Chapter 477 Sima Lang, Let's Have Hot Pot Together! [Seeking Monthly Votes]

"Boom boom boom!"

Captain Jingxing was hit by an arrow in his eye and fell down from the wall. Just as the soldiers on the wall were about to make a move, explosive charges dropped from the sky.

Zhang Xiu pressed the detonator, and the soldiers on the wall exploded to pieces.

Ma Chao continued to draw his bow and shoot arrows, killing three or four armored officers in succession, and shouted loudly at the wall:

"The heavenly troops are coming. Those who surrender at Xianguan will not be killed!"

All the officers on the wall were shot dead, and the explosion effect of the explosive packs was so bloody and terrifying that the soldiers on the wall no longer had the intention to resist.

Not long after, the doors were opened wide and groups of soldiers surrendered.

Ma Chao did not embarrass them. After confiscating the weapons, he ordered them to re-fortify the wall. Then he ordered Hao Zhao, the most adept at defense among the three, to garrison Jingxing Pass. He and Zhang Xiu led 500 cavalry out of the west gate and went straight to Gao Shun's gate. Go in the direction.

Not long after traveling westward, they saw Jizhou soldiers supporting the pass still on the road. The two picked up their spears and beat the reinforcements to pieces with one charge.

When the sun set, they not only occupied the pass, but also stationed at Jingxing Pass together with Gao Shun and others.

"Brother Shun, you guys are playing fast enough!"

Ma Chao held a bowl of hot and sour noodles with mutton oil and chili and ate it with dry biscuits.

Gao Shun added some mutton oil chili to his bowl and said with a smile:

"After Marquis Wen ordered the occupation of Shangai County, I led the army to march east from Jingxing and captured all the eastern areas of Taiyuan County and the northern areas of Shangdang County. I also wiped out tens of thousands of Black Mountain bandits."

For generals like Gao Shun, only fighting the regular army can give them a sense of accomplishment. Bandits and bandits are just a matter of supporting others and are not worth mentioning.

Zhang Xiugang held a grievance meeting in the prisoner camp and executed several of the most heinous soldier leaders. He filled a bowl of hot and sour noodles and said while eating:

"There are many Changshan people among the prisoners. They hope to take their families over and live west of Jingxingguan, preferably in Taiyuan."

Gao Shun agreed upon hearing this:

"No problem. I will tell them later that if they take the initiative to move to Taiyuan, each family will receive fifty acres of fertile land and will receive fertilizers and seeds."

After Wang Yun's clan was eradicated, the Wang family's fields were reallocated, and all the nominal servants of the Wang family were re-registered and became members of the Han people.

Zhang Xiu asked curiously:

"Do the Wang family have many servants?"

"More than 100,000, this requires further screening. The forts around Taiyuan also need to be dismantled one by one to prevent them from raising bandits."

Gao Shun admired Han Rong and Xun Yan who took over Taiyuan. Even though they were both scribes, they were more ruthless than the other.

Especially the smiling Han Rong, who kept saying "I'm doing it for you", but secretly split the Wang family into several clans, provoking conflicts with just a few words.

If language had levels, Han Rong would definitely be at the full level.

Zhang Xiu and Hao Zhao kept these in mind and planned to learn from them if they had the opportunity to take charge of a party in the future.

Ma Chao is not interested in politics. He just wants to be a pure military general. It is best to fight near the Mediterranean and experience the legendary exotic customs in his lifetime.

After eating and drinking, Gao Shun looked through various information in the pass and officially took over the place.

On the other side, Lu Bu finally arrived at Hanoi after a long journey.

Seeing Xu Rong who came to greet him, he stamped his feet, pointed to the ground and said:

"It is said that there is high-quality coal down there. Jiaozuo was called Jiaozuo in later generations precisely because the coke here is better."

Xu Rong also looked through information on Hanoi:

"It's a pity that this is a deep coal mine and the conditions for mining are not yet available... It's getting late now. Marquis Wen will stay at Yewang for one night and then set off for Huai County tomorrow."

"Okay, I have to treat Lao Zhang to hot pot when we get to Huai County. You can keep me company then."

Xu Rong's eyes were filled with disbelief:

"I eat at the same table with gods? Isn't this too disrespectful?"

"It's okay. Lao Zhang is very easy-going. If you don't feel sorry for yourself, you can take care of Zhang Lu more... It should be said that Lao Zhang's family is really legendary. He became a heavenly master; his son Zhang Heng regulated the heavens. Shidao became the second generation of the Celestial Master; his grandson Zhang Lu carried forward the Five Pecks of Rice religion and had a place in the Three Kingdoms; his descendants even occupied Longhu Mountain and were regarded as national masters in all dynasties. "

After sighing with emotion, the group went to the Wild King to rest.

