In the tent, there was a faint light and fire shaking.
Xiao Feizhen woke up from hunger.
Being woken up by hunger in the middle of the night is an extremely rare experience. It's like feeling exhausted all over, sour water pouring out of your mouth, and the only thought left in your mind is to find something to eat! It's like countless hands are pulling at your stomach, grabbing it.
As he licked his intestines, countless voices shouted in his mind, "Eat! I want something to eat!"
Fei Zhen suddenly felt very regretful, regretting why she didn't take a few more bites when she was eating her breasts.
Or it would be good to take one more bite...
When Fei Zhen was cooking dinner, she finally couldn't stand the rough food, lost her temper, and threw the bowl.
Will Father be angry? Will he ignore me when he is angry? Will he drive me away? It's best to beat me up. It won't kill me anyway. At most, he will drive me back, and then I can go back to Chang'an.
, let’s go eat delicious food and have fun!
But……
Why was my father not angry or even paying attention to me? Didn’t I cry for so long in vain?
Crying...
So hungry (⊙o⊙)……
Thinking of food, Feizhen's stomach became more and more uncomfortable, and the sound of gurgling bowel sounds echoed in the tent.
In the light and shadow, Fei Qian seemed to sit up. Fei Zhen quickly closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but his stomach still made a gurgling sound...
Fei Qian chuckled, then took the paint box on the side and opened it.
"There is some leftover food, do you want to eat it?" Fei Qian looked at Fei Zhen curled up and pretending to sleep on the camp bed, and asked slowly, "It's leftover, cold, it's the food you spilled at night."
...I had people cook it again. Although most of the sand and dust were removed, there was still some dust..."
"Of course, you can also choose not to eat, but if you don't eat, you will have to wait until dawn for breakfast..." Fei Qian said slowly, "Don't pretend to be asleep, the sound of your stomach can be heard in the sky..."
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Xiao Feizhen sat up awkwardly and was silent for a long time, "Where is your mother?"
Fei Qian said: "Sixty miles away from here..."
"..." Feizhen was silent.
It's too far away. No matter how loud you cry, she can't hear you...
"Do you still want to eat? In fact, I'm a little hungry too..." Fei Qian picked up the wooden bowl in the lacquer box, "If you don't want to eat, I will eat... One farm and one land cannot be abandoned lightly... This time
Can I help you carry it back next time..."
Fei Zhen looked at Fei Qian, trying to distinguish the authenticity of Fei Qian's words in the dim light, but he failed. The light was not enough to see Fei Qian's expression clearly, and he was still very hungry, very hungry.
It seems that he has never been so hungry since he can remember...
Of course, that meal was also the worst meal in Feizhen's memory, so much so that she was still hesitating at the moment.
Fei Qian did not continue to persuade Fei Zhen, but picked up the bowl, slowly took the cold rice into his mouth, and chewed it.
In the middle of the night, the surroundings were quite quiet. Although Fei Qian did not deliberately make any loud chewing sounds, Fei Zhen could still clearly hear the sounds and could even tell whether Fei Qian was chewing beans or wheat.
grain……
Fei Qian ate slowly.
Bah, bah, bah.
Gulu gulu...
Feizhen's stomach made a louder sound, making Feizhen not sure whether to cover her ears or her stomach.
Fei Qian smiled secretly, and then continued to eat slowly and leisurely.
Even though Fei Qian seemed to be enjoying the meal, in fact, most of the bowl of rice was knocked to the ground by Fei Zhen out of anger, and then he gathered it up again. Although it was rinsed and cooked again, it was still the same.
There is also some fine soil stained in it, which is difficult to remove and cannot be seen, but when you eat it and chew it in your mouth, it will emit a strong earthy smell, and there are also some fine small sand and stones.
Yes, it's not delicious.
But Fei Zhen didn't know it. He listened to the sound of Fei Qian chewing, and the hunger in his belly became even stronger. He swallowed his saliva and wanted to cry again, but he had no strength. His stomach was empty and he couldn't support it at all.
Feizhen makes trouble again.
Some parents may think that their children will cry for no reason, but in fact crying consumes a lot of energy, so children do not cry randomly. There must be a child's reason for their crying.
