Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 80 The First Meal

Jinqiaokan, Hong's courtyard.

The five brothers lined up, sitting under the eaves to bask in the sun, with frustration written all over their faces.

Alas, they haven't lit the fire yet.If you want to borrow a fire from your neighbors, all the doors are closed, and you can't open them no matter how hard you knock.

If you beat too fast, there will be cries of women and children inside, making them look like bandits who are going to rob their houses.

Without fire, there is no way to boil water or cook.He wanted to drink some unboiled water, but the fifth child refused to let him.It must be said that the water in the well is not clean, if you don’t boil it, you will get sick if you drink it...

So I could only sit there, licking my chapped lips, listening to the rumble of my stomach in a daze.

"Jie Xia died of starvation in Nanchao, Duke Huan of Qi starved to death in his bedroom, and King Chu Ling, King Zhao Wuling... Is this the fate of kings?" The third brother shed tears of unwillingness to be kings.

"Fuck..." The fourth brother only had one word for this.

By noon, the bull of the king was so hungry that it mooed...

That's easy.The fourth child opened a bag of rations and poured the rice into the pig trough. The big buffalo immediately came over, sniffed it and lowered its head to eat.

"Why is this rice red?" Jin Wang was surprised. "Shouldn't all rice be white?"

"Red, red rice." The second child looked very understanding.

"The cow is delicious, so it's okay for us to eat it." The fourth child pondered.

"Nonsense, this is our ration." The third child rolled his eyes at him.

"No, what I mean is, should we also eat raw rice?" Zhu Di suggested.

"Eat and see first." The third child was noncommittal.

"I, I'll do it." The second brother volunteered, grabbed a handful of red rice grains from the pig trough, stuffed them into his mouth, and started chewing vigorously.

As a result, the teeth were sour, but I still didn't swallow it...

"Bah bah, what's the smell..." King Qin spat out the dregs in his mouth, and poured a ladle of well water into it regardless of his care, and then he recovered.

"Well, it seems that it cannot be eaten raw." King Yan came to a conclusion.

"That's right." King Jin nodded.

King Qin: "Uh, uh..."

Zhu Zhen, who was hungry, looked at these unreliable brothers and felt deeply worried about whether he would survive until the autumn harvest.

In fact, he also racked his brains to find a way to make a fire this morning, and even tried drilling wood to make a fire, but it ended in failure without accident, and his hands were still blistered...

While looking at the blood blisters on his delicate palms, Zhu Zhen silently apologized to Lord De. It turned out that lighting a fire is not that simple.

"If it doesn't work, let's go back. Father won't want us, right?" At this moment, Fifth Brother, who had been very quiet, said, "It's better to let him down than to let him lose his son, right?"

Wu Ge will always be like this, putting life first.Of course including his own.

"That won't work, we can't disappoint Father!" But the fourth brother said decisively: "I won't go back even if I starve to death!"

"That's right, you have to fight! What is this difficulty? We will definitely overcome it!" The third brother was not to be outdone.

It's a different situation for the youngest, the third and the fourth.

"You, you two steam the steamed buns first, you two..." The second brother is not that strong, and he doesn't want to stay here anymore.

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Just when the emotions of several His Royal Highnesses fell into a trough, Tang Jiachang's friendly voice sounded at the gate of the courtyard.

"How many brothers are resting?"

The brothers raised their heads listlessly, their eyes brightened.Everyone saw Tang Jiachang carrying a bag of snacks and a small jar in his hand.

"Oh, are you hungry?" Chief Tang Jia handed the snack to Zhu Xi and said, "You're welcome, I bought it for you from the county."

"Good." Zhu Xi was full of praise, tore off the greased paper, grabbed a piece of snack and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Don't..." The third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and four younger brothers all stopped him, but none of them stopped the second child.

"You, eat it too..." King Qin sent the snacks to his younger brothers while crunching his mouth full of scum.

Please, you just offended him, why do you dare to eat what he gave you?There should be a limit to heartlessness...