On the other side, Water Margin talks about the world of Yue.

Near Feihu Valley, seventy or eighty miles outside Damingfu City, Hu Sanniang, Hu Cheng, Jie Zhen, Jie Bao, Zou Run, Zou Yuan, Sun Li and others led thousands of minions and quietly ambush on the hills on both sides. .

On the official road in the distance, a convoy was slowly approaching. The leader's car was hung with a banner saying "Sun of the Daming Palace, transporting grain by order." The car was full of military rations shipped from other places.

When these grains are transported to Damingfu, they will not be sent to the military camp immediately, but will be reloaded in small buckets. The original ten liters per bucket will be changed to seven liters per bucket, so that each bucket can be divided into three liters.

With such a move, the original two thousand dan of grain could be increased a lot, and the extra grain would naturally go into the pockets of the Sun family and Liang Zhongshu.

When Cai Jing's birthday comes, the money will be sent to Tokyo and become part of the Cai family's property.

In order to increase profits, people in the Sun family not only use seven-liter buckets to pack grain, but also add soil, stones and other debris to increase the weight as much as possible.

As the first tyrant of Daming Mansion, the Sun family has been responsible for transporting military supplies for several years. They are familiar with the route, and the bandits and bandits are all trying to save their face, so their defense is very lax. Everyone walks leisurely, as if on a spring outing.

Especially near Daming Mansion, the guards didn't pay attention to the road conditions at all. Their thoughts were all on the several brothels in the city. Even the several stewards were also thinking about Fengmingyuan.

"It's a pity that there is no wine concubine in Fengming Garden. Otherwise, wouldn't it be beautiful to eat delicious food and drink fine wine while enjoying the warm nephrite?"

"That's right, next time I have to talk about the shopkeeper of Fengmingyuan. It's a pity that such a luxurious restaurant has no one to accompany him."

"If they can get some orchids to accompany them, I'll go there every day to drink warm wine."

"Hey, brother, you will still enjoy it!"

"Everywhere, it's just leftovers from the old men's fun."

"..."

The so-called warm wine means that the woman accompanying you drinks the wine into her mouth first, but does not swallow it, but feeds it to the other party mouth-to-mouth.

Warming the wine with your mouth will keep the taste from being cold, so it is called warm wine.

Of course, people who like to drink warm wine have nothing to do with wine. They just want to enjoy the sensual feeling.

On the hill, Jie Zhen listened to these words and whispered to Jie Bao on the side:

"Why haven't I heard of warm wine?"

"This is very common. If you're not busy, talk to Brother Shan more. He knows these tricks very well."

Hu Sanniang:? ? ? ? ? ? ?

After robbing this food and grass, I will go to the city to find out!

Soon, the men and horses of the grain transport team rushed into the encirclement.

Hu Cheng pressed the detonator, and the explosive package buried on the road exploded. The livestock of the grain transport team were frightened on the spot and screamed non-stop. The escorts who were wandering around were paralyzed on the ground in fear. , shaking like chaff all over his body.

Sun Li led the minions in the village and rushed down first:

"All the heroes of Liangshan are here. If you don't want to die, get out of here!"

When the action began, everyone argued over their own banners. Some proposed Qilin Village, some proposed General Zuo of the Han Dynasty, and some proposed the command of the Holy Son of Fengming Valley, but they were all rejected.

Although this is an action to show off one's power, one's trump card cannot be exposed.

In the end, everyone unanimously decided to use the banner of Liangshan. It happened that in the original work, Shi Xiu once single-handedly made trouble in Daming Mansion, and even shouted the slogan that the heroes of Liangshan are here.

Now that we want to make a big fuss in Daming Mansion, we naturally have to pay tribute to the desperate Saburo, and by the way, we should also raise Shuibo Liangshan's status in the world... We are all acquaintances, so we won't charge Song Jiang's advertising fees.

Seeing Sun Li and his men rushing over, the escorts didn't even resist, and immediately ran towards Daming Mansion desperately.

As soon as they took the lead, the driver's servants also left. The entire grain transport team only hated their parents for having two fewer legs, and they rushed to run first, for fear of losing their lives.

Sun Li chased them for several miles, and then turned around after confirming that these people were far away.

Xie Zhen Jie Bao and others were already arranging the carriage to appease the horses. Everyone was busy unloading the sacks from the carriage and loading them onto the carriage they had prepared.

The carriages in the cottage use pneumatic tires and are equipped with spring plates, which have a large load capacity. Each carriage uses four horses for traction.

After emptying out the grain, everyone took away all the livestock of the grain transport team, leaving only the empty carriage in place, and then drove the cart straight to the village.

