Chapter 283

Luo Xiao didn't eat fruit and Gu Zheng didn't force it. He took an apple and bit it.

"That rabbit, I'm not going to use it for lunch, but for dinner."

Gu Zheng is telling the truth. He really plans to do so. This is not aimed at Luo Xiao. He was very lazy and didn't really plan to cook for lunch.

"Dinner?" Luo Xiao said with wide eyes.

"Yes, why are you so surprised? Want to change your mind?"

Gu Zheng thought Luo Xiao was going to change his mind, and his eyebrows had wrinkled.

The back of Shushan mountain is very big. Finding food is no better than traveling. It takes a lot of time. After leaving Tibetan sword peak for the road, Gu Zheng has told Luo Xiao that he hopes to spend two or three days looking for food materials this time, and just go back before the Shu ruins open. Luo Xiao has no opinion about this.

"No!"

Luo Xiao hurriedly explained, "you're just a good cook. Don't you just eat some fruit instead of cooking at noon?"

"I'm a good cook, but I'm lazy, so I'll eat it later in the evening."

Gu argued for a while and then said, "however, you can eat what I make. You just have to be responsible for cleaning up the rabbit, or picking up firewood to make a fire."

"I'll pick up firewood!"

Compared with picking up firewood, no girl was willing to pick up the rabbit. Luo Xiao immediately took action.

In fact, there is plenty of time to bake a rabbit. Gu Zheng doesn't need someone to fight. He just wants to see Luo Xiao's attitude now. It seems pretty good for the time being, at least without any complaints and hesitation.

After a while, the rabbit meat was roasted, and Luo Xiao ate the best barbecue in his life.

After sucking his fingers, Luo Xiao also spoke highly of Gu Zheng's cooking.

After eating the barbecue, the two decided to take a break before going on the road. The rest time is not too long, but it gives Gu Zheng a headache.

Luo Xiao seemed to have changed. He didn't speak with a thorn. He just pestered him and kept asking East and West.

Growing up in Shushan since childhood, Luo Xiao seldom goes out. She has gone out three times when she is so old. However, Shushan has special disciples who have joined the WTO. Those who are five away from the mountain always bring some information back. Therefore, Luo Xiao is not particularly closed to the outside information, but even so, she still can't compare with the ancient struggle living in the outside world.

Among the questions about ancient disputes, there are about the outside world. Although these are a little cumbersome, ancient disputes also answer truthfully. In addition, the most important thing Luo Xiao asked was about Gu Zheng. He asked him how to practice and what his footwork and swordsmanship were when he won? Ask him what he does outside besides being the leader? Ask him about cooking, and so on! When Luo Xiao asked Gu Zheng that he was not tired of it, he could only make an appointment with her. Don't ask him any more about him.

After the rest, they went on their way again, almost until dusk. During this period, nothing happened between Gu Zheng and Luo Xiao, but the ingredients were not as good as expected. In addition to harvesting more than a dozen second-class wild vegetables, the ordinary level did not get anything other than the previous "white jade plum".

"You don't have to be depressed. We haven't entered the back mountain yet. It's good that you can find these qualified ingredients. After all, there are often disciples here. Unless they don't know the ingredients, they rarely keep them for us to find. You can step into the back mountain tomorrow. You will certainly find a lot of high-grade ingredients by then!"

Knowing why Gu Zheng was depressed, Luo Xiao comforted him.

"It seems that the route needs to be changed. We can't go the way others have gone."

As Luo Xiao said, almost all the ingredients found by Gu Zheng are rare. And rarity does not mean high grade. It can only be said that there are few people who know them.

"Yes, but I'm not responsible for opening the way. You should be a big man."

"Don't worry, I didn't want to let you open the way."

After changing the route, Gu Zheng and Luo Xiao were far away from the narrow path leading to the back mountain.

It was getting dark and Gu Zheng's eyebrows were slightly wrinkled. It was reasonable to change the route. The harvest of food materials should be greater, but the result was no different from that before.

However, in this case, Gu Zheng has seen some problems. There are traces of "colorful feather finches" along the road, and even an ordinary "cloud fruit" has been found. Unfortunately, there is only a little residual meat left on this cloud fruit. From the traces left on it, it is obvious that it has been pecked by birds, and the footprints of colorful feather finches are left on the nearby ground.

