"How?" Lin Haoyan was looking forward to asking Shi Yiqiu.

"Good...... Delicious! Shi Yiqiu had eaten such delicious fish for the first time, so she also followed Qin Zhirou's appearance and threw many pieces of fish fillets into the pot.

"Brother Lin also try?" Zhao Fu smiled and handed Lin Haoyan a pair of chopsticks.

"Wow! It's really delicious! Lin Haoyan also seemed very excited, he didn't expect that this method of putting different ingredients into one pot and cooking could be so delicious.

"If it's delicious, eat more." Zhao Fu also waved his chopsticks and joined the battle.

"Hey! That piece of meat is mine! Qin Zhirou was the youngest of the four people present, so her unreasonable chopsticks successfully snatched the last piece of beef from the other three pairs of chopsticks.

"These are mine!" Shi Yiqiu successfully gave full play to the unique advantages of women, declaring the sovereignty of the three slices of mutton just out of the pot.

"This ......" Lin Haoyan looked at Zhao Fu, there were only the two of them left, and there was not much meat left on the plate.

"It's okay, let someone send some more." Zhao Fu probably expected this situation a long time ago, in fact, no one who loves hot pot eats hot pot for the first time without eating it until he vomits, so Zhao Fu specially told the guy to prepare more meat.

So, after about half an hour, four big bellies appeared in the pavilion.

"Ah, that's a pleasure!" Lin Haoyan completely disregarded the image of being a monarch, and patted his stomach like a peasant who rarely had a full meal.

Shi Yiqiu also leaned half of her body against the stone table, one hand caressing her obviously larger belly, and covering her mouth with one hand to avoid burping too loudly.

"Chirp~" Qin Zhirou is of course the lucky one who has been specially taken care of by Zhao Fu, and the hot pot has been eaten many times with Zhao Fu, and it can be regarded as slowly being able to grasp her appetite, but even so, it has been a year, so she is still very full.

Zhao Fu, as usual, took on the general duty of a waiter who added soup and served dishes to season and serve tea, so he was the one who ate the least among the four.

"Brother Zhao, this thing is so delicious!" Lin Haoyan patted his belly and said this sentence with difficulty.

"Next time, I will have people prepare utensils and send them to the capital, the materials are easy to find, but remember to cut the meat small and thin, otherwise it will not be cooked." Zhao replied.

"Okay, okay, I'm not here to beg for food this time," Lin Haoyan joked but quickly turned to the topic, "How is the situation in the northwest?" ”

Zhao Fu thought for a while, and finally planned to tell the truth, "It's not good." ”

Although Beiting has withdrawn from the army, this is just because of the temporary shelter for the winter, and the wind and snow will melt in the next spring, the grass will grow, and the hooves of the Hu people will set foot on this land again. It is indeed difficult for the military forces in the northwest to carry out such a large-scale defense, but if they still gather the people as they did last year, I am afraid that there will be more complaints and more serious. Although the conscription in the northwest is also being carried out in an orderly manner, there is still a long way to go before the real platoon is on the battlefield - Zhao Fu has a deep understanding of this, there are too many differences between the battlefield and the training ground, if it weren't for his profound skills, otherwise he would have died in Huangquan a long time ago, not to mention those recruits.

Therefore, recruiting and training troops is very important to the northwest, and this cannot be completed overnight, and Gu Fengyu's estimate that it will take two full years to complete the establishment of 400,000 troops in the northwest army.

Therefore...... If it is necessary to really pacify the North Court, then it should take another three to five years.

Lin Haoyan also frowned after listening to Zhao Fu's statement, five years is not a long time, but the national strength consumed in this national battle is definitely huge. Not to mention the allocation of 400,000 troops, just this year, the 100,000 people who maintain the Northwest Army will have to transport grain and grass from the south, which has already made those officials of the household department burn their eyebrows. Not to mention the fact that in the future, it may be necessary to maintain food and grass for 400,000 troops for five years.

"I also know that this is different from the plan, but this time Beiting Nan's heart is not small, if you don't deal with it with all your might......" Zhao Fu saw that Lin Haoyan was silent, and continued to persuade him.

"So, can we win?" Lin Haoyan skipped this question directly, and asked Zhao Fu with a different question.

Win? Zhao Fu never felt that he could lose, in Zhao Fu's opinion, this was not a fair war, not only the assimilation of more advanced civilizations to barbarian civilizations, but also the crushing of his own force.

"You can only win, you can't lose." So Zhao Fu replied.

"That's it, then no matter what, I'll support you." Lin Haoyan sincerely patted Zhao Fu on the shoulder, "Don't worry."

Hit the North Court, and then slap the faces of those who laughed at us. ”

Zhao Fu didn't expect Lin Haoyan to give such an answer, he had guessed Lin Haoyan's various answers, and even thought about how to explain the lengthened war period, but Lin Haoyan didn't ask.

"We want to show those self-righteous old people that it's not a fault to be young." Lin Haoyan patted the pot that had cooled down, the oil on it had already been cold into lumps in this cold weather, and he explained to Zhao Fu, "I have also encountered a lot of things this year, and I feel that I have grown up a lot?" ”

Zhao Fu didn't know why Lin Haoyan would give him so much trust, maybe the situation of the two was somewhat similar? Zhao Fu also knew that he didn't need to think, too many misunderstandings came from too much thinking. If all the problems in this world are only questions, the answer is such a simple path, then it can be sublimated directly to Elysium.

