Is Wang Shixiang a luxury person?

From Jiang Xiaoyu's point of view, he is absolutely yes.

Because looking at the dishes in front of him, Jiang Xiaoyu knew how much this Lord Wang Shixiang loved and enjoyed. Eight treasures of vegetarian duck, Qiankun bag, yellow stewed antelope meat, stewed soft-shelled turtle with rock sugar. In addition to these dishes, which are relatively common in large hotels, there are also various things that I have never seen before. Looks like the meat of a so-called demon beast?

It's like Jiang Xiaoyu has a big bowl in front of him, and in the bowl is a bowl of soup. This doesn't seem unusual, but it's just a bowl of soup. But if there is a large eye with a diameter of 15 centimeters floating in this bowl with a diameter of 20 centimeters, and the eyeball is still staring at itself, this feeling may not be so good.

"Come on, come on, Leader Jiang is not polite. The flesh of this one-eyed monster is very average, but its eyes are delicious. It is smooth and tender, and it tastes endless. ”

Wang Shixiang greeted Jiang Xiaoyu warmly, eating the eyes of the one-eyed demon beast in the sea bowl.

It's also pitiful to say, in the era of more than six hundred years ago, there were still many demon beasts in the empire. Although that time was called the Gaowu era, demon beasts were also rampant everywhere at that time. From time to time, the so-called demon beast eats people. At that time, people's lives were really hard.

And when the first emperor unified the empire, he taught martial arts on a large scale, although the number of top masters in the empire was not as many as in the Gaowu era. However, the number of middle-level martial artists has increased massively, and with the cooperation of various weapons and equipment, the wilderness and dense forests where monsters were rampant in the past have been slowly conquered.

In particular, the first emperor Hai specially commissioned someone to write a "Classic of Mountains and Seas". This "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is dedicated to recording those demon beasts, including the living habits and attack characteristics and weaknesses of those demon beasts. However, the most important thing is that it records the texture and taste of various demon beasts, as well as various medicinal properties.

For example, there is a monster called the eared mouse, which looks like a giant mouse, but has the head of a rabbit, the body of an elk, the same sound as a dog, and can fly with its tail. This ear rat is grilled with a special rich aroma, and only a little bit of fat is needed to give the vegetables a strong meaty taste. Moreover, eating its meat can also treat bloating and abdominal pain, as well as avoid all kinds of poisons.

In addition to eared rats, there is also a demon beast called Shantu, which looks like a tiger and bear, and is extremely violent and ferocious. It is very difficult for a human-level product to deal with it. And its meat is sour and unpalatable, but there are still countless male diners who are obsessed with it. There is no other reason, just because the Book of Mountains and Seas records a sentence [eating its flesh, yang energy is prosperous, and there are many heirs]. Therefore, the mountain map that is obviously as powerful as a human rank is slowly being eaten and is about to disappear.

Of course, the meat of these monsters is very difficult to kill. Since the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" appeared and clarified the edible value and medicinal value of these demon beasts, the life of these demon beasts has become more and more difficult. There are too many people who want to eat them, but not many can afford to kill them. But as long as the big merchants wield enough gold dollars, then there will always be people who are willing to go to great lengths to hunt down these demon beasts.

These people who hunt monsters are known as [monster hunters].

Now there are fewer and fewer monsters, because in order to meet the increasingly large consumer population, monster hunters are almost risking their lives to work. Especially in recent years, the price of demon beast meat has risen wildly, and the price of a plate of mountain map meat can already buy a toilet on the side of the outer city wall of the imperial capital.

The demon beasts that used to endanger the human world in groups began to slowly die in the endless expansion of the appetite of the imperial people.

And because the empire has expanded more and more cities over the years, the population of the empire has expanded more than ten times in more than 600 years. There are now more than 300 million people registered in the empire. Land is tight, towns are expanding, farmland is expanding. Once the habitat of monsters, those dense forests are constantly encroached upon by fields and towns.

The farmer bachelor of the Imperial University put forward their appeal: "If we destroy all the demon beasts, then it will inevitably lead to the rupture of the entire biological chain, which will have serious consequences!"

As a result, amid the constant protests and letters from the peasant scholars, the empire had to promulgate the "Demon Beast Protection Law" more than a hundred years ago. It is stipulated that those demon beasts can be properly hunted, those demon beasts cannot be hunted, and those demon beasts can be raised and eaten as food.

But the law is the law, and sometimes there are things that cannot be forbidden. It's like a one-eyed monster, which the Empire can't eat. But if you can't stand it, some people love to eat, so there are still people in the underground market who buy it at a high price, and monster hunters will also go to other places to hunt in order to make money. Since the empire is not allowed to kill, it is better to go to other countries to kill.

The laws of the empire do not govern foreign countries. After killing, it is good to transport it back to China, and you only need to fill in foreign specialty agricultural products when you declare customs.

"This one-eyed demon beast is a specialty of the resting country, come and come, Leader Jiang will taste it. Wang Shixiang greeted him very hospitablely. And to put it lightly, this is a specialty of the Sabbatical State. This is probably the art of being an official.

However, Jiang Xiaoyu was still a little embarrassed when he saw this thing, because this eyeball was too big. Usually he doesn't even eat things like pig eyes and bull's eyes. Eating such big eyes now? He felt like he couldn't stand it.

Over there, Wang Shixiang took a bite of the eyeball soup in front of him and savored it and talked eloquently: "It's a pity, these eyes are too big." In fact, the one-eyed monster beast still has the best eyes when he was a child. At that time, the eyeballs were only the size of ordinary pig eyes, and they were stewed in broth, and a dozen eyeballs were put into one pot. After cooking, it condenses into a freeze, then pours it out and turns it upside down on a plate. That delicious...... Tsk tsk. ”

Jiang Xiaoyu imagined a picture of more than a dozen eyeballs made into jelly and then buckled upside down on the plate. Vomit... He almost threw up. This TM is mental pollution. This Lord Wang Shixiang's taste is very strong. Let's change the topic cleanly.

"Thank you Lord Wang for the banquet today, and I would like to toast here. ”

"Good. ”

Jiang Xiaoyu stood up and toasted Wang Shixiang with a glass of wine, and then said, "I don't know what Lord Wang needs to order for today's banquet. ”

"Well, Chief Jiang is really an upright person. Wang Shixiang said lightly. After that, he looked at Chang Ke in his right hand, and Chang Ke was looking at the eyeball soup in front of him in embarrassment.

"Please show me so. Jiang Xiaoyu was respectful.

Wang Shixiang stopped and said, "I heard that Chief Jiang is interested in entering the Taixue Academy for further study?"

"That's true. Jiang Xiaoyu didn't lie.

"It's good to enter the Taixue Academy, the world's official giants are all from the Taixue Academy. Leader Jiang has this heart. But I heard that Chief Jiang is not good at exams?"

"This ...... Indeed it is. ”

"Well, it doesn't matter. The old man has also been a teacher in the Imperial Taixue Academy for many years. The old man took a letter of resignation, and compared to Chief Jiang, he was still able to enter the Taixue Academy. ”

Having said this, if Jiang Xiaoyu still doesn't understand Wang Shixiang, then he will be a big fool.

"If Lord Wang has anything to order, Jiang Xiaoyu will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire!"

ps: There is a change later, Monday ~ ask for tickets.