Chen Yan briefly told me how he came back, and I didn't ask him much else. I was quite happy for his sudden return.

"It's more than five thousand kilometers. I have walked the worst roads, and I have also walked the most difficult roads. I went from Yunnan to Tibet, Diqing, Deqing, and then from Mangkang to Lhasa. I walked that road.

It is the most difficult road to walk. From the Shiquan River in Ali to Yecheng is the loneliest road I have ever walked. I didn’t eat well and sleep well along the way. You don’t know, I am afraid that something will go wrong on the plateau.

I stopped smoking and drinking on the plateau. When I came down to Yecheng, the first meal I ate was finger meat. I am already a Xinjiang person who only eats mutton. In the past two days, I must have barbecue and beer every night, otherwise no one will be able to eat it.

, when I saw you here this morning, I just wanted to have something to eat and drink in the morning, and you could help me drive." Chen Yan said.

"Why don't you go to Guizhou and Chongqing, and then come in from Gansu and Hami? It will be much easier." I said.

"Challenge, I have to complete this challenge. Think about it, only I can be so awesome. Just say whether you are envious, worshipful or not, envious or not, right?" Chen Yan said.

"So Xiao Sa knows you are coming back?" I asked.

"Of course, I didn't ask her to tell you. I was afraid that you would fly over and want to go with me, which would invalidate my lone ranger feat." Chen Yan said.

"I like to play, but I'm not crazy. You think highly of me. If you go across the desert, I might really want to go, but forget about Tibet, it's too dangerous." I said.

"You are just saying that grapes are sour because you can't eat them. People who dare to enter the desert are afraid of Tibet. Who would believe it?" Chen Yan said.

We walked and talked all the way, and when we arrived at the parking lot next to the ancient city, I saw an old black Vitra with a Nanning license plate. I don’t have much preference for car brands, but I immediately fell in love with Chen Yan’s car.

Vitra.

"How's it going? It's ten years old. I bought it second-hand. It doesn't have any major problems. It's fuel-efficient and easy to drive. It's also four-wheel drive." Chen Yan gave me the car key and ran to the passenger seat.

When I got in the car, I realized it was a manual transmission, but it was indeed much easier to drive than my little Wuling.

"I've seen your Erdanzai Yangguang Community." I told Chen Yan.

"Well, when Xiao Sa gets his driver's license, we will drive back to the mountains one by one," Chen Yan said.

Under Chen Yan's command, I drove the car to Seman Hotel. After parking the car, I asked Chen Yan what he was doing here.

"I met two friends. On my way back, I picked up two foreigners in Zepu and came over to discuss cooperation," Chen Yan said.

Just as he was talking, he saw Ma Sirui and Ge Yiwei carrying their bags out of the hotel door. Ma Sirui was a little surprised when he saw Chen Yan and me, and then he ran over and gave me a warm handshake.

"Martin, I didn't expect to see you. We seem to be very destined." Gewei also greeted me with a smile.

"I didn't expect you to know each other. Were you friends before?" Chen Yan said.

"I brought these two international friends to Kashgar from Korla." I said, looking at Chen Yan's eyes that still didn't understand.

"It's hard to explain in words. I'll tell you later that they also took a ride on me and became friends later on." I told Chen Yan.

"Oh, then I'm relieved. I'm worried that they are liars." Chen Yan said, not shying away from Ge Yiwei when he said this.

"Ge Yiwei speaks Chinese very well, what kind of cooperation do you have with them?" I asked. I didn't know if Ge Yiwei heard what Chen Yan said.

"It doesn't matter, Martin, we come with our love for China, and it is normal to be misunderstood occasionally." Gewei said.

"Ma Sirui said he can brew beer. We plan to cooperate in building a beer workshop in Kashgar. Let's talk about some details today." Chen Yan said the purpose of this time.

It turned out that Ma Sirui said that not only was his family a winery, but he could also brew wine and beer. Chen Yan thought that the beer here was all imported, so he planned to start a fresh beer production together.

"Martin, it's not difficult to brew your own beer. I heard from Nijiati that there are a lot of hop raw materials in Xinjiang. To brew beer, you need hops, beer yeast, and a barrel dedicated to barley malt, and that's pretty much it." Gewei told me.

I could only nod. I didn’t understand what kind of cooperation they were talking about. Knowing how to brew beer was useless. I had heard before that the process of brewing beer was not complicated.

Chen Yan and two foreigners were chatting in the car, and I drove them around the city. It sounded like they were looking for a venue. In the end, I got off the car at Huanjiang and walked around. I was the first

The first time I visited Huanjiang, I felt it was just a small modern commercial center.

After that, we drove to Tangcheng International, which is right next to Hengchang, and took a look around here.

"Lao Li, which one do you think is better, Huanjiang or Tangcheng?" Chen Yan asked me.

"To be honest, I have never been to these two places during the day. I have always come at night. The number of visits to Tangcheng International is far more than that of Huanjiang. If I were to summarize, Huanjiang seems to have more outsiders than Tangcheng International.

