Chapter 13: Ageless 3
The kitchen was filled with a strong smell of meat, and Master Gao, who was always busy with stewed meat and stir-frying, was not in the kitchen at this time.
Tsing Yi closed the door casually, and saw that there was only a little spark left in the stove, and it was about to be extinguished, so he hurriedly stepped forward and added two pieces of charcoal, and then picked a fire stick, and was relieved to see that the charcoal fire was burning.
The flames licked the black charcoal with a subtle sound, revealing a little white hard object from the ashes that had been swept away.
Tsing Yi stared at those white slender stick-like objects, and always felt that they looked like bones, so he used a burning stick to flick it twice, and carefully identified it for a while, and saw that some of it was thick and some of it was finely broken, just like the stewed pork barrel bones on weekdays.
It's just that how can this pork barrel bone be in the stove?
Tsing Yi suppressed his doubts, got up and lifted the lid of the pot again, only to see that the pot contained a small half pot of broth, and only bits and pieces of meat foam were left in it.
Just wondering, I heard the back door creak open, and when I looked up, I saw Master Gao holding a sharp knife in his hand, a stinky face, loose placket, and blood stains all over his body.
It was obviously icy and snowy outside, but the blood on his body did not coagulate and blackened, and the bright red blood was still dripping down, staining the snow with mottled red marks.
"Master Gao, you're injured!" Tsing Yi covered his mouth and exclaimed in surprise, and hurriedly got up to turn over the wound medicine.
"No need." Master Gao stretched out his hand and pressed his chest, frowning and stopped Tsing Yi, "This little injury, it will be fine in a while, besides, Xiangliu's saliva is poisonous, and the wound medicine you use on weekdays is really useless, I just wiped the wound with snow, but it just bleeds." โ
"Sang-ryu?" Tsing Yi asked strangely, "What's that?" โ
"He is an ancient fierce god, with a nine-headed snake body, a vegetarian who likes meat, a bad temper, and a stomach full of poisonous water, which is the most disgusting to the gods and monsters!" Master Gao scolded with a disgusted face, "Wherever he has stayed, there is no grass growing, and his behavior is obscene, and he always sneaks to the kitchen to eat!" I happened to be caught by Lao Tzu today, Lao Tzu just went to the warehouse to move a bucket of salt, and he sneaked in and ate a pot of pork legs! โ
"......" Tsing Yi only felt cold sweat dripping from the corners of his forehead, and remembered the braised pig's trotters that were stolen last time, "Could it be that he was the one who stole the braised pig's trotters last time?" โ
"The next time he dares to come, Lao Tzu will chop off one or two of his head!" Master Gao was even more furious when he heard this, and slapped the sharp knife in his hand on the board viciously with a snap, and then picked up the cuffs and chopped up the meat and bones.
Tsing Yi originally thought that the kitchen was very safe, but unexpectedly, a fierce god could sneak in and steal food.
Tsing Yi watched Master Gao chop half the meat bones, and the black Saburo came in and called for food: "Here are a few pork bones." โ
"There are no more pork bones now!" Master Gao's subordinates kept cleaning up, and replied a little depressedly, "Look, it will take some time to cook." โ
"Didn't you stew a pot of meat and bones in the morning?" Hei Saburo asked casually indifferently, leaning against the door frame and staring at Qingyi with a smile, "I'm hungry, hurry up and get some dragon meat for me to eat!" โ
Tsing Yi only felt that her head was big when she heard this, firstly, there was no dragon meat in the kitchen now, and secondly, she had never made any dragon meat dishes, as soon as she thought about it, she couldn't help but look at Hei Saburo and discussed: "I remember that today is the day when Master Deadwood comes to deliver fresh fish, and when she sends the fish, I'll make you a fresh dish to taste, okay?" โ
"Who's that?" Kurosaburo asked with an eyebrow.
"Master Deadwood is a frequent visitor to the inn, and he will come to the inn once every six months, specifically to pay for the room with fish and shrimp." Tsing Yi explained, "The fish and shrimp she brought are delicious and are rare ingredients. โ
"Pretty good!" Master Gao seemed to recall the deliciousness of the fish and shrimp, and smashed his mouth and echoed, "It's a pity that the portion is less, and it's not enough to eat." โ
The dimples on Hei Saburo's face became deeper and deeper when he heard this, and he nodded in agreement immediately: "Then let's eat fish today!" โ
After speaking, he asked Master Gao to cut a large piece of pork belly and serve it out to entertain guests.
Tsing Yi estimated that the time was almost up, so he prepared to go out to pick up Master Deadwood.
