Zhang Zhao followed Zhu Liang to the back hall of the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, where a gray-clothed disciple with a face as sharp as a knife and his eyes closed was leaning on the square table with a tired face and was napping.

Zhu Liang seemed to be very familiar with these disciples in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, so he stepped forward and slapped the table hard: "Liang Xiu, this is the new Senior Brother Zhang, the fat master asked me to bring some clothes and bedding." ”

Liang Xiu, who was in a daze, was startled, and straightened up with a shake of his body: "I wish senior brother, I am scared to death and have to pay for my life." He looked at Zhang Zhao: "Are you called Zhang Zhangzhao?"

Zhang Zhao nodded in surprise: "I am Zhang Zhangzhao, how do you know my name, senior brother?"

Liang Xiu looked at Zhang Zhao and complained, "Elder Meng ordered me to wait for you here. He said that you are both a disciple in the Yangxian Hall and the Canteen Hall, and you will be given an extra set of clothes and bedding. ”

He looked Zhang Zhao's face up and down: "You don't seem to be a relative of Elder Meng, why is it that when he mentions it, you are full of smiles." ”

After speaking, Liang Xiu turned around and picked up the two large rolls of things that had been prepared long ago from the big cabinet behind him and handed them to Zhang Zhao: "You take it, each one is a set of bedding and two sets of clothes." After speaking, he yawned and turned to the back door: "I've done a day's work, I have to go back to rest." ”

Zhang Zhao looked at his back and said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Liang." He carried a futon in each hand and walked out of the miscellaneous hall.

Zhu Liang walked back with Zhang Zhao and wondered, "Elder Meng, why did this iron rooster change his temperament? You can't change your clothes when they are torn on weekdays, but today they actually give you four sets at once." ”

He looked at Zhang Zhao: "Senior Brother Zhang Zhao, you can't really be a relative of Elder Meng's family." ”

Zhang Zhao shook his head again and again when he heard this: "It's really not." ”

The two broke up in front of the back kitchen, and Zhang Zhao carried his things on the trail. Go back to your place and spread the futon, and throw the extra set on the bed next to it.

I didn't sleep all night last night, and I have to get up early tomorrow to help in the back kitchen, Zhang Zhao silently recited the requiem mantra a few times but still didn't feel sleepy, what he saw and heard during the day, especially the girl in white who met by the lake appeared in front of him one by one.

Zhang Zhao tried to adjust his thoughts, calmly restrained his mind, always couldn't sleep steadily, got up and looked around, and always felt uncomfortable. He looked in the direction of the usual deafening noise, and finally understood what was missing.

Zhang Zhao lay down again with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and the two golden words in his mind suddenly spread out, slowly condensing into a fat adult figure leaning on the recliner. The golden face gradually became clear, and it was the appearance of an old butcher who had fallen asleep. As soon as his mind moved, the golden old butcher immediately snored like thunder. In the familiar melody, Zhang Zhao fell asleep peacefully.

Not long after the fifth watch, Zhang Zhao was awakened by a knock on the door. "Senior Brother Zhang Zhao, get up. "Outside, it sounded like Zhu Liang's voice. Zhang Zhao turned over and got up, put on a gray cloth dress he brought yesterday, and opened the door to see that it was Zhu Liang standing in front of him.

"The fat master is afraid that you won't be able to get up, so let me call you. Zhu Liang was also sleepy-eyed: "Today is your first day to work, go down early." ”

Zhang Zhao agreed, turned around and took the strange knife and hung it on his waist. and Zhu Liang walked down the mountain road quickly.

At this time, it was not yet the fifth watch, there was a faint layer of mist on Lingxiao Peak, walking through the humid air on the mountain road, Zhang Zhao's spirit was lifted, the two of them ran quickly to the back kitchen, and when they entered the door, they saw that hundreds of back kitchen disciples had already walked through and were busy.

The fat master was wearing a large leather apron on his chest, and he was very happy to see Zhang Zhao come in: "I worked hard to bring you to the back kitchen, you don't want to be as useless as these boys." ”

He looked at the dozen or so kitchen disciples around him who were also wearing leather aprons and scolded: "After studying for so long, the next knife is still trembling, and I am so tired that I stink to death every day, and I don't know who the master is." More than a dozen disciples were holding on to the bright sharp knives in their hands, and their faces showed a look of contempt.

A door opposite the back kitchen opened, and a few livestock were driven in by several people with white scarves on their heads: "Fat master, today's goods have been delivered." An old man with a wrinkled face at the front greeted him, and then turned back to the young men behind him, "Do your job." ”

Several young men stepped forward and knocked down the first cow deer, and took the rope from their waist and tied it to its four hooves. Then we started to tie up a cow deer.

As soon as Zhang Zhao was about to go up to help, he saw the fat master take out one of the bundles of iron hooks hanging from his head with his left hand. The right hand dragged the knot between the hooves of the cow and deer in front of him, easily lifted the hundreds of catties of cattle and deer, and hung it upside down on the iron hook.

The kitchen disciple timidly held Niu Lu and groped for a long time before stabbing it down. The cow deer hung upside down and tossed for a long time, and died of breath.

The fat master held an iron hook in one hand, lifted the cow deer in the other hand and hung it up, and each back kitchen disciple was assigned one, and the whimper of the cow deer before death kept sounding.

