After the rice and vegetables were ready, Gu Yanyue started to cook tomato and egg soup. She had originally wanted to make soup, but time was running out. But in fact, the most common dishes are the ones that show the most skill. The tomatoes need to be cooked until they are juicy, but not too mushy, otherwise the dish will look ugly, and if they are not juicy, the dish will be tasteless.
"Girl, your cooking skills are much better than that old man Jiang's." Aunt Gao praised.
Old man Jiang is the chef in the kitchen on weekdays, and she and a few women from the neighborhood come over occasionally to help.
What's so bad about the food cooked by old man Jiang? He stewed everything in the pot. It was like pig food. It wasn't even as delicious as what she cooked.
But he was also very arrogant and always thought that the food he cooked was the best in the world. She really wanted to bring Old Man Jiang over and try the food Gu Yanyue cooked, to see if he could still say that the food he cooked was the best in the world.
Gu Yanyue smiled modestly: "It's not that I have any cooking skills, I just like to cook."
For her, cooking is more of a hobby than a job. Perhaps it is because of her love for cooking that she has a certain position and voice in this field in modern times.
There were twenty plates of food filled with it, plus five large bowls of tomato and egg soup. There was still some food left in the pot. Seeing Song Ba's eyes fixed on the pot, Gu Yanyue smiled and said, "Song Ba, are you hungry? Do you want to try some first?"
Song Ba smiled and rubbed his hands: "That's great, I'll thank you first." After that, Song Ba scooped up the soup in the pot and squatted aside to drink it.
Aunt Gao smiled awkwardly, staring at Song Ba like a starving ghost. She scooped up all the soup in the pot and swallowed hard.
She helped Gu Yanyue put the prepared food on the table outside. After Song Ba finished drinking the soup, he went to call Hu San and other brothers in the village to come for dinner.
When Hu San sat down, he was amazed by the dishes made by Gu Yanyue. As soon as he sat down, he couldn't wait to pick up the stir-fried beef cubes in front of him.
The beef cubes are smooth and tender, the carrot and cucumber cubes are crisp and refreshing, the taste is just right, and it is oily but not greasy. It is even better than what the chefs in other restaurants make.
It was not only Hu San and Song Ba who praised Gu Yanyue's meal. The rest of the brothers in the village all agreed that the food cooked by Gu Yanyue was a rare delicacy in the world.
After a while, all the food in front of them was gone. Hu San and his brothers in the village felt that they were still not satisfied. Gu Yanyue could not compete with these men and only ate half of his food.
After dinner, Gu Yanyue was led back to the room she was staying in. She couldn't remember whether she fainted or fell asleep from exhaustion last night. It was still dark, and she was in a deep sleep when she heard a sudden noise outside.
"It's so noisy..." Gu Yanyue muttered, turned over and simply covered her head.
After a while, the noise not only did not subside, but became even louder. Gu Yanyue got a headache from the noise and sat up suddenly.
After a moment's pause, she realized that she was neither in the palace nor in the camp, but in a bandit's lair.
The noise outside made her head buzz. She put on her clothes and walked out. She opened the window and looked down. She found that the training ground below, where Hu San usually trained bandits, was now full of children playing and fighting.
Gu Yanyue looked at the children below and thought of Xiao Yuntun who was still in the capital. She had followed the army out of the capital for so long, and she didn't know if Xiao Yuntun was doing well in the capital now.
After breakfast, Gu Yanyue asked Hu San and found out that the children there were all born to bandits in the village and women outside. There was no one to discipline them, and they would make trouble in the village every day.
After hearing this, Gu Yanyue recalled that in modern times, if parents did not have time on weekdays, they would send their children to cram schools. The children in this village looked to be four or five years old. They ran around in the village every day. It seemed that they had never learned to read.
She thought that now that she had time, she could teach the children how to write, which would both teach them how to write and prevent them from making trouble again.
She told Hu San about this idea, and Hu San agreed with her idea. In order to make it easier for Gu Yanyue to discipline the children, he specially sent a few bandits to Gu Yanyue so that they could scare the children when they were disobedient.
Seeing Hu San nod, Gu Yanyue didn't hesitate, took the people Hu San assigned to her, and went outside to look for the children while holding her dress.
While Gu Yanyue was teaching her children, preparations for her wedding with Hu San were also being made quietly. On the day the wedding dress was delivered, Gu Yanyue finally found Yuwen Ran's location in the mountain village.
She wrote a letter and gave it to the man who had gone up the mountain with her, asking him to take the letter to the camp under the pretext of going down the mountain to buy her something. Everything was ready, everything was ready, only the east wind was missing.
Soon the wedding day arrived.
Red candles are flickering, a faint fragrance lingers, and faintly, festive drum music can be heard...
Hu San looked at Gu Yanyue who was sitting upright on the bed. Before he could say anything, there was a sudden earthquake outside.
Hu San had been catching his eye ever since the wedding. Now that there was such a big commotion outside, he must have been worried, so he put on his outer robe and went to check it out in person.
I walked up to the tower of the mountain stronghold and looked out. All I saw was a dense crowd of soldiers...
Hu San's expression instantly turned extremely ugly. What was going on?
"Listen up, people in the stronghold. Open the door and surrender, and the general will spare your lives!" A man from the army rode out and shouted in a loud voice.
"General..." Hu San muttered. There were certainly a few people who could be called generals, but Hu San was sure that it was not any of the soldiers in front of him.
They were just some small armies that were not worthy of being mentioned in the official account, and Hu Sanlian didn't even take them seriously.
He waved his hand and shouted, "Come on! Shoot!"
Trumpets sounded in the valley, and bandits of all sizes rushed out of the mountain stronghold, looking down at the "little shrimps" like Du Yuhou.
The chief military officer made a gesture, and the soldiers behind him immediately understood and dispersed, so that the arrows shot by the bandits were scattered.
They had obtained the defense map of the mountain stronghold long after Gu Yanyue successfully escaped. In addition, they had been wandering around the mountain whenever they had free time in the past few days, and had already figured out the terrain of the mountain.
Facing a horde of fierce bandits, the chief officer drew his sword indifferently. The long blade was as white as snow, and he pointed it at Hu San and said, "Save His Majesty and His Majesty, and kill all the other bandits without mercy!"
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