Chapter 30: We Are Different!
The slight dizziness disappeared, and Makua found himself on the edge of a small clear lake, with a bamboo house on the left, a pot, a few ingredients, and a tall and thin young man.
The tall and thin young man held a knife and looked at Mu Er with doubts in his eyes, "Although I don't know why it will be dangerous to let you join the Four Arts Peak, I have decided not to let you pass. ”
Maku'e walked over to the table where the ingredients were placed, frowned, and said, "If my guess is correct, you examiners must ask the interlocutor a question, and if the interlocutor can't answer it, he or she is qualified to refuse." ”
"That's right, but do you think you can pass my test?" The tall and lanky young man sliced a potato-like thing, and when it was ready, he said to the curtain and said.
Mu Er asked rhetorically, "How do you know if you don't try?" ”
"Bang!"
The tall and thin young man picked up a large bone and lowered it with his knife, and all the flesh on the bone was shaved off without a trace of it, and he threw the bone into the bucket at his feet.
"You're right, the assessment of you is a rule, and we can't violate it." Continuing to shave the flesh, the tall and thin youth said.
"The four art peaks have four arts: cooking, array, utensils, and sound."
"I'm naturally related to cooking here, and my assessment content is very simple, you use the ingredients here to make a dish and throw it into the lake, if the lake thinks you can pass it, then I have nothing to say."
Glancing at the calm and clear lake, he asked the tall and thin young man, "How can I be sure that you are not lying?" ”
"Do I need to lie?" The tall and thin young man was not angry, he looked up at the curtain and said disdainfully: "This lake is not a real lake, it is a special creature in the kitchen, and if you want to impress it, you must make your dishes contain emotions." ”
"And it's the emotion it likes."
Looking at the confident expression on the face of the tall and thin young man, Makua knew that the other party was not lying, and he was silent.
After a while, he walked up to the tall and thin young man and decided to give it a try, if he really couldn't join Siyi Peak, he could only find another way.
"Here you go." The tall and thin young man did not give up when he saw Mu Er, and handed the knife in his hand to Mu Er.
After taking the knife and washing his hands, Maku'e picked out two good-looking potatoes and a few shallots from the vegetable basket next to him.
Peel and cut the potatoes into pieces, strain them in salted water and set aside.
After continuing to chop the shallots, Makuai crouched down and randomly picked out two large bones with a little meat from the bucket of bones at his feet and placed them on the cutting board.
After doing this, Makuai poured a large scoop of water into the cauldron on the side, lit the fire, and put two bones into the pot.
"You just want to impress people with these two bones?" The tall and thin young man looked at the simple ingredients of the curtain, and couldn't help but say sarcastically.
"It's the dish I'm most familiar with, and I can't handle anything else." Mu Er shook his head.
The tall and thin young man shook his head and said sarcastically, "You won't succeed in giving up, will you?" ”
"Giving up without trying, that's not my style, and it won't make me reconcile." Makuai refused.
The tall and thin young man was not speaking, and in his opinion, it was stupid and incomprehensible for him to act like this, knowing that he could not do it.
Instead of paying attention to the curtain, he stuck a processed fish into a small wooden stick, and then built a fire on the side, preparing to make a grilled fish for dinner.
Maku'e glanced at the tall and lanky young man, and turned his gaze to the bones tumbling in the pot, his eyes filled with memories and determination.
Time passed in silence between the two, and soon a tempting smell of fish spread from the tall and thin young man.
Mu E couldn't help but swallow when he smelled this fragrance, and he had to admit that the slender young man's cooking skills were very good.
Turning his head to look over, he saw that the whole fish was an attractive golden brown on the small fire, and the outside was not scorched at all, and the churning fish meat was also white and tender, and the aroma was tangy, like a work of art.
At this moment, a thin smell of meat wafted from the cauldron next to him to Maku's nose, and a slight smile appeared in his eyes.
Unhurriedly, pour the chopped potatoes from the cutting board into the slightly white pot, sprinkle some salt into it, and close the lid on the pot when all this is done.
After about five minutes, the lid of the pot was lifted, and a white mist with the aroma of potatoes and bones came to the surface.
The rich and ordinary fragrance filled Maku'e with memories, and after swallowing his saliva, he sprinkled all the chopped green onions into the pot to increase the flavor of the soup.
Picking up a bowl and spoon, Makue scooped a spoonful of soup from the pot and drank a few slices of potatoes.
Bringing the soup to the tall and thin young man, Makue asked, "How about you taste this soup from your ingredients?" ”
"I don't have time right now, so just leave it there." The tall and thin young man didn't raise his head and said casually.
Maku'e didn't care about the attitude of the tall and thin young man, and after placing the soup on the cutting board, he asked, "How do you bring the soup to the lake to taste?" ”
"Just take a bowl with soup and walk to the lake, do you have to ask me anything!" The tall and thin young man was bored with Maku'e's spirit of not giving up, and raised his head and yelled at Maku'e.
