Da Zaojun

Chapter 58 Soot Cat
The sugar used for the stove candy is lard candy.

Sugar is too precious and there is not much of it. In comparison, although lard is also more expensive, it is collected anyway.

You can also add flour to lard sugar.

When Song Wuji was refining lard, he first added the roots of the grass demon. These rhizomes, similar to licorice, can increase the sweetness and have a unique fragrance that can reduce the odor of lard.

After boiling a pot, Song Wuji personally molded it into shape, completing all the rituals of a ninth-grade handyman in Tianchuyuan. Song Wuji was quite capable of handling these things.

Soon, sugar men, sugar horses, sugar dragons, and sugar phoenixes were made, and the rest were made into ordinary sugar dates.

With a little arrangement of the plate, it became the "Kitchen God Worship and Calming God Altar" ceremony, which was enshrined on the Kitchen God's portrait. Amidst the blazing stove fire, Song Wuji presided over the Kitchen God Worship Ceremony.

"Chant after me!"

Song Wuji started with a sentence, and the others held incense in their hands, respectfully worshipped the Kitchen God, and chanted a sentence.

"My destiny is to inherit the Northern Star and take charge of the Eastern Kitchen!"

"Become the Lord of the Five Sacrifices and obtain the Way of the Nine Spirits."

"Blessings and forgiveness, turning misfortune into good fortune, and pacifying yin and yang!"

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"Great compassion, great vows, great mercy. The Great Saint, great mercy. The Nine Heavens God of Destiny, Taiyi Yuanhuang, the Heavenly Lord of Destiny and Good Fortune!"

Song Wuji led them into the room seriously, but he didn't see the cat head also bowing along with them. He squatted on the ground with his back body and stood upright with his front paws clasped together in worship, with a serious expression.

"Master Kitchen God! May the cat have endless amounts of dried fish to eat! Meow~"

"Master Kitchen God! May the cat not have to work and may she sleep in every day, meow~"

But there was a smell of food rising and the flames in the kitchen crackling. The next moment, a spark exploded out of the stove and hit Chef Bao between the eyebrows.

Chef Bao suddenly felt warm, and then all his kitchen experiences and memories flowed through him, condensing into his ability as a disciple of the Kitchen God.

"Master Bao is done!"

Song Wuji nodded, then replaced the used dishes and candies and put the unused ones back on the plate.

These foods that have been used in rituals can still be eaten, but they will no longer glow and the effects contained in the foods are gone. They are used to transform the Kitchen God's physique when walking.

Song Wuji was well prepared, even with a lot of firewood, which were the chopped-down bodies of bush goblins. This stuff could make the flames burn more vigorously and fiercely, and these flames were the real source of power for the Kitchen God's walkers.

The so-called "gathering firewood and passing on fire" means that the fire that is passed on is the stove fire.

Therefore, every time a ritual is completed, more firewood must be added.

In addition to the wood of the bush goblins, the blood rice stalks are also a good fuel. The flames produced have the ability to "burn blood" and can burn the blood. Unfortunately, the blood rice stalks are not resistant to burning, and most of them are used to make paper. Song Wuji has the right to use them for burning now that he is in charge of logistics.

Sure enough, as long as you work in the kitchen and deal with the kitchen all your life, you are basically destined to be the "God of Food" or "Heavenly Chef".

Eight cooks, even if they only set up stalls to sell noodles, sesame cakes, and steamed buns, actually completed the ritual and became walking cooks.

In addition, Aunt Liu and Aunt Zou also successfully completed the awakening ritual.

It seems that the success rate is not low.

Song Wuji said secretly.

At this time, the cat catcher meowed anxiously: "Where's the cat? Where's the cat? Why hasn't it been the cat's turn yet? Meow?"

Seeing this, Song Wuji grabbed the cat's front paws and pretended to bow twice, intending to get rid of it.

But he never expected that the stove fire would suddenly surge, and a ball of bright flames would burst out from the stove mouth, enveloping the cat's head. The next moment, these flames penetrated into every hole of the cat's head, burning its beard.

This is a vision that is not seen in any other walk.

With such a fire sign, only those who have the triple combination of fire, earth and wood in their eight characters have the ability to control fire. Others have the God of Food or the God of Cooking in their fate, but Mao Mao is the only one with the triple combination of fire in his fate.

But, didn’t Maomao already get the City God’s talisman?

Just as Song Wuji was thinking this, he saw a red glowing talisman appear above the flames, trying to control the Cat Catcher.

The cat catcher showed a painful expression, but still firmly chose the power of the Kitchen God.

The duties represented in the talisman are "catching thieves and catching rats". Among them, catching rats is the job of the cat catcher, but catching thieves is conferred by both the city god and the county magistrate.

Song Wuji immediately used his fire-starting technique to burn the talisman that controlled the cat's life, in an attempt to seize sovereignty.

However, the talisman finally left here with a ball of black air. A ghost figure could be vaguely seen in the black air, and the figure of the cat catcher became smaller and smaller as the black air left.

Those were the "power to catch thieves" he had accumulated from killing rat demons, as well as the ghosts that the City God had the cat catcher catch. This part all belonged to the City God's laws.

"Meow~ I'm so tired~ Human! I really want to eat meat~"

Fu Zhao returned to the place where the City God was. Previously, the six officials had died, and Fu Zhao would bring their souls back to their place and continue to work for the City God. Now, only Fu Zhao returned, and the soul was not seen.

The corners of the talisman were still burnt, and there was a faint aroma of food.

The City God narrowed his eyes: "Stove Fire ~ Kitchen God."

.........

The cat catcher can talk now.

This was what shocked Song Wuji the most, but when he thought about it, couldn’t the ninth-grade rat demon also speak?

But the rat demon spoke because he had eaten humans, and the cat headquarter spoke because the stove fire had refined the transverse bone in his throat.

For a moment, the success of the other Kitchen Gods' walking was not as good as the transformation of the Cat Catcher's head cat.

"Meow~ The cat is no longer a headhunter now."

Song Wuji consoled him, "Regardless of the power taken away by the City God, you still have a rank in the county government."

"People are good, but the City God is bad!" The Cat Detective thought of the pain he had just experienced, shuddered, and couldn't help sneezing. Suddenly, flames came out of his mouth, and the temperature was quite high.

Song Wuji immediately picked him up and examined him carefully.

It turns out that domestic cats like to go into the kitchen, so the Kitchen God also loves cats. Every time when offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, if a child comes to eat, the people will tell the Kitchen God not to blame them. If a cat comes to eat, they will just say that the Kitchen God asked the cat to eat it.

Besides, the kitchen is a place where rats are rampant, and keeping cats to avoid rats is also a folk tradition.

So the Cat Catcher has now become "Stove Cat".

Of course, it’s impossible to expect Cat Catcher to go into the kitchen and cook three dishes and a soup, but it’s more delicious!
Of course, being able to use the stove and eat is not a disadvantage, but rather an advantage. At least he won't eat Song Wuji to death.

Song Wuji then asked Master Bao what abilities Aunt Liu had gained after becoming the Kitchen God's walking being.

Then Master Bao said, "When I close my eyes, I can see a flame. When I recite the Kitchen God's sacred edict, he becomes happy and stronger. Secondly, it seems like my knife skills have improved... Cooking is my strength, and better knife skills... am I going to be demoted to a chopper? I think I'll be able to eat even more."

Aunt Liu asked curiously, "I don't seem to feel anything, except that like Old Bao, I can see a ball of fire with my eyes closed. Oh, and also, it's about cooking. My ability is to wash and cook rice, and I can always make the perfect rice! It seems useless, right?"

(End of this chapter)