little spicy jiao

Chapter 86

Regarding the fact that Huai Mo is a counterfeit of the Huai Shu demon, Dugu Jiu did not intend to hide it from Mo Jiaojiao, but only waited for the child to wake up and asked about it, and took the opportunity to tell him.

The night in the old capital of Wusen is also very lively. There are exquisite lampposts inlaid with luminous pearls on both sides of the street. The whole ancient city is brightly lit at night.

When Mo Jiaojiao went down the mountain this time, his third sect mission was to learn at least three skills in the old capital of Wusen.The child is not lazy, after dinner he urged Dugu Jiu to take him out to find a suitable trade union.

Seeing the child's entangled appearance, Shen Siyuan rolled his eyes and said lazily, "Jiao Jiao, according to this sect master, your qualifications are quite suitable for the Miner's Union."

Think about the little baby carrying an iron pick that is taller than him, struggling to lift the iron pick and rushing forward with a loud cry, and smashing it on a piece of ore, but found that the ore did not move at all, so he had to pull the iron pick back hard, and even The appearance of people taking iron picks and sitting on the ground together...

Shen Siyuan coughed, trying to smooth the corners of his upturned mouth.

Bie Hejian saw Shen Siyuan's appearance and knew that he had no good intentions, and said angrily:

"Jiao Jiao, don't listen to him. Let me tell you, you are the most suitable for the embroiderer industry. Imagine that you take a ruler and measure the length for me and Tunchu, and then measure for yourself. It's so short! Then just grab a piece A ghost who can only embroider, use spirit stones to hire it to embroider a few pieces of cloth, anyway, mortals can't see ghosts, perfect job, how simple!"

"But..." Mo Jiaojiao was dizzy from hearing this, and softly said: "The mission of the sect, the sect master will be assessed after returning. If Jiaojiao can't do it, he won't pass."

"Since when did the sect have such a rule?" Bie Hejian said in surprise, "Don't let the sect master add it to you on purpose, these old men are too strict with you."

Dugu Jiu switched the child to his right hand and held it in his right hand. He raised his eyes to look at the dazzling array of trade union introduction sheets, and said, "There is no rush to learn art. You can choose one to practice first, and then come back to study after finishing other things. Choose you Whatever you like."

"Jiaojiao likes alchemy, planting spiritual herbs, practicing, reading picture books, reciting books, playing, and eating." Mo Jiaojiao counted the same ones, and wondered: "There are none here."

"There are only farming and poetry clubs." Shen Siyuan looked at it and said, "It's better to cook. But you are afraid of fire."

"Is it cooking?" Mo Jiaojiao looked at Dugu Jiu, nodded unexpectedly, and said, "Jiao Jiao is not afraid of fire. Jiao Jiao can control himself. I want to make meat buns."

"Okay." Dugu Jiu nodded, and without a word, went to the chef's union with the child in his arms.

Bie Hejian and Shen Siyuan followed behind, murmured: "I have a bad feeling, luckily I just have a sword and don't need to eat."

The head of the Culinary Union is a middle-aged male monk with friendly eyebrows and looks extremely easy to get along with.

After signing up for Mo Jiaojiao, he led people into one of the halls of the trade union, pointed to a stove on the left for the child, and said with a smile:

"All the ingredients and tools are here. Because the apprentices are relatively young, generally speaking, I will bring this type of apprentices by myself. You can directly call me Li Mu or Chef. I will teach you from the most basic. After all, although The union is called the Culinary Union, but we started off as just the chefs."

As he said that, the person in charge looked at the man holding Mo Jiaojiao again, and said: "When apprentices are studying, family members are not allowed to accompany them. If you are worried, you can see everything here through the mirror in the union lobby. On the mirror The magic circle can guarantee that what you see is absolutely true."

Mo Jiaojiao didn't reject Li Mu's rigid words, he just rubbed Dugu Jiu's side face obediently, and said, "Jiao Jiao will definitely learn."

Dugu Jiu knew that all trade unions in Wusen's old capital were under the joint jurisdiction of the Cultivator's Guild and the royal family in the city, and it has lasted for 5000 years since the establishment of the city-state. On the ground, this place is under the control of his spiritual sense, so he didn't worry too much, he just bent down to put down the child, leaving the Biehe sword behind, and left first after a few words.

Mo Jiaojiao stood on tiptoe watching the person go away, his big eyes didn't blink, and his little hand waved vigorously, "I'll wait for Jiaojiao to come out."

