In the inn where Le Zhengxian lived, Tang Anshu and others were steaming according to the method on the telegram.

The way of steaming is not difficult, a stove, a pot, a steaming grid, a plate, plus those materials on the telegram, it is all done.

After everything was ready, Le Zhengxian put the pot with the gluttonous book on the stove: "After fifteen minutes, just open the lid and wait for the book to cool naturally." ”

Fifteen minutes on a normal day is short, but the fifteen minutes of waiting for the steaming method feel like fifteen years have passed.

After waiting for fifteen minutes, Tang Anshu couldn't wait to bring the pot down, opened the lid, took out the plate, and put it aside to wait for it to cool naturally.

In the process of cooling, the three of them were surprised to find that a few big words appeared on the cover of the gluttonous album - Hundred Ghost Banquet.

Le Zhengxian was surprised when he saw those three words: "Hundred Ghost Banquet!?" ”

Tang Anshu was also stunned: "How can it be a hundred ghost banquet?" ”

Qiu Gubo looked dazed: "What do you mean?" What is the Hundred Ghost Feast? ”

Tang Anshu said: "The Hundred Ghost Banquet, as the name suggests, is that there are a hundred dishes dedicated to ghosts, and this thing is passed down from the bone hunter faction. ”

Qiu Gubo frowned and said, "One of the twelve sects of the Evil Dao, right?" I remember, what does this bone hunter do? ”

Le Zhengxian explained: "The so-called bone hunters are actually a group of Taoist priests from the west of Jinxi, and the origin of the earth is the same root, this group of people, the main purpose is alchemy, and alchemy is divided into two kinds, outer pill is oral can be eaten, and inner pill is spiritual level thing......"

This group of bone hunters, in order to alchemy, can do whatever it takes, an important part of alchemy is the "dragon and tiger combination": the five elements of the theory of life and restraint play a theoretical role in alchemy, and the combination of the dragon and tiger is a typical example of the change of the five elements of the dimension. Among them, the "Green Dragon" is located in the east, and the five elements belong to wood, while the "White Tiger" is located in the west, and the five elements belong to gold. Because, the combination of dragon and tiger starts from Jin Kemu, Jin goes to cut wood, wood makes fire resistance, fire burns gold, gold meets fire and produces water to save itself, and finally achieves "water and fire are destroyed, and all die and return to the thick soil". Because the nemesis of water is soil, and the soil town water cannot afford it, after going through this process, the dragon and tiger are combined to become dansha.

The formation of the dragon and tiger can be simplified into one sentence in Taoist alchemy: Dansha wood essence, gold is merged. Where the gold is hydrated, the wood fire is the couple. The four are chaotic and are listed as dragons and tigers.

To explain the process of alchemy in the vernacular, that is, gold (here refers to metal lead) and water (mercury here) are combined, and then charcoal, gold, wood, water, and fire are added to each other, and the solid forms a liquid, and then solidified into "Huangyu" (generally refers to the earth, the meaning of the vast land, just a name), with the passage of time (for example, 7749 days), "Huangyu" disintegrates into the dust of the five elements, and then gathers the dust into the tripod and repeatedly refines (repeatedly heats), which becomes the final "return to the Dan".

But the process of alchemy is extremely long, and even will exhaust people's lives, although most people in Taoism advocate cultivation to become immortals, and the effect of its elixir is only to make people immortal or rejuvenated, can not achieve the ultimate goal of flying immortals, and to fly immortals have to go through a process, that is, the so-called "tribulation", this "tribulation" has evolved into a variety of sayings in later generations, and there is even an extremely absurd saying that is "thunder split", in essence, the tribulation refers to the cultivator to experience the big ups and downs in life, For example, if you have a serious illness and don't die, what is more important is that the "catastrophe" is determined by heaven, not man-made, so there are very few people who "become immortals" in historical records.

