Da Zaojun

Chapter 32 The young man is determined to leave his hometown

Angelica and lotus seeds are available in the medical department. The first thing Song Wuji did when he returned to the kitchen was to make [Angelica Lotus Seed Wenxin Soup].

Wenxin looks like a heart, but it is not flesh-colored, but lotus-white.

Liu Xie of the Southern Dynasty Liang said in "Wenxin Diaolong" that the literary mind refers to the intention of writing articles.

But it has indeed materialized into a heart here, a heart full of literary spirit, placed on the plate, and transformed into words of writing.

[Literary Mind. Lower Grade]: Only those who are well-versed in literature can see its form, which resembles the human heart. This is what Mencius said: "The heart has four ends: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom." Eating it can open one's mind and slightly increase one's understanding.

Song Wuji placed Wen Xin whole into a clay pot, added sliced ​​angelica as the base, and placed nine cored lotus seeds around it.

Set up the dish [Nine pieces, one heart].

It was another special dish presentation. Song Wuji looked at the effect and found that it was used to nourish the heart and calm the mind.

Immediately put another plate on the pot and steam it with water. The steam will be automatically absorbed into the pot and turned into soup. No need to add a drop of water during the whole process. This is the Cantonese way of making soup.

Turn the high heat in the stove to medium or low heat and simmer for two hours or more. This is the so-called "old fire delicious soup".

While making soup, Song Wuji's hands were not idle. He was carving patterns on a raw sweet potato. Perhaps it was because of his talent, or perhaps it was the Kitchen God's inheritance that changed Song Wuji's flexibility. In short, Song Wuji could quickly do some simple carvings quite well.

I carved a sweet potato flower for Aunt Liu and a sweet potato rabbit for Aunt Zou. Anyway, the carved objects can still be used to make sweet potato porridge.

The two aunts laughed so hard when they saw this: "Xiao Song will definitely be able to make girls happy in the future."

Then he continued, "Xiao Song, Xiao Song, if we offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God more often, can we gain his attention like you?"

"Give it a try. I have to cook every day anyway, and it doesn't cost anything to offer a sacrifice."

Aunt Liu said, "Many of the mothers and aunts around me have been offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God. The food seems to be more fragrant after the sacrifice. But my neighbor Ma Sanniang used to cook the same kind of porridge that looked ugly and tasted bad. Her husband worked outside all day, and when he came home to eat such a meal in the evening, he felt that life was meaningless."

"It's the Kitchen God Festival now, and her husband praises her cooking skills every day."

Family matters are always like this, so the couplet for the Kitchen God is "May God bless you with good things, and may the world below be safe."

When Song Wuji opened the pot, a glowing delicacy appeared in front of him.

It really glows. After the Wenxin is stewed, the Wenqi is integrated into the soup, and the angelica brings a slightly amber light. The overall thing is clear, without any oil. The fragrance is even more refreshing, as if the congestion in the brain is instantly cleared.

Angelica and Lotus Seed Wenxin Soup: A young man is determined to go out of his hometown to study and then return home after completing his studies. He has many ambitions and fame, but he misses home a lot at the end of his life. Eating this soup will make you miss your hometown and your family, open your mind and refresh your spirit, and improve your comprehension by +1.

Don’t underestimate the small amount of comprehension +1. Song Wuji’s aptitude, comprehension, and strength are all pitifully low!
Root 0.6, understanding 0.7, muscles and bones 0.5.

Root capacity is a person's innate ability, understanding is the acquired learning ability, and muscles and bones are the physical condition acquired through acquired and prenatal training.

Increasing one point of comprehension is a qualitative leap for Song Wuji. Before, whether he was refining demonic energy or observing the civil servants casting spells or the martial servants performing mountain-scaling sword techniques, he did not learn anything successfully because his comprehension was not good enough.

Song Wuji's appetite was aroused, and he quickly drank the bowl of Wenxin soup without worrying about the heat.

After taking the medicine and using his supernatural powers, Song Wuji instantly fell into an illusion.

In the dream, Song Wuji transformed into Sun Xiucai. The Sun family were farmers at the foot of the Western Hills. Since his grandfather's generation, they had been hard laborers, frugal and thrifty, cultivating the land and clearing wasteland. In their free winter days, they would go to the provincial capital to work. They often did not eat at home during the New Year and only returned home before the spring plowing.

In this way, when he died, he left three large tiled houses and twenty acres of land to his descendants.

Sun Shan's father inherited his grandfather's hard work, but life was not easy. With the death of the old emperor and the rise of the new emperor, the court's taxes increased and the corvee labor became heavier.

In the past, Sun Shan's grandfather had to go to the provincial capital to work in the winter. Now, in the winter, the new county magistrate only recruits laborers to open up wasteland, repair ditches, and build bridges.

There is no food provided for corvée labor. One has to bring his own dry food, clothes, and quilts. During this period, family members are not even allowed to visit. It is very hard.

Some people would often fall seriously ill after returning from performing corvee labor, and some would even die while performing corvee labor.

After completing his labor service, Sun Shan's father drank a "scholar wine" from a relative in the same village and learned that after becoming a scholar, he could be exempted from the land tax of 3 acres of land and the labor service of three male members of his family. These were real benefits.

After returning, he patted the board and decided to let Sun Shan go to school. Even if he could not make any progress, it would be better for him to work in the capital, learn to read and do accounting than to be a farmer.

At the age of six, Sun Shan trudged five miles to attend the private school of an old student in Zhengjia Village. The tuition was two taels of silver a year, and he had to buy his own writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone. Paper was expensive, so he found a slate, dipped it in water and wrote on it. After writing, he wiped it dry with a towel and could write again.

When he was ten years old, Master Zheng said that continuing to study in this private school would delay him, so he introduced him to the private school of Li Xiucai in the county.

At the age of twelve, he passed the examination to become a student and entered the county school.

Sun Shan was on pins and needles because he failed the examination for the scholar at the age of fifteen and had wasted nearly 20 taels of silver on the examination fee and accommodation.

Sun Shan's family was not wealthy, but he did not give up. He took the exam again at the age of 18 and this time he passed. In the same year, he married the granddaughter of his teacher Li Xiucai.

However, when he took the imperial examination again, he was no longer able to continue, and wasted eighty taels of silver. After going through the provincial examination, Sun Shan realized his shortcomings, so he left his hometown to study and wasted time to enter an academy.

On the eve of this great demonic transformation, Sun Shan had just returned from his studies and planned to take the exam again after the New Year.

Teacher Lu was also a juren. After reading his essays, he thought that he was experienced and had a high probability of passing the exam if he had not had any luck.

What Sun Xiucai was thinking about was that his family had spent three generations’ savings to support his studies, that his wife had suffered with him, and that his teacher had high expectations of him.

However, all these plans were destroyed after the tiger demon entered the village, and Sun Xiucai became the tiger's lackey.

How could he not feel regret? How could he not resent the demon? How could he be willing to remain in such ignorance, driven by the demon?

Its nature is like white jade, which remains cold even when burned; its pattern is like a red string that strikes jade deeply.

This is the teacher's evaluation of Sun Shan's article, and also the verdict on Sun Shan's fate!

Everything starts with parents’ love for their children.

Everything finally ended in regret.

When Song Wuji woke up from the illusion, tears were already falling and his heart felt empty.

Song Wuji felt that his fate overlapped with Sun Xiucai's at a certain point in time and space. He said, "How can I forget my hatred for the demons? That would be a betrayal of all past history!"

(End of this chapter)