When several army leaders were busy taking over Linfen, Luo Yu took Li Xiuning to the mountain stream five miles north of Linfen City, where Zhang Yang and two other special combat team members were already waiting, and brought three processed hens, dried lotus leaves, spices and other items according to Luo Yu's instructions, and also built two large fires not far away, and would use it to simmer the flower chicken.

It is not difficult to make a flower chicken, evenly smear the seasonings such as fine salt, white pepper and mutton fat from the Western Regions on the chicken, gently pat and massage it with your hands, let the seasoning taste, and then soak the dried lotus leaves in hot water, and then wrap the chicken that absorbs the seasoning after it is soft, tie it with hemp rope, and then evenly wipe it on the lotus leaf with the wet red mud prepared by the team members, the mud layer can not be too thick, nor too thin, the chicken inside is difficult to cook, and it is easy to break if it is thin, destroying the lotus leaf inside and affecting the taste.

Li Xiuning watched Luo Yu fiddling with mud with interest, and was already looking forward to the delicacy of the flower chicken, when she wanted to ask Luo Yu how long it would take, Luo Yu had already spoken: "Don't worry, the delicacy is worth waiting, in fact, this is already a luxury version of the flower chicken, ask the flowers to make only a little salt, but the taste is very good, public, have you learned?" Get the other two chickens yourself! ”

Zhang Yang received the order, and after doing it according to Luo Yu's steps, he waited for Luo Yu's next instructions.

Luo Yu came to the fire with the mud ball, withdrew the wood that was still burning above, there was already wood charcoal on the ground, and used a new wood to gather the wood charcoal in the ground into the shape of a small mountain, and then gently pressed the mud ball in his hand on the hill, and the wood charcoal below subsided the lower part of the mud ball, and then moved the wood that was still burning back and covered it on the mud ball to burn.

Everything is ready, sit back and wait for the delicious food, Zhang Yang has already learned the same way, and the other two mud balls have been done, Luo Yu said: "It still takes a little time, you can move freely!" "Actually, I just don't want them to be light bulbs.

How can Zhang Yang not understand? Hurriedly pulled the two comrades-in-arms to the upper reaches of the stream, after all, this is the side of the mountain, there are still many dangers beside the stream, isn't it exactly what a good subordinate and a good student should do to remove these potential dangers for generals and instructors?

Li Xiuning smiled and glanced at Luo Yu, who was washing his hands by the stream, then looked at the fire, and said, "Where did you learn such a method?" ”

Luo Yu came to her and sat down and said, "This is what my grandfather taught me, and his old man also taught me a variety of foods, now I should be able to rest for a while, I will cook them for you one by one when I have free time, okay?" ”

Li Xiuning leaned his head on Luo Yu's shoulder, and said quietly: "I wish I could rest for a while, I don't know what happened to my father?" Didn't you send someone to deliver the letter? Why hasn't there been a response? ”

Luo Yu gently stroked Li Xiuning's hair and said, "I only sent it out yesterday, how can anyone reply so quickly?" Uncle Niu also sent someone over to deliver the news, don't worry, Tang Gong will be fine......"

Because of military affairs, Li Xiuning was wearing armor when he came over in the morning, and he was a little panicked sitting on the stones, Luo Yu took a white fox fur and black cloak from the baggage brought by the team members: "Xiuning, change your clothes, now let's enjoy this quiet time." ”

Li Xiuning smiled: "It's very well prepared, what else?" Let's take it out together......"

Luo Yu pretended to be mysterious and said: "No, my husband just wants the lady to eat something good today, and there are good things waiting for her when she returns to the city!" ”

Li Xiuning raised his voice and said, "Who is your wife?" After speaking, he quickly sat up, took his coat and cloak and walked to the stone next to him to prepare to change his clothes: "Turn around, don't peek!" ”

Luo Yu hurriedly turned his head and muttered, "What are you ashamed of, sooner or later you have to see ......"

