Liao Zhai alchemist

Chapter 394

This mountain is the habitat of a family of foxes.

In the mountains, there is a 'nursing home' where young foxes are raised, and a 'mountain yard' where newborn goblins are taught.Zhang Wei has been to these two places, and now they are staying in the Shanyuan.

After one year, they will 'graduate' from the mountain courtyard, formally bid farewell to the puberty of the fox clan, and grow up!
And there are several places to go after graduation.The worst thing is to go to various farms and mountain villages to manage human beings and become a farm steward.

The second is to serve in the demon army and work as guards in various palaces.Protect the female fox in the palace.

Those who are a little better are to enter the two palaces of 'Wen Gong' and 'Wu Gong' to continue their studies. In the future, they will become high-quality male foxes and even have the opportunity to mate with female foxes to give birth to better cubs.

The best thing is of course to directly enter the palace and become the personal attendant of the noble female foxes, from then on, they will rise to the top...

Listening to what the little man said now, it seems that Mr. Wen deliberately pushed them and let them directly enter the Wen Palace to study.

The little man's words made Daju and the Ermao brothers stop eating meat, and looked at Zhang Wei anxiously.Zhang Wei knew what the two of them meant at a glance.

He said: "Don't look at me, your grades will not be able to enter the Palace of Literature, and you will not be able to enter the Palace of Martial Arts."

Hearing that they couldn't follow Zhang Wei, the two brothers lowered their heads, and suddenly felt that the venison in their hands was no longer tasty!

Zhang Wei also knew in his heart that it was impossible for him to take these two brothers with him all the time.It's like friends from school days who will go their separate ways once they graduate.No matter how good the relationship is, you can't be responsible for other people's future!
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This morning, the genius is dim.Zhang Wei and the others were woken up.

"You guys, there are distinguished guests visiting the mountain today, and there are not enough people in the mountain. You go to do odd jobs in the mountain!" A haughty female vixen said to Zhang Wei and the others.

Everyone looked at each other, what else could they say?I can only follow up the mountain honestly.

Deep in the mountains are various palaces.Every palace has a hall master, and each hall master is a vixen at the level of a big demon.In fact, it is a small branch of this fox family.

Among them, the Wen Palace and the Wu Palace are also two palaces, but these two palaces are more like the 'University' of the Fox Clan.

Zhang Wei and the others followed the female foxes to the 'Ruxiang Palace'. As soon as they entered the palace, they saw many vixen sprinkling water and sweeping the floor, burning incense and spreading dew.

But Zhang Wei and the others were taken to the kitchen in the backyard and said: "You male foxes are not allowed to go to the vestibule, you can only help in the kitchen. Work hard."

After finishing speaking, the vixen left.Then a male fox with a big arm and a thick waist came over.

"You guys! Go chop wood first, there is no firewood in the kitchen!"

Everyone responded and came to the firewood room.Then I saw a pile of logs several people's height stacked there.This wood is high-quality mahogany, extremely hard in texture, but here, it is just firewood for burning!
Everyone looked around, then picked up the axes that were set aside, and began to split wood.

The sharp ax slashed hard on the wood. The wood didn't break, but the hand was shaken away. The wood is so hard!

"No wonder we are asked to split the wood. This wood is really incapable of being split by ordinary people!" Zhang Wei shook his head and said, then swung the ax again, and the ax went down again!

This time I cut a little deeper into the wood, but I couldn't split the wood.Unwilling to give up, Zhang Wei continued to swing the ax and continue to chop.

After so many axes, the wood as thick as a bucket was finally split.This is not the end, the broken wood has to be split, otherwise how can such a thick wood be burned?
A few vixens began to split the wood with a 'hum-chi-hum'. After a while, the wood was still not split, but the fox was a little tired and out of breath.

Except for Zhang Wei and the other four, the other five foxes began to complain.

"What kind of wood is used in this broken kitchen! It's harder than an old cow's bone. Will the rice cooked with this kind of wood be more delicious?"

