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Feng Gui said in a clear voice: "Those cultivators who are unwilling to provide their identity seals and want to dine in the dining hall can pay spirit stones. We will mark the daily prices on the board at the door." The tone of Feng Gui's voice really made people hate him, but when everyone saw his face, they all felt that whatever the beauty said was right.
Jing Nan smiled and said, "Our Chef Du can cook many dishes. If you want to try other dishes, you can ask Chef Du to tailor-make them for you. But it will cost more spirit stones."
Du Heng was full of black lines on his head. Was Jing Nan trying to make trouble for him? If everyone came to order food, wouldn't he be too busy?
Xuan Yu gave Du Heng a comforting look, and he said slowly, "Chef Du is available to serve you at noon and evening every day. Everyone is welcome to come and taste him."
Du Heng wanted to kneel down before the three of them. He hadn't even made a name for himself yet, but Xuan Yu and the others were going to cut off his escape route? Weren't they afraid that the sword cultivators would get angry and throw them out of the dining hall?
Jiang Shangzhou actually spoke at this time. He took out a moon-white warm jade from his arms and said, "Speaking of which, I originally didn't have the right to eat. I have been eating at the First Dining Hall for three consecutive days. I think the food at the First Dining Hall is very good. From now on, I will put my seal here, right?"
Du Heng looked at Jiang Shangzhou. Wasn't this guy a Foundation Establishment disciple? Wasn't the sect seal only available to cultivators above the Golden Core stage?
Du Heng had doubts written all over his face. Jiang Shangzhou handed the warm jade to Du Heng with a smile: "In order to produce this seal, I was scolded for a long time by the old bald man in the general canteen. You can't let me down."
Du Heng's doubts were replaced by touching feelings. He held Nuanyu tightly and said, "Okay!"
After Jiang Shangzhou, seven or eight more monks handed in their seals one after another. Du Heng took a clean bag and put all the seals in it. With these seals, it would be impossible for Wang Jian to embarrass him again.
Du Heng originally thought that the other monks would scold him. They had only been in business for a few days and had caused so many problems. At worst, they would just stop coming to eat. Unexpectedly, after Jiang Shangzhou handed over the seal, the other monks didn't say a word. Instead, many monks said with shame that they would go to the main dining hall to get the seal and let Du Heng take care of their meals in the future.
Du Heng was very touched. The cultivators of Shenxu Palace were really easy to talk to. They were completely different from the treacherous sects he had imagined. How bad could a cultivator who could cultivate to the right path be?
After dinner, Jing Nan and Feng Gui were writing the dining instructions for the dining hall, while Xuan Yu was washing the dishes. Du Heng held Xiao Xiao in his arms and happily counted the seals in the bag: "Hey, we received eight seals!"
Xuan Yu said slowly, "Next time you encounter something like this, just speak out directly. You are a Jindan cultivator. The sect's errand manager is short-sighted and can't see that your cultivation is his problem. You don't have to bear his anger. Even if we become errand boys now, there is no need to swallow our anger."
Du Heng looked at Xuan Yu with emotion: "Yeah."
At this time, Feng Gui was holding a wooden board and lying next to the table outside the kitchen: "Take a look at the new instructions."
Du Heng took a look at it and his first reaction was that it was a very domineering handwriting. This font was different from the Feng Gui font that Du Heng was familiar with. Feng Gui said, "I changed the font on purpose. Do you think it's okay?"
The wooden sign read: Notice for dining in the First Canteen. 1st rule: The dining time in the First Canteen is: lunch at noon and dinner at twilight.
Article 2: Do not cause trouble in the dining hall, and do not waste food. If you violate this rule, the dining hall will not accept you.
Article 3: Monks whose seals are not in the dining hall need to pay spirit stones to eat in the dining hall. The amount of spirit stones paid is based on the price of food on that day.
There are a few more items below, which are basically the same as what Feng Gui and the others said. Du Heng deeply suspected that these people had already agreed on it before entering the dining hall, otherwise how could they come up with so many rules and regulations in just one meal?
Jing Nan was lying on the side, holding a wooden board with rows of bamboo sticks nailed to it. "This is used to hang their signatures, so that we can see at a glance who is coming to eat."
Xiaoxiao squeezed past Jingnan, holding a bunch of two-inch long wooden signs in his mouth, with the names of various dishes written in neat handwriting. The best thing was that there were prices under the names of the dishes, such as minced meat and eggplant, one spirit stone.
Du Heng felt that after these signs were hung out, the dining hall would be deserted. But forget it, he was not opening a restaurant in Shenxu Palace. He believed in Xiaoyu and the others, and they would not harm him.