So now Zhao Fu, compared to the previous panic, he simply didn't think too much, if the oranges in the orchard on the edge of Lanting City were delicious, then the oranges there were delicious, why should he think so much, why should he think about why the oranges there are delicious?

Too much thinking will give birth to too many ideas, and too many thoughts will make people who are not firm in their minds more and more suspicious.

Therefore, for Lin Haoyan's inexplicable trust, Zhao Fu will not think too much, he will be moved, and he will also question, but since Lin Haoyan said so, then he will do it well. If the previous Zhao Fu was a guinea pig who was kept in a cage and watched and played, then the current Zhao Fu is a tiger, and anyone who dares to deceive him will be torn apart by his claws.

Therefore, in the face of Lin Haoyan's trust, Zhao Fu also accepted it calmly and reciprocated with trust and loyalty.

It's just that in the face of such an honest Zhao Fu, Lin Haoyan sometimes doesn't know what to say, Zhao Fu is a very amazing person in Lin Haoyan's opinion: whether it is his martial arts or his way of thinking, Lin Haoyan has never heard of or seen, and the most distinctive thing about Zhao Fu is that he has no obsession with power. In Zhao Fu's opinion, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as power...... An orange matters?

Lin Haoyan was a little angry, just now Shi Yiqiu leaned on her face and asked Qin Zhirou for the last orange in the fruit bowl, although Qin Zhirou was reluctant, she still handed it over pitifully, just as Shi Yiqiu was about to peel it, she was taken back by Zhao Fu and put it back into Qin Zhirou's hand steadily.

Lin Haoyan couldn't cry or laugh a little, Qin Zhirou could ask Zhao Fu for help if she was wronged, but Shi Yiqiu was angry with Zhao Fu, but he couldn't come forward - I issued an order to order the Northwest General to let out the oranges in his hand? That's ridiculous......

Fortunately, after Qin Zhirou finished peeling the orange, she carefully broke half of it against Zhao Fu's vicious eyes and handed it to Shi Yiqiu, and Shi Yiqiu also took the peeled orange in front of Zhao Fu with a victorious attitude, and then gave Qin Zhirou a big hug.

To the east, in a academy, although there are no people in the library, there is still a smell of ink.

"Senior brother, senior brother, my family's newly picked oranges!" A young man in a white robe ran in with a basket of oranges in his arms.

"Huh? Brother? Brother, where did you go? ”

Finally, he found his brother sleeping soundly under the desk.

"As soon as Mr. left, you were lazy again!"

"Ahh

In the south, a heroic girl was dancing a sword on the top of the mountain, and suddenly there was a crane cry (crane, you know, the kind that can get out without a mouth) took the orange from the white crane's mouth, but it touched the white crane's head sweetly, and thanked him in a voice as soft as sugar, "Thank you for me, junior brother." ”

At the foot of the mountain, a younger Taoist disciple seemed to hear this out of thin air, and his body trembled, although it was not cold in the south, but he really shivered.

In a glorious temple in the west, the magnificent Buddha statue is chanting in the west, and there is a group of Buddhist disciples on the ground, pious chanting the scriptures, but a pale young man does not care about this, and even sits on the lap of the Buddha statue very casually, although he is dressed as a monk, but it is different from those monks, and the Buddha light that emanates from him is not peaceful, but more like the death of the lonely Liao.

"Hey, the oranges here are so unpalatable." The young man threw the half-peeled orange into his hand and threw it on the face of the Buddha statue, "Old man, did you say yes?" ”

When the Buddhists who were lying on the ground saw this, they only showed anger on their faces, but they dared not speak out. Let the idol they considered sacred be insulted by the young man.

In the North Garden, a young man as old as Zhao Fu lay on the side of his mother's bed, holding the oranges he snatched back from the northwest and crying bitterly, "Mother, mother, this is the orange you want to eat, wake up, wake up, don't sleep, mother!" ”

In Lanting City, Lin Haoyan got the answer he wanted, and after a full meal, he said that he would not disturb Zhao Fu and Qin Zhirou to get together, and left first with Shi Yiqiu.

The two were about to go back to their residence, and the stove had already been prepared - after their identities were revealed, the entourage accompanying them simply blocked the entire Qin Mansion, and also updated the residences of Lin Haoyan and Shi Yiqiu: all of them were replaced in the palace.

"That...... I'm sorry......" Halfway through, Lin Haoyan suddenly turned around and apologized to Shi Yiqiu.

Shi Yiqiu was empty-hearted, choked on such an apology, and then thought for a long time before she suddenly realized that she was actually referring to the incident that she had asked Qin Zhirou for oranges before.

Looking at the man in front of him who had lost the emperor's clothes and didn't look like the emperor at all, Shi Yiqiu remembered what Zhao Fu said last night.

"Your Majesty, do you eat oranges?" She still grabbed half of the orange she asked for from Qin Zhirou in her hand, reached out and broke half of it, and put it next to Lin Haoyan's mouth.