The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 149 New Heavenly Soldier Meal

"Can't recruit? How could it be impossible?"

Yang He looked at the officials responsible for recruiting brave men in the city with a face full of astonishment. As the governor, he knew best what the people in the city were like.

Although he wanted to save the people, the emperor had already put him on the fire. He had to do his best to solve the Kitchen King's problem. Using war to replace the town was also a good thing for the people.

But he spent money and food to hire people to fight, but he couldn't recruit any warriors.

"In recent days, all the people in the city have been going out. The gate guards said that the people are all refugees, heading east or south. They were afraid of the Governor's rebuke, so they did not report it."

"what?"

Yang He immediately stood up from behind the desk, walked quickly to the official, pointed at him with an angry face and asked, "You said all the people are heading east?"

The official turned pale with fright. He thought to himself, "I shouldn't have reported this if I had known about it." He quickly said, "That's true."

"Those are refugees. Who's on the east side? You don't know, that's the territory of thieves!"

"You're on your own! You stupid people!"

Yang He pointed angrily at the official's nose and cursed, "Come here," he waved and gave the order, "Put the captain of the city guards in prison for the past few days! He will be charged with dereliction of duty!"

He was pacing back and forth. The Kitchen King was good at winning over people's hearts. If he caused so many people in the city to run out, wouldn't it mean that the Kitchen King was taking advantage of him for no reason? If one thing goes against another, there will be a gap between the two sides.

"But fortunately, the two thieves Zhang Shusheng and Ji San'er are on their way, which can make up for the city's failure to recruit Xiangyong," Yang He looked towards the north.

The only fly in the ointment was that Wang Jiayin was not impressed by the five thousand taels of silver.

Zhang Shusheng led a thousand soldiers and horses south from Zi Chang. Among them, there were only twenty horses, all of them were big and small-minded mounts with heads and faces. The rest were walking on foot. The horses were leisurely. Zhang Shusheng held a wine gourd and moved towards it from time to time. He poured it into his mouth, and after taking a sip, he made a sound of satisfaction, accompanied by a surge of heat, and his face had already turned red.

The team moved forward leisurely, and they were not in a hurry. Seven days was enough time for them to reach Yan'an. It was already the last day, and they expected to reach Yan'an City in the evening and have a hot meal.

Zhang Shusheng squinted his eyes and looked ahead, and suddenly said: "I drank too much, why did I see someone on horseback charging towards us with a gun."

"Boss, you either drank too much, or someone rushed over."

The brother next to him quickly reminded him.

Hearing this, Zhang Shusheng quickly shook his head to wake himself up. He opened his eyes and saw clearly that there was a person riding in front of him.

More than that, behind it - there was a half-slope, gradually revealing more cavalry.

The sound of horse hoofbeats was so loud that the number of cavalry seemed to be greater than the number of infantry.

Zhang Shusheng suddenly woke up from his drink, and was so frightened by this scene that he broke into a cold sweat.

Rogue bandits, the greatest ability to survive is not fighting, but flowing and running fast.

Seeing that the opponent's cavalry is larger than the infantry, and each one looks murderous, it is impossible for the official side to send out cavalry to meet him, so there is only one possibility left. The Stove King's troops have a large number of The cavalry is here to intercept him.

Zhang Shusheng immediately made a conscientious move, "Turn around! Run! Brothers, don't resist, run if you can. If you can't run, the gold, silver, and food will be thrown on the ground. It's important to save your life. Those who survive will find me in Zizhou!"

He roared on the horse, then clamped his legs between the horse's belly, grasped the reins and turned the horse's head, and left directly from the road where everyone was separated. The minds of the dozens of horses around him also made the same decision as his elder brother. action, rushing towards the rear.

The remaining infantrymen scattered like birds and beasts, and some people were trampled to death in the panic. However, no one cared about the death of individual people. There was no need to run fast on the battlefield, as long as they were faster than their teammates.

From a distance, Yang Lichao saw the opponent turning around and running away. His forward momentum gradually slowed down, with a look of astonishment on his face. After he realized what he was doing, he spit on the ground and cursed: "Damn, there's more. It’s so far away and you just run away?”

His cavalry had officially fought once before. Now he was sent by Liu Zhenhua to intercept and detect a team coming from the north. Who knew that the other party saw it from a distance and fled in a hurry.

Helpless, Yang Lichao could only take the people back.

