"Alas, you are in such a predicament now, maybe I myself have a great responsibility!" Master first said that I was not "ruthless" enough, and then suddenly sighed again, "You have followed me since you were a child, and you will inevitably be affected by me in life and work, and you have learned my shortcomings subtly!" ”

"Master, why do you say that?" I'm really confused by how he did today.

Master shook his head gloomily: "My temperament is soft, I don't like to take the initiative to fight with others, I just want to do my own things well." This kind of character is nothing in the yang world, but in the underworld, there are too many intrigues and deceits! If you don't calculate others, others will calculate you! Otherwise, I wouldn't be where I am now! ”

Although he has lived in this small mountain village for decades, he was a great "big man" before that! It's the head of the imperial dining room of the underworld!

I was very skeptical of his statement for a while, and I didn't completely believe it until Jin Dasco, Zhao Laodao and others confirmed it. It is true that Master has always given me the impression that he is content with the status quo and has no quarrel with the world, and if he doesn't say it, no one will have anything to do with the folklore prefecture, not to mention that the head of the imperial dining room should still be a big official position.

"Master, shouldn't you also tell me about the things in the underworld?" I've finally found an opportunity to inquire about these things.

"Alas, those are some unbearable past events, telling you, where is the face of the teacher?" Master smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Master, both of us are frustrated! How many mistakes have I made before, how many mistakes have I made, don't I tell you honestly? I also smiled bitterly, "None of us should laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, you can say it and let me hear it, so that I can avoid making the same mistake in the future!" ”

Master still shook his head, and shook his head for a long time. His expression already told me that that history must have ended in unforgettable pain. However, after shaking his head for a long time, in the end he still figured it out, no longer concealed the past, and began to bitterly recall to me that painful past:

"Back then, the king of the underworld Yama was going to hold a 400-year-old birthday, so he ordered the imperial dining room to organize a 'Hundred Ghosts Night Banquet', preparing to invite all the ghosts with heads and faces in the underworld and the major judges, master books, black and white impermanence, and Yin handsome and Yin Cha to celebrate his birthday together. It's a once-in-a-century errand! ”

"The imperial dining room of the underworld has been controlled by the ghost dining gate for hundreds of years, and most of the imperial chefs are also disciples of the ghost dining gate, and I am the one with the highest cooking skills, so I became the general manager. Since I took over this errand, I don't doubt him, so I led all the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room to do it together, and worked hard and hard to design and prepare 7749 ghost meals and 9981 yin meals! ”

"Yin meal?" I suddenly heard a new term, so I interjected and asked, "Master, what kind of meal is Yin Food?" ”

"Don't interrupt yet! I'll tell you more about it later! Master was interrupted by me at the beginning, so he was a little impatient, "However, on the day of the birthday banquet, the imperial dining room was messed up, and there was actually one dish missing on both sides of the ghost meal and the yin meal!" The numbers of seven, seven, forty-nine and ninety-nine, eighty-one are not even! ”

"On the birthday banquet, the most important thing is to pay attention to these etiquettes and meanings, and one less is simply an unforgivable mistake! Therefore, the king of Yama was furious, and removed me from my post on the spot, and was ready to hold the ghost restaurant accountable! But I couldn't figure it out, I had checked it countless times before the feast, how could it be that there was just one dish missing on each side? ”

"Is someone doing something in the dark?" I couldn't help but interject again, but this time it was a succession. Framed and framed, this kind of bridge is simply overused!

Master also nodded and said, "I thought so at the time. But just as I was about to find out the reason, there was an infighting in the Ghost Dining Gate, and not only did no one come forward to defend me, but someone proposed to expel me from the door wall, hoping to appease the anger of the king of Yama! At that time, my master was no longer there, and my uncle succeeded me as the head of the family, and it was his apprentice, my second junior brother, who proposed to expel me! ”

"Humph! It's all too obvious! There is someone behind him, and it is clear that he did it! ”

"Alas, who else could there be if it wasn't him? I can't sit in the position of the head of the imperial dining room, and he is the most promising person to take over! ”

"Then you even have a motive for the crime! Master, you're too tolerant, aren't you? Don't beat him up like this? ”

"Beat him? Hehe, whoever beat it will know who did it! Master smiled bitterly.

"Did you really do it?"

"It's moving! I was so angry that I clashed with him in front of the boss! Unexpectedly, as the same imperial chef, his martial arts skills were much higher than mine, and he beat me to vomit blood on the spot! ”

"Master, you're too weak......"

