Lou Zheng raised the corners of his mouth and shook his head, "Let's make another fried beef blood, and we just had lunch together." ”

Steward Wu also knows that his little lady likes to cook her own meals from time to time, this is General Lou's territory, but there are not so many rules, the little lady is happy, besides, he is very much looking forward to the little lady's craftsmanship.

"Then the little lady will be tired, and the old slave will enjoy it today."

In fact, where can the firehead soldier use Lou Zheng to do it himself, take the fresh ox blood, inform the firehead soldier of the method, a large wooden basin of fried ox blood is made, the fresh ox blood is tender, wafting a strong fragrance, plus the broth boiled from the beef bones, the taste is several times better than the beef soup in the cauldron.

The firehead soldier who cooks is very talented, and the dishes are extremely delicious, because Lou Zhengjiao's fried ox blood eyes narrowed into a slit happily, and he continued to thank him.

Fortunately, the medicine slave is not here, otherwise he would not cry out aggrieved knowing that his little lady taught others to cook.

Lou Zheng, Steward Wu, Yu Jiu and others drank beef soup, ate fried beef blood, and ate some dry cakes they brought, and their whole stomachs were warm.

Especially Yu Jiu, this guy almost ate half a bowl of fried beef blood, and Steward Wu also ate very happily, only Lou Zheng only moved a few chopsticks.

Lou Zheng shook his head helplessly in his heart, there is no chili pepper in the fried beef blood, no peppercorns, no Chaotian pepper, this taste always feels a little insufficient.

After dinner, Lou Zheng sent people to send beef soup and fried beef blood to General Lou and Zhou Shenjun in the barracks, and wrote a letter for the soldiers to hand over to their father.

When General Lou and Zhou Senjun drank the beef soup sent by Lou Zheng, both of them laughed happily.

Immediately, General Lou read his daughter's letter again. I thought deeply.

Indeed, due to the lack of military food these days, although the military camp is used as usual, but there is no grain and grass allocated by the imperial court, the soldiers are always panicked, Lu Hongxiu and his party have not come back, and the Tuhun people do not know when they will come to harass Liangzhou, at this time it is really necessary to calm down the army.

Thinking of Lou Zheng's proposal to take the opportunity of the army to let the soldiers eat a delicious beef soup, it may have an effect.

"Brother Zhou, what do you think of Ah Zheng's method?"

Zhou Bi is more stable than General Lou. He thought for a moment. nodded, "Yesterday, the virtuous niece ordered people to drive so many cattle and sheep to the horse farm, and many soldiers saw it with their own eyes, and we are short of food and grass." If you follow the way of the virtuous niece. It was to misunderstand the soldiers, even if there was no food and grass. The barbarians' cattle and sheep can also be used as our military food, and with this understanding, the military spirit will not fluctuate as it is now. ”

"Good. Then do it! ”

General Lou made the final decision.

The food of 30,000 soldiers is not something that can be prepared in a moment and a half, and the firehead soldiers have been busy for this beef soup all afternoon.

In order to calm the morale of the army, Lou Zheng only left the meat of ten yaks, and the rest were ready to reward his father for the soldiers of the border army.

There were no sheep left, more than 30 cows, more than 100 sheep, as well as offal, ox blood, and pot helmets, barely enough for a reward banquet for these 30,000 soldiers.

That night, the atmosphere in the barracks of the border army in Liangzhou was particularly high, although it was a pity that there was no wine, but such delicious food could still be eaten in the border area, especially in the barracks, many soldiers cried while eating, and swore to serve General Lou to the death.

This feast of consolation still played a big role.

General Lou and Zhou Senjun obviously felt that the military heart had become stable overnight, just imagine that the general could make such delicious beef to reward the soldiers, what reason did they have to worry that the military camp would run out of money and food?

Don't you see, more than half of the soldiers in the border army are wearing new military uniforms and military boots? Even the generals and officers were replaced with new weapons and armor.

After the meat of the remaining ten cows was cooked, they were all cut into medium-sized beef slices according to Lou Zheng's requirements, and carried back to the Dashuai Mansion in bags.

Then he handed over the slices of meat of the ten cows to the medicine slave to manage.

Lou Zheng taught the medicine slave to stir and marinate the beef slices with spices, and then take them to dry under the sun.

After four or five sun exposures, Lou Zheng believes that these beef slices will soon be transformed into delicious beef jerky.

It will also be easier to store at that time.

There wasn't much leftover beef in this batch, so Lou Zheng didn't plan to make the kind of beef jerky used as military food in the barracks now, but used some seasonings to make something delicious, try it first.

If successful, this beef jerky will also be a lucrative way in the future.

Another day passed, and there was still no news from Lu Hongxiu, and even Lou Zheng began to be a little worried and anxious.

Although the barbarians of small tribes also came to trade, they could exchange cattle, sheep and horses with the barbarians for a small amount of money to make pickles, but the barbarians were all small tribes scattered on the grassland, and the cattle, sheep and horses exchanged by the people who came each time were only about 100 heads, and such a trade could not be used to support the entire border army.

Moreover, this is still in the initial stage of trading, and there are not many barbarians who trust, few people come to trade, and there are few livestock.

The medicine slave accompanied the troubled little lady to the backyard to watch the women under her hand drying beef jerky.

In a small yard in the backyard, the entire ground was covered with a layer of hay, and another layer of gauze was spread on the hay, and a layer of beef jerky was spread on the gauze.

The whole yard is covered with beef jerky made of ten cows, and at a glance, it is all red, red, black and black beef, exuding a seductive fragrance.

These days, the weather is good, and spring is in full swing, and there are no flies and mosquitoes, so it is the best time to make beef jerky.

The medicine slave followed Lou Zheng to the door of the small courtyard, and saw several women standing at the gate of the courtyard, talking and laughing together, still eating.

Aunt Huang and Aunt Xie walked out of the small courtyard, a small piece bulging out of the apron in front of them, and their mouths were still chewing.

The medicine slave's face immediately puffed up, and he said aggrievedly: "Little lady, look, they actually ate beef jerky secretly!" ”

Lou Zheng came back to his senses by the roar of the medicine slave, and looked at the medicine slave strangely, the little miser of the medicine slave stretched out his finger and pointed at the five or six women at the gate of the courtyard, and complained unrelentingly: "Little lady, they not only eat but also take!" ”

The two of them were not far from the courtyard, and the voice of the medicine slave was crisp, and the group of women over there naturally also found Lou Zheng's master and servant at this time, and suddenly their faces were red.

Lou Zheng was amused and walked over with the medicine slave.

Aunt Huang and Aunt Xie were embarrassed to speak, and the women next to them looked even more scared.

"Little lady, this ...... This...... The old woman is greedy, please punish the little lady. ”

Aunt Huang stammered and couldn't speak.

(To be continued.) )

PS: After two days of rest, refreshed!