When the rooster crowed twice, it was not yet dawn.

There was a rustling sound in a clearing space surrounded by woods.

First, the donkey and mule sniffed and trampled on the soil.

Then the sound of someone's footsteps interspersed in many tiny sounds.

then,

The sound of an axe cutting firewood is continuous.

After a few sounds of flints rubbing against each other, a fire lit up on this open space surrounded by dense small trees.

The fire gradually rises,

It highlighted the surrounding tables made of wood and stones.

Around the burning flames, there were several stoves made of mud and stones. The strong young man was busy filling the stove with fire and burning the stove red.

The fat woman was wearing a pigskin apron and holding a large iron pot on the stove.

On the other side, another thinner woman spread the chopping board on a wooden table, took out a washed cow head from a large iron bucket squatting on the ground, split the cow head in half, and put it into the iron pot that the fat woman was caring for.

Afterwards, add beef lungs, beef intestines, beef blood and other beef offals into the iron pot.

The thin man took the donkey and mule to the edge of the forest farm, ate it a few handfuls of fodder, and tied the reins to a dead tree.

I squatted to the side a palm-sized incense burner, and three slowly burning incense sticks were inserted into the incense burner.

The man unloaded the cart from the donkey and mule's back, pulled the cart to the stove, and greeted two women and a boy to help: "Daping, Xiaocai, son, come and help!"

The two women and the teenager were surrounded,

Carry out a bucket of untreated cattle, sheep, pig internal organs, intestinal oil, and lymphatic meat on the cart.

The thinner woman was busy cleaning the crumbs. The fat woman took the job of cutting meat, cut the crumbs into slices or blocks, and threw them into the corresponding pot.

In the woods, white mist-like steam rose up, as if it had turned the dark sky a little white.

Around this, the cries of animals, the sounds of bells, and the sounds of people's footsteps gradually gathered.

Fires lit up in the darkness.

This fire is so dense,

Instead, this predawn night is particularly vital.

Some people set up vegetable stalls outside the forest;

Some people raised wooden poles with straw tied to it, built two stones, built a small pot, added water and sugar to the pot to make it, and then threw a bunch of hawthorn into the pot and rolled it out. The red sugar sticked to the surface of the hawthorn, and the candied haws were inserted on the straw poles.

Those who sell livestock, chickens, ducks, and dogs, and people...

All of this gathered around this originally empty forest farm.

They don't have to shout or make noise.

The villagers from all over the countryside gathered here as if they had made an agreement with them.

far away,

A big black horse with shiny fur was pulling a carriage, covered in the dew from before dawn. Driven by the young groom, the horse's hooves slowly came to the market here with a sound of horse hooves.

“This is the Jade Emperor Collection.

The largest market within hundreds of miles of Yunjin.

From New Year's Eve every year to Lantern Festival.

I used to drive my senior brother - I had a New Year's Eve dinner here." In the carriage, Old Taoist Xuanzhao poked his head out, observed the scene around him, and kept talking. He identified the direction around him, and saw the empty field surrounded by densely grown trees, he hurriedly pointed there and said, "Let's have a walk, let's eat in that forest farm today!

His beef soup and lamb head meat are delicious!

You can drink a bowl of beef soup in the morning, eat lamb head meat at noon, and use some fried and crispy cockscomb oil. Order half of beef head at night, and this year is over..."

Hearing his arrangement, Su Wu turned to look at the old Taoist expressionlessly and said, "We have been walking from the Sauce Village to Yunjin for two days. Now we are far enough from the Sauce Village. The Taoist Master is not willing to reveal any information about the incident in the Maoshan ancestral courtyard?

Now we are walking around all day long. If I see, I will only be getting further and further away from the Maoshan ancestral courtyard?"

"I'll tell you later, I'll tell you later!" Xuanzhao waved his hands repeatedly and said with a smile, "Today's New Year's Eve, even the prisoners in the death row have to have a good meal.

What's more, we are not death row prisoners?

Go quickly! Go quickly!

Today, the old Taoist wants to have a good time at this Jade Emperor Festival!"

Su Wu sighed, and without saying anything more, he drove the carriage to the edge of the forest farm.

He tied the horse to a donkey and mule, and when he lowered his head, he saw an incense burner made of yellow mud under the tree.

