My Weird Life

   Chapter 250 Lure into a bowl (22)

  The flame in the lantern gradually shrinks,

   The strange rhythm in all directions was burnt out by that little lamp,

The   human skin paper absorbed all the breath burned by the flames, but no writing appeared.

  Su Wu took it back,

   had other questions in mind.

   The opera sung by the girl before was the last time Liang Zhuli cried to the grave and turned into a butterfly.

   It is said that,

  The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

   was passed on by word of mouth to future generations,

  There is no problem with the female trickster singing a few stanzas of Liang Zhu.

but,

The drama that   Human Paper parodied before was Peking Opera's Farewell My Concubine.

  The history of Peking Opera is not very long.

   This scholar whose wife died in 1705, how could he imitate "Farewell My Concubine"?

   This is quite strange.

but,

   In 1705, it was already the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

How far is    from the current period?

  Su Wu shook his head,

   Throwing the chaotic thoughts out of my mind.

   His eyes turned to the dark woods,

  I have seen the shivering little boy-gou left, curled up behind a tree,

   Lifting the lantern, he stood still and called to Gouzu: "Gouzu, what are you doing hiding in the woods?

   That scorpion was scared away by something unknown,

  We are safe,

  Come here,

   Still have to rush to Tanjia Village! "

  Su Wu's tone was flat,

   contains the power to calm the fears in people's hearts,

  Gouzu was moved by his few words, and moved slowly out of the woods,

   More than ten steps away,

   The little boy looked at Su Wu: "Brother, are you a real person?"

   Previously, Gouzu was entangled in a strange rhythm, and was dragged to the grave at once, with the courage to be scared to pieces, so he hadn't seen any movement from Su Wu's side,

  —even if he saw Su Wu impersonating him as a 'Overlord',

  Su Wu can also infer that he was too frightened and dazzled.

  It doesn't hurt.

   But after the dog was saved,

   I felt like I was going to be scared to death, but this brother was still so calm, which was a bit surprising.

   So there will be a question facing each other across the road.

   "Of course I am a real person,

   I told you earlier, don’t panic even if you encounter it,

  You panic, so you will bully you.

  If you can keep your mind,

   Naturally, you can control the tricky. "Su Wu smiled.

   The little boy listened to him repeating the words he had told him earlier,

  I immediately believed that this brother was a real person,

   instead of the legendary state of being possessed by a fox ghost,

   He breathed a sigh of relief, walked over to Su Wu's side, and continued: "Brother is really brave, I was so scared that I was going to pee my pants in such a scene, but my brother doesn't seem to have anything at all."

   "Do our things,

   How can you not have the guts?

  You also need to exercise yourself a lot,

   There will always be times when you go to deliver rice alone in the future. If you lack courage, won’t you be swallowed up by the evil in an instant? "

   "I see, brother."

  …

  In the open space outside the bamboo forest,

  The dumb girl moved bundles of firewood to the front of each stove,

   She is young,

   It seems very laborious to carry such heavy firewood.

   But she has been carrying it silently,

   There is no rest from start to finish.

  'Master Palm Stove' Li Yueshan watched the dumb girl carry firewood, but he didn't help her - he also had a lot of things to do, and he couldn't be idle right now.

   There are still too few people gathered under my own stove...

but,

anyway,

  There are too many people and I can't support myself...

   Thoughts swirled in his heart, Li Yueshan thought that as long as he succeeded in setting up the stove this time and established a reputation, the situation would always get better and better in the future—especially when he set up the stove for the first time, he got a good seedling—Li Wu,

   Immediately feel refreshed.

   turned around and took out the clay pot from under a table.

   on the clay pot,

   is painted with people dancing around the flames.

   "Take a break first,

   These firewood are almost enough. "

   Li Yueshan greeted the dumb girl, and the dumb girl stopped carrying firewood.

   Instead, he squatted down behind the firewood stove where Li Yueshan stood, filling the stove's eyes with firewood.

  The iron pot gradually heats up,

   Although this girl can't speak, she looks like wood,

   But being diligent is not a child without wink.

  Li Yueshan nodded secretly in his heart,

   then shook the clay pot in his hand,

   Weigh how much 'Frying Oil' is still in it.

  The clay pot shook slightly,

   Makes the sound of liquid churning in the air.

   Just listening to the sound, the fat old man knew that less than half of the grease in the pot was left.

  'People are poor and everything is bad...'

   He secretly sighed,

   The family belongings that I have now are still passed down to me by my master and my wife before they died.

   Only rely on this property to stand on the heels,

   Then everything has to be calculated carefully,

   No half-point spread.

  The frying pan turns red,

  Li Yueshan lifted the stopper of the clay pot,

   Holding the clay pot and pouring it down,

   A black and bright grease with a strange charm was poured into the oil pan,

   At the moment of contact with the hot pot, there was a burst of green smoke,

  The smoke was blown by the wind and scattered to nowhere,

   There was a strange smell in the air.

   "Whatever you see later, you don't have to pay attention.

   Just immerse yourself in this pot and cook it well. "Li Yueshan instructed the dumb girl.

  The dumb girl nodded lightly.

   "Tomorrow you will learn how to cook with me,

   In the future, as our stove team, you will be in charge of cooking for everyone. "

   The fat old man arranged the future work direction of the dumb girl with a few words.

  While he was talking to the dumb girl, the grease in the firewood pot gradually became hot,

   Reach out to an inch away from the grease in the pan,

   Tried the temperature.

