Chapter 7: Favor (Part 1)
Cheng Bites Jin and eats the fish is very scary, first putting a large piece of fish meat into his mouth, and then spitting out a whole fish bone with no minced fish meat left. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"White boy, when will you come to my house, my kitchen is big!"
"Uncle Cheng, what you just ate was carp." Bai Qi glanced at the old foodie helplessly, reminding him of the scene of those characters eating fish in the anime in his previous life. glanced at the better water tank in the yard, the two ten-pound carp in it were originally ready to eat to replenish their bodies, but now they are almost all packed into Cheng Yanjin's stomach. He is not afraid of being known by Li Shimin?
"What's wrong with the carp, you kid dare to eat it secretly, why can't I eat it, old man! When the old man was a soldier under His Majesty, he even ate human flesh! Cheng Yanjin ate boldly, and his words were very scary.
White thinks that he said this on purpose, the purpose is to make himself feel disgusting, and if he is disgusted, he will not grab meat from him to eat! Cannibalism? Cheng Biting Jin dared to eat human flesh, Li Shimin dared to cast him, and then made him a human stick, and the last fire was burned! In the fourth year of Wude, Li Shimin killed all of Zhu Cang's cannibalistic troops, and left no one!
Eating and drinking is the survival instinct of all living beings in this world, and the reason why humans are human is because humans do not eat their own kind, while other animals do. When a person begins to eat human flesh, he is no longer human, so when Zhu Cang's troops surrendered to Li Shimin, Li Shimin did not agree, because he was facing a group of beasts that ate human flesh, and the beasts had no right to be given mercy and mercy.
Cheng Yanjin actually said such philosophical words, which surprised Baiqi, which was a little different from his impression of Cheng Yanjin.
"Do things seriously!" Cheng Yanjin saw that the white chess piece had stopped, and glared fiercely.
Bai Qi took a yellow-brown crystal, put it to his mouth and tasted it, it was sour, and there was a very strange taste, which was amplified by the taste buds on the tip of his tongue, and Bai Qi felt that he was lucky that he didn't spit it out.
"This is the salt that our Tang soldiers eat? Is this poison okay, if you eat it, you will die! Bai Qi's eyes widened, and he threw the crystal directly into an unknown corner, looking at Cheng Yanjin in disbelief.
"The Turks invade my territory every day, the trade routes in Hedong Road are interrupted, I garrison Longyou on the left, fight every year, and the soldiers lack salt, so I rely on this poison that you kid said in his mouth, and I have been guarding for three years!" Cheng Yanjin suddenly roared, tears gushing out like spring water: "Three years! It turned out that they were all good men like calves, but now their bodies are losing more and more year by year! I, the general, heard that you have potatoes that can feed the Tang people, so I hurriedly rushed back from Longyou overnight, who would have thought that you would surprise me with more than one! ”
In the early years of Zhenguan, the salt on Yuncheng had not yet begun to be truly developed, and the natural salt shoveling method would soon be replaced by a method of "reclamation and watering", becoming the largest salt tax area in the Tang Dynasty. And now, this lifeline of salt transportation has been cut off, and the lifeline of thousands of soldiers has been cut in half almost at the same time.
Bai Qi took a deep breath, his eyes were red, he grabbed a few salt crystals fiercely, turned around, and asked Danian to take out the clean fine gauze and charcoal dust in the house.
Crack up the yellow-brown salt crystals and put them in a bowl to melt with water. Through the gauze, the muddy water in the bowl was poured into another clean bowl, and the previously muddy water became much clearer. Wash the fine gauze, put charcoal dust in the middle, fold it in half, and filter the water again, and the water will be unusually clear and transparent.
At this time, the sun had already shone into the yard, and a flat and smooth stone in the yard was a little hot from the sun. White takes out a few pieces of clean, thick white paper from the house, places them on the stones, and carefully pours the filtered water onto the white paper.
The liquid is slowly evaporating, and some fine white powder begins to appear on the paper.
Without bothering Cheng Cheng and putting the powder in his mouth, Bai Qi turned around and filtered the remaining salt crystals into refined salt in the same way.
From morning to noon, Bai collected a total of about a pound of salt, and then handed it all over to Cheng Yanjin.
Cheng Biting Jin's eyes were red, and he looked around the white chess several times curiously, and finally lifted him up, looked at him carefully a few times, and then put it down, reaching out to take off the white chess's clothes.
The white chess "whoosh" ran far away, and looked at Cheng Yanjin vigilantly.
"It's the same as that stinky boy in my house, why did you come up with this idea?"
"My father taught me!" Bai Qi hugged his body and looked at Cheng Biting Jin with the eyes of a beast.
Cheng Yanjin probably also realized that his actions just now were inappropriate, so he smiled and asked, "What about your father?" ”
"I starved to death with my mother in last year's drought and locust plague, and only a kid remained!" Bai Qi believes that he must add an identity to himself, and the drought and locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan are the best identity guarantees, after all, there were too many people who died in Guanzhong at that time, and the government may not be able to find out whether a family surnamed Bai died at that time.
Cheng Yanjin's gaze softened when he looked at Bai Qi, and he sighed: "Since you have survived, let's live in this world for your parents!" ”
"Well, my parents' greatest wish before they died was that I could live, marry a wife and have children, and spread the branches and leaves for the family!"
Cheng Biting Jin snorted coldly, this slippery head, do you want to use such an excuse to be lazy? Looking at the lazy appearance of white chess, Cheng Biting Jin became angry, such an aura of a young man, he didn't give full play to his intelligence, he actually thought about being lazy all day long, and he couldn't bear it! Cheng Biting Jin kicked over.
White chess hid with a smile, which made Cheng Yanjin even more angry, and chased after white chess to play.
