At noon on this day, the general's mansion feast, the generals who were okay in the Jialan Pass City came, and in the side hall, there was a row of low ones, and the generals sat on the ground to celebrate the appointment of the Ying Rui Zhonglang General in the twilight green palace.

Today she is the host and guest, and the seat is at the bottom right of Yuan Xiu, and even Lu Da is behind her.

Yuan Xiu sat on the top seat, the lower left was General Gu Lao, and then there were two Wei generals, left and right generals and several partial generals and Zhonglang generals, and Qi He was also there. He is a military doctor, and he has to ask General Gu for a pulse every day, and the old general came to the General's Mansion today, so he went to the General's Mansion, and when he came, it was noon, and Yuan Xiu left him behind.

Qi He had some opinions about Twilight, and his face stretched when he saw her, but this did not hinder the atmosphere of the feast.

Yuan Xiu raised the wine bowl and said: "You are not allowed to drink alcohol in the army, there is a happy event today, make an exception!" One bowl per person, drink and eat! ”

The generals rose for joy, but two discordant voices rang out.

"I don't drink."

"The old general can't drink."

The two voices were almost at the same time, it was Twilight and Qi He who spoke, both of them had cold faces, Twilight glanced at Qi He, and Qi He snorted and turned his face away.

"Don't drink?" Yuan Xiu asked with a smile while holding the wine bowl.

"Don't drink it." Twilight sat upright, not giving face to the fact that the person toasting was handsome.

"You won't drink it, will you?" Yuan Xiu was not annoyed, but the smile in his eyes flickered, like the scorching sun shining into the hall, and suddenly half of the hall was bright.

"Don't drink it." Twilight was unmoved. Her profession does not allow drinking, so there is no need to learn, and if she learns, she can't drink, and she never does such useless work that wastes time and energy.

She looked righteous and awe-inspiring, amused the generals, and Lu laughed loudly, "This kid! At this time, you can see that the hair has not grown! ”

The generals laughed, and Lu Da snatched the wine from the table at dusk, "If you don't drink it, Lao Tzu will drink it!" It's rare to drink alcohol in the army, and it's a waste of Lao Tzu's distress! ”

The generals were anxious, "Hey, General Lu! Why do you drink it? ”

"That's it! We want to drink it too! ”

Lu Da glared and twisted his eyebrows, "Just this bowl, what's the point?" ”

"One person can take one bite! Finally, the general asked us to drink, and one more bite will satisfy our hunger! ”

"Satisfy your cravings in one bite!" One of the generals spoke, "Alcohol order!" Punch! Let's see who can win General Wise's bowl of wine! ”

"Just a bowl of wine, is it worth punching? When you finish it, the smell of wine in Lao Tzu's bowl is gone! "Lu Da didn't do it, and he was about to drink it when he brought the bowl.

There was a sudden scolding from the other side, "Who allowed you to drink?" The general said that one bowl per person, and drinking one more sip is a violation of military discipline! Sticks are waiting! ”

The generals followed the prestige, and when they saw that it was General Gu who seemed to be speaking, some people immediately grinned, comfortable!

Don't drink it to anyone, it's better than one person to drink, everyone else is greedy, hehe!

But he didn't want to, he didn't put the bowl in Lu Da's hand, he looked up at Gu Qian and smiled happily, "Okay!" Old man Gu, how much do you say, give your bowl to Lao Tzu to drink, and Lao Tzu will suffer together! ”

Gu Qian blew his beard and glared, protecting his wine bowl, "Who told your old man not to drink?" ”

He seemed to be afraid that Lu Da would snatch it, so he took a bowl and raised his head in a few gulps before drinking the wine!

"Teacher!" Yuan Xiu was helpless.

"Old General!" Qi He shouted urgently.

"Don't listen to Qi He, the old man is in good health! You can eat five bowls of rice in one meal, which is not less than you at all, what can your body do? Gu Qian waved his hand, disapproving.

Qi He's face suddenly darkened, these generals in the army are always like this, he doesn't like to be a military doctor!

"I'll give the old general a prescription for the old general in a while." Yuan Xiu said helplessly, and after instructing Qi He, he turned his head and asked Twilight Qing with a smile, "Did you hear that?" The old general can eat five bowls of rice at a time, and I'll see how many bowls you can eat today! ”

With that, he waved to the outside soldiers, "Let the kitchen serve faster!" Is that grilled lamb chop ready? General Yingrui doesn't drink, he wants to eat! ”

The generals laughed, Yuan Xiu drank the bowl of wine with everyone, Lu Da took advantage of the two bowls, put the bowl down, and several pro-soldiers brought a large plate.

The plate is full of meat dishes, sauced meat, stir-fried meat, and sliced meat.

When Lu Da heard it, he smiled and said, "Ha! Mutton! Today, the general invites us to eat a whole sheep feast? Why don't you just roast the whole lamb? Eat it while grilling, that's delicious! ”

"The war is not over, how can there be a time for you to set up a fire and roast sheep? Tell the cook to clean up! Hurry up and eat, there is something to do in the afternoon! "Yuan Xiudao.