Multicolored feather finches only eat these high-grade ingredients. This discovery has solved some doubts in Gu Zheng's heart. Originally, it thought that multicolored feather finches ate some natural and earth treasures, which makes them produce medium-quality eggs. Now it seems that this is not the case, The colorful feather finch's daily food is not so simple.

Unable to pick the desired ingredients, Gu Zheng immediately felt a little tired.

"Let's go into the bamboo forest. Let's spend the night in the bamboo forest tonight."

In front of them is a very large bamboo forest. The night wind blows the bamboo and makes a "rustling" sound. A unique fresh smell of the bamboo forest comes to our faces, and the sound of Twilight birds' chirping is swirling around them.

After entering the bamboo forest, Gu Zheng relaxed, stretched his arms from time to time, and the sound of breathing became louder.

"You enjoy it. Do you like bamboo?"

Luo Xiao also seemed to relax a lot. As soon as he entered the bamboo forest, he picked the tenderest bamboo leaves from the top of the bamboo branches and blew out bird like calls from time to time.

"I like bamboo, and I prefer the big bamboo forest. Such an environment can make people relax." Gu Zheng said slowly.

"I also like the bamboo forest, and the bamboo forest here can be described as a sea of bamboo, in which there is the delicious taste of" not seeing the sky ". However, it's a pity that it's not the time to dig" not seeing the sky "now!" Luo Xiao sighed.

"No sky?"

Gu Zheng's eyes brightened: "do you mean there is' no sky 'in this bamboo forest?"

Many people call the delicious winter bamboo shoots "not seeing the sky.". However, not all winter bamboo shoots are called "not seeing the sky." not seeing the sky refers to the kind of winter bamboo shoots in which the bamboo shoots are black and the meat is particularly white, tender and crisp.

"Not seeing the sky" is not common. It can be regarded as a variety of winter bamboo shoots. Where it will grow and what kind of bamboo forest it will grow in is a very random thing. Maybe you can't find one in the bamboo sea in the mountains. Maybe you can find three or five in an acre of bamboo forest in the countryside.

"Yes, there are 'no sky' here, and some can be found every year, which is not as rare as the outside world says." Luo Xiao affirmed.

Gu Zheng suddenly became interested. Although the growth of "not seeing the sky" was very random, there was a greater chance that there would be "not seeing the sky" in the bamboo forest that had not seen the sky, not to mention a sea of bamboo.

"What do you want to do with your shining eyes? It's not the time to dig 'not seeing the sky'. Even if you find it, 'not seeing the sky' is not fat enough, and the taste is much worse than that in winter!" Luo Xiao wondered.

"You're right, but I want to ask you, are you familiar with this bamboo sea?" Gu Zheng asked.

"I'm familiar with you. I often come here alone when I'm free."

"Have you ever seen dying bamboo, that is, bamboo with flowers and bamboo rice?"

The flowering of bamboo means that the life of bamboo is about to dry up, leaving only seeds to breed again. In such a beautiful place like Shushan, the life of bamboo must be very long. No two or three hundred years will not bloom, but once it blooms, the bamboo forest will die in pieces. After the flowers bloom, they form bamboo rice, the seed of bamboo. In legend, it is a food of Phoenix. Ancient Phoenix has no Phoenix Wutong, but not bamboo.

"Gu Zheng, I know, but I do know. If you want bamboo flowers or bamboo rice, I advise you not to think about it. These things are the food of colorful feather finches. Our Shushan disciples should guard them in advance if they want, otherwise they will eat them up."

"Luo Xiao, I don't want bamboo flowers or bamboo rice. Now take me to a place where there are bamboo flowers and bamboo rice."

In the face of Gu Zheng's request, Luo Xiao didn't say anything. They immediately accelerated their speed.

The place with bamboo flowers and bamboo rice can be regarded as the center of the whole bamboo sea. When Luo Xiao arrived with Gu Zheng, the moon had climbed very high.

Without the green along the way, many bamboos in front of us show withered yellow, some are still developing towards withered yellow, and one or two bamboo flowers are sporadically hung on the bamboo.

"You can have a rest first. We'll spend the night nearby tonight."

