When Su Wan said this, Chai Huan almost sprayed out the water in his mouth.
How can a little girl talk like this?
But she looked innocent and said, "The Third Prince has already said that all the disaster victims have moved into the temple hall, so our previous deal is automatically canceled."
This temple is called Kamikaze Temple. Su Wan did not recognize the deity worshipped in the central hall. It did not look like traditional Buddha statues and looked vaguely strange.
There are one hundred and twenty-nine monks in the Kamikaze Temple, and a total of one hundred and thirty people including the Kamikaze abbot.
But they had only more than a hundred people, but they had nine large halls and countless side rooms. Some said that the area was almost more than a hundred acres, which was more than enough to accommodate two or three thousand disaster victims.
Originally, arrangements had to be made to allow more victims to come in secretly, but with the Third Prince's almost tough order and the soldiers who were about to arrive, the temple door had already been opened. Now that a gap had been opened, the rest would be a natural thing.
Just before the Third Prince threw the order to the current monk in charge of the Shinpu Temple, Su Wan used her vegetarian cooking skills to exchange with the monk in charge.
She prepared some vegetarian food that the inner palace monks liked to eat, and then she could let some disaster victims in.
But that was before.
Now, regardless of whether she eats vegetarian food or not, the victims must enter the Kamikaze Temple.
The victims have come to their senses and realized that the government is now helping them sincerely, so they are all obedient, not to mention that the more than one hundred soldiers behind them have not arrived yet.
With just the fifteen guards on the scene and more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Revenue, they were able to manage more than two thousand disaster victims in an orderly manner.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the victims are all from the same village. After all, they are either neighbors or relatives, so there won’t be any big trouble.
This is a blessing in disguise.
These two thousand people were of one mind, and they obeyed the soldiers on the scene and even the people in the palace of Shangshi. It was more than enough for them to deal with more than one hundred monks.
So Su Wan said directly: "What vegetarian food? Bullshit!"
The words are a bit vulgar, but the meaning is clear.
Su Wan was too lazy to even explain. Even without the Third Prince's order, she would not prepare vegetarian food for the monks of the Shinfeng Temple.
I'm just lying to you, how can you take it seriously?
The monk in charge stared at Su Wan in disbelief. This was the second time he couldn't believe it.
But it’s useless to believe it or not. Her hand is in Su Wan’s hand. Can they still force her?
It would have been fine before, but now there were not only ten palace maids from the palace in the kitchen, but also a group of strong peasant women who were called over to help in the kitchen.
I originally thought that it was to prepare vegetarian meals for the monks of the Kamikaze Temple, but now it has become to give courage to the people of the Imperial Food Department.
Aunt Yonglan pulled Su Wan over, her eyes stern: "We are here to cook for the disaster victims under the order of the emperor, and we are palace servants of the Imperial Food Department of the Ministry of Rites. Do you still want to coerce us?"
By order, Ministry of Rites, Shangshisi.
It seems like none of them are easy to mess with.
If it were ignorant villagers or ordinary people, it would not be so easy for these monks to retreat. Seeing this, the monk in charge had no choice but to leave in anger.
What if I don't leave?
Do we have to fight with these people?
Not to mention that these people were indeed sent by the imperial court, with the victims behind them, no one dared to touch them.
After all, the victims knew that these people from the imperial court, the message sent by the Third Prince, and everything done by the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Food Bureau were all for them.
They don't understand any big principles, so naturally they will listen to whoever helps them.
If it weren't for the tents and porridge sent by the court yesterday, they would probably have died.
This simple truth gave the guards a lot of courage. Even if there were only fifteen of them and even if the reinforcements had not arrived yet, the fifteen guards, plus a dozen officials from the Ministry of Revenue, could lead two or three thousand disaster victims in an orderly manner and also control them at will to intimidate the more than one hundred fat monks in the Kamikaze Temple.
Chai Huan seemed to have noticed something.
The reason they were able to get in this time was because they were people from the imperial court and they cooperated with the victims.
