213. New Year's Eve (for the leader in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
"For the Chinese New Year, there must be chickens. To celebrate, there must be fish. There must be fish every year, and pork must not be missing..."
Feng Yu was seriously talking to Lu Kan about the details of celebrating the New Year, while handling the ingredients skillfully.
She deboned the whole chicken, took out the fish bones, cut them with a knife, removed the bones, and covered the cucumbers with coir raincoats. She was like the God of Cookery in the movie. She processed the ingredients bought by Lu Tan so clearly that people couldn't help but want to become the fish under her knife.
Enjoy the thrill of being cooked with the ultimate cooking skills.
Lu Tan took a breath.
"I didn't expect you to be so virtuous. I can't tell."
"There are a lot of things you haven't noticed."
Feng Yu grabbed the tail of the cut fish fillet with one hand, coated it in flour and put it on the hot oil pan. With the other hand, he picked up a spoon and poured the hot oil over it again and again.
When the surface is slightly crispy, drop both pieces of fish into the pan and fry.
In another pot, she was cooking braised pork ribs with soy sauce. The rich aroma of soy sauce wafted through the kitchen, making Lu Jian in the mirror want to poke his head out.
The fish was almost fried, so she fished it out with a leaking net and prepared to fry it again. When she turned to get the ingredients, she saw a dense and gloomy black mist wrapped around the vegetables.
Feng Yu frowned.
"Go back to your room."
Lu Tiao hurriedly waved his hand, causing the black mist to dissipate, revealing the carrot underneath.
"Maybe they're all hungry."
After explaining, Lu Kan saw Feng Yu pick up the radish, wash and peel it, then cleanly cut it into radish slices, and then cut the radish slices into shredded radish without stopping, with a skillful technique, as if
If the radish were replaced with something else, she could still complete these processes without blinking or heartbeat.
"The pork must be deep-fried, otherwise the fat will appear greasy. Cutting the radish into shreds will make it easier to absorb the flavor. There is also chicken soup. Boiling it directly will be too oily. Cooking the chicken in chicken soup will taste better..."
Feng Yu explained his operation while cooking.
She seemed to be really trying to teach Lu Jian.
They were busy until the evening, when the Spring Festival Gala visiting program was almost over, and the two of them sat at the table in the living room.
Squirrel fish, white-cut chicken, braised pork ribs with taro, stir-fried squid flowers, fried crab rice cakes, eight-treasure duck, cured meat platter, stir-fried pork with chili... these are some of the dishes that Lu Tan can't usually eat.
A large table filled with tables made Lu Jian's living room seem a bit small.
"You don't usually cook by yourself."
Feng Yu was stunned when she saw Lu Tiao put down the bowls and chopsticks, eight sets in total.
"There are quite a few people in your family."
"We are all friends. We will meet you when we look up. It's Chinese New Year, so let's have a meal together."
Lu Tan smiled.
He and Feng Yu sat on the sofa and turned on the TV. The Spring Festival Gala was about to start.
"Many takeaways are made from cooking bags, which are unhygienic and nutritious. In addition, in order to cover up the staleness of the ingredients, they add heavy oil and salt. It is easy to gain weight after eating. If you have the opportunity, you should cook more by yourself and eat something light."
As Feng Yu said this, he put the largest piece of chicken drumstick into Lu Tan's bowl.
"...Eat something light."
He didn't know if the two people's understanding of Qingming was slightly different.
On TV, the Spring Festival Gala program began, with singing and dancing, and everything was peaceful.
In the living room, Lu Tan and Feng Yu were eating New Year's Eve dinner and chatting. All the dishes that they thought were endless were inexplicably eaten.
Lu Tan even felt a little bit like he wasn't full.
Everyone seemed to have a great time eating.
He watched the sketches on the TV becoming less and less funny, and felt that sometimes this was good.
"Sure enough, what I felt at the time was right."
Lu Tan couldn't help but sigh.
"What does it feel like?"
Feng Yu asked from the side, but she was watching the Spring Festival Gala very attentively. Sometimes she was poked at strange funny things, and her shoulders kept shaking.
"You are the woman who can be my mother."
Lu Jian told the truth.
"I'll take it as a compliment."