Just when they were complaining, the big-armed male fox came again.When he saw that even a small pile of wood hadn't been chopped, he caught fire immediately!
"How do you guys do your work? Don't you even chop a pile of firewood? If you miss the kitchen, look, I'll take your skin off!"

When the vixens heard this, they shrank their necks in fright.But Zhang Wei stood up and said: "Brother, don't be angry, this wood is too hard, our cultivation is superficial, it is indeed slow!"

When the vixen heard this, he also cursed in a low voice: "The coquettish women in front never do good deeds, how can such a little vixen work!"

He was annoyed, but things in the kitchen could not be delayed.So he grabbed the ax and said, "There is a way to split wood. I'll show you how to split it according to my method."

After finishing speaking, he picked up the ax and said in his mouth: "The waist and arms are united, the ax must be swung high, and the strike must be fast. The ax blade must follow the grain of the wood, so that the wood can be broken!"

As he spoke, the ax in his hand swung high, and then fell extremely quickly, and struck the wood, the wood was split instantly, and the section was very neat!

"That's it, give it a try." After he finished speaking, he returned the ax to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei thought about the ax carefully, and then he drew a ladle like a gourd, raised the ax high, and quickly chopped at the wood below.

This time, the ax pierced the wood with three points, much better than before.

The male fox also nodded at this time, and said: "The comprehension ability is not bad, that's it, you chop firewood quickly, if there is no basket of firewood later, I will chop you up and use it as firewood!"

After finishing speaking, he left in a hurry, obviously the kitchen was really busy.

The other foxes looked at each other, and Daju said to Zhang Wei: "Brother Qing, please demonstrate it again, I didn't understand it very well." He didn't understand it too much, but he didn't understand it at all!
Zhang Wei nodded and said, "That fox's move is a bit like a martial art. I also figured out a little bit of fur. I'll do it again. Take a good look."

The other foxes all gathered together, if they can't learn this, the male fox won't really chop them up for firewood later, but a meal of flesh and blood is inevitable!

Zhang Wei didn't talk nonsense, picked up the axe, and came again.

This time, the ax pierced into the wood, splitting the wood in half.

"The main point of this trick is..." Zhang Wei said the main point he had comprehended, and the foxes also understood a little bit, and began to practice with their axes.

Once you know the right way, you can do anything with ease.

Not long after, a small pile of split logs appeared in front of Zhang Wei.And Zhang Wei's ax is getting better and better.

'Do I still have a gift for an axe? ' Zhang Wei thought in his heart.

Then at this time, the male fox with a wide body and a fat body came again.He saw a small pile of wood in front of Zhang Wei, plus the wood of other foxes, and his face finally softened a little.He immediately said: "Take the firewood here into the kitchen!"

Of course he can't do it.Zhang Wei and the others picked up the firewood and walked into the kitchen.

The kitchen is a huge room, with several huge steamers and frying pans all steaming.A dozen vixens with big arms and thick waists are chopping, frying and steaming, very busy.

In a corner of the kitchen, there are a lot of ingredients, from beautiful pheasants to fat yellow cattle, everything that one expects to find.

Zhang Wei and the others piled up the firewood, and then the male fox took out several bowls of broth and said, "Drink some soup before you go to work."

Seeing this, the foxes became happy.I was woken up early in the morning, and I chopped firewood for a while, and my stomach was already hungry. Seeing this bowl of broth, how can I not swallow my saliva.

And there seems to be spices added to this broth, which smells delicious.

The foxes were not polite either, and started to drink the soup after taking the big bowl.Sure enough, after eating this broth, there is a sense of satisfaction.And this broth seems to have a special purpose, I feel warm all over after drinking it.

The male fox smiled and said: "You guys are lucky. There are medicinal materials in this broth, which can nourish the essence. It is only eaten by the wives and ladies in the palace. Male foxes like you usually don't even hear it." Can't smell it!"

"Okay, after drinking my soup, go to work for me!"

Everyone responded and continued to chop firewood.

Probably due to the effect of the broth, everyone felt that their strength was a little stronger, and their working efficiency improved a little.Then it didn't take long for everyone to do it.The male fox is here again.

