Chapter 477 Sima Lang, come and have hot pot together! [Requesting monthly tickets]
“Boom, boom, boom!”
Captain Jingxing was hit by an arrow in his eye, and he fell down from the wall. Just as the soldiers on the wall were about to make a move, the explosive pack came out. Falling from the sky.
Zhang Xiu pressed the detonator, and the soldiers on the wall exploded to pieces.
Ma Chao continued to draw his bow and shoot arrows, killing three or four armored officers in succession, and shouted loudly at the wall:
"The troops from heaven are coming, and those who surrender at the gate will not be killed!"
All the officers on the wall were shot dead, and the explosion effect of the explosive packs was so bloody and terrifying that the soldiers on the wall could no longer resist. thoughts.
Not long after, the doors were opened wide and groups of soldiers surrendered.
Ma Chao did not make things difficult for them. After confiscating the weapons, he ordered them to re-reinforce the wall. Then he ordered Hao Zhao, the most adept at defense among the three, to garrison Jingxing Pass. He and Zhang Xiu led 500 cavalry to go out. Ximen went straight in the direction of Gao Shun.
Not long after traveling westward, they saw Jizhou soldiers supporting the pass still on the road. The two picked up their spears and beat the reinforcements to pieces with one charge.
When the sun set, they not only occupied the pass, but also stationed at Jingxing Pass together with Gao Shun and others.
"Brother Shun, you guys are playing fast enough!"
Ma Chao held a bowl of hot and sour noodles with mutton oil and chili and ate it with dry biscuits.
Gao Shun added some mutton oil chili to his bowl and said with a smile:
"After Wen Hou ordered the occupation of Shangai County, I led the army eastward from Jingxing and captured Taiyuan. The eastern part of the county and the northern part of Shangdang County were all captured, and tens of thousands of Black Mountain bandits were also wiped out.”
For generals like Gao Shun, only fighting the regular army can give them a sense of accomplishment. Bandits and bandits are just a matter of supporting others and are not worth mentioning.
Zhang Xiugang held a grievance meeting in the prisoner camp and executed several of the most heinous soldier leaders. He filled a bowl of hot and sour noodles and said while eating:
"There are many prisoners. Changshan people, they hope to take their family members over and live west of Jingxingguan, preferably in Taiyuan."
Gao Shun agreed upon hearing this:
"No problem. , I will tell them later that if they take the initiative to move to Taiyuan, each family will be given fifty acres of fertile land and will receive fertilizers and seeds.”
After Wang Yun's clan was eradicated, the Wang family's fields were reallocated, and all the nominal servants of the Wang family were re-registered and became members of the Han people.
Zhang Xiu asked curiously:
"Do the Wang family have many slaves?"
"More than one hundred thousand, this requires further screening. The docks around Taiyuan The forts must be demolished one by one to prevent them from raising invaders and respecting themselves."
Gao Shun admired Han Rong and Xun Yan who took over Taiyuan. Even though they were both scribes, they were more powerful than the other. ruthless.
Especially the smiling Han Rong, who kept saying "I'm doing it for you", but secretly split the Wang family into several clans, provoking conflicts with just a few words.
If language had levels, Han Rong would definitely be at the full level.
Zhang Xiu and Hao Zhao kept these in mind and planned to learn from them if they had the opportunity to take charge of a party in the future.
Ma Chao is not interested in politics. He just wants to be a pure military general. It is best to fight near the Mediterranean and experience the legendary exotic customs in his lifetime.
After eating and drinking, Gao Shun looked through various information in the customs and officially took over the place.
On the other side, Lu Bu finally arrived at Hanoi after a long journey.
Seeing Xu Rong who came to greet him, he stamped his feet, pointed to the ground and said:
"It is said that there is high-quality coal down there. Jiaozuo was called Jiaozuo in later generations precisely because of the relatively high coke here. Okay."
Xu Rong also looked through the information in Hanoi:
"Unfortunately, this is a deep coal mine, and the conditions for mining are not yet available... It is already late, and Marquis Wen is in the wild. Let’s stay one night and leave for Huai County tomorrow.”
"Okay, I have to treat Lao Zhang to hot pot when we get to Huai County. You can accompany me then."
Xu Rong's eyes were full of disbelief:
"I am eating at the same table with a god? Is this possible? Would that be too disrespectful?”
“It’s okay, Lao Zhang is very easy-going. If you want to feel sorry for yourself, you can take care of Zhang Lu more... Should I say it or not, Lao Zhang’s family is really legendary. , he became a Celestial Master; his son Zhang Heng standardized the Celestial Master's way and became the second generation of Celestial Masters; his grandson Zhang Lu carried forward the Five Pecks of Rice religion and had a place in the Three Kingdoms; his descendants even occupied Longhu Mountain, which was regarded as the celestial master in all dynasties. National Master.”
