Suddenly, it's New Year's Eve.

The ground was too cold, so Lin Jue pulled Fuyao's futon over and sat cross-legged in the room, while Fuyao stood beside him and stared at him.

What he held in his hand was a piece of wood.

After concentrating calmly, he lowered his head and touched it, and an invisible mana attached to the branch, and he threw it out casually.

Fuyao was instinctively attracted by it and immediately turned his head and looked over.

Fortunately, it didn't rush to pick it up.

Then he saw Lin Jue staring at the tree branches, lowering his head and thinking silently.

He murmured a few obscure curses.

"Wow..."

The branch rolled around on the ground.

"Woo?"

The fox immediately tilted his head and stared at the branch.

The mantra in Lin Jue's mouth changed.

The wooden branches shot up into the sky.

Following several rapid and obscure spells, the wooden branches moved left and right in the air, spinning.

"..."

The branch finally fell to the ground.

Lin Jue also exhaled.

During this period of time, he didn't put much thought into this spell. After all, he was still learning alchemy, but he also learned it intermittently.

Getting started with this "curse control" is not difficult.

What is difficult is mastering it skillfully.

Because this curse mainly relies on spells to control objects. There are many different spells that play different roles. If you want the object to be continuously activated, you need to continue to chant the spell, and to make the object do it

To fly according to your own will, you need to be very proficient in spells, speak quickly, and need long-term practice.

In Lin Jue's view, this spell actually has two drawbacks:

One is that it cannot control objects at will. It cannot be said that if you see a stone, a branch or a sword on someone else's waist on the road, you can control it if you want. Instead, you need to hold it in your hand first and attach it to it.

Only a specific magic power can be used to control it with spells.

Another is that it requires continuous chanting.

For example, the bald demon man I met before has learned this spell very skillfully, but still chooses to hide and manipulate it. If you want to practice it to the point where you can fight with people and chant curses to control objects at the same time, you don't know how much it will cost.

It takes a lot of effort. And no matter how skilled you are, you still have to do two things at once.

Therefore, Lin Jue did not spend much energy on it.

When he came back to his senses, his little fox stood in front of him, tilting his head and staring at him.

"?"

Those clear eyes were full of doubts.

Lin Jue thought it was surprised by the spell he had learned or the wooden stick that could fly by itself, or that it was interested in the branch, but he saw it lowered its head, looked at the futon sitting under his butt, and stretched out another

He put his slender legs on top and continued to stare up at himself.

By the way, he tilted his head.

"oh……"

Lin Jue then stood up and returned the futon to it.

Just then, a voice calling for senior brother came from outside.

…

In a Taoist temple deep in the mountains, a strange fragrance comes from the stove.

This is a compound flavor of multiple spices. Added to the stewing for more than half an hour, the oil and water stimulate the aroma of the meat, which is very attractive.

Several senior brothers couldn't help but turn their heads frequently and cast their gazes into the kitchen room, but they couldn't leave at this time.

Then I saw the third senior brother pinching a boat-shaped dough, with the fillings peeping out of it. He looked puzzled. He glanced left and right at the two senior brothers who were kneading the dough and using chopsticks to pick out the fillings.

He asked Lin Jue which sample he had chosen:

"Junior brother, is that true?"

"It's almost the same." Lin Jue said while rolling out the dough, "It's almost done."

"That's okay."

The third senior brother then put it on the dustpan.

Everyone turned to look at each other and learned from each other. There were more and more dumplings in the dumplings, and another dustpan was used to contain them.

This time, even Taoist Yunhe was pulled over and squinted his eyes to look at the bag carefully.

Whether it was the dumplings Lin Jue talked about or the making of dumplings, they all found it novel, but they also trusted Lin Jue very much and did whatever he asked.

Slowly the sky became dark.

The kitchen room was filled with dancing firelight, casting the shadow of the junior sister who was lighting the fire on the wall. As Lin Jue lifted the lid of the pot, the heat immediately rose and was illuminated by the fire into a bright yellow color.

There is a large pot of water in the pot filled with dumplings.

Lin Jue scooped it up with a melon ladle.

"Take it out."

Lin Jue said this to the junior sister, then he cleaned the pot, poured a few ladles of water into it, and waited for it to be slowly heated by the residual heat in the stove, so that it could be used for washing dishes later, and then walked out of the stove.

Room.

It's not completely dark outside yet.

As soon as I went out, I saw the remaining light in the sky. Ancient pines stood in the courtyard. The seventh senior brother was stepping on a bench and holding a lantern. He chanted a few spells, and the lantern lit up with a dusk-like light, and then hung it on the tree.

Looking through the front of the hall, you can directly see the dining hall, which is brightly lit and steaming.

The third senior brother is moving the wine.

The junior sister came running over to call him.

Senior Brother Seven also called him after hanging up the lanterns.

The flavor of the New Year on this cold mountain is actually quite good.

Lin Jue went over and sat down.

On the table were braised chicken, duck and pig head meat, roasted stinky mandarin fish and steamed Daobanxiang, all cut neatly. There were also dumplings just out of the pot, the heat was rising. The rice wine poured into the bowl, with hops rising.

The lights were flickering, and all the Taoist priests had smiles on their faces. There was such a smoke and fire atmosphere in this deep mountain with heavy wind and snow.

"I have never seen such a sumptuous New Year's dinner!" The third senior brother said cheerfully, "Master should have hired a cook as his apprentice!"

"What did you eat on New Year's Eve before?" Lin Jue asked.

"I used to eat these too," said the third senior brother.

"Boiled in plain water." Senior Brother Seven said.

"Sigh, I don't know what kind of hard life I lived in the past, but I still thought that I was carefree at that time, thinking that it was just like this in the mountains and I didn't feel bitter." The third senior brother shook his head and sighed.

"Eat, eat, eat..."

The Taoist priests moved their chopsticks one after another.

The first chopstick, of course, is to poke at the dumplings on the plate. After all, this is something I have worked hard on.

There are also several seasonal vegetables in the cold winter. Lin Jue used them to make stuffings, either with meat or eggs, and with sauerkraut soaked in the jar, each with its own flavor.

The second chopstick is braised pork.

"oops!"

Many pairs of wide eyes.

These Taoist priests had never eaten such delicacies in the mountains, and had never known that meat could be cooked like this. Even if they went down the mountain, it would not be easy to eat food with such flavor, and they almost forgot to drink alcohol for a while.

No one praised me, and the whole room was filled with the sound of swallowing.

Even the well-informed Taoist Yunhe was half full before he stopped using his chopsticks and spoke leisurely:

"Another year has passed..."

"How old is Master?"

"The mountains are deep and there is no cold or heat, and people are old and have no intention of counting the years. At our age, anyway, every year is missing, so what do we do with it?"

"oh……"
To be continued...