Cao Cao's chef

Chapter 7 Cao Cao's courtiers

Let's talk about Zhencheng's government office, it is indeed time to go down to the government office now.Everyone faces a question: What's for lunch?
The mainstream of this era is a two-meal system. To put it bluntly, there are morning meals around nine o'clock, and feeding around four o'clock in the afternoon.However, those in power, qualified gentry, soldiers during the war and farmers during the harvest season all had three meals.

Especially when the power holder is a woman, since the first Zhou Empress was very strict about the quality of life, women in subsequent dynasties dare not talk about extravagance and waste, but they have relatively high requirements for things closely related to life such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

"Li, you're going to the office, what's for lunch?" A young woman asked the beautiful woman who was handling government affairs.

"General Ren, it seems that our relationship is not that good, please don't call me by my boudoir name!" The beautiful woman looked at the woman, and then buried her head in the case, "Please call me by my name Cheng Yu, otherwise call me Biaozi Zhong De."

"Li, you will have no friends like this..." The young woman couldn't help complaining when she heard the words. In terms of resume, she is still higher than this beautiful woman, but in terms of status in Cao Cao's heart, it is different.As Cao Jun's strategist, this beautiful woman is highly valued by Cao Cao.It wasn't intended to be a good relationship, but she was always so lukewarm.

"Sister, what are you going to have for lunch?" A man came to the young woman and asked with a smile.

"Hong?" The young woman looked back at the visitor, "Today's training is over? We can't be compared to those two guys from Xiahou's family!"

"Sister, don't worry, the training is completed on time and according to the amount!" When the man came to the woman, he would probably think that the man should be the woman's elder brother just by looking at the appearance, but in fact it was just the opposite.

The birth rate of women is too low, so after hundreds of years, once a woman is born, her quality is far superior to that of a man. This is the root cause of women's ability to rule and govern; the second is the increase in life expectancy, up to 200 years old; the last is puberty until 180 years old , until the age of 181 begins to enter middle age, and 191 begins to enter old age.

The fertile time naturally begins at the age of 12, and can be fertile between the ages of 180 and 20.In recent hundreds of years, it has been recorded that some women have given birth to more than [-] cases in the past [-] years, including [-] female babies, and they were also rewarded by the royal family.

On the contrary, most men's life expectancy is around 50 years old, entering middle age at 35 years old, and entering old age at 45 years old.Some people live to the age of 60, which is already considered "rare in ancient times".

"Oh, that's good... I really don't want to eat in the yamen..." The young woman felt a little relieved when she heard the words, but then she sighed, "Every day is black beans and wheat rice... Knowing that Mengde is short of money, You can’t pick up cheap ones to buy!”

The price of wheat is lower than that of corn due to the relationship between promotion and cooking methods, let alone go into details.Let’s just talk about black beans, which were originally used to feed horses, but people generally don’t eat them, so the price is naturally not expensive.

"It's good to have something to eat, no matter how bad it is, there are bacon to accompany the meal!" The beautiful woman didn't look up, but she responded.

"Forget about Cheng's bacon!" The young woman felt a chill behind her when she heard this.If it wasn't for lack of food and helplessness, she might be the first to jump out and stop Cheng's bacon from appearing.

"Then go out to eat?" Another young woman with short hair came in, "The Cao family doesn't need that little money, right?"

"Save some rations, and feed the soldiers more!" A man in a Confucian robe came in after the short-haired girl.

"The problem is that even if I want to go out to eat now, the supplies in Zhencheng are also lacking. Even the Tianxianglou where I often go, the ingredients come and go like this. I am tired of eating!" The girl surnamed Cao complained immediately.

"And the plague of locusts is getting worse and worse. If it continues, I will probably starve..." The beautiful woman put down the paperwork and sighed.

"Speaking of which, where's Meng De?" The girl surnamed Cao looked around, and the sister of the clan had been seeing no one recently.

"My lord went to talk to the gentry, but it looks like I'm afraid I still have nothing." The beautiful woman shook her head. Since Lu Bu occupied Chenliu County and captured Puyang City, Cao Cao lacked food, grass and supplies, but not so much money. A lot of 'extra money'.

The problem is that now Yanzhou is suffering from severe drought and locust plagues, and many supplies are scarce. The gentry are hoarding and refusing to sell the stored grain. It is really useless to have money.It is said that in the Guanzhong area, one stone of grain has been sold for one hundred thousand yuan, which is a hundred thousand yuan!

"That's why I said it!" At this moment, Xiahou Dun walked in full of complaints, "Just kill all these ignorant gentry and confiscate all their property!"

"This will make the gentry in other places alienate us!" The woman surnamed Cao immediately retorted, "Lü Bu was able to take over Yanzhou because the lord issued an order to recruit talents a while ago, and because he killed a famous scholar Bian Rang last year. If we casually kill people and ransack our homes, I'm afraid that the counties under our control will fall to Lu Bu!"

"By the way, aren't we discussing what to have for lunch?" The short-haired girl directly brought the topic back.

"Aren't you bothered?" The girl surnamed Cao complained directly, "It would be nice if Yan was here at this time, she must know where there is good food in Zhencheng! Speaking of which, where is Yan?"

"I seem to have seen it at midnight in the morning... Ask someone?" the short-haired girl spoke directly.

At this time, Xun Yu's near side hurried over, and he was relieved to see a few people.If everyone is here, then there is no need to notify everywhere, so I stepped forward to salute, and said slowly: "My lords, the master Xun Yu asked the younger one to bring a message to the adults, there is a restaurant in Yandong District, the master will entertain you to have a meal Lunch, I hope I can enjoy my face!"

"Is there a restaurant?" The woman surnamed Cao thought for a while, "Isn't it the one near the government office? It's just a restaurant of that level. As far as Yan's pursuit of food is concerned, where would she go?!"

"Don't say that!" Xia Houyuan immediately jumped out when he heard the words, "The owner is very handsome, and his cooking skills are really good!"

"Is that the shop owner you like, who keeps pursuing but gets rejected time and time again?" the short-haired girl was stunned.

"He's just shy and shy, which makes him even cuter!" Xia Houyuan retorted directly.

"I won't say anything about your orientation..." The man in the Confucian robe came forward directly.

"Since it's Xun Sima, I have to give him some face!" The beautiful woman thought for a while, and finally stood up.

"It just so happens that we also have a headache about lunch, and this solves it!" the short-haired girl said with a smile.

"It's a bit embarrassing!" Xiahou Dun recalled the embarrassing look before. She had already decided not to go to that restaurant in the short term, but her desire for delicious food made her hesitate, "Since it is Xun Sima's invitation..."

Of course, needless to say, if they treat Xun Yu to guests, of course they will go too.At the same time, I was also curious about what kind of delicacy made Xun Yu patronize this restaurant.

Seeing that everyone was gone, a figure wandered into the mansion, looked at the empty hall, and sighed suddenly: "These guys, went out to eat again? It's getting worse and worse if you don't take me with you." Already!"

After a pause, he continued: "Since it's not going to the cafeteria, it must be going out to eat, so let me join in the fun!"

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　　As the introduction said, every woman has a watch name and a boudoir name.

　　The name of the table is to deceive the heavens, so that women can grow up healthily, and the boudoir name is their real name. In layman's terms, it is a 'taboo name', which can only be called by boudoir friends and husbands.

　　Such settings will be mentioned later.

　　


(End of this chapter)