On this day, Kasumigaoka Shiyu hummed "In a Smile" with a happy face and walked briskly towards the activity room of "Zhongxingshe".
Ever since Yan Kai started working at Zhongxing Society, she would always go to have lunch every lunch break, and asked Kasumigaoka's mother not to prepare a lunch lunch, which made Kasumigaoka's mother smile like an aunt.
Is this a "loving husband bento"? My daughter has finally grown up!
Of course, Kasumigaoka Shiu didn't know what her mother was thinking, but that didn't stop her from looking forward to her daily lunch break.
What delicious Chinese food can we eat today? There are so many styles of cuisine in the Underclassmen, and you can eat something different every time!
Kasumigaoka Shiyu couldn't help but laugh out loud as she thought about it.
"Shiyu, why are you so happy!"
Just when Kasumigaoka Shiyu couldn't hide her smile, a familiar voice sounded from behind her.
"Ah, Saeko!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu quickly grimaced.
The character, the character cannot collapse!
There are so many people who come here for lunch at Yan Kai, and of course Busujima Saeko is not the least of them. She and Kasumigaoka Shiu are in the next class, and they were supposed to come together, but she had to go to the kendo gym to get the wooden sword first, so she postponed it. Kasumigaoka Shiyu was slower, but she was fast on her feet. She had already caught up with Kasumigaoka Shiyu before she even reached Zhongxing Society.
Speaking of which, Kasumigaoka Shiu found it quite strange. Busujima Saeko had always treasured her real sword and wanted to carry it with her at all times, but it seems that she started carrying her original wooden sword again some time ago. I don’t know. what's going on.
Maybe it’s the bad influence of bringing real knives in school...
Kasumigaoka Shiyu could only think so.
The two of them walked together towards the activity room of "Zhongxingshe". As soon as Kasumigaoka Shiyu opened the door, he saw Chitong and Ajiu lying on one side with most of their bodies lying on the low table, looking at the table in front of them with eager eyes. A watermelon in the middle.
One person and one person... are at a stalemate. It seems that whoever dares to take his eyes away from the watermelon will lose the war.
This is a watermelon whose main body is emerald green. The intervals between stripes are almost the same, and the shape is also a very pleasant standard spherical shape. Even from a distance, Shiyu Kasumigaoka seems to be able to smell the aroma of grass. Looking at the appearance of this watermelon , couldn't help but swallowed.
"It's really rare. Is there any watermelon for dessert today?"
After entering the door, Busujima Saeko bowed slightly to say hello to the three faculty members: Ryoko Mikado, Tiayu, and Esdeath, while Kasumigaoka Shiwa casually walked to the low table and bent down, looking at the low table carefully. Serve this watermelon in excellent condition.
"What kind of watermelon is this? Why is it different from the ones I see on the market?"
Of course Kasumigaoka Shiyu has never seen watermelon before, but she really hasn't seen this kind of emerald green watermelon.
Watermelon can be regarded as a medium-sized luxury product in Japan. It is basically sold by the slice in supermarkets. Very few people buy the whole watermelon. Even if they do, the main purpose is to give it as a gift. This is also the reason why the Japanese Melon Farmers Association The reason why they grow square watermelons that are very expensive but not delicious at all is because they know that what they grow is not watermelons. It is a kind of "artisan spirit" and a story with rich feelings. In short, it is right to buy it. In short, it is expensive. That's right, taste and all, those are just trivial details and don't matter at all.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu's family is well off, and most of the watermelons she buys are for her own consumption. She doesn't pay attention to feelings, but mainly looks at the taste. However, she has also eaten a lot of watermelons, but it is rare to see this kind of emerald green watermelon. After all, it is native to Japan. Most watermelons have dark green or even dark green skin.
But no matter what kind of watermelon it was, when he saw the watermelon, Kasumigaoka Shiyu couldn't help but stretched out his hand, curled his fingers, and wanted to play it to hear the sound.
She heard that when people in the Central Plains bought watermelons, they would play with it to tell whether it was good or bad. Although she couldn't use this to tell whether the watermelon was good or bad, or whether it was raw or ripe, she still wanted to play it like this. It made her feel very ritualistic.
Just as her green jade fingers gathered enough strength to pop out, Kasumigaoka Shiyu's ears suddenly heard Yan Kai's cry: "Senior, wait, don't play!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was stunned, and subconsciously flicked out his fingers in a state of confusion.
There was a "thunk" sound, and it was very crisp. After the thought of "it should be a good melon" flashed through Kasumigaoka Shiyu's mind, there was a "pop", and the emerald green watermelon that was round like a ball instantly cracked open, revealing The attractive pink melon pulp inside was revealed, and the sweet juice also flowed out.
"..."
Kasumigaoka Shiyu was stunned. She didn't expect such a thing to happen. She almost screamed: "I didn't mean it, I didn't expect this to happen!"
