Chapter 22 Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, leaning on the sea to eat the sea
The pavilions along the river in Donggang Town are the most suitable for living in summer and autumn.
Especially in summer, the river breeze is cool. As long as you open the front and rear windows, most of the heat will disappear. Just a few dozen steps across the bank will feel much hotter than on the riverside.
In winter, the riverside pavilion is very humid and very cold. Compared with other places, it is easier to get rheumatism and cold legs.
But the small building that Mr. Zhu has taken a fancy to is really original. In front of the windows facing the river, there are several beautiful stoves piled with gravels of several colors, and there are several upside-down lotus leaf-like bronze covers above.
There are several bronze chimneys embedded in the wooden walls. When walking between the walls, poems and prose are all engraved on the surface, just like pieces of bronze inscriptions embedded in the wall.
Both sides of this bronze chimney are inlaid with unstained iron wood. In winter, these stoves can not only be used to cook tea, warm wine, and melt ink. The smoke travels along these chimneys, which is the best fireplace.
It’s snowing, but it’s definitely still warm as spring inside.
Songzhu Pavilion is the innermost wing on the west side of the second floor of this small building. The windows on three sides can be opened. On a clear and sunny day, if you open these three windows, the view of the river will flood into the entire wing.
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There is a delicate staircase leading to the attic above.
In addition to being low in height, the attic is very spacious and can store a lot of things. There is also a small terrace outside the openable window.
Near sunrise, Lin Xi opened her eyes on the bed in this wing room.
After fetching water from the stone jar in the room and washing up, he checked a stove in the window facing the river.
There is also a large earthen pot boiling on this stove with reddish charcoal fire.
Lin Xi opened the jar, and a strong aroma immediately filled the room.
Several plump black-brown sea cucumbers were tumbling in the bubbling thick soup, with large chunks of meat, roots and other objects hidden underneath.
This jar, including the soup, is estimated to weigh at least a dozen kilograms.
"This is really like a pot of Buddha jumping over the wall."
Looking at the jar of contents, Lin Xi muttered to herself with the corners of her mouth raised slightly, picked up a pair of bowls and chopsticks that had been placed beside her for a long time, picked up a thick sea cucumber and tried to take a bite.
After feeling an unusually delicious and plump feeling immediately melted away from her mouth, Lin Xi had a look of pride on her face. After eating all the remaining sea cucumbers, she walked up to the attic and began to pose one after another.
A posture.
After doing this for half an hour, when it was already bright and her whole body was soaked with sweat, Lin Xi stopped, went down to the attic, and started to eat the contents of the big earthen pot one bowl after another.
If ordinary people saw it, they would definitely be stunned.
Because there were more than ten kilograms of food in the big earthen jar, Lin Xi actually ate all of it without leaving any trace.
After eating, Lin Xi was sweating all over again, and her body was steaming. After rinsing with warm water, Lin Xi patted her slightly bulging belly, burped, opened the large wooden box in the attic, and took out Xu Shengmo.
Some of his kits are specially used to hone and control the body's balance, such as thick armor with a large amount of irregularly flowing mercury, as well as various weight-bearing objects.
After cleaning the big earthen jar and putting on a green silk shirt, Lin Xi opened the door and walked out of the Songzhu Pavilion.
The old man surnamed Mo, who had snow-white hair, was already sweeping the platform in front of the small building. When he saw Lin Xi coming down, he nodded to Lin Xi, held an elder's salute, and said: "I have donated the three thousand silver taels for use in the town.
School.”
Lin Xi replied: "Those scholars who will come out of here in the future will definitely remember the kindness of the old man."
"I am already old, and I was not good at studying when I was young. I have not even gained any fame and achieved nothing. I can only do business. When I am old, I cannot even do business. I rely on adults. Even if I leave some false fame in the future, it will be nothing.
It's a gift from your lord." The old man shook his head, as if he was too embarrassed to talk about anything anymore and just kept sweeping.
Although they didn't talk much yesterday, Lin Xi saw in this old man the pedantry and stubbornness of the real scholars in this world, and the old man also saw in Lin Xi's eyes the indifference and character that he thought was enough to live in Songzhu House.
Therefore, Lin Xi was not surprised when she heard the old man's words just now and saw his words and deeds at this time. After smiling slightly, she said goodbye and left the building.
Outside the corridor at the entrance of the small building, Wang Buping had already gotten up early and was making umbrellas.
After waving her hand to tell Wang Buping to continue busy and not to be too polite, Lin Xi saw that the bamboo umbrella in Wang Buping's hand had completed its skeleton and began to paste the umbrella surface.
Because the oil-paper umbrellas in this world were considered novel to Lin Xi, who was in Lulin Town at the time, and although there were no umbrella manufacturers in Donggang Town and the two neighboring towns, there was a specialty umbrella maker in Lulin Town where Lin Xi was before.
