Chapter 1056: The Cook

(Mu \ Disabled \ Literature \ Learning:) Handan City originated from Shang Yin.

The domain of Handan belonged to the Weiguo in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was the land of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, when Handan was already a famous city with relatively developed agriculture, handicrafts and commerce. In the twelfth year of the reign of Jin Dinggong, Zhao Ying, the chief secretary of the Jin State, had included Handan in his sphere of influence, and since then, Handan has become the hereditary territory of the Zhao family.

In 386 B.C., Marquis Jing of Zhao moved his capital to Handan, which was the capital of Zhao for 158 years.

Later Qin destroyed Zhao and placed Handan County. The Western Han Dynasty placed the Zhao State. Handan to the end of the Western Han Dynasty is still one of the five major capitals of the country, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the strong and strong rose together, divided the melee, Handan suffered from the disaster of the soldiers, and began to decline.

Xun Chen went out, and at this time he lived in a dilapidated house, surrounded by similar houses. The houses are not shabby, but they are clearly in disrepair, the structure is still there, and the ruined walls are full of rubble, like the remains of a city that has been dead for a long time. Most of the people on the street are yellow-skinned and thin-skinned, and their faces are withered.

Between these houses, there is a jumble of small flags and laundry, garbage everywhere, and black water flowing everywhere. In the distance, you can see a tall and majestic city wall, Xun Chen knows, there is the Handan New City under construction, dignitaries and nobles will move there in the future, and the rest of the houses will be open to the nearby people to live at will.

Thinking of this, Xun Chen shook his head, it is conceivable that if he did this, the common people would definitely rush up and compete with each other for shelter, making the outer city of Handan a chaotic place - this is a typical Yuan Shao-style governance, lavish, bold and generous, but lacking overall planning.

"It's all on a whim, and it's all unplanned. It seems to be generous, but in fact it is chaotic. Xun Chen commented with a look of disgust, and at the same time deftly avoided a pile of broken tiles: if Tian Feng was still alive, even if the Yuan clan was defeated repeatedly, it would not be so messy. It's a pity that Tian Feng returned to the horse, and he couldn't hide it, and the Xin Commentary who was left to preside over government affairs was only at this level.

At this time, Xun Chen had slowly come to the main road of the old city, which connected the new city with the field, so it was repaired quite neatly. The pavement is paved with strip stones, and the convex side is concave to facilitate drainage. It is a pity that the ditches on both sides have long been filled with silt and cannot play any role. The trees planted along the way are still there, but the leaves are sparse, and there are traces of theft and cutting every few sections, and the bottom of the trees is full of the smell of feces.

"This official, let's drink some choppy soup to warm up." A boss poked his head out of the door and shouted. Xun Chen waved his hand and signaled not to, he saw that the boss was round - in the troubled times here, there are really not many people with such an optimistic figure as the boss.

There was a lot of noise in the shop, and it was clear that the owner had a good business. However, Xun Chen just wanted to drink some stuffy wine today, and he was not interested in those noisy environments.

Soon came to the liquor store he frequented, ordered a pot of turbid wine and sipped slowly. He doesn't really like the fragrant and strong distilled liquor of the Ma family - drinking requires a mood, just like he only needs a pot of slightly drunk turbid wine to slowly intoxicate himself.

Xun Chen didn't drink much, and a few glasses of wine had already made his brain a little dizzy. At this time, it was getting late, Xun Chen wanted to close the window, but when he got up, he accidentally dropped the bag hanging from his waist under the desk. He secretly scolded himself for being careless and leaned down to touch, but when he looked down, he saw that there were a few nicks on his chapter case.

Xun Chen's face turned cold, and he looked around, after seeing that everything around him was as usual. He pretended to be laboriously picking up the bag and rubbed it behind the desk.

His fingers felt something, and the bottom of the wooden table seemed to be a little uneven. At first, Xun Chen thought it was just rough production, but later found that these unevenness seemed to be regular. He lifted himself up, slowly pressed his palm up to the bottom, and slowly rubbed it, gradually figuring out the true meaning of the bumps.

