Volume 1 First Entering the Tang Dynasty Chapter 29 Oh, my dish
"It smells so good! Lao Meng, can you smell it?" While Lu Chen was cooking a pot in the kitchen, Fang Qiti, who was across the two courtyards, took a sniff and then looked at Meng Ji, who was sitting opposite him.
said.
"It's quite fragrant. It makes me greedy!" Of course Meng Ji also smelled the aroma of the boiling pot. They followed Lu Chen back. Lu Chen returned to the small courtyard, and they gathered in Fang Qi's courtyard.
The two of them were not discussing something, but Fang Qi had secretly hidden a gourd of Du Kang, which Fang Qi had brought from Chang'an, and he had never been willing to drink it. The two of them planned to give the wine to Lu Chen.
"The smell seems to come from the military advisor!" Fang Qi stood up and opened the courtyard door, stretched his neck and smelled it, then turned to Meng Ji and said with a smile.
"Then what are you waiting for!" Meng Ji picked up the wine gourd on the small stone table and went out directly. Fang Qi hurriedly followed him when he saw it, "That's my wine!" Fang Qi closed the courtyard door and rushed at the same time.
Meng Ji shouted.
Just when Lu Chen was tearing up the cabbage and putting it into the pot, he heard a "bang" from the courtyard door, "Gouzi, go see what's going on!" Lu Chen wanted to stir-fry, but he didn't do anything, so he asked the man who was cutting the mutton on the side to do it.
Liu Jing went to see what was going on.
As soon as Liu Jing walked out of the kitchen, he saw Meng Ji and Fang Qi walking in from the courtyard door one after another, and they were quarreling and getting angry.
"Sir, it's General Meng and Colonel Fang who are here!" Liu Jing saw the two entering the hospital and hurried back to the kitchen to report to Lu Chen.
"Oh?" Lu Chen put down the spatula and turned to look at Meng Ji and Fang Qi who were walking towards the kitchen.
"Give me a shovel, don't burn the pot!" Lu Chen handed the spatula to Liu Jing and ordered, then picked up a hand towel and wiped his hands before walking out of the kitchen.
"Do you two have dog noses? Do you smell this?" Lu Chen looked at the two of them and laughed and cursed.
"It's not our fault. If we weren't familiar with the military advisor and could enter the hospital, there would still be a group of people standing outside the hospital looking expectantly!" Meng Ji didn't care about Lu Chen's teasing. This is how it is in the military camp.
Only people who are close to you will laugh and curse at you. Meng Ji pointed at the door of the courtyard as he spoke.
Lu Chen looked in the direction of Meng Ji's finger, and saw several generals peeking in at the door. Their noses were twitching twice, greedily inhaling the aroma of food filling the air, and they were almost drooling.
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"Military advisor, we are not here in vain, but we have brought gifts!" Meng Ji said as he took out a gourd of Dukang as if offering a treasure and handed it to Lu Chen.
"What is here?" Lu Chen looked at the shiny wine gourd that was being rubbed.
"Dukang!" Meng Ji said with a smile, "But you can't let the commander know about it. If the commander knows, he will be punished!"
"Oh!" Lu Chen said "oh" and stopped talking.
Meng Ji and Fang Qi were immediately puzzled, "Don't Lu Chen like Du Kang?" They looked at each other and had no idea for a moment. They originally planned to use this wine to please Lu Chen, but now seeing Lu Chen's expressionless face, they suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
I know what to say.
Unfortunately, the two of them did not notice Lu Chen's gaze, because while Meng Ji was talking to Lu Chen, three more people walked in from outside the door. They were none other than Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning, Ye Zhu and Lu Mingqiu.
This time Li Xiuning did not wear armor, but wore a goose-yellow outfit, with her hair tied high, a gold hairpin on top, and tassels swaying.
It was only when he saw Li Xiuning walking this way that Lu Chen didn't answer.
"General Meng, what is it that I cannot let you know?" Li Xiuning looked at Meng Ji and Fang Qi who stiffened and turned their heads when they heard his voice with a half-smiling expression.
The expressions of the two of them at this moment were so wonderful.
"It's not... that..." Meng Ji was still holding a wine gourd in his hand. When he saw Li Xiuning, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He didn't know what to say for a moment. Fang Qize next to him was very self-conscious.
He took a step to the side with an expression that had nothing to do with me.
"Okay! How dare you hide such a good wine privately!" At this time, Li Xiuning had already snatched the gourd from Meng Ji's hand, opened it, smelled it, and said angrily.
"This wine doesn't belong to me, it belongs to him!" Meng Ji directly pulled Fang Qi over, who was hiding aside, with a posture of "we will die together."
"You obviously brought this wine, why do you say it's mine?!" Fang Qi immediately said, with an expression like "This wine is definitely not mine."
"Okay! Stop pretending!" Li Xiuning put away his angry expression and said with a smile, "Is this wine brought by Fang Qi from Chang'an?" Li Xiuning asked while playing with the wine gourd.
"Yes!" Fang Qi admitted directly with his head hanging down.
"I knew when you sold the wine. Are you planning to give it to Mr. Lu?" Li Xiuning continued to ask.
"I am poor and don't have anything valuable. When I met Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu not only didn't blame me, but the commander also promoted me to a higher position. Didn't I want to thank Mr. Lu? But I don't have anything.
The only thing that can be obtained is the Du Kang brought by the gourd from Chang'an!" Fang Qi did not hide anything, and directly said what was in his heart.
"What about you?" Li Xiuning turned to look at Meng Ji again.
"I just want to thank Mr. Lu for being merciful that day. Sir, you don't remember the faults of villains. Marshal, you also know that I am poorer than Lao Fang. He still has this gourd wine. I don't have any hair. This is not borrowing from Lao Fang."
Fang Zhiguang, why don't we borrow flowers to offer to Buddha?" Meng Ji chuckled innocently.
"Let me tell you, you two are setting up a frame-up. You want the commander-in-chief to punish him for hiding alcohol in the army!" Lu Chen said with a smile. In fact, Lu Chen said this to save these two people. Otherwise,
If Li Xiuning really wanted to punish these two people for "hiding wine in the army," no one could say anything. Now that the two of them said that the wine was for them, Lu Chen took the matter on himself.
"Okay! Mr. Lu, don't take it from yourself. I've confiscated this wine! I'll drink it at noon today!" Li Xiuning naturally won't punish them. What he said just now is just a joke. You know
, Li Xiuning was very strict in running the army, and being able to say these words in front of Lu Chen was almost like the sun rising from the west.
Meng Ji and Fang Qi also looked at Li Xiuning with some surprise. After all, this had never happened before. This shows how high Lu Chen's status in Li Xiuning's heart was.
Suddenly, a burning smell came over him, "Oh! My food!" As soon as he smelled the burning smell, Lu Chen turned around and slipped into the kitchen.
"Oh, you little bitch, you are so stubborn! If I ask you to do it once, you can do it in one place! I'm cooking the mutton with cabbage!" Li Xiuning and others were wondering when Lu Chen hurriedly returned to the kitchen to do it.
Well, I heard Lu Chen scolding Liu Jing and Lu Chen's heartbroken shouts coming from the kitchen.