The umbrella maker "Wakashuitang" is somewhat famous, and Lin Xi was curious to see it for two afternoons to learn about some of the processes involved.
So just taking a look at it, Lin Xi became a little curious and couldn't help but said: "Brother Wang, your umbrella seems to be a little different from others. Don't you need to shave it off?"
"I didn't expect Mr. Lin to have done some research on umbrella making." Wang Buping glanced at Lin Xi in surprise, but then smiled and said: "This umbrella was promised to you, but of course it is a little different from other people's umbrellas."
"Ordinary bamboo needs to be scraped off the green layer before processing, but this is the Qingyu bamboo unique to Qingqi Mountain. It is very unique. After soaking in water, the bamboo will be softer, easier to cut, and easier to do, but it will be dehydrated when exposed to the sun.
After that, I soaked it in tung oil for several days and locked it, but no water could get in. The bamboo would be extremely tough and it would be difficult for ordinary sharp blades to cut it. In the past, the army even used this bamboo to make sapphire.
A, but because this kind of bamboo grows extremely slowly and later became completely extinct, I had no choice but to give up. I have a small collection at home." Wang Buping looked at the curious Lin Xi, tapped the umbrella ribs, and said: "Look, this bamboo
The texture is green from the inside to the outside, unlike ordinary bamboo, which is white on the inside. When the weather is fine these days and I dry it thoroughly, the bamboo will look as beautiful as sapphire."
Lin Xi looked at it, and sure enough, the surface and the inside of the bamboo were the same blue color. She was a little surprised and said, "Isn't this umbrella too expensive?"
Wang Buping glanced at Lin Xi and said seriously: "My lord, your heart is the most precious umbrella in Donggang Town."
"Thank you so much, Brother Wang." Lin Xi curiously looked at the umbrella frame in Wang Buping's hand. As if something suddenly occurred to him, he slightly jumped his brows and asked, "Brother Wang, I think your umbrella handle is long enough. I don't know.
Can it be processed into a Zhongtong and simply used as a scabbard, with a long sword inside?"
Wang Buping was startled for a moment, then he understood Lin Xi's intention, nodded, and said, "Of course it's okay."
"Thank you very much."
Lin Xi smiled happily, said no more, bowed her hands to Wang Buping, said goodbye and left, heading towards the west bank of the river.
On the eve of leaving Qingluan Academy, Xu Shengmo directly taught him a bloody lesson to remember that he should be careful when he should be careful. Of course, carrying a long sword with a soul weapon is a bit ostentatious on weekdays. In this rainy season in Donggang Town, if he can hide it under an umbrella
, it is naturally convenient and safe, and it will also allow possible opponents to see some of his details directly from the weapon before taking action.
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It was already bright, and there were already many pedestrians in the alleys of Donggang Town.
Lin Xi's first destination today is the fish market, one of the three cities located on the river bank in the west of the town.
Most of the main dishes in the nearby towns of Donggang are fish, and Lin Xi went to the fish market now not because he wanted to meet Fatty Xu, who was in charge of the fish market. For him, no matter how arrogant these people were, as long as they did not commit any crime
Everything has nothing to do with him. He went to this fish market just to practice spiritual practice.
For most practitioners, the most important thing is of course practice, not to mention that Lin Xi knew that even Dean Zhang was always vigilant and full of respect for many powerful people in this world.
Lin Xi always puts cultivation first.
During the long journey from the Four Seasons Plain to Donggang Town, Lin Xi practiced the "Ming King Breaking the Prison" taught to him by Luo Houyuan during the day, and meditated and practiced at night, without stopping for a day.
After settling down in Donggang Town, Lin Xi had already made a plan. In the morning, he would practice the twenty-four moves of Qingluan and the moves Luo Houyuan passed on to him. In the evening, he would find an uninhabited place to practice archery skills, and then use them again at night.
Xu Shengmo used the exquisite bronze box to practice sword skills, as well as meditate to practice soul power and improve his cultivation.
If he had free time during the day, he would prepare for the new course "Exercise" arranged by the training academy in the morning, and practice "King Ming's Breaking the Prison" in the afternoon.
He has now reached the level of a junior soul master. Most Qingluan first-year students have only passed one or two exams this time, and not many have reached the level of a junior soul master. Even in previous years, this was equivalent to Qingluan II.
At the level of an ordinary student in 2008, outsiders can already be considered a not weak practitioner.
The biggest difference between a junior soul master and a soul warrior is that the soul power is so powerful that it can penetrate the body surface.
The practitioner's strength and endurance are astonishing. This is because the soul power changes the overall physique.
This "body training" is the same as "Ming Wang Breaking Prison", which is a practice method that uses and guides soul power to improve body functions as much as possible.
