Chapter 2585

When Ye Chen saw Ito Yuhiko again, he found that his whole state was incredibly good.

Regaining his legs meant rebirth to Ito Yuhiko, and it also made him cherish the present even more.

Seeing Ye Chen, Ito Yuhiko was enthusiastic and respectful. He personally came out to welcome Ye Chen into the house and personally poured tea and water for Ye Chen. Although he was busy, he couldn't hide his excitement on his face.

Tanaka Koichi on the side was even more respectful, wishing he could maintain a ninety-degree bowing posture all the time.

Ye Chen greeted the two and curiously looked at the house, while saying with a smile, "I've lived at Tang Chen Yi Pin for so long, but this is my first time coming up to this high-rise."

After saying that, he looked at the rolling river water outside through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room and sighed, "The scenery here is really good! Mr. Tanaka has a good eye."

Tanaka Koichi on the side said respectfully, "Mr. Ye, I originally wanted to buy the top floor unit upstairs, but unfortunately, I was a few minutes late and it was bought by a lady first. If I could have bought the top floor, the scenery would have been even better!"

Ye Chen nodded with a smile and said, "This is already very good. If I had known the scenery here was so good, I should have come to buy a unit here back then."

Ito Nanako said, "Ye Chen-kun can come here often in the future. Later, I'll have Tanaka-san record a fingerprint for you, and just treat this place as your own home. If we are not here and you want to stay quietly for a while, you can come up at any time."

Ye Chen was slightly stunned, not knowing whether to refuse or accept for a moment.

At this time, Tanaka Koichi saw Ye Chen's hesitation and said hurriedly, "Mr. Ye, actually, there's no need for the trouble of recording a fingerprint. The door password is the young lady's birthday."

Ye Chen looked at Nanako. Only then did he realize that after knowing each other for so long, he didn't know Nanako's birthday.

This was mainly because they hadn't met many times during the time they had known each other, and Ye Chen himself didn't pay much attention to birthdays. He sometimes couldn't even remember to celebrate his own birthday and needed others to remind him.

And Nanako had never told him which day her birthday was, or when she celebrated her birthday.

Nanako on the side also knew that Ye Chen definitely didn't know which day her birthday was, so she said shyly, "Ye Chen-kun, my birthday only comes once every four years..."

Ye Chen suddenly realized and blurted out, "Then I know... February 29th..."

"Hmm..." Nanako nodded shyly, looking at him with affectionate eyes, and asked, "Ye Chen-kun should know which year I was born, right?"

Ye Chen said hurriedly, "I know, I know... I know this..."

Tanaka Koichi smiled and said, "Then Mr. Ye knows what the door password is!"

At this time, Ito Yuhiko's sister, Ito Emi, had already prepared a table of sumptuous Japanese cuisine.

Ito Emi, dressed in a kimono, paced to Ye Chen's side, placed her hands in front of her, and bowed respectfully, saying, "Mr. Ye, I have prepared the best Japanese cuisine for you. The ingredients were all ordered by me this morning, directly iced and sent to the airport, and came to China with us. Whether it is sea urchin, oyster, sea bream, or bluefin tuna, they are all the most high-end seafood that can be found in the Japanese market at present. Please enjoy them to your heart's content!"

Ito Yuhiko said with a smile, "Mr. Ye, Emi's best skill is making various kinds of sashimi. Her sensitivity to ingredients is much stronger than those so-called Michelin three-star chefs. The ingredients she usually comes into contact with, I'm afraid those Michelin three-star chefs don't even have the chance to see."

After saying that, he pointed to the bluefin tuna sashimi on the exquisite plate and said to Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, this sashimi is the meat from the cheeks of a bluefin tuna. The auction price of this fish was three million US dollars, but just this little bit of meat from the two cheeks cost hundreds of thousands. Converted, each slice is worth tens of thousands of US dollars. Even the best Michelin restaurants wouldn't have it."

Ito Yuhiko was not talking nonsense. In the society of Japan where people are obsessed with luxury, truly top-tier high-end products can be expensive to an outrageous degree.

The highest auction record for a bluefin tuna once reached a sky-high price of several million US dollars. Most of the meat of such a fish would flow into high-end restaurants. It seems that high-end enough restaurants could eat this kind of top-tier ingredient. As long as you spend a hundred US dollars, you could eat one of the slices on its body.

But the real situation is that the cheek meat of this kind of tuna could never flow into the back kitchen of any restaurant and had long been intercepted in advance by top gourmets like the Ito family who spend money like water.