Gu Zheng explained in a hurry, and immediately began to shuttle through the withered bamboo.

"What are you looking for?"

Luo Xiao didn't find a place to rest, but followed Gu Zheng.

"I'm looking for 'no sky'!"

Gu Zheng didn't hide it, but still shuttled through the withered bamboo quickly.

"How can there be 'not seeing the sky'? The bamboo has withered. Even if there are small bamboo shoots underground, they are very thin. Even if there is' not seeing the sky ', the ingredients can't meet the requirements?" Luo Xiao said strangely.

"In common sense, this is really not the time to dig the 'invisible sky', but some things are beyond common sense. You know the 'invisible sky', but do you know the 'invisible sky' of purple bamboo shoot clothes? This special 'invisible sky' will only grow in the bamboo forest with ordinary 'invisible sky' and bamboo flowers and bamboo rice, and its taste is several times that of the ordinary 'invisible sky' , there are no four seasons. "

"Ah? 'not seeing the sky' still has purple? How come I've never heard of it?"

"Purple" no sky ", for the essence of dead bamboo, it will never be a head start, and hidden deep, if mature, if not found, it will slowly melt in the soil. This magical food, you have not heard of is not what a strange thing!

"Do you think you can find 'no sky' here?"

"I don't know, but it's always a little possible. Look around. Anyway, this bamboo forest is not big."

As soon as the voice of Gu Zheng fell, the sound of the spirit of the instrument sounded: "Purple doesn't see the sky. Ordinary ingredients are five meters in front of you on the left and three meters underground!"

Qi Ling's words made Gu Zheng's heart beat faster. Unexpectedly, there was really purple without sky here, and purple without sky. Among the same grade ingredients, it was definitely a very outstanding one.

A moment later, the whole bamboo forest was finished. Although the second purple tree was not found, Gu Zheng still hummed a small tune happily.

"What are you humming? Looking at your happy appearance, is it that you found purple and didn't see the sky?" Luo Xiao asked.

"I did find it, but we don't plan to go back now, so there's no need to dig it out now. Let it grow in the soil for another night and keep it fresh. In addition, you don't know that purple is not big. They are basically big like people. It's not convenient to dig it out now."

"Poof... Cough..."

Luo Xiao was drinking water. Gu Zheng's words choked her.

"You're not kidding, are you? A bamboo shoot as big as a person, or a purple one? Where does it weigh more than 100 kilograms?" Luo Xiao asked anxiously.

"Yes, there should be more than 130 Jin!"

Gu Zheng answered seriously. Luo Xiao was stunned and suddenly cheered: "we have found such a big and precious food. I really look forward to using his delicious food. What should it be? I really look forward to digging it out tomorrow. Gu Zheng, digging purple tomorrow doesn't see the sky. I must do it myself!"

It can be seen that Luo Xiao was really happy and jumped up like a little girl. She even asked to do things she didn't like to do this time. Is this really the excitement of the participants?

"Yes." Gu Zheng smiled and nodded. After all, she was still a child.

"Great, you wait first. I'll find some ingredients to come back. Let's continue to eat barbecue in the evening. Guess what ingredients I'm looking for? Give you a hint. It's unique in the bamboo forest. It's very delicious. It's much better than rabbit meat. It's almost the same size as rabbit. If you guess right, there's a prize!" Luo Xiao winked playfully.

"Bamboo mouse!"

Gu Zheng didn't hesitate too much and said his name directly. Luo Xiao didn't give much tips, but it was enough for Gu Zheng. Moreover, he had found traces of bamboo mice in the bamboo forest.

"Although it's not too unexpected, you're right after all. I'll show you my craft tonight! You don't care about anything, just wait to eat!"

Before Gu Zheng said anything more, Luo Xiao left happily.

After Luo Xiao left, Gu Zheng drew a circle on the ground with Xianli, scared away the small insect hidden under the bamboo leaves, and then lay down comfortably. Since Luo Xiao said he didn't need his help, he was free and even saved helping make a fire.

Biting a bamboo branch in his mouth and looking at the bright moon from the gap at the top of the bamboo, Gu Zheng thought of two things.

The first thing is that in addition to looking for some food materials, the ancient scramble to Houshan also has an important purpose, that is, to see the colorful feather Finch, to see how the common spirit bird produces medium-quality eggs, and whether it really eats any natural and local treasures.

