Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2179 Sleeping and eating

Its daybreak.

  Cao Zhen slowly opened his eyes.

  Outside the window, the blue sky and white clouds, no matter how you look at it, it is a rare good weather in winter.

   Except that the "window" feels a bit small, everything is very normal and beautiful.

  I had no dreams all night, and I slept really well.

etc.

  Windows, blue sky, white clouds?

  Cao Zhen was confused for a moment, and then remembered that he was not in the government office of Jingzhou, but in the camp of hussars. The so-called windows are just "windows", that is, vents on the tent supported by wooden frames.

  Because the brazier is set up in the tent, and it is in a relatively closed space, if the windows are not opened for ventilation, it is inevitable that there will be various complicated atmospheres entangled with each other...

Cao Zhen didn't sleep alone in the tent, there were guards resting in front of and behind the tent, plus the soldiers were outside, body odor and beriberi flew together, sweat and urine danced together, and there were inevitably fleas and bugs and the like The little goblins sleep together on the bed at night, so normally speaking, it is difficult to sleep as comfortably as at home in a wild camp.

  However, Cao Zhen slept very peacefully that night.

How is this going?

Before Cao Zhen arrived here, he had deduced and simulated countless times in his heart, but what he never expected was that the feeling he brought on the first night in the Huqi camp turned out to be comfortable? !

This…

  Three steps away, the guard who was supposed to be on guard also tilted his head and fell asleep sideways on the dry grass. The saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth soaked a large piece of the dry grass under him...

  『Wake up! 』

  Cao Zhen stepped forward and kicked.

  The guard jumped up reflexively, reached out to touch the knife, and then saw clearly that it was Cao Zhen, and hurriedly saluted.

  『Why did you sleep so deeply? 』

  Cao Zhen was a little confused, could it be because the journey was too tiring?

   Or did Hushi take drugs last night?

  Cao Zhen couldn't help but look at his armor.

   There seems to be no problem.

  『You don’t feel anything wrong? ”Cao Zhen asked the guard. Although it can be seen by looking at it, Cao Zhen still feels that he needs to confirm it.

  『Return to the general...』 The guard lowered his head in embarrassment.

  Cao Zhen waved his hand, "It's not a punishment... A certain person is usually in the army, and he is always alert, why did he wake up in the sky last night?" This…"

  『Small ones are also like this...』The guard said a little awkwardly, 『However, it seems that after entering Wuguan, I slept much better this night...』

Ok?

  Wuguan?

  Cao Zhen frowned, and then began to think back, trying to find out what caused him to become more and more lazy, and who was the culprit who made it dawn overnight.

Cao Zhen originally arrived at the hussars barracks, and he was secretly happy in his heart, because Guo Jia hadn't stayed in the hussars barracks for long before, and Guo Jia himself was just a counselor, and he didn't care about all kinds of miscellaneous and trivial matters in the army. It's not very clear, so even if they return to Xu County, they can't say some specific things about the hussar barracks, and this time they have the opportunity to go to the hussar barracks in person, which is a great opportunity to understand the reality!

  Cao Zhen originally thought that he would definitely wake up in the middle of the night, and then even if he couldn’t move around, he could still take a peek...

Of course, the guards can’t be blamed for this matter, because Cao Zhen didn’t tell the guards about his plan, and in order to prevent someone from listening, he didn’t even confess that the guards would wake him up in the middle of the night. It's okay to do it once, but I didn't expect that I fell asleep until dawn.

  Cao Zhen suddenly thought of something, and immediately pulled the guard's robe...

  『General! General! 』The guard didn’t know what to do, and struggled.

  『Don’t move! Let someone see! ’Cao Zhen tore off the guard’s robe three times, then looked around in circles, ‘Well, sure enough, it’s true...’

  The guard’s upper body was bare, his hands didn’t know whether to protect the front or the back, and his skin didn’t know whether it was because of the cold or some other reason, layers of goose bumps appeared, “General…”

  『What are you doing? Just take a look, and you won’t die..." Cao Zhen frowned and said, "No wonder... don't you feel that there are not many insect bites on your body these days? 』

   The erythema and red spots on the guard's body that had been bitten by insects were significantly less. Although there were still some marks, they all looked old.

