Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 22 The Solution for Foodies

The yard is full of tinkling, clicking, and mud sounds, and there are servants, maids, and mothers-in-law running around happily. After Wang Hou's kang renovation plan was a great success, he With a flick of a pen, the entire mansion, whether it is the main house, the guest rooms or the entire shop, will be transformed into a kang house.

A total of 55 large and small kangs are full of novelties, and a group of servants are busy working hard.

Uh, the sound of happy labor is mixed with the screams of ducks and geese. There is no way, the first down coat was taken by Cao Hongjie, a little heartless person, to curry favor with President Cao. If it is too cold, the suffering geese will have to go through a second wave of inhuman hair-plucking.

The family servants were working hard and happily, but their patriarch was looking sad and put his legs crossed on the kang.

Two sad things, first, he found out that he had been cheated!
Just got home from get off work today, Wang Fu came jogging over happily, and reported that a woodcutter found a coal mine on Funiu Mountain near Xudu, and Wang Hou also happily wanted to buy that piece of land. He opened the ten-jin golden box that Lu Bu had bestowed upon him, but was instantly disappointed.

what gold!It was clearly ten catties of brass!
Then came the uninvited guest who occupied the bed of his kang, sitting cross-legged with a pair of slender thighs, and putting those little hands in the sleeves like a village girl, now Cao Hongjie's little face was flushed with excitement, and kept urging her there.

"What are you still doing in a daze? Let's hurry up and go catch the mice!"

I really don't know why she, a woman, is so obsessed with officials, rectifying Taicang, snatching food from those rat families who rob the official warehouse for food, doesn't she know that it is thankless?
And as expected, Wang Hou didn't piss, the girl found him the first time he received the mission.

"It's almost sunset! What are you going to do?"

Lying on the kang full of headaches, Wang Hou evaded it sadly, but Cao Hongjie immediately became angry with his almond eyes, and patted the edge of the kang and yelled.

"Hey! When you asked me for help, this girl didn't say a word, she didn't care what day and night it was, and she came here immediately! Why is it so unpleasant to come to you? I knew that you are unreliable as a good-for-nothing. Forget it, I don't want to help you down , I will go by myself!"

This girl was really in a hurry, she said, and she was about to turn around and get off the kang to go out. Looking at her back, Wang Hou couldn't help howling, and hurriedly rolled and crawled two steps, grabbing her sleeve.

"Wait, I didn't say no to help!"

"Leave you alone!"

It’s not that she really wants to leave, but Cao Xiaoniang, the little woman, stopped in her tracks, but she still had an angry expression on her face, exactly the same as when the object of Wang Hou’s colleague asked him to give Maiai a crazy insertion. .

"The question is where to go now!"

The salted fish was spread out on the hot kang like that, Wang Hou once again spread his hands sadly, but the girl suddenly pulled out, and pulled out the ring knife hanging from his waist.

Looking at the gleaming Uzi steel blade, Wang Hou was startled, thinking that the girl had lost her mind and wanted to chop him up on the spot, so she sat back on the kang.

Little did she know that in Wang Hou's eyes, she suddenly turned into a crazy girl, but Cao Hongjie's eyes were shining brightly, and she swung her sword twice against the drafty linen window vigorously, shouting excitedly.

"The prime minister asked me to punish Cao on his behalf, so naturally all the corrupt officials who embezzled Taicang's food will be arrested, tortured, and made to confess their crimes!"

Looking at Jianfeng, Cao Hongjie seems to see that she has become a female Qingtian, holding her big knife, she is handsomely possesing posses, but at this juncture, she can't prevent Wang Hou from splashing a basin of cold water on her little head .

"And then? Kill all these corrupt officials. Where can you find another [-] warehouse rafters who are familiar with warehouse affairs to manage Taicang? You must know Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shu in the south, Lu Bu in the east and Zhang Xiu in the west. Maybe someday the prime minister We have to use soldiers, and the soldiers and horses will go ahead before the food and grass are moved, and if we can’t get the food, we will have to kneel on the execution ground and lose our heads, that’s really not asking for the same year, the same month, the same day, but the same year, the same month, and the same day to die!”

