Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 6 Jiangwei Pavilion

Before Lu Zhong reached the Jiangwei Pavilion, he could already smell the aroma of wine and meat coming out of it.

As the most high-end restaurant with a radius of [-] miles, Jiangwei Pavilion has always been the best choice for the monks of Qingliu Market to invite friends and entertain guests. There are many famous dishes in it, and they can also provide food and wine made by spiritual food.

Spiritual food, as the name suggests, is food with spiritual energy.

For example, Lingmi, chicken, duck, fish, pig, etc...

The way for monks to increase their cultivation is not only to meditate and practice hard to absorb spiritual energy, but also to take some spiritual things to increase spiritual power.Compared with the accumulation of erysipelas after taking elixir, and the drunkenness and unconsciousness of drinking spirit wine all day long, enjoying spiritual food can not only improve cultivation, but also a kind of adjustment for the boring life of cultivation.

The spiritual food that has been carefully cooked by the spiritual chef has almost no side effects.

At the same time, the efficacy of the ingredients themselves will be adjusted to the extreme, and eating them will be of great benefit to monks.

Many monks who are stuck in the bottleneck period, when they cannot rely on their own strength to break through, some will grit their teeth and take out a sum of spirit stones to eat a meal of spirit rice, spirit vegetables and spirit wine, hoping to break through the bottleneck.

However, Lu Zhong was stopped by someone before he reached Jiangwei Pavilion.

Three figures came out from the side ground, the leader was a big man in soap clothes wearing bunts, his body was full of muscles, he looked like an iron tower, and his cultivation base had reached the fourth level of Qi Refining.

The big man in soap clothes was invited by Jiangwei Pavilion, named Wei Tie, and his duty was to maintain the stability of this place. Seeing Lu Zhong coming with a big rag bag, he was naturally obliged to come out and ask.

Looking up and down at Lu Zhong, feeling that this person will not pose any threat, Wei Tie said in a low voice:

"Stop, what are you here for?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhong quickly laughed and said, "I just caught a big fish, and I want to sell it to an expensive restaurant!"

As he spoke, he also uncovered a corner of the rag, revealing the weird fish head inside.

When Wei Tie saw the weird fish head, he couldn't help feeling a little curious, but when he realized that the fish didn't have a trace of aura, he immediately lost the slightest interest.

For him who is obsessed with cultivation, everything without aura is no different from dust.

"Let's go, if it's not a spirit fish, would you mind taking it?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhong couldn't help being disappointed, but he just came here to try his luck.

Right now, even the Jiang Wei Pavilion can't be entered, and naturally there's no way to talk about selling fish.

At this moment, a familiar voice sounded from behind him.

"Fellow Daoist!"

Lu Zhong turned his head and found that it was the Li Guanshi he saw yesterday.

The position of steward can be big or small.

He didn't know the energy of Guanshi Li, but since the other party called him, why not wait a while?

There was a sound of footsteps approaching, Li Guanshi politely cupped his hands towards Lu Zhong, and said: "This fellow Taoist, can you let me have a look at your fish?"

Seeing Lu Zhong nodding, he unceremoniously lifted off the rag.

"Well, it's a rare snake fish." Li Guanshi muttered to himself, his expression unsatisfactory, "Although it's just a mortal fish, it's a bit strange that it can grow to five feet in length. It will also become tighter because of this..."

Li Guanshi's name is Li Yuan, and he is a steward of Jiangwei Pavilion.

Recently, he finally managed to climb up to a nobleman, that nobleman never tires of eating, eating, and eating, and is very good at fresh food from the river.

Yesterday's peach blossom mandarin fish was full of praise after the nobleman tasted it.

Everything should be done while the iron is hot, Li Yuanben was still worried about how to continue to please him, but he didn't expect another strange fish to come to his door right now.

This snake fish is only produced in the Lijiang River. Although it is not a spiritual fish, it is no less rare than the peach blossom mandarin fish.

Especially for such a huge individual, it is even rarer.

