Two servants used an anvil to put up an iron plate more than two feet in diameter, on which was a huge steak steaming and meaty, and on the side of the plate lay two fried eggs that were still half-raw. Put on the plate, pour the thick sauce, and immediately a puff of mist rolls up, and there is a boiling sound of "lalala" in the occasion.

With a left-handed knife and a right-handed fork, the blade is gently slashed, and the slightly charred surface of the steak immediately opens left and right, revealing the perfect flesh inside that is bright red and tender. The diner didn't seem to care that the outside was still hot, and he impatiently took the half-palm-sized food fork into his mouth, and then as soon as he chewed it, the beef instantly melted like fat, spreading all the fat gravy contained in it on the tongue......

In fact, everyone in the audience had already eaten and stopped, but they couldn't help but turn their eyes to this big man who was still fighting bravely. Shi Xun was in the main seat, and he picked up the cup and nodded slightly to the big man: "There is still a lot of meat, don't be anxious - and drink it." ”

While the big man began to chew the second bite of the steak, he put down the knife he was holding in his left hand, also picked up the cup, saluted Shixun from afar, and then took a big sip of wine, stretched his neck, and swallowed all the wine and meat. The cloudy white wine overflowed from his lips and stained his beard, but the big man didn't care, just raised his sleeve and wiped it casually - there was a Confucian scholar in the seat, and he couldn't help frowning when he saw this, but the rest of the people were just relatively uneasy.

Shi Xun neither frowned nor laughed, but just asked him: "Guofan, is this meat still respectable?" ”

It turned out that this person who was not around was not a bystander, but Cao Cao's old general, the Marquis of Guannei. This time, Dianwei went to Youzhou. Oide was unexpected. When he heard that he took the initiative to plead with Cao Cao. Invited to the Youzhou Assassin History Office as an official, it was even more pleasantly surprised, but also surprised.

However, when Dian Wei arrived, it was reasonable to tell the reason. Let's say that in the past Shouchun War, Dian Wei was seriously injured, almost inevitable, and then was diagnosed and treated by famous doctors such as Fan A and Hua Tuo. Although he kept his name, his muscles and veins were damaged, his hands and feet were weak, and he could no longer go into battle. Not to mention going into battle, even the horse has not been riding for a long time, and Ping Su has to walk with a pole.

The dignified warrior Dian Guo Fan has become a wasted person, but it has not damaged Cao Cao's love for him in the slightest—after all, Dian Wei was seriously injured to save himself. On the one hand, Cao Cao went to the imperial court and asked for the title of Marquis of Xiaguan for Dian Wei, so that he could be a white-collar worker. Worry-free food and clothing, on the other hand. He also gave a large number of books, hoping that Dian Wei could make progress in literary affairs, and that he could abandon martial arts and follow literature and govern for the officials.

But it's a pity that Dian Wei used to be a good hand when he started fighting, but his mind couldn't accommodate any literary affairs at all, he followed Cao Cao's orders to study seriously, the more serious the problem, the more tired he became, at most he would be sleepy if he read more than ten pages, and he would inevitably snore loudly after reading two more pages. Dian Wei was unwilling to eat idle meals when he was in the prime of life, but he had no way to help Cao Cao, and the depression in his heart can be imagined.

When he heard that Shi Xun was ordered to guard Youzhou and summoned Sun Wen to help, Dian Wei just wanted to leave Xu Du to scatter his heart and go to meet Sun Wen - Sun Yunan was ordered to take care of Dian Wei, and **, the two of them intersected with each other, Sun Wen left, Dian Wei was inevitably lonely - and then heard that Cao Cao made Yu Ban the lieutenant of the right Beiping vassal state, and trained in Youzhou, so he had a different mind. At the moment, I went to plead with Cao Cao, saying that I can't go into battle and can't fight, but training recruits can still come in handy, so it is better to throw myself into the Hongfu Curtain and be a military officer, but I can relieve my thirst and relieve loneliness.

Cao Cao immediately agreed, and sent someone to send Dian Wei to Jicheng.

To put it bluntly, Dian Wei came to Youzhou, first, to relax, second, to visit friends, and third, to assist Shixun in training recruits, so as not to stay in Xu Dubai for idle meals.

