I didn't intend to become a fairy

Chapter 376
The old inn feels like dust is falling on the head.

The store owner is not young anymore, and he waits by the side with a rag.

"Is there glutinous glutinous rice in the store? Niang Niang?"

"But wine and rice porridge?"

The shopkeeper listened attentively to his words, and replied with a very strong local accent.

Song You also thought about it after listening: "But the kind that can get drunk?"

"How can that thing be intoxicating? No matter how much you eat, you won't get drunk, unless the little baby eats too much..."

"That's it."

"Just wine and rice porridge?"

"Let's cook a bowl and put two poached eggs in it. Does the store know how to do this?" Song You was going to unlock a new way of eating for his Sanhua Empress.

"I know I know..."

"How to collect money?"

"Two eggs? With or without sugar?"

"Two eggs, with sugar."

"Sugar is expensive recently, and I charge fifteen Wen."

"Cook a bowl."

"Just eat this?"

"Are there any special dishes here?" Song You asked him, "Is there something delicious that is only available here and not found in other places?"

"Cat ears!"

"!"

Mistress Sanhua, who was squatting at the Taoist's feet, lowered her head and licked her hands and washed her face seriously, was taken aback for a moment, and stared blankly at the store, forgetting to put her paws down.

Song You was also taken aback.

"Cat ears?"

"Hahaha……"

The shopkeeper grinned, missing a few teeth: "It's made of flour, cat ears, such a big one..."

The shopkeeper gestured at the size of the fingernails.

Only then did Song You smile, and the cat then looked away and continued to lick its paws.

"How to collect money?"

"Boiled in water with soy sauce and vinegar, it's only twelve renminbi, and fried with toppings, it's only twenty renminbi, a big bowl."

"I want a bowl of stir-fry."

"okay……"

The shopkeeper said a word and walked back.

The poached eggs with fermented glutinous rice came up first.

The store is very honest, and it may be because the elders took care of the Taoist. Although Song You only wanted two eggs, he also brought a large bowl with enough fermented glutinous rice.

"brush!"

The cat jumped on the table and stared straight at him.

Song You took out the spoon first, scooped up a spoonful of soup, took two breaths, and put it in his mouth.

"Suck it..."

The cat stared at him without blinking.

Eyes seem to speak.

Song You did receive her meaning.

"good to eat."

Song You replied: "But the sweetness is very weak."

This was expected.

Song You took out a jar from the bag, which was filled with soft, white and yellowish sugar, which was white sugar.

But he was not in a hurry to put it down, but took out the small bowl of Sanhua Niangniang from the bag, first scooped a poached egg in it, then scooped most of the fermented glutinous rice in the bowl, and finally scooped soup to fill it Full.

"The cooked fermented glutinous rice is less toxic, so Empress Sanhua can eat a big bowl."

"?"

The cat looked down at the bowl, then looked up at him again, and slowly tilted its head—her own bowl is so small, half of which is filled by a poached egg, how can it be called a big bowl?Isn't it still only half a bowl?
"After Mistress Sanhua finishes eating, you can give Mistress Sanhua another bowl." The Taoist said helplessly, then scooped a spoonful of sugar from the jar and put it into a small bowl.

The cat watched his movements closely, and raised its head slightly following his movements.

"Enough, it must be sweet."

"Meow!"

"Children can't eat too much sugar. Besides, we don't bring a lot of sugar. We may only be able to buy brown sugar until we reach Yangdu. Mistress Sanhua should save some." Song You said while using Spoon and stir in Sanhua Niangniang's small bowl.

He paused and thought for a while.

I wanted to add "and this kind of sugar is very expensive". I thought that if I said that, Mistress Sanhua would definitely be persuaded, but after thinking about it, I still didn't say it. I just said to her: "You can go to the wild to get honey. Let's see what Empress Sanhua is capable of."

Empress Sanhua was good at accepting advice, but when he put away the candy, she meowed again.