After all, Liu Zhenhua told everyone to come back at noon the next day and had something good to announce. Every time the Stove King said this, there was a high probability that the Heavenly Soldiers' salary would be improved.

Yang Lichao was a little excited for a while, what good thing this time would be.

Between Yanchuan and Yanchang, people gathered early, and the people from Yanchang came here to see it. The last time it was so lively was that early morning, and they still remember the time when everyone shouted long live everyone.

Another part of the people here are people who escaped from Yan'an City.

The Kitchen King really divides the fields into grains and seedlings!

And there were really a lot of sweet potatoes. They were taken on a tour, and a large cellar was filled with sweet potatoes.

Now, the Kitchen King has sent out news again, saying that porridge will be served.

"Are these the Kitchen King's heavenly soldiers? They are very majestic, but just put porridge on them. Why are there so many soldiers here?"

Some people who ran out of Yan'an asked in confusion.

"You don't know that."

Yanchang, who was standing next to him, saw that these people didn't understand anything, and he was eager to express himself. He looked at these people with a proud look on his face, "The Kitchen King must have used his magical power again to conjure better meals for these heavenly soldiers. ”

"You know, the last time I conjured up the same thing, preserved egg, lean meat and green vegetable porridge."

"What is preserved egg, lean meat and vegetables porridge? Preserved eggs are duck eggs. There is no need to ask about lean meat and vegetables."

"Why are we just asked to watch but not eat? We are asked to watch to stimulate our fighting spirit and encourage us to join the army enthusiastically."

"I told you to eat. Why should I ask you to eat? Can you go into battle and kill the enemy? Are you powerful with the heavenly soldiers? All the soldiers on that day have the enemy's life on their hands."

The man listened to the questions and cheers of the people around him and felt very satisfied. This was the effect he wanted. This was the fun of gossiping with others.

Really or not, wow, hiss, tut, hey, these words, every tone is enjoyable to listen to.

"The Stove King is here!"

Someone screamed, and then everyone looked eastward, and saw a man and a horse walking across the middle road where the heavenly soldiers separated.

All the heavenly soldiers along the way were half-kneeling on the ground, holding a weapon in one hand, and holding the other hand into a fist on their chest, whispering "Welcome to the Stove King" in their mouths.

Liu Zhenhua continued to move forward, heading towards the place where the people gathered. After he passed by, the heavenly soldiers gradually closed up and faced the people.

Liu Zhenhua sat on his horse and came to the open space between the heavenly soldiers and the common people. He looked at the dense crowd of people in front of him. They all had their hands folded and stamped their feet when they saw him and glanced at him.

Everyone immediately took their hands out of their sleeves, knelt down and shouted, "Long live the Stove King."

Liu Zhenhua has long been accustomed to it. His main purpose this time is to let the people from Yan'an City see it and take advantage of the new reputation opportunity.

This new prestige meal is a tough one.

The shock it brings is probably greater than the previous porridge with preserved eggs, lean meat and green vegetables, white porridge with pickled vegetables and eggs, combined. The horse carried Liu Zhenhua for a pace until he came to one side of the heavenly soldiers. He turned the horse's head so that it was perpendicular to the direction of the heavenly soldiers.

Liu Zhenhua slowly glanced around, then spread his hands flat, the knife hanging on his waist swayed, and as Liu Zhenhua raised his hands, a lot of food appeared on the originally empty ground.

The alluring aroma of meat suddenly filled the air. Even the soldiers who were used to eating white porridge with pickled mustard eggs and preserved egg and lean meat porridge also swallowed their saliva in an instant. The smell of meat was so mouth-watering.

The eyes of the heavenly soldiers and the common people were all looking towards the ground.

The people from Yan'an had just stood up and clasped their hands together. After seeing this scene, they knelt down on the ground with shock on their faces. Some people had no time to pull out their hands because they were still clasped together. When they knelt on the ground, they just threw their heads on the ground. , The ground in northern Shaanxi was frozen solid at the moment, which made them cry out in pain, but after they reacted, they quickly closed their mouths and stared straight ahead.

On the ground, the most eye-catching thing, and this time, the Kitchen King's new thing is the bowl of red, attractive candy-colored, steaming, fragrant, soft and chewy meat. elbow.

It looks like pig's trotters or elbows, with some green vegetables scattered here and there, and underneath it seems to be soaked in soup, with clear grains of rice, and on one side of the rice grains, there is a diamond-shaped piece that is slightly yellow. of unknown meat dishes.

