Chapter 268: Homecoming
"Isn't this soup boiling yet? Why is there no heat at all? ”
The chicken blood coagulated the impurities in the soup, and the soup turned from milky white to clear and translucent. After removing the sediment, put the pork bones in it and simmer slowly for another hour or two over low heat.
One of Li Hao's students looked at the chicken soup with a layer of oil floating on top of the pot and couldn't help but ask. The soup doesn't even steam hot, and it looks like it's not hot in this weather.
"The soup is freshly boiled, and it's covered with a layer of chicken fat, so you can't see the heat, so don't just test the temperature with your mouth."
In addition to the importance of the soup, the ingredients of the cross-bridge rice noodles are not simple, and various side dishes such as wild mushrooms, fungus, and tofu can be added here, and then a bowl of cross-bridge rice noodles with excellent taste can be added.
Just be careful when eating this stuff, don't drink the soup directly with your mouth, because although the soup will not bubble up, it will be very hot. You can't see it in this later generation of cross-bridge rice noodle shops, and you can only go to the place where you have actually eaten bridge rice noodles.
What Li Hao does is the most authentic cross-bridge rice noodles, and there are a lot of actions that should be taken, all of them. This thing will be carried forward in Yunnan Province at that time, and it must be done to the extreme.
The difference between the bridge rice noodles and other soup rice noodles is that the rice noodles here are not directly put into the soup after soaking softly. Instead, when eating, put the side dishes in the soup along with the rice noodles, and then blanch them and eat them.
"It's not the same way we used to eat soup noodles." Li Hao's student smiled after seeing it, Feng Sanlang on the side is almost adapted to this kind of life now. He is now also under Li Hao's hand and takes Li Hao as his teacher.
Coupled with Li Ke's children, these are the highest-ranking students under Li Hao. The other students are almost all orphans, or children whose family conditions are not very good, because of the various treatments of Li Hao's school, they have become Li Hao's students, and several of them are voluntary.
It's just that Li Ke's children didn't follow Li Hao, only Li Hao would teach them every time he returned to Chang'an or went to Tanzhou, and he usually assigned various homework for them to study.
Unlike the education received by other emperors, Li Ke's children studied directly in Li Hao's school, where teachers taught them, and they would not be treated special because of their status, and Li Hao also explained what he taught.
"Did you have people follow up on the tea tree matter?" While eating together, Li Hao looked up and asked a few of his students, which was also one of Li Hao's two remaining things.
Yunnan Province has a famous tea, and the name of Pu'er is very loud in later generations. Li Hao is here, so naturally he won't let these go. Just like he won't let go of the famous tea in Quanzhou Mansion over there.
Quanzhou Mansion's Tieguanyin, Da Hong Pao and Oolong Tea and other famous teas have been valued by Li Hao, and even spent a lot of points in exchange for the cultivation and production of tea trees, which are the quintessence of the country and must be spread well.
Li Hao originally wanted to publish the entire tea scripture, but after thinking about it, he didn't want the name of this tea saint. However, he still asked people to enter all the famous teas of the entire Tang Dynasty, and then talked about the origin and shape, cultivation technology and tea products.
He didn't write more detailed things, let's leave this to Lu Yu to do, as for whether there will be Lu Yu in the future, or if anyone will get the tea scripture out in advance, this Li Hao himself is not sure, it is a historical matter.
But at present, these tea trees must be well protected, thinking about the future generations after a thousand years, those people ran to Yunnan Province to take a look. There are ancient tea trees that are more than 1,000 years old everywhere, or ancient tea trees that are carved in stone, and that scene is not too beautiful when you think about it.
You must know that Li Hao of later generations once went here to see those ancient tea trees with a history of hundreds or thousands of years, and always felt that those ancients left a rich wealth to future generations. Now that I have a whole bunch of tea trees that are more than 1,000 years old, this is even more remarkable.
"Let's go, let's go back to Guangzhou!"
With a loud shout, tens of thousands of people began to set off with a sense of eagerness to return home. In the winter of the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Hao, the head of the Lingnan Road march, returned to Nanzhao with a great victory.
After Li Hao threw away the two things in his hand, he determined his itinerary. Because a wide cement road was built from Yunnan Province to Guangzhou, this made their march much faster, and the time to reach Guangzhou was also shortened a lot.
When I came, it was 40,000 troops, and when I returned, it was still 40,000 troops. In addition to these, these people should have left a lot of things here, and Li Hao even specially explained these things to Wang Xuance and his students.
Don't be too polite to those Fanyi, but for those Fanyi women who have had a relationship with Han soldiers and gave birth to children, these must be taken care of, and these places will be dominated by these people in the future.
Whether this approach is effective or not, Li Hao can't guarantee it, it's up to those newborn children to grasp it themselves. I just let the excellent seeds of Datang spread more places, and then teach these children well.
