Chapter 532: The Monkey King's Recipe
Ren Hailuan has hardly cooked by herself since she was a child, so she feels a little ashamed in front of the Monkey King now. In the kitchen, the White Monkey King seems to look more like an adult who is very good at housework, while Ren Hailuan is at most just a little girl who has not grown up yet, and can only follow behind the Monkey King to help.
The Monkey King first instructed Ren Hailuan to clean the wild vegetables picked by him and the little monkeys, but he washed rice and cooked a pot of rice.
Ren Hailuan only knew before that the monkeys in the mountains would eat whatever they wanted, but this monkey king just made a big white pot of rice. Ren Hailuan saw that the Monkey King had a lot of rice, obviously not only for him and Tang Zhong at all, but also for his monkeys and monkey grandchildren, naturally they all had a share. In this way, under the leadership of the White Monkey King, all of these wild monkeys eat cooked food, which is really beyond Ren Hailuan's imagination.
"Could it be that they are all like people, all of them use chopsticks?" Ren Hailuan suddenly thought of this in his heart, so while washing vegetables, he looked up at the chopstick basket in the kitchen. I saw that in the kitchen, there was really a chopstick basket made of bamboo, but there were not many chopsticks in it at all, just six pairs of three pairs of animal bone chopsticks. This chopsticks basket Ren Hailuan came in for the first time but saw it, but she didn't pay attention to how many pairs of chopsticks there were in it at that time, so she didn't expect that there were not people living in this cave, but a group of monkeys.
"Three pairs of chopsticks, except for the Monkey King, among the other monkeys, there should be only two slightly smarter monkeys who can use chopsticks!" Ren Hailuan thought so.
The Monkey King first boils the rice dish in the pot and then puts the remaining rice back in its place. At this time, Ren Hailuan saw that the rice was actually hidden under a large stone slab, presumably there must be a relatively large storage room under the stone slab, most of which was used to store some kitchen cooking necessities. Because the slate is very little integrated with the ground, there is no gap at all in the dim light, so when Ren Hailuan was looking for food in the kitchen before, he couldn't find the rice under the slate.
Sure enough, there was a small storage room under the slate, although it was much smaller than the large storage room outside, but the contents in it were not small, all of which were oil, salt, ginger, chili peppers and other condiments.
"It seems that this white monkey can really enjoy it, and he is more particular about cooking a meal than ordinary people." Ren Hailuan peeked at the Monkey King doing things, but muttered in his heart.
After a while, Ren Hailuan had cleaned all the wild vegetables clearly, and then handed them over to the Monkey King neatly, and then asked, "What else do you want to wash?" ”
The Monkey King took the wild vegetables from Ren Hailuan's hand, and then smiled at her very kindly like an old grandfather, and then handed her a bag of heavy things, and then pointed to the water, it seemed that she still had to be cleaned here. Ren Hailuan didn't know what was inside, but he saw the cloth bag squirming constantly, it seemed that it must be a living thing inside.
"What is this?" Ren Hailuan took the cloth bag, and then asked curiously.
When the Monkey King heard this, he pointed to his mouth with his paw, and then laughed happily, which must have meant to say, "This is something delicious." ”
Ren Hailuan believed it, so he reached into the cloth bag with his right hand and grabbed it out, only to feel that the meat in his hand was cold and cold, and when Ren Hailuan saw it clearly, he was immediately frightened and screamed "ah", and then threw the entire cloth bag and the things in his hand on the ground in an instant.
Originally, the things in it turned out to be a thumb-sized meat chrysalis, and all of them were alive, but I don't know what kind of insect chrysalis it was. Ren Hailuan had never seen this thing, thinking that it would bite, so he was frightened and screamed.
The Monkey King obviously didn't expect Ren Hailuan to be frightened, so he hurriedly picked up all the cloth bags and meat pupa, and then directly helped her pour them into the wooden basin where he washed the wild vegetables just now.
The Monkey King saw that Ren Hailuan was still a little scared, so he told her with his finger that this thing would not bite. Ren Hailuan was still very smart, and he roughly understood what the Monkey King meant, so he boldly reached out to the wooden basin and touched it, and sure enough, he saw that those meat chrysalis could only wriggle, and they couldn't bite people at all, and they had no teeth.
After Ren Hailuan made sure that there was no danger, he scooped up clean water and began to clean. Seeing this, the White Monkey King finally smiled happily, then picked up the kitchen knife and began to cut the wild vegetables that had just been cleaned by Hailuan.
Although Ren Hailuan didn't know how to chop vegetables, as soon as she heard the uniform sound of the Monkey King chopping vegetables, she really believed that he was a good kitchen hand, and this knife skill alone was very comparable.
These insect pupae don't know where the monkey king came from, the body is actually very clean, Ren Hailuan only washed it with water twice and twice, and the insect pupa is as white as jade, crystal clear, and looks very cute. Although Ren Hailuan is not afraid of this chrysalis now, the thought of eating this thing later, she suddenly felt a little disgusted in her heart. It seems that tonight, even if the Monkey King made this thing, he wouldn't dare to eat it.
The Monkey King saw that she had washed her pupae, and then handed some strange-shaped Muteng rhizomes, and they were all covered with mud, which seemed to be a bit troublesome to wash.
"Looks like tonight, in addition to rice, this thing is going to be my main course." Ren Hailuan took the stem of the tree and cleaned it seriously, but he thought of it in his heart. In Ren Hailuan's opinion, eating plant stems is acceptable, and it is much better than eating the fleshy pupae.
