Yuan Xi, Guo Jiatian, Yu Sunli and others went down to the top of the city, and after preparing to go back to the military camp for dinner, they went to see Xian Yufu.
As soon as everyone reached the entrance of the camp, they heard shrill screams coming from inside.
Yuan Xi was shocked and took everyone in to take a closer look. He couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that he was killing a sheep.
The soldiers washed the freshly killed sheep in the stream, then chopped the internal organs and mutton corners with daggers, and threw them into a large pot to stew. The remaining best mutton was cut into small pieces and skewered.
Red willow branches are rolled and grilled on the fire.
Tian Yu said: "To the north of Quanzhou, there are more people grazing, and sheep are much cheaper than in the south. I will have someone buy a few of them when I enter the city today."
Yuan Xi saw that each of the soldiers moved extremely quickly and skillfully, and said with a smile: "They have stayed in Beidi and Xuzhou successively, so they can be regarded as combining the best of both places."
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, kebabs have been popular, not only among the nomadic people in the north, but also spread to the Xuhuai area. This practice is called "Zhao".
However, the barbecue in the two places is quite different, and the condiments used vary depending on the region.
Under the burning of the flame, the mutton sizzles with oil, and the air is filled with aroma. When it is about 70% cooked, you can eat it.
Although there was a lack of condiments, the soldiers didn't care. The fresh mutton was delicious enough without adding anything.
Soldiers with stronger tastes would take out the salt bag on their waist, dip the mutton on the branches in the salt, then put it into their mouths, and then let out a satisfied sigh.
Yuan Xi sat in front of the big pot and picked up a steaming bowl of mutton soup. Inside, there were finely chopped haggis and pieces of meat rising and falling, with a few glistening oily flowers mixed with green winter amaranth dotted on top.
At this time, Guo Jia couldn't wait to take a sip of the soup, and then praised: "The sheep in the North really have a unique flavor."
"If we follow the Han system, it would not be easy to eat meat normally, but now we are getting a lot of profit from following the young master."
The Han system that Guo Jia mentioned was inherited from the pre-Qin etiquette system. The emperor ate beef, senior officials of the doctorate level and above ate mutton, officials and nobles below the doctorate ate pork and dog meat, and the common people ate grilled fish.
This is because cattle and sheep require a large amount of pasture and consume a lot of cultivated land. In particular, cattle are important tools for farming. Therefore, Han law stipulates that killing cattle without reason is a capital crime.
However, everyone knew that the Han Dynasty existed in name only, and there was no news from the emperor after he left Chang'an. Even if the cows were killed and eaten, no one would take care of it.
Yuan Xi put the wooden bowl between his knees, took the wheat cake handed over by Sun Li, tore it into small pieces, and threw it into the mutton soup. After a while, the wheat cake was full of soup,
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Yuan Xi picked up the bowl and took a big gulp of the wheat cake and mutton soup. When the mutton soup went down, his hungry stomach seemed to cheer, and his whole spirit was shaken.
Guo Jiatian, Yu Sunli and others saw it and imitated him. In troubled times, food is rare, and the opportunity to have such a comfortable meal is even rarer.
Yuan Xi drank the soup happily. In this world, wars involve everyone. This misfortune may last for decades, but if you want to escape from it and temporarily forget all the troubles in the world, you often only need a delicious meal.
meal.
In the mansion in the city, Cai Zhaoji walked into the house with a wooden tray and said to Zhen Mi and Mrs. Wu: "Young Master is patrolling the city today. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back very late. General Tian asked someone to bring half a lamb over. I boiled the lamb."
Soup, let’s have some first.”
Zhen Mi heard this and said, "Thank you for your hard work, sister. Let's eat together."
Mrs. Wu quickly stood up and said to Cai Zhaoji: "I can do this kind of thing, why bother Madam."
After hearing this, Cai Zhaoji said: "How dare you do this? In terms of seniority, Madam is still my aunt. Please sit down, Madam."
Mrs. Wu was persuaded by Cai Zhaoji and had to sit down. When she faked her identity, she made it up casually. As a result, Cai Zhaoji took it seriously and found that Mrs. Wu was one generation higher, so she called herself a junior.
Mrs. Wu felt quite sorry that she had deceived everyone, yet she had to continue to cover it up.
It has been more than a month since the Chinese New Year. Mrs. Wu feels increasingly panicked as she thinks about the bleak road ahead and not knowing where to go.
Cai Zhaoji placed the soup bowl in front of Mrs. Wu. Mrs. Wu thanked her and smelled the aroma of mutton. For some reason, her mood became more and more irritable.
She endured the discomfort and took a careful sip of the mutton soup. The originally delicious mutton soup fell between her lips and teeth, but it made her stomach and intestines turn upside down.
Mrs. Wu was a little stunned. She had eaten mutton before and had no discomfort. Compared with Jiangdong, the Beidi mutton in the bowl now has almost no fishy smell. Why can't she drink it?
She didn't want to show any abnormality, so she had to cover her face with her sleeves and forced herself to drink a few more sips. The annoyance in her chest and abdomen became more and more severe.
Suddenly, waves of nausea came over her. Mrs. Wu was so disgusted that she hurriedly ran out of the room, holding on to the corner and retching.
Zhen Mi saw her and asked Cai Zhaoji worriedly: "Madam, are you feeling unwell?"
Cai Zhaoji couldn't figure it out and said, "Maybe Madam is not used to mutton soup. I'll go over and have a look."
As soon as Cai Zhaoji walked out of the door, she saw Mrs. Wu apologized and hurried back to the house.
Zhen Mi came out and said, "I'll order someone to cook some rice porridge later."
"If Mrs. Tomorrow is still like this, I will ask Mr. Yuanhua to come and take a look."
