Chapter Twenty-Six: Crossing the River and Demolishing the Bridge
Staring at the table full of dishes in front of him, Pei Yuanting's saliva was about to flow out, but because of his feelings, he sat there majestically, but the Adam's apple involuntarily began to roll up and down. Although Wen Ziqi said that he was also clothed and eaten when he was a child, since he was rescued by his master on the mountain, the master who has always paid attention to food has always been bland, and he has never eaten such a luxurious banquet.
Ling Haoran saw that the dishes had been served, so he said to the Yihong girl who was originally standing next to him and was ready to serve: "You go down first, you don't need to serve here for the time being." Miss Yihong answered and exited the door, obediently closing the door and waiting at the door.
Ling Haoran knew that if there were outsiders present, Wen Pei and the others would inevitably be a little restrained, so he asked Miss Yihong to step down, so that the three of them were left in the house, and they could have fun without any care.
Seeing that the person had left, Ling Haoran wanted to pick up his wine glass and say something to start, but Pei Yuanting's voice came from his ears: "Is this good, you said that let such a graceful woman stand next to me and serve, this makes me eat." It's still just the three of us. Strange to say, this is the first time we have met this morning, and this is only this evening, and I feel like you have been friends for many years. ”
After that, he reached out and picked up the chopsticks in front of him, put a piece of yellow-orange-orange meat in his mouth, and asked while chewing, "What kind of dish is this?" Fat but not greasy, it also exudes this nut flavor, Ziqi, you can also taste it, it's really good. ”
Wen Ziqi also picked up a piece of chopsticks and ate it, just chewed a few bites, then nodded and said: "Well, it's really delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it's fragrant, it seems to be fried, is this dish famous?" He muttered as he chewed.
Ling Haoran put down the wine glass in embarrassment and said: "I said two, I just picked up the wine glass and wanted to say something, but it was disrupted by the two of you, I don't know what to say, I am also the owner anyway, I didn't move the chopsticks, you two just shook off your cheeks and started eating, this is a bit out of order!" ”
Pei Yuanting listened to it, picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all, then said with a mouthful: "It's really good wine, then you say it, I'll listen." As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the dishes on the table, and then he took a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth and ate it. After chewing it twice, he hurriedly said to Wen Ziqi: "Try this too, it's very tender." ”
Wen Ziqi looked at Ling Haoran, who was stunned, smiled and said, "Are you going to continue to say it?" Or do you eat it? If you say then I'll listen, if you don't, then I'll start eating! ”
Ling Haoran said with a smile: "What else to say, I don't know what to say, eat"
Pei Yuanting spit out the fish bones in his mouth and said with a smile: "Isn't that right, look at how many siblings have to talk about the table after eating?" “
Ling Haoran wanted to cry even more when he heard Pei Yuanting say this, so he said: "It's all my fault, it's me who did it, how can there be a few sibling brothers who are so raw, and they have to say a lot of compliments to each other even when they have a meal together." It's my fault, I'll punish myself with a glass! With that, he picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it down.
