Chapter 308: Resurrection (4)
"Senior, do you also know that the results will be announced today?" Liu Sheng asked curiously.
"What? Do you think that because I am a villager, I cannot know about a major event in Chang'an City today?"
The old man chuckled and slowly reeled in the fishing line.
There is nothing on the hook this time, and it looks like he is giving up.
"That's not true. I just feel that senior doesn't seem to care about these troubled people."
This is also Liu Sheng's truth.
Looking at the old man sitting alone in the mountains, calmly waiting for the fish to take the bait, and the leisurely demeanor naturally exuding from his whole body, he is more like a hermit.
The old man smiled heartily: "You are right."
"What a pity, I don't want to be tainted with worldly things, they always come to taint me."
Although Liu Sheng didn't know what the old man meant, she understood it deeply.
She is always busy with many things and has no time to relax.
Before, maybe she was busy more often by her own choice, such as studying, writing articles, or transforming spiritual weapons.
But since she came to Chang'an, she seemed to be trapped in a spider web, entangled in all kinds of fine spider threads, but she still didn't know who was pulling the threads on it.
There are also things about Wen Weilan and Kuang Bowen, and Song Ru's things, all kinds of things are entangled in my heart, and I can't have peace.
While Liu Sheng was thinking, he began to fall into the quagmire of anxiety again.
Suddenly I heard a sentence: "Do you want to eat fish?"
Looking up, the old man raised the bamboo basket and shook it, and the fish inside were flapping.
It is very fresh and should be delicious.
“Eat.” Liu Sheng nodded decisively.
She was already greedy.
The old man took out a cutting board, knives, and a large white porcelain plate from his storage bag.
It looks very professional! Liu Sheng was immediately full of expectations.
The old man saw Liu Sheng's eyes widening and smiled. He picked out the fattest and most suitable big white fish from the bamboo basket and handled it neatly.
Remove the scales, bones and meat in one go.
Then use a sharp and thin knife to cut the snow-white fish meat into crystal-clear fish fillets as thin as cicada wings. The thickness of each piece is as big as a ruler, and the knife skills are extraordinary.
The old man's movements were clean and neat, pleasing to the eye. Liu Sheng could not take his eyes off it, secretly sighing at the old man's exquisite craftsmanship. He thought that the old man was a fishing enthusiast, but he did not expect that he also had such accomplishments in cooking.
However, it is reasonable to think about it.
Her father did the same back then. He would immediately set up the stove to cook and roast the game and wild vegetables and fungi he caught in the mountains for her mother and her, saying that eating them fresh from the place of origin was the most delicious.
This is also a long-lasting and beautiful memory.
But looking in front of me, after a while, the thin fish fillets were neatly stacked on the white porcelain plate, like a peony flower with crystal white petals in full bloom.
Then, the old man took out an ice charm and stuck it under the plate. He used his spiritual power to freeze the fish fillets across the plate until it was slightly cold.
Seeing this, Liu Sheng suddenly realized that this ordinary-looking old man turned out to be a practitioner!
Then the old man took out two small plates and two pairs of chopsticks from the storage bag.
“Eat it raw?” Liu Sheng hadn’t eaten it yet and his eyes widened in surprise.
"Yes, I specially brought this kind of white fish from the snowy mountains and raised it in this cold pond. It is especially delicious when eaten raw."
Snowy mountains?
It seems that this old man is unusual. He has actually been to the legendary holy land of spiritual practice - Snow Mountain.
But now the relationship between the two is just a fish-out relationship, so there is no need to pursue too much.
Although she has never eaten anything like this, Liu Sheng is very receptive. Influenced by her father, she loves eating and delicious food. She eagerly picked up her chopsticks and was about to eat, but was stopped by the old man.
"Wait a minute, it will be better if you add dipping sauce."
Liu Sheng could only be patient and waited for the old man to come up with small boxes one after another, as if he were doing tricks. , scallions, garlic slices, peanuts, and some green grass, white fruits and other things that she couldn't understand, and then placed a row of oil, salt, soy sauce and other seasonings on the ground.
It was so fancy that Liu Sheng didn’t know how to eat it.
The old man saw Liu Sheng's confusion, smiled, picked up a few fish fillets and put them on a small plate, added the spices in the box, poured in oil and salt, mixed them, and handed them to Liu Sheng.
“Try it, this is the way I learned from Lingqiu, mix it with fresh fish fillets, the flavor will be better.”
Lingqiu is a distant southern land, separated by rolling mountains. Liu Sheng has never tasted Lingqiu cuisine.
Liu Sheng, who was even more curious, waited for a long time, quickly took the small plate, picked up a piece of fish fillet with green and white spices that became more attractive with chopsticks, and put it into his mouth.
In an instant, spicy, fragrant, refreshing and smooth, a special aroma blooms on the tip of the tongue, which makes the freshness and elasticity of the fish even more vivid.
