Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

He said to everyone: "This year, like last year, the ones that come up are whole, so they have to be cut. This is not a big deal. Who volunteers to cut it?"

Someone shouted below: "We suggest Shang Tianjun cut it off! Isn't Shang Tianjun the head of the sword? Show your skills to everyone!"

"No, no, no, I can't cut it, I really can't do this."

It's not that he declined. The main thing is that he has never even held a knife, so naturally he doesn't know how to cut it. Although he had opened the chicken just now, he only used the function of the artifact to deal with the "skin" on the outside. If the elephant bird hadn't been killed yet, he still had a way to deal with the killing of the chicken.

But cutting meat is a technical job, and he really doesn't know how to do it.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Knowing that Shangluo really didn't know how to do it, Zhu Xianxian smoothed things over for him, "Shangluo is very busy. He finally took a day off. Just let him eat. Don't let him be busy cutting chicken again. I'll find someone who is free to do it." You are the one who has good knife skills! Wen Yuan, you do the cutting."

"Huh?" Wen Yuan was stunned, "I'm not free, I'm quite busy too."

"I see you don't move all day long."

"I was standing guard! You asked me to stand still! If I move, is it still called standing guard?"

"Hey, you have good swordsmanship. I remember that you have a family sword from the Royal Forest Army. Yes, yes, that's the one you put at the door when you entered. Use a sword that has served on the battlefield to cut the knife. Xin Qiji wrote that: Eight A hundred miles under my command are burning, and fifty strings are roaring outside the Great Wall. All of you here are colleagues of Xin Qiji, so you should have some military pride, right?"

"Ah, is it true? I don't care?"

"Yes, you do." He walked up to Wen Yuan and patted him on the shoulder - he was a little shorter than Wen Yuan, so he had to raise his hand when patting him on the shoulder. "Look at how exposed you are in front of so many people. What a nice face. Don’t be bored all day long like your master. Learn more about your own family tradition, and your grandfather and father will be very popular."

"Ah! Got it, then I'll show off my ugliness. Oh no, then I'll show off my treasure! This chicken is a treasure."

When he entered, he took off the knife from his back. It was the knife he brought to school to practice with.

Before taking the knife to cut meat, he took it out and washed it - although this knife was usually well maintained, it was used to cut meat after all, and he would feel more at ease after washing it in water.

Chapter 630 Dragon Meat

When I came back, the knife was not sheathed. He held the knife horizontally, holding the handle with one hand and supporting the spine with the other.

"Is there any wine or anything?" He asked next to the "chicken", "It's best to sacrifice it before the operation."

Next to him, Lu Huaiyang was already ready. He opened a bottle of Fenjiu that he was going to drink soon, and the blade of the sword was so cold that it shone coldly. He also asked Wen Yuan to wash his hands with the wine.

"Okay!" he shouted, pointing the tip of the knife upward. According to the knife technique, grasp the two ends of the long knife handle with both hands apart——

"Wait a minute." Wen Yuan suddenly reacted, "This elephant bird? How to cut it? Is it the same as cutting a chicken?"

"Ah this." Zhu Xianfen also remembered. He walked next to Wen Yuan and observed from his perspective, "Although I have eaten it for so many years, I really can't see any difference when cutting it. But it seems to be different. After all, the elephant bird is not a chicken, and the muscles The direction of the legs must be different from that of chickens. For example, the leg bones of elephant birds are very thick, I remember."

Zhu Xianfen gestured to the elephant-like drumstick: "Probably cut from here, and then 'don', I remember it was like this before. Then this and this, this and this, do you understand?"

"." Wen Yuan was stunned, "I'm sorry. I don't understand this at all."

"Hey, what should we do?" Zhu Xianfen looked at the chicken. He really wanted the young man to show his face, and he would not change him until now.

He looked at Wen Yuan and thought: If he changed it, would it hurt him a little?

But it doesn't matter if he cuts the chicken randomly and breaks it. If the family heirloom knife breaks apart, you will be in big trouble. This is no joke, as elephant birds have very hard bones.

"Is there an instruction manual?" Wen Yuan asked, "If there is an instruction manual, I can cut it. You can also cut it with gestures."

"There are no instructions for birds."