Yan Kai sighed and walked out of the kitchen, looked at the cracked watermelon, and then at Kasumigaoka Shiyu who was as dumb as a chicken.
"Uncle Kai, the melon is cracked, why don't we eat the melon first!"
Chi Tong swallowed her saliva, and as soon as Yan Kai nodded, she immediately pounced on him, while Ah Jiu opposite her also stuck out her tongue and licked her mouth, meaning you don't want to eat alone.
Since the first day they met Chitong, one person and one person... Because the recipes are similar, wars often break out, and the two have regarded each other as their "lifelong enemies."
"Okay, but we have to share it with everyone."
Yan Kai clicked on the cracked watermelon, and the watermelon immediately fell into many pieces along the cracks, evenly scattered on the table.
"Junior, what's going on with this watermelon? I just flicked it lightly, just once! It was very light!"
Kasumigaoka Shiyu came to her senses. Although Yan Kai didn't mean to blame her, she still felt very embarrassed about cracking the watermelon. She tried her best to defend herself.
Yan Kai shook his head with a smile and said: "It's okay. This kind of watermelon is like this. Its skin is very thin and will crack if it is slightly impacted. Because of this, its transportation is a big problem. It can only be transported locally and It is sold in surrounding areas and it is difficult to send it to far away places. It is not easy to send it to Japan in good condition. Senior sister, this melon is already cracked anyway, so you should eat it now. "
"Really..." Kasumigaoka Shiyu turned his attention to the watermelon that had been separated so quickly. Under the pink flesh, there was a very thin skin.
Eve picked up a piece of melon, took a look at the skin, and made a very accurate judgment: "It's only about five millimeters, it's really thin!"
Then "Ah" bit off the tip of the watermelon in one bite, and at the same time, the full juice flowed out from the corners of Eve's mouth.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu felt that her mouth was secreting fluids like crazy.
"Um, junior fellow student, where is the salt? I'll get some salt and eat it!"
Xia Zhiqiu Shiyu asked Yan Kaidao.
In Japan, how can eating watermelon be without the step of sprinkling salt? If not, Kasumigaoka Shiyu would feel sorry for the good taste of this watermelon.
Yan Kai raised his eyebrows, pushed up his glasses, and said in a harsh tone: "Senior sister, are you looking down on the watermelons in the Central Plains!"
You have to sprinkle salt on watermelon. I have never heard of this!
After saying that, he took a piece of watermelon and stuffed it into Kasumigaoka Shiyu's mouth.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Something was suddenly stuffed into her mouth, and Kasumigaoka Shiyu subconsciously wanted to resist, but when her teeth crushed the flesh of the melon in the resistance...
"Woo..."
The juice first swirled on her taste buds, and then flowed down her throat naturally. This feeling was not much different from drinking a drink directly, which made Kasumigaoka Shiyu tremble all over.
"Oh, it's so sweet!"
After Yan Kai opened his hand, Kasumigaoka Shiyu caught the watermelon and took a few bites. The overflowing juice told everyone how juicy this watermelon was.
"Is this right?"
Only then did Yan Kai smile.
In fact, he knew that Japanese people had the habit of adding salt to watermelons, but in his opinion, it was unnecessary.
When it comes to why Japanese people sprinkle salt on watermelon, there is actually a lot worth talking about.
First of all, let me mention here why Japan’s agricultural products are so expensive. This is mainly to protect local farmers and agricultural products. After all, Japan’s self-sufficiency rate in agricultural products is less than 40 percent. If local agricultural products are not protected, it will definitely not be cheap. With large quantities of agricultural products from other countries, especially those from the Central Plains next door, friction is not a guess but a necessity.
Raising the price of agricultural products and increasing farmers' income is the policy of the Japanese national government to protect Japanese farmers and agricultural products.
This is understandable and even a matter of course, but no matter what happens, once it comes to Japan, it will naturally become very mysterious.
Japanese agriculture is controlled by JA, which is a well-known fact in Japan.
Individual farmers certainly cannot negotiate directly with dealers, companies, and the government, so Japanese farmers must negotiate with dealers, companies, and the government through a large labor union. JA is such a large-scale agricultural cooperative union formed to protect the interests of Japanese farmers. , more than 90% of farmers in Japan are JA members.
But like all organizations that initially had good intentions but later deviated from their original intentions, after JA grew and grew, the organization began to become rigid, elitist, and bureaucratic. In the end, they colluded with politicians and enterprises and became exploitative. The existence of Japanese farmers.
In Japan, Japanese farmers obey JA's arrangements, cultivate and breed agricultural products specified by JA, and then hand over the agricultural products they grow to JA for sale. JA uses its own sales channels to sell the agricultural products at high prices, but what does this have to do with Japanese farmers? ?
