Honghuang on the tip of the tongue

Rong Ze believed that Yuan Shi was his best friend for life. In order to record this touching friendship, he decided to cook a commemorative dish.

He once heard a Hokkien cuisine master say that in his hometown, when a friend came to the door for the first time, he would cook a bowl of noodles as a treat.

Xingrong noodles have a more popular name called line noodles, so named because the noodles are slender and long like white lines.

According to legend, in order to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, Jiutian Xuannv specially invented this kind of slender noodles, which means longevity, so noodle makers respect her as the ancestor grandma.

Of course, just like most gourmet legends, the so-called Jiutianxuannv noodles are just attached by later generations.

However, the tradition of Shixian noodles has been preserved, and various meanings have been given to it: longevity noodles eaten on birthdays, happy noodles eaten at weddings, birthday noodles eaten during confinement after childbirth... and The appearance when entertaining friends. 【Note 1】

The diameter of the thread surface is less than one millimeter, and it can reach nearly two meters in length when pulled apart. Therefore, one of the key steps in making the thread surface is pulling.

After the steps of kneading and waking up, the rolled dough is fixed on the noodle rack, and the noodles are gradually thinned and elongated through continuous pulling, pulling, and bouncing. After drying and drying, the noodles can be bundled into a Be bundled and tied with a red thread at the end for longer storage.

Huang Long watched the whole process of noodle making. Seeing the complexity of the craft, he said in shock, "Brother Rong, who are you making the noodles for?"

Such a big handwriting, it takes a lot of effort, how much face does the other party have to eat this noodles?

Rong Ze's voice was full of emotion: "My best friend."

Huang Long: "???"

After making the noodles, you can put them in the pot.Because the noodles are very thin, they are easy to cook, and they can be picked up after being put into boiling water for a while.

The noodle is a bit salty, but it mainly depends on the soup base to enhance the taste, and the broth is the best choice.

Rong Ze boiled a pot of chicken soup earlier, but now he lifted the lid of the pot, and the water vapor filled the nostrils with a scent, which made people's index fingers twitch.

The golden soup is poured on the snow-white dough, and then mixed with mushrooms, green vegetables, fungus, carrots, duck eggs and other accessories, the color is rich and visually shocking.

The slender noodles float on the surface of the soup, stretching like strands, and the strands are distinct, and the soup does not become mushy, and it is stirred continuously.

According to the habit, a little local old wine from Rongcheng is often added to cooking noodles, which smells very fragrant and the taste is more lingering.Rong Ze didn't have Rongcheng old wine on hand, so he poured some rice wine brewed by himself, tasted it, and thought it tasted very good.

"Let me go!" Huang Long called impatiently, raising his hands high, his eyes full of joy, "Brother Rong, let me help you taste it!"

It is also the first time for Rong Ze to try to make thread and noodles, and he is not sure how to do it.Especially since this bowl of noodles represents friendship, he doesn't want any accidents.

So he seriously packed a small bowl of noodles and handed it to Huang Long.

There was only a small ball of noodle in the bowl, soaked in the golden soup, Huang Long didn't dislike it, he didn't even use chopsticks, he directly aimed his mouth at the edge of the bowl, and after a while, sucked the noodle into his mouth.

The noodle was full of soup, and it was soft and slippery. Before he could chew it carefully, it slid down his throat.

Huang Long put down the bowl and smashed his tongue, savoring the soft taste, half melancholy and half sighed: "It's delicious!"

It was just too little, and the bowl ran out before he could taste it.

Rong Ze nodded, packed a bowl of noodles in an insulated food box, poured the fragrant soup, and spread the side dishes all over the surface.

Huang Long thought it was for himself, and hurriedly said: "Don't bother, I can do it myself."

Rong Ze gave him a strange look and said, "Why are you here?"

Huang Long was also taken aback, feeling something was wrong, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Who is this side for?"

Rong Ze said without hesitation: "Of course it's for my best friend."

Huang Long: "... Excuse me."

Rong Ze blinked, and laughed softly: "Don't worry, there are still a lot of soup and vegetables, you just need to scoop up the noodles and you can eat them."

Huanglong's eyes lit up again with a "bass", cheered, and ran towards the pot.

Rong Ze smiled and shook his head, picked up the food plate, and headed towards Yuxu Palace.

