Chapter 267: Skin Jelly
H2> Not long after the frost, the Wanyan Department began to migrate eastward, for which the entire Wanyan Department had long been prepared, after all, they were originally a nomadic people, usually mainly hunting for a living, when there was not enough prey in one place, they had to migrate to another place, the east was a little closer to the sea, and the temperature in winter was also higher, which made it easier for them to survive the cold winter.
Zhao Yan and the others had also been notified before, but they didn't have many things, and they were given special care by the impeachment bowl, and even gave them a carriage, and heavy objects such as tents were also pulled away by the impeachment bowl, so in this migration, Zhao Yan and they should be the most relaxed people in the Wanyan department.
However, this time the Wanyan Department is not just for migration, after more than ten days of travel, they have arrived at the original Wanyan Department's winter station, there is a small but very strong earthen wall around the station, this is because the winter beasts are not easy to find food, making it easier for them to attack the tribe, so the winter station must have a certain protective ability.
After the tribe established a camp on the new station, the impeachment bowl continued to march east with a thousand elite warriors in the tribe, and then the territory of the Changbai Mountains was to the east.
The alliance between the Great Song Dynasty and the Wanyan Ministry can almost be said to be nine times out of ten, after all, Zhao Yan, the prince, is still here in the Wanyan Ministry, and Zhao Shu will agree anyway, not to mention that creating a strong enemy for the Liao State is also a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty, so the impeachment of Libo is not worried that the Great Song Dynasty will refuse at all.
According to the alliance negotiated by Zhao Yan and the impeachment of the bowl, after the alliance is formed, the Great Song Dynasty will support some necessary materials for the Wanyan Ministry, such as weapons, food, etc., in order to strengthen the strength of the Wanyan Ministry, but it is not an easy task for these materials to be transported to the Wanyan Ministry, after all, there is still a Liao State sandwiched in the middle, so Zhao Yan proposed to transport it from the sea before, which is no problem for the Great Song Dynasty.
However, Wanyan is not near the sea, they have a Changbai Mountain to the east, only the tribe of Tongguò can reach the sea, fortunately, the strength of Changbai Mountain is smaller than Wanyan, and the entire Changbai Mountain is not a unified tribe, but a loose tribal alliance, the core is only a few strong large tribes, as long as these big tribes are conquered, then other small tribes will immediately defect to Wanyan, and then the entire Changbai Mountain will fall into the grasp of Wanyan. Naturally, it was not a problem to receive supplies from the Great Song Dynasty from the sea.
It is precisely because of this that before the migration, the impeachment of the bowl had already formulated a plan to annex the Changbai Mountain Department, and the team of this relocation was also extremely large, not only the tribes directly affiliated to the Wanyan Ministry, but also those tribes that were controlled by the Wanyan Ministry, and also sent many warriors to participate, but these people were not very trusted by the impeachment of the bowl, and they were all put behind by him and led by the impeacher, as for the thousand people he took away, they were the elite of the Wanyan Ministry.
Zhao Yan didn't care much about the war between the Wanyan Department and the Changbai Mountain Department, after all, these two tribes were Jurchens, for Zhao Yan, the more Jurchens died, the better, and even the best Wanyan Department could destroy the Changbai Mountain Department, and his own vitality would be greatly damaged, so that it would be much easier to destroy the Wanyan Department in the future.
The early morning sun shone down from the clouds, Zhao Yan walked out of the tent and stretched his waist, and then looked back at Yelusi, who was still shrunk in the quilt, and smiled helplessly, usually Yelusi got up very early, but when the weather became cold, she became a little lazy cat, she would never get up if she didn't sleep until noon every day, and she was also the most afraid of the cold, even if she was covered with two layers of bear skin quilt, she had to shrink tightly in his arms at night, and even because she was afraid of the cold, she didn't even want to do the joy of husband and wife at night, Now it has been reduced to two days before Zhao Yan is allowed to touch her once.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yan shook his head helplessly again, and then stepped out of the tent, at this time the bones had already begun to prepare breakfast, it was still boiled wheat porridge, Zhao Yan smelled the fragrance and came to the stove, this stove was made by Zhou Dong to help the bones, it was much better to use than the fire, the bones liked it very much, the only regret was that the stove could not be taken away when moving.
"Bone, how about the pork skin soup I asked you to boil yesterday?" Zhao Yan glanced at the busy bones with a smile, and then asked. Bones is actually sixteen years old this year, and it will be seventeen after the New Year, because of long-term malnutrition, she looked thin and small, so when Zhao Yan saw her for the first time, she thought that Bones was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but during this time, she followed Zhao Yan to eat and sleep, which made her face fuller, and she looked like a big girl.
