Chapter 19: Delicious Dim Sum, Manju Sahua
Halfway through a newly opened dim sum shop, the store is not big, and there are scattered firecrackers and red paper in front of the door, which should have just opened. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is almost noon at this time, it should be the time for lunch, but this store is still very lively, and people can't squeeze in.
The shopkeeper stood at the door to receive guests, the folds on his face were smiling, and he seemed to be a generous and charitable person, Su Mo'er couldn't help but step forward and congratulate:
"Shopkeeper, congratulations!"
"Ahh ”
"Oh~ So I'll have to go in and buy some. ”
The shopkeeper laughed a few times, bowed down to welcome Su Mo'er into the store, and took her to watch it in person. As soon as Su Mo'er entered the store, she was confused by its decoration, generally all the shops are painted in uniform white, but this store is actually green and pink, the store is full of light, and the whole store looks very comfortable and beautiful, Su Mo'er has never seen such a store.
Moreover, the walls are not only painted in color, but also painted with many paintings, but they are different from common ink paintings, more like children's essays and graffiti, revealing a sense of nature.
Looking at the counter where the dim sum is placed, all of them are fully transparent cabinets made of glass, and you can clearly see that the inside is divided into three layers, and several bizarre dim sum are neatly placed there, which is very beautiful.
There are also three wooden shelves in the innermost part, which are filled with brown steamed bread-shaped noodles, which the shopkeeper says are called bread, and the cabinet is called cake.
Su Mo'er never stopped being surprised when she entered the door, she reached out and picked up a piece of bread, it felt very soft like cotton, not at all different from steamed buns, and the shopkeeper broke a little for her to taste.
Su Moer liked this taste as soon as she ate it, the aroma of wheat and the fragrance of fresh milk, which made her even more eager to stop if she liked sweets. Suddenly, I felt that the snacks I had eaten before were out of interest.
Then Su Mo'er tried a small piece of so-called cake, and the soft and smooth taste and sweetness made her think how could there be such a delicious thing in the world.
Immediately, she asked for a few copies of each of the varieties in the store, and asked the shopkeeper to send them to Su Mansion, and then packed another one to take for Ming Yan to eat.
Before leaving, Su Mo'er asked in a low voice which cook made it, and the shopkeeper smiled and said:
"It's made by someone in my family, but the secret recipe and tools are given by someone else. ”
"Give each other such a good secret recipe like this?"
"Yes, that's a good man! At that time, I was just a bun shopkeeper, and a month ago I saved a girl who fainted in front of my shop, and the girl taught this secret recipe to my lady in order to repay her kindness, and also helped us open a shop to decorate, and today these are all the credit of that girl!"
"What about the girl? Is she helping in your shop? I want to see her, and I wonder if I can bother the shopkeeper to introduce her. ”
"Hehe, girl, I can't help you, she left a letter last night and left, saying that she was looking for relatives, and we don't know where she went!
Knowing that she couldn't see the strange woman, Su Mo'er was very sorry, took the snack and said goodbye to the shopkeeper and rushed to the Yueyan Tea Pavilion.
The doorman recognized her as Ming Yan's apprentice, so he didn't even use the door number, and led her directly into the door. The courtyard where Ming Yan lives is called Mirror Flower Water Moon, which is quite appropriate.
It is rare that Ming Yan did not sleep in the house, but sat in the corridor under the eaves and played the piano barefoot, Su Mo'er walked through the lotus pond where lotus was born step by step, walked up the stairs to her and said with a smile:
"Master, what kind of wind is blowing today, and it actually blows you out of bed. ”
Ming Yan glanced at her slightly, the corners of her eyes were full of charm, she gently plucked the strings and snorted coldly:
"You girl has the same virtue as your sister, come to me to be angry with me. ”
Su Mo'er smiled at her flatteringly, took out snacks like a treasure, and offered courtesy. Su Mo'er opened the food box, a smell of wheat came to her face, Ming Yan's fingers paused to play the qin, her brows furrowed slightly, and her nose moved slightly, she asked:
"Where did you buy this snack? ”
Su Mo'er was stunned for a moment, sniffed the aroma carefully, and found that there was really a faint fragrance of flowers, a little sweet, smelling people was a little addicted, Su Mo'er was shocked:
"It's a new shop that opened today, and the shopkeeper said that a girl gave him a secret recipe, but the girl left last night. Is there something wrong with this snack?"
