Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

After leaving the training ground, Xu Jian patted Zhang Xu on the shoulder and said to him: "Come on, follow me to the kitchen. I'll treat you to something good, and you can tell me about your time in the UK."

Zhang Xu replied: "Teacher Xu, I'd rather treat you."

Unexpectedly, Xu Jian's expression changed and he said sternly: "You are trying to hang me up on a high-voltage wire! The school stipulates that faculty and staff cannot accept any gifts or meals from students, otherwise they will be fired. Even if it is a braised egg, it will not work. "

Hearing what Xu Jian said, Zhang Xu gave up the idea of ​​treating him.

Since unexpected situations such as explosions, big explosions, and violent explosions often occur on the training ground, it is somewhat far away from the main building complex of the school.

On the way from the training ground to the canteen, we passed through a large field of farmland. The straight ridges divided the field into neat squares like a chessboard.

It is now the turn of late spring and early summer, and the plants grown in the farmland are in a period of vigorous growth.

Looking into the fields from the road that is much higher than the farmland, colorful plants are distributed in small patches of farmland, like a bunch of pixels of different colors squeezed together.

When he reached the edge of the field, Xu Jian stopped, looked at the direction of the farmland, and then said to Zhang Xu: "Zhang Xu, why don't you go pick something to make salad?"

Zhang Xu looked at the farmland for a while and said to Xu Jian with a "haha" look on his face: "Teacher Xu, please don't give me any additional personal experience guidance. I believe that as soon as I walk into the field, those defensive formations will I don’t know what will happen to me.”

Seeing that Zhang Xu was not fooled, Xu Jian said to him with a smile: "You can do it, you can see the secret inside."

Zhang Xu smiled and said nothing. He would not say that when he was a child, he wanted to run into the medicinal field where precious medicinal materials were planted behind the village to see the strange things. As a result, after the defensive formation on the edge of the field was activated, he was tied up by the inconspicuous weeds on the edge of the field. It became zongzi. Later, when he was laughed at by a group of elders, he heard that the formations in the fields were specially arranged by teachers from the school. In order to prevent students from secretly picking something in the fields, the school also made the same arrangements. After all, the straight-line distance between the two places is less than 20 kilometers, and some of the medicinal materials used in the school are purchased from the village.

On the way down, Xu Jian gave Zhang Xu a general explanation of some of the defensive formations in the field.

Not long after, Zhang Xu followed Xu Jian to the cafeteria, and then Xu Jian led Zhang Xu around a corner and walked toward the back of the cafeteria.

"Let's go to the kitchen to find Lao Cai. He has a lot of good things." Xu Jian said.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound similar to the braying of a cow from the back door of the cafeteria.

Zhang Xu and Xu Jian's eyes suddenly lit up, and then they looked at each other. They both saw the word "joy" in each other's eyes.

"That's what the sound should be."

"Yes, it must be that one."

When the two of them rushed to the door of the kitchen, they saw a group of people surrounding a cage and discussing something happily.

After saying hello to the principals, directors and teachers around him, Zhang Xu carefully looked at the contents of the cage.

It was a snake that was as thick as an arm and almost three meters long. Its body was white and its head was red. The cow-like cry came from its body.

And the temperature around the cage was frighteningly high, like standing next to a boiler.

But for the people around you, such a temperature can be solved with a small spell.

"Where did you get this snake?" Xu Jian asked.

"Boss Zhang from Fuhu Village just brought it when he came to deliver medicinal materials. They caught it at Fangchenggang the day before yesterday and sold it to us." Principal Li Jiuxi said.

"It must have taken a lot of effort to make it so big." Xu Jian sighed.

The red-headed and white-bodied snake is not an ordinary snake, it is one of the strange beasts. Its characteristic is that it can generate heat. When it stays underground somewhere for a long time, the heat it emits will evaporate the water in the surrounding soil, thus causing local drought.

When they gather and reproduce in large numbers, they can even cause widespread drought in some places.

If they hide near a spring, the water in that spring will turn into a hot spring. Seriously, it will heat up the surrounding fish.

According to records, there was once a nest of snakes that turned all the sweet potatoes underneath a piece of sweet potato into roasted sweet potatoes.

Therefore, it is a pest that is seriously destructive to agriculture and is not included in the protection list.

In ancient times, they were often caught and used as heaters in their homes during the winter, and then stewed in the spring.

At this time, a little old man with half white hair walked out of the canteen, holding a wooden box in his hand.

When Principal Li saw him coming, he said to him: "Lao Cai, you have to show off your skills today and give Zhang Xu, who is coming back from England, a good look."

When Lao Cai saw Zhang Xu, he quickly put down Zhang Xu in his hand, came up and shook hands with Zhang Xu enthusiastically and said: "So you are the boss Xiao Zhang. You are welcome to come to eat like last night in the future. You can count on the year-end bonus in our cafeteria." is you!"

Zhang Xu:

The heat on the snake's body is its self-protection measure. When it encounters danger, the heat will explode, making it impossible for predators to bite it. Even if it is killed, the temperature of the residual heat will not be low in a short period of time. The corpse without its own magic protection will even be cooked by its own temperature.

This also makes it necessary to solve the problem of heat insulation and fire prevention before people slaughter it.

The simplest way to deal with it is to starve the snake for a period of time to empty its stomach, then throw it into a pressure cooker with the ingredients and a large pot of water, and then close the lid. After the snake is drowned and cooled down, the bones and gallbladder are removed using methods such as bone separation, and a large pot of snake soup is ready.

But the snake we caught today was too big to fit in an ordinary pressure cooker, so we had to choose another way to eat it.

Because the snake's temperature was too high, handling it in the kitchen might trigger a fire alarm, so the canteen chose to handle it outdoors.

Soon, Zhang Xu knew what the principal meant by letting Lao Cai "show his skills."

Lao Cai walked to the box he had brought just now, stretched out his foot and kicked it. The lid of the box opened, and there were neatly erected knife handles inside.

Zhang Xu counted and found a total of thirty-six.

Then Lao Cai waved his hand, and the lid on the top of the cage containing Peng She opened.

The next second, a shadow jumped out of the cage, and at the same time, the temperature in the air rose a few points.

At this moment, a silver light flashed, and a pointed kitchen knife was accurately inserted into the snake's jaw. The tip of the knife penetrated the snake's head and came out from the back of the head. Then the kitchen knife lifted it into the air and hung it in the air.

Immediately afterwards, another silver flash lit up on the snake's belly, and another kitchen knife cut open its belly without any fuss.

At this time, several more kitchen knives flew over and opened the snake's abdominal cavity. Then the kitchen knife that had just opened its belly cut off the snake gall that leaked out, and it fell into a flying saucer.

After disposing of other internal organs, all the kitchen knives in the box flew up. Except for the kitchen knife that fixed the snake's head, the other thirty-five kitchen knives were flying around the snake like bees surrounding flowers.

In less than a minute, the nearly three-meter-long snake turned into steaming slices of meat on a huge plate.

Finally, Lao Cai poured a large spoonful of sesame oil mixed with ginger, coriander, chives and pepper on the snake meat slices on the plate. The aroma suddenly exploded like a bomb, filling every corner of Zhang Xu's nasal cavity.

Principal Li took the steaming plate and greeted everyone around him: "Let's go to the box on the third floor."

Xu Jian patted Zhang Xu, who was stunned by Lao Cai's kitchen knife skills, and then he recovered from the shock.

After Zhang Xu came to his senses, he followed Xu Jian upstairs to have dinner.