Chapter 31: The Banquet of the Son of Heaven
In order to show his respect to the sage, Mu Tianzi invited Feng Xiaoyu to sit in the same car with him, talk all the way, and go to Mangdang Mountain together. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"King Mu, after people die, don't they all have to go to reincarnation, you have been dead for thousands of years, why didn't you go to reincarnation, but became an emperor in this underworld?" Feng Xiaoyu looked at Mu Tianzi's heart full of doubts, so he told Mu Tianzi his doubts.
"Who said that people must be reincarnated after death, maybe this may be the case for ordinary people, but for some powerful ghost cultivators, if you have strength and status, even Lord Yama will treat you with courtesy. I, the twelve sons of heaven in the Western Zhou Dynasty, continued to be emperors in this netherworld after my death, and none of us went to reincarnation. ”
"Because the king of Hades does not allow us people to go to reincarnation in the next life, I am afraid that the cause and effect of our previous life as the emperor of Kyushu will be imposed on the next life, and then it will cause a catastrophe in the world, and the underworld will be in chaos. But a disaster that occurred thousands of years ago cut off the rebirth path of all living beings in the world, after the death of the living souls, the soul can only survive in this netherworld, the weak ghosts were devoured by the powerful ghost king to strengthen themselves, and some powerful ghosts also took refuge in all forces, this netherworld is a world of the weak and the strong, because the ghosts and gods of the underworld are in trouble, a trace of the order before the underworld has already collapsed, saint, you walk alone in this netherworld, remember to be careful in everything to protect your own safety. "What happened in the underworld back then, does King Mu know?"
"I don't know, I know that the six reincarnation pools of the underworld suddenly collapsed, the ghosts and gods of the underworld all disappeared, and no one presided over the reincarnation of living beings, and then the ghost gate was suddenly closed, isolating the underworld from us into two worlds, and no ghosts could enter the underworld anymore. Not only that, but the connection between the Netherworld and the human world has also been broken, and we can no longer find out where the world is, and every day every year, only the souls of the dead wander from the sea of suffering to this Netherworld, but no one knows how to go back. ”
Feng Xiaoyu sat in the car of the Son of Heaven with Mu Tianzi, looking at the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the netherworld, and sighed a lot along the way, there are no beautiful and magnificent mountains and rivers in the netherworld, and there are no colorful and splendid mountain flowers. Some are just desolate and lonely in a continuous area, with black yin mountains and yin fire magma gushing underground.
"This world is like this, there is no fresh life and magnificent beautiful rivers and mountains, there are only desolation and dead silence precipitated in thousands of years of impermanent years. For more than 3,000 years, I have even looked at a flower and watched a sunset. ”
Not long after, a huge group of ancient cities appeared in front of the wind and rain, and behind the city there was a black peak thousands of feet high, and a large group of palaces on the mountainside was located on the cliff.
The city was full of soldiers in pitch-black armor, holding sharp spears in their hands and riding black horses under their hips. There are green flames burning all over his fucking body, and there are thousands of warriors, and the black pressure is like a dark cloud.
"King Mu, it seems that your Great Zhou Dynasty is very strong."
"The strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not only this, in addition to these brave and good soldiers, expanding the territory, and fighting and killing, my Great Zhou Dynasty has the twelve palaces of the Son of Heaven, and there are first kings in each hall, so my Great Zhou Dynasty can be impregnable in this crisis-ridden and intricate underworld, standing tall for thousands of years without falling."
"I see, so King Wen of Zhou is also here?"
"The ancestor has long been in the immortal class in the Middle Ages, but his old man's Wenwang Palace, we also stay in the heavenly womb."
"Look at that huge mountain, it's called Mangdang Mountain, and the palace group on the mountain is the palace of King Zhou."
"It's beautiful." Feng Xiaoyu looked at the beautiful Zhou Palace and said with emotion.
"Full speed ahead!" King Mu of Zhou ordered to say to the imperial history.
The speed of the convoy more than doubled in an instant.
