Yang Huairen was a little confused, You Shixiong didn't come out to meet the guests, but sent a seed teacher to invite him to the side courtyard, seeing that he was dressed strangely, he couldn't understand it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Walk through the middle hall into the middle courtyard, and then pass through a quaint corridor, which is the west side courtyard of Youfu.

In the side courtyard, You Shixiong also did not wear comfortable clothes at home, and wore a linen dress in the same way as the planter, pushing a big bluestone mill alone, and he didn't know what grain he was pressing.

Yang Huairen and He Zhiyun stepped forward to meet You Shixiong, and only then did they see clearly that You Shixiong was turning around and grinding, which was ordinary wheat and rice.

On his side, he first crushed the peeled wheat and rice into pieces with a large stone mill, and then used a grinding disc next to him to grind them into powder, and the white face of the planter was a mixture of wheat flour and rice flour.

Yang Huairen looked at You Shixiong, an old man who was almost sixty, pushing the mill himself, making himself sweat profusely, and felt strange and funny in his heart.

In the grain stores of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were not only peeled wheat and rice, but also flour and rice flour milled into flour for sale, although the price was slightly more expensive than wheat and rice, but for the people living in the city, it saved them the trouble of buying grain home and grinding it into flour in a time-consuming and laborious manner.

An official of such a big size as You Shixiong really doesn't have the reason to grind flour at home by himself, and it makes even more unreasonable to pull a subordinate to do such rough work at home with him.

At the very least, you can tie the head of the donkey to pull the mill, so that you don't have to exert your own strength, and it is not necessarily more efficient than a donkey.

I've heard that some people feel sorry for their animals and are reluctant to work for fear that they will be tired, but you, a big general, are also sorry for the donkey?

You Shixiong didn't care, but when he saw He Zhiyun standing behind Yang Huairen, he shouted at the top of his voice, "At home, there are guests from the house, come out quickly, please go to the back house to have some snacks!" ”

Don't look at You Shixiong's old age, the middle qi is very full, this voice is very penetrating, and it shook Yang Huairen's ears standing beside him.

While speaking, an old woman in plain clothes walked in, it seemed that it should be Mrs. You, He Zhiyun hurriedly stepped forward and bowed her knees and bowed.

Mrs. You liked He Zhiyun very much when she saw her, and took her hand and walked into the back house, "The old man is rude, and he is not afraid of jokes in the future, come, go to the back house with the old woman to use some tea fruits, I heard that you were newly married yesterday, the bride is really good-looking......"

He Zhiyun couldn't resist Mrs. You's enthusiasm, looked back at Yang Huairen, and waited until Yang Huairen smiled and nodded, and then she followed Mrs. You out of the side courtyard with confidence.

"General You, at the banquet yesterday, you said that you wanted Xiaosheng to help, didn't you want Xiaosheng to help you pull the mill, right? Xiaosheng is a useless reader, this kind of work, even if Xiaosheng has the heart to help you, but he is also powerless. Why don't you go and buy a donkey for General You? ”

Looking at the big bluestone mill with a diameter of two feet, a width of two feet, and a weight of about one or two hundred catties, Yang Huairen broke out in a cold sweat on his head, and said in his heart, You are an old man, you want to call your brother as a donkey, but you don't do it.

You Shixiong seemed to guess Yang Huairen's thoughts from Yang Huairen's expression, and scolded with a smile with horizontal eyes: "What do you kid think, how can the old man treat you as a donkey?"

Look at your skinny, how dare you compare to a donkey? Besides, the old man is still short of a donkey?

By the way, let's talk about it first, have you brought in your good wine? ”

Yang Huairen nodded indifferently and pointed in the direction of the concierge, "It's here, it's unloaded from your concierge." ”

"Good, good, good, you kid is trustworthy, you're a good boy."

Yang Huairen felt that You Shixiong was almost the same as a donkey's money, he didn't know, but You Shixiong did live a very simple life.

I heard that he has seven sons, all of whom are heroes of Yunwen and Yunwu, at this time these sons are all adults, or they have been admitted to the imperial examination and have become petty officials in the local area, or they have joined the army.

You Shixiong took out a cloth towel from his waist and wiped the sweat on his forehead and neck, "I invited you here today because I have something else to ask you for advice." ”

Yang Huairen looked at the flour and rice flour they had just grinded, and wondered if they were going to learn how to make dim sum with me, right?

If this is the case, it is simple, I think that in order to please the girl, Yang Huairen has worked hard in the production of dim sum.

"General, please."

You Shixiong grabbed a handful of small white squares half an inch square from a dustpan on the other side, opened his hand and sent it to Yang Huairen, and said, "You see, the old man has been pondering day and night recently, and finally figured out a kind of military rations, ......."

"Military rations?"

Yang Huairen took out a small white square from his palm with a puzzled face, put it under his nostrils and sniffed it, then stretched out his tongue and licked it gently.

What kind of military food was in the Song Dynasty Yang Huairen has never seen it, but what is the military food of later generations, Yang Huairen has eaten it, and when he goes to camp in the wilderness, he will always bring some compressed biscuits to be prepared.

This kind of military ration invented by You Shixiong, judging from the appearance alone, is somewhat similar to the compressed biscuits of later generations, but after seeing their production process, tasting the taste, and finding that this mixed powder is salted, but it is raw, Yang Huairen is not very confident in this small white square.

Yang Huairen was puzzled, but You Shixiong proudly introduced: "The usual military rations in our army are directly used with some grain, packed into a cloth bag, carried around, and can be taken and used at any time.

However, this old method also has many drawbacks, especially on the side of the Northwest Frontier Army, which is no longer completely suited to the needs of the large army.

Fighting in the barren land outside the fortress is not like the Guannai can carry a large amount of grain and grass with the army, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and all armies and battalions need to coordinate operations, and the movement of the army is very frequent, if the army carries a large amount of grain and grass, the movement of the army is not flexible and fast.

Therefore, when fighting outside the fortress, the soldiers brought their own military rations, because they wore armor, weapons and shields, and sometimes carried many other materials on their backs, and the food that they could carry with them could only carry half a month's amount at most.

However, no one can guarantee that a battle will be fought, and it must be within half a month, if this time limit is exceeded, and then to transport grain and grass outside the fortress, first, it is difficult to find the location of the large army, and second, a large number of troops are needed to escort it, and a large number of combat troops are wasted.

The old man wanted to make a kind of military food that was more convenient to carry, and could use the least weight to feed the soldiers at the same time.

Boy, since you are good at cooking, why don't you give the old man an idea to make this vermicelli as delicious as your beef noodles? ”