However, what I saw along the way today made Gu Zheng deny his previous idea. It seems that colorful feather finches usually pay attention to diet, so they produce eggs higher than their own food grade.

The second thing is that after competing with Luo Xiao, Luo Xiao became very clever. This was originally a good thing, but Gu Zheng always felt that Luo Xiao became good a little too fast, which made him feel not so real. But if Luo Xiao shows an illusion, what does she really want to do?

Before Gu Zheng waited too long, Luo Xiao came back with a fat bamboo mouse.

The simple cooking utensils were brought by Gu Zheng. After Luo Xiao came back, he cut down two dead bamboos, quickly set up a simple stove, made a fire and boiled water, took off the hair of the bamboo mouse, opened the mouth and cleaned it up.

"You say you're lazy, but I'm even lazier. Only a few people have tasted my cooking. Even if my master Tastes my dishes, he wants to start for me."

The bamboo rat has been cleaned up. Luo Xiao cut several holes in the skin of the bamboo rat, put some seasoning and salt she brought on it and marinate it, then burn the fire and save enough bamboo charcoal to roast the bamboo rat later.

"One bamboo mouse is enough for both of us to eat. I didn't catch too much. Bamboo mice are game and belong to the sect, so even if you see them, you just don't see them!" Luo Xiao said.

"I know. I've seen bamboo mice on the road. I'm sure you won't let me catch it. I didn't ask."

"Gu Zheng, how on earth did you find the ingredients underground? Sometimes I just look at you and don't even squat down."

"Traditional Chinese medicine has' seeing, hearing, asking and cutting ', and I have several ways to find food. I can only tell you so much."

Gu Zheng gave a ha ha, but Luo Xiao gave him a white look and didn't continue to ask this topic about him.

"When you roast rabbits at noon, I also pay attention to it. It feels very incredible. The seasoning you use is only salt, but the taste of roast is so good. The bamboo mouse itself is better than the rabbit, and I have enough seasoning. I hope the roasted bamboo mouse will be better than your roast rabbit!"

As Luo Xiao said, the meat of bamboo mice is better than that of rabbits. Moreover, from the level of ingredients, bamboo mice are ordinary ingredients, and rabbits eaten at noon are second-class ingredients.

Luo Xiao also understands the importance of the quality of ingredients in a dish, so the grade of the spices she uses is also good.

Salt is the water in Shushan salt well. The grade of salt boiled by ancient method has reached ordinary, while those miscellaneous spices are slightly insufficient. Most of them are low-grade, and two flavors are inferior. As for the water used to wash and peel bamboo rats, it is a second-class mountain spring.

Unfortunately, Luo Xiao doesn't understand the grading of ingredients. She can only judge the quality of ingredients by experience. Otherwise, she would not add those low-grade spices. Using low-quality spices to marinate ordinary meat will only lower the taste of meat, but it's better not to use it.

The bamboo in the stove has become a charcoal fire. Luo Xiao puts the bamboo Mouse dressed in bamboo on the charcoal fire.

A moment later, the meat aroma of the bamboo mouse was forced out, and the subcutaneous fat was also roasted.

"Good!"

Gu Zheng nodded and appreciated that Luo Xiao knew how to control the barbecue with internal strength, and quite well locked the water on the bamboo mouse meat. Although this method is not as comprehensive as controlling the water, it can also make the meat of the bamboo mouse maintain a very fresh and tender taste.

"Hey, hey."

Luo Xiao smiled and continued to flip the bamboo mouse to keep its heating surface uniform.

The smell of bamboo and mouse meat is getting stronger and stronger, and the epidermis also presents a uniform burnt yellow. The oil is no longer dripping. It's time to be successful.

"Here you are!"

Luo Xiao handed the cut bamboo rat to Gu Zheng with a string of bamboo sticks.

"It's really good. Maybe it's because of my extra care this time. This is the best bamboo mouse I baked. It's not greasy at all. The skin has a chewy head, the meat is tender and melts at the entrance. People can't stop because of the full tulips!"

With a mouthful of bamboo mouse meat, Luo Xiao looked at Gu Zheng with endless aftertaste: "how do you feel?"

