Since the Fan family married into Liu Cong's family as a concubine, he began to deliberately curry favor with Kuai Ruyu, and asked Kuai Ruyu for cooking skills without a trace.

You must know that Kuai Ruyu was born in a family that combines government and business, and has received a good education since she was a child, not only Confucianism, but also involves all kinds of miscellaneous studies, especially the Lu Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Policy, which can be used in the shopping mall, and has studied for many years, not to mention that she has been in the business world for several years, and has read countless people in her life, and you can see at a glance that Fan has bad intentions towards herself.

However, Kuai Ruyu did not point it out directly, but secretly took precautions, and kept the matter of cooking and cooking strictly confidential, no matter how the other party tried to teach it.

The Fan family had no choice but to use a lot of money to buy the maid Chunlan beside Kuai Ruyu, and let her record every word and deed when Kuai Ruyu was cooking.

Chunlan didn't dare to refuse directly, so she had to agree, but because she was grateful for Kuai Ruyu's kindness to herself, she told Kuai Ruyu about it.

Kuai Ruyu thought about it for a while, and let Chunlan be like this.

After Chunlan heard this, she told Fan Shi about the method of steaming jujube flowers a few days later, of course, this method was of course after being transformed by Kuai Ruyu.

If Fan got the treasure, the next day he proposed to steam a pot of jujube flowers for his mother-in-law.

Cai's was very happy to hear this, because although Fan's was just a concubine, she was very considerate of herself, and she was extremely flexible, sometimes she didn't think of many things, Fan's had already done a good job, so in her heart, Fan's status had already surpassed Kuai Ruyu, who was the eldest son's wife, if it weren't for Kuai Ruyu's food, she would have found a way to make things difficult for the other party.

Now that Fan can also cook Kuai Ruyu's meals, she is naturally very happy, because from then on, she can not only enjoy the food, but also clean up Kuai Ruyu with confidence.

But after Fan brought the steamed jujube flowers, Cai saw that the pot of jujube flowers were all dead balls, shrunk to the size of a palm, the color was black, and the taste was naturally not good.

"Alas, it's really not enough to succeed, more than to fail, I thought I could deal with the Kuai clan willfully from now on, but I didn't expect that I still can't do it now." Cai's face was disappointed, and he sighed secretly.

Fan couldn't help but be frustrated when he saw that he had worked hard for many days to get such a result, and seeing Cai's disappointment, he was even more annoyed in his heart, knowing that she had discovered her conspiracy, she deliberately kept a hand, thought about it, and said with a smile: "The concubine's cooking skills are really different from the eldest lady, and you still need to learn more from the eldest lady, and this matter needs to be completed by the aunt." ”

After finishing speaking, he knelt down respectfully in front of Cai's salute and looked at Cai's with antiquation.

Cai's naturally knew what Fan's meant, and his heart moved secretly, and then said to Kuai Ruyu: "What Ruji said is the same, even I see that you often cook and cook, it is very hard, and I don't want to go, why don't you pass on your unique skills to her, Ruji is a concubine, you can't always let you serve her, this matter spreads, it's time for people to laugh at my house for not following the rules and regulations." ”

Kuai Ruyu replied respectfully; "I don't know what the reason for this matter is, it may be that Sister Ruji has practiced less. As long as you do more and have experience, everything will be easy to do. ”

But he did not refuse Cai's request, and at the same time did not explicitly agree.

Cai couldn't help but secretly scolded Kuai Ruyu for being cunning, but there was no way, so he had to smile and say to Fan: "In this case, you will practice more in the future, and then your sister-in-law will give more guidance, and you will soon be able to master the skills, hehe, as your sister-in-law said, practice makes perfect, what experience in this world is not slowly accumulated?" How can it be taught by others? ”

Cai's words are ostensibly teaching Fan's family, but in fact, he is venting his dissatisfaction with Kuai Ruyu's refusal to teach, which is saying to Fan's family, as long as you practice diligently and accumulate more experience, it doesn't matter if she refuses to teach you, it's just the length of time.

Both women are smart, who can't hear Cai's voice? Seeing that her mother-in-law was devoted to herself, Fan naturally respectfully thanked her, but Kuai Ruyu pretended not to understand, and after eating, she retired to Cai. And he returned to his own room.

And Liu Cong is now running outside Kuai Ruyu's residence as always, casually caring about the guards at the door, but he still doesn't give up, and always tries to get close to those guards, such as inviting them to drink, giving them rewards, talking to them, etc., but those guards all ignore them, looking at their noses and noses, as if they are not talking to them.

"Damn, if I didn't have the power of the army, I would definitely lead a team to come and kill all these guards, the old man is also biased, the same son, Liu Qi's waste has so many soldiers and horses, but I only have more than ten house slaves, and these house slaves are all not good, three or five can't beat one such guard." Liu Cong couldn't help gritting his teeth and said hatefully.

And just when Fan and Liu Cong were trying to figure out how to calculate Kui Ruyu, Liu Qi encountered a happy event here. Because Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu's fleet finally came to Pengze.