"Uh? The guard was taken aback for a moment, then thought for a while, "It seems to be true... yes, it doesn't seem to be itchy these days..."

  In general military camps, it is very difficult to isolate insects and fleas. Although it is winter, there are fewer mosquitoes and flies, but fleas and bedbugs are indispensable, and people and livestock are mixed and infect each other...

   No wonder.

  Without the entanglement of these goblins who kept calling me for more, I would naturally sleep soundly.

  『Look for yourself...』 Cao Zhen threw his robe to the guards, 『Wuguan, Wuguan... the two methods of water and fire are so effective? Not only that... there was almost no noise last night...』

The hussar camp is a cavalry camp. Compared with the dense infantry camp, the distance between them is naturally wider and the area is also very large, but the people are relatively easy to control. After the curfew, noise is strictly prohibited, and the horses are hungry. He will bark, even if he is not hungry, if he sees that other war horses have something to eat, even if he does not have it, he will also get angry, so the noise in the cavalry camp often comes from the war horses...

At the same time, because large animals excrete a lot, Cao Zhen has been to Cao Jun's own cavalry camp, which is always full of feces and urine smell, but in the hussar camp, it cannot be said that there is no such thing, but it is lighter than Cao Jun's cavalry camp. a lot of…

  『This... maybe the hussars put the horses farther away? 』The guard didn't think too much about it.

  Cao Zhen shook his head, "More than that..."

  As for matters in the military, even if you are not a member of the gentry and do not understand the important military strategies, as long as you stay in the army for a period of time, you can generally talk about it based on experience, but it is not easy to do it.

To know these things, everyone knows that if you want to control the sound of war horses, you need to take care of them in time, and if you want to control the smell of feces, you need to clean them up in time. These things are like using water and fire to repel insects in Wuguan. It sounds very simple, but if you insist on doing it, do it every day, do it well, and don’t be lazy, it’s hard to beat the sky.

  Most people like to be lazy, and among all things, you don’t need to be taught to be lazy. What's more troublesome is that laziness is also contagious. As long as one or two laziness succeeds, there will be a large number of laziness soon.

   Scolding, whipping, and various punishments can solve the temporary problem, but after a while, as long as you don't stare at it, you may relapse at any time...

  『Tsk tsk...』 Cao Zhen couldn't help sighing, "Hussars... really deserve their reputation..."

   This is not Cao Zhen's false flattery, but Cao Zhen himself knows that for most people of this age, being in the wild has never been an easy task.

Many peasants in the Han Dynasty fled to the mountains when they couldn’t survive. Although it seems that they can rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, open up wasteland in the mountains, pick fruits, dig roots, etc., if the problem of tigers and leopards is not considered, it seems to be good. There are no tax collectors to collect Taxes, and there is no outsider intrusion, but in fact, nature has never been gentle with humans.

The reason why human beings have lost their awe of nature is because they have lived in the circle of human beings since they were young. Once they leave this protective circle, nature will immediately give them a few slaps, and human beings want to fight against nature. Individual strength is very weak, but when gathered together, a combined force is formed...

   Like now.

  Cao Zhen arrived at a corner of the tent, lifted it a little and looked, "So it is..."

  The insect repellent powder was sprinkled in the corner of the tent, and it looked new and old, obviously it wasn't just sprayed once.

   Although these are trivial matters, they ensure that the soldiers have relatively good sleep in the wild, and good sleep also ensures that these soldiers can have plenty of physical strength. You must know that soldiers are not in the wild for a day or two...

  In the Cao camp, even Cao Zhen couldn't guarantee that his tent could be like the current hussars, let alone ordinary Cao soldiers.

   Or, is this just a special case?

  Cao Zhen frowned and thought.

