Chapter 234: The Wonderful Use of Drunken Incense
The so-called flower food is made from plants and flowers.
Flower food culture and incense also have a long history, the two go hand in hand, and some spices are also condiments or foods, such as pepper, cinnamon, and star anise.
So, Li Zhen saw Master Chi's family using various flower petals as fillings to make flower pies, which smelled endlessly.
"Are these your handiwork, Master Chi?" Li Zhen broke open a piece of cake with interest and tasted it, but he felt that the filling added was just right, with a little sweetness in the fragrance of roses, and the cake was also baked out of puff pastry, which tasted charred on the outside and tender on the inside, soft and not greasy.
"Yes, when I was young, I had a strange disease, blood and qi were stagnant, my body was poisonous, and I once sweated stinky sweat.
Whether it is fragrant soup, fragrant drink, fragrant porridge, fragrant cakes, I have dabbled in it, and even learned from those rich ladies in the city to bathe in fragrant soup, and the result is really miraculous, and it took three or five years to gradually cure, otherwise, I don't know what it has become now. ”
Master Chi laughed and told Li Zhen a secret about his past.
Li Zhen was surprised, this Master Chi couldn't see that he had suffered from a serious illness in the past.
Master Chi said: "Although I am over seventy years old now, I am still in good spirits and physically tough, which should also be related to the perennial consumption of flowers." ”
Li Zhen was quite interested and said: "There must be a way to eat a hundred flowers, can you tell me how you do it?"
Master Chi said: "If you are interested, you can take a look at the various recipes that Xiao Lao'er has collected over the years, it is not a valuable thing, just some casual matching, the main thing is perseverance." ”
"Perseverance......"
Hearing this, Li Zhen was slightly moved.
"Yes, in fact, the secret is to be persistent, it's just that simple. ”
Master Chi said.
"Even if you don't have these recipes, drinking green tea and purifying water all year round can also lighten your body, eliminate toxins, and then work and rest on time, take a walk after meals, and maintain health and longevity.
However, when I contemplate the cultivation of monks, I often stay up late because of my strong sense, and I often can't bear the desire to talk about my tongue, so I can't eat well......
There is no way, there is no hope of prolonging life, and after all, it is better to cut more. ”
Li Zhen and Mu Qingsi were greatly surprised when they heard this, and suddenly felt that the ordinary people were really hidden dragons and crouching tigers.
What Master Chi said......
Actually, it makes a lot of sense!
Whether it is perseverance or regular work and rest, it is an inevitable prerequisite for recuperating the body.
But many times, the monks did not fail to understand these truths, but found it difficult to adhere to them.
It's not hard to do this for a day or two.
Ten days and half a month, it is also not difficult.
Persist for three years, five years, eight years, ten years, or even decades, and it will begin to be difficult.
When Li Zhen heard this, his consciousness moved slightly, and he probed up and down this Chi Master Zhou.
Sure enough, I was surprised to find that he was fragrant and pleasant, with a kind of flowery texture.
may be due to the fact that the foundation is not good enough, this master Chi has also begun to have some old man's unique old man's smell, mixed with these floral fragrances, bringing a bad feeling.
I didn't pay attention to the smell on his body before, and felt that it was ordinary, no different from ordinary people, but he was affected by the slight rancid smell on these surfaces, and subconsciously protected himself.
The talent for smelling incense is too keen, and there are also sufferings, and he doesn't want to smell the breath of all beings that are intertwined with all kinds of flavors all the time.
However, when you concentrate your attention, you immediately notice a difference.
According to the general point of view, the smell of old people on the body of the elderly is related to the slow metabolism of the skin and the deposition of dead skin.
The smell of old man on his body is much lighter than that of other old people of the same age, indicating that his body functions are roughly equivalent to those in his fifties.
In fact, this can also be used as some basis for judging lifespan, if this Master Chi is free of disasters and diseases, he can live to at least 100 years old!
"The Great Dao is in the diet, and mortals also have a way to prolong their life for twenty or thirty years, which is equivalent to being several percent higher than the same realm.
If you change to a Jiedan monk or a Yuanying monk, it will be much more difficult to pay attention to maintenance and keep improving, but there should still be hundreds of thousands of years of limits that can be squeezed!
