Today is the beginning of winter, and customs vary from place to place, but the word "eat" cannot be escaped.
After Wei Cheng came back from Mengjin County, he ran into the house wrapped in a mink coat.
Needless to say, it is really winter in this era. The cold wind has been blowing outside for a day, and my whole body is as cold as a Xiu Gou.
As soon as I ran into the house, I smelled a strong aroma of rice wine.
"Ginger is boiled into rice wine, and the more you drink it, the more you get sick."
Wei Cheng walked around the screen with a smile, and sure enough he saw a wine scalding vessel on the table, with a small charcoal stove underneath and a clay pot with water in it. There were several small wine bottles neatly stacked in the water.
Seeing Wei Cheng coming back, Cai Yan hurriedly came forward to help him take off his coat.
"Why did you come back so late?" Cai Yan asked, reaching out to straighten Wei Cheng's collar.
Wei Cheng's hands were a little cold and he couldn't bear to hold her hand. He said with a smile: "We just happened to meet a caravan picking goods. The road was blocked for a while."
Cai Yan nodded, pulled him to sit down, and then ordered his servants to deliver food.
Soon, the table was filled with all kinds of delicacies, most of which were greasy and tonic.
Sauced elbow, grilled lamb chops, braised beef, old ginseng stewed chicken soup, dendrobium old duck soup, the only vegetarian dish is a vinegar Chinese cabbage.
"Have a try, Aunt Niu and I learned how to make it." Cai Yan said, taking credit.
Wei Cheng looked at the table full of hard dishes and was not polite. He picked up his chopsticks and started eating. Regardless of whether it was delicious or not, he just praised it after taking one bite.
Not to mention, Cai Yan dared to offer them as a treasure, these dishes taste really good.
Wei Cheng gnawed on a mutton chop and gave Cai Yan a thumbs up.
Cai Yan felt extremely happy when she saw him eating happily. She served him pouring wine and wiping his mouth, just like an old woman.
"By the way, where are Dabao and Erbao?"
"You, I just thought of them at this time."
Cai Yan slapped Wei Cheng's arm angrily, and said with a smile: "They were all picked up by their father, and the nannies are watching over them. They will be fine."
Wei Teng nodded slightly, suddenly remembered something, and turned to look at Cai Yan.
"What, you're looking at me like that?" Cai Yan touched his cheek, which was white and rosy with a little baby fat.
Wei Cheng chuckled and said: "Yan'er, have you ever heard of a saying: full, warm, thinking..."
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Phew~
boom!
The huge explosion echoed in the mountain forest, frightening the birds and scaring away all kinds of beasts.
Huang Xu lowered his head and glanced at the Thunder Dragon Cannon in his hand, shook his head and said, "Compared to the old man, my accuracy is still a bit worse."
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu next to them both smiled bitterly.
Sun Ce said: "This Thunder Dragon Cannon is already extremely powerful. It would be terrible if it could be aimed at anywhere."
Zhou Yu also said: "It is enough as it is now. In fact, this Thunder Dragon artillery is most suitable for use when two armies are fighting. You only need to aim at a crowd and fire one shot. Even if the accuracy is a little off, it is still very lethal.
"
How could Huang Xu not know this truth, but he didn't want to stop there. After thinking about it, he didn't explain it.
Not far away, a group of soldiers came over escorting a few natives.
Sun Ce took a look and asked them to send people to open up wasteland. It was like spring all year round and it was a good place for planting rice.
Zhou Yu has already calculated that if rice can be grown in this place, coupled with reasonable planning, it should be able to achieve three crops a year. In other words, for the same acre of land, the Central Plains can harvest sixty stones a year, but here it is.
Can harvest one hundred and eighty stones.
In this era where food is money, farmland is equivalent to an inexhaustible mint.
And the productivity of farmland here is three times that of the Central Plains. It’s hard to be rich even if you don’t want to be rich.
The three of them returned to the city. The so-called city was actually a house built with bamboo.
Tens of thousands of indigenous people originally lived here, and there was a king who called their country Ayutthaya.
Everyone laughed at that time. It was ridiculous that a poor place without even a brick wall dared to call itself a big city.
Huang Xu fired a few cannons and destroyed the so-called palace.
In the bamboo house.
The three of them sat opposite each other, and their subordinates brought a sumptuous meal, mostly fruits, and a few roasted deer legs.
"According to the indigenous description, there is a large tribe of more than ten thousand people about ten days west of here. This tribe makes a living by growing crops. Then we can see what kind of grains they grow."
