The face of the incoming man with long hair was like a piece of ice that never melted. Almost as soon as he entered Zhao Youqian's banquet restaurant, the temperature in the restaurant dropped by several degrees.
When the chill hit, even Zhao Youqian, whose physique had recently been upgraded to another level, couldn't resist it and shuddered.
‘You’re already at level 6, why are you still so cold!’
After looking at the viewer, Zhao Youqian smiled helplessly.
"Lord Niu Gui, you are actually here today. I thought it was Husband Yu who was here..."
The visitor silently glanced at Zhao Youqian and nodded.
"My husband, Mr. Yu, has something to do..."
After a moment of silence, he continued.
"You still need to exercise your body!"
After saying these two words, the silent man sat directly in front of Zhao Youqian.
It was as motionless as an iceberg.
The hundreds of ghosts who followed him revealed their true colors as soon as they entered Zhao Youqian's shop. They each found a place and looked in Zhao Youqian's direction with increasingly smart eyes, obviously looking forward to today's banquet.
Being looked at by a group of monsters with expectant eyes, Zhao Youqian didn't feel much discomfort.
"Then I'll serve the food first..."
The silent Niu Gui did not respond, but the acquiescence was also an answer. Knowing that this person was not willing to talk much, Zhao Youqian didn't care.
Turn around and start preparing today's meal.
A carrot soon fell into his hands. The light of the knife kept flashing, surrounding the carrot. In just a few short cuts, the originally long carrot had turned into a blooming orange flower. .
The fine radish fragments were mixed and fell down, and a strange fragrance spread out.
Even the hundreds of ghosts who were looking forward to it seemed to calm down with the fragrance, and the small shop became more and more peaceful.
'This doesn't taste like radish!'
Niu Gui noticed something strange and looked at Zhao Youqian who was cooking. He saw him putting carrot flowers into the basin. The pink petals floating on the water were... lotus flowers!
‘Fo Lian? You actually thought of using this method to calm the intelligence of all the ghosts...’
There is nothing unusual about the delicacies in this world to him, but at this moment, Niu Gui couldn't help but feel a little bit of expectation.
As the only person among the Hundred Demons who can exist on his own and who is not ignorant of his spiritual intelligence, he has been leading the Hundred Demons for the past two hundred years to prevent them from getting out of control and destroying the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
Hubby Yu's help from time to time also maintained the remaining intelligence of the Hundred Ghosts. Originally, he thought that unless there was another being who could lead the Hundred Ghosts, the best situation for the Hundred Ghosts would be like this.
After all, the real effect of the Banquet of Hundred Ghosts is to maintain, not to repair.
Until Zhao Youqian's arrival, that kind of intention gave him a glimmer of hope. Now... maybe it's really possible!
A look of reminiscence flashed in his eyes.
'Old fellows, do you know that I have waited too long!'
Looking at the hundreds of ghosts around him, Niu Gui was also a little excited.
Zhao Youqian didn't know what Niu Gui was thinking. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care too much.
After all, although this banquet was prepared for the hundreds of ghosts, in the final analysis it was to face the diners from the heavens.
With Niugui's tricks, Zhao Youqian's shop seemed to the outside world to be just an ordinary day off, but to the Baiguis, this day was their day of business.
Hundreds of ghosts arrived one after another, gradually filling up the entire banquet restaurant, and with the sound of the soup boiling, an elegant and distant fragrance floated away.
It was like a Buddhist tune that gradually calmed down the ghosts that emerged from the darkness.
‘Gudu, Gudu, Gudu~’
A pot of steaming soup exudes a charming fragrance, so elegant that it seems to have dyed the entire shop with a layer of white mist.
The extremely fresh smell made Niu Gui's nose twitch, as if he had arrived deep in the mountains.
'It's...vegetable stock!'
The fragrance condensed from the flavors of countless ingredients is complex and full of natural charm. Since Niu Gui has the word "ox" in his name, his sense of smell is naturally far beyond ordinary.
Even if it's not as good as God's Nose, it's not too far behind.
'White radish, winter melon, lotus seeds, kelp, corn, mushrooms...these are all ingredients that can calm the mind...'
'What does he want to do?'
At this moment, a slight sound of air came out. Zhao Youqian stopped what he was doing and looked back. At this time, Niu Gui could see that in addition to the pot of broth, there were many overlapping layers in a steamer. There is a small mountain of utensils stacked on top of each other.
The fire keeps burning and boiling, pouring water vapor into it!
"No, that's not water!"
The white mist in front of my eyes was misty, and the steam spread, but it couldn't stop Niu Gui's eyes from turning.
Under the huge vessel was a steaming iron pot. I originally thought it was simply used for heating, but Niu Gui's sharp eyes had already noticed something was wrong.
It's not just water, it's...
“Soup!!”
The broth of Yaozhou cuisine is developed from Shandong cuisine. Shandong cuisine pays attention to freshness, crispness and tenderness, and freshness ranks first!
The clear soup made from old hens, chicken bones, pigeons, pork bones, scallops, rock sugar, white peppercorns, longan meat, ginger, etc. is the source of this umami flavor, which is the so-called broth.
When any dish requires water, use stock instead. The rich umami flavor will bring the ordinary ingredients into a new cooking world, and the deliciousness will be doubled.
What Zhao Youqian did was to use the soup stock as water to cook food. This was an extremely extravagant and wasteful practice that even a cow ghost had never heard of.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Ushiki, the general of Hyakki, who always showed off his coolness to others, finally couldn't bear to stand up and asked the cook in front of him.
"do what?"
Zhao Youqian opened the strange vessel and saw that the vessel had a unique structure, with a flat and round belly and a hollow tube in the middle.
A touch of cool soup water lay in it, and it actually bloomed with a light golden luster and disappeared in a flash!
"Just make a bowl of barley and millet porridge..."
Just when Zhao Youqian finished speaking and Niu Gui's expression changed slightly, the wind chime rang.
"Jingle Bell!"
At the same time, it attracted the attention of two people and made Baigui freeze!
The wind was howling, and the night burst into the shop like a god, the lights flickered on and off, and the mist buried everything.
Only the sound of heavy footsteps sounded, carrying a sense of arrogance that dominated the world and dominated the era.
Even a great demon like Niu Gui couldn't help but change his expression!
'Such courage!'
Demonic power surged around him, and the cow ghost couldn't help but ask.
"Stop comers, come and tell us your name!!"
With a sound of "wow", the mist dispersed like water waves.
A man with unusually long blond hair, charming and handsome appearance, and a leering smile stood in front of Niu Gui, glanced around and burst into laughter.
"Sir, I am the master of demons and monsters, and so is Nu Liang Hua Lao!!"