Chapter Seventy-Four: The Champion and the First Bamboo Shoot

'Vegetarian Zhai' is an all-vegetarian inn opened by the monks of the peasant school to eat, live, taste tea and talk about Taoism, Master Xile does not look at the appearance of a poor monk, the wealthy family of the wealthy family and the wealthy businessman for the master a mantra, regard money as dung I don't know how much, if it is not for the Master of Xile is too able to toss and keep the mystery and cold, it is definitely the most golden one among all the monks.

finally took the apprentices to rub it together, and Master Xile naturally chose the most well-known vegetarian fast.

"Master inside, please, do you want to stay in the store?" The shopkeeper saw a large group of people coming in, laughing and shouting.

"Amitabha, have a meal." Master Joy shouted the Buddha's horn and replied.

The shopkeeper shook the snow-white cloth towel on his shoulder and smiled: "Okay! Guest officers, please go up to the second floor! ”

The lobby on the first floor is mostly populated by occasional vegetarians, and there are many more monks on the second floor. Everyone was led by the shopkeeper to a few tables next to the window and sat down.

A few minutes later, Du Xiaoxi and Du Zhiqian looked at the figure of the shopkeeper in amazement, although we had been to many restaurants in our previous life, and a meal of tens of thousands of soft sister coins was also tasted under the leadership of my father, but it was the first time I saw the legendary non-stop report of the name of the dish. It's so smooth!

Master Xile is well-informed, and Senior Brother Tranquility has enjoyed all kinds of the best treatment in the world, and the two of them calmly ordered food and slowly tasted tea and waited for it to be served. Only Du Xiaoxi's three little soil buns were excited.

The first dish is said to be a must-eat cold dish of 'champion and bamboo shoots' that must be eaten in the mountain town.

Master Xile saw a few small ones looking at the things on the table that looked a little like diced radishes and bamboo shoots, nodded with satisfaction and began to preach.

"This is the most famous 'champion and the first bamboo shoot' in the mountain city, when the right Zai Yuan Anbang is the first champion out of the mountain city, and the only champion in these years, it is said that the right Zai was extremely poor when he was a child, his father worked as a coolie on the dock, and his mother and sisters did show work day and night for him to study.

On the way home from the academy the day before the county exam, Youzai saw someone selling spring bamboo shoots, and he especially wanted to eat them at that time, but Youzai knew that his family was poor, and the price of spring bamboo shoots was not cheap because they had been taken off the market. Saying it was also in vain to make the parents sad and didn't say it after returning home, probably because he thought about it day and night, and when he slept that night, Youzai shouted to eat spring bamboo shoots, which happened to be heard by Yuan's mother who saw if the children were sleeping peacefully. However, the family has no money left to buy spring bamboo shoots, and her son's small wishes cannot be satisfied, which makes Yuan's mother feel very painful. On the second day, when cutting the white bamboo shoots, Yuan's mother found that the woad root and spring bamboo shoots were similar in appearance. Thinking that his son's wish was difficult, he thought about the spring bamboo shoots night and night, fearing that it would affect his county test, so he cut a small plate of woad root cold salad and told his son that this was the cold spring shoots.

After eating it, you no longer miss the spring bamboo shoots in your dreams, and you have achieved good results in the county test. Yuan's mother felt that her son's good test was due to the bamboo shoots, and then her son had to make a plate for her son to try every time he took the exam, more than ten years later. Right Zai once the fish leaped into the Dragon Gate Hall to try to win the championship and the first.

At the Qionglin banquet, the first emperor rewarded a 'sunset lying snow' made of spring bamboo shoot silk, and after tasting it, he thought of his mother who had passed away for many years and burst into tears, and the first emperor asked him why he cried bitterly, and he told the reason for it. After hearing this, the first emperor praised that the mother had good intentions for her son's peace of mind for the exam, and she should be a model of a loving mother.