If you don't do this well, you will be poisoned to death!
However, I'm really hungry.

The third child, the fourth child, and the sixth child all swallowed their saliva and looked at the fifth child. He is an expert in this area.

Zhu Wei picked up a piece of sesame cake and looked at it carefully, making sure it wasn't freshly made.Then I broke it off and put it in my mouth to taste it, then I nodded and swallowed it.

The three immediately shot like lightning, chewing and swallowing.The second and fifth children also hurriedly joined the ranks of grabbing food.

Tang Jiachang brought snacks, and there was no one left in a blink of an eye.

"It seems that I'm really hungry." Tang Jiachang couldn't help but wondered: "You can feed the cattle with grain, why don't you cook and eat it yourself?"

"No, it won't make a fire." King Qin said vaguely with puffy cheeks.

"The main reason is that the flint is broken." Jin Wang was embarrassed to admit his incompetence, and pointed to the flint thrown on the ground to argue.

"It doesn't affect the use." Tang Jiachang bent down and picked up half of the flint, then put the tinder under the flint, picked up the fire scythe with the other hand, rubbed it back and forth on the flint to heat it up, and then slammed down on the flint several times to hit the flint. The sparks all fell on the same position on the tinder.

The five Highnesses were surprised to find that a cluster of black dots soon appeared on the tinder that they couldn't attract before.As Old Man Tang blew gently, the black dots grew bigger and bigger, began to smoke, and then red sparks appeared...

Finally, Tang Jiachang easily ignited the dry grass used as fire coal with tinder, and bright flames danced in everyone's pupils.

"Hey, you, you old man are amazing!" His Royal Highness King Qin gave a thumbs up.

King Jin and King Yan also praised it one after another.

Tang Jiachang didn't expect that these bad boys would be so admired by this, so he simply did the good thing to the end, instructed them to dig out the stove, set up the pot, light the stove, and then taught them to cook.

He asked King Yan to pour the water first, and then said to King Qin, "Put rice into the pot."

"Hey, good." Zhu Xi picked up the bag of rice and poured it into the pot.

"Leave less, just eat porridge now. The wild vegetables will sprout in a few days, dig them back and cook porridge, and eat some dry ones when the farming is busy..." Tang Jiachang patiently passed on the experience of old farmers.

"Oh..." King Qin responded and continued to serve rice.

"Down more, down more." Several gray-faced His Royal Highnesses kept urging.

"There's too much rice." Zhu Zhen is experienced in steaming rice.

"Pour water, pour water." The third brother ordered, and the fourth brother was ton ton.

"There's too much water." Zhu Zhen said speechlessly, "It's porridge again."

"Put more rice." The third brother ordered again, and the second brother was clapping.

Tang Jiachang watched and shook his head, how could such a waste last until the autumn harvest?

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While waiting for the rice to be steamed, the brothers circled around Old Tang asking questions.

They already regarded Mr. Tang Jia as an old eunuch who knew everything.

"Old Tang, why is our rice red? Could it be that it's not fresh?"

"My lord, brown rice is just like this. The white rice that you eat before is the polished rice that has been husked and pounded again." Tang Jiachang said with a wry smile: "We ordinary people don't dare to waste that much. The rice is only husked once. , is the brown rice we eat.”

"And we are not willing to throw away the bran that comes off. It can be steamed and eaten after being ground into bran." He added.

"Can that be eaten?" The brothers were speechless.

"The bran corn bread is hard to swallow, and it still hurts the stomach after eating, and it's hard to defecate." Old man Tang said with emotion:
"But before Emperor Hongwu, we ordinary people couldn't even eat this. We could only eat grass roots and bark Guanyin soil. At that time, if there were bran buns to eat, six of my family of nine would not have starved to death."

"..." The brothers were silent.They naturally thought of what happened to their own family. Although they had heard their father say it countless times, they never felt the same way this time.

ps.Chapter 7, 2500 order plus update.

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