"Isn't it a process of cooking from inexperienced to proficient? Who can't practice it? Mixing canned hawthorn and white fungus is also a technical job. I mix, and mix again..."
Zhu Xi got what he wanted and cooked a dish for the people in Xiaqiu Village, mumbling while cooking.
The head of the village could not refuse His Highness King Qin's hospitality, and he was worried that he would spoil the people in the village, so he had to choose a dish of canned hawthorn mixed with white fungus.
For this purpose, six cans of hawthorn were specially opened. The big ones weighed ten kilograms each and were given to the maids of the Prince's Palace and Prince Qin's Palace to eat together.
There are no eunuchs, and if they are not given, only women will receive extra care.
Zhu Xi was responsible for mixing the dishes for the forty-four people in Xiaqiu Village and for him and his brother. The quantities were set, so he was responsible for mixing them.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether he mixes it or not. It's time to put it in a big basin and wait for it to be poured out.
"Hanhan, actually we know how to cook. We have practiced cooking at home. We cook and eat by ourselves.
We know what you mean, hum! We don't know him the same way, how can we poison him by cooking? "
While Zhu Xi was mixing it, he was talking to Hanhan who was standing next to him. He obviously understood what he meant by asking him to cook this dish. It was so simple!
"Yeah! Cool, sweet, outside, hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian cooperated and said, don't mix it, just order something and put it outside. It will be cold outside and freeze for a while. The taste is best at this time.
"Yes, yes, I was thinking of adding some alkali! I'm afraid it will be too sour."
Zhu Xi smiled sheepishly. He realized that if the canned hawthorn is sour, sugar should be added.
So Zhu Wentian helped carry the big basin outside, and Zhu Ping followed him out empty-handed.
"Hanhan, I can only leave it for a short while, it's too cold! Ouch~~"
Zhu Ping spoke with a vibrato, and white mist would spray out of his mouth as he spoke.
It was minus 25 degrees at this time, which was relatively warm, because it was going to snow and the sky was cloudy.
When the heavy snow falls, people who have never been to the north will feel the conditions of more than 30 degrees below zero.
'Ha~~ha~~' Zhu Wentian breathed out, with a smile on his face.
Winter in the north is fun. You can ride a sledge and skate. Those who don't know how to skate can ride on an ice cart.
"It's probably just as cold in our fiefdom, and the people..." Zhu Fang thought of his own people.
At the moment, he was wearing pure cotton shirts and underpants, goat cashmere knitted sweater and trousers, then woolen trousers and a waistcoat, a robe, and a military coat on top.
Even so, if he still feels cold, how can people have the money to prepare the same set of clothes? Cashmere alone is not enough.
"Work, hot, don't move, cold! Yeah, yeah!" Zhu Wentian responded.
"You can't work all the time, you have to rest. When we go back, we will build a temporary resting shed on the road, and arrange people to burn the stove in it. People who are walking can take shelter in it when they feel cold."
Zhu Fang thought about the people in the fiefdom walking on the road in winter, with the wind blowing and no place to hide, and finally freezing to death on the road. He felt so sad.
…
The snow is falling, and under the light at night, all that can be seen is black dots.
Zhu Wentian stood at the door and reached out to take it, feeling the coolness when the snow melted. He came back and said to the director: "It needs to cool down. The snow is sticky. It is very convenient to hold the snowball after it falls. It absorbs heat quickly, and the snow looks quite heavy."
"I'll be in Helin tomorrow, and the winter solstice will be the day after tomorrow. Entering the city will make you feel at ease and make things easier."
The head of the village felt the cold that was different from the winter in the village, and found that both kinds of cold were uncomfortable.
The winter cold in the village makes my whole body uncomfortable, but the local cold makes my whole body hurt. My feet, hands, ears, and chin all hurt from the cold.
"We need a batch of equipment. I don't know how many wild animals General Xu Da and his team have hunted. There are currently many cattle and sheep that cannot cross the desert and stay in the city."
Zhu Wentian began to think about the issue of winter. Many people had never seen winter in the north and it was unbearable for a while.
"How do you raise sheep in Beiyuan when it snows?" The village manager didn't ask about the equipment, he only thought about feeding the cattle and sheep.
"They live in pursuit of water and grass. They migrate. Before it snows here, they move to a place with grass and water.
It's too late. If a heavy snow suddenly falls, it will cause heavy losses. The worst thing to worry about is freezing rain.
Sheep will plow through the snow to eat grass. If a layer of ice freezes after freezing rain, the sheep will scratch their hooves and they will die.
General Xu Da will prepare in advance and send people outside to cut the grass. I don't know how well their silage pond is built. "
As Zhu Wentian spoke, he used the furnace hook to poke the coals in the iron vertical furnace again to make the fire burn more vigorously.
Only a few people had stoves, and the others slept in thick clothes and quilts. In order to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, the stoves had a stove tube made of iron sheets, and one side of the stove was connected to the outside of the tent.
When the fire is strong, the furnace wall and the upper section of the furnace tube will burn red. As long as the furnace is not penetrated, the temperature will slowly drop.
There are rings with different diameters on the stove, and the kettle can sit on them to boil water.
If you remove two of the middle stove rings and put a wire mesh on them, you can bake and eat on the wire mesh.
Unfortunately, there are no potatoes or sweet potatoes, and there is no roasted corn, but you can roast yams and flour cakes.
Make a ball of dough, take off a piece, flatten it and bake it on the wire mesh. After it is cooked, it will be hot and delicious.
There was only a kettle on the stove in front of me, and the steam came out, making the tent less dry.
You can't suppress the fire when sleeping at night, so just let the coals in the stove burn out slowly. If the air pressure is low and smoke pours into the room, you can only put out the fire.
The headman took a steel basin, poured some cold water into it, mixed it with hot water, burned his feet, and made a comfortable sound: "Oh! My life has not been in vain. I know what winter is like in the north."
"In fact, once the house is built and the corresponding supporting facilities are made, the winter in the north will not be terrible.
After entering the city, let the prince, King Qin, and ourselves make arrangements first. By then it will be minus 40 degrees outside, so it won't matter to us.
As long as you don't go out for too long, you don't have to worry about stripping off when you get back to your room, you're still warm! "
Zhu Wentian knows how to spend the winter in the north. There are differences between poor people and rich people.
The two talked for a while, and Zhu Wentian also heated his feet and went to sleep.
…
When we woke up in the morning, the sky was clear and the sunlight was very dazzling on the snow. The team ate porridge and put on their sunglasses and felt better.
You can't wear a mask like this, otherwise your breath will rise upwards and your lenses will freeze.
The snow was half a foot thick, and as the team moved toward Helin, the wind gradually became stronger.
The temperature will drop soon, and part of the surface snow on the snow will melt, leaving an extra layer of ice crust.
The most fun time will be when there is another heavy snowfall. The ice on the river is frozen and you can go back and forth at will.
Just before noon, a group of people appeared at the front of the line.
The team did not send anyone to Helin City in advance, but there were scouts in Helin City. When the scouts saw the people, they hurried back to report.
Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Li Wenzhong, Lan Yu and other generals all went outside to greet him. The letter said that the prince and the King of Qin were on a northern tour and were here to hand over some matters, and then everyone went back together.
A large group of people knelt in the snow, said a few words, and then got up to ask about the situation.
"Thank you for your hard work, the desert is really hard to live in." Zhu Biao looked at a group of Ming Dynasty's most capable generals and nodded vigorously.
(End of chapter)
