Chapter 16: A New Chapter is Coming
After returning home, Shao Daochang wrapped a pie and mutton firmly.
He's a northerner, and he's still used to eating pasta. No matter how spicy and delicious the boiled fish is, and how fragrant and chewy the rice stewed in the rice cooker is, it is a little unbearable even after eating it for so many days. The egg cake he had baked before gave him inspiration, and when he got home, he made another pot of noodles, kneaded and moistened it, covered it with a damp cloth, woke up, and then took out the mutton and chopped it finely.
The pie should have thin skin and thick meat, and it should be delicious when you bite into it with tender and oily water. The chopped mutton is mixed with shredded green onions, mixed with powdered eucommia, angelica and prince ginseng to take its warm yang tonic use, and then add green onion and ginger water little by little to make the filling more juicy. After waking up, the dough is kneaded into a ball, flattened and laid down a ball of filling about the thickness of the dough, and then holds a little bit of it with your fingers until it is wrapped into a round cake with a thin skin that is almost transparent.
He also specially picked out a little bit of meat filling with a toothpick and threw it into a small bowl of noodles, shaking a thin layer of flour like a lantern festival, and also pressing it into a cake-like shape. Such a small cake is cooked in the pot, and it is made like a fried golden on both sides, the crust is too thin and crispy, but the small shape is more suitable for grass carp essence to eat, saving him from eating only a piece of stuffing and a piece of skin when he wants to eat.
He ate one himself, and it only tasted salty, but the texture of the dough was too small to feel it.
Forget it, if you don't like it, there is boiled fish.
He quickly thought about it, scooped up the croquettes one by one, used the strainer on the teapot to filter the oil in the cakes, and poured them into the small dish that Yan Hanjiang had made small to serve to the living room.
While he was cooking, Yan Hanjiang was reclining on his small sofa made of sponge and fabric, watching fish on the coffee table in the living room.
Those fish were all hand-picked by Yan Xianchang, the most energetic and healthy fish in the market, and they were stuffed in a plastic bag for more than an hour on the way home, and they were still very fresh after being poured into the tank. After Shao Zongyan poured fish feed on them, the fish began to eat, and the water became muddy because of the fight over the feed.
And ordinary fish have just been tossed for so long and have just entered new waters, and they will not eat for a long time.
The reason why these fish are flexible is not because they are much better than other fish, but because there are two monks living in the house where they live, and they swallow spiritual energy every day, and the sand and aquatic plants in this room, fish tank, and tank are all contaminated with spiritual energy, and they are nourished by the rich spiritual energy here, and they are naturally full of vitality.
But after all, this community is an ordinary community in the center of the city, and the aura is not rich. He was able to live here forever because he had already passed the time when he needed spiritual energy to nourish his body, but he used the Yuan Shen to communicate with the Great Dao, as long as his understanding of the Great Dao he chose did not increase, and his cultivation realm could be improved. And Shao Zongyan is still at the stage where he has just stepped into the path and needs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to be infused and purified to refine his body, so it is not good to stay in this poor spiritual land all the time.
At that time, he had been practicing in a large lake full of spiritual energy for hundreds of years before he survived the Transfiguration Tribulation and cultivated his human body, but human beings could not live in the water, so they had to find a place with land and strong spiritual energy to live for a long time.
Is it time to consider buying a new home? Or live in a rented house, where the aura is more sufficient, live for a few years, and see that it is consumed, and then live in another place? However, the aura of this small thousand world itself is not comparable to other worlds, and there is not even a dragon gate, so it is not bad to simply move to other small thousand worlds......
He thought about it, but he didn't expect that Shao Zongyan was actually not a person from this small world, and one day he would leave him and return to his own world to live.
Yan Xianchang was seriously thinking about the future, and suddenly there was a crisp sound of the plate hitting the tabletop in his ears, and then Shao Zongyan's voice sounded with a little expectation: "I made a new fried pie, it's a little small, I can't taste the thick skin, Brother Yan try one?" โ
"Okay." Yan Hanjiang responded, postponed the plan to find a house a little, and opened his eyes and swept towards the plate of pies with a strong aroma.