Li Xiuning had already changed at this time, and when she came to Luo Yu, the white fur on the collar of the white fox fur wrapped her pink neck, and one-third of her pretty face was covered by the white fur, revealing her red and bright thin lips, and her long hair fluttered in the wind, like a fairy in the nine heavens, the cloak was tightly attached to her body, and she couldn't see her graceful figure, even so, she saw Luo Yu in a trance.

"What were you just muttering about, you're going to see it sooner or later?" Without waiting for Luo Yu to come back to his senses, Li Xiuning asked: "Luo Yu, Luo joined the army, I heard it!" Tell me, what do you want to see? ”

Luo Yu said in his heart: "I can't say that I am killed!" So he changed the topic and said: "It should be almost good to call the flower chicken, why haven't the three of them come back?" He raised his voice and said, "Zhang Yang, come over quickly!" The chicken is cooked! ”

Li Xiuning blushed and smiled: "Don't want to fool around, I heard ......"

Luo Yu was full of black lines, and when he was about to say something, Zhang Yang and two team members used spears to carry a wild boar of more than 100 catties from the side of the creek quickly, Zhang Yang was still holding two small ones in his hands, his mouth was tied by a hemp rope, and he made a vague "woo" sound, and his limbs were struggling hard, and the big wild boar he was carrying did not move, and he should be dead.

Luo Yu and Li Xiuning didn't care about talking anymore, and hurriedly walked over to check, it turned out that the head of the big wild boar had already been broken by them, and there was still blood dripping from the short fangs at the moment.

This is a good thing, the two small ones can be domesticated, I originally planned to go back to Linfen to make braised fish for Li Xiuning, but now that I have this wild boar, I am afraid that there is nothing to do? Think of braised pork ribs, pork head meat, tamales...... I swallowed my saliva unconsciously.

Tell them to put the wild boar aside, leave it alone for now, and now it is important to eat the flower chicken, remove the fire, use two sticks to pinch out the mud that has been burned with some cracks, and after it has cooled for a while, use the stick to crack the mud ball, revealing the lotus leaf inside. Before the lotus leaves were opened, a rich smell of roast chicken mixed with spices and lotus fragrance wafted out, and the four of them were busy sniffling, as if imagining what this roast chicken tasted like.

Of course Luo Yu knew, he was very satisfied when he saw the appearance of a few people's buns, where is this, you must not swallow your tongue in the wild boar at night.

No longer waiting, reach out to untie the hemp rope, open the lotus leaf, revealing the golden swallow-colored chicken body, now there is no hot oil, if there is, pour a little, it will be more delicious! Holding up the lotus leaves with both hands and bringing them to Li Xiuning, he said: "Beautiful general, the luxury version is called Huaji, please use it slowly!" ”

Li Xiuning came back to his senses, stretched out his hand to take it, looked at Luo Yu with his eyes, and seemed to ask him, "How do you eat this?" Luo Yu smiled, pulled off a chicken leg vigorously, and handed it to Li Xiuning, as if she wanted her to eat it with her hands.

Li Xiuning had never eaten like this, even during the march, he tried his best to eat with chopsticks, and Zhang Yang and the three of them couldn't stand the torture of the fragrance, one of them ripped off a chicken leg and was eating a large piece, saying delicious words while eating.

Li Xiuning got up and came to the stream to wash his hands, then took the chicken leg in Luo Yu's hand, took a bite gently, only to feel that the chicken was fragrant and tender, a little spicy but covered by the fragrance of lotus leaves, and chewed it, the inside of the chicken has been infiltrated by seasoning, the high temperature makes the chicken skin shrink outside, and more moisture is locked in the chicken, and the burnt aroma mixed with the chicken skin is more delicious.

This taste is absolutely amazing, she began to eat it in a big gulp, a chicken except for the head and neck of the chicken, the others were eaten unconsciously, and Zhang Yang and the three of them were sent back by Luo Yu, and took the wild boar away by the way, and told them how to deal with the wild boar, waiting for him to go back to cook, the little wild boar found a pen to raise and feed some leftovers.

