Do not sleep

Wu Hutui, who was sitting on the seat on one side of the carriage, was startled by the shrill cry of the little panda Shenlaiyi, and was almost jolted off the carriage seat.

Shao An was driving the horses and the carriage slowly towards the ruined temple. After hearing the miserable sound of the red panda in the carriage, Shao An subconsciously pulled the rein suddenly, and the carriage stopped halfway up the hill.

"What are you shouting for, what are you calling for? Are you still afraid of ghosts, you panda spirit?"

The little panda looked pitiful with tears in his eyes under the big bag on his head.

however.

"Master, I'm not afraid of ghosts, bastard!" The little panda shouted angrily.

"In front of whom are you calling me the young master!" Wuhu retreated again in a panic.

This little panda looks shrewd, why is he so memoryless?

Foxnosuke squinted at the side.

The carriage stopped halfway up the hillside, Shao An turned around and opened the curtain and asked, "Should we go to that ruined temple?"

"There are no shops in front of the village or in the back. If we don't go to the ruined temple, we will have to sleep in the wild." Shaoan leaned back on the carriage and raised one leg to remind him.

"Didn't you say there are ghosts ahead?" Fox Nosuke said hesitantly.

"What are you afraid of? It's not like I haven't seen it before." Wu Hu Tui said with a grin.

"Isn't Sister Linghua also a ghost?"

"How can it be the same." Fox Nosuke muttered.

Miss Linghua has a kind heart, it doesn't matter if she is a human or a ghost.

But the dilapidated temple in front of it looks gloomy before it gets dark, and it feels wrong.

"Little... I, let me warn you, the ruined temple in front is the territory of ghosts. If you want to die, don't take Xiao... I with you. I haven't lived enough." The little panda restrained himself and said once. The mantra of being repelled by the five tigers once, while struggling hard to break free from the rope.

But the five tigers were tied too tightly, and the little panda didn't struggle to get out.

"Little... I won't go to that ruined temple." The little panda muttered.

"Oh, so you are really afraid of ghosts." Wu Hu Tui suddenly realized.

"I've already said that I'm not afraid of ghosts!" The little panda tried to explain in a bit of exasperation.

"It's just that the ghosts of that ruined temple are not easy to mess with, little... I'm not afraid of running out of firewood to keep the green hills there. When I grow up, I'll see if I mess with that ruined temple." The little panda yelled guilty and short of breath.

"Hehe, the tone is quite loud." Wu Hu backed up and poked the little panda sitting on the floor of the carriage, and said.

"So you're still afraid of ghosts."

"Understood." Five Tigers clapped their hands back and said sinisterly.

"Explain your name, origin, and why you stole Akashi, or we'll go to that ruined temple for one night."

"You threaten people!" The little panda was stunned by the despicability of the five tigers.

"Hey, didn't anyone warn you not to expose your weaknesses when you left the house?" Wuhu Tui smiled with a cute little tiger tooth, and said kindly, stroking the little panda's head.

"I'm giving you a class. You don't even need to pay the tuition fee. It's free. How nice it is."

"..." Little Panda.

Sure enough, Ma Ma didn't lie to me, the people at the foot of the mountain are a bunch of pious guys.

In vain, the five tigers grew a harmless innocent face, looked at the weak chicken, and ended up not only beating up the little panda last night, but also threatening the little panda today.

unacceptable! ! !

After waiting for a while before the little panda came back to his senses, Wu Hutui nodded in understanding and said, "It seems that you want to stay in the ruined temple for the night."

"In this case, Shaoan..."

"Wait a minute!" the little panda stopped.

"I said yes, you untie me first." The little panda bargained.

The five tigers retreated and thought about it, and they will untie it if they untie it.

Anyway, no one stipulates that if you untie it, you can't tie it again.

... Cough cough, the last sentence doesn't count, let's start again.

Wu Hu thought for a while, nodded, and untied the little panda.

