my weird life

Chapter 533 Catch the big set (12)

When the rooster crowed twice, it was still dark.

In an open space surrounded by woods, there was a rustling movement.

First, there was the sound of donkeys and mules snorting and trampling on the soil.

Immediately, the sound of someone's footsteps was interspersed with many small sounds.

then,

The sound of axes chopping firewood continued one after another.

After a few sounds of flint and flint rubbing against each other, the open space in the shape of a '凵' surrounded by dense young trees lit up with fire.

The fire is growing,

It illuminates the tables and platforms built randomly with wood and stones.

Around the blazing flames stood several stoves made of mud and stones, and the sturdy young man was busy filling the stoves with kindling to burn them red.

The obese woman wore a pigskin apron and squatted on the stove with a large iron pot in her arms.

On the other side, another thinner woman spread a chopping board on a wooden table, took out a dehaired and washed cow's head from a large iron bucket squatting on the ground, and split the cow's head in half. He carried it and put it into the iron pot looked after by the fat woman.

After that, beef offal such as beef lungs, beef intestines, beef blood, etc. were added to the iron pot.

The skinny man led the mule to the edge of the forest farm, fed it a few handfuls of fodder, and then tied the rein to a dead tree.

A palm-sized censer was squatted next to it, and three slowly burning incense sticks were inserted into the censer.

The man unloaded the cart from the donkey and mule, pulled the contents of the cart to the stove, and called two women and a young man to help: "Daping, Xiaocai, son, help me!"

The two women and the young man gathered around,

The barrels of unprocessed beef, sheep and pig offal, intestine oil, and lymphatic rotten meat were all removed from the cart.

The thinner women were busy cleaning the offal, and the fatter women took over the job of cutting the meat, cutting the offal into slices or chunks, and throwing them into the corresponding pots.

In the grove, white mist-like steam rose up, seeming to whiten the dark sky.

Around here, the sounds of animals, bells, and people's footsteps gradually gathered.

Flames lit up in the darkness.

The fire is so dense,
On the contrary, this dark night before dawn is extraordinarily vibrant.

Some people set up vegetable stalls outside the forest;

Some people erected wooden poles tied with straw, built two stones, set up a small pot, poured water and sugar into the pot, and then threw a bunch of hawthorns into the pot, rolled them around, and pulled them out. The red syrup sticky On the surface of the hawthorn, sticks of candied haws were inserted on the straw poles.

Those who sell livestock, those who sell chickens and ducklings, those who sell dogs and people...

All these things are gathered around this originally empty forest farm.

They don't have to shout or make noise,
The villagers from all over the country seemed to have made an agreement with them, and gathered here.

far away,

A big black horse with shiny fur was pulling the carriage, covered in the dew before dawn. Driven by the young groom, the horse's hooves came slowly towards the market here.

"This is the Jade Emperor Collection.

The largest market within hundreds of miles of Yunjin.

From New Year's Eve every year until the Lantern Festival.

In the past, I was chasing my brother—I even had a reunion dinner here. "In the carriage, Xuanzhao poked his head out, observing the surroundings, talking non-stop, he recognized the direction of the surroundings, and when he saw the empty field surrounded by densely grown trees, Quickly pointed to that side and said, "Let's go, let's eat in that forest farm today!
His offal soup and mutton head meat are delicious!
You can drink a bowl of beef offal soup in the morning, eat mutton head meat with some fried cockscomb oil at noon, and eat half a beef head in the evening, and this year will be over..."

Hearing his arrangement, Su Wu turned to look at the old Taoist expressionlessly, and said, "We have been walking from Zaozhuang to Yunjin for two days, and we are far enough away from Zaozhuang now, and the Taoist priest still doesn't want to disclose it. The slightest information about the changes in Maoshan's ancestral court?
Now we are wandering here and there all day long. I think if we go on walking like this, we will only get farther and farther away from the ancestral garden of Maoshan, right? "

"I'll tell you later, I'll tell you later!" Taoist Xuanzhao waved his hands again and again and said with a smile, "Today's New Year's Eve, even a prisoner in death row must have a good meal.

What's more, we are not death row prisoners?
go!go!

Today, the old Taoist will have a refreshing meal at the Jade Emperor Fair! "

Su Wu sighed, and without further words, he drove the carriage to the edge of the forest farm.

He tied the horse beside a donkey and mule, and when he lowered his head, he saw an incense burner made of yellow clay under a tree.

In the incense burner, the sticks of incense are burning with green smoke.

Su Wu's nostrils fluttered, and in an instant he 'smelled' a very familiar smell from the burning incense sticks - the smell of 'Stove King God's Cult' and 'Life-protecting Fire'!

Could it be that the owner of the stall that sells food at the 'Jade Emperor's Market' is also a member of the 'Stove King Sect'?
Thoughts swirled in his mind, and Su Wu became a little curious about this beef offal soup stall.

Today's genius is dim.

A lot of villagers from neighboring villages have already gathered in the market,
This stall selling offal and mutton soup occupies the center of the entire Daji. There are many tables here, and it is naturally an open-air dining hall.

