The officers' three meals a day are prepared by Wanghailou, and breakfast is usually delivered to a single room, but in view of what Liao Buji did in the single room. Chang Zhenbang really lost his appetite, went downstairs to the hall, and the quartermaster officer who was busy last night greeted him, and after asking the reason, he invited Chang Zhenbang to eat with him at the same table, Chang Zhenbang had no reason not to accept it.

The quartermaster officer's residence and meals are also arranged in the hall, but it is relatively better than those adjutants who are not of enough level, after all, they are also officers of the quartermaster department, if they can't even greet themselves, wouldn't it make people underestimate their own strength?

Looking at a table of delicacies, Chang Zhenbang ate very happily, although the quartermaster officer at the same table with him didn't know if he could do it, but he really did it, eating like this really reminded Chang Zhenbang of eating with his old father and old lady at home, unlike now, every time he eats, he either flatters the superior and praises the lower official, or is flattered by Zhang Youhua and other officers.

Another thing that Chang Zhenbang paid special attention to was that the quartermaster named Howard seemed to only eat white rice, didn't understand vegetables, didn't move the fish, didn't want to drink soup even if he drank water, and the sumptuous dishes on the table seemed to be prepared for Chang Zhenbang, and he didn't touch a single chopstick.

Chang Zhenbang curiously picked up a chopstick dish and put it on Howard's white rice, and said very praisedly: "This chili fried meat is well done, Brother Huade can taste it!" ”

Howard gave him a grateful look, gently pulled the chili fried pork with the chopsticks aside, and devoured the white rice with the taste of vegetable juice under the dish, and it was obvious that he liked to eat vegetables, but why didn't he eat it? Could it be that this dish is poisonous? Thinking of this, Chang Zhenbang's hand holding the chopsticks couldn't help but tremble, and the fish pieces in the chopsticks fell to the edge of the plate with a clatter, splashing some soup.

The soup fell on the table, and the rice bowl in Howard's hand also fell on the table almost at the same time, he poked his head and asked with great concern: "This fish is a Suzhou method, probably not to the taste of ordinary adults?" Why don't I let Wanghaichun go down and change to another pickled cabbage fish in Sichuan cuisine? ”

Chang Zhenbang said with a smile: "I'm ashamed, it's not that this fish is not in line with my brother's taste, it's just that I got up early in the morning, and my body hasn't moved yet, and my fingers are inevitably a little trembling, which makes Brother Huade feel weird, haha!" ”

"It's okay!" Howard smiled and said, "If the Overseer knows that I didn't entertain well, my brother's head won't be safe." ”

This is a polite sentence, it is estimated that no one will take it seriously, but Chang Zhenbang felt that what the other party said so seriously was really like he would do that, but he still smiled and said like a spring breeze has passed: "Brother Huo, you are really joking, I see that you have taken care of this Wanghai Tower in an orderly manner, making people feel at home, I believe no one will be dissatisfied!" ”

Howard said with a wry smile: "Brother Chang, don't you know, I, Howard, have been in the army since I was a child, and I also bought my life from the pile of dead people with a knife and a gun, but I am a full man, so it is especially difficult to mix in the military officialdom in Central China!" I don't know how many people are ready to hold my head to show the innovative spirit of these people. ”

Chang Zhenbang was also a little sad when he heard it, the Wuhan civil unrest not only drove away the emperor but also made the Manchus fall from the ninefold heaven to the eighteen layers of hell at once, those Manchu nobles turned into the new dynasty magnates, and the bitter ones were still these lower-class Manchus, I don't know how many people were beheaded overnight, I don't know how many Han people were regarded as Manchus because of their unclear words, and many people in the army were expelled from the army and slaughtered within a hundred steps of Yuanmen!

Except for the death of these people, everything is still the same, except that some titles have been changed, the political envoy has become the governor, the admiral has become the general and the overseer, and the rest is almost unchanged.

Emotion is emotion, this Howard is a Manchurian but still serves in such a fat position in the Quartermaster Department, there must be something extraordinary.

Thinking of this, Chang Zhenbang reached out and picked up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks and sent it to Howard's bowl, saying: "There is wine today and drunk today, tomorrow will be sorrowful, tomorrow will be worried!" Only by keeping today can we win tomorrow! Without a good body, the future is impossible! ”

"You're right!"

Howard glanced at it gratefully, in fact, he didn't know why he would tell Chang Zhenbang that he was a Manchurian, probably this is fate, thinking of this, he picked up the rice bowl and ate it anew, but the fish was still pulled aside by him.

Chang Zhenbang saw that he still didn't move his chopsticks, and said curiously: "This fish is a Suzhou method, my brother is a man, and it is reasonable that it is not in line with my brother's taste, why don't I let Wanghaichun withdraw and change to a fried fish with Northeast sauerkraut?" You are a Manchurian and should love Northeast food! ”

Howard refused: "Don't worry so much about Brother Chang, I don't eat vegetables!" ”

"My brother can't eat vegetables, his body can't stand it!" Chang Zhenbang said with some distress: "Even if the monks in the temple still eat some vegetarian dishes, why is this trouble, brother?" ”

Howard put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said very sadly: "Thank you brother for your concern, although I Howard is full of people, but I am also from a poor family, twenty years ago, the Central China flood besieged Luoyin City for three months, I don't know how many people were drowned in the water, and I don't know how many people starved to death on the side of the road, the Huade family was lucky to be born in the city and did not die from the flood, but they could not raise enough food, and their parents in order to survive, all the rice was replaced with mixed noodles, and the mixed noodles were replaced with wild grass rice meat. But even this could not survive until the flood receded, and when the relief grain and grass of the imperial court were allocated, soon my mother starved to death, and I had excess rice and meat, I did not eat it, and my father pried open my mouth and forced me to eat, and three or four days later, my father also starved to death. I repelled everyone, personally helped the stones and threw them into the flood, just when I was waiting to die, who damn the flood actually receded, not long after the imperial court sent relief grain and grass, I was full of people so I survived, from when did I Howard only eat rice in this life! ”

"What is this rice meat, and why is it cheaper than mixed noodles? Since there's meat to eat, why not eat it! That's what's wrong with you," Chang Zhenbang couldn't help but ask curiously.

Who knew that as soon as this word was mentioned, Howard's face became blue and distorted, his body shook, and he almost vomited, Chang Zhenbang hurriedly stood up and slapped it, but was pushed away by Howard, and said: "Pigs eat omnivorous foods and grow pork, sheep eat fresh grass and grow mutton, and this rice meat is the meat that grows from rice!" ”

"It turned out to be rat meat!" Chang Zhenbang couldn't help but sigh, he didn't know how this rat meat tasted, but just seeing the ugly appearance of the rat, he felt so disgusted that he couldn't eat, and he was embarrassed and embarrassed to ask this question!

"Wrong, brother, you're wrong!" Howard sighed with emotion and said: "If there is rat meat to eat, it is an eye-opener, do you know that there have always been only people who eat rice, and the so-called rice meat is ...... It's human flesh! After speaking, he covered his head and twitched in a low voice, maybe only such an experience can make such a man only eat white rice, and only this white rice can calm his heart.

Chang Zhenbang didn't do anything, just silently served him another bowl of white rice.

Reading the first book of the novel