Little Life on An American Ranch Chapter 214

  Chapter 214 Octopus

  Jian Heng motioned for the old man to sit down, while he walked out of the kitchen to prepare some snacks and wine.

At this point in time, Jian Heng didn't have the time to prepare some big dishes, but fortunately, there was marinated beef in the kitchen, so he cut a small plate, then boiled peanuts, peeled four preserved eggs, and stretched them on the plate with a thread , pour vinegar and get a little chopped pepper sauce, and forget about it.

   While Jian Heng was busy, the old man walked in, watched Jian Heng busy for a while, and asked Jian Heng, "Is there any fish?"

   "What?" Jian Heng didn't understand at once, so he put down the work in his hand and turned around to ask.

  The old man Yao said: "Is there any fish, it's better to be big. I'll make you my best fish cake!"

   "You mean sashimi?" Jian Heng asked.

   Seeing the old man nodding his head, Jian Heng quickly shook his head: "I don't eat raw food, let alone me, my pets don't even eat raw food!"

  After hearing this, the old man looked down at his feet on the ground, stretched out his hand, sniffed his nose and picked Pooh on the edge of the console, and asked, "Is this the bear you trained?"

Without waiting for Jian Heng's answer, the old man Yao reached out and touched Pooh's head. Pooh is not interested in paying attention to an old man now. His nose is full of the smell of beef and peanuts at the moment, so he has no time to care about it. An old man with his own forehead, not to mention that the old man is not malicious.

   "Your lion training is a bit bad!" After the old man finished speaking, he followed up: "The bear training is also average."

   "It seems like you know how to train," Jian Heng rebuked him.

  The old man Yao said: "I don't know how to train, but I have heard that the suzerain of the sect can control beasts into soldiers. You are too far behind."

"I'm not interested in being the master of the Mausoleum, I'm just curious about the story you told. You guys claim to be the descendants of the king of Shang. You have been thinking about the plan to resume business for thousands of years, but you have never succeeded. ?" Jian Heng reached out and picked up the lid of the pot, looked at the peanuts inside, and asked at the same time.

  The old man Yao asked: "How do you know we haven't succeeded?"

   "Oh?" Jian Heng didn't even have any interest in looking at the old man. He picked up the spoon at hand, scooped up a little bit of the soup in the pot, and tasted it. He felt that the taste was still good, so he covered the pot again.

  The old man Yao also seemed to find this topic quite embarrassing, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "You cook peanuts like this, it's hard to taste!"

   "Then what can I do, just cook it and eat it in this little time, and open your mouth to meet so many requirements" Jian Heng said.

  The old man Yao opened his mouth and asked, "Is there any fishing rod?"

   "What do you want to do?" Jian Heng asked.

   "Fishing! It's better to go home and sleep if you don't have wine!" said the old man Yao.

   "Eat raw fish often, sooner or later you will have a big belly and get sick!" Jian Heng and the old man Yao said in the utility room, and then continued.

Hearing Jian Heng tell the location, the old man Yao raised his feet and went to the utility room. When he reached the door, he heard Yao Lao's voice: "If I can get infected with parasites by eating a fish, then I can live like this How old are you?"

   Jian Heng ignored him and continued to cook his own peanuts.

   Almost half an hour later, Jian Heng saw that the old man hadn't come back, and wondered if the old man had fallen into the river, or something had happened. After all, it's very cold now.

  Thinking of this, Jian Heng couldn't help becoming worried, immediately put on his coat, and walked towards the lake. Jian Heng's house is not far from the lake, which is about four or five hundred meters away. After walking for a while, he saw the old man Yao got a chair, sat on a big rock by the lake, and was concentrating on fishing. fish.

   Walking to the old man's side, Jian Heng felt the cold wind go straight into his clothes, rolled up his sleeves and squatted next to the old man: "The peanuts are cooked, don't catch any fish, it's very cold."

  As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a clatter, bypassed the old man, and found a large bucket in his left hand, and now there was a herring about five catties in the bucket.

   "Hey! There is such a big fish?" Jian Heng felt a little unbelievable, why is there such a big fish in his own lake? Counting from the day the fish was released, it has only been almost two months now, how could the fish grow so big.

  The old man Yao continued to concentrate on fishing, and said softly: "This one is a bit small, and the one just now was half as big as this one. It's a pity that your fishing rod is not good!"

   "I can't pull out **** at home, I think it's crooked!"

  Jian Heng gave the old man a very vulgar remark.

The old man Yao was not affected by Jian Heng, and continued to look at the night lights in the lake, and suddenly said: "Jianzong and Gaozong each have a book by Qianzong, I just called to ask, and they said that as long as you can prove You belong to the Emperor's sect, and they will return these two books to you, the Emperor's sect!"

  As soon as he heard the old man talking about books, Jian Heng couldn't help but think of the manual in his own space, things that looked like paper but not paper, things that looked like silk but not silk, and the strange words on it.

   "Book?" Jian Heng couldn't make up his mind for a while.

  Old man Yao hummed: "Book, a book with strange characters. Many people have studied it for a long time, but they don't know what is written on it. The characters are very strange, like Xiaozhuan, but they are not. It seems plausible and has no clue at all...".

