Shanwa Small Rich Farmers

On the first day when I arrived in Wenjia Village, I was disqualified by my research object. Professor Parker felt a little embarrassed. Americans are also good-faced. Face is not something that only Chinese people have, so Professor Parker decided to eat it. A trip to the restaurant, by the way, inspect the food conditions here, after all, you have to live here for a few months.

  Although Parker has been to China once, it was more than ten years ago, and Parker doesn't like Chinese food, even the American improved Chinese food, he doesn't like it, because he thinks Chinese food is too greasy and bad for health. So whenever he has the opportunity, he will eat western food, and it is authentic western food. Fortunately, in his memory, eating in China is very cheap. His income in the United States is average, but there is a special feeling of spending US dollars in China. human pride. He still remembers the feeling of God when he spent dollars.

   "Jamie, call Susan, let's go to the restaurant at noon today, and find out how the most expensive restaurant here is!" Parker left the crowd and turned to a curly-haired young man with glasses next to him.

  Parker feels that since he is here, it is not easy to work in China, so let’s have a meal to boost morale!

  The little man with glasses called Jamie nodded immediately when he heard it, and then ran towards the small building on stilts where he was staying with a trot.

Now it seems that these researchers can no longer afford to live in the villa area. It’s very simple. The friendly price is gone. Mr. Jia, in order to save money, he lives in the dormitory of the laboratory, four people share one room! Even the treatment of the waiters in the Wenjia Village restaurant is not as good.

  Professor Parker does not have such an awareness now. He thinks about the prices in developing countries in the past ten years, how expensive can they be? So he took the other two assistants and walked directly towards the restaurant in a swaggering manner.

When I arrived at the entrance of the restaurant, I took a look inside and felt that the environment inside was pretty good, spotless and clean. The professor Parker opened his mouth and said: "It is indeed much better than before. When I came here, it was like this small village. It’s a restaurant, but it’s rare to see a decent house…”

This man walked into the courtyard while talking, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, a waiter immediately came forward, speaking in English, although it was not standard, but he definitely understood it, and asked Professor Parker: "Sir, how many are you? Do you choose Chinese food or Western food?"

   "Western food, we like the real taste of Western food, not the one improved in the Chinese market!" Professor Parker also emphasized it.

   The waiter said with a smile: "Sir, don't worry, the chef of our restaurant has four years of working experience in a Michelin three-star restaurant! The authentic French taste of western food!"

  Hearing what the waiter said, Parker's expression was flat: "I hope so!"

   After finishing speaking, he said to the waiter: "I still have some companions, I will come over later"

   "It's okay, my colleagues will lead them up later, everyone please" said the waiter turned sideways, and just kept this posture leading Parker and others to the western restaurant on the third floor by the elevator.

   "The environment is not bad!" Parker sat on the seat by the window, looked at the surrounding environment of the restaurant, felt that the decoration and furnishings were of a high standard, and nodded secretly.

Turning around and looking around, I found that the table next to me was almost full of people. Although there were a lot of people, it was extremely quiet. There was no such thing as the loud and noisy situation of Chinese people dining in restaurants as mentioned in the American media. Instead, I was with him in the United States. Going to some high-end restaurants is similar, and everyone maintains dining etiquette.

When they sat down, a waiter soon came over and asked them what they wanted to drink. They looked at the tea list and found that the tea was very expensive and the coffee was not cheap, but the mineral water was free. So I asked for a few glasses of mineral water.

   After ordering the mineral water, Parker paid attention to the waiter's expression. He didn't find any fluctuations in the waiter's expression, and he couldn't help but praise the level of the waiter here. Even if Parker is eating in the United States, sometimes he will be stingy by the waiter.

What Parker doesn’t know is that almost no one who comes to a western restaurant now orders tea or coffee. Every guest likes to drink the strictly filtered spring water produced in Wenjia Village, not only because it’s free, but because It is said that this thing is rich in trace elements, and everyone says it is beneficial to the human body.

   The waiters don’t despise him because people who know it, and regular customers like to drink it. These waiters are used to it, and it’s strange for them to order water and coffee.

  The performance of the waiter was very good, but now Parker, who had seen the tea list, was a little uneasy. He always felt that the wallet in his pocket was a bit difficult to breathe.

   "Waiter, please show me the menu." Parker raised his hand, and a waiter came over immediately, bending slightly to listen to Parker's request.

   "Hiss!"

  When the three people who sat down got the menu, they collectively took a breath, and the three people were shocked by the prices on the menu.

The first page reads in Chinese and English: special dishes, appetizers, French baked snails, 675 yuan, soup: blue cap mushroom truffle soup, main course: wagyu steak with truffle sauce, which are divided into Chinese and French Truffles cost over 2,000 yuan each. Let’s put it this way, apart from salads, almost none of the dishes cost less than 600 yuan.

   A hundred dollars for a salad? It would be strange for a little professor Parker not to sweat!

   Don’t think that some professors in China are poor, and a large part of American professors are also poor!

Take Parker as an example. The annual salary is just like that of a white-collar worker. Don’t look at the annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, which is very cool. There is a child, and the wife does not work, isn't the family's expenses all money? Of course, there is also incomparability between professors and professors in the United States. For example, professors of law from famous brands can start at 200,000 US dollars. are exactly the same.