Subsequently, the world was moved by Yuan's mother's motherly heart, and it was also a good omen for the children and grandchildren to take the exam, and they all loved to taste the champion and bamboo shoots made of white pine roots before the exam. This is the origin of the champion and the first bamboo shoot. ”

After the great monk of joy finished talking about the origin of the champion and the first bamboo shoot, he sighed quite emotionally.

After listening to the story, the four people are different.

Du Zhiqian is thirteen years old, and he is the best and most stable one among the Du family brothers, so he was sent by Father Du to take care of his sister, and after listening to the story of Dang Chao Youzai, he asked quite strangely: "Master." How could Lord Youzai not recognize Bai Xianggen? ”

In Du Zhiqian's opinion, since the right Zai's family is poor, he must know Bai Xianggen just like the children in the village. Don't say anything about the gentleman's cooking, in addition to the second brother, a group of big men in his family can braise meat, and several brothers are also the masters of the bowls, but they also know Bai Xiang?

The master pondered, "There are many sisters in the Youzai family. "I don't have to cook anymore.

Du Zhiqian was obviously not satisfied with this answer, but he also knew that it was useless to ask the master, so he stopped asking.

Du Xiaoxi picked up, "Master, the white root is cabbage pimple?" Is it tasty? ”

The master raised his chin and motioned to Du Xiaoxi to look at the table next to them, where several young students dressed as scholars had already finished eating a plate of cabbage gnocchi and were praising it!

Liu Yao's focus is not on cabbage lumps. It's a delicacy rewarded by His Majesty, "What kind of dish is 'sunset lying snow'?" Is it tasty? ”

The master coughed dryly, "It's to use cold bamboo shoots to form a tower, and put a boiled chicken yellow at the top of the tower." ”

What is chicken yellow? Egg yolk is also.

All:...... They are really good at eating in the city!

Tranquility sneered and concluded: "Don't cry early or don't cry at night, use the dead old mother as a raft, and sell your reputation and reputation!" ”

Master Joy: I won't let you eat this meal!

After listening to the words, the shopkeeper who served the food wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and went down neatly.

Speak ill of Youzai in Youzai's hometown. These people are either brains or daring, so he better stay away.

Master Xile saw a few small ones looking at the 'champion and the first bamboo shoot' with a tangled face, and said with a smile: "Eat, eat, you are growing your body, don't be hungry." "Skip the champion and the first bamboo shoot, and insert a crystal tofu bun with chopsticks.

After eating and drinking, a group of people turned out of vegetarian fasting and went back to take a nap. The shopkeeper who cleaned up the table looked at the champion and the bamboo shoots who only moved a few chopsticks, and was amazed, "What a bunch of weirdos." ’

Master Joy is a man of great professional ethics.

As a master, it is natural to preach and teach and solve doubts.

As soon as Du Xiaoxi woke up, he was nagged by Senior Brother Huaiming and told his sister to go over, and Liu Yao and Du Zhiqian, as Du Xiaoxi's additional products, naturally had to follow.

When the three of them arrived, Senior Brother Tranquility was already sitting on the soft couch by the window with a straight face, and Master Xile was sitting on the other side of the square table, on which were some seeds that he had bought in the morning.

The soft couch area is not large, only two people can sit opposite each other, and there are three shabby little Maza on the ground, which are obviously prepared for the three people who arrived later.

Du Xiaoxi couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, this house was full of a low-key and luxurious sour smell inside and out, Little Brother Huaiming, where did you find the broken Maza, why do we have to be a maza with a sassy ass when you sit on a futon?

The three of them sat down, and the Master of Joy put on a preachy face.

"The country is based on agriculture, and grain is based on seeds, and today as a teacher, I will talk about increasing crop production and income from seeds.

All dynasties and dynasties have had a fundamental problem that can shake the foundation of the country, that is, there is not enough food to eat. Throughout history, the ten overthrown dynasties were all after the catastrophe, and the people were poorly clothed and hungry. In order to survive, the people had to fight and rebel. ”

After finishing his opening remarks, Master Joy stopped and took a sip of tea from his teacup, observing the acceptance of several students by the way.