After some emotion, the group went to the Wild King to rest.
On the other side, Water Margin talks about the world of Yue.
Near Feihu Valley, seventy or eighty miles outside Damingfu City, Hu Sanniang, Hu Cheng, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, Zou Run, Zou Yuan, Sun Li and others led thousands of minions to quietly ambush On the hills on both sides.
On the official road in the distance, a convoy is slowly approaching. The leader's car is hung with a banner saying "Sun of the Daming Palace, transporting grain by order". The car is full of military rations shipped from other places. .
When the grain is transported to Damingfu, it will not be sent to the military camp immediately, but will be reloaded in small buckets. The original ten liters per bucket will be changed to seven liters per bucket, so that each bucket can be divided Out of three liters.
With such a move, the original two thousand shi of grain can be increased a lot, and the extra grain will naturally go into the pockets of the Sun family and Liang Zhongshu.
When Cai Jing's birthday comes, the money will be sent to Tokyo and become part of the Cai family's property.
In order to increase profits, the Sun family not only use seven-liter buckets to pack grain, but also add soil, stones and other debris to increase the weight as much as possible.
As the first tyrant of Daming Mansion, the Sun family has been responsible for transporting military supplies for several years. They are all familiar with the route. Bandits and bandits are also trying to save their face, so their defense is very lax and everyone walks leisurely. It feels like a spring outing.
Especially near Daming Mansion, the guards did not pay attention to the road conditions at all. Their thoughts were all flying to the several brothels in the city. Even the several stewards were also thinking about Fengmingyuan.
“It’s a pity that there is no accompanying girl in Fengming Garden. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be beautiful to enjoy the warm nephrite while eating delicious food and drinking fine wine?”
"That's right, next time I have to talk about the shopkeeper of Fengmingyuan. It's a pity that such a luxurious restaurant has no wine companions." Go there and drink some warm wine.”
“Oh, brother, you’ll still enjoy it!”
“It’s just leftovers from the gentlemen’s entertainment.”
< br>“……”
The so-called warm wine means that the woman accompanying you drinks the wine into her mouth first, but does not swallow it, but feeds it to the other party mouth-to-mouth.
Warming the wine with your mouth will keep the taste from being cold, so it is called warm wine.
Of course, people who like to drink warm wine have nothing to do with wine. They just want to enjoy the sensual feeling.
On the hill, Xie Zhen listened to these words and whispered to Jie Bao on the side:
"Why haven't I heard of warm wine?"
"This is very common. If you're not busy, talk to Brother Shan more. He knows these Jianghu routines very well."
Hu Sanniang:? ? ? ? ? ? ?
After this robbery of food and grass, I will go to the city to find out!
Soon, the men and horses of the grain transport team rushed into the encirclement.
Hu Cheng pressed the detonator, and the explosive package buried on the road exploded. The livestock of the grain transport team were frightened on the spot, and they screamed non-stop. The guards who were wandering around were even louder. He was so scared that he collapsed on the ground, shaking like chaff all over his body.
Sun Li led the gangsters in the village to rush down first:
"All the heroes of Liangshan are here. If you don't want to die, get away!"
When they started to take action, everyone set their own flag. There were endless arguments, some proposed Qilin Village, some proposed General Zuo of the Han Dynasty, and some proposed the command of the Holy Son of Fengming Valley, but they were all rejected.
Although this is an action to show off one's power, one's trump card cannot be exposed.
In the end, everyone unanimously decided to use the banner of Liangshan. It happened that in the original work, Shi Xiu once single-handedly made trouble in Daming Mansion, and even shouted the slogan that the heroes of Liangshan are here.
Now that we want to make a big fuss in Daming Mansion, we naturally have to pay tribute to the desperate Saburo, and at the same time raise Shuibo Liangshan's status in the world... We are all acquaintances, so we won't charge Song Jiang's advertising fees.
Seeing Sun Li and his men rushing over, the escorts didn't even resist, and immediately ran towards Daming Mansion desperately.
As soon as they took the lead, the driver slaves also left. The entire grain transport team only hated their parents for having two fewer legs, and they were rushing to run first, for fear of losing their lives.
Sun Li chased for several miles, and after confirming that these people were far away, he turned around.
Xie Zhen Jie Bao and others were already arranging the carriage to appease the horses. Everyone was busy unloading the sacks from the carriage and loading them onto the carriage they had prepared.
The carriages in the cottage use pneumatic tires and are equipped with spring plates, which have a large load capacity. Each carriage uses four horses for traction.
