Chapter 212: The Difference Between Making Soy Sauce and Making MSG (Part II)

Here in Peach Blossom Valley, because of the existence of hot springs, the air is particularly humid, and the snowflakes penetrate the protective circle of Peach Blossom Valley and fall on the ground, which also makes Peach Blossom Valley here, with a strong sense of spring.

In the midst of the rain, the hundred selected monks and mortals walked down the gunboat. When they stood on the ground of Peach Blossom Valley, the sharp-eyed monks could already see that many mushrooms had grown under the ancient trees, and these mushrooms grew very fast, and in the morning after the rain, almost in the blink of an eye, they had grown into a complete plant, and the canopy was fully opened.

A waiter couldn't control her curiosity after all, everyone was in the team, she jumped to a peach blossom tree, picked a few large mushrooms, ran happily, offered the mushrooms to the clouds, and shouted: "City Lord, look, what beautiful mushrooms." ”

Yun Duo took the mushroom with a smile and sighed casually: "Yes, after a rain, the mushrooms in the forest immediately become very dense. ”

The clouds looked relaxed, and the monks also relaxed, recalling in unison the experience of picking mushrooms as a child. Yun Duo waited for everyone to talk a few words, and he asked leisurely: "Everyone knows that after a heavy rain, many mushrooms will grow in the forest. Has anyone thought of asking why, why do mushrooms pop up after the rain?

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously responded: "Yes, why?"

Yun explained leisurely: "That's because the seeds of mushrooms are spores, and these spores are hidden in the folds of the mushroom's canopy, and when the mushroom dries, the spores in the canopy are scattered on the ground, and then when they encounter water, these spores will develop again and grow rapidly." ”

Some people question this answer. Some people were amazed, some people ran under the trees to seek verification, and the clouds waited for everyone to talk for a moment, and then he asked, "Does anyone think of anything because of this?"

The expressions of the people were very blank, they didn't know what the cloud wanted to express, and they looked at the cloud in a daze.

Yun Duo had no choice but to continue: "After the secret of mushroom growth was discovered. There was a man who took dried mushrooms and soaked them in water, and he sprayed the soaked water on a medium that mimicked the growth components of mushrooms, and the mushroom cultivation technology was born, and people could grow mushrooms in their living rooms. ”

Some of the monks let out exclamations. Some were drawn into contemplation by this story, and some had vaguely guessed what the cloud was trying to express, and they waited patiently for the cloud to continue to explain.

"I also know that there is a kind of earthly condiment, which is a dark color of water ......"

One of the monks blurted out that the word he was saying, if translated into the same words that Yunduo remembers, could also be called ...... "soy sauce."

"Soy sauce is known to be delicious to eat. But why does soy sauce make people feel delicious? Has anyone ever thought of asking why?"

By this time, most of the monks had come to their senses. They stood there, silently waiting for the clouds to give their answer.

Someone really asked why, and then he found that there are more than 20 kinds of amino acids in nature...... Well, don't ask what amino acids are, it's a word I chose at random. Some people say that amino acids ultimately make up the body's cells, muscles, organs, and so on. Don't delve into this term, the explanation of this word can be a long book.

Well, let me continue: it is said that there are more than 20 kinds of amino acids in nature, but the only ones that the human body cannot take from the outside world. And the amino acids synthesized by itself happen to be very rich in soy sauce, so people think that soy sauce is very delicious and tastes extraordinarily delicious.

The person who discovered this secret, after the grain was fermented into soy sauce, did not stop the fermentation process, he let the soy sauce continue to ferment deeply, and then refined a high concentration of this umami, well, this amino acid. Since it is fermented from grains, I will tentatively name it glutamic acid. After refining and concentrating this umami element, glutamic acid, the people who discovered this umami hormone named it 'Ajinomoto', and some people called it 'monosodium glutamate'. And the discoverer asked a lot of 'why' and became a rich man ever since.

What's the next story? The next story is a little bit almost shameless - after the invention of MSG, people felt that brewing soy sauce was too troublesome and took too long, so some people simply 'blended' some color water with MSG, and so, a new style of soy sauce was born.

Since then, soy sauce that was originally brewed through an ancient procedure is no longer called soy sauce, and needs to be defined by a specific word, 'brewed soy sauce'. Only something that is 'blended' with monosodium glutamate and colored water is called 'soy sauce'.

What's even more shameless is that when everyone knows about MSG brewing technology, MSG can't be sold at a high price, and suddenly someone thinks of changing the name of MSG and selling it at a high price, just like calling ginseng also Goblin and Polygonatum vulgaris, everyone doesn't understand other names, just confused. For example, some people add some chemical spices, and then call the MSG adulterated with spices mushroom essence, crab essence or the like, or simply call it 'chicken, duck and fish meat essence' or something. This is not enough, they also have to tell everyone that it is not good to eat MSG, and it is correct to eat MSG adulterated with chemical spices.

