With eggs and these wild mushrooms, Xu Qinyu planned to make mushroom egg drop soup. The Pei family had been eating mixed grain cakes all the way, which were dry and hard, and their spleen and stomach were weak. Eggs made into egg drop soup would be easier to digest.

Mushroom egg drop soup is also easy to make. After the water boils, add the shredded mushrooms. When the mushrooms are cooked, scoop a spoonful of lard into them to dissolve them, sprinkle some salt, and finally pour the beaten egg liquid evenly into the soup.

After pouring the egg liquid on, the fire is turned off immediately. However, even if the open flame is turned off, there is still charcoal fire under the stove. The high temperature will make the egg flowers become old, so Xu Qinyu directly took the big pot off the stove, and then gently slid the egg liquid with a spoon to dissolve it into smooth and tender egg flowers. Finally, sprinkle some chopped green onions on it, and it will have color, aroma and taste.

Xu Qinyu took a bite and it was very fresh, but the ingredients and seasonings were limited. Otherwise, she could have added some shredded wood ear mushrooms and day lily, and thickened it with starch to make the soup thicker and the taste richer.

Ma Liu became hungry again when he smelled the delicious aroma. He didn't care about being full with the stewed bamboo shoots with bacon. He had the biggest appetite among the people here. He ate twice as much cakes as others at every meal.

Xu Qinyu poured the soup into a large bowl and waved to the Pei family to come and eat.

Apart from the absence of this historical dynasty, she felt that other aspects had not changed much, such as food ingredients. She had also tasted these raw wild mushrooms, and they tasted the same as in her time. In fact, because the land was not polluted, the taste was even sweeter.

Pei Jianing was so hungry that she dragged Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er over to eat. However, Wen grabbed her daughter's clothes, looking embarrassed, and whispered, "Ning, Ning Jie'er, just now those military officers said that the wild mushrooms here are poisonous and can kill people if eaten. Even if Yu Niang can cook, she is not from here. Even Di himself cannot distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic mushrooms. I, I am worried. It's best to tell your fourth sister-in-law not to eat it."

She was a gentle person who didn't like gossiping, but her face turned red as she spoke.

Pei Jianing impatiently pushed Wen away and said, "Fourth sister-in-law said she can tell the difference. I believe her. Besides, it will take several days to get there. If Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er are not nourished, they will definitely not be able to survive."

Not only the two children couldn't bear it, they were the same. Compared to dying of exhaustion or hunger, she would rather eat her fill and be poisoned to death.

Wen's eyes turned red and he stopped talking.

Pei Jianing felt very upset when she saw Wenshi like this, but she did not try to persuade her mother. She just wanted to pick up her brother and niece and go to her fourth sister-in-law's place.

Pei Weixuan stood up, took the two children from his sister's arms, and went to Xu Qinyu's side.

Xu Qinyu brought two bowls of soup to the two of them, "Feed Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er first."

The weather is cold, and these bowls of soup have been sitting out for a while, so now is the perfect time to eat them.

Pei Weixuan nodded, took the large bowl, and fed one child each. The two children took a bite and began to wolf it down.

Xu Qinyu also felt sad. The two children were as thin as refugees and malnourished. They would not be able to hold on if they were not fed. It happened that there were four eggs left from making the soup just now. She would cook them later and save them for the two children so that they could eat them when they were hungry at night.

Xu Qinyu brought another bowl to Wen, who mumbled thank you. Xu Qinyu then went back to the stove and continued eating.

There was a bowl of cooked mushroom and egg drop soup left, and Xu Qinyu planned to save it for her adopted husband. He seemed to be only nineteen this year, and it was still the time for him to grow up. His original body was only fifteen, and he was still a half-grown child when she was held. Yet he had to suffer such hardship, and he had to suffer this hardship for his own elder sister.

The Dechang Marquis Mansion is really a terrible family. Xu Qinyu complained about the Dechang Marquis Mansion in her heart while drinking soup.

While they were enjoying their meal, the two children at Anping Gong's side were making even more noise, saying they wanted to eat the food in their bowls and even asking others to come over and snatch it away.

