In an unknown valley there is an unknown sheep intestine path, and on this unknown sheep intestine path there is a donkey, and next to this donkey there is a young Taoist.

Although the mountain and the trail don't know the name, but the donkey and the Taoist have names, the donkey is called "hey", and the young Taoist is naturally Qingya.

Since the heavy snow fell down the mountain on that day, the people of Qingya Dao have traveled for more than half a year.

In the past half a year, although his appearance and posture have not changed much, his personality and habits have changed a lot, from the previous dull Taoist who only knew how to be accompanied by the morning dew and breeze, the bright moon, and only knew how to read and practice, became much more lively and interesting.

One of the best proofs of this is his diet.

He is now obsessed with eating hot pot, and the first thing he does when he goes to a place is to go to eat hot pot. And he doesn't like the bottom of the clear soup pot, he loves the bottom of the red soup pot, and the ingredients used for boiling are also biased towards fat intestines, yellow throat, hairy belly, lung slices, etc., this kind of pure meat.

He loves to watch the ingredients tumble up and down in the blood-bright red and spicy soup...... Because Mu Qiuhuang once told him that it was like rolling red dust.

Although this sentence was casually recited by Mu Qiuhuang, the Qingya Dao people realized a different taste in it.

Sometimes this is the case, the speaker may be unintentional, but the listener is often intentional, and it can also be said to have the feeling of "waking up the person in the dream with a word".

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On the day when Qingya Daoren came down the mountain, he had studied with his master Zhang Fuling, at that time, Qingya Daoist used his own boxing method, because his set of boxing techniques was not perfect, so Zhang Fuling let him come down the mountain.

And after going down the mountain, the first meal he ate was hot pot. When eating hot pot, Mu Qiuhuang once said to him: "There is no problem in the world that cannot be solved by a hot pot, if there is, then eat another meal of ......", at that time, he was not impressed by this, until he said goodbye to Mu Qiuhuang After traveling alone in the rivers and lakes, after eating a few more hot pots, he suddenly discovered a characteristic of hot pot. One of the biggest features of hot pot is that it doesn't have a set menu of recipes. The type of pot bottom can be very mixed, it can be red soup, it can be white soup, or even just an ordinary pot of water...... Among them, the boiled ingredients can also be in a variety of forms, which can be hairy tripe, yellow throat, fat sheep rolls...... It can also be cabbage, tofu, radish strips...... Its composition is very simple, as long as there is a pot base, as long as there are ingredients, it can be called a hot pot. Cabbage can be served with fat lamb rolls, and tofu can also be paired with yellow throat and hairy tripe...... But no matter how you mix it, it's called hot pot. Just one pot and everything can be accommodated. It's never as "unique" as other dishes. For example, a chicken can only be called a chicken, and a duck can only be called a duck. Whether it's white-cut chicken or salted boiled chicken, whether it's roast chicken and fried chicken...... The only thing it can't change is that it's always a "chicken". The same goes for duck, roast duck, roast duck, roast duck...... No matter how much it changes, it is still a "duck". However, when you try to use chicken and duck as ingredients in a hot pot, it is no longer called "chicken" or "duck", but "hot pot".

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If you are an ordinary person, eating is eating, at most you can only taste the taste of the meal, and if you are a little more powerful, you may deduce the process used by the chef when making this dish through the taste of the dish, etc., but the Qingya Taoist people through a meal, and then associate with the boxing method they created. From food to martial arts, the span is so large that ordinary people can't imagine, or ordinary people don't associate these two at all, because this is incompatible. Precisely, Qingya Dao people are not ordinary people. Then, he associated the two, and he also learned something from the "hot pot" that was similar to martial arts and could be applied to his boxing skills...... It's incredible, but it's real.

Qingya Daoist thought that his set of boxing techniques gave up the fastness, accuracy, and ruthlessness in traditional martial arts, and gave up the opportunity...... It has been completely reversed from the previous mainstream, and the emphasis is on the latter strike, the slow and fast, and the static braking...... It's a complete reversal. The hot pot is a hot bottom cold dish, can be simple or complex, the simple is a pot of water and two pieces of green vegetables, the complex is a pot of thick soup hundred kinds of ingredients, eat hot pot pay attention to a simple "hot" word, this "hot" word is not so simple, hot belly has to be seven up and eight down, hot mutton roll left and right, green vegetables have to be scalded inside and outside but can not be scalded old, and then pay attention to a little more, it has to extend to the order of hot vegetables, vegetable fungi in advance of the big meat and fat intestines back, because if you put the meat first, Finally, the vegetables will absorb the residual fat from the meat at the bottom of the pot...... In addition to these, if you want to make the hot pot taste unique, you must add another bowl...... His master Zhang Fuling once commented that his boxing implied changes in yin and yang, and he had to pay attention to the coordination and unity of will, qi and strength. The yin and yang just correspond to the hot pot scalding method, meaning, qi, and force are like the combination of ingredients, ironing method, and bowl, and his own is like a cauldron that accepts this pot of ingredients, and a hundred kinds of ingredients have their own hundred flavors, and when these hundred ingredients are suddenly stewed in a pot, the flavors between each other will affect each other and cross each other......

