Su Donglai roughly understood this book through the translation of the communicator, which is a diary-style autobiography with a lot of praise and disapproval of current affairs, and it is also a suicide note full of despair.

Its owner is called Yanagi Yutaro, born in May 3731, committed suicide in July 3924, at the age of 193, compared to the current average life expectancy of 180 years, biased towards longevity, is the last descendant of a Japanese cooking family, its family traditional cooking philosophy is: food is made cold, the reserved program is: sashimi.

There is little discussion about the practice of sashimi above, but the eating method of sashimi is described in detail, and the part about the taste is so similar to his feelings a moment ago, and even more detailed, so that Su Donglai's heart is full of doubts, isn't his ancestor always hated the chef who will not be born? Obviously, this sashimi is also a type of cooking skill, and it is a very clever skill, but it doesn't need to make a fire! Could it be that the view of the ancestors is a little wrong?

It turns out that the ancestor of the Yagyu family, originated in the eighth century of the Japanese Tang Dynasty envoy, he was a noble retainer, to the Tang Dynasty, the food culture of the Celestial Empire, awe, has studied cooking in the Celestial Dynasty for 20 years, has seen the origin of cooking, during which several times to Lushan, with a humble gift, to see a true disciple of Lu Dongbin, the essence of Taoism.

However, Taoism is broad and profound, with the insight of the small people on the other side, I really can't understand the mystery, the true disciple also rose up spontaneously, satisfied his admiration for the heavenly state, and took the Taoist nature as the foundation, with self-cultivation as the key, and color and fragrance as the means, and made a discussion on the food culture, in order to better deal with the ingredients, he passed down a set of exercises called "Pian Bing Jin", and sent away.

However, the true disciple also said that all things in heaven and earth are only fighting for a living word, and people are like this, and diet is no exception, whether it is meat or vegetarian, the ingredients it needs must be full of vitality, vegetables, melons and fruits, birds and animals, if the leaves are withered and the plants are yellow, and the birds and animals die, if they are used as vegetables, they will make the eaters sick.

As a cook, when cooking with something full of vitality, not only to keep its vitality intact, but also to make the vitality of the human body suitable for absorption, so that the vitality of all things in heaven and earth is transformed into the vitality of people, such as willow branches from one place to another, inserted into the life, the cook, is the person who moves the willow branches, to live as the limit of the kitchen.

Later, when this person returned to Japan, he took Yanagi as his name, and later felt that the word Yanagi could not cover what he had learned, that is, he took Yanagi as his name, and when he was later in Japan's national census, he simply took Yanagi as his surname, so the surname of this family was irrelevant to Yanagi, another big surname in Japanese society.

At this time, his family will indirectly pass on the Taoist thought of Lu Dongbin, and the concept of food, which has been firmly combined with the local culture of Japan, and the fresh seafood that is rarely seen in the food culture of the Central Plains has become the mainstream of food here, of course, this has also become the main direction of the Yanagi family.

At this time, the Yanagi family has experienced more than a thousand years of inheritance, plus the original main family, has perished in the feudal hegemony, has made them a de facto independent family, because of their family, has always adhered to diet and health, do not participate in any power struggle, so it has been completely continued, but it is precisely because of this that their influence is very small, and their reputation is only spread among a few top families, but they don't care.

Because Japanese society advocates Buddhist culture, as a Taoist ancestry of the Yanagi family, in the living environment of Japanese society, is not very accessible, so during the Ming Dynasty, the Yanagi family sent direct children, re-came to the heavenly kingdom, with the original text of "Piece of Ice Jin", and the Changchun Taoist priest of Zhongnan Mountain, in exchange for a piece of ice meteorite outside the sky, and again with the original text of "Piece of Ice Strength", in exchange for the Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain, tempered a short knife with ice attributes, they themselves called it the holy sword.

This short knife, with a handle of one foot six inches long, no handguards, no cloth wrapped around the handle, the whole body of metal, the blade is as thin as paper, extremely soft, but the edge of the knife is extremely sharp, ordinary steel things, cut off, the style is also different from ordinary Japanese short sword, more like a shrunken Tang knife.

This knife has a very distinctive feature, that is, the ingredients after it has been processed, the nutrition is not lost half a point, and all of them are frozen in the ingredients, which is also the main reason why the Taoist priests of Wudang Mountain are willing to help them refine this knife.

It is said that after the founding ancestor of the Wudang faction at that time, Sanfeng Zhenren, knew about this incident, especially when he knew that they had obtained the exercises from thousands of years ago, and they had not changed a word, they couldn't help but shake their heads.

On the land of the Central Plains, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, there is a process of advancing with the times, which is also the reason why the original text of "Pian Bing Jin" is still attractive to them, because these things, the gradual development of the Central Plains land, have made it lose its most primitive charm, even with the breadth of the knowledge of the Sanfeng patriarch, the original text of "Pian Bing Jin" still has a strong reference effect.

However, Master Sanfeng did not treat the people of the Yanagi family badly, he created a new set of techniques on the basis of Pian Bingjin, and then passed it back to them, which made their admiration for the Heavenly Empire a step deeper.