On a sunny afternoon, Jing Nan started to feel lazy again. He made a recliner and lay down at the entrance of the dining hall, hugged Xiao Xiao and began to take a nap. Feng Gui looked around the dining hall. He felt that he did not like the layout of the dining hall, especially the kitchen.
Xuan Yu carried the basket on his back and went to Shengu Peak with Du Heng. They were going to buy a spirit gathering array.
When Du Heng was in his hometown, he read fantasy novels and saw those big guys could cause mountains to collapse and the earth to split apart with just a wave of their hands. Logically speaking, Xiaoyu and the others were not low in cultivation, but they were not seen using their ultimate moves. The only time he saw Feng Gui take action was when he was in danger and a sword fell from the sky. Most of the time, Xuanyu and the other three were warm and peaceful, no different from ordinary people.
Xuan Yu saw Du Heng staring at his profile in a trance. He touched his face and smiled, "What's wrong?"
Du Heng looked around and saw no one around, so he leaned over and kissed Xuan Yu on the side of his face, praising him, "My Xiaoyu is so pretty!"
Xuan Yu's smile burst out from his eyes, his eyes narrowed and his lips turned up, he looked gentle and happy.
He hugged Du Heng's waist and kissed him deeply on the lips: "I am yours."
When Du Heng thought that such a beautiful Xiaoyu was his own, his mood was like a flying bird. Holding Xuanyu's hand and walking on the mountain path, watching the big tail of Xiaowonton swaying, Du Heng sighed sincerely: "It's great."
After passing the Shenzao Peak, Du Heng thought he could see the Shengu Peak, but he didn't expect that what appeared in front of him was a barren land. On this barren land, there was a square floor covering an area of 100 meters. On the floor were countless strange-shaped magic tools.
The Divine Bone Peak that Du Heng was looking forward to was a hundred miles away. He could only see the dark blue shadows of the mountains in the west. The monks of the sect could fly swords, but it was too strenuous for the servants of the outer sect to travel back and forth between the Divine Bone Peak and other sects.
In order to facilitate these chores, the monks of the Divine Bone Peak placed many magical instruments on the road. As long as the spirit tablet issued by the sect was waved on the magical instrument, the magical instrument would carry the chores to and from other hills quickly.
Du Heng picked a bowl-shaped magic weapon. When he sat in it, he felt like a grain of rice jumping into the bowl. When the magic weapon moved, Du Heng exclaimed in joy, "It's flying!"
Xuan Yu was puzzled: "What's wrong?" It's normal for magic weapons to fly. It's not the first day that Du Heng has flown in the sky. Why is he so excited?
Du Heng smiled, revealing his big teeth. He said, "When I was a child, I had a dream that I was flying to school on a big blue and white porcelain bowl at home."
In his dream, he was flying between the blue sky and white clouds, and saw the familiar scenery become small. The incredible feeling made him laugh even when he woke up from his sleep.
Finally one day, his dream of flying in a bowl came true! Although this was not the blue and white bowl in his dream, it could be used anyway!
Du Heng stuck his head out to look at the scenery below. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that the outline of the wasteland below was very strange. At a glance, he could see that the edge of the wasteland and the land bordering the Shenzao Peak were clearly distinguished. The color of the wasteland was grayish yellow, while the area bordering the wasteland was dark blue.
Du Heng asked Xuan Yu to look curiously: "Xiao Yu, look, is there a formation underneath? The shape of this wasteland is very strange."
Xuan Yu said calmly, "I heard that Shenxu Palace once had a genius who practiced both swordsmanship and magic. The magic weapon he made was sought after by many people in the cultivation world. However, one day when he was refining the weapon, the furnace exploded and the entire mountain was razed to the ground. I think what you saw was the trace left by the explosion."
Du Heng was sweating profusely. Why did he have to hear such a cruel truth? The pit on the ground was so big. Was that cultivator practicing a magic weapon? He was obviously practicing a nuclear weapon!
He looked down at the land below again, and as expected, he felt that the shape of the wasteland was indeed circular. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like a nuclear explosion crater!
Du Heng asked: "What happened next? Was the swordsman still alive after the nuclear explosion?"
Xuan Yu shook his head: "I don't know, this may only be known by people from Shenxu Palace."
Du Heng sighed, "Before, I said that the big guys in the cultivation world could cause the sky to fall and the earth to split apart with just a wave of their hands, but now it seems that it is better to live in peace and stability." He did not want to be a neighbor of such a dangerous big guy at all. He did not want to sleep well at night while he and his home were blown up into the sky.
