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The ingredients are good, but difficult to prepare. In front of the new house, Du Heng and the sheep looked at each other. Du Heng felt that this sheep with four horns was bigger than the castrated sheep on the grassland. He had never seen such a big sheep in his life.
The sheep had two curved horns on both sides of its head, and two long horns on its head pointing upwards. Du Heng felt that if the sheep suddenly rushed over and lowered its head, these two sharp horns would definitely be able to pierce through a person's body.
Du Heng was hesitating. He had run into a little trouble. He had cooked mutton and eaten mutton soup, but he had never killed a sheep. He would go to the morning market with his father to pick the freshest mutton, but he had never picked up a butcher knife and stabbed a sheep's neck.
The last time's Brahma Chicken didn't count. That chicken died unfairly. Du Heng didn't expect that a stone could smash the chicken's head.
The sheep was panting, and Du Heng saw its teeth... Why would a sheep have fangs? Du Heng was a little soft-handed with the knife in his hand.
Jing Nan had been paying attention to Du Heng since just now. Seeing this scene, he sighed: "Can you help him?" Xuan Yu walked to Du Heng and said: "Knife."
Xuan Yu always spoke so concisely, but every time he made Du Heng feel reliable. He handed the knife to Xuan Yu neatly, and then used the wood-inducing talisman to make a large wooden basin: "I want the sheep's blood too!"
Xuan Yu looked at the wooden basin and said to Du Heng, "Take Xiaoxiao to the house." Du Heng knew that he couldn't let minors watch bloody and violent scenes! He picked up Xiaoxiao and ran into the yard. Xiaoxiao looked up at Du Heng: "Chiu Chiu?" Du Heng said solemnly, "Be good, wait until you grow up before watching."
Du Heng didn't hear any sound coming from outside. When he thought Xuan Yu hadn't started yet, he heard Jing Nan ask, "Do you want me to help you prepare the mutton?" Du Heng was more than happy to say, "Sure, sure."
After a few minutes, Jing Nan said, "It's done." Du Heng was stunned. He walked out holding Xiao Xiao, only to see that the big sheep that was still alive and kicking just now had been dealt with by Xuan Yu. Du Heng deeply regretted it. He shouldn't have left. He should have stood here and watched how the great god Xuan Yu dealt with the sheep!
The sheep's skin was peeled off and spread on the ground. On the skin was a sheep with bones and flesh clearly distinguished. This was a true separation of bones and flesh. The flesh on the bones was peeled off and turned into a red and white skeleton. The kind that would make a dog cry when seeing it. Next to the skeleton were two halves of a whole sheep.
On the grass in front of the hides were the sheep's internal organs and head. In the large basin was bright red blood. Xuan Yu's body was not stained with a single drop of blood, and even the knife in his hand was not stained with blood. Xuan Yu held the blade and handed the handle to Du Heng: "Alright."
Du Heng: ...This is a big boss, this is really a big boss!!
Xuan Yu said, "I'll deal with the internal organs and the head. You don't need the skin." Du Heng looked at the huge pile of internal organs and immediately said, "Don't throw it away. I'll deal with it!"
Jing Nan and Xuan Yu looked at each other. They couldn't figure it out. Was Du Heng brave or timid? He was brave because he didn't even dare to kill the sheep. He was timid because he didn't even spare the internal organs of the sheep after they died.
Processing the internal organs is a delicate job. Jing Nan and the others just watched at first, but after a while Xiaoxiao opened her mouth and said, "Ugh!" She vomited! Then Jing Nan took Xiaoxiao away with a pale face, leaving Xuan Yu standing by to help Du Heng.
Xuan Yu said, "It's very dirty, just throw it away." Du Heng smiled and said, "This is food given to us by God. As long as it can be eaten, not a single bit can be wasted. By the way, can you help me freeze a piece of mutton? It will be convenient for slicing later."
Xuanyu's house was upgraded, and Du Heng's kitchen was also upgraded. The biggest change was the stove. The previous stove was made by Du Heng based on the Jiangnan stove. He used the earth-inducing talisman, and the stove was gray. I don't know what material Xia Lao added to the stove, and the tabletop is as white as jade, which looks much brighter.
