The three of them each used their escape skills and ran to Chaisang, Jiangnan. Song Xin and Zhang Xiuyang were running underground using the Earth Escape Technique. Because the Wooden Feather Technique was quite conspicuous on the ground, Zhang Moyang posted an Earth Escape Talisman and traveled with the two of them. When they arrived at the Yangtze River, the three of them switched to water escape skills to cross the river. Cross the river and switch to Earth Escape. After running at high speed for a whole day, the three of them felt very tired by the next day, so they stopped in a small town.
"This place should be west of Chaisang. We are all tired. I see that the scenery of the town ahead is quite beautiful. How about we take a rest here?" Zhang Moyang said.
"Okay, I'm a little tired too." Song Xin said. He had never used escape skills to run for so long, and he needed to stop and rest to recover some spiritual energy.
"This is the Xunyang River. Now that the weather is getting warmer, the river fish should be good. How about we find a small shop to try it?"
"Excellent, senior brother, you told me last time that there is a delicious cheese and miso soup near Chaisang. Is it here?" Zhang Xiuyang's mouth was already watering when he said this.
Since Song Xin came to this world, he has never really tasted any food that he found delicious. After all, the eating habits two thousand years later are very different from this time.
When he was in the Wei family, he mostly ate soup made from corn and wheat, leeks, green onions, gourds, shepherd's purse, etc. The meat was roasted casually, without even seasoning.
He was very curious and wanted to try the Jiangnan delicacies at this time.
Several people entered the town, and the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River was indeed different from that in the north. The Sun family has a good way of governing here, and unlike Jingzhou, Jiangnan has not been affected by the war, so the people in Jiangnan seem to have a better mental outlook than the people in the north.
At the beginning of spring, everything revives and new shoots begin to sprout on the branches.
There was not a large population in the town, but there were occasional patrols by soldiers. When they saw a few people dressed as alchemists and ordinary people, they did not go forward to question them. They just looked at them and left. A few people found a small shop on the edge of the town.
"Staff, are there any empty tables?"
"Ah, hello. It's still early. If there is an empty table, please come in." A person who looked like a storekeeper said.
"What do you want us to use?" The shopkeeper spoke with a southern accent. Song Xin couldn't understand it, but Zhang Moyang and the other two had no problem. Zhang Moyang could even talk to him with a southern accent. It seemed that Zhang Moyang often walked around outside. .
"Is there any sea bass now? Hmm...osmanthus cheese, and miso soup." Zhang Moyang asked.
"Customers laugh at it. The shop is shabby. We have sea bass now, but they are smaller dried fish, but the taste is still delicious."
"Is there anyone alive?" Zhang Moyang asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Guests don't know that the bass nowadays are all returning to produce seeds. The local people are very particular about not killing fish that produce seeds. If you come in June, the bass will be plump. However, if you use fire to dry the fish, Grilled, it tastes great too.
Osmanthus cheese is also available, because now there are only sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that bloom all year round, and the fragrance is relatively light. If guests come in August and September, there will be rich-scented osmanthus cheese to accompany the meal. There is also miso soup, but it is made of seasonal fruits and vegetables, with sauce, fennel, honey and salt. "
"Well, let's serve some of each to each person. You can grill a few more small fish." Zhang Moyang said.
While waiting for the food, Song Xin asked: "Brothers, it seems that the harvest from this trip to Shuifu is not small."
"Brother Song, you're welcome. I saw that you looked good when you came out. It seems that you have made a breakthrough, right? I saw that your skills were extraordinary when dealing with strange beasts."
"Well, to be honest with Brother Zhang, we have indeed made a breakthrough this time, but we still need to work hard. If it hadn't been for the two of you, I would have died in that valley."
Zhang Xiuyang asked: "Song Xin, your spiritual core should be at the fourth level now, right?" He also understood the newly obtained talismans this time, and was very excited, so he asked Song Xin.
Next to him, Zhang Moyang said: "Junior brother, have you forgotten the rules about not asking about the strength of a monk's spiritual core?"
"Is there such a rule? Song Xin really doesn't know, but Brother Zhang and I are both friends, so there is no need to care about this taboo. My spiritual core currently has four cantilevers, so it should be considered a fourth level, right?"
Zhang Xiuyang stared at Song Xin with wide eyes and said: "Oh my God, Song Xin, how do you practice? You have only practiced for two years, right? I have practiced for so many years and I have just reached the third level."
"Actually, I can't tell. I just practice qi when I have time, so my spiritual core will strengthen faster. It's just that I don't have many skills. In a fight, I will definitely not be as good as the other two."
Zhang Moyang was also secretly surprised. He could see that Song Xin had made a breakthrough, but he didn't expect it to be so fast. I cultivated to the third level at that time, but it took a long time. Before arriving at Shuifu this time, I had just broken through the warlock stage, reached the seventh level, and entered the realm of "Qingning Qi Practitioner".
But then he thought about it, Song Xin probably had the guidance of an expert and had mastered the three realms of the Mingxin Alchemist very solidly. It can be seen from his fight that there is no lack of spiritual power at all.
"Brother Song is really a genius, Mo Yang admires him. Cultivation depends on talent. If the spiritual core is stronger, martial arts and Taoism will be practiced faster, so brother Song doesn't have to worry about this."
Zhang Moyang continued: "Brother Song, if you go to Hanzhong in the future, you must come and sit in my sect. And the two of us can take you to the city of practitioners in Hanzhong. There are gatherings of practitioners there, and there are all kinds of treasures and spiritual objects. "
"Is there a city for immortal cultivators in this world? I have never heard of it." Song Xin said in great surprise.
