will wait for Guzheng where the grassland enters the Tianshan Mountains, and then go together.
Gu Zheng took a flight from Shencheng to Urumqi, then took a car from Urumqi, followed the Wuyi Highway to Duku Highway, and traveled more than 460 kilometers to Jingxian County.
After arriving in Jingxian County, Gu Zheng found a local man as a guide and headed west along the rugged mountain road toward the Bayinbulak Grassland.
It was said that we were going along the mountain road, but in fact there was a car to ride in. However, the car was very old and the road condition was not good. The road was very bumpy. Even Gu Zheng, a cultivator of immortals, felt very uncomfortable.
There is a distance of more than 300 kilometers from Jingxian County to Bayinbuluke Grassland, and on this rugged mountain road, there are not as few vehicles as expected. After all, Bayinbuluke Grassland is the second largest grassland in China, covering an area of
Second only to Erdos in Inner Mongolia, it has flat terrain and abundant water and grass. It is a typical grass meadow and one of the most important animal husbandry bases in Xinjiang. It also has famous scenic spots, such as "Nine Songs and Eighteen"
The "bent" Kaidu River and the elegant and charming Swan Lake attract many tourists.
However, the place Gu Zheng wants to go is far away from tourist attractions. The locals call that place "Black Dragon's Mouth". In the past, the larger Tianshan gray wolf often appeared near the Black Dragon's mouth, although now the Tianshan gray wolf is relatively small.
There are fewer people, but there are still very few people willing to be guides to that place.
The guide Gu Zheng was looking for was named Eric. He was an old man in his sixties, with a sallow face and two very curly mustaches.
Eric is a local ethnic minority. He spent some time in the mainland when he was young and knows some Chinese. I learned from Eric that many people from the mainland have gone to Heilongkou, and Eric alone has received them.
There were two batches. Gu Zheng understood that most of the people who went to Heilongkou at this time were from various sects in the mainland.
Although Jingxian County is only more than 300 kilometers away from Bayinbulak Grassland, it was already afternoon when Guzheng arrived. In addition, due to the rugged mountain road, we will spend the night on the road tonight before we can actually enter the grassland tomorrow.
It was getting dark, and on the mountain road illuminated by car lights, two men carrying backpacks appeared.
The two men looked here and made a gesture to stop the car. Eric slowed down the car and his eyes fell on Gu Zheng.
This trip can be regarded as Gu Zheng's chartered car. Eric naturally has to listen to Gu Zheng's advice on whether to stop or not.
Gu Zheng said nothing, just nodded, and the car stopped in front of the two men.
Both men were in their forties, one was fat and the other was thin. The fat one had a smile on his face, while the thin one had no expression on his face.
"Where are you going?" Eric asked in blunt Mandarin with a strong 'Ma' sound, which is very local.
"We are going to Heilongzui, do you know how to get there?"
The fat one offered Eric a cigarette, but Eric, who didn't smoke, blocked him.
Eric turned back and looked at Gu Zheng again, with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
During a chat with Eric, Gu Zheng learned that Eric's family situation was quite bad, otherwise he would not be working as a tour guide at such an old age.
If the two people who stopped the bus were just ordinary tourists who were just passing by on their way to the front, then Eric would not have to ask Gu Zheng. Anyway, Gu Zheng had already nodded before, but the place they were going to was the same as Gu Zheng, so
Long-distance riders have to pay to get on the bus.
"Okay!" Gu Zheng sympathized with the old man Eric and nodded in agreement.
"Thanks."
Old man Eric thanked Guzheng, turned to the two men and said, "I know how to get there, but you have to pay for where you want to go!"
"How much does it cost for two people?" the fat man said with a smile.
"One thousand yuan per person!"
Eric's price for Gu Zheng was two thousand, and it made sense to take each of these two men's money for one thousand each. Although there were cars along the way, after entering the depths of the grassland, there were some places where cars were inaccessible! He would still need to lead the way on foot.
It took one day to reach Heilongkou.
Gu Zheng is now the boss, with a considerable monthly fixed income, and the other party is an old man. When Eric offered two thousand yuan, he directly agreed.
However, the two men in front of them had obviously different ideas from Gu Zheng. The corners of the fat man's mouth twitched, while the expressionless man's thin face suddenly turned cold.
"One thousand per person? Why don't you go and rob!"
