The streets are dim and the night breeze is rustling.
Both ends of the long street are covered with lingering green mist. Looking from a distance, it feels very cold.
Fatty Tian and Hengdao landed together, and the black shadow that broke through the "Seven-Star Big Dipper Formation" had disappeared, leaving only a mysterious silence.
Several bad guards were stunned for a long time before they finally realized what they were doing. They rushed forward and helped up the unconscious Fatty Tian. They saw that a long and thin bulge had been smashed out of his skull behind his head. Under the dim nightlight, it was still
It is so red and purple that it is very eye-catching.
The bad guards were frightened out of their wits, and they were convinced in their hearts that the dark shadow they had been chasing for most of the night must be an evil spirit running from the mass grave. They immediately scrambled and grabbed their limbs before picking up Fatty Tian.
Immediately, they worked together and took Fatty Tian to the nearest hospital.
After Yang Zhaoxi solved the entanglement of the unscrupulous guards, he felt a little relieved, but still empty, and drifted back to the city alone. Before he knew it, the five ugly characters "Liu Ji Mu Zuoxing" appeared in front of his eyes.
Just as he was about to knock on the door, the door creaked, and Carpenter Liu's sallow and dull face immediately popped out of the door: "You're back! Have you avenged yourself?"
Yang Chaoxi also shook his head numbly, with no trace of joy or sorrow on his face.
When Carpenter Liu saw this, he didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he seemed to complain: "Today, I took on a big job and made a nanmu coffin. I was afraid that the body would not be able to withstand the heat, but I was in a hurry. It will take three days."
Delivery. I have been busy for most of the day to finish unpacking the ingredients that were delivered...I just felt hungry, so I cooked some cakes and just picked some for you to eat."
Yang Zhaoxi nodded blankly, and then followed Carpenter Liu back to the main room.
More than ten feet away, a beautiful figure flashed out from behind a locust tree with rickety branches. Seeing Yang Zhaoxi return here safely, the stone hanging in my heart was completely put down. Then I made a mistake in embroidery, and the hem of the skirt flew up, and the beautiful figure
It also disappeared into the dark night.
Yang Zhaoxi and Carpenter Liu walked through the main house one after the other. Everything they could see were square logs, sawdust, scraps and a strange fragrance that lingered. Although they were curious, they finally felt that they were funeral objects, so they
He endured it without saying a word. He just followed him honestly and entered the small courtyard again.
During the day, the small courtyard is dazzling by the sky, but at this time, everything is cool. Coupled with the fragrance of nanmu coming from the main house, it also lifts people's spirits.
In the middle of the small courtyard, there is a slightly shorter food table, and several crescent stools made of lumpy elm wood are placed randomly around the food table.
The furnishings on the table are simple, including a small wooden basin, three coarse porcelain bowls, and a pair of wooden chopsticks on each bowl. There are also several smaller porcelain cups filled with salt, vinegar, minced garlic and other items, as well as wooden bowls.
Place the spoon in it.
Yang Zhaoxi only felt the fragrance assail her nostrils. She couldn't help but look over and saw a large ball of rope cakes floating in the wooden basin, which looked like twisted wires. The water in the basin was cool and the rope cakes were green. The rope cakes were the source of the fragrance. She couldn't help but feel curious.
: "Brother Liu, this...is this 'Sophora japonica Lengtao'?"
But Carpenter Liu had already sat down, with a smile still on his face. He took a clean porcelain bowl and picked up the cake from the wooden basin. As he moved, he said: "Young Master Yang is quite knowledgeable! This locust leaf
"Lengtao" is only made in late spring and early summer. Because it is a cold food, eating it too early will hurt the spleen and stomach; if it is made too late, the locust leaves will become old and will be very bitter and should not be mixed into the cake. Therefore, it is not right
It can be eaten in all seasons." Liu Carpenter said, but his hands kept moving: holding the bowl in his right hand, picking up a wooden spoon in his left hand, adding salt, vinegar, minced garlic, sesame oil, chopped green onion and other condiments one by one.