Sometimes, eating is not the most important taste, and it is good to taste something new.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan decided to accept the snake fish, so he said to Lu Zhong: "This Yujiang flavor pavilion is accepted, as for the fish money... I will give you fifty talismans, would you like?"

Fifty runes?

Lu Zhong was stunned for a moment, then nodded excitedly.

He didn't expect that a mere mortal fish could be sold for such a high price!

Fifty talismans is a lot of money, and normally you have to sell at least twenty-five cleaning talismans to earn it.

But now, you can get it by selling a fish.

That being the case, how can there be any reason not to agree?
Soon, money and goods will be settled.

Holding the fifty talismans, Lu Zhong felt as sweet as drinking honey water.

Not far after he walked out of Jiangwei Pavilion, he heard a cry of selling in the distance.

"Selling spirit rice, selling spirit rice!"

A cart was slowly pushed from the end of the street. There was a large wooden barrel on the cart. At this moment, warm white air was still escaping, and a unique fragrance of Lingmi came out from it.

The food seller is an old man with gray temples. He is dressed in linen clothes, which are pale but clean after washing.

The old man's cultivation base is the same as that of Lu Zhong, and he is also at the first level of Qi refining.

If there is no accident, the old man is expected to have five spiritual roots.

Seeing Lu Zhong's eyes, the old man stopped the car and said with a chuckle, "Fellow Taoist, would you like to try my spiritual rice? It's not expensive, and it's only a penny for a bowl."

"One rune of money?" Lu Zhong felt a little unbelievable.

The price of Lingmi is not cheap, even the worst Qinghe Lingmi would cost at least ten runes per catty.

In other words, it is impossible for a bowl of Lingmi to only sell for one rune.

As if seeing the doubts on Lu Zhong's face, the old man explained with a smile: "I mixed half of Fanmi in this Qingheling rice, so the price can only be reduced to one penny. With the skills I learned from helping the chef in Jiangwei Pavilion, this meal can barely be regarded as a spiritual food."

Hearing his explanation, Lu Zhong couldn't help becoming interested.

Then he took out a talisman paper from his pocket and handed it to the old man, and said with a light smile, "Give me a bowl!"

"Okay!" The old man smiled openly after receiving the money, and immediately lifted the lid of the wooden barrel, revealing three wooden barrels, one large, two small, and three inside.

He first took out a clean wooden bowl from the white cloth bag, then dug out a spoonful of light green rice in a slightly larger wooden barrel with a wooden spoon, and added the side dishes in the two small wooden barrels. Fragrant pickled bacon with pickled vegetables and extremely crisp pickled radish.

After receiving this bowl of rice, Lu Zhongguang swallowed wildly when he smelled it.

Grabbing a mouthful of rice, his eyes widened.

"It's delicious! It's glutinous and delicious, but also mellow and slightly sweet..."

Lu Zhong had heard people say before that this Qinghe Lingmi tasted like grass seeds, rough and hard to swallow.

If it didn't contain aura, no one would eat it.

Unexpectedly, after the old man used the skills he learned to make the spiritual food from the green grass rice, the taste of the spiritual rice changed so much.

"It's not unreasonable for a spirit chef to become one of the best cultivators by turning decay into magic."

Lu Zhong felt that he could fill his stomach just by eating this rice.

When this spirit rice is paired with two good side dishes, the taste is not to mention, it is worthy of the skill learned by Jiangwei Pavilion.

Lu Zhong finished a bowl of rice directly, showing an expression of unfinished content.

I thought about buying another bowl, but held back.

It's not easy to make money right now, if he can't make up the rent at the end of the month, then he will be kicked out of the Green Willow Market and reduced to a down-and-out rogue cultivator, and his situation will be even more miserable than it is now.

Smiling embarrassedly, Lu Zhong returned the bowl and chopsticks.

He continued to walk towards his humble little den, but after a few steps, he slapped his head in frustration.

"My brain, I forgot to take that fish!"

I quickly turned back to the small sampan at the pier, but fortunately no one found the fish in the fish cabin.

Carried back and prepared to cook a pot of fresh fish soup.

　Thank you Demon Master Kunpeng for your reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)