Li Xiuning burped, looked at the chicken bones under her feet, couldn't believe that she was eating, looked up and saw Luo Yu eating the remaining chicken neck, and felt guilty: "Should I leave half of ......it for you?"

Luo Yu smiled: "It's delicious, when my grandfather made it for me for the first time, I didn't leave it at all, I ate it all, you are much better than me, leave some for me......" Thinking of the grandparents in later generations, I unconsciously said a little sad.

Li Xiuning knew that he was thinking of his grandfather again, so he said, "Don't worry, I have already asked the caravan to go to the jungle to find it, and I believe there will be news soon." ”

After Luo Yu finished chewing the last bite of meat, he pulled Li Xiuning to the stream to wash his hands, and said while washing: "Thank you!" After eating, it's a little cold here, they should have finished receiving it, let's go back to the city! ”

Li Xiuning nodded, and was about to get on the horse, but was pulled by Luo Yu, got on the horse first, and then stretched out his hand, it turned out that Luo Yu wanted to ride with her.

Li Xiuning smiled and stretched out her hand, Luo Yu pulled hard, she had already got on the horse lightly, sat behind Luo Yu, and blocked Luo Yu with a cloak, the two were like one, slowly walking towards Linfen City, and the other horse followed with armor.

Luo Yu felt Li Xiuning's heat, a little distracted, found a lighter topic, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll make you braised pork ribs, it's much more delicious than this called flower chicken......

Li Xiuning's face was flushed, his hands were wrapped around Luo Yu, his body was close to Luo Yu's not wide back, and with the movement of the war horse, the two bodies were always rubbing, and they couldn't help but be a little emotional, and they couldn't help but be a little emotional, and they continued when they heard Luo Yu find a topic: "I don't believe it, this is called flower chicken, is your braised pork ribs as delicious as this called flower chicken?" Pork smells fishy and we rarely eat it. ”

Luo Yu said with a smile: "Wait, in addition to braised pork ribs, charcoal-grilled tenderloin, braised pork belly, red dates and pork knuckle soup, pork belly wrapped chicken...... If I don't say anything, I'm going to drool! ”

Li Xiuning just wanted to speak, Luo Yu knocked his legs on the horse's belly, and shouted: "Drive!" The horse paused, immediately spread its hooves and galloped forward, and Li Xiuning's body in the back quickly leaned on Luo Yu's back due to inertia, which made Luo Yu feel the stimulation of deliberately braking and accelerating on a motorcycle with his girlfriend in later generations.

was slapped heavily on the shoulder, and the tender flesh on his waist was pinched by Li Xiuning, and he twisted it hard, which made Luo Yu grin in pain, but he was very happy in his heart.

It was not far from Linfen City, and the horse came to the cavalry garrison with only a pillar of incense, Li Xiaogong and Yue Yun were directing the setting up of tents and cutting wood to build a camp, and saw Luo Yu galloping with Li Xiuning, and greeted him with a smile.

Luo Yu wanted to rush all the way to Linfen City, but he didn't expect that the cavalry camp was located in the north of the city, and seeing that Li Xiaogong and Yue Yun had already come, he had to slow down his horse, and came to the two of them and arched his hand: "The two military leaders are good!" ”

At this time, Li Xiuning jumped off the horse, glanced at the two military leaders gratefully, waved his hand and got on another war horse, with no joy or anger on his face.

The two military leaders just wanted to ask Luo Yu something, but when they saw Li Xiuning acting like this, they thought: "It's bad, this is the wrong ......" and didn't reply, and after saluting Li Xiuning, they turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the camp, for fear that Li Xiuning would be looking for trouble if he left late.