Let’s put it this way, some people feel bad for Chinese professors who can’t afford acting. Similarly, American professors also don’t have much money to earn Hollywood movie stars. This is a normal phenomenon. It is estimated that there may be differences except under the rule of Jin San. , as is the case in other countries.

   What is even more difficult is that Parker is still engaged in zoology research. How can this category make a fortune? It is estimated that it is difficult to find a sponsor, and you have to seek funding from others for research funding. Where can you get the money to eat in high-end restaurants? Even if it's the wedding anniversary and hold back for a month or two, taking the daughter-in-law out to a good restaurant will make the daughter-in-law happy for a month. How can this standard of living be enjoyed?

   As a result, a professor who was nearly fifty and two assistants was flipping through the menu while sweating on his forehead.

  Parker knew that if he and the others had a meal here, the investors behind his family would probably jump their feet immediately. This meal would cost at least nearly 3,000 U.S. dollars. How can such a large sum be reimbursed? Pay by yourself? Do not be silly! In the following half a month to a month, I and my assistants will have to tie up their mouths.

"I don't think we should eat Western food anymore, take us to a Chinese restaurant!" Parker flipped through the entire menu from beginning to end, and felt that he would be full just by looking at this menu, so he decided to try a Chinese restaurant .

   When the waiter heard this, the smile on his face remained unchanged, and he stretched out his hand to ask Parker to follow him.

   Just when Parker and the others had walked less than ten steps, they turned around and found that their original seats were already occupied. The couple with a child had already started pointing at the menu to order. The way these three poked at the menu made Parker's heart tremble.

When passing by a few tables, Parker also took a look at the dishes on their tables, and had to admit that, judging from the presentation alone, these dishes were all up to par, at least better than the ones he had visited in Los Angeles. Dining room.

  Parker thought to himself: When did the Chinese even have a small mountain village so rich?

The waiter led the three of them downstairs to the Chinese restaurant, but the three of them continued to sweat after looking at the menu. This list is not necessarily cheaper than the western restaurant on the third floor. The most suitable food for the three of us is probably the so-called Golden Fried Rice, two hundred and seventy-five yuan a piece.

  But the six people sitting here each holding a fried rice? Although Parker can be thick-skinned, but forty dollars to eat a fried rice? Parker felt that he was going crazy.

  Parker also understood that he came to the wrong place today! Originally, these people came here with big bags and small bags, because they were afraid that they came to a small mountain village in China, and the poor had nothing to eat.

Only now did I realize that this mountain village has everything to eat. The only embarrassing thing is that the wallet in my pocket is not enough to support the consumption here. What kind of steak and dried fruit did I bring? People are very envious, and now it seems that there is a kind of bitter self-knowledge, but when I came here, I felt that there was nothing to eat. Now I came to this restaurant and found that apart from cooking by myself, my group can hardly afford anything!

   "Is there anything cheaper in your restaurant? This is really too expensive for us." Parker closed the menu and said to the waiter.

At this time, Parker completely lost the impression of coming to China ten years ago. At that time, he could easily enter any restaurant in China by waving US dollars, regardless of the price. I can't find that feeling anymore, the feeling that the dollar is omnipotent, which makes Professor Parker miss it in his heart at this moment.

  Maybe I don’t have enough dollars! Parker glanced at the menu at hand and thought secretly.

  The waiter was still very enthusiastic when he heard this, and he opened his mouth and said, "Then you can go to the restaurant next to it. The meal cost per person is around 150 to 200! Do you want me to take you there?"

  Although the price still made Parker feel a little expensive, after being frightened twice, Parker felt that the price was very cute, so he nodded to the waiter.

Just like that, six foreigners who had just arrived in Wenjia Village spent forty dollars each to eat their first meal in Wenjia Village, and it was a very memorable meal. Doubt who is a third world country.

  When the group of six returned to the stilted building where they lived, they met Professor Jia's student, Liu Guangyong, at the door.

  Liu Guangyong had been waiting for them for nearly forty minutes, and he searched around the village, but no one noticed that this group of people had entered a restaurant in Wenjia Village where ordinary people would have a heart attack just looking at the menu.

   "Professor Parker? I'll give you a meal card!" Liu Guangyong reached out and took six paper cards with the school's seal on them.

   "It's too expensive to eat here!" Parker said with lingering fear.

  Susan said, "The cheapest meal costs forty dollars per person!"

  When Liu Guangyong heard it, he immediately said, "Would you go to the restaurant in the villa area over there?"

   "Huh? Are there other restaurants?"

Liu Guangyong pointed to Liyu Bay not far away: "There is a small homely restaurant over there. It costs about 20 to 30 yuan per person, but the dishes used are all outside, not local. And the dishes in the restaurant in the villa area over there are all self-produced, or imported by air, so the price is naturally terrible!"

When Liu Guangyong thought of their dubious prices, he smiled wryly and shook his head. What made Liu Guangyong even more indignant was that the business of such a high-priced restaurant was pretty good. To the group of people here, it's like eating a pot of thirteen-flavored lobster at a night market stall.

My one-month salary is not enough for others to eat. I have to say that Liu Guangyong feels empty when he thinks about it. Fortunately, Liu Guangyong can see the helplessness in the eyes of Parker and others, and he suddenly feels a little better: it turns out that the United States The same is true for people!

   I have to say that Liu Guangyong's Ah Q spirit is quite good.