Five Tigers Tui is really a sensible boy, applause!

The little panda was untied from the rope, and honestly sat on the carriage to explain its origin... how is it possible.

Freedom was restored, of course the little panda turned around and ran out of the carriage.

Then the five tigers who were on guard grabbed the little panda back from the curtain of the carriage by the five tigers.

"Contradict what you said?" Five Tigers Tui said, holding the struggling cub with a grin.

"You didn't know where you were when I was playing back and forth. Tell me the truth, or I'll throw you into the ruined temple." Wuhu shook his arms and took a visual look at them from the window of the carriage. The distance between the carriage and the ruined temple, said.

"I can still miss this distance."

"..." Little Panda.

The little panda's back and forth seems to be not short, but in fact this scene is only a matter of one or two minutes.

Akashi/National Bank lying on the side has not yet realized what happened. The five tigers retreat here to teach the little pandas to be human again, no, it should be the end of the panda incident.

The little panda that Yao Mozi didn't catch anything was defeated by Wuhutui's powerful strength, and he pouted and answered Wuhutui's question unwillingly.

"Why did you steal Akashi?" Five Tigers asked back.

"I'm just looking for some snacks." The little panda said aggrievedly, pulling his head and unconsciously scratching his ears with his two short hands.

"I haven't had a snack for a long time since I ran away from home."

"You take me as a snack?!" Akashi/National Bank moved a little to the side in shock.

"Who knew that you would change into a human being? If I had known that you were a swordsman, I would not have stolen you." The little panda accused Akashi/Guo Xing in turn.

"..." Akashi/National Bank.

It's a slap in the face. This is it.

"Run away from home?" Foxnosuke opened his mouth.

The word sounds really familiar.

"Wait a minute, you just said that you didn't know Akashi could change into a human being." The little fox who was hugged by Wu Hutui suddenly thought of something and asked hastily.

"Don't you panda spirits eat knife spirits that can turn into people, no, sword men?"

"What kind of panda spirit, I already said that I am an iron-eating beast." The little panda protested.

Then the five tigers retorted: "Your doll's size is too shameless to say that you have such a domineering name as Iron Eater. Let's talk about it when we grow up a few years later."

The little panda couldn't understand what Wu Hutui meant by "doll size", but later Wu Hutui said that it was not aggressive enough to make it grow a few years longer, the little panda understood.

This is Five Tigers' naked personal attack on Red Panda Chi｜!

"Master, I will become mighty and majestic sooner or later!" the little panda raised its paw in protest.

Then he was kicked back by the five tigers.

"I told you in front of whom you call yourself a master. I don't have a long memory." Wu Hu retreated and blew his fists.

"Don't change the subject, the little fox is asking you something." Wuhu Tui said.

"..." Little Panda.

Who the hell changed the subject, so angry!

"You panda spirits, no, you are iron-eating beasts, so if you don't eat a sword that can transform into a human?" the little fox asked impatiently.

The little panda waved its hands angrily, and complained with its mouth pouted: "We iron-eating beasts are descendants of Pixiu, so we don't eat all kinds of messy things."

"A sword that will become a human being, and iron that is neither iron nor human, so we don't eat such non-specific things."

Their iron-eating beasts also have a strong character, hehe.

"You don't eat other panda spirits...I mean, don't you eat other iron eaters?" the little fox asked.

"It's been said that our iron-eating beasts are of noble blood, who would willingly degenerate and eat such a mess." The little panda yelled.

It's so annoying, I said I won't eat it, hum.

"But Minghu was kidnapped by these giant pandas?" The little fox was a little confused.

Since those giant pandas don't eat swords, why did they take Minghu away?

"You don't eat these swords that can change people, what will happen if you accidentally catch a sword that can change people?" Five Tigers asked the little panda's head back.

The little panda patted Wu Hutui's malicious hand away, and said without hesitation: "It goes without saying, of course it was captured as a slave."

……slave?