The stove was also decorated with the same material. The stove was so luxurious that Du Heng was embarrassed to cook. However, when Du Heng heard that all the chefs in the cultivation world used this material, he felt no guilt. In addition to the two pots, one large and one small, on the stove, there was another small pot on top of the two pots. This way, he could boil some hot water while cooking.
I heard that these two pots were made of black iron, which was countless times better than the pots Du Heng had used before. There was also a formation engraved on the pot, so Du Heng could put a cow in it. As for the material used to make the fire at the bottom of the pot, it was not wood, but a kind of red vine. I heard that this is called blood-sucking vine, and only a small piece can burn for a long time. Under the control of the formation, the fire can be large or small, and you can decide how long you want it to burn. When not in use, just turn off the formation.
Du Heng thought this was very convenient and several times more advanced than modern kitchens. However, the real sophistication was beyond the stove.
Du Heng's kitchen has windows on three sides. The stove is next to the east window. Looking out from the east window, you can see the mountains and lakes in the distance through the hollow windows on the courtyard wall. Along the east window, there is a large countertop for processing ingredients, and there is water on it for washing vegetables. The water flows out of a gourd. When you need water, wave it at the mouth of the gourd, and clear water will flow out of the gourd. When you don't need it, wave it again, and the water will stop. What's more important is that you can control hot and cold water.
This already made Du Heng want to kneel down, but what Du Heng really thought was amazing was the treatment of the oil smoke. There was a formation in the kitchen, and when the oil smoke came out of the pot, the formation would transmit the oil smoke to the outside of the yard. No matter whether it was scorching hot outside or freezing cold, the temperature in the kitchen would always be the same.
Du Heng had seen many cooks who had big bellies and bald heads after the age of 30, all because of the heat and fumes in the kitchen. The cooks in Taixu Realm solved this problem from the root, and Du Heng wanted to offer his knees to the great cooks in Taixu Realm.
In addition to this, there is also a floor that will never be dirty, and a dining table that can accommodate any number of people... The world of cultivation has a lot of black technology. If Du Heng hadn't wanted to cook dinner, he could have watched it for two hours!
The pot was already filled with chopped lamb bones and a few pieces of fresh lamb meat. Du Heng always felt that this lamb was not an ordinary lamb, because he had not smelled any lamb smell since he had handled it, and he only smelled a faint smell of blood on the lamb meat. It was said that only the best lamb meat would be like this, and after being cooked, it would have the fragrance of green grass.
Xuan Yu raised his hand and froze the mutton selected by Du Heng into lumps. Du Heng exclaimed: "Great, Xuan Yu, you are better than a refrigerator." Xuan Yu asked: "Refrigerator?" Du Heng said: "A box that can keep food safe and freeze it." Xuan Yu asked again: "Do you want it?"
Du Heng smiled and said, "Well, it's just that the conditions don't allow it, right?" Xuan Yu said, "It shouldn't be difficult to make." Stop it, Boss. There's no electricity in the cultivation world, so the refrigerator can't operate. But Du Heng still told Xuan Yu what the refrigerator looked like: "It's a square box, divided into two or three parts, which can be used to refrigerate food and freeze it."
Xuan Yu listened carefully, nodded from time to time, and finally said: "I haven't seen it. But you can try."
By the time Du Heng had finished cleaning the internal organs, it was already dark and the mutton soup in the pot had begun to emit a fragrant aroma. At this time, there was no seasoning in the pot. Du Heng lifted the lid and took a look. He saw a large pot full of meat boiling in it. The large pieces of mutton were evenly fat and lean. The milky white fat was trembling, and the gray lean meat underneath was also shaking in the boiling pot.
Du Heng used chopsticks to pick up a large piece of meat and placed it on the plate next to him. The meat collided with the white porcelain plate, and the rich juice splashed out. Du Heng sniffed it and said, "Yes, it's mutton." The sheep in Taixu Realm are quite good, and they are great when made into hand-held meat!
While the meat was cooling on the large plate, Du Heng began to prepare the ingredients for the hot pot. He washed the tender vegetables, cut the red tomatoes, and mixed a sauce with the limited ingredients on hand. When all these were done, Du Heng placed the prepared ingredients on the wooden table in the kitchen.