Feng Yu pursed his lips and smiled, not paying attention to Lu Tan's whims.
"It's snowing."
She looked out the window and saw that the gloomy days had finally condensed into ice crystals, and snowflakes were flying and falling from the hazy sky.
Looking down through the window, you can see some young people walking out of their homes and walking in the snow downstairs. It looks like southerners have not seen snow in more than ten years.
"I'm ready to leave too. Can I go down and walk around twice?"
Feng Yu picked up her clothes. Naturally, she was not going to spend the night here.
"Okay, I'll ask them to clear the table."
Lu Tan also took a coat, and the two of them went downstairs.
The snow has accumulated a bit and has not yet completely covered the road, but there is already a crisp clicking sound when stepping on it. Lu Tan and Feng Yu walked on the road in the community one after another.
At this time, Lu Jian will feel that this world is no different. The exotic scenery is like a fantasy, far away and out of reach.
However, Lu Jian soon discovered that the community was not actually noisy. Those who were playing in the snow made no sound when their feet stepped on the ground. Their conversations were ethereal. The whole world was as silent as death, with only the sound of melting snowflakes.
"The world is changing."
Feng Yu said softly.
"Pollution from foreign lands is gradually invading here, or some existence sealed here is about to awaken. No matter which one it is, it will eventually lead to some results that you don't want to see."
"Is there anything I can do to stop it?"
Lu Tan asked.
Personally speaking, it is better to live in a carefree modern city than in a world where a blood moon may come at any time, monsters may harass you, and bugs may invade.
"There is no way to stop it. This is the trend of the entire world. Do you know about heat death? When the entropy in the universe increases infinitely and reaches the maximum value, everything in the entire world will be converted into heat energy, and the energy to sustain life will also be lost.
Exist again.”
"Is this the setting of some science fiction novel?"
Lu Tiao was puzzled.
"Although this theory is not complete, in foreign lands, at least to my knowledge, there is a phenomenon similar to the increase of entropy, which is the expansion of pollution."
"With the erosion of pollution, all rationality will eventually tend to go crazy, and humans will alienate and become monsters. The more peaceful the world is, the more serious the consequences of pollution will be. The degree of erosion here is too low. Once there is
Any changes may trigger a chain collapse."
Feng Yu sighed.
"You mean, everyone's sanity is very high, so when encountering those monsters, the sanity will decline more seriously, so it will be easier to alienate?"
Lu Tan roughly understood what Feng Yu said.
In the land of silence, knowledge represents pollution, and pollution equals knowledge. In a place like the Kingdom of Night, the knowledge about evil gods and indescribable great existences has been very deep, but Shia and others did not fall into madness. This may be because of the night.
The mages of the country have found some way to alleviate the pollution caused by knowledge.
Or to put it another way, the cognition of Shia and others has changed due to the changes in the world. They have become accustomed to the existence of many monsters and will not be tortured by reason.
The place where Lu Tiao is now can be said to be unpolluted, and public awareness is still above the normal level. Therefore, once any knowledge from a foreign land suddenly invades, it will lead to rapid erosion.
"You can think that most of those foreign lands have found some ways to coexist with pollution after suffering devastating blows. As for this world, it has no direction yet."
Feng Yu nodded and said.
"Perhaps...if I subtly spread the knowledge of these foreign lands, those indescribable great beings, and the knowledge of evil gods in this world, will it be able to alleviate the subsequent erosion to a certain extent.
"
Lu Tiao suddenly had a whim.
Everyone is very rational, but they tend to become crazy when encountering strange events. This is just like how people who have never seen horror movies are more likely to be scared after watching a horror movie.
If everyone often watches horror movies and their sanity is tortured to some extent, then when the real weirdness, monsters, evil gods, and indescribable great beings arrive, won't people be less affected?
"...Are you serious?"
Feng Yu hesitated for a moment, stopped, turned to look at Lu Tan, and asked.
"You have to give it a try."
Lu Tan felt that this method might actually work.
"However, maybe there is a way. If you want to fight against madness, you must first fall into madness."
Feng Yu's soft murmur was buried in the falling snow.
"Since the world will inevitably change, it would be good to at least let the world adapt to it in advance, right?"