Chapter 42: Tiger Meat
Chongwu Hall is the venue for the National Rookie Martial Arts Competition, covering a large area.
Those dozens of courtyards alone already occupied a large area, but those dozens of courtyards were only in the east of the Chongwu Pavilion.
The ring is located in the central area of the Chongwu Hall, and there is not just one ring, but eight rings.
On the day of the competition, all eight rings will be held at the same time.
Otherwise, according to their schedule, a few months will not be enough time for them to fight in the ring.
The place to eat was in the western corner of the Chongwu Pavilion, which was far away from where they lived, more than half a mile away.
Fang Hao and Sun Ying went there to take a look, and there were many kinds of meat served.
There are not only domestic livestock meat such as pigs, cattle and sheep, but even meat from wild animals, which are available for free to these contestants - but the requirement is to eat them all here.
When they entered, they saw a large canteen, with a row of boards with pots and pots of cooked meat, on which were written the types of meat.
Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep and a variety of fish, as well as wild bears, wild boar, bison and even tigers.
Whether it's meat or fish, it's all labeled with a name.
However, some pots with meat are empty, such as those marked with pheasants and hares, and only some minced meat remains remain, probably because there are more people who like to eat them, or there is less food, so there is no left.
When Fang Hao saw several large pots of tiger meat placed there, he couldn't help but be shocked, and asked the master who was looking at the food:
"Master, how can tiger meat be put here?"
The master said, "Someone beat the tiger and skinned it, and after the tiger bones and tiger whips were sold, no one wanted the meat, so they sold it here." It doesn't taste very good, but it can satisfy your hunger, right?"
He pointed to the bowl of wolf meat and bear meat, and said:
"It's pretty much the same. ”
Not all game is delicious.
There are some things that ordinary people can't eat, and sometimes there is that possibility when you come across a meal that costs a lot of money, anyway, try a fresh.
However, if there is a large supply for them, and they don't need money, many times after two bites of it, no one will eat it again.
Tiger meat is like this.
This meat is very hard to bite and doesn't taste good at all, so few people eat it.
However, Fang Hao was secretly happy in his heart - for him who cultivated the Heaven Defying Technique Forging Chapter, the energy that tiger meat could provide was several times stronger than the energy provided by beef.
In other words, eating a pound of tiger meat is equivalent to the energy brought to him by eating a few pounds of beef.
That's a good thing.
Wolf meat and bear meat are similar.
He asked, "Will the meat of these beasts also be available every day?"
"Almost every day," said the master, "the hunters get these things, and they get the valuable parts and sell them for money, and the worthless things are thrown away like that." Now that the martial arts competition is about to begin, so many people come over, all of them are martial arts practitioners, and they have a lot of meat to eat a day, and they will send it here. They can exchange a little money, we can save a little money, and it's good for everyone. ”
People who practice martial arts have a lot of physical exertion, and there is no way to support it if they don't eat meat.
Fang Hao's family used to be very poor, and he had to rely on the Cui family's help for food.
Although the Cui family has never treated him badly, what he eats is basically the same as what Cui Jing eats, but because he practices very diligently and consumes more, he looks thinner and Cui Jing looks fatter with the same way of eating.
There are more than 1,000 people who come to participate in the martial arts competition, and these more than 1,000 people need tens of thousands of catties of meat to consume three meals a day, which is not a small number.
Although all this money is paid by the imperial court, and the imperial court also has the ability to pay, according to the custom, as long as it is an errand person, he must find a way to get a little oil and water.
The person in charge of the canteen, in order to reduce expenses and put the money saved in his own pocket, will come up with such a way to buy some cheap meat.
Rough and unpalatable tiger meat, wolf meat, and bear meat are among them.
Another way to do this is to make the meat more unpalatable.
If you can't get used to eating, you can eat outside, as long as they provide enough food.
Now that it's winter, the rest of the heat can be eaten next time, and the money saved will go into their pockets.
Fang Hao didn't know these exquisitenesses, but he was very happy to see the meat of these beasts.
Serving this meat may not be a good thing for someone else, but it is definitely a good thing for him.
He also thought that if he couldn't enter the Five Great Sects, in order to cultivate faster in the future, he would have to choose to be a hunter, go hunting in the wild, specialize in hunting some fierce beasts, and eat the flesh of those fierce beasts, which could make his cultivation faster.
His current strength, even if he encounters fierce beasts like tigers and bears, he can't beat them.
It's just that if you encounter a demon beast, you don't know if you can escape with your life.
There are many powerful monsters in this world, and the tiger cannot be regarded as the king of beasts, a martial artist in the acquired realm, and there is still a certain danger in hunting in the wild.
Now there is a free supply of beast meat here, which makes him very happy.
Ask the master, "Can I eat it now?"
The master nodded: "No problem, you can eat as much as you want, as long as you don't take it away." ”
The food is for the contestants, and if the contestants take it out and give it to other people, the people in charge of it will lose money, and of course they won't do it.
Fang Hao was not polite, took a pair of chopsticks and picked up a piece of tiger meat and put it in his mouth.
That piece of tiger meat weighed more than half a catty, and the stew was not very cooked, and as a dish, it was a very failure.
Sun Ying frowned when she saw such a large piece of meat, and it seemed that she could still see bloodshot when she bit it.
She doesn't like to eat food like that.
It's no wonder that people in the family who have participated in rookie competitions have said that the food in this cafeteria is too unpalatable, and it is better to eat outside.
However, for Fang Hao, this cooking method can better retain the energy contained in tiger meat.
The taste is really unpleasant, but it doesn't really matter, just enough to bring him enough energy.
At least it doesn't taste any worse than ice and fire calcined body fluids.
A half-catty piece of tiger meat was quickly eaten by him.
When Sun Ying thought that this was enough, he took another piece and sent it to his mouth.
Who knows if there will be any meat like this tomorrow?
Under the surprised eyes of Sun Ying and the canteen master, Fang Hao ate five or six catties of tiger meat in one go.