Quick wear: She has turned over the big guys from all walks of life

Chapter 1402 Famine and Natural Disaster 560
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There was a light snow outside and the north wind was blowing fiercely. The Ning family was eager to return home and rushed home in the light snow.

Mingyi came to see them off in person and watched their carriage go away, feeling melancholy for a moment.

"Master, it's cold outside, let's go back."

Mingyi looked towards Chunmei, suppressed his melancholy, and said, "Let's go back."

Entering the house, Chunmei asked carefully and concernedly, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

The master should not be unhappy now that the Ning family has left.

"It's okay, Chunmei, what other ingredients are in the kitchen?" They live here, and someone delivers ingredients once a day in spring, summer and autumn, and basically once every seven days in winter to ensure the most basic living supplies.

Chunmei recalled carefully, and made sure she knew everything within her responsibility before she spoke, "Radish, yam, cabbage, pickles, oranges, flour, rice, glutinous rice, millet, a lamb chop, steak, pork ribs, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and icing sugar."

Flour, rice, glutinous rice, and millet are essential ingredients for making pastries. Sugar is also an indispensable ingredient for making pastries. Every time someone comes to deliver ingredients, Chunmei will remind the person who delivers the ingredients to send more ingredients for pastries next time.

"Chunmei, I want to eat carrot and yam cakes, and stew some lamb chops and carrot soup. Stew more and let Yu Shiwei and the others eat some too. Eating lamb is the best way to warm up in this cold weather."

"Okay, I'll prepare it right away. Lamb stew needs to be slow-cooked to be more fragrant."

Mingyi agreed with this very much and nodded repeatedly. "I've heard people say before that if you want stewed mutton to be tasteless and delicious, you have to boil the roots of yellow ba leaves and sugar cane together; pick them out and wash them clean, then stew them with pepper, fennel, and ginger. It will be fragrant and delicious, and it won't have the fishy smell of mutton. I just don't know if the mutton sent this time is raised by local people in the northwest or sent from the grassland."

The mutton raised in the northwest has a bit of fishy smell, but it won’t be noticeable after simple processing; the mutton from the grassland tastes better, and there is no peculiar smell even if it is simply stewed.

After all, the water and soil on the grassland are different from those in the northwest, and the livestock raised on them are also different.

"Master, the mutton sent before was raised by people from the northwest. I will go ask who has the roots of yellow baical leaves and sugarcane." The master said so, and she did so. If she looked for it, she should be able to find it.

Huangba leaves are not a rare species. Some families will plant two specifically for making Huangba every summer.

Speaking of Huangba, she became greedy again.

"No hurry, no hurry." Mingyi took Chunmei's arm. Chunmei saw that she had something to say and moved closer to her. Mingyi asked softly, "Chunmei, is there anyone in the northwest who can make Huangba?"

"Yellow cake?"

Chunmei frowned and thought about it, then shook her head slightly and asked with a puzzled look: "Master, what is Huangba?"

“Huangba.” She didn’t know how to make it. She only remembered that it was made with glutinous rice and rice grains. She had eaten it a few times in the world she traveled through before. It tasted delicious when she ate it occasionally. “It seemed to be made of rice and glutinous rice. It was sweet and sticky. I think it also contained brown sugar.”

Chunmei's brows were still furrowed, "Then I'll think about it and see if I can make it."

"To make Huangba, you need to use Huangba leaves as the bottom and steam it in a steamer. I remember that Huangba is quite hard. It should be taken out after being cooled and hardened after steaming. The hard Huangba tastes good whether it is fried or stir-fried." My mouth is watering.

"Okay, Master, I'll ask Guard Yu to go out and ask who has seen Huangba leaves. Both the leaves and the rhizomes are useful, so I'll go ahead. Can you go back alone?" Mingyi nodded solemnly, "Sure, go ahead and do your thing."

"The slaves retire."

Chunmei left, Mingyi had a bad mouth and wanted to eat only fried yellow rice cake and brown sugar yellow rice cake.

Brown sugar yellow rice cake is made by stewing brown sugar and sliced ​​yellow rice cake together in a pot. It can be served when it becomes sticky. It is sweet and delicious, and you will want to eat it!

She wanted to eat delicious food here, but outside Pingyang Pass, it was covered with ice and snow, and the soldiers' tents had to be cleaned several times a day; otherwise, the tents would collapse.

In the last tent, the generals sat around a fire and talked about recent events.

First of all, there was the war. There was no such thing as victory or defeat in this war. The kings and princes of the Central Plains gathered all their troops, totaling more than 100,000 people, which they had not expected. It was expected that the Central Plains had less than 100,000 troops. The last battle had sent away tens of thousands of the enemy. Even if they attacked the northwest this time, the pressure would not be great.

Unexpectedly, they managed to gather a force of 100,000, some of whom were children only about ten years old.

Many soldiers in the Northwest Army could not bring themselves to harm children, but these children were extremely ruthless; they were obviously specially trained. If the soldiers of the Northwest Army were to show any softness in their hearts, they would die in regret.

As a result, they no longer dared to be soft-hearted towards anyone, and as long as they were in the enemy camp, they were all targets to be killed.

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Secondly, the first heavy snow came, covering not only their northwest but also the Central Plains; as a result, the war ended hastily.

The kings and princes in the Central Plains wanted to conquer the northwest, but they were short of armaments and had limited resources. They couldn't even gather enough food rations. Many of the enemy soldiers were wearing thin clothes and were cold and hungry. They couldn't even lift spears, so they had to stop fighting.

"I don't know when this snow will stop. In previous years, Pingyang Pass didn't have such heavy snow. It stopped in the second half of the month at most. This year is a bit unusual. Even the area outside Pingyang Pass was affected. Last year, there was no snow outside Pingyang Pass."

"Let nature take its course. If the snow stops, we can fight. If it doesn't, that's fine. We have plenty of military rations and can afford to delay. But we can't go back to celebrate the New Year with our families."

"Chinese New Year is a time for family reunion, but when I see those soldiers in the Central Plains, I think this is also good; at least our families are not affected by the war, and we have food and drink at home, and we can eat and sleep. When we are done with our work and go back, we can still see our family, how wonderful!"

“We should cherish our blessings.”

"It's strange, other places have suffered from droughts and formed desert terrain, but our northwest is lush with vegetation, and the weather is good. Even the Western Regions and Ningguo that we conquered are very stable."

"If you hadn't said it, we wouldn't have thought much about it." The young generals had endless topics to talk about when they got together. "Maybe our commander is blessed with good fortune, and the areas under his jurisdiction have good weather and good harvests every year. But I heard that except for the grassland, all other countries have suffered disasters."

"How can that be? Our Northwest has really become a hot commodity."

"It has long been a popular place. So many people go to the northwest because life there is easier."

"However, General Wu Lue may have hit the nail on the head. Everything is going well in the territory under our commander's jurisdiction, but things are not going well in other places. This may really be related to our commander's profound fortune."

"Let's not talk about other things. The refugees who came to our northwest are gradually living a better life."