While talking, the old man looked at Jian Heng from the corner of his eye, saw what he said, Jian Heng didn't have an overly surprised expression on his face, so he guessed that the young man in front of him probably knew this things, or have directly seen another book.

  Weighed it in his heart, Jian Heng asked: "Can I have a look?"

   "It's very simple, teach us the secret of longevity!" said the old man Yao.

   "What?" Jian Heng opened his eyes wide, looked at the old man Yao and said, "Is there a way to live longer? Didn't you say that you have lived a long time?"

   "It is said that the suzerain of the Qianzong sect was disease-free and lived a long life. Each of them lived for two years! And each of them died without disease. We hope to obtain this secret method of longevity and disease avoidance," the old man said.

  Jian Hengting blinked his eyes, and said very simply: "I won't!"

  The old medicine man turned his head and looked at Jian Heng, this time with begging in his eyes: "You won't suffer! Two volumes of books are replaced with one medicine, and there is no need to give a prescription, just take the medicine!"

   "Hahaha!" Jian Heng laughed a few times, looked at the old man Yao and said, "I just said not long ago that I am not afraid of death, but now I want to live longer?"

   "I didn't say I want it!" The old man Yao sighed: "Many of the children in these cases are born with diseases and weak bodies, and we have nothing else to do!"

   "You are so powerful, the child is sick?" Jian Heng was a little confused.

   "A few cases have always been about intermarriage, and you are not allowed to marry outsiders!" said the old man Yao.

  Hearing what he said, Jian Heng understood that even if there were hundreds or thousands of people in this group at the beginning, over the past few thousand years, after intermarriage, they became close relatives even if they were not close relatives. Jian Heng doesn't know which book it is in, or someone has heard that children born to close relatives are either geniuses or idiots, and the probability of idiots or sick children is far higher than that of geniuses. probability.

   No need to ask, this group of people has given birth to many sick children, waiting for the so-called suzerain of the shackles to save them.

  It's not that Jian Heng doesn't want to save Guan Jian, but Jian Heng himself doesn't know how to save him. Isn't this embarrassing?

   "I really don't know how to save it! The old guy who taught me never mentioned this at all." Jian Heng shifted the responsibility to the old guy who didn't exist and died.

Looking straight into Jian Heng's eyes for about two seconds, the old man Yao suddenly seemed to be ten years older, but he saw that Jian Heng was not lying. He didn't know the secret of longevity, so he was stunned for about three Only then did Min Min open his mouth and said: "I believe in you, it may be that we are bound to have this calamity!"

   After speaking, the old man put away the pole: "Don't fish, just eat it!"

  Suddenly lost hope, the old man simply put away the pole and picked up the bucket, and walked back without waiting for Jian Heng.

  Jian Heng followed behind the old man and returned to the house.

  The old man entered the house, put the fishing rod first, then carried the fish into the kitchen with the gills clasped, while Jian Heng leaned at the door to watch the old man take care of the fish.

I have to say that old man Yao's knife skills are really awesome. It took only two or three minutes for a five-pound herring to be scaled and cut into thin slices like cicada wings in his hands. Almost stared down.

After the fish was finished, the old man washed his hands, took two small bowls, poured a little soy sauce into each small bowl, then added a little cold water, poured a drop of sesame oil into each bowl, and finally poured it from his own I took out a small plastic bottle from my pocket, which contained brown powder, a bit like five-spice powder. I sprinkled some in each of the two small bowls, shook it a few times, and served it on the table.

   "Try it!"

The two sat face to face at the small table in the restaurant, the old man Yao gestured to the fish he made, and after speaking, he picked up a chopstick and dipped it in the small bowl in front of him, put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and felt happy chewed up.

"forget it!"

  Although he saw that he ate deliciously, when Jian Heng thought of the big belly disease, he immediately didn't want to try it. He felt that it would be better for him to just drink a little wine and eat peanuts.

   "He doesn't know what's good, so come on!" The old man smiled and picked up a paper-thin fish fillet with chopsticks, dipped it on Pooh's head.

  When Pooh saw the food, he opened his mouth naturally, and the old man let go of the old man's hand, and the fish fell into the bear's mouth.

Ok! Ok!

   After taking the first bite of fish, Pooh showed an extremely restless state. He stretched out his front paws and wanted to climb up the table to grab the fish on the plate.

  Jian Heng looked curious, and finally couldn't help but put a chopstick in his hands. Worried, he deliberately put it in front of his eyes, looked left and right for a while, then dipped it in the juice, and then put it in his mouth.

Depend on!

As soon as the fish was in his mouth, Jian Heng immediately realized how delicious it was. Jian Heng had eaten good ones here, but he had never eaten such fresh food, without any fishy smell, and the mouth-like fish meat was like jelly The same, extremely smooth, the tongue is broken when stirred, and the indescribable fragrance goes straight into the throat and stomach.

   "How can it taste so delicious?" Jian Heng asked.

   "The fish here is seven points, and my seasoning is three points!" The old man tasted the fish in his mouth happily, and said leisurely: "The world is rare! The ancients did not deceive me!"

After the first chopsticks are eaten, Jian Heng will not care about any parasites next time, pair a chopstick with a cup of small wine, the aroma of the wine and fresh fish, the taste is really incomparable, Jian Heng can't even find it Words to describe.

  (end of this chapter)

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