As a result, as soon as I got out of the kitchen, I saw Xiong Da sitting there drinking with the appearance of a beautiful son.
"Yo, Tsing Yi." Xiong Da seemed to have eyes all over his body, and as soon as Tsing Yi came out, he turned his head and smiled at Tsing Yi, "Can you let me wait, would you like to have a glass of wine with me today?" โ
He didn't follow Jiao Niang to have a relationship! It's really weird!
Tsing Yi covered his mouth with some surprise, and when he saw Xiong Da's eyes sticky towards him, he immediately walked out with a cold face.
Since he was cut off by Hei Saburo last time, Tsing Yi is not afraid of him at all now!
Outside the Santuchuan Inn, it was the cold wind raging. As far as the eye can see, there are only trees covered with ice ridges and white snow.
A bloated black figure slowly approached from a distance.
Tsing Yi stood outside the inn and saw that the person who came was carrying a huge light cyan bamboo basket, wearing a big black cloak, and a big black scarf covering his face, which tightly covered his head and face, making it difficult to distinguish his gender and age.
Tsing Yi recognized the pale cyan bamboo basket at a glance, she had heard Orchid say that the bamboo basket was made of huge dragon bamboo slices, and she didn't know what method the person who made the bamboo basket used to put the fish, shrimp and river crabs placed in it can live without water and will not die after several years.
Deadwood Master always uses this magical bamboo basket to transport fresh food.
The man slowly walked to Tsing Yi and stood still, then reached out and took off the black scarf covering his face, revealing a gorgeous face, and smiled at Tsing Yi: "Don't wait a few months, how is Tsing Yi lately?" โ
This gorgeous woman is the master of dead wood in Tsing Yi's mouth.
Although Deadwood's appearance is gorgeous, her voice is steady and serene, like an old man in the twilight, with a slight sense of vicissitudes.
Tsing Yi's always cold face showed a rare faint smile, and said, "The master is here." Everything else is good, but I just think about the master's freshness. โ
Sure enough, Lao Ni also guessed that Tsing Yi was afraid of wanting to change his taste, and you only see meat and vegetables in your inn all year round, and it is difficult to find some fresh fruits and vegetables. This time, Lao Ni traveled through Taoyuan and specially brought some fresh peaches and fatty fish to you. Deadwood also smiled and patted the bamboo basket behind him, and for a while Tsing Yi heard the sound of live fish swinging their tails and slapping the bamboo basket.
Tsing Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he happily took the lead in leading the way: "Master, come with me, let's go to the kitchen to place things first." โ
Tsing Yi took the dead wood from the path outside the inn directly into the back of the kitchen, and on weekdays, anyone who came to deliver goods would go from this side.
Master Gao was also very happy to see the dead wood, he didn't have time to change his clothes, he was still covered in blood, so he came over with a sharp knife: "Let me see, let me see, what is the good thing today?" โ
Seeing Master Gao's terrifying outfit, Deadwood didn't even frown, but opened the bamboo basket with his hands and feet.
Tsing Yi first saw a small bamboo basket, neatly filled with a few plump and ruddy peaches, the fluff on it had not been worn off at all, as if it had just been plucked from the tree.
Then she saw an ebony box pressed under the basket, and a baffle underneath.
Deadwood first handed the peach to Tsing Yi, then carefully put the ebony box into her arms, and finally she reached out and took out the baffle.
I saw that the bamboo basket seemed to be filled with half a basket of clear water, and several big fish were wagging their tails underneath, and their mouths were closed very freely.
"Hahahaha, that's really good!" Master Gao laughed when he saw this, and immediately reached out and picked up a fish to take a closer look.
Tsing Yi saw that the back of this fish was blue-brown, with large yellow spots, and its head was round, and as soon as Master Gao grabbed its tail, it suddenly swelled into a round ball, and made a faint sound, and immediately recognized it as a puffer fish known as the king of fish.
"They all say that they don't eat puffer fish, and they don't know the freshness of fish, but today the master really sent something good." Tsing Yi was so happy that he hugged the peach and circled around the puffer fish in Master Gao's hand.
"This thing is delicious, it's delicious, but it's a little poisonous." Master Gao was not as excited as Fang Cai, and when he heard that it was a pufferfish, he couldn't help but recall his bad memories.
I think that when he was young, he was also a master who did not taboo meat and vegetables, and secretly left home on a whim to travel around. Once, when I was eating fish in a river, I ate two more because of the delicious and unusually delicious puffer fish, but I was poisoned and poured on the embankment, and I couldn't move for several days.
