Chapter 16: The Truth of the Five Visceral Temple
The girl's self-satisfied performance made my mind a lot more active. www.biquge.info I feel that I should make friends with this simple-minded girl, and through her relationship, let myself join the "Five Organs Temple", and then learn the skills of a god to eat and drink ghosts, the main business is to open a restaurant, and make extra money by catching ghosts in my spare time, thinking about it like this, it is also excellent!
Moreover, I feel that if I want to keep Zhao Haipeng, I still have to get some hints from this girl, after all, people have long said: "It's not easy to keep the phoenix, just see if you can use any means!"
So, I hurriedly said to the waiter: "Waiter, I'm serving this girl braised prawns and kung pao chicken, and I'm ...... treat."
As soon as I finished saying this, the girl was not happy to say: "Don't! I'm a southerner who can't get used to your northern food, if you really want to entertain me, just bring me another Yangzhou fried rice, but this time...... I want your chef to fry it!"
I was stunned, pointed to the rice she had eaten and said, "How do you know that this rice is not fried by the chef!"
"Nonsense!" the girl pulled the plate of fried rice to the side and said, "It's as unpalatable as pig food, can the chef of the Five Organs Temple make this?" ”
When the little girl said this, I didn't like to hear it, but I didn't dare to do anything if I asked for it, so I immediately changed my mouth and told the kitchen to let Zhao Haipeng make Yangzhou fried rice himself. Ran back and continued to get close to this girl.
After the pair was ready, I laughed again and asked the girl, "Girl, what is your surname?"
This time, it may be that she was served well, and her heart was comfortable, this girl was not selling Guanzi, but answered me directly: "Okay, my name is Zhao Shuihe, and I am the abbot of the white case of His Royal Highness Huaiyang and the Two Ancestors in our Five Organs Temple." You did well today, Grandma and I'm very happy. If there's anything you'd like to ask, just say it. ”
The little girl calls herself an aunt, which is fresh enough in modern society, but from her words, I heard something different.
It can be seen that this girl is smart, impulsive, arrogant, easy to trust people, and a little down-and-out, obviously not a mixture of materials in society. To put it mildly, it's just a fledgling "chick", such a girl is fortunate to have met me, if someone else with bad intentions sells her, she is still counting the money for others.
Naturally, I won't sell her, but I can ask her to count the money for me.
In a cautious state, I decided not to rush to ask about Zhao Haipeng, but to start from the beginning and ask the question that had been in my mind for many years.
What kind of temple is this "Five Organs Temple"?
Of course, I can't ask such a sensitive question directly, otherwise I will definitely miss my pocket, so I chose to save the country with a curve, saying that I was particularly interested in the story of the ancestors of "our" Five Organs Temple, and asked this girl named Zhao Shuihe if she could tell me about their "glorious deeds".
My words drew contempt and suspicion from the little girl, who looked me up and down, and then said disdainfully, "Are you the cook of the Five Organs Temple?
Looking at this girl's expression, I already knew that she was beginning to doubt my identity, but I was not afraid, because strictly speaking, since I was passed on by my grandfather to that dead man Huo Hailong, I was already a person in the "Wuling Hall of the Five Organs Temple", no matter how suspicious she was, she couldn't hide my legal identity.
Moreover, after all, we were born in a restaurant, and we still have the ability to talk to people and talk nonsense.
I immediately prevaricated and said, "Oh, Master Huo, who brought me into the industry, is illiterate and died early, so I don't tell me much, but I am very yearning for the glorious deeds of our Five Organs Temple, and I have long wanted to find a beautiful and intelligent master like the girl to give me...... Said, spoken. ”
Zhao Shuihe likes to pretend to be big-headed, and I complimented her from time to time between talks, so the little girl was very happy, and it didn't take long to pour out all the stories she knew, the "Five Organs Temple".
It turns out that the "Five Organs Temple" is a "black word", which is the name of the cook in ancient times by the robbers of the green forest, secret societies, sect organizations, etc., and the "sacrifice to the Five Organs Temple" means to go to the restaurant to eat.
Later, the meaning of this title gradually changed, and finally referred to a "guild" among cooks, which was an underground organization that specialized in coordination and mutual assistance among cooks, and it was also an industry gang in ancient times that was on a par with the merchants' chambers of commerce, beggars' gangs, chicken girls' lanterns, and tomb robbers' Jinmen.
The formation of the organization of the Five Organs Temple is very complicated, and it has a constant relationship with the famous Hongmen in the history of our country.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jiashen Change, the Manchu Qing Dynasty channeled the country, and the Han Dynasty lost its peak.
