After a month of busyness, the time has entered June, the affairs of the territory and the defense area are basically on the right track, and Qin Dong's affairs are also much less, he will assign specific affairs, and only the things that need him to make decisions will be reported to him by the officials below, so he has more time now, and he is no longer as busy as before.

Returning from the infantry barracks training ground at noon, Qin Dong sat and waited for dinner, Martha brought a pot of sauced beef and a few pieces of dry bread, and brought a crockpot of mutton bone soup, and the two immediately sat down to eat Chinese food.

Qin Dong picked up a piece of bread and took a bite, although it was not the first time to eat this thing, but this thing was too hard to gnaw, it was easy to hurt the oral mucosa, and he had to break this dry and hard bread into crumbs and mix it into a batter in the mutton bone broth before eating.

Now things are not so busy, Qin Dong has more leisure time, he remembered to make steamed buns and steamed buns, so he hurriedly finished lunch, and then asked Martha for some finely ground flour, use cold boiled water to mix the flour and noodles, knead it into a ball, and find a cool place to store it, this is to make yeast, and Qin Dong is not very clear about how to do it, he just relied on the real yàn he heard when chatting with others in his previous life, as for whether it can be done, I really don't know.

After two days, Qin Dong took it out and took a look, the dough was moldy, yes, failed, Qin Dong had to do it again, it seemed that the temperature control was not good, and then he did it several times in a row, making Martha stunned, I don't know why Qin Dong wanted so much flour to make it moldy.

Finally on the fourth time, Qin Dong finally succeeded, the surface of the test dough was swollen, there were some pores on it, and the small dough still exuded a sour smell, during which Qin Dong also asked the carpenters to make a few steamers.

After having this as yeast, Qin Dong began to make dough, and asked Martha to ask for two catties of flour, mixed with an appropriate amount of water, and then began to mix the dough, kneaded the dough into a ball, kneaded it vigorously, and then covered it with a cloth and waited for several hours to wait for the dough to rise.

Taking advantage of the gap in the noodles, Qin Dong went to find alkaline water again, this thing is basically available in every Hun household, because tanning leather needs to use alkali, Qin Dong quickly found alkali, and made alkaline water after mixing with water. The purpose of using alkaline water is to neutralize the sourness in the dough.

The steamed bun that was steamed for the first time was a little textured and dark, and it was sticky to his teeth when eating, Qin Dong knew that this must be that the dough had not yet been made well, and the concentration of alkaline water was too low, which did not neutralize the sourness in the dough, so he continued to add alkali solution.

Qin Dong then continued to experiment, the surface of the steamed buns steamed for the second time was easy to crack, the dough was overdone, and it could only be invalidated, but these invalid steamed buns were extremely delicious after Martha ate them.

The third time finally succeeded, the steamed buns were steamed, white, and soft, and the taste was very good when you took a bite, Martha looked at the white and chubby big white steamed buns in the steamer in surprise, the face was fragrant, and there was no sour taste at all, Qin Dong picked up one and chewed it a few times before and nodded: "Well, yes, I got it right this time, Martha, you can taste it too!" ”

Martha looked at the white steamed buns, then looked at her hands, quickly wiped them on her apron before picking up a steamed bun and eating it, and after eating a few bites, she exclaimed: "Oh, my lord, it is so delicious, thank you Lord for giving us such delicious food!" ”

"Ahem!" Qin Dong had to interrupt Martha, "Your Lord can give you such delicious food?" That's what I did, you know? Can you eat such white, fluffy, and good-tasting food without me? Behold, it is better for you to believe in me than to believe in your Lord. ”

"You ......" Martha said fiercely, "all the food in the world is given by the Lord, without the consent of the Lord, can you make such good food?" You non-believers don't deserve to make such delicious food."

