The reason why I know the so-called "fire worker language" has to start from when I was a soldier.

I remember one day when I was in my third year of cooking with my old class leader, he suddenly asked me a question coldly.

"Noji, what do you think the food is for? Is it just for eating? ”

The old squad leader laughed after speaking, and it was a smile that I didn't understand at all.

That question immediately confused me.

At that time, after thinking about it carefully, I replied to the old squad leader very seriously: "I don't know! ”

The squad leader continued to laugh kindly.

Then, without warning, he told me something that would have shocked my jaw.

The squad leader said that he has taught me all the kung fu in cooking, and what I lack now is experience and experience, as long as I persist, I will definitely be able to become a great Lu cuisine master.

When the old squad leader said this, he patted me on the shoulder and told me very solemnly: "Tian Fuji! You are now an apprentice, and from now on, you will be the cook of Lu Cai's 'Confucius Temple'. Learn to be on your own in the future! ”

The old squad leader's words flattered me, and I suddenly felt heavy on my body.

I was a soldier for three years, and I learned to cook with the squad leader for almost three years. But I never thought of being a "disciple", and I didn't know what the 'Confucius Temple' was.

At that time, I even felt like a newborn baby, who had not yet learned to walk, but his old squad leader hurriedly let go of his hand and let me learn to run by myself.

That feeling of helplessness made me feel overwhelmed for a while.

So, I pleaded with the old class leader, saying that I was not good at anything, and that I wanted to continue studying with the class leader......

But the old squad leader's answer made me feel inexplicable.

He shook his head and told me: "There is really nothing to teach, the cook, on the ability of the three words 'knife, fire, and gong', both inside and outside, but "red and white cases, water lotus fire hall" eight big characters. Everything is the same, you already know everything on the surface, the rules in the secret...... Those rules don't really work, and you don't necessarily want to learn them if I teach you. ”

I didn't even think about it at the time, and immediately begged the old squad leader to continue to teach me the so-called "secret rules".

I don't know what the rules are on the surface, what are the rules in the secret, I only know that there are things that the old squad leader didn't tell me, and it's always good to study more.

In the end, at my behancy, the squad leader taught me some of the "secret rules" in cooking.

To be honest, I found out after learning these secret rules that they were the same as what the old squad leader said...... It's really not a big deal.

Because those rules are repeated to explain one sentence: "Meals are not only for eating, they can be sacrificed, cured, poisoned, harmed, divined, and spiritualized...... In short, they are all kinds of "strange tricks" other than "eating". ”

I don't know what other people think, but after I learned that, I regretted it a lot.

Sure enough, as the old squad leader said, those dark rules are really useless, and I always think that the things of gods and ghosts are more of a dual effect of subjective stimulation and special environment.

Besides, the suspenseful and mysterious things that the old squad leader told me are not cooking skills at all, they are simply telling me about the development and taboo history of Chinese cooking!

But regret is useless, it must be me begging someone to teach me, and I have to learn it even if I have a hard head, even if the left ear goes in and the right ear goes out.

And among the contents that don't interest me in the slightest, the only thing I'm more fascinated by is this set of fire language that only the chefs of the "Five Organs Temple" know.

Speaking of this once "short-lived" fire language, it is actually quite historical.

The old squad leader told me that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the world was very chaotic and everyone was in danger, so many disadvantaged professions also learned the style of robbers and bandits to form gangs and factions, so as to make a living collectively and take care of each other.

For example, beggars have "beggar gangs", businessmen have "chambers of commerce", prostitutes have "lantern festivals", tomb robbers have "touch the golden gate", and even widows once had "black lights", "chaste buildings" and other gang-like self-protection organizations.

In these large and complex folk associations, some of them have flourished and blossomed everywhere, some have disappeared into the long river of history, and some have retired and been replaced by more formal official or semi-official institutions.

In those years, in the catering industry, there was such a loose gang organized by cooks, called the "Five Organs Temple"!

Master specially told me, "In slang, the temple of the five internal organs means 'eating'. ”

Why is it called the Temple of the Five Organs? The squad leader told me that because in ancient times, especially in the time of Zhou Tianzi, the status of cooks was very high, and eating was also considered a very solemn thing.

How solemn is it? It is clearly recorded in the "Zhou Li" that eating (feasting) is a part of the "ceremony" and is elevated to the same important content as the sacrifice.

It was the golden age of the legendary cook! Their status can be compared with the ministers and officials who rule the world.

Therefore, the cooks of that era paid attention to a "knife, fire, gong, and etiquette". Compared with the chefs who came out of the modern chef school, they have to learn the word "li".

Time has passed, although now there is not so much attention to "eating", but there are still many "words" to confirm the traces of that era, such as "sacrifice to the temple of the five organs", "tooth sacrifice", "send the god of the stove" and other slang words related to the word eating, all of which have a certain connection with the sacrifice of gods and ghosts.

In short, it is a sentence from the old squad leader: ...... At that time, the cooks all talked about the rules, even after thousands of years, they always thought that they were the ceremonies of Zhou Tianzi, and always thought that 'food can be psychic'!

Therefore, in order to elevate their status, the cooks in the old society all called themselves incense burners (ringing bells) in the temples of the five internal organs, one to remind themselves of the "lofty status" they had in the past, and the other to distinguish them from outsiders.

"Five Organs Temple" has gradually become synonymous with cooks.

If you are a person in the rivers and lakes, as soon as you hear this sentence, you will know that this person is a cook, and he is a chef with a heritage.