The Han people, who were oppressed by foreign races, felt lost at this time. Especially the clansmen who were adrift overseas due to the war, and because of the hatred of the country's ruin, they never forgot to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
Those Han people hibernated in Guangzhou, Fujian, Taiwan and other coastal areas before and after the fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, forming associations with each other and plotting to recover, because the Han people lost the central power, so those people took away the two sides of the traditional Chinese character "Han" in "Middle Earth", turned the Han into Hong, and called themselves the sons of Hongmen.
When the Hongmen organization developed into the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it entered a low point.
At that time, China's upper class scholars had been corrupted by the division of the Manchus and the crackdown of the literary prison, and they gradually colluded with the rulers, abandoned traditions, and eventually became a group of "pigtails" who bowed down to their ears and attacked the Hongmen, causing the Hongmen to lose the support of the upper class.
Faced with a difficult situation, Hongmen was forced to choose to develop downward, distance himself from the scholars, and absorb a large number of members of the "middle and lower nine streams" in order to survive in the harsh environment.
In this process, the Five Organs Temple was born.
In the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the country was quite stable, and the old empire was intoxicated with the prosperity of the void, and the rulers indulged in lustful dogs and horses, and they were also extremely ferocious about eating.
In order to show his generosity, almost every official Fujia will support a large number of private chefs at home, and many officials are even highly skilled chefs themselves. Not to mention those restaurant prostitutes who were frequented by officials and nobles during this period, how hot the business of celebrity chefs' private houses was.
Many times, the store of a good chef or chef is just like the current star, which is praised by thousands of people, and it is difficult to find one.
From this time on, Hongmen also vigorously developed cooks to join the hall, and took the initiative to install Hongmen disciples in the restaurant.
They did this because they found that the cooks were all over the country and were sought after by high-ranking officials and nobles, so they could better contact and convey the dynamics of the upper class of society and help Hongmen spy on intelligence. In addition, there are many cooks who have mastered the dangerous "food curse" skills inherited from ancient times, and can use the principle of food to restrain each other, and practice methods such as "harvesting", "Gu", "conjuring spirits", and "winning over", and can also use their convenience around officials to assassinate and poison, and then affect the life and death of military and political officials.
In this way, Hongmen used low-class people such as cooks, beggars, and chicken girls to establish an intelligence network that spread all over the world. And the hall in charge of the cook in this network is called the "Five Organs Temple".
Because at the beginning, the Five Organs Temple was a rebel organization under Hongmen, so the form was the same as Hongmen, it was very secretive, it was a folk association, and the inheritance was mostly carried out in the way of master and apprentice and family, and even developed a code language called Huogong language from the "Hongmen incision".
Therefore, not all cooks know about the existence of this organization, and not all cooks dare to call themselves from the Five Organs Temple.
Because of the tradition of helping each other, the chefs of the Five Organs Temple are the descendants of many people and even the imperial chefs, so their cooking skills are extremely superb, and they have evolved to modern times.
Of course, with the passage of time, starting from the Republic of China, this "temple" has long been out of political color, and after several integrations, it has purely become an association organization similar to the "Chef's Federation". Its internal division is divided into factions by region, respectively according to the four most traditional cuisines in our country, Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Huaiyang, divided into four "Tangkou", specifically, Sichuan cuisine is called Bailong Palace, Lu cuisine is called Confucius Palace, Cantonese cuisine is called Wuling Palace, Huaiyang cuisine is called Liangzu or Liangyuan Palace.
It is not a blind name to call the "hall" of the cuisine, because although the five organs are out of the Hongmen, the inheritance of the rules is imprinted with the lingering mark of that era, and the name of each hall in the temple is also arranged according to the hall of the Hongmen era, which is the result of the accumulation of several generations, and has a deep meaning and history like the five viscera temple itself.
It is also because of the division of these factions within the Five Organs Temple, but all the cooks born in this temple will say that they are from a certain hall when they report to each other, and then discuss seniority, discuss and transmit important information in the code language of fireworks, and never explain it directly, so that "outsiders" know some things that should not be known, which will only increase the trouble.
For example, they call the new entrant the bell ringer, the old cook the incense burner, the capable chef the abbot, the boss or big customer called the "old lady", and the boss like me, who has little experience and connections, and the boss with a small face like me is called the "old lady with a small face". Laymen listen to it like a book from heaven, but when people listen to it, their hearts are like a mirror.
In addition, Zhao Shuihe also specially emphasized that the development of the Five Organs Temple from the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the present, most of them are carried out by the big families that have been inherited for a hundred years, and these families are completely different from the professional cooks trained by the chef schools outside.
What's even more ruthless is that these big families have been passed down from generation to generation, and have accumulated hundreds, even thousands of years of rules and superstitions, and generally use food to run a kind of "food spell" secret technique that others have never heard of.