He dragged Noya through the door and closed the door with great effort. She froze on the ground motionless. Li Bochen touched her pulse first, but he couldn't feel the pulse. But he had opened his eyes at this time, and he knew that Noya was not dead yet - at least not completely dead, even before he saw Noya's Yin spirit leave the body.
He dragged her to the wall again, away from the crack in the door, and chopped some dead wood from the wall with a knife. Fortunately, the wall was extremely thick, so I couldn't cut through it even if I cut it. It was just that the cold was harder than stone, and the shock made my hands hurt a little.
Li Boxen gathered some wood to light a fire and asked Xu Cheng, "How can I save Rakshasa?"
Xu Cheng thought for a while and said: "The Sword God didn't say anything, but he told her how to kill her. Just warm her up by the fire. Anyway, the Sword God sent such a heavy snowstorm, and the tree towers were frozen like this. It can be seen that Sumeru People can't absorb the spiritual power in Dangtu Mountain, so the bridge in the north will be destroyed, right? Then it doesn't matter whether there is this Rakshasa or not."
Li Boxen sat down by the fire and stretched out his hands to grill. He frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Not necessarily. The last time the snowstorm came was in Diubeiyuan, but look at Dangtu Mountain, there are towering trees all over the mountains and plains. It can take more than a few decades. It means that such a severe cold disaster cannot kill these plants and trees. When the cold disaster passes in a few months, these trees will slow down and the bridge will have to be erected."
Xu Chengdao: "...Then what do you want to do?"
Li Boxen said: "It would be best to kill the Xumi priests who built the bridge."
Xu Cheng jumped up: "You... you first said you would destroy the bridge, and then you said you would save people, and I agreed. Why are you killing the priest now!? Are you going to kill the demon god again tomorrow! ?”
Li Bochen said calmly: "Why are you so excited? I didn't say before that I wanted to kill the Xumi priests because I thought it was impossible. I used to think that Rakshasa and Xumi were similar to human beings. Since they formed an army, they would have strict military discipline. Then of course we can’t kill the priest in the enemy camp.”
"But now that I have been talking to this Rakshasa for so long, I have understood that the hundreds of thousands of monsters and tens of thousands of Rakshasa troops there may not be the same as the same number of people. With the magic of demon transformation you taught me plus you With my magical powers, this may not be impossible. But your Snow Sword God should have told you these customs and temperament of Rakshasa, but you didn’t tell me - I haven’t pursued this matter with you yet. Xu Cheng, although you are the spirit master, you are still my dark soldier. If you really don’t want to help me, just go tell your Fengxue Sword God—and become what you were before.”
Xu Chengdao: "Brother Li, don't be anxious. The Sword God has stuffed so many things into my head. You see, whatever you ask me, I have to think about it first. This is because I have to find it myself first." Once I found it, I definitely didn’t intend to hide it—when are we going to kill that priest?”
Li Bochen hummed and laughed, and said, "Let's wait until she comes back to life."
After saying this, I suddenly saw Noya's body moving slightly. She was just like a corpse just now, but after such a shot, her skin color quickly turned white, her chest began to rise and fall, and her lips suddenly turned red, as if life had returned to her body in an instant. Li Bochen was stunned for a moment because of her appearance. When he came back to his senses, Noya's breathing had become steady and she looked like she had fallen asleep.
This is really a bit frightening - it was clear that he was going to die just now. If a person is in this situation, it may take several months to recover.
Li Bochen marveled in his heart and warmed his hands. When he felt his ears slowly starting to feel warm and itchy, he stood up and cut a leg off the deer carcass with a knife. The leg was so frozen that Li Bochen didn't bother to peel it off, so he cut it off with a knife, cut it into large pieces, and placed it on the snow.
Then he took his pot and some prepared seasonings from that realm. He cut down the thick vines on the corpse of the cunning beast, made a hanger to hang the pot over the fire, poured half of the pot of water into it, and threw the meat pieces into it. After two quarters of an hour, the water boiled and the meat was cooked, making the meat fragrant.
