The news that Lu Bu's wife Yan and his concubine Dong Pu were pregnant together was soon spread to the camps of the Tiance Army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some bad rumors about the general in the past were instantly self-defeating. Now everyone is looking forward to what kind of child the two ladies will give birth to the general in nine months.

However, even if the two ladies give birth to two daughters at the same time, the soldiers will not be disappointed, because the majesty of the above generals, as long as they marry a few more women and work a little hard, they will inevitably have a group of children and successors in the future!

Lu Bu himself was also very happy, and in order to celebrate, he personally instructed the craftsmen and the back kitchen, and then made a special dinner.

In order to prepare the cooking utensils for the banquet, Lu Bu personally instructed Jia Kui to transfer two hundred catties of brass from the treasury to the coppersmith, and then asked the coppersmith to take Lu Bu's hand-drawn sketches to create a batch of strange copper pots with a semicircle on the bottom, a conical shape on the top, and a hollow in the middle.

Lu Bu asked the coppersmith to make this strange-looking cooking utensil, which was put on the copper-edged stove that people were accustomed to in later generations, and was specially used to make mutton shabu.

Isn't there a saying? There's no problem that a hot pot can't solve. If it can't be solved, then come to two.

As a senior foodie, Lu Bu has been enduring all kinds of tasteless food for the past two years, and he is even more powerless and complaining about the simple and rough cooking methods of the Han Dynasty.

The history of human evolution is actually an evolutionary history related to eating. If the earliest humanoids did not like the taste of food cooked by wildfire, they would not have found a way to consciously preserve the fire, and when humanoids began to consciously use fire to process food, their brain capacity began to increase rapidly, and then they became more and more intelligent, and various tools were invented and created one after another.

Chinese civilization can have a long history, which is very closely related to the strong vitality of food culture.

When the craftsmen were building the copper-edged stove, Lu Bu asked the men in charge of the kitchen affairs to collect seasonings and vegetables for shabu-shabu.

At this time, the Han Dynasty did not have the magic seasoning of chili pepper, and pepper did not spread in the north, but this did not have much impact, because some locally grown seasonings are actually very tasty.

For example, green onions, ginger, garlic, dogwood, peppercorns, grass fruits, fennel, cinnamon, as well as aged sorrel, soybean sauce and walnut kernels, etc.

The flavor of dogwood is spicy, greasy, and can replace part of the effect of chili peppers. In fact, even in later generations, there are many people who do not necessarily like the seasoning made with chili peppers.

In terms of the preparation of vegetables, because it is the cold season when winter is not gone and spring is approaching, there are only a few mustard greens, celery, spinach and winter bamboo shoots, and there are also some wild vegetables that are not named.

After the seasoning and vegetables were almost ready, Lu Bu instructed the kitchen to stew a few chickens in a large pot, and put medicinal herbs such as wolfberries and ginseng into it to make a pot of broth.

When the broth was ready, Lu Bu ordered the men to kill the two fat sheep that had been prepared in advance, and cut the mutton into thin slices and lay them neatly on a delicate lacquered plate. In addition, sheep blood, sheep liver, sheep intestines, sheep tripe, sheep whip and sheep kidneys were also disposed of separately.

When everything was ready, Lu Bu sent someone to invite the guests to the banquet.

There was no fight from Shicheng, and those who could come to the banquet lived around Tiance Mansion, so they were not in a hurry in terms of time.

In the evening, Lu Zhi, Chen Gong, Zhang Fan, Liu Hui, Fu Zhu, Geng Wu, Hua Tuo and others arrived one after another. In addition to these high-status celebrities, Lu Bu also deliberately asked them to bring their children or apprentices with them to show their favor.

Lu Zhi's youngest son Lu Yu, Chen Gong's eldest son Chen Qi, Fu Zhu's eldest son Fu Hu, Zhang Fan's two sons Zhang Ling and Zhang Shen, Hua Tuo's two apprentices Fan A and Wu Pu, and Lu Bu's disciples Guo Huai and Hao Zhao, as well as Jia Kui, Wang Xiang, Yang Xiao and other young subordinate officials, were all invited, and they were fortunate to participate in the banquet personally prepared by General Lu Bu.

In the order of honoring the elder and the younger, everyone sat behind the long case in turn.

Lu Bu said to everyone: "Recently, the weather is cold, and the wind is not stopping, I specially let the kitchen make some preparations, and today I invite you and your children to come and taste the side stove shabu-shabu that I pioneered." ”

Lu Bu's voice landed, and the cooks and subordinates, who had already been ready outside the hall, held the tray in their hands, and the copper-edged stove with charcoal on the tray entered the hall in a row, and then placed the copper-edged stove in front of the guests together with the tray.

After these subordinates left, another group of subordinates rushed in with rectangular food plates. There are reddish lamb slices on the plate, as well as various small bowls of Fluttershy, which contain minced salt, dogwood powder, Sichuan pepper powder, chopped green onions, garlic paste, and so on.

Guests have already been whetted by the ingredients and seasonings in this large bowl of Fluttershy, but that's just the beginning. Later, people came in with all kinds of vegetables, haggis, and drinks, until the food table in front of each guest was full.

Lu Bu personally demonstrated to the guests, first opened the damper under the copper-edged stove with his hands, and then used long wooden chopsticks to pick up a piece of fat and thin mutton slices, gently soaked in the boiling broth for a while, and then dipped the soaked mutton into a seasoning dish mixed with salted powder, dogwood powder, and Sichuan pepper powder, and then finally sandwiched the meat into the mouth, chewing and swallowing slowly.

"Well, that's what it tastes like!" Lu Bu burst into tears in his heart, and sighed that he finally tasted the taste of thinking about it day and night.

With Lu Bu's demonstration, the guests who had already been hungry raised their wooden chopsticks and happily shook themselves.

The two wives of the general are pregnant, which is a happy event, Lu Bu only slaughtered a few sheep in the mansion and invited everyone to eat a hot pot, which is not related to the extravagant aspect. And the state is short of food, but not livestock, especially horses and sheep.

The people who invited guests to this banquet were sincere, the people who ate and invited had no psychological burden, and the taste of the side stove shabu-shabu was indeed delicious and delicious, so everyone ate very happily, even old people like Lu Zhi and Liu Hui were a little disregarded for their image, and frequently raised their glasses to Lu Bu, ate and drank, and let go of their worries.

As for the younger juniors, although they sit in the back seat, it is just convenient for them to eat and drink.

Yang Xiao leaned close to Jia Kui, Wang Xiang and others, he had a special preference for lamb tripe and sheep kidney, and after eating his own food plate, he stood up and grabbed Wang Xiang and Jia Kui.

After Lu Bu saw it, he scolded with a smile and said, "Okay, you Yang Shuren, you eat your own and rob others!" Jia Kui, Wang Xiang, don't be so honest, hurry up and rob him! ”

The hall burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was lively and cheerful.