The magic weapon flew for two incense sticks before landing on the ground at the foot of the Divine Bone Peak. After the two people and the dog got off the magic weapon and looked around, Du Heng exclaimed, "How spectacular."
The Divine Bone Peak is different from other peaks. On other peaks, the immortal palaces are scattered all over the mountain, and the immortal palaces are ethereal at a glance. However, there are more immortal palaces than trees on the Divine Bone Peak, and all you can see at a glance are rooftops. The monks flying on the Divine Bone Peak with their swords, Du Heng couldn't help but think of the time when he was chased by man-eating bees in Dongji Mountain...
Oh, I have a cold war.
Xuan Yu held Du Heng's hand and said, "Let's go and take a look at the spirit gathering array."
After walking out of the ground and going up the mountain for half a cup of tea, they saw a huge square. There was a huge refining furnace on the square. Green smoke was curling from the furnace, and the heat was overwhelming before they even got close.
There were many monks wearing colorful clothes walking around. The palace robes of Shenxu Palace were all moon-white, and the outer gate servants wore gray robes. He was a little uncomfortable seeing so many colors all of a sudden.
Du Heng had another question in his mind: "Why are there so many people from other sects here?"
Xuan Yu said: "Shengu Peak is located in the northwest of Shenxu Palace. There are many small sects in the northwest that come to Shenxu Palace for support. Shengu Peak has become a gathering place for small sects because of its unique geographical location. In other words, Shengu Peak is the face of Shenxu Palace. The other main peaks are much more low-key than Shengu Peak."
Du Heng suddenly realized: "I remember, you said before that behind Shenxu Palace is Tianyi Sect, and there are many small sects next to it. It is also very important to have good relations with small sects these days."
Xuan Yu said, "That's about what I mean. Besides, there is a wasteland next to the Divine Bone Peak. Even if something happens, it won't disturb the sect." Du Heng looked back at the wasteland with a sigh, "I didn't expect the wasteland to be useful in this way."
Du Heng and his companions walked around the refining furnace next to the square and headed towards the refining hall next to it. Before they got close to the refining room, Xuan Yu stopped Du Heng and said, "Wait."
Du Heng stopped and asked, "What's the matter?"
A girl in green walked out of the weapon refining room, with an indelible sadness between her brows.
It’s Jinghong, Jinghong is actually at Shengu Peak!
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Jinghong lowered her head and did not notice Xuanyu and the others. After she left the weapon refining room, she walked up the mountain along the path.
Du Heng asked in confusion: "Why is Jinghong here? How did she get to Shenxu Palace?" Xuan Yu said: "Jinghong is a frequent visitor to Shenxu Palace, so it's not surprising that she is here."
No matter what, Jinghong has been obsessed with the Palace Master of Shenxu Palace for eight hundred years, and yet he has not yet broken into Shenxu Palace. Wouldn't it become a joke if these eight hundred years were told to others?
After Jinghong's figure disappeared, Du Heng and the others walked towards the weapon refining room. There were not many people in the weapon refining room of Shenxu Palace. When Wonton entered the room, there were monks gathered around and talked about it: "Oh, this spirit dog is mighty!" "It's good to raise one."
Du Heng bowed to the monk behind the counter and said, "Fellow Daoist, do you have any spirit gathering arrays for sale?"
The monk raised his head and looked at Du Heng. After seeing that Du Heng was wearing a gray robe for menial workers, he said perfunctorily, "Spirit Gathering Array? Yes, I have. How big do you want?"
Du Heng asked, "How big is it for sale?" The monk said, "The smallest one can cover three acres of land and costs 30,000 spirit stones."
Du Heng whispered, "30,000 Spiritual Stones..." He only wanted to use the more than 10,000 Spiritual Stones from selling the black gold cicada to buy a spirit gathering array. If it was 30,000 Spiritual Stones, he would have to pay more than 20,000 Spiritual Stones. It's not that he didn't have so many Spiritual Stones, he made nearly 20,000 Spiritual Stones from selling rice last time. He just couldn't bear to part with it.
Du Heng's expression made the monk look poor, so he casually asked, "No money?"
Du Heng smiled awkwardly. Xuan Yu couldn't bear to see Du Heng being wronged, so he stepped forward:
"How many spirit stones does the largest spirit gathering array cost?"
Du Heng grabbed Xuan Yu as soon as he heard it. He was very touched by Xuan Yu's action, but they were just doing menial work now, so there was no need to spend this money, right?
