In this strange world, there is a strange place called the city that never sleeps, where there is neither day nor night. Hot underground rivers pass through the city, providing the entire city with a steady stream of electrical energy. There are countless hot springs in the city, chic and neat wooden houses like those in fairy tale movies, and beautiful girls with different skin colors. They are dressed in light clothes. They don’t panic when they see strangers, they just cover their lips and smile lightly.
In the center of the city stands a beautiful enamel palace. As an underground building, it has nine floors of majestic scale. It is built in an open space and has a majestic appearance. It is like a giant garden in a fairy tale city. It overlooks the His territory.
In the spacious square in front of the gate, the musical fountain plays cheerful music 24 hours a day, all year round. Rare birds found by adventurers from all over the world have their wings clipped and are freely released in the square for people to watch. Walking into the palace along the deep red raw chicken blood jade stone steps, the magnificent hall is surrounded by a full circle of classic paintings from various historical periods in Europe, each of which is a genuine masterpiece.
Li Muye followed Brother Qi Tian into the hall, and immediately saw a golden dragon facing the door, shining brightly under the light. The carving is exquisite and looks lifelike, but it is a pity that the dragon eyes are not installed.
Qi Di smiled proudly and said: "Brother Li, how are you? I didn't lie to you, did you? How do you feel about this journey?"
Li Muye took a deep breath without any pretense, nodded solemnly and said, "If the owner here doesn't dislike it, Li will not leave."
Qi Tian said in a deep voice: "We brothers can't make the decision in this matter. Whether we can stay or not depends on your fate, brother."
While talking, the three people came to the elevator entrance. Li Muye quickly noticed that almost all the furnishings here were gold. If you pay a little attention, it is not difficult to find that these things are all made of real pure gold!
The elevator arrived, and the three of them walked in. Qi Tian pressed five, and then said: "The tower has nine floors, and the owner lives on the fifth floor. It means the nine-five-year-old. All the furnishings in this house, even if they are just There is an inconspicuous trash can and ashtray, all made of pure gold. We brothers are considered rich in the world, but compared with the owner here, we are hardly even beggars. Brother Li, I must remind you. Just tell me, this old gentleman’s surname is Huo, and he doesn’t like people who tell lies very much.”
Qi Di reminded: "You have also seen the situation here. Brother has not said anything false before. Whether he can stay depends on Brother Li's methods. Although Mr. Huo has always loved talents, ordinary people want to get into his eyes. But it’s not easy, so when you see him later, Brother Li must not hold anything back.”
The elevator goes straight to the fifth floor. When you get out of the elevator, you come to an extremely spacious place. As soon as you walk in, you smell a refreshing and timeless refreshing fragrance. It definitely smells like Agarwood Qinan. Following the smell, I looked over and saw a huge three-meter-wide wooden sculpture of an eagle spreading its wings. The shapes are natural and mostly formed naturally, with only a few traces of chiseling.
Li Muye first heard about Qinan from Ye Hongyou. Later, I heard some of it when I listened to Pi Rixiu talking about the Xiangbao Sutra of Master Ribu Chongdi.
The string of beads that Lao Ye spent a lot of money to get back from Nanyang was made by Qinan. He almost never leaves his body, and they taste exactly like this. Li Muye couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he looked at the huge wooden carving. According to what Ye Hong had said, this thing was extremely rare, priced in grams, and was dozens of times more expensive than gold. It is one of the best agarwoods. It is the best among the best agarwoods. It was called agar in ancient times and is softer and warmer than agarwood.
Usually, in a large piece of the best agarwood seeds, only a very small part can be regarded as Qinan, which is extremely precious. It is so huge that it can be called priceless. Because I know its value is rare, I can't help but look at it a few more times.
Ordinary people don't know its value and only use it as a spice. In the eyes of the Worm Earth Master, this thing is one of the rare natural materials.
The origin of Qinnan incense is that it is a hollow fragrant tree (densely fragrant tree species) in which ants or wild bees build their nests. Formic acid, nectar or wild bees' stone honey, and bee oars are absorbed by the scent glands of the living fragrant trees and combined with them. A special fungus is gradually generated. Use it as medicine, mix it with several other rare treasures recorded in the Xiangbao Sutra and use the secret method of the sect to make pills, and give them to women. When they make love, the woman will be fragrant, and men will increase their ability and desire after smelling it. It is very beneficial to the body.
Compared with the trade of cheating, Chongdi Master is a relatively mysterious and interesting trade. Li Muye is not good at martial arts, but he is quite talented in learning these martial arts, and he can master them almost instantly. Although Pi Rixiu has no intention of passing on his skills, Brother Xiaoye has actually learned some real skills in the Chongdi Master sect.
As he was looking at himself, he suddenly heard a familiar old voice saying: "Da Qi and Xiao Qi, didn't you two go back to the north? Why are you back again?" A short, thin old man walked over from behind the elevator and aligned himself. Brother Tian said: "What? Did you bring new friends?"
Qi Tian said respectfully: "Greetings to Uncle Sen." He pointed at Li Muye and said: "This is Mr. Li Sanbai, a strange man we met on the way back, thinking that Uncle Sen might be interested in him." , so I quickly invited him here."
"Oh?" Huo Sen nodded slightly to Qi Tian, then strolled over, looked at Li Muye first, and asked with interest: "My friend is a Jianghu person? But I don't know which way to make a living? Isn't it convenient to report it? Shimen Man'er?"
Old Huo Sen is worthy of being a master in the world of martial arts. A connoisseur knows the depth of the water and the shallowness of the water.
Li Muye did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, saying: "I am a native of the world, and I often travel the world. The toads in the ground never go out of their way. A general with a writing brush does not use a knife to kill people."