"I don't love sweets as much as Empress Sanhua, as long as a little sweetness is enough." Song You slowly pushed the small bowl to her, which was full of poached eggs and fermented glutinous rice, "Be careful of burning."

"..."

The cat stared at him for a long time, then came over, approached to test the temperature of the fermented glutinous egg, smelled it again, and stuck out its tongue to lick it.

"how?"

"Woooooooo..."

The cat ate it while it was hot.

This bowl of hot fermented glutinous rice brought her a whole new experience.

At this time, the shopkeeper came again with a bowl.

"The cat ears are here!"

Empress Sanhua also stopped her movements, raised her head, and looked at the bowl brought by the store.

"Yo!"

The shopkeeper smiled, put down the bowl, and looked at the Sanhua cat who was eating: "Did you order the wine, rice and eggs specially for the cat?"

"She loves this."

"Mister is good to cats!"

"Thanks to her traveling the world with me, I can't treat her badly."

"Where is sir from?"

"Come to Yizhou..."

Song You answered while looking at the cat ears served by the store.

It is a bowl full of small pasta.

It looks like the pasta was cut into dices the size of a fingernail, and then squeezed with your fingers. The pasta is curled up, and it is not much bigger than a fingernail. There are lines on it, which come from nowhere. It is slightly translucent after cooking. , It really looks a bit like the ears of small animals, maybe it is called this name because of the similar shape.

Also a full bowl with toppings on top.

It looks smooth and firm.

Song You mixed it well and took a sip.

Sure enough, it is smooth and chewy, and the taste is very good.

Song You scooped up a spoonful and handed it to the cat: "Cat's ears, Empress Sanhua, would you like to try it?"

The cat immediately shrank its neck back, stared at the spoon he handed over, said nothing, just turned its head away from the spoon, and then lowered its head to eat its own fermented glutinous eggs.

"Hehehe..."

The shopkeeper watched from the side and smiled.

When I'm older, I'd like to watch these too.

There was no one in the store now, so he just sat down at the next table, turned sideways to the Taoist, chatted with him, asked him what he was doing here, where he was going, and talked about some fairy tales with him.

Song You is also willing to chat with him.

After eating half of a bowl of cat's ears, Song You also got to know the shop owner quite well, so he complimented him: "The shop's craftsmanship is really good..."

"Hey, we're a small place. There's nothing delicious, just these few things. I'm very hungry after eating these things. Just get used to it, sir."

"On the way down, I heard a rumor." Song You stopped temporarily and said, "It is said that a long time ago, there was a water god in the Yinjiang River, and the water god had something that was given to him. I will deal with this kind of thing I'm most interested, I wonder if the store has heard of it?"

"That's what we preach here!"

"Indeed, I asked the person who told me the story, and he couldn't tell clearly, but he also said that he heard it from Zheng Xi, so I don't know if it's true or not."

"It's all from ancient times. Who knows if it's true or not? It's just that it's true, and it's passed down with a name and surname! It is said that there are descendants of that person, who also has a name and surname!"

"is it?"

This old shopkeeper was much better than the one in Nanhua County, and he didn't ask Song You to buy tea or anything. He just adjusted his sitting posture and started talking to him.

"It is said that there was a person in ancient times, but I don't know exactly when. Some say it was 800 years ago, and some say it was a thousand years ago. That person seems to be called Boshu or something..."

"Boshu..."

It sounds like the name of the ancients.

"Yes! Boshu! This man has some skills. He says he is a Taoist. Anyway, he knows magic and is very loyal!" The shopkeeper said to him, "It is said that one day he went fishing by the river. After I fell asleep, I said that in my dream, a man came out of the river in a daze. I heard his name, so I asked him for help or took a letter. Anyway, there are all kinds of explanations. He took a knife and told him that as long as he took this knife to the seashore and cut a knife at the seawater, the seawater would separate automatically, and he would not be drowned in the water."

"magic."

Song You chimed in at the right time.

"It's all rumored..."

