Chapter Forty-Eight: Fish I Want
Compared with Mr. Le's gentleness and gentleness, Li Yi is very serious and respectful. Li Yi wears a tall ancient crown all day long, and is meticulous in her work, and her favorite thing is naturally to talk about various etiquette, and her favorite sentence to use as an opening statement is "Every move is polite." "If Mr. Le's concern is the mood to do something, then Li Yi will definitely pay attention to how to do it.
Like Mr. Le, Li Yi once said to Lu Zheng: "What is etiquette? Everything in heaven and earth is polite, so every move is polite." You see that the flowers and trees grow in the land, the fish live in the water, and the birds fly in the sky, this is the place where all things are, and all things can find a suitable place for themselves, so the corresponding people should also have the gift of dwelling.
And among all things, animal plants and latent spirits, those who can run, those who can fly, some dig holes to hide, some build nests to avoid harm, those who live in the nest know when the wind blows, those who hide in the cave know when it rains, seek advantage and avoid harm, and are interdependent, all things have their own way of coping with this shijie, so the corresponding people should also have the etiquette of dealing with people. ”
...... All this, anyway, within three months, Lu Zheng was washed from head to toe by Li Yi's courtesy.
Starting from the etiquette of disciples and the etiquette of eating and drinking during meals on the first day of class, and then there is the etiquette of residence, teaching Lu Zheng how to dress, how to groom himself, and how to be alone when he has nothing to do. There is the ritual of cleaning, which teaches Lu Zheng how to clean his body and his room, etc.; there is the etiquette of responding to people, teaching Lu Zheng how to address different people and different occasions, how to respond, etc.; there is the etiquette of doing things, teaching Lu Zheng how to look at different things in the world, how to advance and retreat, etc.; there is the etiquette of rudeness, which is used to teach Lu Zheng to deal with the situation of not being able to be polite......
There is even a ritual about the size of the solution, warning Lu Zheng not to read books when he enters the thatched house...... It can be said that it is large and small, bits and pieces that encapsulate all kinds of details in life, in a word, Li Yi often says: "Every move is polite!"
Of course, it is worth mentioning that in the process of Lu Zheng learning these complicated etiquette, Li Yi's precept has played a huge and non-negligible role in promoting Lu Zheng's progress!
In addition to etiquette, in contrast to Mr. Le's love of clothes, Li Yi's biggest hobby in life is to eat!
Li Yi is not only delicious, can eat, and can eat, but is said to be better at cooking. At this point, Lu Zheng has never seen him do it, but it is said that Mr. Le has eaten it a few times. But the teacher's deliciousness always reminded Lu Zheng of the gluttony recorded in the book "Everything". According to the book, the most striking characteristic of gluttony is gluttony, which is extremely and amazingly gluttonous. Lu Zheng privately thinks that the teacher Li Yi is like a gluttonous beast at this point!
Li Yi pays attention to the fact that each dish must have five meanings: color, aroma, taste, shape and utensils. If there is a problem with one of them, he will make a choice, and that is - not to eat it. For example, if a bowl of braised pork is evenly fat, red in color, and delicious in flavor, but the pieces are cut into different sizes, and they are not placed, but they are just piled up in the bowl at random, then he will not eat it. And if the pieces are cut evenly and placed beautifully, but the utensils are not right, and a white porcelain bowl should be used but a rough iron basin is used, then he will not eat it, because he thinks this bowl of braised pork is rude!
Li Yi once said: "If the meat is not cut properly, it will not be eaten." ”
And among all kinds of delicious food, the one that makes Li Yi's index finger move the most is - fish!
Li Yi's favorite food is fish, and it's just fish. He likes to eat all kinds of fish and likes to eat fish in various ways. Lu Zheng has been in the sun and moon for three months, and almost every few days there will be a fish on the dinner table, the types of fish are different and not to mention, but in terms of practice, sometimes steamed, sometimes braised and sometimes vinegared...... In short, the approach is ever-changing.
That time, Mr. Le chased him all over the sky with a piece of clothes made by himself, and Li Yi, who was a teacher, thought that Mr. Le had made himself lose face in front of the students, so he didn't talk to Mr. Le for several days, and his face in front of the two students was even more ugly, and he punished the two of them for copying books at every turn. According to Lu Zheng's private statement to Xin'er, the teacher's face in those days was not a stone carving, it was pig iron at all. Of course, Lu Zheng was happy on the lips, but physically he still paid the price of communicating with the ring party with the etiquette of words.
All in all, in those days, the entire grass house was filled with a murderous aura, which made people panic all day. Mr. Zuihou Le had no choice, and secretly left the grass house for a long time, it is said that he caught four ice muscle jade bone fish from a Jedi in the cultivation world, the Fire Eye Ice Pool, and Li Yi's face returned to the original sense of stone carving.
If the sword dance that day made Lu Zheng see the other elegant and enthusiastic side of the teacher, then starting from this ice muscle jade bone fish, Lu Zheng had an earth-shaking admiration for the teacher.
According to the teacher Li Yi, the Huoyan Ice Pool is a place where water and fire are refined, with 10,000-year-old lava underground and 10,000-year-old ice on the ground. The so-called eye of fire is the eye of the earth where 10,000-year-old lava gushes out of the cracks in the formation. Therefore, the ice near the eye of the earth will be melted by the heat of the lava into a lake, which is the ice pool, and the two then form a strange scene between heaven and earth, the surrounding ice is biting, but there is a lava eruption in the center of the lake, and the lake water boils for thousands of years without drying up. In this way, water and fire repeatedly attack each other, forming a delicate balance, so it is called the place where water and fire are refined.
As you can imagine, the fish that can survive in such a lake must be extraordinary. This can also be known from the light emitted in Li Yi's eyes when he saw the four ice muscle jade bone fish, when he saw the ice muscle jade bone fish, Li Yi's entire stone carving face melted, and he actually showed a smile.
