"This is your cooking skills?" Yang Meng looked at Quan Yajing with wide eyes.

Quan Yajing looked aggrieved: "I can cook Western food, not Chinese food, and the kitchenware you have here is different from what I use." ”

Yang Meng pursed his lips and said: "Okay, okay, don't explain, you can't just pour water with half a pot of hot oil for what you do, right? Let's go to the living room and sit down. I knew you were cooking Western food, and I wouldn't have let you do it. What kind of Western food do Chinese people eat?"

Di Wei asked, "What's the matter?" Brother Yang, you don't like to eat Western food?"

Yang Meng shrugged and said: "I date my ex-girlfriend, and every time she has to eat Western food, but to be honest, I really can't get used to it." ”

Long Xixiang said: "That's because you didn't eat high-level Western food." ”

Yang Meng shook his head and said, "I'm not used to the elegance and sense of luxury that some people have when they eat Western food. I don't know about others, anyway, in the eyes of my ex-girlfriend, no matter how low-end Western food is, it is high-end goods, and no matter how high-end Chinese food is, it is also low-end goods. So I don't have a big fan of Western food. Isn't it just eating with a knife and fork? That's all left over from our ancestors' play!"

"Ah, knives and forks are obviously things that Westerners eat, how did they become the leftovers of our ancestors?" Quan Yajing asked curiously.

Yang Meng said while cleaning up the mess in the kitchen: "What did our ancestors say? 'The people take food as the sky'! Now the earliest table knife found in the world is the bone table knife found in the Hemudu cultural site, and the first metal table knife was also found in our country; and the earliest dinner fork was found in our country, which was 4,000 years ago, and it was discovered together with the table knife, which means that our ancestors used knives and forks to eat at the earliest! When I arrived in the Shang Dynasty, I found that the knife and fork were not enough, and there was an extra 'spoon', at that time the meal was a three-piece set of knives, forks and spoons, so to speak, from the Warring States Period to the Song and Yuan dynasties, our ancestors were still used to use knives and forks to eat! Although chopsticks have a history of 3,000 years, chopsticks belonged to the tableware used by the nobles at that time. It was only later that chopsticks were commonly used. ”

Di Wei heard this and asked curiously, "What kind of tableware did Westerners use at that time?"

Yang Meng put down the rag and stretched out his rootless fingers and moved: "It's with five fingers." ”

'Seventeen' snorted coldly after hearing this: "You're talking about ordinary people." At that time, the Western aristocracy would certainly not eat with their hands. ”

Yang Meng nodded: "You're right, at that time, the nobles definitely couldn't eat with five fingers like ordinary people, they used three." And they usually lie on the bed and eat with their hands!"

"Poof. Di Wei and the others laughed.

'Seventeen' blushed a little: "You are absolutely nonsense!"

Yang Meng said: "Seventeen, you have practiced martial arts wholeheartedly to get to where you are today, I can understand this." But you can't give up anything else because of martial arts, it's really going to be a waste if you continue like this. That's common sense. Before the Middle Ages, Westerners ate with their hands, because they believed that food came from God, and using their hands to eat rice could show their sincerity to God! As for eating with three fingers, it was the aristocratic etiquette at that time, and it was to be specially studied, and if ordinary people were caught eating like this, they would be punished! Ordinary people could lick their fingers after eating, but nobles could not do it, so they had to have a cloth for wiping their hands, that is, the napkins used to eat Western food now! My two apprentices, one is a graduate of a famous university in both civil and military affairs, and the other is a calligraphy practitioner with me in addition to martial arts. Don't think that what you don't know is wrong, it's stupid. ”

Di Wei looked at Seventeen a little embarrassed and hurriedly stood up to play a round: "The kitchen can't cook like this, I'll call Long Teng and ask them to bring something delicious when they come over!"

Long Xixiang also stood up intimately: "Mengmeng, when did the West start using knives and forks?"

"I said that this is all left over from our ancestors' play!" Yang Meng explained: "It was probably in the fifteenth century, that is, our Yuan and Ming dynasties, when our country's advanced food culture was transmitted to Europe, and at that time they used knives and forks, but our ancestors no longer play with knives and forks and chopsticks!"

Quan Yajing asked curiously, "According to you, using chopsticks is more like progress?"

Yang Meng nodded and said: "Of course it is progress! This shows that the cooking process has progressed! Do you think, is there no need for knives and forks to process meals into the right size? And they all say that our Chinese people are smart, and a big reason is related to the use of chopsticks, and it has been scientifically proved that long-term use of chopsticks can make the brain more flexible. Isn't it ridiculous to ignore high-end food and think that backward Western food is high-end food? What's even funnier is that there are still people who are superstitious about what 'Michelin stars' and use Westerners' taste standards to evaluate our Chinese food? As far as their thoughts go, they will die as far as they go! In my eyes, those so-called Michelin judges are no different from Internet trolls, who have no ability but point fingers at those who really have the ability. Just two words to them: I'm bah!"

