An ox cart came up in the moor.

The car is an ordinary wooden car, the wheels of the road are slightly deformed, walking on the slightly hard grassland, from time to time squeaking softly, ups and downs vibrating, leaving a rut mark that cannot be seen. Walking through the grass and muddy soft places, the ruts were a little deep, and there were a few very small fish jumping in the muddy water that seeped out.

The ox is an ordinary big yellow ox, the legs and hooves that have traveled thousands of miles are still strong, walking on the slightly hard grassland, from time to time making a low humming of the eyes, ups and downs and grass-eating, leaving a grass mark that cannot be seen. Walking through the wet and soft grass and mud, the cow's hooves are a little deep, and there are a few whitish weeds lying silently in the shallow flat depression that they step on.

The ordinary wooden carts on the official road in the Central Plains, the ordinary big cattle in the ridges of the Central Plains, but appear on the wasteland, it looks very unusual, if someone can see this scene, they will definitely feel very magical.

Driving the oxcart is a scholar with straight eyebrows and broad eyes, the wind and dust all the way make the old cotton robe on his body look older, but the expression on his face seems more and more simple and amiable, the pair of broken straw shoes on the single wheel, I don't know why I have walked on the road for more than a year and has not fallen apart, and the water scoop on my waist sways slightly with the ups and downs of the ox cart.

Suddenly there was a singing voice from the ox cart.

"I'm always not allowed to go home...... It makes people sorrowful and sorrowful...... Yo yo. ”

The scholar driving the car smiled, stretched out his palm and patted the back of the big scalper to signal it to stop, then turned to the car behind him and said, "Master, do you want to go home?"

The curtain is lifted. A tall old man with gray hair walked out, he wiped his waist, stretched out his arms again, looked at the reckless and boundless wasteland, and said angrily: "After coming out for more than a year, these birds are swaying in places where they don't smoke, they don't have to eat, they don't have to play, who doesn't want to go back to Chang'an?"

The old man is the master, so the scholar is naturally the senior brother of the academy.

The senior brother smiled slightly, took the master's arm and got out of the car, then took out a low bench from the ox cart and asked the master to sit down, and comforted him: "It's also good to see the scenery along the way." ”

The master was extremely tall, sitting on a low bench, and the cotton clothes were shaken down to completely cover the bench, looking like he was squatting on the grassland, and his appearance was a little funny.

The master said unhappily: "What scenery is there to see? Atami is really frozen, and I can't take a hot spring if I want to!"

"Although you can't wash in the hot springs, at least there are peony fish to eat. The elder brother comforted.

There is a sea in the cold region of the extreme north, there is a volcano at the bottom of the sea, it is not frozen all the year round, so it is called Atami, and there is a fish named peony in the depths of the hot sea, which is described as fat and delicate and delicate, if it is cut vertically with a knife, each piece of fish flesh is also like a peony.

This kind of statement is probably only known to people like the master and apprentice.

Listening to the word peony fish, the master stroked his chin and long beard, nodded in agreement, and said: "Child, as a teacher, I can't agree with your statement more, as long as there is a peony fish in the belly, no matter how long and arduous the journey is, it is worth it." ”

The elder brother took out the kitchen knife board and other things from the ox cart, took out a bucket, held the ice cube in his hand to melt the fat and tender peony fish frozen in it, and when the fish meat was reduced to seven minutes, he cut it diagonally with a knife and began to cut it raw.

The master looked at the peony fish that was still fresh on the board and began to bounce slightly, and praised him: "Food is such a thing, of course, the fresher and rarer it is to be delicious, if it is not for the fact that this kind of fish is only produced in the Atami in the cold region of the far north, how can it be attacked by hot and cold to produce such a meaty quality?

The senior brother smiled, did not answer, but concentrated on the knife. The peony fish is extremely fat and smooth, even if the kitchen knife is sharp, it is difficult to enter the skin without messy, he cut it very slowly and carefully, there seems to be no distance between the two knives one after another, but when the knife is lifted, a layer of white fish fillets as thin as cicada wings has been attached to the knife surface.

"If the river fish is cut raw, it can't be too thin, because it will lose its taste if it's too thin, and the peony fish is produced in the deep sea, and the meat is extremely elastic, so the thinner the better. ”

The master shook his head in admiration, took out soy sauce, a cyan seasoning, and ginger juice from his bosom with his left hand and poured them into the bowl, while his right hand reached out to the board very naturally, and picked up the thin white fish fillet with his second finger, and gently swung it in the bowl like a koi carp's tail, and then quickly put it into his lips.

While chewing, the master closed his eyes and enjoyed it, his face was as sweet as the peony fish meat in his mouth, and after a while, he opened his eyes, looked at the slowly cutting kitchen knife on the case, and said anxiously: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

The senior brother smiled, the speed in his hand did not increase in the slightest, and he still cut slowly and calmly.

The master couldn't wait, snatched the kitchen knife from his hand, sighed and said, "You kid is good at everything, but you are slow in everything, and you are really going to kill the old man."

The senior brother respectfully explained: "Students are stupid, so they are always willing to think more before doing things. ”

"In this regard, you have to learn from Xiao Mo, think when you should think, and don't think blindly when you shouldn't. ”

"The second junior brother is amazingly talented, which is beyond my comparison. ”

"If he wants to listen to you say this, won't he be ashamed to die again like he was when he was a child?"

The master's knife was like the wind, but in a few moments, the case was covered with thin slices of fish like snowflakes, which really looked like a blooming white peony.

