Before Lu Zhong reached Jiangwei Pavilion, he could already smell the aroma of wine and meat coming from inside.
As the most high-end restaurant within a hundred miles, Jiangweige has always been the best choice for Qingliuxu monks to invite friends and entertain guests. It has many famous dishes, and it can also steadily provide wine and food made from spiritual food.
Spiritual food, as the name suggests, is food with spiritual energy.
For example, spiritual rice, spiritual chicken, spiritual duck, spiritual fish, spiritual pig, etc...
The way for monks to increase their cultivation is not only to meditate and practice hard to absorb spiritual energy, but also to take some spiritual objects to increase spiritual power. Compared with the accumulation of erysipelas caused by taking elixirs and being drunk and unconscious all day long by drinking spiritual wine, enjoying spiritual food can not only improve one's cultivation, but it can also be regarded as a change from the boring cultivation life.
The spiritual food carefully cooked by the spiritual chef has almost no side effects.
At the same time, the effects of the ingredients themselves will be blended to the extreme, and eating them will be of great benefit to the monks.
Many monks who are stuck in the bottleneck period, when they cannot rely on their own strength to break through, some will grit their teeth and take out a sum of spiritual stones to eat a meal of spiritual rice, spiritual vegetables and spirit wine that is full of spiritual energy, hoping to break through the bottleneck.
However, Lu Zhong was stopped before he could reach Jiangwei Pavilion.
Three figures came out from the side. The leader was a tall man in soap clothes wearing a bundt. His muscles were all tangled and he looked like an iron tower. His cultivation had reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.
The tall man in soap clothes was invited by Jiangwei Pavilion to worship him. His name was Wei Tie, and his duty was to maintain the stability of the place. When he saw Lu Zhong walking with a big tattered cloth bag, he naturally had the obligation to come out and ask.
After looking Lu Zhong up and down, Wei Tiecai said in a loud voice, feeling that this person would not pose any threat.
"Stop, what are you doing here?"
Hearing this, Lu Zhong quickly smiled and said, "I just caught a big fish and I want to sell it to your restaurant!"
As he spoke, he also opened a corner of the rag, revealing the strange fish head inside.
When Wei Tie saw the strange fish head, he couldn't help but feel a little curious. However, when he noticed that there was no aura on the fish, he suddenly lost any interest.
To him who is obsessed with spiritual practice, everything without aura is just like dust.
"Come on, come on, why don't you have the nerve to bring it over if you're not a spiritual fish?"
Hearing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help feeling disappointed, but he just came here to try his luck.
At present, even Jiangwei Pavilion cannot be entered, so selling fish is naturally out of the question.
At this moment, a familiar voice sounded from behind him.
"Fellow Taoist, wait!"
Lu Zhong turned around and found that it was the manager Li he saw yesterday.
The position of steward can be of great or small status.
He didn't know what Manager Li's energy was, but since the other party called him to stop him, why not wait for a while?
A sound of footsteps came closer. Manager Li politely raised his hand towards Lu Zhongyi and said, "Fellow Taoist, can you let me take a look at this fish of yours?"
Seeing Lu Zhong nod, he unceremoniously lifted up the layer of rags.
"Well, it's a rare snake fish." Manager Li murmured to himself, his expression could not be said to be satisfied, "Although it is just an ordinary fish, it can grow to five feet in length, which is a bit strange, considering the meat quality. It will also become tighter..."
Steward Li, whose name is Li Yuan, is a steward of Jiangweige.
Recently, he finally managed to get acquainted with a noble man. The noble man was not tired of fine food and fine food, and the fresh food from the river was the best.
Yesterday's peach blossom mandarin fish, the noble man was full of praise after tasting it.
Everything must be struck while the iron is hot. Li Yuanben was still worried about how to continue to please, but he didn't expect that another strange fish would come to his door.
This snake fish is only found in the Li River. Although it is not a spiritual fish, it is no less rare than the peach blossom mandarin fish.
Especially such a huge individual is even more rare.
Sometimes, the taste of food is not the most important, and it is good to taste something fresh.