The master didn't refute me, but sighed again and said, "Alas, I am usually only obsessed with studying cooking and creating new dishes, and I have never been very interested in martial arts. In addition, he was calculated by him with a heart and no intention, so he was hit hard by him on the spot, and his Yin Gong cultivation also fell directly! Even after years of recuperation, now I'm barely at the fourth level! ”

"And then?"

"There's not much more to say about that later. As soon as this embarrassment came out, not only in the underworld and the ghost dining gate, but I didn't have the face to stay in the entire underworld anymore, so I could only run back to the yang world in frustration, ready to find a remote place to spend my old age in peace, ignoring the world. Then, I met you as a young man in Paiwei Village. ”

"I saw that you had good qualifications and were a good seedling, so I started to accept apprentices and prepared to teach you my skills. But then I saw that you grew up healthy, lively and lovely, and I began to hesitate again, afraid that if you learned Yin Gong, you would follow in my footsteps, and it would harm you for the rest of your life!

Well, if Master hadn't been demoted from the underworld, he wouldn't have come to Paiwei Village, and I wouldn't have met a savior at that time. Maybe when I was a child, I couldn't withstand that toss and probably died, even if I barely grew up, I guess I would be a freak! So speaking of it, the fate of my life and Master is really rare!

"Alas, Master, you have nothing to hesitate about now! I've become like this, if you don't pass on your skills to me, I can really only be a servant for the rest of my life! I couldn't help but complain again.

"It's not that I don't want to teach you, but everything has to be done step by step. What level you have reached, I can teach you what kung fu! After the master finished talking about his black history, he finally let out the sullen breath that he had been holding for decades, and he seemed to feel much more comfortable.

"Then I have encountered a bottleneck in the cultivation of Yin Gong now, Master, do you have any good ways to solve it?"

"You're only in your twenties now, and you've already cultivated to the third intermediate level, which is fast enough compared to others, aren't you satisfied?"

"Well, it would be nice if it could be faster!" I scratched my head, even Master said the same, I guess I was really in a hurry, "Master, according to my cultivation progress, how long will it take to advance to the fourth level?" ”

"Well, there is a hurdle between the third and fourth levels of Yin Gong, and if you rely on normal mental cultivation alone, it will take at least ten or eight years!"

"Ten years, eight years? It's been too long! I couldn't help but lament.

"Wait, Master, you just said 'normal mental method', is there still an abnormal cultivation mental method in your old man's house?" I sighed halfway, and then I very keenly grasped the unusual point in Master's tone, and once again felt a glimmer of hope.

The master smiled and said, "Since the master has confessed his old background to you today, then the kung fu at the bottom of the box should also be taught to you!" ”

"What kind of work to press the bottom of the box?" I guessed correctly!

"It's the yin meal I just mentioned!"

"Yin meal?"

"That's right! The art of cooking yin food is the unique secret of the ghost food gate, and it will never be passed on, and it is also the key to the ghost food gate can control the imperial dining room of the underground government for hundreds of years! ”

"So powerful?"

"Of course it's amazing! The king of Yama had to eat the yin meal every day, otherwise what do you think he set up a special imperial dining room for? Master's eyes widened, as if he had a big deal with my skepticism.

"What the hell is a yin meal? What's the difference with a ghost meal? ”

"To put it simply, the food in the yang world is fried for the living, and the ghost meal is fried for the ghosts, which can supplement and increase resentment. As for the yin meal, it is specially fried for the yin cultivator to eat. Yin food is not just food to fill the stomach, just like ghost food, it is a medicinal food that can increase the cultivation of yin power! ”

"Medicinal diet? Isn't that similar to the effect of Yin Dan? "I can't help but start drooling when I think about it. If you can make taking pills as simple as eating vegetables after eating, it would be great!

Master really nodded and affirmed, "A good yin meal is better and more obvious than the yin pill for the promotion of cultivation!" ”

"Wow! Master, you have such a good secret that you have been hiding from me before! "I couldn't help but start complaining about him again.

My master, everything is good, but he is too good at hiding secrets, and he can hide no matter how big a secret! So everything is like squeezing toothpaste, if you don't squeeze it, he won't take the initiative to tell you!

"I didn't teach you before, because you haven't reached the time when you need to eat yin food, and many of the ingredients needed for yin food can't be bought in the yang world. Now that you've gone to Yin City, you have a chance to collect these ingredients, and it's useless for me to tell you earlier! The master spread his hands and threw out a very "high-sounding" reason.

“......”

I flattened my mouth and said to myself, "Okay, I'll reluctantly accept your lame reason!" ”