At the place where the sun was about to set, a red glow reflected on the horizon, and even the murmuring river had a trace of gorgeous color.
Light smoke rose from hundreds of ships at the same time, and the sound of cooking could not stop. The soldiers who had been used to eating on the ships could not help but secretly swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva.
Seeing was believing. Except for the one thousand soldiers from Jili Province and the guards who followed Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Rong, the other soldiers had a more direct understanding of the capabilities of the two families of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Rong.
Although it was said to be military camp food, after tasting it, they found that it tasted more delicious than the food made by some good restaurants in their own provinces.
The cooks who followed the army were not ordinary either. It would be good if they could continue to follow the army when they arrived at the place. They were afraid of war, so they could only bring fried noodles and cook by themselves.
Usually, people were not allowed to enter the kitchen. It was clean inside, and there was no need to worry that people would find rats and cockroaches. It was the same today.
Some soldiers liked to wander around when they were bored. The most frequent place was naturally the kitchen. If the master chef was happy, maybe they could steal some food.
Three dishes were fried, two vegetables and one meat. There was also a big pot of soup. The main dish today was pancakes, which were hot noodles. They were very thin and also very big. Seeing that the dishes were all shredded, one knew that they should eat pancakes for dinner tonight.
"Master Bai, are you busy?" A soldier strolled to the door of the kitchen, put one foot in, raised his neck and looked at the busy person over there, and asked casually.
"Not busy, not busy. Here, try this." The chef who was working inside had finished cooking. What he needed to do was to boil the soup. The dishes were first taken outside, and when the soup was ready, dinner would be served.
While preparing the ingredients for the soup, Master Bai put a prawn in front of the soldier's mouth. The soldier quickly opened his mouth and chewed vigorously. He stuck out his thumb and praised, "Delicious, Master Bai's prawns are delicious. There's still soup left. Tonight, we're going to have a good time again. Master Bai, I really don't want to eat your dishes. What if I can't eat them in the future?"
"You can't stop your mouth from eating. Soon, the soup will be ready in a while. You can carry it over after flipping the flower." Master Bai chuckled. Even though he knew that the words of others were not true, he was still happy. Who wouldn't be happy when praised?
They said that the soup was ready, so they filled a few large buckets and let the soldiers on the ship carry them out. The soldiers who carried the buckets were a little unfamiliar to the chefs in the kitchen. In the past, it was always a fixed soldier who carried the buckets, but today it was changed. After asking, they said that they would continue to change in the future. They couldn't always let a certain group of people do more work.
Learning from Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan when they were leading the army, in the spirit of sharing weal and woe with the soldiers, the generals of the forty thousand soldiers also ate the same food and were not picky about their food.
Actually, there was no excuse to be picky about the food. Was there a need to be picky about the food prepared by the chefs of the Zhang Family and Wang Family?
The food of the generals was the first to be delivered. However, when they suddenly saw the bowl of soup in front of them, they took two deep breaths and gritted their teeth. When they broke the bowl, they immediately gulped it down into their stomachs. They didn't touch anything else, otherwise, it would be more troublesome later.
Just as the generals tacitly drank the bowl of soup and didn't eat anything else, the chefs on each ship suddenly started to eat again. Master Bai, who had just fed the soldiers prawns, instructed his little disciple beside him, "Go and tell the generals not to drink the soup. There was a mistake. Today, they should be drinking seafood soup. The ingredients of the soup just now were mixed up. Go quickly."
The little disciple didn't know what was going on behind his back. He hurriedly ran out and shouted at the generals who were preparing to eat.
When some of the generals heard that there was a better seafood soup, they immediately stopped what they were doing and waited happily. They rolled up the pancakes one by one and prepared to eat them later.
Only a small portion of the generals' expressions changed. It was a very small portion, so small that they were only in charge of carrying the food.
"What soup is different? Even the swill poured by the chefs of the Zhang Family and Wang Family is better than the signature dishes of ordinary small restaurants. There's no need to spend so much money. Everyone, drink. We'll drink this." A person in charge of carrying the food picked up a spoon and began to ladle soup into the bowls of others.
The person in charge of delivering the news was anxious, "You can't drink it. The master said that the ingredients were mixed up. If you drink it and get sick, he won't care."