Zhui Yufeng is a bit far from Yuxu Palace, and it would take more than a quarter of an hour at Rong Ze's speed. He was afraid that the noodle would not taste good if it was cold, so he specially used a food box to keep it fresh.I didn't want him to set off, but I saw Yuan Shi coming towards me.

Rong Ze's eyes lit up, and he waved vigorously: "Tianzun, I'm here, and I just happened to be looking for you."

Yuan Shi: "What's the matter?"

Rong Ze took out the food box and said with a smile, "Please eat delicious food."

The thread noodles seem to be scattered in the soup, but when picked up with chopsticks, they are tightly packed together, really like a ball of thin threads.Yuan Shi picked up a strand with chopsticks and ate it mixed with the soup. The noodles were soft and the soup was delicious, light and delicious, soothing to the heart.

It's just that the taste seems to be a little bit wrong.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Yuan Shi stop his chopsticks, Rong Ze showed nervousness.

Is it because the noodles don't match the taste?

Yuan Shi didn't speak, just took a spoonful of soup with a spoon, put it in front of his nose and smelled it.

Now Rong Ze was even more uneasy, his heart was in his throat, and his voice was dry: "Is there something wrong with the soup?"

No way?The chicken used to make the soup is selected by him himself. The old hen is full-year old. The soup stewed has no excess fat and tastes delicious and fragrant.

Yuan Shi's cheeks were slightly red, because his skin was cold white like porcelain, which made his face more like rouge.

Rong Ze also noticed that something was wrong, he thought about it carefully, and suddenly thought of some kind of almost absurd possibility.

"Tianzun..." He considered his words carefully, secretly glanced at his face, and said cautiously, "Aren't you...cough, you can't drink much?"

Speaking of which, in the past, he seldom served wine while cooking, and he had never seen Yuan Shi drink alcohol, so it was never clear how much he could drink.

But he thought, since Yuan Shi is an omnipotent and omniscient sage, he shouldn't be bad at drinking, so when he added rice wine to the noodles, he didn't even think about whether Yuan Shi could drink.

Feeling guilty, Rong Ze was about to apologize, but Yuan Shi stood up abruptly, left a sentence of "Excuse me", and left in a hurry.

"Tianzun..." Rong Ze stayed where he was, staring blankly at his back with a look of disappointment.

Is his best friend unhappy?

***

After Huang Longzi finished walking the noodles, he even drank the soup. He wiped his mouth contentedly, rubbed his stomach, and burped happily.

At this moment, he saw Rong Ze, who had left excitedly before, come back in a daze, still holding the food box in his hand, looking very shocked.

"Brother Rong, what's the matter with you?" Huang Long was shocked, and hurried forward, "Did someone bully you? Tell me, and I will support you."

Rong Ze just shook his head weakly, sighed heavily, and put the food box on the ground casually, making the sound of soup sloshing.

Seeing his appearance, Huang Long didn't dare to ask why he took the food box back as it was, and poured a glass of water for Rong Ze as if nothing happened, and handed it to him:

"Here, brother, you have been busy for a long time, drink some water to moisten your mouth."

"Thank you." Rong Ze thanked in a low voice, raised his head and gulped it down.

The sweet mountain spring slid over his burning throat, which calmed him down a little, and his mind was not so confused.

"Brother Huanglong, I have something to ask you." Rong Ze said seriously.

Huang Long sat upright, with an earnest expression: "You ask."

Rong Ze: "Heavenly Venerable...is he not good at drinking?"

"Master?" Huang Long was stunned and said in shock, "Could it be that the 'best friend' you mentioned is Master?"

Rong Ze looked listless: "Maybe not now."

Huang Long went in without knowing, thought for a while, and said: "Speaking of which, I don't seem to have seen Master drink alcohol, and no one dared to persuade him to drink." He even rarely participated in such gatherings.

"So you don't know?" Rong Ze was taken aback.

Huang Long nodded: "If I hadn't listened to my brother, I would still be in the dark."

Rong Ze felt a little better.But after thinking about it, as a chef, I don't even know what the diners have to avoid. It really shouldn't be.

***

Since Rong Ze came to Kunlun Mountains, every night he used his spiritual knowledge to make video calls with the Emperor and Queen of Heaven, telling them what interesting people and things they encountered today.

