Lujiang Zuo Yuanfang, this name is not obvious in the fifth year of Guanghe.

Originally, in history, the name of Mr. Wujiao Zuo Ci shocked the world, and after Cao Wei Dingji, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty and the king of Wei recruited Fangshi into the Xu capital.

Speaking of which, Cao Cao really started by military exploits, and it was related to the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Taiping Dao. The surrender of the Qingzhou soldiers in the rest of the Taiping Road was an important step in the warlordization of the Cao family. In the future, Cao Wei took Hanzhong, and he was also quite courteous to Zhang Lu, the real teacher of the Heavenly Master Dao. Therefore, the relationship between Cao Wei and Daomen is much stronger than that of Shu Han and Sun Wu.

Shu Han has always been completely hostile to Daomen, and Zhuge Liang governed Shu, and a major move was to eliminate the influence of the Heavenly Master Dao in Shu. Sun Wu was still polite to the Daomen, but he also made an incident in which the little overlord Sun Ce killed Yu Ji, and it was the first regime in Chinese history to welcome the Buddha's relics, which opened the evil fate of the superstitious Buddha among the people in the southeast.

First, Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, was regarded by the Qingzhou soldiers of the rest of the Taiping Road as a real person who represented the Han in response to the mandate of heaven, and secondly, Cao Cao himself was also quite good at immortal skills, so he summoned Fangshi into Beijing. First, it is Lao Cao, who has experienced the Yellow Turban Uprising, and has lingering fears about the ability of Daomen to make noise, so he has to be a little restrained, and secondly, Lao Cao, a guy who has a preference for other people's daughters-in-law, is a fierce fighter in Tongque Taichung, and his perennial bow and horse skillful body is also a little weak, so he has to pay a little attention to the way of health.

It is precisely because of this that most of the people who learn the Tao from all over the world come and go to Xudu. For example, Qingniu Taoist Feng Junda, Hua Tuo, who was respected as a surgical immortal in later generations, and others were all allowed because of this.

Zuo Ci Zuo Yuanfang, who was born in Lujiang and learned Taoism in Emei, also met Cao Cao under this fate. It's a pity that Mr. Wujiao Zuo Yuanfang was born to disagree with Lao Cao's eight characters, and he was resentful of Cao Cao several times, so he simply played a trick of change, turned into a sheep, and disappeared. And the patriarch of the Daomen Lingbao lineage, Ge Xuanzhen, who is called Taiji Zuo Xiangong, is also from Zuo Ci to receive the Taiqing Immortal Sutra and the way of the Jade Liquid Golden Pill.

Although in the future, on the various Taoist books of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zuo Ci was not a first-class earth immortal who blessed the landlord, and he was not even included in the heavenly immortals. However, when it comes to Zuo Ci's status in the Taoist sect, and his reputation among the people is far higher than that of the Nine Heavens, those great immortals who refuse to even show their respects to the small people.

But just like the new Henan Yin Cao Mengde in Luoyang City at this moment, he is still regretting that he participated in the palace rebellion of Ling Zhengjun, and he does not see the atmosphere of the powerful ministers who imprisoned the Son of Heaven and killed the queen in the future. At this moment, Mr. Wujiao's Zuo Zhenren, that is, a scholar who will be attracted by the fragrance of green rice, and a mad immortal who will also talk and laugh and joke in the face of the lord of a country in the future, seem to be like two people.

got Wei Ye's invitation, and Mr. Wujiao, who would be famous in various Three Kingdoms scripts, games, and fandoms in the future, was not polite, and sat on the futon opposite Wei Ye. The two men, who were also from the Dao Sect, looked at each other, and both secretly commented on each other.

In the eyes of the immortal warlock, his peers in various immortal legends and supernatural stories are not the boss at this time, and he does not have the iconic outfit in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: white vine crown, green lazy clothes, and naturally he does not squint or lame. He has no hairpin on his head, and his black hair is so draped behind his head, but he is very arrogant.

As for this Mr. Wujiao, he is also wearing a soap-colored long robe, but the sleeves are as narrow as the short brown of ordinary peasants, which is also very different from Wei Ye's Qingxi Taoist uniform with slightly narrowed cuffs and a bit of the color of Hu nobles. But the most striking thing about this Mr. Blackhorn is his dignity. The short beard on Wei Ye's chin is not mainstream enough, and the appearance of this Mr. Wujiao is even more eccentric:

The eye sockets are deep-set, a pair of thick black eyebrows draw a pair of half-moon shapes on the corners of the eyebrows, a knife face, and a pointed chin, no matter how you look at it, it looks like those poor scholars who can't eat enough and can't starve to death. But this Mr. Wujiao has a high nose bridge, and he looks even more unruly.

Not to mention his beard, only the goatee on his chin still honestly follows the law of gravity. The pair of mustaches, which were at least two fingers long and one finger wide on his thin lips, went straight to the route of the Prussian Junker aristocracy, proudly cocked like a pair of cavalry scimitars, and divided his face into two parts.

With such dignity, you can change into a tuxedo and carry a walking stick, and you can simply walk straight into the banquet hall of Kaissouci Wilhelm II. And the officers and guards who come and go will only salute solemnly, but they don't have to worry about being driven out by the guards.

