Yu Jiatang was squatting on the futon in the Zen room, facing Duan Jingxuan.
"Monks don't tell lies, Lianhua, ask yourself, do you eat too much?"
The little black panther roared.
"The monks don't lie, so what did you do to lie to the Meng family? Your surname is Wei, and you are the son of the prefect of Shanzhou?"
Yu Jiatang had heard Meng Mingan call him "Jingxuan" in private, and the two often exchanged letters in private. Yu Jiatang didn't intend to read his letters, but the monk was unguarded against him in the form of a little black panther, and often let him hold a A pen, a paperweight or something.
It is inevitable that you will see some words, such as "Duan" and "Father Emperor".
When doing missions before, Yu Jiatang would be directly indoctrinated into the cultural and language system of the mission world. Everything in this world is hidden, but this function has not been harmonized, so he knows the words above.
Yu Jiatang wasn't sure if Duan Jingxuan was his shit-shoveling officer, but if he wasn't his shit-shoveling officer, the task value wouldn't change if he got along with him.
Now he is waiting for the values of the four major tasks to change. Excluding the blessing value and comprehensive favorability value, it will generally appear in the later stage of the task, and the tacit understanding value and petting value will appear in the early stage.
…except, of course, in special cases.
The values of the four missions calculated by Yu Jiatang in the last world were locked due to some special reasons of this hidden mission and cannot be used, so the tacit understanding value could not be used to strengthen the communication ability between them. And he wasn't sure if Duan Jingxuan was his shit-shoveling officer.
"Do you think you don't eat much?" Duan Jingxuan looked at the little black panther who yelled at him with its neck stuck.
Yu Jiatang: "Compared to before, my appetite is very controlled now." Originally, the transformed body needs to consume a lot of energy, so eating more is a must.
As for "monks don't tell lies" and so on, he is a leopard, but not a leopard, so whether he is a liar or not
Duan Jingxuan couldn't understand the black panther's roar, but from its expression and eyes, he knew that the other party was very confident about his appetite.
Yu Jiatang is just a baby black leopard now, and he is growing up. It is a good thing to eat a lot. Maybe he can eat a mighty male leopard
Big cats like leopards are different from ordinary domestic cats. They don’t have any obesity genes. They belong to the kind that eats a lot and doesn’t get fat. The most important thing is that they “look thinner in black”!
After all, the current body is one that "does not eat fat" and "looks thin". Of course, Yu Jiatang must seize the opportunity and eat and drink.
After Yu Jiatang had a "heart-to-heart talk" with Duan Jingxuan, he did not reduce the number of meals, but ate more.
After another half a month, the old imperial chef also approached Duan Jingxuan, "Master Xuan'an, Lianhua's meals are all meat, and it is inconvenient for other little masters to pass by."
"Its meals are usually prepared by me personally, but it eats a lot now, and I'm getting older. Can you find a helper from the mountain to help me?"
When the old imperial chef was speaking, Yu Jiatang was lying on the futon with a wooden fish in front of him, holding the wooden fish with his paws and knocking on it.
This is a new skill that Duan Jingxuan let him learn recently, knocking wooden fish.
In the beginning, it was just that when he was chanting scriptures, the black panther roared along. Now even the wooden fish had to be knocked on.
Yu Jiatang was also tired.
Duan Jingxuan's kung fu of nourishing Qi is first-class, and the expression on his face is calm and unwavering, without any change.
"Okay, I'll let Huiling go down the mountain to help find a few more cooks, and the monthly money will come from me."
The old imperial chef was very happy when he heard the words: "Thank you so much, Master Xuan'an!" God knows how the black panther has persisted since he entered the temple for more than a month, and his waist is broken every day.
If there are a few people helping him, he can save a lot of trouble in cooking.
Before the old imperial chef left, he took a loving look at the black panther who knocked on the wooden fish and roared twice from time to time.
"Master Xuan'an gave it the name 'Lotus', which is really good. The lotus is really becoming more and more Buddha-nature. I have lived such a long life, and I have never seen a leopard that can knock a wooden fish!"
"The black panther is a spiritual creature of heaven and earth, it is true!"
Duan Jingxuan looked at the little leopard who was "seriously" chanting scriptures and knocking on the wooden fish, his eyes met, and he paused for a moment. The monk lowered his head, folded his hands together, and recited a Buddhist mantra.
Yu Jiatang: "..." What does this mean? Shouldn't you just compliment me at this time? Do you want to provoke trouble by chanting a Buddha's name
Duan Jingxuan sent the old imperial chef away, and didn't say much to the black panther. He just started chanting scriptures to it again, and continued to growl impatiently at it.
"Cultivation is in the heart, not in the body. The lotus, the appetite, cannot be indulged. Food and delicacies, it is good to taste, too much will only damage the practice."
Yu Jiatang sneered in his heart, Great Monk, no matter how lofty and dignified your words are, I can still hear that your words actually have only one meaning—to tell me to eat less.
"I won't listen to you."
"I'm still growing."
Yu Jiatang yelled as he knocked on the wooden fish, already thinking about what to have for dinner.
Yu Jiatang can't catch too big prey now, he can only catch pheasants and hares. The courtyard walls in this world are generally low, especially Buddhist temples.
Ordinary leopards can jump three meters high. Although Yu Jiatang is still a little leopard now, his body has been transformed, so it is no problem to climb over the courtyard wall.
