The Pentium Era - South to North

Although Zhang Xiangbei was not going to take a bath outside, he still changed into his yukata. For no other reason than that, the street was full of people wearing yukata and clogs. Here, yukata and clogs were the formal attire. Wearing his own clothes made him look more elegant. strange.

Besides, this yukata and clogs are really comfortable to wear in this summer. Once a person is comfortable, it is not that easy to make oneself uncomfortable. I am not a veteran cadre. A veteran cadre should be either wearing pajamas or wearing hospital clothes. Uniforms, those two outfits and this yukata are similar.

Zhang Xiangbei couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

He put his mobile phone and wallet into the cloth bag. The mobile phone could not solve all the problems here, and it was still a bit troublesome. Zhang Xiangbei thought of what Lao Qiao told him about the difficulties they had in promoting electronic payment.

Zhang Xiangbei walked to the entrance of the lobby. The young man saw him coming out in a bathrobe and quickly brought a pair of clogs over. Zhang Xiangbei changed out of the hotel slippers.

On the floor as you enter through the door, there are four rows of hotel slippers neatly arranged. The black ones are men's and the beige ones are women's. The pair Zhang Xiangbei just changed out of was cleaned and sprayed with disinfectant. will be placed here.

Every corner of this hotel was too clean, including the waiters' hygiene awareness. Zhang Xiangbei felt that people would feel a little ashamed of themselves here, always feeling that they were not clean enough.

It was already June. At this time, it was already extremely hot in Hangzhou, but here, due to the high latitude, it didn’t feel sweltering yet. Zhang Xiangbei walked for a long time without sweating.

Zhang Xiangbei walked and sat around, and then he discovered the benefits of wearing wooden clogs. At the entrance of every outdoor hot spring on the street, there is a "foot hot spot", a shallow pool with flowing hot springs inside. Sit down on the stool and soak your feet in the hot spring before walking.

Pass by the "No. 1 Spring in the Sea" next to "Ichinoyu". This "No. 1 Spring in the Sea" has a great name, but it is a square pavilion with a pool of hot spring water inside, which is also a "foot hot spot".

Zhang Xiangbei walked over and sat down, soaking his feet in the hot spring. After a while, two girls came over talking and laughing, one wearing glasses, and the other with a round face. They opened their mouths and opened their mouths to Zhang Xiangbei. Surprised, both of them spoke Shanghainese. Zhang Xiangbei asked:

"Are you from Shanghai?"

"Yes, what about you?" the one wearing glasses asked.

Another person with a round face told Zhang Xiangbei that they were from Shanghai, but they did not come from China, but from Osaka, where they were studying.

Zhang Xiangbei told them that he came from Hangzhou.

"Are you alone?" asked the girl with glasses.

Zhang Xiangbei said yes, he came with his classmates and he went back to Tokyo.

"So miserable, abandoned?" the girl with glasses asked.

Zhang Xiangbei laughed and said no. His classmate is Japanese and his hometown is here. He works in Tokyo and went back to work today. I have no classes to attend here and will return to China after a few days.

The two men nodded and understood.

Zhang Xiangbei sat with them and chatted a few words casually. The girl with glasses looked at her watch and said it's time, it's almost there.

The two people stood up, Liao Liaocaocao and Zhang Xiangbei waved, and left in a hurry. Zhang Xiangbei didn't know what they were talking about. They probably had some friends who were arriving soon, and they were going to pick them up.

Zhang Xiangbei sat alone and soaked for a while. Then he got up and continued to walk forward. When he reached the door of "Liutang", he was surprised to see the two girls sitting at the door of "Liu Tang". "It's only around two o'clock now, and Liu Tang won't open until three o'clock. What are they doing sitting here?" I didn't see anyone they picked up.

The two girls also saw Zhang Xiangbei, their eyes lit up and they became active. They waved to him together. Zhang Xiangbei walked over and asked them what happened.

The girl with glasses clasped her hands and bowed to him: "Big brother, big brother, we are all Chinese, can you help me?"

"What's wrong? Lost my wallet?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"No, no, it's here." The round-faced girl said, "The soup is served here, and the first customer who comes can get a wooden sign, but..."

Zhang Xiangbei understood. It turned out that they were about to arrive when they said they were about to arrive. They were talking about the door here being opened. When opening the door, they would give out a wooden sign. They could only give out two yuan a day, and they were a man and a woman. They were two people. , Zhang Xiangbei smiled and said:

"Do you want me to help you get the men's sign?"

"You know?" asked the girl with glasses.

Zhang Xiangbei said yes, okay, I'll wait with you.

Both girls laughed and quickly said thank you.

The three of them continued chatting, and the two girls told Zhang Xiangbei that they often took a bus from Osaka to come here. It was very close. In addition to soaking in hot springs, they came here to collect the brands of seven foreign hot springs, and they had already collected four.

"Ichinoyu already has one, right?" Zhang Xiangbei said.

"How do you know?" the round-faced girl asked.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "If not, you would have been sitting by the Ichinoyu. Instead of waiting at the Ichinoyu, why don't you come here?"

The two girls were laughing.

At about 2:50, someone came to open the door. Three people stood up. The person who opened the door looked at them and knew that they were waiting for the sign. He opened the door. Although the time was not up, he still gave them the sign.

The two girls scanned the code to enter the hot spring. Zhang Xiangbei said goodbye to them, turned around and walked out.

Zhang Xiangbei remembered the beef restaurant he saw last night that specialized in Tajima beef, and decided to check it out again. He couldn't remember whether the store was on that side of the river or this side. It didn't matter. This street is not long, just look for it.

