Chapter 47 Chapter Six: Misfortune from Xiao Qiang

I went back to meet Tian Gudao, and Tian Gudao kept cursing after hearing this: "Grandma is a cow from the palace. She is so old and disrespectful at such a young age. How can she have the demeanor of a castration master! I'm afraid he won't be able to hold it back for the rest of his life." If a boy comes out, it won't work to vent our anger on us. Grandma is a kimchi, you can't hold it back, you can ask us for help..." After the guy scolded us to his heart's content, we reviewed our mistakes and decided to go to the village to inquire about the situation before making a plan.

Not long after, Tian Gudao found out the information and came back.According to the folks in the village, Niuzhigong was originally very kind, but something happened recently, so he became very angry. It turned out that not long ago, an uninvited guest came to Niu Zhigong's house, saying that he came to redeem his life, but he couldn't come up with a redemption contract, so Niu Zhigong naturally refused. The visitor had no choice but to tell the truth, saying that his brother had just died, and he was renting someone else's lifeblood for his brother.He said that his dead brother used to be in the barracks, and was cut off by the enemy in a fight. After several medical treatments, although he saved his life, until his death, the thing was missing from his crotch.

After hearing his statement, Niu Zhigong also felt pity in his heart, so he picked an old eunuch's whip from his family's Life Root Museum and gave it to him. The visitor hurriedly packed the lifeblood carefully, paid a huge ransom, thanked him and left. Strange to say, since the last time someone came, within a few days, another foreigner came, and he also said he was here to redeem his life, but he also couldn't get the redemption letter.The reason is that the document has been burned in a fire, but it can tell all the characteristics of the owner of the lifeblood.Niu Zhigong ignored the visitor, so the visitor knelt down and refused to leave, begging desperately.Niu Zhigong had no choice but to pick out an old root for him. The visitor was very grateful and left a lot of money in return.

This happened three times.Niu Zhigong was puzzled, but couldn't figure it out. After a while, several officials came to Niu Zhigong's house and took him to the Yamen for interrogation. It turned out that the three people who came to Niu's house to redeem their life roots were all servants of the rich family of Cili Song. The redeemed life roots were all eaten by the master who stewed human whip soup, saying that human whip soup can nourish yang, The owner's name is Song Sanwan. When Song Sanwan was young, he made a living by selling pigs and cattle locally. After earning some money, he went out to do business and opened a tea shop in Guangdong. Later, he continued to do silk and satin business in Suzhou and Hangzhou all the year round. Within a few years, silk and satin branches spread all over the country. He earned a lot of money and became a wealthy businessman with a wealthy family.

Thirty thousand years in the Song Dynasty, things were already high, and he went back to his hometown to visit his relatives. Probably because he was tired of the hustle and bustle outside, Song Sanwan would go back to his hometown every year to live there, usually for a few months, and built a luxurious private house. mansion.Song Sanwan, who has a lot of money, is willing to do good things. He spends huge sums of money to build roads and bridges in the local area, build schools, benefit the villagers, and is praised by the villagers. What the locals love to talk about is not only the legendary story of Song Sanwan's fortune, but also his surprising and weird eating methods.

Some say he has pica.Roast goose and duck feet was the first strange dish that Song Sanwan brought to the villagers. The procedure for this dish is to put the live duck on a slightly hot iron plate with a cover, and heat the iron plate coated with seasoning.Because the live ducks are hot, they will walk around on the iron plate, and then start to jump.Finally, the duck feet are cooked, but the duck is still alive. The legs are cut off and served on a plate, and the duck is used for other purposes. Song Sanwan is like a gourmet.Once, a young man in the village caught a soft-shelled turtle. Song Sanwan bought it and invited the elders of the village to eat together.Song Sanwan asked his servants to put the fresh soft-shelled turtle in the cold soup with seasoning and simmer over low heat.The soft-shelled turtle is alive. When the water gradually heats up, the soft-shelled turtle will drink the soup because of the heat, and the seasoning will slowly enter the soft-shelled turtle's body.Gradually, the fire became hotter and hotter, watching the soft-shelled turtle in the pot writhing in pain, everyone holding their chopsticks was excited.Finally, when the soft-shelled turtle is cooked, the soup outside and the soup that the soft-shelled turtle drank make the soft-shelled turtle taste like soup, which is extremely delicious.

People in the countryside have never seen this kind of eating method before. After widening their eyes, it spreads to ten, ten to hundreds, and more and more imitators, resulting in double the value of the soft-shelled turtle.Those who caught huge turtles would also take the initiative to send them to the Song Mansion to sell them for money. Later, someone was inspired by him and developed "Braised Live Fish".The chef wrapped the head and tail of the fish with a damp cloth, deep-fried the meat in the oil pan, put it on the plate, poured marinade and served it for the feast, the mouth of the fish was still opening and closing.It is said that since then, this dish must be served in the banquets of local people for weddings and funerals.

What Song Sanwan really opened the eyes of the folks was "drinking donkey meat". To pour the donkey meat, fix the live donkey first, and there is boiling old soup next to it.Song Sanwan specified a certain part to eat, and the chef peeled off that piece of donkey skin to reveal the fresh meat.Use a wooden spoon to pour the boiling soup over the piece of meat, cut it off when the meat is cooked, and serve it on a plate. In the folk, there is a saying that "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground", which means that eating donkey meat can greatly nourish people.Because of this, the way of eating donkey meat is highly respected by the local upper class, and they have followed suit one after another, and the way of eating is constantly innovating.Someone simply opened a gourmet restaurant specializing in donkey meat, and the tavern was named "Donkey Fragrance Restaurant".

However, the locals couldn't keep up with Song Sanwan's pace.Every time Song Sanwan goes home to live, he brings back new cooking delicacies.However, not everyone can afford every dish. After Song Sanwan went to Guangdong, he brought a monkey with him. The monkey was lively, cute, and very clever. It attracted many people to watch and play, which seemed very interesting.But within a few days, this lively and clever monkey became a rare delicacy "living monkey brain".Song Sanwan locked the monkey with an iron chain, took it to the banquet and fixed it, then ordered his servants to smash the monkey's head open on the spot, and then took the monkey's hot brain with a spoon, and enjoyed it happily, while the poor monkey was miserable. Shouting and crying.

Song Sanwan's method of abusing food also caused some discussions. Some people accused him of disregarding Ganglun and killing innocent people indiscriminately.But since he has done a lot of good things for the people on weekdays, and he is acquainted with the experts in the government, and there are many people who imitate his diet, so it is not a big problem, and he thinks that he is a tasteful food. If you walk too much at night, you will encounter ghosts.Because of his fondness for cruel food, Song Sanwan was reported to the government when he was eating "human whip soup".

The government investigated one by one, and of course it also involved the Niu Zhigong who was kept in the dark.As a result, Niu Zhigong was also summoned by the government. Fortunately, the confessions of Song Sanwan, the servants and Niu Zhigong were accurate, and Song Sanwan's family spent a lot of money to manage it, so it was over the next day. However, Niu Zhigong was very unhappy in his heart. First of all, he was teased by Song Sanwan's servants, and he was furious.Secondly, the news spread all over the city immediately, which was a blow to his reputation.Niu Zhigong, who had never been in the yamen, did not expect to be summoned by the officials because of this. Because of this, he has been very sensitive to people who come to redeem his life recently, and he has always been vigilant, for fear of being blackmailed again and getting a lawsuit. Although we have the eunuch Qiu Sha's redemption document, the frightened Niu Zhigong is in a panic, which hinders our redemption action.