The rest of the bones and internal organs are wrapped in a thin film, which looks as beautiful as a piece of amber.

The second senior brother had a free hand at this time, so he went into the car and took two pairs of chopsticks, and waited for the master to eat satisfied. I took a few pieces of peony fish and tasted them carefully, and stole the amber-like fish bone viscera to the mouth of the big yellow cow.

It is a natural thing for a big scalper to eat grass, however...... This big yellow cow eats fish, and when I see it open its mouth, it swallows it, chews it with a sigh, and shakes its head from time to time, looking extremely happy.

The master was slowly sipping a small wine jug, and suddenly saw this scene in the afterglow, and couldn't help but reprimand angrily: "The cow chews the peony, what a waste of things! Where is the fish eaten like this!"

After saying this, the master took out another precious peony fish from the ice bucket, rolled up the sleeves of his cotton coat, and the kitchen knife rose and fell, and in an instant, a pile of white peony-like fish fillets appeared on the board.

The lost son picked up a piece of peony fish with chopsticks, dipped it in some spices, and threw it into the mouth of the big yellow cow.

It turns out that what the master said is not that the big yellow cow eats peony fish and spoils things, but that this way of eating can't eat the taste of peony fish spoils things.

The big yellow cow chewed twice, first stunned, and then two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, and then began to shake his head, keep bounceing his front hooves, and keep screaming.

Senior Brother Chi asked, "Master, is it happy or spicy?"

The Master said, "Of course I am glad. ”

The senior brother thought that the master's words would always be true, so he took the chopsticks and continued to feed the big yellow cow to eat peony fish.

In the cold region of the far north, where even the deserted people can no longer continue to survive, this big yellow cow can pull the cart around without fear of the cold and then come back unharmed, and its body is still so strong, of course, it is not an ordinary big yellow cow, so it eats fish and does not eat grass, and it is not an incomprehensible thing.

The senior brother cleaned the chopsticks and dishes on the board, then sat on the wall and looked at the south for a while, and said, "I don't know how the academy is now, and how much it will affect the desolate people going south." ”

The Master sat cross-legged on the ox cart, reading a book in his hand, and replied casually, "You will know when you go back." ”

The senior brother smiled, looked at the teacher and said, "The student is very curious about who entered the second floor. ”

The master looked at the page, lowered his head, and said, "I want to know that you can read it for yourself." ”

Senior Brother shook his head and smiled: "It's too far, I can't go back for a while." ”

After saying this, he suddenly stood up and looked at the northern part of the grassland, with an extremely clean smile on his face.

A row of extremely tall black shadows faintly appeared in that place, and when I looked closely, it was actually those snowfield giant wolves in the extreme northern cold region who were forced south with the desolate people all the way, hundreds of giant wolves were lined up like warriors, and the huge figure like a mountain gave people a great sense of coercion, but neither the master nor he had much reaction.

On the contrary, the reaction of the snowy wolves was strange. For them, the big yellow cattle from the Central Plains are as rare and rare as the peony fish, and they must be delicious, but for some reason, the giant wolves in the snow fields, which are known for their ferocity and murder, did not pounce on them, but let out a terrible wail, and retreated backwards in horror, as if they sensed some kind of terrifying aura far beyond their imagination.

This group of snowfield giant wolves is the group of giant wolves that fought fiercely with the Tang brothers and sisters at the pass that day. I saw that the thin male wolf, with the she-wolf who was as beautiful as the snow-capped mountain, broke away from the wolf pack and slowly walked towards the ox cart, and when he came to a place about a few hundred steps away from the ox cart, the ordinary male wolf stopped and no longer dared to move forward.

The thin ordinary male wolf looked at the ox cart, looking very excited, his body trembled slightly, squatted back, raised his two front paws, and looked like a human student facing the teacher and performing a disciple salute.

The senior brother looked at the male wolf and said in surprise: "Teacher, isn't this the wolf seven years ago? ”

The master smiled slightly, but did not speak.

The senior brother glanced at the master, and found that the master had no intention of objecting, so he left the ox cart and walked a few steps closer to the ordinary male wolf, raised his hand to the northwest direction of the grassland, and said: "Don't continue to the south, there are too many people over there, go that way, and after another five hundred miles, there will be a large coniferous forest." ”

The ordinary male wolf waved his front paws in salute again and again, leaned over and touched the ground with the wolf's head for a long time, and then stood up, reluctantly glanced at the ox cart, roared miserably, and ran northwest with his wife and subordinates.

"Let's go, go back to Chang'an. ”

The Master rolled up the book, lifted the curtain and walked into the ox cart.

The second senior brother turned his head and smiled at the meadow in the distance, sat on the single wheel and patted the cow's back.

Squeak, squeak, the ox cart goes south.

Looking at the ox cart that gradually disappeared at the end of the grassland, Tang Xiaotang stood up with the sleeping little snow wolf in his arms, his face was full of confusion, and after a long time, he muttered: "This ...... Is it the Master?"

Don stood beside her, looking at the rut left in the prairie and nodded.

Tang Xiaotang shook his head, feeling that the gluttonous old man just now was completely different from the master he imagined.

After a moment of silence, Tang said: "I wanted to see if there was an opportunity for you to worship the master as a teacher, but since the master did not say it, it means that the opportunity is not enough, and there will be a chance to talk about it later." ”

Tang Xiaotang asked in surprise, "You mean that the master knows that we are peeking here?"

Tang turned around and walked to the bottom of the meadow and said, "Since you are a master, you naturally know everything. ”

...... (To be continued.)