From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 26 Yumu's Noodle House
Yumu's Noodle House is located on the last street of Neifang. It sells food, including cakes, noodles, and garlic.

The food sold here is not ordinary food. The worst ingredients are sixth-grade spiritual food. It is more like a magic pill than a meal.

Cooking by a spiritual chef is very similar to refining pills by an alchemist. Both use water and fire, and require controlling the temperature and the amount of the main ingredients.

The spiritual chef is the most profitable among the hundred arts of cultivating immortals. As the old folk saying goes, a chef who does not steal grains will not harvest them.

Like ordinary kitchens, spiritual kitchens are divided into red and white cases. The red case is for cooking dishes, and the white case is for steaming noodles. The distinction is obvious and the difference is huge.

Yu Mu learned to be a white-cooked chef. The pair of large mallets she used were passed down from her master, who brought them from Tianshui when she got married.

Noodle restaurants mainly serve Tianshui noodles, with a wide variety of dishes. Their most popular dish is fish soup with noodles.

Noodle fish soup is made by kneading wheat flour into dough mixed with grains, washing the dough into a paste, cooking the paste into a paste and letting it cool, squeezing out the noodle fish through a colander, and then serving it with garlic sauce and soursop.

It tastes delicious.

The gentlemen from the academy would come here to eat every now and then, and people from the fish monster village at the foot of the mountain would also come here to eat from time to time.

This fish soup is very beneficial for fish monsters. It is the result of joint research by Yu Shuyang and Yu Mu, and is based on the production of fairy food.

In Yu Shuyang's previous life, there were animal-shaped buns made of immortal food, such as cows, tigers, dragons, etc. If one ate that animal, one could gain its power, such as the power of nine cows and two tigers.

It's a pity that he was not a talented chef in his previous life. Fortunately, Yu Mu knew how to make plain pastries. Eating cow-shaped buns can gain the strength of the cow. It is nothing more than a method of replenishing the body with like.

With the cooperation between mother and son, it was mainly Yu Shuyang who made suggestions, and Yu's mother found ways to cook for him. After years of improvement, they made a noodle fish soup that could replenish the spiritual power of the fish monster.

This is no longer just a simple pasta dish; it involves a series of refining techniques such as offering sacrifices and prayers, using the form to replenish the nature, and harmonizing the five flavors.

"Jiuchun, do you want to eat? The restaurant is not busy right now. I will make you whatever you want while there are not many people."

The one who was speaking was Fathead Fish, who had a big head and a thick neck. He was the master chef in the fish shop and was also a half-apprentice.

"Why are you the only one left in the store?" Yu Shuyang remembered that the store had hired three fish monsters.

"The master's wife took them on a delivery trip. Early this morning, they went to the hardware counter on the west side and ordered a thousand bowls of noodle and fish soup." Fathead fish said with a little envy.

He had watched the chef make this noodle fish soup many times and asked for advice privately. No matter how many times he tried to make it, he could never achieve the effect of replenishing the spirit.

Yu Shuyang casually ordered a bowl of vegetarian noodles. He had no intention of eating or drinking too much. He mainly wanted to try the cooking of the bighead carp to see if there was any improvement.

Hand-stretched noodles can reveal the skills of a pastry chef, including the strength used in kneading the dough, the timing of letting the noodles rest, the technique of stretching the noodles, and the heat used to cook the noodles.

When Fathead Fish heard the word "Su Mian", he suddenly had an idea. He knew that his junior brother was testing him, so he used all his best skills.

His master was Yu Fu, and he called Yu Mu "Master Niang". In fact, he learned all the skills from Master Niang, and his best skills were steaming buns and making pancakes.

Relying on these two skills, he was able to break through to the eighth level of cultivation after years of practice. However, the subsequent practice became difficult.

My master's wife learned the cooking skills at her mother's home in Tianshui. She only knows how to make soup noodles, and has more experience in boiled noodles, but less in making pastries.