Come to a bowl of Longjiang pig's trotter rice to feel the romance of a man.

This time's prestigious meal is the famous pig's trotter rice, a small piece of elbow, a pig's trotter, a piece of fish and pig, and 500 grams of steamed rice underneath, making up this delicious and delicious meal.

However, this prestige meal is only available at noon, and its appearance triples the amount of prestige provided by a single prestige meal.

A single serving can provide fifteen points of reputation.

The smell of meat made everyone present salivate wildly.

How many people present have eaten meat? The people of Yanchuan still ate it when the Stove King divided the meat last time. However, because the total amount was not large and there were too many people sharing the meat, they only ate one piece. A lot of meat and a lot of broth.

Right now, the meat in this Heavenly Soldier meal looks like a full kilogram.

The color and smell almost drove them crazy.

The heavenly soldiers were so excited that their whole bodies were trembling.

You must know that this is their heavenly soldier's meal, not a reward from the Kitchen King's accidental rise, which means that they may be able to eat this large piece of meat three meals a day.

This is such a happy thing. Does the emperor have such treatment? No, it is no longer comparable to the emperor. As early as when their tea eggs appeared, they were almost the same as the emperor.

Now there is such a tough dish.

Even the emperor is inferior to them.

Everyone looked at the Kitchen King, wishing they could go up and open their chests now and let the Kitchen King see that their blazing hearts had already taken the shape of the Kitchen King.

They looked at the Kitchen King.

"This thing!"

The Kitchen King suddenly spoke, his voice like thunder.

Everyone was trembling with fear. They didn't know why the Kitchen King's voice was so loud this time.

"It's called pig's trotter rice! It's made from pig's trotters, pork knuckles, white rice, fish, pork shoulder, and vegetables!"

"From now on, all the heavenly soldiers will have pig's trotter rice as their lunch!"

"I hope that the Heavenly Soldiers will continue to carry forward the style of hard training and fight the enemy bravely on the battlefield!"

Liu Zhenhua roared.

The crowd fell into dead silence at first, and then suddenly burst into cheers like a tsunami.

"Train hard! Fight the enemy bravely! Long live the Kitchen King!"

they shouted.

"Start eating!"

Liu Zhenhua pressed his hands down to signal everyone to be silent, and then issued new instructions.

The heavenly soldiers cheered immediately. They each stepped forward and picked up their meals in an orderly manner.

The first thing they put their chopsticks over was the pig's trotter rice. When they fiddled with it with their chopsticks, the pig's trotter meat separated, revealing the bones inside, and they could see that the meat was stewed to a tender state.

As soon as it was opened like this, the fragrance spread out even more, making some heavenly soldiers roll their eyes.

It feels so good, so good, this taste.

They couldn't help but move their index fingers, and one by one they put the soft and fragrant meat into their mouths like hungry wolves.

It melts in your mouth. On a cold day, eating such a piece of steaming meat is simply the greatest enjoyment in the world.

This moment made their death worth it.

For a while, there were sounds of slurping and eating meat everywhere.

The people in the distance also began to receive porridge. They squatted, holding rice bowls with white rice in them, but at this moment, they felt that the white rice was a bit tasteless.

They couldn't help but get closer to the heavenly soldiers who were eating pig's feet rice.

The heavenly soldiers did not hide when they saw the common people approaching, they just squatted there. They were used to these people approaching.

The common people had no other intentions. When they approached, they squatted down and looked at the heavenly soldiers, carefully watching the rhythm of their eating. Every time the heavenly soldiers stuffed a piece of meat into their mouths, they hurriedly took a mouthful of rice. , and then chew.

In this way, it seems that I am eating the same kind of pig's trotters rice from Tianbing Dinner. Using this method, it does taste much more delicious.

Countless people were squatting together and just watching them eat.

Liu Zhenhua looked at this scene with a smile, "Go and send a copy to Yonghe and give it to Ren Hongli."

Liu Zhenhua did not forget Ren Hongli, who was still guarding Yonghe County, and sent someone to deliver a meal for the heavenly soldiers.

It's winter, so it won't break if you send it over.

You can still eat it if you heat it up, and maybe it will be marinated to make it even more flavorful.

After meal.

The registration offices in Yanchuan and Yanchang counties were busy.

The common people are clamoring to become militiamen, but if they really can't become militiamen, then they have to become village warriors.

(End of this chapter)