King Ming's Prison Breaking uses the soul power to travel and stay in the body along a specific route, just like using the soul power to massage and cleanse the meridians and organs in the body.
However, this "body exercise", which was originally required for Qingluan's second-year freshman, uses a unique breathing method to gather soul power and form a "hammer", which is hammered into the flesh and blood of the body bit by bit.
This "body exercise" should make the body stronger and more powerful.
When practicing according to this "body training" method, every time the concentrated soul power impacts a place, a hard lump the size of a dove egg will bulge on the skin under the clothes, and then disappear as the soul power is retracted.
Everywhere will give Lin Xi a slightly firmer feeling.
What are the benefits of King Ming's breaking out of prison? Lin Xi, who has been cultivating all the way, doesn't have a clear feeling yet, but one obvious change it brings is... Lin Xi feels that she is becoming more and more able to eat.
Practitioners are very good at eating.
This is not difficult to understand for Lin Xi, who comes from another world like Dean Zhang.
If ordinary people are like small motorcycles, then practitioners are like big-horsepower rickety cars, which naturally burn a lot more oil. Moreover, the improvement of physical fitness itself will definitely require a large amount of nutrients to supplement it, not counting consumption.
The practitioners' own bones, muscles, and muscles must be very different from those of ordinary people.
Previously, Lin Xi's three meals totaled more than twenty kilograms of food. If there was a lot of solid meat in it, at least she wouldn't be hungry.
But now Lin Xi can eat about twenty kilograms of food in one meal.
Just like when she eats in the morning, Lin Xi can't help but lament how her stomach can hold so many things. If she goes back to the previous world, it will be extremely easy to become a burger eating champion.
In the past, at Qingluan College, students did not need to think about these food at all. The college would prepare them every day.
But now it’s different to work outside and practice cultivation. You have to rely on yourself.
In fact, this is something that students in any academy have to face sooner or later, because practitioners also have to eat, and most practitioners will not stay in the academy all the time and let the academy take care of them. After they come out, they always have to solve their own problems every day.
Things to eat.
For practitioners, it is certainly not difficult to eat enough, but the more important thing is to have as much benefit as possible to their own cultivation.
Therefore, Lin Xi also has a course called "Dietary Supplement", which tells practitioners what foods are most nutritious and how to eat them, which is most beneficial to their practice.
According to the doctrinal summary of this course, those elixirs are just extracted from the most nutritious dietary supplements for practitioners. The daily meals are equivalent to the daily accumulation of bits and pieces.
Of course he had to make do with what he had on the journey to Donggang Town, but he kept an eye out along the way and happened to see some good stuff, so he bought them all.
This morning's pot of "Buddha Jumps over the Wall" was something he collected on his journey through half of the Yunqin Empire.
Among them, those "Eastern Miao Ginseng" were much more precious than any sea cucumbers in Lin Xi's world before, because the Yunqin Empire was not surrounded by the sea on all sides, and these "Eastern Miao Ginseng" came from the coast of the Damang Dynasty through caravans.
, very rare in Yunqin.
Just from eating, you can know that a practitioner has to rely on a large amount of money to accumulate.
Lin Xi had a clear idea of the purchasing power of one tael of silver in Yunqin when she was in Lulin Town. The price could usually buy eighty kilograms of pork.
At that time, Lin Xi thought that one tael of silver could buy so much, and that one tael of silver was really valuable enough. But later, when he thought about it carefully, even if a pound of good pork was calculated at the twenty yuan he was familiar with, one tael of silver would
The value of this world is equivalent to sixteen hundred yuan.
Because arrests like his are slightly more dangerous, the salary is relatively high among ordinary ten-level officials, but even so, it is equivalent to less than 40,000 yuan.
For practitioners, these twenty-odd taels of silver are not even enough to eat.
But Lin Xi is still a student of Qingluan College. Before they officially graduate, students from the three major colleges will receive a monthly subsidy of thirty taels of silver. To put it simply, this is the food expenses for these cultivators who are the pillars of the empire.
money.
Therefore, the amount of money that the Yunqin Empire invests in ordinary food and daily life for practitioners is not a small amount every year. Therefore, the three major colleges combined can only cultivate a maximum of three to four hundred students a year. Therefore, over the years, in
As the practitioners from Tang Zang and Da Mang strangled themselves, Yun Qincai was slowly exhausted and was struggling to move forward.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the sea to eat the sea have two meanings for practitioners.
One meaning is that when there is not enough money to support practice, the practitioner must find his own way to hunt some food that is a great supplement to the practitioner at the practice site.
Another aspect is the meaning of the word itself, which is to eat whatever is good in the place of cultivation.
The Xizijiang River in front of Donggang Town is a big river, and the fish market where most fishermen gather together should have some of the large aquatic products listed on the college's list.