After emptying the grain, everyone took away all the livestock of the grain transport team, leaving only the empty carriage in place, and then drove the carriage straight to the mountain village. By the time the people from the grain transport team ran to the city to report the news, almost a day had passed.
The Sun family was so angry that they quickly found Liang Zhongshu and denounced the thieves around Daming Mansion, and even named the thieves.
“Liangshan bandits?”
When Liang Zhongshu heard this name, he asked with some doubts:
"We are hundreds of miles away from Liangshan. Can they transport food back when they travel so far away?"
"Mr. Just forget about it and let the soldiers in the city arrest the bandits and take back the food, otherwise the food in the military camp will be unsustainable!"
After hearing this, Liang Zhongshu also realized what was going on! Seeing the seriousness, he quickly summoned Wen Da and asked him to lead three thousand soldiers and horses to suppress the bandits.
However, when these people arrived, they found that except for some empty carriages, there was not a grain of food in the place. The original plan of chasing the bandits along the tracks was completely in vain.
Ancient carriages all had wooden wheels with an iron hoop on the outside, which greatly improved the durability of the wheels.
But correspondingly, when transporting heavy objects, two deep ruts will be left on the road.
In the past, when handling similar cases, we usually just followed the tracks, but now all the grain on the cart and the livestock transporting the grain have disappeared, and only the carriage remains in place.
As for the ruts... Everyone dug around for a long time, but they couldn't find any traces of the iron hoops being crushed. Instead, there were some weird patterns.
Zhou Jin, who came with the team, was quite superstitious. When he saw these patterns, he couldn't help but think of pythons:
"General, is it possible that a giant python came out and ate all the grain and livestock?"
Wen Da smiled and said:
"Not to mention whether there was a giant python, the guards The people in the team had already seen it and said that the leader was carrying a spear and was obviously dressed as a bandit. They looked around and sent people to Shandong to see if any Liangshan bandits were passing by. "
< br>Everyone searched around, but nothing happened.
Even the escort team who came back with the army looked confused and didn't know what happened.
The food was gone, but the carriage remained.
Wen Da asked all the soldiers to disperse and look for traces of food transportation, but there was nothing around, and the people nearby did not know anything about it.
Wen Da went back to resume his life, and met Li Cheng who came to help on the way.
“Any clues?”
“There are no clues, leaving a pile of empty carriages, nothing else, and the whereabouts of the food are unknown.”
When Wen Da was worried, Li Cheng rode over and whispered:
"Brother Wen, do you think this is a trick the Sun family deliberately made to trap this batch of military rations to starve the brothers in the army? "
Hearing this, Wen Da understood the spirit instantly:
"Brother Li, don't worry, no matter what, the Sun family has to get this batch of food out, otherwise I will lead Beiying. The army went to their home, ate their food, and drank their food. Everyone knows the allusion of guarding and stealing. The Sun family does not do anything with the military rations every day or two.
If they were greedy enough to do this, it would be quite possible.
After all, it’s the end of the year, and we all want to have a good New Year, but if you even think about the New Year, you can’t use military rations to line your own pockets, right?
The two planned to go to Liang Zhongshu and make it clear face to face that they had no control over the dirty tricks the Sun family wanted to play, and they didn’t want to, but they would not agree to the deduction of military rations for this amount!
When the two arrived at the gate of Damingfu City, they happened to meet Shan Xiongxin in a carriage.
“What are you doing outside the city?”
"With nothing to do, I went fishing by the river outside the city. I caught two big golden carps by luck. If both of you are free, how about we stay drunk tonight?"
Wen Da smiled bitterly:< br>
“We have important things to do, but we are not as free as other members of the army... When we finish our official work, we will pay you a visit.”
Li Cheng is also a person who likes fishing. When he saw Shan Xiongxin’s carriage, There were two golden carps weighing more than ten kilograms hanging outside, and I suddenly became interested:
“I can’t wait any longer, how about we learn how to fish together?”
"It's easy to say, Shan is free at any time, and I will give Tian Wang a set of fishing gear to ensure that you come home with a full load every time."
After greetings, Li Cheng and the two rode away. Hu Sanniang in the carriage said happily: < br>
“Fortunately, I bought two fish, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with it.”
After sighing, she reached out and pinched Shan Xiongxin’s waist:
“ Husband, what is warm wine? ”
Shan Xiongxin waved his hand:
"Ham, this is a common name for a fireworks place. I don't know the specifics... I just heard that Yingdeng Xiandi and Bodang Xiandi talked about it. They were husbands at the time. He also advised the two of them to use their energy on the right path and not to miss the land of fireworks, but they didn’t listen... Why did Sanniang suddenly ask this? "
"It’s nothing, I just want to pinch you a little more. Next."
Shan Xiongxin: "..."
