Chapter 32: Eating Under the Moon

Without points, you can't pay a return visit.

I saw Yougen pick up the porcelain bowl, and the townspeople standing at the long table drank the wine in the bowl together.

Yougen closed his eyes, frowned, and tilted his head as well, draining the bowl of wine.

Seeing that Yougen finished drinking, sitting next to Yougen, the old man, who was the mayor of the town, picked up the porcelain that was used to hold wine, and there was only a thin mouth, in the shape of an urn.

Bending down to the empty porcelain bowl in Yougen's hand, he poured the wine.

One Gen held the bowl and sat back on the stool.

Except for the old man who was standing and pouring wine for Yougen, the rest of the townspeople also sat back in their seats.

After pouring the wine, the old man sat down and said with a smile: "Daoist, what a good amount of wine." ”

Hearing this, Yougen smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm not very good at drinking." ”

Country bitters, relying on crude brewing techniques, using a little dregs of crops as raw materials.

The taste is bitter, like boiled herbs.

The taste of the wine is very light, like beer mixed with water.

But after smiling, Yougen still brought the white porcelain bowl full of wine close to the edge of his mouth.

A pair of eyes, staring at the old man beside him.

"Old man, your surname?"

Looking at the old man sitting beside him, with a confused look on his face, he took a sip of the bitter wine in the bowl, Yougen put down the porcelain bowl, and asked again: "Old man, I don't know what I should call you?"

"My surname is Li, and it's okay for the Taoist to call me Lizi. ”

After Li Zi finished speaking, he got up from his seat again, took a large piece of fat from the basin with chopsticks, and handed the fat to the coarse porcelain plate on the table in front of Yougen.

"Daoist, this is a wild boar that was caught yesterday and killed now, try it. ”

The whole dish is black, and the food is placed on the smooth and clean plate surface, and there are water stains remaining.

The black wild boar meat lies quietly in the center of the plate.

On the pigskin, a few curls of smoked fire, unfaded pig hair, stood diagonally in the air.

Under the fat pig skin, there are several bright red blood streaks.

Looking at the pork lying on the plate, the corner of your eye couldn't help but jump.

In the expectant gaze of Li Zi on the side, he was very reluctant to have roots, picked up the chopsticks on the table, and reached out to the pork clip on the plate.

Picking up the pork on the plate, one of them frowned and opened his mouth, bit into the inward part of the pork, and bit down a small piece.

After chewing it for a while, Yougen swallowed the meat in his mouth.

Then, Arigen put the rest of the pork back into the porcelain plate and picked up the white porcelain bowl filled with bitter wine again.

Seeing that Yougen moved his chopsticks and sat around the long table, the townspeople also began to eat.

Amid the noise of pushing the cups and changing the lamps, Arigen began a conversation with the mayor.

"Old man, you are so much older than me, why am I embarrassed to call you Lizi? Why don't I call you Li Bo, okay?"

"Daoist, you can call it whatever you want. ”

"Then Uncle Lee, what are you doing?"

"I'm a farmer. ”

"Oh, luckily, fortunately. He took a sip of the bitter wine in the bowl, and there was a complex look in his eyes.

"Li Bo, today I heard you say that fifty miles away from here, there is a town, what kind of town is that?"

"Daoist, fifty miles to the north is the closest town here, the scale and number of households are about the same as our border town, but if you go three hundred miles to the west, it will be the county seat of Caoyun County. ”

"Caoyun County, what kind of place is that?" and took another sip of the bitter wine in the bowl, Yougen blinked.

"With this as the boundary, a radius of thousands of miles, all under the jurisdiction of Caoyun County, the master of the county town, was appointed by the Lord of Qingfeng Guan and the presiding officer of Baiyun Temple. ”

Yougen's face showed a look of doubt, and he asked, "Uncle Li, the master of Caoyun County, what can he do?"

"Daoist, the county lord sent the general down last time to collect taxes, and recruited the best people in the town, as for the rest, the old farmer doesn't know. ”

Hearing this, Yougen was silent for a moment and put down the porcelain bowl in his hand.

"Oh, that's right. ”

"By the way, Daoist, why don't you eat?" Li Bo, who chewed a large piece of fat in his mouth and had a mouth full of grease, looked at Yougen suspiciously in the porcelain plate lying on the table in front of him, missing a small part of the fat.

"Hehe, the master's precepts, don't let us eat too much meat. ”

"Ah, there is still this rule in the Taoist master's sect?" Hearing this, Li Bo looked surprised and stood up from his seat.

"I see, no wonder the Taoist master eats so little at noon. He quickly removed the few wooden basins that were placed in front of Yougen on the table, and from the other place on the long table, Li Bo brought two wooden basins full of vegetarian food.

Li Bo brought the wooden basin to Yougen's body, and said with a smile: "Daoist, I didn't know the rules of your sect before, and only prepared some wild onions and bitter vegetables, please don't be surprised." ”

Frowning slightly, Yougen looked towards the tub in front of him.

In front of Yougen, one contains a green onion-like plant, and the other contains a lot of vegetable leaves.

There are many varieties of vegetable leaves, many of which have been seen on the roadside in the wild, and some have never seen them.

There are also some leaves mixed in there.

Some of those leaves have roots that have been seen, and some have not.

After a moment of silence, Yougen grabbed a wild onion and took a large bite of the green onion.

Chewed it, paused for a moment, and swallowed it.

Wild onions look very similar to green onions.

Except for the larger size, everything else is exactly the same.

What's different is the taste.

He put the broken wild onion in front of him and lay it on a plate with wild boar.

Squirming with difficulty in the Adam's apple, but there was a root on his face quietly, he smiled at Li Bo and said, "Li Bo, this green onion is good and delicious." ”

"Then you should eat more. ”

"No, no. Yougen stretched out his right hand, pointed his index finger upward, and said to Li Bo: "It's not early, our division has strict rules, and every time at this time, we have to go to bed to meditate and pranayama." ”

"Oh, that's right. Hearing this, Li Bo looked up.

In the vast sky, dense stars surround the round moon.

The light of the stars and the moon of tranquility and nature is sprinkled in the world.

overflowing the world.

Li Bo touched the white whiskers that reached his chest, and turned his head to look at the dog sitting beside him, holding a pig's leg, and gnawing indiscriminately.

"Dog, hurry up and accompany the Taoist Master back to the room, and get some hot water for the Taoist Master by the way. Li Bo raised his hand, and slapped his broad palm on the back of the dog's head.

"Okay. He quickly wiped the grease stains from his mouth with the back of his left hand, touched the back of his head with his right hand, and stood up from his seat with a smirk on his face.

Ignoring the dog that quickly ran to his side, Yougen greeted Lieber, touched his belly, and turned and walked towards the house.

Walking up the wooden corridor and entering the wooden house, Yougen took advantage of the dog's going to boil water, and rubbed the spicy smell with his right hand, burning his throat almost unconsciously.