I have become a god with hot pot

The processed almond soup filled her entire mouth with a sweet and mellow delicate touch almost immediately, impacting her brain nerves.

The priestess stared wide-eyed. She had never eaten almonds with such a rich and mellow taste. After going through such a processing procedure, the most outstanding taste of almonds was magnified several times, which was really beyond her expectation.

Guo Guo said in an orderly manner: "The hot pot I made today is called medicated tofu pot. I have just explained to you what tofu is, and now I will talk about the meaning of this 'medicinal diet'."

Guo Guo continued to gently stir the soup in the hot pot with a large spoon to make it evenly heated, "We take medicine when we are sick, but sometimes we don't need to take medicine, we just need to adjust the diet structure appropriately, it is not good to get rid of it." Some diseases can be eradicated by eating habits.”

"In my hometown, many people have the habit of eating medicated food. It can not only take care of one's physical fitness, but also strengthen the body, nourish qi and blood, and has various functions."

Guo Guo judged calmly, "For example, the priest, according to your current symptoms, you should not continue to eat meat."

Hearing this statement, the priest temporarily stopped eating almond soup, and asked incomprehensibly: "The people here have grown up eating mutton and beef for generations, and they have been strong and strong since they were young. , but why don’t you see them getting sick?”

Guo Guo calmly explained: "As the saying goes, one side's water and soil support one's people. This sentence is actually very reasonable. Although there are four seasons on this island, seven or eight of them are bitterly cold winters, so they can be eaten. There are not many grass-planted fruits and vegetables in China, and people mostly eat meat, and eating beef and mutton will generate enough heat in the human body, which is also an important source of heat that you rely on to resist the severe cold in winter."

"After living like this for generations, your body has become accustomed to this way of eating. Under normal circumstances, you will not get sick from eating like this... But I also said that this is under normal circumstances."

He first affirmed what the priest said, and then changed the subject: "So in special cases, special treatment is required. For example, if you have a fever now, you must pay special attention to your diet and stop eating these hot items, otherwise you The body cannot be resolved, it will only become weaker, the body will have a low-grade fever for a long time, and the throat will produce phlegm, coughing, and breathing difficulties, all of which are manifestations of exogenous fever."

These words were all right for the priest's illness, and she listened seriously.

"As for my dish, it's actually all ingredients that are calm and cool in nature, and there are several ingredients in it that can help your body dissipate heat and poison. Almonds are mild in nature, and taking them can reduce Qi, relieve cough, and relieve asthma. The efficacy of it will help your current symptoms.”

The priestess pondered for a moment, then continued to drink the almond soup with a spoon, "Actually, I don't eat much almonds, and the almonds in the mountains are all bitter. I don't like almonds leaving a long-lasting bitter taste in my mouth after a short mellow aroma. .”

But after this taste passed, the priestess' enthusiasm for almond soup faded a bit, because she knew that after the most delicious taste of almonds faded, the bitter aftertaste would follow, which she didn't like very much smell.

But she waited for a long time, and she didn't wait for the bitter taste on the tip of her tongue.

She drank several more spoonfuls of soup in doubt, savoring its taste carefully with her eyes closed, "This almond soup is not bitter at all, why?"

This discovery made the priest full of surprise, "When its mellow taste is about to be exhausted, the spreading bitterness is suppressed by another fragrance...? What else did you put in the soup besides almonds? "

Guo Guo praised: "Your sense of taste is also very keen. I added a special ingredient to this almond soup, which is the small white flowers that bloom all over the mountains and plains in your snow mountain valley."

Hearing another unexpected material, the priest looked at Guo Guo with a sense of novelty. He continued to explain: "I picked the flowers, soaked them in honey, and put them into almond soup to cook together. I was in In the mountains, I have tasted this flower in person. The taste of this flower is very light. Even the sweetness of the flower fragrance on the tip of the tongue is a few beats slower than other flowers, but this delayed sweetness is just right. It makes up for the lack of almond flavor. Therefore, the first half of this bowl of almond soup has the thick and mellow aroma of nuts, and the second half is the fragrance of mountain flowers. When they are paired together, they achieve a perfect combination of strengths and weaknesses.”