"Eh?" Shangluo stood up from behind: "Instructions, right? Can you use a diagram of the bird's skeleton?"

"Okay!" Wen Yuan still held up the knife. Shangluo's words helped him find his savior, "Can you see the picture soon? This chicken can't wait too long."

"Simple, just wait a minute while I search online. Ah, this is it."

He moved away from the camera and moved to a position where the projection light was not blocked:

"Wait a minute, let me connect this device and project this! It's done."

A picture of the skeleton of a bird appears on the wall where the opera was just performed. The projection was as large as the entire wall, and every bone was still clearly visible.

"Ah! Thank you! Thank you so much! This little TV is so useful!"

While referring to the "instructions", Wen Yuan gestured with the knife.

He went around to the tail of the chicken and cut the butt of the chicken with the first cut - the butt of the chicken was as big as a whole roast duck.

"Feed the chicken butt to the dog first. Then here!" Referring to the skeleton diagram, he went around to the front and cut from the chicken breast, cutting out a trident neatly, then cutting all the way to the flank -

As soon as it was cut, it was as if something that had been "tightened" for a long time loosened up, and a bunch of diced meat and vegetables such as scallops, ham, and mushrooms mixed with sesame oil and soy sauce fell out of the chicken's stomach, all mixed in the filling of barley rice and glutinous rice.

"Is there any stuffing in here?"

"That's right~" Zhu Xianfen explained, "When we ate roasted chicken last year, it shrank a lot when it was cooked. Besides, the bones of the elephant bird accounted for a lot of weight. Many people didn't have enough to eat last year. . So this year I made some changes - I added Suzhou Babao Duck stuffing. This way you can still eat glutinous rice after eating the meat."

"The saint is no better than your Majesty." Everyone shouted in unison. This is the first time anyone calls his number after entering the house. People in Lao Zhu's family are quite knowledgeable about eating meat and vegetables. After all, they can't eat more than a few vegetable leaves all year round.

After a while, Shangluo was the first to get the plate, which was cut by Wen Yuan. Half of the plate was filled with rice and two pieces of meat on the side. One piece is a chicken leg and one piece is a neck.

Chicken legs, neck. Although it sounds like an ordinary portion, this chicken drumstick steak is larger than his face, and every fiber is neat and clear. As for the "chicken neck", the cross-cut part was placed in his bowl, and you could see a circle of tight and elastic meat around the neck - it didn't look like a neck at all, but more like eating a dragon's tail.

"How about it? You haven't eaten it before, have you?" Zhu Xianxian also brought a plate with two pieces of chicken neck on it. Both pieces are as thick as forearms, and they really look like they are eating a dragon's tail.

"I've really never eaten this before." Shangluo replied, "In our place, elephant birds have long been extinct. Is it common for the imperial court to eat such treasures here?"

"Not really. Our family doesn't like to add those strange delicacies from the mountains and seas in the diet. We just like to eat pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. But when there are tributes, we just eat them. This elephant bird is my favorite too. I like to eat it because bird meat is originally more tender than animal meat, probably because the fiber is thinner. Even if it grows to a behemoth of nearly a ton, the meat is still delicate and has no fishy smell. "

"." Shangluo took a bite - indeed, it tastes like beef, and the fiber is finer than beef.

"To be precise, it's more like venison." Zhu Xianfen replied, "But I haven't eaten much venison recently. You probably haven't eaten it much, so it's hard to compare - do you want to eat something else?" ? Ah, I know you’ll be embarrassed to mention it, so I’ll do it. Do you want to eat a dodo?”

“Is there a dodo too???”

"It's much easier to eat dodos than this. Eating dodo eggs is also very popular. It's difficult to eat the live beads of dodo eggs. Do you want to eat them?"

Shangluo shook his head violently.

"Tsk, Jinling delicacies. Do you want to try the ordinary dodo?"

"Yeah, yeah, that's okay." Shangluo nodded, "I've never tasted it. If I want to try it, these are extinct in our place. If you want to eat them, you won't be able to eat them anyway."

"If you really like to eat, there is also the moa tribute from the Maori people. It is much smaller than the Madagascar elephant bird, but that one is really delicious. If the portion is not big enough for so many of us, So I asked the Tribute moa to make this meal. Let me tell you, there are many differences between moa meat and elephant bird meat. Take another bite of elephant bird meat and feel it - this delicate The fiber is delicious, right?”

