Riding the wind of rebirth

No longer caring about how Mingtai tried to fool the donors, Zhou Zhi followed Liangran to the kitchen to see what ingredients were available.

Zhou Zhi still yearns for the vegetarian food at Lingshan Temple.

"With so many donors, we can only make tofu." Liaoran said, "Thank you, Brother Elbow, for giving us the machine. It is now very convenient for us to make tofu."

"It's just a small favor for me, but you guys took the trouble to lift the machine up so high." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

After coming down the mountain last year, Zhou Zhi felt embarrassed for the monks who ate and drank for free, but he was unwilling to give alms, so he simply bought them a set of pulping machines and gave them to them.

We have to thank the State Grid for providing electricity to Lingshan Temple, which is so high up. After all, it is a relatively influential religious site in the autonomous prefecture, so it deserves some special care.

"Lifting the machine is nothing," Liao Ran boasted, "Brother Elbow, we can eat glutinous rice balls for the New Year this year!"

Liaoran is still a junior high school student and has a childish personality. He is very happy to be able to eat sweets during the Chinese New Year.

"That's good." Zhou Zhi said, "By the way, I brought my sword this time. Let's practice tomorrow morning."

"Don't do it tomorrow morning, practice it in the afternoon!" When talking about this, Lan Ran was very proud: "My Tai Chi won an award in the state! First place, I won a bonus of 200 yuan!"

"Amazing!" Zhou Zhi knew that Laran was very talented, but he didn't know he was so talented.

"Master said that I should eat more tofu to build muscles," Liaoran said.

"Okay, then we'll push the tofu pudding and use the extra tofu pudding to press the tofu!" Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"I just don't know if it's too late to soak the beans."

Zhou Zhi said proudly: "Today I will teach you a quick way to make tofu pudding! I won't let ordinary people learn it!"

To make tofu pudding, you need soy milk first. To make soy milk, you need to soak the beans first. The beans usually need to be soaked overnight and then ground into a slurry.

It is definitely too late today. The perfect way is to grind the bean powder first, and then mix the bean powder and water into a coarse paste. The bean powder absorbs water much faster than soaking the beans. It only takes half an hour to beat the coarse paste again with a blender. In this way, you can quickly get suitable fine soy milk.

"Hey!" Liaoran found it amazing. He had never thought of such a simple method before. Zhou Zhiyi thought it was super simple, yet it was in the law of nature.

The two of them started making tofu pudding. When Mingtai came over after leading everyone to pay homage to the Buddha, they found that a large pot of tofu pudding had already taken shape. They couldn't help but wonder, "How come it's done in such a short time? Didn't we soak the beans last night?"

"Brother Elbow taught me another trick." Liao Ran reported proudly: "It only takes half an hour to turn dry beans into soy milk!"

When the method was explained, Mingtai also found it funny: "Such a simple method should be figured out by thinking hard, how come no one has ever thought of it?!"

The food was divided into two tables, one with simple seasoning and the other with complex seasoning.

The Buddhists consider onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, and asafoetida as the five kinds of meat, while the practitioners of body cultivation consider shallots, garlic, leeks, onions, and cilantro as the five kinds of meat; the Taoists consider shallots, garlic, leeks, onions, and cilantro as the five kinds of meat.

To put it simply, avoid strong and spicy condiments, because these things can easily breed desire, and the unpleasant smell they leave behind can easily make people resentful and hateful. Chili peppers and ginger are not included in this list, because these two things have no smell after eating.

However, any temple that opens its dining hall to the public has its secular side, and sometimes the requirements are not so strict.

For example, radish has flavor, but it is a must-have vegetarian dish in all temples, especially in the north. If the monks don’t even eat radish in winter, they will have trouble living.

Even though the seasoning of tofu pudding is simple and it is made with only glutinous rice cake peppers, it tastes very good.

Zhouzhi produced two kinds of chili sauce. One was made by burning green peppers until they were half-burnt, then pounding them into a sauce and adding cooked oil. The other was made by soaking red peppers in hot water, then pounding them into a sauce and then stirring them with hot oil.

We had done a lot of exercise today and we were all hungry along the way. We wolfed down several bowls of food and felt that we wouldn't even trade them for a meal of meat.

After dinner, they started drinking tea. Li Laosan pulled Mingtai stealthily to the abbot's room to whisper, while the rest of the people set up a tea table under the eaves and drank tea and chatted.

After resting for a while, Zhou Zhi first practiced two sets of Dragon Vajra Kung Fu in the small square. Then he and Liaoran took out their respective swords, took up their stances in the square, and practiced swordsmanship.

Zhou Zhi practices Chen-style Tai Chi, which includes many types of Tai Chi sword routines, from sixty-three moves, fifty-six moves, forty-nine moves, to the simplest thirty-six moves.

But the latter ones are actually simplifications of the sixty-three forms. What Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao practiced every morning and evening were the most complicated sixty-three forms.

There are more tricks in Tai Chi sword than in Tai Chi. It is actually very difficult to practice it simply, to practice it well, and to practice it to the point where it is truly useful and can strengthen the body instead of damaging the joints and muscles. You must have an expert to guide you.

Although Liaoran is a martial arts genius, his foundation in old kung fu is too solid, so he needs an expert to correct him on details such as the use of force and energy.

Zhou Zhi's skills were average, but his theories were very clear and he was good at teaching them. After practicing for a while, Wu Renzhong noticed something. "Xiao Miao, you are also practicing this. Why do I feel like you are practicing more and more, and it's even better than the elbow moves?"

Mai Xiaomiao had also been watching with great interest, and was overjoyed when she heard what Wu Renzhong said: "Brother Renzhong, you are not mistaken, Master Liangran is now much better than the Elbow Dance."

"Isn't this too fast?" Liang Guangping is a fan of martial arts novels, and he remembered the scene in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber where Zhang Sanfeng teaches Zhang Wuji how to use Tai Chi sword to restrain the eight-year-old sword master Ah Da who holds the Heaven Sword: "Is there really a master like Zhang Wuji in Jin Yong's novels?"

"That shouldn't be the meaning." Liu Hongtao was also watching, and now he had some understanding: "The Tai Chi sword that Elbow practiced should have been taught by a good master, but this kid's physical fitness is there, his strength, balance, and flexibility are not decent, so he practices Tai Chi sword just to strengthen his body."

"Yes, the elbow is like that." Mai Xiaomiao said: "But Master Liangran is different. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and can perform all the moves. What he lacks is the understanding of fist power and sword intent. As long as he understands it well, he can immediately make his body do what his brain wants to do. For example, he is lifting his feet above his head now. None of us can do it."

Everyone looked at the field and saw Ran stand up on one leg, then leap into the air, then change legs and kick in the air over his head, then quickly drop it to become a supporting leg, and sweep with the other leg to resolve the momentum of falling, then change to standing on one leg, and the long sword that was originally held in the backhand is now pointed forward with the forehand, truly being as fast as a rabbit and as still as a pine tree.

"Good!" All the audience, including Zhou Zhi, the temporary coach, applauded and cheered: "Beautiful!"

"I've never seen Elbow practice this move before?" Luo Yujuan applauded and felt strange: "Such a beautiful move, why doesn't he practice it?"

"Don't just talk without any hesitation!" Zhou Zhi had sharp ears and heard it from the sidelines: "Do you think I don't want to do it?!" (End of this chapter)