The movie is almost over, and it's time for dinner. Outdoor movies are shown throughout the day, but everyone has started to move towards the dining hall.

The dining hall of Longchang Temple is filled with the smell of meat. The canteen is one of the few departments that is still directly run by the monks in the temple, because it is always reassuring to see fat monks coming to eat. Regardless of meat and vegetables, or spices, they carry the plates in and out, and the food displayed on the table is replenished.

There are also special foods such as "Longchang Temple Pork Knuckle" that are not directly displayed, because they are delicious when they are hot. There is a row of windows on the side of the canteen, if you want to eat, you can take the plate to beat, and there will be a monk scooping a whole pork knuckle out of the braised soup pot. There are also other windows that serve noodles and dumplings, all of which are freshly made.

Because it is a meal served in the Buddhist temple, there are two very distinctive stalls here.

Vegetarian stalls. This stall mainly serves vegetables, but more often it offers imitation meat dishes such as "King Kong Fire Recipe", which are also specially made for pilgrims. And looking at the menu, the assortment is very complete. There are imitation pork knuckle, imitation grilled mutton, as if jumping over the wall, etc., and there are few imitation meat dishes that can be supplied in the whole Yingtian.

There is also a food stall. The stall is very small, with only one window, because there are not many things inside. This is the same meal eaten by the monks in the real temple, whether it is an experience or a real meal, you can try it here.

"Wow" Shang Luo stood at the door of the dining hall. The aroma of that pork knuckle is very prominent, very distinctive, and you can smell it here.

"Well, angelica, kaempfera, cloves." Shang Luo sniffed out the recipe, "Not bad, it feels better than the imperial dining room." ”

"Where did you get so many spices in the imperial dining room?" Wen Yuan shook his head, "The Imperial Dining Room only got those spices to curb the corruption of the cans, and to provide some 'flavor' surprises to the people who opened the cans before the long shelf life ended. Other than that, tsk tsk. It's hard to put into words. ”

"You know that."

"Because I've done it, you can believe it. Sometimes when we ate at Guanglu Temple, my master and I would open the cans in the back kitchen, dismantle one after another, and then put them on a plate and send them away. It's a kitchen, it's a reverse cannery, and it's right next door to the cannery. I sometimes think that it would be better for everyone to go to the food factory in the Imperial Dining Room and pick it up directly from the production line. Over here. ”

He pointed to the ground: "The food here has a soul." Exclusive recipes, cooked with care, and no money. Because I've already paid for it before, don't need money when you eat it, do you know what it means? ”

"What does that mean?"

It means that the master who cooks will definitely not have trembling hands, because selling more and selling less has nothing to do with him at all. It's a piece to say it's a piece, and it's all about the same anyway. ”

"I really admire the masters in this temple."

From the door, you can see that there are many monks wearing monk's robes busy inside. Some are little monks, sweeping and mopping the floor, and some are cooking behind the shop window. There are even those who are eating directly, because they are eating directly from the window of Saisai.

The whole canteen is filled with the smell of meat. In particular, the soup pot of squatting pork knuckle and other braised vegetables exudes an extremely mellow and prominent aroma.

"I can endure the taste and the environment. It's pretty powerful, too. Saying. He asked Wen Yuan next to him, "Do the monks practice any exercises?" ”

"Hard Qigong. In fact, a lot of hard qigong comes from places like Shaolin. However, none of the monks cultivated immortals, at least not on the surface. After all, this kind of behavior of cultivating this life to prolong one's life is getting farther and farther away from nirvana and detachment. Maybe one of their tribes would have walked this path, but not now. ”

"Hmm" Shang Luo nodded, "I don't know what will happen when we start that path to be promoted to celestial." ”

He looked around, and the three of them had not yet arrived.

"What about them?" Han Xingzhi asked on the side, "I want to sign, sign and sign." Can you sign it at lunch? ”

Although Wen Yuan didn't say it, he also watched expectantly.

"Wait, I'll ask." He asked Phaethon on the Feixin card.

"Hello." Shaking his head, Shang Luo replied, "They are coming later, they want to soak all kinds of fragrant ones, let's eat them first." ”

It's a big restaurant, but it's not too crowded, and it's quite expensive after all.

Found a place near the edge of the dining area, a large table that was easy to pick up food, and a few people sat down first.

"I'll go get something to eat first."

Shang Luo stood up first. In fact, he has eaten everything else, pork knuckle or something, and he can eat it elsewhere. He was curious about what the monks in the temple were eating.

Went straight to the stall, and the monk inside saw him coming, so he asked, "Little donor, your face is raw, the first time?" ”

"Uh-huh."

"Then I recommend eating a small bowl. I'm afraid you won't be able to swallow it. If you don't have enough to take it again, or it will be wasted. ”

Shang Luo nodded: "Then let's have a small bowl." ”

He has always respected the advice given by professionals. The master inside said this, which means that there are really many people who can't eat this thing.

In fact, Shang Luo already had a hunch. Because there was nothing in that stall, just an iron bucket and large and small dishes and chopsticks, there was no choice at all.

Sure enough. Opening the tube, the master scooped a spoonful from it with a colander and put it in a small bowl with the soup - of course, he still used chopsticks to fold the noodles for Shang Luo, which looked better.

A copy of the interview was presented in front of me. Small bowl, probably only two bites. The soup is slightly green, and it looks like a vegetable soup. There are noodles in the soup, and the noodles are not the kind of tough Yangchun noodles, but the mushy noodles, and they don't look like dried noodles or anything like that

The side dish is completely absent, just two leaves.

Other than that, it's gone. No oil splashes, nothing else.

“.” Wen Yuan looked at him, "Do you want to be a monk too?" ”

"If the monk usually eats this, then it will be too bitter to be able to avoid it. Have you ever tasted it? ”

"Of course I tasted it, but this taste. It's hard to put into words. No, it's a word that can be said. ”

"What do you mean?"

"You'll know when you taste it yourself."

Shang Luo took a bite.

Indeed, it can be said in one word, and there is no taste at all. This thing seems to be a "coping meal" designed to fill people's stomachs, and it doesn't even have a little oil and water. As soon as you go down, the four are empty, and all thoughts are lost.

"Anyway, I see that you usually eat wotou and eat quite happily, this is not the same?"

Shang Luo shook his head: "It's completely different. I can appreciate some. Something different. Although Wotou is simple, the people who make it want to create a delicious taste in the simplicity. And this bowl of noodles, the people who make him don't want him to be delicious. I felt his will completely. Indeed, one bowl is enough. ”

There's one more chapter to wait a little bit on.

(End of chapter)