For these dishes in front of him, Li Qingxuan knew that they must be extremely expensive. Li Taibai, the wine and sword fairy, once said, "The golden bottle of sake is ten thousand, and the jade plate is shy and ten thousand dollars." "I'm afraid that these fine wines and delicacies in front of me are not only 10,000 yuan, but 100,000 yuan may not be able to buy them! It is really the smell of Zhumen dog meat, and there are frozen bones on the road. What a blatant irony!

The dishes are not yet ready, but these few delicacies alone have made many people who have tasted all kinds of delicious dishes nod their heads and secretly admire them. "Behind Luobei Tower is the Li Tang royal family, and the style of wine and food here is actually mostly the royal wine and delicacies in the palace. The ninth girl gently picked up a piece of fish skin and said, "But these dishes are not common in the palace. ”

Li Qingxuan was slightly stunned. The Ninth Girl suddenly let out a low laugh and said, "Even I have only tasted these dishes a few times. This time I came to the banquet, not to cheer for the young master, but because I have been idle recently, and I want to taste these dishes. ”

Hearing this, Li Qingxuan suddenly sketched a delicate girl in her mind, naughty and greedy, but when she turned her head, the ninth girl still looked cold, and she couldn't see the appearance of a naughty girl, Li Qingxuan almost thought that she had heard the wrong thing.

At this moment, there was the sound of footsteps approaching. A young man walked closer, didn't look at Li Qingxuan, and only said to the ninth girl: "Senior Sister Jiu, don't you like the main table, but like the location by the window?" The ninth girl said: "This table is by the window, the air is circulating, and it is not as dull as inside." Besides, I am a little woman, and as I sit at the main table, you also look restrained. ”

The young man regarded Li Qingxuan as nothing, and chatted with the ninth girl for a few words, before turning his head, looking at Li Qingxuan, showing a smile, and said: "My name is Tian Meng, a disciple of Si Tiantai, and the family teacher is one of the five senses of Si Tiantai, Mr. Meng Zhizhou. ”

Si Tiantai's disciple? Originally, this person turned a blind eye to himself, and Li Qingxuan didn't care too much about this young man who hadn't even cultivated his true qi, but he just listened to his own origin, and it turned out to be Si Tiantai's disciple. Li Qingxuan glanced at him carefully, then got up and said, "My surname is Li Ming Daoxuan." ”

"It turned out to be Li Daoyou. A wisp of scorn flashed in Tian Meng's eyes, and he looked very disdainful of the word Daoxuan, but he didn't show it on his face, just pointed to the dishes on the table, and said with a smile: "These dishes are very rare, even in the palace, and they may not be available every day." If it weren't for the young lord to set up a banquet, we would rarely be able to taste it. ”

Li Qingxuan nodded and said, "The color and taste are good, and they are indeed extraordinary." "It's nature. Tian Meng laughed twice before he said: "This kind of dish can only be tasted by people of this status such as me, and it is a great blessing for ordinary people to see it once." I don't think I've seen Li Daoyou before?"

The nine girls paused their chopsticks, their eyes showed a little light, they glanced at Tian Meng, and then glanced at the young master, then put down the chopsticks and said nothing. Li Qingxuan noticed that this person was not good, but his face was still calm, and he smiled: "I really haven't seen it." ”

"Then you should taste it. Tian Meng laughed very heartily and said: "With a status like ours, although it is difficult to taste it every day, if you really grit your teeth, you can eat a few meals." Like Li Daoyou, I am afraid that after eating this meal, I will not have the opportunity to taste it again in the future, so I should really cherish it. ”

Before he could finish speaking, he pointed to the previous plate of fish and said, "This plate of fish is from the body of the South China Sea tuna, this fish is more than six feet long, the back is blue, the abdomen is silvery-white, and the fins are orange. Do you know how much it takes to get such a plate of fish belly?" Li Qingxuan said calmly: "I don't know. ”

"Then I'll tell you. Tian Meng lowered his hand slightly, and said: "The tuna in the South China Sea is very rare, after being captured, after feeding the secret medicine, after 28 days, its tender meat becomes more delicious, and then the fish scales are removed, the fresh meat is cut out, and it is cut into thin slices. And you need seven ingredients: garlic, ginger, salt, white plum, orange peel, cooked chestnut meat, and japonica rice. ”

"Pink tuna fillets, verdant fragrant flowers, and sliced fragrant flowers and leaves are mixed in sashimi and decorated with fragrant flower spikes to make the dish bright and dazzling. Tuna is extremely difficult to catch, and every time you catch such a large tuna, fishermen will always be injured or even killed. It's just a lowly people, and if they die, they will die. ”

After he said this, everyone present was a little surprised, and some people couldn't help but be curious, put a piece in their mouths, and immediately praised it. However, Li Qingxuan only frowned. And the ninth girl's face was even more unkind, she looked at the plate of fish tart, and thought to herself, fortunately, she didn't like sashimi, and she had never eaten this dish in Luobeilou.

