Chapter 189: Outside Jingzhou City
Xie Ze's team passed through Jingzhou City, and took advantage of the last rays of sunset to camp in an open place to rest.
The camping place was chosen by An Xiaorui, on the one hand, he clearly looked at the strings of red lanterns on the head of Jingzhou City, and on the other hand, he almost smelled the Shu army camp.
An Xiaorui commanded all the soldiers to set up camps, and Zhou E followed behind him, with his hands behind his back and a tiger's face, only looking at him without speaking.
Although An Xiaorui's surname is An, she is still young after all, and she has seen too little, so she can't worry a little more.
Shi Nan and the others were busy unloading the tent from the car to set up the tent, and while unloading the pots and pans, they began to support the stove, boil large pots and small pots of water, and prepare meals.
Mama Sang, Ziqi and the others watched as they set up the tent, and were busy holding the candlesticks, basins, bedding, etc. into the tent to set up arrangements.
The camp is not big, from the outermost soldiers who use local materials to prevent insects and snakes, to the entourage who surrounds the vehicles inside, and then to the Shi Nan and others inside, they are busy and orderly layer by layer.
Xie Ze took a thin cloak from Zi Ke's hand and draped it on Li Ran's body, and walked with her to the outside of the camp, looking at Shu Di who had fallen into the night.
Xie Ze looked down at Li Ran, who frowned slightly, held her hand, and said in a low voice: "Don't think about it, this trip is to see the will of heaven." β
"Everybody's busy with this." Li Ran glanced back at the busy camp.
"If you look at the will of God, you must also do your best first."
Xie Ze smiled and followed Li Ran's gaze to the camp.
"If you don't use the sword soldiers, you can retract Shudi, these personnel are nothing."
"In the past month, I have heard Ah Ji talk about the old things of the old people in the previous dynasty and Shu every day, it is really a thousand people and ten thousand hearts."
Li Ran wrapped her cloak and walked along the camp.
"Don't think about it. Old things are old things after all.
These decades, no matter which one you are for, have been decades of displacement and struggling to survive, and compared with the past, they have long been very different, or even completely different.
Just listen to it, and don't take it too seriously. β
Xie Ze put his hands behind his back, next to Li Ran, and walked forward with her, and said in a low voice.
"Hmm."
There was a burst of laughter in the camp, and in the midst of a burst of laughter, Momono's voice was raised high, and he laughed and shouted: "If I have this ability, do you think I won't dare?" What am I afraid of! β
Li Ran and Xie Ze looked together at the middle of the camp where laughter began.
There is a place with a peach and it is always very lively.
Li Ran stood still, looking at the most lively group in the lively camp with a little trepidation.
For a while, the closer she got to departure, the more uneasy she felt in her heart.
On this trip to Shudi, Xie Ze comforted her, saying that there were five or five numbers, but Xie Ze had been busy in the past few months, and she generally knew that all kinds of news gathered from everywhere were complicated and changing.
If she can't win that life, these people who accompany her into Shu, everyone in this lively camp in front of her, will die somewhere in Shu.
If that's the case, she's the one who brought everyone to death.
It was a ridiculous idea that she had out of nowhere...... She's like a freewheeling dumbfounder.
"What do you think?" Xie Ze bent down slightly and looked carefully at Li Ran, who was stunned.
"Nothing." Li Ran replied very quickly.
"You're thinking you're dragging them down?" Xie Ze looked at Li Ran clearly, her sentence was nothing, she answered too quickly.
"You said that everyone knew it clearly, and it was only after thinking about it that you left this trip."
Li Ran sighed.
"But I always feel that they think all about the good side, and they think too well."
In the past two months, Tao Nong rushed over from Xiangyang, and without waiting for Zhou E to finish speaking, he clapped his hands and smiled: There is a princess, everyone must return to their hearts!
Alas, it's really wishful thinking about good things, thinking about things too well and too well.
"It's not necessarily just thinking about good things, let's leave early tomorrow, rush to Yao County before noon, go to Yao County for lunch, and see how it goes."
Xie Ze took Li Ran's hand and motioned for her to go back to the camp.
Yao County is far enough away from Jin County and the imperial court.
Yao County Gao County Ling was born in the Shu tribe, born in Shu and grew up in Shu, Chinese New Year's Eve is thirty-two years old this year, when he joined the Shi three years ago, Shu and the world have been stable for more than ten years.
A middle-sized family like the Gao family in Shu has experienced enough disasters in those decades of war, but it is not as tragic as the Central Plains, and they have enough respect for the former dynasty and Renzong, but it is only some respect.
Gao Xianling, like the Shudi scholars who were about the same age as him, had a somewhat distant memory of the war, and had a memory of the previous dynasty, and he also knew the opening of Renzong and the will of Renzong, and he had discussed it countless times, but he didn't feel anything.
