After a while, Shangde brought a second piece of rice paper, on which was written the question of "chickens and rabbits in the same cage": "I don't know how many chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, and thirty-six cages are exposed." Count 50 pairs of feet, how many chickens and rabbits are there? ”

Su You only smiled slightly, listed two equations in his notebook with a pen, and solved the answer in less than half a minute, but this time he didn't need to explain, the coachman and Shangde saw that he was full of confidence, and naturally couldn't say anything to praise except admiration. In fact, to put it mildly, such a binary equation problem can only be put in the first year of junior high school in later generations, and Su You has no pressure on such a problem when he is less than ten years old.

About half a pillar of incense, Shang De brought another problem of ternary equations, which was called "Han Xin's Soldiers". - "Legend has it that Han Xin, the general of the Han Dynasty, used a special method to count the number of soldiers. His method was to have the soldiers line up in three columns, then five, and finally seven. As long as he knew the approximate number of soldiers in the group, he could deduce the exact number of soldiers in the group based on how many soldiers were in the last row of the three formations. If Han Xin had seen three formations at that time, and the number of soldiers in the last line was two, three, and four, respectively, and knew that this group of soldiers was about three or four hundred people, could you quickly calculate the number of soldiers in this group? ”

Of course, such a question is not difficult for Su You, if it weren't for his deliberate delay to make the questioner not too embarrassed, he could even give an answer within a minute.

However, Su You was no longer a child who didn't know anything about the world, so he deliberately spent more than ten times more time pretending to work hard to solve this difficult problem, so as not to be too shocking in his cleverness.

Destruction is always more time-saving and labor-saving than construction, fortunately, His Royal Highness is just a copyist from ancient books or hearsay, and he is not a problem-solver, when Su You solved the correct answer one by one, he couldn't help but have some surprise in his heart to pick up the treasure, so he stopped the convoy.

Su You got out of the car, first went to the side of the road and retched for a while, but he didn't vomit anything, and when he wanted to find water to drink, he saw that there was a river a few hundred meters away from the road. On the other side, there was a small hill a few miles square, scattered bushes were shadowed after the rain had passed, dozens of soldiers had already rushed over to hunt, and there were only four or five guards left by Yang Jun's side.

The women also got out of the car one after another, pulling the fence and setting the soft couch, obviously to come up on the side of the Wei River for a belated spring outing, isn't it? Now the season has passed the beginning of summer, and in two months, you can travel in autumn.

"I don't know what else I can do under my feet?" Shang De smiled and arched his hand to Su You, and Yang Yu nodded to Su You from a distance to admit his cleverness, but did not beckon him to step forward. Of course, Su You can understand, whether it is for safety reasons or because of the difference in identity, how could the prince rub against himself like a bee seeing honey?

"What else can you do? Does cooking count? What about drawing? Maybe it's just a hobby. Su You didn't tell Sù Shangde, in fact, his job is a photographer, and more often than not, he adds some of his travel impressions to the pictures and posts them to some travel magazines. Later, some people said that only Mr. Guanxi knew the art of photography, and the rest were just playing with equipment; Inspired by this, Su You also began to add artistic creations such as sketching and oil painting during his travels.

In a sense, he is still a foodie, and for a person who pursues a high quality of life, he has turned over some recipes.

When Shang De heard this, he just smiled, and Su You didn't care; He squatted at the water's edge regardless of it, bowed two handfuls of water with his hand, drank it, and began to wash his face.

The river did not pay attention to him, but only trickled eastward, reluctant to give up day and night.

"Our best cook here had a wind yesterday, I'm afraid he won't be able to move, can you do a little help?" Shang De went and returned, and after hesitating, he made such a request to Su You. "A gentleman is far away from cooking", such a request is, of course, a kind of insult, but Su You doesn't have such an awareness.

"Cooking? Let me try it. Su You nodded in agreement.

In the era in which he lived, the phrase "gentleman is far away from cooking" has already had a new interpretation, or rather, after more than 2,000 years, the original era is no longer ancient, and they no longer have the values and morals of the Spring and Autumn Period. - The gentleman is far away from the kitchen, out of sight and out of mind, but the meat is eaten as is, how hypocritical it is.

Su You tied his hair and washed his hands, several helpers had already lit a fire, he only remembered that one of them was called "Qingjing" and the other was called "Shisu"; The small ones are less than thirteen or fourteen, and the big ones are over thirty or forty, and they are simply dressed and have no appearance on their faces.

Thinking that the master was Yang Guang's son, Su You had a clear idea of the appearance of the two daughters,—— of course, according to tradition, Yang Guang's family did not have a beautiful maid, in order to get the position of the prince, Yang Guang often wore coarse cloth clothes and used simple furniture, and even the people who called him were either injured or disabled, or had a mediocre appearance.

And Yang Guang's second son, Yang Xuan, is another wonderful flower, not only flying and domineering, but also deeply loved by his parents Yang Guang and his grandfather Yang Jian.