She looked at her favorite plate of roast lamb and was relieved when she was sure that the fried roasted lamb was cooked food. At this time, Tian Meng pointed to the fried roasted lamb again and said: "This plate of fried and roasted lamb comes from Peiguo white goat, and the meat quality is excellent. ”

"First, the white goats are fed Chinese herbs, placed in an iron cage, the bottom of the cage is covered with iron plates, and the bottom is grilled with charcoal. The live sheep can't stand the hot iron plate, keep running, with the drug dissipation, and the blood and gas flow to the sheep's body, until the end, when its hooves are ripe, can not run, it will fall, and the blood and gas mixed with the medicine, will melt into the white goat's body. ”14

Finally, he discarded the hooves and feet, cut the sheepskin alive, and made this plate of roasted whole sheep. Hearing Tian Meng's explanation, the ninth girl no longer had an appetite in the face of that plate of roasted whole sheep. "As for this stir-fried fish skin, it was originally flexible, more flexible than cowhide, but after many processes, its texture changed, soft and crystalline. ”

Tian Meng sneered and said, "And the fish soup belongs to the same kind of fish as this fish skin, and there is nothing to praise about the practice." Li Qingxuan sniffed lightly, and then smiled: "There is nothing to praise for the practice, do you want to come to the ingredients are extraordinary?" Tian Meng said: "This fish is called a white fish with a warped mouth, which comes from the cold pool of black water. ”

After all, he showed a lot of pride. The young master over there felt that his face was very long, and his smile also increased a little. "Black Water Cold Pool?" Some cultivators heard the words Black Water Cold Pool, and immediately inhaled endlessly. But to the disappointment of Tian Meng and others, Li Qingxuan was still at a loss.

After a moment of silence, Li Qingxuan looked at Tian Meng and asked very sincerely, "What is the place of the Black Water Cold Pool?" In the Luobei Building, there was a dead silence. The young master smiled stiffly. Tian Meng's cheeks twitched slightly. Only the nine girls couldn't help but raise their heads slightly, smiling like flowers, touching people's hearts. Tian Meng was speechless, only feeling that he was suspected of playing the piano to the cow, and he didn't know how to answer the scholar's words.

The nine girls said lightly: "Heishui Hantan is located in Nanling County, Xuancheng County, Tang Dynasty, on the side of Wusong Mountain near Huaishui, which is a big forbidden place. Because it is contaminated with the breath of the dragon, the fish and shrimp in the cold pool are the most supplemental, and they are also the most difficult to catch, and they are the rarest ingredients of the Dade Holy Dynasty. ”

"Jiaolong?" Li Qingxuan often saw records in books, but he had never heard of such a thing. "Although it is a rumor, the rumor is true, there is indeed a demon Jiao in the cold pool. The ninth girl said: "This demon Jiao is good at making waves, and his Taoism is profound, and it is said that he can compare with the real person at the peak of the dragon and tiger." According to Mr. Li Mi, the head of Si Tiantai, if there is no change, within 20 years, this Jiao will be 1,000 years old and can turn into a dragon and soar. ”

Li Qingxuan could hear it, it seemed that this kind of thing had only been seen in books before, and it was all made up. Today, I learned from the mouth of the nine girls that the Hantan Jiaolong was really alive, and I couldn't help but be fascinated. "The fish, shrimp, turtles and turtles in the cold pool are all contaminated with the breath of dragons, which is different from the ordinary. ”

The Nine Girls continued: "Among them, the white fish with a cocked mouth is a dragon blood descendant, with a large and small body, as big as a dog and a sheep, and as small as a palm. Because the white fish scale armor is as solid as iron, the skin of the fish is flexible, and the meat is greatly replenished, it is the most famous treasure in the cold pool. ”

"In the army of the Tang Dynasty, there are generals who wear armor made of white fish scale armor with a warped mouth, and soft armor made of fish skin inside, which is much more effective than ordinary armor. The Nine Girls looked at the skin of the fish on the table and said, "The skin of the white fish is many times more flexible than the cowhide, and it needs to go through many processes to use it as an ingredient. However, it is also very luxurious to use a set of high-quality materials of soft armor as ingredients. ”

Li Qingxuan was able to solve his doubts. Tian Meng listened very unpleasantly, how could it be that the ninth senior sister and this scholar talked about the Hantan Jiaolong for no reason, as if they were discussing the Tao and solving puzzles? The situation he had finally created was about to lose the face of this scholar, how could he give it up?

Tian Meng coughed and said: "The Black Water Cold Pool is one of the forbidden places of the Tang Dynasty, and this white fish with a cocked mouth is extremely rare and can be called a treasure. It's those eggs, which are more common in this half of the table, but they are not something that ordinary people can see. ”

Li Qingxuan's eyes turned indifferent, and said: "As far as I know, there are people who slaughter sheep and dogs, and when the meat is stewed, if an egg is put in, then all the nutrients in the meat will be absorbed by the egg." If a neighbor kills a sheep and eats it, if he puts an egg in it, he should pay half of the mutton money. Could it be something similar?"

Tian Meng said with a smile: "Exactly, it's just that Li Daoyou doesn't know that this time it is not an ordinary goat stewed, but hundreds of small-tailed cold sheep transported from the foot of the Tianshan Mountain in the Western Regions outside the Tang Dynasty. Just an egg should have a price of more than 20 taels of silver, which is comparable to the use of ordinary people for two or three years, as for those poor families, hey, even if they don't have to earn more than 20 taels of silver in ten years. ”

Speaking of this, he said with a smile: "Li Daoyou takes advantage of this banquet, you don't have to pay, you should hurry up and eat some, so as not to regret it after leaving." Of course, if you want to accompany you to talk a few more words, consume some physical strength, so that I can eat more, then I should also accompany you. ”

Tian Meng did not hide his voice, and almost everyone heard this. Someone couldn't help but laugh out loud right now. What Tian Gongzi said was exact. Li Qingxuan said: "Twenty taels of silver is a huge amount of money for those woodcutters, farmers and others. ”

"Not to mention the living expenses on weekdays, even if you don't eat or drink, you may not be able to save it for more than ten years. Li Qingxuan raised his chopsticks, sandwiched an egg, and bit the bottom half, only to feel that his mouth was full of fragrant and the taste was very smooth. Deng Shi laughed and said, "It's really excellent." ”