When the lights were turned on, the electric lights in the north room lit up in a dim glow.

On the table of eight immortals in the middle of the north room, there is a dustpan of freshly baked green onion dough cakes, and in the clay basin next to it, there is also a pot full of golden millet porridge, exuding an attractive fragrance.

In the four vegetable bowls placed in the middle of the table of the Eight Immortals, a bowl of finely chopped shredded radish with sauce was ordered with sesame oil, which made people appetizing when they smelled it.

The shallow dish put aside the cabbage boiled out of Shanxi old vinegar without being cut with a knife, but was broken into the size of a thumb and belly by hand.

A small coarse magnetic plate is stacked with evenly and carefully cut pig ears, and the dark purple sauce mixed with the juice of green green onions makes people can't bear to move the chopsticks.

And in the largest clay bowl sat a whole elbow, and the red sauce was thickly stewed. Just smelling the fragrance of the meat oil and the sweet aftertaste of the star anise, the old Beiping people don't need to stretch out their chopsticks to taste it, and they can all shout it out - this must be the sauce elbow of the casserole!

The year is not good, even if there are guests in the old Beiping family of a small family, and a plate of pig's head meat or sheep goes into the water, it will be regarded as a meat. The small families who are really willing to open this kind of food will either have distinguished guests, or they will be quietly scolded by the daughters-in-law of the old Beiping who are diligent and thrifty while secretly envious - burned!

Looking at the two meat and two vegetarian meals on the table, Xiang Youbao rubbed his hands a little crampedly, and said to Na Jiuye, who was walking out of the back room with a wine plug, "Uncle...... You're too ......."

Putting the wine plug filled with hot water on the table, Na Jiuye turned his hand and put two wine cups the size of his thumb and belly on the table of the Eight Immortals, and shouted outside the house with a bright voice: "My old girl who knows that cold and heat will hurt people, if there is a guest here today, you will be open and give your father two taels more, right?" ”

The curtain of the door was lifted, and the girl in the moon-white jacket skirt held a small white copper wine jug, walked into the north room gracefully, and gently put the small white copper wine jug that could hold up to three taels of wine in the wine plug: "I'm happy to give you half a catty of wine, but you also have to have that amount of wine, don't you?" Just three or two wines, love to drink or not! ”

I didn't look at the leopard standing at the table of the eight immortals, the girl in the moon-white skirt took a small bowl, and put some of the vegetarian dishes on the table into the small bowl, but she didn't move the two meat dishes at all, just took a green onion cake and turned around and opened the curtain and walked out.

Raising his hand to beckon Xiang Youbao to sit down, Na Jiu Ye pinched the small white copper wine jug that had just been inserted into the wine plug, waved his chopsticks and filled some boiled cabbage into his mouth, chewing with taste, while opening his mouth to say to Xiang Youbao who had just sat down: "Learn the craft from your master, presumably your master's little amount of wine, you have also learned a lot, right?" ”

Nodding slightly, Xiang Youbao skillfully took the small white copper wine jug in Na Jiuye's hand, and gently shook it along his wrist, while snorting gently: "This should be the old bubble puree Hengshui Lao Baigan?" ”

Looking at the gesture of the leopard's warm wine, Na Jiuye nodded with satisfaction: "There is still a little knowledge!" ”

Estimating that the wine was almost warm, Xiang Youbao raised his wrist slightly, and when the water droplets hanging outside the white copper wine jug had not had time to drip on the table, he grabbed the palm of the white copper wine jug and pecked it, and the two thumb-sized small wine cups were suddenly filled with clear and mellow wine syrup.

Stretched out three fingers and pinched the small wine cup, Na Jiu Ye brought the small wine cup to his lips very stylishly, and sipped the warm wine syrup into his mouth: "I really learned something from your master, and this phoenix nod can be regarded as an authentic trick!" ”

Interestingly picked up the wine cup and took a sip, Xiang Youbao refilled the wine syrup for Na Jiuye, and smiled at Na Jiuye with low eyebrows: "I heard the master say that the phoenix nodding technique in the door is the most authentic practice of the uncle!" ”

Shaking his head quite smugly, Na Jiuye smiled and said, "This is not blowing!" Waiting for things in the main gate of the fire, this is each with its own way. But when it comes to the skill of the phoenix nodding practiced by the old and young masters in this sect, the ......."

