Chapter 16: The Inverted Dragon
"This King Miao was originally Yuetong's fiancΓ©, but Yuetong ran away with the kid who made the rain, King Miao had no heirs before he went out, he disappeared, and all the affairs of Apeng Valley can only be handled by Badai for the time being, so you must complete what I have explained, as long as Apeng Valley can regain the ability to cultivate the Golden Silkworm Gu, you will become a friend of Apeng Valley forever, everything you have done in the past, you are not to blame in the past, of course, I will also send Dajiu to bring people in with you to help you." Gedibadai said solemnly.
"But now that the entrance to King Miao's tomb is gone, where do you let us go in?" The stallion asked, for him, the whereabouts of King Miao were far less important than entering King Miao's tomb.
"That's what you need to solve." After saying this, I think we seem to be being tricked by him.
"The general situation is almost understood, so the matter of finding the tomb of King Miao and then entering it is on us, but I also have requirements, first, return our backpacks to us. Second, we need to eat and drink enough before we go. I said, thinking that this uncle and grandfather, whom I had never met, were too cunning, saying that they were sending people to help us out, but in fact they were just monitoring us and preventing us from taking things.
I said this, the stallion and the ribs, the fat intestine three naturally have no opinion, the purpose of our visit this time was originally to enter the tomb of King Miao to find the golden silkworm Gu, now it is nothing more than to help them bring something out, and I am also eager to know what grandpa did in the tomb of King Miao.
"Okay, no problem, Dajiu, you can arrange it." Seeing that I had promised so simply, he no longer dragged his feet.
"Yes, Lord Bardai, I'll arrange it." Takugu hooked and took the order and left.
They were very efficient, and after a while the backpack and I of the stallion were sent back, and the stallion immediately opened the innermost compartment of the backpack to check the handkerchief that Lian Rui had given him, and found that it was still there, and the stallion smiled with satisfaction, and the ribs and fat intestines went to get their bags hidden elsewhere.
"Yuetong, how are you doing after leaving here?" Gedi Badai suddenly said something inexplicable.
"My grandfather depended on my grandmother for everything, and she was doing well, but because my father was missing and depressed, he died before I was born, and I didn't see her." I can only give such an answer.
But I can be sure that when my grandmother was alive, she was really living a good life, I accidentally mentioned some of it when I chatted with Kuanbo that night before I set off from Shudu, and my grandmother is a Miao Jiang Badai, willing to follow an outsider, she must also love my grandfather, a person can die next to the person he loves the most in this life, it is the happiest thing, I think so.
After I answered Gerdiya's question, he nodded slightly, and then said, "This little boy surnamed Ma, that little ball in your backpack is a very peculiar thing, it combines the characteristics of extreme cold and extreme heat, and it looks very much like the naidan of some kind of animal. β
"That's what you're talking about? If you think about it, we haven't killed any animals, and the only big guy we've blown up twice is the crying beetle. "The stallion took out the pure white bead the size of an egg, and after he knew about my relationship with Gerdbadai, he was not so careful, after all, they were all relatives, and I was not born when my grandfather took my grandmother, so could I still kill us.
"It's a beetle snake! It's not easy for you to come back alive. Gedibadei sighed.
"Not to mention the beetle snake, there is also a bigger thing called it, you don't know, how dangerous it was at the time, fortunately Ouyang he~~ Ouch!" I stomped him under the table and stopped the stallion from telling me what had happened that day, and judging by the way Ba Song saw what had happened that day and wanted to kill me at all costs, I thought that the fewer people who knew about that day, the better.
Seeing that I stopped the stallion from continuing, he didn't say anything more, I wasn't good at doing homework, so everyone fell silent.
Fortunately, Dajiu's work efficiency was good, and someone soon brought the meal, resolving the embarrassing situation of no one talking.
The Miao family has lived in the mountains for generations, because of the long-term lack of salt a long time ago, the smart Miao people used acid instead of salt, adjusted the taste, and over time, the Miao vegetables were slowly made into a fresh, spicy and a little sour taste, the so-called no acid no Miao vegetables, Miao sour is a major feature of Miao family cuisine.
At this time, the ribs and fat sausages also came back, and the four of us did not eat for almost a day and a night, and we began to eat happily.
There are too many delicious foods, just talk about the seedlings kingfish and cow deflated that impressed me the most, the seedling kingfish is taken from a kind of fish that grows in the rice field, feeds on rice flowers and insects all year round, and its meat has the fragrance of rice flowers, and the meat is fresh and tender.
Use cabbage, Cantonese cabbage, bamboo shoots, cowpeas and other dishes one or two into the sour soup with clear water, and then take the fresh carp that removes the bitter gall and internal organs into the vegetable pot and cook, and then take out the fish and put it in a food plate or a large bowl, remove the bone spurs, mash the fish meat moderately, cook the smashed green pepper on the charcoal fire, or use the dry paste chili noodles, put them together and then mix well, add an appropriate amount of salt, green onion, garlic paste, pepper, fish knotweed and other seasonings, that is, make Miao Kingfish.