"Uncle Cheng, do you still want a salt-making method?" White ran around the yard with his head in his hands, shouting as he ran.
"Hmph, you're lucky, save this fight for next time!" Cheng Yanjin dragged the white chess pieces and asked his old subordinates to go back and get pen and ink.
"Uncle Cheng, the kid's salt making method is inefficient just now, what is written here is how to make salt on a larger scale, the steps and principles are similar, and the salt made is not worse than what the kid did just now, as long as you go back and test it once or twice!"
Cheng Yanjin went back in a hurry with the salt-making method written by Bai Qi in his arms, leaving two generals to guard the side of the potato.
Bai Qi knew that Cheng Biting Jin was going back to see Li Shimin, and then go to Longyou to pass on this method, where there were a large number of salt mines along the river, as long as the practice was done properly, Datang would have a large amount of salt to supply the military, and even rely on this salt to contain the Turks.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are all treasures, as for those Turks and other foreigners, what does it matter to them whether they live or die in white chess?
In the evening, Cheng Yanjin ordered people to send a whole sheep and a few bags of rice, as well as some other meat, and the general who passed the message said that the general saw that Xiao Langjun had worked hard all morning, and used a sheep to compensate for it.
White chess holds a dagger, the white knife goes in, and the red knife comes out, while handling the mutton, there are words in his mouth: "If someone else makes a meritorious service, at least they will be rewarded as a small landlord, and I will award such a sheep!" ”
Liu Laohan watched with a smile on the side, watching Bai Qi busy around his apron.
Cut off the bones and throw them into a large pot to cook the soup. Cut the mutton into pieces, blanch it in boiling water for a while, boil the blood water out and then take it out, put it in the pot, throw in the bay leaves, sugar cane, grass fruit and large slices of ginger, cover the pot, and slowly stew the mutton.
It's about to turn into summer, and the weather is starting to get a little hot. No matter how late the sun in the west refuses to go down, it is finally driven down by a bright moon in the sky. The night sky was as dark as a ribbon, and just looking at it made White feel very soft and wanted to reach out and touch it.
The breeze blew away the nameless fire that had accumulated in people's hearts during the day.
In the open space at the entrance of the village, on top of six large round tables, fragrant large pots of mutton and mutton soup are placed, and on each table there is a braised fish and a few green vegetables, which makes people feel appetizing when they look at it.
Bai Qi took a shower, washed away the smell of oil smoke on his body, helped Liu Laohan to sit down, and suddenly felt a little sad in his heart when he watched a group of little children lying on the table, drooling and looking at the food on the table.
Liu Laohan smiled and slapped the white chess hand, and shouted loudly: "What are you waiting for, wait for tomorrow, hurry up and eat and go back to rest!" ”
After listening to Liu Laohan's words, the whole village roared, the children turned into hungry tigers, and the whole person threw themselves on the table, while the adults took care of the old people and children, and ate the rice with white flowers.
"Ancestor, I don't think my people of the Tang Dynasty should be like this! There is no reason for a hard-working person to go hungry! ”
Liu Laohan looked at the flicker in Bai Qi's eyes and said with relief: "This person, after being hungry for so many years, having a good meal may be the happiest thing in his life." Boy, do whatever you want, fewer people will go hungry, and many people in this world will survive. ”
White helped the old man at his table remove the fish bones and put them in their bowls.
"Fengqu, you are a good child, a good child should be blessed by heaven, let it go, you shouldn't be trapped in the small Taoyuan Village." Zhang's father was in his fifties, with his hands bent like chicken paws and silver hair.
"No, Uncle Zhang, Taoyuan Village is my home, and home is the place where the fallen leaves return to their roots." White said seriously that if you want to do things, you can also start from Taoyuan Village. He believed that since God did not let him drown in the river and threw him into the Tang Dynasty, maybe it was not a joke, maybe it was really a kind of favor for him.
The soup on the table rippled like a lake blown by a spring breeze, and Bai looked into the distance, stood up and walked to the entrance of the village.
A fiery snake came from afar, and when it came closer, it turned out to be a dozen fast horses, and the men on the horses were wearing armor and holding torches, galloping forward.
Before arriving at the entrance of the village, the loud voice was already there: "Can the white chess in Taoyuan Village be?" ”
White replied loudly: "White is here, why is the general here?" ”
"By Your Majesty's will, please go to the temple to face the saint!" A dozen fast horses soon arrived at the entrance of the village, and the leading general ordered a horse to be led to the front of the white chess.
Bai Qi turned around and hugged the other villagers standing at the entrance of the village, and then came to Liu Laohan and said with a smile: "Ancestor, the people of Chang'an are coming so fast, and they will go back when they go!" ”
Liu Laohan was beaten with a cane and nodded with a smile.
"Please lead the way!" White turned on his horse and said to the leader with a smile.
The leader was expressionless, and said coldly: "Please Xiao Langjun to follow!" ”
Watching the fire snake meander away, Liu Laohan's face suddenly changed greatly, and he quickly returned to the courtyard behind the white chess house, where the two generals left by Cheng Yanjin were surrounding a pot of mutton.
"Please go back quickly and report to General Cheng, white chess is in difficulty!" Liu Laohan held a note in his hand tightly and handed it to one of them: "Just now, it is said that the general from Chang'an passed the decree, saying that His Majesty wants to take Fengqu into the Jingmian Saint, and then Fengqu secretly stuffed a note for the old man!" ”
One of them opened the note, which was written in blood: "Save me! ”
The faces of the two changed greatly, and one of them was just about to set off to return to Chang'an, when Da Niu ran in from outside, panting and said, "Ancestor, Mr. Bai dropped a piece of paper on the ground at the entrance of the village. ”
Liu Laohan took it, and the three of them looked at it: "On Chang'an Road, be careful of the ambush!" ”