Unfortunately, the inventions of the latter two have likewise made the inventors huge profits, and many people have become rich as a result. But this 'invention' is not what I want, and I think it is useless or even a curse for technological progress. ”

The monks listened to the discussions, and Yun Duo waited for everyone to reflect for a while, and then slowly explained: "What is the progress of technology, when you ask one more 'why' in everything, to solve this mystery, you will promote the progress of technology, and by the way, you can also make yourself successful and get rich as a result."

Now, Moyunling has been trapped in the monster forest, our situation is as dangerous as eggs, what Moyun City needs is creativity, what Moyun City needs is for everyone to ask why, but Moyun City does not need 'color water soy sauce', and does not need to call 'chemical monosodium glutamate' an invention - technological progress never comes from the latter. ”

Yun Duo paused for a moment, and after everyone had a good reminiscence, he took out the Immortal Yuan Array and the Heaven Snatching Urn from his arms, and leaned over to put them on the ground, at this time, Ding Ling stepped forward and shouted out the names of those Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators.

"All the monks of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining will each receive two Zhuji Pills, please take the pills immediately, immediately enter the Heaven Winning Urn and the Spirit Gathering Array, and prepare to build the foundation, and we will protect the Fa", Ding Ling paused for a moment and added in a loud voice: "You are all the first batch of selected monks, when you are about to build the foundation, think more about what the master said, and ask one more reason on the way to practice?"

Ding Ling called the "Immortal Yuan Array" the "Gathering Spirit Array", not deliberately misleading the monks...... Well, if you want to mislead, it is also Yun Duo who is misleading, he has always claimed to outsiders that his "Immortal Yuan Array" is a high-level spirit gathering array. Including Su Zhi also thinks so.

Not everyone understood Yun Duo's words, and one of the confused monks finally couldn't hold back and opened his mouth to ask, "Young Gu Lord, why? Why are you talking to us?" We don't know the things of the mundane world, and the creation of the mundane world ......"

Yun Duo smiled: "I just said 'innovation' - I'm talking about mushrooms, I'm talking about soy sauce, don't you know why?...... Well, I'm talking about the runes now. As we all know, talismans are written on the talisman paper one by one, why are the talismans powerful? Why do talismans have to be written on the talisman paper, or on the skin of the demon beast? Is it okay to change the way of recording? Is it okay to change the way of depiction? Why can't the talismans be engraved on other items?

Then you should all know, because the next thing is what we did in Iris, we can engrave the talisman on the magic weapon, can we depict it on the spirit stone? We have abandoned the way of handwriting the spirit rune, and what can be written can be printed, and we print the runes in batches, not only on the magic weapon, but also on the spirit stone, on the robe, and all kinds of materials we can think of.

Why did I think about why I also saw the mushrooms growing wildly after the rain, but I didn't discover the secret that mushrooms can be grown, what was the force that stopped my association? Why did I think soy sauce was delicious, but I didn't discover the secret of MSG, what was the force that stopped my association?

If you think about this answer, you will go from being a mediocre person who eats and waits to die, to a creative person. In fact, this world is very simple, as long as you ask one more why, and then discover and explore, as long as you can discover the principle of things, it is a breakthrough. And now, what you have to do is to break through, break through the shackles of old ideas, break through old traditions - open up a new world in front of yourself!"

At the same time, on the other side of the Burial God Plain, in the dense forest where the Immortal Yuan Array was buried in the past, there were about sixty ordinary people sitting here quietly, staring at the two monks who were meditating and pranayama in the clearing of the forest—and Zhao Bao'er was among them.

I don't know how long it took, two middle-aged men, silently walked in from outside the dense forest, at this moment, outside the dense forest, surrounded by a circle of poisonous thorns and pitcher plants, has opened a few openings, allowing mortals and ordinary people to enter and exit without harm, therefore, these two middle-aged men easily passed through, and the thorn defense circle that the clouds needed to carefully cross earlier.

After these two middle-aged men entered the people, they did not make a sound, they quietly gestured, and then, passed the small porcelain jars to the people around them, and the people who got the porcelain jars passed the porcelain jars down in turn, until everyone had a porcelain jar in their hands, and finally, everyone tacitly took out the spirit stone marching furnace from the backpack and began to make a fire to boil water.

These more than sixty people are the original residents of Moyun City who were resold to Lan Feng, and the monks who sat in the middle of the forest to meditate and pranayama were the meteors of Lan Feng and Huangshan Gate...... (To be continued......)