Gu Zheng swallowed the bamboo rat meat in his mouth: "It's tender inside and scorched outside. It tastes good. However, it's a little too water locked. The meat is tender, but the smell of carbon roast doesn't force much into it. As for the smell, the meat smell becomes stronger because of adding those spices to enhance the taste, but because of this, the bamboo rat meat has been covered up with a faint bamboo fragrance! Different people see different people, different people see different wisdom, maybe in the future In your opinion, the roasted bamboo mouse with strong flavor is better! "

"Yes, you're right. Since it's a carbon roasted bamboo rat, the roasted aroma really shouldn't just stay on the skin, and there are some such aromas in the meat. As for whether it's light flavor or strong flavor, I prefer light flavor, but you know, game generally has a unique body flavor. Usually, I have to soak it for an hour. I think about it early today If you order it to eat, you don't spend time soaking it. Instead, you use spices to suppress it. "

Facing Luo Xiao's words, Gu Zheng just nodded slightly and concentrated on tasting the bamboo mouse. In fact, in addition to those defects, the bamboo mouse baked by Luo Xiao tastes very good.

Seeing Gu Zheng's silence, Luo Xiao said again, "how does your fried colorful feather finch egg taste? Compared with this carbon roasted bamboo mouse?"

"It's not the same food, and I can't compare it to a specific one. I can only say that if the colorful feather finch eggs are put together with the carbon roasted bamboo mouse, I can only choose one of them. Even if the carbon roasted bamboo mouse is made by myself, I will choose the colorful feather finch eggs without hesitation."

Gu Zheng sighed a little. Colorful feather finch eggs are medium-sized food after all. The taste is really great.

"Is it so exaggerated? I have fried colorful feather finch eggs, which are not as delicious as the carbon roasted bamboo mouse I made." Luo Xiao wondered.

Zheng frowned: "you didn't fry it?"

"How can it be? Although my cooking can't be compared with yours, it's not that I can fry an egg and paste it!"

Luo Xiao looked at Gu Zheng for some reason, and Gu Zheng murmured, "what's the situation? Shouldn't it be! Is the colorful feather bird egg eaten before special? The normal colorful feather bird egg doesn't have that grade?"

"I've always heard you say the grade, but you don't say anything specific. But I can tell you that the colorful feather finch eggs you eat should be special. Although the taste of colorful feather finch eggs is good, they are still worse than bamboo mice!"

Looking at Luo Xiao's positive eyes, Gu Zheng's brain flashed.

"Is there nothing wrong with the initial guess? Did the colorful feather finch really eat some kind of natural material and earth treasure, and then have a medium-quality egg?"

Gu Zheng thought about things in his heart, while Luo Xiao spoke again: "Anyway, I'll come with you this time to see if the last pair of colorful feather finches have laid eggs. If they have laid eggs, I'll take one away. I'll fry the eggs at that time. You'll know if your eggs are special. After all, according to your description, the fried eggs I've eaten are not in the same grade as yours. According to your food grade , a simple fried egg with a different grade, just the level of cooking, won't have such a big difference in taste? "

Luo Xiao's words made Gu Zheng nod, but she didn't understand. Gu Zheng didn't need to taste the grade of the ingredients. As long as he saw the colorful feather bird eggs, he knew whether it was the grade he had eaten.

Without a word overnight, Luo Xiao and Gu Zheng were on their way before dawn the next day.

In order to verify the colorful feather finch eggs, Gu Zheng didn't deliberately look for food materials on the road to waste time. Anyway, these pairs of spirit birds are there. In addition to the food materials hidden deep underground, it must be difficult to find ordinary level on the surface.

The speed of the journey accelerated. At dawn, Luo Xiao and Gu Zheng came to the habitat of colorful feather finches.

This is a relatively empty place in the mountains. On the five tall Indus trees, there are five colorful bird feathers built by branches. The Wutong trees stand head and shoulders above others, but they are not very low. They are very low. They make five Indus trees look like they stand out.

Five pairs of colorful finches are in their nests. Among them, four little colorful finches, which have hatched, chirp when they see someone coming under the tree.

As the spirit bird of Shushan sect, colorful feather finches are not afraid of people, but if they know that the eggs they laid have been tasted by two people standing under the tree, they don't know how to feel.