The people who were prepared to drink the soup boldly began to hesitate. At this time, the person in charge of delivering the news said, "The soup will be ready soon. Wait a moment. There are a lot of prawns in the soup. If you drink the soup now and drink the other soup later, you won't get sick."
After the person in charge of delivering the news, everyone stopped what they were doing. Even the people carrying the food didn't continue to insist. They looked at the soup in front of them, sighed, and began to roll up the pancakes like the others.
*****
The news quickly reached Ke Tuyu's ears. When he heard that the soup was changed, he didn't feel anything. When the person in charge of handling the matter came to him and told him about his plan, Ke Tuyu finally understood.
"It's bad. Did someone find out? Why didn't you put it in the dish? "Ke Tuyu asked the person in charge of handling the matter.
"General, I didn't see anyone else. If someone found out, wouldn't they expose it? I also want to put it in the dish, but it's too obvious to put it in the dish. If it's not evenly mixed, it can be found at a glance. If you eat it again, the taste will be different. It's only safe to put it in the soup. "
The person in charge of handling the matter immediately explained that the Croton Powder was not colorless and tasteless.
"Did you drink it?" Ke Tuyu asked again.
"Yes. If I don't drink it, won't I be suspected? I drank a lot. General, did you drink it too? " After the person in charge of handling the matter asked, his expression changed. It was unknown whether the Croton Powder reacted so quickly or it was just a psychological effect. Anyway, after he finished speaking, he covered his stomach with his hand and said with a bitter face, "General, I'll go out first."
"Let's go together." Ke Tuyu didn't look good either.
When the two of them walked hurriedly to a certain place, Ke Tuyu seemed to be very unwilling to give up, "Have Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan and the others eaten?"
"General, you forgot that they eat different dishes from us. They eat better and don't need our people to help them carry the buckets. General, I'll go first."
The person in charge of handling the matter gritted his teeth and finally sped up, regardless of the identity of the general.
Zhang Xiaobao, who was also eating, knocked the bone marrow out of the bones for his younger brothers and sisters and put one on each person's plate. Seeing his younger brothers and sisters eat happily, he said with a smile, "Eat well. If you eat well, you won't get sick easily."
"Then what if you don't eat well? Will you get sick? " Xiaobei, who liked to eat bone marrow the most, looked at the few remaining bones in the plate in front of her brother and then looked at the biggest bone marrow in her plate. She opened her small mouth and took a little bite, smacked her lips and said.
"That's right. If you don't eat well, you will get sick. For example, that Ke Tuyu doesn't eat well. When the time comes, he will definitely get sick." Zhang Xiaobao suddenly thought of what happened tonight and was very happy.
Xiaobei first looked at her brother doubtfully. She grabbed a bone with one hand and held the wrist of her other hand, otherwise she wouldn't be able to bear the weight of the bone. She nodded and said, "Brother said that he will get sick, so he will definitely get sick. I think the bone marrow in this bone tastes better than the one in my plate. Help me take it out and let me compare."
Xiaoyuan, who also liked to eat bone marrow, looked at Xiaobei's actions and pretended to be disdainful, saying, "You're so cunning. What's the point of comparing the taste? You can just say that the remaining bones aren't enough to split between each person and I'll give them all to you."
"I don't think that way. You're measuring the heart of a gentleman with your own mean measure. Since you reminded me, I'll do as you say. Brother, give me the bone marrow of the other bone too."
Xiaobei had a wronged look on her face, as if everyone had misunderstood her.
The few of them were eating noisily when all of a sudden, the generals finally sent someone to look for Zhang Xiaobao.
They asked Zhang Xiaobao to send a few doctors over to take a look. It was unknown whether it was because they had caught a cold or because they were not acclimatized to the environment and had a stomachache.
"If only this could be recorded and let the soldiers know of their plan. Let's see how they can continue to lead the soldiers," Wang Juan said regretfully.
"Yes, even if they find someone to prove it, it won't work. However, they can't expect to lead the soldiers anymore. It's probably because they are not acclimatized to the environment and will need to be treated for a long time. What do you think of four months? After all, our doctors aren't gods. Their methods are limited. "
Zhang Xiaobao also lamented.