In the incense burner, the incense ignites green smoke.

Su Wu's nose wings flapped, and in an instant, he "sniffed" a smell that made him particularly familiar - the "Kitchen King Divine Sect" and "Life-Protecting Fire" from the spontaneously burning fragrance!

Could it be that the owner of this stall selling food at the "Jade Emperor's Festival" is also a member of the "Kaoshiro God Cult"?

The thoughts in his mind moved, and Su Wu became a little curious about this stall of beef and mutton soup.

Nowadays, geniuses are lit up.

There have been many villagers from neighboring villages in the market.

This stall selling beef and mutton soup occupies the most central location of the entire Dachang. There are many tables here, which is naturally an open-air dining hall.

Logically speaking, such a good location is unreasonable. Other vendors who come to the market to sell goods will not come to seize it.

But the reality is that many vendors are surrounded by the forest farm and lay their respective stalls, but none of them account for even half of the stalls selling beef and mutton soup!

Su Wu observed the details here, followed the old Taoist, and approached the fat woman who was responsible for cooking mutton soup.

As the three stoves approached, Su Wu's perception of the "life-protecting fire" became stronger and stronger.

——The life-protecting fire is burning in all three stoves!

"What are you eating, guests?

Eighteen beef sprouts per bowl, twenty-four sprouts per big bowl, you can drink the soup as you like.

Sheep critters…”

The fat woman said to the old Taoist with a smile.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xuanzhao's old Taoist put his hands behind his back and looked at the pieces of minced meat covered by steam in the iron pot. He took a breath and said, "Give me a bowl of beef paste soup, give me more lungs, intestines, less liver, and two horns of cake!"

"Okay!"

The fat woman lowered her head and followed Xuanzhao's instructions to pick out pieces of cow lungs and intestines, chopped them on the chopping board and put them in an iron spoon, rolled them into a large pot of beef offals, took out the meat and soup, put them into a large sea bowl, and then spread two thick cakes cut into triangles on the bowl, and handed them to the old Taoist.

"He will pay the money!"

The old Taoist happily picked up the sea bowl and did not forget to signal Su Wu behind him to the fat woman.

Su Wu walked up and asked for a bowl of beef paste soup that was similar to the old Taoist. While the fat woman was cutting the beef paste, he suddenly asked the woman: "Sister-in-law, have you ever cooked the stove and collected rice?"

This is a ignorant question, and most people will be confused when they hear it.

But this statement is actually a slight incision and slander when people meet in the Kitchen King Divine Sect.

Su Wu immediately made this incision to see what the fat woman would react.

What disappointed him is that

When he said that, the fat woman stopped the knife and looked at him blankly: "What are you cooking the stove and collecting rice? I have always been my man, and my son is responsible for lighting the stove.

We don’t sell rice here.”

"It's nothing, I just said casually, sister-in-law, don't care." Su Wu shook his head and looked at the thin woman guarding another pot beside him, believing that both of them had nothing to do with the Kitchen King Divine Sect.

At this time,

He suddenly sensed the eyes of strangers stayed on him for a while.

Su Wu followed the sensing and looked at the place where the eyes came from.

Seeing a few steps away, Ben turned his back to the male owner of the stall who had been turning his back to his cow hoof and grinned at himself.

He moved slightly and nodded in response to the male owner's smile.

After taking the big sea bowl handed over by the fat woman, Su Wu took a bowl of beef soup to the table occupied by Lao Dao, put down the sea bowl, and broke the corner cake into small pieces and put it into the soup bowl.

The male owner of the stove put down the cow's hooves, spoke a few words to the two women, handed the cow's hooves to his son to burn them, and then picked up a pottery pot from behind the stove and walked towards Su Wu.

"Friends from the Kitchen God Cult, do you want a glass of wine that I brewed at home?"

The male owner of the cattle and sheep stall walked to Su Wu, Xuanzhao occupied the table, put the clay pot on the table, and said with a smile.

When Su Wu heard this, he looked up and saw the male owner grinning.

He hadn't had time to speak,

The old Taoist Xuanzhao had already nodded repeatedly and said, "Come on! Come on and take a bite!"

The male owner took out a cup, poured a glass of wine for Xuanzhao, and then looked at Su Wu.
To be continued...