Liao Zhai alchemist

Chapter 395 The fox on the tip of the tongue
A male fox's day begins with the dawn.

Master Zhang wakes up early in the morning and is busy with the kitchen.For nothing else, if Master Zhang got up late today, the kitchen wouldn't even be able to light a fire.

Because Master Zhang is the woodcutter in charge of chopping firewood!
The hard mahogany fell down with his swing, and soon turned into thin strips as thick as fingers.Then Master Zhang will code the thin bar and place it next to the stove.

The first pot in the morning is often a pot of millet porridge.The best topaz millet, add the clear spring in the mountain, first boil it over high heat, then simmer slowly over low heat for an hour, until the "rice oil" in the millet is stewed into the water, the porridge water becomes like beeswax Same golden color.This completes the first step.

The vixen is not a vegetarian. The millet porridge for bowel cleansing this morning also needs to be added with snow-white snow clam meat, finely chopped flying dragon meat, and mixed with Baihua honey.Such a bowl of 'Snow Dragon Honey Tune Topaz Fat' is ready.

This is also the morning snack that the three noble ladies of Rushang Palace must drink every day.Just like modern people get up early and double their coffee every day.

After the ladies finish eating millet porridge, they will start to vomit in the morning.At this time, the sun is born, with a hint of innate purple energy, it is the sun spirit in the essence of the sun and the moon.Without this trace of innate purple energy, the quality of this day's essence would drop a lot.

After absorbing this innate purple energy, the noble ladies will eat.

At this time, the steamed lamb, honey-glazed elbow, venison platter, and braised dragon tail will be served.The monster race mainly focuses on body training, and they need to supplement a large amount of nutrition every day. The names of these meat foods are ordinary, but these materials are of great value.

Regardless of other things, just for the tail of the dragon, you can only go to the dragon monster clan by the river to buy it. The plump dragon tail is added to the dishes, and they don't like to eat it in other places!

After this breakfast, the noble ladies began to polish their bodies and practice kung fu.And the fox demons in the dining room just started to eat their first meal.

Because they are in charge of the kitchen, what the cooks eat depends on what the kitchen has.The leftover meat of this dragon, chop it up and serve it with horseradish and crystal radish, boil it spicy and fresh.Served with a bowl of rough brown rice, it is simply a fairy!

After this breakfast, if there is time, some male foxes with pursuits will start to practice.The energy brought by the dragon meat is much more than that of ordinary beasts, which makes them practice faster than other male foxes.

If you are not interested in practicing, then find entertainment by yourself.

But after an hour or two, lunch starts to get busy.

At this time, Master Zhang Wei would go to the warehouse to fetch three or five thick mahogany logs, and then drag them to the woodshed to start chopping firewood.

The ax method of chopping wood is the ax method of chopping wood!Although the name was chosen casually, this ax method is an ax method that many male foxes have summed up and refined during their thousands of years of wood cutting career. It can chop wood in peacetime, and can cut people in war!
This set of ax techniques is only spread in the dining rooms of the fox clan, and is called the "dinner school martial arts" by the male foxes!Since it can form a school of its own, it means that there are other martial arts.

Male foxes rarely have access to advanced cultivation methods, because men and women are different, and the advanced cultivation methods of female foxes are not compatible with male foxes.If you really want to practice forcefully, you will either become a male or female gelding fox, or explode to death.

It is understandable that the male foxes who have fun in bitterness have been taking care of the kitchen all year round, and they have developed cooking martial arts.

With the firewood ax method, Zhang Wei's speed of chopping firewood will be greatly increased.He is a fox who is responsible for the supply of firewood for the entire dining room!

After cutting a batch of firewood, Zhang Wei heard a burst of bleating.

Then he walked out of the woodshed and saw a strange sheep that was about the size of a yellow ox, with black horns on its head, and was led up.

Several big-bodied cooks used special ropes to wrap around his body. Even so, these cooks had to do their best to suppress this strange sheep.