He likes the feeling of talking to his family, even if he didn't do anything today, it's good to listen to their voices and talk to them.

But this night, his call was half an hour late.It was only after seeing the call from Tianhou that Rong Ze remembered that he hadn't finished the necessary work.

"Father, mother and queen." Rong Ze tried his best to cheer up and greet the emperor and queen on the other side of the video.He thought he had successfully disguised himself, but Tianhou saw something wrong with him at a glance, and said in shock, "Ah Ze, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"

"No, nothing." Rong Ze didn't expect the empress mother's eyes to be so sharp, and quickly waved his hands, "Everything is fine, baby."

"No, you must have something on your mind." Tianhou said firmly.

"..." Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, Rong Ze had to admit, "It's actually because of..."

"What? Tianzun doesn't know how to drink?" The Emperor and Queen of Heaven exclaimed in unison.

Rong Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Father, Empress, do you want to be so overreacted?"

The Queen of Heaven sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect that Tianzun is such a Tianzun."

"..." Rong Ze said to himself, "Why does it sound weird?"

"Son, don't worry too much, Tianzun is a just person, and he won't hold grudges against you just because of such a trivial matter." Tianhou comforted him.

Rong Ze sighed, and said quietly: "Actually, I went to look for him again later."

"What did Tianzun say?" Tiandi asked hurriedly.

Rong Ze smiled wryly: "Tianzun refuses to see me."

"What?" Tianhou said in surprise, "As far as I know, Tianzun is not such a person who must be punished."

Rong Ze nodded: "I think so too, but Tianzun refuses to see me."

He couldn't help recalling the previous experience: he specially made hangover soup to find Yuanshi, but was stopped by the fairy crane boy guarding the gate of Yuxu Palace, saying that he was ordered by Tianzun, and no one would see him.

He thought, probably Yuan Shi was really angry.

"Is there some misunderstanding?" Heavenly Emperor guessed.

Rong Ze sighed again: "I hope so."

***

"Bangdang."

Outside Yuxu Palace, the Crane Boy who had been drowsy suddenly woke up instantly.

"Tianzun?" He held his breath and waited for a while, but he never got a reply.

Due to the majesty of Yuanshi, he didn't dare to break into the palace privately, thinking that this is in Kunlun Mountain, and Tianzun is a saint, so nothing will happen, so he stood back with peace of mind.

What he didn't see was that a strange beast with a snow-white body, long fur and nine tails flashed, and quickly disappeared into the clouds and mist.

***

Although he is already a golden fairy and does not need to eat or sleep, Rong Ze is still used to sleeping every night, and he always feels that he will be more energetic the next day.

He still lived in the same cave as before, and he woke up before dawn.

He didn't sleep well that night. He tossed and turned in the first half of the night and couldn't fall asleep. In the second half of the night, he finally fell asleep and had a nightmare all night.

The details in the dream were so clear, including Yuan Shi's angry expression, it was so real that it made one's scalp tingle.

He lay down for a long time before getting up slowly.

Xiao Xiaobai was still asleep in the nest next to him, seeing its peaceful sleeping face, he sighed softly.

It's great, I don't know anything, and I don't worry about it.

Rong Ze cleaned up and washed everything, walked out of the cave, the light was bright, subconsciously stretched out his hand to block it, and gradually opened his eyes after gradually adapting to the brightness.

He glanced at it inadvertently, and immediately froze in place, with blood rushing to his head, and he almost failed to stand still.

"Da, Dabai?" He raised his head in a strange posture, staring dumbfounded at the snow-colored figure on the treetop.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine tails, that's right, it's his big white!

He pinched his thigh hard, and the dull pain hit him, it was really not a dream.

Rong Ze was so excited that he covered his mouth and his chest heaved violently.

As if hearing his inner scream, the snow-haired beast lying quietly on the treetop slowly turned around, with round head, round brain and round ears, noble purple eyes, and a little confused eyes.

"Dabai, do you still know me?" Afraid of scaring the other party, Rong Ze tried his best to calm down and said in a gentle and cautious tone.

Lu Wu looked at him for a few seconds, and suddenly moved.

Rong Ze thought he was going to leave, but before it was too late to be disappointed, a white light flashed in front of his eyes, and he felt his shoulders sink.

It was only after he realized what had happened that he realized what had happened, and his heart was filled with ecstasy.