Zhou Yu took a sip of wine, looked up at Sun Ce, and asked: "Ten days' journey is actually not that far. It's just winter now, so the food there should have just been harvested, right?"
Sun Ce ate the meat and nodded, "I guess so, what?"
Zhou Yu reminded angrily: "We have almost eaten the food we brought, and we don't know when the next batch of supplies will arrive. Therefore, no matter what, this indigenous tribe must conquer it as soon as possible."
The two nodded in agreement and looked at Huang Xu at the same time.
But he found that this guy was wiping the barrel of his gun with venison fat, a real gun barrel.
Seeing both of them looking at him, Huang Xu raised his eyes and said while assembling the gun back: "You should also know that my ammunition is almost out. I will only be able to raid the formation for you, and at most I will use bows and arrows to support you.
One or two.”
Sun Ce was overjoyed when he heard this, "With these words, I feel relieved."
Huang Xu is a good person, and he is really good at everything. It is because of his true temperament that he gained the true friendship between Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and the three of them seemed like brothers of the opposite sex.
After eating.
Zhou Yu suddenly remembered that there was another group of people rushing here, and he didn't know what was going on with them.
When Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were mentioned, Huang Xu and Sun Ce had different expressions.
Huang Xu was naturally happy. He and Zhang Fei had a good relationship. It would be a beautiful thing if they could meet in a different place.
But Sun Ce is different. Guan Yu is his father-killing enemy, and he will never let go of this hatred no matter what.
It would be okay if he didn't meet him, but if he did meet him, even if he didn't get everything with great difficulty, he would still have to fight to the death with Guan Yu.
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at the same time.
In a valley more than 800 miles north of Sun Ce and his party.
"Bah, bah, bah, what is this? Why is it so unpalatable?" Zhang Fei spat out the meat in his mouth and frowned.
The chef in charge of cooking said with a wry smile: "There is no way. The seasonings we brought have been used up, and there is only a little salt left. Let's make do with it."
Zhang Fei shook his head helplessly. Compared to a month ago, he was much less embarrassed at this time.
Not to mention his unkempt beard, the Longshan armor on his body was also damaged in many places, and it was no longer as clean and bright as before.
No matter how well-equipped the Longshan Army is, traveling through mountains and rivers for more than a month is still a grueling task.
In addition, material supplies were cut off, and the dry food the sergeants brought with them was all used up. They finally arrived at their destination without even a bite of food to eat.
We can only catch some wild animals to satisfy our hunger. Not to mention the fishy smell is hard to swallow, and it is easy to eat the stomach. You have to be careful with every bite, for fear that there are small bugs in the meat that can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
This is what is said: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. If you are used to eating delicious food, you will naturally look down on barbecue with only salt.
On the contrary, the rear army was full of food. Of the 5,000 men and horses brought by Guan Yu, only more than 3,000 were left. Hundreds died on the road and hundreds more escaped. It was enough to reach the destination safely.
How can you be picky about food when you burn so much incense?
Although there was no shortage of food, the mental state could not be adjusted for a while, and many people in the army lost their eyesight.
The next day, the army continued to move south.
The scout responsible for exploring the terrain suddenly sent a message that a small tribe was discovered in the southwest, with thousands of acres of paddy fields, dozens of cattle and countless poultry of various kinds.
This news came too timely. It had been more than a month since they had seen any other people except their own people. They even wondered if they had gone the wrong way. Now that they finally saw the village, they were naturally overjoyed.
There was no reaction from Guan Yu's side, but the Longshan Army brought by Zhang Fei couldn't sit still, and immediately prepared and marched out.
Being in a foreign place for the first time, Longshan Army did not dare to be careless.
Three times we sent people there to explore the way.
When I found out that the aborigines had no iron tools and even hunted with sharpened bamboos, I immediately felt happy.
Without any suspense, a thousand men in heavy armor rushed directly into the sheep.
In just one hour, thousands of indigenous people were captured and a large amount of rice and various crops were harvested.
By the time Guan Yu and his men arrived, the battle here was already over.
"Third brother, how are the casualties?"
When Guan Yu found Zhang Fei, the boy was tasting local delicacies.
The venison stewed with various fruits does not taste very good, but it is already rarer and more delicious than barbecued meat with only salt.
Seeing Guan Yu arriving, Zhang Fei grinned and said with a laugh: "Second brother, come and try these stews, they taste great."
When Guan Yu saw that his answer was incorrect, he knew that Longshan's army had not suffered any damage.
He glanced at the girl and the old woman in charge of cooking, frowned, and reminded: "Third brother, these people?"