"Uh huh huh." Shangluo's mouth was full of meat and rice, so he could only huh huh huh.

"But the meat of moa is different - the meat of moa is as fat as duck meat, with thick fat, especially the breast. The fat and meat are evenly distributed like beef brisket. When braised, it is simply .The dragon meat in the sky is nothing more than this. Although you can’t eat it in your house, we don’t have so many evil-doing barbarians here, and these delicious things are not eaten by them. We protect each one we find and keep it for our time. Eat, you can eat more.”

Chapter 631 Sleep Mode

"Ah, this glutinous rice is so cunning." Shangluo realized after eating half of it that there was something fishy in it.

In fact, although there are not many bones in this elephant bird, each one is very big, almost like a cow bone. The chest cavity is mostly empty, and there isn't much meat to eat. It's all concentrated in the legs, chest and abdomen. The meat of the wings is disproportionate to the huge size, they are just slightly larger chicken wings.

In other words, such an elephant bird weighing nearly a ton is actually not enough to feed these hundreds of people. To be honest, each person can only eat a few mouthfuls. But last year, it was still cooked directly with fire. The meat would shrink further and there would be less to share. This year, we stuffed mud shells and lotus leaves to make "Beggar Dinosaur". The essence is steaming, using the chicken's own moisture to steam it.

But even so, it's still not enough to eat - but when Zhu Xianfen adds a big pile of scallops, ham and mushrooms, mixed with glutinous rice, the situation is different. A piece of rice and a pound of meat for each person is just enough.

【ah! Why are you so full now? I haven’t eaten it yet! 】

"How about I change you if I still have some belly left? How?"

[There is a switch, it’s on your phone. We Romans are very organized in doing things, but for any magic, there must be buttons. Just turn on sleep mode. 】

"Sleep mode? What do you mean?"

[It means that after you open it, you can go to bed and let me do the other things. In order to prevent this function from getting out of control due to some unpredictable reasons, I made this button. This feature will only be activated if you manually enable sleep mode. 】

"So, how would I feel?"

[It feels like a lucid dream state. You can feel everything around you, but you don’t need to work hard for it to run automatically, because it is me who is doing the hard work for you.】

"Ah, yes, I almost forgot, Miss Apollonia is also a Heavenly Lord."

[Tsk, thank you for remembering. In addition, this state can make you as relaxed as sleeping. After all, it takes up my energy, not yours. So if you are willing, or if you have something to do in a hurry, you can do it by yourself during the day, and then turn on the sleep mode at night and let me operate it, so that you can run it 24 hours a day. But you have to agree with me in advance, because I also have to adjust my schedule, which is equivalent to making me work night shift. 】

"Wouldn't this take you offline for a lot of time during the day?"

[Well, after all, you and I used to have the same routine. But if you don't let me sleep at night, I will have to sleep during the day. If you need anything, you can still call me, but if you don't call me, I'll be silent. You have to do it manually - when I am sleeping, please manually turn on the silent mode to mute the sound for me. I am a very light sleeper. 】

Shangluo handed over the instructions for use and manually switched the mode.

【It doesn’t feel any different. ] The switching process was quite smooth. When Shangluo was about to speak, he realized, [Hey, no, why can't I open my mouth when speaking? 】

"Because I'm outside now. It smells so good. It's different from barbecue. This smell is really elegant."

【Lotus leaf flavor. 】

"No, it's not the smell of lotus leaves. Ah, it's your fragrance. Wow, you smell so good, can't you smell it yourself?"

[Why are you paying attention to this! I'm not Tang Monk, you won't live forever if you eat me. You're eating right, why did the phone screen come to you? 】

Shangluo discovered that this perspective was like looking out from inside a phone screen. The operating system's UI was scattered throughout the corners of his field of vision, but unlike a real field of vision, the entire field of vision was crystal clear, without blurring due to lack of focus. Icons like the weather, time, and signal strength were all clearly visible at the edge of his field of vision. Several buttons were also arranged nearby.

"Oh, and if you get tired of this perspective, you can switch to flight mode and switch out of your main body."

