"Uncle Ma, what do you say the princess and Chai Shao will say?" Li Xiu looked at Princess Pingyang's room not far away, and said with a somewhat worried expression, since he beat Chai Shao yesterday, this is the third time that Chai Shao has come to find Princess Pingyang, and every time it is for the same purpose, that is, he hopes that Princess Pingyang will hand over Li Xiu to him for disposal, but Princess Pingyang naturally will not agree.

"Who knows? But you kid have to thank the princess in the future, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid the princess wouldn't have met Chai Shao at all, but now it's good, I've seen you three times in two days. Ma Ye patted Li Xiu's shoulder fiercely at this time and said.

"Don't worry, the princess is not thin on me, I will naturally not forget!" Li Xiu said with a smile, he is a person who will repay his kindness, such as the original Boss Liu or the current Princess Pingyang, as long as it is someone who has helped him, he will not forget.

As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, he suddenly heard a violent quarrel in Princess Pingyang's room, because Li Xiu and they didn't dare to get too close, so they couldn't hear the content of the quarrel clearly, and then they saw Chai Shao angrily go out of the room and leave the post house without looking back.

"Okay, your kid is fine, looking at Chai Shao's appearance, he must have been rejected by the princess again, but you have to be careful in the future, and hide quickly when you meet Chai Shao, so as not to be troubled by him." After Ma Ye saw Chai Shao leaving, he also breathed a sigh of relief at the moment and said, Li Xiu is a person he values very much, and he has saved the princess, so he naturally doesn't want Li Xiu to have an accident.

"Then what should we do next, the princess just had a fight with Chai Shao, should we go in and comfort you?" Li Xiu looked at Princess Pingyang's room and was a little worried at the moment.

"No need, the princess is not a child anymore, and the princess was able to survive when it was so difficult, and now it is naturally even more so!" Ma Ye shook his head and said, he believed that Princess Pingyang would not be angry with a villain like Chai Shao.

Because of Chai Shao's matter, Princess Pingyang and her party have been delayed in Ningzhou for a day, and now Chai Shao has finally left, so Ma Ye once again ordered the team to leave the post house and continue on the road, striving to rush back to Chang'an before the Lantern Festival, so they have walked all day, they have come to the north bank of the Jing River, as long as they go down the river to the Wei River, and then cross the Wei River to Baqiao Town, which is the east gate of Chang'an, and it is equivalent to arriving at Chang'an when they get there.

Because I was in a hurry, I missed the post station, but it didn't matter, Ma Ye asked people to camp directly by the Jing River that night, anyway, they were all soldiers, and resting in the wild was commonplace, and there were too many of them, and the general small post station could not be accommodated at all, plus every time the people in the post station were driven out, Princess Pingyang couldn't bear it, so they generally wouldn't deliberately go to live in the post station, unless they met a big city like Ningzhou.

Although it has been the New Year, but the north is still very cold, especially after the sun sets, the howling north wind blows non-stop, Li Xiu sits by the fire with a wooden board in one hand, and writes and draws with charcoal sticks on the wooden board with the other, Ma Ye came over with two big bowls, handed him a bowl and said: "Here, today's dinner!" ”

Li Xiu put down the wooden board and took the bowl, and looked at the paste-like things in the bowl, and there were some black, yellow and other particles in it, which made him sigh and said: "The guys in your army are all a bunch of fools, can't they put some effort into making the rice look good, even if it tastes like stool, but they don't even need to look like stool, right?" ”

"Poof~" Ma Ye just picked up a piece of paste and stuffed it into his mouth, but when he heard Li Xiu's words, he squirted out all of a sudden, and then said a little angrily, "Boy, can you stop talking about such a disgusting topic when you eat?" And today's meal is also good, there is meat and dried vegetables in the batter, and salt is added to it, and the whole body is warm when you eat it hot, do you still want to prepare four dishes and one soup at home? ”

"I don't expect four dishes and one soup, but at least I have to have some decent food, this thing looks unappetizing, how can people eat it?" Li Xiu really can't stand the food in the army, and here the food only has the most primitive function, that is, to ensure the survival of people, as for the taste or something, don't think about it.

"As far as you are squeamish, how can you be so particular in the army, you can have a hot meal to eat, and not to mention you, even the princess eats these things!" Ma Ye glanced at Li Xiu and said, he remembered that Li Xiu was so hungry that he was weak, and he even disliked the saliva on the roast chicken he gave, I really don't know where he got so many stinky problems?

