[Ancient Sword II] Morning Light Shadow

If seeing the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh just made Shen Xi complain about his incompetence, then what Congyang took out next was the most serious and catastrophic blow to Shen Xi's three views.

"The country where the mummy was dug up is suffering from a plague. I think you will be interested."

The priest of Tianfu took out a dead mouse wrapped in excellent airtight acacia wax, "I've investigated it, it's a disease spread by mice... This is for you, use it to play with."

The epidemic disease that broke out in Egypt in the Middle Ages was related to rats. The Black Death did not escape...

How do you cross the Eurasian continent with a pathogen that has a super high mortality rate and a little carelessness will bring about regional population extinction?Did you walk over the dead body? !

In the Middle Ages, the Black Death once wiped out nearly one-third of the population on the European continent. From this, imagine the scene of corpses covered with black spots all the way from the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Luoyang, the eastern capital. There are reasons to doubt whether my little friend was a ten-thousand-year elementary school student in a certain island country who died wherever he went in his previous life.

"Aren't you afraid of being infected with the disease with this thing?"

Shen Xi felt as if she was holding an atomic bomb, her palms were full of sweat, "You've died of illness yourself, what if you bring the disease back to Liuyue City... don't you think that the clansmen were not miserable enough by the turbid qi and the devil qi?" ?”

Cong Yang spread his hands indifferently: "Seeing that Master and you have been playing with Gu worms for many years, are you still afraid of such things?"

Second Miss Shen was silent.Compared with the simple use of insects and plant corpses to breed Gu in this era, the scope of Gu art is actually much wider, and a considerable part of it has even involved microorganisms.Although there are no convenient tools such as a microscope, the experience accumulated by the ancestors for generations is enough for a Gu master of normal level to use it freely.

Take Shen Xi herself as an example, in fact, the Gu worms that are kept in her body to devour too much spiritual power, according to the classification of organisms in later generations, should also be a kind of microorganisms, but now they have been fused with her body tissues. Together, it became a part of her body.

And if you think about it carefully, the effectiveness and onset time of such highly infectious viruses as West Nile virus, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, and smallpox virus are actually comparable to some aggressive Gu techniques.

Taking the symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever as a reference, there are no less than four kinds of voodoo techniques that can make people bleed in large areas and even melt internal organs.For a Gu Master who studies hard and is not so ordinary, a dead mouse carrying the black death virus is really not a big problem.

However, voodoo is easier to control than virus, or to put it another way, after the virus is domesticated by voodoo, it becomes a branch of voodoo.

Many kinds of voodoo require the manipulator to feed the mother voodoo to better control the child voodoo so as not to be counterattacked. From another perspective, it is similar to vaccination to prevent diseases.

Thinking of this, Second Miss Shen immediately felt relieved. She found an empty Gu jar and threw the dead mouse into it, and then put the scarab jar beside it, taking the usual protective measures, and did not throw any more. attention.

As for the gold-plated human-shaped coffin from Egypt, Shen Xi firmly believed that with Chu Qi's ability, even if the unknown pharaoh cheated the corpse, he would not be able to make any big waves, so he asked him to throw this thing into the empty seat in the front yard. When I have time later, I will toss the pile of straps and dehydrated organic and inorganic substances.

After eating the fruit, it was the hottest and sleepiest time in the afternoon. The white Samoyed yawned, jumped onto the couch covered with thin bamboo mats, flattened his whole body, and began to take a nap contentedly.

Second Miss Shen, who had been taken from her nap position, pouted.But thinking about holding a big fluffy white dog feels good, so she reluctantly accepted this fact.Then he threw off the wooden clogs, jumped onto the couch, and lay directly on Li Goudan's body, his chin brushing against the fluffy snow-white down, with a very happy expression on his face.

Chu Qi conveniently added a cooling spell to Shen Xi, and then he couldn't look directly away. Fortunately, he was wearing a mask, so the little girl couldn't see the change in his eyes.

Sure enough, there is a problem... Cong Yang blinked her eyes and decided to pretend she didn't see this incident. Thinking that the high priest might cry with regret in the future, she happily talked about her travels to the Far West News from various countries.

As a foodie, Congyang's travel notes naturally include special delicacies from all over the world, and Second Miss Shen has been in the lower world for so many years and is responsible for cooking, so she naturally has a lot of experience.The two chatted with each other, not noticing that the half-asleep Li Goudan's saliva was wet with a small piece of bamboo mat...

"..."

Chu Qi had to cough lightly, "Miss Xi, it's almost time for dinner."

When these two are gone, he must throw out this big stupid dog who never forgets to drool and cause damage while sleeping.

"That's just right, there's still some noodle broth left yesterday." Shen Xi tapped his palm lightly, "You've been out for so long, you must have never tasted the hot pot that has been popular in Liuyue City for the past few years!"

"Eating hot pot on a hot day?" The priest of Tianfu reached out and touched the forehead of his little friend, "Do you think the internal fire is not strong enough?"