Luo Yu looked at the direction where the two of them were going in puzzlement, and then looked at Li Xiuning's expression, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't scare them, what's the big deal with us riding together?" I just want to announce to the whole army and the whole Linfencheng that you are mine! ”

Li Xiuning said angrily: "This is the military camp, you do this as if I am a little girl, how can I lead the army?" Luo Yu was stunned and said: "Which one said that generals don't need love?" On the contrary, I think a female general who has love is more beautiful......"

Li Xiuning stopped talking, and went to the north gate of Linfen, and Luo Yu had to follow.

Linfen City as a major city in the south-central part of Shanxi, 400 miles away from Taiyuan, since the pre-Qin period is the second line of defense against the northern nomads, with a population of more than 100,000 people, a large flow of people, it is the central axis city of Taiyuan in the north, Luoyang in the south, and Xi'an in the west.

When Dou Jiande raised the army, there were only 3,000 defenders here, and most of them were old and weak, young and strong were recruited by Yang Guang to fight Wang Bo, Wei Chigong joined the army in this battle, and was sent to attack Yuncheng after meritorious service, and then served as the general of Jiezhou.

Due to the previous strategic location, the city walls were built very high and thick, with a moat around a circle, wide and deep water, and there were drawbridges at all four gates. Dou Jiande was able to capture Linfen, mainly because there was an internal response in the city, and Wei Yong, the governor of Linfen, was his nephew. On the day of the arrival of the soldiers under the city, Wei Yong opened the city gate to welcome the Dou army, creating the myth of occupying Linfen without spending a single soldier.

If it was a hard attack, I don't know how many lives would have to be sacrificed, three thousand old and weak people resisted for a while in the inner city, and they had to put down their weapons and be captured, waiting for the verdict of fate. Fortunately, Dou Jiande has a good reputation, and he did not embarrass them, those who are willing to stay will stay, those who are willing to leave will go, and they will also issue vouchers and entanglement when they return to their hometowns.

Linfen Taishou lost the city and lost the land, knew that the crime was unforgivable, killed more than 20 members of the whole family, hanged himself in the Taishou Mansion, Dou Jiande heard that after entering the city, all of them were buried thickly, the Taishou Mansion was changed to the General's Mansion, and the squire in the city was reappointed as the Taishou, and the office was opened.

It has been more than 40 days now, Linfen City has not been greatly damaged, after the soldiers and horses captured Yuncheng and Jincheng, Dou Jiande was ambitious, with the three cities as the basis, life and rest, recruiting troops and horses, strengthening strength, and Nanyang's brother Wang Bodang joined forces, attacked Luoyang in the south, and then took Luoyang as the center, trying to plot the Central Plains.

Until Li Xiuning led the right military army north to quell the rebellion, he has always been fighting the idea of Luoyang, during the battle of Yuncheng, with Xia County as bait, let Wang Bodang lead the army north, surround the right military army, gather and annihilate it, and then lead the army south to attack Luoyang.

But he didn't expect the right army to retreat in time and jump out of the encirclement, so that he lost the opportunity to annihilate the right army, Wang Bodang listened to the rumors, and made trouble in Yuncheng, trying to take Yuncheng, and was recognized by Cheng Biting Jin, and divided the troops outside the city, so that he had a chance to breathe. Li Mi led the army to surrender to Cheng, and he made a false deal with the snake, and secretly ordered Zhu Yuanzhang to eliminate Li Mi's soldiers and horses, seize Changzhi, and kill Li Mi, but Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to attack Jincheng directly, cutting off his back road, and was so angry that he vomited blood three liters, and regretted not listening to Cheng Biting Jin's words and killed Zhu Yuanzhang.

The triangle was destroyed, Linfen and Yuncheng became isolated cities one after another, he had to re-plan, coinciding with the right army to go north, and wanted to unite Li Xiuning to attack Jincheng in the south, but he had no choice but to be stopped, so he had to order the stragglers in the central town to follow behind the right army to find an opportunity to discuss, and was destroyed by Ding Yanping, for a while, there was nothing to do.