"..." Akashi/National Bank listening on the sidelines.

"..." Fox Nosuke who was also listening on the sidelines.

Really, wouldn't Wuhutui feel like looking in a mirror when they face each other?

The arrogance and domineering aura of a brat almost hit his face, without any purification.

But the difference is that the little panda is missing a move, and can only struggle under the minions of the five tigers retreating.

This is when two bears meet, there must be a setback.

Geez, tragedy.

Time flows away inadvertently.

Five Tigers Tui and the others stopped halfway to talk about the origin of the little panda, and the sky darkened.

"Let's go to the ruined temple to spend the night." Wu Hu Tui said.

"Your words don't count, you agreed not to go to the ruined temple!" The little panda on the side was stunned by Wu Hutui's words.

"Who made an agreement with you, me? Why don't I know." Wu Hu tilted his head and smiled slightly.

Shao An said "Drive—" and the carriage drove towards the ruined temple not far away.

"I don't want to go!" The little panda ran away from the door.

Then Wuhu Tui grabbed him with one hand.

"Calm down, there's nothing to be afraid of." Wu Hu retreated leisurely.

"It's been said that there is a ghost in that ruined temple, don't you guys come and stop him!?" The little panda shouted at the people in the carriage.

Well, in fact, there are several people, but apart from the Five Tigers, Fox Nosuke and Little Fox are both foxes, and the humanoid creatures are only Akashi/National Bank.

And Shaoan outside.

Akashi/National Bank lay on the seat on the side of the carriage and turned over, out of sight.

He will not participate in the struggle between two bear children.

As for Shao An who was outside the carriage, when he heard the little panda say that there are ghosts in the ruined temple, his heart really skipped a beat.

But after thinking about it, it's nothing to have the five tigers retreating behind Li Gui.

Then Shao An felt at ease.

"..." Fox's help beside him.

So what kind of existence is the retreat of the five tigers?

What a mystery.

The carriage slowly drove into the ruined temple where the little panda said there was a ghost in its mouth.

The little panda struggled in the hands of the five tigers, but the enemy army was too strong, and in the end they had no choice but to leave with hatred...

(￣ ▽ ￣)

Well, is there something wrong?

Don't worry about it, just leave it at that.

All in all, the little panda was still firmly carried by the five tigers into the ruined temple site where it said there were evil spirits.

The wheels of the carriage "creaked" and turned a few times.

When I got closer, I realized that it was not so much a ruined temple as it was a house built on the water.

It was far away before, and because of the angle, the five tigers retreated and they didn't see it. It turned out that there was a large lake next to the ruined temple.

The ruined temple is transparent from the north to the south, with a hall connecting the east and west ear chambers. In the center of the hall is a two-meter-high Buddha statue.

Generally speaking, the ear rooms of ruined temples are relatively closed and airtight, so it is best for people to live in them.

However, the red panda yelled that there were ghosts in the ruined temple. To be on the safe side, Wu Hutui and his party gathered in the hall of the ruined temple, laying hay and preparing beds for the night.

The night was getting dark, and the five tigers retreated from the hall of the ruined temple to look behind the ruined temple, and they could see a large lake lying quietly behind the ruined temple, and the trees in the distance looked hazy in the dark night.

The candlelight lit by Shao An in the ruined temple seemed to be the only light in the darkness.

Everything is peaceful.

The five tigers retreated and sat cross-legged at the feet of the Buddha statue in the hall of the ruined temple. For a while, they could only hear the bubbling sound of boiling water in the cauldron on the fire pile built by Shaoan.

"What a ghost, there is nothing at all." Wu Hutui grumbled and complained.

Wu Hu Tui supported his head with one hand, pinched the little panda's ear with the other, and said, "You lied."

"I'm not lying to people." The little panda tried to save his round ears from under the five tigers, and said casually.

"Maybe it's because you are so irritating, the ghosts don't want to come out when they see you." The little panda snorted.

