Reborn Almighty Life

The concierge car of the West Lake State Guesthouse is the low-key yet luxurious VOLVO S60. As a classic model of the Volvo brand that ushered in a new era of fashion, the S60 has gone through many facelifts and is still a representative of luxury cars until 2020.

Gu Fei sat in the spacious and comfortable back seat and could hardly feel the roar of the 2.4L naturally aspirated engine. The riding experience was no less than that of a Mercedes-Benz S600.

Compared with the reputation of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi in the domestic market, VOLVO is not well-known, which is undoubtedly a pity.

The building outside the building and the West Lake State Guesthouse face each other across the lake. The car needs to pass through the long Yanggong Embankment, turn into Beishan Street, and Gushan Road to reach it.

Today's Hangzhou is not yet a quasi-first-tier city in 2020. Even in the evening, there are almost no traffic jams. In less than ten minutes, VOLVO S60 stopped steadily at the door of the building outside the building.

"Beyond the mountains, the green mountains, the buildings outside, when will the singing and dancing in the West Lake be closed?"

This is probably the first impression that people across the country have on Jinshan and West Lake, because this poem taught in primary school textbooks is deeply rooted in people's hearts and is impressive.

Of course, the current Louwailou restaurant is not a restaurant from the Southern Song Dynasty, but was opened in the 28th year of Daoguang's reign (1848). The inspiration for the name also came from Lin Sheng's poem "Inscribed on Lin'an Residence".

After 154 years of ups and downs, Louwailou has taken on a new glory after the reform and opening up, and has gradually become the business card of Jinshan’s external publicity and one of the must-visit attractions for foreign tourists.

Gu Fei placed his and He Xiaolan's first meal in Jinshan in the building outside the building because of his high trust and yearning for it.

The antique decoration of the building outside the building makes people feel like traveling through time and space, and the large-scale wall sculpture "Dongpo Dredging the Lake" after entering the building has a huge impact!

Since the mid-1990s, the building outside the building has also been fully renovated in line with the pace of West Lake's renovation. From the overall layout to the detailed structure, it better reflects the history of West Lake and the cultural connotation of the region, making people feel at ease.

While enjoying the delicious food and beautiful scenery, you can also naturally feel the strong cultural atmosphere and sentiment.

"Dungpo Lake Dredging" is a large-scale wall sculpture created by Dongyang woodcarving master Lu Guangzheng. It has a 50-square-meter screen, 85 figures, and five connected scenes. It truly and vividly records and reflects the events of more than 900 years ago.

The whole process of Su Dongpo leading the crowd to dredge the West Lake to build Su dikes and build six bridges.

This is a rare masterpiece among Dongyang wood carvings. It is magnificent and exquisite. Every guest who comes to the building outside the building will have their eyes lit up. They must first feast their eyes before feasting their mouths.

Gu Fei and He Xiaolan were carefully visiting "Drench the Lake on Dongpo". The waiter did not rush to urge them, but stood two or three meters away, waiting with a smile.

Despite the young age of these two customers, they made reservations through the State Guesthouse and were delivered by courtesy cars. Naturally, the waiters outside the building did not dare to neglect them.

Gu Fei and He Xiaolan did not choose the private room upstairs, but ate in the more popular lobby, where they could experience the local life in Jinshan up close.

Compared with the 35 branches later opened to cater to tourists, the main store on Gushan Road seems to have more history and has a higher status in the minds of Jinshan people.

When many Jinshan citizens have guests at home, their first choice is to take the guests to the building outside the building, taste Jinshan’s authentic delicacies, and introduce Jinshan to the guests solemnly (proudly).

Therefore, Gu Fei and He Xiaolan, who were sitting in the lobby, could hear the guests communicating in Hangzhou local dialect, mixed with one or two sentences in Mandarin.

