Xiaoguo said: "Although the restraint between the ingredients, most of the eaters feel uncomfortable, and there are very few who really want people's lives!" To tell you the truth, when I first heard you mention that past, I had the same suspicions as you. It's just that when you mentioned it later, I was relieved that the toxins were detected in the lantern fruit dish! ”

Seeing Sima Mingze looking at him nervously, Xiaoguo smiled comfortingly at him, and continued: "That dish should have been absolutely no problem, but it was found to be poisonous, which shows that this matter is clearly designed by someone to frame Sima Imperial Chef!" The person who framed him, although at that time, deceived the emperor and everyone, now it seems that he has added to the snake and wants to cover up! ”

"I'm going to be in the top 10 of the food competition! I want to find out the murderer of my father, uncover the truth, and give his old man justice! Sima Mingze said with tears in his eyes and grief and indignation.

"Good boy, your father is in the spirit of heaven, if I know that you are so ambitious, I will be gratified!" Jiang Shang sighed.

"Alas, I can't walk with my feet or chop my hands these days, and it's a waste of time!" Sima Mingze said with annoyance.

Xiaoguo walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said softly: "Mingze, don't worry, in addition to cooking, the cooking principles of some ingredients are still very important." Mastering this knowledge will allow you to better control the heat when cooking food, achieve the pursuit of taste, and maintain the highest nutritional value of food! During this time of your recovery, Master will teach you some knowledge in this area. ”

The gloomy color on Sima Mingze's face was swept away, and he said excitedly: "Master, seriously? Say something and listen to Mingze! ”

Xiaoguo smiled slightly and said, "Then I will tell you about the relationship between common ingredients, and you have to memorize it!" ”

Jiang Shang saw the master and apprentice, talking and listening, asking and answering, unusually harmonious and serious, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

He crept out of the stone house, took the dried wolfskin, spread it on a wooden couch, and put some grain for the camels to eat.

That night, the roar of wild beasts continued to sound outside the stone walls.

The house was flickering by candlelight, a peaceful and warm scene.

Xiaoguo lay on the warm wolf skin and fell asleep sweetly.

In the next room, there was also a heavy snoring.

The last night of the desert is spent safely!

The next day, Xiaoguo made the marinated wolf meat into jerky.

They took enough water and traveled for two hours to end their journey into the desert.

In a small town on the edge of the desert, the three of them found an inn to stay.

After cleaning the dust on his body, Xiaoguo only felt refreshed.

Sima Mingze was young in the end, so he found a man in the town, drank a few flavors of decoction, and eliminated the residual poison in his body.

The next day, he was able to walk slowly on his own.

The daily running and fatigue is very unfavorable for recuperation.

Xiao Guo saw that the apprentice didn't say anything, but he often stared at the injured leg in a daze, and he must be in a hurry, so that Jiang Shang could discuss, stay in the town for a few more days, and wait for Sima Mingze's leg injury to heal before setting off.

Sima Mingze's snake wound had healed after seven days, and he could no longer see anything wrong with his ordinary walking.

Again they exchanged their camels for carriages, went out of the city gates, and headed for the next town.

"It's three hundred miles away from the next town, and I'm afraid I'll have to spend the night in the open during this period!" Jiang Shang sat in the wheel and said to Sima Mingze beside him.

"Grandpa Jiang, you know so much, have you been to any place in this world?" Sima Mingze said with admiration.

Jiang Shang said with a smile: "When Grandpa was young, he worked as a merchant servant, and he did go through a lot of places with the caravan!" It's just that if you want to say that you've been everywhere, it's not necessarily! Speaking of this area alone, after the next town, and then a few areas in the future, grandpa has never been there! ”

Xiaoguo was in the carriage, heard their conversation, came to the spirit, and also joined in: "Father-in-law, don't you know the situation of the town you are going to pass through next?" ”

Seeing her excited, Jiang Shang shook his head helplessly and said, "No." ”

Xiaoguo clapped his hands and smiled: "Then next, is our real adventure?" ”

"Master, why do you look so happy, aren't you worried?" Sima Mingze said curiously.

"Good boy, life is a journey with unpredictable results, isn't it exciting to be full of expectations and a little uneasy like this?" Xiaoguo said excitedly.

Sima Mingze was speechless, and said secretly: Okay, you are the master, you are always right!

At noon, I happened to pass by a forest.

On the way to collect firewood, Sima Mingze accidentally got a few wild eggs.

Xiaoguo dug up some shepherd's cabbage nearby, made a dish of shepherd's cabbage scrambled eggs, and used the remaining wild vegetables to put in minced meat to make some porridge and make lunch.

Take a short break and get back on the road.

The carriage circled along the mountain road into the wilderness and mountains, and the road was uneven, and the carriage had to slow down.

When the road encounters a larger pothole, Jiang Shang and Sima Mingze even have to get out of the car and fill it in a little before they can pass.

"According to this way, this journey will take an extra day!" Jiang Shangdao.

Xiaoguo was tossed in the car and almost threw up his lunch, so he simply climbed into the car and sat with them.