  "General Cao..." At this moment, someone's voice came from outside the tent, "But you're up? My lord invited General Cao to have a meal together...』

  Yesterday when Cao Zhen arrived, it was already late, so this is Cao Zhen’s first official meeting with the hussars...

  Cao Zhen involuntarily straightened his robes, then walked out of the tent, followed the **** of Hussar General, turned around the small camp, and walked towards the central tent area.

  In the camp, there is smoke everywhere.

  Led by the hussar guards, Cao Zhen finally set foot in the core area of ​​the barracks.

  The sun was just right, and the golden light poured down, bringing a rare warmth in winter.

  On the side of the winding silver light belt in the distance, there are soldiers fetching water in the upstream, and soldiers leading the horses in the downstream to wash, occasionally splashing broken jade light.

   Farther away, I don’t know if they are preparing to go out to patrol, or the cavalry who have returned to the team are lining up to count...

  Everything seems to be in order, but Cao Zhen doesn't know why, and always feels that there seems to be something wrong.

   What's wrong?

  Cao Zhen moved forward slowly.

   The soldiers who can be near the core area of ​​the Chinese army's big account are naturally taller and more capable. This is the same whether it is here on the hussars or under Cao Cao's command.

   Just…

  Although Cao Zhen is reluctant to admit it in his heart, from the overall look and behavior, these soldiers in the Hussar Army are obviously higher than Cao Jun's own...

  The generals in Kansai, as expected, the ancients were honest and never deceived.

  When Cao was really thinking about it, the hussar guard leading the way turned around and said, "General Cao, you can bring two guards in. The rest are right here. Someone will arrange them..."

  Cao Zhen nodded slightly.

   This is common sense, there is nothing to say, and it is because of this that they are all here, and I am afraid it is not cerebral palsy. After all, Cao Cao is not willing to let the generals under the command of the hussars lead a dozen or twenty people directly into the main tent of the Chinese army...

  Cao Zhen signaled, and asked two of his men to follow him forward, and the rest of them were temporarily led by another hussar guard, and went aside.

  Whether it is human society or animal groups in nature, when eating, there is no doubt that they pay great attention to rules, or occasions called etiquette.

  An important form of etiquette is hierarchical treatment. It's like if there is a dog in the family who guards food in front of someone, growls, threatens, basically the dog thinks that it has a higher status in the family than this person...

Since the Qin Dynasty, the meritorious lords of the 20th Army have stipulated detailed differences in food and treatment. The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, so it is generally the same. This is also evident in the Hussar Army. Ordinary soldiers only have one bowl, which they hold casually. , or stand or squat.

  Basically speaking, Shichang has two bowls. The big bowl is for rice, and the small bowl is for sauce. They are usually eaten sitting down.

   Further up the team rate is different, there are three bowls, with broth.

  As for the Marquis Qu, he has a separate seat...

   These seem to be similar to those in Cao Jun, but Cao Zhen suddenly twitched his nose twice as he walked, as if he smelled something unusual...

this is…

  Cao Zhen's footsteps were chaotic.

  The hussar guards in front noticed it, and immediately turned slightly to look at Cao Zhen, "General Cao, what's the matter?" 』

  『No, no...haha, haha...' Cao Zhen said with a hahahaha, 『When I smell the aroma of this food, I can’t help being hungry...Haha, haha...』

Although the hussar guards leading the way thought that Cao Zhen might be pretending to be crazy, it was not his turn to expose it, so he nodded his head without any other choice, then turned a corner, handed over to Xu Chu in front, and then unloaded. After finishing the errand, he bowed his hands and left.

  Xu Chu glanced up and down at Cao Zhen.

  Cao Zhen suddenly felt that the hair on the back of his neck stood up in a "huh", and the smile on his face that was originally pretended suddenly burst, and scum fell down...

  『Cao Zhen Cao Zidan is here! 』

  In the large tent, a steady voice came, "Please! 』

  Xu Chu stretched out his hand, "Please! 』

  Cao Zhen reluctantly put back the cracked smile, "Haha, thank you, thank you..." Even after entering the big tent, Cao Zhen still felt that there seemed to be a knife on his back, which was somewhat awkward.