Li Mu was about to grin subconsciously, but he reacted immediately, and just smiled gently: "I can call you Jiao Jiao, right? What do you want to learn first?"

"Meat buns." Mo Jiaojiao turned around and answered seriously.

Li Mu blinked in surprise, but did not object. He just walked to the stove and began to explain to the children in detail how to use various kitchen utensils, how to control the heat, and how to accurately control the specific quantities and ingredients needed for each ingredient and seasoning. Common sense such as the specific suitability between ingredients and ingredients can be described as comprehensive.

He has a gentle attitude, and his explanations are easy to understand. However, when he speaks, he always becomes inexplicably excited from time to time, and then pops out a few naughty syllables, and dances his hands in the same way. That look was out of place with his honest appearance.

While listening, Mo Jiaojiao took out a small notebook and memorized it, but when the other party made strange movements, the child would open his eyes wide in surprise, and also curled his eyebrows and eyes happily.

Li Mu taught him how to knead the dough, then put the dish with meat stuffing in front of him, kneaded another ball of dough, kneaded it round and flattened it demonstratively, put the kneaded round dough in the palm of his hand, and said:

"Just now we have marinated the minced meat. Now that we have finished kneading the dough, we put the minced meat in it. Be careful not to put too much, otherwise it will not look good. Then follow my steps and re-wrap the dough, which is the easiest way. Meat buns, if you need something fancy, we can pinch or... look, carve with a knife."

Mo Jiaojiao approached, looked eagerly at the bun carved into the shape of a flower bone, nodded and shook his head, and said, "Jiaojiao only wants the simplest meat bun. Can I write on it with a brush?"

A smile flashed across Li Mu's eyes when he heard the words, but he said seriously: "The brush and ink are not allowed to be eaten. It's best not to do this. If you insist on writing, then the bun will probably tear off a layer of skin."

"I can use chili sauce to write!" Mo Jiaojiao had a flash of inspiration, pointing to the chili sauce beside him and said: "Jiaojiao wrote with chili sauce, Jiujiu will definitely like it!"

"That's okay." Li Mu was stunned, looking at the child's bright eyes, suddenly unable to move his eyes away, he laughed helplessly, looked away, and said, "You can also use fruit juice. I'll prepare it for you."

"No, just use chili." Mo Jiaojiao happily kneaded the dough and began to knead it.

Li Mu supervised him from the side, correcting his movements from time to time.

Bie Hejian stayed quietly and pretended that he was an ordinary sword. He was a little sleepy and wanted to yawn, but in a blink of an eye, he saw the monk who was teaching the children sneakingly turned his head, wiped the rolling tears with his fingers, and immediately wiped his sword. The sword froze, and said in his heart:

"Could it be that the little ancestor is so sensible that even this middle-aged male cultivator who has never met before can be moved?"

Mo Jiaojiao's hands are not well coordinated, and the dough is always kneaded unevenly, and it doesn't look round. After finally kneading a piece of dough that is barely round, it turns out that after wrapping it up, it squeezes out the meat stuffing with too much force. up.

Fortunately, the child was very persistent. If he failed, he kneaded it again immediately. After wasting no less than a hundred sheets of dough, he made five buns, each of which was dipped in chili sauce and written on.

Because it was getting late, Li Mu started to teach him how to steam buns, someone helped to watch, the steamed buns were finally steamed decently, but the characters on them were a bit crooked.

Dugu Jiu had already been standing by the door with Shen Siyuan waiting, Mo Jiaojiao stuffed the bun made by Li Mu into the opponent's hand, and softly said: "Thank you, sir. Jiao Jiao is leaving." As soon as he finished speaking, he packed the bun with his hands The food box ran out.

When Bie Hejian went out with him, he looked back, and saw that the man by the stove had a bun in his mouth, and there were tears on his face, he was startled again, and flew out in a panic.

***

Mo Jiaojiao and his group went back to the inn quickly, because the child was holding the food box tightly and refused to let go, Dugujiu and Shen Siyuan went out to do errands in the middle and did not see him writing, neither of them knew what was in it. things.

Although Bie Hejian knew about it, but Lingjian, who was lucky to be unable to eat before, was so jealous that he wanted to twist himself in two, and refused to speak no matter what.

After entering the room, Mo Jiaojiao said: "Jiaojiao made five meat buns, three for Jiujiu and two for the lamb."

"Jiao Jiao is so sensible. Why do you make meat buns?" Shen Siyuan asked curiously.

