Chapter 28: Fight between Bear and Tiger
"Brother Haiwen, are you here?"

As soon as he entered the door, people in the restaurant greeted Haiwen enthusiastically.

Haiwen smiled and introduced Li Changhe: "Changhe, this is Chen Daan, the chef of our state-owned restaurant. We are here to taste his cooking skills today."

"Brother Chen, hurry up and bring out the dishes. My friend is from Beijing. Let him see what we have."

"Okay, you two sit down first, I'll go turn off the fire, the food is still simmering on the stove."

Chen Daan walked in quickly, and not long after, he came out holding a clay jar.

When the lid is opened, a burst of fragrance hits you in the face!
Li Changhe took a curious look, and Haiwen had already impatiently picked up a piece of food with chopsticks: "Changhe, try it quickly."

"To be honest, if you hadn't come, I would never have eaten these things."

Li Changhe looked at the meat slices inside, but couldn't tell what kind of meat it was, so he could only take a bite out of curiosity.

"good to eat!"

The meat is soft and tender, but it still has a gelatinous texture when eaten.

“Is this a bear paw?”

Li Changhe speculated in his heart.

"Huh? You tasted it? Have you eaten it before?"

Haiwen was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Li Changhe could actually taste it.

"No, I guessed. It tastes a bit like pig's trotters, with a strong gelatinous texture, but the taste is much more fragrant than pig's trotters."

"Here, anything that tastes this good is most likely bear paw!"

Li Changhe said with a smile, he knew there were many good things in the Northeast, and bear paw was one of the eight delicacies, a top-notch ingredient.

"You're right, but there will be more later!"

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

As soon as Haiwen finished speaking, Chen Daan came up with a large plate.

There was also a meat dish on the plate, which looked braised, but was served with some wild mountain vegetables.

“Try this again!”

Haiwen spoke to Li Changhe confidently, obviously he was sure that Li Changhe would not be able to guess it this time.

Li Changhe took a bite out of curiosity and shook his head.

The taste is not bad, but it is not very delicious either.

"This is?"

"The meat of the mountain god is tiger meat!"

Haiwen did not keep Li Changhe in suspense and gave an explanation.

"It was just a coincidence a while ago. A hunter who went into the mountains to hunt accidentally saw a bear and a tiger fighting each other. Both were injured!"

In the Northeast, the black bear is a black bear, and the brown bear is a brown bear, which is much larger than the black bear.

"Will these two fight again?"

Li Changhe was a little surprised. He had read a lot of literature about the Northeast in his previous life. Generally speaking, large carnivores like brown bears and tigers would never meet each other.

Even if they meet occasionally, they will not fight, after all, both of them are the overlords of the forest.

Hai Wen smiled and said, "Who says it's not true? Even the old hunters in the mountains said that this situation is very rare. They guessed that the bear, who was gaining weight in autumn, encountered the hungry mountain god and became dizzy with hunger."

"Anyway, those hunters got a great bargain in the end and made several thousand dollars!"

"The state-owned restaurant got the news early, and Brother Chen ran over to collect the bear paws and some meat."

"It's a coincidence that you came. We can try it together!" Haiwen said with a smile, and then picked up another piece of tiger meat.

"In fact, this kind of meat is just for fun. Whether it's bear meat or tiger meat, it's mostly lean meat, a bit woody and fishy, ​​and needs to be cooked with the right amount of heat."

"It's good enough to be able to eat it. I guess in a few years, I won't even dare to eat it!"

Li Changhe said with a smile.

Although Haiwen said it lightly, precious ingredients like this are definitely what a chef would keep in his or her heart.

The fact that Haiwen can let people take it out and sit on it is not just because he is rich.

But this also shows from the side that he is doing really well here.

"Nowadays, tigers generally don't dare to move. A notice was issued earlier to list them as precious protected animals. However, in border areas like ours, it is inevitable to encounter them sometimes, like this one."

"The hunter said he picked it up, but you can't investigate further. People usually turn a blind eye to it. After all, there's no counting of these things. Who knows if they came from the Soviet Union?"

This thing is like the oxen used for farming in ancient times. The imperial court issued an express decree prohibiting the slaughter of oxen, but people who want to eat them always find ways to kill them, such as dying of illness, exhaustion, falling off a mountain, etc. There are many ways.

After the two of them had eaten and drunk their fill, Haiwen paid the bill. The meal consisted of only two dishes and cost more than 40 yuan!

That bear paw was only 35 yuan, and the braised tiger meat was priced at 8 yuan, which was not cheap either.

Afterwards, the two returned to Haven's residence.

After returning, Haiwen took out his textbook and began to ask Li Changhe for advice.

Although Li Changhe has written some ideas for solving the problem, Haiwen needs to fully understand the principles behind it.

The two of them studied until they reached more than ten o'clock!
Thanks to the fact that Haiwen lives in the county town, there is electricity at night.

They studied until after ten o'clock, and after washing up, they went to the big kang.

Haven was exhausted after a whole day of work and didn't sleep well last night, so he soon started snoring.

Li Changhe, on the other hand, was not very sleepy after having slept too much during the day, and he started thinking about tomorrow's meeting.

Then, in a daze, I fell asleep.

The next morning, Li Changhe woke up early, got up and packed up.

Looking at the lunch that Haiwen brought him yesterday at noon, he took it to the kitchen to heat it up. The temperature in Northeast China was not too high now, only about ten degrees at night, so it wouldn't go bad.

Not long after, Haiwen also got up. The two had breakfast, and then Haiwen rode his bicycle and took Li Changhe to the home of his eldest sister Li Xiaojun.

Li Xiaojun's home is located in Anshantunzi Brigade, Donglin Commune, a rural area on the border.

It is nearly 30 kilometers from Hulin County, with many mountain roads, and there are two buses a day.

Two people shared a bicycle and rode for two hours. After all, they stopped and started along the way. They left home at around eight in the morning and arrived back at around ten.

Near the entrance of the village, Li Changhe looked at this remote rural area, which was full of houses made of adobe and wood, and the village was full of dirt roads.

The people in the village looked at Haiwen pushing his bicycle and Li Changhe carrying his travel bag, their eyes full of curiosity.

Hai Wenben was wearing a Zhongshan suit, and Li Changhe was dressed better, with a white shirt, straight pants, 765 leather shoes, and a coat on the outside.

The way they dress doesn't look like that of ordinary people. Even the cadres from the county rarely dress like this.

Haiwen and Li Changhe ignored it and continued pushing the cart forward.

Anshan Village is not very big, with only about two hundred households in the whole village. The houses are high and low, and are not scattered neatly, but arranged in a crooked manner.

Haiwen had been here before, and when he saw Chen Aiguo's home, he took Li Changhe straight there.

But when they arrived at Chen Aiguo's house, they found that it was surrounded by people and was extremely lively.

(End of this chapter)