Chapter 712

Mother prepares for travel

As Zhang Xiaobao guessed, two days later, when the team passed by another village, the villagers came to deliver things, including an extra gift for the emperor.

Two hens, still laying eggs, were carried in their hands and cooed. ]

Compared with the gifts given to Zhang Xiaobao's family, it should be that the people feel that the emperor can't eat too much alone, and the emperor eats better than what he gave, no better than Xiaobaojuan, thrifty, and take out the money saved to use it for the people.

In this regard, Li Longji is quite satisfied, less is less, but it can be regarded as progress, which is better than nothing.

happily returned a piece of silk to the family, worth enough to buy a hundred hens, and ordered someone to bring two chickens, called Zhang Xiaobao, and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, take it, I want to eat chicken stewed mushrooms at night and put more potatoes." ”

"This is a hen, not a chicken, it's okay for my mother to eat, make up for my body." Zhang Xiaobao corrected.

"It's a little hen, haven't you ever seen a bigger hen?" Li Longji glared.

"I've seen it, okay, I'll do it, don't blame me if it's on fire, potatoes are not good potatoes, they have sprouted, they were originally intended to be planted for those who need them, I dug down the germination place, and found a nearby village to plant for them, and other locations for eating."

Zhang Xiaobao took over the two chickens who didn't know what fate he was going to face, left a sentence, turned around to clean up, and slandered in his heart, eating chicken stewed mushrooms on a hot day, is this a Northeast dish? Eat it in winter to replenish your body, and then put a root ginseng for you, and eat your nose to bleed.

Li Longji has learned a lot, and greeted Zhang Xiaobao's departing figure: "Don't put anything else in it, I believe in your craftsmanship, and the taste of potatoes must not be bad." ”

'Toss me, and you toss me hard.' Zhang Xiaobao continued to slander in his heart.

The sprouted potatoes are not easy to make, not enough noodles, and the mother Ji needs to be stewed for a long time, so you can't put the potatoes in together, otherwise the potatoes can be stewed, Zhang Xiaobao can only increase the process, first steam the potatoes, and then put the potatoes in when the ji is almost cooked.

Ji chicken fat is big, when cleaning up, you have to remove the oily parts, when you eat it in the Northeast, you eat it specifically, just like Russians like to eat butter, to resist the cold.

At dinner in the evening, Li Longji invited Queen Wang, Concubine Wu Hui, and eleven children to let the family taste the fruits of his victory.

When Xiaobei saw the stew, she looked at the cool clothes she was wearing, her eyes were straight, and she turned her head to look for Brother Yuan, meaning, what do you want to do, brother? Eat your sister to death?

The Pan'er brothers and sisters smelled a strong fragrance, so strong that they smelled the disgusting fragrance first, and they also tried their best to hide back, their eyes full of fear.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaobao is well prepared, except for a large pot of stewed ji, the others are all cold dishes, as well as wild vegetables that people dig in the local area, blanch them with water, dip them in soybean sauce and eat them, and balance the supplement of ji.

When Li Longji saw the dish, it was difficult to swallow, he hesitated for a moment, but still sandwiched a piece of meat, and said, "Eat, eat all good things." ”

After eating one bite, you don't want to eat the second bite, it is a hot time, and eating meat is a test for people.

After taking another bite of the potato, Li Longji saw that the meat on other people's plates did not move, and said in a deep groan: "Usually the people here can't eat pine mushrooms, right?" It is better to share it with the people and send it over. ”

I didn't eat much of the things in the basin, and not everyone stretched out their chopsticks to clip them together, and they didn't get saliva, and it was reasonable for an emperor to give them away.

"Take it away, send it to the back, I'll fry two more dishes?" Zhang Xiaobao knew that everyone couldn't eat it, and there was usually no shortage of meat.

"No, it's the same as cold dishes, the staple food you prepare is ......." Li Longji was embarrassed to continue tossing Zhang Xiaobao, looking at the cold dishes on the table and asking about the staple food.

"Noodles over the water, or rice over the water to eat?" Zhang Xiaobao asked, and without waiting for others to answer, he immediately ordered someone to prepare.

Soon, the rice was served, and the little ones began to use their chopsticks.

While everyone was eating, the guards and other men also took turns eating and resting.

When the stew was delivered to the people, it was not cold enough, it was not the people who gave it away, but the people who took the opportunity to repair the road.

The road that Li Longji walked was a simple road built by the engineering team in front, and the quality was not up to par, waiting for the large army to pass, and the back was trampled on unevenly, and a part of the tail sweeping team was responsible for filling the pit.

The people also helped in the back, found stones to press, even if it was a simple road, they themselves could not afford to build it, now press it, compacted, even if it rains, they are not afraid, it is nothing more than a place where water accumulates, and then fill in some stone and soil.

In the future, even if others do not build roads, they often make up for it themselves, and they can always use it, and it is a good thing for the emperor to go on patrol without using the treasury and the money of the local people.

Just after dinner, Zhang Xiaobao, who was guarding the ice basin and planning to discuss things with Wang Juan, received news from Hangzhou.

The message sent by his mother, Zhang Wang, looked very ordinary, that is, to ask the children if they were doing well on the road and how their father was doing.