This time, he looked a little unhappy, looked around at the foxes, then pointed to Zhang Wei and said, "Come with me!"

Zhang Wei went in without knowing it, but still followed.

Without saying a word, the male fox led Zhang Wei towards the kitchen.Then Zhang Wei saw a vixen lying on all fours on the big stone slab outside the kitchen, sticking out its long tongue, obviously passed out.

Then, the male fox pointed to a stove and said, "Go to the back and light the fire."

Zhang Wei saw that there was a little monster behind those stoves adding firewood and fire, and every little monster was sweating profusely.

Zhang Wei hesitated for a moment, but he still came to the back of the stove and started throwing firewood at the stove.

The hearth is one foot thick, and the wood it burns is mahogany cut by Zhang Wei.This kind of mahogany can emit a very high temperature, which can burn the iron pot in the stove red.

And the little demon who added fuel to the fire was also scorched by this high temperature at the same time.The little monster that Zhang Wei saw just now was obviously suffering from heat stroke...

I don't know why, but Zhang Wei doesn't think it's too hot here. Maybe it's because he has been refining alchemy in front of the alchemy furnace for a long time, and his body has fire resistance.

In this strange world that seems to be an illusion and a dream, who can tell clearly?Although the alchemy furnace in Zhang Wei's mind is still there, Zhang Wei cannot use it.The alchemy furnace caught some emperor liquid, but now there is no response.

Adding some more firewood, the male fox observed Zhang Wei secretly, and found that he could still hold on, so he nodded secretly, and then left him alone.

He immediately shouted: "The time has come! Start serving!"

When those big-armed male foxes heard this, they immediately lifted the steamer and began to take out the steamed vegetables inside.

And some other male foxes started to set up the wok and start cooking.

"Intensify the fire!" The male fox in front of Zhang Wei shouted at Zhang Wei.Apparently he was the cook of the stove.

Zhang Wei quickly threw a few sticks of firewood into it, and the fire ignited immediately.The guy nodded in satisfaction and started cooking.

Anyone who has ever stir-fried vegetables knows that the hotter the stir-fry, the better.It is best to use rocket propulsion as a fire, so the effect is the best.Here is no exception. The ingredients here are more special and more difficult to process. If you want to cook delicious and fast, the fire must be strong!
The fire-burning foxes on other stoves must not dare to throw too much firewood into the stove because of their limited tolerance to high temperatures.Otherwise, if the dishes are not cooked well, you will suffer from heat stroke.

But Zhang Wei is different, he may really bring some fire resistance, he can tolerate high temperature very well.His stove fire is the most vigorous, and the fire has even exceeded the stove, overflowing to the outside, forming a circle of blue and white flames around the pot.

"It's so hot!" The guy couldn't help admiring, and then quickly shook the spoon.

The fire is big, and the cooking speed is fast. Other stoves have not yet produced a dish, but Zhang Wei's stove has already produced three dishes.

Then, the cook couldn't take it anymore!
Of course, the cook didn't cook three dishes because he was tired from cooking too much. How could he be tired!

The cook passed out from the heat!With such a big fire, although the chef is happy to fry, he will inevitably be exposed to the fire.Sure enough, after three dishes, the cook suffered from heatstroke and was carried out by other cooks!
All of a sudden, everyone in the kitchen looked at the stove, with an expression of shock that I couldn't understand.

Looking at the fire in front of him, Zhang Wei asked, "Should I lower the firepower? It's a pity that the fire is so good..." When the cook in the kitchen heard this, his teeth hurt.They dealt with fire every day, but they were actually looked down upon by a fire-burning demon!
At this time, a male fox who was dispatching in the middle tied up his apron and said, "I'm in charge of this stove!"

As soon as the other cooks heard this, they immediately said, "Brother, you need to manage this..."

The male fox waved his hand and said, "There's not much food left, you can figure it out, this fire makes my hands itch!"

After speaking, he set up the pot with one hand, picked up the ingredients and started frying.