The so-called Huogong language is a code language invented in the Five Organs Temple in imitation of the "black words" of the bandits and horses.

When the old squad leader said this, I was actually quite strange, because I can understand that the industry is holding together and taking care of each other, but the cook is not a "special profession", what kind of nonsense do you want to say?

I even jokingly asked the squad leader: "Isn't this nonsense in the chef's circle for us to open a black shop in the future?" ”

The old squad leader smiled and said: There is really such a layer of consideration.

The words of the old squad leader, I was stunned when I heard it.

Such a shameless question, he really shamelessly admitted it?

Later, the old squad leader told me that the reason why the Five Organs Temple wanted to invent a set of fire language that laymen could not understand was because the era was too chaotic and the cook's business was not peaceful.

China is so big, the chef industry is divided into four major factions of "Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang", plus those who open black shops, those who make trouble, the contradictions between court chefs and private chefs, and even Chinese and Western food, and the open and secret battles of Japanese cuisine, it is almost possible to write a martial arts novel.

In short, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the cook's business was mixed for a while, and there was a miasma!

Among them, especially the four most mainstream temples "Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang" are fighting with each other. Even in the early years of the Republic of China, there was a tendency to cling to the warlords and tear each other down.

But later, some people who understood gradually emerged from the four major factions, in order to make the "Five Organs Temple" prosperous and avoid firefighting, those capable people also divided the territory, and specially made this kind of fire code.

The appearance of the Huogong language can strengthen the connection within the temple of the five internal organs, convey some topics that are difficult to pierce on the surface, and at the same time increase the sense of identity and play the role of a lubricant.

So, with curiosity, I followed the old squad leader to learn this set of "fire workers".

In fact, when I first learned this, it was just a little interesting. And my original intention of learning this was very "impure motives".

Because I was a soldier at that time, I always saw those people in the reconnaissance company and the sharp knife company doing "debriefing exercises".

When I watched the performance, I felt that the equipment was cool, and the sign language code language was also very energetic, and I wanted to learn it but no one guided me.

In desperation, I can only learn the cook's code word "fire worker language" from the old squad leader, which can be regarded as self-comfort. I always feel that maybe one day I can meet the "same door" of the Five Organs Temple, learn from each other, and have a good time.

But what I didn't expect at all was that after being discharged from the army for several years, although I had also worked in many restaurants, and had come into contact with the "celebrity chef in charge" at many exchange meetings, I had no opportunity to use the fire language at all, but in today's inconspicuous little "service station restaurant", I met the characters of the Five Organs Temple.

When I recalled this, I couldn't help but shout at the king and said, "It's just that this master of the 'Wuling Temple' is probably not a good person!" It's not good to rely on craftsmanship to open a store, so I sold 501 plates of fried noodles instead, and I played with customers. ”

My words immediately made Wang Roar suddenly realize, and he immediately patted his head and said to me:

"I understand, I said what did you say to that little Jiu'er at the beginning...... The Temple of the Two Ancestors, the Temple of Confucius or something! It turns out that Xiao Jiu'er is also the cook of the Five Organs Temple! You're in this group! ”

The king's words made me anxious at that time, and I immediately replied to him:

"Get out! What do you mean that Xiao Jiu'er and I are in the same group? She is a neurological patient who ran out of the 'Two Ancestral Temples'! It is estimated that the temple wall fell before it was released. ”

While talking, Momiji didn't understand and asked me, what is the temple of the two ancestors, and why do I always claim to be the temple of Confucius.

I smiled and told him that this was a factional division within the "Five Organs Temple". It is said that the chef who came out of the four major systems of 'Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang'. "Two Ancestral Temples" refers to the Huaiyang faction, the Confucius Temple, which is our Lu cuisine faction.

I stretched out my hand and pointed to my nose as an analogy:

"For example, my master Zhao Haipeng is a chef of Lu cuisine, and I studied under him, so I am also a chef of Lu cuisine."

And because of the 'sage' in Ludi, the cooks who came out of Ludi admired the virtues of Confucianism, and they all claimed to be the disciples of the old master Confucius, and they also learned the 'moderation' of the old sage when cooking, so they ...... We call ourselves the "Temple of Confucius".

This Confucius Temple is also known as the "Northern Xuanwu Sect", one of the four major factions in the Five Organs Temple. As for the boasting, I won't say it, it's too sensual......

"Oh!" Hongye nodded abruptly and said, "In that case, the 'Wuling Temple' you just mentioned is a Cantonese cook!" Because Wuling is a landmark mountain range in Liangguang! And Cantonese cuisine, originated in Guangdong......"

I clapped my hands and immediately praised Momiji, "The little girl is very smart!" Know how to draw inferences from one another......"

But before I could explain the remaining origins of the four temples to him in detail, the middle-aged boss who had gone to find the "abbot" had already gone and returned.

When the middle-aged boss came back, there were seven or eight more men in white chef costumes around him.

And under the respectful escort of the cooks and the bosses, there was an old man who looked very old and was pushed out in a wheelchair.

The old man's hair was gray, and he couldn't tell his age, but there was a shrewdness and sharpness between his eyebrows. It seems that the physical condition is still very good.

After the old man came out, the middle-aged boss stretched out his hand at him and pointed at me.

Then the old man burst out laughing.

As we looked at each other, the white-haired old man in his wheelchair slowly bowed his hand and spoke to me:

"This brother burns incense in the Lower Wuling Temple! I don't know if you're an eagle or a tiger, why are you wandering around? ”