"Who said that she is so cute, is there anyone cuter than me in this world, no." Wu Hu stepped back and poked the little panda's fluffy belly.

The little panda slapped the five tigers' backing hands, and said incredulously: "I'll go, you don't have a hair on your body and dare to call yourself cute, how shameless you are."

"The cutest one is obviously our iron-eating beast!" said the little panda.

"Didn't you say that your iron-eating beasts are mighty and majestic?" Wu Hu squinted.

"We are so cute and mighty inside." The little panda spoke eloquently.

Then he was beaten by the five tigers.

"..." The little panda, who was incompetent in resisting, had an aura of 28 meters, but could only shrink into a [-] cm ball and squat down with his head in his arms.

I'm so angry!

But no matter how angry you are, if you can't fight, you can't fight, and if you can't run, you can't run.

Can this pitiful life ever get better?

Shao An stood by the temporary stove not far from the five tigers retreating them, picked up the kitchen knife and cut the vegetables with a "da da da", the simple carrots and potatoes were almost cut into flowers in Shao An's hands.

After cooking the vegetable side dishes, Shao An turned around and bent down to pick up another package, and opened it.

Suddenly he froze.

I'm going to add a sentence here.

Although when they first met, the Five Tigers returned to take things out of the space ring from time to time.

However, there is a saying that do as the Romans do, and the Five Tigers may not understand it very well, but under the long-term influence of Qi Yuanshun, the Five Tigers still know some common sense.

They have also stayed in this ancient Middle-earth country for a while, and they naturally know how to disguise themselves better, so the Five Tigers have not used space rings much in this era of Middle-earth before.

Shao'an Hu Zhizhu and the others helped to pack these burdens and put them on the carriage, but the five tigers retreated did not help at all.

In the words of Fox Nosuke: "The more you help that guy, the more you help, the better you are born to be a young master, so don't make trouble here."

Akashi/National Bank on the side agreed deeply.

But what.

Wuhu Tui, this brat, does what others say.

That must not be possible.

So the five tigers retreated to prove themselves, and ran to the kitchen to help Shaoan pack the ingredients. After busying for a while, they did it in an orderly manner, and it really looked like that.

When Shao An finally loaded the ingredients into the carriage, Wuhu Tui also helped.

Well, the problem is coming.

At this time, in the ruined temple in the dark night, Shao An rummaged through the ingredients on the carriage, and finally asked the five tigers who were making trouble with the little pandas to retreat.

"Five tigers retreat, did you take the paper cloth bag with a large piece of lean meat on the stove in the inn's kitchen?"

Shao An always called the Five Tigers by their first names.

"Ah?" Wu Hutui, who was lowering his head and obsessed with poking the red panda's chubby belly, seemed to hear Shao An calling him, and squatted on the ground with a dazed expression and raised his head.

Taking advantage of Wu Hutui's distraction, the little panda slapped Wuhutui's claws away, and scrambled to hide behind a pillar beside him.

The little panda also poked out half of its head cautiously from behind the painted red pillar with a vigilant face, watching the movements of the five tigers at any time to prepare for escape.

"I said that in the inn kitchen, did you put the paper cloth bag with a large piece of lean meat on the carriage?" Shaoan asked again.

"Didn't you take that?" Wu Hutui said strangely.

"I thought you took it." Shao An replied.

"..."

Shao An and Wu Hu Tui looked at each other.

"I took the little turtle." Wu Tui said, raising his hand.

Wuhutui has recently become obsessed with drinking turtle soup. In order to find fresh turtle stew on the road, Shaoan specially prepared a big jar before leaving to keep the little turtles he bought.

Those little tortoises that were bought were alive, and the five tigers took a look at them for a while, so they carried the big jar holding the little tortoises into the carriage.

then.

There is no more, the five tigers are obsessed with the little tortoise and can't extricate themselves, so they watch the little tortoise spit bubbles in the carriage, and wait until Shao'an starts to drive the carriage.