  In the large tent of the Chinese army, Fei Qian watched with great interest the slowly approaching Zhen Zidan, uh, Cao Zhen Cao Zidan.

  From a certain point of view, Cao Zhen is the second generation Ruotou of the Cao Clan's Aman group...

Probably this means, Cao Pi is the second generation, and then Cao Zhen is the most important second generation commander under him, from General Zhenxi all the way to the general, from fighting against Shu, to defeating Wu, and then facing the Qiang and Hu coalition forces , To pacify the border areas, almost omnipotent.

  And when Cao Zhen was in power, he always suppressed the big and small thorns in the Ah Man group, especially Sima Yi. If Cao Zhen's son was not a good person, it may be said that Sima Yi would have no chance to turn against the water...

  So this time Cao Cao sent Cao Zhen here, besides the superficial bureaucracy, what other purpose does he have?

  『Meet the hussars...』 In terms of etiquette, Cao Zhen is also well-behaved.

   Fei Qian smiled and waved his hands, and said, "Excuse me, give me a seat." 』

  Cao Zhen took out the official document from his pocket, forwarded it to Fei Qian, and said, "More than half of Jingzhou's refugees have been collected, this is a rough list, and there are some other compilations, which are specially dedicated to Huqi for inspection..."

Fei Qian glanced at it slightly, motioned Xu Chu to put it away first, and then said, "Someone called Zidan to come and eat some candied meat together. We can talk about it after dinner." ...'

   After finishing speaking, Fei Qian motioned for the breakfast to be served.

   Before the food arrived, the smell wafted over first, which immediately attracted Cao Zhen to inhale fiercely...

  This, this is peppery aroma!

   And rosemary!

   There are also some other aromas, even Cao Zhen can't tell them apart, mixed with the taste of the mutton itself, diffused from the food table!

  『Gudu…』

  Cao Zhen heard a loud swallowing of saliva, and then looked up to see Fei Qian's eyes, and said somewhat embarrassedly, "The foreign minister is hungry and has lost his manners. I hope Huqi Haihan..."

   Fei Qian smiled and said: "It's okay, let's use it." 』

  The first thing served was a small plate of Yanjin plums.

   This is a common appetizer in the Han Dynasty. It is used as an appetizer, and the main meal is served afterwards.

   One of the two ends is slightly raised, like a flat-bottomed boat-shaped food table.

   On the far right side of the food table, there are sliced ​​barbecue meats leaning against each other. The roasted meat is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the ruby ​​red in the center has a faint luster of grease. The outer layer is covered with all kinds of spices. Although it is a little cold, it is still fragrant and mouth-watering.

On the left side of the barbecue, there is a small saucer with sauce and vinegar, and to the left is a plate with shredded **** and green onions, and to the left is a large bowl of mutton risotto, steaming hot, The fragrance that Cao Zhen smelled just now is mostly emitted by it...

   Then the waiter brought another bowl of soup. It is inconvenient to drink alcohol in the army, and a bowl of broth is replaced. The broth is obviously mutton soup, topped with green onion as a garnish, and a few pieces of tofu are floating in the soup.

"Please! 』Fei Qian first picked up a piece of barbecue with chopsticks as a gesture, and then put it into his mouth. It is also part of the etiquette that the host needs to eat first before the guests.

  Cao Zhen couldn't hold back for a long time. After thanking him, he immediately raised his chopsticks and started to gobble it up. Eating is a biological instinct, coupled with the exquisite food displayed by Fei Qian, Cao Zhen forgot everything for a while, and only the food in front of him was left.

It’s pitiful to say, since the Great Chaos of the Western Qiang, the spices in the Han Empire have lost all income, and they all rely on reserves to survive. Therefore, no matter how much the original reserves are, after such a long time, there are disputes and turmoil in various places. After that, how much is left?

  So, for Cao Zhen, he suddenly came into contact with so many spices, which brought back the taste in his deep memory, and it is reasonable to lose his composure for a while...

  (end of this chapter)