  Li Yueshan pulled out a rag pocket from the pile of debris at the back, and pulled out a long strip of cloth bag sewn with python skin from the pocket.

   Then,

   Arrange five large porcelain bowls in sequence on the ground,

   Shekou is facing the big bowl,

   Poured half a bowl of 'Soul Harvest Rice' into each bowl.

   fasten your pockets,

   The fat old man put a few bowls of soul harvesting rice on the hot firewood pan with 'Frying Oil'.

   Wait patiently.

   Time passed slowly.

  The mute girl is just like Li Yueshan arranged, just bury her head in the pot and ensure that the flame in the stove's eyes is always red.

   ignores the outside world.

   I didn't find that the temperature around me was much lower.

   She buried her head in the stove,

   Always warmed by the hot stove,

   I didn't feel any change in the surrounding temperature, but it was normal.

   Fortunately, Li Yueshan has already noticed the change in temperature,

   He narrowed his eyes,

   staring at the five bowls of raw rice on the stove,

  Wait to see how they change.

  唰 la la—

  The bamboo forest not far away was shaken by a gust of cold wind,

   From that bamboo forest,

  A series of footprints with wet marks extend alternately,

   out of the bamboo forest,

   walked into the open space where three firewood stoves were placed.

   The moment the series of footprints walked into the open space,

   The fire in the eyes of the three firewood stoves suddenly lit up,

   Then, where the footprints settled, a vague figure appeared.

   This figure's hair and clothes are wrapped with water plants,

   was dripping with water,

   gathered underfoot,

   left wet marks on the feet.

   'It' is indistinct,

   And as it approached the stove,

  The flames emanating from the stove's eyes offset the strange rhythm diffused on its body,

   just makes the surrounding temperature drop,

   does not cause damage to living beings.

  The stove burns fiercely,

  The more firewood you need to consume,

   At the moment, it was just that this little monster walked from the bamboo forest to the firewood stove where the soul-collecting rice was placed, and the flames in the firewood stove were dimmed a lot, and it was no longer as red as before.

   Li Yueshan glanced at the dumb girl,

At this moment,

   Those who need the stove the most should be smarter.

   Fortunately, the dumb girl looks dull, but she is meticulous in her work.

   Seeing the dim light of the fire in the eyes of the stove,

   She turned around and grabbed some firewood,

   filled in the eyes of the stove.

   In this way, I also saw the strange man standing beside him, who was still dripping water all over his body.

  The dumb girl was dumbfounded,

   and then bowed his head,

   Keep burning your own fire.

   Seeing this scene, Li Yueshan looked surprised, he smiled, watching the black oil in the pot began to churn, and he was relieved.

   Shuigui approaching the firewood stove,

   One hand grabbed the soul harvesting rice on the stove,

   Its hand reaches into a bowl of rice,

   The whole hand is swallowed up,

   So he stretched out his arms even harder to scoop out the rice in the bowl,

  —Not even an arm was in the grain of rice.

follow closely,

   Its entire body was also slowly accommodated by the seemingly ordinary bowl of soul harvesting rice,

   "Water tricks, water moves!"

   The fat old man saw that the whole water worm was contained in a bowl of soul harvesting rice,

  The rice grains in the bowl began to bounce,

   He grinned and said to the mute girl, "Finish the pot!

   The fire in the eyes of the stove cannot be dimmed for a moment,

   The fire is not prosperous,

  The oil is not hot,

   But I can't stop this monster! "

   The dumb woman nodded vigorously, her hands and feet more swift.

  Li Yueshan took out a pair of gloves made of some kind of leather from his clothes pocket and put them on, and then reached out to grab those grains of rice that kept bouncing in mid-air!

   The half-bowl of rice that Shuiji is in is a bit too much for it,

   So it began to use the excess rice grains to flicker and move,

   tried to shake away the soul-receiving rice that trapped him,

   Escape!

  What the fat old man did now,

   is to keep salvaging the excess rice grains,

   On the spot, we 'tailor-made' a container to hold it in!

  Whoa!

  The rice grains that jumped out of the bowl landed on Li Yueshan's gloves. The grains of rice were like small stones falling from the sky, carrying huge strength.

   left white marks on his leather gloves,

   He didn't realize it,

   Continue to salvage the broken rice grains,

   into the bowl next to it.

  Li Yueshan is very fast,

   so that fewer and fewer rice grains collapsed,

   Ninety percent of the soul harvesting rice in the thick porcelain bowl was soaked in a layer of black water and gradually expanded.

   Another 10% was squeezed into the corner,

   Porcelain bowls keep popping up!

  Li Yueshan is good at sweeping,

   grabbed those rice grains that popped out,

  Sprinkle it into another bowl.

   Then,

   Before the soul harvesting rice in the bowl could burst out, he reached into the bowl with one hand, dug out the part of the raw rice that was not soaked by the black water, held it in his palm, and threw it into the bowl next to it!

  The remaining soul harvesting rice in the porcelain bowl,

   soaked in black water,

   expands,

   It is like a bowl of rice that is about to be cooked under the action of steam!

  —the water worms are completely filled into the rice grains,

   There is no possibility of escape,

  It is closely related to the soul harvesting rice,

   also caused this bowl of soul harvesting rice to be cooked!

"it is good!"

   The fat old man breathed a sigh of relief,

   picked up the bowl of cooked 'black rice',

  Pour it into the frying pan!

   (end of this chapter)