At noon, in the house at the junction of East Market and West Market.
"Uncle, the hotpot at Zhenxilou is very delicious. You must eat more." Zhao Yao ordered the hotpot at Zhenxilou and asked Tongxi and the others to help deliver it. "The mutton is very delicious when cooked in a hot pot." Zhao Yao put the freshly cooked mutton into the middle-aged man's bowl.
"Uncle, you are too thin. You should eat more meat."
The middle-aged man picked up the mutton and ate it. The meat was tender and delicious.
"Uncle, is it delicious?"
The middle-aged man nodded slightly and said, "It tastes good."
"There are Sichuan peppercorns in it, which will make it taste better, but if you eat too much, your mouth will become numb." Zhao Yao loves and hates Sichuan peppercorns. Unfortunately, there is no chili pepper. In the dream, Zhao Yao would add chili pepper when he ate hot pot, which would make the hot pot delicious.
Why did you forget the chili?
Chili peppers are also a thing of Fanbang.
In the evening, I told my second uncle to write a letter to my uncle and ask him to help me find peppers.
Chili is a good thing. With it, not only hot pot becomes delicious, but other dishes will also become delicious.
The middle-aged man saw that Zhao Yao had been eating meat instead of vegetables. I boiled some germanium in the hot pot and immediately put it into Zhao Yao's bowl.
Zhao Yao looked at the sudden extra patch of germanium in the bowl, and his face immediately wrinkled. He raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man somewhat unhappily.
"Uncle, I don't like vegetables."
"Children shouldn't be picky eaters." A little smile appeared in the middle-aged man's eyes, "Children should eat more vegetables." He likes meat but doesn't like vegetables, which is very similar to his master.
Zhao Yao pursed his lips, but still obediently ate the germanium in the bowl.
“It’s a pity that there is no beef. The shabu-shabu beef is delicious. By the way, the pan-fried steak is also delicious.”
"Fried steak?" The middle-aged man heard about this dish for the first time.
"Yeah, just choose a piece of beef and fry it in the pot..." Zhao Yao was eating hot pot while talking to the middle-aged man with a beaming face about a hundred ways to eat beef.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that there were so many ways to eat beef, and they all sounded very delicious.
Zhao Yao said that he was greedy. He took a sip of saliva and said with regret: "Unfortunately, I can't eat beef on weekdays."
"Like beef?"
Zhao Yao nodded heavily: "I like eating it very much, but beef is very important and you can't eat it casually." Zhao Yao was very dissatisfied with the fact that he couldn't eat beef on weekdays, but he had no choice. Who is called Mr. Niu? "Uncle, do you think there are many cattle outside the pass?"
"Many, they have grasslands there and raise a lot of cattle, sheep and horses." The middle-aged man said, "Outside the customs, you can eat beef on weekdays."
When Zhao Yao heard this, his eyes suddenly became bright and his expression became a little excited: "Really? Are there really many cows outside the customs? Can they really eat beef at will on weekdays?"
"Well, there are many."
Zhao Yao suddenly raised his hand and slammed the table hard, startling the secret guards hiding in the dark. They thought something had happened.
The middle-aged man was also startled by Zhao Yao's action of slapping the table.
Zhao Yao stood up, holding chopsticks in his right hand, and said excitedly: "Then I'm going to go outside the pass! I'm going to go to the pass to eat beef!"
The middle-aged man was startled for a moment, then laughed and said: "How do you go outside the pass? The Huns' territory is not something you can go to casually."
"Uncle, are you saying that in the Huns, you can eat beef at will?"
"right."
"Then beat down the Xiongnu!" Zhao Yao said with a heroic expression, holding chopsticks in his right hand and a fist in his left hand, "take over the Xiongnu's grassland and cattle, horses and sheep, so that we can eat beef every day!"
The middle-aged man looked at Zhao Yao's ambitious look and said he wanted to fight the Huns, and couldn't help but think of an old thing. At that time, the master heard that bandits in a mountain had robbed a lot of food, and decided to lead troops to suppress the bandits.
The owner said it was for justice, but in fact he was interested in the food hidden by the bandits. Now that I think about it, the master took them to fight many battles for food.
"I didn't expect that the Huns were such a good place!" Zhao Yao said enthusiastically, "It would be a pity not to capture such a good place!"
The middle-aged man was amused by Zhao Yao's words: "You beat the Huns just for their cattle?"
"There are also horses and sheep." Zhao Yao sat back at the table and continued eating hot pot, "I heard from Uncle An Ren that their mutton is better than the mutton in our Central Plains region."
"Uncle Anren?"
"It's a Hu boss from the West Market, Boss Wusun. He sets up a stall in the West Market to sell their food." Zhao Yao said, "He told us a lot about their delicious food."
The middle-aged man frowned slightly and asked with a puzzled expression: "People from Wusun come to the capital to set up stalls and do business?"
"Well, Uncle An Ren said that the imperial court had good relations with Wusun, and then he sent them to the capital to do business." Zhao Yao accidentally ate a peppercorn, and his mouth immediately became numb, and he wrinkled his face and said, "Come on The Wusun people doing business in the capital are not pure Wusun people, but the descendants of Wusun people and Han people.”