There really doesn't need to be a panacea, just four words......
Stick with something!
But even so, it can't be done without a good medium, and the varieties of flowers he uses, as well as the water source for drinking, must be better than ordinary people's homes.
When I was in the Luo Si Dojo, I actually studied this problem with Mrs. Yu, and the fragrant tea produced by Mrs. Yu was more spiritual, but at first glance it seemed that the effect was not as good. ”
This is a point that makes Li Zhen very confused.
This pool master has flowers and food, don't other people's families have them?
It's not a secret recipe.
And a monk like Madame Yu will lack perseverance?
They drank this kind of stuff intermittently, also for ten decades, and the effect did not seem to be so obvious.
Where does the gap come from?
Maybe even Master Chi himself didn't notice this trick, and he just listened to the experience he summed up.
At this time, Li Zhen suddenly saw that the young man who had been pounding the mortar before was hiding on the side and eating cakes.
He's just a child, listening to the adults chatting back and forth, it's not very interesting, his mouth is greedy, and he doesn't care about any noble guests, whether he is educated or not, and he will eat a cake.
Through the wall of the room, Li Zhen sensed that he had first spread out the pie, and then picked up a bottle of rose dew from the side, like soy sauce, and sprinkled a little on it.
Only then did I take a beautiful bite and feast on it.
This is his habit, and it is extremely natural, but Li Zhen suddenly realized, and separated a wisp of divine consciousness to envelop the young man, and observed it carefully.
"This person is full of fragrance, and the fragrance is sufficient!"
Li Zhen was a little shocked.
The body of idle mortals is actually smelly, and under Li Zhen's subconscious shielding, he got rid of all kinds of miscellaneous smells and eliminated many uncomfortable smells.
Even if they are as close as Chaoshu, these maids in Liju will inevitably have the smell of filth and lochia, which is a miscellaneous smell produced by normal human life activities, and tends to be inducted at the material level.
Fortunately, Li Zhen knows how to self-regulate, otherwise he would have to torture and go crazy with this keen talent.
The same is true for a bowl of water and 84,000 insects.
Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to make himself uncomfortable.
The monk has supernatural powers, and he can also freely regulate his senses, so that his eyes will not be full of filth and foul smell.
This ability to adjust is indispensable.
But the smell of this young man's body is extremely pure, even by the standards of the foundation monks, it can be called a fragrance.
But at this moment, an earthly odor came to the tip of Li Zhen's nose, making him involuntarily frown slightly.
"Still not perfect?"
"By the way, after all, this is a mortal world, no matter how to control your diet and nourish your body, it will inevitably affect the effects of mundane food and normal metabolism......"
While coping with the conversation with Master Chi, Li Zhen secretly urged the incense with his divine thoughts and integrated it into himself, but he suddenly found that after the fragrance of this rose dew entered his body, many vitality in his body seemed to be touched by the medium, and suddenly became active.
In and out of the exchange, some of the incense remained in the flesh and blood.
It has the role of a catalyst similar to that in a chemical reaction, which can replace the body odor with itself, and is permanent here.
After this attempt, Li Zhen immediately confirmed that the young man was supposed to refine body fragrance, but because he had not retained this benefit properly, he was not allowed to practice kung fu, and it was wasted.
"Master Chi, do you have a habit of eating with rose dew at home?"
Li Zhen asked quietly.
"How do you know? Oh, I just saw the bottle on the table, yes, we use it as a spice occasionally, and that's fine. ”
Li Zhen nodded, this ancient perfume did not use ethanol as a solvent, and it was essentially a plant extract.
Plants were originally the main source of food, whether spices or medicinal herbs, food, mostly collected from rhizomes, leaves, fruits, seeds.
Feeding on flowers is not surprising.
It's like some people like to put some coriander or chopped green onions, and sprinkle some pepper and hot sauce......
Compare this kind of thing to soy sauce, and sour vinegar is also acceptable.
Although some are not appropriate, their essence is indeed the same.
......
After a long time, Li Zhen and Mu Qingsi finally left Master Chi's house and returned to their accommodation.
"Husband, I just saw that you seem to be absent-minded, but what else have you discovered?"
Mu Qingsi knows Li Zhen very well, before Li Zhen and Master Chi talked as usual, there was nothing unusual on the surface, but in fact they were distracted.
