Chapter 62: Work hard, for the sake of cultivating immortals
And the reason why Ning Xiaoxian knew that there was indeed a woman in this carriage was because on the first day, when Zhang Sheng went up with food, she heard the crisp sound of smashing plates and throwing bowls, and a woman scolded very sharply: "You dare to bring such a broken thing to the old lady?"
And then she was most interested in the quarrels between husband and wife. She wanted to hear the details, so she called out to her royal ears. As a result, Lord Changtian only opened his mouth and said, "The man is apologizing", so he closed his mouth tightly and refused to say any more. However, according to the observation of the curious Bai Jing Bai Hong, the carriage then shook regularly for a while......
Alas, for the sake of the burning soul of gossip, let's hurry up and cultivate supernatural powers! Miss Ning, who is deaf and blind, looks up to the sky and sighs.
In order to hide people's eyes, she usually takes the little bat demons to cook and then returns to the car. Fortunately, at this time, the woman did not want to be seen in front of the public, not to mention that there were all the big bosses around, and her behavior was not strange.
After returning to the car, she handed over the food in her hand to the twins to clean up, and went into the Divine Demon Prison to cook Yunxiang rice herself.
It's not that she is arrogant and refuses to share the joys and sorrows with everyone in the caravan, it's just that she is now in a critical period of quenching her body, and she must eat Yunxiang rice for three meals. For a waste material like her, who has no fairy spirit roots, to change the physique itself is to grind the water, and it is really necessary to start from the details.
Ning Xiaoxian said that she was in a state of sleep deprivation every day, and she was so sleepy!
Not only because the mule cart will be very bumpy when walking, but also because she has almost no time to spare in the past ten days. While the other passengers of the caravan could complain about the idleness of the journey, she was too busy to breathe.
At the turn of the day (5 o'clock in the morning), after Liu Yifang finishes his breakfast, she will flash into the god and demon prison and honestly carry out physical training, not for the rise of China, but for the chance of survival in distress in the future.
From the first day he got on the bus, Changtian took away the knot gold pill. He divided the pill into several equal portions, each of which was evenly mixed with water, and mixed with many medicinal herbs, including the extract of three hundred years of ginseng, and then asked her to drink one every day.
Changtian told her that the knot golden pill was originally used by the monks who built the foundation of the Great Perfection to attack and repair the barriers. Since it is an "impact", it itself is the medicine of the tiger and wolf, and the medicinal effect is extremely domineering and ferocious, so as to help the user break through the shackles in one fell swoop and rush into the Jindan realm.
However, the internal organs of the foundation building stage cultivators have already been cultivated quite strongly, and they are not afraid of this rampaging medicinal power. And what about her, Ning Xiaoxian, is just a mortal who has not even entered the Qi refining period, and it is not much different from taking a dynamite into her stomach if she swallows the golden pill.
Therefore, Changtian used the secret method to reduce the medicinal effect of the golden pill, neutralize the domineering of the golden pill, and divide it into small equal parts, so that Ning Xiaoxian used the method of swallowing it many times to slowly adjust the functions of the body. The difficulty in this matter is that he can actually use ordinary medicinal materials to neutralize the medicinal properties of the knot golden pill, which is still a means that only a monster like him who has lived for tens of thousands of years has a means, even if other monks have the knot gold pill in hand, it is impossible to do this.
Therefore, the first thing she had to do every day when she entered the Divine Demon Prison was to swallow a cup of the Golden Elixir Potion. She thought that Changtian must have been very careless about food and drink before, because this potion was really not ordinary and unpleasant. The smell of sour rot was like the mud in the swamp she had passed by a few days ago! Of course, she hadn't tried the smell of muddy water herself, but she thought it was pretty much the same.
Naturally, she didn't dare to say this kind of complaint in front of Changtian, so she had to ask, "How many days do I have to drink this medicine?"
"It takes a total of nine hundred and eighty-one days. His answer was really ruthless, "I have calculated that a golden pill for you to take for eighty-one days is the maximum limit that your body can bear, and you need to run specific exercises every day to soothe the effect of the medicine and promote the power of the medicine. Looking at the sad face of the girl in front of him, he was really angry and funny. Such a great opportunity makes what mortal not be jealous and go crazy?
"Once you're done, you should be ready to start trying to get into the Demon Spring. He couldn't help but tell her the good news. Alas, as a reward, too.
Ning Xiaoxian was as he expected, and he was so surprised that he opened his small mouth into an O-shape. In other words, after eighty-one days, she will be able to open the door to supernatural powers? Can she finally stop being a mortal who resigns herself to her fate? She was so excited that her face turned red.
Chang Tianwan said: "Don't be complacent first. These eighty-one days have not been so good, and you have a lot to accomplish. ”
"I'm not afraid! If there is any torture, just come! As long as you can start cultivating after eighty-one days!" Carried away by the bright prospects, she made bold remarks, unaware of the glimmer of light in Changtian's handsome eyes.
Within three days, she will definitely understand what it means to speak like the wind and be covered with water.
She remembered something again and asked, "If I don't have this golden pill, how long will it take me to consolidate my physique and start cultivating my supernatural powers?"
He pondered for a long time before he said leisurely: "If you only take Yunxiang rice, it will take about five hundred days." "I like to see her battered, and it's become a bad taste that he's only recently developed.
A year and a half?! Does her physique have such waste materials? The quality of the Yunxiang rice grown in Xiyang is ten times that of the Chixiao faction! It takes five hundred days to eat such a superb spiritual rice every day to lay the foundation, oh my God!