If he remembers correctly, Mo Jiaojiao's favorite food is not meat buns.

The child opened the food box, brought out the plate containing two steamed buns, put it in front of Shen Siyuan, and brought the plate with three steamed buns in front of Dugu Jiu.

Shen Siyuan didn't like it when he saw it, he couldn't laugh or cry: "Why does Chongrong's meat bun have words, but the master's doesn't?"

"The meat buns use chili sauce to write Jiao Jiao's name, lambs are not allowed to eat chili." Mo Jiaojiao explained in a good voice, his black eyes seemed extremely sincere.

Shen Siyuan smiled helplessly, looked at the crooked and flat buns, and said: "Well, it's rare for Jiaojiao to make buns for the first time. I want to try it out."

After finishing speaking, the young man took a smaller bun and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing, his eyes lit up, and he praised: "The taste is good, we Jiaojiao turned out to be little geniuses."

As soon as Mo Jiaojiao was praised, he would nod vigorously. He was simple-minded, not embarrassed at all, and said foolishly: "Xiao Yang is right."

"Why did Jiaojiao write the word 'jiao' on the buns?" Dugu Jiu asked in a low voice. He read the words on the buns carefully for a long time before he recognized the words "good", "jiao" and "jiao". , one word and one steamed stuffed bun, neatly arranged.

"Because..." Looking at Baozi, Mo Jiaojiao's little face finally turned red, the two blushes on her white and tender cheeks were particularly obvious, and her dark eyes became more moist.

Seeing that both of them were looking at him, the child simply lowered his head and hid his face, only showing his round hair, whispered:

"In the past, no one in Hidden God Valley knew how to cook. The monsters ate wild fruits and drank lake water. The dishes made by the owner of the valley were unpalatable, but the owner of the valley liked to cook, so he insisted on making the elders eat, and then the elders had diarrhea."

"Later, Elder Squirrel came back. He liked cooking, so he asked Jiao Jiao to learn it together. Elder Squirrel couldn't cook at first, and the meat buns he made were unpalatable, but he wrote his name on it. He didn't learn it at first. For the one who wrote, the other elders saw that he was working hard, so they ate it, and comforted him that it was delicious."

"Elder Squirrel worked even harder, and then he really turned into a monster who cooks delicious food. The owner of the valley said that Elder Squirrel even opened an inn with mortals in the human world."

After Mo Jiaojiao finished speaking, he began to move slowly to the side until he reached Dugujiu's side, then turned his head and threw himself into the man's arms and continued to bury his face, and said cautiously: "When Jiaojiao heard that he could cook, he remembered gone."

After a while, when there was no response, the child begged again: "Jiujiu, don't say that Jiao Jiao is stupid. Master Gu said that Elder Squirrel is right."

Shen Siyuan took a deep breath, swallowed the steamed stuffed bun, and said with a smile: "Jiao Jiao is so stupid, your cooking is so delicious, the master of this sect will be so jealous when he sees Bie He."

After finishing speaking, the young man walked out with the plate in one hand and Bie He's sword in the other, yawning as he walked, and said: "The master of this sect will take the buns back to eat for Bie He to see, you continue."

The door creaked shut.

Dugu Jiu also ate a steamed bun, and said in a low voice, "Jiaojiao is well done."

Mo Jiaojiao got up and asked nervously, "Isn't Jiujiu comforting Jiaojiao?"

"No." Dugu Jiu held a steamed stuffed bun to the child's mouth, "Jiajiao, try it yourself?"

Mo Jiaojiao tentatively took a bite, chewed, then jumped up, pleasantly surprised: "It's really not bad."

"Well, it's the best steamed stuffed bun I've ever eaten." Dugu Jiu leaned slightly to touch the child's forehead, imitating what Mo Jiaojiao often did, and looked at him.

The narrow and deep eyes and the round and clean eyes are full of pity and love on the one hand, and attachment and anticipation on the other, both are sincere.

***

In the early morning of the second day, when Mo Jiaojiao was sitting at the table by the window on the second floor of the inn having breakfast, he saw Huai Mo again.

Only this time, the child didn't rush up to talk to him directly, but watched from a distance across the table.

Seeing his obedient appearance, Huai Mo casually brushed his drooping temple hair behind his ears, and said with a smile, "Little devil, don't you recognize me?"

