Chapter 30: Hidden Worries in Happiness
Gui Chong squinted his eyes and looked Hu Xianxian up and down, "If Miss Hu cares, Cheng Zhenren will not waste so much thought." They are evenly matched, and when Cheng Zhenren's junior brother Qin Zhenren comes to help tonight, he will definitely be able to subdue the demon dragon. ”
Hu Xianxian was a little hairy by him, as if he had done something bad and was caught. She didn't quite understand what Gui Chongxu said, she just wanted to know if Cheng Haofeng was injured, what kind of effort did he bring, and what junior brother had to do with her?
Gui Chongxu looked at the others again, and said in a loud voice: "With the reinforcements brought by the Hu garrison, the bandits' den will definitely be destroyed tonight." Let's kill pigs and sheep and prepare for the celebration banquet to reward the soldiers. ”
Everyone cheered, Hu Xianxian happily took the people of Hongbin Building to organize a banquet, and the villagers came to help.
Hu Xianxian felt that he was a general who was strategizing at the moment, although he was not fighting on the battlefield, but he wanted to make a good banquet of thousands of people, and he would have to be chaotic if he didn't have a personal plan and command.
She first prepared the menu for Yizhou Sun Governor's Mansion, and after Qiao Chushi and others looked at it, they made the dishes of the soldiers and monks separately as required. In this way, the soldiers can not only eat happily, but also let the monks have no worries about breaking the vows and eat happily.
The soldiers set a table of ten people and ten dishes, including: bamboo shoots and roast beef, steamed pork, chestnut roast chicken, roast goose, sauerkraut duck soup, mushroom stewed rabbit meat, garlic roasted catfish, scallion fried mutton, tofu meatball soup, steamed soft-shelled turtle.
When Hu Xianxian gave the menu to Da Niu, the bolt came over and said, "Wow, it's all good things." Brother Niu, I'll learn cooking skills from you, such good things, it's enough to taste one bite at the same time. ”
"You want to be a chef just to taste good food?" Sanhua looked at the plug that was still swollen in one eye and smiled.
Da Niu also "hehe" Zhile, "This table has a lot of meat, and there are nothing special and rare." ”
Hu Xianxian looked at them and laughed, he hadn't felt so comfortable for a long time. She smiled and said: "The soldiers are fighting hard, and they have to eat more meat to make up for it." Those dignitaries pay attention to taste, so they have to make some fresh and light dishes. Plug, if you really want to learn cooking from Brother Da Niu, you will go to Hongbin Building when you return to the city. I've injured you, and even your car has broken down, so let's go to Hongbin Building to do something. ”
The bolt smiled and agreed, "Okay." He grinned at the wound as he smiled.
Hu Xianxian looked at him like that, and suddenly said, "I still have to add a menu, the wounded soldiers can't eat oily and hot dishes." ”
Sanhua said, "Huh? So much trouble. Wouldn't it be okay to let the wounded soldiers eat the dishes of those Taoist monks? ”
Hu Xianxian shook his head, "The dishes of the Dao Leader and the mages are too light, which is not conducive to the recovery of the wounds. ”
Da Niu said with some embarrassment: "Just those people, just so many kitchen utensils, it is reluctant to make these existing dishes, and it is even more impossible to add other dishes." ”
Hu Xianxian was right to think about it, but he always felt that he didn't make the banquet perfect, and he had a pimple in his heart.
When she sent the menu prepared by her family to the Yuanmingguan kitchen, she met Mr. Kang from the Rejuvenation Pavilion who also took refuge here, and the two exchanged a few words.
Mr. Kang said: "It's good to be able to get rid of the bandits' den in Gaojia Village, but it is always uncomfortable to see someone injured. ”
"In a war, it is inevitable that someone will be injured. I'm still worried about not being able to find the manpower and the place to open a small stove for the wounded soldiers. ”
"Mr. Kang is a benevolent doctor and does not want to see people injured, but it is worth it to exchange the injuries of the First World War for a hundred years of peace. It's just that I'm the most useless, and I can't even help with cooking and laundry. While they were talking, Du Wanzhi and Granny Cai also walked over.