Wen Ziqi looked at Ling Haoran's slightly reddened eyes and silently raised his glass and drank it, Pei Yuanting may not know Ling Haoran's story, but he heard Ling Haoran himself say that several of his flesh and blood brothers are fighting openly and secretly, and they even want to kill each other. Maybe the few words just now touched the taut string in Ling Haoran's heart. He didn't have anything to say about this, so he silently filled the wine glass in front of Ling Haoran.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Ling Haoran looked at Pei Yuanting, who was still eating, and said: "Just now you said that we are siblings, so now that my brother and I have difficulties, you can't stand by and watch." ”
When Pei Yuanting heard Ling Haoran say this, he put down the chopsticks in his hand and wiped his mouth and said, "I am a rough person, since I said that I am a sibling, if you are in trouble, I will naturally not stand idly by." You say what the difficulty is. It's a good idea to go to the soup! ”
Ling Haoran waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's not as serious as you said." It's a trivial matter for you, didn't Master Mo ask us to make ten pills and six rehmannia pills for him within three days? I still don't know which six herbs were. Do you think you want to teach me how to do it? ”
Pei Yuanting patted his thigh and said: "What should I do, what I said is so serious, it turns out that this is the matter, this matter is good to say that the six herbs needed for the six Rehmannia pills are Rehmannia Rehmannia, Yam Meat, Yam, Ze Chu, Danpi, and Poria Cocos, as for their ratio is eight to four to four to three to three to three, this ratio can be remembered by thousands of people, and you must not make mistakes, if you are afraid that the amount is too small and you remember it wrong, you can simply use one or two as a basis, that is, it will be a lot in the end." Anyway, the warehouse will not have an opinion on how much we practice medicine and use medicine, now that we know the medicinal materials and ratio, then we will start to concoct them, didn't I take you to see those utensils in the afternoon, and the required utensils can be found in it. I'm really afraid that if you take the wrong one, you can take whatever I take. Once we have the utensils, we can start the process, and this first step involves using a casserole where we will simmer the dogwood in the sake stew method until all the wine is sucked up. Do you know what the wine stew method is? After that, he looked at Ling Hao.
Ling Haoran shook his head blankly: "Say, I used to sweep the floor and serve tea and water." This is similar to this Zhu Hall Master who only knew some medicinal herbs and learned some pulses during this period of time. Where to know what is the wine stew method. ”
The corners of Pei Yuanting's mouth twitched and said, "If I hadn't known that you had such a thick background, I would have doubted that Hall Master Zhu was crazy and accepted you as a layman!" ”
Ling Haoran didn't get angry when he heard such ridicule, but said proudly: "Don't admit it, background is strength,"
Pei Yuanting said impatiently: "Okay, okay, do you have the strength?" I will tell you what is the wine stewing method now, in fact, the wine stewing method is to wash the herbs and add them to the quantitative rice wine evenly, put them aside and let them simmer for one to two hours, so that the wine can completely penetrate into the inside of the medicinal materials, and then put it into the stew medicine jar, and then add a certain amount of rice wine. Put the medicine jar in the pot and stew until the wine is exhausted, so that the color of the herbs turns dark black, take it out and let it cool, and dry it in the sun is the wine stewing method. After speaking, he took a sip of the wine glass on the table, and sighed: "With such delicious food and wine, there are still people who humbly ask for advice." Life is enough! ”
Wen Ziqi smiled and said, "If you teach him how to refine, with his character, he will definitely invite you again, are you still afraid that you won't eat?" ”
Ling Haoran said angrily: "Ziqi, do you see it? Just a mouthful of siblings, now here again. It's so annoying! If it weren't for his sake, he should have been blasted out! Hurry up and say don't hold it. ”
Pei Yuanting smiled and said again: "I just said that after the dogwood is dried with the wine stew method, after the other medicines are also cleaned of impurities and put together according to the proportion, a large copper mortar pestle is taken and pounded into powder. Then sift the powder, because rehmannia and wine root are sticky, so it is best to pound them separately. After doing this, you can refine the honey, the key to refining the honey is to drip water into beads, and when the refining is completed, you can pour it into the powder that has just been ground and mix the powder. Wait until the powder is all moistened by refining honey, and the color is the same as the soft and hard, what is the soft and hard suitable, in fact, it is not sticky and not dry and cracked, and finally take out the pill board and rub it into a pill and it is done. After speaking, he looked at Ling Haoran.
Ling Haoran saw that Pei Yuanting was not speaking, so he said, "This is the end?" It's that simple, I thought it was so hard! Isn't it just to mash the six medicines together, pour honey and knead them into pills, and hold such a big shelf. ”
Pei Yuanting's eyebrows immediately rose when he heard him say this, and he shouted: "It's refining honey, not honey!" What about your ears just now? ”
Ling Haoran saw Pei Yuanting's angry roar, but a sense of satisfaction appeared on his face.
Wen Ziqi saw the two of them teasing each other, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Is this the legendary crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, this is the first time I've seen it." With that, he picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all.