She looked at Changtian with indignation. This person's heart is really bad, if she had told her early that it would take more than 500 days to step into the threshold of cultivation, whether she dared to go to the West Heaven was another matter. After all, if you have to be a mortal for 500 days, how can you deal with the hardships and dangers along the way?
He obviously understood what she was thinking, and took a sip of tea: "If I had told you earlier, would you still dare to go on the road? If you don't leave, how can you meet the turning point?" The vision and lifespan of mortals are very short, but their creative power is really amazing, such as the cup of tea in their hands. Thirty thousand years ago, he only had wine and water to drink, and there was no such great drink.
Tea is a specialty of the southeast coast of Nanzhan Buzhou, it has only been around for two hundred years, and it has been designated by the privileged class among mortals as a must-have and the first choice for gifts. In addition, the tea is lightweight, small in size, and easy to carry, so it has always been one of the important goods carried by caravanserais.
At this time, in Changtian's ears, there was a sound of shouting and cheering in the camp, and it was obvious that today's trip was about to begin. The plan of the day was in the morning, and the custom of the caravan was to set camp before dawn every day, and then find a place to rest after nightfall. Deng Hao is an experienced team leader, and he is generally unwilling to do such a risky thing as a night road.
The men put their horses and mules on their carts and followed the team ahead. The carriage was bumpy as always, but Ning Xiaoxian couldn't feel it anymore, she was in the prison of gods and demons.
The clay pot is covered with water vapor and steamed, overflowing with bursts of rice fragrance. She counted the time and took out from the storage bag a thing that was tightly wrapped in lotus leaves—a cooked pheasant. This chicken was the game that Bai Jing offered yesterday morning, and the blood was naturally sucked dry. The pheasant was huge, and it took her a lot of effort to clean it up.
This game is different from domestic chickens, and because it has not been domesticated, it has a strong fishy smell. The first step in removing the fish was supposed to be bloodletting, but the little bat demon had already done it for her inadvertently, but just like that, she still soaked the chicken in white wine, tea leaves and ginger slices for a whole day before she barely got rid of the fishy smell. Last night, she soaked it twice before she had a pot of chicken soup to drink, and this morning, she planned to change the method to treat this large piece of chicken.
Eating well, being in a good mood is the reason for Ning Xiaoxian's death.
She put the whole chicken into a large bowl, scooped in a full mountain spring water, and teleported to the bottom of the Divine Demon Prison.
The long day is sencha.
Unlike the modern earth, the literati of Nanzhan Buzhou mainly drank cake and tea at this time. In order to facilitate transportation, tea generally goes through a total of seven processes of "picking, steaming, pounding, patting, baking, wearing, and sealing", and the finished product is in the shape of a round cake, and the specific shape can refer to today's Pu'er tea cake. In other words, before drinking tea, the tea cake must be crushed into fine powder before it can be poured into the spring water and boiled.
The tea leaves and tea sets were bought from Deng Hao. This middle-aged man is fond of tea, and one day after camping at night, he couldn't help but boil tea, but Ning Xiaoxian watched it and was invited to drink a cup. The process of making tea looks complicated and exquisite, which makes Changtian have a strong interest in such novelties, but he can't drink it.
Ning Xiaoxian was delicate, and when he saw that he asked a lot of questions for the first time when Deng Hao was making tea, he knew that Changtian's curiosity had been aroused, so he proposed his purchase intention to the team leader. These days, she and Deng Hao are also very familiar with each other, and in the end they almost took two catties at the cost price, and actually spent five hundred taels of silver, and the unit price is two hundred and fifty taels per catty! For ordinary people, two hundred and fifty taels is already a huge amount of money, enough for a family of five to live comfortably for several years, so the preciousness and luxury of tea can be seen.
Changtian only watched Deng Hao demonstrate once, and learned the tea making technique eighty or ninety, and he has repeatedly studied and practiced in the past few days, but he is more skilled than this team leader. Ning Xiaoxian saw him wave his hand, and the tea mill made of orange wood moved on its own, grinding the cake and tea into powder, and he used the red gauze tea to sift it carefully again, before entering the tea Cho sencha, and finally pouring it into the tea bowl, and finally turning it into a fragrant and beautiful tea.
He seemed to be engrossed in these steps, and he had already captured a hint of rhythmic beauty. Ning Xiaoxian knew that since he was in prison, there were not many things that could make him devote himself wholeheartedly, and this tea brewing was one of them.
Under her influence, Changtian developed the habit of "drinking tea" at this time, rather than "eating tea", which is very popular on this land*. Before people drink tea, they also have to carry out the step of mixing tea, that is, first put the tea powder into another container with a round belly and high neck, add onions, ginger, salt, pepper and other condiments, and then use boiling water to brew even the tea seasoning into a paste, and finally mix it into tea soup for people to drink.
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PS: Tea was discovered by Shennong very early, and it was used as medicine at first. For the sake of the plot, it is set to be discovered by humans two hundred years ago.
In addition, according to the Three Kingdoms Wei Zhang Yi's "Erya" record: when drinking tea, the processed cake and tea should be first mashed and placed in porcelain, covered with soup, and made with green onions, ginger, and oranges. "In addition, there are also those that use pepper, cinnamon, salt, etc. as condiments. So in the beginning, people didn't drink tea.
It's just that after the Ming Dynasty, due to the innovation of tea processing methods, strip loose tea rose throughout the country, except for some brother nationalities in the borderlands, no one put any condiments in the tea, and the pursuit of the "true color" of tea fragrance and real taste, in order to appreciate the true taste of tea.