Top-quality ingredients are often rare, but there is one ingredient that is commonplace.
Every year, more than half a million pigs are slaughtered in Huxia Town for the enjoyment of the strong men traveling from north to south.
In addition to pork belly, large and small pork chops, and various pig offal, pig trotters are the most popular part of the pig here.
Whether it's pan-fried with thick oil and red sauce, or simmered in clear soup, this little thing full of gum is always satisfying.
In front of Wei Ran, there were eight large plates, each containing delicacies made from different parts of the pig.
Of course, pig's trotters are the protagonist here.
This pig's trotter restaurant was introduced to Wei Ran by Li Chao.
Usually if you want to have a meal, you have to wait patiently in line before you can enjoy it.
Today, when Wei Ran and the other two came here, it was just after dinner time. After eating and drinking, a large number of guests left one after another, wiping oil on their mouths.
"After simmering for several hours on a low fire, the skin is covered with a layer of oily red, and the meat part of the pig's trotters melts into a soft gel. Poke it with a chopstick, and the bones and meat are separated. With a slurp of your mouth, the soft and delicious pork is easy to eat. When it enters the mouth, the glutinous softness of the mixed mellow braised sauce explodes in the mouth instantly, and the melt-in-the-mouth deliciousness constantly stimulates the taste buds. This rosy and fragrant stunner is really the best comfort during a boring journey."
Wei Ran said with a smile.
Then, Wei Ran stopped laughing.
Because the three pig's trotters he ordered should have been empty, but at this moment, the plates containing the pig's trotters in front of Wen Wan and herself were empty.
And the pig's trotters had already appeared in the little kite's hand.
At this moment, the little kite was like a hungry tiger, constantly eating the meat that was about to pile up on the plate.
Her small mouth was already filled to the brim with meat, and her cheeks were bulging out greatly.
Not only that, she still kept stuffing things into her mouth, faster and faster, eating more and more.
It was obvious that she made a sudden move while Wei Ran was explaining passionately.
Wen Wan looked at the little kite with a dry smile, and thoughtfully poured tea for her, and said: "Slow down, eat slowly, no one will compete with you."
As the little kite ate, tears came out of its eyes.
She was crying, with meat and tears in her mouth, and she said vaguely: "Woo... Wuwu... I haven't eaten for... a month... I'm starving to death. !”
“Delicious, so delicious!”
Wei Ran sighed, picked up the pot of wine he ordered, poured it into his own bowl, and drank it silently.
He took out the jade piece that Li Chao gave him, looked through the information inside, and began to sort out the clues and information he already knew in his mind.
In the past.
It is said that a long time ago, the Hutou Peak area used to be a large expanse of lush green primeval forest, where every tree was more than 20 or even 30 meters high.
In ancient times, this place was not called Hutou Peak, nor was there a mountain in the distance that resembled a roaring tiger head. At that time, this forest was called the Sacred Forest by the people living here.
The reason why it is called the sacred forest is that in the center of the forest, there is a huge tree that towers into the clouds. The crown and leaves of the giant tree are all hidden in the sky. Among the sea of clouds, people can only see the tree. The tree trunk connecting heaven and earth.
Such wonders and wonders will inevitably attract countless immortal cultivators to come to visit the immortal path and explore for rare treasures.
However, there is a civilization living under the sacred tree. The foreign immortal cultivators call it the Humu Clan. The Humu Clan has protected the sacred tree for generations as their own responsibility. They regard the sacred tree as the sacred tree left by the gods who opened up the world in ancient times to support the heaven and earth.
The Humu clan themselves believe that they are descendants of gods, and it was the gods who gave them the mission of guarding the sacred tree and gave them the meaning of survival.
The Hidden Guard Tree clan will never let anyone get their hands on this sacred tree, nor will they allow others to study and pry into its secrets.
The greedy immortal cultivators will never let go of any opportunity to become immortals. They began to gather together and find ways to deal with the Humu clan.
So a catastrophic war broke out at the roots of the sacred tree.
This battle lasted for decades. There were countless immortal cultivators who were swallowed by desire, but the number of members of the Gomu clan was extremely limited.
With such a disparity in numbers, the Gomu clan was ultimately defeated.
The immortal cultivators gnawed at the sacred tree like maggots.