"If you want to sit down, sit down. If you don't want to sit down, forget it!" Old man Eric looked a little angry and pretended to drive.
"Don't be angry, old man. He's not very good at talking. Is it two thousand? It's not expensive!"
The fat man was much more flexible than the expressionless man, and he quickly handed over his wallet to pay. Eric didn't say anything more, and the two of them got into the car.
Eric's car was a Jeep, and Gu Zheng was sitting in the back before. When the two opened the door, the fat one took the initiative to sit in the passenger seat, and the thin one sat in the back seat.
Gu Zheng closed his eyes and rested his mind. After the two men got in the car, they chatted among themselves.
The content of the chat is not nutritious, it is nothing more than complaining and lamenting.
From their chat, Gu Zheng learned that the fat man's name was Yang Jie and the thin one's name was Jie Hao. The reason why the two blocked cars on the road was because their previous guide left them on the road and went back by themselves.
.
Although the two of them accused the guide of having no professional ethics, Gu Zheng understood clearly that the fault was not with the guide, but because the guy named Jie Hao was not pleasant to listen to and did not respect other people's customs. Although the guide ignored them
On the way, but half of the money was returned to them.
Even so, the guide was punished by them, and the two of them no longer wanted the guide.
Knowing their purpose and knowing that they were inner strength practitioners who were heading for Snow Lotus, Gu Zheng didn't want to deal with these two people anymore and didn't talk along the way. When they were chatting, Gu Zheng even closed his eyes.
Relax and rest your mind.
Fortunately, these two people spoke in Sichuan dialect, and old man Eric couldn't understand it, otherwise they would probably have been kicked off the bus.
Yang Jie and Xie Hao chatted for a while, but there was really nothing more to say, so the topic turned to Gu Zheng.
"Hey, friend! Wake up, where are you going?" Yang Jie said with a smile.
"Ignore him, this guy is rude. When we were taking the bus, he was still talking. When we got on the bus, he kept his eyes closed. I get angry when I see such a person." Jie Hao snorted coldly.
Gu Zheng was about to say something when the car jolted. Old man Eric drove the car to a branch road. This branch road was not long. There was an open space as big as a playground in the valley at the end. It was on a cliff half a person high.
There are several stone caves, and there are many traces of bonfires on the ground. It seems that this is a resting place for people walking on this road.
"We'll spend the night here tonight. We've all come to set up tents and get sleeping bags."
Old man Eric got off the car. It was very unsafe to drive on the grassland at night. Not only were wild wolves and the like likely to appear, but the road conditions were also not good. If something went wrong, there might be an accident, so guides were rarely willing to drive at night.
Gu Zheng opened the door and walked out. Yang Jie and Xie Hao also got out of the car, but they did not go to get sleeping bags, but stretched their muscles on the spot.
"How can you sleep at night if you don't bring a sleeping bag?" Old Eric said displeasedly as he stuffed the sleeping bag into the cave.
"We've already paid the money, so we still need to do something like setting up a tent and putting sleeping bags on it?" Jie Hao opened his eyes wide, as if he had heard a fantasy.
"I am a tour guide, not your servant." Eric was really angry, and his beard trembled.
"You old man has quite a temper, don't you?"
As Jie Hao spoke, he was about to walk towards Eric. Gu Zheng, who was already unhappy with these two people, quickly stuffed his sleeping bag into the cave that was as deep as one person and walked towards the old man Eric.
"Forget it, why are you angry with an old man?"
Yang Jie grabbed Xie Hao who was walking forward. He didn't want to be left in the wilderness again.
"No, I just don't want to get used to their bad temper!"
Jie Hao's voice paused and became even more angry: "Look, what kind of virtue is he? He actually put our sleeping bags back in the car!"
"Stop talking, we are not ordinary people, so what does it matter if we sleep in the open air? How can we lose a piece of meat if we don't sleep in a sleeping bag?"
Yang Jie sneered and shook his head, while Jie Hao glanced at Eric contemptuously and said nothing more.
Gu Zheng returned to the car to help old man Eric get firewood, but in his heart, he was actually sneering.
Through the weapon spirit, Gu Zheng can easily see through the two people's cultivation level. Despite their arrogant appearance, in fact, their cultivation level is only at the late second level.
The second floor is the Bone Refining Realm. Under normal circumstances, people with such a level of cultivation are not afraid of cold and heat, but the weather today is abnormal. Not long after they set out on the road, Eric looked at the sky and said, there will be a storm in the first half of the night.