But Xu Cheng stood beside him and watched, and said: "This meat will not be delicious. The deer was not bled when it died. And the deer meat is not suitable for stewing. It should be roasted with oil."
Li Boxen said: "It's none of your business. You can't eat it."
He reached out and picked out the venison and placed it on the snow. He took off the pot and sat down in the snow. Xu Chengdao: "What are you going to do?"
Li Bochen didn't know if he was really interested in cooking, or if he was taking the opportunity to chat to ease the atmosphere, but he only said: "You don't understand after I told you."
When he said this, he found that Noya's eyelids trembled. He turned around and pretended to turn over the meat on the snow. Then he looked out of the corner of his eye and saw Noya's eyelids quickly lifted to glance at the deer meat on the snow.
Oh, she's awake. But why are you pretending to sleep again? She wasn't even afraid of being naked, and she wasn't embarrassed because she passed out, right?
Li Bochen ignored her and just watched the hot water in the pot cool down quickly, and a layer of oil formed on the soup surface. He picked out the oil chunks without blood foam in the middle and poured out the rest of the water. Then put the empty pot on the fire and throw in the oil. When the bottom of the pot was heated by the fire and the oil began to smoke slightly, he opened the cloth bag on his waist, threw in the dried ginger, pepper seeds, star anise, cinnamon, and fragrant leaves, and slowly took out a piece of wooden stick that he had cut off earlier. Stir fry. After a while, all the aroma came out.
He picked up the pieces of meat from the snow again, and used a knife to cut into the small pieces of meat that had been boiled with blood on the outside. After two or three kilograms were reduced, he slowly stir-fried evenly with a wooden stick. This time, the strong smell of spices and meat burst out. Xu Cheng looked at it for a while and said angrily: "It's better this way."
Li Bochen glanced at Noya and saw that her throat was shaking and her eyes were closed tightly, so he slowly added some snow and fennel. When the snow melts and the meat is covered, add dried green onion segments, dried garlic cloves and some tangerine peel. After a while, the added snow water also boiled, so Li Bochen added more snow to suppress the boiling water. Then some firewood was removed from the bottom, so that the pot of broth would be steaming but not boiling.
Xu Cheng frowned: "What are you doing?"
Li Boxen smiled and said: "If you cook it slowly instead of boiling the water, the meat will be more tender. You used to make Zhangcheng's dinner, haven't you heard of low-temperature cooking?"
Xu Cheng thought for a while and said, "Isn't it just a slow simmer?"
Li Boxen said: "It's different. The temperature is even lower."
Xu Cheng said: "Then you don't want those?"
He was referring to the remaining meat. Li Bochen trimmed the meat from the deer leg where the blood had been boiled out, leaving the bones still attached. He glanced at Noya quickly and saw that she no longer swallowed her saliva, but instead took a slow and deep breath, so he said, "Bake these and give them to her."
When he usually talks to Xu Cheng, he mostly communicates deliberately with spiritual thoughts - this method is actually a little more strenuous than talking directly, because he has to let the other party understand what he is thinking, and he can't suddenly express his feelings for others. The ideas you know are also expressed. However, it is not difficult for practitioners to concentrate on refining their Qi for a long time. It is only occasionally when they get emotional that they can't help but "blurt out" words.
But when he said the two sentences just now, he said them in a low voice, sounding like he was talking to himself. Then he used a knife to cut two more wooden sticks and pierced the meat, put them on the fire to roast, and while slowly turning them over, he said: "I don't know what it is like over there, that can force you to be like this. Human beings." You were originally good by nature...if the environment you acquired were not too harsh, you would be like those Rakshasa in the Six Kingdoms, no different from us."
When he said this, Xu Cheng smiled and said, "Oh, Brother Li, are you trying to use a scheming trick?"
