Chapter 99 What a grand formation

  This pot of 'Flower Snake Medicine Stew' is extremely demanding on the chef's skills. At various stages such as initial boiling, small boiling, and big boiling, it requires corresponding addition of materials, and the amount and position of snake meat and various medicinal materials also have their own rules. If these are not grasped well, or if the flavor is not enough, or if the medicinal properties cannot be released, it will become a mediocre work, either damaging the flavor or making the medicinal effect difficult to manifest. For an ordinary Chinese medicine practitioner or chef to fully master this dish is more difficult than ascending to heaven.

  I Ching is probably the only person in the world today who has both 'medical god' and 'culinary god' standards. His eyes are fixed on the soup, and he randomly grabs the camera, always putting the ingredients into the pot at the most opportune moment. The snake meat and medicinal materials are neatly arranged, each with its own place; but when he adds the ingredients, he even considers the direction of the boiling water, the flow rate, and the interaction between the ingredients, which is governed by a certain 'force' that makes them converge in one place, biting and fitting together perfectly.

  When the medicine was almost cooked, Zhou Yi reduced the fire and looked at Li Shaofen who was sleeping soundly. He instructed Jin Yangyang to take good care of his sister before turning around and exiting the cave, heading towards the mountain cliff.

  As he had expected, Zhu Xiaohua and the others had already left, presumably to seek external help. They didn't even leave their mobile phones behind, so Zhou Yi could only return. He could leave comfortably, but Li Shaofen and Jinyangyang did not have this ability. For now, they could only wait for Li Shaofen's body to recover. At that time, even if the rescue team had not arrived, he would have the ability to lead them down the cliff wall and out of Baquan Valley by taking a detour.

  When they returned to the valley, the snake soup had been cooked. Zhou Yi cooled down the snake soup and carried the pot to Li Shaofen's face, waking her up and saying: "Younger sister, the snake soup is done, drink it..."

  "Zhou Yi, where did you get this pot from?"

  Li Shaofen slept for a while, and her mind cleared up a lot. She thought about her experiences and suddenly felt suspicious everywhere. Not to mention that she and Zhou Yi fell from such a high cliff but didn't die, where did the sand pot used for cooking come from? And what about the flower snake and the medicinal herbs, were they all dropped from the sky?

  "Hehe, how could I have managed to get all these things? It's all thanks to Jin Yangyang..."

  The Book of Changes had long since figured it out, and if there were any problems, just push them to Comrade Jin Yangyang. After all, he wouldn't distinguish: "You don't know that Jin Yangyang not only has a pig's ancestry but also a goat's ancestry. Moreover, this cliff is not completely vertical, and his body is agile enough to climb up and down. These snakes, medicinal materials, and this cauldron were all brought back by him from the deep valley time and again..."

  "Uh, it's Jin Yangyang who found this clay pot from the valley..."

  Li Shaofen was indeed very pure and innocent, she glanced at Jinyangyang and actually believed it a bit; maybe someone had left the sand pot in the valley below? Fortunately, there is it... Thinking of this, she looked at Jinyangyang with great gratitude.

  "Hmm... "

  Jin Yangyang proudly raised his head and puffed out his chest, with a proud expression all over his face. As for this honor that fell from the sky, he would not refuse it.

  "Zhou Yi, the snake stew you cooked smells really good..."

  Li Shaofen picked up the sand pot and sniffed it, the hot air rushing out of the pot made her temples' fine hair curl up, making her look even more delicate: "But snake meat... I... can I not eat it?"

  The nobles were particular about what they ate, and not only snakes, but also the internal organs of animals were considered inferior food that only lower-class people would eat. Li Shaofen, although a descendant of a declining noble family, was not so delicate, but had some resistance to snakes. Looking at the snake meat in the pot, her eyebrows were tightly locked, and she looked at Zhou Yi with a pitiful expression.