Zhang Fei waved his hand indifferently, took a sip of soup happily, and said: "Don't worry, their families are all in my hands, do they still dare to poison me?"
"Besides, I have this." Zhang Fei pulled out a silver hairpin from his hair and shook it towards Guan Yu.
Seeing how attentive he was, Guan Yu immediately felt relieved. He looked at the food on the banana leaf and swallowed in frustration.
"Don't look at it, eat it, it's poisonous." Zhang Fei picked up a grilled fish and handed it over, pointing to the bamboo chair beside him and said.
Guan Yu no longer hesitated, took the grilled fish and wolfed it down.
After they had eaten and drank enough, they picked their teeth while inspecting this small, barbaric and backward tribe.
Seeing the thousands of acres of paddy fields with their own eyes, both of them were very happy. With these fields, this place can be used as a base.
"It's not easy. It took us almost two months to conquer such a small village. But fortunately, everything is worth it. After we take a rest, next..."
"Ah~"
While Zhang Fei was talking, a girl's scream suddenly came from the bamboo house not far away.
Zhang Fei knew what was going on as soon as he heard this, and immediately ran towards the bamboo house angrily. Guan Yu quickly followed after seeing this.
Outside the bamboo house, more than a dozen men were lying on the door frames and windows looking inside.
"Hey, this little girl is quite pretty. Come on, hurry up, we're still queuing up."
"Squeeze whatever you want, come one by one."
"Damn it, this girl's claws are so powerful, she almost blinded Lao Liu's eyes. I'll go in and break her off right away."
"Don't be so cruel. Just two people can catch you. This little girl doesn't have much strength..."
Zhang Fei ran closer and found that there were more than a dozen men surrounding the house, all of them uttering obscene words. There were also sounds of beatings and scoldings and women's screams coming from inside the house. He was so angry that he just raised his legs and kicked them.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Hey, who, that turtle son, kicked me?"
Zhang Fei's eyes widened with anger, he grabbed a spear from a soldier's hand, rounded it up and smashed it into the man's leg.
Just listen to a 'click' sound.
"Ah, my legs, my legs..."
Zhang Fei dropped his spear, pushed aside a few people at the door, and rushed into the house.
I saw two soldiers holding a girl about twelve or thirteen years old on the left and right, and the other had a ferocious face and was about to pounce on her.
Zhang Fei was so angry that he stepped forward and aimed at the man, directly kicking him.
Click!
The sudden and severe pain was almost life-threatening. Zhang Fei kicked out with hatred, and the two eggs exploded on the spot.
When the two people holding the girl saw what happened, they were so frightened that they quickly let go of the girl and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Zhang Fei frowned. He first took off his cloak and threw it to the girl to block him. Then he stepped forward and kicked the two people kneeling on the ground away. "You bunch of idiots, who told you to do this?"
of?"
At this time, Guan Yu also rushed into the house and frowned when he saw the girl and the soldiers who were kicked to pieces.
Seeing that Zhang Fei was about to hurt someone, he stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Fei, saying in a deep voice: "Third brother, why is a mere barbarian going to such great lengths to attack his own family?"
Zhang Fei's thick eyebrows twitched, and he turned around and looked at his best second brother in disbelief, "Who is a member of their family?"
Guan Yu opened his mouth.
The two brothers were silent for a while.
Not long after, a dozen men from the Longshan Army came outside. Seeing the situation inside the house, one of the men asked loudly: "General Zhang, will you handle it according to military law?"
Zhang Fei looked at Guan Yu's frown and shouted in a deep voice: "What do you mean by Fei Te Niang? Arrest the three of them and deal with them according to military law. Anyone who dares to have an opinion will be punished with the same crime!"
After saying that, he snorted coldly, stepped forward to pick up the crying girl, and walked straight out.
Guan Yu looked back at Zhang Fei's leaving figure and suddenly regretted what he had just said.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the way Zhang Fei looked at him at the end seemed to be a bit alienated and strange.
Half an hour later.
Zhang Fei ordered everyone to be gathered together, including Guan Yu's more than 3,000 troops and all the natives.
And in front of everyone, he personally wielded a knife and chopped off the heads of the three strong female offenders.
In troubled times, heavy rules should be used, especially when marching abroad. These three people were also unlucky. They sent them to Zhang Fei's door to scare the monkeys.
Looking at the heads rolling to the ground, Guan Yu and the more than 3,000 soldiers he brought with him were all silent.
On the other hand, the natives were whispering, and the eyes they looked at Zhang Fei gradually lost their fear and panic, and instead showed a hint of gratitude.