It's the end of October, and the real freezing days have not yet arrived.

And the last time Hu Kuan was arranged to decorate the foothouse in Wancheng, it has been almost a month, Chen Xu was a little apprehensive, I don't know if the decoration has been completed, how to publicize it at that time? What should I sell? Think about it, in addition to wine and vinegar, candy is a kind, rice candy is a kind, now tea tree fruit oil is a kind, with tea tree fruit oil, it seems that you can also make some biscuits out, Wancheng is a big city in the Central Plains region from south to north, there are many businessmen and wealthy households, and they can sell it for money casually......

In order to make the first store in Daqin an instant hit, Chen Xu also decided to spare no money, in addition to cigarettes, sugar, wine, tea, vinegar, dried tofu are ready to get some to sell, as for the price...... Hmph, that must be very high, Qinghe's products must be high-quality, and a tube of biscuits must be sold for at least 100 yuan, otherwise I'm sorry for this unique idea that spans 2,000 years of time and space.

So next, Chen Xu went to call Niu Dashi, who was bored at home all day, and with the help of Xing'er and Chen Jiang, he began to make spicy dried tofu and rice candy, and then also prepared some pecan kernels and chestnut kernels, fried and crushed, and then added some oil noodles and a small amount of syrup to make biscuits.

As soon as he heard that it was made to eat, Yu Wuya suddenly stopped playing chess, rolled up his sleeves and began to help, he had already eaten spicy tofu, and he had already eaten rice candy, but he had not eaten the biscuits, but according to the ingredients, it should be another fragrant and sweet delicious food.

In the afternoon, Wang Wu and other four people returned from Qinghe Town, in addition to picking back two large jars of tea tree fruit oil, they also brought back more than ten colorful porcelain bowls, in addition to a large and a small two iron pots, the most happy thing for Chen Xu is that Wang San also carried back a large piece of beef, and only after asking did he know that it was a few days ago that the snow road was slippery, and an old cow in the town fell to death when he went to the river to drink water, and the butcher in the town specially left a large piece of the best for Chen Xu after slaughtering, which was sixty or seventy catties.

Yu Wuya carried a large piece of beef and shouted excitedly: "Engong Engong, now that there is beef, you should also honor the braised beef noodles you promised me!" ”

Chen Xu also felt a little drooling, and went to the bamboo forest with a hoe.

"Engong, hurry up and make beef noodles, what are you doing with a hoe?" Yu Wuya hurriedly grabbed Chen Xu's arm.

"What do you know? Beef with winter bamboo shoots is the king of beef noodles, don't ink, find a rattan basket with me! ”

"Okay~" Yu Wuya hurriedly picked up a rattan basket and followed Chen Xu to the bamboo forest.

There are several large bamboo forests near Xiaohe Village, and bamboo shoots are also a very important source of vegetables for farmers, every spring, every household in the village will break a lot of fresh and tender bamboo shoots to dry and store, but Chen Xu's family is very few, because Chen Jiang's family has to farm with two babies alone, and there is no time to get it, and a little bit of storage has long been eaten by stew.

In addition, there are too many people in Chen Xu's family now, and Wang Wusi's guards and Yu Wuya are all foodies, and everyone has rice and noodles for every meal, Chen Xu guessed that he couldn't eat the official rank of sixty stones a year and the dozens of stones of grain he grew at home, but now it is estimated that he will finish eating before the beginning of spring, not only that, but there are seven or eight more horses at home, in addition to forage, he has to feed a few catties of soybeans every day, which is another big expense, and Chen Xu can't afford to raise it anymore.

In addition to the food, the meat is also, the last time I returned from Wancheng, I slaughtered all the six wild boars in the pigsty that were almost two hundred catties, and made seven or eight hundred catties of meat, bacon and sausages, and hung them densely on the beams of the kitchen, but now it is decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye every day, and it is estimated that it can be carried at most until the beginning of spring, and then a large family will be cut off from meat and rice.

Alas! Chen Xu waved his hoe and dug bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, feeling a little out of breath in his heart.

"How did Engong sigh again, do you have anything on your mind, say that you don't know, maybe I can help you solve it!" Yu Wuya squatted on the ground and cleaned up the soil on the winter bamboo shoots that Chen Xu had dug up and put them into the rattan basket.

"I'll be happy if you eat less!" Chen Xu said angrily.

"How? The dishes made by Eun Gong are so delicious, you will remember them if you don't eat them! Yu Wuya suddenly shook his head like a rattle.

Alas, Chen Xu's face turned black and he couldn't help but sigh again.

"Engong don't be brainy, now there are many people in the family, and the food is indeed very consumed, but Engong can rest assured, as long as the weather is good, my sister and I will go to Wancheng and let the Shui family transport hundreds of stones of grain, and I promise that you and your sister-in-law and Xing'er will not go hungry next year!" Although Yu Wuya was a foodie, he still sensed Chen Xu's concern from Chen Xu's joking tone.