"..." Looking at Shao An who raised his hand while the five tigers retreated.

"That bag of lean meat is the only meat we have. If you buy too much, it will easily spoil." Shaoan said while watching the five tigers retreat.

"So?" Wu Hu retreated and sniffed, suddenly having a bad premonition.

"You didn't take the bag of lean meat, and I didn't take it either. The little turtle will not be cooked well before you go to bed after being slaughtered for a while." Shaoan pursed his lips and said.

Five tigers retreat at night and close their eyes regularly, Shaoan has already understood it during this time.

"Then?" Wu Hutui opened his mouth slightly.

"There is no meat to eat tonight." Shao An said concisely.

Akashi/National Bank lying on the side was very fast, almost as soon as Shaoan’s words fell, he quickly stretched out his hands to block his ears, and closed his eyes by the way, planning to give a speech to the upcoming bloody storm Out of sight is pure.

Foxnosuke on the side was half a beat slower and almost jumped up.

But unexpectedly, the cries of the five tigers retreating and bluffing did not resound.

Akashi/National Bank was so frightened that his glasses almost fell off, he looked out through the slits in the corners of his eyes, and saw Wuhu sitting on the haystack beside him, his expression was still calm.

"Oh." Akashi/Guo Xing replied calmly when he heard the five tigers retreating so calmly.

"..." Fox's help beside him.

Didn't you have a fever?

"Looks like God's will." Akashi/National Bank heard Wu Hutui say this again.

"What God's will?" Honosuke couldn't help asking.

Five Tigers took a deep breath, got up and walked to the red pillar where the little panda was hiding.

"You...what are you doing?" The little panda shrank back.

"Hey, I really don't blame me this time, it's God's will." Wu Hu retreated and knelt down to pat the little panda's head kindly.

"..." Little Panda.

Is this guy out of his head?

The change is in an instant.

Wu Hutui picked up the little panda and ran towards Shao'an, saying as he ran, "This is God's will."

"I chopped up this panda without meat, I've long wanted to eat bear's paw!"

The little panda hugged the red lacquered pillar with sharp eyes and hands so as not to be pulled back by the five tigers, and shouted loudly.

"What, you still want to eat me, I'm a descendant of Pixiu!"

"I don't care whose offspring you are. Aren't the bear's paws the same? I won't choose." Wu Tui hugged the little panda's two short legs and pulled up the river.

Although the two chubby little paws of the little panda were not enough for Wu Hutui to jam between his teeth, but Wuhutui also said that he would not pick.

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are.

"It's too much, I haven't even eaten you, why do you still want to eat me!" The little panda hugged the red lacquer pillar desperately, and wouldn't let go.

The little panda saw that Wuhutui was as sharp as the previous Akashi/Guoxing, but the situation was so strong that the little panda didn't dare to speak.

But the little panda has no interest in the sword that can turn into a human.

It's just that when I was in a hurry this time, I slipped my tongue.

"What, you still want to eat me!" Wu Hutui said, puffing up his cheeks.

"Then I will eat you even more."

"I don't taste good, I'm small." The little panda hummed and hugged the red lacquered pillar to show weakness.

"You are small, but you are fat. You must have a lot of fat." Wuhu Tui "sucked" his saliva and continued the tug-of-war.

"Fat meat is my favorite."

"..." Little Panda.

Yaoshou, the knives made of iron are about to eat their iron-eating beasts.

The little panda clings to the red lacquer pillar and still doesn't let go.

"Don't struggle, I didn't intend to eat yours now, but who made us have no meat today." Wu Hutui took a deep breath, and continued to hold the little panda's short legs and pull them out.

"That's God's will."

"..." Little Panda.

I don't plan to eat now, it's not that I don't plan to eat.

Co-authoring this, I planned to eat it sooner or later from the very beginning!

Help, I knew that there would be a day of cooking, and the little panda ran away from home without anger.

