A ox cart came up from the wasteland.
The car is an ordinary wooden cart. The wheels that have traveled thousands of miles are slightly deformed. They walk on the slightly hard grassland, making squeaks and sways from time to time , leaving a mark that cannot be seen. Walking through the wet and mud , the ruts were a little deep, and there were a few extremely thin small fish jumping in the turbid water that seeped out.
The cow is an ordinary yellow cow. His legs and hooves are still strong after traveling thousands of miles . He walks on the slightly hard grassland, making a low sound from time to time, rising and falling, eating grass, leaving a trace of grass that cannot be seen. Walking through the wet and mud , the cow's hooves were a little deeper, and there were a few slightly white weeds lying speechlessly in the shallow flat depressions that were stepped on.
The ordinary wooden cart on the official road of the Central Plains and the ordinary yellow cows in the ridges of the Zhongyuan fields appear on the wasteland, which looks extremely unusual. If someone can see this scene, he will definitely find it very magical.
The person driving the ox cart was a scholar with straight eyebrows and wide eyes . The dust along the way made his old cotton robe look older , but his face looked more simple and friendly. The pair of torn straw sandals on the single shaft. I don't know why I have been walking on the road for more than a year but haven't fallen apart yet. The scoop on my waist sways slightly as the ox cart rises and falls.
A song suddenly came from the ox cart.
"I'm always not allowed to go home... It makes people feel sad and worried ... it's yo."
The driver smiled, stretched out his palm and patted the yellow cow on the back to signal it to stop, then turned around and said to the car behind him, "Teacher, do you want to go home?"
The curtain was lifted . A tall and gray-haired old man walked out. He rubbed his waist, stretched out his arms, looked at the boundless wasteland, and said annoyedly: "For more than a year, all these birds don't smoke." The place is wandering, there is nothing to eat, there is nothing to play, who doesn't want to go back to Chang'an?"
The old man is the master, so the scholar is naturally the senior brother of the academy.
The eldest brother smiled slightly, held Master's arm out of the cart, then took out a short bench from the ox cart and asked Master to sit down, comforted him and said, "It's also good to be able to see the scenery along the way."
The Master was extremely tall and sat on a short bench, with the hem of the cotton coat completely covering the bench, looking like he was squatting on the grassland, and his appearance looked a bit funny.
The Master said unhappily: "What are the scenery to see? The Rehai is really frozen. I can't even wash it if I want to take a hot spring!"
"Although it cannot be washed into a hot spring, at least there are peony fish to eat." The eldest brother comforted.
There is a sea in the cold area of the extreme north , and there are volcanoes at the bottom of the sea, which are not frozen all year round, so it is called Rehai. There are fishes in the depths of Rehai, called peony, which describes them as fat, tender and beautiful. If cut vertically with a knife , each piece of fish will also look like peony.
This statement is probably only known by the Master and the Apprentice.
Listening to the three words "Peony Fish", the Master gently stroked his jaw and nodded repeatedly to agree, saying, "Brother, I can't agree with you more. As long as there is a peony fish entering my stomach, no matter how long and arduous the journey is, it is worth it. ."
The elder brother brought out the kitchen knife chopping board from the ox cart, took out another bucket, held the ice cube and formed the frozen fat and tender peony fish. When the fish meat melted to seventy minutes, he started cutting it with a knife. Raw cut.
The Master looked at the peony fish that was still fresh on the chopping board and began to slid slightly, and stroked his beard and praised: "Food is of course the more fresh the food, the more rare it is to be delicious. If it weren't for this kind of fish, it was only produced in the extreme northern cold. How can the hot sea in the domain be so fleshy by hot and cold? How can it make people feel the beauty of eating thousands of miles of hardships?"
The eldest brother smiled, but did not answer the conversation, but focused on the stabbing. The peony fish is extremely fat, tender and smooth. Even if the kitchen knife is sharp, it is difficult to penetrate the skin without being messy. He cuts it very slowly and carefully. There seems to be no distance between the two swords falling. However, when the knife is lifted, the knife surface is already on the surface. A white fish fillet that is as thin as a cicada's wing is attached.
"If the river fish is cut raw, it cannot be too thin, because it will lose its taste. Peony fish is produced in the deep sea and the meat is extremely elastic, so the thinner the better. You have basically mastered some principles in the world over the years."
The Master shook his head and admired it. He took out the soy sauce, a green seasoning and ginger juice from his left hand, and poured it into the bowl with his right hand. He reached to the chopping board very naturally, and picked up the thin white fish with his two fingers. The slices were gently swung in the bowl like a koi waving her tail, and quickly put them into her lips.
While chewing, the Master closed his eyes and enjoyed it. His face looked as sweet as the peony fish meat in his mouth. After a while, he opened his eyes, looked at the slowly cut kitchen knife on the chopping board, and said anxiously, "Hurry up, hurry up." "
The eldest brother smiled, his hands did not get faster at all, and he still cut slowly and meticulously and calmly.
The Master couldn't wait, so he snatched the kitchen knife from him and sighed, "You kid are good at everything, but you are slow in everything you do. I'm really anxious."
The eldest brother explained respectfully: "Students are stupid, so they are always willing to think more about things first."
"In this regard, you have to learn from Xiaomo. Think when you should think about it, and don't think about it when you shouldn't."
"The second junior brother is amazing and amazing, and I can't compare with it."
"When he listens to you, wouldn't he be ashamed to death as he was when he was a child?"
The Master cut his sword like the wind, and in just a moment, the chopping board was filled with thin slices of fish like snowflakes, which really looked like a blooming white peony.