Tranquility is the person who has sat in that highest position, although he originally became the emperor just to live, but if he does not have the heart of the dragon to walk the world. As long as you are a secret emperor who controls the power of life and death in the world, why bother to manage the sundries in the world.

What's more, the quiet emperor's career does not end at the end of his life, but the traitor soldiers are coming to the city, seeing that the ancestral foundation is about to be destroyed, and he will become the last emperor of the Great Shang. Tranquility is ashamed of her ancestors, but she has no regrets.

Reliving a life, Tranquility knows that he must fight for that position, and he can no longer be the tyrant who believes in killing, and the goal of this life is to eliminate the traitors and keep the ancestral inheritance, and then strive for the end of life.

Now that he has met a monk of joy who loves to do good deeds, knows his greatest secret and ambition, and accepts him as an apprentice, he believes in Master and is willing to let Master teach him how to be an emperor who will be prosperous through the ages.

The importance of food is known when Serene leads troops to war, and when it rains for a hundred years. In the end, when Kyoto was besieged and the ammunition was exhausted, I knew, but what was the use of knowing.

Tranquility looked at Master Xile with a thoughtful face, Du Zhiqian took out the homemade small notebook and charcoal he carried with him and recorded it quickly.

Liu Yao was born in Fugui Township, and he didn't understand the bitterness of being hungry, let alone the importance of food. Liu Yao, who had not been in school for a long time, didn't understand that what Master Xile said could change the fate of a family and how many poor people could change, and he still sat quietly next to Du Xiaoxi as usual and looked at Master Xile with a smile.

Du Xiaoxi looked weird, aren't these listeners a little wrong!

Master, we are still children! Is it okay to say such a profound question?

"Why is there not enough food for the big merchants, the heavy tax of two taxes and one is one of them; The monastic economy of building monasteries and encroaching on fertile land is one of them; Every family has children, like piglets, and there are many people and few places. ”

Master Joy nodded to the two palm-sized piles of rice seeds on the square table and said, "It's hard to say about the rest. It's not good to make changes. Since we can't change it, let's talk about what we can do, such as increasing food production, such as how to select seeds."

"These two piles are rice seeds that I just bought in the morning. There is not much difference in color and size in appearance, maybe you think that the yield will be similar if you plant it, today we will see if it is the same.

"Huaiming, Du Liu, come here."

Even if the little monk Huaiming saddled himself before and after the horse beside the master on weekdays, he didn't know what the master was going to do at this time, and Du Zhiqian didn't know why.

"These two piles of rice seeds. And you will count out a thousand grains. ”

Although they didn't know why they were counting the rice seeds, both of them counted them obediently.

Du Zhiqian is older than Huai next year, and he has been studying for many years, so he quickly counted. The little monk Huaiming seemed to be reciting the scriptures on weekdays, Mimi Ma Ma recited it, and after confirming it in turn, he smiled and pushed the thousand rice seeds he had counted in front of the master.

Master Xile nodded, took out a small scale of special gold and precious objects in the money village from under the square table, and then put the rice seeds that Huai Ming had counted into it, and then motioned to a few people to look over, "This is thirty-two grams." ”

Seeing that a few people were still unclear, Master Xile put the rice seeds that Du Zhiqian had counted into it, and said lightly: "This is thirty-three grams." ”

Of course, Liu Yao and a few real children didn't understand what this meant, and Ning Jing and Du Xiaoxi quickly reacted.

"Maybe you think it's nothing, isn't it just a gram difference, but have you ever thought about it, a thousand grains are one gram, ten thousand, one hundred thousand grains? How many grains of grain can be produced in an acre of land? A hundred acres of land, a thousand acres of land? ”

Tranquility changed her previous carelessness, and now she was already sitting upright and listening. The charcoal pen in Du Zhiqian's hand walked the dragon and snake, and quickly recorded the words and deeds of Master Xile.

(To be continued.) )