After saying this, Martha drew a cross on her chest and whispered: "O merciful Lord, please forgive my foolish man!" ”

Qin Dong couldn't help but pat his forehead, it was really a trouble to find such a woman who believed in Christ, every morning before dawn he knelt on the bed and prayed, and every time before eating, he had to wait until he finished praying before eating, Qin Dong could only pretend that he didn't see it.

"Okay, okay, you know the process of making steamed buns, you can make this kind of food in the future, don't bake the kind of bread that is harder than stones, if you don't mind, you can also bread meat and vegetables in the steamed buns, it's even more delicious!" After Qin Dong finished speaking, he left.

"Steamed buns?" Martha looked at Qin Dong's back, then looked at the steamed bun in her hand and said to herself: "What a strange name, bread meat and vegetables in the steamed bun?" That's a good idea! ”

The next day, Qin Dong held a banquet to invite his main officers and officials to dinner, on the one hand, to promote the two kinds of noodles such as steamed buns and steamed buns, and on the other hand, to reward these people for their efforts during this time, as a reward, and also to strengthen communication and exchanges, this aspect is mainly for the officers and officials who originally belonged to Ramado and Vatur who have just been attached, everyone drinks together, chats, and deepens trust and affection.

The officers and officials were very happy after receiving Qin Dong's invitation, this was the first time Qin Dong held a banquet to invite them to these officers and officials, all of them were invited centurion-level officers and local administrative officials, and several special centurions also received invitations, among which the newly joined centurion-level officers and administrative officials were almost all invited, Qin Dong's move made him immediately win the allegiance of these people.

Before Qin Dong came to the banquet, all the invited people had already arrived, but the wine and food and staple food had not yet been served, these officers and officials sat facing each other on both sides, including Huns, Germans, Skils, Romans, Greeks, and even other barbarian people, so although Qin Dong's subordinates were mainly Huns, they were not the majority of the Huns in terms of numbers, but people of all nationalities.

"Elder Qianfu has arrived-" As a soldier standing guard shouted, Qin Dong's figure appeared, and all the officers and officials in the big tent stood up and bent down to touch their chests and saluted: "Meet Elder Qianfu!" ”

Qin Dong walked to the main seat and sat down, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "It's all polite, I invite you all over today, the first is to invite you to eat two delicious foods, which were invented by my wife Martha, I believe you will definitely be full of praise after eating, in addition, I just want to invite you to come over to drink and talk together, exchange and exchange, after all, more than half of the people here are new joiners, I will not always hold grudges, the past is over, and now you are already working under me, as long as you are loyal to me, And do things for me wholeheartedly, with a lot of official positions, wealth, women, and land, provided that you satisfy me.

I'm a person who believes in the saying, 'Every man is not born a waste, It's all useful', here you can use your talents to your heart's content, even a horseman who can raise horses is very important to me, farmers with rich farming experience are equally important, not to mention you officials, among you there may be practical officials, there may be boastful talkers, more likely to have zài sloppy horses, but it doesn't matter, I will let you play your respective strengths, in my eyes, each of you is a talent, an indispensable talent! ”

"Your Excellency is wise!"

Qin Dong's short speech was very successful, everyone knew that Qin Dong was a person who valued and liked talents, which was of course a good thing for these officials, and no one would think that he was a waste.

The wine and food were quickly served, the dishes were nothing special, nothing more than some beef and mutton, but a few more wild vegetables, these wild vegetables were fried with mutton fat or butter, very fragrant, although the officers and officials who participated in the banquet had also eaten wild vegetables before, but the food was scalded with boiling water, and they were casually made, but it was the first time to eat this kind of wild vegetables fried in animal oil, and after eating, these people sped up, and they had never eaten such delicious wild vegetables.

Next, the steamed buns and steamed buns were brought up by the woman, and the white and chubby big white buns and steamed buns made the officers and officials look straight in their eyes, and they couldn't help but swallow saliva after smelling the aroma.

Officers and officials who had eaten steamed buns and steamed buns vowed never to nibble on bread and bread that were harder than a stone, and that they were not food at all compared to steamed buns and steamed buns.