Chapter 373: Lin Qingyu and Lu Xiaoxi
And when Yun Xiao advanced and pondered this question, Lin Qingyu also found Lu Xiaoxi in the slums. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There will be slums in any world, especially in places like southern Xinjiang.
When entering the slums west of Huacheng City, Lin Qingyu only felt that he had arrived in another world.
Lin Qingyu's clothes are already plain, but when he arrives here, he is still gorgeous across the world.
Most of the men here are just gray undershirts, the women have only a few extra pieces of cloth on their bodies, and the children are all bare-bottomed.
The gray and yellow of the house construction is not dyed, but the traces of time.
Most of the people here are disabled.
Both men and women.
There were even quite a few monks among them, but they had already dispersed of their own accord.
Because they don't have enough money to buy spirit stones.
Monks need to be consumed, and the consumption of monks is different from that of ordinary people, who only need to eat, while monks must absorb the vitality of heaven and earth.
And once the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is absorbed, before the cultivation reaches the Yuan Infant, it will not be able to truly open the valley. Generally, you can go without eating for a month or two or even a year or two, but the loss of the body will always exist, and the operation of the true yuan will cause wear and tear on the body, and this wear and tear must be compared with high-grade food and medicinal materials to make up for it.
Moreover, if it is a physical injury, it cannot be repaired by relying on the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi alone.
Food and medicine are necessary.
Therefore, unless a monk becomes a level of knowing the destiny of heaven, he will still consume food, and it is far more food than ordinary people.
When the monk is injured, he is unable to hunt demon beasts and spirit beasts in exchange for spirit stones, and the heaven and earth vitality between heaven and earth alone cannot last many days, and once the time is too long, it will cause the body to be even more damaged. And at this time, if you choose to disperse your cultivation, it will reduce the burden on your body.
The most important thing is that even the most down-and-out monk, if there are only a few spirit stones left, if they are exchanged for worldly money, it is enough for an ordinary person to eat and clothe for several years.
A low-grade spirit stone is about fifty taels of silver, and the average non-monk low-level family, a family of three for a month, is only the consumption of three or five taels of silver.
In other words, a low-grade spirit stone is enough for a family of three at the bottom to live for a year.
So many times, monks become ordinary people from their own cultivation, just to survive.
A monk who has lost his cultivation and strength is actually inferior to an ordinary person who has been an ordinary person since he was a child in terms of his ability to earn a living.
Lay people who have been ordinary people since childhood often start to learn some things to earn a living from an early age, and the monks who have lost their cultivation and strength are not only mostly physically disabled, but more importantly, they have been fighting as monks for decades before, and they have no idea how to make a living in the secular world.
And the slums in Zhanghua City were basically built by such people.
Lin Qingyu's arrival caused the slums to start whispering, and countless eyes of fear or jealousy fell on Lin Qingyu's body.
Lin Qingyu ignored these gazes and went straight to Lu Xiaoxi.
With Lu Xiangyu's information, Lin Qingyu didn't need to find someone to ask for directions.
When Lin Qingyu saw Lu Xiaoxi, who was washing rice and vegetables.
This scene made Lin Qingyu feel very happy.
Because when Lin Qingyu was in Qionghua Villa, he often washed rice and cooked.
And since she left Qionghua Villa, because she had to put more energy into things like cultivation, she hadn't cooked by herself for a long time.
"I don't know if my craft has regressed...... Well...... If you have time in the future, you still have to make some food for your senior brother......"
Lin Qingyu thought of Yun Xiaoxiao, her heart was sweet, and she gently walked to Lu Xiaoxi's side, squatted down, and helped Lu Xiaoxi wash her vegetables.
Lu Xiaoxi was stunned.
As a monk with keen five senses, Lu Xiaoxi had already discovered Lin Qingyu, but Lu Xiaoxi deliberately ignored it.
Lu Xiangyu sent people to find Lu Xiaoxi more than once, and Lu Xiaoxi was not surprised that there would be monks looking for him.
Every time Lu Xiaoxi pretended to be impolite like this, he dealt with these things coldly.
But Lu Xiaoxi met Lin Qingyu for the first time, came over without a sound, let the gorgeous dress hang on the ground, rolled up his sleeves and helped him wash the vegetables.
Lu Xiaoxi didn't say anything, just continued to wash rice, and just began to secretly probe Lin Qingyu.
Lin Qingyu is very familiar with rinsing this pot of "green sprouts", sorting out the withered yellow leaves one by one, pinching off the roots just right, and said softly: "Many people like to remove all the roots of green sprouts, but this is actually not good, because the roots of green sprouts are very good, although they are chewy, but they are good for the spleen and stomach." If you wash it and mix it with sesame oil and hot sauce, it is a very good dish. ”
"............" Lu Xiaoxi was stunned: "My sister also knows how to cook?"