A general next to him said: "Fortunately, I didn't roast it myself, every time General Lu roasted sheep, he was asked to eat it!" ”

Lu Dazheng took chopsticks and mutton slices and chewed them in his mouth, and when he heard this, he threw away the chopsticks, and scolded with a smile: "Mother! Why don't you say that Lao Tzu swallowed all the bones, and you didn't even eat a single wool? ”

The generals laughed and talked about the fact that when they used to kill the enemy outside the gate, they stayed in the desert at night and made a fire to roast game, and the atmosphere in the hall gradually became lively. The soldiers went in and out of the side hall to serve food, came and went a few times, and the roast lamb chops were served.

One person has a big rib, sprinkled with salt and spices, the oil is yellow and dripping, and it smells fragrant.

"General, the cook said that the mutton soup will have to wait for a while, so he told the generals to eat it first." A pro-soldier said.

Yuan Xiu nodded to indicate that he understood, turned his head to look at Du Qing and said, "Eat it while it's hot!" Try the cook's handiwork, and if you like, there's a big pot of mutton soup waiting for you! I have to feed you today! ”

Twilight Qing didn't move, only raised her eyes and glanced at the generals chatting while munching on lamb chops in the main hall, then looked at the roast lamb chops in front of her, and finally looked at Yuan Xiu, and asked coldly: "When the general said the whole sheep banquet, do you mean human flesh?" ”

Her voice was quite faint, not loud, but it made the voices in the hall gradually stop.

None of the generals came back to their senses, and Yuan Xiu also smiled, "Human flesh? ”

"I have heard that in times of war there are cases of taking people or prisoners of war as military rations, and these rations are called two-legged sheep, and the old men are called Rao Shohuo, and the women are called Buenvy sheep, and children are called and their bones are rotten." Twilight said as she swept across Yuan Xiu's face.

Yuan Xiu smiled, frowned, and asked, "Where did you hear this?" When the first emperor, before the Jialan Pass was rebuilt, the Hu people had broken through the Guancheng, and later the court sent troops to besiege the Rong army in the pass, and there was indeed a matter of cooking people for food. But this dynasty has not heard of it, our northwest army has enough food and grass, how can we use people for food? ”

Two-legged sheep, sparing fire, not envying sheep, and rotting bones?

Where did she hear this?

Twilight Qing didn't explain, just looked at Yuan Xiu and nodded, "Since it's not the general who asks for human flesh, then this is a murder case." ”

She pointed to the grilled lamb chops on the table, and said endlessly, "This is not a lamb chop, it is a human rib." ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this, and some of them still had unchewed meat in their mouths, and they didn't react for a while.

Lu Da is the only person who has seen the ability of Duqing to perform an autopsy in Qingzhou Mountain, and he suddenly spit out the meat in his mouth with a puff, grabbed the bowl on the table and wanted to drink water to rinse his mouth, but found that the wine in the bowl had already been drunk by him, and he was immediately annoyed and smashed the wine bowl.

The sound of the wine bowl breaking startled the hall, and the generals reacted, and for a while the sound of puffing and spitting meat continued, and some people simply turned around and retched. It is one thing to kill the enemy on the battlefield like slaughtering a cow and a sheep, and it is another thing to eat human flesh, and eating the meat of the same kind has always required a strong psychology.

In the side hall, only Yuan Xiu, Gu Lao General and Du Qing did not move, Gu Lao General's face was calm, Yuan Xiu glanced at the table, the warmth of the sun between his eyebrows was gone, the paint of several cases was cold, and the man's eyes suddenly saw snow.

A cold light suddenly appeared in Twilight's hand, and with a flip of her wrist, a scalpel was already in her hand. She moved too fast, if it weren't for the lack of murderous aura on her body, I was afraid that the generals sitting there would think that she wanted to assassinate.

Yuan Xiu sat according to the case, didn't move, only his eyes fell into her hand, and he saw that she was holding a strange knife and began to pick lamb chops. With two neat knives, the meat on both sides of the lamb chops has been removed, and there is no bone damage at all. She took the ribs and turned them around in the light, looked at them twice, put them down, and suddenly got up and walked in front of him.

The young man's eyes were cold, his face was stern, he picked up the lamb chop in front of him, brushed the meat on both sides with two knives, raised it again to look at it carefully, then put it down, walked to Gu Qian's table without saying a word, took the mutton chop, removed the meat, looked at it carefully, put it down, and then went to the next table.

The room was eerily quiet, except for the sound of the boy walking and the bones on the table, and her skill in picking the flesh was dizzying.

After walking five tables in a row, she stopped and said, "Well, it's really human ribs." ”

She lifted the rib and said, "The second rib, where you can see the rib tuberosity, a feature that animal bones don't have. ”

What is the rib tuberosity, no one can understand, but Qi He stood up, his face turned black with anger from the old general Gu's drinking, and his face was as white as paper at the moment, "How do you know that this is not a sheep bone?" This is in the army, don't be alarmist! On the march and in battle, I have seen countless dead and wounded, and I have seen dried corpses in the desert! I didn't see the difference between this man's rib and the sheep's rib! ”

Before she removed the meat and looked at the bones, she just looked at the lamb chops on the table and concluded that they were human bones, which was really arbitrary!