Su Wan watched from the side and thought that this man was indeed smart.
I saw it the last time I helped Yu Shu, and it’s even more so now.
By the time Chai Huan figured this out, the situation in the entire Kamikaze Temple had been turned upside down. The monks were driven into their main hall, and were not allowed to move around freely except in the main hall and their residences.
Instead, the victims arranged their homes with walls and roofs according to the order of each household, and even found charcoal braziers for heating.
Those who could do something came out to work, and those who couldn't do anything rested where they were. Under Su Wan's guidance, they found a lot of medicine in the temple and treated the injured people.
I was in a hurry yesterday and had no luck with medicine. Now that I’m in the Kamikaze Temple, I have everything I need.
Su Wan even regretted why she didn't come in earlier.
But think about it, it was a mess here yesterday, and the victims didn't trust them. It was only after they distributed porridge all day yesterday that they established trust and made the victims dare to follow them into the Kamikaze Temple.
The situation is pretty good now.
But unexpectedly, Xie Pei had the same idea as her, which was to make use of the temples that were everywhere. Wouldn't that be very convenient?
The situation at the Kamikaze Temple changed dramatically. Seeing this, the more than 100 soldiers who came to support turned around and sent a letter to the Third Prince to see if they could be of any other use.
Naturally, the matters here should be written down clearly and handed over.
At this time, the Kamikaze Temple was quiet and peaceful. Many victims were fast asleep. After a day or two of tossing and turning, everyone was tired. Now the room was relatively warm and drafty, which was very good for them.
Because only the people in the Ministry of Households dared to go to the kitchen, they knew there were two pots of hot water boiling in the kitchen so anyone could use it whenever they needed it.
The three or four people from the Ministry of Revenue drank several bowls of water in one breath before sitting down to rest.
But when he looked up, he saw that the palace servants from the Ministry of Rites were still busy. He felt a little ashamed for a moment, as they only played the role of coordinating order in this matter.
Negotiating terms with the Kamikaze Temple and letting the disaster victims in was not even their idea.
In fact, it was not their fault. There were indeed not many people from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and their main personnel were already searching for disaster victims in the front. Some of them were trapped on the road by the wind and snow, and could not be transported along with the supplies.
Seeing this, Aunt Yonglan gave them the steamed buns she had prepared in advance and said, "Eat first. You have all worked so hard."
"Thank you, lady official." The official from the Ministry of Revenue immediately bowed and then bowed to the other nine palace servants, "Thank you, lady officials."
The latter word "female official" is a respectful title, not the real meaning of female official.
But this attitude has already shown that they are indeed officials in the court, minor clerks in the court, and they are all working for the people.
Su Wan heard what he meant and smiled subconsciously. She was not polite at all. She looked at the granary behind the kitchen of the Kamikaze Temple and pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh my God, we won't be short of food for the time being."
Aunt Yonglan knew how smart Su Wan was, so when she heard what she said, she immediately looked towards the warehouse.
It was full of rice, flour, grain and other things, as well as a lot of dried mushrooms, dried vegetables and fruits. It was obviously food prepared for the winter.
Aunt Yonglan worked in the kitchen all year round, and she knew at a glance: "This amount of food is enough to feed more than a hundred people for more than two months."
After all, it is winter, so it is normal to prepare food in advance.
But with so many things, Kamikaze Temple must be too rich.
Can an ordinary temple have so many things?
This is not what Su Wan is considering for the time being. She only thinks about one thing: everyone has food to eat!
Together with the rice and flour that the Ministry of Revenue had brought in with great difficulty, and the things from the Kamikaze Temple, there was more than enough food for all the victims for five days.
Five days is enough time to do a lot of things.
As for the fact that this was the granary of the Kamikaze Temple and not the government's, everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it.
In Su Wan's opinion, the money of this temple might have come from illegal sources.
How could a new temple normally have so much money?
The people in the Ministry of Revenue have already started calculating how much silver it would cost to build this temple. When they saw that the incense here was not very popular, they knew that there was something fishy going on.