By the time the people from the grain transport team ran to the city to report the news, almost a day had passed.

The Sun family was so angry that they quickly found Liang Zhongshu and denounced the thieves around Daming Mansion, and even named the thieves.

"Liangshan bandits?"

When Liang Zhongshu heard this name, he asked with some confusion:

"We are hundreds of miles away from Liangshan. They traveled so far to rob food. Can they transport it back?"

"Prime Minister, please don't worry about this. Hurry up and let the soldiers in the city catch the thieves and take back the food. Otherwise, the food in the military camp will be unsustainable!"

Upon hearing this, Liang Zhongshu also realized the seriousness of the matter. He quickly summoned Wen Da and asked him to lead three thousand soldiers and horses to suppress the bandits.

However, when these people arrived, they found that except for some empty carriages, there was not a grain of food in the place. The original plan of chasing the bandits along the tracks was completely in vain.

Ancient carriages all had wooden wheels with an iron hoop on the outside, which greatly improved the durability of the wheels.

But correspondingly, when transporting heavy objects, two deep ruts will be left on the road.

In the past, when handling similar cases, one would usually just follow the tracks, but now all the grain on the cart and the livestock carrying the grain have disappeared, and only the carriage remains in place.

As for the ruts... After digging around for a long time, we couldn't find any traces of the iron hoops. Instead, there were some weird patterns.

Zhou Jin, who came with the team, was quite superstitious. When he saw these patterns, he couldn't help but think of pythons:

"General, is it possible that a giant python came out and ate all the grain and livestock?"

Wenda smiled and said:

"Not to mention whether there is a giant python, the people in the escort have already seen it, and they said that the leader is carrying a spear, obviously dressed as a bandit, and then they look around and send someone to Shandong to inquire and see if there is any No Liangshan bandits passed by.”

Everyone searched around, but nothing was found.

Even the escort team that came back with the army looked confused and didn't know what happened.

The food was gone, but the carriage remained.

Wen Da asked all the soldiers to disperse and look for traces of food transportation, but there was nothing around, and the people nearby didn't know anything about it.

Wen Da went back to resume his life, and met Li Cheng who came to help halfway.

"Do you have any clues?"

"There are no clues, just a bunch of empty carriages, nothing else, and the whereabouts of the food are unknown."

When Wen Da was worried, Li Cheng came over on horseback and whispered:

"Brother Wen, do you think this is a deliberate trick by the Sun family to trap this batch of military rations to starve the brothers in the army?"

Upon hearing this, Wen Da understood the spirit instantly:

"Brother Li, don't worry. No matter what, the Sun family has to get rid of this batch of food, otherwise I will lead the army from Beiying to their home to eat and drink their food."

Everyone knows the allusion of guarding and stealing. The Sun family does not do anything with military rations every day or two.

If they were greedy enough to do this, it would be quite possible.

After all, it's the end of the year, and we all want to have a good New Year, but if you even think about the New Year, you can't use military rations to line your own pockets, right?

The two planned to go to Liang Zhongshu and make it clear face to face that they had no control over whatever dirty tricks the Sun family wanted to do, and they didn't want to, but they would not agree to the deduction of military rations for this amount!

When the two arrived at the gate of Damingfu City, they happened to meet Shan Xiongxin in a carriage.

"What are you doing outside the city?"

"I have nothing to do. I went fishing on the river outside the city. I caught two big golden carps by luck. If you two have time, how about we stay drunk tonight?"

Wen Da smiled bitterly:

"We have important things to do, but we don't have as much free time as outsiders... I'll definitely pay you a visit after I finish my official duties."

Li Cheng is also a person who likes fishing. When he saw Shan Xiongxin carrying two golden carp weighing more than ten kilograms outside the carriage, he immediately became interested:

"If you can't wait any longer, how about we discuss fishing techniques together?"

"Easy to say, easy to say, Shan will be free at any time and will give Tian Wang a set of fishing gear to ensure that you come home with a full load every time."

After greetings, Li Cheng and the two rode away. Hu Sanniang in the carriage said happily:

"Fortunately, I bought two fish, otherwise it would have been difficult to deal with it."

After sighing, she reached out and pinched Shan Xiongxin's waist:

"Husband, what is warm wine?"

Shan Xiongxin waved his hand:

"Harm, this is a common name for a fireworks place. I don't know the specifics... I just heard Brother Yingden and Brother Bodang talking about it. At that time, my husband even advised them to use their energy on the right path instead of Nostalgic for the land of fireworks, but they didn’t listen... Why did Sanniang suddenly ask this? "

"It's nothing, I just want to pinch you a few more times."

Shan Xiongxin: "..."

