30. Monkeys
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Yao Xitong asked He Bo to make this dish with the mentality of giving it a try. Yesterday's baked bun gluttony liked it, and he wanted to know if he still liked the same ingredients if he changed the method. The definition of food is so broad that there is no scope for gluttony, so I don't know if they like fresh ingredients, new dishes, or just a mood.
There is only one person in the gluttony, and it is impossible to tell whether it is gluttony or gluttony. He looked at the food and left, not saying good or bad, thanks to the big hearts of this group of people, they can still eat and drink despite being confused. The cow has been killed anyway, and even in the worst case, he must be a full ghost.
Everyone was eating happily, and suddenly they heard the iron chain and the ground "brushing" outside the door...... The sound of brushing and pulling ......" rubbing.
The magpie drew his knife and placed it on the table, his back straight, his nervousness worse than the day he first entered the ghost town.
He Bo and Su Su had their backs to the door, He Bo buried his head in the soup, but Su Su stopped moving, wanting to turn around and being afraid of suddenly seeing something,
The first to throw the chopsticks on the table was Xiao Bao'er, her actions startled Yao Xitong, and then she ran to the door and happily said to the monkey who appeared there, "Sanji, my Sanji, have you eaten ......?"
Su Su couldn't help but look back, and saw the monkey who was selling artists squatting at the door, with an iron chain around his neck, the hand that should be holding the iron chain was still there, and the arm was also there, but the body was gone. Suddenly seeing a broken arm with blurred flesh and blood, Su Su covered his mouth and ran to the backyard, and ate breakfast for nothing!
Is the entertainer dead?
Yao Xitong looked at He Bo in surprise, the latter hates artists who kill children the most, could it be that he killed him? He Bo shook his head, there was not enough time to slaughter cattle, how could he have the kung fu to go out and kill people.
It's strange, who killed the entertainer and why did he kill him?
The monkey climbed onto the table like a scholar and ate the leftovers in Xiao Bao'er's bowl, and the palm the size of a chicken paw was not hot at all, and the food was fished out and put into his mouth.
Xiao Bao'er kept staring at him, her triangular face was wrinkled and red, and her eyes were round and very energetic. She asked, "Childe, do you say the monkey has a single eyelid or a double eyelid?"
"How do I know?"
"You don't know astronomy, geography, and people. Ming Yin and Yang, know gossip, Xiao Qimen, know Dunjia? Why don't you even know whether a monkey has a single eyelid or a double eyelid? I know that horses have double eyelids. β
Yao Xitong laughed when he heard it, and said casually, "Double eyelids, why are you asking this?"
"He also has double eyelids, which means that he is a monkey, not a human!"
Xiao Bao'er's logic was incomprehensible, Yao Xitong was too lazy to talk to her, thinking about how to make the monkey speak. Xiao Baoer then asked a question that everyone wanted to know, "Are you human?"
The monkey spoke, and his voice was hoarse, and his words were slurred, but the crowd heard clearly, and he said, "Yes."
"Then you sing a song!"
Everyone looked at Xiao Bao'er with strange eyes, when was it, she was still worried about listening to songs? Shouldn't you ask why the monkey is here, and whether the artist is dead or alive?
The magpie was the first to hold back, and he put his knife on the monkey and asked several questions in a row. The monkey looked at him with a blank expression, but did not speak, and it felt very funny, as if a magpie was interrogating a brute who could not understand human speech.
Xiao Bao'er slapped away the magpie's knife and hugged the monkey, "This is Sanji, my Sanji, don't do this to him." The left sentence Sanji, the right sentence Sanji, Yao Xitong was angry, and said sneeringly, "Didn't you just eat a part of Sanji?"