At this moment, Mu Tianzi's convoy gradually arrived at the palace of King Zhou. The towers and squares of the Zhou Palace are surrounded by black flags in the wind, and a large number of soldiers are guarding the surroundings.
Eight horses pulled Mu Tianzi's car and parked it in the square of the Zhou Palace, followed by a group of civil and military officials.
At this time, a woman wearing a costume walked towards Mu Tianzi, this woman's beauty is God's unfairness to all women in the world, this is the beauty that does not exist in the world, she makes Feng Xiaoyu jealous and jealous of the other party's beauty. There were two maids waiting behind the woman, and when they saw Mu Tianzi, they walked towards the wind and light rain, and the woman said to Mu Tianshi: "Bao Xi to meet the first king!" ”
Praise! She is the wife of King Zhou You! Feng Xiaoyu thought to herself after hearing this woman's name.
"Why are you here, why aren't you in the Youwang Palace, is it Ji Gong Ni that he has done something ridiculous?"
"Please make the first king for me, the king actually wants to marry a fox spirit as a concubine, and he is wronged."
"This Ji Gong Ni is really ridiculous, could it be that you want to learn from the mediocre Emperor Xin of the previous dynasty to marry Nadaji, it's really hopeless, why don't you go to King Xuan Ji Jing and let your father be the master for you, but come to find King Gu."
"The first king, the father is in retreat, and the queen mother is not in the palace, so Bao Xi came to find the first king, and taught the king to return to his original heart with the ancestral teachings."
"Okay, you wait." Mu Tianzi said to Bao Xi.
As he spoke, Mu Tianzi turned around and walked in front of Feng Xiaoyu and said; "The saint, please go back to the palace first, and the lonely king will solve the family affairs and come to accompany the saint to the banquet immediately."
"King Mu, you should get busy first, family affairs are important."
"The lonely king confesses and hopes that the saint will forgive, where is the judge?"
"Lead the saint and the civil and military officials back to the Chengtian Temple first, accompany the saint to have a good time in the Chengtian Palace, and the lonely king will come soon."
"Yes!"
When they parted, Bao Xi glanced at it curiously, this mysterious young man who made Mu Tianzi call himself a saint and treated him noblely.
Feng Xiaoyu followed the official Cheng to enjoy the casual play in the Chengtian Palace, and heard that an attendant came to report that Mu Tianzi had come back and invited Feng Xiaoyu to the banquet.
In the Chengtian Palace, Mu Tianzi sat down with the wind and rain and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and Mu Tianzi above waved his hand and said; "Someone, feast!"
Zhou Tianzi's banquet pays special attention to etiquette and music, and there is a poem in the ancient poetry book Xiaoya that describes Zhou Tianzi's banquet like this, and tastes it carefully.
Yo yo deer chirping, eating wild apples.
I have guests, drummers and shengs.
Blowing the sheng drum spring, bearing the basket is the will.
People are kind to me, show me to walk.
Yo yo deer chirping, eating wild artemisia.
I have a guest, Deyin Kong Zhao.
If the people are not ashamed, the gentleman is effective.
I have a purpose to drink, and the guest style Yan Yiao.
Yo yo deer chirping, eating wild Qin.
I have guests, drums and pianos.
The drums and drums are harmonious and harmonious.
I have a purpose to drink, with the heart of Yanle guests.
It can be seen that when the Son of Heaven entertained the guests of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he entertained the guests with wine and music, showing the enthusiasm and etiquette of hospitality.
Mu Tianzi's banquet is also very particular, Feng Xiaoyu can not only enjoy and listen to the beautiful and picturesque singing, dancing and music, Mu Tianzi's dishes at the banquet also attracted Feng Xiaoyu's attention, seeing a beautiful maid holding a variety of bronze blood and blood delicacies, as a senior foodie, Feng Xiaoyu said that there is no one in front of him. Feng Xiaoyu saw that every dish would be accompanied by an urn of sauce, and looking at the dazzling array of delicacies in front of him, he became and thirsty for a while.