It's nothing, Zhang Xiaobao only knew what his mother wanted to express when he saw the back, and the last sentence said that after arriving in Luzhou, help to say hello to the people of Luzhou, it is best to draw the scenery and take it back to see.

"Wife, tell you something." Zhang Xiaobao put down the news and said to Wang Juan, who was waiting to see.

Wang Juan didn't listen to Zhang Xiaobao, snatched the paper, quickly browsed it, and said: "Needless to say, my mother and your mother want to go to Luzhou, and they can go if they want to, why bother asking, who can control them." ”

"I guess it's because I'm afraid that it will affect us, except for a few parents who abuse their children, or even parents who die, parents in the world are almost the same, I don't mean to say whether to go or not, how to go."

Zhang Xiaobao nodded with his hand on his face.

Wang Juan hadn't seen Zhang Xiaobao's action for a while, and only when he bothered to calculate people, Zhang Xiaobao would have such a habitual "sexual" action.

"What do you want to do? Our mothers went to Luzhou for a trip, and you plan to calculate too? ”

"It's not to calculate them, it's to calculate others, you think, our mother went over, naturally she can't take the land route like us, you have to take a boat, the speed is fast, and the road conditions are more stable than the current ones, but ......."

"Don't come and go, talk about something, take a boat, and then how do you take advantage of it?" Wang Juan didn't give Zhang Xiaobao a chance to show off at all, and asked directly.

Zhang Xiaobao said half a sentence, was blocked, coughed, and said: "It's not use, it's protection, our mother is on the boat, even if it is stable, there may be a bad situation, if I don't send someone to protect it, I feel uneasy." ”

Wang Juan didn't say anything, lowered his head and continued to read the news on the paper, as if he had studied his mother-in-law's language organization ability, at least better than his mother, and if he was his own mother, he must have said it directly and wanted to go to Luzhou, which was not tactful enough.

Zhang Xiaobao waited for a while, and saw that Wang Juan didn't cooperate with the question, so he had to continue by himself: "Speaking of protection, how can I just say that how many people are sent out is no different from 'green', right?" ”

Wang Juan watched it again.

Zhang Xiaobao also said to himself: "So I came up with an idea, guess what." ”

"Bad idea, don't say it, don't say I'm going to sleep, I'm sleepy." Wang Juan yawned.

"My idea is to send another bunch of people from somewhere else, guess...... Forget it, you don't have to guess, I'm going to let Luzhou send a team of gunboats there to meet the past.

Our mother went to Luzhou once, it is not good to be empty-handed, we should prepare more gifts, such as rice noodles elsewhere, and other specialties, so a large number of materials should be gathered in Jiangnan Dongdao as soon as possible, and our family's logistics should also be moved.

The speed must be fast, otherwise when we get to Luzhou, my mother and your mother have not left Hangzhou, so it is better not to go, right? ”

Zhang Xiaobao saw that Wang Juan didn't have enough tacit understanding, or that he knew himself too well, so he had to find a way to use language to attract him little by little, so as to show his cleverness in front of his wife.

Wang Juan finally cooperated and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Xiaobao nodded happily: "I think what Luzhou lacks the most is the things in Gyeonggi Province, the things in Lingnan Road, and the northern part of Hebei Province. ”

Zhang Xiaobao looked concerned about Luzhou and asked for advice.

Wang Juan smiled slightly: "Okay, what do you say there is something to send in the Northeast?" Ginseng? Ermine? Ula grass? Velvet? Afraid that the people in Luzhou will be cold, and the cold wind will penetrate the bones in the summer, so send them supplements? Why don't you make chicken and mushroom stew, they will be very happy. ”

"Uh~" Zhang Xiaobao said: "I'm happy, after all, I did it myself, don't send it for the time being, there are hazelnuts in the Northeast, and pine nuts, I picked a lot last year, although it is not yet season this year, you can also send someone to pick it on the ground, maybe there will be unexpected surprises."

The local people are busy now, it's not good to use them to work, send out the army, the local army has been in a training situation, transfer troops from Youzhou in the southern region of Hebei Province, do you think it's okay?

Henan Province summoned some large transport ships, prepared some goods, and transported them together when the time came, maybe they could earn back the cost of the expenses, and told the Japanese, we will not borrow the steam engine armed ship we leased to them for the time being, and help escort the transport team at sea, do you think it will be successful? ”

Wang Juan finally heard what was wrong with Zhang Xiaobao's words, and asked in surprise: "Do you really plan to do this?" Is it necessary to transfer tens of thousands of troops from Tibet to Henan Province, that is, Shandong, to say that it is a cross-regional joint training exercise? ”

"Don't move there, I really plan to help my mother travel, and then give Luzhou some benefits, don't get me wrong." Zhang Xiaobao said seriously.

"It's strange to believe you, I didn't misunderstand, but you want others to misunderstand, don't you want to kill two birds with one stone? No wonder you made a small move just now, it turned out that you still want to take advantage of our mother's travel, my mother knows, I promise to hate you, what son-in-law. ”

Wang Juan glanced at Zhang Xiaobao.

"Where can I find a son-in-law like mine? Don't be in a hurry to bury me, help me improve it, quick, go to bed in a while, and I'll tell you the story of the wolf and the lamb. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said without blushing at all...