When the building was empty, Xia Yu finally heard the young monk with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, muttering something, and his words were faint.

"Dragon Noodles ......"

"Barbecued pork, soft-boiled eggs, seasonal vegetables, fresh green onions. ”

"Although it is said that the soul of a bowl of noodles lies in the soup base, this kind of lye wheat fragrant dragon noodles is also the essence of noodles, so amazing!"

Xia Yu's eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Dragon noodles?

He was a little stunned.

For those who know the know, the word "dragon noodles" is equivalent to ramen.

In the early 20th century, the word ramen did not exist, when the people of the island country called Chinese ramen "dragon noodles", until later a large number of immigrants brought the ramen culture to the island country, and overseas Chinese in order to cater to the taste of the locals, with soy sauce, chicken bones, pork bones to make soup, there was the birth of Japanese ramen.

Therefore, hearing such an ancient title as "dragon face", Xia Yu couldn't help but show a strange expression.

cough, it's not that he complains, the generation of the island country, what kind of relaxed generation is pursuing, and it is called the Heisei abandoned house outside. Therefore, from the mouth of a "Heisei dolphin", Xia Yu was really shocked to hear this word that contains food culture and traces the origin of Japanese ramen.

The young monk stared at the ramen noodles on the desk, still thinking about it.

Non-stop analysis, praise.

Later, Xia Yuzhi frowned, how could he go over and over again, just these few words?

"Hey!" Xia Yu said, "It's okay if you don't go to morning class?" ”

"Morning class?"

The young monk finally raised his head, his somewhat dull eyes flickered, and then lowered his head, "The abbot said, I don't need to have morning classes in the future, until I solve the puzzle in my heart." ”

"Oh?"

Xia Yu sat down with his buttocks and looked at the ramen on the table, "Does such a simple ramen have anything to do with the puzzle in your heart? ”

The boy asked, "Do you know 'wabi-sabi'?"

Xia Yu was choked.

"Don't you know?" sighed slightly, and the young man dipped his fingers in tea on the desk, and wrote down two incomparably square Chinese characters.

"It's this 'wabi'. ”

"Silence, silence. ”

Looking at the young monk's serious face, even revealing a pious and delicate face, Xia Yu had a subtle egg pain.

Words, he knows.

But put together, uh, please forgive me for being a little sloppy.

It's completely unfamiliar, but it has a strange attraction, as if there is a very important culinary mystery hidden in the meaning of the word. Xia Yu was inexplicable, and when he came back from the sky, the young monk was gone, and an old face, smiling, appeared nearby.

"What are you thinking?"

The owner of Shirinji Temple, the abbot of Yizhen, sits on a tatami mat two or three steps away, like a pine and cypress.

Xia Yu asked directly: "What is 'wabi', what is 'silence', and what is 'wabi-sabi'?"

Abbot Yizhen was stunned, obviously not expecting Xia Yu to have questions about Zen language, and after a slight deep groan, he replied with a smile: "If you only refer to Zen language, this group of words actually originates from the Three Dharma Seals of Hinayana Buddhism. All actions are impermanent, all laws have no self, and Nirvana is silent. If you take the text apart and look at it separately, well, do you know the famous tea man of the Warring States period, Senkuri? He created 'wabicha' and had a profound influence on the tea ceremony. ”

After speaking, after a pause, Abbot Yizhen spit out three groups of words:

"Wabi-sabi, mysterious, mournful. ”

"When you understand them, you will have a deeper understanding of the environment and things of the island country. ”

Abbot Yizhen smiled and said, "You come with me." ”

Xia Yu followed.

In the garden of the abbot of Shirinji Temple, he stopped, and with the abbot of Kazuma, stood on the cloister of the courtyard, the courtyard in front of him, quite strange, at a glance, a horse Pingchuan.

There was not a drop of water, and the ground was covered with a uniform layer of white sand, a total of 15 stones, which were embedded in various parts of the yard.

This probably symbolizes the scenery of the pond and the landscape.

Xia Yu looked at the ground because of the distribution of white sand, which produced an illusion that was almost "white waves", and thought in his heart.

"This is a dry landscape garden, and it is also the essence of 'wabi-sabi'. "Said the abbot of Ichizhen.

Xia Yu was stunned for a moment, "I probably understand." ”

"An aesthetic taste?"

"Well, plain, close to nature?"

Abbot Yizhen looked approving, "You really understand." ”

He went on to sing:

"Wabi people live

I ate cedar vegetables

It's quite comfortable

……”

This is a song, and the abbot of Yizhen sang it, Xia Yu's eyes gradually brightened, and suddenly hammered his palm:

"It turns out that the little monk was telling me that 'wabi-sabi' also exists in the cuisine. ”

Isn't it?

Since 'wabi-sabi' represents neon people, an aesthetic taste for things, then this kind of aesthetic is not only reflected in the tea ceremony, gardens, etc., but also in the cuisine and food

Xia Yuxing hurriedly left, went to the little monk, and told him the answer.

Abbot Kazuma looked at him with a smile.

However, after searching all over the temple, Xia Yu still did not find the little monk.

Following.

Xia Yu got up early to wash, and rushed into the quiet canteen in the mountains before everyone in the temple.

I thought I would have to wait for a while, but who knew that someone was earlier than me.

The footsteps stopped at the threshold, Xia Yu looked, and saw the young monk with clear eyebrows again, in a daze in front of a desk. It's just that, unlike yesterday, it's too early, there is a thick fog in the mountains, and the light in the house is a little dim.

"Haha, I see, you wanted to tell me about the existence of 'wabi-sabi ramen' yesterday and the meaning of 'wabi-sabi', right?" Xia Yu sat across from the monk.

"yes, wabi-sabi ramen, I haven't eaten it in a long time. ”

The young monk looked up and said, "Can you make me a bowl to eat?"

Some of the cute eyes, when they speak, clearly show fluctuations.

"This ......"

Xia Yu was in trouble.

Hey, he can't say that we haven't understood 'wabi-sabi' thoroughly, so we can't make so-called wabi-sabi ramen. Seeing the young monk's pleading and earnest eyes, I don't know why, Xia Yu's lips opened slightly, and he couldn't say such a weak word as "I can't do it".

"I have recipes. The young monk said, regardless of Xia Yu, dipped in tea again, and wrote words on the desktop with his fingertips, all of which were in traditional Chinese characters.

Noodles are ordinary noodles.

The soup base, made with chicken bones and chicken feet, is very ordinary.

Even the side dishes are the well-known Japanese ramen shadow, barbecued pork, and soft-boiled eggs......

Xia Yuho took a light breath, and for a moment felt that he had been tricked, and his full expectation came to naught. Ha, such an ordinary recipe, you tell me it's 'wabi-sabi ramen'?

The young monk added, "Actually, 'wabi-sabi' is not something difficult to understand. It is the opposite of 'Xiuwai Huizhong', in other words, 'Ugly Waiwai Huizhong'. ”

"Externally, it doesn't matter. ”

"The key is to get to the root of simplicity. ”

Before Xia Yu could chew the meaning of these words, a palm suddenly reached over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Got up so early today?" Aoki Sota's words came into his ears, Xia Yu's tense body suddenly relaxed, and he glared back, "I was scared to death by you." ”

"Who are you talking to? I heard you chattering from afar, so I heard you coming and looking......"

"Huh?!"

In an instant, Xia Yu's cold feathers stood on end, "I'm following ......"

On the other side of the desk, the young monk was still there, with his head down, but behind Xia Yu, the strangeness on Aoki Sota's face didn't look like he was deliberately pretending to be a prank.

“……”

Goosebumps all over the body.

Scared.