This is the round table made by Old Xia. When not in use, the cover is closed and it becomes a table for four. When there are guests, the cover is unfolded and it becomes a large round table. The talismans in the cultivation world are powerful and the size of the tabletop can be controlled. The brown wooden table shone with a warm wood color, and it looked particularly warm after the prepared ingredients were placed on it. Du Heng put the ingredients to the side, and the middle position was reserved for his hot pot.
He made a hot pot. It was called a hot pot, but it was actually just a round iron sheet with small holes under the iron pot. He could add burning charcoal to the iron sheet. In this way, the fire was burning below and the food could be cooked above. The iron charm could make the simplest things according to people's ideas, but it was not durable. Of course, Du Heng didn't think about how long a hot pot could be used. As long as they could finish a meal, the hot pot would have completed its mission.
He picked up a few pieces of burning blood-sucking vines from the pot and threw them into the round iron sheet, then placed the hot pot with half a pot of soup on the iron sheet. In fact, the best mutton is delicious as long as it is boiled in water and dipped in sauce, but Du Heng thought that the pot with mutton soup could also be used to cook something else.
The highlight of today is the hand-held meat and the little fat lamb. When the slender dagger cuts the soft and flexible lamb, the juice immediately overflows. The fat on the top is sizzling and oozing as if it is about to burst, and the lean meat below is also not giving in. The soft and flexible meat is so full of delicious juice that it is almost dripping.
Du Heng cut two large plates full of meat and placed them next to the hot pot. Then he cut the lamb rolls that needed to be blanched today. The rolled cylindrical lamb was frozen hard. Du Heng handed the knife to Xuan Yu: "Come on, do your best and cut it as thinly as possible."
Xuan Yu pulled a chair and sat down, watching Du Heng busying around. This was Du Heng's territory, he couldn't interfere. Hearing Xuan Yu calling him, he quickly stood up and took the knife. Xuan Yu's knife skills were very good, and the slices of mutton fell neatly into the prepared plates next to the chopping board as if they flew out. In a short while, Xuan Yu cut two large plates.
The texture of the mutton was like snowflakes, with thin white fat in the red meat slices. The two plates of meat slices were piled up like a hill to form a beautiful shape. Du Heng gave Xuan Yu a thumbs up: "Super awesome! Can you teach me in the future?" Xuan Yu nodded: "Okay."
After Du Heng put the processed mutton offal into the pot, he turned to look at Xuan Yu and said, "Sorry for the wait. It's time to eat."
As soon as he heard that dinner was about to start, Jing Nan came over from the living room with Xiaoxiao in his arms: "Here I come!" Xiaoxiao had forgotten about vomiting just now. He jumped onto the chair and looked at the table with sparkling eyes.
Du Heng took out his 13,000 yuan bottle of wine and looked at the small wine pot, which was actually filled with quite a lot of wine. He enthusiastically poured a glass for Xuan Yu and Jing Nan, and then ruthlessly poured tomato juice into Xiao Xiao's glass.
Jing Nan was very active. He raised his glass and said, "Come on! Let me say something first. We have the opportunity to eat hot pot in Xuan Yu's new house today. We want to thank Du Heng! Thank him for coming to our village and becoming our family!" Jing Nan's words were very inspiring. Du Heng's eyes were slightly sore after hearing them. He grinned and said, "Thank you, thank you!"
Xuan Yu raised his wine glass and stood up after Jing Nan. He looked at Du Heng deeply and said after a long while: "Welcome to the village." Du Heng was very grateful: "Thank you, thank you."
If it weren't for Xiaoxiao and Xuanyu, he would still be at the foot of Dongji Mountain, enduring the severe cold and the test of monsters. With that simple cave, he had no idea how many days he could survive. Du Heng stood up and said, "I hope we can have this day every year!"
Jing Nan's eyes narrowed into slits with smile: "Yes, may this day come every year! Come on! Cheers!" He laughed and chirped anxiously. He had no hands, so he couldn't drink the toast!
The three of them thought of this only when their cups touched each other. Then they put down their cups and clinked them with the cup of tomato juice in front of Xiaoxiao: "Cheers!"
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