The assassin is a subordinate official, all of them are self-reliant, and the court cannot directly appoint them, but Dian Wei also saved the life of Shi Xun at the beginning, of course he will not refuse people thousands of miles away, and immediately agreed to allow Dian Wei to enter the scene, and summoned the ministers on the same day to set up a banquet for Dian Wei.

At the banquet, it was Xun who sat down, and the guest seat was given to Dian Wei, and the second position was specially invited to Guangyang County Shou Sima Zhongda. Youzhou has six counties under its jurisdiction, Guangyang County, where Jicheng is located, according to the invitation of Shixun, guarded by Sima Yi; In addition, Pei Qian, Pei Wenxing, an old acquaintance of Dai Jun Shou is Xun; Shangjun Shou is the famous general Zhang Huan's youngest son, Zhang Meng and Zhang Shuwei; Zhuo Junshou was the former official of the Yuan family, and he was frustrated and frustrated; Yuyang County Shou and Youbeiping County Shou are both recommended by the "Ruyingchuan faction", respectively He Jiao, He Shulong and Chang Lin Chang Bohuai; The four counties of Lingzhi, Feiru, Linyu and Haiyang in the western part of Liaoxi County, where the Cao family was based, were newly established as a vassal state of Youbeiping, and Yu Ban Yuwen was the governor of the vassal state.

The reason why Cao Cao transferred Fu Zhu to Youzhou had three intentions: first, Fu Zifu had been in Guanzhong for several years, he was quite honest, and he put down the local rebellion, and he had to be promoted; Second, there are still many Yuan's former officials, old generals, and veterans in Youzhou, and Cao Cao hopes that he can be encircled and restrained; The third is that the Yuan clan has been destroyed, and he is not afraid that the frustration will rebel again, and it was Gongsun Du who finally killed Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi's brothers, and it is believed that the frustration is willing to assist the Cao family to fight against the Liaodong Gongsun clan.

Let's talk about it, in addition to Sima Zhongda, who lives in the same city and is invited to the banquet, the rest are all assassinated Shi bureaucrats, including Guan Jing, Zhuge Liang, Guo Huai, Sun Wen, Qin Yi, and so on. Before the feast, Shi Xun said that I would have a wonderful meal to serve today, and immediately brought him the newly made iron plate fried steak that he had pointed out to Gan.

According to the law of the country, it is not allowed to slaughter ploughing cattle at will, and they must wait for the cattle to die of illness and old age before they can eat meat, so even if there are many rich and noble people during the banquet, it is difficult for ordinary people to eat beef. So what about taking the meat of the old and sick cows? Shihoon found it difficult to enter again. Fortunately, it is located in the north, and it is naturally close to the water; As a assassin, he occasionally undermines the law and order of the country, and no one really dares to talk about it. Not long ago, it was Xun who obtained hundreds of cattle from Hu Zhong with fabrics, and most of them were distributed to the common people (in fact, they were sold to large households) to make cattle, or to pull carts. Today's feast is a big feast, entertaining Dian Wei, so naturally he slaughtered one, cut the tender part of the meat, and fried it to make steak.

In fact, grilling steak is simpler, but the problem is that frying is still rare in these days - theoretically, it is considered to be an invention of Xun - and there are many grilled dishes. There is no novelty. So simply make an iron plate to fry the steak. These steaks are all finger thick. First, fry the butter on both sides until slightly charred, and the inside is still raw meat, which is particularly tender to eat.

Shixun still remembers that he watched a movie in his previous life, called "Opium War", in which there is a scene in which Mr. Renyi Lin Liankun plays Qishan, who goes to the banquet of the British, which is the steak he eats. As a result, the old man cut the meat and took a look. The inside is still bright red, so he immediately stopped the dagger and pouted: "Ru Mao drinks blood, and the fruit is a beast!" However, it seems that the scholars and doctors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty did not reject raw food, not to mention that raw fish is a delicacy along the coast, Chen Deng loves it as much as his life, that is, most of the meat on the festival is half a life, and everyone still eats it. Therefore, imagine that at the Hongmen banquet that day, Xiang Yu was born on Fan Xu's shoulder. Fan Xu didn't say a word, cut and eat it - it shouldn't be Xiang Yu deliberately embarrassing him.

