Chapter 109 It’s Just Average (Please Recommend!)
Once again, he came to the residence of the Immortal Fukasaku and the Immortal Shima, and looking at the colorful and colorful insects on the table, Qianhe felt his stomach rolling.
However, after more than a month of practice, Qianhe has truly experienced the benefits of the insect feast of Myoboku Mountain.
Even if Qianhe has the experience of the Light Robbery clone to help him, when he practices the Eight Gates, he still has to push his body to the limit and then open the door under the limit.
There is no way to cheat in this practice method.
It’s just that Qianhe’s practice of the Eight Gates is different from others. He has the artifact [Redemption].
Generally, when the body is familiar with the feeling of the limit and the practice is almost done, he will use [Redemption] to restore the body. In this way, even if he practices the Eight Gates crazily, it will not affect normal practice and daily tasks due to excessive fatigue.
However, the practice of the Eight Gates puts a lot of pressure on the body, and [Redemption] can only restore the body.
Nutrition consumption cannot be restored by redemption. During this period, he found that he had lost weight, which is not a good thing for the growing body.
Therefore, Qianhe's appetite has increased greatly in the past month, and he also went to Konoha's pharmacy to buy a lot of medicinal herbs to replenish his body and replenish his body's consumption.
However, on the one hand, he is still young and needs to ensure physical development, so he strictly controls the intake of tonics.
In addition, the most basic problem is that Qianhe has no money.
After spending 10 million taels to buy the "Budu" sword, he is poor again.
Ordinary ginseng, deer antlers and other medicinal herbs cost tens of thousands of taels, so how can he buy them frequently.
However, Qianhe has made an amazing discovery in the past month. Although the insects in Myoboku Mountain are unpalatable, they are surprisingly effective in restoring physical strength. The nutrition is so high that it is comparable to tonics.
Originally, according to Qianhe's own estimation, it would take at least one or two months to have the opportunity to open the second gate of the Eight Gates of Dunjia, the "Xiu" gate.
And it is estimated that the third gate will take a few months, and the fourth gate will take one or two years.
But after coming to Myoboku Mountain for daily practice, Qianhe found a shortcut.
After practicing light attribute chakra, he then did physical exercise, which made it easier for his body to reach the limit state, saving a lot of boring mechanical movements, which greatly saved time.
And after a limit state, Qianhe had a bug feast in Myoboku Mountain because the cooldown time of [Redemption] was still there, and unexpectedly found that his body recovered much faster.
The "rest gate" that originally took one or two months to open was opened in 25 days.
To this day, he has been practicing to open the third gate, the "life gate", and the progress is much faster than he expected.
Qianhe feels that he can open the "life gate" by the end of this year.
Qianhe has grown taller and gained three pounds because of the "bug feast" this month.
Although he still doesn't like the taste of bugs, when he thinks of those medicinal materials such as ginseng and deer antlers that cost money and taste bad, he can accept the taste of bugs.
And because Qianhe had been eating lunch at Myoboku Mountain for more than a month, Shima Sage's attitude towards him changed greatly, and he became more hospitable.
But today, Qianhe brought something special.
After eating insects for more than a month, to be honest, he was almost at his limit.
There was no way. Although the insects in Myoboku Mountain were all grown naturally, they grew in Myoboku Mountain with rich natural energy, and there would be no viruses even if they were eaten raw, but the nutrition would be higher.
But Qianhe didn't like to eat insects, and he didn't eat them raw.
Shima Sage, they are toads, and it doesn't matter whether they are eaten raw or cooked.
What Shima Sage called cooking was just boiling the insects in water.
For Qianhe's human taste buds, eating them raw is as unpalatable as boiling them in water.
In order to suffer less for his taste buds in the future, Qianhe made a bold decision.
"Okay, the food is ready!" Shima Sage took out a large plate of emerald green soup from the kitchen, which was filled with caterpillars as thick as a baby's forearm.
This is the green worm that Fukasaku and Shima like best. They usually make soup and rice balls, or dried green worms.
But for Qianhe, green worms are the most nutritious among all the worms, but they are also the most unpalatable.