Liu Sheng was immediately shocked, and his watery eyes widened.
He quickly sorted out the fish fillets on the plate, picked up a few more pieces, imitated the old man's actions just now, and mixed himself another portion.
The old man and the young man ate the fish fillets in relative silence.
It wasn’t until the entire plate of fish fillets was consumed that I finally put down my chopsticks with satisfaction.
Liu Sheng took the initiative to take the tableware and cleaned it with the cleaning technique before returning it to the old man.
“Your technique is really easy to use.” The old man put away the tableware and said with a smile.
Liu Sheng's heart skipped a beat, he wasn't going to ask her how to perform it, was he? She couldn't tell this.
Fortunately, the old man didn't ask any more questions, and instead returned to the previous question that Liu Sheng had deliberately ignored. "Why don't you look at the list?"
Liu Sheng knew there was no way to avoid it, so he just shook his head and said: "The list is there, what's the difference if you look at it sooner or later?"
“Do you think you failed?”
Liu Sheng did not expect the old man to be so direct, and was a little caught off guard. He nodded sadly and said: “Yes.”
"Why are you so sure?" the old man asked again.
Liu Sheng shook his head and did not answer.
"It's not like you to have such no confidence in yourself." The old man said lightly.
Hearing these words, Liu Sheng suddenly turned his head and looked at the old man.
This person knows her!
However, Liu Sheng looked at him for a long time, but still couldn't figure out where he met him.
【Am I really too face-blind? 】
【Yes. 】The world said helplessly.
Then silently typed a picture in Liu Sheng's mind.
It was a somewhat blurry image of a human face. Although it was from a bird's eye view, it could be clearly seen that it did resemble this old man.
But she really couldn't remember where she had seen it.
The world still couldn’t remember Liu Sheng, so he could only shrink the picture, and a few more people appeared.
One of them is her cheap uncle Ling Fu.
After combining the background environment of the picture, Liu Sheng finally woke up.
[This is one of the examiners? 】
Liu Sheng and others were shocked beyond measure.
【So, who is he? 】
【To be able to appear here...】
【And he is so old. 】
【Looking at him sitting in the middle, he should obviously be the examiner. 】
[In addition, the examiners of the imperial examinations in previous years are all the same person...]
Liu Sheng and I discussed each other sentence by sentence, and all the words added together are the final truth.
The old man with an unattractive appearance, the old man who looks like a hermit who fishes all day long, the old man who prepares delicious fish fillets for Liu Sheng, is actually the famous Mei Yuanzheng of the National Academy of Sciences all over the world!
Liu Sheng roared with excitement in his heart.
【Calm down, calm down. 】 The world reassured.
【Can’t calm down! ] Liu Sheng and others said in unison.
This is Mei Yuanzheng!
Single-handedly founded the National Academy of Sciences Training Institute, providing a place for further study for students who love academics all over the world. He has produced countless research and development results, published hundreds of articles, and has already entered the realm of Dongxuan. Fortunately, he was standing in front of her at this time.
Can Liu Sheng, who has always admired her, not be excited?
【Didn’t you say you admire Taibai Sword Immortal not long ago? Why is there another person now? Are all humans that fickle? 】
【This is different! This is a different kind of worship! 】
【For Taibai Sword Immortal, I worship the legendary hero, his power and realm. As for Mei Yuanzheng, I admire his knowledge and hope to become him, or become someone like him and move in his direction. 】
【You can understand that he provided me with a career path, but I couldn't practice or follow this path before, so I didn't think about it anymore. 】
【Understood. 】
Thinking about this, Liu Sheng looked at Mei Yuanzheng in a different way.
She could only try her best to hide the excitement and admiration in her eyes.
But Mei Yuanzheng had caught her eyes and asked curiously: "Do you recognize me?"
Liu Sheng finally couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart and couldn't maintain the excitement when they first met. Calm and a little wary, he nodded heavily.
“I know you, Mei Yuanzheng!”
Mei Yuanzheng smiled and said, “I never expected that you would recognize me.”
"However, I rarely leave the National Academy of Sciences and rarely appear in front of the world. How do you recognize me?" He raised his white eyebrows, curious about this.
Liu Sheng had already prepared an excuse for this: "There is a portrait of you in the 'Top Ten Figures' special issue of "The Age of Cultivation"."
This is not an excuse, Liu Sheng clearly remembers it This is because the special edition is being treasured by her at home.
Among the top ten figures, there are swordsmen, emperors, generals, famous ministers...
But in Liu Sheng’s heart, what he yearns for most is to be obsessed with scientific research and make great contributions to the scientific research of the Tang Dynasty. Mei Yuanzheng.
So she read Mei Yuanzheng's article again and again, and it inspired her.
[As a result, you still can’t remember what they look like. ] The world complained mercilessly.
Liu Sheng became angry and secretly told the world to shut up.
(End of this chapter)