But since there was a little trouble when he climbed over the wall last time, Duan Jingxuan forbade him to climb over the wall again. In fact, it was not a big deal, but he accidentally slipped by the moss on the wall and hit his face on the wall.
However, his face was dark and his body was strong, so it didn't hurt him to knock him down, but for some reason, he was discovered by the careful monk, and he was locked in the Buddhist hall, where he recited scriptures with him for two days and two nights.
Of course, there is no meat in the meal, and it is all vegetarian, and there is very little of it.
From then on, Yu Jiatang walked the front door honestly, resolutely not playing handsome to climb over the wall.
"Brother Lianhua? Are you going out to look for food again? Can you bring back some mushrooms from the mountain for my little brother today?" The little novice who guards the door is a teenager in his teens. very delicate.
And very good at things, sweet mouth. At least Yu Jiatang was satisfied with his "brother".
"What's the point of eating those mushrooms every time? Even if monks can't eat meat, there are many things to eat on the mountain. I'll bring you something else by the way."
Yu Jiatang knew that the other party didn't understand, but he still called out to him a few times habitually.
As usual, Xu Che put a bronze plate engraved with mysterious patterns on the black panther's neck, and then it bit the rope tied to the small back basket and dragged it away.
I don't know if it's because of the "Buddhism" on Lingfo Mountain. The creatures on the mountain, including the vegetation, grow surprisingly well. Some ancient and giant trees are more beautiful than when Yu Jiatang was in the modern world. The giant trees I have been to are even taller, which is amazing.
And those little animals. Very shrewd, if you change to a more stupid leopard, you really can't catch them.
Leopards are good at climbing trees. Yu Jiatang is not fat now, and he climbs trees very smoothly. He stood up the back basket, then jumped up the tree, and slapped the apricots on the tree with his paws.
At this time, the apricots are already ripe. However, the apricots on Lingfo Mountain were different from the apricots he knew in appearance.
The color is much lighter, the peel is slightly hard, the apricot flesh tastes sweet and juicy, the apricot has no seed, and there is only a small fruit bead sandwiched in it.
Eating fruit pearls and apricots can also get angry, but as long as you eat this bitter-tasting little fruit together, you won't get angry.
The monks in the temple like to eat this kind of apricot fruit, but unfortunately they don't know how to climb trees, and the apricot trees are too tall, so they can't be picked without some special methods.
Yu Jiatang has a lot of strength, so he had to control his strength when he slapped the branches, and he couldn't use too much force, otherwise the branches might be broken, and she would have to pick them one by one. Usually, with one paw down, he can grab the fruit and apricots to pieces, which is very strenuous, so he would rather be careful when he shoots the tree.
After about a hundred apricots fell into the back basket, Yu Jiatang stopped his claws, jumped down from the tree, and grabbed a few hares and pheasants nearby, as well as a half-sized gray bird.
This kind of bird is gray and white. It can be seen everywhere on the mountain. It has many natural enemies. It is dull and slow, but it has one advantage, that is, it reproduces very fast.
He has observed that a chick of a gray bird will grow into a big bird in less than half a month after it is born. He does not know exactly when it will breed offspring, but with the growth speed of the chick, he can imagine It won't be too long either.
As long as there are carnivores on this mountain, they are basically the natural enemies of this bird, but the number of stupid birds is still slowly increasing.
Yu Jiatang felt that it was necessary for him to contribute to the ecological balance of Lingfo Mountain. So every time he goes up the mountain, he catches many gray birds.
When the old imperial chef was in the palace, he preferred to use quail to make soup. In this ancient temple, meat is not allowed, and he hasn't stewed it for a long time.
After Duan Jingxuan brought back the black panther, the old imperial chef gradually picked up those meat and vegetable skills. He also changed his preference and used gray bird instead of quail stew.
Different from other birds and beasts, the bigger the bird, the tenderer the meat. Yu Jiatang only catches big birds.
After Yu Jiatang finished catching the birds, he went to pick half a basket of various edible mushrooms under other giant trees.
Animals are more sensitive than humans in some aspects. Yu Jiatang has never learned to identify non-toxic mushrooms in general, but when he sees mushrooms, he can subconsciously distinguish which ones are edible and which ones are the best. Well don't even get close.
In addition, he also pulled some wild vegetables.
It's sad to say, but his kung fu of identifying wild vegetables was practiced by Yao when he was in Fang's house.
Yao shi likes to teach him how to pick out the weeds from the wild vegetables, as if in the eyes of these people, the black panther is psychic, and he should be able to learn everything.
I also don't understand the superstitious logic of these ancient people.
After harvesting a basketful of things and a lot of prey, Yu Jiatang scratched the bronze plate on his neck with his paws—this is a special method of communication in the temple, which is very magical, but Yu Jiatang doesn't understand the principle anyway.
He informed the little master in the monastery to come here to help transport the things. He is still small now, but even if he was replaced by a big leopard, it would be very difficult to transport so many things back to the monastery.
While squatting on the spot waiting for someone to come, he looked at the fruit beads and apricots in the basket and felt greedy. He wanted to eat one to satisfy his hunger, but just as he finished his mouth, he suddenly smelled an unusual smell in the air.
With a slight fishy smell.
Yu Jiatang immediately swallowed the apricots in his mouth, stood up vigilantly, and calmly observed the surrounding jungle vegetation with golden animal eyes, not letting go of any changes.