This is a common phrase used by old Jianghu people before the Republic of China. The people of the world are cooks. The ancients said that food is the most important thing for the people. The people of the world mean those who serve heaven. People who often travel the world are cooks. The following two sentences say It is his secret profession which is the Japanese insect master.
Huo Sen understood, and showed a slight surprise. He looked Li Muye up and down again, crossed his arms and said, "It turns out that Brother Li is from the senior high school. It's really disrespectful. Nowadays, the world is in decline, and high skills have been destroyed." , there is only one Gao Yuelong left in the field of Japanese insect masters, and he is still at the top of the Jianghu literature list, but I don’t know what Brother Li will say to him?"
Li Muye said: "In terms of friendship, Senior Brother Gao got started a few years earlier than me."
Huo Sen was even more awe-struck when he heard this, and said: "People of your sect are good at stealing red pills to collect essence and nourish the health. You can't tell your age by looking at your face, but you can tell your level of ethics. Brother Li How expensive is this year?"
"Forty-nine in vain." Li Muye said: "I have wasted half my life in the world, and at the age when I know my destiny, I have still accomplished nothing. Now is the age when skills cannot nourish people."
Huo Sen said: "It's just that I haven't met the right fate. As far as I know, you have real skills in this industry. Back then, Gao Yuelong was fishing for golden turtles in the three bowls of fairy soup in Taihu Lake. Warlocks from all over the world rushed to watch. My brother was lucky enough to see it in person. I can see that the methods of the Hibe Chong Earth Master are truly magical, but I don’t know how much your brother has mastered them?”
This is what taking the exam means. From Shandong to Shanxi, what I shouted was not true. Whether you have the ability or not cannot just be based on shouting, but also depends on the real person. There has always been a difference between the internal and external skills of the Japanese insect master. The outer part is the cooking skill, while the inner part is the Xiangbao stealing fragrance and appreciating the human insect. It is inconvenient to show the inside, but it is the basic skill to deal with people outside.
When the Yangtze River flooded, a golden turtle accidentally entered Taihu Lake and caused trouble, overturning passing ships and injuring countless people. The government fishery department pursued and intercepted it and tried all conventional means to do nothing. Later, the news spread to the rivers and lakes, attracting many charlatans who knew what they were doing. However, the local master Gao Yuelong was the leader. He fetched water out of thin air in Taihu Lake, cooked soup without fire, and used three bowls of fairy soup to catch the 100-kilogram golden turtle from the nest of Taihu Bastards. It can be said that his skills are amazing and he is majestic from all sides.
But many years later, when old friends in the world who had personally experienced this incident talked about this legend, the first thing that came to mind was the taste of those three bowls of soup.
Since he is a Japanese insect master, his cooking skills must not be bad.
Li Muye thought for a while and said: "Senior Brother Gao's level is too high, brothers don't dare to compare with him, but since the old gentleman has asked about this, in order to find a safe place to live, I have no choice but to show my shame."
"Happy!" Huo Sen said, "I wonder what your brother needs me to prepare for you?"
"One fat sheep and one furnace of gray charcoal are enough." Li Muye said: "Our business relies on using taste as a stepping stone. This is the basic skill."
Huo Sen chuckled: "It seems that the old man is going to have a good meal."
Things were quickly prepared, and in the backyard of the nine-story enamel tower, Li Muye personally cooked a roasted whole lamb.
How to show your ability
Since he is a Japanese insect master, he naturally has to be different from the methods of ordinary cooks. Li Muye deliberately showed off. After everything was ready, he played an ancient trick of fetching water from the air. He hid a little dry ice on his body in a cake-shaped metal, and while washing his hands, he condensed part of the water into ice and hid it in his sleeve. When using it, it is catalyzed by drugs, causing the phenomenon of drawing water out of thin air, and finally taking the opportunity to combine the powder of purple dragon wood blood into the water and brush it on the sheep.
Other chefs would take several hours to roast a whole lamb from slaughtering to preparing it and putting it on the grill. However, Li Muye only took twenty minutes to roast a lamb until it was charred on the outside, tender on the inside, and golden in color. The fragrance spreads for ten miles.
The smell attracted more people to watch, Huo Sen did not stop him, and soon the yard was full of people.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Huo Sen, Qi Tian and others saw it clearly, and they were all amazed. Li Muye took a knife to cut off the mutton, but saw the light of the knife flying like snow, and a fat sheep was decomposed into pieces of delicious mutton between the pieces. It was shared with everyone to taste, and it was all sold out in less than a moment.
Huo Sen also ate a few slices and was astonished. He felt that the roast mutton of the past decades was all in vain. The taste, heat, and the huge spiritual joy it brought were simply divine. The idea was still not finished, and he praised it profusely: "Wonderful! It's really a good trick!" But he couldn't help but think to himself: If this taste can be promoted to my golden tent, who will be my opponent in the European high-end catering world
Everyone was still unsatisfied, and the girls in thin clothes acted coquettishly to Huo Sen, asking the distinguished guest to cook another one to satisfy everyone's appetite. Huo Sen himself rarely moved his index finger. But after all, Li Muye was not from the city that never sleeps at this moment. Out of courtesy, he just looked at Li Muye with a questioning look.
"Then please prepare two more sheep!" Li Muye looked at his words and knew that he could stay.
Huo Sen looked relieved and immediately ordered someone to make arrangements. Then he rolled his eyes and said: "This smell only comes from the sky. How can it be tasted in the human world? If Brother Li doesn't dislike it, I will be willing to open this three-acre land for you." Wide open..." (End of Chapter)