"This is a black scale sheep, characterized by black scales on the body. It is very strong, and its horns can break mountains and rocks. Eating it can increase strength and strengthen muscles and bones." Seeing Zhang Wei coming, Hu Fan explained casually.

Looking at the strange sheep that was still struggling, Zhang Wei couldn't help but nodded.

"Which one of you wants to try?" Hu Fan suddenly said.

Several cooks were eager to try it, and then a male fox said, "It's my turn today!" He bowed his hands to the other cooks, and said, "How about letting the younger brothers try it?"

When the other male foxes heard it, they couldn't say anything, so they could only make a gesture of please.

Then the fox pulled out a kitchen knife from the back of his waist, roared, and chopped the kitchen knife at the strange sheep.

"That's right, this 'slaughter at the neck' is quite promising." Hu Fan nodded in satisfaction.

A chef's knife is always born out of cooking.This knife is actually 'cutting the neck'.But the strange sheep in front of him has a body like a yellow ox, whether it can be chopped off with a single knife or not depends on the level.

The next moment, the sheep suddenly let out a 'baa', and with its horns raised, it suddenly resisted the kitchen knife!

"What a beast! There's still such a move!" The male fox couldn't help but suddenly turned the blade, and cut off the horns with the move of 'separation of flesh and blood'.

This trick 'Bone and Flesh Separation' is best at entering the knife from the subtleties, separating the soft meat and the hard bones from the subtleties.This is not only a test of knife skills, but also the experience, eyesight and proficiency of the knife holder!
Sure enough, this male fox is worthy of volunteering to kill the sheep, and he still has a few brushes in his hand.This knife was cut from the root of the horn, and the light of the knife was flowing and the blade was flying.A ram's horn was stripped off like this.A huge blood hole appeared on the sheep's head!

At this moment, the black scale sheep neighed in pain and began to struggle hard.At this time, a good cook should relieve the pain of ingredients.This is the 'benevolence' of a chef!
The next moment, the male fox leaped high, and slashed down with the kitchen knife in his hand. It was a move of 'broken muscles and bones'!
After this move, it should be able to kill this strange sheep, let him die directly, and save him from suffering.

But at this moment, the black scale sheep suddenly exploded!He swung his body vigorously and directly pulled a male fox away.Then the body suddenly rushed forward.

This difference of one step caused the male fox's knife to stagger.

Avoiding the vital points, the kitchen knife sliced ​​across the back half of the black scale sheep's head.The black scaled sheep was in more pain, its eyes were red, and it kicked the male fox with both feet.

"Be careful!" Hu Fan shot immediately and saved the male fox directly.

At this time, the black scale sheep rushed towards Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei's place is close to the woodshed, and he thought it was an escape exit.

"Little Qingzi, get out of the way!" Hu Fan immediately shouted to Zhang Wei.

At this time, Zhang Wei's face was very calm, and he said to the black scale sheep: "I'm sorry, my skill is not good, and I made you suffer!"

After his words fell, his own ax for chopping wood suddenly appeared in his hand, and then he raised the ax high, and the human and ax merged into one, and slashed at the head of the black scale sheep!

There is only one trick in chopping wood with an axe, which is called "breaking the wood when the ax falls".

When the ax went down, the head of the black-scaled sheep was cut off at the same root, and the huge head flew out, and his pain ended here.

Seeing this, Hu Fan opened his mouth, and finally only had one sentence: "Good axe!"

A little demon who has only been chopping wood for more than a month can cut such an amazing axe. This talent, this talent, has surpassed too many female foxes.

It's a pity that he gave birth to a boy, and his fate is so unfair!
Seeing this, the disheveled male fox just tightened the kitchen knife in his hand and didn't say anything.

Today's lunch is roasted black scale lamb.The fattest part will be given to the three noble ladies, and the rest will be shared by other female foxes in the palace.In the end, the meat with the bones was shared among the cooks.

As for the other male fox servants, if they could eat a bowl of mutton bone and radish soup, it would make them laugh all day long!

