Chapter 712

Mother's travel preparation

As Zhang Xiaobao guessed, two days later, when the team passed by another village, the villagers came to deliver things, and there was an extra gift for the emperor.

Two hens that were still laying eggs were held in their hands and cooing.[]

Compared to the gifts given to Zhang Xiaobao's family, the people think that the emperor can't eat too much by himself. The emperor eats better than the one he gives, not as frugal as Xiaobaojuan, and uses the money saved to the people.

Li Longji was quite satisfied with this. It was a little less, but it was also a little better than nothing.

I happily returned a piece of silk to the other party, which was worth enough to buy a hundred hens. I ordered someone to carry two chickens, called Zhang Xiaobao, and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, take it. I want to eat chicken stewed mushrooms at night, and add more potatoes."

"This is a hen, not a chick. It's okay to give my mother food to nourish her body." Zhang Xiaobao corrected.

"It's a little hen, can you never see a bigger hen?" Li Longji glared at his eyes.

"I've seen it, OK, I'll make it. Don't blame me if I eat it. Potatoes are not good, they have sprouted. I originally planned to give them to the people in need. I dug down the germination place and searched for a nearby village for them to plant it. Other locations are used for eating."

Zhang Xiaobao took the two chickens who didn't know what fate they had to face, left a sentence, turned around and cleaned up, and complained in his heart that eating chickens and stewed mushrooms on hot days is a good Northeastern dish? It is good to eat them in winter to nourish your body, and then add a ginseng to you to make your nose bleed.

Li Longji learned a lot and greeted Zhang Xiaobao's figure as he left, "Don't put anything else for me in it. I believe your skills, and I believe the taste of potatoes is definitely not bad."

‘Trouble me, just torture me hard.’ Zhang Xiaobao continued to complain in his heart.

The sprouted potatoes are not easy to make and are not enough noodles. The mother needs to stew for a long time. You cannot put the potatoes in together, otherwise the potatoes will be stewed away. Zhang Xiaobao can only add the process and steam the potatoes first. When the stew is almost cooked, then put the potatoes in.

Ji chicken oil is large, so when cleaning up, you should remove the oily parts. Normally, when eating in Northeast China, you will eat oily and fishy food, just like Russians like to eat butter, which is used to resist the cold.

During dinner in the evening, Li Longji invited Queen Wang, Concubine Wu Hui, and eleven children to let everyone taste his fruits of victory.

When Xiao Bei saw the stew, he looked at the cool clothes he was wearing. His eyes were straightened. He turned his head to look for Brother Gui, and he meant, brother, what do you want to do? He died of sister?

The Paner brother and sister smelled the strong fragrance, so strong that they smelled the disgusting fragrance first, and tried their best to hide back, their eyes full of fear.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaobao was well prepared. In addition to a large pot of stew, the rest were all cold dishes, and there were wild vegetables dug in local areas. Blanched in water and dipped in bean paste to balance the ji.

When Li Longji saw the food, he couldn't swallow it. He hesitated for a moment, but still picked up a piece of meat and said, "Eat, eat good things, eat them all."

After eating it in one bite, you don’t want to eat the second bite. It’s a hot and stuffy time. Eating meat and fish in big mouthfuls is a test for people.

After taking another bite of potatoes, Li Longji saw that the meat in someone else's plate did not move, and pondered and said, "Often the people here can't eat pine mushrooms, right? Why not share it with the people and send it there."

I didn't eat much of the food in the basin, and not everyone stretched out their chopsticks to pick it up. It was reasonable for a emperor to give it to someone.

"Take it away and send it to the back. I'll cook two more dishes?" Zhang Xiaobao knew that everyone couldn't eat it, and he usually didn't lack meat.

"No need, it's like cold dishes. What you prepare is..." Li Longji was embarrassed to continue to torment Zhang Xiaobao, looking at the table of cold dishes and questioning the staple food.

"When the noodles are passed, or you can eat the rice with water?" Zhang Xiaobao asked, and without waiting for someone to answer, he immediately ordered someone to prepare.

Soon, the rice that had passed through the water was brought up, and the little guys began to really move their chopsticks.

While everyone was having a meal, the guards and others also took turns to eat and rest.

When the stew is delivered to the people, it is not that the people give it to others, but that the people take the opportunity to repair the road.

The road Li Longji walked was a simple road built by the engineering team in front. The quality was not up to standard. Waiting for the large army to pass, the back was trampled and uneven. Some of the teams that swept the tail were responsible for filling the pits.

The people were also helping behind the scenes and found stone crocks to press them. Even if it was a simple road, they could not build them. Now they pressed them and compacted them. Even if it rained, they were not afraid. They were nothing more than water accumulation in some places and then filled with some stone and soil.

In the future, even if others do not build roads, they will make up for them themselves and can be used all the time. Without the need to use the treasury finance and local people's money, it is a good thing for the emperor to go on a tour.

Just after dinner, Zhang Xiaobao, who was guarding the ice bowl, was planning to discuss things with Wang Juan, received news from Hangzhou.

The message sent by his mother, Zhang Wang, looked very ordinary, just to ask the children if they were doing well on the road and how their father was in good health.