The right army went north out of Hongdong, he breathed a sigh of relief, and after receiving Li Xiuning's letter that night, consider her suggestion: take advantage of the fact that the soldiers and horses are not damaged, give up the lonely city of Linfen, and go east to Hebei, there is still room for survival, tomorrow your army will be withdrawn, our army will take over, don't play conspiracy, my 100,000 right army has the ability to break your city gate, at that time, you can't leave if you want to!

So the two armies reached an agreement, and only then did the peaceful takeover of Linfen City occur. Luo Yu followed Li Xiuning to the North City Gate Cave, it was noon, the sun was in the middle, looking at the bluestone rammed earth sealed and there was no gap about two zhang high, two zhang deep City Gate Hole, Luo Yu had to admire the superb skills of the ancients, the top of the city wall is full of crossbows to kill the enemy, if you want to attack the city, there is really no good way.

After the city gate hole, it is a square of one hundred and ten squares, even if the enemy breaks through the city gate, this square is not easy to pass, because the front is twenty zhang away is the inner city gate, the bluestone wall of two zhang high is densely distributed with hundreds of small holes, it should be an archery hole, the square is surrounded by city walls, and there are Tibetan military buildings on both sides. At the beginning, the three thousand old and weak relied on such a city wall to block for an hour, but the other city gate was broken before they had to put down their weapons.

This is a military city, all designed for killing, not to mention Chang'an and Luoyang, no wonder Li Shimin of Luo Yu's time and space could not break through Luoyang City, if it wasn't for Dou Jiande, I really don't know how to defeat Wang Shichong and unify the country.

The inner city wall was already full of sergeants, Pei Yuanqing received it quickly, and Li Xiuning looked at Linfen in front of him and was very satisfied. The two dismounted and led them hand in the inner city.

Linfen North City is a horse market and an iron market, just into the door, Luo Yu was smoked so that he couldn't open his eyes, smelled the smell of horse urine and horse feces in his nose, usually he didn't feel anything outside, but in this semi-enclosed space, it was going to die, thousands of horses were lined up on both sides, and the horse pen that could not be seen at a glance, plus the people who sold horses and bought horses, the taste was simple. Changing the army to defend the city doesn't seem to have any impact on them, and business is doing well.

Li Xiuning didn't seem to have encountered this situation, it could be seen from her frowning brows, the two walked forward quickly, the gorgeous Li Xiuning had a frighteningly high return rate, and even someone came to ask her if she wanted to sell horses, and guaranteed that the price was fair, and Tong Su was not bullied.

They are all men from the Northland, and they speak straightforwardly, and they did not pass unimpeded until Pei Yuanqing led the troops over. The taste of the iron shop in front is not much better, Pei Yuanqing explained: "This is the skill of the Mo knife, after the second time the knife is beaten, the knife body must be immersed in horse urine, and then calcined again, so three times, the second process can be completed, and there are seven or eight processes behind!" ”

Luo Yu has seen the technical records of Tang Mo knives, but they are not clear, because the process is too complicated, it has been lost by the end of the Tang Dynasty, and I must come to understand it when I have time, and see if I can use the blast furnace to improve it, so that the Tang Mo knife can be passed on. Forget it now, it's useless to cover your nose with your hands, those indescribable smells are like silk digging through your nose, almost suffocating.

Finally, I passed the iron street, and there was a one-foot-thick but very high wall on the way through the inner city, which should be a separation wall, so that the smell of this side would be less wafting over the inner city.

Came to the Taishou Mansion, that is, Dou Jiande's office mansion, after Pei Yuanqing said goodbye, the two immediately rushed in, Luo Yu instructed Zhang Chang to boil water immediately, to take a bath, after a trip from Beicheng, the clothes all over the body were a bad mixed smell, and if you don't take a bath and change clothes, you will smoke yourself to death.