Li Bochen ignored him and said: "Hey, why didn't you say it when you couldn't hold it anymore? I saved you and you helped me. With you Rakshasa, it's just to repay the favor. But if we are here, we have shared the joys and sorrows, at least Until it's done, we can still be called friends."
Xu Cheng said: "She may not understand. She knows Li Guohua, so she should know the word friend. But I guess she can't understand what it means."
Li Bochen still ignored him and lowered his voice further: "That's fine. You probably don't know what friends mean either."
Xu Cheng stopped talking. Li Bochen didn't say anything, and slowly grilled the meat until it was dripping with oil. The fire on the woodpile was very small, so he turned it slowly, sprinkling some salt and seasonings from time to time. After an hour of this, the outside of the meat was still brown, and the aroma became stronger. Noah had been lying on the ground for so long, and it seemed that he couldn't stand the fragrance more and more. Finally he opened his eyes and said, "What are you doing?"
As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the meat in his hand, unable to move away.
Li Boxen smiled and said: "Oh, you're awake - I'm cooking meat for you. This is our Li country's diet. I don't know if you are used to it. If you are not used to it..."
Nuoya slowly sat up, stared at the meat and said, "Do you think we only eat raw food? There used to be people who specially cooked food for Luo Xuntian. But we don't make the meat dry and woody like you. This It’s best to grow meat raw, add some seasoning at most, your meat must be as dry as wood after roasting it for an hour.”
Li Boxen said: "How do you know I baked it for an hour?"
Noya was stunned: "I knew it naturally when I saw the appearance of the meat."
Li Bochen nodded and smiled: "Then do you still want to eat?"
Noah said: "Don't you want me to do something for you? Then why don't I eat? I should eat."
Li Boxen handed over the wooden stick: "That's fine. You fainted before, probably because you were exhausted. But this can be considered a magical power of yours - we people can't be like you, we are still alive and kicking before fainting. "
When he mentioned the matter of fainting, Noya's eyes suddenly turned cold, and her back bowed slightly, as if it were a ferocious beast before it pounced on him. After praising her that it was a magical power, she slowly relaxed and looked at Li Boxen while reaching out to take the meat.
She didn't open her mouth to bite, but blew on it first and tore off a piece with her hands.
It was a stag, and what Li Bochen cut off was the front half of the leg. The sticks used to pierce the barbecue are actually two fingers thick, and the meat on the sticks weighs four to five kilograms. The piece she tore off was also about the size of half a fist, and white mist was seen rising from the meat. The meat strands were very elastic, and there were some tendons connected in between, which were also elastic but not tough and full of elasticity. The fat trembles slightly with the shredded meat.
Noah put the meat into his mouth and chewed it. The first two bites could almost hear the crisp sound of biting on the burnt skin, and then he raised his eyebrows and realized that there was no need to tear it. When her mouth was full of oil, Li Bochen took some more salt and sprinkled it into the soup pot, then slowly used Yao Hou to peel a large spoon and a large bowl.
Xu Cheng looked at Noya's look and couldn't help but frown and said: "She's a barbarian after all. Barbecue, what's delicious? Do you think you can bribe her with this food?"
Li Boxen said: "Of course not. But I guess Rakshasa usually doesn't have anything good to eat. Even if the royal family drinks wine exquisitely, it won't benefit people like them. My craftsmanship is not bad - she thinks the food I make is good. After eating, she naturally has a good impression of me. This good impression will not make her change her stance, but at some point, it may not be able to make a difference. Besides, these things must be tried slowly - I think Let’s see if these Rakshasa can have some kindness in their hearts because others are kind to them. If they can, it will be much easier to do things in the future. If not, I won’t have to think too much when I take action in the future.”
Xu Cheng was stunned for a moment: "I didn't know you had so much on your mind."
