Now is the time for birds and animals in the mountains to put on their autumn fat, and people are no exception. Among Wei Changpan's group, the disciples of Yanyulou went out hunting with crossbows. Not long after, one person was carrying a fat deer, and the other was carrying eight or nine round gray deer.
The hare's ears came back humming, and after all the trivial tasks of bleeding, disemboweling, skinning and cutting were done, it was time to light up the charcoal fire and grill the meat.
There are many pine forests on this mountain, and the deer meat grilled with pine charcoal has a unique taste. Even though they don't have any spice kitchen utensils around them for cooking, this is such a simple method. After roasting, they add salt and the meat is delicious.
It's so fresh and fat that you want to swallow it on your tongue.
The fat and thin camphor meat was grilled over the fire until it was sizzling with oil. A deer looked quite big. After being peeled off and deboned, it was only eight or nine kilograms of edible meat. Fortunately, there were eight or nine round hares.
They were all fatted with autumn fat, and were put on sticks and grilled over the fire. Although the taste was slightly inferior to that of deer meat, it was still an authentic game. It could be served in large restaurants such as Zuixianglou in Wuhang City.
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A whole deer leg was brought to Wei Changpan and Chen Shi, and it was grilled until it was burnt and buttery. This hind leg was not a small part of the deer's body. Wei Changpan knew that if he and Chen Bo shared the food like this, it would probably be a big deal.
It means one person has to eat less meat, but Chen Shi doesn't care about this.
"If such a good wild animal was put into the hands of those big restaurant chefs, they would try their best to handle the deer, but in the end it would lose its original flavor." He took a small knife and cut a piece of meat from the deer's leg and put it in his mouth.
Chen Shi, who was chewing the food carefully, exclaimed with satisfaction, "Such wild animals are best cooked in the simplest way if they are eaten fresh."
Wei Changpan also took out his close-fitting dagger to cut strips of meat, picked it up and put it into his mouth. The aroma of roasted fat rose to his nose before entering his mouth. When he entered his mouth, it was fresh and tender, with a hint of sweetness.
When he swallowed this mouthful of meat, he felt that the fatigue from running around for days was much lessened, and his body became warmer. In his heart, he also felt a little bit sympathetic to the extraordinary behavior of the old gluttonous gentry who was willing to climb the Hengshan Mountain and refused to leave.
With good food and good people, it is better to live a happy life in the mountains than to try your best to blend in but feel out of place in the vast Shilin.
A deer leg was eaten by Wei Changpan among the twelve people in less than a cup of tea. People who practice martial arts naturally have a much larger appetite than ordinary people. At this time, Wei Changpan thought to himself that he was only four to five times full.
, but he was too embarrassed to fetch a whole hare, so he secretly went to the shadow of a corner to take two dry and hard coarse flour cakes, heated them by the fire, and dealt with them casually.
This kind of dry food, which is intended for long-term storage, is baked very dry to prevent it from spoiling. It is still the same after being carried on the march for several months. In the eyes of the master of Dayao's military department, it is naturally the most convenient military ration. How can I
This thick flour pancake has always had a very bad reputation in the military. It only cracks the throat and scratches the teeth. The most outrageous rumor is that when a prairie barbarian raided the camp at night, a fire-headed soldier carried it into bundles and wrapped it in cloth.
The dry pancakes killed two barbarian cavalry! But who made this pancake save time, effort, and money? So the soldiers who received these pancakes for rations, some of whom had bad teeth, thought about their own health this time
Will his teeth be broken out alive again?
Just when Wei Changpan was concentrating all his strength on his mouth, intending to fight this cake to the death.
At that time, Chen Shi, who had been looking at Wei Changpan with a surprised look on his face, who was gritting his teeth, finally reminded him: "When I was in the frontier army, these Yama pancakes were soaked in hot water and made into porridge..."
"Uncle Chen, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Wei Changpan took the pancake out of his mouth and said with a bitter smile, "If you had told me earlier, you wouldn't have to deal with this pancake so hard..."
"You didn't even ask me..."
....
"However, although this pancake is so hard that it can kill someone, when the frontier troops were guarding the city, each person could only have half a pancake a day. After boiling it in water and soaking it until soft, you can have half a pot of thick porridge, which can last for a day." Chen
Shi narrowed his eyes and recalled those days, "At that time, when your master had not enough to eat, he always liked to use some sweet words to deceive others for rations. I believed him back then and wanted to bring the eldest daughter of the Shen family together with us. The daily rations were
Half of the baby fell into his stomach. In the middle of the night, when his stomach growled with hunger, he still thought about that girl’s beautiful ass that would make people look at her..."
"At that time, your master had not yet become the spear instructor of the Border Cavalry, and when you and Uncle Chen were just pawns, they always thought about one day establishing a sect in the world with their martial arts. At that time, they thought that they would not have to fight every day
The moon is eagerly waiting for the few silver coins that are often owed to buy drinks and meals."
"Your master is really capable. No matter how much time you spend among the pawns, you will never escape from an officer who knows people well. When he became Shangyang General, you, Uncle Chen, were just a mere commander. His subordinates were just
There are only about ten people. If nothing like that happened, maybe your master would be able to sit in the high position of a state general one day."