Mo Jiaojiao glanced at Dugu Jiu, nodded slowly, and said innocently: "Huai Mo"

"Not bad." Huai Mo showed a satisfied expression on his face, then looked defensively at Dugu Jiu who was dressed in black, and smiled softly: "Fortunately, it's not the memory of a goldfish, I still treat you as if you have been raised by fish for a long time .Little ghost, come and play?"

Mo Jiaojiao nodded, jumped off the chair and walked over, and sat down on the chair opposite Huai Mo, across a table, and happened to be back to back with Shen Siyuan.Dugu Jiu is at the side, ready to take him away at any time.

"Little ghost, do you want some tea?" Huai Mo pushed the teacup that he had never drunk in front of Mo Jiaojiao.

The child looked down at the steaming tea, shook his head, and said, "Jiao Jiao doesn't like tea."

"Then eat glutinous rice cakes." Huai Mo held his chin, pointed at the breakfast in front of him with his long fingernails.

"No need." Mo Jiaojiao blinked, looked into the other's eyes and said, "Eat it."

Unexpectedly, Huai Mo frowned when he heard the words, and said displeasedly: "Are you so disrespectful to me? I thought we were friends because we met yesterday."

The child just shook his head, and kindly said: "If you are not used to eating, I will ask Xiao Er to replace it for you, and exchange it for delicious buns."

After talking, Mo Jiaojiao jumped off the chair, stopped the passing Xiao Er, and said: "This brother doesn't like these breakfasts, you can change them for him."

Xiao Er apologized after hearing this: "Little baby, I'm afraid this won't work. These meals are not our inn's dishes, they should be from this immortal master."

Huai Mo suddenly became furious, and with a sweep of his hand, he put the meal into the storage bag, got up and said: "Since you are so ungrateful, forget it."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and strode away. The wind brushed his wide sleeves, bringing a faint scent of green grass.

Shen Siyuan waited for the others to walk away, Fang snorted coldly and said: "Madman. Not only is he vicious, he is also extremely stupid. Did he think that we would let Jiao Jiao eat those things?"

"It is indeed the fragrance of dreaming." Dugu Jiu held the child on his lap and fed it, saying: "The one in the tea is not necessarily in the glutinous rice, the color is too close to be distinguishable."

"Fortunately, that thing is not incense, otherwise it would be impossible to guard against." Shen Siyuan calmed down his anger, and said leisurely: "Since he already has the dream of refining medicine, it is very likely that he is colluding with Changle, but I don't know how Changle will help him ? Could it be that Jiao Jiao’s identity was revealed?”

"No." Deep thought flashed through Dugu's nine eyes, and he said slowly: "Once Jiaojiao's identity is revealed, he must be the one who dies. Knowing that the locust tree demon attaches great importance to Jiaojiao, now he is facing a certain death situation, The only thing that can keep him alive is Jiaojiao. As long as Jiaojiao can't recognize him and the locust tree demon, and is still trapped by him, he is safe."

"That's true. If you really want to run for your life, there is indeed no safer place than the dreamland. It's a pity." Shen Siyuan gloated, "Our Jiaojiao is no longer a little baby who is slaughtered by others. He can't get in even if he wants to."

"The goal of Changle is to get rid of this seat." Dugu Jiu said calmly, lowering his head to feed Mo Jiaojiao soy milk.

"Zixiaozong is really a villain." Shen Siyuan said lazily, with clear disdain in his eyes.

He knew better than anyone else what the fate of the black-clothed sword fairy in front of him was, so in the eyes of young people, Zixiaozong was like hitting a stone with a pebble, and it was useless.

"Ninety-nine." Mo Jiaojiao pushed the cup away, raised his head and asked, "Was Jiao Jiao very powerful just now?"

"En." Dugu Jiu responded, "Jiaojiao is very smart."

"Once we find Elder Huaishu, he will be in trouble." The child squeezed his fists and said, "Anyone who dares to bully the owner of the valley and the elder will be scorched to death."

"That's right." Shen Siyuan couldn't help laughing, "Jiao Jiao beat the villain so badly."

Bie Hejian originally stayed safely in the storage pouch to catch up on sleep, when Mo Jiaojiao mentioned the elder, he rushed out and hung it on Shen Siyuan's waist, saying: "Jianzun, I forgot to ask about something, teach the little ancestor What is the origin of the monk who made the buns?"

"That man was originally a casual cultivator who traveled all over the world. He was invited by the royal family in the old capital of Wusen decades ago, so he came to serve as the head of the trade union. The master of this sect heard about it." Shen Siyuan replied.