Otherwise, with Li Zhen's temperament, maybe he will have to ask for more technical details.
He is very interested in all these things related to incense, and he must break the casserole and ask how much he can learn.
And when he is interested, there is no need to delay the effort.
It can only be said that there are more important things that attract attention, and those trivial things are put aside first.
Li Zhen said: "Indeed, I feel that this rose dew seems to have unexpected effects, if it can be blended with its properties, maybe it can create a better flow of fragrant drinks." ”
"Is it better than the fragrant tea made by Mrs. Yan?" Mu Qingsi said, "But the fragrant tea from Mrs. Yan's side uses some spiritual materials as materials, and after several concoctions, it is very valuable. ”
Li Zhen said: "You don't have to be superstitious about the quality and value of spiritual materials, if these things are not right, it is useless." ”
However, whether it is really what I thought before needs to be verified.
Li Zhen did it when he thought of it, and immediately got busy.
Although the conditions here were rudimentary, as a monk, he naturally had a way to overcome them.
At present, the use of mana instead of distillation and squeezing all kinds of products can easily complete the extraction process of the series.
But to achieve this step, it is still still stopped at the prescription given by Master Chi, and it is just a matter of picking up people's teeth and wisdom.
As a master of incense, Li Zhen naturally wants to eliminate the chaff, bring forth the new, and use his own understanding to improve and optimize it.
So, it continued to be carefully blended.
His attainments are extraordinary, and in just one night's work, he has succeeded in making his own incense.
The fragrance is tangy, but it tastes moist and sweet, with a hint of honey.
Although it is just a mortal thing, it seems to have a faint feeling of hooking spiritual power and resonating with it, just like the spirit incense.
As soon as Li Zhen saw it, he had the feeling that he had refined the spirit incense and secretly matched the avenue of heaven and earth, and he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart.
As a result, after trying it, I really found that some of the characteristics in this incense can promote the change of one's own qi.
Some impurities that have not been discovered in the past are eliminated, and the aroma remains, filling the body.
In the middle of coming, the whole body was filled with the smell of this kind of fragrance, just like the legendary body with a strange fragrance.
"It worked?"
This is the ideal state of fragrant tea, and it is also the form of incense pills that Li Zhen has studied in the past.
However, when Li Zhen summoned some servants in the place where he was staying and asked them to take a small amount of this perfume for comparison, he found that it did not seem to have any desired effect.
Why is it useful to yourself, but useless to those mortals?
They all showed the imperfection of Master Chi and the young man, as if the incense changed their bodies while continuing to be polluted by the mortal world.
He pondered for a long time, let Mu Qingsi taste it too, and saw that her body was as fragrant as himself, and then he finally realized.
"The real function of this kind of fragrance is actually to guide and occupy a place!"
"Because my Dao body and Qingsi were originally catalyzed by the fragrance of tea and turnips, they are extremely pure in nature, and they have only been affected by all kinds of turbidity in the mortal world, and it has only been a few years.
The years of a mortal are very different from those of a monk, and before these years, I had not even eaten any greasy and spicy food, but was mostly supplemented by the aroma of food, and occasionally the pollution was very light......
What's more, even drinks like fragrant tea may be a kind of 'pollution'.
Although it is also fragrant, it may not necessarily be the aroma that the body needs.
From the point of view of benefiting the body's functions and increasing the spiritual essence, it is beneficial, but it is hindering in terms of changing the body fragrance and locking in the human fragrance.
All of these things really can't be generalized, maybe they haven't been able to break through before, but they have been disturbed by these interfering factors!"
Li was slightly excited, not only because of the discovery of a new incense and the opportunity to make incense pills, but also because of the establishment of a mechanism for the operation of incense, a change similar to a catalytic reaction.
What's even more rare is that the key substance in it is actually a kind of incense that can be refined without the need for aura and spiritual essence at all.
Although the raw materials of this incense are limited by the place of origin, with today's conditions, it just meets the needs of production, and it can be planted and harvested on a large scale.
Li Zhen plans to study this thing carefully, and if its function is really confirmed, it can be immediately transformed into an incense industry that is beneficial to itself, and it will be of great help to the future development!