The flesh and blood of this black-scaled sheep is a great tonic, and Zhang Wei was also given a bowl of bones and meat, eating happily.Then the male fox who missed today came over with his bowl of broth and said, "Brother Xiaoqing, thank you very much for today. I'll give you this bowl of soup."

The black-scaled sheep is not an ordinary sheep, and it is not eaten every day. The blood and flesh of this sheep are boiled, which is very good for the development of vixen.In order to thank Zhang Wei, the male fox gave up his share of rations, which can be said to be full of sincerity.

Zhang Wei was also not polite. Next, there are not so many courtesies among the fox clan.He came to thank you with a gift, but you didn't accept it.That is really looking down on others, and others will be angry.

After taking a sip of the soup, Zhang Wei said, "I don't know what to call my brother?"

The male fox said: "My name is Hu Baicai. I came to the kitchen a few years earlier than you. If you don't mind, just call me Brother Cai."

Zhang Wei clasped his fists in salute and said, "Brother Cai!"

Zhang Wei was so polite, a smile appeared on Hu Baicai's face, and then he said: "Brother Xiaoqing's ax really opened my eyes. I don't know how Brother Xiaoqing practiced it."

There was a longing look on his face, obviously he really wanted to know how Zhang Wei practiced.So Zhang Wei said with a smile: "Whenever I swing an axe, I always ask myself, how should I swing this axe? Will this axe be better than the last one? Can I get this axe?" What."

"I call this method "one question three times. Every time I do this, I can get something from my practice. After a long period of time, I will improve my ax technique."

Zhang Wei's words are not fooling people, this is "I examine myself three times a day", constantly summarizing, and doing anything will be rewarding.

Hu Baicai nodded, thought carefully, and said: "Sounds very reasonable, I will try it in the future." After speaking, he said very gratefully: "Thank you brother Xiaoqing for your advice."

He paused, and said to Zhang Wei in a low voice: "Brother Xiaoqing, let me tell you the truth. In this dining room, there are many male foxes who work day-to-day. They don't think about making progress and don't seek development. . just want to eat and drink."

When he said this, there was a hint of disdain on his face, and he said: "Although we are male foxes, I don't agree with this idea. Even if we are male foxes, we should have our pursuit. I can see that you and Those foxes are different, otherwise Master Fan would not be so optimistic about you."

He also patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and said, "Let's work hard together in the future. The male fox is our origin, but the male fox is not our destination!"

"mutual encouragement!"

He gestured to Zhang Wei before going to the stove to pack his things.

Zhang Wei's ax at noon was the first to show its sharpness.

Before afternoon, Hu Baicai came to Zhang Wei and said, "Brother Xiaoqing, Master Fan is looking for you."

Then Zhang Wei followed Hu Baicai to the kitchen.The kitchen door was closed at this time. When Zhang Wei walked in with Hu Baicai, Zhang Wei obviously saw envious looks on the faces of some cooks and male foxes.

Zhang Wei entered without knowing it, and after entering, he saw Hu Fan standing in front of the chopping board, with three male foxes beside him.

These three male foxes plus Hu Baicai and Zhang Wei are five vixens.

At this time, Hu Fan said: "Today is Hu Qing's first time here, so I will briefly talk about it. The kung fu of this pastry is my unique skill of Hu Fan. I can teach it to whoever I want. Others I don't care. But relatively, if you don't study well, I have the right to drive you away, you know."

"Know" × 4
"Hu Qing, do you know?" Hu Fan asked Zhang Wei again.

"Understood, Master Fan!" Zhang Wei could only respond.He thought it was something, it turned out he was learning to make pastries!It really is a dining room!
"Okay, let's continue to teach you how to make noodles today! This is a broad and profound way of making noodles. Whether the pastry is good or not depends on the making of noodles first."

After finishing speaking, he took a box, poured out the 'flour' which was crystal clear as snow, and continued: "This is the best cloud noodle, which is as light as clouds. If you want to knead it well, you must use skill and weight to knead it." Strong coincidence."