Shen Xi looked at Cong Yang confidently: "It's hot weather that makes you want to eat hot pot, how exciting it is to sweat to expel the heat poison!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Cong Yang to refute, Shen Xi dragged her to the cellar where the broth was frozen - she didn't tell the truth that she ate two extra bowls of porridge at noon so that she had no staple food in the afternoon before she had to cook again.

"I also stock up a lot of seasonal vegetables, which I can't eat in summer..."

Watching Shen Xi and Cong Yang go away, Chu Qi turned around and looked at the Samoyed who hadn't woken up expressionlessly...

The two of them took out a large jar of frozen broth and a lot of frozen ingredients from the cellar to the kitchen, and Shen Xi drove Cong Yang aside.

Watching my little friend turn up the fire, set the soup can on the stove, then skillfully cut vegetables, mushrooms, and vermicelli, kneaded the noodles and cut them into noodles, and then combined these materials with the sliced ​​meat that had been cut before freezing Wang put them on a plate together and adjusted the seasoning dish.

The broth boiled, put it into a small copper pot and put it on the fire boiler on the table in the dining room. The surrounding ingredients and dishes were arranged. The whole process lasted for half an hour. Cong Yang was dumbfounded. I learned how to barbecue in Anatolia, so Shen Xi can do so many tricks in a short while...

"...don't tell me you've been cooking since you arrived in the lower realm!!!"

The priest of Tianfu's complexion became more and more gray, and he looked like he was about to collapse.

——Raise worms all day long, play with worms and eat worms. Can you eat the things made by a friend with a bunch of worms on his body? !

"What about the seventh day? Is he ashamed to let the little girl who is a head taller than the stove cook?"

Congyang's heart is like a thousand troops and horses galloping past.Why didn't the high priest beat to death this guy who dared to make his sister a cook?The most important thing is how can he eat what Xiao Xi cooks? !

"... I heard that you ate terrible food in an island country in the west?" Shen Xi asked quietly while setting up the bowls and chopsticks.

"Huh? You mean Britain, right?"

Congyang showed a seriously disgusted expression, "Don't mention it, the food made by those pirates is simply not edible... Li Goudan was so skinny and out of shape during that time..."

Recalling the soft feeling when she lay on Li Goudan just now, Shen Xi had reservations about the last sentence.How fat did you have to eat at the beginning to maintain such a plump, round and soft body after losing your shape?

"You can compare the difference between Chuqi's dishes and British-style local dishes." Shen Xi suggested with a dark face.

Although he felt that his little friend must be planning some bad idea, but Cong Yang felt that he had been tricked by Shen Xi so many times, and he had to find his way back... let's start this time.

She is very confident in herself. After experiencing the ravages of British food, the priest of Tianfu felt that there was no food in the whole of China that could defeat her.

"It can't be worse than British food!"

Hearing the call from Miss Shen Er, Chu Qi resolutely left the Samoyed who was still lying in the living room, and quickly went to the kitchen to report.

"Miss Xi, what are your orders?"

Shen Xi folded her arms, raised her chin in the direction of Congyang, and said, "The priest of Tianfu has been away from home for many years, and he misses things in his hometown very much... Go and cook some home-cooked dishes for her."

"Subordinates obey..."

Chu Qi thought for a while, and added, "I haven't been in the kitchen for many years, and the skills are unfamiliar, please take care of the priests of Tianfu."

"Don't worry, no matter what you cook, I can eat it."

In fact, although the priest of Tianfu is a bit stupid, he is still a good person...

Chu Qi thought about it while chopping vegetables, then poured oil into the pot, boiled it, and added green onion, ginger and garlic.After watching Shen Xi cook a lot, he probably knows the steps.

"Can this stuff be eaten? Are you kidding me?!!!"

Cong Yang saw the extremely terrifying expression on his face, "I didn't interrogate prisoners like this before!"

Looking at the plate of objects on the dining table that could barely be seen without mosaics, Shen Xi turned her head away and silently supported her forehead.Sure enough, in front of Chu Qi, the people of the corrupt country would also be willing to bow down.

Chu Qi decided to retract the preface about the priest of Tianfu being a good person.

Regarding this, Second Miss Shen just wanted to say to her friends: nozuonodiewhyyoutry? You try you don't task why!

The final result was that the three of them sat around the small stove and ate a spicy hot pot that Shen Xi called "cool, spicy and super burning".This is a special hot pot that has become popular in recent years after the people of Liuyue City have gradually adapted to the spicy taste. Several ancient plant seeds and Flower extracts, in the lower realms, except for Shen Xi, there is no place to buy them anywhere else.

"Isn't it enjoyable?" Shen Xi touched her belly quietly, "Go take a hot bath after eating, you'll feel relaxed!"

Cong Yang nodded: "Looking at it this way, it looks a bit like the steam bath popular in Byzantium, but there is food brought into the bathhouse, and you can take a bath while eating and massage..."

"There are also bathhouses in the big cities in the Central Plains, but they will be closed in summer." Shen Xi spread her hands, "The customs are different...but if you want to take a bath and eat hot pot at the same time, it's not impossible..."

"Just talking, don't mess around!...I'll change you after I finish washing...I live in the room facing east, right?..."