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Chapter 4 Who Fooled Who?

About an hour later, Yuan Tiangang returned from the mountains, holding a big fat hare in one hand and a pheasant in the other, and the old Taoist thrust the whisk into his waist obliquely.

Bai Fan greeted him happily, "Daoist Yuan is so skilled, it's really hard work for you to grow old! Because of a kid's joke, I made you go to the mountains for an hour. The kid is really guilty."

Yuan Laodao was also warm-hearted, put down the pheasant and the hare and waved his hands: "It's okay, I can meet my little friend today, it's also fate for you and me, a mere meal is nothing to worry about."

The two of you came and went, and gradually became familiar with each other.

Yuan Tiangang killed chickens and rabbits, his movements were particularly skillful, and he didn't know where he found out a seven-inch dagger, and he started to treat the prey in this courtyard.

Bai Fan's eyes were dazzled by this skillful knife work, and his heart was burning hot.

Bai Fan didn't stay idle either, he was experienced in peeling and cleaning, boiled snow melting water by himself, and then cleaned the ingredients.

Seeing Yuan Laodao's skillful skills, Bai Fan praised: "The Taoist priest is good at his skills!"

Suddenly remembered that this barbecue would not work without seasoning, so he hurriedly got up and ran to the kitchen, but after rummaging for a long time, he couldn't find anything like oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Could it be that Bai Fan used to not eat salt?

With doubts in his heart, Bai Fan returned to the main hall, but Yuan Tiangang was carving a cross-cut knife on the hare.

Bai Fan said embarrassingly: "Prince Taoist, forgive me, I don't even have any salt left."

Hearing this, Yuan Tiangang was surprised, why?Could it be that your poor family has existed in the past?
Looking at your environment, you probably don't even have vinegar cloth for the poor!What a cunning boy to still talk about this scene with the old Taoist here.

The old Taoist didn't expose it, and said, "It's okay, the old Taoist often walks outside, so he has salt on his body."

As he spoke, he set two wild game on the fire, and took out a small bamboo tube from his bosom.

Bai Fan watched as the old man opened the wooden cork of the bamboo tube, and he could see a half tube of slightly yellowed crystals inside. The old man pinched a small handful with his hands, and slowly and evenly sprinkled it on the hare meat. Also sprinkle a pinch on the pheasant.

He didn't forget to remind the dazed Bai Fan to turn over the pheasants and hares.

Seeing the old Taoist slowly put the bamboo tube back into his arms like a treasure, Bai Fan came back to his senses, and said weakly, "This? This, this is salt?"

The old man laughed, laughing loudly.

After all, the boy is a poor boy who has never seen the world. Just now he pretended that he had no salt in his home. It must be the first time he saw this kind of high-quality salt at this time. He must have been shocked.

So the old Taoist said: "How is it? You haven't eaten such a good thing! Haha, just now you politely told the old Taoist that there is no salt at home? According to the old Taoist, your family is so poor, don't say that you have never seen this salt, I am afraid that vinegar cloth was not available in the past.

Boy, if the old man doesn't know how to laugh at you, he can't be more honest. "

Bai Fan was speechless, he was treated as a country bumpkin, and the old man laughed at him.

What do you mean you haven't seen such a good thing?I don't even want this kind of yellowed salt, so aren't you afraid of being poisoned if you eat it?

As the saying goes, you can't lose when you lose. Bai Fan is just at the age when he is full of blood and loves to be competitive. How can he be ridiculed by the old way?

"This, it's not that everyone has shallow knowledge. It's the first time I've seen this kind of low-quality salt. Daoist, if you eat this all day long, won't you be afraid of spoiling your stomach?"

Karma!Yuan Tiangang's laughter stopped abruptly!

what's the situation?Is this kid slapping a swollen face to pretend to be fat?
"Boy! Seeing that you are also a scholar, how can you be so full of nonsense? You have never eaten or seen salt. The old man knows that your family is poor, so he will not laugh at you, but your pompous style is not what a gentleman should do." Do something."

Yuan Laodao began to teach him a lesson. He still feels good about this young man, so seeing that this man uttered exaggerated words in order to win, he decided to educate him.

But Bai Fan doesn't appreciate it, isn't it just salt?You can say that Bai Fan didn't know much before, but I grew up eating high-quality table salt rich in minerals. How can I be frightened by your dirty yellow salt.

"The Taoist priest misunderstood. I am not lying. I have seen refined salt with a texture like snow. That's why I questioned this quality of salt. Don't blame the Taoist priest!" Bai Fan explained.

what?
Yuan Tiangang was taken aback. Seeing the child's sincere tone and pure eyes, it didn't seem fake.

But, but I am the best white salt!Even the emperor in the palace ate this. Where did this kid see the snow-like salt?

"Boy, are you kidding me? You know, even His Majesty the Tang Emperor is eating this kind of salt today. This is the finest refined salt. Where have you seen better salt?"

Bai Fan laughed, the emperor, so what about the emperor, is it true that all the good things were given to him alone?

"Where have I seen it, I won't say it, but it is true, I am not lying, the Taoist priest is an expert, he should be able to judge the truth.

I can't just accept the Daoist priest's meeting gift today for no reason. After we finish this meal, I will give you a big gift. "

"Okay! The old man will wait and see what kind of tricks you, a naughty boy, can play."

The two of them were grilling while chatting, chatting, you come and go, so happy.

Yuan Tiangang is a well-known Taoist, and his knowledge is really profound, while Bai Fan has thousands of years of knowledge, and he was born in the Chinese Department of Peking University. No problem at all.

In less than half an hour, the two finished eating a chicken and a rabbit, cleaned up everything, and boiled water in a clay pot for drinking. Then they sat cross-legged and laughed loudly.

"I'm happy, I didn't expect the old man to be able to meet such a hermit as my little brother in the backcountry of Sanyuan. The old man's meal is worth it!" Yuan Tiangang laughed.

Bai Fan said modestly again and again: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be. For a mere scholar who has only read a book of Analects for Enlightenment, how can he be called a hermit? Daoist Yuan is exalting him."

Yuan Tiangang laughed and scolded: "Well, you naughty boy, you still come to deceive the old man at this time?"

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Bai Fan got up and went to his room, and brought back the broken "The Analects of Confucius".

"If you don't believe it, you can check it yourself. The family is poor. It is my father who gave up all the money to settle down to buy this only book for Fan."

hiss!It turned out to be true?
impossible!
Yuan Tiangang couldn't believe it.

Not to mention anything else, but the astronomy and geography that the two of them talked about just now, this young man can discuss the mysteries of everything in the world with him, can this also be learned from the Analects?
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