Seeing Wang Houbei spreading her hands heavily with an old face, Cao Xiaoniang was also dumbfounded, dragging the ring knife for a long time, then she stared her almond eyes round, and asked in amazement: "What? What should we do? Just let those corrupt officials get away with it?"

"When the water is clear, there will be no fish. The prime minister doesn't want to kill everyone. What the prime minister wants is that Taicang has a degree. He can transfer food when he needs it. Besides, you really think that a small warehouse with a hundred stones can embezzle a warehouse." 10,000+ stone grains? Find out why these grains are gone, and when the time comes, the grain will no longer be lost. This is the prime minister's expectation for appointing you!"

"Of course, when the incident has gotten to this point, some unlucky person must pay for it. Among the twenty or so people, it has to be calculated which one is used for the operation!"

Wang Hou pinched his chin helplessly and explained, but Cao Hongjie was confused by what he heard, fascinated circles appeared in those beautiful apricot-core eyes, and he inserted the ring knife back into his waist with a bang, and he was skilled in the core of his little butt Sitting on the kang all at once, crossing her long legs and crossing her arms, she simply shook her head with a bitter face.

"You can do whatever you want! Anyway, Jiugui Guo will come to you if he needs anything!"

Sure enough, Guo Jia was plotting, but even so, they all had a "deep revolutionary friendship", and Wang Hou couldn't ignore the matter of Cao Hongjie. His old face was twitching like a bitter gourd. He turned his head sadly and glanced at it. The heavy brass box was placed on the kang, and after a while, he slapped his thigh.

"Just listen to me. The first thing is to buy the leader... No, this is an official business. You go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to lead the leader!"

"sheep???"

………………

Mr. Cao was still generous, Cao Hongjie rushed back to the prime minister's mansion in a hurry, and brought back a flock of sheep, which made the backyard of the palace full of smog, either sheep or ducks, and Wang Hou was so angry that he was confused.

If I knew it earlier, I would have asked Cao Hongjie to ask for some copper to come back.

But Mr. Cao is generous, and he can't be stingy, he generously took out the ten catties of copper that Brother Lu gave him, and drew the blueprint on the paper that he also got from the prime minister's mansion, and Wang Hou immediately handed it over to the mansion. The famous blacksmith Wang Tiehui, seeing the eyes of this simple-minded and muscular guy, sent him down to beat him.

I don’t know if it’s because this era hasn’t reached the point where a woman in the Northern Song Dynasty can stay out of the door, or she’s already in bed anyway, with broken pots and broken pots. Cao Hongjie still didn’t return home that night, so she stayed in the Wang Hou's heat was on the top of the kang, although he couldn't touch it, the girl even threw a line of soybeans between the two of them, shouting that it was a beast if they crossed the line! But there was such a little girl sleeping next to her, she was like a night Wang Hou, who is "not as good as animals", is quite happy.

It was another night of comfort on the kang, and early the next morning, before Wang Hou was reluctant to get up, someone from the prime minister's mansion came to inform him again, saying that because of Wang Lingguan's meritorious service in compiling the book, he was allowed to take a paid vacation. When, the official did not say, it is estimated when the Taicang matter will be resolved, and when will come back to work.

Anyway, offending people can't escape no matter what, so Wang Hou simply kowtowed generously to the messenger to accept the official document, and then went back to sleep under the quilt.

This feeling lasted until the afternoon, when the unbearable Cao Hongjie kicked his ass, and then got up yawning.

To say that the efficiency of the feudal era was not all slow, at least the servants were doing things for the patriarch, and their hands and feet were quite nimble. After studying the blueprints given by Wang Hou for a long time, the last two hairs on his bald head were stifled, let alone, Wang Tiehammer It really built what Wang Hou wanted.

Ten catties of brass were all used up, and in exchange for a bright yellow and orange thing, it was placed on Wang Hou's kang. There was a large semicircular bowl with five claws on the bottom, and a copper brass stick in the middle of the bowl. The chimney is completely different from the mainstream cooking utensils of this era, and it looks weird.

But if another foodie travels here, he will definitely shout in surprise.

"Isn't this just a hot pot!"

That's right, what Wang Hou created with great fanfare is really a hot pot.

A few days old hen soup has already made Wang Hou tired of drinking it, and he has long wanted to change the taste, er, everything is for business! He, Wang Hou, has a heart for Prime Minister Cao.