Li Xiuning has arranged two maids to serve him, so he doesn't have to worry about it, now he is comfortable to take a hot bath and change into dry clothes, which is more important than anything else.

When I came to the kitchen, I saw that several special combat team members were washing meat and cutting vegetables there, and a wild boar had already been decomposed, Luo Yu came to the iron pot that had already been heated after putting on kitchen clothes, and made the braised pork ribs, steamed pork, pork belly, and pork belly wrapped chicken, in order to prevent the dish from becoming cold, put one into the big steamer next to it and heat it up, until the twelve dishes were cooked, they served the table together, and called Li Xiuning, Niu Jinda, Li Xiaogong and other military leaders to eat together, as for the special combat team, they had already played with the stove by themselves, and there was still half a pork left, enough for them to toss.

There are many seasonings and spices, so I have to find some substitutes to fill the number, but fortunately, star anise, cinnamon, sesame oil, pepper and the like are available, and the chicken essence is replaced by chicken broth, so you don't have to worry about the taste of the dish will change.

Most of the meat in the Sui and Tang dynasties came from domestic animals such as sheep and chickens, and beef was rarely eaten, because cattle were used for cultivating land, even if they died of illness and old age, they were reported by the government.

In Luo Yu's time and space, in fact, there were no white pigs in China until the end of the twentieth century, and the pigs in China were all black before.

Twelve dishes, almost eighty catties of meat and offal, plus a few chickens, were swept away, and there was no soup left, although Luo Yu was still a little dissatisfied with the taste of the dishes because of the incomplete seasoning and ingredients, but for the military leaders, it was already delicious, that is, it was not allowed to drink under special circumstances now, otherwise it would have been done long ago.

Niu Jinda touched his round belly and said with a smile: "This is the most delicious dish the old man has ever eaten, I didn't expect pork to be so delicious, I didn't eat a few bites of steamed buns, I ate all the vegetables, Xiuning, you are blessed......" Everyone laughed.

Li Xiuning smiled: "Uncle Niu, if you praise him again, he will go to heaven...... everyone laughed again. Luo Yu said: "It's okay, after the stabilization, the kid will teach these methods to the soldiers in the army, there are many wild boars, and if you want to eat a few heads, it will not be so fresh, eat it well today, so now the kid has something to trouble everyone to give some opinions." ”

Luo Yu looked at everyone's puzzled eyes and said with a smile: "Actually, it's not a big deal, I just want to move the business in Beicheng outside the city, the smell there is too bad......"

When everyone heard this, they were a little confused, Xu Shiji first said: "Beicheng is not big, it is not small, it was originally outside the city, but later there were more and more people, and the city became bigger and bigger, so I had to fence that area and become Beicheng, where are you going to move now?" ”

Li Xiaogong continued: "Our army is temporarily stationed in Linfen, and I don't know when we will pull out the camp and go to the battle, and when the relocation here is not completed, won't it harm the people?" ”

Wu Yunzhao said: "The suggestion of joining the army is that my subordinates think that it can be considered, there is a large piece of flat land in the west, about five miles away from the west city gate, and there is still room to build a horse market there." ”

Luo Yu said: "This is a systematic project, the production of Mo knife requires horse urine, if the horse market moves out, then the blacksmith street also has to be moved, is there such a big location?" ”

Wu Yunzhao said: "It should be possible, but you have to fill in a few ponds and a few ravines, and your subordinates will take the army to see it tomorrow." ”

Li Xiuning said: "Since our army has received Linfen, we have to do something for Linfen, I plan to rest and recuperate in Linfen for a period of time, unless the saint is called, I will never leave here, according to what the army said, tomorrow after seeing the terrain and then make a decision." After a pause, he said: "Military discipline is not allowed to be violated, I hope you restrain your subordinates, don't make it difficult for me!" ”

The crowd shouted their promises and withdrew one by one. Luo Yu and Li Xiuning looked at each other at the table, and then laughed together.