Maku's shoulders were cowardly, with no expression on his face, but he picked up the soup that had been placed on the cutting board and blew it, and then slowly drank it.
"What junk food! Also delusional to satisfy the river! The slender and tall young man saw Mu Er's actions, and spat disdainfully: "What I can't do, if you can do it, I'll call you Dad!" ”
He didn't say anything to the tall and thin young man's mockery, and he walked over to the cauldron that was still boiling, and scooped up a large bone from the cauldron.
He didn't care about the temperature of the bones, poked a hole in the bone with his fingers, and then lowered his head to suck the bone marrow in it.
The rich fragrance entered his mouth, making Maku's eyes squint in enjoyment, and his mind returned to his once simple life.
No matter how delicious it is, there is a time when it is swallowed, and he looks at the soup left in the pot, he knows that the soup is still the same soup as before, but he is no longer the self who does nothing and is messy every day.
Taking out a clean bowl again, a bowl of soup and a bone, Makue walked to the lake and crouched down to hand out the soup.
Suddenly, the calm surface of the lake rippled, and an arm made of lake water appeared, took the soup from Makuo'e's hand, and disappeared into the lake.
"The world is so amazing that you can even taste the food in the lake." Seeing that the lake was calm again, he couldn't guess how the lake tasted the food, and couldn't help but sigh.
He didn't know if his food would satisfy He, and he didn't care if he could satisfy him at the moment.
Not being able to enter the Four Spirits Peak just means that a path has failed, some regrets but no pity, it's just a new way.
He never thinks that everything he does can be successful, he just tries to accomplish it and has a clear conscience.
"What are you looking at, miracle?" The tall and thin young man took a bite of the grilled fish and came to the side of the curtain, looking down at him and mocking him.
Mu Er glanced at the tall and thin young man and said, "I don't know if a miracle will happen to me, after all, I am not the darling of fate, but I know that a miracle will not happen to you." ”
"Hehe, what's the use of quibbling, here you are a garbage that is about to be eliminated." The tall and thin young man spat out a fish bone and sneered.
Mu Er frowned and shook his head, about to say something, when suddenly the calm surface of the lake rippled, and a passage that was exactly the same as where the old man in the robed man was, appeared.
Looking at this passage, Mu Er was a little surprised, turned to the tall and thin young man and said, "It seems that a miracle has happened, but first of all, I don't agree with your son." ”
The tall and thin young man looked at the passage on the river in disbelief, his eyes turned red when he heard the mockery of Mu Er, and he angrily threw the grilled fish in his hand on the ground.
With a hideous face, he grabbed Maku's shoulder and yelled, "Bastard! You pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger to pit me! ”
"Boom!"
A huge force erupted from Mu Er's body, shaking the slender young man's hand away from his shoulder, and he said indifferently in his eyes: "You people are self-righteous and make things difficult in every way, really I am a bully? ”
"You have your own position, I also have my own insistence, the Tao is different, but I have done one."
"The rules are set by yourself, do you want to do it now that you lose?"
The slender and tall young man was annoyed and angry by Mu E's words, and smashed his fist into Mu E's cold voice and said, "Today, Lao Tzu will not let you pass!" How can you? ”
Mu Er easily blocked the fist that was attacking him, looked at the tall and thin young man with a face full of disbelief and frowned: "With a dignified will and ordinary qi and blood, it should be the Knocking Dao Realm, but why is it so weak?" ”
"Impossible! I have already obtained the path left by the fall of the cultivator, and I am only one step away from becoming a cultivator, how can you stop me! ”
"How can it be!"
The tall and thin young man frantically punched at Mu E, but the ordinary true qi and blood qi were scattered by Mu E's slap.
"Bang!"
Kicking the tall and thin young man away, he said, "It seems that you are not the one who decided this level. ”
"As for why I'm better than you, you won't understand the reason."
With that, Mu Er didn't continue to ramble with the tall and thin young man, and jumped into the passage to enter the next level.
After the curtain disappeared, the tall and thin young man got up from the ground, looked at the calm lake and said hatefully: "What benefits did he give you, let you even drink a bowl of garbage soup, but you don't care about what Lao Tzu usually makes!" ”
After saying that, the tall and thin young man felt still angry, and raised his fist with great strength and breath and prepared to smash into the lake.
"Boom!"
However, before the tall and thin young man's fist could be slammed down, one or two water whips suddenly flew out of the lake, one tied him up, and the other whipped him fiercely.
Although the whip was made of water, it was extremely sharp, drawing blood marks on the tall and thin youth.
"Ahh Do you dare to kill me! The tall and thin young man roared fiercely: "Kill me, my father will not let you go!" ”
"Even if you're in this space, he has a way to deal with you! You and that kid are going to pay! ”
However, the whip that slapped on the tall and thin young man was even more severe......