"Please continue."

"This man agreed in his dream, but when he woke up after a night's sleep, he found that there was a knife beside him. He was puzzled, but he agreed, and he didn't want to go back on his word, so he really went." The shopkeeper said, "I went to the beach. As the person in the dream said, he cut a knife in the sea, and the sea separated. After he walked in, the sea closed and couldn't drown him. He said that he breathed in the same way in the sea as on the ground. In the middle of the sea, he was still breathing. He was entertained by the Dragon King in the sea, and then he walked back. Because the journey was too long and there was miasma on the road, he fell ill halfway. He told his wife, children and neighbors, and told his son to return the knife to the water god of the river, and he died after speaking."

"His son still hasn't returned?"

"Exactly! His son is not as trustworthy as he is. He heard that this knife is so powerful. After burying my father, he hid the knife and went to a far away place by himself. No matter how powerful the water god is, he can't Run to a place far away from the river to look for him." The storekeeper spoke with great interest and joy, "Then the water god got angry, and Yinjiang changed its course, and I don't know how many fields were washed away, and many people suffered. It is said that the god of water was taken in by God, and the family returned to Zhengxi, and later became officials."

The shopkeeper talked excitedly, and Song You listened with gusto.

Even if the shopkeeper has a heavy accent and speaks vaguely, he can almost understand the meaning by half listening and half guessing.

This kind of story has a distinctly classical flavor to it.

The classic thing is that everything is very simple and lacks details, but if you fill it in and imagine it yourself, it will be full of fun.

In the folk tales of those days, people seem to pay special attention to integrity and integrity. It is easy to trust a person, and it is also very easy to deceive a person. Of course, there are more simple reasons for people in those days, but part of the reason is that it has been hundreds of thousands of years. Details were lost in the rumors.

It's like no one knows why the water god came to Boshu, how he persuaded him, what kind of benefits the two sides had exchanged, how Boshu's son escaped the water god's pursuit in the end, and how the water god was deposed by the Tiangong step by step.

It includes Boshu going to the beach.

In the story, it seems that we set off today and arrive tomorrow. In fact, Song You knows that this place is still thousands of miles away from the sea.

Simplify and become romantic.

Song You tasted it for a while, and then asked again: "Just now the shop owner said that their family became an official, and there are descendants who have passed it down, and they also have names and surnames?"

"Because the water god will often change his face without Yinjiang, and there are often some water ghosts and demons in the river who harm people, and some even climb ashore to harm people. The family surnamed Zheng got the knife of the water god, and they can order Yinjiang's people to kill people." Water, water monsters and water ghosts are also afraid, and then the government appointed him as an official, specializing in the water of the Yinjiang River."

"and after?"

"Later, the family grew bigger and bigger, with luxuriant branches and leaves. It's just that the descendants became incompetent, and the spells of each generation were lower, and the power of the knife was not as powerful as before. Later, the Taizu raised an army and said it was from here. , the army was stationed outside the city, and Taizu lived in their house. At that time, the Patriarch of the Zheng family had a meal with Taizu, and then left with Taizu, and never came back."

"Followed Taizu?"

"Isn't that right?"

"From the power of the dragon..."

"what?"

"From the merit of the dragon, it is the person who follows the emperor to conquer the world, and he has made great contributions."

"you do not say!"

"Is this family still there?"

"It's still there. Now it's the largest family in Zhengxi, and it's even been conferred a noble! It's just that the patriarch didn't come back at that time, so the knife was lost." The shopkeeper said with a smile, "So it's famous. The surname, it’s just been so many years, the family members don’t even know if it’s true or not, maybe it’s just made up by some descendant, how can there be such a powerful knife..."

"It's interesting."

Song You nodded, lost in thought.

The cat had already drank half a bowl of soup, and started to eat fermented glutinous rice and poached eggs. Hearing them discussing their knives, he glanced up at the store, and soon lowered his head to lick.

The knife was now in her bag.

(End of this chapter)