Le Zhengxian said again: "I don't believe in becoming an immortal, I have been in the dark for many years, so I have received the news that someone really presents it, but I know that the bone hunters have evolved their alchemy skills into cooking and wine-making techniques, there are many sayings here, the most legendary one is that some people in the different ways believe that if you want to pursue eternal life and escape from life and death, you have to make a deal with ghosts and gods, so the bone hunters not only made a hundred ghost feast, but also made a hundred immortal feast. ”

Qiu Gubo smiled: "There is also a hundred immortal banquet? What is this? ”

Tang Anshu continued: "In fact, they are two recipes, and it is said that they can be eaten to make people live longer, but this kind of legend is nonsense, and there are other secrets hidden in them. ”

Qiu Gubo asked, "Why is this?" ”

Qiu Gubo smiled, Tang Anshu also smiled, Qiu Gubo looked at them inexplicably, not understanding what this meant.

Qiu Gubo said: "What are you laughing at? Say, why is it? ”

Tang Anshu said with a smile: "The so-called longevity, and even becoming an immortal, refers to letting an ordinary person eat these 100 dishes at one time, think about it, normal people have to die after eating ten dishes, let alone a hundred, isn't this just nonsense?" ”

Le Zhengxian glanced at the recipe of the Hundred Ghost Banquet, and said: "It is rumored that those bone hunters think that the so-called method of becoming an immortal has two steps, the first step is to bribe the yin, that is, to use the Hundred Ghost Banquet to find them, and let them cross out their names from the book of life and death, and the second step is to worship immortals, as the name suggests, is to use the Hundred Immortals Banquet to entertain immortals, so the immortals will tell you how to prolong your life and even become an immortal." ”

Qiu Gubo smiled: "It's really nonsense." ”

Le Zhengxian shook his head: "We all feel when we hear it, but in the past, there were really many people who believed that in order to snatch the recipes of the Hundred Ghost Banquet and the Hundred Immortal Banquet, I don't know how many people died in the Hundred Ghost Banquet. ”

Qiu Gubo said: "The recipe is almost all dry, open it and take a look, what is written in it?" ”

The three of them stood in front of the plate with the Hundred Ghosts Banquet, Tang Anshu carefully opened the Hundred Ghosts Banquet, slowly read it page by page, and found that all the recipes recorded in the book were recipes, a total of 100 pages, 100 dishes, each page was not big, and there were pictures.

Tang Anshu frowned and said, "Is it really a recipe?" ”

Qiu Gubo was also worried: "The wordless heavenly book has become a gluttonous book, and there are recipes hidden in the gluttonous book, and Huoling Jian turned out to be a recipe?" ”

Le Zhengxian didn't seem to agree: "Is this really a hundred ghosts banquet?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "Yes, is this true? ”

Qiu Gubo asked, "Why do you care about the truth or falsehood?" ”

Tang Anshu explained: "The Hundred Ghost Banquet and the Hundred Immortal Banquet each have a copy, which is used to pass on to the world, if the book in our hands is real, it is also a treasure, but I don't think it's that simple." ”

Le Zhengxian nodded in agreement: "Let's find a way to find out the whereabouts of the real Hundred Ghost Banquet, if it proves that this book in our hands is not true, then it means that there are other secrets hidden in the recipe." ”

Qiu Gubo said: "When is it, still going to check the Hundred Ghost Banquet?" ”

Tang Anshu said: "I'll go on a trip, go to the underworld, and the news of the Hundred Ghost Banquet will be known as soon as I check it, even if I don't know the specific whereabouts, I also know the general direction." ”

Le Zhengxian stopped Tang Anshu: "I'll go." ”

Tang Anshu said: "You are a traitor to the Underworld, won't you die if you go?" ”

Le Zhengxian said: "Yongcheng is so chaotic, the dead ears don't dare to do it, they are afraid to deal with me, involved in the current matter, there is a brother who owes me a life, I don't have to ask him hard, I will come back in an hour or two at most." ”

After Le Zhengxian finished speaking, he grabbed his clothes and went out immediately.

