Chapter 276: Drunk Monkey

I drove to a famous restaurant with Nangong Yan and had a hearty meal. The so-called cuisine, as the name suggests in Chinese, means 'processing', and in Japanese it means 'dishes'. Unlike Chinese cuisine, which requires color, fragrance, and flavor, Japanese cuisine, in addition to taste, pays more attention to visual enjoyment, exquisiteness, beauty, and ingredients. Matching with utensils.

In a word, I just couldn’t get enough to eat. There was a large table of various beautiful-looking small plates, just like an art exhibition. Unfortunately, the little things on each plate were not enough to feed the cat.

Not only was he not full, he was also uncomfortable sitting down. Sitting cross-legged on the tatami would squeeze his stomach. Su Ming thought it would be better to eat squatting...

"Try it, really, the taste of their sashimi is very special, you get what you pay for..." Nangong used small silver chopsticks to pick up a piece of sashimi as thin as a snail, and dipped it in some wasabi. , placed on a small lacquer plate in front of Su Ming.

Su Ming didn't know how the goods were, but the price was quite high. Anyway, Su Ming had eaten in many big restaurants with Zhao Yun. In terms of price, this restaurant was even better.

After tasting it, Su Ming suddenly smiled: "Don't you think the taste is very familiar?" Su Ming often eats fish from Shuijun Lake, and he is very familiar with the taste of fish raised in Tai Sui water. As soon as the sashimi entered his mouth, his taste buds clearly told him: This is produced by Shuijun Lake.

"No way!" Nangong Yan's eyes widened, she picked up a small piece without any seasoning, put it in her mouth and tasted it carefully.

"I couldn't have tasted it wrong. There is no other fish with this kind of taste in the city except Shuijun Lake." Su Ming said.

"That's too much!" Nangong Yan slammed her chopsticks on the table and said angrily, "The menu clearly says black tuna!"

Black tuna is commonly known as black pomfret. Not many people know these two names, but its Chinese name "bluefin tuna" or "tuna" is well-known to every household.

This kind of fish has plump flesh and high nutritional value. It has always been an excellent ingredient for making sashimi. At the same time, due to overfishing, the number is becoming scarce and the price is soaring.

The black tuna sashimi on this large plate ordered by Nangong was the most expensive.

But there are four domestic fish and black fish in Shuijun Lake. Black tuna with hair? If, as Su Ming said, the plate of sashimi in front of him comes from a certain kind of fish in Shuijun Lake, then this restaurant is cheating on consumers.

"Forget it, it's just a small amount of money. There is no need to make it unpleasant when we go out to eat." Su Ming stopped Nangong Yan who was about to go to the store to argue.

It's only a few hundred dollars, so it doesn't matter, it tastes good anyway. He was somewhat curious about the fake bluefin tuna fillet.

It stands to reason that the meat texture of black tuna is somewhat different from that of the four major species of fish and snakehead fish, both in color and texture. Experts can tell it at a glance, and even a seasoned foodie like Nangong Yan can easily identify it.

This shop probably used some clever slicing technique to make the two types of fish look similar.

The key is the taste. If Su Ming wasn't so familiar with the fish in Shuijun Lake, he would have almost been fooled. Nangong Yan didn't notice it at first, and she didn't notice it until Su Ming reminded her.

"If I had known this, I might as well have caught two fish from your Shuijun Lake to eat." Nangong Yan blinked her big eyes and said seriously: "Instead of letting these profiteers make money, you might as well just open a Restaurants, since the fish in Shuijun Lake tastes so good, they won’t have to worry about lack of customers.”

"I also want to open a big restaurant!" Su Ming shrugged: "But I don't have the money!"

I don’t have enough money to open a big restaurant, but I still have enough money to buy shopping. In the afternoon, I went to Wanda Plaza for a walk. Nowadays, the economic situation is declining. In Wanda Plaza, apart from places to eat, the rest of the stores have more waiters than customers. Su Ming and two people occupied half of the floor. After shopping around, Su Ming bought a watch. Nangong After buying a bag, the two of us always felt weird, as if something was wrong.

"I bought a watch today..." Su Ming muttered.

"I bought a bag today..." Nangong muttered while sitting in the passenger seat.

The two of them turned their heads at the same time, looked at each other, and exclaimed in unison: "This is so funny!"

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Early the next morning, as soon as Su Ming arrived at the office, Sister Tong knocked on the door from outside and came in. Xiao Hou, the keeper of Monkey Mountain, followed behind, lowering her head and squirming.

Su Ming could tell by looking at their looks that something had happened, "What's wrong? Sister Tong, please sit down, and Xiao Hou, please sit down too."

Xiao Hou glanced at Sister Tong nervously, and Sister Tong glared: "I'll beat you if you ask me. How can such a big man look like a girl?"

"Deputy principal, I made a mistake in my work...you can criticize me..." Xiao Hou lowered his head and said.

"You haven't said anything yet, let the leader criticize you as much as you want! Besides, the deputy principal is not the kind of unreasonable person!" Sister Tong said from the side.

