Chapter 13 Three Ingredients
The immortal shows the way, which is the first course of the whole banquet of gods and ghosts.
If you want to talk about this dish, you must start with the history of the Bai family.
The old lady of the Bai family, who originally passed down the craft, was originally a descendant of Maoshan Mountain, and saved many people by subduing demons and catching ghosts all his life, but in the end he was killed by someone, thanks to a yin ghost who sacrificed himself to save him, but he was also half paralyzed, and he could only be accompanied by a bed in the second half of his life.
He realized a truth, they all said that ghosts in the world are harmful, in fact, people are more terrible than ghosts, he remembered that he had subdued demons and hunted ghosts in half of his life, in fact, it was a symptom rather than a cure, rather than getting rid of ghosts, it was better to treat ghosts.
Since then, while the Bai family is catching ghosts and entering the dishes, they have also begun to feed ghosts, to put it bluntly, they are raising ghosts, using food to feed those homeless wandering ghosts, and they have also saved a lot of unjust ghosts and ghosts, so as to accumulate yin virtue.
Although this is a good thing, it is not understood.
About a hundred years ago, there was a trouble, at that time, Maoshan, Zhongge and other sects came to the door, saying that the Bai family opened a yin and yang restaurant, catching ghosts and cooking, which was a loss of harmony in nature, and at the same time raised ghosts for trouble, so they had to ask for an explanation.
At that time, the Bai family was scarce, and several gambling fights were at a disadvantage, and the other party even threatened to remove the Bai family from the rivers and lakes.
So the head of the Bai family was furious, and simply released more than a dozen evil-level ghosts.
After a tragic battle, although most of those evil demons were killed, those sects also suffered heavy losses, and they did not dare to despise the Bai family from then on.
But at the same time, the Bai family was also on the "blacklist" on the road, and the Yin family in Guangxi, which specializes in selling dead babies, was included in the eight gates of yin and yang, which are known as evil ways.
At that time, there was a widely circulated saying, called: Don't go to the Bai family restaurant when you eat, and laugh at the grave in the middle of the night.
In the rivers and lakes, the Bai Family Hotel has always been known as the most mysterious place, because no one really knows the details of the Bai family.
The deeds of the Bai family fighting against several sects alone shocked the Quartet, making the Bai family, which was scarce, actually leap to become the sixth gate of the eight sects of yin and yang---- the five visceral gates.
The outside world does have a lot of misunderstandings about the Bai family, in fact, people who know the Bai family know that the Bai family's attitude towards people and ghosts is the same, and the full banquet of gods and ghosts is the biggest mystery of the Bai family's hotel to become famous.
This "Divine and Ghost Banquet" was created by the old lady Bai, and legend has it that there are a total of eighteen dishes, each of which needs to be served with a very special soul or ingredients.
It is said that the gods and ghosts are all wonderful, and these eighteen dishes use different ingredients and have different effects.
A sick person with a serious illness can remove his pain by eating.
The evil spirits in hell will be tempered if they eat it, be exempted from bad karma, and even re-enter samsara.
If a cultivator eats the dishes that can increase his cultivation, then he will be able to make great progress in cultivation and increase his skills.
The last dish in the banquet of gods and ghosts, according to legend, is the creation of ghosts and gods, and the creation of yin and yang of heaven and earth.
It's a pity that this god and ghost banquet has never put together eighteen dishes, and in the war a hundred years ago, the Bai family suffered heavy losses, and no one has the ability to complete the "god and ghost banquet" anymore.
And there is a rather legendary story about the immortals guiding the way.
Legend has it that during the period of the Republic of China, there was a warlord in Hunan, who was angry after losing the battle, and looted along the road on the way to retreat into the mountains, and even ordered the slaughter of a Miao village with more than 100 households.
Soon after this incident, two strangely dressed men approached the door and threatened to avenge the village by asking the warlord to hand over 100,000 pieces of ocean, otherwise he would die without a place to bury.
The warlord had a gun in his hand, and there were people under him, so he shot and killed one of them, and the other fled wounded, but before leaving, he spat on the warlord.
That night, when the warlord was eating, his face suddenly turned pale, his hands clutched his throat and he fell to the ground, and the layers under his skin were bulging densely, as if countless insects had penetrated his body out of thin air.
Everyone was helpless, and it was useless to call in many doctors, and some doctors even turned around and left when they saw this symptom.