As if remembering some unpleasant past, Na Jiu Ye sighed heavily: "Alas...... At that time, in the main gate of the fire, the good hands who could domesticate the eight beasts did not matter, even if the men who had learned the craft for three years in the door went to the field of serving the beasts on all walks of life, the people who greeted them could stand on a street! But now....... even those who poke the cockfighting arena in the old official's garden dare not take a look at us! ”

Carefully refilled the wine syrup for Na Jiuye again, and Xiang Youbao pondered the words and said: "I heard the master mention it, saying that he went away to Kanto because he offended people?" ”

slapped his thigh fiercely, and Na Jiuye glared: "Isn't it just offending people?!" Fundamentally speaking, Huozhengmen is on the official road, and there is no powerful master behind him to support him, who can afford to serve those expensive things? But your master ......"

Maybe it was because the amount of alcohol was really shallow, Na Jiuye, who had only drunk two cups, talked to Xiang Youbao with some chatter.......

The ancestor of Huo Zhengmen, according to ancient legends, was the leader of the Shang tribe during the Xia Dynasty and lived in Shangqiu. Because it was once named Huozheng by the rulers of the Xia Dynasty, Huozheng Gate was also named.

According to legend, Aito was tall and healthy, and when he led the people of his clan on hunting, he often fought with various fierce beasts.

In the course of his long-term battle with wild beasts, Aito observed that the food of tall and sturdy wild horses was things like weeds and wild fruits, and there was no great conflict with the human food chain. If wild horses can be tamed and wild horses can be changed from wild to captive, their utilization value will be immeasurable.

So, Aito began to tame the wild horse, and after countless fights with the wild horse, he finally tamed the wild horse, so that the horse slowly adapted to the domestic living habits.

After Xiangtu successfully tamed the horses, he personally or instructed the people of the Shang tribe to tame bison, wild boars, wild sheep, wild dogs, pheasants, etc., and after taming them, they changed from wild to domestic. After these animals became domesticated, due to the improvement and change of breeding conditions and living environment, the reproductive ability was enhanced, and the number gradually increased. The six animals called today, namely horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens, were raised in large quantities during the Xiangtu period. The description of "Aito riding horses" in the "Semoto Writings" is a true portrayal of Aito's taming and raising livestock.

In "Lü's Spring and Autumn Ancient Music", there is also a record of "merchants wearing elephants and abusing Dongyi". It shows that Xiangtu not only domesticated horses, cattle and other animals, but also domesticated elephants, and used the tamed elephants in the war against the Dongyi people. The word "for" in the oracle bone inscription seems to be a hand-holding pictogram, which confirms that there is indeed a thing of taming the elephant.

After Xiangtu, the Confucius people also have the ability to tame beasts. According to legend, the first time he was imprisoned was because he failed to keep his promise to pay a harrier eagle his due, and he was retaliated by the harrier eagle and imprisoned.

As the years passed, the ancestors of Huozhengmen had completed their historical mission. And as the inheritors of the Fire Gate, the disciples of the Fire Gate have also begun to challenge a higher difficulty - domesticating the world's exotic beasts!

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were Huozheng disciples who helped the Shu army to domesticate 100 wolf warriors, and they were invincible.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 30 vultures tamed by Huozheng's disciples, which were used to transmit messages to the western army.

In the subsequent dynasties of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the disciples of Huozhengmen also had extraordinary achievements.

But in the late Qing Dynasty, the master of the leopard was stubborn because of his strong blood and stubborn temperament, and never refused to domesticate some rare fighting beasts for those high-ranking families, but instead mixed with a group of folk fighting beast masters, and even relied on some ancient animal taming routines in the main gate of the fire, and figured out some strange ways to make those cherished fighting beasts that cost thousands of taels of silver to serve become things that can be domesticated by folk fighting beasts!

As soon as this incident came out, the group of Ji Lao in the main gate of Huo at that time were immediately furious - if everyone in the world could domesticate a precious fighting beast at the price of three melons and two dates, then the survival of the main gate of Huo would definitely be seriously threatened!