Xiao Bao'er sneered at each other, sympathetic to your incompetence, I sacrificed Sanji, shouldn't you thank me?" Yao Xitong seemed to have just known her, and squeezed out a few words for a long time, "Sharp teeth." β
The monkey's matter was forcibly suppressed by Xiao Bao'er, and she was in a hurry with whoever provoked the monkey. The monkey also did not leave Xiao Bao'er as if he recognized the master, Yao Xitong had no choice but to say in a cool manner, "Don't think that she is a good person when she gives you medicine, be careful to stew you another day." β
At lunch, a small red copper pot is polished to a shiny one, the charcoal fire is placed under the pot, and the soup boiled with oxtail bones exudes an attractive aroma.
The gluttonous two smelled the fragrance, and the gluttony said, "This thing is not rare." He didn't even take the chopsticks, he stared at the kitchen, and waited for Xiao Bao'er to serve the food.
After a while, Xiao Bao'er came in with a cow head on the board and said loudly: "This dish is called cow gas...... No, good luck. "The color of the cow's head looks like it has been boiled, and when the chopsticks are put up, it is found that the cow's head has not only been cooked, but also scraped clean by a knife, and every inch of meat adhered to the cow's head is pasted on the back, and each piece is taken away, you can see the white beef bones under the meat.
The gluttony eats the cow's eye first, then the cow's tongue, and finally the cow's face. He eats very slowly, and every time he puts down his chopsticks, he can accurately pick up the most tender part of the cow's head.
Xiao Bao'er saw that he was so knowledgeable, and said proudly, "The meat quality of each part of the cow's head has different requirements for the heat, and the ripeness and tenderness of the cow's face and bull's eyes are different when it is heated." Only I know how long each piece of meat has to be stewed to make it tender and moist to taste......"
He ate a lot of meat in one go, and everyone was waiting for him to say that he could stay overnight today, but he asked, "How to stir-fry without a pot?"
Xiao Bao'er was dumb, stir-frying vegetables without a pot is still called stir-frying? Is it okay to take a big plate? She didn't dare to say what she thought in her heart, and looked at Yao Xitong for help. The latter said: "Put the dried cowhide on the fire, wait for the cowhide to curl and the oil seep out, quickly pour it into the dish and stir-fry." β
"You can stay today!"
The gluttony finally left, Xiao Bao'er breathed a sigh of relief, and winked at Yao Xitong proudly, "I think it's still the name of the dish that is bullish, simple and easy to understand." β
Yao Xitong, he didn't expect Xiao Bao'er to be able to cook, and what he didn't expect was that Xiao Bao'er used the useless cow's head to cook, which really helped a lot.
The people of the Central Plains do not eat cow heads, and the only use of cow heads is sacrifice. It stands to reason that the people of Northern Liao do not eat cow heads, and this thing is also a sacrifice in Northern Liao, and it is really surprising that Xiao Bao'er, a princess of Northern Liao, would use cow heads to cook! After careful questioning, he finally knew the reason. Wu Zu eats cow heads, Xiao Bao'er will do this is to learn from Wu Zu.
A hundred years ago, the powerful Liao Kingdom was divided into Western Su and Northern Liao due to the scourge of witchcraft. Xisu imitated the Han system, and had already abandoned the witch Gu of the Liao State, and learned the art of governing the country in the Central Plains six or seven out of ten. Northern Liao followed the customs of the Liao Kingdom, from the emperor to the common people, all advocating witchcraft, no wonder Xiao Bao'er would believe in the strange power of rhino incense......
Wu Zu, whose status is comparable to the emperor in Northern Liao, has never had relevant information about Wu Zu in the information collected by the bun shop.
At first glance, when Xiao Baoer mentioned Wu Zu, he couldn't help but ask a lot of things about Wu Zu. For example, divination, "Your people there will ask Wuzu about the climate of the coming year every winter, do you know how Lord Wuzu divination?"
