death of hope

Chapter 212 "Corporate Warrior" (128) Wild Dishes

It was not confirmed until the dinner table that the rumors were true,
The monks of Xiaojinsha Temple really don’t abstain from meat and fish, no wonder the people in New Vegas laugh and call them monks of wine and meat.

These titles are purely ridicule, there is no malice, no one will blame the monks for deviant,

Even fools understand that on this barren planet, there is no chance for vegetarians to survive,

No matter what religious beliefs or personal habits a person has, as long as he immigrates to New Vegas, he will become an omnivore,
All picky eating behaviors are unrealistic. After all, it is difficult for ordinary people to just fill their stomachs.

On the table are the ingredients collected by the Buddhists in this barren land, and they are used to entertain the guests. The dishes are carefully cooked, but at first glance, it is really impossible to stimulate the appetite.

"Wo X, I'm going to throw up!"

"Good guy, this dish is... too hardcore!"

When Shaft saw that the first "hard dish" served by the monk was grilled lizard on a stone plate, he almost wanted to spit it out.

Oleg said: "This thing just looks scary, it is not poisonous or chemically polluted, it is pure green food, just close your eyes and eat it at ease."

It's just a mere lizard, and it's still cooked. The three veterans, Lynch, Johnny, and Oleg, don't pay attention to it at all. Using chopsticks skillfully, they pick up the cooked lizard meat and put it in their mouths. through the mouth.

On the battlefield, replenishing calories is a very serious matter, and there is no chance for picky eaters. Over the years, veterans have developed numb taste buds and steely appetites.
Even the dark dishes of aliens can be swallowed, how can a mere stone-grilled lizard cooked by humans scare them.

But the appearance of this dish is really terrible, sticky, wrapped in a layer of jelly, dotted with a circle of black wild cauliflower, even the poor Sigurdlifa feels disgusted ,hard to swallow.

She glanced timidly at Lynch, who was eating lizard legs like chicken legs in a fast food restaurant.

A woman in a crush is very sensitive,
She cared a lot about Lynch's opinion of her, and she didn't want to be treated as a coward by him, trying to gain affirmation and approval.

So, Sigdrifa made up his mind, swallowed, cut off a piece of lizard tail meat with a dagger, stuffed it into his mouth like taking medicine, chewed it a few times, and swallowed the water, then his eyes lit up, is a surprise;

"Huh? The skin is very tender, and the gravy...so...delicious?"

She suddenly opened her eyes, and the taste was unexpectedly good, like chicken, with a faint fishy smell, and she couldn't wait to eat another piece, even temporarily forgetting the pain on her feet.

Lynch cast an approving look: "That's right, don't be fooled by the appearance, it's not bad at all."

Lodayev also grabbed the chopsticks, "I'll try it too."

Once someone starts, the first person to eat crabs, others will gradually let go of their guards, or use knives and forks, or stretch out chopsticks to taste.

"What's going on!" Seeing his teammates picking up food, the hacker almost collapsed: "My God, are you all crazy?"

"If you are a man, eat it!" Wang Hongye persuaded with a smirk on her face: "Eat it, Shaft, look, our miser knight noble lady has eaten it all."

She picked up a piece of wrinkled lizard skin with her chopsticks and dangled it in front of the other party, causing Shaft's appetite to surge and she almost vomited on the table.

"Ouch...it's so fucking disgusting, your taste is really strong...I'd better eat compressed biscuits."

"The taste is really good, not greasy, moderately salty, and the person who cooks this dish is a master." Oleg praised.

"Thank you." Toutuo, the cook, came out of the kitchen.

"Where did you get this thing?" Johnny asked while chewing.

"It's called the New Vegas Desert Crested Iguana. It can survive in an extremely harsh environment. It hides in holes during the day and comes out in the middle of the night to eat bugs and drink dew. Our monks stayed up late to climb the mountain, risking being discovered by bandits. It's not easy to catch them one by one with a net."

"Thank you for hospitality."

Master Fang Gan stroked his beard and laughed: "I'm still worried that you won't be used to it, it seems redundant."

The second dish is red stone-roasted viper. The snake meat is spread on the hot salty red stone, surrounded by mustard greens and fried grasshoppers. The fat of the viper drips on the stone and smokes.

"This stuff is poisonous!" Shaft stood up in fright.

"Eat at ease, the poison sac and fangs are all gone," said the foreman Toutuo.

"It's awesome, the taste is like eel." Wang Hongye gave a thumbs up to the foreman Toutuo: "I haven't eaten this for a long time since I left my hometown."

Fang Gan said: "You can tell from the way you walk, young lady from a martial arts family, Lian Jiazi."

The third course was still a meat dish, the mountain snails baked in red garlic, which were quickly wiped out by the hungry soldiers.

Johnny finally couldn't help but asked, "Aren't you afraid of violating the precepts if you eat like this?"

Master Fang Gan looked nonchalant: "The environment here is difficult to build a vegetable greenhouse. It is not realistic to maintain a vegetarian diet. We need to hunt and supplement ingredients."

"Haven't the people from the Galaxy Buddhist Association troubled you?"

"Buddhist Association? Huh!" The contempt on Master Fang Gan's face was obvious: "To put it bluntly, those people can't be regarded as family members at all, but greedy businessmen, busy collecting incense money, consecrating Buddhist beads of rich people everywhere, I'm too lazy to take care of our ruined temple in a remote area!"

"Haha, you have seen it through. These days, everything is business, and religion is no exception."

"Only if we are willing to persevere, but we must make changes. Faith is important, but if everyone is starving to death, they still read scriptures! You don't even have the strength to knock on wooden fish. We should fill our stomachs first, and then consider the rules and regulations! .”

The fourth dish is finally a vegetarian dish. More than a dozen kinds of wild vegetables are fried together with mushrooms and moss. It tastes like a pain in the teeth and hurts the throat. If it is not for vitamin supplements, it is really hard to swallow.

With the wild recipes in front, the self-brewed distilled wine served later is not so obtrusive. After all, the warmth of alcohol is of great benefit to human survival in cold regions, and it can also improve morale. Drunk.

After drinking and eating, Master Fang Gan led the crowd to visit the sanctuary located deep in the temple.

As rumored, the Xiaojinsha Temple has sheltered hundreds of refugees, most of whom are old people and children.

Due to the sound of gunfire outside, the old people were emotionally unstable and crying, and the children also looked terrified, especially afraid of Lynch's figure and appearance.

"Master... bandits, are you coming in?"

"What nonsense! Old man! These are rescuers."

(End of this chapter)