After Li Yi talked endlessly about the growth environment of the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Fish for a long time, he pointed to the four fish and asked Lu Zheng and Xin'er, "Weishenme is called the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Fish?"
Lu Zheng and Xin'er both know that what Li Yi hates most is to guess blindly if she doesn't know, and she likes the honest attitude of knowing and not knowing. Therefore, they never dared to speak casually in front of him, and they would not even say ambiguous ideas, let alone make any unclear guesses and answers, which would be subject to the precepts, so both of them shook their heads blankly.
But Li Yi asked and answered himself this time, and after he finished asking, he continued: "This fish is snow-white, without scales, and its meat is fresh and tender, which can be called the first among fish, so it is called ice muscle; The weishenme bone is green, because it grows in boiling water......"
Lu Zheng said curiously: "Teacher, since this fish grows in boiling water, how can it be cooked and eaten?" He asked the most practical question, but after asking, he regretted it and interrupted the teacher's speech, that is against the disciple's etiquette, and it will be punished!
Unexpectedly, when Li Yi heard this, he showed an unprecedented smile to Lu Zheng on his face, as if he didn't notice Lu Zheng's rude interruption of his words, stroked his long beard, and said with a slight upturn in the corners of his mouth: "Haha, good question! This fish is not different from other ordinary fish, and the way to eat it is naturally different." The head and tail of this fish are inedible, because the fish head remains in the dry air of the earth's fire, so there is heat poison, and therefore the bone is green; the fish tail has a spiny sac, which is not conducive to the entrance, and affects the taste very much, so only the fish body is available, and it must be cut into cicada wing-like thin slices in the half moment after the fish dies, and then immersed in the spirits, preferably the new wine made from the grains of the year, and the aging is too mellow, which will overshadow the freshness of the fish itself.
After soaking in wine for half a moment, it must be taken out immediately, and put it in the mouth with jade or porcelain, and must not use chopsticks made of bamboo and other materials to affect the taste, so as to taste the deliciousness of this fish! Everything has its way, how to deal with the different physical properties of all things, this is the ceremony! Therefore, the teacher often says that everything has a way, and every move is polite......
The teacher's habit is to turn to Lu Zheng's lesson in less than three sentences, even if it is to his favorite fish. According to Xin'er, since Lu Zheng's little brother came, the teacher gave Lu Zheng nine points in the very strict, and the remaining one point was left to her, which made her feel that Lu Zheng's little brother was really a good person!
Lu Zheng remembered that once when he ate a steamed fish, Li Yi said that he must use bamboo chopsticks, because bamboo chopsticks have the fragrance of bamboo, which helps the taste of the steamed fish, so he must not use other chopsticks. Even this little bit of affected taste difference can be tasted, Lu Zheng couldn't help but be speechless, what kind of material is the teacher's tongue made of! On the other hand, it is simply a cow chewing a peony, I don't know what to do!
In the end, Mr. Le's hard work was not in vain, and these four ice muscle jade bone fish finally made Li Yi lose his anger, and he actually made these four fish for everyone to taste. But the production process didn't let them see it, it was not Li Yi's secret to protect the cooking, but there was a rule in the etiquette that a gentleman would not enter the kitchen, which Li Yi could never do. Therefore, he rarely does it himself, let alone let the students see it!
The four fish are all sliced into thin slices like cicada wings, and they are piled up in four cyan porcelain bowls like snowy mountains, and the mere sight of them makes people's mouths water. This is the first time Lu Zheng has eaten the dishes made by Li Yi, but Mr. Le on the side kept saying in a sour tone, Lu Zheng, this little guy is lucky, he has only eaten the dishes made by Li Yi a few times after knowing Li Yi for so many years, and Lu Zheng has such a blessing only a few days after he came!
As for the taste of this fish, because Lu Zheng and Xin'er are still young and are not allowed to drink, Li Yi is particularly careful to use another fruit brew instead. According to Li Yi, in this way, you can only eat four or five points of ice muscle jade bone fish. But even so, it has already made Lu Zheng bite his tongue several times.
What is rare is that when I bite my tongue when I eat, according to this situation, the teacher's precepts are to be powerful, but I didn't expect that this time the teacher turned a blind eye, and deliberately closed his eyes and slowly chewed the delicious taste of the fish, looking intoxicated!
And Mr. Le only allocated three pieces of fish with thick cicada wings this time, the reason is that Li Yi thinks that since this fish is used by Mr. Le to apologize for daoqian, Mr. Le can't eat it, otherwise let him eat so delicious, wouldn't it be a big advantage, and being able to eat three slices is already extraordinarily forgiving. Mr. Le didn't dare to refute, he watched the three of them bury their heads in eating fish, and smashed their mouths with their eyes closed!
However, Lu Zheng saw Xin'er secretly send his fish to Mr. Le. With such a delicious fish, Xin'er could still send it out, Lu Zheng couldn't help blushing, and hurriedly sent his fish to Mr. Le. Mr. Le's eyes were full of gratitude, and he looked at Li Yi, who was carefully tasting the fish, the latter seemed to see it, but as if he didn't see it, anyway, he didn't stop it, and immediately picked up the fish and ate it!
After eating this fish, Lu Zheng not only learned the piano from Mr. Le, but also gradually learned to eat from the teacher! After each meal, Li Yi had to discuss with Lu Zheng which dish was more delicious, which dish tasted a little too much, which dish was still a little lacking, which dish should improve the cooking technique, what could be added, or what could be removed...... The discussion was in full swing, and Lu Zheng's tongue gradually became sensitive, and Li Yi couldn't help but make a few dishes by himself several times in such discussions, which made Mr. Le addicted!