Listening to his words, the generals also felt that it made sense, and the faces of a few people suddenly turned a little blue, today is to celebrate this kid, what kind of heart does she have for such a show?

The atmosphere was suddenly a little cold, and Twilight swept at Qi He and asked, "If you don't see it, does it mean that you don't see it?" ”

Qi He choked.

"You have seen countless dead and wounded, you have cut the flesh of those who died and wounded, removed their bones, and carefully compared and studied?" Twilight asked again.

"I'm ......" Qi He was angry, his face was red and his neck was thick, "The dead are great!" How can you do such an unjust thing! Could it be that you have done it? ”

"I did it!" Twilight replied, but when the generals in the side hall heard this, many of them showed strange looks, and some even showed disdain, obviously thinking about the parents of the body.

Twilight Qing suddenly covered her face with frost and glanced at the generals, "If I hadn't done it, would I have been able to stop you from gnawing today?" ”

All the generals were stunned.

"If I hadn't done it, would I have seen his death today? He has long been eaten by you, drunk soup, and poured out his bones and fed to wild dogs! ”

There was a dead silence in the side hall.

"I am a man, and it is my duty to conduct an autopsy, just as you are a general, and it is your duty to kill people. No one is more noble than anyone, who thinks it is nobler than me, first gave me the human ribs in front of him, just when I didn't tell him that this is a human rib! Whoever despises me, do not accept my favor! ”

The hall was silent, only the sonorous voice of the teenager was heard, and it went straight to the hanging beam, for a long time.

She is usually cold and silent, but at the moment she is holding the bones of the corpse, and her sharpness is exposed, "There is a big difference between human bones and animal bones, in terms of ribs, there are twelve pairs of human ribs, thirteen pairs of cattle and sheep ribs, and fourteen to sixteen pairs of pig ribs!" This is the difference in numbers, and the difference in form is also very large, the human ribs are arc-shaped, and the animal ribs are straighter; The rib angle of the human rib is small and the bending curvature is large, and the rib angle of the animal is large and the bending curvature is small; The rib groove of human ribs is obvious, showing flaky, and the animal bones are different, without flaky characteristics; The first rib of the human rib has arteriovenous and scalene muscle nodules, and there are no animal bones! The second rib has rib tuberosity, and the animal bone has none! ”

What the young man said could be understood at first, but no one understood the second half, but no one spoke up.

The parents who have been exposed to the body are the training that everyone has inherited since childhood, but Twilight is right, if it weren't for her, this roasted lamb chop would have been gnawed clean by them!

"Let's go to the kitchen." Twilight said suddenly.

Just as she said this, Yuan Xiu had already glanced at the pro-soldiers, and a team of pro-soldiers quickly left the side hall and headed for the kitchen. Most of Fang Cai's words were incomprehensible, but it was obvious that Yuan Xiu believed her.

She said that this grilled lamb chop is a human rib, and the thing comes from the kitchen, and everyone in the kitchen has to take it down!

Yuan Xiu got up, and all the generals stood up with calm faces, and the hall was suddenly murderous.

"Not only the people in the kitchen, but also the people who are in charge of buying and transporting ingredients on weekdays have to take it down, especially those who delivered meat to the house yesterday and the day before yesterday." Twilight Road.

Yuan Xiu had already walked to the door at this time, and when he heard this, he looked down at Dusk Qing.

Twilight Qing was expressionless, raising her eyebrows and glancing at the generals, "When you nibbled on the lamb chops just now, did you eat the smell of mutton?" ”

Generals: "......"

It's okay that she doesn't ask, but when she asks, it makes people feel churning in their stomachs.

Yuan Xiu and Lu Da were stunned, sheep smell? Yes!

"Steak can bring out the flavor of lamb chops, and the cook is also a good skill. Although the lamb chops were grilled, the meat was soft, and judging by the feeling of the meat when I cut the meat, the ribs had been stewed beforehand. There must be mutton soup in the kitchen, but the human flesh and the mutton are in the same pot. Today's holy decree came, no one knew in advance, the general only decided to feast at noon after receiving the holy decree, the whole sheep banquet was set after that, and the food prepared for the general must be fresh, so the sheep was slaughtered. So where does human flesh come from? Also slaughtered? The chef in the kitchen slaughtered the sheep here and the people there, chopped them together and put them in the pot? Unless the entire kitchen of the General's Mansion is an accomplice, it is impossible to carry it out. So, where does human flesh come from? It must have been sent in from outside, judging from the current weather in the northwest, it was either sent in yesterday or the day before yesterday. It can't be any sooner, and what we eat earlier will be stinky. ”

"Then, now there are doubts, how could the person who sent human flesh to the kitchen of the General's Mansion know that the Holy Decree has arrived today? How do you know that the general wants a luncheon? Twilight asked.

Everyone was stunned.

The answer is, he doesn't know. So, the conclusion came out—"

Twilight Qing looked up at Yuan Xiu, her gaze was still faint, "General, someone wants to invite you to eat human flesh, it's not us, we just happened to bump into the recipe prepared for you." ”