It's nothing. When Zhang Xiaobao saw it later, he realized what his mother wanted to express. The last sentence said that after arriving in Luzhou, he would help greet the people of Luzhou. It would be best to draw the scenery and take it back to see it.

"Wife, let me tell you something." Zhang Xiaobao put down the news and said to Wang Juan who was waiting to see it.

Wang Juan didn't listen to Zhang Xiaobao, so he snatched the paper, browsed it quickly, and said, "No need to say, my mother and your mother want to go to Luzhou. If you want, go there. Why bother to ask, who can still control them."

"I guess it's because I'm afraid of affecting us. Except for some parents who abuse children or even kill them, parents in the world are almost the same. What I mean is not to go or not, how to go."

Zhang Xiaobao lit his hands on his face.

Wang Juan hasn't seen Zhang Xiaobao's movement for a while. Only when he has to do something to plot against others can Zhang Xiaobao have such habitual movements.

"What do you want to do? Our two mothers went to Luzhou for a trip, are you planning to plan?"

"It's not calculating them, it's calculating others. If you think about it, our mother can't go by land like us. She has to take a boat, and the speed is fast, and the road conditions are more stable than the current ones, but..."

"Don't go around, talk about something, take a boat, and then how do you take advantage of it?" Wang Juan asked directly without giving Zhang Xiaobao a chance to show off.

Zhang Xiaobao said a little while, got blocked, coughed, and said, "It's not about using it, it's about protection. My mother and the others are on the boat. Even if it's stable, it may be unsuccessful. If I don't send someone to protect me, I feel uneasy."

Wang Juan didn't say anything, lowered her head and continued to read the news on the paper, as if she had studied her mother-in-law's language organization ability, at least she was better than her mother. If she had to talk about the news, she would have to say it directly and think of Luzhou, which was not tactful enough.

Zhang Xiaobao waited for a while, and saw that Wang Juan did not cooperate with him and asked, he had to continue saying: "When talking about protection, how can I just say how many people I sent out are no different from Piaotian Wenxue.com, right?"

Wang Juan read it again.

Zhang Xiaobao also said to himself: "So I came up with an idea, guess what."

"I'm sleepy if you say bad idea, don't say I'll go to bed, I'm sleepy." Wang Juan yawned.

"My idea is to send a group of people from another place, guess... forget it, don't guess, I'm going to let Luzhou dispatch a gunboat team and face it.

Our mother went to Luzhou once and it was difficult to get empty-handed. She should prepare more gifts, such as rice and flour elsewhere and other specialties. Therefore, a large amount of supplies should be gathered at the Jiangnan East Road as quickly as possible, and our family's logistics should also be moved.

The speed must be fast, otherwise when we arrive in Luzhou, my mother and your mother have not left Hangzhou yet, so why not go, right?"

Seeing that Wang Juan was not tacit enough, or knew him too well, Zhang Xiaobao had to find ways to attract him with words, and fortunately, he showed his intelligence in front of his wife.

Wang Juan finally cooperated and asked, "Is there any?"

"Yes." Zhang Xiaobao nodded happily: "I think what I lack most in Luzhou is the east and west of Gyeonggi Province, the east and west of Lingnan Province, and the north of Hebei Province. If the other two places are transported, it will take too long. The north of Hebei Province is directly connected to the sea. Is it okay to transport the things there?"

Zhang Xiaobao looked cares about Luzhou and asked for advice.

Wang Juan smiled slightly: "Okay, what do you think can be given in the Northeast? Ginseng, mink, Ula grass, deer antler? I'm afraid that people in Luzhou will be cold, and the cold wind will penetrate the bones in summer, so I'll give them supplements? Why don't you make chickens and stew mushrooms? They must be very happy."

"Uh~" Zhang Xiaobao was embarrassed: "Happy is happy. After all, I made it myself. Don't give it to me for the time being. There are hazelnuts and pine nuts in the northeast. I picked a lot last year. Although the season is not yet here, I can send someone to the ground to pick it up. Maybe there will be unexpected surprises.

The local people are busy now, so it is hard to use them to work. Let's dispatch the army. The local army has been under training. Let's mobilize troops from Youzhou in the southern part of Hebei Road. Do you think it's good?

Henan Road summoned a large transport ship to prepare some goods and transport them together. Maybe they could earn back the expenses and tell the Japanese that the steam engine armed ship we rented to them will not be borrowed for the time being, and help protect the transportation team at sea. Do you think it is true?"

Wang Juan finally realized something wrong in Zhang Xiaobao's words and asked in surprise: "Are you really planning this? Do you need to draw out tens of thousands of Tubo's troops and go to Henan Road, that is, Shandong, to say it is a cross-regional joint training exercise?"

"Don't move there. I really plan to help my mother travel and give Luzhou some benefits. Don't get me wrong." Zhang Xiaobao said seriously.

"It's strange to believe you. I'm not a mistake, but you want others to misunderstand it. Slay two birds with one stone, right? No wonder you made a small move just now. It turned out that you still had to take advantage of our mother's trip. My mother knows it, I promise to hate you, what son-in-law."

Wang Juan gave Zhang Xiaobao a blank look.

"Where can I find a son-in-law like me? Don't rush to bury me, help me improve it. Come to bed soon, I'll tell you the story of the wolf and the lamb."

Zhang Xiaobao said without blushing at all.
Chapter completed!