  "We have to eat! Who knows when the rescue team will arrive? How can we hold on if we don't eat?"

  Zhou Yi took a look at Li Shaofen's frowning and pouting face, and suddenly softened in his heart: "Alright, you eat half of it, and let me and Jinyangyang have the other half, that should be fine, right?"

  "Alright then... I'll just have a little bit of it?"

  Li Shaofen haggled for half a day and finally tried to take a light sip of the snake soup. Unexpectedly, as soon as she took this sip, her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up!

  Delicious!

  The snake meat originally had a unique fragrance, which was unmatched by any kind of domestic poultry or livestock. The medicinal cuisine of Zhou Yi had already reached the realm of supreme divinity. His cooked medicinal dishes not only lacked a strong medicinal flavor but instead brought out the freshness of the snake meat through the rational combination of medicinal ingredients and mastery of heat control, while still retaining the richness of the medicinal properties themselves.

  As soon as she drank this mouthful of soup, Li Shaofen felt that her mouth was filled with freshness and there was a flow of energy going down her throat, quickly passing through her stomach and spreading throughout her body, making her spirit settle, with a feeling of jumping from an unsteady small boat to the shore, stepping on solid ground.

  This bowl of wontons calmed her originally somewhat anxious heart.

  "Hmm, hmm-hmm..."

  One mouthful after another, just like a chick pecking at rice, Li Shaofen held the clay pot and refused to let go. Before long, she had drunk the entire pot of snake soup without leaving a single drop; it wasn't until she saw Zhou Yi and Jin Yangyang's strange gazes that she suddenly came back to herself, her face flushing red as she said: "Ah, I'm so sorry, I ate your shares too..."

  "Waaaahhhh....."

  Jin Yangyang, on the other hand, raised its head and let out a discontented cry. It also wanted to change its taste... How did it think that this girl would devour the whole pot of porridge without saying a word? This woman is too greedy, Jin Yangyang thought.

  "Doctor Zhou, Divine Doctor Zhou, are you there?"

  "Old Three!"

  "Shaofen!"

  Li Shaofen was slightly embarrassed when he suddenly heard someone shouting his name with a loudspeaker from the valley, and immediately became overjoyed: "They've come to find us!"

  "It's just brothers and fellow villagers..."

  Zhou Yi walked to the entrance of the cave and took a look, but shook his head: "Unfortunately, our position is still over 200 meters away from the ground. Except for Jinyangyang, who can get down, we can't get down, and they can't come up either..."

  He had originally planned that if the rescuers didn't arrive, he would use a silver needle to make Li Shaofen faint and then take her and Jinyangyang away; now that the villagers from Yunshui Village and his brothers had arrived, he could only continue pretending.

  Jinyangyang let out two "wuu"s, his expression somewhat tense as he retreated two steps into the cave, thinking to himself that he wasn't capable of going down, and if he did go down, he'd end up as dried pork...

  "Left column, we're here..."

  Li Shaofen saw the rescuers and became excited, shouting loudly towards the valley below.

  The rain has stopped at this moment, and the heavy rain has dissipated a lot of fog in the valley. Standing at the entrance of the cave, it is still barely possible to see the people below. Although she can't recognize which one is Zuozhu, she did hear Zuozhu's voice in the calls just now.

  "Why didn't you call your husband?"

  Zhou Yi felt a little strange in her heart, usually women in this situation would cry out "Husband, come and save me" or something like that, but she was from a noble family, so maybe she was more reserved?

  "It's too far away, they can't hear your voice..."

  If I shout at the top of my lungs right now, I can probably get my voice across, but that ear-piercingly high-pitched male soprano is still better left unexposed, so all I can do is hastily wave my hand downwards.

  Just then, a sudden roar of engines came from the sky, and a huge air wave swept away. Zhou Yi looked up and was stunned.

  Wow, have you guys become big stars now? Do you need such a big fuss?

  He actually saw a helicopter...

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