If I had known better, I would have said that Guan Erye's warm wine killed Hua Xiong. Alas, I am still too honest.
In the real world, Li Yu carried a basket and led Mu Guiying to a nearby hillside and began to pinch sweet potato leaves.
“Don’t pinch each other, just pinch two or three leaves on one vine. Don’t pinch the head, and don’t pinch the leaves at the back, the old ones won’t taste good.”
“I understand. , just look for someone as young and immature as me."
Lu Bu just came over to report that he had arrived in Huai County and was going to treat Zhang Daoling to hot pot. He asked Zhang Daoling to prepare some ingredients and bring a large mandarin duck pot with him. .
When eating hot pot, the red oil pot bottom is not friendly to people who don’t like spicy food, and the mutton soup is too bland. Comparatively speaking, the mandarin duck pot is better. You can eat whatever you want, which is more casual. .
In addition to the mandarin duck pot, Lu Bu also took away a bunch of hot-pot dishes, such as fish tofu, beef balls, crab sticks, stuffed balls, gluten bubbles, sweet potato powder, konjac powder, fried bean skin, fried yuba, beef louvers, and fresh duck. Blood and other side dishes were all brought with me.
When you invite Lao Zhang to dinner, there must be a variety of dishes.
As for Huai County, two sheep have been slaughtered, and Qin Yilu is wearing an apron and leading someone to cut mutton slices.
I also caught a few big carp from the Yellow River, and the fish fillets and other things had to be prepared.
When Li Yu came over with a basket of sweet potato leaves, he also prepared a variety of mushrooms, seafood, prawns, green scallops and other ingredients for Lu Bu. There were dozens of varieties, which would definitely satisfy Lao Zhang.
As for the hot pot base, it was stir-fried by Li Yuxian.
Add a mixture of beef and lard into the pot, stir-fry onions, ginger, dried chilies and other side dishes until fragrant, then put a whole piece of hot pot base into it, stir-fry the ingredients, and finally add water to boil.
When you eat hot pot at home, you often feel that it is not fragrant enough. The reason is that you do not add butter specifically. More oil will make it fragrant.
Then Li Yu made the base of a soup pot and asked Lu Bu to take it away with the pot.
The palace of the prefect of Huai County was decorated with lights and colorful decorations. The grounds in the courtyard were kept spotless. Everyone was wearing new clothes. Even Zhong Yao, who had come from afar, put on specially brought official uniforms.
"Marquis Wen, is it not impolite to dress like this?"
"It's not impolite to relax in front of Lao Zhang. Don't be nervous. If there is no topic, just praise his great grandson Zhang Lu..."< br>
Just as he was talking, Xu Rong came in a hurry and asked Lu Bu in a low voice:
"Just now, Sima Lang, the eldest son of the Sima family, handed over a greeting card. I heard that Marquis Wen was coming to Hanoi and wanted to visit him in person. .”
Sima Lang?
Lu Bu asked curiously:
"Does he have an official status now?"
"He is working in Yanzhou. When I came here this time, I wanted to lead the Sima family to leave Hanoi, but I heard that Marquis Wen I would like to pay my respects here before making a decision."
Lu Bu thought for a while and said:
"In Sima Bada, Sima Yi is not a thing, but Sima Lang is a talent. Instead of taking advantage of Ah Ma, why not win over... Let's do this, you invite Sima Lang to attend and have this meal. If he persists in going to Yanzhou, then when he sees Sima Lang in the future, he will be beaten and killed when he sees him. , no need to show mercy.”
Useful people should be given opportunities when they should be given opportunities, but if they are given opportunities but are of no use, then I would be sorry.
Xu Rong was surprised. He did not expect that Lu Bu actually asked Sima Lang to accompany Zhang Daoling to dinner:
"What should I do if he has any verbal conflict during the dinner?"
"Then Lao Zhang can destroy the Sima clan without us taking action... The gods don't like cause and effect, but if someone kicks their noses, they don't mind killing a few mortals."
< br>Soon, the confused and handsome young man Sima Lang was invited to the prefect's mansion.
Just as he was about to ask why he was suddenly invited to the banquet today, he saw a golden light in the sky, and a Taoist priest with an immortal style descended from the sky elegantly.
Sima Lang's eyes widened:
"By the heavens, I...I bumped into a god in broad daylight?"
Others were either excited or shocked. , everyone’s expressions were very exciting, only Lu Bu smiled and took the initiative to say hello:
“Lao Zhang is here, we are really lucky... The hot pot is ready, Li Xiandi is afraid of me The reception was clumsy and I cooked the hot pot ingredients myself.”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Daoling became interested:
"It is a blessing for a poor man to be able to taste the craftsmanship of His Highness the Holy Son. Let's go and eat together!"
(This chapter End)