The cultivator behind the counter looked Xuan Yu up and down. He smiled and said, "The largest spirit gathering array? Thirty-eight million spirit stones. Do you know the spirit gathering array in the spirit medicine field? That's the kind. Why? Do you want to buy one?"
Du Heng quickly said, "No, no, no, we can't afford it, we're just asking." Xuan Yu clenched his fists in silence, and he took a step back to agree with Du Heng's words.
Xuan Yu's concession was seen as a retreat by the cultivator. He laughed and said, "Don't you see what your status is? You can't even afford the lowest level of spirit gathering array, yet you want to buy the biggest one? Hey, we have the biggest one, 3,800 spirit stones. Do you want it? I'm afraid you won't be able to use it after you buy it."
Du Heng had always had a good impression of the monks in Shenxu Palace, but now he had to admit one thing: there would be good people and scum everywhere, and people would identify people by their clothes no matter when and where.
Xuan Yu was quite interested in the Soul Gathering Array that cost 3,800 yuan but could not be used: "Let's buy the Soul Gathering Array that cost 3,800 yuan."
The monk chuckled, "Stop joking. That spirit gathering array was taken down from the sword tomb. It's already in tatters. I won't tease you anymore. The smallest new spirit gathering array costs thirty thousand. Outer sect servants like you buy a spirit gathering array to plant some flowers and grass. You don't need such a big one. If you really want to buy it, I have a repaired spirit gathering array here, but it can only cover one acre of land. Since you are a sect servant, you can take the five hundred spirit stones."
Du Heng's eyes lit up. This is possible!
But the monk raised his hand and pointed at Wonton: "But your dog has to stay here. This dog is pretty good."
Wonton seemed to know what the monk was going to do, and the hair on its neck and back stood up. Du Heng had never seen Wonton so fierce before, and Wonton roared angrily, and the sound of his barking made his eardrums tremble.
Du Heng said sternly: "No, I won't sell it. If you want to sell this second-hand spirit gathering array, then sell it. If not, we'll look for it somewhere else." Want to make wontons? Don't even think about it!
Seeing that Du Heng was angry, the monk said angrily, "Second-hand small spirit gathering arrays are in great demand. Four thousand spirit stones, take it if you want it." Du Heng was so angry that he didn't want to talk. So this man wanted to get the wonton for only three thousand five hundred spirit stones? How ridiculous.
Xuan Yu said: "Three thousand eight, buy the broken large spirit gathering array.
One hand pays the other hand delivers the goods.”
The broken large spirit gathering formation looked like a golden lotus with eighty-one petals stacked on top of each other, but some of the petals were broken.
The monk stuffed it into a dusty bag and threw it to Xuan Yu: "I'm kindly reminding you that our weapon refining room has tried to fix this thing several times but it still hasn't fixed it. You might as well buy a second-hand, smaller Spirit Gathering Array for four thousand. It's better than buying a bunch of junk. At least you can still use it."
Xuan Yu held the bag in one hand and held Du Heng's hand with the other: "Thank you."
Wonton walked in front with his teeth bared, and those monks who wanted to touch him were driven away by his green eyes.
After leaving the weapon refining room, Du Heng was furious: "I'm so pissed... He actually wants wontons! Our wontons are only worth 3,500? How can this be possible!"
Wonton licked Du Heng's hand. Du Heng bent down and hugged its neck to comfort it: "Our wontons are delicious. We won't sell them to you no matter how much money you pay!"
Xuan Yu asked, "Do you want to go shopping again?"
Shengu Peak is very lively, and there should be many places to visit. But after the wontons were remembered by others, Du Heng said he didn't want to stay any longer. He walked to the ground without saying a word: "Go back, go back, these people are too scary, if we stay any longer, there will be no wontons."
Xuan Yu smiled: "Well, go back."
When they returned, Du Heng was still sitting on the big bowl. He hugged Wonton's neck and complained, "Isn't the equipment room too dark? The spirit gathering array is so expensive?"
Xuan Yu said: "It's okay, 3,800 yuan will take down this large spirit gathering array, and it can be used after repairing it." Du Heng looked at Xuan Yu with trust: "I'm just worried that you will be tired."
He was still clear about Xuan Yu's methods. If he had the courage to take it, he would have the ability to repair it. But he didn't know how much time and energy Xuan Yu would spend to repair this spirit gathering array. Thinking of this, Du Heng blamed himself: "I'm really stupid. Why did I get angry with a villain like Wang Jian? If I didn't get angry with him, at least he wouldn't dare to deduct my things so openly, and I wouldn't have to grow vegetables."