Thus, the fate of a certain group of people was decided just like that. The doctors went over to take their pulse and then prescribe medicine. After taking the medicine, they would continue to have diarrhea. They would take their pulse again and drink the medicine again. In any case, it was fine as long as they didn't die.
The peaceful night passed just like that. Some of the soldiers were discussing the seafood soup from last night. Some people didn't dare to think about that matter. After hearing that the generals' stomachs were all bad, they could only sigh and sigh.
A day later, Ke Yu still hadn't recovered. A trace of waxy yellow appeared on his ruddy face. There were obvious dark circles around his eyes.
"General Ke Yu, I wonder if your body is better? I keep feeling that it's not because you are not acclimatized to the environment. Later, I will find a few better doctors to come over and take a look at the general. I think it's because of the soup. The others didn't have stomachs. It's because they didn't drink the soup. Wait for me to investigate in detail. "
Zhang Xiaobao took two kinds of fruits and found a cabin where they could stay and said to Li Yundong.
Looking at Zhang Xiaobao's eyes, Ke Yu suddenly had a feeling that Zhang Xiaobao knew about this matter. Moreover, he was the one who arranged it. Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental? He usually didn't change the soup, but changed it yesterday? And it was changed at such a good time.
He had drunk it before. There was definitely no mistake with the soup. The taste was not bad. In addition, all the generals who had diarrhea said that they were not acclimatized to the environment after being examined by different doctors. Wasn't this too much of a coincidence?
After thinking about it carefully, Ke Yu didn't dare to let Zhang Xiaobao investigate. If he wanted to investigate, as long as he checked all the links, he believed that someone would accidentally say it.
As a result, he hurriedly advised, "Governor Zhang, you don't have to waste your energy. It's fine as long as the soldiers are fine. I thought it was also because I was not acclimatized to the environment. I am a person who knows my own body well. It doesn't seem like I ate something wrong. Aiyo, please wait a moment, Governor Zhang. I will be back soon.
However, as Tuyu was speaking, he did not care whether it was rude for him to not accompany Zhang Xiaobao. He clutched his stomach and staggered outside. The sun shone on his forehead, and it was obvious that he was sweating.
Zhang Xiaobao fiddled with the teacup on the table and said to the servant standing to the side, "Your general is so pitiful."
The servant nodded in agreement but didn't say anything. He also realized that Zhang Xiaobao didn't come here to visit sincerely. Otherwise, how could he have taken the pear? It was obvious that the big white pear had a lot of water in it. Moreover, it was of the cold attribute. Who would dare to eat it?
"Aiyo, aiyo ~ ~ ~ Aiyo … help, help me." After a while, Ke Yu came back. His footsteps were more and more staggered. He held the door frame with one hand and clutched his clothes with the other. His voice was trembling.
Zhang Xiaobao stood up kindly and helped Ke Yu to the couch. He asked with concern, "General Ke Yu, why don't you go back to the Song Mo Commander-In-Chief's Office first and get someone else here? Otherwise, how will you command? Recently, Adjunct Wang has been looking for an opportunity to train and cooperate in battle. General is not here. I don't know if Adjunct Wang can send the orders well. "
"Train? How to train? "Ke Yu momentarily forgot the pain in his stomach and asked with uncertainty.
"In battle, you have to listen to one person's orders. Otherwise, it will be chaotic. Adjunct Wang originally wanted General Ke Yu to be the highest ranking general. Everyone else will listen to General Ke Yu. However, with General's current condition, if you drag your illness and take care of things, you probably won't get better, right?"
Zhang Xiaobao patiently explained.
Ke Yu, who wasn't stupid, understood that this was to seize power. Although he wasn't afraid of seizing the real power, from today onwards, he reckoned that he would lose the command authority for a period of time.
In an instant, Ke Yu suddenly regretted. He suddenly realized that things weren't as simple as he thought. He shouldn't have wanted croton in the first place. Didn't the other party finally find the opportunity?
"Governor Zhang, this matter isn't urgent. General will get better tomorrow. How about we discuss it again then? Yes, tomorrow. "Ke Yu didn't want to give up power and said to Zhang Xiaobao with a firm gaze.
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