Liu Qi was overjoyed when he heard the report and personally came to the port to greet him.

"Haha, General Zhang, Mr. Wenhe, I haven't seen you for many days, it's always good?" Liu Qi arched his hand and said with a smile to the two.

Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu also hurriedly returned the salute and said in unison: "I dare not dare to have Lord Lao greet me personally." ”

Zhang Xiu was even more ashamed and said: "The last general lost the county, and he was entrusted by the state pastor and the son, it is really ashamed, and the son was asked to go to the state master to punish the last general." ”

Liu Qi hurriedly helped Zhang Xiu up, and Zhengse said, "How can the general say such a thing?" If you want to say ashamed, it is also a shame for the general, knowing that Cai Mao collaborated with the enemy and conspired to send Sui County to Cao Cao, but I can't cure him. ”

"Or Mr. Wenhe has the means, although he withdrew from the county overnight, but he came up with a clever plan, not only to let us grasp the evidence of Cai Mao's collaboration with the enemy, but also to make him have a misunderstanding with Cao Cao, if he is lucky, I am afraid that he and Cao Cao will only see that there will be some military friction, hehe, Mr. Wenhe has taken a bad breath for us, this is really happy." Zhang Xiu smiled and followed Liu Qi's words.

"Oh? I don't know what trick Mr. used to trick Cai Mao? Let me hear it too. Liu Qi couldn't help but suddenly become interested and said to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu smiled and told Jia Xu's strategy.

Liu Qi couldn't help but laugh after hearing this, and said with admiration: "Mr. Wenhe really has a clever plan, this time Hugh said that it was Cai Mao, even Cao Cao couldn't help but be fooled, and Mr. came up with such a clever plan between his backhands, which is really admirable." ”

Xu Shu and the others on the side couldn't help but be convinced when they heard Zhang Xiu talk about Jia Xu's clever plan, they were originally a little unconvinced that Liu Qi admired Jia Xu so much, but now they are completely convinced, but they can't come up with such a clever plan.

But Jia Xu said with a wry smile: "What is this ability? Yiqiē is not in the control of adults in the end? ”

Liu Qi knew that this was Jia Xu mocking him for deceiving this pair of monarchs and ministers to his account, but he didn't think it was wrong, and said with a smile: "This official really hopes that the two of them will help each other, so sometimes they have to follow the power, so please don't blame the general and Mr. Wenhe, in fact, this matter is self-explanatory, even if the official tells the news in advance, it will be difficult for Sui County to keep it in the end, and Mr. will definitely return to Cao Cao, so that the official can not get Mr. Xiangzuo, and add a terrible enemy, so after the two are in power, The official had no choice but to use a little subplot and invite two of them to my account. ”

After Liu Qi finished speaking, he solemnly waved Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu to apologize.

Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu hurriedly returned the courtesy, and said in unison: "My lord's words are serious. The last general (lower official) can be so valued by the adult, it is really touching in my heart, and the last general (lower official) will swear to repay the service in the future, in order to repay the grace of the adult. ”

Liu Qi helped the two of them up, and said with a smile: "How honored am I Liu Qi to have two of them to help?" General Zhang can fight habitually, if not used in the military formation, it is really buried your talent, this official wants to ask the general to still serve as the general of Jianzhong, change to the Marquis of Haidu, and then increase the number of households by 500, command my command of 10,000 foot soldiers, and recruit cavalry in the future, and then led by the general and General Wenchang respectively, and Mr. Wenhe is outstandingly wise, this official intends to worship as a military division to sacrifice wine, I don't know what the two of them mean? ”

When Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu heard this, they hurriedly thanked them, especially Zhang Xiu, who originally thought that it would be good for him to take refuge under Liu Qi's account and be able to give an official position such as a lieutenant, but he didn't expect to still let himself hold a position like General Jianzhong, you must know that now his position is already very high in Liu Qi's army, and even Yu Ban's position is under him, even if it is a confidant general like Wei Yan and Gan Ning, it is just like himself.

What's more, Liu Qi also gave himself 10,000 troops, which is really a great favor and trust for a general.

Jia Xu was not too excited, and thanked Liu Qi lightly. This is not to say that he doesn't care about the position of military advisor sacrificial wine, in fact, he is happy that he can get Liu Qi's trust so much, but as a top strategist, he naturally can't show the image of ordinary people who are greedy for fame and fortune.

Liu Qi introduced Xu Shu, Wei Yan and others to Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, and then took them to the camp tent, handed over the command order to Zhang Xiu, and asked him to go down with Fanqin to select soldiers, equipment, grain and grass, and then briefly introduced the current shape to Jia Xu, and asked Ji again: "Now that the two sides are facing each other, I don't know what kind of plan Mr. has to break the enemy?" ”

Jia Xu arched his hand and said: "Xia Guan has just arrived, but I still don't know who Zhou Yuguo is? Wait until tomorrow when the lord meets him for a while, and the lower officials also see this master, and dare to make a plan. ”

Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh and said: "Sir's words, it can be seen that we are cautious, so we will meet Zhou Yu tomorrow." ”