Hu Xianxian's eyes lit up when he saw Du Wanzhi coming, "You can help, I have thought of a way to open a small stove for the wounded soldiers." ”
She called out the little Taoist priest who was burning the fire from the kitchen: "Little Taoist chief, can you let the kitchen out for me?" ”
The little Taoist priest waved his hand: "On weekdays, you are not allowed to wait for the laity to stay here, if it weren't for the master's instructions to listen to you arrange the menu, we wouldn't want to deal with you." ”
Hu Xianxian was so angry that he pointed at his nose: "What you, us?" You're not human? I will go to you to see the Lord. ”
She first found Qiao Chushi, and Qiao Chushi introduced her to the main skin of the Yuanming Temple.
After hearing this, Pi Zhuandao said that those little Taoist children did not know things, and they were obsessed with having less contact with the laity and less things that were contaminated with red dust in order to help their cultivation, but they did not understand that it was a great merit to be able to solve problems for others. Let Hu Xianxian just arrange it, and he will pass the word and ask the people in the temple to help them.
With the support of the master of the Pi Zhuan Dao, Hu Xianxian did things much easier. She secretly believes in her heart that Pi Zhuan Dao is a virtuous and virtuous person, and some prejudices against people in the Taoist sect are also much lighter.
Hu Xianxian asked the big cow to set up a tent in the open space outside the view, and led more than a dozen people to do the celebration banquet of the soldiers. Hu Xianxian personally cooked a banquet for the monks in the small kitchen of Guannei, and at the same time instructed Granny Cai, Du Wanzhi, and Mr. Kang's daughter-in-law Liang Huiping to cook dishes for the wounded soldiers.
Liang Huiping was ingenious and careful, she learned some crude pharmacology after marrying into the Kang family, and suggested adding Chinese herbs to the meals of wounded soldiers, Hu Xianxian asked Mr. Kang to help him choose six dishes with the ingredients.
The big guy is busy, and by the time he arrives, he's almost ready.
Soon after, I heard that Hu Garrison had won the battle, and only a few of the bandits fled to Panlong Village in Jingyang County and Jingyin County, and the rest had surrendered or killed. When it was time to get there, the soldiers returned to the camp for a feast.
In this battle, there were more than 20 seriously wounded and more than 80 lightly wounded, all of whom rested in the guest rooms of the Yuanmingguan. Hu Xianxian took Du Wanzhi and others to deliver the food into the room, and was meeting Hu Garrison coming to visit the wounded soldiers.
Hu Shoubei looked at the dishes they served and said: "Stewed chicken with jade bamboo, stewed elbow with lotus root, crucian carp tofu soup, stir-fried pork liver with snow fern, glutinous rice dumplings steamed with Houttuynia cordata and chrysanthemum seedlings, and stir-fried fungus." These dishes are made very carefully, and they are annoying to Miss Hu. ”
Hu Xianxian asked while distributing vegetables: "Why didn't Hu Shoubei go to the banquet to drink?" ”
"Just go, you have to come and see my wounded brothers so that you can go to the celebration feast with peace of mind."
Hu Xianxian smiled: "Hu Shoubei is really a good general who loves soldiers. I take the liberty of asking Hu Shoubei, what is your name? Such a good general should also be known to the people. ”
Hu Shoubei said: "Shame, shame, shame, if I am a good general, I have to let the soldiers win the battle without any casualties." So saying, he walked out.
Hu Xianxian anxiously chased after him and asked, "Hu Shoubei, are you called Hu Fafa?" ”
Hu Shoubei was stunned for a moment, but after being stunned, he denied that he was Hu Fafa and hurried away.