But until now, Ren Hailuan has not seen any traces of meat, presumably it must be a vegan feast.
As she was thinking this, she suddenly heard a monkey sound, and then a male monkey happily came to the kitchen door and reported to the Monkey King, carrying four carps on his left and right paws, which was one of the male monkeys sent out by the Monkey King before. The Monkey King was very happy to see this, so he stopped cutting vegetables for a while, but took the kitchen knife, and then took the carp and began to kill.
This way of life, this cooking technique, but where is it still like a monkey, it is simply a living person.
If it weren't for what Ren Hailuan had seen with her own eyes, she would never believe that such an old monkey king, who seemed to be in his twilight years, actually knew much more than her.
Ren Hailuan only knew at this time that the Monkey King sent those male monkeys out to find these more nutritious foods, and most of the things he did were to seriously injure his body.
The fish caught by the male monkeys are not small, the smallest is more than a catty, and the largest is more than four catties. However, the monkeys were originally quite numerous and had a lot to eat, so it seemed that the Monkey King was going to kill all eight fish.
The male monkey saw that the monkey king was too busy, so he also came to help kill the fish.
The kitchen is alive and hot, and it looks like it's all a big meal. Ren Hailuan saw that the Monkey King didn't have time to cut vegetables, so after washing the rhizomes, he went over to help cut vegetables.
Although her knife skills are far inferior to those of the Monkey King, she can barely cope with them because the rhizomes of those wild vegetables are not difficult to cut.
Ren Hailuan and the Monkey King were busy, and suddenly another male monkey came back, holding a bird's nest in each paw, which was full of chicken dishes. Originally, this male monkey went to dig a bird's nest, and looking at its results, the bird's nest was really not small.
Since the kitchen was not too big to accommodate too many people, the Monkey King asked the male monkey to put down the nest, and then asked him to pick up the other male monkeys who had not yet returned.
At this time, it was already dark, except for the two male monkeys who were fishing and digging birds' nests, the other male monkeys led by the older male monkeys had not returned.
At this time, Ren Hailuan inadvertently saw that the Monkey King had a worried look on his face.
Ren Hailuan knew that if it was because of him and Tang Zhong, the Monkey King would definitely not let his monkey monkey grandchildren go out on adventures again. In the past, most of the food collected by the Monkey King was suitable for human consumption, so the Monkey King would let the male monkeys go fishing and dig birds' nests. As for where the older male monkey went, Ren Hailuan couldn't guess it for a while. However, looking at the look of the Monkey King, she expected that the task of the older male monkey must be the most dangerous.
After the monkey king finished killing the fish, he smashed all the eggs that the male monkey had brought back into a large porcelain bowl, and then stirred it quickly with a chopstick. Looking at it like this, it must be steamed egg porridge, and this dish must be specially made for Tang Zhong. Because Tang Zhong was seriously injured and unconscious, even if there were all kinds of delicious food, he couldn't eat it at all now. But he has to recharge food to heal his body, so this steamed bird's egg porridge is naturally very suitable. Not only does it melt in your mouth, it's easy to feed, but it's also very nutritious.
When Ren Hailuan saw the Monkey King show this hand, he couldn't help but admire it so much that he threw himself into it. Because even he, the person Tang Zhong who was most concerned, didn't think about what Tang Zhong should eat tonight, but the old monkey king had already arranged it, and it was arranged extremely reasonably.
Oh - oh -
Suddenly, there was a terrible wolf howl in the valley, Ren Hailuan was not right, but the monkey king suddenly tightened when he heard the sound, and then rushed out of the kitchen after leaving his affairs behind.
"This wolf howl has a certain meaning!" Ren Hailuan saw that the Monkey King was extremely nervous, as if something had happened, so he immediately followed.
When Ren Hailuan came to the main cave hall, the group of monkeys had already surrounded them. Ren Hailuan didn't know the situation, so he took a look, but saw that the little monkey team led by the older male monkey was surrounded in the middle, and they had come back smoothly.
The only unfortunate thing is that the leading older male monkey was injured in the hind leg, and at this time it was bleeding profusely, and it seemed that it was bitten by something. Ren Hailuan thought of the wolf howl just now, and finally understood why the Monkey King was so nervous just now, because it was the blood-devouring howl of the wolves.
Oh - oh -
The wolves were still howling at the bottom of the mountain, but because they couldn't come up at all, the monkeys weren't afraid of it. At this time, Ren Hailuan saw that the elderly male monkey was carrying a bamboo basket in his hand, and the bamboo basket was full of precious Chinese medicinal materials such as Ganoderma lucidum, Shou Wu and so on. Only then did Ren Hailuan finally understand that the Monkey King sent the male monkeys out not just to find food for them, but the main purpose was to go to Tang Zhong to find medicinal materials.
As soon as Ren Hailuan saw that the older male monkey was injured for himself and Tang Zhong, he was immediately moved to tears, so he hurriedly took out a self-conscious handkerchief to bandage the wound of the older male monkey.
Seeing this, the monkey king plucked a few leaves from a traditional Chinese medicine picked back by the male monkey, then put it in his mouth and chewed it and handed it to Ren Hailuan. Ren Hailuan immediately understood, and immediately wrapped the broken leaves in a handkerchief, and then wrapped them around the hind legs of the male monkey.