Chapter 1747 Winter and Hot Pot are the Best Match
The hotel room was filled with heat, and Xiao Peng and his friends were there listening to music and eating hot pot.
Desarev doesn't know how to use chopsticks, so he uses a slotted spoon to scoop ingredients directly from the pot into his bowl.
"Kashin went back to Moscow just to get this hot pot?" Desaryev exhaled from the spiciness—Russians aren't particularly fond of spicy food. But as Xiao Peng said, eating hot pot in the middle of winter is truly a delightful experience. It makes you feel completely refreshed.
Xiao Peng laughed and said, "How could I possibly go back to Moscow just for a copper pot?"
Desarev breathed a sigh of relief. It would be such a waste if you flew all the way back and forth just to buy a copper pot like this.
Xiao Peng continued, "Of course, it also includes the mutton, vegetables, base sauce, dipping sauce, and other things."
Desarev was utterly annoyed. "Isn't this food? You flew all this way just to buy something to eat. You're incredible!"
Xiao Peng, however, didn't care what he thought and continued muttering to himself, "Everyone says venison is delicious. I don't know about other things, but this reindeer meat tastes really ordinary and bland. Hot pot without mutton always feels like something is missing. Oh, actually, this hot pot we're having isn't very formal. This copper charcoal pot is more suitable for clear soup or bone broth. This spicy hot pot base we're having is Sichuan hot pot, and Sichuan hot pot is actually more suitable for using copper basins. But we don't have enough conditions here, so let's try a combination of north and south."
Desaryev didn't know what to say. "It's so delicious, and you're still not satisfied?" He changed the subject and said, "Mr. Xiao, I was planning to invite you to try the food at the Chinese restaurant here, but I didn't expect you to treat me to a meal instead. How can I be so embarrassed?"
There actually are Chinese restaurants in this small Arctic town. According to Xiao Peng's observation, basically wherever there are people, there are Daxia people, and wherever there are Daxia people, there are Chinese restaurants.
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. "Thank goodness you didn't ask me to go to the Huoshan Restaurant for dinner. I only thought of having hot pot when I saw that Chinese restaurant."
Desarev also laughed after hearing this.
The "Volcano Restaurant" they're talking about is a local legend: it opened in 2006, then called the "Big Wave Restaurant"—after all, this is an inland city, so the name "Big Wave" was a bit of aspirational. Unexpectedly, a flood hit the area in 2007, completely submerging the restaurant and destroying everything. The restaurant closed for a long time.
In 2010, someone finally took over the restaurant and reopened it under the name "Fireplace Restaurant". However, a fire broke out there again the following year...
Now the restaurant has a new owner and changed its name to "Volcano Restaurant". Although nothing has happened here for several years, it still makes people panic - I guess the next time something happens here will be a meteorite falling from the sky?
Kasin then said, "Desalev, I heard that the traffickers' accomplices escaped. What's going on with your police? Is there an inside job?"
Desaryev sighed and said, "The police are currently conducting their own investigation, but I honestly don't think there's any problem within the police department. This is a serious case, and no one dares to tamper with it. You might not understand, but we have a highly centralized power system in Russia right now! The Salekhard police are now fully focused on investigating this case, and the case has even reached the higher-ups! They've issued a death order to crack down on this. If someone within the police department is truly behind this, then they've essentially committed a major disaster."
Kashin explained to Xiao Peng, "Boss, you can understand that we've returned to the Soviet era. Just as Desarev said, our country is now highly centralized. Otherwise, Desarev and his FSB wouldn't have such great power. Now they've basically restored the status of the KGB."
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this and said, "What's wrong with a high degree of centralization? Look at world history: all the powerful civilizations in the world are basically centralized states. People are actually very 'delinquent'. They all think they are unique and want others to hear their voices. Just like the three of us, we may have different opinions on the same thing. Who is right and who is wrong? Like the Americans, you overturn my decision and I overturn yours? How can the country develop?"
Kasin said, "Hey, Boss, this doesn't sound like what you would say!"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Xiao Peng was confused: "Why doesn't it sound like what I would say?"
Kasin explained, "It's very simple. I've been reading your Daxia online novels on 'Wuxia World' recently."
Xiao Peng nodded. "That's a good way to learn Chinese. But what does this have to do with me? Why doesn't it sound like something I would say?"
It's interesting to note that some people in Daxia have a habit of looking down on others. For example, the domestic literary world has always frowned upon online novels, believing them to be substandard literature. But what they don't realize is that in terms of Daxia's cultural output, online literature is far more powerful than film and television! There are even drug addicts who have completely quit their addiction just to read Daxia online novels!
In the West, there is a large website about Daxia online novels called 'WUXIAWORLD'. The purpose of this website is to translate Daxia online novels into English!
Moreover, this website also has special content to introduce Chinese learning experience and related knowledge of Taoism, such as Yin and Yang and Eight Diagrams. Those weapons and moves also have special translation terms. Anyway, it is very professional.
Just how popular is this website? Vincent once told Xiao Peng that when the WWE writing team is considering plotting, they will consider borrowing plot points from the Daxia online novels on this website...
It is said that "Birds of a feather flock together." Xiao Peng reads books on his e-reader all day long, so naturally, Kasim and the others followed suit. However, they still prefer to read light books, such as online novels.
After hearing Xiao Peng's question, Kaxin said, "Boss, I've read a lot of your Daxia online novels. I've found that your country's novels are basically against the imperial power. You see, those time-travel novels are basically challenging the imperial power."
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. "Then why don't you say that the protagonists of those online novels usually rise to high positions and power quickly? The core idea of those books is this: a desire for power while simultaneously seeking to overthrow those higher than themselves. To put it bluntly, it's immature thinking. The current state of literary and art circles around the world is that 'many artists, detached from the lives of the masses and empty of reality, are naturally unfamiliar with the people's language. Therefore, their works are not only bland but often filled with made-up, unintelligible words that contradict the people's language.' The above passage is from our country's great leader's 'Speech at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art.'"
“…Awesome.”
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