"Hey, eat grilled fish." The Gu Dewang brothers, Cheng Ge'er, and Gu Qingxi all gathered around the table in the courtyard and shared grilled fish.

A palm-sized carp, Gu Jinli didn't eat a bite and it was gone.

Qin Sanlang saw it, sped up the speed of grilling the fish, and after a while, he cooked three more carps and gave one to the Gu Dewang brothers, one to Cheng Ge'er and Gu Qingxi, and the remaining one to Gu Jinli: "You eat first, and I'll roast it later." ”

Gu Jinli finally ate the grilled fish. The fish is a carp from a deep pool in the mountains, the meat is firm and delicious, with sauce and roasted burnt aroma, one bite down, the whole body is comfortable, and it is very delicious.

After eating, she went to change Qin Sanlang: "Brother Qin, you go eat something, I'll bake it." ”

Because they had to eat in the afternoon, they didn't have lunch, everyone was hungry, and Qin Sanlang was the same, when he heard this, he went to find something to eat.

He ate the bean dregs cake that Luo Wu brought from the kitchen, not the grilled fish.

Gu Jinli saw him nibbling on the bean dregs cake, put a roasted carp into a clay plate, and stuffed it into his hand: "Eat, I obviously like to eat grilled fish, why should I be wronged." ”

She glanced into the barrel and said, "There are eight more, enough to eat." ”

Qin Saburo was stunned, Xiaoyu knew that he loved grilled fish.

He smiled, didn't postpone any longer, and ate all the grilled fish she had handed her.

Gu Jinli looked around, and saw that except for them grilling fish in the courtyard, everyone else was either in the hall or busy in the kitchen, so he beckoned to Qin Sanlang, and after he came over, he asked him in a low voice: "Brother Qin, what kind of military food is eaten in the Great Chu Army?" ”

Military rations?

"How did you remember to ask this?" Qin Sanlang was surprised, this kind of thing was not something that she should ask as a little girl.

But he still told her: "Divided into grades, the soldiers at the bottom generally eat sorghum dry cakes, sometimes they will eat soybeans and sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger, and the vanguard army that goes up is better eaten, it is a kind of dry cake made of noodles, both of which are very hard and dry, and durable." However, it can only be left for about a month at most, and it cannot be eaten for a long time. ”

"As for meat, animals are usually slaughtered before or after the war. There is jerky, but not much. ”

Gu Jinli frowned when he heard this: "What about the oil?" ”

Qin Saburo said with a smile: "I will boil it first, save it tank by cylinder, and when cooking, put some oil down, so that the soldier's stomach can have a little oil and water." ”

Gu Jinli: "I ate really badly. ”

Qin Saburo said: "It's already good." There was a shortage of grain in the northwest, and many times the soldiers could not even eat sorghum dry cakes, and had to eat stewed soybeans or nibble sweet potatoes. ”

"But sweet potatoes will rot after a long time, and a lot of sweet potatoes in the cellar will rot every year, and sometimes there is really no food, and soldiers will eat half of the rotten sweet potatoes, and many soldiers will have diarrhea because of this."

Military rations have always been a big problem, not to mention Da Chu, and the previous dynasty could not solve it.

"Why do you ask this?" Qin Sanlang remembered what she had said, and thought of a new food for Gu Daya's family, so he asked, "What new food did you come up with?" ”

Gu Jinli nodded: "Well, it is a kind of vermicelli made from sweet potatoes, which can be stored for more than a year." ”

"What are vermicelli?" Qin Saburo frowned, he had never heard of it.

Gu Jinli explained: "It is a noodle-like food. After drying the vermicelli, boil the pot with boiling water, put the vermicelli in, and after cooking, it can become a kind of food like noodles, which is resistant to storage, easy to carry, and easy to cook. ”

Qin Saburo was taken aback when he heard this, and lowered his voice and said, "You mean, you will use sweet potatoes to make a kind of noodle-like food, which can be stored for a long time and is not perishable." ”

Gu Jinli nodded: "Yes." ”

Qin Sanlang's face changed, and he said, "Xiaoyu, this thing can't be done, it will cause trouble." ”

Sweet potatoes are cheap, if you can really use sweet potatoes to make a shelf-stable, noodle-like food, the whole Dachu will shake!

After listening to Qin Sanlang's words, Gu Jinli also felt that sweet potato flour could not be made.

There is a saying that people take food as their sky, and in ancient times, food was extremely important.

There is also a saying that the three armies go first before moving grain and grass, and military food has always been the top priority of every imperial court.

Sweet potato flour is nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, it was something that could cause vibrations.

She has no power or power now, and to make this kind of thing is to find death!

Gu Jinli nodded and promised him: "Well, I won't do it, I'll give my aunt and them another new food." ”

Originally, she thought that sweet potatoes were cheap and low-cost, and wanted to use sweet potatoes to make sweet potato noodles and let her aunt's family sell sweet potato noodles, but now it seems that it is better not to do it.

Qin Sanlang was relieved to see that she agreed, looked around, and saw that Gu Dewang and they had finished eating the fish, ran to the kitchen porch, and after washing the vegetables with a wooden plate, he said in a low voice: "Don't say anything about this, it's rotten in your stomach...... If you really want to make that kind of vermicelli, we can make it when we have a lot of skills in the future. ”

I can't do that now.

This thing is different from tofu, which is not easy to store and cannot be eaten as a meal, but sweet potato vermicelli can.

If such a matter involving military rations is known by the big families, let alone a few of them, they will not hesitate to slaughter the entire village for the sake of Fangzi.

"Okay, don't do it, don't say it." Gu Jinli smiled: "Don't worry, I do things in a measured way, don't I feel that there is a risk, so I will ask you immediately." ”

Qin Sanlang nodded with a smile and praised her: "Well, Xiaoyu is very smart and does it right." ”

Fortunately, I asked, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable.

"It's all here, it's really lively." He Village Chief took He Jinsheng and came with a congratulatory gift, and as soon as he entered the courtyard of Luo's house, he saw Qin Sanlang and Luo Wu, and immediately smiled: "You two boys, but for the face of our Dafeng Village Chief, in the future, the people in our village will go out and say that there is a military master and a poor master in the village, and the people in ten miles and eight towns will look down on our villagers." ”

He said to the third grandfather who came to greet him: "Brother Gu, congratulations, the descendants of your families have come out of nowhere, and you have become an official family." ”

The third grandfather said with a smile: "The village chief said that he was joking, but he was running errands for the adults in the yamen, not an official family, and he was still far from being born." ”

As he spoke, he welcomed the ancestors and grandsons of Village Chief He into the hall.

After Village Chief He sat down, he said to He Jinsheng: "What are you doing in a daze?" Give you a congratulatory gift to Brother Luo Wu. ”

"Huh." He Jinsheng hurriedly handed the congratulatory gift he was carrying to Luo Wu: "Brother Luo Wu, this is my family's congratulatory gift to you." ”

Luo Wu accepted the congratulatory gift and said, "Thank you, village chief, you sit down first, I'll go to the kitchen to help, and we'll be able to start the banquet in half an hour." ”

"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, a village, eat at any time, and don't rush back." Village Chief He pushed He Jinsheng: "Don't pestle here, go and help Brother Luo Wu to see what kind of work you can do." ”

Although He Jinsheng was a scholar, he was not squeamish, and when he heard Village Chief He's words, he immediately followed behind Luo Wu, busy before and after.