"There is no problem, but this is the aroma that is addictive, it is the fragrance engraved in the depths of the human soul, the fragrance of the Manju Sawa of the underworld. ”
"Manju Sawa of the Underworld?
"There is a flower in the underworld, called Manju Sahua, which does not see the flowers when it sees the leaves, and the leaves fall when it blooms. It grows on Huangquan Road, by the Lechuan River. It is a flower dedicated to ghosts guiding the way in the underworld. ”
"Master, do you know a lot about the underworld, tell me about it! I also want to know more about that world. “
Su Mo'er smiled flatteringly, Mingyan glanced at her, snorted, Su Mo'er immediately understood, hurriedly poured her a cup of tea, handed a snack, and then sat there obediently looking at her expectantly.
Ming Yan took a sip of tea, pretended to cough twice, smiled at Su Mo'er, and told the story:
"Many ghosts have just died, so their spirits are confused and their consciousness is very blurred. The mission of the ghost is to send the ghost to Huangquan Road, but he cannot lead the ghost across Huangquan Road. “
"Because the water of the Lethe River will flood the shore for many years, the ghosts are the ghosts of the underworld, although they are one level higher than the other ghosts, but they are very afraid of contaminating the water of the Lethe River, a drop of water can hurt them, if they fall into the river, their souls will be scattered. ”
"So the ghost will fly over the Huangquan Road and the Lethe River, and wait for the ghost at the entrance of the underworld, because the ghost does not have the spell of the underworld, so it is not afraid of contaminating the water of the Lechuan River. The unconscious spirit slowly drifted past on its own. ”
"However, because there is no consciousness, many ghosts will float out of the shore and fall into the Lechuan River, and the final gathering place of the river is the Netherworld Blood Sea where the Jizo King Bodhisattva is located, and the ghosts will be impregnated with blood when they get there, and the evil spirit will become evil spirits when it enters the spirit body, and they will suffer thousands of torments in the Netherworld Blood Sea. ”
"Manzhu Sawa was originally a flower fairy under the Hundred Flowers Immortal Constellation, at that time, the underworld had just been built for a hundred years, but tens of thousands of souls had fallen into the netherworld blood sea, even if the King of the Earth Bodhisattva crossed all day long, it still had little effect. ”
"Manzhu Flower Fairy has a good heart, and when she saw that those ghosts were suffering from such a calamity, she couldn't bear it, so she asked for help from the underworld. Manju Sawa turned into a fiery red flower that bloomed on both sides of Huangquan Road and along the Lechuan River, and its scent gave direction to unconscious ghosts. ”
"Nowadays, many ghosts have been reincarnated, and the fragrance has long been engraved into the soul, so few mortals will not be fascinated by the smell of this smell. Now the dim sum you bring with you obviously has the aroma of manzhu. ”
At this time, Su Mo'er understood why she thought that the dim sum was so delicious, it turned out that the aroma of Manzhu Sawa was working!
"Then why is this snack contaminated with the fragrance of the underworld, could it be that someone has come out of the underworld?"
"Do you think those people are so simple that they can enter and leave the Yin and Yang Realms at will! If they don't have a special identity, or have a token given by the Hades, those who leave the underworld at will will be sentenced to beheading. ”
"So horrible, what's going on?"
Ming Yan looked at the box of snacks, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise slightly, and said softly:
"Naturally, the old man has returned!"