It stands to reason that with such a good location, there is no reason why other vendors who come to the market to sell goods should not come to seize it.

But the reality is that there are many street vendors and merchants flocking around the forest farm, laying out their respective stalls, but none of the vendors occupy even half of the stalls selling beef and sheep soup!
Su Wu observed all the details here, followed the old Taoist, and approached the fat woman who was in charge of cooking the mutton soup.

As he approached the three stoves, Su Wu's perception of the 'life-protecting fire' became stronger.

——In the three stoves, life-protecting fires are all burning!
"Guest, what do you want to eat?

There are 24 pieces of beef offal in a bowl, and a large bowl of [-] pieces. You can drink the soup as you like.

haggis..."

The fat woman said to the old Taoist with a smile.

Xuanzhao, the old Taoist, put his hands behind his back and stretched his head to look at the pieces of offal meat covered by the steam in the iron pan. He took a deep breath and said, "Give me a bowl of beef offal with soup, more lungs and intestines, liver A little less, and two more pancakes!"

"okay!"

The fat woman bowed her head and followed Xuanzhao's old way's instructions, took out pieces of beef lungs and intestines, chopped them on the chopping board, put them in an iron spoon, rolled them three times in the big pot of beef offal, and took out the meat and soup together , put it into a large bowl, spread two thick cakes cut into triangles on the bowl, and handed it to the old man.

"He will pay the money!"

The old man happily picked up the bowl, and he didn't forget to show the fat woman Su Wu who was behind him.

Su Wu stepped forward and ordered a bowl of beef offal with soup similar to that of the old Taoist. While the fat woman was chopping the beef offal, he suddenly asked the woman, "Where did sister-in-law cook the stove?" , received the rice?"

This question was asked without thinking, and most people must be at a loss when they hear it.

But this statement is actually an incision, a slang word when people from the Kitchen King Sect meet.

Su Wu said this incision immediately, just to see how the fat woman would react.

To his disappointment,

When he said that, the fat woman stopped the knife and looked at him blankly: "What are you cooking and harvesting rice? My man and my son have always been in charge of lighting the stove.

We don't sell rice here either. "

"It's nothing, I just said it casually, sister-in-law, don't worry about it." Su Wu shook his head, looked at the thin woman who was guarding another pot, and was sure that both of them had nothing to do with the Stove King God Sect.

At this time,

He suddenly sensed that a stranger's eyes stayed on him for a while longer.

Su Wu followed the induction and looked towards the place where the gaze came from,

Seeing a few steps away, the owner of the stall who had been turning his back to his burning ox hooves turned sideways and grinned at himself.

His heart moved slightly, and he nodded in response to the host's smile.

After receiving the big bowl from the fat woman, Su Wu took a bowl of beef offal soup and walked to the table occupied by the old man, put down the big bowl, and broke the cornbread into small pieces and put it into the soup bowl.

The man by the stove put down the hoof, talked to the two women, handed the hoof to his son to burn off the fine hairs on it, then picked up a clay pot from behind the stove, and walked towards Su Wu .

"Friends of the Kitchen God Sect, would you like a glass of the home-brewed wine?"

The male owner of the beef and sheep offal stall walked to the side of the table occupied by Su Wu and Xuan Zhao, put the clay pot on the table, and said with a smile.

Su Wu raised her head when she heard the words, and saw the hostess grinning.

He has not yet had time to speak,

The old Taoist Xuanzhao nodded repeatedly, and said, "Come, come! Come, take a bite!"

The host took out a cup, poured Xuanzhao a glass of wine, and then looked at Su Wu.

Su Wu shook his head, and said: "I was the one who interrupted just now, I am really embarrassed to drink your homemade wine now."

"What's the matter?

If it weren't for the brothers from the Kitchen God Sect who saved my life and gave me a life-saving lamp, I wouldn't have the family business I have now and start such a big business! "The host sat down on the side of the table, poured two more glasses of wine, pushed one to Su Wu, took one for himself, and said with a smile, "I just heard my brother ask a question, and I suddenly remembered the old Kitchen God Sect benefactor! "

Taking a sip of some throat-spitting wine, the host explained the reasons in detail.

He set up a stall selling beef, sheep, and pig offal decades ago. At that time, he had not married his two wives today, and went to the market to sell sheep soup and offal. Because the market opened early, the stall owners often Before dawn, I hurried to the market,
Often walking at night, it is always unavoidable to see tricks.

The owner of the offal stall met a strange one once.

Fortunately, at that time, a group of stove team rushed to the market where he was at that time, just saved his life, and left him a life-saving lamp.

It is this light,

Let him develop a big business later,

Married two wives and had a son-although the second wife was an incidental request from the wife when he married the first wife, but he can afford two wives and children, which also shows his business Really good.

And the Zao team that the hero met before,

It was Su Wu's master 'Li Yueshan', and his master, wife, younger brothers and sisters formed the Yinximai Stove class!

(End of this chapter)