Then there is the pot, and the next step is to prepare the ingredients.

Here I have to thank Zhang Qian. After his old man traveled through the Western Regions, he brought back sesame seeds, so that Wang Hou could have sesame sauce for shabu-shabu, which achieved the foundation of shabu-shabu.

In terms of meat, the sheep that Cao Hongjie moved back yesterday was slaughtered on the spot. The fresh lamb was hung in the house to drain acid for an hour, and then buried on the spot in the snow and frozen overnight. By this time, it had been frozen Get bang bang hard.

Among Cao Hongjie’s hundred reluctances, Wang Hou borrowed her dagger made of Uzi steel from the Western Regions and used it to slice mutton. No way. In this era, there was no coke ironmaking and blower, and the quality of the knives was too poor. , and only this thing cuts frozen mutton, and the old housekeeper Wang Fu did it himself.

Don't tell me, I don't know if this old guy was an executioner when he was young, or something like cutting fish scales. Pieces of mutton slices were sliced ​​as thin as cicada's wings in his hands, and placed on the plate in crystal clear piles. It is the most delicious to boil lamb in a pot.

With the meat slices, the coagulated sheep blood jelly can also be counted as a dish, and the lamb liver slices, the meat weighs four to five catties, enough for a dinner party, but the dishes that Wang Hou didn't care much about before crossing, This time it became embarrassing.

Sweet potato slices, no, they are still lying comfortably in the tropical rainforest of South America!
Corn circles, no, they are still basking comfortably in the sun on the North American plains!Moreover, it is useless even if it is found in this era. It has been selected and bred by the Indians for hundreds of years. At this time, the corn on the cob may be smaller than a sheep's hoof.

Cucumbers are available in this era, but there is nowhere to get them in the cold winter months.

There are also spinach and kidney beans, but also, the emperor can't eat them in the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month. Where can he get Wang Hou?
In the end, only the radishes stored in the autumn cellar were dug out, and a plate of shredded radishes was cut to make up the count.

"Next time I see Chen Deng, I must remember to ask him to bring some kelp back!" Holding the mustache on his chin and looking at the shredded radish on the table, Wang Hou muttered depressingly.

The next one was the main event. The bean curd stone mill that was used to grind clay and lime two days ago was washed clean, and then the bucket of wheat that Wang Fu bought back a few days ago was poured in through the hole on the top after a series of tossing. It was an old cow given by Chen Deng, and he pulled the millstone and turned it up, and the bran and flour leaked out together.

No wonder flour was not popular in the late Han Dynasty!The flour mixed with bran is really not tasty. Black bread, the staple food eaten in Europe for thousands of years, is made directly in this way. Each one is black and hard to bite. It needs to be dipped in soup to soften before eating. Later generations Houpao forum, it is said that this thing can be used as a hammer in the era of cold weapons. In history, no one knows which foodie invented the method of sieving to remove bran. Noodles and steamed buns have been shining since the Tang and Song Dynasties.

However, this foodie was replaced by Wang Hou, and under his orders, another piece of Luxuan gauze, which was priceless to the village, was tied to the bamboo ring as a sieve without hesitation, and a dozen Weaver Girls swayed willow waists and stuffed the sieve in the backyard. The ground flour was sieved, and the fine white flour fell down one after another and fell into the bucket.

Eggs were available at this time, and Wang Hou did it himself, rolling flour and water with eggs, and the slender hand-rolled noodles fell leisurely on the black ceramic plate amidst his white face.

Looking at the large pile of ingredients on the dining table, Wang Hou patted the flour on his hands in relief, but before he could appreciate it for a long time, a chill suddenly came from behind, and when he turned around in astonishment, it was Cao Hongjie. The little face that was holding back was like a volcano about to erupt.

Gritting her teeth, pointing to the hot pot as an accompaniment to a table, the girl roared like crazy.

"Wang Tuqiu, this is the way you said to investigate Taicang!!!"

A sudden cold sweat broke out on the back, full of grief, Wang Hou just waved his hands to explain, but at this moment, old Wang Fu's urgent complaint came from outside the door.

"Patriarch, Yu Cangzhuan has already arrived outside the residence!"

Yu Bing is here!

(End of this chapter)