Either because of physical discomfort, or because she wants to achieve some goal, it is definitely not unconscious and crying for no reason. Just like the reason why Feizhen cried before, it was because Feizhen felt that her crying was useful. According to Feizhen
Zhen's past experience is that as long as he cries, some people will be afraid, and even his mother will find ways to coax him to stop crying, so he can use his crying in exchange for something, some advantage.
This cannot be said to be Feizhen's fault, nor is it entirely Huang Yueying's fault.
After all, when Feizhen was young, Huang Yueying was not very old. In addition, Fei Qian himself was also fighting in the north and south during that period, so there was no time to care about Feizhen, so there was no one who could correct Feizhen in the early stage.
This bad habit has persisted to this day.
Although under Cai Yan's guidance, Fei Zhen has restrained herself somewhat, but after Cai Yan became pregnant, she gradually stopped worrying about it, so that Fei Zhen's old habits sprouted up, and sometimes she would naturally take them out of habit.
Come out and put it to use.
"There's half left..." Fei Qian stopped, tapped the edge of the wooden bowl twice with his chopsticks, and said slowly, "This is the last half... If you don't eat it, you have to wait."
...Well, four and a half hours...are you sure you don’t want to eat?』
Fei Zhen was still hesitant. It was not until Fei Qian picked up the bowl again that she finally gave in and shouted: "I...I want to eat! I want to eat! Wuwuwu..."
The Han people have a two-meal system.
Only the emperor can have three meals.
Yesterday morning I ate breakfast and set out, then I didn’t eat anything during the whole day, and then it was late at night. Of course, to ordinary people, it might not be a big deal, but for people like Feizhen, it is certainly impossible to violate the rules on the surface.
What kind of etiquette is actually in the Husband's government office? As long as Fei Zhen is hungry, it is within the scope of tacit consent to eat cakes and other things at any time. However, in the army, there are only two meals and snacks.
Don't think about it, so it can be said that today is the first time Feizhen has been so hungry since she was a child.
When you're hungry, everything smells delicious, and food that you thought was extremely difficult to swallow seems to be edible...
Although Feizhen was still crying while eating at the beginning, she later forgot to cry and only ate. The whole grain rice that was cooked for the second time was obviously softer. If you don't care about the occasional...
of fine sand and dust...
The stomach and intestines are cheering to welcome the arrival of food.
Because the cold sweat caused by hunger disappeared, the brain began to secrete polypeptides to reward Feizhen's behavior of supplementing food needs.
Everything is slowly changing...
So sometimes the old people will say that if a child is not well-behaved, he will be honest after a good meal, and his words are rough but not rough. This is basically what he means.
A bowl of rice was not much in the first place, and Fei Qian ate a little, so Fei Zhen actually didn't eat much. Of course, if Fei Qian hadn't eaten with the head, Fei Zhen might have suffered a loss of face.
, hard on the anus, but won’t eat...
After eating the rest of the meal and drinking some water, Feizhen finally felt like she was alive again. But Feizhen remained silent and began to engage in non-violence and non-cooperation with Fei Qian.
This is the child's second trick, to act stupid.
Or simply drag.
Feizhen has realized that this trip is not as beautiful as she originally imagined, but crying and making noises have no effect, and no one even pays attention to it. She even has no food to eat because of it, and has to eat mud rice...
…
And who is the person who caused all this?
In Fei Zhen's mind, she naturally thought it was Fei Qian, but after all, Fei Qian was her father and could not resist, so she could only resort to non-violence and non-cooperation.
Fei Qian didn't care about that much. Anyway, the trip took a long time, so he just took it easy and stopped paying attention to Fei Zhen. He continued to sleep after lying down, which made Fei Zhen unable to use up her strength and made her feel bored.
After a while, he couldn't resist the temptation of the Sandman and fell asleep.
Fei Zhen seemed to have just closed her eyes, and the next moment her ears were filled with all kinds of noisy sounds. Then she opened her eyes and saw that it was already bright.
"Master! Get up!" Huang Xu first said sorry to Fei Zhen, then lifted Fei Zhen up from the bed like a chicken, and then a guard came forward to wash Fei Zhen's face.
"It hurts..." Feizhen shouted.
Naturally, the strength of the guards cannot be as gentle and appropriate as the servants who serve people in the Husband's office.
