On the first day when I arrived in Wenjia Village, I was criticized by my own research. Professor Parker felt that he was a little disappointed. Americans were also good at face. Not only Chinese people have this thing, so Professor Parker decided to go to a restaurant and examine the diet here. After all, it took several months to live here.

Although Parker has been to China once, that happened more than ten years ago. Parker does not like Chinese food. Even the improved Chinese food in the United States, he doesn't like it because he thinks Chinese food is too greasy and bad for his health. So he will eat Western food whenever he has the chance, and it is authentic Western food. Fortunately, in his memory, eating in China is very cheap, and his income in the United States is average, but spending US dollars in China has a sense of pride as an American. Until now, he still remembers the feeling of spending US dollars and God-like in the past.

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

Parker felt that since he was here, it was not easy to work in China. Let’s have a meal to boost morale!

When the little glasses called Jamie heard this, the man nodded immediately, and then ran towards the stilted building where he was staying with a trot.

Now, these researchers can no longer afford to live in villa areas. It is very simple, the friendly price is gone, and their funds for living in stilt houses have been discounted. In other words, people in these international people have the treatment of living in stilt houses. For example, Mr. Jia lives in the dormitory of the laboratory in order to save money, and there are four people in one room! Even the treatment of the waiter in the restaurant in Wenjia Village is not as good as that.

Professor Parker does not have such awareness now. He thought about how expensive the prices in developing countries in the past ten years? So he took two other assistants and walked straight towards the restaurant.

When I arrived at the restaurant door, I looked in and thought the environment inside was pretty good, spotless and clean. Professor Parker said, "It's indeed much better than before. When I came here, it was a small village like this, let alone a restaurant, even a decent house was rare..."

As the man spoke, he walked into the yard. As soon as he entered the yard, a waiter immediately came up. Although his work was not very standard, he definitely understood English and asked Professor Parker: "Sir, how many of you are? Choose whether to choose Chinese or Western food?"

"We like real Western food, we don't like the ones that are improved in the Chinese market!" Professor Parker also emphasized specifically.

The waiter smiled and said, "Sir, please rest assured. The chef of our restaurant once had four years of working experience in a Michelin three-star restaurant! The authentic French flavor of Western food!"

When Parker heard the waiter say this, his expression lightly: "I hope so!"

After saying that, he said to the waiter: "I have some companions, I'll come here later."

"It's okay, my colleagues will lead them up later. Please, everyone." As the waiter said that, he turned sideways and kept in this posture, leading Parker and his men to the Western Restaurant on the third floor in the elevator.

"The environment is pretty good!" Parker sat down at the window and looked at the environment around the restaurant. He felt that the decoration and decoration were very standard, so he couldn't help but nodded secretly.

I turned around and found that the table next to me was almost full of people. Although there were many people, it was extremely quiet. It was not as loud and noisy as the American media said about the Chinese people eating in the restaurant. Instead, it was similar to his visits to some high-end restaurants in the United States. Everyone maintained the dining etiquette.

When a few sat down, a waiter soon came over and asked a few of them what to drink. The few 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 they ordered a few cups of mineral water.

After ordering the mineral water, Parker paid attention to the waiter's expression. He did not notice any fluctuations in his expression. He couldn't help but praise the waiter's level here. Even if Parker was having a meal in the United States, sometimes he would be discouraged by the waiter.

But what Parker didn't know is that there are almost no ones who come to Western restaurants to order tea and coffee. Every customer likes to drink this strictly filtered spring water produced in Wenjia Village. It is not only because it is free, but also because it is said that this thing is rich in trace elements, and everyone says it is beneficial to the human body.

The waiter doesn't despise him because people who know and the old customers who often come like to drink this. These waiters are used to it, and it makes them wonder if someone orders vegetables, water, and coffee.

The waiter performed well, but now Parker, who has seen the tea list, feels a little uneasy. He always feels that the wallet in his pocket is a little difficult to breathe.

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

"hiss!"

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

The first page says in Chinese and English: Special dishes, top plate, French baked snail, 675 yuan, soup: Blue-capped mushroom truffle soup, main course: truffle sauce and beef steak, this is also divided into Chinese and French truffles, each of which exceeds 2,000 yuan. Let's put it this way, except for salad, almost no dish is less than 600 yuan.

A salad costs $100? It would be strange if Parker, a young professor, doesn’t sweat!

Don’t think that some Chinese professors are poor, but a large number of American professors are equally poor!

Take Parker for example. The annual salary is like a white-collar worker. Don’t look at the annual salary of 100,000 US dollars, but if you go for taxes, you get about 40,000 to 50,000 US dollars. Not to mention that there are old people, but there are young people, and your wife is not working, isn’t the expenses of this family all the money? Of course, there are also professors and professors in the United States. For example, the law professors of famous brands can start at 200,000 US dollars. Some professors have luxury houses and luxury cars, while some professors eat braised vegetables, which is exactly the same as in China.

