Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 281 Asking for Military Supplies

"Oh, let's eat grilled fish." Brothers Gu Dewang, Brother Cheng, and Gu Qingxi all gathered around the table in the yard and shared the grilled fish.

A palm-sized carp, Gu Jinli was gone without taking a bite.

Qin Sanlang saw it, and speeded up the grilling of the fish. After a while, he grilled three more carps, one for Gu Dewang, one for Cheng Geer and Gu Qingxi, and one for Gu Jinli: "You guys eat first, and I'll grill it later. "

Gu Jinli finally ate grilled fish.The fish is carp from the deep pools in the mountains. The meat is firm and delicious, with the sauce and the burnt aroma of roasting. One bite, the whole body is comfortable and delicious.

After eating, she changed to Qin Sanlang: "Brother Qin, go and eat something, I'll bake it."

Because there was a banquet in the afternoon, they didn't have lunch, everyone was hungry, and Qin Sanlang was the same. Hearing this, he went to find something to eat by himself.

He ate bean dregs cakes brought by Luo Wu from the kitchen instead of grilled fish.

Gu Jinli saw him eating bean dregs cakes, put a grilled carp on a clay plate, and stuffed it into his hands: "Eat, I like grilled fish, why should I wrong myself."

She glanced into the barrel and said, "There are eight more, enough to eat."

Qin Sanlang was taken aback for a moment, Xiaoyu knew that he loved grilled fish.

He smiled, didn't delay any longer, and ate all the grilled fish she handed over.

Gu Jinli looked around and saw that except for them grilling fish, other people in the yard were either in the main room or busy in the kitchen, so he waved to Qin Sanlang, and when he came over, he asked him in a low voice: "Brother Qin, sir What kind of rations do the Chu army eat?"

Army rations?

"Why do you think of asking this?" Qin Sanlang was very surprised. Such things are not something that a little girl like her should ask.

But he still told her: "Different levels, the soldiers at the bottom usually eat sorghum dry cakes, and sometimes they also eat soybeans and sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger. These two kinds of foods are very hard and dry, and they are resistant to storage. But they can only be stored for about a month at most, and they cannot be eaten any longer."

"As for meat, animals are generally slaughtered for meat before or after the war. There is dried meat, but not much."

Gu Jinli frowned: "What about the oil?"

Qin Sanlang said with a smile: "I will boil them first, and keep them one by one. When cooking, put some oil in it, so that the soldiers' stomachs will be a little greasy."

Gu Jinli: "The food is really bad."

Qin Sanlang said: "It's already considered good. There is a shortage of food in the northwest, and many times the soldiers can't even eat sorghum biscuits. They have to eat stewed soybeans or sweet potatoes."

"But the sweet potatoes will rot after being stored for a long time. Many of the sweet potatoes stored in the cellar will rot every year. Sometimes when there is no food, soldiers will eat half of the rotten sweet potatoes. Many soldiers have diarrhea because of this."

Military rations have always been a big problem, not to mention Dachu, and the previous dynasty could not solve it.

"Why do you ask this?" Qin Sanlang remembered what she said, thinking of a new food for Gu Daya's family, and asked, "Did you come up with a new food?"

Gu Jinli nodded: "Well, it's a kind of vermicelli made from sweet potatoes, which can be stored for more than a year."

"What are vermicelli?" Qin Sanlang frowned, never heard of it.

Gu Jinli explained: "It is a kind of food like noodles. After drying the vermicelli, boil the water in the pot, put the vermicelli in it, and after cooking, it will become a kind of food like noodles. It is durable, easy to carry, and convenient to cook. cooked."

Qin Sanlang was surprised when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "You mean, you can use sweet potatoes to make a noodle-like food, which can be stored for a long time and is not perishable."

Gu Jinli nodded: "Yes."

Qin Sanlang's face changed, and he said: "Xiaoyu, this thing can't be done, it will cause disaster."

The price of sweet potatoes is cheap, if it is really possible to use sweet potatoes to make a food that can last for a long time, like noodles, the whole Dachu will be shocked!

After hearing Qin Sanlang's words, Gu Jinli also felt that sweet potato flour could not be made.

There is a saying that food is the most important thing for the people. In ancient times, food was extremely important.

There is another saying that the three armies go first before using food and grass, and military food has always been the top priority of every court.

Sweet potato flour is nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, it is something that can cause vibrations.

Now that she has no power or power, if she does something like this, she is courting death!

Gu Jinli nodded and promised him: "Well, I won't do it, I'll think of a new food for my aunt and the others."

Originally, she thought that the price of sweet potatoes was cheap and the cost was low, so she wanted to use sweet potatoes to make sweet potato vermicelli and let her aunt's family sell sweet potato noodles, but now it seems that it is better not to do it.

Seeing her agreeing to come down, Qin Sanlang breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, saw that Gu Dewang and the others had finished eating the fish, ran to the kitchen porch, and after helping to wash the vegetables with a wooden plate, he said in a low voice: "Don't tell anyone about it. , rotten in the stomach... If you really want to make that kind of vermicelli, we will do it later when we are more capable and can protect it."

But can't do it now.

This thing is different from tofu. Tofu is not easy to store and can't be eaten as a meal, but sweet potato vermicelli can.

If such matters involving military rations were found out by aristocratic families, let alone a few of them, for the sake of Fangzi, they would not hesitate to slaughter the entire village.

"Okay, don't do it, don't talk about it." Gu Jinli said with a smile: "Don't worry, I do things properly. Don't you think it's risky, so I'll ask you right away."

Qin Sanlang nodded with a smile, and praised her: "Well, Xiaoyu is very smart and did the right thing."

Fortunately, I asked, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"It's all here, it's really lively." Village head He brought He Jinsheng and brought gifts. As soon as he entered the courtyard of Luo's house, he saw Qin Sanlang and Luo Wu, and immediately smiled: "You two boys, why don't you come here for us?" The head of Dafeng Village has lost his face, and when people in our village go out and say that there are military masters and messengers in the village, people from all over the world will look at our villagers with high regard."

Then he said to the third grandfather who came to greet him: "Brother Gu, congratulations, the youngsters of your family are promising, and they have transformed into officials."

The third grandpa smiled and said: "The village chief was joking, but he is just running errands for the adults in the yamen, not an official family, and he is far from promising."

As he spoke, he welcomed the grandparents of village head He into the main room.

After the village head sat down, he said to He Jinsheng: "What are you doing in a daze? Give you a congratulatory gift, Brother Luo Wu."

"Hey." He Jinsheng hurriedly handed the gift to Luo Wu: "Brother Luo Wu, this is a gift from my family."

Luo Wu accepted the congratulatory gift and said, "Thank you, village chief, please sit down first, I'll go to the kitchen to help, we can start the banquet in half an hour."

"No hurry, no rush, people in this village can eat any time, and don't rush back." Village head He pushed He Jinsheng: "Don't stick around here, go and help your brother Luo Wu, and see if there is any trouble. Any job you can do."

Although He Jinsheng is a scholar, he is not coquettish. Hearing what Village Chief He said, he immediately followed behind Luo Wu, busily busy.

(End of this chapter)