"Cluck..."

A colorful finch made a strange cry, and its face turned red, just like a chicken to lay eggs.

"Good luck. The last colorful feather finch is laying eggs. I will take it away as soon as possible and save it from falling into the hands of elder Hu." Luo Xiao said excitedly.

"How do you collect colorful feather finches' eggs? Will these colorful feather finches watch you take away the eggs?"

Gu Zheng doesn't know much about colorful feather finches, but he can see a sense of intelligence from the eyes of colorful feather finches, which shows that these seemingly harmless birds actually have a certain combat effectiveness.

"They certainly won't watch people take eggs, but we have ways to control them."

As soon as Luo Xiao spoke, he immediately looked at Gu Zheng without trace. Fortunately, Gu Zheng just looked at the colorful feather finches that were going to lay eggs in the tree and didn't pay attention.

The two stood under the tree for three minutes. The multicolored finch that was about to lay eggs was more and more anxious and painful. Gu struggled to understand what was going on. It was "dystocia" on people. Even on chickens, this happened from time to time. However, their "dystocia" is not as terrible as anyone. There will be no death. It's just that it's more painful and the process of laying eggs lasts longer.

The sound of wings flapping sounded, and the male multicolored finch that had never appeared appeared appeared. After it flew to the nest, the painful female multicolored finch immediately opened her mouth at it, just like a bird waiting for feeding.

Although the height of Wutong tree is not high enough, it is less than ten meters. After swallowing the liquid, the female bird shouted loudly, as if relieved, and immediately lay down in the nest.

Although Gu Zheng could not see the situation in the nest, he also understood that it was the saliva sent by the male that made the female lay eggs that had been difficult to lay!

"The water source is medium, and the quality of eggs is medium."

In Gu Zheng's mind, the sound of the spirit sounded.

For a moment, Gu Zheng's eyes widened the most: "medium water source, how is this possible?"

"It's impossible under normal circumstances, but what if it's not normal? Don't forget the Millennium snow lotus seed you got during your trip to Tianshan Mountain. It's also not a product under normal circumstances." the tool Spirit said slowly.

"Now the first egg has come out. As long as the second egg comes out, I can take the egg."

As soon as Luo Xiao's voice of talking to herself fell, the female bird made a different sound again, and it began to lay eggs again. Moreover, this time it is still "dystocia.".

The sound of wings waving sounded, the male bird flew away again, and Gu Zheng immediately ran with him.

"Where are you going?"

"Follow up and see what water the male bird brought back!"

After hearing Gu Zheng's explanation, Luo Xiao immediately followed up.

The two men chased the male bird and ran for five minutes to a gully.

There are lush vegetation on the mountains on both sides, and there are patches of exposed rocks in the gully. There are traces of running water on the ground, and many stone pools formed in the rocks. These stone pools are as small as cattle, and the big ones are like a room.

"Eh, this' Qingliu stream 'has been dry for many years. How can there be water now?" the scene in front of Luo Xiao couldn't help but make a voice of doubt.

Although water appeared again in the dried up stream, it was not like a normal stream. Looking at the top of the gully, there was no stream flowing down, and the male colorful finch was drinking at the mouth of a stone pond above Gu Zheng and others.

Gu Zheng and Luo Xiao went up along the gully and soon came to the place where colorful feather finches drank water. This is also the source of all water sources in the gully.

In the huge stone pool, the water overflows when it is full, trickles down, and the bottom can be seen when it is clear.

"The source of the earth's spring" is a medium water source. It occurs randomly and randomly, and it dries up within fifteen days after emergence. It condenses the essence of the source of the earth's water.

The sound of the spirit sounded in Gu Zheng's mind, and Gu Zheng even asked, "spirit, can this water be collected into the wasteland space?"

"Of course, I'll help you build a pool in the desolate space. You can take as much as you have this medium quality water!"

Qiling also seemed very happy and took the initiative to give convenience. It hopes that guzheng's strength will be strengthened quickly. With so many medium-quality water, guzheng has been able to use it for a long time. Although guzheng can improve the quality of water, there are still some differences between the promoted medium-quality water and the original medium-quality water. This difference can play some role in making food repair and immortal wine.