"It was boiled yesterday, in the wooden basin on the table next to you, the king of the county." Bones replied while taking out the soaked dried wild vegetables from the water basin, the winter here in Liaodong is very long, and Zhao Yan and they don't like to eat meat for a long time, so in the late summer and early autumn, Bones picked a lot of wild vegetables and dried them to make dried vegetables, although the taste is not good, but it is better than nothing.
Zhao Yan turned his head and saw a wooden basin on the table, with a lid on it, when he opened the lid, sure enough, it was now a gelatinous pork skin soup inside, this thing is called skin jelly, although it is boiled with pig skin, but it is not greasy to eat at all, especially with vinegar and garlic juice, it is even more sour and delicious, which makes people appetite.
Zhao Yan has always boasted that he is a carnivore, except for the fact that he had to eat vegetarian for a period of time when he first crossed over, and then he had to eat meat every day and every meal, but since he came to Wanyan, he realized that although he likes to eat meat, if he is allowed to eat every day, and there is no other food except meat, this kind of life is simply a torture.
It was okay in the summer before, at least you could collect some wild vegetables or wild fruits to improve your life, but after winter, everything withered, and three meals a day except meat or meat, which made Zhao Yan lose his appetite for a long time, and finally had to find a way to improve his life, for example, the skin jelly in front of him was a good dish he thought of, although it was made of pig skin, but it was not greasy at all.
Seeing that the skin jelly was ready, Zhao Yan was also very happy, and immediately took the knife next to him to take out the skin jelly inside, and then carefully cut it into small pieces. The bones next to her saw Zhao Yan cooking by herself, and she didn't stop it, after all, she grew up in a place like Wanyan since she was a child, and she didn't have any class concepts, let alone think that Zhao Yan had a share in the kitchen of a county king, but also praised Zhao Yan's skills in cutting vegetables so well, the size of the jelly cut out was almost the same, she couldn't do this kind of knife method.
"King Jun, can you really eat this thing made of pigskin?" After praising Zhao Yan's knife technique, he pinched up a thin piece of skin jelly and asked curiously, she also knew that the soup for boiling meat would become like this in winter, but she only drank it after boiling the soup every time, and she never thought that she could eat this kind of coagulated soup directly.
"Of course you can eat it, and it tastes good, I bet that when you have breakfast later, your dish will definitely not be as popular as this jelly!" Zhao Yan said very complacently, bones will make a total of two dishes, the first is boiled meat, the second is boiled meat, except for salt, there is no seasoning in it, Zhao Yan has been eating for several months, which is also one of the reasons why he wants to find a way to improve his life.
"That's not necessarily, my father has always said that the dishes I make are the best, and there is also Brother Zhou Tong, he has always praised me for cooking, no matter what I cook, he eats well, and he doesn't even leave a drop of soup." Bones was very unconvinced, as a professional chef and waitress of Zhao Yan's small team, Bones didn't believe that Zhao Yan, a person who had never seen him in the kitchen, would be better than the dishes he cooked.
"Haha, then let's try it, and after a while, we will put the dishes we made on the table, and we don't need to tell Zhou Dong who made them, and then see which dish they prefer to eat?" Zhao Yan also said with a smile. Gu Tianjie is the father of bones, so he will naturally boast about his daughter, as for Zhou Dong, the king of big stomachs, in his opinion, the best food to eat is the food that can be eaten, and the taste is not in his consideration at all.
After Zhao Yan cut the skin jelly, he poured out some vinegar from a clay pot, and there was no vinegar in Wanyan, but Su Shi felt that eating meat every day was too greasy, so he taught the bones how to make vinegar, and these vinegars were made by bones himself. Garlic is ready-made, this thing is still brought by Gu Tianjie and his family, because garlic can relieve greasy and help digestion, so it is very popular in Wanyanbu, but the Jurchens in Wanyan Department like to eat a few cloves of raw garlic after eating, plus they have no habit of brushing their teeth, which also makes the people in Wanyan Department open their mouths, and immediately emit a foul smell.
After making the garlic paste and adding vinegar, and then pouring it into the skin jelly and stirring it, the dish immediately exuded an appetizing taste, Zhao Yan couldn't help but eat a few pieces first, it just so happened that Zhou Dong and they also came to eat breakfast at this time, but they were also overjoyed when they saw the skin jelly, and they grabbed the chopsticks like crazy, and as a result, she pouted her bones angrily, and finally she couldn't help but taste it, but she couldn't care about being angry anymore, and grabbed it with Zhou Dong and them, and by the way, she also gave her father a bowl.
Seeing that Pi Jelly is so popular, Zhao Yan is also very happy, and he has already prepared for this, he has already filled a big bowl and hid it behind him, while Zhou Dong and they are only concerned about fighting, no one pays attention to him, Zhao Yan only walked towards his tent with a bowl, he planned to let Yelusi taste it too, but before he could enter the tent, he heard the people outside shouting: "The leader is back from the battle!" ”r1152
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