Xuan Yu reached out and touched Du Heng's face. He said softly, "He doesn't like you because of what you did. Even if you did nothing, he would still target you. Don't take him to heart. Just do your own thing."
When Du Heng and his friends returned to the dining hall, it had changed a lot.
The original layout of the dining hall was a kitchen on the north side, with a storage room behind the kitchen. The only light coming in was a row of windows on the south side, so if the weather was a little cloudy, you couldn't see into the kitchen.
Now the kitchen has been moved from the north to the east, the kitchen on the north has disappeared, and windows have been built on the north side like on the south side. The lobby is now much brighter, and you won't feel dark even if you sit in a corner.
The kitchen is much smaller than the old kitchen, but much larger than the one-fifth compartment that Du Heng used before.
Du Heng felt that this kitchen was bigger than the ones in the village. There were eight stoves in this kitchen. The small stove at the innermost was the simple stove that Du Heng had used before. There was also his oven on the edge of the stove. Du Heng's familiar water hyacinth and the large chopping board on the kitchen sink were back!
The kitchen had doors on the south and north sides, so Du Heng finally didn't have to drag the basket of vegetables across the hall. There was also a place to pick vegetables in the kitchen, so he didn't have to squat on a small stool and bend over to pick vegetables.
After Feng Gui's renovation, the dining hall was completely transformed. Du Heng found it easier to use and more pleasing to the eye.
Du Heng was deeply moved: "Xixi...you are so kind."
Feng Gui glanced at Du Heng and said, "Can you make some spicy dishes for dinner? We didn't have enough for lunch."
Du Heng felt guilty, so he immediately decided: "Make it! Make crispy pork! Make spicy dry pot snake cubes! What else do you want to eat? You tell me, and I'll make it!"
Feng Gui named the dishes: "Spicy rabbit head, spicy chicken, Maoxuewang..." Feng Gui wanted to say something else, but Jing Nan howled: "Give me a way out!"
Xiaoxiao jumped onto the table in front of Du Heng and shook his storage bag. Where were the nut cakes he promised him? He was thinking about the nuts he got from Tai Shuhong.
Making nut crisps is very simple. All you need to do is stir-fry the nuts and mix them in syrup, flatten the praline candy in a mold while it is still hot, and cut it into small pieces after it cools down. The whole production process is the same as making fried rice candy, except that Du Heng replaced the fried rice in the fried rice candy with fried nuts.
Du Heng took out the familiar Tianhu scale again and weighed the nuts he had sorted out. There were three pounds of nuts here. According to the proportion, he needed one and a half pounds of syrup, and this one and a half pounds needed ordinary soft sugar and half of maltose.
Seeing Du Heng holding out the syrup jar, Jing Nan and the others immediately came over and rolled up the syrup with bamboo sticks to eat. Soon everyone had a bamboo stick in their mouths. Du Heng squinted at his syrup jar and said, "Why do I feel like there's less sugar in my syrup?"
Hearing this, Xiaoxiao and the others looked at each other innocently, and after a moment they all shirked responsibility. Feng Gui pointed at Xiaoxiao and said, "Feng Lin, was it you who cheated on me?"
Xiaoxiao pointed his wings at Jingnan: "Chirp!"
Jing Nan pointed at Xuan Yu: "Xiao Yu eats this."
Xuan Yu pointed at Feng Gui and said, "They did it."
Du Heng chuckled and said, "It's okay. It's not something valuable. I'll make some more later."
Xiaoxiao immediately raised her wings and demanded strongly: "Chirp, chirp, chirp~~" Please make more!
Du Heng was looking at the three pounds of nuts. He was wondering whether it would be better to bake them in the oven or stir-fry them in a large pot. At this moment, Feng Gui actually picked up the spatula!
Du Heng's eyes are full of stars. Xixi is still very reliable at the critical moment!
Feng Gui poured red gilded sand into the pot, and as he slowly stir-fried it, plates of fried melon seeds and peanuts appeared on the table. Everyone chatted while eating the nuts, and by the time Feng Gui had fried the last plate of walnut kernels, there were already a lot less kernels.
The fox scale was used again, and the little fox said crisply: "Two catties and one ounce~" Wow, this group of people ate nearly a catty of nuts. Du Heng collapsed again. He had just weighed the maltose and sugar, and now he had to weigh them again.
The author has something to say: Does the way Xiaoxiao and the others stole maltose and blamed each other look familiar to you?
Tai Shuhong: My dinner...isn’t ready yet?
Old cat: Why are you in such a hurry? You can't run away. What kind of breed are you? Tell me secretly?
Tai Shuhong blushed and felt shy...
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