If they were normal people, they would not have directly seized the granaries, but these temples were too weird.
Moreover, it is too rigid to guard such a large granary while letting the victims starve.
Anyway, the Grand Secretary of Zhongji Palace would nod in agreement with their approach if he knew about this.
Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it, and the granary naturally came under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Food Bureau.
The people in the Ministry of Revenue were already very convinced of the people in the Imperial Food Bureau and knew that it would be a good idea to give this matter to them.
The ten palace maids in the Imperial Food Department are actually not that bad.
But the dozen or so peasant women who were assigned to help were stunned by the grain. They had never seen such a full warehouse in their lives.
However, their family’s life was still acceptable before, until their house was demolished and their farmland was occupied and it became like this.
All of them had resentment in their hearts, and they had all prepared to head straight to the border if they could get through this, far away from Kyoto, to become refugees fleeing famine. At any rate, it would be better than enduring the bullying of these wild monks in Kyoto.
Some people in the village also shouted that they wanted to file a complaint with the emperor, but everyone knew that the saints respected Buddha, and if they really filed a complaint, they would be the ones who would suffer.
Let’s not talk about these things for now.
The female officials of the Imperial Food Department have already called them to help prepare today's lunch!
Although it was said to be noon, it was actually close to afternoon.
After all, so many things happened and it took some time.
Moreover, the usual three meals a day have to be changed to two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The main purpose is of course to save food.
Before Tianxiang Kingdom, the tradition in many places was to eat two meals a day, and even now many poor places still eat two meals a day, so the sudden restoration is not surprising.
The accompanying guards and people from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Rites all had two meals a day.
There are so many ingredients, what should I do?
Aunt Yonglan looked at Su Wan and said, of course, with Su Wan around, anything can be done.
Basically everything in the warehouse is vegetarian, but that’s not a big deal, delicious meals can still be made.
Su Wan looked at the food carefully and said, "Let's make vegetarian food. Make some delicious and simple vegetarian food."
She promised to make vegetarian food, but she didn't cook it for the monks.
Instead, it was given to the disaster victims who were harmed by the monks.
What did you cook last time? Lotus root porridge, right? I'll cook it again this time! Everyone can eat it except the monks in the Kamikaze Temple!
But apart from lotus root porridge, other meals need to be changed. After all, the variety of ingredients here is not as good as that during the winter festival.
Su Wan carefully searched for food, including radishes, cabbages, and many other ingredients for the winter.
Just as Su Wan was carefully picking things, she suddenly smelled a salty fragrance.
Wait, no way?
Su Wan quickly called Aunt Yonglan over: "Aunt Yonglan, smell it, does it have a salty aroma?"
Not only was Aunt Yonglan called over, other officials from the Ministry of Revenue were also called over.
I smelled it carefully in the warehouse and I really smelled it.
One of the officials said subconsciously: "It smells like bacon!"
When these words were spoken, everyone present was shocked.
Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, monks were not allowed to eat meat. There were monks who opposed it at the time, but they were never able to overcome the imperial power, and it gradually became a rule.
Now, hundreds of years have passed, and it has long become a Buddhist law for monks not to kill or eat meat.
Even saints don't eat much meat.
They actually found bacon in the Kamikaze Temple?!
What is bacon?
The marinated meat is air-dried to create a delicious meat product.
A small piece of bacon is extremely delicious when used to steam rice.
The monks in this Kamikaze Temple not only eat meat, but they also eat such good meat.
I really underestimated them.
But this time I just smell it, maybe it's not there?
That being said, they still searched the place. I guess the monks in the Kamikaze Temple didn't expect that someone named Su Wan would be so bold as to search the storehouse?
Or maybe the monk in the kitchen just hid it secretly, and the monk in charge didn't know about it.
No matter what, Su Wan and her friends actually found more than ten kilograms of bacon in the temple!
In that case, she won't be polite!
Today's lunch is cabbage, radish, vermicelli and stewed bacon!
Let's have an unauthentic Northeastern stew! It's absolutely delicious!
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