Most people can't understand why those top tycoons are so extravagant to the extreme. A meal with ingredients costing tens or hundreds of thousands is irrelevant to them. A bottle of wine costing tens of thousands is only valuable for the sound it makes when opened.

This is mainly because they are really too rich, so rich that if they don't rack their brains to spend it, they won't be able to spend it all in several lifetimes. Ordinary people eat a Japanese meal for three to five hundred, and a meal costs one or two days' wages, but top tycoons like Ito Yuhiko, even if they eat a meal for one hundred thousand US dollars, might just be eating the interest generated by their savings in the bank for one day.

In other words, the proportion of his spending ten thousand US dollars on a meal in his total net worth is the same as the feeling of an ordinary person spending ten yuan on a bowl of plain noodle soup.

Although Ye Chen is also very rich, money doesn't mean much to him, and he has never had the habit of luxury consumption. So after Ito Emi finished introducing, he nodded slightly and smiled, "Ms. Ito has worked hard. My mouth isn't that picky. Just eat some home-cooked food. No need to be so extravagant."

Ito Nanako said with a smile on the side, "Ye Chen-kun's mouth isn't that picky, but my father's mouth is very picky! These ingredients aren't prepared just for Ye Chen-kun alone. Even if you didn't come to visit, Auntie would prepare these for him. The cost of his own food alone every year is several million US dollars. I really don't understand what he ate. And to be honest, in my opinion, this kind of ingredient is more of a gimmick than reality."

Ito Yuhiko laughed and said, "Nanako, everything in this world, as long as you pursue it to the extreme, can be called a 'Dao'. You like flower arranging, so you will try every means to buy the most expensive flowers. You can buy a rose at a roadside flower shop for three or five yuan, but those top-tier varieties selected from thousands of top-tier varieties, one flower can even sell for tens of thousands. Using the best flowers, matching the best utensils, and combining them in the most exquisite way becomes the 'Dao of Flowers'. But a bouquet of flowers costing one hundred yuan at a roadside flower shop will never have anything to do with the 'Dao of Flowers' in a lifetime;"

"And tea. Ordinary people brew a cup of tea, or brew a tea bag, or brew a tea bag and add milk. These can only be counted as drinking tea. Only by using top-tier tea leaves, top-tier tea sets, and matching the most exquisite brewing method can it be called the 'Dao of Tea'!"

"Although I don't understand the 'Dao of Flowers' and the 'Dao of Tea', I understand the 'Dao of Food'! That is to eat the best ingredients and drink the most expensive good wine!"

Ito Nanako stuck out her tongue and teased him deliberately, "If you're greedy, just say you're greedy. Why talk so much..."

Ito Yuhiko laughed heartily several times, then took a bottle of sake labeled "Juyondai" and said to Ye Chen, "Mr. Ye, this is not ordinary Daiginjo. This is the top-tier 'Dragon Roaring Nine Heavens' selected from ten thousand. Even the Prime Minister probably doesn't have the chance to smell it!"

"'Dragon Roaring Nine Heavens'..." Ye Chen's mouth twitched, and he gave an awkward, dry laugh, asking him, "Why give it such a middle-school name..."

Ito Yuhiko smiled, "This is the unique ritual sense of Japanese brands. Regardless of whether the thing is good or bad, it must be packaged to be high-end, atmospheric, and classy. It's best to make others unable to understand it, so they will feel that this thing is very professional! The terms in sake alone could fill a book. Well-known brands and series include Black Dragon, Dragon Roar, Dragon Spring. This 'Dragon Roaring Nine Heavens' is the ceiling of the ceiling."

Ye Chen looked at him and asked a question, "Mr. Ito, tell me the truth, does this wine taste good?"

"Good... does it taste good?" Ito Yuhiko fell into deep thought, thought for a while, and said very seriously, "To tell you the truth, Mr. Ye, this thing in terms of taste is far worse than cola."

After speaking, he hurriedly added, "However, this sake is, after all, Japan's national quintessence! The red wine brewed by Europeans from astringent rotten grapes, to tell you the truth, doesn't taste as good as grape juice, but it's also their national quintessence!"

Ye Chen nodded in understanding and smiled, "It seems that this Japanese sake and French red wine have the same wonderful effect as our young girls stepping on the koji."

Ito Yuhiko laughed heartily with a tacit understanding, clapped his hands, and said, "Mr. Ye is right!"

After saying that, he took the initiative to pour a cup of sake for Ye Chen and said with a smile, "However, Mr. Ye, although the wine doesn't taste very good, the feeling of being slightly tipsy is something other things can't give. Let Tanaka accompany us to drink a little bit. Everyone drinking and chatting is more enjoyable!"