Compared with this little demon Wuhutui who seemed to have horns on his head, the little panda suddenly felt that his big brother who always beat him was not so annoying.

huh huh...

Wuhutui worked hard here for a long time to pull out the panda, while Akashi/National Bank, Foxnosuke and Little Fox silently watched Wuhutui and the little panda making trouble there.

The boiling water on the side was gurgling, and Shao An stood there speechless, holding his forehead, neither advancing nor retreating.

"Do we really want to eat pandas? That guy is a national treasure of the Middle-Earth countries." Fox's eyes fluttered on the side.

If you eat a panda, you will always feel a lingering sense of guilt in your heart.

Moreover, in the present world of the government of the time, the pandas in the middle-earth countries, not to mention eating them, have to pay sky-high compensation for even a little injury.

But judging from the unstoppable momentum of the five tigers retreating, it feels that the little panda's struggle is quite pale, and sooner or later it will be put to the pot. It is impossible to say that this panda meat can really be tasted today.

What to do, the guilt in my heart is even more serious.

"Could it be true to retreat?" This is the little fox who still feels a little erratic.

"For eating meat, our Honmaru's Five Tigers have always been very serious." Foxnosuke let out a chuckle.

"Look out." Akashi/National Bank on the side comforted.

"How do you see it?" Honosuke said with dead fish eyes.

How can you look at it even if you want to eat the national treasure? It's one of the few consciences in my heart.

It hurts.

"From the perspective of time, pandas are not yet the national treasures of the Middle-earth countries." Akashi/National Bank said.

Foxnosuke listened.

... makes sense~~~

The national treasure of China is a treasure that was only made after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Today's giant pandas don't even call giant pandas. People call them cat bears. They are strong and tall. In the Bashu area, everyone shouts and beats them.

My conscience suddenly stopped hurting.

"..." Akashi/National Bank squinted at the side.

To be honest, what kind of misunderstandings did Honosuke of Honmaru have about self-cognition, shikigami, etc., does he really have such a thing as a conscience?

Wuhutui and the little panda are still fighting.

The little panda's will to save himself is astonishing, holding the red lacquer pillar and the five tigers retreating are evenly matched.

... Please, this is a matter of life and death, you have to work hard if you don't work hard!

The five tigers retreated the tug-of-war and did not move for a long time. It is not a problem to see this stalemate.

So the five tigers retreated and began to change their policies to follow the temptation.

"I just want to eat the bear's paw, and I don't want to kill you." Wu Tui's expression changed to that of the brother next door, and he turned to the little panda with a smile on his face.

"Hey, let me chop two bear paws to satisfy my greed, and I'll give you a bottle of muscle water later, and your two little bear paws will grow out in minutes, and the fur will be more delicate, soft and shiny. How about you?" It's a free beauty treatment."

A bottle makes you have soft and soft hair, don't you really want to take a sip?

"..." Little Panda.

This is on the side of the little panda, and the translation is that the five tigers returned Xiao Jiujiu in the name of sustainable development. Once the bear's paws were not enough to eat, they planned to come a few more times.

The little panda hugged the red lacquer pillar even harder with its two paws, and said in its mouth, "No, no, I want it! I like the original one, I don't want the successor."

The little panda loves his own hands deeply and cannot be extricated.

"Why are you so stubborn." Wu Hu retreated a little anxiously.

"Obviously you have bad intentions!" The little panda snapped back.

"..."

So the screen froze again.

In the end, it wasn’t the spectators Akashi/National Bank and Foxnosuke who almost ate melon seeds and chatted with Xiaotian, or the little fox who was confused.

It is Shao An, a chef who has been serious all his life and has not included monsters in his recipes at all.

When the five tigers retreated here and were quarreling with the little pandas, Shao An also racked his brains to save himself.

He really didn't intend to cook youkai.