In Zuo Ci's eyes, the young man in front of him, dressed with a slight beard, spoke with a warm and elegant speech, but his demeanor was generous and casual, and he had a heroic demeanor that had been on people for a long time. With such a temperament, he really doesn't look like a Qing cultivator who retreats in the mountains and forests, but like the kind of minister who has retired after success.

As for the cultivation of Taoism, in the eyes of Zuo Ci, who is not a certified immortal class and can be regarded as a master of magic, he saw that although Wei Ye's body qi was condensed, it was like a psychic ancient sword lying in the box, and once he sensed the warning, he had to jump out and drink blood by himself. The Tao is high and does not talk about him, only this qi is going straight to the road of killing.

In this way, I looked at each other, and I got to know each other a little bit and had some more respect. Even if Wei Ye was only rough in the technique of looking at qi, the method of observing people and ice was slightly inferior to Zuo Ci, who was born in a serious academic class. But Wei Ye couldn't bear it, and he was proficient in the immortal legends of the past dynasties, but he took the lead.

After getting through the name and surname, the two talked about the advantages and disadvantages of the so-called stone medicines such as hardware and eight stones and the herbs and trees such as atractylodes, wolfberry, poria cocos, and Ganoderma lucidum. After these words, the green essence rice in Choshi has been cooked, and the grains are as full as jasper. It's not that there is anything special about this rice, but that the green essence rice is originally a dry food made by soaking in the juice of the southern candle, steaming and drying nine times, and it can be regarded as a necessary fast food for Taoist priests to enter the mountain.

Smelling the smell of the green essence rice, Wei Ye immediately flipped his palm, removed Chozi from the fire, and instead installed the soup pot on it. Then lift the jar, the mouth of the bottle tilted, a line of water light poured down, just half a pot of spring water.

A group of masters smiled at Zuo Ci with a temperament, and Wei Ye said: "There are no good things to make soup in the mountains, even ginger and shallots are not easy to buy." But fortunately, I brought pepper and ginger powder with me, which can still give the soup a little bit of flavor. ”

Although Zuo Ci had a smile on his face and even said that he had worked, he looked at Wei Ye differently. Mountain dwelling cultivators, it is common to cut off food and food, if you live in a deep mountain cave, wild fruits and medicinal seedlings are rare and precious. Even if he is a master of the art of summoning apes and tigers, he is just replacing food with plants and trees. Has anyone ever heard that a monk is so particular about his diet?

That's just green rice, it's not too difficult to buy. But the soup boiled in the mountains, there was no fresh green onion and ginger to taste, and the precious pepper from the Western Regions was used, and he said with a disgusted face, "Mention the taste".

Such an exquisite diet is almost to the point where you don't get tired of eating fine and fine. If you want to say that Wei Ye is not the one who waits for Zhong Ming Ding, the place of the abbot in front of him is full of delicacies, and he also dislikes the wealthy and noble sons who have no place to eat, but I am afraid that Zuo Ci will not believe it if he is the first.

At this moment, the pepper production area is South Asia and Persia. In the Buddhist scriptures, it is described that the dragons and ghosts live in the fragrant mountain, and the long pepper is plucked all over the place, which is black pepper. Since the ghosts and gods cherish this thing, the price is naturally high, and the production may not be large. The pepper that flowed into China was used as a rare spice, and the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, with pepper and mud on the walls, was regarded as a royal luxury.

Counting further, in a political dispute in the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of stones of pepper were copied from the home of the prisoner, which shocked the government and the opposition, and shouted "The rich can rival the country". It seems that the posture is no smaller than Jiaqing's copying of the Heshen family's property. As for the Song and Ming dynasties, although the price of pepper dropped slightly, it was also used as a fine spice to smoke clothes or as a precious elixir for foreign pills.

As for Europe, which is separated from the entire Arab region and has difficult trade routes with Asia, the value of pepper is even more sky-high. Even when the nations went to war, the defeated countries used pepper as war reparations. When pepper becomes seasoning, it has to be counted after the industrialization of plantations in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, at this point in time at the end of the Han Dynasty, if someone used pepper soup as a condiment, if they were not from the rich family of Nanyang and Wuling, then no one would believe it.

Wei Ye glanced at his colleague, but saw his half-believing look, and his nose twitched slightly. The immortal warlock knew that this fellow Daoist, who was also very knowledgeable about the way of taking bait, wanted to sniff if he could really take the pepper. Without further ado, he took out a glass pepper shaker from his sleeve, uncorked the glass bottle, and poured some pepper into the soup pot.

At the end, Wei Ye looked narrow, tilted the mouth of the bottle slightly, and shook it slightly. Through the faint light on the fire, a touch of pepper could be seen coming out of the mouth of the bottle, and it flew into Zuo Ci's constantly fluttering nose.

Zuo Ci, who was still carefully discerning whether the fragrance was peppery or not, looked stiff at the moment. The tip of his nose twitched, and he kept inhaling.

Looking at this situation, Wei Ye didn't know what was going to happen. Hurriedly buttoned the lid of the soup pot, just opened it from the fire, and hid it beside him.

Immediately, a sneeze resounded through the mountain woodland. Even the flames in the fire pit were shaken by the light of the sneezing, and there were almost signs of extinguishment.

Wei Ye's cool tone of watching the show sounded immediately, and at this time, the tone of the immortal warlock seemed to be extremely gloating: "Brother Yuanfang, the pepper in my bottle, does it smell authentic? Is the fragrance fragrant? Is the spicy taste exciting enough?"