Chapter Thirty-Eight: Night in the Jungle
Liu Ci successfully built the foundation and got out of the customs, in order to accumulate spiritual energy, he had not drawn a talisman for a long time, and he drew seven or eight sheets in a row before he gave up.
Drawing talismans with spiritual power higher than the aura level is simply handy in terms of primary spiritual runes. When making papermaking this summer, Liu Ci had a plan to build a foundation, and took precautions to mix the powder of golden silk nanmu into the papermaking bamboo pulp, and the new yellow table paper has a long-lasting fragrance, which is a necessary material for painting intermediate spirit runes.
But Liu Ci was not in a hurry to draw the intermediate spirit runes, and even the primary spirit runes were a little rusty after not starting the pen for a long time, and it took a morning to find the feeling after drawing the runes.
Building the foundation and cultivating for the addition of good materials, the quality of the primary spirit runes painted by Liu Ci has been greatly improved, and the successful spirit runes basically have "five grades", which are also the power of the primary spirit runes but are not the same, which makes people happy.
What's more important is the formation of the dantian qi sea during the foundation building period, and the spiritual power consumption in the body can slowly recover by itself, and it is not like the qi training period, she has to replenish every time she uses a point of spiritual energy. For the environment of the magic world, where the aura can only be extracted from the plants it grows, Liu Ci will be trapped again, even if the food is exhausted, as long as she is given time to recover, there will be no more desperate situations.
If you want to continue to advance, the accumulation of aura is still essential, but the huge aura required from the foundation building period to the knot period, Liu Ci feels that he will have to live under the condition of slowly accumulating aura for many years in the future. Fortunately, after five years of foundation building, she was only sixteen years old, and she had enough time to accumulate aura.
Putting down the pen, Liu Ci pushed open the window to breathe.
The lotus pond space in the center of her eyebrows also changed after she successfully advanced, except for the large lotus leaf that grew first, another small and crumpled leaf appeared on the rhizome.
The biggest surprise was that the white jade board on the edge of the lotus pond had expanded a lot, and she was able to take out the two ancient books and try to put things in them, but she also succeeded.
Of course, living creatures can't be put in, only items with aura, such as food and rune paper grown by her.
The function is not as against the sky as she thought at the beginning, what kind of vegetables are fresh, dream about it, the leaves should be yellow or yellow, the meat will spoil in two days, it is better to freeze in the snow to keep it fresh.
Seems to be a "Qiankun bag" that only belongs to himself? Looking at the white jade slab that can also stack thousands of catties of living things after expansion, Liu Ci knew that he couldn't be too greedy, and asked if there were any such items in the Silver Wolf Magic Continent, and Lord Wolf God replied that more than a thousand years ago, there were still space magicians on the continent who knew how to refine space items, and now there are also a small number of magic tools with storage functions, Liu Ci is much more relieved.
The wolf god has been helping her protect the Dharma for two months, and has been clamoring for compensation.
In the cold and snowy land, in addition to the wheat seedlings outside, there are only a few cabbages left, but a few pigs in the circle have fat heads and big ears, and they have to consume a lot of food all day long.
Before the new era, the Chinese people would "kill the pigs" every Spring Festival, even if the urban residents who did not feed them had to buy hundreds of catties of sausages and bacon to meet the occasion, otherwise the Spring Festival would seem to be much less flavorful. There are more than 1,000 catties of meat after a few are slaughtered, plus miscellaneous bits and pieces, even in terms of the appetite of the silver wolf, it is a big project.
After living for a few years, the wise monsters helped a lot, and Liu Ci thought about it and decided to take advantage of the season of killing the New Year's pig to invite guests.
In the past, she loved to hold banquets, the mountain dwelling was quiet, and the banquet to the Warcraft was also an alternative party, and it was estimated that it was the first case in the Magic Continent.
The news was the first to inform the Coo-Coo, and anyway, it has many younger brothers, so it is perfect to act as a messenger. The high-level demonic beasts in the vicinity were overjoyed by the message, and they were mainly curious about the crystal mine of the Silver Wolf King, as well as Liu Ci on the mountain.
In recent years, the gossip has been on the rise, and Liu Ci's figure often appears in other places, and they are naturally very interested in humans living with Warcraft.
Scheduled to be treated in three days, in addition to the time it takes to deliver the message, Liu Ci himself also needs to prepare.