After all, cooking for the five tigers who claim to be monsters almost made Shao An feel that his life would be short, and then cooking monsters... To be honest, although Shao An suffered a complete defeat against his junior brother Liu Maoxing on the big boat before, he was on the verge of thinking about it. on the verge of death.

But since he survived by luck, Shao An still cherishes this hard-won second life.

Shaoan still has a long life, and he really doesn't want to fight these monsters to the end.

So when the time came, at this critical moment, Shao An caught a glimpse of a few soybeans scattered from the bottom of the package.

There was a sudden movement in my heart.

"Stop arguing, Wu Hutui, don't you want to eat meat? I'll make it for you right now." Shao An interrupted the stalemate between Wuhutui and the little panda.

"Huh?" Five Tigers backed away and didn't hear clearly.

"I'll make meat for you, and it will be ready soon." Shao An said, picking up the package of soybeans on the ground.

"But didn't you say that we didn't bring our lean meat?" Wu Hu Tui blinked.

"As long as it feels like meat when you eat it, it shouldn't matter what the ingredients are," Shao An said.

"?" Wuhu tilted his head back.

What's the meaning.

"People who like meat often don't have to eat real meat to be satisfied. Most of them just like the delicious and elastic taste of meat when chewing, and the delicate feeling of gravy splashing." Shao Ann explained while starting to cook.

Shao An was very calm at this moment, and the power of his kung fu did not diminish at all.

Attracted by Shao An's calm aura at this time, the five tigers retreated, unknowingly let go of the little panda, sat not far from Shao An, and watched him cooking curiously.

The little panda on the side climbed up to the beam of the house immediately after the five tigers withdrew, hugged the pillar, and hid on the high beam and looked down, just facing the large pot of boiling water below. pot.

"..." Little Panda.

Damn, it almost went into that pot just now.

Shao An was pouring the washed soybeans into the boiling water.

"How do soybeans turn into meat?" Five Tigers asked, tilting their heads.

"The soybeans must be boiled first," Shao'an said.

After ten minutes, Shaoan took the boiled soybeans out of the water, drained the water and put them on the cutting board.

"Then crush the soybeans with a kitchen knife."

The kitchen knife rattled.

"Great fire and heavy sauce seasoning."

The pot filled with water was removed from the fire, Shaoan took out the pot for cooking, added oil, salt and various seasonings, put the soybean chips in the pot and stir-fried for a few minutes, then put them on the plate.

"Now you can try it." Shao An took half of the fried soybeans and placed them in front of Wuhutui.

Because Wuhu Tui sat on the ground, Shao An also put the plate on the ground.

Wu Hutui picked up the chopsticks on the plate, put a piece in his mouth, and chewed a few times.

His eyes lit up immediately.

"It tastes like fried meat, it's really delicious." Wu Hutui picked up his chopsticks again.

"Really?" Honosuke and the little fox at the side surrounded curiously, lying next to the plate and taking a bite each.

"It really tastes like fried meat." Foxnosuke said curiously.

"I heard that there is a dish in Zhongtu, which is obviously a vegetarian dish, but it tastes like big fish and meat." The little fox said after chewing soybeans.

"It's very similar to the meat made from soybeans."

"Really, you can try it next time." Wu Hutui ate with relish, and finished the plate of soybeans that Shaoan gave him in a short while.

The soybeans on the plate in his hand were finished, but there was still a plate left on Shaoan's cutting board.

Wu Hu retreated and licked the corner of his mouth, and stretched out his chopsticks towards the temporary stove.

Then Shao An slapped him on the back of his hand.

"Don't move, these are for cooking." Shaoan picked up the plate containing soybeans and moved away from the five tigers.

"Nani, can this be used for cooking?" Wu Hutui asked curiously, rubbing the back of his beaten hand.

"Just fry it?"

"It doesn't work right now. Although soybeans taste like fried meat after being seasoned, but because the taste of meat is not the taste of soybeans itself, it will be borrowed by other ingredients after frying, and it tastes wrong." Shaoan shook his head and went Pour oil into the pan on the side.