Li Bochen trimmed the spoon and scooped some soup from the pot to taste. The soup has been boiled to a milky white color. Although it still has a slight fishy smell, it is better than the hot character. After taking such a bite, I felt a warm current fall into my stomach, and my whole spirit was lifted. He couldn't help but scoop out another piece of meat to eat. The venison was already tender, and after he cooked it, it became even more tender. When chewed in the mouth, the shreds of meat were thin, elastic, and full of water, making it even juicier than raw food.
After he swallowed the meat and drank several large mouthfuls of soup, his body quickly became warm and his hands and feet became numb. The wind was still howling outside, but he was sweating profusely by the fire. The depression of the past few days was swept away. When the sweat flowed from his forehead into the crook of his neck, Li Boxen no longer felt cold at all. . He sat up straight, holding a spoon in one hand and taking off his breastplate with the other. A burst of white mist suddenly rose.
At this time, he looked up and saw Nuo Ya and Xu Cheng looking at him. He asked: "Do you want to eat too?"
Noah said: "I am thirsty."
Li Bochen served her a large bowl of soup and meat. Noya answered it and immediately buried her face in it. Seeing her like this, Xu Cheng said: "It seems that your craftsmanship is not bad, but I don't know what it tastes like."
Li Boxen said: "You are a Yin spirit, do you still want to know these things?"
Xu Chengdao: "Why don't you want to? Otherwise, there are so many people in the living world, why do we need to prepare sacrificial food?"
Li Bochen was stunned and said: "This is strange. If a person is full of food when he is alive, he will have no appetite. You have become a Yin spirit and you are not hungry, so how can you want to eat? Is it just because of your previous habits? ?”
Xu Cheng immediately said: "Why aren't you hungry? Of course you are! I became a Yin spirit, so I want spiritual power. You skipped me when you were refining Yin soldiers in that realm, and I helped you again After doing all these things, my spiritual power will naturally be depleted, but if no one worships me, I will naturally be hungry!"
Li Boxen said: "But now that you have sanity, don't you know how to practice?"
Xu Chengli immediately said: "Do you allow me to practice by myself?"
Li Bochen was about to say "of course" but quickly shut up. He has now slowly realized that due to his special status, when it comes to matters of cause and effect, it is best not to promise anything easily, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Looking at Xu Cheng's eager attitude, if he agreed, there would be some hidden dangers if things went wrong.
He smiled and said, "Not now. Then, shall I give you some sacrificial food?"
Xu Cheng sighed: "That's fine."
Li Boxen said: "What is your attitude? The sacrificial food I give you can be regarded as the sacrificial food given by the king of a country, right? Do you still want the sacrificial food from Emperor Gao?"
Xu Cheng was stunned for a moment, then became happy: "I didn't expect this. You're right - Brother Li, which one should you give me?"
Li Boxen pointed towards the pot and said, "How about this."
Xu Cheng walked over immediately. There is firewood still warm under the pot, evaporating white steam. Xu Cheng stood next to the pot, stretched his head, opened his mouth, and swallowed the white gas. His face immediately showed a look of intoxication, and after a while, he became surprised again.
Seeing his expression, Li Bochen couldn't help but said proudly in his heart - So would someone like you, who was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, think that my craftsmanship is very good?
After Xu Cheng was so surprised, he quickly took three or four more puffs before reluctantly walking away. After a while, he took a long breath, looked at Li Boxen and said, "Oh, even though you killed me and turned me into your dark soldier, I know now that you are indeed a good person."
After he said this, a clear light suddenly appeared on his body. Li Bochen was shocked. Just when he didn't know what he wanted to do, the clear light suddenly disappeared again. Xu Chengdao: "When you told that Rakshasa just now that you were friends and shared joys and sorrows, I thought you were just coaxing her. But now, I know that those words of yours should be true - you really gave the sacrifice of the king of a country to her. I."
With a stern look on his face, he bowed solemnly: "Thanks to my efforts over the past few decades, Brother Li, I am now a dragon and a tiger. Xu will bear this kind of kindness in his heart."
Li Bochen was stunned for a while, and then he said in his mind: "What the hell is going on?"
