Chapter 376: Entertaining Guests
Let 504 and 505 go back to work, and send the disobedient dragon back to the northern desert to be imprisoned, Tian Xu wandered in the medicine king bucket for a while, looking around casually, and didn't want to go out for a while. He knew that those cultivators outside might be looking for him to exchange the demon ** for the elixir, but he just didn't want to move, he always felt that there was something to worry about, but he couldn't think of it.
He looked around, looked at the growth of other plants in the elixir in the initial space, and saw that several animals that he hatched from eggs and the species he introduced were also living well, and those tiger fish had formed a relatively large community in the freshwater lake, I don't know if there was any mutation, the size became larger, the largest were close to a catty, and the ordinary adult fish were also about half a catty.
"It seems like I haven't eaten a good meal for a long time," Tian Xu said to himself, "Why don't you get a few fish to eat first?"
"Okay, okay!" came the sound of clapping hands in the distance, and it was the purple smoke that arrived.
During this time, Ziyan was a little bored in the Medicine King Bucket. Tian Xu was busy saving people outside, and she didn't want to go out to disturb, she practiced swords in the space by herself, and usually only Dan Ling was with her. But although Dan Ling is almost exactly the same as Tian Xu, he is not the same person after all, strictly speaking, he is not even a person at all. It's still a little interesting to pretend to be a fairy in front of those refugees, but it's not interesting to play a few more times.
Now that Tian Xu has returned to the space, Julianne and Victor, whom he wants to save, have already entered the space, and 401 and 402 have also successfully crossed the catastrophe and upgraded to 506 and 507. You must know that Tian Xu has not eaten well outside for more than half a month, and she has been in the Medicine King Dou for almost half a year.
Tian Xu thought about it carefully, now there is really nothing particularly urgent that he needs to deal with by himself, those cultivators outside may come over to trade pills with him, this matter can be completely handed over to Dan Ling to deal with, and he can just relax in the Medicine King Dou.
Tian Xu looked at the ingredients available in the Medicine King Bucket, and the tiger fish must be tasted;
Now it is autumn in the orchid, the osmanthus is blooming, and the lotus root in the lake is also ripe, you can make an osmanthus sugar lotus root to eat;
Those electric eels grow well, you can also get one to eat;
The giant turkeys have already bred a large flock, and there are more than a dozen of them who have not opened their minds, and if there is no limit to their population, this space will be ruined by them, and one can be killed;
Hmm? When did the white truffle grow in the forest on the hillside? This thing is very famous in the secular world, but Tian Xu doesn't have much interest in it, and he doesn't know if Julianne's mother and son like to eat it. However, there are also many edible mushrooms such as matsutake mushrooms, chicken fir and bamboo sunflower;
The big tuna in the saltwater lake suddenly caught his eye, and he regretted that he had caught this guy in. Now the area of the saltwater lake is not very large, and this big guy is running around in it, eating a lot of fish and shrimp in it. Tuna made into sashimi is expensive in Japan, but the taste is nothing special, and it is not healthy, as a cultivator, he doesn't like it even more, it is better to kill and eat it, and if it is not delicious, it is better to leave it to those refugees;
Ziyan likes this thing the most, and she must pick it up and eat it in time, otherwise she will be old tomorrow.
Tian Xu asked Ziyan to invite Julianne's mother and son, as well as their four attendants, these people were outsiders after all, and they were his guests, so they could treat them well. He himself roams around the space, gathering the ingredients he needs.
Ten minutes later, the six guests were invited by Ziyan to the bluestone platform as the living room to taste the spiritual tea produced in the space, and Tian Xu also collected the required ingredients and began to make the most time-consuming osmanthus sugar lotus.
First mix osmanthus and jade honey to boil osmanthus sugar, then put glutinous rice into the lotus root hole and stew, and then use osmanthus sugar to taste, Rao is he has the help of the formation, and it took some effort to complete.
Then, he had an idea and went to the vegetable garden to pick a large winter melon, peeled and cut it into long strips the size of his little finger. Use the aura to gently break the cell wall of the melon strips, then extract a small amount of starch and protein, control the moisture, add jade honey to marinate for a while, and finally heat it evenly to one hundred and twenty or thirty degrees with Danhuo, and slowly extract the water until it is relatively dry, and then put it aside to cool slowly.
The water in the winter melon strips has been very small, and the solubility of the sugar in the water drops greatly after cooling, and the sugar is precipitated into crystals from the high-temperature saturated aqueous solution, so that the melon strips that are viscous at high temperature become a state covered with a layer of frosting, and the winter melon sugar is ready.
Winter melon candy was originally not a special thing, but Tian Xu used the secular medium-grade winter melon produced in the space, as well as the solid earth-level high-grade jade honey, to make these winter melon candy suddenly become taller. The exterior of the melon candy is covered with icing, and if you cut it, you will find that it has a translucent pale green color, like an ice jade. The unique fragrance of winter melon is long-lasting and long-lasting, and the agility brought by the high-grade elixir not only makes cultivators want to stop, but even ordinary people who can't distinguish the aura can't resist its temptation.