【so? 】

Shangluo tried to open it, and his field of vision "rushed" forward. He was still a little uncomfortable. When I looked back, I realized that because Apollonia took a step back, his perspective did not follow her.

In this state, his body can be raised or lowered at will in the three-dimensional space within his field of vision - but he also glanced back, and his back was invisible. Everything outside the field of vision was shrouded in abrupt, blurry chaos.

【Eh? What is this Bluetooth button for? Do you have a Bluetooth device? 】

"Wait a minute, that one is still being debugged, you go first."

Before he finished speaking, Shangluo had already pressed the button.

【Um? ] Looking down, Shangluo saw his hand again. His vision is not hanging in the sky, but standing on the ground with both feet. However, his body remained in its original position.

"Have you ordered it?" Apollonia looked over.

【Can you see it? 】

"Because that is a function prepared for close-range projection. I plan to create a 'camera' that can follow you about 5 meters away. I will always follow you in my own appearance. Although I cannot be too far away from you. , but you won’t get motion sickness - you’ve also discovered that, right? The human head is actually not that stable. It’s quite dizzy from someone else’s perspective.”

This is the same principle as motion sickness. If your body moves but your brain doesn't respond, you will feel dizzy. Although there are no organs involved here, the vague feeling of dizziness still makes people feel a little strange.

[It is indeed a bit dizzy. I think the chaos at the edge of my field of vision is very annoying]

"That can't be helped, because you can't see what you haven't seen. Of course, you can't see the scenes at the edge of your field of vision. But if you open the 'Sky Eyes' APP on the desktop, that is for you this time The enhanced function for exam preparation will increase power consumption when turned on. But...oh, you turned it on."

After opening it, all the "chaos" at the edge of the field of vision disappeared. The entire room, including the scene behind him, was clear.

【Um? ? ? ] Shangluo was stunned for a moment, and found that his field of vision was not simply expanded. He looked at the window and saw that in the double-glazed layer of the window, there was a moth that had been dormant in winter and was awakened by the indoor heater. The fluff on its tentacles was still quietly beating the sad, sad sound. It's a glass barrier that keeps out the warmth.

[This works well. What's the principle? 】

"I released my spiritual thoughts and used them to look at other people's papers."

[No, wouldn’t you be caught cheating? If you release your spiritual power, I'm afraid something will happen. 】

Chapter 632 Bluetooth Startup

"Hey, so you can make some changes. First of all, if you release your spiritual thoughts without any scruples, you will definitely be caught cheating. But with me, it's different. Divine thoughts can be used in the form of I come to the outside for the center, and then we encrypt the transmission through Bluetooth. In this way, as long as the invigilator and I hide and seek, we will not be discovered. Even if we are discovered, the Bluetooth communication between the two of us is confidential and will not be discovered. It’s easy to trace it to you. When the time comes——”

She paused for a moment; "Hey, when the time comes, you can turn off the power supply or unplug the network cable directly. I'll see who can catch me."

[Hey guys, is this okay? Does it cost electricity? 】

"If you don't use an external power supply, you can probably use it continuously for less than an hour. The accuracy is pretty good, right? Only in this way can you see other people's test papers. When the time comes, just sit where you are and don't move. Your signal range will probably be up and down the floor, plus Go to the nearby classroom. If there are any questions that you don’t know, I’ll search them on public channels for you first. If I can’t find them, I’ll look at other people’s papers.”

[Okay, okay] Shangluo turned off all the functions and kept it in power-saving mode. [If you can help, you can make a request. 】

"I want to eat moa!"

[He just said that there are moas. You want to eat them now. Are you a noble person from Tianyi? 】

"Ah! I want to eat a moa, do you have any objection? Give me a moa!"

[Okay, okay. Then you do things first. Once that's done, I'll get a moa. If the court can’t get one, I’ll go find Guoxing to get one. Anyway, it’s nothing to spend some funds from the Ministry of Lei. Then everyone can eat it together. It can’t be eaten by one person, right? 】

"It's okay to eat them together, but I must eat them. Hehe~~ Let me eat some elephant birds first. Although the meat seems not as fat and tender as the moa. But this meat is such a big piece. Then I'll go eat it!"

【go Go. Stop holding on. 】

"Hey, thank you for your concern~"

【I mean me! You are eating from my belly. Don't overeat! 】