The high prices of Japanese agricultural products seem to have nothing to do with Japanese farmers. The farmers live a very hard life every day, but they are in a very, very, very disadvantaged position in the final distribution of income. They have almost no say. JA only says how much to collect. They can obey because they have no second choice. This is equivalent to being exploited twice by JA and the company, and the actual money earned is not much.
Of course, the small number of large landowners who colluded with JA must have a prosperous life that makes people envious and jealous, but they cannot represent the interests of the vast number of farmers in Japan.
In order to make the Japanese people accept the high prices of agricultural products, JA and major companies are also very obsessed with various operations. At least Yan Kai feels that they are obsessed. They have turned an economic issue into a belief issue and brainwashed Japan's local agricultural products. Yan Kai-style marketing, putting forward slogans such as "Japan's agricultural products are better and healthier than those from other countries", playing various "sentiment" cards, and various methods are no different from fraud in Yan Kai's opinion.
Many countries and even Japanese people themselves think that Japanese agricultural products are good, good in appearance, good in color, and consistent in shape and size. They look better than agricultural products in other countries. They all think that they are of good variety and that they grow out of the ground. The appearance, in fact, is not the case. There is no essential difference between the agricultural products of Japan and the agricultural products of any other country. They cannot look exactly the same. To say why they look so beautiful and consistent, it is because they have all been selected.
After the taste of any agricultural product reaches a certain level, it is extremely difficult to improve it even more. Moreover, the taste is often difficult to say, but the taste is difficult to say, but the appearance is easy to establish a standard of good or bad.
In order to convince the Japanese people that Japanese agricultural products are good, JA only purchases various agricultural products with good quality and rejects the bad ones. This leads to the fact that the agricultural products appearing in large Japanese supermarkets are all the same, because they have already gone through a round of Screened, and the screening fee is very expensive.
This is actually the same as going to the wet market to buy vegetables and helping people who don’t know how to pick vegetables to pick vegetables. If the price is 10% or 20% higher, most people can still tolerate it, but Japan’s “vegetable picking fee” "But it is more than three times, which is no different from robbing money.
When Yan Kai went to Oda Town before, he had encountered farmers pulling carts selling fruits and vegetables on the streets, which were no different from those vendors selling fruits and vegetables on the streets of the Central Plains.
Those fruits and vegetables should be the leftover agricultural products picked by JA. The quality is indeed worse than those sold in large supermarkets, but the price is only one-third or even lower than that in large supermarkets. Considering the taste and appearance of the agricultural products, the actual It doesn't matter much, especially after the dishes and fruit platters are made, who can still tell what they looked like before? Based on this calculation, the price-performance ratio of vegetarian vegetables and fruits sold directly by farmers is simply incredible.
It's a pity that farmers who sell "cheap" vegetables and fruits can only secretly sell them and dare not sell them openly, otherwise they will suffer retaliation from the JA.
It’s not that there are no fools among the Japanese farmers. There are also some who want to resist JA’s exploitation and go it alone without JA as an unscrupulous middleman. Then there’s nothing left for them...
In order to sell Japan's agricultural products at high prices, JA and major companies have also written many articles in other places, such as amplifying any negative news on imported food from other countries, especially the Central Plains next door that has the most guns. As long as it is imported from the Central Plains, As soon as there is a problem with Japan's food, the Japanese media begin to broadcast news desperately. They wish they could go to the city center with hundreds of loudspeakers to brainwash Japanese people passing by. As for the problems of Japan's local agricultural products and food, They become large and become small, and become small and become low-key. They can avoid attracting people's attention without attracting people's attention.
Through these operations, JA and major companies have successfully put a stamp of thought on the entire Japanese people, making them think that agricultural products from other countries are not good!
Japanese agricultural products, okay!
Only people who are crazy about poverty will eat agricultural products from other countries instead of Japan.
Furthermore, Westerners think that Japanese cuisine is very light and healthy, and the longevity of the Japanese population is famous all over the world. They naturally attribute this to their good cooking and good ingredients. This wave of Japanese agricultural products has blessed the nation. Self-confidence has risen to the level of belief, perfect!
In short, the superposition of various factors has caused the prices of agricultural products in Japan to be abnormally high, reaching a metaphysical realm.
It is sinful to say that such expensive agricultural products are not delicious after eating them, and the same is true for watermelons. The whole watermelon costs more than 3,000 yen, and a single piece of watermelon costs several hundred yen. How can it not be delicious? Can it not be sweet? Not sweet and salty! After the salt is sprinkled, the tongue will taste a little saltiness first and then come into contact with the sweetness of the watermelon. The sweetness of the watermelon will be amplified by the previous salty taste, making it taste sweeter than eating it alone.
This is an expensive watermelon. Even if it is not sweet, you must eat it all!
If this happened in the Central Plains, if you ate a watermelon and it was not sweet, then throw it away and get another one. What a big deal!