After all, the scholars of Shu do not need to take the test of the new dynasty, and they do not need to be entangled in the word integrity.
As for Yao County, in the traffic between the imperial court and Shudi, Jin County on the side of the imperial court and Yang County on the Shu side are the places that must be passed.
On this side of Shudi, in addition to Yang County, it is Oak City, which is half of the must-pass place.
After passing through the oak city, the merchants and the people who came and went to Shu and the court because of various things scattered and went to their own places.
Therefore, although Yao County is very close to Licheng, it is not like Licheng, let alone Yang County, there are many merchants and others who come and go to Shu and the imperial court. As far as the contacts with the imperial court are concerned, Yao County is about a little more than other medium-sized counties in Shu, but it is only a little bit.
The situation in Yao County, and how they treated their team, even if it was not a mirror of the people and scholars of Shu, could see a lot of things.
In the middle of the camp, on both sides of Xie Ze's tent, on one side is Zi Qi and others lighting a small red clay stove, boiling water to make tea, spreading incense everywhere, Tao Nong has already made a fire for people, found a long stick, and discussed with Zhou E in his throat, whether to hang up half a sheep and cut the meat and roast it, or cut it and bring it over.
On the other side, Shi Nan and other little servants were busy preparing meals, tidying up and washing, busy quiet and orderly, glancing at the lively other side from time to time, and laughing out loud.
Li Ran and Xie Ze sat down on the big felt cushion at the door of the tent, and Wang Ji, who was guarding the tea table and slowly roasting and grinding tea, hurriedly made two cups of tea and handed them over.
Li Qingning, who was originally standing in the middle of the camp with his waist crossed and looking around, also took a few steps over, first bowed to Wang Zhen, who was making tea, and said that he was tired, and then sat down on the big felt mat.
Huo Wencan followed An Xiaorui, took a serious look, took three steps and two steps over, sniffed first, and said to the king: "Make me a cup of something stronger, the heat is a little older." β
Zhou E walked faster than Huo Wencan, but not at Li Ran's side, but at the fire that had already been lit, and the meat hanging pole that had just been erected next to the barbecue rack.
"Did you wash it? Don't move, I'll come!
This piece of meat is good! Half fat and half thin, Xiqing chosen? Discerning. This meat is the most particular to cut, it's not good if it's big, and it's even worse if it's small! A knife goes down, fat and thin half, that's all, see? β
Zhou E rushed to the meat rack, and talked non-stop while watching the meat touch the knife and cutting the meat.
"What's the matter with such noise, or has it always been?" Xie Ze pointed at Zhou E, lowered his voice, and Li Ran said in surprise.
"She's always been like this, wasn't she like that before?" Li Ran responded with a smile, then reacted and asked.
"At least not in front of me." Xie Ze thought for a moment and replied.
Li Ran laughed out loud.
"What's wrong?" Li Qingning didn't hear Xie Ze say that Zhou E was noisy, only heard the last sentence and a half, saw Li Ran laughing, stretched out his head and asked.
"Who isn't like this in front of the big handsome?" Huo Wencan's words were completely unseamless.
"General Zhou." Li Ran smiled and gestured to Zhou E.
Several people looked at Zhou E in unison, Zhou E was a keen one, she was cutting a piece of meat, and hurriedly turned her head to look at it, Tao Nong also looked at Li Ran and the others, and beckoned with a smile: "The two third sons, if you want to eat barbecue, come and roast it yourself, this barbecue is the best to grill by yourself." β
"That's right." Huo Wencan got up in response and dragged Li Qingning with his hand, "Let's go, let's bake it ourselves, and you can go too." Huo Wencan dragged Li Qingning and beckoned to Wang Ji again.
"Fourth sister also go, handsome ......" Li Qingning stood up, greeted Li Ran, looked at Xie Ze, and hesitated.
How could General Xie barbecue with them, what he said, Huo San was right, he was really a little naΓ―ve.
"Have you ever grilled your own meat?" Xie Ze turned his head and asked Li Ran.
Li Ran was hesitating, Xie Ze stood up and stretched out his hand to pull her up, "Tao Nong is right, the barbecue is the most fragrant to eat by yourself, go, I'll roast the meat for you." β
Huo Wencan raised his eyebrows when he heard Li Qingning greet the fourth sister, and then saw Xie Ze pulling Li Ran to stand up, and his eyes widened.
Wang Jian couldn't help but poke Huo Wencan, "Let's go." β
Huo Wencan snorted and hurriedly followed.
Ziqi and the others hurriedly took the small maza, and then divided the seasoning into portions and put them in front of everyone.
Zhou E glanced at Xie Ze several times, turned over the large pieces of mutton hanging on the pillar a few times, carefully picked a piece, cut a few pieces and handed them to the green eggplant, "For your princess and princess." β
Qing Eggplant hurriedly put it on with a skewer, put it on a silver plate, and handed it to Li Ran.