Hearing this, the priest scooped it up from the soup with a spoon, as if he wanted to see the appearance of these refreshing mountain flowers. Guo Guo smiled and said: "I wrapped the flowers in cloth and cooked them, because after cooking, , These flowers don’t look good, so I took them out ahead of time and threw them away.”

The priest thought for a while, and felt that Guo Guo's idea was really ingenious, so he nodded approvingly.As a chef, Guo Guo's ability to adapt to local conditions and use ingredients flexibly is a very rare and outstanding maneuver.

She thought in her heart that such a person is a rare talent even if he does not become a chef and devote himself to other career development.

This gave her a little more confidence in the tofu made of plaster in the bowl.

The priest finally made up his mind to try the tofu made of gypsum, a "dirty thing".

She gently dug a piece of tofu with a spoon, but she probably didn't expect the tofu to be so smooth, it flowed out from between her spoon a few times before she finally dug out a corner with the spoon.

When hitting the tofu with a spoon in the bowl, although she already had an idea of ​​the expected touch, she was still amazed when she actually put the tofu in her mouth.

The priest sighed: "It's very tender, but it's not soft and chewy... I can't taste this taste at all. It's soybeans. It's really unimaginable. Compared with mediocre soybeans, this tofu is almost a It's been reborn... Wait, what's the matter with this smell?"

The priest, who was enjoying herself very much, suddenly had a look of doubt on her face. She stopped eating, observed the cut side of the remaining piece of tofu in the soup, and finally found a green interlayer.

The white and soft tofu is pressed with a layer of finely chopped green plants in the middle. It looks a bit like the layer of cream spread on the cake sandwich, but the taste is completely different.

"Why did you add something with this taste to the delicious tofu?" The priestess shook her head incomprehensibly, "The taste of this grass is simply the biggest destructive factor in this pot of food, it tastes spicy , even has a bitter taste, if it is not pressed into the tofu to absorb the taste, this thing will ruin the taste of a pot of soup."

Guo Guo explained calmly: "But these things can make your illness better."

The priestess was startled, and turned her head to observe the green powder in the spoon, "...what is this?"

Before Guo Guo could answer, Jiang Si staged a somersault on the ground.

Looking at the three eyes Qiqi cast on him in the yurt, Jiang Si no longer knew what to look at Guo Guo. His eyes were dead, and his tone was numb: "Go ahead, don't worry about me."

But this time, Guo Guo didn't give a straightforward answer like "This is devil's weed", but said: "This is a kind of grass in the mountains, called ephedra."

"Ephedra...?" The priest repeated in a low voice, "Next time I will call a few children... cough cough, go into the mountains with you, you teach them to recognize these plants, it seems that we are very familiar with the environment we have lived in for generations It’s really embarrassing to know that you are far inferior to a foreigner like you.”

Jiang Si's heart that had stopped beating finally resumed work in his chest cavity for the rest of his life. God knows how worried he was just now that Guo Guo would expose the truth regardless of everything. If he knew that what the priest was eating now was devil's weed, he might have cried out on the spot command, the villagers outside would rush in and grill the two of them out.

Guo Guo was still explaining unhurriedly: "This ephedra is mild in texture. Although the taste is a bit strong, it can remove phlegm and relieve cough after cooking, relieve sweating, relieve lung and relieve asthma. It is very helpful for your current symptoms. There are benefits."

I didn't expect this tasteless food to have so many benefits. The priestess looked down at the layer of crumbs in the tofu, and suddenly felt that it became delicious, "This food is so good? Then... Even if the taste is a bit worse, I can bear it, and I will eat more."

Speaking of the taste of ephedra, Guo Guo also felt a little regretful, "The preparation time this time is a bit urgent, if there is enough time and materials, I can try to mix something else, put it in tofu with ephedra, maybe it will be interesting Unexpected effect. But after your body gets better, you don’t need to press ephedra in this tofu, and you will have sweet and delicious almond soup with tofu.”

The priestess nodded again and again, "I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but after hearing what you said about the efficacy of these things, I tasted very refreshing, as if the swelling in my chest has eased."

"Actually, it's not the same." Looking at the priestess whose face became ruddy after eating the medicated tofu pot, Guo Guo also felt very happy.

He took out the last ingredients in the pot.

It's a plate of green balls.