"But there's something wrong with him." Bie Hejian felt creepy when he thought of that honest and honest middle-aged face crying and laughing, "Jiao Jiao learned how to cook with him yesterday, and he laughed strangely from time to time, or Just looking at Jiao Jiao's back and wiping tears there, I always feel that it's against the law."

Bie Hejian thought for a while, and made a metaphor: "Just like a child who insists on pretending to be mature and wearing adult clothes, he is the other way around. He often behaves and talks like a young man who doesn't know much about the world, but It looks like a middle-aged man."

"Fall before you get old?" Shen Siyuan wondered.

"No, I feel that his face... is fake, and so is his body." Bie Hejian tentatively said.

Mo Jiaojiao listened to their conversation in a daze, and said: "Mr. is a good man, Jiao Jiao thinks he is funny."

A child's intuition has always been fairly accurate.

"Little ancestor, I'm not saying that he has evil intentions." Bie Hejian explained: "I'm saying that his words and deeds are weird. He looks at you with nostalgic and sad eyes. This is not someone you just met. There should be. Moreover, he should attach great importance to you. When you gave him the bun, his hands were shaking. Then he cried."

"Jiao Jiao doesn't know." Mo Jiao Jiao shook his head in confusion.

Dugu Jiu fed the child another half bowl of porridge, and when Mo Jiaojiao was full, he carried him out and said, "We'll know once we meet again."

The Culinary Union is also full of people during the day.

Mo Jiaojiao led Dugu Jiu to look inside, and saw Li Mu standing next to a new apprentice guiding him to study, his expression was gentle, just like yesterday.

However, out of the corner of Li Mu's eyes, he caught sight of Mo Jiaojiao's group, especially when he saw the child waving towards him, there was a flash of excitement and eagerness on his face.

Although he hides extremely quickly, Dugu Jiu and Shen Siyuan are both people with extremely rich experience, how can they not see it.

Dugu Jiu watched the child trot to Li Mu's side, raised his head to talk with him, and matched the details he discovered yesterday with the two in front of him, suddenly had a guess.

"Why is Jiaojiao here today? Didn't he say yesterday that it will be a few days?" Li Mu squatted down and talked to Mo Jiaojiao with a smile.

"Jiujiu said, we have something to do and we have to leave. Come here to study later." Mo Jiaojiao answered honestly.

"So..." A trace of regret flashed in Li Mu's eyes, but he still smiled and said, "The Jiujiu you mentioned is Dugujiu, Chongrong Jianzun, right? I've heard of him a long time ago. He is a very trustworthy person, Jiao Jiao left with Chongrong Sword Master, I am also very relieved, I will definitely wait for you to come back and continue to study."

"Okay." Mo Jiaojiao nodded happily, took out another candy from his pocket, stuffed it into Li Mu's hand, and said, "Jiaojiao is gone. Take care, sir."

After speaking, the child waved his hand, turned around and rushed into the man's arms, and was picked up.

Li Mu smiled and watched them walk away, and felt tears welling up in his eyes for a moment, and was about to pretend to turn around to cover it up, but suddenly a deep and majestic voice broke into the sea of ​​consciousness, with unparalleled strength.

"You are from the Hidden God Valley? Why did you hide it from Jiaojiao?"

Li Mu was panicked in his heart, he hurriedly raised his eyes to look over, just in time to meet the quiet gaze of the black-clothed sword fairy.

The other party clearly could destroy his already damaged sea of ​​consciousness in an instant, his eyes were not aggressive but full of coercion, but Li Mu remembered the man's protection of Mo Jiaojiao, calmed down again, and said in the same voice:

"Exactly. I am insane now, and my main body is still recuperating. I have to use this body as a last resort. When the main body recovers, I will definitely return to my body. Jiao Jiao is not yet ready to see me, but I am really worried about him, so I ran away Come on, I laughed. We will meet again with Jiaojiao, we will always recognize each other again, but in order to let... Pepper thrive, I hope Jianzun will keep it secret for the time being. Not only me, those old men will also ask Jianzun for help .”

After Li Mu finished speaking, he suddenly felt that the burden in his heart was lightened, and he said in his heart: "Master Gu, I sincerely don't deceive me! This Dugu Jiu is indeed the most suitable to accompany us Jiaojiao... I'm taking the blame."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but raised his hands and waved vigorously at Mo Jiaojiao, and laughed brightly.

That countenance overlapped with one of Dugu Jiu's memories, a white-bearded old man who was laughing and scolding him for being out of shape.

Where in life do not meet.