"In late summer and early autumn, Wu Zu would go deep into the grasslands to visit the herders who lived there to see how they planned to survive the winter. If the herders had prepared food and firewood early in the morning and moved to the densely populated pastoral areas, Wu Zu knew that the winter would be cold and the next spring would be a good year. β
Yao Xitong was dumbfounded, Wu Zu saw the herdsmen preparing grain and firewood and speculated that it was a cold winter, and told more people this speculation under the pretense of heaven's will, so that everyone could prepare food and firewood for the winter together?
He asked, "Wu Zu didn't do anything wrong by doing this?"
Yao Xitong felt that the incredible thing was very simple in Xiao Baoer's opinion.
"The herders of the grasslands are living immortals, and they can never make mistakes in their predictions about the weather. For example, people with rheumatism in their legs can never go wrong with feeling discomfort at the turn of the seasons. The same is true of the old herdsmen, who have been dealing with the grasslands all their lives, and have a very good eye for predicting the weather, how can this be wrong?"
"Isn't the weather really out of Wu Zu's divination? Isn't Beiliao asking Wu Zu to come forward for divination every year?"
Xiao Bao'er smiled even sweeter and said, "Every year at this time, Wu Zu will change into gorgeous clothes and lead Lao Sanji to attend the divination ceremony. β
Yao Xitong was a little dizzy, what is Sanji, how many Sanji does Xiao Baoer have?
"Old Sanchi is a hairless goat, and at this time of year, Wu Zu will put dyed sheepskin on old Sanchi, telling the people that it is a strange beast. He put a sign in the place where the good year and the bad year were marked, and buried the beans that had been soaked in wine where he wanted, and old Sanji had a good nose, and he was sure to find the beans and overturn the sign, and this is how the weather was predicted for the coming year...... The bull head that the people took to sacrifice was stewed by Wu Zu before the sacrifice was over, and we often ate ox head meat during the fasting period, and he cooked many cow heads before he mastered the heat of cooking ox head meat...... I was his only apprentice. β
Yao Xitong finally understood where Xiao Bao'er's unreliability came from, with an enlightenment teacher like Wu Zu, could she be reliable?
After the meal, Magpie and Susu went out to explore the way. Susu tried to get close to the magpie, who was as silent as ever.
Yao Xitong cooks the food to be eaten at night.
Xiao Baoer teased the monkey to play.
Before it got dark, the group gathered again in the dining room.
Xiao Baoer asked the monkey to sing, and said over and over for an afternoon, the monkey really sang. sang a nursery rhyme, saying that his mother often sang it to him before he was abducted.
"It rains heavily, floods the street, my brother sells on the street, and my sister-in-law goes out on the street wearing embroidered shoes, flower shoes, socks, flower belts, and pearls and butterflies on both sides. It rained heavily, flooded the streets, and when the empty basket came back, he had money to buy flowers for his sister-in-law. The sister-in-law saw the tears rippling in the flowers, and a branch had been inserted on the left and right, and the flowers were inserted in the middle with tears. β
After not speaking for a long time, the monkey's voice was like a knife scraping a porcelain plateβvery harsh. After listening to the song he sang in dialect, Su Su sighed: "What a poor person, his mother is even more pitiful?"
Xiao Bao'er looked at Su Su inexplicably, and listened to her explain, "This song is not a nursery rhyme, it is the child's mother who is singing about her own experience." Brother is the father of the child, sister-in-law is the mother of the child, Brother doesn't like girls, and when a girl is born in the family, Brother takes it to the river to drown, in order to comfort Sister-in-law, Brother will buy flowers for Sister-in-law every time he drowns a child. β
"Women should be happy when they receive flowers, but sister-in-law has tears when she receives flowers. Because she has two flowers on her head, it means that two daughters have drowned, and now it is the third......"
Xiao Bao'er pressed the monkey on the table after listening, and curiously picked off the fur to know his gender, "Why is it all Mao, is this a boy or a girl?" Su Su embarrassedly hid his face and walked out of the room, the magpie looked up at the sky, Yao Xitong leaned over curiously and looked at it, "This harvesting and folding technique is really amazing, it looks like a monkey." β