"My mother said that I would help her with housework since I was four years old, and although I couldn't cook any delicious food, I was quite confident when it came to home cooking. ”
Lu Xiaoxi blinked, a little speechless, so he could only continue to wash the vegetables.
Of course, there is not only one kind of cuisine, even if it is a slum, but Lu Xiaoxi is a monk after all, at least there is no shortage of food.
There are three kinds of vegetables washed by Lu Xiaoxi, in addition to green sprouts, there are also "jade cauliflower" and "hibiscus grass", as well as about three catties of monster and beast meat.
The green sprouts and cauliflower here are suitable for the world, while the hibiscus grass and the meat of the demon beast are unique and are generally eaten only by monks.
Lu Xiaoxi didn't reply, but Lin Qingyu still chattered non-stop, from the frying method of jade cauliflower to the cooking of "Golden Spot Fengxing Rabbit" rabbit meat, and then to the selection skills of buying hibiscus grass, talking one by one, not like the head of a sect, but clearly a little woman with some chatter.
At this time, Lu Xiaoxi's mother also found out that there was a "guest", but Lin Qingyu's gorgeous clothes made Lu Xiaoxi's mother feel a little afraid, and after coming out to salute, she retreated into the house.
Lu Xiaoxi's mother has no surname, only a name as a slave, "Xing'er".
When she was fourteen years old, she was "lucky" by Lu Xiaoxi's father, and she gave birth to Lu Xiaoxi before she was fifteen years old, and now she is about to be forty years old.
But she doesn't feel like a middle-aged person, but like an ignorant girl - Lu Xiaoxi is basically worried about things at home.
Lu Xiaoxi didn't know how to face Lin Qingyu, she had actually guessed that Lin Qingyu was asked by her grandfather Lu Xiangyu to come to find herself - these days, the city is full of rumors about the Hundred Flowers Palace is about to go to the Western Regions, Lu Xiaoxi is not a fool, on the contrary, Lu Xiaoxi, who dared to be independent at the age of nine, has a keen sense that ordinary people do not have.
If other people were entrusted by Lu Xiangyu to come to her, Lu Xiaoxi would have run away coldly, but Lu Xiaoxi had never met Lin Qingyu like this.
Lin Qingyu didn't mention anything about helping her at all, but just helped her wash the vegetables so casually.
This kind of equal friendliness is a feeling that Lu Xiaoxi has never encountered.
For the Lu family, all Lu Xiaoxi felt was "charity".
As for others in the slums, Lu Xiaoxi felt "awe".
Yes, it is awe, over the years, the kind-hearted Lu Xiaoxi has helped countless people in the slums, and most of the residents in the slums have received Lu Xiaoxi's favor - even if it is just a low-level monk, it is enough to help these poor people who have become ordinary people.
Lu Xiaoxi has felt all kinds of attitudes, but the only thing he hasn't felt is-
"Equality. ”
Therefore, Lu Xiaoxi's attitude towards Lin Qingyu is really a little unfamiliar, and the strange is at a loss.
With the help of Lin Qingyu, Lu Xiaoxi washed the dishes much faster than usual, and then Lu Xiaoxi glanced at Lin Qingyu with some confusion, he really didn't know what to say, thought for a while, forcibly turned his head, and went into the kitchen with the dishes.
Lin Qingyu smiled slightly and followed.
"Before cooking, if you soak the rice for half an hour and add a little vegetable oil when you soak it, then the rice will be much more fragrant. ”
Lu Xiaoxi continued to ignore it.
"Oh, hibiscus grass can't be stir-fried! It should be stir-fried over low heat with a little salt. ”
Lu Xiaoxi didn't answer, but for some reason he stopped adding soy sauce and turned down the flame.
"It's better to marinate the rabbit meat with honey, no honey? You go and do the rest first, and I'll make this dish!"
Lu Xiaoxi glanced at Lin Qingyu, who was carrying rabbit meat, and his eyes seemed to be shining, his lips trembled, and he made cold green sprouts root as he said, and let Lin Qingyu prepare rabbit meat.
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Half an hour later, under a steaming steam, Lin Qingyu unceremoniously sat down at the table, on which were honey golden spotted rabbits and fried hibiscus grass.
The green sprouts and jade cauliflower were sent to his mother's room by Lu Xiaoxi.
After chewing a few bites of the dishes that were indeed a few points more delicious than before, Lu Xiaoxi finally couldn't help but open his mouth: "Senior Lin, you came to me...... What the hell is going on?" )