You must know that a qualified banquet, in addition to delicious food, from the tableware to the layout of the venue is a test of the host's mind, and all aspects must be considered properly, so there must be no mistakes. According to the object of her banquet, the too delicate Western-style dinner party was ruled out in the first place, and the Warcraft sat on the chair in a proper manner and cut the steak with a knife and fork, I have to say that except for the silver wolf, who is born a gentleman, it is probably no different from being tortured for other Warcraft.
There was a large open space by the pond behind the house, Liu Ci used wooden stakes and stones to make stools, cut rocks for tables, and even cups and bowls were made of wood.
On the day of the banquet, Liu Ci got up early, and the dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and other mountain delicacies that had been watered the night before were ready. A few earthen stoves were built behind the house, and several large pots of hot water were boiled, and Liu Ci didn't have to do this kind of thing to kill pigs himself, but the wolf god pinched his nose to complete it.
Leaving a little smaller, the remaining four fat pigs were solved at once, Liu Ci took water in the wooden barrel and put a little salt, so that the silver wolf kept the pig's blood.
When the four bloodied pigs were dragged back, the water in the pot boiled. The boiling water is hot, and then shaved to open the stomach, the pig is a good dish for the farmer, Liu Ci dislikes the washing of the large intestine is too disgusting and throws the work to the silver wolf, the wolf god just pinched his nose and couldn't do it himself, so he grabbed a Butch beast that came too early, and told it to go to the river to wash the pig in the water.
The golden-haired Butch beast, which looked like an orangutan, wanted to cry without tears, thinking that he shouldn't come too early with the mentality of watching the excitement, and was forced by the "obscenity" of the Silver Wolf King, so he had to drag the stinky pig into the water to the river beach down the mountain.
The pig's head has more meat and bones, but it is fat but not greasy, and it is a good dish to accompany the wine. Liu Ci filled the cauldron with water, put star anise, peppercorns and other spices, added a little sugar and salt, and Kaifeng tasted the soy sauce stuffed with soybeans before autumn, and the taste was quite delicious, so he poured it into it without hesitation. The water in the pot turned dark brown, salty and fragrant, which is exactly the taste of brine.
The four washed pigs' heads, plus the sixteen pigs' trotters of the four pigs, are all thrown into the brine and simmered over low heat.
Then there is the processing of the silver wolf early in the morning dragged back the three sheep, two to make roasted whole sheep first peel the skin and remove the belly, the surface is smeared with five-spice powder and salt, chili noodles code flavor, the remaining sheep is to make mutton soup, chopped into large pieces with boiling water to scald away the smell of blood water, the big stone pot used to cook for the silver wolf came in handy. The mutton soup is not authentic without haggis, and the poor golden-haired butcher has just returned from dragging a bucket full of pigs, and is about to tell him to wash the sheep's intestines.
Liu Ci coughed dryly, she really didn't do things authentically, Lord Wolf God, this is a kind of dirty work that can't be beaten by the demonic beast, it's really a sin.
The cleaned pig water still smelled slightly, and Liu Ci put flour and vinegar to scrub and change the water repeatedly before thoroughly washing off the smell.
The big bones removed when cutting the meat, plus the fatty pork belly, the chopped pig is blanched together in water, stir-fried on a fierce fire, mixed with water and boiled and then simmered over low heat, the red chili oil floats on the surface, which makes people very appetizing at a glance.
Then Liu Ci began to steam steamed buns with noodles, large buns filled with mushrooms and meat, and the enticing fragrance exuded through the bamboo cage.
Seeing that Liu Ci was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, the silver wolf was not embarrassed to shout for lunch, opened the steamer and ate three large meat buns, Lord Wolf God was very dissatisfied that such a delicacy should be left for other monsters to share, so he had to eat two more to vent his anger.
Butch Beast also eats steamed buns, and after washing the pig and sheep in the water all morning, poor Golden Retriever Butch thinks that the meat buns are delicious only in the sky.
It has just passed the fifth order, even if it communicates with the spirit, it is ignorant and only knows the general idea, can listen but can't answer, and its expression is like a child, when Liu Ci touches its head, the Butch beast will curl its tail and make a shy appearance.
As for the silver wolf who is so naïve that he eats buns to vent his anger, Liu Ci has a black line, and the wolf god is estimated to have not digested it in his stomach at night, I don't know if he will be mad when he watches other monsters feast.