The remaining fish bones and internal organs were wrapped in a thin film, which looked as beautiful as a piece of amber.
The second senior brother took action at this time, so he entered the car and picked up two pairs of chopsticks. After the master was satisfied with the food, he picked up a few pieces of peony fish and tasted them carefully. He then sent the fish bones and internal organs like amber to the mouth of the yellow cow. forward.
It is natural for a yellow cow to eat grass, but... the yellow cow to eat fish, opened its mouth and swallowed it, chewing it, shaking its head from time to time, making it look extremely happy.
The Master was holding a small wine pot and sipped slowly . Yu Guangli suddenly saw this scene and couldn't help but angrily scolded: "The cow chews peonies, it's really a waste of things! How can fish eat like this!"
After saying this, the Master raised a precious peony fish from the ice bucket, rolled up the sleeves of the cotton coat, and the kitchen knife rose and fell again. In a moment, another pile of white peony- like fish fillets appeared on the chopping board.
The Master picked up a piece of peony fish with chopsticks, dipped it in some seasoning, and threw it into the mouth of the yellow cow.
It turns out that what the Master said about wasting is not that the yellow cows were ruined by eating peony fish, but that this way of eating cannot taste the taste of peony fish, which was ruined by ruining by.
The yellow cow chewed it for a few bites. At first, he was stunned, and then two lines of clear tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. Then he began to shake his head, keep flexing his front hooves, and keep mooing .
The eldest brother hesitated and asked, "Master, is it happy or hot ?"
The Master said, "Of course I am happy."
The eldest brother thought that the Master's words would always be correct, so he took the chopsticks and continued to feed the yellow cows and eat peony fish.
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Even the deserted people can no longer survive. This big yellow cow can pull a cart without fear of being cold and then come back safely. Its figure is still so strong. Of course, it is not an ordinary big yellow cow, so it Eating fish or not eating grass is not something that is difficult to understand.
The eldest brother cleaned the chopping board, knife, chopsticks, dishes , and then sat on the shaft and looked at Nanfang for a while, saying, "I don't know how the academy is now, and how much impact will the deserted people go south."
The Master sat cross-legged on the ox cart, reading a book in his hand, and replied casually, "You will know when you go back."
The senior brother smiled and looked at the teacher and said, "The students are very curious about who entered the second floor."
The Master looked at the pages and lowered his head and said, "If you want to know, just go and read it yourself."
The eldest brother shook his head and smiled, "It's too far away, and I can't go back for a while."
After saying this, he suddenly stood up and looked at the north of the grassland, with a very clean smile on his face.
A row of extremely tall black shadows appeared faintly there. Looking closely, it was the giant wolf in the snowfield that was forced to go south with the deserted people in the extreme northern cold area . Hundreds of giant wolf lined up like warriors, as huge as a mountain The figure gave people a great sense of pressure, but neither the Master nor him had any big reaction.
On the contrary, the reaction of the giant wolf pack in snowfield was strange. For them, the yellow ox produced in the Central Plains is as rare as peony fish. It is definitely delicious. But for some reason, the giant wolf pack of snowland, known for its cruelty and bloodthirsty, did not pounce on it, but instead made a shrill sound. Whispering, retreating back in horror, as if they felt some kind of horror that was far beyond their imagination .
These giant wolves in the snowfield were the giant wolves who fought fiercely with the Tang brothers and sisters at the pass that day . I saw that the thin male wolf, who was as beautiful as a snow-capped mountain, broke away from the wolf pack and walked slowly towards the ox cart. When he reached a place about hundreds of steps away from the ox cart, the ordinary one was The male wolf stopped and never dared to move forward again.
The thin ordinary male wolf looked at the ox cart and seemed very excited. His body trembled slightly and squatted back, lifting his front paws, looking like a human student holding a disciple's courtesy facing his teacher.
The senior brother looked at the male wolf and said in surprise: "Teacher, isn't this the wolf seven years ago? It actually got married."
The Master smiled slightly and said nothing.
The eldest brother glanced at the master and found that the master had no intention of objection. He left the ox cart and walked closer to the ordinary male wolf, raised his hand and pointed to the northwest of the grassland, and said, "Don't continue to go south, there are too many people there, go ahead." Walk there, and after another five hundred miles, there is a large coniferous forest."
The ordinary male wolf waved his front paws and saluted, leaned over and touched the ground with his head for a long time , then stood up, looked at the ox cart reluctantly, roared, and ran northwest with his wife and subordinates.
"Let's go and go back to Chang'an."
The Master rolled up the book, lifted up the curtain of the cart and walked into the ox cart.
The second senior brother turned his head and smiled and looked at the meadow in the distance, and sat on the single shaft and patted the cow's back.
Squeak, the ox cart goes south .
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Looking at the ox cart that gradually disappeared at the end of the grassland, Tang Xiaotang stood up in the sleeping Xiaoxuelang with a look of confusion on his face. After a long time, he murmured, "This... is the Master?"
Tang stood beside her, looked at the rut left on the grassland, and nodded.
Tang Xiaotang shook his head, feeling that the greedy old man just now was completely different from the Master he imagined .
After a moment of quietness, Tang said, "I wanted to see if there was any opportunity to make you take Master as your teacher, but since Master did not express it, it means that the opportunity is not there, and I will talk about it later if I have the opportunity."
Tang Xiaotang asked in surprise: "You mean the Master knows we are peeking here?"
Tang turned around and walked under the meadow and said, "Since it's Master, I naturally know everything."
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