Let me put it this way, some people are unbearable for Chinese professors to be unable to win acting, and American professors also have few dollars to get Hollywood movie stars. This is normal. It is estimated that there may be differences under the rule of Jin San, other countries are like this.

What’s even more miserable is that Parker is still a zoological researcher. What can you make a fortune in this category? It is estimated that it’s difficult for funders to find some research funds. The research funding needs to be funded by others. Where can I get the money to eat in high-end restaurants? Even if it’s a month or two on the wedding anniversary, and takes my wife out for a good restaurant, my wife can be happy for a few months. How can I enjoy this standard of living?

So, a professor in his 50s brought two assistants to flip through the menu while sweating coldly on his forehead.

Parker knew that if these people had a meal here, the investors behind him would probably jump immediately. This meal would have to be at least nearly 3,000 US dollars. How to pay for such a large amount of money? Pay it yourself? Don't be stupid! Then in the next half month to a month, he and his assistants would tie up their mouths.

"I think we shouldn't eat Western food anymore, take us to the Chinese restaurant!" Parker turned from beginning to end, and flipped through the entire menu. He felt that he could be frightened by just looking at this menu, so he decided to try it in the Chinese restaurant.

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

Just as Parker and his three walked less than ten steps, they turned around and found that there was someone sitting in their original seat. The couple, with a child, had already begun to point at the menu and order food. The three of them reached out and poked the menu and saw Parker's heart trembled.

When passing by several tables, Parker also looked at the dishes on their table. He had to admit that just from a platter, these dishes were quite high-quality, at least surpassing the somewhat level restaurant he had been to Los Angeles.

Parker thought to himself: When did the Chinese even have such richness in a small mountain village?

The waiter led the three people downstairs and arrived at the Chinese restaurant. As a result, the three of them continued to sweat after looking at the menu. The order was not necessarily cheaper than the Western restaurant on the third floor. The most suitable thing for them to eat is probably the so-called golden fried rice, which costs 275 yuan per serving.

But each of the six people sat here holding a portion of fried rice. Although Parker could also be so thick-skinned, but to eat a portion of fried rice for $40? Parker felt that he was crazy.

Parker also understood that he was here in the wrong place today! Originally, he came with his own bags of things, but he was afraid that he would come to a small mountain village in China and that he was poor and had nothing to eat with the taste.

Now I realized that there are all kinds of food in this mountain village. The only thing that embarrasses me is that the wallet in my pocket is not enough to support the consumption here. I originally brought some steak and dried fruits, and I felt that I was envious of people here. Now I seem to have a bitter self-knowledge, but when I came here, I felt that there was nothing to eat. Now when I arrived at this restaurant, I realized that I could hardly afford anything except myself!

"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 had no impression of coming to China ten years ago. At that time, he could easily enter any restaurant in China with the US dollar, without considering the price. He waited for him to come back ten years later, and felt that he could not find that feeling at all. The omnipotent feeling of the US dollar made Professor Parker miss it in his heart at this moment.

Maybe it was because I didn’t have enough dollars! Parker glanced at the menu placed at hand and thought to himself.

The waiter was still very enthusiastic after hearing this and opened his mouth and said, "Then you can go to the restaurant next to you. The meal fee for each person is about 150 to 200 yuan! Do you want me to take you there?"

Although Parker still felt that the price was a bit expensive, after two shocks, Parker thought the price was very cute, so he nodded to the waiter.

Just like that, six foreigners who had just arrived in Wenjia Village spent 40 US dollars each to have their first meal in Wenjia Village, and it was a very memorable meal. As Americans, they began to doubt who was a third world country.

When the group of six returned to the stilt 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 had also searched around the village. No one noticed that this group of people had entered a restaurant in Wenjia Village where ordinary people could get heart disease even if they saw the menu.

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

"Eating here is too expensive!" Parker said with lingering fear.

Susan said: "A cheapest meal costs $40 per person!"

When Liu Guangyong heard this, he immediately said, "You are not going to the restaurant in the villa area there, are you?"

"Ah? Are there any other restaurants?"

Liu Guangyong pointed to Liyu Bay not far away: "There is a small home-cooked restaurant there, which costs about 20 or 30 yuan per person. However, the dishes used are all picked out and not produced locally. The dishes in the villa area over there are all produced by themselves. Or they are imported by air, so the price is naturally fatal!"

When Liu Guangyong thought of their price that made people doubt their lives, he immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head. What made Liu Guangyong even more indignant was that such a high restaurant was quite good, and a meal cost several thousand yuan a lot. For those in the villa area, it seemed like a night market stall eating a pot of thirteen-spicy lobster.

My monthly salary is not enough for others to have a meal. I have to say that Liu Guangyong feels so empty when he thinks about it. Fortunately, Liu Guangyong also saw the helplessness in the eyes of Parker and others, and immediately felt a little better: It turns out that Americans are the same!
Chapter completed!