Enter the kitchen

Black clouds rolled in the sky, and it was about to rain.

The village is smaller than Lu Shiyi imagined, and the distribution of houses is irregular and scattered everywhere.

As soon as Lu Shiyi and Cheng Rui entered the village, an old man with white beard and hair walked slowly from the end of the road with a cane.Seeing this, Lu Shiyi silently summoned Taotie to hide in his sleeves, and the food guard was also agitated and cheered up.

Cheng Rui, on the other hand, stepped forward unsuspectingly. The old man glanced at Cheng Rui who was standing in front of him. The movements of his feet paused for a while before he regained his fluency. He asked word by word: "Where did you come from?" where?"

"The two of us came from the north." Fortunately, Cheng Rui was not really unsuspecting: "It's about to rain, I wonder if I can stay overnight when I pass by here?" Cheng Rui said eloquently, but also I don't know if the old man in the mountains understood.

The old man didn't answer directly, he paused again, and after a few breaths he said, "Okay."

The scene in front of him made Lu Shiyi feel extremely strange. The old man looked like a marionette no matter his actions or answers.

It was as if someone had poured all kinds of conversations into his brain, and then chose the most appropriate answer based on the situation. It's just that the person who injected the memory was not skilled enough, so that no matter what the puppet did, it would give people a sense of dullness.

Cheng Rui thanked him with a smile, and when Lu Shiyi came to his side, he suddenly said in a low voice: "This village is a bit strange, be careful." Lu Shiyi nodded naturally, suppressing his suspicions.

The few days I walked alone on the grassland were more like the calm before the storm.

Whether it's the herd of beasts that suddenly appeared or this isolated small mountain village, everything is weird.

After walking behind the old man with a cane for half a quarter of an hour, Lu Shiyi felt that he had entered another world. The village was full of people, and there was no such thing as the peaceful appearance he saw when he looked at it from a distance, not to mention It is said that the sky is billowing with black clouds.

The little boy in Zongjiao ran past him with a small straw animal, and bumped into him without paying attention.

"Be careful!" The old man with a stick seemed to have eyes behind him, and he turned his head and told the little boy when he heard the wind and grass.

"No need." Naturally, Lu Shiyi didn't care about the child, and the child didn't say much when he heard the words, and ran away laughing.Seeing the child disappear in front of his eyes, he turned his gaze back, and a pimple unconsciously twitched between his brows.

The sense of disobedience in the old man seems to have completely disappeared after entering the village. Now he is no longer as dull as before, and his words and deeds are no different from ordinary people, but the more he is like this, the more uneasy Lu Shiyi becomes. This situation looks really weird .

On the contrary, Cheng Rui breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "It seems that I am overthinking, this village should not be in any danger." Lu Shiyi did not argue with him, but became more cautious.

The villagers were not curious about their two new faces, they just chatted with the old man, and when they learned that they came from outside, they nodded clearly and exchanged a few simple greetings.

The path under their feet happened to pass through the farmland, and there were still many people working in the field, but no matter men or women, they would greet the old man whenever they saw it. It seemed that the old man's status in the village was not low.

"Please come in." The old man pushed open the door, and a chubby woman came up to him, calling out affectionately, "Father."

"There are guests coming, prepare some food." The old man instructed the woman a few words before introducing to Lu Shiyi: "This is my eldest daughter-in-law."

"Excuse me." Cheng Rui replied politely, and the woman laughed heartily: "I'm going to prepare food for the two distinguished guests now."

After the woman left, the old man took them to the guest room: "You two will rest here tonight." The two thanked him, and the old man only said that he would invite them again during dinner and left the room.

"The old man prepares food from the world. We cultivators can't use it. I happen to be a famous chef, so I have prepared some food to replenish spiritual power. Brother Cheng, why not use some first." Without waiting for Cheng Rui to answer, Lu Shiyi went from A fragrant dish was taken out of the storage bag.

Use a knife to cut out prismatic lines on the fish meat of Lingyu, marinate with sauce for half an hour, and pat it with homemade raw powder.Then pour hot oil on the fish, the prismatic lines will open under the action of hot oil, the skin and meat will be curled together, revealing only a circle of tender white fish, after the fish is shaped, it can be fried in a frying pan until golden .

The sauce that was poured on the fish was also specially made by Lu Shiyi. In addition to the traditional seasonings of sugar and vinegar, he also added a sweet and sour spiritual fruit, which he and Fuwei tossed together for a few days What I came up with, besides making the taste of this squirrel mandarin fish more intense and delicious, has other effects.

Cheng Rui stared straight at the delicacies in front of him, and the sweet and sour aroma hit his nostrils, which made him unable to resist the saliva and whetted his appetite.

"Taste it." Cheng Rui's polite refusal that he wanted to say failed in the end to the attractiveness of the food. Under Lu Shiyi's repeated persuasion, he took out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish meat, dipped it in a sauce full of it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

The surface of the fish is golden and crisp, but the inside is white and soft. It is served with a sweet and sour red sauce. Cheng Rui tasted a few mouthfuls before praising: "Delicious!"

"As long as you like it." Lu Shiyi smiled, watching him stuff the squirrel mandarin fish into his mouth mouthful after mouthful.