There is also a very characteristic dish - cow deflated, also known as "herb soup", to make this dish, you need to select small cattle to slaughter, take out the contents of the cow's stomach and small intestine that are not completely digested, squeeze out the liquid in it, add cow bile and condiments and put it into the pot and simmer slowly, after boiling, the foam on the surface of the liquid is filtered to make a deflated soup, and the beef is stir-fried and then added to the deflated soup to cook, its taste is beautiful and fragrant, it has the effect of increasing appetite, strengthening the stomach and clearing the fire.
After a meal, we also drank a kind of Miao people can make Wanhua tea, this tea has different shapes of pieces and strips, are made of winter melon slices and grapefruit peel as raw materials on the processing, carved out a variety of colors, beautiful images, lifelike insects, fish, birds, beasts, flowers and other auspicious patterns.
Then soak it in the dilute stone flower water (stone flower is a transparent semi-solid food, in the past Shu can be seen everywhere in Shu can be seen vendors pushing snack carts along the street to sell stone flower water, buyers take a bowl from home, you can choose your favorite stone flower from the stall owner's 5 to 10 pots and dishes, according to the different tastes also form different colors, for example: light green is mint flavor, light pink inside has strawberry fragrance), let it remove the jerky bitterness, and then with alum, bronze together with the method of boiling water to return to green, So it's still crispy and fresh.
After that, drain the water, add the same amount of sugar, osmanthus essence or a small amount of honey, stir carefully and evenly, and then repeatedly expose to the sun to achieve a translucent white jade appearance, and you are done.
When drinking, grab a few slices and put them in a cup and bowl, brew them with boiling water, and it will become a rich and sweet Wanhua tea that makes you want to continue drinking it even if you break your belly.
The four of us drank this kind of tea for the first time, and we drank it violently, turning the tea tasting into tea pouring, and the Miao girl who was in charge of pouring the tea was dumbfounded.
We brazenly took out the kettle and filled it up, and the excuse for me and the stallion was that the guests from afar wanted tea, and the pork ribs and fat sausages said that we wanted to be kind to the overseas Chinese.
"I've eaten the food and drunk the tea, should we go?" Tajiu said to us with a frown, our eating appearance is indeed too ugly, if it weren't for the presence of Gerdhu Badai, I guess he would have been unable to help but flip the table.
"Okay, eat and drink enough, Ouyang, Uncle Pork Ribs, Uncle Fat Intestines, let's go upside down!" The stallion is in a good mood.
"Ahem, Uncle Pork Ribs, Uncle Fat Intestines, let's go to the former entrance of King Miao's tomb first." I said.
Walking on the road, Dajiu hooked and whispered to me: "If you can't even find the entrance to King Miao's tomb, don't blame me for finding you to duel at that time, if it weren't for the relationship between you and Ge Di Badai, I would have done it to you a long time ago." β
"I respect you as the number one warrior, but if you want to talk about dragon hunting, you can just watch from the sidelines." I squinted at him and said lightly.
As if he hadn't heard our conversation, he continued to walk slowly.
I stood at the original entrance to the tomb of King Miao, which still smelled of gunsmoke after the explosion, looked up at the sky, and I carefully observed the surrounding terrain again, and then took out my compass and pondered.
After more than ten minutes, Dajiu couldn't help but ask, "Are you good at it?" β
The stallion glared and said, "Ouyang, he suspects that you can't do it, show him a hand!" β
The two old naughty uncles, pork ribs and fat intestines, also coaxed: "Little master, let them see Liuwei's means!" β
Grandpa began to teach me all kinds of secret techniques of the Liuwei Ouyang family since I was eight years old, and I learned for ten years. Is it just because of the anger of my grandmother's captivity?
"A man can never say no, listen up: the dragon vein has good and bad things, and the qi should be distinguished; The five elements are reversed, and they act in their own ways. There is no foot movement in the dragon's lair, there is a difference in the ears and waist of the qi, there is a trick in the transfer of gold, and there is no difference in the qi line. I looked at the peaks around me and said slowly.
"Ouyang, say something we can understand."
"That's it, little master, let's talk about it more popularly!"
"I think it's just a trick."
"This dragon vein, which was originally creeping into the sky, was turned into an inverted dragon by my grandfather in a very special way, and I need a little time to find the direction of the entrance." I took a deep breath and said simply.
In fact, I didn't finish it, in addition to forcibly changing the direction of the dragon vein, the inverted dragon also has one of the most important uses is to lock the cave to prevent corpse transformation.
What happened back then?