After the winter melon sugar is ready, the next thing to do is the bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots are not much bigger than their fingers, and they can't use the practice of ordinary bamboo shoots, and the only way Tian Xu has found now is to cook them like making spiced peanuts. He made a pot of soup with a variety of spices, washed all the 27 bamboo shoots he picked today, threw them in and boiled them for a while, and got some peanuts, which were also boiled in this pot of soup, and then put aside to soak after cooking.
Xiao Yan's bamboo shoots are Ziyan's favorite food, and when she saw Tian Xu doing this, she couldn't sit still anymore, and circled around the formation of soaked bamboo shoots. The formation is transparent, and the sauce-red soup is suspended in the air, and you can see the bamboo shoots and peanuts soaked in the soup, but you can't get it.
Then it's time for the real cooking. After the ten tiger fish were cleaned up by Tian Xu, they were simmered in the oil pan sauce, and a large silver carp weighing more than ten catties was stewed in a pot with the Northeast method, and corn tortillas and white flour rolls were pasted on the side of the pot. This is a pure Chinese practice, and Tian Xu is not sure whether Julianne's mother and son are used to eating. However, these two types of river fish are not at all European and American cuisine, and even if they use Western food methods, they do not necessarily have a cold.
The electric eel was cut open from behind by Tian Xu, salted and roasted over the fire. This is similar to the Japanese approach, which is relatively light and should suit the American appetite better than Chinese food.
A large lobster was made into cream lobster balls by Tian Xu, and he estimated that Julianne and Victor should be able to accept it. There was no cream in the medicine king bucket, and it was Tian Xu who had cows among the livestock he collected in Montana that made this dish possible.
A large pumpkin was hollowed out, and Tian Xu stewed more than ten kinds of edible mushrooms such as matsutake mushrooms, bamboo sunflowers, chicken fir trees, crab mushrooms, white fungus, lion's mane mushrooms, and tea tree mushrooms, among which corn and pine nuts were added, which were sweet and fragrant, and the truffle was sprinkled on top before serving, which amused the appetite of a group of Americans. It is worth mentioning that Tian Xu also added two kinds of poisonous mushrooms with excellent taste, and he used Dan Fire to destroy the toxins in the poisonous mushrooms, turning them into a delicacy that can only be eaten here.
In addition, Tian Xu also stir-fried a few dishes with delicious Warcraft meat and vegetables and fruits from the vegetable garden, and finally mixed a vegetable salad with lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, etc., which can be regarded as taking care of the tastes of those American guests.
The staple food is Tian Xu's own baked cakes, he has made his own good calculations, the cakes can be soaked in the soup of stewed fish and eaten, as for the bread that the guests prefer, he can't make it at all, so he has to make it difficult for them.
During the meal, Tian Xu took out bamboo wine and rice wine, but he didn't expect Julian and Victor to refuse to drink, and their four attendants also shook their heads and didn't drink, but the two masters Tian Xu and Ziyan drank heartily.
Later, Tian Xu asked and found out that Xu Jingyi believed in Buddhism and never drank alcohol, which also drove her disciples not to drink. Julianne is a drinker, but she has just drunk in the cellar to make a living, and now she wants to vomit when she sees wine, where is she still drinking. As for Victor, he is still a seven-year-old child, and he has not yet reached the legal drinking age in the United States, and he does not drink at all.
The problem that Tian Xu was worried about when cooking was that American guests were not adapting to Chinese food did not happen at all. These people have followed Xu Jingyi since childhood, and Xu Jingyi is a god-like existence in their eyes, so these attendants have also cultivated a Chinese stomach, and Julianne's adaptability to Chinese food makes Julianne ashamed.
Although these people don't drink alcohol, they are not vegetarians, and they eat the dishes made by Tian Xu without the slightest psychological burden, and they quickly clean the table.
The only thing left is some winter melon candy and osmanthus glutinous rice root, which he made a lot of, and originally kept them as snacks to eat slowly.
After happily finishing the meal, Tian Xu took Julianne's mother and son and four attendants to see the lives of the refugees he had taken in. Although the refugees' lives are also worry-free, they are much more difficult than them, not only lack some necessities, but also live in a very tight house and living space, so that these people who have adapted to the vast and sparsely populated living environment of the United States feel that there is no privacy at all, and Julianne shook her head again and again, saying that it was too pitiful.
The seven Earth Immortals in the Medicine King Dou were busy opening up new living spaces for the refugees every day, and with the help of the formation provided by Tian Xu, their efficiency was greatly improved, and they could probably open up an area of hundreds of hectares every day. A hundred hectares is a lot, but in fact, it is only one square kilometer, and Tian Xu's own workload in a day is more than that, even if Dan Ling occasionally comes to dig for a day, he can get an area of nearly two square kilometers. There is no physical cultivation among these earth immortals, and there is no comparison between physical cultivation and physical cultivation in this kind of work that requires great physical strength.
At present, the expansion of refugee living quarters can barely keep pace with the increase in refugee settlements, and if more refugees need to be admitted in the future, the problem of living area is still quite prominent.