"Doesn't the water family's food cost money?" Chen Xu couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"The Shui family, Shang Jia Er, has no power and no power, now the laws of Daqin are very harsh on Shang Jia, the head of the Shui family and the master once had a relationship, so he tried his best to send the senior sister to Lushan to study and practice with the master, just to find a safe backer for the Shui family, the name of the master in the Central Plains and even in Daqin, is a noble identity that no one can underestimate, with the name of this master and apprentice, anyone who wants to move the Shui family has to consider it again, otherwise the ten Shui families together may not be able to withstand a finger of the officials of Wancheng, With the protection of the identity of the junior sister, the Shui clan can be mixed in Wancheng, I don't know how much trouble has been saved, even if it is the county guard Ma Boyuan, he does not dare to touch it easily, otherwise the junior sister is so young, why does the head of the Shui family have to obey her arrangement? So Engong doesn't have to care about the thoughts of the Shui family, as long as the junior sister speaks, they will definitely spare no effort, plus the junior sister and Engong are in agreement, once Engong and he soar day by day, the status of the Shui family will inevitably rise, and Engong has forgotten the strange goods of Lu Buweihu? Yu Wuya said indifferently.

Chen Xu was silent.

In this fucked-up era, everything is not the same as the afterlife, and you can't use the eyes and ideas of the afterlife to look at and deal with the things you encounter now.

"Engong, since you want to assist the First Emperor Zhao Zheng, why don't you go directly to Xianyang to offer a strategy for governing the country, but stay in Qinghe Town all day long behind closed doors to study the things that eat and drink and those strange things?" Yu Wuya was silent for a while and asked.

"I don't understand the preferences of the first emperor, and Xianyang is like a deep spring, Li Si Mengyi and Zhao Gao are not good people, once I step in too early, I have no roots and no power, and if I am not careful, I may have no bones, Li Si goes all out to implement the concept of Legalism, and if I want to change Daqin, I will inevitably conflict with him, and Daqin has implemented Legalism for five generations, and the concept of Legalism is deeply rooted and can be easily unshakable, and Li Si has won the trust of Zhao Zheng, If I want to change the court's concept of governing the country and Zhao Zheng's thinking, how sure do you think I will be? Chen Xu stopped and asked.

Yu Wuya was silent for a long time, and then nodded with a serious face and said, "Maybe not even half a point!" ”

"Yes, not half a point, that's why I've been staying in Qinghe Town or even Xiaohe Village and not going anywhere. Heaps out of the shore, and the flow will be turbulent. Walk above men, and the crowd will not. I am still young now, if I stand above the court and have no support, how can I make Zhao Zheng believe that I can help him enrich the country and the people, and how to make the Manchu Dynasty believe that I will not touch their interests, the world's scholars are bustling to Xianyang, all for fame and fortune, and now the concept of governing the country of Daqin, even the Confucian Mojia with many disciples can not be shaken, how can it be shaken by my little teenager, just like the last time I abandoned papermaking, I improved the agricultural tools, made the kang to borrow the emperor's hand to promote it first, Whether it is in the court, the people, or even in Zhao Zheng's heart, I first earn a reputation, and brew fine wine, research and development of food, and make pastries, only for one purpose, that is, to make people believe that I am a foodie who is not a threat......"

"Foodie?" Yu Wuya's face was full of surprise.

"Yes, that's you!" Chen Xu said lightly.

Yu Wuya: ......

"Have you seen this winter bamboo shoot?" Chen Xu pointed to the tip of a winter bamboo shoot dug out of the soil with a hoe, like a spike, covered with dense layers of thick bamboo shoot shells.

"How's the bamboo shoots?" Yu Wuya asked with a mushful head.

"This winter bamboo shoot seems to be small, but it has been buried in the soil for at least seven or eight years, and it will take at least ten years to wait for it to grow, but once it breaks through the soil in spring, it can grow several feet tall in one day and one night, and it can grow to several feet high in more than a month. Chen Xu asked after finishing speaking.

"Yes!" Yu Wuya nodded, "This is a story about the King of Chuzhuang, the right Sima Wu raised the play to the King of Chuzhuang, using the bird as a metaphor for the King of Chuzhuang, who did not fly for ten years and soared into the sky." Ten years without a hit, a blockbuster. So the king of Chu Zhuang listened to his advice, diligently governed the country, and soon developed the governance of the state of Chu into a powerful country, defeated the state of Qi and Jin, and established the hegemony in one fell swoop, but the prince of Engong is not the same as the king of Chu Zhuang, he is the king, you are just a lidian ......"

"Although the status is different, but the principle of accumulation is the same, what I am doing now is to continue to accumulate, accumulate popularity, accumulate fame, accumulate experience, accumulate to a certain extent, once I set foot in the court, I can rely on these accumulations to become a blockbuster, if I wait until then to study these things, it may be like a threshing machine and an improved copper saw, only to make a wedding dress for others, through the matter of Meng Yun, it can be seen that the relationship above the Xianyang court is complicated, once I fall into the struggle for power, it will only be more dangerous, I now have a mother and little sister to take care of, so I can't have any mistakes, I can't involve them in a dangerous situation, Daqin, if you can save it, you can save it, if you can't save it, naturally retreat to the next ......"

"I see!" Yu Wuya nodded, with a relaxed look on his face and said: "Engong's last idea is very right, Daqin actually has nothing to save, it's better if it collapses, Zhao Zheng is a stubborn and domineering person, and the Legalist concept promoted by Li Si is also unpopular, if you can't save it, you can't save it, why should Engong be diligent, he will support you to be the king of Nanyang when Daqin falls, I will support you to be the king of Nanyang......"

Chen Xu's face is very dark, why does this product always like to mention this stubble, it is not safe to be a king, it is too tired to be an emperor, Lao Tzu's purpose is to be a foodie, if you force yourself to be a little more motivated, just be a foodie prime minister, as for the pressure, just let the people you like bear it.