Gu Fei can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Sichuan dialect and Zhuang dialect proficiently, but he just can't understand the Jiangnan accent, which speaks very fast and has slurred enunciation. Fortunately, He Xiaolan, who was born in Nanxun, has some understanding of the Jiangnan accent, and occasionally speaks it.

You can give me a sentence or two to explain.

As for the inability to interpret simultaneously throughout the whole process, it is simply because the pronunciation is different in the Jiangnan area. If you change the village, it may be a different accent.

When Gu Fei was an undergraduate student at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in his previous life, there were three classmates from Jiangnan Province in the dormitory. They each called home to chat with their parents. The other two were also confused, let alone classmates from other provinces?

Listening to Wu Nong's soft words, Gu Fei thought of his former roommate Liao Zhongda. He was Gu Fei's best friend in college. After graduating from graduate school, he returned to his hometown of Jinshan and worked in R&D at a biopharmaceutical company.

A small success.

Liao Zhongda should have just finished his military training and is traveling around Chengdu with a few roommates, right?

I don’t know who will take over in dormitory 6528 without me?

I sat down and chatted with He Xiaolan for a while, and the dishes I ordered came out like running water. I have to say that Louwailou is quite efficient.

When you come to Louwailou, you can’t miss the famous West Lake vinegar fish. Jinshan’s famous dishes of fried eel with shrimp, Longjing shrimp, beggar’s chicken, Dongpo pork and West Lake water shield soup are also neatly placed on the dining table.

There are so many famous dishes in the building outside the building. No matter how greedy Gu Fei and He Xiaolan are, they can only order so much. It would be bad if they can't finish it and waste it.

"Lan Lan, you like shrimp, try this!" Gu Fei gave He Xiaolan a piece of shrimp, which was very elastic to the touch.

As a cheat player with an intermediate level of food appreciation, Gu Fei knew with his naked eyes and the moment he picked up the shrimps with his chopsticks that Louwailou used fresh prawns of excellent quality.

"Thank you Zhutou!" He Xiaolan smiled sweetly, and the pear dimple on his face made Gu Fei fall in love.

Compared with Peng Changgui's rough and generous Jianghu cuisine, the chefs at Louwailou have a different style. No matter the seasoning, heat, knife skills or presentation, they all strive for excellence, and every dish is like a work of art.

"This West Lake Longjing dish uses top-quality West Lake Longjing, high-quality fresh prawns, and the chef's level is high enough to deserve the title of a signature dish!" Gu Fei explained the advantages of each dish to He Xiaolan while tasting various delicacies.

shortcoming.

For Gu Fei, who has the ability of "intermediate food appreciation", all kinds of information will pop up in his head involuntarily when he eats food. He has become a food appraisal machine, ruthless.

“Dongpo Pork is over-the-top, the stew time is not enough, and it is not crispy enough!”

"The shrimp-fried eel back uses prawns and farmed eels. Ordinary people can't tell the difference, but if it is replaced with fresh river shrimps and wild eels, the taste will be improved to another level!"

When Gu Fei was making comments, his volume unconsciously increased by a few percentage points. After all, the lobby was too noisy and he was afraid that He Xiaolan wouldn't hear it.

Qu Mengmeng, who was standing behind the screen behind Gu Fei, felt very unhappy when she listened to Gu Fei's words.

Without him, the dishes on Gu Fei's table were all cooked by Qu Mengmeng's father, the chef of Louwailou Headquarters, Qu Minxuan, and Qu Mengmeng personally delivered them to the table.

Qu Mengmeng, who is currently studying at Jinshan No. 1 Middle School, came to Louwailou to help during the National Day holiday. At first, she just thought the sister in the strapless dress was really beautiful, so she volunteered to serve them food.

Unexpectedly, that brother was talking nonsense while eating, which was really too much!

Qu Mengmeng grabbed the rag and wanted to throw it to the ground several times. She rushed up and asked the brother, why did he say that?

"Mengmeng, what's wrong?" Just when Qu Mengmeng almost couldn't bear it anymore, a generous voice came from her ears.