"Little guy, add fire to me!" He still didn't forget to say to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei nodded, added another handful of firewood, and then moved in his heart, wrote a demonic word 'wind' in his hand with carbon ash!
As soon as the wind sign was completed, a gust of wind blew out from his hand and entered the stove.The wind fueled the fire, and with a bang, the fire in the stove rose three feet high, almost burning the male fox's fur!

"Good guy! You really aren't afraid of dying from the heat!" The male fox said in surprise and joy after being teased by the fire.

Fortunately, this male fox is the master of the kitchen, so he tried his best to start cooking!
With the blessing of this high fire, today's dishes are ready in no time.When the last dish is served, the kitchen fox can finally rest!

Zhang Wei also falsely covered the stove fire, making the stove fire smoldering, so that it could catch fire quickly later.

At this time, the male fox came over, holding a gourd in his hand.He handed over the gourd and said, "Little guy, take a sip!"

Zhang Wei took the gourd and took a sip.Then he felt a burst of cold poured from his mouth to his stomach, and then flowed all over his body!
"This is Baitou Mountain's thousand-year-old ice brew. It's iced but not cold, and cold but not frozen. It's the best way to suppress anger." The male fox laughed.Then he patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and said, "You are a good seedling, do you want to learn to cook from me?"

Zhang Wei was taken aback for a moment, these words... sounded a bit awkward.

The male fox looked at him and said with a smile: "We male foxes have no future. The best result is to follow a noble lady and become her personal servant. But you have to know, this There are only ten fingers who can be called noble ladies here. To become their personal servant, it is more difficult than going to heaven."

"But if you follow me to learn how to cook, it will be different! This cook is second only to the male waiter. Think about it, this lady doesn't need anything else, but she can't stop eating. drink it!"

When Zhang Wei heard this, he felt very reasonable.Food, clothing, housing, and transportation are ranked No. 1!

"Besides, you don't need to intrigue as a cook, as long as you cook well. And all the dishes here can improve your self-cultivation. A cook who steals food is not called stealing food, do you understand?" He lowered his voice when he said the last sentence, Put on a 'you know' look.

After hearing these words, Zhang Wei immediately felt that this cook is a job made in heaven!
The male fox patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to worry about the rest, I'll go to the mountain courtyard to say hello later, and you can come here and do it with me!"

After speaking, he decided Zhang Wei's future regardless of whether Zhang Wei agreed or not.In this male fox's view, he can support Zhang Wei, which is Zhang Wei's blessing in his previous life!

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A few days later, Zhang Wei was indeed transferred away!
He bid farewell to the other friends, and was taken away by the male fox.This male fox is the head of the dining room in Ruxiang Palace, and his name is Hu Fan.

Walking on the road leading to Ruxiang Palace, Hu Fan said, "From today onwards, you will be called Hu Qing. From now on, you will be the fox in the dining room of Ruxiang Palace. According to the rules in the room, you have to call me Big Brother."

"yes, Sir."

"Ladies stay away from the kitchen. Those female foxes are not allowed to enter the kitchen. The dining room is the territory of our male foxes. But you must also be clear that there are many places in the palace that our male foxes cannot enter. If you run into your lady, I will save you." Not you."

Zhang Wei nodded, knowing that Hu Fan was teaching the 'rules of entering the palace'.

"In Ruxiang Palace, there are only three ladies who can be called noble ladies. The biggest one is naturally the palace owner—Ms. Ruxiang. Then there are her two daughters, Anxiang and Fuxiang. Apart from these three, there are some High-quality female foxes are also not to be provoked."

"Anyway, as long as you stay in the dining room, you generally won't encounter any trouble!"

He made one last point.

Zhang Wei nodded, followed the male fox into Ruxiang Palace, and returned to the dining room.

After simply settling down, the male fox continued to say: "Although we male foxes don't pay much attention to our practice, we still need to know some practice. I will teach you "Burning Fire Strength" first, and then the method of chopping wood and axe. According to the rules, enter the dining room Yes, you have to chop firewood for three months, carry water for three months, wash vegetables for three months, and light the fire for three months. Only after doing these chores for a year can you start learning cooking."

He paused, patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder, and said, "Work hard, I'm very optimistic about you!"

(End of this chapter)