As the trunk of the sacred tree was hollowed out bit by bit, the immortal cultivators did not get the rare treasures they dreamed of, but only piles of sawdust.
They are unwilling to work hard but get nothing.
So these immortal cultivators decided to knock down the sacred tree. They firmly believed that the immortal way was above the tree crown, hidden among the branches above the sky.
They firmly believe that there is a fairy fruit hanging on the branch of the invisible branch that can make you become an immortal and achieve enlightenment if you eat it.
So they cut the tree trunk in half.
Expect, expect, expect...
Countless pairs of eyes dyed blood red with desire stared at the tree trunk.
Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that what greeted them next was not a fairy fruit, nor a treasure of heaven and earth, let alone the attainment of immortality.
But...death!
water.
rainwater.
Dark green rain began to fall from the sky little by little, falling on the face of the hungry and thirsty immortal cultivator.
It started with light rain, turned into moderate rain, and ended up with heavy rain.
It turned out that the upper trunk of the sacred tree was disconnected from the roots, and all the upper trunk turned into dark green water.
Immortal cultivators believe that this is the fairy dew from heaven, the fairy water from the sacred tree, and you can become an immortal if you drink it!
So countless immortal cultivators opened their mouths to welcome the arrival of "immortal dew".
They also killed each other because they believed that the more "fairy dew" they drank, the stronger they would become.
So they came up with the idea that as long as others drink less, they will drink more.
How to make others drink less? That is fighting.
Just when this group of immortal cultivators were fighting to the death for "immortal dew".
No one noticed that the dark green water disappeared immediately after falling into the soil.
The dark green rain is getting heavier and heavier.
More and more rainwater fell into the soil.
The trees around the sacred tree are absorbing more and more rainwater.
As time passed slowly, these cultivators began to find that green buds were growing on their bodies, and the flesh on their skin began to turn into bark.
Crazy people still don’t realize the seriousness of the problem.
They also believe that this is a precursor to immortality.
He even kills people in order to "achieve enlightenment and ascend" earlier than others.
As the saying goes, when one tree falls, ten thousand trees grow.
The death of the sacred tree allowed the trees on this land to receive the strongest nourishment.
Then...
The Dryad was born.
If you want to cultivate vegetation and trees to achieve immortality, it will take a long, long time, and it will take reincarnation after reincarnation.
It transforms from a seed into a mature plant, then absorbs the essence of the sun and moon, turns into a demon, then starts practicing as a demon, and finally attains enlightenment and ascends.
The time required may be thousands or tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
But the melted sap from the dead tree accelerated the process.
In fact, one or two tree demons are not scary. The most terrifying thing is the large-scale appearance of swarms of tree demons.
It's like a beast tide.
In order to absorb more nutrients, these tree demons began to expand outwards.
So the tree demons began to wreak havoc on the world.
The appearance of a large number of tree demons destroyed the balance of nature, and human races, demon races, and monster beasts suffered heavy losses one after another.
And where did the first cultivators go? Some of them were transformed into dryads, and some became nutrients for the dryads.
The kind-hearted immortals in heaven cannot bear to suffer such suffering on earth.
So he descended from the sky and united all the forces in the world to fight against the tree demon.
In the end, the tree demon, together with the roots of the sacred tree and its rhizomes that had not completely melted, were all sealed.
It was sealed in the sacred forest, which is now Hutou Peak.
After the disaster, the immortal floated away, leaving only five keys to unlock the seal, which are: white jade leaves, white jade branches, white jade fruits, white jade roots, and white jade seeds.
The responsibility of the surviving Gomu clan changed from protecting the tree to protecting the seal of the tree.
They have also learned a lot, and they are afraid that in the future there will be bad people who will covet the power of the sacred tree, and they are afraid that they will be killed in one fell swoop.
So they gave the five keys to unlock the seal to the kind-hearted immortal cultivators and monsters who had helped them.
Come and protect the seal of the sacred tree together.
As long as one of the five keys is missing, the seal will never be lifted, and the sap transformed by the sacred tree will never harm the human world.
The above is just an ancient legend.
There are many versions of this similar story circulating among the people.
But most of them say that there is a treasure in the sacred forest, and if you get this treasure, you can become an immortal, and so on.
Wei Ran really didn't know about this. This story was mentioned in the jade tablet given by Li Chao.
Wei Ran is not a curious kid, and he doesn't know all these weird folklore stories.