Zhang Xiangbei walked for more than ten minutes before he found this store with the "Tajima Beef" sign on the door and named it "Ueda the Beef Maker". Zhang Xiangbei didn't know if the owner of this store was named Ueda.

Zhang Xiangbei walked in. The boss was a small middle-aged man wearing glasses and wearing a transparent plastic apron. When he saw Zhang Xiangbei come in, he greeted him warmly.

Zhang Xiangbei was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he immediately explained to him that he was a tourist and did not buy beef. He was just interested in beef and came in to take a look.

Unexpectedly, the boss actually knew him and said with a smile: "I know, you were here with Hashimoto-chan last night."

Zhang Xiangbei quickly said yes.

The boss speaks broken English, but fortunately Zhang Xiangbei's English is good, and he has a pair of ears that have been influenced by the English of Koreans, Japanese and Indians. He specializes in treating various difficult and complicated diseases. Listen to what he says In English, if you listen, guess, and make up your own mind, there will be no problem at all.

The boss pointed at the pieces of meat inside the glass counter and introduced to Zhang Xiangbei which parts of the cow they were.

The boss said that the meat from different parts of the same cow has different quality. They use plum, bamboo, pine, and rattan to represent the grades. Rattan grade is the highest, and the meat on the chest and back is the best. Rattan grade meat comes from these two. In this place, a cow weighing about 500 kilograms usually only has five or six kilograms of rattan-grade meat.

Zhang Xiangbei thought about whether the plum meat of pigs, that is, the meat on the neck, has anything to do with this. Only Cantonese people like to use pork plums to make barbecued pork and charcoal-grilled pork neck. Zuo Ge Bao, in other places in China, it is considered to be relatively poor meat.

The boss is indeed from the Ueda family. Ueda and Zhang Xiangbei said that before the Edo period, Tajima cattle were mainly used as draft cattle for farming and transportation. Because of their strong reproductive capacity, a Tajima cattle population was formed, and it was also popular in the foster father market ( A cattle market was established in the current Yabu City, and many people in Kinai and surrounding areas were engaged in the Tajima cattle business, as were his ancestors.

In the early Meiji period, in order to improve the breed, draft cattle were improved into meat cattle. Tajima cattle were crossed with foreign breeds, making the originally thin Tajima cattle taller. However, unexpectedly, the quality of the cattle's meat also deteriorated. This improvement failed.

The locals believed that only by mating with purebred Tajima cattle could they produce cattle with excellent meat quality, but at that time, it was already difficult to find purebred bulls.

Until a local cattle breeder named Tajiri Shozo bred a bull named "Tajiri Hao". In more than 12 years, "Tajiri Hao" bred nearly 1,500 bulls with "Tajiri Hao" through natural mating. Cattle from the Tajiri lineage have amazing reproductive capabilities.

"Tajiriha" not only has strong reproductive capabilities, but also has excellent genetics related to meat quality. It can be said that the origin of the world's proud Wagyu beef is "Tajiriha".

"Tajiri" is still the best bloodline among Tajima cattle.

In the 31st year of Meiji, a household registration system was established for Tajima cattle to purify and improve the bloodline. Breeders must have a certificate issued by the government to be qualified to raise Kuroge Wagyu. Every calf born will be issued a "cattle registration" by the government. "Certificate", listing the bloodline and stamping the nose.

Tajima beef has good qualifications and meat quality, and has become the source of Japan's three major Wagyu beef: Matsusaka beef, Kobe beef and Omi beef.

Speaking of Kobe beef, Ueda said that not all Tajima cattle are Kobe cattle. Only the best Tajima cattle can be recognized as Kobe beef after being graded. There are only about 3,000 Kobe cattle every year. Like them, This kind of store only has Tajima beef, not Kobe beef. Kobe beef is graded and auctioned at the central wholesale market.

"Is there such a market here in Toyooka?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"No, there are only four in the country, and the Central Wholesale Market in Kobe City is the largest." Ueda and Zhang Xiangbei said.

The two of them were chatting and looking at the beef on the counter. Zhang Xiangbei drooled and felt hungry. Then he remembered that he said he came out for lunch, but it was already past four o'clock and he hadn't even eaten lunch. , Zhang Xiangbei asked Ueda, and Ueda told him that he basically supplies the beef in the town, and the freshness and meat quality are guaranteed.

He wrote an address to Zhang Xiangbei, drew a route map, and recommended to him that this store's beef was better.

Zhang Xiangbei took the road map and looked for it, and found that it was the same store he had seen last night, with a large Matsuba crab model crawling on the facade wall made of wooden strips outside.

Zhang Xiangbei walked to the door of the store. By coincidence, he saw the two Shanghai girls coming over, chatting and laughing. Their hair was wet. They had obviously just come out of "Liutang".

When the two of them saw Zhang Xiangbei, they also laughed. The girl with glasses said, "Are you just walking on the street alone?"

Zhang Xiangbei said, yes, nothing happened anyway. By the way, Zhang Xiangbei said:

"You are all Chinese, let me treat you to beef."

The two girls looked at each other, and the girl with glasses said, "Just eat, who is afraid of you?"

Zhang Xiangbei laughed, he said yes, I won’t eat you anyway.

The three of them went into the store. In summer, there are no Matsuba crabs in the stores that sell Matsuba crabs. The main dish is Tajima beef. Zhang Xiangbei handed the menu to the two girls and said to them:

"Just be casual, don't be polite."

The two people laughed, and the girl with glasses said: "We came in, and we didn't want to save you money."

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