But the names of the two still made Su You inevitably scold Yang Yan for being a "foodie", and secretly praised him after thinking about it, after all, even if the names of the two are the names of the dishes, they really have a provenance. The sentence "jagged vegetables, flowing left and right" in the "Book of Songs" has made people think about it, maybe Su You is indeed too tired, a night of anxiety, coupled with a half-day escape, made him lose too much strength.

Qingjing and a few other little girls are washing vegetables on the other side, the dish is not complicated, nothing more than ,—— woad vegetables such as woad eggs, that is, cabbage in later generations,—— amazing thing is that there are eggplants.

"I'll do this." Su You pointed to the eggplants that were still dripping.

"Ah, you know this?" Qing Jing's surprise seemed a little rare and strange.

"Is this thing rare? Next...... I remember eating it before, but maybe it was in a dream. Su You is not sure when this eggplant was introduced to China, but he does remember that it and sugarcane should be produced in Southeast Asia, maybe Vietnam, maybe Malaysia.

Before Su You made braised eggplant for the first time, he found that the earliest record of the braised eggplant method was "Qi Min Yaoshu", which was written in the Northern Wei Dynasty and has been more than 100 years ago; More than 400 years later, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there was a scholar who still ate eggplant for the first time and called it "Kunlun purple melon". - This fully proves the preciousness of eggplant, which can probably only be eaten by the upper class.

What Su You didn't know was that during the rebellion between Tao Kan and Wen Qiaoping Su Jun in the Jin Dynasty, the place where the two soldiers met was an eggplant field, and it was at least nearly three hundred years since he was now.

Su You remembered the famous "eggplant" dish in "Dream of Red Mansions" for a while,—— "It's not difficult." You put the eggplant that has just come down and label it, as long as the meat is cleaned, cut into broken nails, fried with chicken oil, and then use chicken breast meat and mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried curd, and dried fruits of all colors, all cut into nails, simmer dry with chicken broth, collect the sesame oil, add bad oil, and seal it tightly in a porcelain jar, take it out when you want to eat, and mix it with fried chicken and melon. ”

"You mean, you've eaten this South China Sea purple melon? What other three ways would you do it? His Royal Highness King Yuzhang was inevitably surprised, in the spring of this year, he wandered around the streets of Yangzhou by chance, met this eggplant that grew peculiarly, and listened to the boast of the flower seller, only to spend a high price to buy more than ten pots, originally thought it was a rare thing, it was to be dedicated to the emperor's grandfather Yang Jian, a few months down, also ate a few times, all boiled or fried. Although he didn't taste anything good, he always believed that he could make up for it, and at this time, listening to Su You's eloquent words, he was inevitably surprised.

"Well, do this...... This South China Sea purple gourd, in the agricultural book "Qi Min Yaoshu" is contained, it is indeed under the melon order, but the name is "eggplant", so many people ignore it, and in some places, it is called "Kunlun purple melon". Su You said, and counted the seasoning with his fingers, and almost said that he missed his mouth again, and I don't know if there is white sugar brown sugar in this era, and there is definitely no chili pepper, because the origin of chili peppers is on the American continent, and Columbus will need nearly 800 years to enter the historical stage.

More than ten minutes passed, Su You showed almost perfect knife skills in front of Yang Yun, the two eggplants were cut into even thin strips, all kinds of seasonings were prepared, and then it was put into the pot, this is the method of braised eggplant, but unfortunately the two eggplants are really small.

The other two eggplants had already been buried in the warm ashes by Su You, and there was still a fire burning on them. Just wait for the eggplant to be ripe, add tempeh, garlic cloves, oil and salt or something to mash and eat, this is the local method of Su You's hometown, and I don't know what the name is.

The braised eggplant and the gray eggplant are ready one by one, and everyone has read the art from Su You's cooking techniques, not to mention that the artwork is almost perfect? Yang Jun and his wife finished eating, and when the hunters came back, Su You used all the fawns for barbecue, and also used two wild ducks to make a flower chicken.

These people, who have never just thrown animals into the cauldron and boiled them like crazy, now know what it means to be delicious; After eating, everyone praised Su You again and again, and Su You also filled his stomach in the continuous tasting.

While the group was eating and mourning, several villagers came up and shouted denunciations and protests, because the ruffians had trampled on their crops and fences during the hunt.

"Give them a few pounds of copper, send them well, and warn them not to try to report to the officials, and don't try to find out who this king is." Yang Ying ate happily, and didn't care about the noise of a few small people, but wanted to use money to calm things, but he seemed to ignore that the banner of King Yuzhang flying in the wind was like a firefly in the dark night, betraying him deeply......

Fortunately, whether it is Diao Min or Shun Min, condemnation and protest are just a face-saving performance; In the face of absolute strength, and with copper as a fig leaf, they quickly chose to succumb, and then dispersed in a hurry, and disappeared from then on.