"Well, Brother Song, it's normal that you haven't heard of it. Nearly a thousand years ago, for the convenience of communication, and because some monks like to avoid the mortal world, some powerful monks worked together to open up the world of monks. Not only can you There are people living there, and there is a market where you can exchange information, buy and sell weapons, spiritual weapons, techniques, Taoism, elixir recipes, forging recipes, etc.”
"Then what will happen if a mortal breaks in accidentally?" Song Xin asked curiously.
"Ordinary mortals can't get in there. There is an interface lock there. Unless there are practitioners who specially help them draw out the true energy and engrave a jade identity card, they can enter." Zhang Xiuyang replied.
"Interface lock?"
"Each cultivator injects his true energy into a piece of jade and places it at the entrance of the interface. The interface will record the characteristics of this monk's true energy. Then next time he comes, he can travel between the outside world and the Taoism at will. interface."
"So you have to scan the QR code when entering the city?" Song Xin couldn't help but muttered in a low voice. But both Zhang Moyang and Zhang Moyang heard clearly.
"Brother Song, what does scanning the QR code mean?"
"Oh, it's nothing, it's just the road guide that I... our hometown needs to issue when entering the city."
"Oh, that's it. Brother Song's words are really interesting."
A few people were chatting, and the meals were served. The store also added a bowl of wild rice for everyone. This is a kind of black rice. Emperors of all ages have eaten it as one of the six grains, and it can also be used as a natural dye. use. Several people thanked each other without being polite to each other, picked up chopsticks and started eating.
Looking at the food in front of me and smelling the aroma, I can see that the food in the south is indeed very different from that in the north. It also pays more attention to deliciousness and exquisiteness.
Although the sea bass is a dried fish, it is small in size. But the store also specially soaked it in sweet rice wine, and then grilled it until the outside was crispy and the inside was tender and soft, with a faint aroma of wine. Served with finely chopped green onions and sauce, it tastes delicious.
The sweet-scented osmanthus cheese was a delicacy he had never tasted in his life. During the Emperor Wu period, Sima Xiangru wrote in "Ode to Shanglin" that "it goes through Guilin and across the wilderness." At that time, Emperor Wu's Shanglin Garden Osmanthus flowers were grown there, and every season, palace officials would pick them and make cakes. He had never eaten this delicacy before traveling through time.
Crispy cheese is a food of the northern people. After it was introduced to the south of the Yangtze River, the locals added osmanthus to enhance the aroma when making the crispy cheese, and then roasted it over a slow fire to make it crispy and delicious.
The miso soup is also extremely delicious. The shop uses bamboo shoots, radish, alfalfa, wild cabbage, and sunflower in the soup, plus sauce, salt, honey and fennel. Song Xin had never tasted soup with such rich flavor. When he was in his hometown, all he could eat was the salty taste of corn soup, which had a single taste and was sometimes slightly bitter.
"Brother Song, how does this dish taste?" Zhang Moyang asked with a smile. When he saw the change in Song Xin's expression when eating the food, he knew that it was Song Xin's first time to eat southern cuisine.
"If he hadn't followed Brother Zhang, how would Song Xin know that there was such delicious food in the world." Song Xin said seriously.
"Well, if it's not enough, you can ask the store for more." Zhang Moyang looked at Song Xin and said with a smile.
"Thank you, Brother Zhang. It's really delicious." Song Xin said.
"Haha, Brother Song seems to have never been to the south. There are many delicious foods here. I will have the opportunity to taste different foods in the future." Zhang Xiuyang said with a smile. He and Senior Brother Mo Yang have been to the south several times and have eaten some local food.
"Well, I think these items are already very good. I will eat them again if I have the opportunity. Otherwise, the taste will be overwhelming and I won't be able to eat the couscous rice from my hometown when I go back." Song Xin said.
"Haha, Brother Song is really a person who never forgets his roots." Zhang Moyang said with a smile.
"Guests, the food in this small shop is rough, but does it taste good?" The shop owner came over to greet us and was very respectful.
"Seller, can your shop make seabass dumplings?" Zhang Moyang asked.
"If you are a return guest, this seabass must be from Songjiang. At this season, the seabass is either too small or waiting to produce seeds. Moreover, this dish is very delicately made. I am afraid that the chefs in the small shop are not skilled enough to make it. This dish The food is only available in big cities like Chaisang.”
"Well, I've heard that this dish from Jiangnan is very beautiful. It's a pity that I can't taste it. I'll give it a chance in the future. Thank you to the store." Zhang Moyang said.
"Well, please feel free to use me. If you need help, you can call me anytime." After saying that, he bowed and went to do other things.
"Brother, what kind of dish is this seabass meat?" Song Xin asked curiously.
"It's quite troublesome to make this dish. I heard from a Taoist friend who was right about how to make it. You need to use a half-foot-long seabass, remove the scales and internal organs. Carefully shave off the fish bones to get two pieces of meat. One piece of fish meat, It should be frozen in ice for an hour, then cut into thin slices as thin as cicada feathers, chopped with purple sprout ginger, rolled in fish fillets, and served with the sauce. The other half should be cut into small pieces and add purple sprout ginger. It is cooked into a white jade color. The fish head and fish bones are cooked into a soup with spring bamboo shoots and wild cabbage cut into shreds. This is called seabass breast."
"There are such exquisite dishes, I'm afraid it's very expensive, right?" Song Xin couldn't help but stop using his chopsticks. This is probably the ancestor of Japanese sushi in later generations, but it is much more refined than sushi.
Zhang Xiuyang said: "That's natural. It takes a lot of effort to make this dish, especially the thin slices of cicada feathers. As long as a piece of fish is cut off, the whole fish has to be discarded. Only rich people, princes and nobles can enjoy it. It is not common. The people can’t afford it.”
Song Xin and the others were talking when suddenly a voice came, "Shop, are there any empty tables inside? My lady has returned from hunting and has some game. Come and help her cook it."
