When it comes to the skills of ancient cooks, although they didn't know as much as modern chefs, there is no fundamental difference between the two in a way.

The gap lies in the fact that under the habit of inheriting culinary skills from master to apprentice, the skill level of famous chefs in some places is also quite high in a certain dish or several dishes.

Take a snack vendor as an example, whether he sells wontons or some kind of pastry, even Yang Huairen must admit that the skills of these vendors are commendable.

In the land of Guanzhong in Hexi, when their traditional noodles or local snacks with local specialties are fused with the tomatoes and potatoes brought back by Yang Huairen through time and space, they are full of new vitality.

Although the officials and gentry who received them in those places said conclusively that the silver spent on receiving Yang Huairen, the lord of the imperial mission, was out of their own pockets, Yang Huairen still felt that he had let them spend so much money, and there was a feeling of working hard and wasting money.

Like food, and like money, like women also have something in common, the sage Yun Junzi loves money and takes it in a good way, and always lets others invite him to eat and drink, Yang Huairen is also a little unaccustomed.

He has long lost the kind of mind that does not give up without turning others cheap, after all, as he gets older, it is not so easy to fall into attachment when looking at things.

What's more critical is that Yang Huairen himself is not bad for money at all, and he always asks people to invite him to dinner, and he is not so comfortable.

Naturally, such an idea is impossible to realize, his identity is there, and no one dares to really ask him to pay for it, just send the Lord to be polite to you, even if it is enough to give you face.

Yang Huairen was really unhappy in his heart, people spent money to buy expensive dishes that they sold, and then invited a local chef to carefully make them for themselves to enjoy.

So Yang Huairen decided not to take the official road, and turned his head with a large team of people and horses, and walked the trail at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains.

It is said that it is a small road, in fact, it is not so small, a hundred years ago it was also a part of the official road, figuratively speaking, a bit similar to the later generations of highways always have such an auxiliary road.

It's just that after the new official road, the original road is more remote, there are fewer people walking, and the road is a little overgrown with weeds on both sides.

The remoteness of the road also means that walking this road brings people closer to nature, and the air seems to have a unique freshness in the forest.

It is already early winter, and the trees and flowers in the north have been blown yellow-brown by the cold wind, and the leaves in the Qinling Mountains have just begun to turn yellow.

The road is lined with wild oak trees and pines, and the sun is still shining in the middle of the day, casting the dappled colors of the earth through the layers of leaves that sprinkle on the bumpy road that has fallen into disrepair.

Yang Huairen looked at the road with no end in sight, and had a rare sense of leisure, so he jumped off the horse and walked, enjoying the afternoon forest sunshine for a while.

Occasionally, stepping on a few leaves that have fallen a few days earlier will make a rustling sound, which is particularly beautiful in the quiet.

Looking towards the slopes, you can feel the layering of tree species in the Qinling Mountains, with oak, hairy pine and arborvitae in the lower places, and taller cedar and poplar trees on the higher slopes.

The difference in tree species also makes the color of the entire northern foot of the Qinling Mountains look at the past with clear changes, all of which make people sigh that nature is the painter of the ghostly axe, with thick paint and light casualness, bringing the most primitive beauty to the world.

Yang Huairen was enjoying a rare leisure time, when suddenly hundreds of wild birds or pheasants of various colors flew to the other side of the road not far ahead.

Then there was a chirping sound, a group of monkeys came out of the forest as if playing acrobatics, passing in front of Yang Huairen's eyes, they were not afraid of people, and they did not stop, they glanced at Yang Huairen with eyebrows, and then flew as if they were jumping long.

Yang Huairen was a little nervous, and he didn't react for a moment to what was going on, and the straight road was that the monkeys chased and chased away the birds.

Lan Ruoxin and Brother Tianba noticed the abnormality, and immediately jumped in front of Yang Huairen from behind, staring nervously at the bushes in the direction where the monkey came from.

"Be careful!"

Lan Ruoxin warned Yang Huairen, as if signaling him to retreat. And the tension of Brother Tianba also came from Lan Ruoxin, in fact, he didn't figure out what was going on, so he asked with doubts, "Yes...... Assassin? ”

"Poof!"

Yang Huairen burst out laughing, patted Tianba's younger brother on the back and said, "Your imagination is too rich, where is this assassin who can't find the village and the back of the store?"

And who was the assassin? Me? Not to mention my brother, I don't have many enemies, and even if I had, I wouldn't use such a barbaric way to do anything to me. ”

"Brother, don't take it to heart, everything is possible. Maybe...... Maybe it's a bandit. "Brother Tianba is a bit of a strong word.

"Bandits? In such a remote place, even if there are bandits, how capable can they be? ”

Yang Huairen said with a smile, "There are few people walking on this road now, even if there are really bandits who are blocking the road and robbing here, then this group of bandits will not be able to help."

Robbery? Long Wuwei's 3,000 forbidden troops are right behind us, I'm afraid they will have a fateful catastrophe and no fate. Robbery? ”

Yang Huairen paused here when he said this, and as if he had discussed it with his younger brother Tianba, they looked at Lan Ruoxin who was dressed as a man with bad intentions.

Lan Ruoxin frowned when she heard this, she didn't know if there was another pair of eyes on the back of her head, and her gaze never moved away from the unknown bushes in front of her, but she knew that the eyes of Yang Huairen and Tianba's younger brother behind her were looking at her.

But she spat on her lips, "Phew! It's a good thing that you two didn't come out to go out of the rivers and lakes, otherwise you would have died eight times ago, and you don't know how you died. ”

The younger brother of Tianba immediately withdrew his gaze, while Yang Huairen pursed his lips and nodded slightly, expressing his approval of Lan Ruoxin's words.

The palace guards behind them, not knowing why the three people in front of them were so nervous, also ran over from a distance, and quickly set up a formation to surround Yang Huairen in the middle of the three layers of front, back, left, right, and right.

No one made a noise, time seemed to be quiet, and the guards continued to patrol the woods on both sides of the road with sharp eyes with nervous expressions, but what they saw was not only trees, but still trees.

At this moment, a long and chaotic howl suddenly came, "Whew-"

Yang Huairen subconsciously came out of his mouth with a word, "Tiger? ”