Originally, it would have been enough to lie down for two more days, but unexpectedly, mortals passed by, and those fools who didn't know the height of the sky dared to carry themselves home and prepare to cook and eat! If it weren't for the little daughter of that family who couldn't bear to see him being cooked, and secretly released him, I am afraid that she would have died by this time.
Thinking of this, Master Gao's face full of meat became more and more fierce, and he threw the struggling puffer fish back into the bamboo basket with a disgusted face.
"Oops, be careful!" Tsing Yi hurriedly went to check the pufferfish, knowing that the puffer fish is poisonous in all its abdomen, eyes, essence, and spinal blood, and if you accidentally drop the puffer fish and bleed internally, you won't be able to cook it.
"What are you afraid of!" Master Gao's long-forgotten terrible memories were vividly drawn by the pufferfish, and the interest in eating fish suddenly disappeared, he got up and continued to chop the bones, and said lightly in his mouth, "Such a little poison, Hei Saburo is so powerful, at most he will be alive again in a quarter of an hour." If you want me to say, you just kill the slice. โ
Tsing Yi said secretly, Hu Ji is not sure when he will come back, although Hei Saburo threatens to eat him from time to time, but because of his own craftsmanship, he didn't say anything, and with him, other monsters don't dare to make trouble. Not to mention a quarter of an hour, not even a moment.
Fortunately, after some examination, it was confirmed that the puffer fish was unharmed.
Then she became curious about the water in the basket.
When she touched the fish just now, she felt that the water was not right, like a solidified transparent hard object, and when she reached out, it was like fishing for countless soft-shelled creatures, swaying in her hand and not moving.
If you look closely at the light, it turns out to be some transparent live shrimp.
"There's some crystal shrimp here." Deadwood pointed to the bamboo basket and said, "The fish and shrimp in the peach garden are famous, ordinary and rare, the old nun saw that this crystal shrimp was crystal clear, and thought that the orchid must have liked it, so it took some effort to bring it." โ
Orchid Su likes crystal glass, the utensils made on weekdays are all beautiful things, and the food is also good to start with, and the guys in the inn have to choose the beautiful ones to use.
Thinking about it, Deadwood and Orchid have also known each other for a long time, and she has also touched Orchid's temperament for โกโก.
Tsing Yi heard the dead wood point out that the crystal shrimp was brought for orchids, so he hurriedly went to take out a crystal jar, filled half a jar of water, and after removing the fish, he poured all the remaining half basket of shrimp into it.
"I don't know how long I can keep it...... Tsing Yi looked at those crystal shrimps as their namesalike, and when they entered the clear water, they couldn't even see the traces, and couldn't help but sigh, "There are countless strange things in the world." โ
"If you look closely, you will find that the wonders of this world are everywhere!" Deadwood reached out and felt a pale cyan box in his arms, which seemed to be made by the same person as the bamboo basket, and when he opened the box, he saw that it contained a box of pink peach blossom petals.
The dead wood sprinkled a few peach blossom petals into the crystal jar, and for a time the crystal jar was like an oil pot with water, splashing and making a loud noise.
Then Tsing Yi watched in amazement as countless pale pink shrimp swam around in the crystal jar and nibbled on those peach petals.
"The fish and shrimp in Taoyuan naturally feed on peach blossoms." Deadwood looked at the peach petals that were gradually being eaten up and smiled, "The living creatures that live on peach blossoms are naturally delicious. โ
"I see." Tsing Yi was shocked by the bright smile of the dead wood, and hurriedly lowered his head to continue to look at the crystal jar.
I don't know why, although Deadwood is a nun, but her words and deeds always inadvertently bring out a little weirdness and charm, is she really a monster?
"Ah, yes." Tsing Yi suddenly remembered Jiao Niang again, and turned to the dead wood and said, "Recently, there is a lady named Jiao Niang among the guests of the inn, saying that she is looking for a nun in black, I wonder if it is the master's old friend?" โ
"Lady?" Deadwood was stunned when he heard this, and then sighed, "Sure enough, it's the old nun." โ
After that, he grabbed the peach blossoms and sprinkled them into the crystal jar, and the crystal shrimp were all pink, like translucent petals swimming in the water, and as they continued to eat the petals, the pink of their bodies gradually deepened, and finally revealed some blood.
Tsing Yi turned her head to look at the dead wood's face again, only to see that the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, revealing a faint smile that was difficult to distinguish, but her voice was full of compassion and vicissitudes: "Another poor man......."
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