These were things a long time ago. At that time, they were still in the fortress outside the Great Wall of Northern Territory of Dayao. As Dayao's outpost and first line of defense against the barbarians from the grasslands, they could be abandoned at any time.
Then dozens of people were guarding the place. Before they were razed to the ground by the barbarians' horse hoofs, dozens of pawns including Chen Shi and Zhang Wu searched their stomachs and told all the stories they had seen and heard. The only thing left was
The only thing they could do to pass the time was the twenty cents a bottle of bad wine, and it was at that time that the two of them fell into the alcoholic habit they would later become.
"That year was the same as the previous two years. There was a snowstorm on the grassland, which froze the cattle and sheep to death. The barbarians came south again to steal money, food and people. However, once the two hundred or so barbarian rangers arrived and shot a few rounds, then
The gate of the castle is broken." Chen Shi sighed, "Everyone usually drinks to relieve their boredom. Even those who know a few moves and have some martial arts skills are still very rusty. If the gate is broken, no one can stop the barbarians.
, I couldn’t walk for a few steps before I was..."
It was not uncommon for forts outside the Great Wall to be breached. Although the officials of the Ministry of War also knew that there would be so many forts outside the forts, they undoubtedly handed over the lives of the soldiers stationed in the forts to the barbarians in the grassland, just to send the barbarians away as soon as possible.
The news of going south, dozens of lives were lost by the barbarian cavalry of the Hundred Raid, and they were gone like mowing grass. In the next year, people were sent out to rebuild the fort, and dozens of people were stationed in it, waiting to arrive at who knows when.
The barbarians rode southward.
In fact, these forts with no profit to speak of were almost worthless to the barbarians who went south to the grasslands. They were tasteless to eat. If they were abandoned, they were worried about the harassment of troops from these forts in the rear. The troops and horses that small tribes could send were only a few hundred horses.
With hundreds of men, they attacked two forts and attacked the entire tribe.
It will hurt your muscles and bones, and those large tribes with strong soldiers and horses have to pinch their noses to do these hard and tiring tasks that are worthless.
"Two hundred or so barbarians, all from the Taiqi Ge tribe, were led by a young barbarian named Dunmao to kill them in the fort." The impatient Chen Shi paused and then said, "You
When Uncle Chen finished shooting his arrows, he and the others who were still alive retreated to the house inside the fort, holding a knife and waiting for the barbarians to attack. It was your master who killed seven or eight of the guards around the young barbarian with one shot.
He also wounded the guy's chest and abdomen, so these Taiqige barbarians retreated."
"Taiqige tribe? Dunmao? Is he the current leader of the Taijige tribe?" Wei Changpan couldn't believe it, "Master and you have both seen it..."
"Those people and horses are all dressed in the attire of the Taiqi Ge tribe. Over the years, the barbarian language has been spoken more smoothly in the grasslands than the official language. There is no misunderstanding. However, neither I nor your master has ever thought that he can only command two hundred cavalry."
The young man is Dunmao Chaoji Ladd, the leader of the Taijige tribe in the future."
"I had a brief glimpse outside the gate of Bingyuan City, and I knew that he was the lord of Taiqige. Unfortunately, I was only a little bit away from being left behind by the cavalry under Bingyuan City..." Wei Changpan thought for a moment.
At the scene at that time, he said with emotion, "When the cavalry troops charged side by side, it was like seeing the tide of the river..."
"How could the cavalry trained by your master be worse than the barbarians on the grassland? When your master and I met him for the first time, we were struck by his commanding methods. Barbarians are not good at attacking fortresses and this has been the case since ancient times. Our fortress
Although he could only huddle up and take the beating, he was in an advantageous position. It was unheard of for him to be so unreasonable and attack the door with just a cup of tea. Perhaps he should have thought from then on that this Qinggebu Dunmao would become the first
A grassland lord who can shake up the offensive and defensive patterns of the grasslands and the Central Plains."
"But Bingyuan City was not conquered? On the other hand, those barbarians were killed and fled without their armor..."
"Uncle Chen has heard about the fight at the foot of Bingyuan City. Do you really think that the martial artist's qi, qi, and qi can interact with each other continuously at the fourth level of martial arts?" Chen Shi was very angry.
Kicking Wei Changpan to the ground, he said, "It means you were lucky. Even if it was slightly disadvantageous for you at that time, a few more lives would not be enough for you to waste."
Wei Changpan also knew that being able to guard the round city gate by himself was probably due to luck. He felt ashamed and wanted to change the topic: "Why did Chen Bo suddenly mention this accident on the grassland? Our immediate priority is not what we are facing.
Songfeng Mountain and Kaolu Terrace...."
"The news I got a while ago is that most of the killers from Kalutai in Jiangzhou have withdrawn, and most of them went north to the grasslands."
"Go north to the grassland... and do what?"
"This is why I have been thinking about the weirdness in these days. There must be a monster when something goes wrong." Chen Shi picked up the deer's leg bone with some remaining meat and gnawed it. He said to Wei Changpan, "But there is one thing.
You have to understand that you, Wei Changpan, were born in Jiangzhou, Dayao before you were the direct descendants of the Zhang family in Qishan County."
At this time, there is no reason to argue about the priority of others.