Su Ming finally understood that Xiao Hou had probably done something wrong. At the last meeting, the zoo's new regulations were announced and work discipline was emphasized. Xiao Hou was afraid of being punished, so he dragged Sister Tong to intercede with him.

Xiao Hou usually had a good attitude towards work and was a responsible person. Su Ming was not in a hurry to blame him. He asked about the situation first, and then he realized that it was Monkey Mountain and Gibbon District that were causing trouble again.

Last time the Gibbons collectively petitioned for suicide, Su Ming went to resolve it. Not long after, the two sides once again became uneasy. Xiao Hou felt that he had betrayed the trust of his leader and failed to do his job well.

"Wait, I'll go and see first." Su Ming was very surprised. What was going on? Last time, he took the gibbons into the mountains to play for a night. They were also quarreling with the monkeys and competing in making wine, which resulted in a lot of wine-making fruits being wasted.

When they arrived in front of the monkey mountain, the white-browed gibbons were lying on the cages again, screaming towards the monkey mountain, but this time it was better. They didn't commit suicide by hitting the wall.

Seeing Su Ming coming, the gibbons screamed more vigorously, shook the cages vigorously, and bared their teeth at the monkey mountain opposite. Some even made random gestures.

Su Ming used his mental power to test it a little, and the group of gibbons seemed to have suffered a great injustice.

"Huh? How did the monkeys offend you again?" Su Ming was stunned.

Last time the gibbon went crazy, the monkeys on the opposite side were watching the excitement. But now, the monkey mountain is deserted. There is no excitement of monkeys playing everywhere. There are only a few monkeys in the huge monkey mountain, lying lazily on the ground, with their bellies facing up, as if they are dying. Most of the monkeys are missing, and they should be hiding in the caves of the monkey mountain.

Today the weather is good, the sun is warm, and the monkeys don’t have the habit of sleeping in. If it is such weather, they would have run out to play everywhere, basking in the sun, catching lice, and flirting with girls. The deserted situation in front of us is obviously not in line with the characteristics of the monkey group.

At first, the keeper Xiao Hou only noticed the abnormal movement of the white-browed gibbon, but didn’t pay attention to the monkey mountain. Now he followed Su Ming and found something wrong.

"Deputy Director, I'll go to the monkey mountain and take a look." Xiao Hou hurriedly asked for help. If something went wrong in the monkey mountain, he, as the administrator, would be in trouble. No one could say anything. Moreover, there was a national treasure-level Qinling golden monkey in the monkey mountain. If something happened to this little guy, it would be a huge liability accident.

Xiao Hou was also very depressed. He had always worked diligently and never cheated. Why did something abnormal happen to both the monkey mountain and the gibbon?

"No, it has nothing to do with you. It's not your fault. Okay, go and do your thing. I'll go down to the monkey mountain and take a look." Su Ming estimated that this was probably related to the "contradiction" between the gibbon and the monkey group. This kind of thing was beyond the ability of ordinary keepers, and Xiao Hou could not be blamed.

Entering the monkey mountain from the keepers' entrance, Su Ming strode towards a macaque lying on a big rock, sunbathing its belly. Macaques are usually very clever. They usually jump away as soon as they see someone before they get close.

But until Su Ming came up to him, the macaque didn't notice it at all. It was lying there like a pig, with its belly facing the sky, its face and butt as red as each other. It was actually asleep, snoring lightly, with bubbles coming out of the corners of its mouth and drooling.

"Oh my god, which tourist is so bored that he feeds wine to the monkey?" After approaching, Su Ming smelled a strong smell of wine from the macaque. It turned out that this guy was drunk!

The same was true for the other monkeys lying on the ground. They were all drunk, sleeping sweetly and drooling.

When he walked into the monkey mountain, as expected, the remaining monkeys were all drunk in the cave. There was also an overturned bamboo tube next to the old monkey king...

Su Ming picked up the bamboo tube and smelled it. There was a smell of wine inside. It looked like the monkeys were not fed wine by tourists, but rather that the monkeys stole wine to drink.

"Is the monkey wine ready?" Su Ming sniffed it carefully again. The wine in the bamboo tube was not the same as the monkey wine. The previous monkey wine was a low-alcohol wine, and its alcohol content was about the same as that of ordinary wine, but the smell of the wine in the bamboo tube was close to that of low-alcohol liquor.

Primates love wine and sex, and it is normal for monkeys to love wine, but where did all the liquor come from? Could it be that these guys really went out in the middle of the night, swept through a certain tobacco and alcohol supermarket, and ate alone after returning, without sharing with the gibbon, so the gibbon was angry?

"Don't sleep, don't sleep." Su Ming lifted the old monkey king up and shook him. This guy was too disloyal. You went to the tobacco and alcohol supermarket and only knew how to steal wine, but why didn't you bring back a few good cigarettes?

The old monkey king was awakened by Su Ming. He opened his sleepy eyes and grinned at Su Ming, revealing a few yellow teeth. Then he slid down the wall like a puddle of mud.

"Aok! Aok! Aok!" The angry shouts of the gibbon and the sound of the cage being smashed came from behind.

"What? Stole your wine?" Su Ming was stunned.