Zhang Zhao stood aside and watched, only then did he understand what Zhu Liang said last night. The fat master lifted hundreds of catties of cattle and deer with one hand as if there was nothing, and although there were many hooks on his head, he could distinguish from far and near, and none of the iron hooks were entangled with other rope hooks after hanging the cattle and deer. One by one, the cow deer was gently pushed by him, and it hung firmly in front of those disciples in the back kitchen.

Looking at the performance of those disciples in the back kitchen, Zhang Zhao also understood what the fat master just said, although more than a dozen disciples had killed livestock, their hands were still not skilled enough, and more than forty cattle and deer were hung up in the back kitchen, and the first disciple to go under the knife had not even finished peeling the skin

Zhang Zhao didn't know if he should join, so he stood there and watched the fat master with livestock hanging on his head, and the livestock that came in had been replaced by fat black-haired pigs. Zhang Zhao has never seen this kind of pig, and it is more than several times larger than the dealers in the town, and each pig weighs nearly 1,000 catties.

The fat master didn't care, and when the young people tied up, they still hung up one by one. He turned his head to look at Zhang Zhao, who was standing in a daze, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It seems that he is a fool again." ”

He shouted, "New boy, you did it, it's not like you did this before." ”

Zhang Zhao reacted when he heard his words, and hurriedly walked in front of a hanging cow deer, kicked lightly under his feet, adjusted the direction of the wooden basin that received the blood, and recited the requiem incantation in his mouth. Flick your fingers and hold the strange knife in your hand.

When the fat master looked back, it was when Zhang Zhao was silently reciting the incantation. He saw that this kid was really a wooden thing, and he hadn't done it for a long time. I had to turn around with a bitter face and drag a black pig to hang up.

After hanging up the black pig, the fat master let go of his hand and was about to lift the next head, when out of the corner of his eye, he saw that several disciples who were already slow stopped moving, and looked straight at Zhang Zhao's direction.

The fat master was so angry that he was smoking, thinking that it was really a rice bucket to look at the rice bucket, could you really see the right eye? He turned around and was about to scold, but when he saw Zhang Zhao's movements, he was also stunned.

Zhang Zhao silently finished reciting the requiem incantation, and the strange knife in his hand flashed into the chest of the cow deer, and the cow deer flew out of the sky without a sound. Then Zhang Zhao took the knife and cut a circle along the deer's head, broke each limb with a knife, pulled the deer skin with one hand, held the knife with the other hand, peeled off the whole deerskin, disemboweled, took out the internal organs and put them into the basin at his feet, the knife flashed, the cattle and deer were divided into two halves, and then cut a few times, in addition to the hook on the rope and two hind hooves, a big bull deer has separated many pieces of meat, put it in another large basin under his feet.

This series of actions was clean and neat, and although more than a dozen disciples in the back kitchen used the knife first, they had not even finished peeling off the cow and deer skin. Zhang Zhao didn't stop in his hands, stood in front of another cow deer and recited the incantation silently, and then the knife flashed, and another cow deer was instantly dismembered into the basin.

Zhang Zhao kept his hands on it, didn't care about the reactions of the people around him, and worked as quickly as if he was at home. Usually, he kills up to six or seven livestock a day at home, and there are dozens of cattle and deer in front of him.

The disciples in the back kitchen gradually discovered the situation on Zhang Zhao's side, and they all stopped what they were doing and watched intently, even the young men who tied pigs were no exception.

Zhang Zhao quickly dealt with the cow deer, and unconsciously walked in front of the dozen or so back kitchen disciples, and saw that there were no unkilled cow deer at hand, only then did he find hundreds of direct glances around.

The fat master was also one of these people, he looked at Zhang Zhao's eyes and shouted, "What are you doing, don't hurry up and work." After speaking, a big pig hung a hook and swung in front of Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao thought that his skills were not good, which attracted everyone to watch, so he recited the incantation, and sped up a little speed in his hand. The black pig was divided into pieces of meat in a few clicks, and then walked quickly to the next one.

Usually, the fat master hangs up the livestock, and then does the work himself, and a group of people are busy until sunrise to finish it. The addition of Zhang Zhao has undoubtedly greatly improved the speed. The fat master kept his hands on it, and the black pig in front of the door walked in and a group of fat sheep came in. The speed at which the four young men tied up and hung up with the fat master was on par with Zhang Zhao's killing.

Pots of raw meat were taken away by the disciples in the back kitchen. A dozen or so disciples in the kitchen with sharp knives had already become spectators, and they didn't have the confidence to move on to the next one after they had finished their livestock.

Zhang Zhao walked alone through the iron hooks hanging from the livestock, the light of the knife flashed again and again, except for the short moment when he stopped chanting, he gave everyone the feeling that he was not touching the ground, and he was brisk.

The last fat sheep was cut, Zhang Zhao's strange knife in his hand was not stained, he put the knife into the sheath, and looked at the fat master with some embarrassment: "There have never been so many livestock at home, so slow down, fat master, don't be weird." ”

There was a smile on the fat master's face: "If I knew that you were like this, let alone robbing people with Zhu Qingzhen, even if the senior brother in charge asked for someone, I would not make a mistake." ”

He stepped forward and patted Zhang Zhao on the shoulder: "From today on, you are the person in the back kitchen." No matter what, I'll cover you in the future. ”