Chapter 31 Offerings
Xinglihua's room has never changed.
The narrow single bed is covered with bamboo mats. The thin wire rope on the mat has been worn out several times and has been carefully picked up by the owner.
On the mat is a simple bamboo pillow, and under the bamboo pillow are neatly stacked with coarse cloth bed sheets. The girl's faint body fragrance is filled with every part of the room, with a scent of magnolia.
There was a bottle of half-length bottle of white wine and a small mirror at the head of the bed. Xuan Yi saw his black eyes from the mirror.
It's great to come back.
It's great to be back alive.
Xuan Yi thought this way and walked to the kitchen.
Their wooden house is divided into four rooms, with the outermost ones own room, with the largest area. While acting as their own bedroom, they are also dining and living rooms.
Xinglihua's room is smaller, and she can only put down a bed, a chair and a dressing table.
Going further inside, there are the kitchen and bathroom, which are specially used by Xinglihua. If Xuanyi needs to get up at night, he will go directly to the toilet outside the house to solve the problem.
There must be no running water for a house like them, so under the chopping board in the kitchen is a large pottery jar filled with clear water, which comes from a sweet water well half a mile away.
Xuan Yi took the burning candle and checked the basket where the ingredients were placed.
Before leaving, he bought enough ingredients for one month to eat and asked Uncle Da to give it every three days. Now it seems that although there is not much left, it is still enough for one person to eat for a week.
He thought about it, fixed the candle to the wooden windowsill, and then picked up the knife and cut the potatoes.
No doubt - Xuan Yi is preparing to cook, even if it is not for himself to eat.
He is going to be a sacrifice to the evil god.
Since he came back, he had never mentioned to anyone that he had sacrificed to evil gods, nor was he so stupid as to mention it. Even Jiaoyue might have guessed that he had used some extraordinary means to get the stone that brought them out of the deep ravine, but she was not interested in knowing more.
Although as Xuan Yi said to Jiaoyue, as long as Jiaoyue gives a suitable price, he will sell everything he has except his sister, whether it is Xuan Er or the contact method with the evil god.
It’s a pity that Jiaoyue is not interested.
The funny evil god last time impressed Xuan Yi too much. Fortunately, he carried the standard food rations of the Ancient Buddha on that time, so he could not be empty-handed when summoned him this time.
Judging from the experience last time, this evil god didn't seem to like meat. After all, in addition to chocolate nuts and dry milk, there were obviously more delicious foods such as meat floss and beef jerky, but the evil god didn't even move.
So, although there is half a salted fish in the basket and jerky mutton that is very suitable for stewing soup, Xuan Yi still plans to make a full-vegetarian dish on the safe side.
After all, serving the evil gods does not seek merit, but seeks no mistakes.
There are two stoves in the kitchen. Since Xingshoujun is rich in coal, the price of local coal is quite low, and every household can afford to buy honeycomb coal pressed with anthracite and loess. Xinglihua only works night shifts, instead of not going home every day, so the stove has not been destroyed at this time. Xuanyi just changed the coal balls, opened the air supply vent, filled the steamer with water, then covered the steamer with a white cloth, added two bowls of rice, sprinkled some water, and then covered the steamer.
After steaming the rice, Xuan started to prepare the dishes.
He actually had very few ingredients on hand. Firstly, when he bought vegetables, he only wanted to be cheap and resistant to storage, and secondly, except for meat, the ingredients he could use were even more difficult. In addition to seasonings, there were only potatoes, cabbage and onions.
But Xuan was not vague when he made it. He first peeled the potatoes, one third and all three into fries, and the other third into mashed potatoes directly. Then he made all the onion shreds, one third into onion rings, and the other third into chopped green onion. The final cabbage treatment was much simpler, and he tore it a handful of shreds and prepared to make hand-teared cabbage.
At this time, the oil pan was already hot. Xuanyi first mixed the mashed potatoes and chopped green onion, added a little flour and water, mixed salt and black pepper, stuffed them into a finger-wide onion ring to press them into molding, and made into onion pancakes and fry them in a hot oil pan, sprinkled with fine salt and put them on a plate.
The first dish, fried onion potato pancakes.
After the first dish, there was still a lot of hot oil in the pot. Xuan poured the remaining fries into it and continued to fry them. Since there was no tomato on hand and no ready-made tomato sauce, he could only sprinkle with salt and black pepper to make a salt-salt-savoury flavor.
The second dish, salt and pepper fries.
After frying the fries, there was not much oil left in the pot. Xuan Yi poured in shredded potatoes and shredded onions and stir-fry them. Add a few chili and ginger slices, drizzled with a little balsamic vinegar and then put it out of the pot.
The third dish, stir-fried double shredded.
After making these three dishes, add a little rapeseed oil after Xuanyi cleans the pot, and after the oil is hot, pour in the pepper powder and stir-fry to bring out the aroma. Then add shredded ginger, dried chili segments, garlic cloves and chopped green onion in turn. After stir-frying, add the tear-out cabbage, stir-fry a few quickly, pour in a little balsamic vinegar, sprinkle salt and stir-fry it out of the pot.
The fourth dish is hand-pulled cabbage.
After making these four dishes, the rice has already smelled. Xuan took a basin and put a little salt into the bowl, chopped chopped chopped green onions, a little vinegar, and a small pinch of tea leaves. Then pour it slightly with boiling water in the steamer to make a simple sour soup.
All four dishes, one meal and one soup can be completed within 40 minutes.
Then Xuan Yi placed these plates and rice on the floor, took out three candles and arranged them in turn, took a kitchen knife and cut them hard on his hands, and used his own blood to draw the sacrificial magic circle on the floor that he had only been drawn once but would never forget.
After all this was done, Xuan knelt in front of the magic circle and began to recite the other party's secret name.
"The Eternal Lord above the Ice Lake."
"The vast master of frost and snow."
"The last son, the only remaining divine nature in the world."
"I pray to you for help, I need the sharpest spear in the world to pierce an unbreakable shield."
The candle burns quietly, and the wick makes a slight beep in the flames.
But Xuan Yi could still feel that there was an unparalleled great power coming slowly from afar.
In fact, as he officially entered the process of inconsistency, he became more and more sensitive to the spiritual sense of these powerful beings.
So he clearly realized that compared with the last prayer deep in the cave, this arrival was obviously slower and more difficult. This not only proved that this evil god really lived in the Forest of Death, but also that the terrifying barrier outside the Forest of Death had a real impact and limitation on Him.
This shows that this evil god is currently in a state of being restricted by unfreedom.
Then, the flames of the candle slowly solidified, and Xuan Yi's actions were completely bound again.
He felt that the funny evil god condensed his body again in front of him, but he didn't say anything for a long time.
Just as Xuan Yi doubted whether He had passed through the barrier and turned himself into a mute, the other party slowly spoke in a hoarse and indescribable voice.
"Thank you, thank you for your sacrifice."
Chapter completed!