After going out, Le Zhengxian simply instructed Yan Zhenguo and Xue Huichuan outside the door to let the two of them close to the surroundings, and once they found that something was wrong, they immediately warned the house.

After Le Zhengxian left, Tang Anshu sat there and continued to study the recipes of the Hundred Ghost Banquet.

Tang Anshu said while looking at it: "This recipe is very detailed, how many ingredients are used, how to make it, how to marinate it, how much oil should be ripe, how to color the dishes, and the method of plating, this is the most detailed recipe I have ever recorded." ”

Qiu Gubo stood aside and watched: "There are pictures under each page, eh, you see, even the shape of the cooking utensils, the size and specifications are strictly regulated, and there are also size instructions." ”

Tang Anshu looked at the picture on that page carefully: "This is very strange, why is the size of the utensils used in the recipe indicated?" ”

Qiu Gubo took out paper and pen: "Anshu, redraw these pictures." ”

Tang Anshu nodded: "You and I have thought together." ”

Tang Anshu sat at the table and redrew the appearance of each page of dishes and utensils with Qiu Gubo's pen and paper.

This painting was close to two hours, and not long after the painting was completed, Le Zhengxian, who was sweating profusely, also pushed the door in.

Tang Anshu and Qiu Gubo looked at Le Zhengxian standing at the door, and Tang Anshu asked, "How is it?" ”

Le Zhengxian said: "The true copies of the Hundred Ghost Banquet and the Hundred Immortal Banquet have been in the hands of the Bone Hunter faction so far, as for the specific location, I don't know, but it definitely hasn't flowed out, so this one is fake, and there must be other secrets hidden in it." ”

Qiu Gu Bo said: "We seem to have discovered the secret. ”

Le Zhengxian took off his coat: "What did you find?" ”

Tang Anshu raised the paper in his hand: "Every page of the recipe is marked with the specifications and sizes of the utensils used to serve the dishes, there are strict regulations, we redrew it, and then planned to cut out the pattern and piece it together." ”

Qiu Gubo turned around and asked Xue Huichuan to buy three pairs of scissors, and the three of them cut out the redrawn patterns on the paper, and then put them on the table, putting them together like playing puzzles.

Soon after, a hundred patterns were all put together into a rectangle.

Tang Anshu looked at the tightly knit patterns on the table and said, "I understand, this is a map." ”

Qiu Gubo also nodded: "That's right, it should be a map." ”

Le Zhengxian leaned over and looked: "That is to say, these hundred dishes are made, placed in a hundred utensils of different specifications, and the style and color of the dishes are combined together, which is a complete map, and Huoling Jian is a map." ”

It's amazing, what kind of person can show the map in a dish?

Tang Anshu frowned at this time: "Although it is magical, it is also very troublesome, it is very difficult to make a hundred dishes, and it must be scored exactly according to the recipe." ”

Qiu Gubo opened the recipe of the Hundred Ghost Banquet: "I paid attention to the ingredients of these dishes, in fact, they are similar, most of the ingredients are in the sea, and ordinary dishes can be found around Yongcheng, these are not difficult, the difficulty is that we need to find a group of chefs with good skills, and we also need to order these hundred dishes in advance." ”

Tang Anshu continued: "I still need an excuse. ”

Qiu Gubo asked, "Excuses?" What excuses do you need to cook? ”

Tang Anshu said: "It's common to make more than ten dishes, you make a hundred dishes at a time, put them on a table, and you have to order a hundred different specifications and sizes of utensils, the news spreads, there must be people who doubt, so you need a start." ”

Le Zhengxian said: "Yes, it's best to have a big birthday, and whoever has a happy event ......"

Tang Anshu continued Le Zhengxian's words, and also looked at Qiu Gubo: "It's best to marry someone." ”