And those rich and wealthy families hate this matter even more - even a group of Liba, who is carrying work on the big fence, can make a gourd for a winter, how can this show that the hardcore crops of the Eight Banners and the bannermen are a head above others?

Come and go, and conflict becomes inevitable!

In the face of the coercion and coercion of the old man at the main gate of Huo, the young and vigorous master of Xiang Youbao bit his feet and stomped on his feet, and recognized the conditions offered by the old men in the main gate of Huozheng - within a year, the eight major fighting beasts will compete with the ace fighting beasts in the hands of the old men of the main gate of Huo, and the loser will be at the disposal of the winner!

A year later, after the eight major beast competitions, in the face of the scene of the great victory of the master who has a leopard, those old men in the main gate of Huo, who regard face as more important than their lives, were angry and angry, and they actually tore apart the strange beast pictures that have been passed down from generation to generation in the main gate of Huozheng in public!

And those Eight Banners who spent a lot of money to domesticate fighting beasts couldn't suppress the evil fire in their hearts, and at the scene of the Eight Great Fighting Beasts competition, they attracted swordsmen in the middle of the fight, and attacked the master who had a leopard.......

Fortunately, in addition to domesticating fighting beasts, the disciples of Huozheng Gate are also quite weak. After overturning a few swordsmen in the middle of the line one after another, the master of Xiangyou Leopard snatched a fragment of a strange beast map, and fled under the cover of Na Jiuye's open and secret cover.

After hiding in the city of Beiping for three days, facing the scene of almost the whole city being a big rope and having to put himself to death, the master of Xiang Youbao could only take the road that people who fled and fled from disasters took most often - to break through the eastern part of the country!

Maybe it was the heavens' own arrangement, and the picture of the alien beast that was torn apart by Ji Lao in the main gate of the fire happened to be divided into eight parts of different sizes. In addition to the master who had a leopard who grabbed one of them, the other seven fragments of the Alien Beast Diagram fell into the hands of the Huozheng disciples, the children of the Eight Banners, the Qinggui players, or the swordsmen who were present at the time.

Since then, Huo Zhengmen, which had almost monopolized the beast taming business, no longer has a monopoly advantage, and some other people who have obtained the fragment of the alien beast diagram by chance have almost all relied on the secret method of taming beasts on the fragment of the alien beast diagram to serve the fighting beast.

After a long time, the people in Huozhengmen, who had lost the map of the alien beast and the strong financial support, had already passed like Wang Xiaoer's New Year - a year was not as good as a year!

Especially Na Jiuye, although the matter of selling crickets in exchange for ten oceans for the master who has a leopard as a travel fee was done quite secretly, but how can there be an impermeable wall in the world?

The old man of the main gate of the fire, the gentlemen among the children of the Eight Banners, and even the swordsmen who were lucky enough to get the fragments of the alien beast diagram in the fighting line, are all squeezing Na Jiu Ye openly and secretly. Several times, as soon as the scorpion carried by Na Jiu Ye came on the field, a few familiar faces with scorpion jars stood up behind the other party, and whether it was a wheel battle or a scene of winning or losing, anyway, if the scorpion brought by Na Jiu Ye was crippled and killed, it would not be over!

It's been a long time, and fortunately, Na Jiuye really has the unique skill of domesticating fighting scorpions with two hands, otherwise......

Fasting, liquor, sorrow, trivialities, plus Na Jiuye's alcohol consumption is obviously shallow, and the shallow three or two drinks are down, and the words in Na Jiuye's mouth have become upside down, and even the car is nagging back and forth.

Pointing to the face of the leopard, the wine spewed out of the mouth of Na Jiu Ye was intoxicating: "Boy...... I know you're coming to the door for the fragment of this beast in my hand! I told you...... There are no doors! A fragment of this beast diagram...... This is my old daughter's dowry! My old girl's life is miserable...... Stand up to me as an unserious dad! Otherwise...... In Sijiu City, whose girl has to mess around with insects every day...... My poor old girl......"

Standing up, Xiang Youbao coaxed Na Jiuye, who had barely had time to eat and was already drunk and full of nonsense, to go back to his room to sleep, while quietly reaching out and grabbing the fly cover that was lying diagonally on the side of the table, and gently buckled it to the meal that was almost untouched......

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