If I had known better, I would have said that Guan Erye's warm wine killed Hua Xiong. Alas, I am still too honest.

In the real world, Li Yu carried a basket and led Mu Guiying to a nearby hillside and began to pinch sweet potato leaves.

"Don't pinch them side by side. Just pinch two or three leaves on one vine. Don't pinch the head, and don't pinch the leaves at the back. Old ones won't taste good."

"I understand, just look for someone as young and immature as me."

Just now Lu Bu came over to report that he had arrived in Huai County and was going to treat Zhang Daoling to hot pot. He asked Zhang Daoling to prepare some ingredients and also brought away a large mandarin duck pot.

When it comes to hot pot, the red oil bottom of the pot is not friendly to people who don't like spicy food, and the mutton-shabu soup is too bland. Comparatively speaking, Yuanyang Hotpot is better. You can eat whatever you want, which is more casual.

In addition to the mandarin duck pot, Lu Bu also took away a bunch of hot-pot dishes, such as fish tofu, beef balls, crab sticks, stuffed balls, gluten bubbles, sweet potato powder, konjac powder, fried bean skin, fried yuba, beef louvers, and fresh duck. Blood and other side dishes were all brought with me.

If you invite Lao Zhang to a meal, there must be a variety of dishes.

As for Huai County, two sheep have been slaughtered, and Qin Yilu is wearing an apron and leading someone to cut mutton slices.

We also caught a few big carps from the Yellow River, and the fish fillets had to be prepared.

When Li Yu came over with a basket of sweet potato leaves, he also prepared a variety of mushrooms, seafood, prawns, green scallops and other ingredients for Lu Bu. There were dozens of varieties, which would definitely satisfy Lao Zhang.

As for the hot pot base, it was stir-fried by Li Yuxian.

Add a mixture of beef and lard to the pot, stir-fry onions, ginger, dried chilies and other side dishes until fragrant, then put a whole piece of hot pot base into it, stir-fry the ingredients, and finally add water to boil.

When you eat hot pot at home, you often feel that it is not fragrant enough. The reason is that you don’t add butter specifically. More oil makes it fragrant.

Then Li Yu made the base of the soup pot and asked Lu Bu to take it away with the pot.

The palace of the prefect of Huai County was decorated with lights and the courtyard was kept spotless. Everyone was wearing new clothes. Even Zhong Yao, who had come from afar, put on specially brought official uniforms.

"Marquis Wen, is it not disrespectful to wear something like this?"

"No disrespect, just relax in front of Lao Zhang, don't be nervous, if there's nothing to talk about just praise his great grandson Zhang Lu..."

Just as he was talking, Xu Rong came in a hurry and asked Lu Bu in a low voice:

"Just now, Sima Lang, the eldest son of the Sima family, sent me a greeting card. He heard that Marquis Wen was coming to Hanoi and wanted to visit him in person."

Sima Lang?

Lu Bu asked curiously:

"Does he have an official status now?"

"I am working in Yanzhou. When I came here this time, I wanted to lead the Sima family to leave Hanoi, but I heard that Marquis Wen was here and wanted to pay a visit before making a decision."

Lu Bu thought for a while and said:

"Among the eight Sima clans, only Sima Yi is useless. Sima Lang is a talent. Rather than letting Aman get away with it, it is better to win him over... How about this, you invite Sima Lang to attend the meal. If he insists on going to Yanzhou, then you should beat him up and kill him whenever you see Sima clan members in the future, without showing any mercy."

Useful talents should be given opportunities, but if they are useless after being given opportunities, then it is a pity.

Xu Rong was shocked. He never expected that Lu Bu would let Sima Lang accompany Zhang Daoling for dinner:

"What should we do if he has any offensive words during the meal?"

"Then we don't need to do anything. Old Zhang can destroy the Sima clan...The gods don't like cause and effect, but if someone gets ahead of them, they don't mind killing a few mortals."

Soon, Sima Lang, a young handsome man with a confused face, was invited to the prefect's mansion.

Just as he was about to ask why he was suddenly invited to the banquet today, he saw a golden light in the sky, and a Taoist priest with a fairy-like appearance and spirit descended from the sky.

Sima Lang's eyes widened:

"God, I... I ran into a fairy in broad daylight?"

Others were excited, shocked, and everyone's expression was very wonderful. Only Lu Bu took the initiative to greet him with a smile:

"We are so lucky to have you, Mr. Zhang... The hot pot is ready. Brother Li Xian was afraid that I would be clumsy and not entertain you well, so he personally cooked the hot pot ingredients."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Daoling became interested:

"It is my blessing to be able to taste the cooking skills of His Highness the Holy Son. Let's go, let's eat together!"