"Gu Gu Feng", this wind can make the temperature drop as low as ten to twenty degrees below zero. They can still withstand ordinary low temperatures, but when the Gu Gu Gu Wind is added, they can withstand it.
After Gu Zheng and Eric got the firewood and set it up in a big pit on the ground, the wind started to pick up and the temperature dropped instantly.
After lighting a bonfire, old man Eric took out some more things, including naan bread, jam and a kettle.
The kettle was used to boil water and make tea. Old man Eric put the naan cakes on the fire to heat and gave some to Gu Zheng.
"Naan, low food."
"Jam, inferior food."
The voice of the weapon spirit sounded in Gu Zheng's heart at the right time.
The jam actually reached second-class quality, which surprised Gu Zheng. However, the environment here is different from that in the mainland. There is very little pollution here. It is normal for jam to reach second-class quality.
The tea has been brewed, and some sweet and sour jam is spread on the naan cake. A little water can quickly dissolve the dry naan cake, turning it into a sweet fragrance that spreads between the lips and teeth.
"Uncle, is this jam home-brewed by you?" Eric looked very proud when Gu Zheng asked about the jam.
"This, we call it Malina here, and you call it Raspberry over there. I took a tourist with me the year before last, and he also praised it very much, but it was very troublesome to brew. I didn't have it at the time. After making this last year
, the tourists came here specially to buy some."
Eric struggled to speak a certain passage in blunt Chinese.
"Uncle, do you still have this raspberry jam in your car? I want to buy some."
Being able to encounter this kind of highly processed second-class food is a small gain, and Gu Zheng will naturally not let go of this opportunity!
"There are three bottles left. Originally, I didn't sell them for you to keep for yourself, but the young man is very nice, so I'll give you two bottles as a gift!"
Old man Eric is not the kind of person who cares about money. For him, he feels comfortable using some things to make money. But for food, if you meet a good person like Gu Zheng, you can give some away even if you don't make money.
Even though the net content of the two bottles of jam was less than one kilogram, how could Gu Zheng ask for Old Man Eric's things for free? Just when he gave the money and Old Man Eric refused, a cold snort reached the ears of the two of them.
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"This is really a close relationship between the two races. The friendship is so sincere that it almost made me cry."
Jie Hao approached the campfire angrily, but at this time, old man Eric screamed.
"What are you doing!"
Yang Jie was walking towards the cliff when the old man Eric's scream almost scared him to death.
"You can't do this kind of thing here. This is the "Vulcan God". You will blaspheme the God of Vulcan and you will be punished!"
Old man Eric quickly walked to the cliff, facing the smoke-stained cliff, and whispered something in their language like a prayer.
Although he was dissatisfied, Yang Jie was stopped and could not continue. He smiled at the old man Eric and walked to the fire to sit down.
"You two, don't leave dirty things on the road. There are many gods here. Don't let bad luck catch up with me! If you can do it, keep on going. If you can't, I'll refund you the money. Don't keep going with you!"
Old man Eric also came back, blowing his beard and staring in anger.
"So, for our convenience in the future, we need to ask for your instructions?"
Xie Hao's face turned cold, but he was pulled back by Yang Jie.
"What my father-in-law said makes sense, let's just do it."
Yang Jie really didn't want to be driven away again, but despite his compromise, a flash of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
"Haha" Gu Zheng sneered.
"Why are you laughing?" Jie Hao's voice suddenly rose, obviously venting his anger on Gu Zheng.
"Can you control the laughter?"
Gu Zheng stretched out his hands to warm the fire, and under the influence of the Fire Control Technique, the already burning bonfire seemed to have been poured with oil. Flames suddenly burst out and swept out towards Jie Hao.
Jie Hao reacted quickly and quickly moved back, but even so, his hair still burned.
Jie Hao saved himself, and Yang Jie helped. The fire that had just started was under control in an instant.
Jie Hao, whose eyebrows were gone and half of his hair was burned, stared at Gu Zheng solemnly! The fire just now was so weird, why did such a large fire suddenly burst out when Gu Zheng was talking?
What an abnormal thing!
"Master Vulcan, please have mercy and forgive these two ignorant foreigners!"
Old man Eric suddenly threw himself to the ground and worshiped towards the dark cliff.