After finishing speaking, he poured out the cloud noodles. Once the cloud noodles were poured out, it was like pouring out a ball of cotton wool, and the flour was all floating in the air.

Then Hu Fan turned his hands, using the hand to drive the wind, using the wind to attract the noodles, and then patted hard, this gentle but heavy force, the noodles were thrown onto the chopping board in one go, without any flying.

Zhang Wei was dumbfounded!This is not kneading noodles, it is clearly teaching you a set of gentle yet firm punching techniques!Is it the legendary 'Tai Chi kneading noodles'?
Next, Hu Fan continued to explain, continuously introduced various kinds of water, began to knead the noodles into dough, and finally wrapped it with black velvet sesame, gold and silver osmanthus, and ghost chestnut fillings blended with honey.

After a short time, the blossoming 'Splendid Yunmian Assorted Dumplings' were made.

After being steamed in the pan, the pastry is really like the clouds in the sky, the beauty of the world, and the balls are very cute.

"This pastry is the secret to my mastery of the dining room! Among the foxes in this world, there are no more than [-] people who can have my pastry skills. I am not stingy with teaching. You study hard, and your future achievements will not be worse than mine !” Hu Fan said with some pride.

For the lowly male fox, if he really learned this skill, it would really impress the female fox and improve his status a lot!
Not long after, a waiter came to take the cake away. It was an afternoon tea cake for the three ladies.Because only Hu Fan can make cakes, this stuff is also in short supply in the palace, if the three noble girls can't finish it, it is also a kind of favor to give it to other female foxes.

But it’s still the same sentence, the cook’s stealing is not called stealing.There are still five pastries left, just to satisfy the five apprentices.

"This dumpling, because of the material, eating more can lighten the body and keep fit. We like the noble ladies of Shang Palace, because we often eat this, we have the reputation of 'fox girl dancing in the palm'. It is because the body is light enough that we can Dancing in someone else's palm!"

When the other male foxes heard it, they all showed admiration.

Afternoon pastry time is over, the kitchen reopens, and everyone gets busy with dinner.The most important thing of the day is dinner.Because the fox family has to absorb the moonlight all night to practice, so this dinner is not good, and it is not good to practice all night.

A vixen who goes to bed early is definitely not a serious vixen.Where is the vixen who goes to bed before midnight...

This evening's recipe is king worms.This kind of king worm is more than one foot high and three feet thick. It is a huge insect.Don't look at him as a big man, in fact, he doesn't have much meat.Basically all shells!
Moreover, this bug has a violent personality and often hurts the cook who handles him. It is an ingredient that many cooks are unwilling to handle.

"Xiaoqing, go and try!" This time, Hu Fan directly called Zhang Wei's name.

Zhang Wei was also rude, and walked up directly holding the axe.At this time, Hu Baicai whispered to him: "The whole body of the king worm is shell, your ax is not easy to use. The best way is to use the 'separation of flesh and blood' in the knife technique to follow the cracks in the carapace like a knife to dismember it." This bug!"

The knife method that Hu Baicai mentioned is naturally the kitchen knife method.

But Zhang Wei hasn't learned this sword technique yet, so he can only say: "I've only been here for more than a month, and I still don't know how to use a sword technique. But it doesn't matter, I can give it a try."

Hu Baicai also kindly reminded him, nodded after listening to his words, and said: "No, I will help you later." He thought that his sword skills were not inferior to Zhang Wei's ax skills.It was just that he had little experience during the day and was stabbed by the black-scaled sheep.

Zhang Wei stepped forward with an axe, and the king worm seemed to feel something was wrong, he retracted his head and feet into his huge carapace, intending to come and refuse to cooperate!
Zhang Wei gestured twice with the axe, this hard carapace is indeed a trouble.

But he was going to give it a try anyway.

He raised the ax in his hand, and then swung it at the gap in the king worm's carapace!The broad ax blade cut in along the gap, directly cutting a huge gap in the king worm's carapace!