It's strange to say. Manchurians like Qishan, didn't your ancestors eat raw meat when they were hunting hard in the white mountains and black waters, and how did they become beasts when they came to you? This true number dictionary forgets the ancestors also.

Of the people at the banquet, only Zhuge Liang proposed that the meat was too raw, hoping to go too far-fry the steak from medium-rare to medium-rare to medium-rare to seventh or eighth, and he would be happy. Dian Wei is just the opposite, after eating two large pieces of steak, he said that this beef is getting more and more tender, why don't you make a little more raw and let me taste it? So the third steak was served up, which was larger than the first two pieces and the meat was thick, but it was only fried to three points, which made the Dian Guo clan salivate for a long time, and almost swallowed his tongue.

Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi both had a shallow amount of food, and they each ate half a steak, and Zhong Da also asked for a small bowl of wheat rice, saying that it was ordered by his father that he could not eat meat, but necessary food, so as not to hurt his stomach and stomach, and to avoid extravagance. It was Xun Xin who said that there are many rules in your family, but he still smiled and agreed to his invitation. Most of the rest of the people sent away one or two steaks, only Dian Wei, and the third piece came up and ate it correctly, like a wind and clouds, wiped out in an instant, and claimed to have eaten half full.

Sun Wen was familiar with him, and took the opportunity to quip: "Youzhou was initially decided, the population is still low, the cultivated land is barren, and the amount of food like the national domain, I am afraid that my lord will be difficult to supply, so what?" Dian Wei knew that he was joking, so he immediately patted his stomach and smiled at Shixun: "I still have the Hou Lu of the Inner Hou, as much as you can eat, and you don't have to work to make the monarch pay for it." ”

Shi Xun laughed "haha", and then took care of Dian Wei: "If you criticize state affairs, why bother talking about fame?" The name or character of the country can be called. "You are not my guest, open your mouth to make the king, shut up the lord, I can't afford it.

Dian Wei swept three steaks in a row (the weight of the light can actually be counted as four), although he was still unsatisfied, after all, it was not good to show that he was too greedy, so he stopped forking the dagger and asked for soup to drink. As soon as Shixun saw that the big guys had almost eaten, they could start talking about some serious things, so he raised his glass again, saluted, and then asked Dian Wei: "Since the national domain has come down, is there any news inside and outside the country recently?" ”

The most annoying thing about him is that the level of communication in these years is really poor, especially when he is guarding a remote place like Youzhou, he feels that his eyes are black, and he is almost isolated from the general trend of the world - even the information from Liaodong has to be transmitted to him in four or five days as soon as possible. So I want to ask Dian Wei, have you brought me any news and intelligence from Xu Du?

Dian Wei wiped his mouth and beard, nodded and replied: "There are two things, one is that the court gives the prime minister praise and worships without a name, does not enter the court, and goes to the palace with a sword; Second, the imperial court sent envoys before, ordering Liu Biao, Sun Quan, and Zhang Xiu to send Ren Zi, and when Wei came, he heard that Zhang Xiu's son was already on the road, and Liu and Sun had no news. ”

Xun Wenruo is still quite energetic, please give him privileges such as praise and worship, from Dong Zhao to today, nearly a year has passed, this matter should be Tianxin (in fact, Cao Cao's heart), and the will of the people (in fact, it is the meaning of Cao's subordinates, which also includes part of the "Ruying faction"), Xun Yu can stubbornly hold on, until not long ago he was forced to let go. There is no need to pawn Weiti for this, and Xun also knows it.

As for asking Liu Biao, Sun Quan and others to send Ren Zi, Shi Xun had also heard about it, but Zhang Xiu's son was already on his way to Xudu - calculating the time when Dian Wei rushed from Xu Du to Jicheng, he should have already entered Beijing at this time - Shi Xun had only heard about it. As for Liu Biao and Sun Quan's refusal to hand hostages to the imperial court, it is also expected, in the original history, Sun Quan had hesitated, and later listened to Zhou Yu's advice, and simply took Cao Cao's request as a deaf ear.

It's just that what Xun wants to know the most is not these things, but - Liu Bei is now in Shuzhong, what is the power? (To be continued......)