This is different from white worms. White worms have more body fluids and taste slightly fishy, but they are sweeter. They are the only worms that Qianhe can accept after being simply boiled.
As for green worms, green worms have less body fluids, but they taste fishy and smelly, but the meat of green worms is chewy and tender, especially after chewing many times, there will be an indescribable fragrance.
Don't ask how Qianhe knows it. Because he only eats white worms, Shima Sage is dissatisfied and forces Qianhe to eat green worms, and he is not allowed to eat them raw, so Qianhe is so impressed with green worms.
The fishy smell rushed straight to his head, making Qianhe vomit when he thought of it for several days in a row, but the fragrance to the end of chewing also made Qianhe savor it many times, but he has not tried it again recently.
"Master Shima, there is something I have been wanting to say." Qianhe smiled at Shima Sage.
Shima Sage was stunned for a moment, and asked with a puzzled look: "What's wrong?"
"I want to borrow your kitchen and ingredients, what do you think?" Qianhe rubbed his hands.
Shima Sage's face changed, and he shook his head repeatedly, "What do you want to do? Can you cook, kid? For housewives who are good at cooking, the kitchen is sacred and inviolable, and I can't lend it to you!"
Qianhe knew that Shima Sage was extremely obsessed with cooking. He was moved in his heart and teased: "I just thought that I had been eating and drinking for free for so long in Myoboku Mountain, and I wanted to show my skills to express my feelings.
Senren Shima, with your hundreds of years of experience in cooking, you are definitely not afraid that I can cook better than you, right? "
"Ah? You say you cook better than me? Go ahead, kid! I don't believe that you, a human, can cook better than me!"
Although it was just the most common provocation, Senren Shima was furious after hearing it, with a look of anger on his face, as if he was going to fight with Qianhe if they disagreed.
"That's right, kid, I support you, compete with him!" Senren Fukasaku held the bowl, eating caterpillars and drinking soup, while looking like he was watching the fun.
"Then I'll show you my ugliness. "Qianhe smiled faintly, then rolled up his sleeves, revealing the storage scrolls tied to his arms, and walked into the kitchen, followed by Shima and Fukasaku.
Qianhe untied the scroll and took out eggs, flour, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, chili sauce, ketchup, sweet noodle sauce, five-spice powder, soy sauce, cooking wine, oyster sauce, ginger, garlic, pepper, kitchen knife, cutting board and finally barreled cooking oil.
Soon the kitchen counter was full.
"It seems you have been prepared. "Senren Shima said sullenly.
Qianhe smiled awkwardly and said nothing more.
The first thing he did was to cut the caterpillars in half with a knife, rinse the green body fluids with water, and then marinate them with cooking wine, salt, pepper, five-spice powder, soy sauce, and oyster sauce.
Then he added oil to a pan, beat eggs, and coated the marinated caterpillars with egg liquid, flour, and breadcrumbs, and fried them in a pan until golden brown.
After draining the oil, Qianhe dipped the caterpillars in chili sauce and sweet noodle sauce and put them into the opening. They were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant and crispy, and most importantly, they had no fishy smell at all.
"Hmm~" Qianhe covered his mouth and made a satisfied sound.
"Is it really that delicious? "Looking at Qianhe's reaction, Fukasaku suddenly felt that the green worms in the bowl were not fragrant. He had been with Shima for hundreds of years. In fact, he also knew that the child's mother's cooking skills were really average, but he never said much. After all, he was not picky about food. As for food, as long as he could eat enough, it was fine.
Then, Qianhe poured out most of the oil, put garlic, ginger, and pepper in it, and started a stir-fried green worm.
This time, the fragrance in the air made Fukasaku's long-dormant taste buds eager to move.
When Qianhe was making white worm soup, he couldn't help but move his chopsticks.
Just chewing a few times gently, although Fukasaku was shocked, his face only changed slightly.
"Old man, how is it?" Shima looked at Fukasaku nervously.
It's really delicious! Fukasaku thought so in his heart.
But looking at Shima's nervous expression, it hesitated for a moment and said calmly:
"It's just so-so. "