"Ooooh! What an axe!"

"This trick is wonderful! Brother Xiaoqing!"

"Absolutely! Can this ax be used like this?"

The male fox who was watching the bustle by the side gasped and said in admiration.

Once the blow worked, Zhang Wei didn't stop, the ax was like a swimming dragon, and the blade was like a plowshare. On this hard carapace, a ditch was plowed, directly breaking the king worm's carapace!
The curled up king worm suddenly felt a chill from behind, and then felt a thick and hard big guy entering his body, and then he lost his feeling and died directly!

A good cook will naturally not let the ingredients die in pain, this is the 'benevolence' of a cook.Seeking benevolence and deserving benevolence is also the greatest respect for ingredients.

The king worm without its carapace is naturally at the mercy of others.The insect flesh is crystal clear like jelly, as if it is the finest sol.To eat this king worm, all you need is a very sharp knife, slice the destructible worm meat into thin slices, and then marinate it with high-quality fruit wine.Add onion and garlic paste, wasabi paste and a little fresh fish sauce.You can serve food.

What you eat is the original taste!

The king worm has a strong attraction to moonlight, and his flesh and blood also contain a lot of moonlight essence.Eating this worm meat, and then absorbing Yuehua's cultivation, that's hard work, ten times the return!
This worm has very little meat, and the cooks have no chance to steal it.They were all supplied to the three ladies.

There are also dishes such as 'golden bone and white jade soup', 'fire turtle melted fried egg', 'three-grade crystal dragon tongue', 'steamed ghost back herring' and so on.

This dinner is over.The rest is the 'staff meal'.Use the red-hot king worm shell as a frying pan, fry thick-cut white jade pearl elephant meat on it, a pot of turtle egg jellyfish soup, and a serving of spicy fried fish maw.A simple staff meal is ready.

This pearl elephant was used as a stewed elephant trunk the next day.The ladies only eat elephant trunks, and the elephant plucks must be pre-treated.As for the other parts of the pearl, it is naturally handled by the cooks.

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Three months to chop firewood, three months to carry water.After chopping wood, it is time to carry water.When carrying water, one of the martial arts to learn is 'Linghubu'.If you don't understand this footwork, carrying water is not only full, but also extremely tiring.

Carrying water is a very hard work. Zhang Wei needs to go deep into the mountains and forests to carry water, and pick the mountain spring water for cooking.There is mountain spring water drawn from the mountains, but this water is fine for washing and cooking, but not for making tea and cooking.

Water bearers are still needed to fetch water from the Pearl Spring deep in the mountains.

Zhang Wei carried two huge iron buckets and happily ran on the dirt road in the mountains.The warm eyes shone on him, making him feel warm.

After running for less than half an hour, Zhang Wei arrived at the Pearl Spring, where there was already a group of yingyingyanyan female foxes.

Don't get me wrong, the group of female foxes didn't come to take a bath, they also came to fetch water.

Pearl Spring is not the private property of Ruxiang Palace, all the palaces in the mountain will send people to fetch water.The water that the noble ladies in each palace drink is also fetched by special water maids.

Why is this so?Why not let Zhang Wei, a little demon who fetches water, take it back by the way?
This involves the intrigue of the vixens in the mountains, who poisoned and framed her!This is not the spring water brought by my trusted maids, they dare not drink it yet!

When Zhang Wei came to the spring, the group of maids who fetched water were still chatting.They work in no hurry.It is incomparable with Zhang Wei, a coolie.

The earthen pot that had been filled with water was put aside, and the maids were chatting in this rare leisure time.These maids are all well-cultivated, at least they have all turned into human forms.

In this era, it is better not to be as close to human beings as possible, because the status of human beings is not high in this era, who would be like a slave?
But humans do have advantages. Many ancient demon gods have human bodies.Human beings are born with wisdom, which is what the spirit of all things means.

But the spirit of all things does not mean that they are born strong.A two-year-old man is definitely not enough to beat a two-year-old wild dog.

