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After the soup base and the soup dishes were served, Tongdao Xu and Zheng Qing cooked some dishes and tasted the taste. Zheng Qing said in a surprised tone, Hey, this tastes okay!

Xu Tongdao nodded slightly, It's not bad!

At least it tastes better than the hot pot he has eaten in Mizutori for the past two years.

He just tried a dish that was hot at the bottom of the pot with red soup, and now he tried a piece of potato hot at the bottom of the pot with white soup, and it felt okay.

So, he opened the handbag he carried with him, took out a small notebook and a ballpoint pen from the bag, opened the first page, and wrote on it: Liu Yishou Hotpot, after this line of words, ticked.

In addition to the taste of the soup base here, he thought it was okay, but he was a little disappointed by the dipping sauce here.

It is not much richer than the types of dipping sauces in the hot pot restaurants he ate in Water Bird City, and there are only a few kinds of dipping sauces.

He is now not sure whether it is only this hot pot restaurant that has a limited variety of dipping sauces, or whether all the hot pot restaurants in Wudu currently have not many kinds of dipping sauces.

He had a vague guess in his heart-maybe all the hot pot restaurants in Wudu currently don't have many types of dipping sauces.

reason?

Maybe it's a time limit!

In the years before his rebirth, the hot pot restaurants he went to had really varied types of dipping sauces, dozens of them at every turn, and many dipping sauces that most people might not have heard of.

He estimated that so many kinds of dips should have been developed little by little over time.

Of course, this is a guess in his heart, which has yet to be verified.

At noon that day, he and Zheng Qing ate at this hot pot restaurant for more than an hour, drank a few bottles of beer, and then checked out and left after they were full.

When I left, I didn't ask if the store's recipes were sold.

He planned to taste the dozens of hot pot restaurants he had heard about on the Internet before coming to Wudu.

Even if you want to buy a recipe, you have to pick the one that tastes the best.

Unless the best-tasting ones don't want to sell the recipe, he'll consider second best.

On the way back to the hotel,

Zheng Qing handed over a cigarette and asked casually, Xiao Dao, you said that we have one meal at noon and one meal in the evening, two hot pot meals a day, and we can only taste the taste of two hot pot restaurants at the end of the day, and this time you I plan to try dozens of hot pot restaurants, and at this rate, we will have to stay here for a long time this time!

Saying that, he chuckled lightly.

It doesn't matter to him. Anyway, all expenses for this business trip are from Tongdao Xu. He just accompanies and assists, which is similar to free travel.

But his words reminded Xu Tongdao.

Well, what you said makes sense, let's have six restaurants a day! From tonight, let's hurry up, no matter which restaurant we go to, we will only order one mandarin duck pot, and a few less dishes, mainly to taste the flavor. , and then hurry to the next one, those hot pot restaurants should be open for three or four hours, no matter it is noon or evening, so let's catch three at noon and three at night, so we should be in time.

After Tongdao Xu finished speaking, Zheng Qing turned to look at him in surprise, with a wry smile on his face, Do you want to rush like this? It's a waste, every pot is not cheap, let's just cook a few dishes and leave, it's too wasteful right?

It's alright! Anyway, all the stores we plan to go to are going to, no matter when we go, we must order soup base.

If we are in such a hurry, it seems that every time we go to a restaurant, the soup base is quite wasteful, but in general, we can save a lot of money in hot dishes. Besides, we are here mainly for work, not for tourism. , Come and enjoy the food, hurry up! Sing all the dozens of hot pot restaurants in the plan as soon as possible to save time, and have to fight with these stores to try to buy more recipes!

Oh, you are the boss, you have the final say! I mean that.

...

This afternoon, the two found a dealership that sold second-hand cars and rented a second-hand van to use as a means of transportation for the next few days.

As for why not rent a car? Rent a van?

That's of course because vans are cheap, and so are rentals.

Since that night, the two of them have been driving this second-hand van, like celebrities rushing to the market, going to this hot pot restaurant for a while, and to that hot pot restaurant for a while. There are six or seven kinds of hot dishes, most of which are vegetarian.

Regardless of the waiter's strange eyes and cheeky face, as soon as the bottom of the pot is on the table, he will take the time to scald the dish.

The taste is good, and I just hurry up and finish these hot dishes, and then I immediately check out and leave.

That speed, like the reincarnation of a starving ghost.

But the efficiency is actually improved several times.

Every day at noon or at night, they can catch up to at least three hot pot restaurants, and sometimes four or even five.

Compared with the time they take to eat, they go to each hot pot restaurant, order food, wait for the food to be served, wait for the soup base to boil, and wait for the food to cook for longer.

Of course, there are surprises.

At noon on the third day they came to Wudu, they only went to one hot pot restaurant.

The name of the hot pot restaurant will not be mentioned.

Speaking of the soup base of that hot pot restaurant... just average! I can't say how good it is, and I can't say how bad it is. The reason why they didn't rush to the second hot pot restaurant after eating this hot pot at noon that day was not because of the taste of the soup base in this hot pot restaurant, but because of... eating Not long after, on their way to the next hot pot restaurant in their van, Zheng Qing's expression suddenly changed, Grass! Why is my stomach suddenly hurting? Trail, trail! Help me find out where there is a public place nearby. Toilet, no, my stomach hurts more and more, I'm riding a horse, did I catch a cold last night? It's not right! It's July, the weather is so hot, how can I catch a cold?

At that time, Tongdao Xu was a little speechless and wanted to laugh a little.

Speechless because of this, they may not be able to go to the three hot pot restaurants at noon today.

Want to laugh... Of course it's because of the inferiority of human beings - seeing other people's bad luck, they want to laugh.

Okay! I'll help you find it, and you also pay attention to whether there are toilets by the roadside.

...

As a result, before helping Zheng Qing find the toilet, Tongdao Xu's expression suddenly changed. He heard his stomach growl twice. He was not afraid of the sound, but the moment it sounded, he suddenly felt himself. A cramp in the stomach.

Holding the grass... Why does my stomach hurt? Are we not acclimatized, or what?

For a while, he hadn't thought of any other possibility.

At this time, Zheng Qing had already covered his stomach with his hands, bowed his waist, and shrunk in the passenger seat. Hearing this, he looked stunned, stayed there for two seconds, and suddenly asked, Won't we be... Right? Could it be that the things in that hot pot restaurant just now were not clean?

Xu Tongdao: ...