To say that this thing is a small ball is not entirely true.Because Guoguo didn't use flour, the surface of the meatball is a complete leaf, which is bound into a ball by a thin blade of grass. I don't know what surprising food is inside.

Guo Guo put these leaf balls into the white almond soup. "Hot pot is not just about cooking soup. One of the main points is to rinse vegetables in the soup and eat them while they are steaming."

These small green balls, who don’t know what’s inside, floated on the crystal clear and white almond soup surface after being put into the pot for a while. and added to the bowl of the priestess.

The piece of tofu she just ate had bottomed out, and even the soup was almost finished. Guo Guo added a spoonful at the right time, and the empty bowl became steaming again.

The priestess had expressed curiosity about the leaf balls for a long time, and when she saw that they were cooked, she immediately dug up one with a spoon and asked in a stack of voices: "How do I eat this? Can I just eat it like this? Or do I need to remove the leaves?" ?”

Guo Guo explained patiently, "It's fine to eat like this. Please rest assured that all the things I collected in the mountains are edible. I have tasted all the raw materials in the same way. I promise to make their combination to achieve their best. the taste of."

"For this, I have great confidence in you." The priest replied to Guo Guo with a smile, and when the steaming leaf balls cooled a little, he put them on his lips and bit them.

The leaf balls inhaled a sufficient amount of sweet almond soup, and burst out the moment it came into contact with the teeth, but in addition to the familiar sweetness just entered, there is also the fragrance and bitterness mixed with herbs, which is close to The taste of being in the forest.

All the people living in this land grew up by the sea and in the forest. They are in company with nature every day, and they are all too familiar with the changes in the smell of the forest in four seasons.

But since the priest fell ill, she has not been able to step out of this yurt for a long time.The moment she bit off the leaf ball, she suddenly thought that she had returned to the familiar forest, back to the distant past when she was chasing and fighting with her sweetheart in the forest before she was married.

The forest trees after the rain have a unique bitter fragrance, even the soil has a fresh smell, and the bark reveals a natural woody fragrance. These smells together constitute the memory of her running in the forest.

These natural flavors are the inheritance of their race from generation to generation, and they are the gift of the power of nature believed by the people who live here, and each of them is born, grows, matures, ages and dies under the blessing of Mother Nature.

These foods evoked the priest's inner feelings and memories. She no longer cared about talking to Guo Guo, but just buried her head in biting down one after another, quickly eating the somewhat bitter but mild and wonderful food in the bowl. Leaf balls.

The warm aroma permeates the room for a long time, fresh and not greasy, and the mixed breath of plants makes the whole body comfortable.Enjoying such a peaceful atmosphere, the priestess even forgot about the disturbing noises outside the yurt.

She held the bowl and drank the almond soup at the bottom of the bowl. Guo Guo tacitly made tofu soup for her and cooked a plate of leaf balls.

She ate very fast, the girl next to her looked at her with an expression of disbelief, she took care of the priest who was seriously ill, so she knew better than others how bad the priest's appetite has been in the past half a month .

The few people who are recognized by the whole village as the best cooks slaughtered fresh cattle and sheep in different ways every day and served them as dishes, but she only took a few bites and then put it down. During this long bedridden time, she She has lost a lot of weight and is no longer as strong as before.

This was the first time in a long time that she saw the priest with a big appetite, and his face was flushed with food.

When she learned that the leaf balls that Guo Guo made for her were about to be eaten by her, the priest slowed down the speed of eating.

She bit through the last leaf ball, stared at the stuffing inside, and tilted her head to think puzzledly, "There are mushrooms and wild vegetable stuffing in here, I can recognize these, but the other kind, like mushrooms Color, what is something that doesn't taste like mushrooms?"

"This is the rhizome of licorice." Guo Guo had been prepared for this question. He took out a licorice that had been a little wilted after picking, and showed it to the priest, "This is licorice. From the outside, it looks like the most common weed, but the rhizomes underneath it are the things that are valuable as medicine."

"Licorice is a very mild food and medicinal material. It also has a fresh herbal sweetness. For people like you who have a cough and phlegm, have heat and poison in the body, and have a weak spleen and stomach, it is a suitable warming product. gone."

The priest ate comfortably and satisfactorily, and felt that she was so relaxed for the first time since she fell ill. She opened her eyes moistened by the steam, looked at Guo Guo and asked, "Then can you tell me why you Do you put plaster in the tofu?"