A lightly wounded soldier inside smiled and said, "Hu Fafa? How could our garrison be called such a dirty name? His name is Hu Yonggang. ”
"Hu Yonggang?" Hu Xianxian felt for a while that his mother and daughter were a little crazy thinking about their brother, how could it be so coincidental? For a while, I thought that my brother was young when he was abducted, and he forgot what happened when he was young. But at this moment, it is not easy to ask Hu Shoubei in detail.
By the time the soldiers had finished the feast, none of the Taoist monks had returned. When it was approaching, a strong wind suddenly blew with sand and stones, and dark clouds rolled in the sky when the moon was originally in the sky.
Hu Xianxian saw a few golden lightning bolts slashing towards Qinglong Mountain at the door, and a few little Taoist priests said excitedly: "It's heavenly thunder!" Trigger the thunder! That demon dragon can't run away! ”
After a while, someone shouted: "Fly!" Fly into the sky and fight! ”
Hu Xianxian hurriedly ran to the courtyard, only to see a cyan blue light rushing towards the east, followed by another dark green light catching up, and then another purple light followed. These three rays of light suddenly disappeared, and suddenly approached the sky above the ground, so that people could vaguely see that they were three figures, and suddenly they were mixed together, as if they were fighting in close quarters.
Qiao Chushi came to Hu Xianxian, who was almost stupid, and said: "The demon dragon is the blue light, he can not die after being hit by the thunder of the sky, and he wants to escape to the east and enter the sea." The green light is Qin Zhenren, and the purple light is Cheng Zhenren, who are intercepting the demon dragon. ”
After half a pillar of incense, I couldn't see those points of light anymore, and it was the moonrise again. Hu Xianxian still looked at the night sky a little stupidly, she didn't know what she was looking at, she just looked at it so that she could feel at ease.
At dawn the next day, Cen Zaidao took a group of monks back to Yuanmingguan. After Hu Xianxian cooked the dishes, he asked Cen Zaidao why he didn't see Cheng Haofeng come back when he was serving the dishes.
Cen Zaidao frowned and said, "That demon dragon may still have someone secretly helping him, and only five of the nine heavenly thunders are on him." Cheng Zhenren and Qin Zhenren couldn't stop chasing and intercepting him, and the three of them all went to the beach after fighting, and they didn't know what the result was. ”
Hu Xianxian returned to her resting place, and when she happily packed up and returned to the city in the afternoon, she was also busy with chores sullenly. Thinking of asking Hu Shoubei's life experience, he left because he was in a hurry to return to the provincial capital to report the war situation.
Hu Xianxian had to tell Cen Zai that they asked about Hu Garrison, although they were not very familiar with him, they all said that his father's surname was Hu, and he still inherited his father's military position. When Hu Xianxian heard this, he felt that Hu Shoubei should not be his brother.
Hu Xianxian had to go back to the city with her family, and it was already midnight when they cleaned up her things, and she fell asleep in a groggy sleep, and she didn't get up until noon the next day.
Because of the spread of the banquet and the celebration banquet in the palace, the business of Hongbin Building was very good for several days. But Hu Xianxian was just busy step by step, and he didn't feel very happy. Cheng Haofeng still had no news, just like he suddenly appeared.
didn't wait for Cheng Haofeng's news, but eight days later, he saw the crying Cai Niang, and knelt down to Hu Xianxian as soon as she entered Hongbin Building: "Save my young lady, she was kidnapped." ”
Hu Xianxian helped her up and asked her to drink water first: "Aunt Cai, don't worry, speak slowly." ”
Granny Cai was angry for a long time before she made it clear that Ye Zan did not return to Jingchun County after returning to the city, but went to Jingyang County to reveal Du Wanzhi's whereabouts. The people over there arrived this morning, tricked Du Wanzhi out of Qionglian Palace, tied up the carriage and left. Because Qiao Chushi had gone to Beijing to see her brother, Fan Chuyao went out to travel again, and the palace master Qi Chuluan was practicing in retreat, so she had to come to Hu Xianxian.
Hu Xianxian immediately agreed, but he didn't know how he could help.