He has the element of fire and metal in his element, so he naturally likes high heat. When it comes to steaming buns and baking pancakes, he enjoys it more and more, and never feels tired while doing the work.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky. If he wanted to make further breakthroughs, he could only work hard on his soup noodles, just like when he took Yu Fu as his apprentice and learned the spiritual cooking method from his master's wife. The spiritual cooking method of the Tianshui Yang family was the custom used during weddings and weddings, emphasizing dumplings when entering the sedan chair and a bowl of noodles when leaving.

Therefore, the Yang family's cooking skills are only passed down to family members and are not taught to outsiders. Yu Mu's master is her aunt from the same clan.

There are not many people who practice the art of spiritual cooking in the blessed land, and even fewer who can be called famous. Yu Mu is definitely one of the most prominent figures.

Fathead Fish was not a shop assistant. He came here to learn a trade from the very beginning. In the end, it was Fish's father who had a bright idea. He took him in as an apprentice and they became family. His wife also helped teach him a few tricks, and no one could find fault with him.

A bowl of vegetarian noodles can be made very quickly. After taking them out of the pot, rinse them with cold water, put them into a wide-mouthed bowl, pour in the white soup that has been boiled in advance, sprinkle some vegetables on it and you're done.

"How is it, junior brother? It looks good, right? Try a bite and see if there is anything else wrong with it." The fathead fish said with a little pride.

My junior fellow apprentice is a gourmet and can occasionally find flaws in my master's wife's cooking. He not only knows how to eat but also understands how to eat. He can point out the problems and give suggestions.

Yu Shuyang smelled the fragrance of the noodles and looked at the appearance of the noodles, which were neatly arranged with two whites, three whites and three greens. The noodles were white, the soup was clear and the vegetables were green, which showed that the craftsmanship really took a lot of effort.

He picked up a piece with chopsticks and tasted it. It was still not chewy enough, not only not chewy enough, but also a bit sticky. This was not good.

"I didn't knead the dough well enough, I'll knead it a couple more times next time. I also didn't cook the noodles well enough, they were a bit sticky when I eat them.

"Brother, go get busy. It's nothing serious. I'll just eat a few bites and go home. No need to rush to greet me."

Yu Shuyang was not pretentious. He ate the noodles and the soup in big mouthfuls. The soup was not the soup used to cook noodles, but the white soup made from big bones.

The key to vegetarian noodles is that the flavor is in the noodles and the taste is in the soup. The most exquisite vegetarian noodles do not use meat soup, but a clear soup with mushrooms.

"Isn't this stupid brother? I haven't seen you for a while. You haven't even broken through to the ninth rank yet. Are you going after the girl from the embroidery academy?"

When regular customers in the store see Yu Shuyang, they will chat with him for a while. This is how they spend their daily lives, chatting about family matters.

"Take your time to eat. I'm leaving now. See you later." Yu Shuyang greeted and walked home carrying the paper box containing the wedding candlesticks.

Life is quite comfortable. Although the East is a classical society with a small peasant economy, there are many immortal families and blessed lands to back it up, so there is no shortage of products.

Although the humanities and technology in the Fuli world are extremely advanced and can almost keep pace with the cultivation of immortals, life is actually unhappy. Everything is quantified, and the huge gap is clearly exposed to the world.

Although Yu Shuyang was a sword immortal in his previous life, he was also very busy. He took on tasks in exchange for resources, used the resources to improve his cultivation, and then took on tasks that made more money. It seemed as if he was trapped in a spiral cycle.

This thought suddenly emerged for no reason, which scared Yu Shuyang. It was as if someone had implanted emotions in him and he had an extra feeling out of thin air.

The will of the Rat statue is eroding!

When he got home, he quickly moved the statue of the Rat God out of the altar. For the past half day, he felt like he had been infected.

No wonder most of the witches and shamans in previous lives were crazy. I didn’t expect the erosion to be so severe that it began to infect personal will unknowingly.

　The early stage is about the pastoral life of aristocratic families, mostly farming and pastoral style. There are not so many contradictions and conflicts, which may be a bit unpleasant. The author tries to write it as vividly and interestingly.

　　Recently, several readers have commented that the protagonist's personality is too cheerful or carefree. I don't quite understand this. Isn't being a sunny, cheerful boy a good thing? Please leave a comment. I want to know if this is a good thing, and I can make appropriate adjustments.

　　
　
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