"Dabai, I miss you so much." He hugged the ball of fur with his hands behind his back and rubbed furiously, buried his face deeply in his long fur, and sucked heavily——

Wait a minute, how can there be wine smell?

Rong Ze raised his head in doubt, and carefully looked at the lost and recovered pet, only then did he realize that something was wrong.

The big white and beautiful purple eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and the pupils were slack.

He is no stranger to this appearance, when he once made rice wine, Dabai also behaved like this when he ate it.

So are you drunk?

Rong Ze felt a thought flash through his mind, he was about to catch it, but he felt damp and hot on his neck, looked down, it turned out that Dabai had licked him.

Although Luwu Beast has a tiger head and a tiger brain, it looks like a distant relative with tigers, but its tongue is extremely soft, not full of barbs like tigers.

Rong Ze felt a little itchy, he giggled and blocked it with his hand, but this action aroused Dabai's dissatisfaction, and he saw that his already round eyes widened even more, staring at Rong Ze with accusing eyes, as if saying: " how could you do this?"

Rong Ze felt guilty for a while, so he could only move his hand away embarrassingly, and coaxed: "Okay, okay, I'll lick it for you, I'll lick it for you, are you satisfied now?"

Dabai didn't move at all, and when he took a closer look, he had already fallen asleep.

"Stinky boy." Rong Ze cursed with a smile, but his hands and feet relaxed a lot.

……

Yuan Shi woke up to the clanging of pots and pans, his brows raised, and he opened his eyes suddenly.

This is?

He looked at the scene in front of him in shock——

Familiar scenery, familiar cauldron, and familiar person in charge.Everything is perfectly aligned with the scene in memory.

Just because it was so perfect, it frightened him instead.

Suddenly realizing something, he slowly lowered his head.

Then the dazzling snow color jumped into sight without warning.

"..."

Memories of before and after he passed out flooded his mind like a tide, his pupils constricted and trembled, and his heart trembled violently.

"Dabai, are you awake?" Rong Ze put down the spatula, walked over with a smile, bent down, and naturally stretched out his hands to hug him.

Yuan Shi didn't struggle, or he temporarily forgot about struggling. His mind was full of images after he transformed into Lu Wu Beast, and he felt that the world was collapsing rapidly.

Rong Ze didn't know the truth, hugged him and smiled, "Since you're awake, let's drink some hangover soup."

Rong Ze only felt that today's Dabai was very obedient, he opened his mouth when asked to open his mouth, and drank soup when asked to drink soup, even if the soup was a bit bitter, he still drank it without stopping.

"Dabai is so good." He rubbed his pet's head and took out a small biscuit, "Here, I'll reward you."

Yuan Shi gave him a complicated look, slowly lowered his head, and picked up the biscuit.

"Dabai, don't run around in the future, okay? Do you know how worried I was after you disappeared?" Rong Ze hugged him and chattered, telling him how much he missed after parting.

Yuan Shi looked down.

Rong Ze never said these words, he only knew that Rong Ze was very kind to "Dabai", but he didn't know that "Dabai" actually occupied such an important position in his heart.

He originally thought about finding an opportunity to leave without anyone noticing, so that no one would know that Yuanshi Tianzun had been accidentally drunk, and turned into Lu Wu after getting drunk, doing such a thing.

But now, he hesitated.

"So, you can't just disappear without saying a word in the future, you know?" Rong Ze shook his front paw, touching his not-so-soft paw pad with his palm, "Let's agree. "

Yuan Shi looked down at his paws, and then at the man who smiled like a spring breeze.

Did you agree...

"Ah, that's right!" Rong Ze slapped his forehead suddenly, put Yuan Shi down, and said to him, "Dabai, I'm going out now, you wait here obediently for me."

Yuan Shi was taken aback.

Rong Ze seemed to know what he was thinking, and explained: "I'm going to deliver some hangover soup to Tianzun."

The queen mother is right, Tianzun is not the kind of person who cares about every detail. He must have his reasons for not seeing him yesterday.

Rong Ze struggled all night, and decided to go to Yuxu Palace again, otherwise he couldn't let go.

Oh, and send him hangover soup.

Wait, give him hangover soup? !

The author has something to say: I feel like noodles are a bit like dumplings, and I have to eat them when I leave home during the holidays 23333

Note 1: Various meanings about lines and planes come from the network