The size of the pancake was just enough for him to pick it up with one hand, and it was so round and neat that I don't know how much effort it took to make it. As soon as you bite into the crispy crust, the gravy comes out, and then the meat filling fills the entire crust...... It's actually quite delicious, not much worse than boiled fish. Yan Hanjiang stuffed a whole pie with an expressionless face, and while inhaling the cool air, he thought about how much appetite he would take up if he ate all the cakes.
You should be able to eat another five or six slices of fish.
Then eat it.
There was an intermittent clicking sound in the living room, a sizzling frying sound in the kitchen, and a whirring wind from the kitchen hood, still not doing enough to suck the fragrance out of the pot. When Shao Daochang entered the living room with a large plate of meatloaf and boiled fish, the plate of fried meatloaf had already bottomed out, Yan Hanjiang's long tail was resting on the edge of the sofa, supporting his chin with one hand, and said in a deep voice: "Next time, let's do less, people in my generation of immortal cultivators should not be greedy for appetite, and it is not good to eat too much mundane food." โ
Shao Daochang served him fish and rice, cut the big meatloaf into small pieces and put a piece on his plate, and smiled softly: "Okay, let's make less tomorrow, since it has been made today, let's not waste it." โ
The fried meatloaf crust is slightly thicker, the outside is crispy, but the part that touches the meat filling inside is covered with gravy, soft and glutinous and salty, and the mutton filling is tightly formed after frying, and the broth flows all over the plate as soon as it is opened. After giving Yan Hanjiang a small piece, he took the rest with chopsticks, bit off most of it in one bite, and then raised his hand to wipe off the juice that overflowed from the corner of his mouth.
It's been a long time since I've eaten mutton, but it's still hot and comfortable!
After eating and drinking, Shao Zongyan did not immediately clean up the table, but brought out a plate of steamed soft and sweet pine nut cake from the kitchen, cut a piece of cake of suitable size for the little grass essence fish on the sofa, and poured a shallow cup of tea.
Yan Hanjiang drank tea not very elegantly while holding the wine cup, glanced at the little Taoist priest who wanted to speak and stopped, and said lightly: "Do you have something on your mind?" โ
Shao Zongyan was silent for a while, holding a slightly hot teacup and said, "When I told fortunes in the afternoon, I heard that people now believe in feng shui and fortunes. I grew up in Daomen, although I have not officially become a monk, but I am also an expert in drawing talismans, exorcism, refining medicine, and reading and asking divination......
"Needless to say," he drank the tea at the bottom of the cup in one gulp, put down the cup, looked at Shao Zongyan with a stern expression, and then nodded unexpectedly: "I promise." โ
Shao Daochang let him pretend, originally planned to fight for a few words based on reason, but before the words came out, he heard the sentence "I promise", and those prepared words were blocked on the tip of his tongue, and he couldn't speak with his mouth slightly open for a while.
The shape of his lips is very good-looking, especially when he is half-open, the lips unfold a seductive arc, revealing a little snow-white front teeth in the middle, like candy with a lot of chemical pigments, knowing that it is not good to eat, but people want to taste it at the cost of hurting the body.
The grass carp spirit suddenly thought of such a nondescript analogy. He felt that this thought was ridiculous, so he restrained himself from looking at the arc anymore, but after looking away, he still subconsciously asked: "Why, I was surprised, I thought I wouldn't agree to you go out?" โ
Shao Zongyan's mouth finally closed, nodded, and honestly admitted: "I've been studying these days, and I don't even buy the dishes until I really haven't eaten them, I thought Brother Yan would let me stay and study more." โ
The grass carp spirit stretched out its body, and its thin arms rested on the back of the sofa, revealing a cold face and a small, but well-rounded chest: "You can go out, but you must take me." โ
Engaging in feudal superstitious activities in this world, he is still a black household without an ID card and a temporary residence permit, if he accidentally bumps into the chengguan...... They all had to be sent directly to the aid station for repatriation.