After hearing this, Cai Zhaoji said: "That's all it can do, but it doesn't seem to be a big deal. Maybe it's because the weather is cold in the north, and it'll be fine if you rest for a day and a half."
Seeing that they had no clue for the time being, the two girls went back to their rooms.
After Yuan Xi finished eating, he asked Guo Jia to sit in the military camp. He took Tian Yusun Li and went straight to a mansion in the city. When he arrived at the door, he saw a dozen soldiers guarding the front and back doors of the mansion.
When Yuan Xi came, they all knelt down to salute.
Yuan Xi stopped everyone and ordered them to open the door. As soon as he walked into the courtyard, he saw a big man standing in the middle of the courtyard, with his hands clasped and his head slightly bowed, as if he had known that Yuan Xi would come.
Yuan Xi saw that he had a big beard, a rather rugged appearance, a thick waist and strong arms, and slightly bent legs. From a glance, he seemed to have been there for a long time.
He bowed his hands and returned the courtesy: "Your Excellencies, Yuan Xi and Yuan Xianyi, are your distinguished guests General Xianyu?"
After hearing this, the big man quickly lowered his head and raised his hand, "I have met the envoy, and the last general is Xian Yufu."
Yuan Xi saw that Xian Yufu had a calm expression on his face. He had obviously expected that he would come, and thought that he was a smart man.
Xian Yufu went to find Tian Yu without any secret, just to prevent Tian Yu from being suspected. Tian Yu also heard the elegant meaning of Xian Yu's song and understood that Xian Yufu would definitely not reminisce about the past when he came here. His purpose was naturally Yuan Xi.
Xian Yufu never went to see Liu He. He obviously knew how to do things in a proper way, and he would not be able to tolerate any circles when talking to such a person.
When Yuan Xi thought of this, he went straight to the point: "I understand General Xianyu's painstaking efforts. Please come in and talk."
After a few people sat down in the room, Yuan Xi said: "General Xianyu has something to say directly. If there is no business, benevolence and righteousness remain. Even if we fail to negotiate in the end, we can still make friends."
After hearing this, Xian Yufu showed a smile on his face and said, "Shijun is a cheerful person. Before I met Xian Yufu, I was still doubtful. Now that I have met him, he is indeed worthy of his reputation."
He had already heard the meaning of Yuan Xi's words. Everything could be discussed, but there was a bottom line for everything, and it was impossible to agree to the lion's conditions.
Xian Yufu quickly cleared his throat and explained Yan Rou's purpose.
After hearing this, Yuan Xi and Tian Yu looked at each other and thought that it was an unexpected surprise that Yan Rouxian Yufu and Shan Yutaodun did not deal with each other in private.
I really dozed off and brought a pillow. If the three parties were tightly united and Yuan Xi couldn't find an opportunity to make a move, he might have made a lot of concessions, but now he saved a lot of trouble.
He said: "Is General Xianyu a Han or a Xianbei?"
After hearing this, Xian Yufu smiled bitterly and said: "If you want to talk about it, my ancestors are Han people."
The surname Xianyu originated from the surname Zi, which came from Jizi Zhizhong, a descendant of the Yin and Shang royal family. King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty and granted Jizi the surname in Korea. "Korean History" records: "King Wu of Zhou conquered Shang and Jizi became the surname.
Lead 5,000 Chinese into Korea."
Among the sons of Jizi's concubine, there was one named Zizhong, whose fiefdom was in the city, so he combined the character "Xian" in the name of the country and the character "Yu" in the name of the city to form the compound surname "Xianyu", and called him the Xianyu family.
Passed down from generation to generation.
When Xian Yufu said this, he changed the topic and said: "But some people say that the inheritance of Xian Yu's family cannot be tested anymore, and this name comes from a foreign clan."
"Book of Wei" says that the surname Xianyu was not originally a Xianbei surname, but a "Dingling caste" active in Dingzhou, Shuozhou, Wuyuan and Yuyang areas. It was in an awkward position between Han and Hu.
After Xian Yufu finished speaking, he felt a little uneasy. He had heard rumors that this fierce tiger of the Yuan family seemed to be very hostile to foreigners.
Although the Xianyu family belongs to a large family in Youzhou, they may not have foreign ancestry. Xianyufu must point this out clearly. If he tries to hide it, he will be suspected by the other party.
After hearing this, Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I don't really care about this kind of argument."
Yuan Xi thought to himself that it would be a bad deal to distinguish Han from foreigners based on blood.
In terms of pure blood, I am afraid that many Han people on the border of the Han Dynasty are not as pure as Liu Bao, the descendant of Maodun Chanyu and Liu Xing's clan daughter after the siege of Baishan Mountain.
Yuan Xi thought to himself that this was really ironic. The orthodox heir of the Han Dynasty was killed by himself.
However, Yuan Xi did not have any psychological pressure. When the Southern Huns extended their butcher knife to the Han people, their bloodline had no meaning.
Otherwise, anyone who is close to the Liu Xing clan can be killed indiscriminately. How can there be such a reason in the world?
Neither can the emperor!
Nowadays, all the princes in the world have turned their backs on the Han Dynasty and separated their own regimes. They are indeed rebels on the surface, but in fact they are no different from the Yellow Turban Army.
But the initiator was Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, whose misconduct caused great chaos in the world. He had been in power for many years, plundered the people's wealth and anointing, and personally pushed the Han Dynasty into the abyss, leading to the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
At the same time, officials and nobles from various places also rebelled. Since then, the Han Dynasty has actually lost the support of the people.
The Han Dynasty lost its deer, and the whole world chased it away.
Speaking of which, what happened to Han Emperor Liu Xie now was just taking the blame for Han Ling Emperor.
Yesterday I wrote the wrong number of chapters. They should be 263 and 264, so I will start from 265 today. Sorry.