Thinking of this, Li Yuan decided to accept the snake fish, so he said to Lu Zhong: "I have accepted the Yujiang Wei Pavilion. As for the fish money... I will give you fifty talisman money. Do you like it?"
Fifty talisman money?
Lu Zhong was stunned for a moment, then nodded excitedly.
He didn't expect that a mere mortal fish could be sold for such a high price!
Fifty talismans are a lot of money. Normally, you have to sell at least 25 cleaning talismans to earn it.
But now, you can get it by selling a fish.
That being the case, how could there be any reason not to agree?
Soon, both money and goods were gone.
Holding the fifty talisman money, Lu Zhong felt as if he had drunk honey water, feeling sweet in his heart.
Not far out of Jiangwei Pavilion, he heard a cry from a distance.
"Sell spiritual rice, sell spiritual rice!"
A cart was slowly pushed from the end of the street. There was a large wooden barrel placed on the cart. Warm white gas was still coming out at this moment, and a unique fragrance of Lingmi also came from inside.
The food seller was an old man with white temples. He was wearing linen clothes, which were washed white but very clean.
The old man's cultivation level is the same as Lu Zhong's, and he is also at the first level of Qi refining.
If nothing unexpected happens, I think the old man has five spiritual roots.
When he saw Lu Zhong, the old man stopped the car and said with a smile: "Fellow Taoist, would you like to try my spiritual rice? It's not expensive, it only costs one talisman for a bowl."
"A talisman of money?" Lu Zhong felt a little incredible.
The price of spiritual rice is not cheap. Even the worst Qinghe spiritual rice costs at least ten talisman per kilogram.
Calculated, it is impossible for a bowl of spiritual rice to be sold for only one talisman.
As if he saw the doubts on Lu Zhong's face, the old man smiled and explained: "I mixed half of the ordinary rice into this Qingheling rice, so that the price can be reduced to one yuan. In addition, I added it before With the skills I learned as a cook at Jiangwei Pavilion, this meal can barely be regarded as a spiritual dish."
After hearing his explanation, Lu Zhong couldn't help but become interested.
He took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket and handed it to the old man. He chuckled and said, "Give me a bowl!"
"Okay!" The old man accepted the money and smiled happily, and immediately opened the lid of the barrel, revealing three barrels, one large, two small, and two.
He first took out a clean wooden bowl from the white cloth bag, then used a wooden spoon to dig out a spoonful of light green rice from the larger wooden barrel, and then added the side dishes from the two small wooden barrels, fried The fragrant pickled pork with pickled vegetables and the pickled radish that are extremely crispy at first glance.
After taking the bowl of rice, Lu Zhongguang salivated at the smell.
After taking a bite of rice, his eyes widened.
"It's delicious! It's chewy and chewy, yet mellow and slightly sweet..."
Lu Zhong had heard someone say before that the Qinghe Lingmi tasted almost like grass seeds, and was so rough and harsh that it was difficult to swallow.
If it didn't contain spiritual energy, probably no one would eat this kind of thing.
Unexpectedly, after the old man used his learned skills to make the green rice into spiritual food, the taste of the spiritual rice would change so much.
"It's not unreasonable to turn decay into magic, and the spiritual chef can be ranked among the hundreds of cultivation arts."
Lu Zhong felt that just eating this rice would make him feel full.
When this spiritual rice is paired with two excellent side dishes, the taste is not to mention, it is worthy of the craftsmanship learned by Jiangweige.
Lu Zhong finished the bowl of rice directly, showing an unfinished expression.
I thought about buying another bowl, but I held back.
It's not easy to make money now. If he can't collect the rent at the end of the month, he will be kicked out of Qingliuxu and become a homeless cultivator. Then his situation will be even more miserable than now.
Lu Zhong smiled sheepishly and returned the bowl and chopsticks.
He continued to walk towards his simple little nest, but after taking only a few steps, he slapped his head in frustration.
"My brain, I forgot to take that fish!"
I quickly turned back to the small sampan at the pier. Fortunately, no one noticed the fish in the fish hold.
Carry it back and prepare to cook a pot of fresh fish soup.