"If you want it to be pain-free, just wash it yourself." Fei Qian was also washing up, glanced sideways, and said calmly.
Feizhen hesitated for a moment, took the guard's face towel, wiped it randomly twice, then threw it away, "Okay!"
Fei Qian didn't care whether Fei Zhen had wiped it clean or not. Anyway, his face was his own.
"Let's go!" Fei Qian signaled, and then walked forward.
Feizhen was in a daze, and then Huang Xu, who was following behind, said: "Sir, let's go."
"No...shouldn't we eat first..." Feizhen asked Huang Xu.
"My lord said, I won't eat in the military camp this morning..." Huang Xu replied.
"Where are you eating?" Feizhen was stunned for a moment, then became excited, "Are you going back to my mother's place to eat? Ah? Really?"
"I don't know..." Huang Xu smiled, "But no matter where you go, you have to start..."
"Okay! Let's go!" Feizhen set off with some expectations.
After bypassing the hillside, walking through the mounds, and passing through the woods, a piece of farmland appeared in front of us, and beyond the farmland, there was a village.
"Everyone, get on top! Don't step on Zhuang He!" Xu Chu in front shouted loudly, and then the ordinary guards responded. The cavalry formed a queue and slowly passed through the fields and arrived in front of the village.
"Mother, are you resting in this village?" Fei Zhen still had good hopes, but they soon came to nothing. He found that there was no trace of Huang Yueying in the village. Those who came out in a hurry were wearing
They are dressed like ordinary farmers.
The farmers looked frightened, not knowing what had happened or what would happen. They were full of fear of the sudden arrival of the hussar group.
Fei Qian said a few words to the elders of the village, then jumped off the horse and turned around to signal. Huang Xu smiled and said to Feizhen: "Sir, let's go, we will follow."
"What are we doing here? Aren't we going to visit Mother?" Feizhen asked Huang Xu.
Huang Xu chuckled and said, "My lord, I want to take you to have some farm food..."
"Farm food?" Feizhen's eyes lit up, "Is it delicious?"
Huang Xu still laughed, "Is it delicious... This... I have never eaten it, so I don't know... But back then, my lord took the emperor to eat farm food together... Of course, not in this village, but in this village."
In another place..."
"Really?" Fei Zhen's eyes widened, "The emperor has eaten it too?"
Huang Xu hehehe, "Of course, when have I ever deceived the young master?"
"You just lied to me once last month..." Feizhen snorted.
"Ah?" Huang Xu smiled a little awkwardly, "That was last time, I won't lie to you this time... Let's go, let's go, my lord is waiting in front..."
There are villages, big or small, and villages in different places may have their own differences, but villages are still villages after all. The old eaves are rotten, the cracks in the mud walls almost penetrate the inside and outside, and the naked children hide in the haystacks and firewood piles.
Half of the face was peeking out from behind, one or two chickens clucked and flew over the low wall, and the dog on a leash jumped up and down and then fell silent amidst the scolding of its owner...
Feizhen opened his eyes wide and looked around, looking at a world he had never been exposed to before.
"Which restaurant do you want to go to for dinner?" Fei Qian's voice came over, and Fei Zhen realized that she had unknowingly walked to the threshing floor in the village.
The food from last night has long been used up, so don’t worry about it now and focus on eating!
Feizhen's little mind started to wander almost immediately. He instinctively felt that maybe the house on the left might be better if the door and wall were intact, but maybe it was another trap set by his father, and he deliberately arranged something disgusting.
Human food?
So the worst...
Can't choose either.
Feizhen thought about it for a long time and pointed to one of the houses that looked average, but the food that was brought over from that family still made Feizhen's face turn green.
Because at first glance, every pot is green...
Fei Qian looked at it slightly and nodded. Compared with the early days when he could only make a living from unknown wild vegetables or aquatic plants in the wild, now you can see some serious grains such as beans in the green paste, and
Perhaps this is the time when labor is needed to work in the fields, so the cooking is relatively thick...
To put it simply, it is a pot of thick green paste.
"Go get some bowls!" Fei Qian said.
Huang Xu took the order and took out the wooden bowl he had carried for a long time from the leather bag on his waist. Then he went to the pot and drank half a bowl by himself without saying a word. Gugu drank it first, and then slowed down.