The bumps were scratches, consisting of two right-leaning diagonal lines and two circles with two heads and tails. Even if someone turned the whole case over, they would only think that someone had caused it unintentionally, but they recognized the two contact slashes that only the Ma family's spies could recognize, and those two circles didn't know what they meant. One thing is for sure, though, these should have been carved not long ago.

It just so happened that the drums on the tower were beating three times, and there was a curfew in half an hour, and the drums were a reminder to all the residents to return to their homes as soon as possible. Xun Chen settled the account and began to walk on the way back.

"This official, let's drink some choppy soup to warm up." The boss poked his head out of the door and shouted, although it was like this every day, but Xun Chen had something in his mind today, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, and was about to drink the boss, but suddenly saw a dirty pretense fluttering on the pole in front of the restaurantβ€”in the last afterglow of the setting sun, he could see the word "stir-fry" on the pretense, and these two words were nested in two yellow circles connected from end to end.

Xun Chen seemed to have been struck by thunder, he sorted out his emotions a little, and walked into this small shop under the warm greeting of the boss. As soon as I entered, I saw a young woman with bright eyes who was nibbling on a ball of meatballs regardless of the image, and when I saw Xun Chen entering, the woman just raised her head slightly, which made Xun Chen frown slightly.

At this time, there were no more customers in the restaurant, only the woman was eating and drinking. Xun Chen hesitated for a moment, pretending to be a poor sour man, and chanted loudly: "Wen Neng raises the pen to control Lori, and Wu Neng has a wife on the bed......."

The woman who was eating meat on the side laughed at the time, and said a little carried away: "Every time I hear this contact code, I can't help but want to laugh." I don't know, what do you think the lord thinks, why can't the shadow's contact signal be more elegant? ”

The fat boss also seemed to blush a little, and replied first with a blue face: "You can bully and press Zhengtai, and retreat to look at the buttocks to welcome the crowd!" Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at the woman, and introduced with a dark face: "This is cheap." In the end, his face finally returned to normal, and he arched his hand and said, "Welcome to everyone." ”

"What happened to Ma Mengqi?" Xun Chen's face was a little not good, he knew that since the last time the Shadow made Li Fu Jian kill the people's girls in Yecheng and made Cheng Yu enter the city in a big way, Gao Ran learned from the pain and sprinkled most of the power of the Red Eagle Rider in Handan City. He, who was almost a semi-retired staff, was surrounded by at least three or more Red Eagle Riders because of his family's dignity.

This is also the reason why the shadow wants to contact Xun Chen this time, and it will cause such trouble.

Duanmu didn't say anything, got up and began to make the sobering soup, thought for a moment, and then whispered while doing it: "The lord means that the Yuan family's limit has arrived, and Mr. should have some choices." ”

Xun Chen's expression was confused when he heard this, and he quickly sorted out his mind: "This is impossible, Yuan Gong still has an army of 400,000, although Xin Bi is not as good as Fu Zhi and strategizes, but urging money and grain can also be a big responsibility." The Cao clan only has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it is difficult to reach the sky if they want to break Cao Gong. ”

"I don't know what to expect. The lord only said that this moment is the opportunity for the Xun family to make a choice, and if there is any hesitation, it will be regarded as giving up and returning to the Ma family. At this time, Duanmu Ming had already put a bowl of decanting soup in front of Xun Chen, Xun Chen tasted it, it was sweet and sour, it was really a good soup for hangover.

"The lord is a person, although he does things unexpectedly, but he is also true to every word." The girl looked back at the window and whispered, "Master Xun, there is not much time left before you go home, and the vendor outside the window who pretends to sell tea has already glanced here." ”

Xun Chen's hand that was holding the decanting soup shook slightly, and he said under the cover of drinking the soup: "It's a big matter, I need to go back and think about it." ”

"No need, Master Xun doesn't make a decision at this time, so he doesn't need to go back and think." Duanmu didn't have a humble look on his face, but the content of his words made Xun Chen a little uncomfortable: "Tomorrow, this shop will not exist, it seems that we husband and wife need to go to other people's houses to be cooks." ”

"That's it!" Xun Chen put down the decanting soup and took out five copper plates: "The two of you should come to my house, it just so happens that there are still two cooks missing in my house....... "Mu ^ remnant ^ Wen ^ Xue (), if you think it's good, press ctrl+D to collect this book!"

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