Then sprinkled some diced cooked reed sprouts, mixed them until evenly distributed, and then brought them to Yang Zhaoxi: "Have a taste."
Yang Zhaoxi was not polite. He picked up the bowl and began to chew. He felt that the salty aroma was good, sour and cool. Even the trace of revengeful anger in his heart was suppressed. It was really a rare summer refreshment.
Eat!
At this moment, a somewhat familiar figure came out of the east kitchen, shook his head and said with a smile: "No matter how good the cake is, if it doesn't have toppings, what kind of rare delicacy is it? Young Master Yang! You might as well add a few slices of Lao Zheng."
I’m afraid you’ll swallow the freshly cut fish meat with your tongue!”
The visitor was Zheng Liulang, the "Nanshi Butcher". After saying that, without waiting for Yang Chaoxi to nod, he directly put a few pieces of bream dipped in ginger mustard into his bowl. Then he raised his thick eyebrows and motioned for him to taste it.
Have a taste of how it tastes.
Yang Chaoxi had never seen this kind of raw food method before, so she couldn't help but frown slightly, picked up a piece, and started chewing it slowly. Suddenly, a pungent taste went from her cheeks to her throat, and then leaked out from her nostrils and eyes.
!When he came to his senses, the painful feeling receded like a tide, and he was already in tears, but he felt a sense of clarity in his seven orifices!
At this time, the fish meat in my mouth that I had not yet swallowed was sweet and refreshing. I chewed another mouthful of "Sophora Leaf Lengtao" and suddenly felt that my whole body felt a lot warmer. I had never been like this before, sublimating my hunger into a whole body.
kind of enjoyment.
He couldn't help but blurt out and asked: "It tastes so delicious, but I don't know how Brother Liu cooks it? If I can learn how to cook it, I can make it for my mother someday and let her enjoy the taste."
When Liu Carpenter was about to answer, Zheng Liulang said: "This is easy! Take half a catty of flour, a few locust leaves, squeeze the juice with a pestle and mortar, mix the juice with the noodles, knead and cut into strips. Thread into the boiling soup and cook
, when cooked, pick it up and immerse it in deep well water. After tea time, take it out and drain it, which is the 'Sophora Leaf Lengtao'. When eating, pick it into a bowl, add salt, soy sauce, minced garlic seasoning and mix well.
Serve. Add toppings to make the flavor even better. Haha!”
Yang Zhaoxi listened, but remained silent. The terrain of the mountainous countryside was rugged, and what the villagers cultivated by burning the mountains were mostly narrow and dry terraced fields. If you plant some corn, millet, beans, etc., you can still get some harvest.
But only wheat cannot be grown:
Firstly, the mountains are high and the water is low, so irrigation is difficult; secondly, after the wheat is ripe, it is more likely to be pecked by the birds in the mountains; thirdly, the weather in the mountains is uncertain, and there are showers from time to time. If the wheat is not harvested in time when it is ripe, the remaining wheat ears will
Soak in the ground, take root and germinate. In addition, the harvested wheat ears require a larger and flat site for threshing and drying, and there are not many flat places in the valley, so it is impossible to carve out such a place. And the wheat grains must be ground.
It can be turned into flour, which can be used for cooking. However, there is only one stone mill in the village, and the cattle and horses used to grind the mill are in short supply. Therefore, even if wheat is planted, it is extremely troublesome to eat it. It is not as good as corn or millet.
Class is easy to take care of...
But Carpenter Liu saw through what he was thinking, and immediately said: "Don't worry, Young Master Yang. If there is no flour in the mountains, Liu will give you a few bags when you return home someday. It's already getting late, so it's better to hurry up."
Rest now! Two days after tomorrow, this nanmu coffin will be delivered. Then Liu can take some free time and teach you the method of 'drilling holes with iron nails'."
