In the evening, I had dinner at Zeng's house, and Mr. Zeng's mother was a good cook, cooking several typical Cantonese dishes, and I had a lot of fun. After dinner, Mrs. Zeng had to drive to the make-up class to take her son to his mother's house, so Mr. Zeng invited me to sit in his bedroom for a while and chat with him, so as not to be too lonely.

I sat in the chair across from his bed, and Mr. Tsang asked me to help me peel two apples, one for each of them as after-dinner fruit. My great-mother wanted to come over and cut it, but I refused, so I asked her to do something else, wanting to talk to Mr. Zeng more. Mr. Zeng said, "Boss Tian, I have only been in the Buddhist brand business for more than half a year, and I have such a wide range of contacts, which is very powerful!" I hurriedly humbly asked him why he liked to eat so much.

"I have a problem where my index finger trembles when I see something I like to eat. Mr. Zeng raised the index finger of his right hand. I was surprised, thinking that there was an allusion to the "big movement of the index finger" in China in the past, which means that a son of Zheng Guo in the Spring and Autumn Period, as long as there is a delicacy coming, his index finger will involuntarily twitch a little, and he will try all kinds of things. I thought it was just made up by the ancients, but I didn't expect it to be true, and it's no wonder why people call this finger the "index finger", maybe that's the reason. I guess it's only the kind of people who have a special talent for food that have this ability.

Mr. Zeng said: "I have been very delicious since I was a child, especially I love meat, I stopped drinking milk for more than three months, I only want to eat, and I can't do without meat, when I am five or six years old, I can taste a dish with several condiments." If it weren't for my father's good business in an electronics factory, I would definitely be running a restaurant. Later, I asked my wife to take care of the business, and I traveled around the world to taste the local food. At first, I just ate the conventional, and then I ate the rare, fast-losing craft. Later, I found myself losing interest in all of them, until one day, I had a friend leading me to fight and regain my passion. Since then, I've only looked for the strangest dishes that have to be related to living creatures. ”

"What do you mean by a dragon fight?" I couldn't help but ask, knowing that it was certainly not a serious dish, but curiosity was in my nature. Mr. Tsang told me that it was a traditional dish in Guangdong in the old days, made with snake meat and cat meat, and it tasted very good. But he didn't like to eat, he was tired of eating for a long time, and he had to use live snakes to bite live cats until the winner was decided, and finally made into dishes. Because both of them fought with all their might, their muscles were tense, and the stewed meat was even stronger, which was not trivial, and only connoisseurs could taste it.

Since then, Mr. Tsang has been fascinated by strange dishes. He said: "It was still a habit to make dishes from living animals in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when neither Beijing nor other provinces, whether it was the palace or the nobles and the wealthy, they did not know how to enjoy it. As a result, some chefs began to develop more exciting dishes to satisfy the desires of the rich and powerful. Later, it has been spread to this day, in fact, many dishes have been lost, and I will look around for recipes, and then go back to Guangdong, and let the chefs cook in the major restaurants in Guangzhou, which is very fulfilling!"

I asked, "Are you really not afraid of eating so many live animals?"

Mr. Zeng smiled: "If I were afraid, I wouldn't eat anymore a long time ago, there's nothing to be afraid of, the more I eat, the more energetic I get." Every time I eat, I will write it down in my diary, Boss Tian, you can open the bottom drawer on the right side of the desk in the study for me, and there is a black cloth diary inside. I got up and went to the study, and I opened the bottom drawer on the right side of the desk, and sure enough, there was a diary inside.

When I came back and gave him the notebook, Mr. Zeng asked me to open it and read it myself. I saw that the title page of the notebook had the words "Index Finger Diary" written on it, and the year, month and day underneath it were "May 17, 1999". It seems that he has been studying eating for more than seven years, and this month and date seem to have been deliberately chosen, which should mean "I want to eat". From the first page, Mr. Zeng recorded the more important things related to food, such as where he went today, what food he found, how he made it, what kind of taste he tasted, and so on.

This diary is very thick, three or four hundred pages, and when it is recorded two-thirds of the time, it is the middle of last year, and then it is blank, exactly one year, it seems that this should be the time when Mr. Zeng has many strange diseases and it is difficult to go out to find food.

"In six or seven years, I've eaten hundreds of private dishes, ninety-two of them live. Mr. Zeng sat at the head of the bed, "I once told a friend that I have to eat a full hundred live dishes before my life can be satisfied." If you can really cure my strange disease, I can continue to eat when the time comes, and I will be very close to a hundred dishes!"

I was very surprised: "What, you...... Are you really not afraid of retribution?" said Mr. Zeng with a smile, he was an atheist, and if it weren't for his mother and wife's insistence, the two previous mages wouldn't want to be invited. I said what do you think if the Azan I brought from Thailand can cure you?

Mr. Zeng thought for a while and shook his head: "I don't know, I can be cured when the time comes." "Seeing him like this, I think I can only wait for Azambudan to come to the results, and I hope to change his mind. When I first came to Thailand, I honestly didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but now?

After chatting for a while, Mr. Zeng began to tell me about his experience as a eater: "For example, the dish in the Five Elements Mountain, many people have heard of eating monkey brains alive, and Zhao Benshan also made a movie called "Living Treasure of the World", in which the Guangdong cultural relics dealer brought a live monkey and wanted everyone to eat it alive on the spot. But many of the details in the rumors are wrong, saying that after the chef fixed the monkey on the table, he used a small hammer and a sharp chisel to pry open the monkey's skull on the spot, how is that possible? The skull is the hardest, and if you chisel the monkey's head, it will struggle and move, and when you finish chiseling, it is estimated that it will take an hour, who will still be interested in eating? It is all prepared in advance, first anesthetize the monkey, and then use a small chainsaw to cut off the circle of the skull, in order to prevent the monkey from waking up and moving too much, and glue it with adhesive tape. After serving, the skull is opened, the hot oil is also particular, with fifteen kinds of ingredients, with Sichuan Dazhou rapeseed oil fried into red oil, such oil to pour the monkey brain cooked, eat not fishy and not greasy. Some articles say that when eating monkey brains, monkeys will not only move, but also squeak and cry, nonsense, the monkeys at that time have long since died, at most their hands and feet are a little twitching. ”

Listening to his story, I really don't know whether to admire him or despise him, don't talk about eating this thing, let me watch it from the side, I guess I can't stand it, but Mr. Zeng is like a treasure, it's really a hundred people. He is obviously very interested in this kind of thing, and I don't think it can be called a hobby, nor a hobby, but a fetish. The word "fetish" is the prefix of the word disease, which is a kind of disease.

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