Xie Ze stretched out his hand and picked up two skewers of mutton that were not too small, looked at them, and said with Li Ran: "Zhou E's meat is indeed very good." β
"Cut me a few good pieces too." Huo Wencan stretched out his head and shouted to Zhou E.
Zhou E glanced at him, cut a few pieces with a knife, and put them on the tray where there was already a pile of meat.
"These pieces are specially picked out and roasted and eaten, Xiqing watched the selection with his own eyes, how can there be anything bad?"
Momino laughed as she skewered the meat onto the skewers and handed it to everyone.
"She obviously ...... just now," Huo Wencan looked unconvinced.
"Are you stupid?" Wang Ji couldn't help laughing, raised his foot and kicked Huo Wencan.
Li Qingning couldn't say anything with a smile, and patted Huo Wencan hard, and Huo Wencan slapped his hand away.
An Xiaorui looked along the inner circle again, just came over, squeezed between Huo Wencan and Li Qingning, reached out to take the skewer of meat in Li Qingning's hand, Zhou E squinted at Huo Wencan, and raised the knife in his hand at An Xiaorui, "I'll cut a few good pieces for you." β
Wang Yi laughed out loud, Li Qingning nodded at Huo Wencan, patted his legs and laughed, An Xiaorui didn't know the previous situation, holding the meat with an inexplicable face, "What's wrong?" What are you laughing at? Saburo, what are you laughing at? β
Tao Nong laughed, and skewered the few pieces of meat that Zhou E had just cut into two or three skewers and handed them to An Xiaorui, Huo Wencan snatched two skewers from An Xiaorui's hand, and then stuffed the two skewers in his hand to An Xiaorui, leaning at Zhou E, and snorted.
Li Ran smiled, but Xie Ze only focused on grilling the meat skewers in his hands.
The bonfire was vigorous, and there was no place to support it, and the long skewers were full of pieces of meat, and it was not easy to bake them evenly.
After a few words, the first few strings of meat in Li Qingning's hand were burning, Li Qingning sighed, several strings of meat slapped each other, and the fire was extinguished, and the front piece was already half burned.
Xie Ze was turning the meat skewers horizontally, not far from the fire, Li Ran looked at it for a moment, divided two skewers from Xie Ze's hand, and also turned sideways, close to the bonfire.
Xie Ze looked at it for a while and laughed.
She learned these skills of marching and fighting very quickly.
Zhou E finished cutting a few pieces of meat and sat next to Tao Nong, her method of roasting meat was very different from Xie Ze, she put the meat into the fire, then took it out, then stretched it in, and then took it out, quite a bit of a feeling of killing in and out of the army.
It didn't take long for the campfire to be surrounded by aromas and burnt smells.
The two or three skewers of meat in Li Qingning's hand were burned again and again, smashed out again and again, and roasted into a ball of black char.
Huo Wencan ordered Li Qingning, and when he watched his meat skewers burn and laughed, he even affected the meat skewers in his own hands, and grilled them twice.
An Xiaorui sat between Huo Wencan and Li Qingning, grilling his meat skewers like a rock, and the skewers of meat in his hands were sizzling and fragrant.
Xie Ze finally sprinkled a pinch of fine salt and handed the grilled meat skewers to Li Ran, "Taste it." β
Li Ran handed the string in his hand to Xie Ze, Xie Ze watched Li Ran take a bite carefully, took a breath and nodded repeatedly, and smiled and put the strings in his hand on the silver tray in front of Li Ran.
Huo Wencan glanced at the meat skewers in Li Ran's hand, looked at Xie Ze from the meat skewers, and then looked at the half-mushy skewers of meat in his hands, and sent them to Wang Ji, "Hey, my meat is not roasted well, so don't eat it." β
"The third sister-in-law tastes my craft." An Xiaorui and Wang Yi laughed, and handed the browned mutton skewers roasted in their hands to Huo Wencan.
"I'll taste it too, you taste mine." Li Qingning snatched the remaining lamb skewers from An Xiaorui's other hand and stuffed his own handful of roasted charred mutton to An Xiaorui.
"Little Five Sects teach them that these are all necessary skills for marching and fighting." Xie Ze looked at the scorched black handful that Li Qingning stuffed into An Xiaorui's hand, and commanded.
"Yes." An Xiaorui hurriedly bowed his body, snatched the lamb skewers from Li Qingning's hand, and then took a handful of raw meat skewers, stuffed them into Li Qingning and Huo Wencan's hands, and smiled, "Dashuai has spoken, you two watched me bake, hurry up and learn, today you two can only eat your own baking." β
Li Qingning didn't dare to make a sound, Huo Wencan glanced at Xie Ze and snorted.
(End of chapter)