The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly became very sharp: "Is there any movement among the Huns?"
"Uncle, how do you know?" Zhao Yao asked in surprise.
"If the Xiongnu didn't move, how could they be friends with Wusun." The middle-aged man just heard Zhao Yao talk about the Wusun people coming to the capital to do business, and he saw through the real purpose behind it. "What's going on with the Huns?"
"Uncle An Ren said that two or three years ago, a new Maodun Chanyu emerged from the Jingtang clan. This new Chanyu was very powerful and annexed two or three tribes in a row." Of course, it wasn't Boss An Ren who said that. It was Liang Zhaoyi. Tell Zhao Yao. "The leader of Wusun did not want to be invaded by the Xiongnu again, so he took the initiative to make friends with Dazhou."
The middle-aged man's face became a little serious.
"Uncle, what's wrong?"
"This new Maodun Chanyu cannot be underestimated."
"Father..." Zhao Yao realized that he almost blurted out [Father], "It is definitely not easy to annex two or three tribes at once. However, the court will definitely take precautions against the Xiongnu, otherwise it will not be good with Wusun. "
The middle-aged man sneered: "What's the use of Wusun?"
"At least they can know about the Xiongnu's movements before us." Wusun was right next to the Xiongnu and received news from the Xiongnu faster than they did.
The middle-aged man said nothing more.
Zhao Yao changed the topic and talked about other delicious food.
When the middle-aged man heard Zhao Yao talking about so many delicious things, he couldn't help but be curious: "Where did you know such delicious food?"
"I read it in books and heard it from others." Zhao Yao went to Lanyuan Pavilion for lunch every day and listened to the ministers who compiled history talk about the delicious food in their hometown. "When I grow up, I will travel around and eat all the delicious food in the world."
The middle-aged man said amusedly: "You are really promising."
"Uncle, I will take you with me when the time comes."
"I'm not going."
"Uncle, why don't you go? I'm telling you..."
The secret guards hiding in the dark listened to Zhao Yao's delicious food and thought, is it really that delicious?
Because Zhao Yao was here, this house suddenly became a lot more lively and full of life.
Middle-aged men usually eat in a deserted manner, and they don't eat much each time. Today, because of Zhao Yao's company, this lunch was very lively.
Seeing that Zhao Yao was eating well, the middle-aged man's appetite also felt better and he ate more than usual.
After lunch, Zhao Yao pushed the middle-aged man to the yard to bask in the sun.
"Can you play chess?"
"I just learned it this year." Zhao Yao asked, "Uncle, do you want to teach me how to play chess?"
"Yes." The middle-aged man told the ordinary man, "Go and get the chessboard."
After a while, the ordinary man brought the chessboard and chess pieces.
The middle-aged man taught Zhao Yao while playing chess.
He said that the chess game is like a battlefield. When he taught Zhao Yao how to play chess, he also taught him the art of war.
Zhao Yao listened very carefully. If he didn't understand something, he would ask.
The middle-aged man always has a cold expression on weekdays, but he is very patient when teaching Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao is very smart, and he can master it as soon as he learns it. After getting through, he will also draw inferences about other cases.
After one game of chess was played, the middle-aged man did not rush to play the second game, but let Zhao Yao think about the chess game he had just played.
Zhao Yao sat in front of the stone table, holding his face with his hands and staring at the chess game.
The game of chess just now was played for more than an hour. The game contained a lot of things, and Zhao Yao needed to digest it slowly.
After half an hour, Zhao Yao reached out and destroyed the chess piece he had just played, then picked up the chess pieces and began to review the chess game just now.
When he was reviewing the game, the middle-aged man asked him if he had a better way to play.
Zhao Yao will tell him his new method.
After asking and answering questions, Zhao Yao learned a lot.
After the review, the middle-aged man began to play the second game of chess with Zhao Yao.
All afternoon, middle-aged men were teaching Zhao Yao how to play chess.
Seeing that it was getting late, the middle-aged man reminded Zhao Yao that it was time to go back.
Zhao Yao still had to meet Liang Run and Chu Huan, and had no intention of staying with the middle-aged man for a long time.
"Uncle, I will come see you next time in Xiu Mu, and I will bring you other delicious food then."
"After you go back, think carefully about the few games of chess you played this afternoon."
"I understand, uncle." Zhao Yao gave a junior salute to the middle-aged man, "Uncle, when I'm not around, you have to eat well, sleep well, and take care of yourself."
The middle-aged man nodded slightly: "Yes."
"Uncle, I'm leaving then."
Liang Run and Chu Huan were waiting for Zhao Yao at the door. When they saw him coming out, they hurriedly greeted him.
Zhao Yao and Liang Run had dinner before returning to the palace.
When Zhao Yao and the others were having dinner, Emperor Wu of Zhou appeared in that house.
Zhao Yao: The Huns are a good place and must be conquered.
Huns: Don’t come over!
(End of chapter)