Finally, someone quietly told the warlord's subordinates that this was an extremely terrifying natal Gu in Miao Jiang, and it was the Gu master who used his life to drive the Gu worms and was devouring the warlord's internal organs and flesh and blood.
This kind of Gu is rarely used by Gu masters, because there is no solution at all, and once the natal Gu is used, the Gu master himself will definitely die, so it is also called a desperate Gu.
Generally speaking, most Gu poisons are solvable, no matter how powerful the Gu is, as long as the Gu master dies, the Gu worm will be finished, but this kind of desperate Gu, just because at the same time as the Gu poison is cast, the Gu master is also dead, and the Gu worm is even carrying the Gu master's sky-high anger, so there is no solution at all.
That is, the middle one will die.
Three days later, the warlord's body was hollowed out, and the whole person was like a skeleton without flesh and blood, and only one breath was left after being tortured, and the foreign doctor who was invited said that the warlord's internal organs were already full of holes.
At that time, as long as it takes another four days, the warlord will definitely die, which is also the poison of the Desperate Gu, deliberately causing people to be tortured for seven days.
But at this time, the ancestors of the Bai family happened to pass by, that is, Bai Chang's grandfather, after he heard about it, he came to the barracks, only took the warlord's wrist vein, and said that there was still salvation.
The warlord's family was naturally overjoyed and promised a lot of money, so the ancestor of the Bai family spent three days going deep into the mountains of Miaojiang, and finally found a life-saving thing, and then made a dish.
This dish is the guidance of the immortals.
Immortals show the way, and you can live forever.
This sentence is the true meaning of this dish.
At that time, the warlord could no longer eat, so he barely poured it into his throat, and then the ancestors of the Bai family stayed alone in the warlord's room.
In the middle of the night, almost everyone heard a strange sound coming from the house where the warlord lived, like thousands of poisonous insects crawling, and the time lasted for a full hour, which was terrifying.
Early the next morning, the ancestors of the Bai family opened the door with a pale face, and when everyone entered the door, they saw that the warlord had opened his eyes, naked, and his whole body was drenched in blood, as if he was soaked in blood.
The warlord's life was saved, but the person was also abolished, and after lying in bed for three years, he still died, but the ancestor of the Bai family can be regarded as breaking the myth of the Desperate Gu.
No one could have imagined that the breaker of this myth would be a cook.
According to a subordinate of the warlord's family at that time, he secretly saw countless blood-red strange insects coming out of the pores of the warlord's limbs and hundreds of bones that night, but they were all collected into a white porcelain bottle by the ancestors of the Bai family.
Later, the Bai family and the "righteous path" conflicted, and these little insects also played a key role, but because of this, the Bai family was regarded as an evil person.
These things are absolute secrets, Bai Chang has only heard from his grandfather, and he also knows that in the secret room of the Bai Family Hotel, there is a female worm of the Desperate Gu.
Such an awesome dish, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the flesh and bones of the living dead, and it costs two million servings, which is actually not expensive.
As for the preparation method of this dish, it is also clearly recorded in the Bai family's recipe.
The so-called immortal guiding the way, its shape is quite peculiar.
First, make a crane shape with a pigeon and minced meat, and use mung bean sprouts to make wings on it, and show the wings to guide the way.
One of the most complicated is to use a copper wire to hollow out the mung bean sprouts little by little, stuff them into the stuffing made of bird's nest, chicken minced and other secret ingredients, steam them in a pot, filter them with water, and then pile them up.
The process of this dish is quite complicated, but it can be sold for a high price of one million, and the immortal guidance of the Bai family restaurant is of course different.
The secret recipe is not mentioned, but the most important point is that the bird's nest and chicken minced are discarded and replaced with three special ingredients.
Ambergris spirits, corpse mushrooms, and evergreen.
In terms of difficulty, the easiest is the ambergris, and the most difficult is Wan Nianqing.
What is ambergris? As the name suggests, it is the drooling of ghosts.
There is only one place in the world where you can get this ghostly saliva.
This place is the Baijia Hotel.
The Bai family restaurant is a ghost food, and it is not difficult to collect ambergris, but the difficult thing is to refine it into essence.
Coincidentally, today happens to be the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the day when the Bai family gives food to ghosts.
Tonight is the perfect time to collect ambergris.
Putting away the recipes, Bai Chang continued to come to the kitchen to be busy, and began to prepare the meals of those special "diners" in the evening.