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the mutton soup stewed with a few Chinese herbs was boiled until milky white, and the braised pig's trotters and pig's head meat were also cooked. The mellow aroma of brine can only be dissipated after many times of marinating, and some old stores of marinated products in Dongting City have made their signboards to the outside world as the selling point of "century-old halogen".
Pork blood is cut into pieces, and the soup is cooked with sweet potato vermicelli and Chinese cabbage. The pig stewed earlier was put in the water with dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and other things as a base.
Earlier, the two whole sheep were roasted on the fire, and when the monsters came one after another, the whole crystal mine was filled with the smell of food.
A large pot of boiled fish, two large jars of multigrain soju made from corn and wheat this year on each stone table, and a steamed bun with steaming heat were served. The stone table surrounds several large fires in the center of the clearing, two whole sheep are sizzling on the fire, the pig water and the pork belly are cooked and rotten, the pig blood vermicelli soup is fragrant and attractive, and the milky white boiled mutton, where have a group of monsters who are used to eating raw food have seen such a battle.
At first, he was still taking pictures of the majesty of the silver wolf, tiptoeing, and waited for Liu Ci to pick up the bowl and stand on the stake, and smiled and communicated with his divine sense:
"The first bowl of wine is a salute to my dear friend Wolf God with a cold face and a warm heart."
The spicy soju entered his throat, and Liu Ci finished it in one gulp, and the monsters had already lost their reserve and began to coax. The silver wolf also smiled, and drank a bowl of wine without saying a word. Multigrain soju has only opened today, and even the silver wolf is drinking it for the first time, compared to the sweet and sour wine, the spicy and mellow aftertaste of the soju has more appetite for the silver wolf.
Liu Ci picked up the big bowl again, "Thank you for taking care of Liu Ci openly and secretly, and the second bowl of wine is a toast to everyone!" ”
Among the monsters here, there are big centipedes that have helped her plow the ground, many monsters that have carried wood, those who have helped her work in the past three years, "tree birds" who have beaten furniture, and those who have never known each other who came to join in the fun, but Liu Cixie's care is not only that. After three years of training, if it weren't for the high-level demonic beasts taking the initiative to avoid it, with her strength, she would probably have died hundreds of times, even if it was for the sake of the silver wolf, Liu Ci had to sincerely toast a bowl of wine.
By the time she looked up and drank the second bowl of spirits, the atmosphere had been completely hot. There is not much intrigue in the World of Warcraft, straightforwardness and strength can always be recognized by most Warcraft, Liu Ci has a cheerful and hearty quality, and he acts magnificently, which is easy to be accepted by all beasts.
The lowest strength is probably the Butschmon, its nose is red after drinking a bowl of spirits, but it feels warm from head to toe in the ice and snow.
After drinking two large bowls of wine, Liu Ci, who was accustomed to the taste of alcohol, couldn't help but have red cheeks, but she raised the third bowl of wine.
The Warcraft felt that the human toast was novel and interesting, and they all looked at her, Liu Ci looked around and raised the bowl high:
"The third bowl of wine, of course, we must pay tribute to this wonderful night, after drinking this bowl of wine, everyone drinks wine and eats meat, we must have a good time tonight!"
Huaxia people love to talk about things at the wine table, because wine can make strangers quickly become friends, and dozens of demonic beasts even drank two bowls under Liu Ci's call, and they felt that their blood began to get hot.
The cold wind did not stop, the strong smell of meat and the roaring bonfire made the atmosphere of the crystal mine warm, and the wine had not yet drunk the beasts, and the warm atmosphere had already made them excited and addicted.
Liu Ci shuttled between the wine tables, constantly serving food and persuading wine, and soon mingled with the monsters.
Looking at Liu Ci who was talking and laughing with the beasts, the silver wolf couldn't help but think of her writing under the tree for the first time that year, no matter whether she was tall or short, beautiful or ugly, there seemed to be a magic hidden in her small body, and once she got along with Liu Ci, her eyes would not be turned away.
Silver Wolf thought that Liu Ci was the kind of person who was full of small shortcomings, but he would shine wherever he went.
When the banquet was in the middle of the day, Liu Ci saw that the coo-coo bird was late, and she wanted to make a joke, but the coo-coo bird muttered in her ear:
"Goo found a couple of humans at the foot of the mountain."