The monster race has the wisdom of humans and the physique of animals.That's why Yaozu has always felt that he is the leader of all things, the leader of all things, and was born noble.

Transforming into a human form is just borrowing human wisdom!
These transfigured female foxes are all charming, with furry fox ears on their heads and furry fox tails on their buttocks, other than that, they are no different from ordinary people.

In later years, this change form will have a fox tail, but it will be ridiculed.There's a saying called 'the fox's tail leaked' which isn't a good word.

But in this era, the fox tail and fox ears are the characteristics of the fox clan and the embodiment of beauty!
Zhang Wei has not turned into a human form yet, but a standing green-haired fox.Even so, he is also a handsome little fox in the eyes of a vixen.

The more women there are, the stronger the fighting power is than the hooligans.This principle also applies to the fox.

As soon as Zhang Wei arrived, a female fox waved to him and said, "Hey, little green fox over there, come and talk to my sister."

At this time, only stupid foxes with stunned heads will come forward, as long as they step forward, they will be moved by these female foxes!
Zhang Wei didn't dare to step forward, put down the iron bucket to watch his nose and mouth, and didn't dare to take a step too far.

Seeing Zhang Wei's cowardice, those vixens would usually spit, and then each laughed again, teasing each other.

"Your charm can't even catch a little fox!"

"You're still talking about me! You're not the same as a coquettish hoof? Why don't you go check it out and give it a try?"

In the air, there was a cheerful atmosphere immediately, and only Zhang Wei was injured!

Fortunately, these female foxes will go back after chatting for a while, and then Zhang Wei can go forward to fetch water.pick to go back.

On the way back one day, Zhang Wei suddenly saw an acquaintance.

"Brother Qing?!" The little man suddenly shouted when he saw Zhang Wei.

"Small man!" Zhang Wei also responded.

"Brother Qing, I have a name, my name is Hu Chunbai." The little man, ah no, Hu Chunbai said.

"Okay, that's a good name! Why are you here?"

"I'm the patrol team sent by Wen Gong, responsible for patrolling this area."

"Oh! Where are Daju and Ermao?"

"When they entered Wu Palace, we rarely saw each other!"

After the four foxes came out of the mountain courtyard, they went their separate ways.This is the fate of the male fox, and it is also the fate of ordinary people.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Wei suddenly took out a meat dumpling from his bosom and said to him, "This is a meat dumpling made in the palace. It can increase energy, take it home and eat it."

"Brother Qing, how can I want your things!" Xiao Bai waved his hand and said, although he really wanted it very much.

"Hey, if you tell you to take it, you can take it. Practice hard, and we will meet more often in the future!" Zhang Wei said with a smile.

He can often eat this kind of meat dumpling, but for Xiaobai, this is a rare resource for cultivation.Wengong is similar to a university, the old foxes in it only teach knowledge, and all the resources for practice must be obtained by themselves.

This inspection is a kind of task and a way to obtain resources.

The two chatted again, and Xiaobai finally took over Zhang Wei's meat dumpling.Then the two separated again.After all, we all have things to do.

From that day on, Zhang Wei could often see Hu Chunbai near Pearl Spring, and he often brought Xiaobai some meals.With the help of these meals, Xiaobai's practice progressed rapidly...

Two months later, Hu Chunbai happily said to Zhang Wei: "Brother Qing, I got No.1 in the Wen Palace Exam. I chose to go to Ruxiang Palace, and we can meet more often in the future!"

The first place in the Imperial Palace Examination, you can choose which palace to develop, which is equivalent to choosing your own career.Of course Hu Chunbai will go to Ruxiang Palace, mainly to get close to Zhang Wei.

In this way, Xiaobai entered Ruxiang Palace and became a fine little fox.

The so-called fine little fox is specialized in handling all kinds of accounts.It is an accounting apprentice.

With the addition of Xiaobai, Zhang Wei can be regarded as a friend who can talk!

(End of this chapter)