Chapter 2145 Master You
That's quite a long time. If you walk on this road for eight or nine years, you can walk it with your eyes closed, right?
The few of them became even happier and more enthusiastic towards Master You.
Mr. Zhuang smiled when he saw this, then sat by the fire and listened to them talk without interrupting.
Daji and other guards had already skinned the rabbits, chopped three of them and put them in a basin. At this time, they were putting a pot on another fire, scooping a spoonful of oil from the can and putting it in, throwing in the chopped ginger, and then pouring the rabbit meat into the basin.
The aroma slowly spread out, and a guard from the Bai family brought a jar and said, "Put some sauce in it."
This is the sauce prepared by the Zhou family. They used it twice during the process. After adding it, it tasted delicious without adding salt.
Since we are already cooking, we might as well make more. Since we knew we were going to cook, Manbao and his friends picked a lot of edible wild vegetables nearby before sunset. They may not taste very good, but they can be blanched in boiling water in a pot and then stir-fried, so they won't be so bitter.
This method was kindly provided by Lord Zhou, but the guards did not dare to let her do it. Although she talked about cooking in detail, who knew if she really could do it?
Ahem, they are adults after all, how can we let them do this?
As for the other girl in the team, after eating the dish she cooked for the first time, everyone tacitly excluded Zhou Liru from the cooking group.
It's really strange. She seems very skilled in washing, cutting, and stir-frying vegetables. The oil and salt she uses seem to be similar to theirs, but the dishes she makes are just... a little bit off in taste.
After discovering that Zhou Liru's cooking was not as good as that of their group of rough people, they subconsciously stopped letting them cook.
They were working hard at this time.
Bai Shan got up and ran to the food section, and found a freshly marinated rabbit on a skewer. He brought it back and hung it on the rack above the fire, "Let's roast the rabbit."
Mr. Zhuang doesn't like roasted rabbit and prefers fried one. Manbao is the same, so when it's time to eat, they eat the delicious fried rabbit meat first.
Master You, who was also given a bowl, hesitated for a moment before eating. He stuffed a mouthful of white rice into his mouth and chewed it. He couldn't help but sigh, "Your Excellency has prepared very well."
Everyone looked at him in confusion.
Master You said, "It's not easy to get rice after passing Xiazhou, let alone when we're camping on the grassland..."
He had encountered many caravans that had eaten such white rice in the past seven or eight years. Even the Shi family caravan with the most wealth and the aristocratic family caravan with the strictest discipline had never seen a bowl of white rice on the grassland.
Manbao held the bowl with a puzzled look on his face, "If not rice, what to eat?"
Master You smiled and said, "Eat noodles."
He glanced at the guards and soldiers who were already squatting by the other three fires and starting to eat, and said with a smile, "Or the dry food they brought."
Behind him, his manager and his men were distributing dry food. There was only hot water boiling in their pots, and they ate the dry food with the hot water. As long as they camped, they would eat dry food, and this would be the case all the way from Taiyuan to Shazhou.
He could count on one hand the number of times he had seen a group of people like this, cooking, frying dishes and making soup.
Even if there are people who can cook, most of them don’t know how to cook white rice. They just heat up a few pancakes or make a bowl of noodle soup...
Mr. You expressed his opinion tactfully.
Bai Shan asked, "Will we be robbed?"
Master You glanced at the soldiers not far behind them and said, "...Not really. You are on official business, and the bandits on the road will probably deliberately avoid you."
Manbao felt relieved when he heard that he wouldn't be robbed. After thinking for a while, he said, "Noodle soup is also very delicious."
Bai Shan said, "Then we'll have noodle soup tomorrow. We'll knead the noodles at noon and put them aside so we can slice them when we get home in the evening."
Manbao thought this was a good idea, so he turned around and asked Mr. Zhuang and the two pedestrians, "Sir, Mr. Wei, would you like some noodle soup?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded with a smile, and the two pedestrians said it was okay.
She turned her head and looked at Yin Huo.
Yin Huo had no objection.
So that was settled.
Bai Jilang waited for a moment and then asked, "Why don't you ask us?"
Liu Huan: “That’s right.”
"You will want to eat it." Manbao felt that they had such good stomachs that they could eat anything as long as it tasted good.
Zhou Liru said, "It just so happens that we collected a lot of eggs when we left Xiazhou. We can make egg soup with noodles."
Manbao nodded repeatedly. Except for egg water, she liked all other forms of eggs.
After discussing what to eat tomorrow, Manbao turned to ask Master You with great interest, "Master You, are there any interesting places along the way to Shazhou?"
Mr. You didn't know why the topic suddenly jumped here. He paused and then his eyes swept over Bai Shan and the others.
In fact, he had noticed them as early as when they caught up on horseback, especially Bai Shan. The setting sun was shining brightly on his face, and he just turned his head and smiled, which was simply dazzling. But when he put away his smile, his dignity was no less than that of Master Yin.
Not only him, but also the Miss Zhou beside him, has a good temperament and appearance. When she smiles, her face is as bright as the moon, yet somewhat amiable. But when she doesn't smile, she looks at people with dignity, and seems to be more prestigious than that Lord Zhuang.
The other two young men and one young lady were also quite good-looking and had good temperaments. Moreover, after the conversation, they did not seem to be incompetent. However, how could those who were willing to come here to study be playboys?
Mr. You's mind raced, and he guessed that these young men and women were probably of high status. This Mr. Zhuang said that he was going on a business trip to the Western Regions, and would take a few students with him for study tours. It was probably that studying tours were the main purpose, and the business trip was secondary.
Mr. You didn't know that he had accidentally guessed the truth. Because he guessed that their status was not low, even though they were young and asked a variety of questions, he still patiently answered them.
For example, what kind of tribes might they encounter further down the mountain, and whether they would encounter villages, towns, and cities...
What delicious food and fun things are there in which places? Are there any famous horse thieves along the way? Have any rangers ever challenged horse thieves? And so on...
Some even asked if they had ever seen a fairy landed at the foot of the Helan Mountains, as rumored...
Mr. You thought, if he had seen a fairy, would he still be working so hard as a businessman now?
Several people talked excitedly around the fire for an hour and a half. Not only did they finish their meal, but they also ate two roasted rabbits. Finally, the night wind turned cold and it seemed that frost was falling. Then everyone said goodbye, washed up, and went back to the tent to sleep.
After finishing his meal, Yin Huo put on a cloak and a hat on his head. He took them off and gave them to Changshou after entering the tent.
Liu Huan was amazed. "You've prepared everything."
Yin Huo said, "My eldest sister prepared it. Manbao said I can't stand the cold wind, nor can I sweat in the heat. I especially can't stand the frost at night and in the morning. So my eldest sister had someone make this cloak with fine linen and fine cotton, so that I can wear it to keep out the wind and frost when it's neither too cold nor too hot."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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