After a short pause, he slowly poured out two bowls. One bowl was slightly more, which was handed to Fei Qian, and the other bowl, which was obviously less, was handed to Fei Zhen.
"..." Fei Qian looked at the bowl and frowned slightly.
The strong grassy smell almost covered everything, even if you could clearly see some whole grains.
Fei Zhen raised her neck, held the bowl, and stared at Fei Qian closely.
Fei Qian raised his head and drank the green paste in several sips. Then he gestured to Fei Zhen with the bottom of the bowl, burped full of grass flavor, and smiled.
Fei Zhen looked at Fei Qian, her mouth wide open, then she swallowed a mouthful of saliva, lowered her head with difficulty, and looked at the wooden bowl in her hand. She was so disgusted that she moved her hand away and tilted her head.
"Hurry up! Act like a man!" Fei Qian urged, "You choose it yourself."
Fei Zhen gritted her teeth, as if she was risking her life, and gulped it down. Unintentionally, it was in line with the correct way of coping, because if such a strong-smelling food is chewed slowly...
Looking at the bottom of the bowl with some residue still there, Fei Zhen could hardly believe that she actually ate, or rather drank, such a bowl of green goo!
It seems, seems, not so scary?
Fei Qian smiled slightly, waved his hand, and asked someone to give the farmer who brought the food half a bag of coarse grains, which was not much, about one liter. Then he gave the village elder two stones of coarse grains and asked him to
Distribute it to other villagers as compensation for Nao Nao.
Then Fei Qian walked around the village again, looking at the farmland, mills, etc., and then left the village with Fei Zhen under the greetings of the villagers.
Fei Qian took out a small bag from his arms, pinched out a salted plum, stuffed one into his mouth, then gave another one to Fei Zhen, and then saw the faint smile on Fei Zhen's face.
The green color seems to have faded away a bit.
"Eating and drinking are important matters for the country..." On the horseback, Fei Qian touched Fei Zhen's little head, "You are going to do big things in the future, so you must understand...understand these things."
What you eat is what other people eat... Why is this happening... These others will not teach you, only I will teach you..."
Feizhen raised her head and looked at her father.
"And if I just talk about it, you won't have any memory..." Fei Qian smiled, "So I can only let you experience it yourself... Can you remember what ordinary people eat? I can't remember.
If so, you can go eat there next time...』
"No! I remember it!" Feizhen said eagerly.
"Haha..." Fei Qian laughed, "You remember... After listening to my officials ten thousand times about how the people's lives are, it's better to go to the countryside and eat a meal from a farmer... The people's lives are harmonious.
If it is bad, it depends on what you eat and drink... If the things people eat and drink are getting better and better, then it means you are doing something right... If it is getting worse and worse, you have to think about how to change it... If it is still getting worse...
If we don’t change, in the end the people will have nothing to eat or drink... and the world will be over..."
"After a while, go out for a walk, take a look, see what the people are eating and drinking... don't pretend to show it to anyone, it's not for other people to see, it's just for yourself..." Fei said thoughtfully and
Feizhen said, "As long as the people eat and drink better and better, the people will be stable, and you will be stable too..."
"Then Father..." Fei Zhen raised her head and asked, "Have we... changed?"
Fei Qian nodded and said seriously: "Of course! Otherwise, what do you think your father, Pang Shishu and others have been doing all these years? We are doing it now, but when you grow up, we will be old
I want you to do it... So you don’t know how? Now you understand why I brought you out?」
Feizhen nodded in understanding, at least her attitude was not as resistant as before.
Or maybe it’s due to the added effect of Yanjin plum.
"This is the first skill I teach you, watch what you eat and drink..." Fei Qian slowly rode his horse forward, and then said, "The king regards the people as his heaven, and the people regard food as their heaven."
Pay attention, these are not words you say, you have to do them... It’s useless to just say it clearly..."
"So is this a secret that our Fei clan has not told?" Fei Zhen clenched her little fists and asked excitedly, "Father, do you have any other secrets... please teach them to me!"
"Well, of course I will teach you..." Fei Qian smiled, "It's just the second secret... I won't talk about it now..."