"Father-in-law, it seems that the more we go, the more we deviate!" Xiaoguo looked at the cyan mountains and said.

"Now know that you are worried? We originally planned to pass through this mountain range, but now we have entered the deep mountains, which are sparsely populated, and the road is naturally more difficult! Jiang Shang said with a smile.

They had sailed deep into the jungle, and the unusually dense foliage obscured the sunlight, and their vision had darkened, with the occasional rustling sound coming from the dense leaves, accompanied by the chirping of unknown birds in the distance.

"Will there be beasts here?" Xiaoguo said again.

"Master, don't worry, Grandpa Jiang and Ming Ze are here! We'll protect you! Sima Mingze comforted.

For some reason, Sima Mingze subconsciously listed the master in the ranks that needed care.

"What, Guo'er is scared?" Jiang Shang also smiled.

"Where? I'm not afraid! Who needs your protection? Xiaoguo stubbornly said, "If there is really a beast, see if I don't solve it in two or two clicks!" ”

The three of them laughed, and the atmosphere of Sen Ran dissipated.

The carriage finally crossed the forest and reached a stream.

"It's flat and close to water, so let's stop here tonight!" Jiang Shang suggested.

Xiaoguo got up and stood in the wheel, looked around, and agreed: "Further on, there are steep mountains, so end the trip early today, and rest for a while!" ”

"Fang Cai, I found a pheasant moving nearby in the forest, Ming Ze, how about you go with me to catch a few for dinner?" Jiang Shangbian took out the arrow crossbow he bought in the town and said.

"Okay!" Sima Mingze said excitedly, "Grandpa Jiang, do you know how to shoot arrows?" ”

He was still a half-grown child, and he was interested in hunting in the woods and the like.

"It's not a problem to shoot a pheasant!" Jiang Shang grinned.

The two of them took bows and arrows and walked into the dense forest again.

"Beware, don't go far!" Xiaoguo was behind them, admonishing.

It's still a long time before the sun sets.

Xiaoguo picked some fresh mushrooms around the carriage, dug up some wild vegetables by the stream, and took out a pot to make a fire and boil water.

Before the water was boiling, the two hunters returned.

Each of them carried two pheasants in his hand, with a smug smile on his face.

"Master, we're back!" Sima Mingze shouted from afar.

"Yes, triumphant! Tonight, we can have a chicken dinner! Xiaoguo praised.

At that moment, Jiang Shang carried the chicken to the creek to remove the internal organs and wash them.

Sima Mingze set up another iron pot and moved out the folding small wooden table in the carriage.

Xiaoguo put one of the chickens in the fresh mushrooms and stewed a pot of fragrant chicken soup.

The other three are made into white chopped chicken, stir-fried chicken, shredded chicken with wild vegetables and braised chicken in oil!

She sprinkled the wild onion segment like a pot, stirred it into the soup with a wooden spoon, sniffed deeply, and said, "It's so fragrant!" The soup is ready, let's eat! ”

Xiaoyu has been waiting for a long time, Xiaoguo has some of each dish, put all of them in its bowl, and scooped a bowl of chicken soup on it, the little guy doesn't wait for others, can't wait to eat it first!

Jiang Shang took a pot of fine wine from the package and poured some from everyone's bowl: "Have a drink!" It's still early today, let's have some wine, let's eat slowly, not in a hurry! ”

The trio took a sip of wine, picked up mouth-watering dishes, and feasted on them.

Before they could eat and drink, they were amazed, and someone next to them shouted: "Put down the dishes and chopsticks and raise your hands!" ”

The three of them held the rice bowl and went to the prestige in surprise.

From the dense forest, more than a dozen men with big knives jumped out, they were dressed in coarse cloth clothes, with cloth scarves wrapped around their heads, and all of them looked fierce and vicious, and they were actually a group of bandits.

"Take out all the valuable things!"

Behind them came a little girl, fourteen or fifteen years old, with a delicate face, tall and tall, with a handful of yellow hair tied haphazardly on the top of her head, dressed in a bright red suit, holding a steel knife in each hand, and standing still in front of the bandits.

"Hand over the money and spare you from dying!"

"Get acquainted, don't force grandpas to do it!"

The bandits chatted and shouted.

The little girl waved her hand behind her, and the shouting stopped.

"Don't you understand? Take all the ill-gotten wealth that you have brought with you. The little girl saw that the three people on the other side were motionless and shouted.

Xiaoguo glanced at his father-in-law: "Is this another encounter with a bandit?" ”

Jiang Shang nodded helplessly.

Sima Mingze encountered this situation for the first time, he saw a female doll robbing with a knife, he was quite surprised, he just stared at the little girl non-stop, and his curiosity was far greater than fear.

"That, all the heroes, our money is stored in the bank, and the money we brought with us just happened to be spent in the previous town, and now we are indeed penniless! Our three masters, gold and silver jewelry does not exist! Xiaoguo said truthfully, "If you don't believe me, you can search it, but please don't mess up your luggage and my seasoning!" ”