"These seasoned soybeans are finally fried quickly in boiling oil so that the flavor of the gravy can be locked in the soybeans and not lost."

"Wow—" the five tigers on the side exclaimed.

I didn't expect that there are so many specialties in making a dish.

"Soybean has always been said to be the meat of the soil. As long as it is cooked properly, it will taste very similar to real meat in terms of taste and texture." Shaoan explained.

With soybeans that can be used as meat, the subsequent cooking is very simple.

Stir-fried meat with shredded radish, fried meat with potato slices, another plate of Qingjiang vegetables, and a simple and appetizing hot and sour egg soup at the end.

The simple home-cooked dishes are also delicious, and the group of Five Tigers eat happily.

Even seeing the small figure of the little panda on the roof beam sneaking down to eat the soybean meat Shaoan stewed in the pot, Wu Hutui closed his eyes as if he didn't see it.

I was satisfied with a dinner, and the farce before dinner was temporarily swept away like this.

==== I am the dividing line to sleep =========

The night has fallen.

Outside the ruined temple, there was the groaning of grass insects and the occasional sound of horses kicking their hooves. A pale moon hung high in the sky, and the not warm moonlight flashed across the ruined temple.

Wuhutui was lying on the flat hay bed, sleeping soundly with the little fox on his side, and Foxosuke who was also sleeping soundly on his stomach.

Akashi/Guo Xing sleeps not far from the five tiger retreats, and lives next door to Shao An, both of whom are already sound asleep.

And the little panda who climbed onto the roof beam, after discovering that Wu Hutui, a scumbag, had frantically set up an enchantment around the ruined temple, the purpose was to make the little panda escape without a way out.

... In the end, the little panda fell asleep on the beam farthest from the Five Tigers' retreat, aggrieved.

What can I do if I can't run?

All seemed peaceful.

All the strange things happened after midnight, when a gust of wind blew from nowhere, and "slapped—" it blew shut all the doors and windows of the ruined temple.

The moonlight peeking into the dilapidated temple through the papered windows looked even paler.

Five Tigers retreated and they were still sleeping deeply.

……

Shaoan realized that he seemed to be dreaming.

'The secret of dream mapo tofu crisp is the crisp of ground meat, not the crisp of tofu. '

This voice seems to be... Admiral Li.

The familiar voice seemed to be a key, and a door suddenly appeared in front of Shao An's emptiness, and it opened with a loud bang.

Behind the gate, Admiral Li was wearing an official uniform and sitting at the dining table, with a young man and a young man kneeling on the left and right.

'Ordinary mapo tofu pays attention to all five flavors of spicy, fragrant, color, hot and hemp, but dreamy mapo tofu has a unique sixth taste. Do you know what it is? Admiral Li's steady voice was the same as back then.

'yes……'

'yes……'

Two voices sounded at the same time and said.

'It's crispy. '

"It's crisp." Shao An said softly.

By the way, this is the scene of the duel between him and his junior brother Liu Maoxing in order to compete for the chrysanthemum downstairs in the state-run restaurant.

And the ending is...

"The Dreamy Mapo Tofu made by Xiaodangjia is the dreamy Mapo Tofu that I ate ten years ago. It belongs to Master Abei. Admiral Li announced loudly.

"Shaoan, you have become arrogant because you are blindly immersed in skills, and you have not learned anything that your master Abe really wanted to teach you. '

'Using soybeans to replace the ground meat that could not appear on the table ten years ago because of the rinderpest, this is the most appropriate thing that Master Abe does for people who love food. '

'You lost, Shaoan. '

Did I...lose?

With the theme of Dream Mapo Tofu as the duel, Shao An didn't lose to his junior brother Liu Maoxing who was still a boy at that time, but he lost to his teacher, Master Abei.

Shao An snatched Chrysanthemum and went downstairs