"The princess also eats these big ......" Li Xiu wanted to say that he was stool, but when he thought that it would be disrespectful to the princess to say this, and it was like he had just taken a bite, he hurriedly changed his words at the moment, "Do you eat these things too?" ”

"Of course, as long as she is in the army, the princess has always shared weal and woe with the soldiers, when we first started the army, there was a shortage of food in the army, and once the princess was hungry and fainted, and she refused to eat more than others!" Ma Ye took a bite of the paste when he said this, and seemed to think of the desperate environment back then.

"No wonder I always think that the princess's wound grows slowly, I thought it was too cold, and I couldn't keep up with the nutrition after a long time!" Li Xiu suddenly slapped his thigh when he heard this, and then stood up and came to Princess Pingyang's tent. Although he often cleans Princess Pingyang's wounds, he usually needs to avoid such a personal matter as eating, so he just knew what Princess Pingyang usually ate.

The female guards beside Princess Pingyang had long been familiar with Li Xiu, so no one stopped him, Li Xiu entered the tent very smoothly, and at this time Princess Pingyang had already sat up with the support of the maid, holding a small spoon in her hand and eating, and the bowl in front of her was also made by a man in the army.

"Why did Captain Li come here at this time?" Seeing Li Xiu come in, Princess Pingyang said with some embarrassment, after all, there is a difference between men and women, in addition to her own family, it is the first time that she has been seen by other men during dinner.

"Princess, you are injured, how can you be so careless about taking care of yourself, don't eat these things in the future!" Li Xiu said without waiting for the princess to say anything, he directly reached out and took away the food in front of the princess, and then said again, "Please wait a moment, princess, I'll go and cook you some appetizing meals!" ”

After Li Xiu finished speaking, he saluted Princess Pingyang, and then immediately turned around and left, leaving Princess Pingyang with an inexplicable face.

At that moment, Li Xiu came to the camp where the men cooked, the meals in the army were all in batches, and now there were still many people who had not eaten, only to see more than a dozen fires rising in a row here, and there was an amazingly large military iron pot on the fire, and the paste in the pot had been boiled, and the man was throwing the chopped dried vegetables and meat into the pot, it was said that the taste should not be unpleasant, but I don't know what magical means these guys used, anyway, Li Xiu wanted to vomit when he smelled the smell.

At that moment, Li Xiu found the head of the man and told him that the princess's injury needed to be eaten separately, and that the doctor himself would do it, and the head of the man also knew him, after all, Li Xiu was wandering around with Ma Ye in the army when he was fine, and he was familiar with each other, so the head of the man did not suspect it, and asked Li Xiu to prepare something to cook at the moment.

Due to the restrictions of the season, there are not many ingredients in the barracks, except for staple foods such as rice and noodles, there are only some dried vegetables and meat left, Li Xiu can only cook a pot of lean porridge in the end, add some diced dried mushrooms, and also fry two dishes, namely stir-fried mutton and scrambled eggs, although there is no technical content, but because stir-fried vegetables have not yet been invented, so when the fragrance of his stir-fried vegetables wafted out, it immediately attracted the attention of all the men around.

In the end, Li Xiu served a porridge of lean meat, plus fried mutton and scrambled eggs, and barely made a dinner for Princess Pingyang, but when he was cooking just now, he "accidentally" made more of everything, and the rest of the rice and vegetables naturally could not be wasted, so he had to "reluctantly" keep it for himself.

When he returned to the fire with the "leftovers", Ma Ye had already finished eating the bowl of paste, and when he saw the food in his hand, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then stared at him strangely, and only after a while did he speak: "Just now I heard that you went to prepare dinner for the princess in person, and my heart was quite moved, but now it seems that you are more like preparing dinner for yourself!" ”

"Uncle Ma, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, these are leftovers after being sent to the princess, I am afraid of wasting it, so I keep it for myself, and I have decided, I will cover the princess's three meals in the future!" Li Xiu said and stuffed a piece of mutton into his mouth, well, I haven't cooked for a long time, the mutton is a little old, but the eggs are fried well, the outer pine is tender and salty on the inside, and the lean porridge is simply amazing.

Looking at Li Xiu's shameless appearance, Ma Ye was also a little speechless, if it wasn't for the fact that he was already full, he would have to pounce on him and snatch all the food he cooked, and then let him taste the taste of hunger, see if he is picky in the future?

At the same time, Princess Pingyang was also a little dumbfounded and looked at the porridge and two dishes in front of her, and after a while, the female guard who was right said, "These are all made by Captain Li himself?" ”

"The subordinates have already asked the husband, and it is indeed all made by Captain Li himself!" The guard nodded in reply.

After listening to the guard's report, Princess Pingyang looked at the three meals in front of her that exuded different aromas, and after a while, she picked up the chopsticks and tasted them, and found that whether it was porridge or vegetables, they were very delicious, which made her whisper to herself: "He said that he likes cooking, and he thought it was self-defilement, but he didn't expect it to be true?" ”