Perhaps because of Feng Xiaoyu's curiosity, Mu Tianzi, who was sitting on the first seat, called the attendant in charge of the meal to introduce the food in front of him one by one for Feng Xiaoyu.
From the side hall, a man in a black official robe walked out and knelt under the main hall a hundred steps away from Mu Tianzi, bowing to Zhou Tianzi. "Dirt! When you come to introduce the esophagus of my Zhou Dynasty to the sage, you must satisfy the sage. King Zhou Mu instructed the attendants below.
"Yes!" His name is dirty, after hearing Mu Tianzi's order, a smile appeared on his face, this is his chance to perform, once the saint is satisfied, Zhou Tianzi will definitely reward him afterwards.
Dirt stepped forward and introduced the various meals in front of him to the wind and rain.
"Sage, this is the food gift of my Zhou Dynasty, pay attention to cooking and eating with bronze tripods, this is the ancestral system of my Zhou Dynasty.
There are nine tripods, eight furrows, nine figurines, and twenty-six beans.
These meals are made of rice, millet, millet, beam, wheat, and six grains, and the meals are cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, horses, chickens, or six animals, sheep, pigs, dogs, geese (geese), and fish.
In addition, there are these delicious eight treasures!
This first treasure is called Chun Boil, and rice is poured with meat sauce and animal fat.
The second treasure is called Chunwu, and the method and ingredients are the same as Chun boiling, but the taste that comes out in the end is a completely different delicacy.
This third treasure is called the pork porpoise and the sheep of the gun, which is simmered, roasted, fried and stewed with the whole suckling pig and sheep, and the method is quite complicated. The small animal was eviscerated, the belly was filled with red dates, and it was wrapped in clay and roasted. Roast the clay, peel it off, then wrap it in rice flour paste, fry the meat with fat, then break the meat into thin slices, heat it in water for three days and three nights, and finally season it with sauce and vinegar.
This is the fourth treasure to pound the treasure, take the tenderloin of cattle, sheep, pigs, elk, roe deer and other animals, beat it repeatedly, remove the fascia after cooking, and season it with sauce and vinegar.
This is the fifth gem: fresh beef is sliced in thin slices, marinated overnight in a special wine, and seasoned with sauce, vinegar and plum sauce.
This is the sixth treasure for boiling: dried meat or jerky. Take the meat of cattle, sheep, elk, deer, and roe deer, beat it repeatedly, and remove its fascia. Spread on a reed mat, sprinkle with ginger, cinnamon crumbs and salt, and dry it and eat it directly. If you want to eat something soft, you can also fry it with meat sauce.
This seventh treasure is called grits: fresh meat and rice cakes. Take the same amount of fresh beef, sheep and pork, cut into cubes, season, two parts of rice and one meat into cakes, and fry them.
This last eighth treasure is called liver cheek (liao), which is cooked in dog net oil, and then a small piece of wolf breast fat oil is added to boil into a thick porridge.
A total of 120 dishes of delicacies; There are 120 urns of sauce, including snail sauce, elk meat sauce, sansu sauce, fish sauce, and other meat sauces. ”
"Alright, you can step down." Mu Tianzi waved his palm at the dirt and said.
"It's not enough to have delicious food, come and bring the wine treasured by the lonely king."
I saw a shout from outside the hall, and eight shirtless imps carried two huge bronze furnaces, which were three-legged and four-eared, carved with a bull-headed ghost face.
The eight imps were all wrestlers, and they walked into the main hall with two drinking vessels and then exited the hall.
"Come on, open the ding and cook wine!" The two big tripods were opened, and suddenly the entire hall was filled with a strong smell of wine, which made people smell it, and they were fluttering. An attendant went to pour the wine into a furnace, boiled the wine, and the yin fire gushed and burned, and the hot aroma of the wine in the wine overflowed, and the wind and rain felt that the aroma of the wine made his soul ascend to heaven.