It is difficult for Qingya Dao people to dictate what he has realized, but there is no doubt about one thing, although he has only been in the past half a year, his boxing skills have improved a lot compared to before, although it is still not perfect, but it can be regarded as finding a way to go to perfection.

Although the boxing method has been perfected and there is an idea, the purpose of this trip to the rivers and lakes has been achieved, but Qingya Daoist still has not returned to Wudang Mountain, although he really wants to go back in his heart, but he still remembers that the task given to him by his master is to travel for three years. Since he said three years, he will never return to Wudang Mountain before the three-year period is reached. For his master's orders, he has always resolutely carried out and never discounted, which can be seen from the fact that he read those books of Fengyue and wrote commentaries for them. But even if the self-control of the Qingya Dao people is strong, they can only control their own bodies, but they can't control their thoughts.

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"Hey!" Qingya Daoist called.

When the donkey heard this, he looked back at him.

"When you say I'm not on the mountain, will the master miss me?"

This time the donkey stretched out its big tongue and curled it on its snow-white lips, thinking to himself, "How can your master be so happy?" How can I think of you?

"Did you say that Senior Brother is back to the mountain now?"

The donkey flicked his tail this time, thinking to himself, aren't you looking for something to say?

"But I miss Shizun a little bit, and I don't know if Shizun is okay these days?"

The donkey couldn't help but snort, thinking to himself that you are unproductive, when your master rode me out for a walk before, I never saw your master miss you!

"Alas......"

Qingya Daoren sighed and said, "What is the meaning of the old man who said that the master let me go out to travel for three years?" How nice it would have been if he had only let me travel for three months? Or maybe a year! In that case, we won't be able to go back soon. ”

The donkey directly ignored his words this time, and walked forward by himself, thinking that there is nothing to miss about that broken mountain, although the scenery on the side of the flying cliff is good, but no matter how beautiful the scenery has been seen for more than ten years, aren't you tired? Look at how good the world of flowers and flowers is outside, take the road under your feet, although it is not spacious, but it is much smoother than the mountain! It was time-saving and effort-saving to walk, as well as the pink-nosed gray donkey in the inn stable a few days ago...... Can you encounter any of this on your broken mountain?

"Hey, you said it's only been less than a year, we've all had such a hard time, how are we going to spend the remaining two years or so? How does time pass so slowly? ”

The donkey turned around this time, wondering if time was slowing down. I don't realize it, I feel like time flies so fast. Is time hard? I don't think I knew how happy I was when I was talking to the pink-nosed donkey in the inn stables, and if you hadn't been in a hurry to pull me along, we might have been a couple by now.

"That's it! That's it! Don't think about it, since the master wants me to travel for three years, I must abide by the master's instructions and get through these three years. ”

The donkey thought to himself, how good it is outside, why is he in a hurry to go back, but how can he get through it? Aren't we happy now? How do I feel so happy, three years is a bit short, it would be nice if it was longer, but fortunately, there is still a long time, more than two years.

Qingya Daoist reached out and touched the donkey's neck, and said, "Hey! Let's find a place to eat hot pot tonight, shall we? I haven't eaten hot pot for several days. ”

The donkey squinted his eyes and enjoyed his touch, thinking that if he likes to eat hot pot, he will eat hot pot! What do you want to do with me? I don't eat hot pot again. But when you mention eating, I miss the green fruits on the mountain, although everything is good in this flower world, but the taste of this green fruit is not a little worse than that of the mountain.

"Hey! When I mentioned hot pot, I thought of the Mu family and the little monk Wuxin, and I don't know what the two of them are doing now? They're all my friends. Qingya Daoren continued.

The donkey flicked his tail, thinking to himself what was there to miss the two of them? If you want to miss it, you also miss that pink-nosed gray donkey!

Qingya Dao didn't know what he thought, he suddenly stopped, and said excitedly: "With it, the two of us can go to the Mu family together!" When he was on the cliff, I felt that time passed so quickly, and if I stayed with him, wouldn't the remaining two years or so pass quickly? Although the master asked me to go down the mountain to be contaminated with fireworks, I have already been contaminated with it now, haven't I? ”

The donkey looked at the excited owner, and couldn't help but stretch the donkey's face, thinking that it was okay to go to the little monk, that Mu family kid is worse than your master! All day long, he was thinking about burning me...... Don't go, don't go, I'm going to go.

Where would Qingya Dao people care about paying attention to the donkey's mood at this time, and after thinking that following Mu Qiuhuang could make time "faster", he couldn't wait to find him now...... Thinking of this, he turned directly to the donkey.

Although the donkey has the intention to stumble, when the owner rides on its back, his hard-working professionalism for many years finally prevails......