These two boys, one about seven or eight years old, and the other about two or three years old, are the legitimate great-grandsons of Old Master Wen. They were spoiled to no end when they were in the capital, and even after being exiled, they still behaved like this.

The old lady was a little annoyed by the crying of her two great-grandchildren, so she said, "Why are you crying? You can't just eat these mushrooms casually. Be careful or you will die from eating them."

Xu Qinyu rolled her eyes inwardly when she heard this and drank the soup even more happily.

The family was eating when Ma Liu ran over with a big grin on his face, squatted in front of Xu Qinyu and shouted, "My dear, you have an extra bowl of soup. Can you really drink it?"

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Of course, General, please see that we are all fine." She picked common edible mushrooms, which were not toxic at all.

Ma Liu was really greedy. He didn't expect that a bowl of mushroom and egg soup would have such an alluring aroma. He couldn't help but ask, "Then, young lady, do you have one bowl left?"

Xu Qinyu already knew what the military master meant, and said with a smile, "There is one more bowl, please drink it, military master."

Ma Liu didn't hesitate to pick up the bowl and took a sip. He was delighted by the soup's freshness the moment it entered his mouth and praised, "It's so delicious." He had never tasted such a delicious soup before.

He finished the bowl of soup in just a few gulps.

The Pei family still ate their food with hard coarse-grain cakes, otherwise they would not be able to finish a bowl of soup.

After Ma Liu finished drinking, he said goodbye to Xu Qinyu and left with satisfaction.

Pei Jianing looked at Xu Qinyu and couldn't help but say, "I didn't know that Fourth Sister-in-law's cooking skills were so good. After Fourth Sister-in-law was sick, she seemed to have become a different person."

When the fourth sister-in-law entered the fourth brother's palace in her wedding dress, she was lifeless and looked as if she had lost her soul. After that, on the way to exile, the fourth sister-in-law did not say a word. She never spoke a word. Even when she was bullied by the Wen family, she just lowered her neck, just like her mother. What she hated most was people who were too weak, so she also disliked the fourth sister-in-law a little.

But I didn’t expect that my fourth sister-in-law would change after she fell ill.

Xu Qinyu sighed, "I was thinking the wrong thing before. I have become more open-minded after the serious illness. As long as I'm alive, anything is possible. I don't want to die, I want to live well. As for cooking, I learned a little when I was at home, but I didn't expect that it would become a skill for me to settle down and start a career in the future." She was looking for an excuse for her drastic change in personality, and at the same time, she was telling the Pei family that when she arrived at the place of exile, she planned to cook food to settle down and start a career.

As for the original body's cooking skills, he did have some knowledge.

The second branch of their family was not favored in the Marquis' Mansion, and their food was much worse than that of the other two branches. Sometimes when she was hungry, she learned to cook a little, but she didn't know how to cook much.

When Pei Weixuan heard this, his hand holding the bowl paused slightly and his eyelids slightly opened, but he did not look at Xu Qinyu. He lowered his eyes and continued to eat.

Pei Jianing didn't think about anything else. Even her own temperament changed drastically. It would be abnormal if she didn't have a drastic change after experiencing such a situation. Naturally, she believed what her fourth sister-in-law said.

After dinner, Xu Qinyu washed the pots and bowls and put them away.

Ma Liu enjoyed his meal today and even shared some of the firewood with the Pei family so that they could make their own fire to keep warm.

With the fire, everyone's clothes were dried, and after eating and drinking enough, they slept under the huge rock all night.

This was almost the most comfortable night they had ever spent on their journey of exile.

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The next day, just as the sky was turning pale, Xu Qinyu and the Pei family had just woken up, and Ma Liu trotted over to Xu Qinyu and laughed, "My dear, what shall we have for breakfast today?"

Yesterday he was worried that he would be poisoned by the mushroom soup at night, but after drinking a bowl of mushroom soup, he felt about 70% full and slept more soundly at night.

In this era, ordinary people only had two meals a day, breakfast and evening, without lunch or lunch. Rich families, or aristocratic and royal families, had three or four meals a day, breakfast, afternoon, dinner and evening.

Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Today we are having scallion egg pancakes."

Scallion egg pancakes are also easy to make. Wash and chop the wild scallions picked yesterday, pour them into the prepared egg batter, and finally add salt to season.

What you need to pay attention to when making this dish is the temperature when frying the pancake and the ratio of the batter, which is a simple matter for Xu Qinyu.

While she was cooking, the officers and soldiers helped to boil a pot of hot water and fill everyone's water bottle, and then went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots and wild vegetables.

When the officers and soldiers came back, she had already spread a thick stack of scallion egg pancakes, the aroma was overwhelming.

It tastes soft, fragrant and delicate, and is easy to digest.

The scallion egg pancake she sold was quite large. She gave two to each of the officers and soldiers, and she and the Pei family each got one. They ate them with hot water and regained some strength.

After that, they hurried on for another day's journey. In the evening, she cooked mushrooms, bamboo shoots and bacon for dinner. The stew was simple to make but delicious. With the addition of mushrooms, it had more flavor than yesterday's bacon and bamboo shoots, and was more delicious. Everyone in the Pei family got a bowl.

They walked for another five or six days. Xu Qinyu prepared breakfast and dinner along the way. The soldiers were impressed by the food she cooked, and became more polite to the Pei family members. The Pei family members also brought hot water and food every day. After a few days of this, Xu Qinyu and the Pei family members looked better.

The Wen family could tolerate the food made by Xu Qinyu at first, but later even Old Lady Wen could not resist the aroma. Thinking that it was food for the officers and soldiers, they always bought some hot food from them, and the officers and soldiers would sell it to them. So they asked their family to discuss buying some food with the officers and soldiers, but they were directly rejected by Lieutenant Chen, who said that even they did not have enough to eat. This made the Wen family very angry, and they hated Xu Qinyu and the Pei family even more.

After eating like this for five or six days, the soldiers had eaten up all the food in the carriage. Fortunately, there were mountains all around, so they could pick fresh wild mushrooms and bamboo shoots every day. Even without bacon, white flour and eggs, the young lady could still make a soup and a dish with wild mushrooms and bamboo shoots.

I don’t know how this young lady cooked it, but these wild mushrooms are simply boiled in hot water, with a little salt and lard added, and they are so delicious.

Only then did they believe that many wild mushrooms are edible, but they are really difficult to distinguish. They didn’t know how this young lady could be so amazing. Sometimes when they went to help pick them, they found that there was no difference between them and what the young lady had picked, but the young lady told them that those were poisonous mushrooms and could not be eaten.

And the winter bamboo shoots were cut into thin slices by the young lady, stir-fried with lard, and only a little salt was added. It tasted crisp, refreshing and sweet.

Ma Liu sighed as he ate, thinking that their journey back to the capital would be difficult because he would never be able to eat the food cooked by the young lady again.

For these officers and soldiers, Ma Liu was the one who usually cooked for them. Xu Qinyu was also generous. She taught Ma Liu the recipes of the food she had made in the past few days, and also taught him some simple tips for stir-frying and stewing. As for other exquisite dishes, it was useless to teach him because it was impossible for him to cook such exquisite food while in exile.

Ma Liu was particularly grateful to Xu Qinyu. As they were about to reach the border city, he secretly ran to tell Xu Qinyu, "Young lady, don't worry. You are a commoner here. You will definitely live well with your skills. When I return to Beijing, I will help you send a message to your parents to let them know you are safe."

Xu Qinyu said solemnly: "Thank you, Master Jun. Please tell my parents that I will live well and will never give up. Also, tell them not to worry and take good care of themselves. We will have the opportunity to meet in the future."

Since she lives on in place of her original self, and her original self's parents dote on her very much, she will also be filial to them on her behalf. She was exiled to the southwest along with the Fourth Prince, and her original self's parents must be very sad. They are afraid that they will get hurt, so now they can only comfort them first.

Ma Liu said: "Don't worry, young lady, I will inform them if I don't have to."

On the seventh day, people finally saw the shadow of the southwestern border city of Raozhou.