He stared at Shao Zongyan seriously, but the human on the other side looked a little trance-like, stretched out his finger and rubbed it on his face. But after touching his cold cheeks, the little Taoist priest quickly came to his senses, withdrew his fingers in a panic, and his white and tender earlobes were instantly dyed with a flush, and said, "It's cold outside, I'll go make a dress for Brother Yan" and hurriedly got up and left.
This is...... Shy? Yan Hanjiang sat thoughtfully on the sofa. After a while, he curled his tail upwards and unfurled the large, thin caudal fin to cover a โกโก.
Later he received a small ink-colored robe tightly wrapped from neckline to tail, and the hem was made in a shuffling style, wide enough for his tail fin to fully spread in the garment.
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A few days after that family meeting, Shao Daochang finally did his preliminary work, wearing a suit and holding a fish tank, and officially started his work in the major places in the city with a slightly stronger aura.
Because of the various differences between the two worlds, he no longer pretended to be a Taoist priest, nor did he have a stall, let alone walk the streets and alleys with a small flag and shout and buy. But now he has a more stylish, subtle and practical promotional tool โ he prints a box of business cards and sends one to a potential customer every time he sees him.
The business card is printed on the Xuanlian Sect that he has lived for a long time, but now he can only commemorate it with his memories, but in order to adapt to modern society, it was slightly processed and changed to Xuanlian Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and the position is printed as the product manager and business manager - responsible for both alchemy and fortune-telling.
He only goes out in the morning every day, and even divides the hexagram in the place chosen by Yan Xianchang, and when the hour comes, he has to go home to cook, because the working hours are not long. But his business is exceptionally good, and there is hardly a time when he returns empty-handed.
Many people saw him holding a business card in his hand, and they didn't wait for him to go over and ask for it directly, some wanted to buy fish, some asked him what fund he was selling, and after hearing that he was a fortune teller, they all enthusiastically stretched out their hands or raised their faces, and asked him to give themselves a good look and touch. There were also some people who wanted to invite him to his home or hotel to do a ritual after the meeting, but he politely refused, only took a few pink bills as a reward, and left as a dashing and decisive autumn wind.
Every day when he comes back from work, Shao Daochang has to secretly spend most of the money several times, and then go to the vegetable market to buy the most expensive and best fresh fish and come back to make grass carp essence, and feel the feeling of being the head of the family.
This peaceful life lasted until he finished his junior high school math studies and began to add physics and chemistry courses. As soon as he arrived at the Chengxi Ecological Park that day, the sweet voice in the Tongjie Order suddenly sounded in his head: "There are customers in this world who ask for help, please prepare the lifeguards, and the transmission will start immediately." โ
Wait a minute! He still holds Yan Hanjiang in his hand!
Before he could react, his body entered the empty room of the Boundary Order, and the life bag on his back disappeared, and the scenery around him kept changing, crashing into the building for a while, and flying in the air for a while. This time, the speed of the teleportation was much faster than usual, and after a few seconds, the teleportation burst stopped in a bay of pale blue water, in front of which was a wide snow-white sandy beach, and above was the black mountain rock of strange rocks, and there seemed to be human traces on the cliff.
"Be careful!"
After the teleportation light disappeared, he fell into knee-deep water with a thud, and the water was soft and could not bear weight, and he slid down when he stepped into it. The backpack that had just disappeared also landed on the water skin with a bang, but it didn't fall into the water, just made a splash.
He remembered to hold the fish tank high, and kept his hand steady when he fell into the water, so as not to let the grass carp fall into the water.
"It's not easy to do......" Yan Hanjiang's cold voice sounded in his head, with rare worries: "It's all seawater here, I'm from freshwater fish, and I'm allergic to seawater." โ