The first stage is to practice the whole body full of ice, this ice breath, both self-defense and self-cultivation, very mysterious, after the exercise, clenching the fist and moving the palm, with a cold and cold air, every time you can make the fist palm side, hard as a thousand years of ice, the lethality is greatly increased.

The second stage is to use things as strength, at this time, through some specific weapons, that is, foreign objects, will play a certain role in increasing the ice energy, such as this short knife refined by ice meteorite, not only to make the effect of this ice energy stronger, but also more labor-saving, which is also the most important reason why their family, in the following hundreds of years, has been in the Japanese tuna fish slice master, the most important reason, because only they, the sashimi slice from the tuna, both sides and up, are sealed by a trace amount of ice energy, No loss of nutrients is slight.

The third stage is to take the qi as the strength, at this time, there is no need to pretend to borrow foreign objects, as long as luck, with a shake of the hand, a thinner than the blade of energy, you can directly cut the sashimi down, and you can cut it thinner, and if necessary, you can control the strength of the ice strength of the slice, so that the cut down of the fish slices, due to the different degrees of freezing, and hard and soft.

The Yagyu family, after nearly a thousand years of development, barely reached the second stage, and only in winter, with specially made thin ice blades, can this effect be achieved, of course, with this knife, it can also be used all year round to make sashimi.

But Master Mitoyo, after reading the original text of "Pian Bing Jin", in less than two hours, let the Yanagi family never see Pian Bing Qi, flying around, and slice half a puffer fish on the spot, and then Mitoyo Patriarch seemed to have an understanding, let people set up a firewood pot, burned a pot of hot vegetable oil, and the puffer fish meat slices under the slice, after flying out of the puffer fish, got into the hot oil, and then flew out from the other side of the oil pan and fell into the saucer.

The whole slice of raw puffer fish has almost no change in appearance, but it can be eaten immediately, but there is no piping hot feeling, just a little warm, not at all like something flying out of the hot oil pan, and the taste is also more beautiful, the meat has become slightly crispy, there is no fishy smell at all, and there is even a little bit of rapeseed oil fragrance.

The Yanagi family, which has opened their eyes and gained a lot, with a more humble and pious mood, formed a penance at the foot of Wudang Mountain. When he returned to Japan twenty years later, he had already reached the peak of the second stage, but he couldn't break through for a long time, and only after getting the guidance of the old Taoist priests of Wudang Mountain did he return to Japan to find an opportunity to break through.

This is the peak period of the Yanagi family, and no one has reached this level since then, although the cultivation mantra of the entire exercise is complete, many precautions in the cultivation process, and the experience and skills are also well recorded, and even the original words of the Mitoyo Patriarch are well documented, but the whole family, it always seems that something is missing, not to mention that there is no peak of the second stage, that is, there are few people who break through the first stage, and enter the second stage.

After entering the Meiji Restoration, the Yanagi family has a certain influence in Japan's top society, and the possession of resources has also increased a lot, but it has not changed the strange circle of cultivation, and the harvest is still very small, so starting from a certain generation of family heads, the Yanagi family has set two strange family rules.

First, because the family is based on fish and diet, in order to obtain more resources and get the favor of Amaterasu, every male in the Yagyu family has a word in his name that must be related to fish, such as Yanagiu Yutaro, Yanagiu Whale Ichi, Yanagi Shark and so on.

Second, the improvement of the bloodline, each generation of the Yanagi family in the future, its wife must be from the Central Plains, and its mother must also be from the Central Plains, whether it is a lady, or a small jasper, or a slave maid, as long as it is a healthy body, and even several branches of the Yanagi family, the wife's maiden family is also divided into regions, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Lianghu, Sichuan, Henan, Hebei, etc.

In order not to attract the attention of outsiders, and they don't pay much attention to each other's family background, most of these wives are obtained by purchase, and these wives, in addition to not being able to enter and exit formal social occasions, have a very high status in the family, and every wife who enters the Yagyu family must study cooking skills in the family manor to lay a solid foundation for their children to officially enter the culinary world in the future.

In the Yanagi family, there are even some radical clansmen who wonder if it is because they believe in Amaterasu and were abandoned by the Taoist ancestors, so it is so difficult to cultivate, should the entire family abandon Amaterasu and convert to Taishang Laojun, the ancestor of the Three Qings?

These ambiguous things have not formed a conclusive conclusion, but an unwritten rule has been formed in the family, that is, men who have reached the age of fifteen must go to China to study, because throughout the entire family history, only the ancestors who have been in contact with the teachings of Lu Dongbin, and the ancestors who have been on Wudang Mountain, the life span of the two is more than one hundred and eleven, and most of the other clansmen, in Japanese society, seem to have a long life, seventy or eighty years old is normal, and there are many people over ninety years old, but there is no third person over a hundred years old.

Stimulated by the traditional temptation of longevity, cultivation has become an inevitable part of the family. From the Meiji Restoration to World War II, the entire Japanese society was full of impetuousness, and only the Yagyu family still seemed so breezy and calm.

I just focused on my own cultivation, on my sashimi, and on my own Japanese cuisine.

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