Chapter 14: The Inn
For twenty days in a row, the Qingfeng faction on the mountain was in full swing to recruit disciples, and Yancheng under the mountain silently opened an inn called "Home Inn".
The inn is opened in the northeast corner of the county, the location is remote, there will not be many guests, but the inn first launched a fried golden fritters with all kinds of porridge and side dishes for breakfast, and then launched a dish called "Dongpo meat", which soon gathered popularity, and it took less than two months, and the business was booming, no worse than several inns in the center of the city.
In particular, this "Dongpo meat", the color is like agate, a large piece of fat and thin meat is placed on the plate, cut into four pieces, can be clamped with chopsticks, clamped up and formed, put in the mouth with a tongue to stir and can dissolve, the taste is soft but not rotten, fragrant but not greasy, once it was launched, it was very popular, and soon even Fucheng heard that someone came to taste it.
Behind this lively inn, there is a quiet and shallow stream, and across the stream is a group of houses, and a crooked old tree grows in the courtyard where the innkeeper lived.
The boss's name is Xu Mo.
At this time, Xu Mo was standing under the tree with his bare body like holding the stone pier like holding the moon, and the muscles on his body rose and fell in a wonderful and harmonious rhythm with his breathing.
In the past, Xu Mo only used it as a practice method to exercise the strength of the lower limbs and waist, and did not attach importance to it, but in recent times, he has a stable residence, and he has found that it is infinitely useful: practicing the moon holding pile is not to hold a stone and stand still, but to use the muscles of the limbs, waist and back and even the whole body to skillfully unload, run and support when breathing, it seems to be immobile, in fact, all the muscles of the body are active all the time.
Recently, he has taken time out to practice holding the moon pile every day, and his body has benefited a lot, and his experience of "mixed yuan energy" is deepening every day.
When his whole body was hot and he gradually felt empty inside, he stopped in time, put the stone pier at his feet, walked to the bucket more than one person high next to him and tried the temperature of the boiled "blood soup", and then put on his clothes and walked around the courtyard with his hands and feet.
Last month, Qin Ming went back to his home at the bottom of the mountain, and Xu Mo, who had been waiting for him, hurriedly came to visit.
Of course, he went to see Qin Ming for many purposes, but what he wanted to know most was the aspects related to his body.
For the sake of the famous painting worth two hundred taels of silver and other gifts he brought, Qin Ming answered his question: The vitality is insufficient, the origin has been injured, and it is no longer suitable for martial arts training.
Xu Mo knew his physical condition well, but he couldn't accept that he couldn't practice martial arts, practicing martial arts could strengthen his body and increase his lifespan, which was the purpose of his martial arts training at that time.
Qin Ming explained at the time: "You only know one, but you don't know the other, practicing martial arts is like building a house, you can only build one layer with soil, and you can build a higher layer with wood, but it is not very strong, the body is the foundation of martial arts, the foundation is broken, and it is in vain to practice again, and although practicing martial arts can strengthen the body, but the consumption in the process of practicing is also large, with your body, with all due respect to the old man, practicing martial arts is not only useless, but harmful! If you want to listen to me, you must not hurt your mind in the future, and it is best not to get married and have children, so that you may be able to live a few more years!"
His words made Xu Mo very shocked at that time, but after experiencing so many things, he would never give up martial arts.
Moreover, he thought carefully about Qin Ming's words and found that martial arts training was harmful to him, because the consumption of the body in the process of training was too great, so would it still be beneficial to him to ensure that the consumption of martial arts training on the body was controlled within a reasonable range?
He thinks that it is reasonable to do, as for how to control the consumption within a "reasonable range", his approach is that the second day after practice, the body is full of vitality, full of energy, and appetite, even if it is reasonable, and once he feels tired, it is overpracticed.
Facts have proved that according to this method of cultivation, his physical state is stronger day by day.
Of course, if there was any way or panacea that could directly solve the problem of the body's original injury, it would be the best, and he also asked this question at that time.
It's a pity that Qin Ming just glanced at him for this question, then smiled and shook his head, but he didn't say a word.
What does he mean, yes, or no, or something else?
Xu Mo didn't figure it out now, if the other party didn't say it, he had no choice at all.
After walking out of the Qin family, he planned to settle down in Yancheng: first, this place is close to the Qingfeng faction, and there are obviously more people practicing martial arts than elsewhere, and it is easier for him to find people to ask for advice on problems in the process of practicing martial arts, second, it is relatively prosperous here, and third, he still wants to ask Qin Ming for a way to heal the original injury, because he feels that the other party seems to know, but for what reason he didn't tell him.
As a result, there is this "Home Inn".
Regarding the development of the inn, he had a big plan in mind, but without a strong strength or backer, everything was impossible, so, except for the first few days, when he recruited the training guys, he became the shopkeeper and focused on cultivation.
Being able to practice without distractions is also the reason why he has made rapid progress during this time, and in addition, he has also experimented with the time to make the most use of the "Relaxing Muscles and Invigorating Blood Soup", that is, before noon every day, especially after practicing, the absorption effect is particularly good.
During this time, he also had time to study the relationship between the black toad diagram and the jade, and found that it was not only the jade pendant left by Xu Ling that could cause the reaction of the black toad in the visualization, but also the purer the better, the more expensive the better, as long as the texture was hard and could see a strange brilliance in the visualization state.
But when it comes to the effect of that coolness, he hasn't felt it yet, it may be that the amount is not enough, or it may be that he has not mastered the correct method, and for him, the biggest effect of that coolness is to increase the time of the medicinal bath - this is actually very important to him.
