Da Zaojun

Chapter 56 Si Zao
"The stove pattern is the fire, earth, and wood of the Five Elements. Although wood generates fire and fire generates earth, the overall pattern is fire. It requires the eight-character destiny pattern, and the Five Elements emphasize these three elements."

Song Wuji scratched his head. "I don't really understand numerology, but it just requires these eight characters. As for the God of Food and Heavenly Kitchen, they are both related to eating and cooking."

"All three are required? To become the Kitchen God and walk?"

Song Wuji shook his head: "No, anyone who meets any of the requirements can become a walking Kitchen God. Although the power gained is not much and it is not a rank, each has its own emphasis."

"The power of the God of Food comes from the power of food. After performing the ritual, one will be able to eat more and refine food more quickly. Of course, one will also be able to fight better, be more resistant, and strengthen the body."

"The talent of Tianchuwang is the talent of cooking. Whether the dish is delicious or not depends on whether one has the talent in this area."

"But only when the eight characters and five elements conform to the three-combination of fire, earth and wood can one truly obtain the magic of the Kitchen God."

"Only those who possess the three elements of fire, earth and wood, and possess the God of Food and the Heavenly Kitchen, can truly be considered as the complete Kitchen God."

Song Wuji added: "Take me for example," emphasizing his own scarcity.

"If we can find someone with the relevant talent, and perform the correct rituals, we can indeed have more Kitchen Gods walking around."

"Is it fortune-telling?" Tian Chengbi thought about it and felt that it made sense. After all, according to legend, the most important thing in spiritual practice is "fate", especially whether it is included in the innate eight characters.

The ancients actually believed in the eight characters, the zodiac, and even the constellations.

Su Shi once said: "On the day of my birth, the moon was in the constellation of Dou. I know that Tuizhi's Scorpio is his body palace, and I am born under the Scorpio. I have been often praised and criticized in my life. I think we have the same problem!"

Not to mention the ancients, even Xun Geer sighed: "When my luck is against the Huagai, what else can I ask for? I have already hit my head before I dare to turn over."

"This looks much more serious than the City God's unorthodox rituals, which involve either killing people to punish evildoers or transplanting eyeballs, but it's also much more mysterious."

Tian Chengbi paced back and forth, thinking for a long time: "Looks like I need to find someone who can read the eight characters of fortune."

Song Wuji said, "In fact, ordinary people can ward off evil and remove filth by offering sacrifices to the kitchen fire and chanting the Kitchen God's sacred edict. The ashes from the kitchen hall, the ashes from the bottom of the pot, and the soil from the heart of the stove are all useful."

"Then let's all offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God!" Tian Chengbi said, "There will always be a few who will succeed. It just so happens that we're still using the shed to cook our meals in large pots. Once the large dining hall is finished, I'll personally offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God and start the fire. I'll also mobilize the people to light fireworks and pray for a good harvest and a comfortable life in the coming year!"

Tian Chengbi said meaningfully, "The City God has twenty-four departments. Now I have also set up one department, the Kitchen Department, which will be under your jurisdiction. You must pay close attention to it. This department is specifically responsible for logistics and food supplies. As the saying goes, before the troops move, the food supplies must go first. You are the grain supervisor of this county."

Song Wuji thought to himself: This is a difficult problem. As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. You, the cook, have not assigned me any staff. As the grain supervisor, I also need grain to supervise!

Even Song Wuji, with his limited work experience and his brain trained on historical political dramas, found the situation a bit tricky.

However, in order to carry on the tradition in Taichang County, official support is indispensable, not to mention that one has to compete with the City God for faith.

Song Wuji immediately said, "Although I am weak and incompetent, I am willing to serve you."

"only……"

"What?" Tian Chengbi said, "Just say it!"

"My current salary is two bottles of Essence Pills, but Cat Cat Head's salary is three bottles of Essence Pills. How much salary can this kitchen manager be offered?" "Wang Zhong's output is limited. So, your salary will be the same as County Lieutenant Chen's, five bottles of Essence Pills per month. At the same time, you are allowed to manage the Taichang County Canteen business. You are allowed to take over and be responsible for the revenue. You only need to share the profits with the government every month."

Song Wuji thought about it and felt that this was feasible. Apart from anything else, the three basic recovery foods he made himself, fresh meat pancakes, pure yang steamed buns, and foundation-building eggs, were actually very good, although not as good as elixirs.

But you can eat a large amount to satisfy your hunger, and after eating, you can slowly recover a small amount of life, true energy, and magic power.

Apart from Song Wuji's own guidance, the essence is just ordinary sesame cakes, steamed buns and boiled eggs.

"Okay!" Song Wuji said, "Could you please ask County Magistrate Tian to have someone write a document?"

Tian Chengbi nodded: "Will I let you suffer any loss? If it weren't for the current demon world, how could you have taken control of the grain and grass so easily?"

Song Wuji chuckled and immediately went to take inventory of the granary and rice warehouse. After a quick calculation, he was shocked: "There's less than three days' worth of food left?"

Tian Chengbi handed the Five Rats' grain bag to Song Wuji and said, "This is the grain on the surface. The rest of the grain is in this bag. This bag leads to the granary in Cang Zhongguo. You can take it at any time, but the total amount is not much, only enough for ten days of food. Fortunately, we have the secret realm of Cang Zhongguo. We can exploit the rat people and continuously collect grain taxes from them to obtain blood rice. I can refine it into Essence Pills. One Essence Pill is equivalent to a day's meal for an ordinary person."

Song Wuji heard this and said, "County Magistrate, can the Cang China Secret Realm Token be used to exploit agricultural taxes? Does that mean the more we produce, the more taxes we can collect?"

Tian Chengbi nodded. "That's right. We can collect taxes every three days, but the demons in the secret realm will rebel or even die if the agricultural taxes are too heavy. It will be difficult for our county to exploit these rat people multiple times in a month."

“If farmers from this county were asked to go and work together on the farm, there would be no one to protect them.”

"County magistrate, I would like to recommend someone." Song Wuji smiled.

"Who?"

"Instructor Lu's new disciple of the evil god, the scarecrow Xin Wuya, is a ninth-rank evil god, on the same level as the rat demon, and is also receiving instruction."

"Most importantly, he can protect the farmland in Cang China and even supervise the work of the rat people. After all, he is just a scarecrow."

"Since all professions can gain power, why can't farmers? In the secret realm of Cang China, practicing agriculture and offering sacrifices to the God of Agriculture may solve some of the food problem."

"They exploited the rat people. The original yield per mu was 40 catties, but after exploiting %, it was only catties, leaving them with only catties, and they were still happy."

"If the yield per mu is 50 catties, and 40% is exploited, the remaining % is still catties, which is more than catties. Therefore, increasing the yield of blood rice is the first priority. It is best to summon the most skilled farmers to the secret realm of Cang China."

Song Wuji's words woke the county magistrate up.

“What if our farmers can’t grow blood rice?”

"Then we can detain the rat people and enslave them to grow rice," Song Wuji said. "If we try this, we can find out the answer without suffering any substantial losses."

"Okay, I'll listen to you!"

"Everything about this China is good, and the rat people are docile, but there are too few fields. I wish blood rice could be successfully grown in the outside world!"

(End of this chapter)