Bigu monks eat not to fill their stomachs, but to replenish their spiritual power.The spiritual fish in front of Cheng Rui's eyes could not only satisfy his appetite, but also replenish his spiritual power.

"Try it too." Seeing that Lu Shiyi was motionless, Cheng Rui also put down his chopsticks, as if he was very embarrassed about his act of monopolizing the delicious food.

Lu Shiyi was not polite when he heard the words, picked up a few chopsticks, and even handed a piece to Hu Shi's mouth, but Hu Shi didn't seem to like the taste and turned his head away, Lu Shiyi had no choice but to take out a handful of fried Lingmi Feed it.

The food of mortals is naturally inedible, Lu Shiyi cast a blindfold, Cheng Rui seemed to have something to say, but in the end he kept his mouth shut.

After eating, the two returned to the room, and when it got darker, they rested separately.

The village gradually quieted down. Lu Shiyi closed his eyes and rested his mind, while Hu Shi curled up into a fluffy ball, lay obediently next to his ear and dozed off.

Lu Shiyi didn't dare to fall asleep, so he immediately heard a slight sound coming from the bedside. He didn't open his eyes, but took out a very thin sense of consciousness from the sea of ​​consciousness to detect the source of the sound.

In the darkness, Lu Shiyi suddenly perceived a pair of blood-colored eyes, which were no different from the pupils of the beasts he saw on the grassland that day.

He allowed his consciousness to float into the air before he could see the whole picture of the room. Cheng Rui was lying on the bed not far away, sleeping very deeply, and in the room were densely packed the villagers they had seen during the day.

It's just that if the villagers they saw during the day could still be called human beings, what he saw at this time was a completely different kind of creature, or it wasn't even a creature.

Their bodies twisted uncoordinatedly, their hands and feet drooping feebly.Elbows and backs seem to be connected with invisible silk threads, hoisting their weak bodies, like puppets on strings.

And the instigator who controls them hides in the night, spying on everything in the room.

The figures outside the window moved, and Lu Shiyi could imagine that all the creatures he saw in the village today had turned into marionettes.

Fortunately, he is not defenseless.

Lu Shiyi stood up abruptly, Hu Shi flew out from behind him, and with a whoosh, a fire dragon spewed out.

The bright fire light instantly illuminated the scene in the room clearly.

These villagers have turned into paper figurines made of fine silk, and the facial features on their faces are also embroidered with silk threads of various colors. They are lifelike but also weird everywhere.

"What's wrong!" Cheng Rui also woke up, looking at the scene in front of him in panic, as if he had been greatly shocked.

But just as he was trying to get close to Lu Suyi, Hu Shi mercilessly sprayed him with fire.

"Brother, be careful." Lu Shiyi said in a low voice, Cheng Rui was startled, and reluctantly said, "What are you doing, brother?"

"I have to ask you, brother, if you are really a disciple of Xiaoyaozhuang." Lu Shiyi held Taotie in his hand, and looked at Cheng Rui in front of him fearlessly.

The expression on Cheng Rui's face changed, and he lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "How did you find out?"

"I should have told you that I am a chef." Lu Shiyi met his gaze: "And you are a demon. I will study anything that can be eaten."

"Oh, you really don't know how to live or die." Cheng Rui looked at Lu Shiyi expressionlessly, since he had been found out, he had no intention of continuing to pretend.

Cyan demon lines crawled up his cheeks, the black pupils of human beings gradually faded and turned into a light purple, and the originally handsome appearance became extremely strange.

Lu Shiyi doesn't know much about Yaozu, and Yaozu is not a spirit beast, and has already developed spiritual wisdom. He really doesn't want to cook a Yaozu that is no different from a human. What he just said was just to anger Cheng Rui and make him He showed himself.

Although he had already guessed in his heart, it was only at this time that Lu Shiyi could confirm the real identity of the other party.For a while, he was obsessed with pictures of mountains and seas, and asked Shu Mo a lot about the monster clan, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

In the Shanhai Tuzhi, there is a clan of sharks who shed tears into pearls and are good at weaving shark silk. There is also a clan of monsters who are proud of their blood of sharks and spin silk to weave brocades.

Cheng Rui is from the Shark tribe, and what he is most proud of is the kung fu of brocade weaving and the puppet art of manipulating the brocade.

But the mermaids don't have the skills of the mermaids, and the things they weave are not like shark silk, which are invulnerable to fire and water.

He couldn't resist the fire of food protection alone.

Under Cheng Rui's command, the villagers approached Lu Suyi and Hushi stiffly. Although they have the weakness of being afraid of fire, they have no fear of fire themselves.

Even if it has been ignited, as long as Cheng Rui gives an order, there will still be a steady stream of Supplements to Lu.

Lu Shiyi's movement of waving the Taotie paused, and he attacked Cheng Rui at the same time as Hushi, with spiritual power mixed with scorching flames.Protected by the paper man, Cheng Rui took a few steps back. Seeing that the flames had weakened, he was about to fight back when he was dazzled by a bright light.

When they opened their eyes again, Lu Shiyi and Hu Shi had already rushed out of the circle of paper figures.