In the past, when he was in the mountains, the so-called medicinal bath was just to scrub his body with medicinal soup, and now he has the opportunity, but when he took a formal medicinal bath, he found that he would be dizzy and nauseous after soaking for a while.
As usual, after soaking in the medicinal bath, he dried his body and put on clean clothes, sat under the eaves and drank medicinal tea and read a book leisurely, and when the inn in front of him gradually became lively, he got up and prepared to go over to eat.
One of the big reasons why he chose to open an inn is still to collect information.
When he walked into the backyard of the inn, the men in the same costume and with plates and edges immediately greeted him, and in the corner of the courtyard, the woman who was cleaning the dishes when she heard the movement also greeted him with a smile.
The reason why the Homeinn opened so quickly is that in addition to the breakfast and Dongpo meat provided, the staff and clean environment trained by Xu Mo according to the experience of his previous life combined with the current characteristics are also important reasons.
Walking into the inn, the shopkeeper who was settling accounts behind the counter, Ma Changlu, who had only one eye, was about to come over, it was a busy time, Xu Mo waved him back, and he walked to a clean small single room near the stairs and facing the counter.
The small single room is not very spacey, but there is a window facing the stream outside and the mountain in the distance, which is not stuffy at all, and more importantly, you can hear the conversation upstairs and downstairs when you sit inside.
As soon as he entered, the young man served him a meal specially prepared for him: a lamb chop that had been cooked for three hours without any spices, a small pot of egg drop soup, a large bowl of cucumbers, two cakes, and a pot of green tea.
Lamb chops are tender and juicy, smeared with a little salt or dipped in leek flowers to eat the taste is very good, there are fungus and mushroom pieces in the egg drop soup, pick out and eat with cakes is also very good, mixed with cucumber can be used as a side dish with soup, you can also eat lamb chops to relieve a greasy, these are his lunch, from the amount of more than twice the original, which also shows that his body is gradually getting better from another aspect.
He was grabbing a large piece of lamb chops to eat, when he suddenly heard a sudden vomiting sound outside, and a rough voice immediately shouted: "Brother Hai, what's wrong with you?"
Then I heard the sound of slamming the table, and then the man shouted, "What about the shopkeeper, is your food not clean, and my brother has a stomachache!"
Xu Mo frowned, poured a cup of tea and drank it slowly, ate two bites of cucumbers, and continued to deal with the remaining lamb chops.
Outside, Ma Changlu walked over quickly, and asked the man to clean up, and the man grabbed him by the collar and shouted, "Don't move! You are the shopkeeper here, right? You must explain this matter to us!"
Ma Changlu said with a straight face: "Let it go! Even if you don't say anything about this matter, we have to figure it out!"
Then he raised his voice and said: "Since our Rujia Inn is making food, our Boss Xu has strictly instructed that every dish must be fresh and clean! Just like this Dongpo meat, all the meat is slaughtered by live pigs, and then plucked with boiling water, washed with spring water, and then cooked for more than four hours before it can be made! It is also because our food is clean and delicious that Elder Qin is willing to take care of the business of our small shop, and there are often people in Shengyun Mansion Mansion who come to our store to order food! Since Your Excellency said that there is a problem with the food in our store, and it happens that the Rejuvenation Hall is not far from us, I will ask Dr. Sun to come over now!"
Xu Mo has always considered problems first, and when he trained them, he told them how to deal with various situations, and as soon as the inn opened, he gave Qin Ming two percent of the shares.
The reason why he chose Qin Ming was because he didn't know other people with higher status in the Qingfeng faction, and Qin Ming had more than enough to protect a small shop;
Secondly, although Qin Ming had only practiced to the fourth level of the Earth Yuan Realm, because of his age, it was impossible for him to improve in the future, but he had always been in charge of recruiting disciples of the Qingfeng Sect, and he still had a certain amount of power.
Sure enough, when he heard the relationship between Qin Ming and the inn, the arrogance of the person outside fell, and then he heard that there were people in Fuzun's family who came to eat Dongpo meat, so he became a little quiet, and then, as soon as they made it, it also affected others to eat, and they were coaxed out by everyone.
After a while, Ma Changlu walked in and said, Xu Mo nodded, asked people to put away the bones and bowls, washed their hands with water, poured tea and drank it slowly.
Come to the home inn to eat, each table will be presented with a pot of tea called "high broken", this tea taste is slightly coarse, but very greasy, everyone eats Dongpo meat, often drink tea for a while, of course, there are people, especially upstairs, often call some high-end tea, but drinking tea and chatting is the same.
At this time, Xu Mo would prick up his ears to listen, and sometimes he would hear more useful information, such as experience in martial arts, but not today.
He listened for a while, and seeing that there was no useful information, he got up and went back to his small courtyard, and as soon as he walked out of the inn, he saw a man with messy hair standing at the door with a bag on his back
As soon as he saw Xu Mo, the man immediately greeted him, opened his pocket, and said, "Boss Xu, this is the batch of jade I just received, what do you think?"
Xu Mo said: "Wang Dazhuang, you won't take a few rotten stones to deceive this time, right?"
Wang Dazhuang rubbed his hands and smiled: "How can it! This time it is really a genuine good jade, I guarantee that you are satisfied!"
Xu Mo didn't speak, he casually glanced inside, and saw that there were several pieces of jade with similar shapes, either white or green, with fresh soil on them, as if they had been dug out of the ground, but none of them mattered, because in his eyes, the light inside those jade blocks was like a clear spring!
PS: A few days ago, I sweated and dizzy when I moved a little, and I didn't feel like an eighteen-year-old boy anymore~ I went to the hospital today to change the medicine, and I felt a lot better from the afternoon, I hope it will be the same tomorrow