Chapter 172 Most of them leave early like a prophet
In his previous life, when he was studying diet, Xu Guangling did a small topic on "Eating Changes on the Chinese Dinner Table for Two Thousand Years."
Among them, tofu is naturally an indispensable and important role.
It can even be said that he is one of the core characters.
In later movies and TV series, involving the ancient marketplace, a "bean curd beauty" often appeared.
In fact, "Xi Tzu" is not the protagonist here, "Tofu" is!
Not only because it spans two worlds and is a relatively cheap and relatively mild meat substitute, but also because soy products are a big family, just like mushrooms, bamboo and other things, with many different varieties and categories.
, even an expert would not be able to figure it out at all.
Of course, sometimes even the experts don’t understand clearly.
Half for leisure, half for research, Xu Guangling and two old men worked on the topic together. Among beans, they sifted through the ingredients and properties of various beans in ancient and modern times, as well as various extended bean products.
all over.
Occasionally there will be some deviations in the middle.
For example, initially, tofu was made due to alchemy.
Gunpowder was also created through alchemy.
So, who knows what the alchemists from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty used to make elixirs?
Xu Guangling and the two old men read through various ancient books, including ancient and unique copies only available in the National Library, trying to restore some of the truth, but they did not gain much.
After the Han Dynasty, alchemists gradually withdrew from the stage of history. During the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a kind of "made elixir" spread, which can be regarded as the aftertaste of the era after alchemy.
Xu Guangling had heard of this kind of thing when he was a child.
Five stones scattered.
Standing at the height of the times, when most people mention this kind of thing, they naturally treat it as a simple drug.
But in fact, in addition to being toxic, it also has positive effects.
In other words, this "medicine" and this "alchemy" have their own basis and are not just nonsense.
So, where is its source?
What are the changes?
Later, as Xu Guangling advanced higher and higher in the rank of Grand Master, he slowly began to look at the entire cultivation culture or civilization from a bird's-eye perspective.
In fact, there is no spiritual civilization on earth.
There is spiritual practice, but no civilization.
From very early times, individual practice has been taking place.
However, because the conditions required for cultivation are relatively high, including physical and mental conditions, material conditions, and literacy, the superposition of these three means that in the long historical process, only a few people in each generation meet several conditions.
He heard the Tao, entered the Tao, and then began to practice.
And this quantity, as well as quality, cannot form an effective accumulation.
As a result, there is no such thing as practicing civilization.
Regardless of whether it was 2,000 BC or 2,000 AD, people who were interested in spiritual practice faced almost the same learning and growth environment.
It is not like secular knowledge, which develops step by step from the Three-Character Classic, Thousand-Character Classic, etc. to "nine-year compulsory education"...
This is what happened in the previous life.
In this life, is there a spiritual civilization?
So far, Xu Guangling is not sure.
On the one hand, the spiritual energy in this world is much richer than in the previous life. On the other hand, this world has definite practicing families and practicing sects, and there are quite a few of them. Logically speaking, it can be called a practicing civilization.
But the liquidity from bottom to top is not very obvious.
Xu Guangling also didn't notice the flow from top to bottom.
In other words, from Xu Guangling's current observation, this world with extensive practice is close to stagnant water, and its cumulative nature is quite questionable.
To put it another way, if there was no sky-gazing mirror, if there was no great master's insights and various secret techniques, Xu Guangling would be reincarnated into this world purely as an ordinary earthling, or would he be reincarnated as a banker and get involved in spiritual practice.
What will be his path?
The answer is, not too optimistic.
Very pessimistic.
It’s hard to say categorically that the road ahead is 100% a dead end, but at least 99% of it is.
So, what is the entire cultivation ecology of this world from top to bottom and bottom to top? Xu Guangling still doesn’t know yet.
He was also walking forward little by little, looking up.
But of course at the moment, he is just hiding in the Yaowang Valley, almost never leaving the door or taking a step forward.
The Gan Cong style is still for going out.
Although he doesn't go out frequently, he can't be like Xu Guangling, who shrinks into the mountains and creates a world of his own.
After all, he is the master of the Medicine Hall and one of the powerful leaders in Annan County.
On this day, Gan Congshi went out and came back two days later. When he came back, he was holding a food box in his hand, and the top of the food box was still steaming.
Earth-level cultivators are so strong that they can all be scuds. Even in a world like this, they can usher in the era of food delivery. Give me 800 earth-level cultivators, and I can build a god-level food delivery.
"Xiao Lingzi, come on and try it! Tongfulou's new food is quite innovative!"
Gan Cong Shi was as attentive as an old family servant serving the young master. He opened the food box on the table indoors and arranged the side dishes and other items one by one.
What else could this be if it wasn't tofu pudding?
Of course Xu Guangling accepted it with a smile.
To be honest, this was his first time eating this thing in this world.
Because of the teaching in dreams, Tian Hao has mastered the skills quite well. This is the first time he has made tofu bread, and it is already quite satisfactory, with basically no faults to be found.
"How about it?"
After Xu Guangling finished eating, Gan Congshi asked.
"It's okay." Xu Guangling said, "But because it uses ordinary ingredients, it's not very refreshing."
Isn’t it just too refreshing?
You know, these days Xu Guangling drinks vitality liquid morning and night!
Although this tofu puff is not inedible, it really cannot be called a "delicious food". It is still edible, but it is more about feelings.
"Senior, I plan to make a small renovation of this valley. What do you think?" Xu Guangling continued.
"It's up to you! It's up to you! It's up to you to do it!" Gan Congshi waved his hand and agreed, and then asked curiously: "Reform? How to reform?"
"It's just convenient to get some food, something that both senior and I can eat." Xu Guangling said.
As soon as he said this, Gan Congshi's eyes began to shine involuntarily.
Just go ahead and do it. With a ready-made earth-level cultivator by your side, as a tool man, Gan Cong Shi is much easier to use than Xu Tonghui.
The two are not the same model at all, their power is at least a hundred times different, and their functions are even more different!
First of all, follow the old rules and open a "vegetable garden".
This is Yaowang Valley. I don’t know how many generations ago the Yakushitang industry was established. It may have been established by the master of the Yakushitang of a certain generation. The valley is filled with medicinal plants and trees, rather than the cultivation of agricultural, vegetable, fruit and tree species.
garden.
So the first step Xu Guangling did was to transplant some fruits and vegetables.
This valley can be roughly divided into the inner valley and the outer valley. The inner valley is a strictly planned planting with fewer miscellaneous vegetation, while the outer valley is a mixture of medicinal and miscellaneous vegetation.
Xu Guangling was still shamelessly carried on Gan Congshi's shoulders and walked around the outer valley, and from time to time he marked the plants and trees he passed as they were all to be transplanted.
Fruits.
Dried fruits, fruits.
Vegetables.
Of course they are all wild vegetables, and some are even weeds.
Xu Guangling didn't choose too many, only forty or fifty in total.