Yang Zhaoxi thanked him as he was told. Soon, he and Zheng Liulang, who had eaten and drank enough, found a thatched hut in the west of the small courtyard. They ignored the nuisance and bites of mosquitoes and fleas, put their pillows on and fell asleep hastily.
In the next two days, Liu Carpenter was the leader and Zheng Liulang took action. He got up at dawn, burned ointment and continued the sundial until the sun set, and finally made the huge nanmu coffin.
Carpenter Liu actually had enough time to spare, so he took charcoal, lacquer and brushes, and painted the four mythical beasts of green dragon, white tiger, red bird and Xuanwu on all sides of the coffin, as well as matching patterns of auspicious clouds, mountains, dense forests and sea waves. Finally, on the four sides of the coffin, he painted
The coffin lid is painted with the sun, moon, and five stars, as well as a golden crow with fluttering wings, and a three-legged golden toad hidden in the sun and moon wheels. The exquisite and vivid painting skills far surpass those of darkroom murals.
During these two days, Liu and Zheng were so busy that they had no time to take care of him. Yang Zhaoxi took action himself, following the method described by Zheng Liulang, and made several meals of "Leng Tao with locust leaves".
The two were full of praise.
After delivering the coffin that day, Zheng Liulang also said goodbye to the two of them and returned to Nanshi alone.
The sky is getting dark, and the stars and the moon are shining brightly.
After Yang Chaoxi had dinner with Carpenter Liu, he turned on the screen cover and entered the darkroom.
Carpenter Liu expertly lit the whale oil lamp, and the four murals immediately came into view. He then took out a square nail from the wooden box under the lamp, and said in a calm voice: "Stand over and move due east."
Yang Zhaoxi reluctantly said: "Brother Liu, do you still want to 'identify the acupuncture points with your body'? When I first came here that day, I had memorized all the acupoints and pathways on the body. If you don't believe it, you can take a test."
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"Stand over!"
Liu Carpenter spoke again, his voice a little more majestic, "Remember, what's the use of holding on tight? Paintings are dead, people are alive, what opponent would stick there, waiting for you to identify and hit acupuncture points?"
Yang Zhaoxi had no choice but to agree, and stood obediently a few feet away due east. But he heard Liu Carpenter say again: "Before you learn to hit people, you must first learn to be beaten. Liu's method of 'recognizing acupuncture points with one's body' is to teach you how to
The body techniques you have learned can be fully used to form the dodge instinct; the second is to teach you to experience firsthand the feeling and strength of the acupuncture points when being hit by others, so that you can know how to use them when you take action.
Today I will hit you all over with iron nails, and I will tell you the acupuncture points and the strength in advance. You must remember it carefully and understand it carefully. If you can avoid it, it is best. If you are accidentally hit, you must grit your teeth and hold on. After all, Liu
I will never kill him, but if I have to fight life and death one day and meet an expert in acupuncture, that may not be the case."
"I got it! Brother Liu, just take action."
Yang Chaoxi nodded heavily, took a long breath, and breathed evenly. Suddenly, he felt the innate and acquired Qi in his body rushing along the small Zhoutian again.
Liu Carpenter's pupils suddenly shrank, and he pointed his fingers, and he found six square nails in his hand. The sound was like cutting iron: "Yang Shaoxia! The first one today, I'm going to hit you Tiantu, Lingxu, Jiuwei, Piguan, and Futu."
, the six acupuncture points in Liangqiu are all three-point strength, you must be careful!"
After saying that, the six nails were fired in unison, and they arrived without a trace or sound.
Yang Chaoxi's body tensed up, his feet staggered slightly, and half of his body had already dodged to the south. However, after several consecutive "duk duk duk" sounds, a subtle "pop" sound was heard! Piguan was immediately hit, and his right
There was a soreness in my crotch.
The pain aroused his fighting spirit, so he rubbed his right hip, looked at Carpenter Liu with burning eyes and said, "Come again!"