Di Wei called Long Teng on the side, and he said to Yang Meng: "Brother Yang, Long Teng asked what you want to eat?"

Yang Meng thought for a moment: "The Xian dog meat pot he took me to eat last time was very good." Eat that today to warm up. ”

Di Wei was just about to make a phone call, but Qiao Yu on the side widened his eyes: "Why do you still eat dog meat?"

Yang Meng slapped his forehead: "Forget and forget, you don't eat dog meat, right? The one we eat is real farmed dog meat, what do you want to eat? Just let Long Teng bring it over!"

Qiao Yu's eyes widened: "You can't eat dog meat! The dog is so cute, how can you eat dog meat?"

Yang Meng scratched her head: "Are you a 'dog man'?"

"What 'dog man'?" asked Quan Yajing on the side, puzzled.

"Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, issued a "Decree of Mercy for the Living" in 1685, which can be called the strictest animal protection decree in human history, because he is a dog, so the protection of dogs is also to the extreme, saying that dogs can bite people, people beat dogs are illegal, dare to kill dogs? And when persuading the fight, you can't use a stick to pull it away, which is a harm to the dog, and it still has to be exiled. Yang Meng explained: "That's why people call him 'Dog Gongfang', which means General Dog!"

Qiao Yu's eyes widened: "Are you scolding me?"

Yang Meng shrugged: "What is this scolding you? You said that you love dogs, how many dogs have you raised? We are from a small mountain village, and our family has dogs, but this does not delay us from eating dog meat." ”

"You。。。。。。 Qiao Yu's eyes widened and pointed at Yang Meng: "But dogs are good friends of humans?"

Yang Meng asked rhetorically: "You said that dogs are good friends of humans, so you tell me who defines them?"

Qiao Yu choked.

"If, according to you, cattle have been cultivated since the Western Han Dynasty to help humans survive, then why do you still eat beef?" Yang Meng continued to ask rhetorically.

Qiao Yu was silent for a long time: "Killing dogs and slaughtering meat and eating dog meat is a symbol of civilization!"

Yang Meng smiled bitterly: "It's either dog meat or civilization? Who said that? Don't use Western standards to evaluate our lives! At that time, in ancient times, our country legislated that it was forbidden to eat beef, and the Europeans who came to us at that time thought we were barbaric and vulgar, but now? The real civilization is the habit of respecting each other, not judging others by their preferences. Qiao Yu, your current behavior is a bit uncivilized. ”

"But。。。。。。 Dogs have never hurt anyone!They are a symbol of kindness!" Qiao Yu said.

Yang Meng smiled bitterly and stretched out two fingers: "Two thousand people die of rabies every year in our country, and this is the result of strict control. Eighty percent of the rabies vaccines sold in the world every year are in our country. That means at least 10 million people are bitten by dogs every year! And it's a conservative statistic. Many people stop after only two shots. And there are people in remote and poor areas who are bitten by dogs and will not go to the vaccine at all. They really didn't hurt anyone?"

"Qiao Yu, I also like dogs, I still have a lot of them in my family, but I also eat dog meat, it's not a big deal. It's just a habit of your own. Yang Meng pointed at Di Wei and the others: "They all eat dog meat, it's just a kind of meat, why are you making such a fuss?"

"Since it's just one kind of meat, you can choose other meat, why do you want to eat dog meat? You're too cold-blooded, aren't you?" Qiao Yu asked.

Yang Meng scratched his head: "Okay, I found it a little interesting, in the eyes of some people, eating dog meat is something that violates natural reason, and eating dog meat is something that bad people do." When I heard that someone was eating dog meat, I thought he was cold-blooded. And people are also very interesting. He hated the love of the Virgin Mary and was full of compassion, but in fact no one liked to be with cold-blooded people. You say we eat dog meat in cold blood, so how about I settle accounts for you?"

"What's the account?" Qiao Yu asked.

Yang Meng stretched out three fingers: "There are at least 300 million dogs in our country, 100 million have owners, and 200 million are wild dogs, let's not talk about these dogs biting people." Have you ever thought about how many people can live with the food that these dogs eat in a year? It's not a problem to feed 10 million people, right? Our country has always been short of food, so why hasn't anyone come forward to say that they want to care for those who can't eat? There are so many stray dogs in society, so where are dog lovers like you? You are not bad for money, there are so many stray dogs on the street, and it is not an economic pressure for you to adopt 180 dogs, right? Come on, I am optimistic about you! Qiao Yu, let's not say that it is wrong to love dogs, but you can't just demand others with your standards. If you don't eat dog meat, no one else can eat it? Aren't you being unreasonable?"