In addition to the seeds, there were many soldiers who died in the middle, but then a lot was added. The ashes of all the soldiers who died in the battle were collected, and Li Hao had them taken back to Canton.
Leaving no soldier behind, so that those who died in battle can get the treatment they deserve, this is what Li Hao has been emphasizing and strictly doing. The soldiers under him, Li Hao will never be too strict with a small benefit.
But if you dare to bully the people of the Tang Dynasty and dare to take down the various treatments of those who died in battle, as long as they are discovered, these people will be cut down, and all treatment will be canceled. This Li Hao has always said yes before and let them do it.
"The general returned triumphantly, hard work." The army arrived in Guangzhou Mansion on the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and it was less than a month in between. The Guangzhou Mansion and the Quanzhou Mansion came to greet Li Hao together, and the two of them were going back to Chang'an to report on their work after the New Year.
"This great victory depends on the concerted efforts of all the soldiers, and they cannot be without credit." Li Hao doesn't have to worry about returning to the barracks, and the adjutant generals below will naturally take it over. Li Hao entered the Guangzhou Mansion with the assassins of the two mansions, and then went directly to the Li Mansion.
The two assassins can understand that Li Hao has been out for a year, and the children in the house have been born for a few months. He, a father, has never seen it, and now that he is back, he naturally has to go back to the house to see his children first.
In the entire Lingnan Dao, except for Lao Feng, who has retired, Li Hao's official position here is the largest, and naturally no one dares to disagree with what he wants to do. Li Hao returned to the house and bathed first, and then went to see his children.
By this time, he was not in such a hurry. After returning from the battlefield, Li Hao naturally would not let himself see the child in armor, which would scare the child. Li Hao still has the murderous aura of the battlefield, and these must be eliminated.
"Shun'er, bring Da Lang over and I'll take a look!" Seeing that Li Hao is back, several women in the Li Mansion are a little excited, they haven't seen each other for more than a year, and they miss Li Hao very much now, but there are too many people in the mansion now, and they can only hide this thought in their hearts.
Li Hao didn't have so many scruples, and after giving each of his women a big hug, he asked them to bring the children over. I have a future, I always have to take a look.
"Shaojun, not now, the little Langjun and the little ladies are sleeping, and they won't wake up to play for a while until later." Aunt Zhong jumped out and said loudly, she heard that several of Li Hao's women were going to give birth, so she came from Chang'an on purpose.
Uncle Zhong and Da Lang Erlang couldn't get over, and there were many things over there, so Aunt Zhong came over alone. Now he is taking care of Li Hao's children with Li Hao's mother-in-law, Wu Yue stays here, but Xiao Wu goes back to Chang'an, and he will not return to Guangzhou Mansion in a few days.
"Well, let's get a little later, let them get some good sleep first." Li Hao was stunned for a moment after hearing this, the children were like this, and he didn't force the children to come over and take a look. As a person who came from later generations, Li Hao is more open to this.
Among the four children, Wushun's child is the eldest and is still a boy. He is now the eldest man of the Li Mansion, the second child is also a boy, and the two younger ones are girls. You can't hold them and play with them, just watch them sleep.
Li Hao looked at a few small points, and there was a strange feeling in his heart, a feeling of blood extension. In the future, I need to pay attention to more things, in addition to my wife and children.
"This is a gift for them, you mothers should put it away first."
The gifts for the four children were of the same value, but they were divided into two categories because of the male and female nature. Li Hao has no prejudice against boys and girls, as long as it is his child, he likes it. This made the two women who gave birth to girls breathe a sigh of relief, for fear that Li Hao would not like girls.
The Li Mansion became lively because of the arrival of the male host, especially when the male owner came back from winning the battle. Li Er gave a lot of rewards, and Li Hao was given thousands of acres of land in Guangzhou Mansion, and his title was also promoted.
"It's a pity that the old master passed away too early, otherwise I don't know how happy I am to see this scene." Aunt Zhong on the side couldn't help but sigh when she saw this scene.
The life of the Li Mansion is getting better and better day by day, and now it is spreading again, even Uncle Zhong and the others are getting better and better, can Aunt Zhong not sigh?
can't tease his children first, Li Hao can only look at their sleeping appearance a few times. Then a banquet was held in the mansion to entertain two assassins, as well as Lao Feng.
In the past two years, the population of Lingnan Province has tripled, the economy has developed rapidly, and a lot of cultivated land has been reclaimed. Under the rule, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the children can go to school, and it is difficult for them to be promoted without this achievement.
However, the whereabouts of the two have not been confirmed now, they will return to Chang'an first, and then arrange to serve in the imperial court or in another place, which is not clear for the time being.
There were also many officials in Tanzhou who were also promoted, and a number of Li Hao's students were also promoted by one level, and Liu Renliang was also promoted by one level again. For Li Hao, these are undoubtedly good news, very good news for him.