Guo Guo watched the priestess look much better after eating, and explained happily: "This is because... I need to use gypsum to solidify the soy milk to make tofu; Second, I have to find a way to put plaster in the hot pot dishes."

Although the priestess couldn't understand, she didn't interrupt him rashly because of her trust and respect for Guo Guo.

Guo Guo said: "Gypsum is a thing of great cold, but it has the effect of purging fire. It is not impossible to use other fire-dispelling ingredients to achieve other purposes, but what I wanted to do from the beginning is this. A bowl of 'Ma Xing Shi Gan Soup'."

"Ma Xing... Shi Gan Soup?"

Guo Guo nodded and said: "This is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine. It is mostly used for cough and shortness of breath caused by exogenous pathogenic factors and accumulated heat. It has the effect of clearing the lungs and relieving asthma. I am a chef, not a professional doctor. After judging your illness , I happen to be able to find all the ingredients for this medicine on this island, so I decided to use this ancient prescription."

After hearing Guo Guo's explanation, the priestess was quite shocked, "A long time ago, I heard stories from the old people in the village about the mysterious east beyond the sea. The people there would use herbs to boil black soup and drink it down. It can cure diseases. But this is the first time I have seen it in real life, but you...why not that kind of black herbal soup?"

"Because I was afraid that a bowl of pitch-black medicinal soup would be brought up hastily, and you wouldn't even look at it, so you just threw it out."

Guo Guo joked: "So I thought about it and disassembled the four ingredients separately, then added them to the hot pot, and combined them with the ingredients in various ways, so that it would be easier for you to accept. "

The priest was stunned, with a gentle look on his face, she never imagined that Guo Guo would be so delicate in his mind, and he had considered every aspect of his patient's willingness to cooperate with taking medicine.

She couldn't calm down for a long time, she struggled to get up from the bed, and thanked Guo Guo earnestly on the ground: "...I can't imagine what kind of serious attitude you have in order to process every material to such an extreme level Everyone knows how to cook food, but for those who are about to eat it, they put such delicate and ingenious thoughts into the food they prepare..."

She put her hands on her chest and expressed her gratitude with local etiquette, "I am very touched by this concern. Thank you, my distinguished guest, for treating me with the most delicious hot pot. Please allow me to replace you The rude villagers sent a heartfelt apology. People like you cannot be bad people, and the prophecy about the "people of disaster" must have gone wrong somewhere."

Guo Guo’s smile is warm. As a former hot pot god, he can use his food to bring happiness to human beings and take away the pain of diseases. For him, this is a very happy thing.

The priest's face was soft. Standing on the ground today, she felt that her body had more strength than before. When she was about to speak, she was interrupted by the noise outside.

She frowned and walked to the door, and asked displeasedly, "What are they arguing outside?"

The girl in the village took a thick dress and put it on the priestess, "Please don't go out, you can't stand the wind outside."

"It's hard for me to be bored inside every day. And I have a hunch that as long as this distinguished guest stays with me in the future, my body will get better and better until I fully recover." Priestess Smiling lightly, after putting on her clothes carefully, she opened the curtain door.

The villagers who had been waiting outside the yurt for a long time were already on the verge of eruption. Suddenly they saw the curtain door of the yurt being pulled open, and the priest they were anxious about came out as if nothing happened.

The chattering crowd fell silent in an instant, and the chief turned his head and saw his wife walking out with a look of good looks that he hadn't seen for a long time, and he couldn't help being stunned in surprise and joy.

He looked at his wife, then at Guo Guo who came out after him, the smile on his lips couldn't be stopped, and he raised it higher and higher with a bit of foolishness, and hurried over to ask about his wife's condition.

The priestess slapped her husband away with a stern face, and asked coldly, "The person you invited to treat me has neglected him, disrespected him, and gathered people shouting at my door. If it wasn't for me If I have the strength to come out today, I’m afraid I still don’t know that you have made this village like this! You can’t even control this little people, so what do you need?”

The burly man stood still for a moment, not daring to say a word. After the priestess reprimanded her husband, she coughed a few times and continued coldly: "Who was yelling just now that the people inside were going to be burned to death? Come out and let I will re-teach you the rules of the village, how to treat distinguished guests."