The city has more locals and relies on two large modern communities. I am more optimistic about Tangcheng." I said.

Chen Yan decided to visit these two places again in the evening. I invited these three people to have some food directly at a small restaurant on the roadside in Hengchang, and then the two foreigners went to play by themselves.

I said to Chen Yan: "I never had a chance to ask, which play are you singing in? I just checked my mobile phone. The process of brewing beer is simple and the equipment is not expensive, but many of them are not very good.

I can’t even come back.”

"What role do you think foreigners can play? If I advertise that I have German winemakers, German technology, and pure German taste, will you think I'm bragging?" Chen Yan said.

"It's okay to say that the Germans won't leave, but Ma Sirui has a tourist passport and Gewei wants to go back to Beijing to go to school. What will happen if they leave?" I asked.

"So, I deliberately let them know that I am not that dependent on them. It doesn't matter even if they are liars. First of all, Xinjiang's foreign-related economy is export-oriented, mainly relying on foreign trade and exports, such as products and labor services.

Export. There are not many advantages in attracting foreign investment. Therefore, if you have some foreign investment background, there will be some preferential policies. More directly, it is better than domestic-funded enterprises, and there are not so many mothers-in-law."

Chen Yan lit a cigarette and stood under the tree chatting with me.

"Secondly, I really don't care whether it's foreign-funded or not. What I want to use is the so-called pure German technology and taste." Chen Yan expressed his main idea.

In other words, Chen Yan actually planned to use Ma Sirui as a signboard, and he probably didn't care about the technology.

"Lao Li, I never told you that the bar I invested in in Nanning has a set of self-brewing equipment with a daily output of 500 liters. It was okay at first, but then I basically never brewed beer. All the beer we sold was under the name

The house-brewed signature beers are all brewed by others because their costs are lower," Chen Yan said.

"Isn't there a legal risk? It's okay to produce and sell your own beer, as long as it meets food hygiene and other norms and requirements. Doesn't there be an unsafe risk if you buy home-brewed beer from outside?" I asked.

This point was repeatedly emphasized by many people when I opened the store.

"It's ridiculous to say that the other party has greater capabilities than us, with a full set of licenses. The output is also large, and the taste is not bad. When we bought the equipment, the manufacturer said that the cost was about one yuan per liter, and it could be sold for more than ten yuan. When it comes to real

The cost of making it ourselves is very high. The total cost of raw materials, labor, space, etc. is far more than one yuan. We buy the same self-brewed beer from another party, and it costs two yuan per liter, which is cheaper than our own." Chen Yan

said.

"You mean, you want to use old equipment?" I said.

"The new equipment, the old equipment is not entirely mine, and I don't need the five hundred liters. I estimate that one hundred liters and seven or eight fermentation barrels will be enough. I plan to open a new bar, mainly German beer.

Right." Chen Yan said.

"You're not going back to Xiao Sa's house? Aren't you planning to become a herdsman?" I asked.

"Hey, I didn't expect this little girl to get a driver's license, so I have to wait until she finishes her studies and go back together so that it won't affect my investment," Chen Yan said.

"I understand, you are investing and I am starting a business, they are completely different things?" I said.

"The beer house is considered a business, and the wasteland bar is considered an investment. It's that simple. I don't have much money now, so I can't do it unless I make some money." Chen Yan looked a little melancholy.

"What's going on?" I asked him.

"I'll tell you later in the evening. Let's go back to the bar now. I heard that you plan to renovate the bar. I want to hear the details," Chen Yan said.

We drove back to the vicinity of the ancient city. When we walked back to the Wasteland Bar, Xiaosa was already open for business.

I expressed my idea of ​​transforming it into something similar to an izakaya. In fact, this was not my idea, but I didn’t say it was Xie Yamin’s idea. It might be better to say it was my idea first. After all, Chen Yan and I have a good relationship.

"You mean, turn the bar into a restaurant?" Chen Yan said.

"Fuck you, have you ever seen an izakaya? It's not called a restaurant, it's called a bartender. Many tourists from the mainland don't know how to drink. It would be much better if they had bartenders." I said.

"Did you come up with this idea after seeing me eating skewers and drinking wine in the morning?" Chen Yan asked.

"That's right. What do you think?" I said.

Chen Yan did not speak immediately this time. He thought for a while and then asked me, what food can I sell?

"Finger meat, skewers, French fries, roast chicken, roast pigeon, cold noodles, tiger vegetables, peanuts, air-dried meat, dried fruits, smoked horse intestines, sheep head meat, beef head meat, haggis, beef offal, etc. ready-made

It can be simply processed, not necessarily all provided, I just thought of these special meats, so there is no need to cook them." I said.

"Okay, eat a big mouthful of meat and drink a big bowl of wine. I'm already greedy. Let's go, let's go find a place to have something to eat." Chen Yan said.
Chapter completed!