The little ancestor of the family

Chapter 319: Food Problem

"it is good!"

For a moment, the word "good" was deafening.

King Rui did not expect that a bowl of noodles would boost the morale of his soldiers before they set off.

It was an unexpected gain indeed.

He turned to Ye Xinran and said, "It seems that everyone is very satisfied with your craftsmanship. In this case, let's make a large batch of this oil according to your recipe and take it with us on the road!"

Ye Xinran shook her head, "Calling him oil block doesn't sound very nice.

In my opinion, since we have to wrap it in wax paper anyway, why not just call it a seasoning packet?"

King Rui nodded: "You decide the name of what you come up with!"

At this moment, the soldiers also knew that the noodles they ate at noon were made with the soup made by the girl in front of them.

The meals on this march were mainly based on this kind of soup.

After realizing this, everyone looked at Ye Xinran differently than before.

At first, they looked at a beautiful woman with men's eyes, but now, they looked at the person who would be in charge of their food in the future with the eyes of soldiers.

The food in the barracks is not bad.

But for them, being able to eat such delicious food while marching is a blessing.

As a result, everyone's eyes were unconsciously filled with a bit of admiration and gratitude.

King Rui left the rest of the matter to Zhao Yun.

This gave Ye Xinran a clearer understanding of Adjutant Zhao.

He was a reckless person and would smash any butcher shop that refused to cooperate.

The other party was so frightened that he immediately agreed to deliver the fat meat and fat oil to the military camp on time every day.

But he is very careful in doing things.

He found all the more than one hundred butcher shops in the city, and even an inconspicuous small shop in the suburbs of Beijing.

The price Zhao Yun offered was very generous, one penny more per pound than what the butchers sold it for themselves, and most butchers were willing to cooperate.

So on the first day, hundreds of kilograms of fat and oil were ordered.

"The things are ready. The rest needs to be done by Miss Lu herself."

Zhao Yun still felt a little uncomfortable in front of Ye Xinran.

Whenever I talk, I rub my hands unconsciously.

"I'll prepare the seasoning."

Ye Xinran said.

The seasonings she used were much more than what you can buy nowadays.

The canteen chef at that time was also a master of hoarding. There were more than a dozen boxes of salt in the warehouse.

It is definitely enough to make a seasoning packet.

"Besides the vegetables and meat, if there is anything else I need to prepare, please let me know, Miss Lu."

Zhao Yun’s attitude of cooperation is very good.

Ye Xinran thought for a moment, "Do you have enough stoves and manpower here? If not, we need to prepare more."

"We have enough manpower!" Zhao Yun said proudly, "With so many of us, any one of us can go up."

“But it can’t be too difficult!”

He hastened to add.

"It's really not difficult!" said Ye Xinran.

"That's easy to say!"

Zhao Yun pointed to the area to the east and said, "Today I will arrange for people to build twenty more stoves here and bring in twenty large iron pots from somewhere else.

As long as the girl gives the order, we will start working! "

"it is good!"

Ye Xinran was quite satisfied with Zhao Yun's ability to do things.

The soldiers were also very satisfied with the "seasoning package" developed by Ye Xinran.

But the happiest people were the cooks who followed the army.

In the past, I had to bring too many things when I went out, including pots, pans, and utensils, as well as salt, oil, and other seasonings.

Now, if you prepare the seasoning packets in advance, when you hit the road, not only will you have to bring fewer bottles and jars, but you will also have to reduce the number of cooking steps every day.

No matter what you make, just take out this seasoning packet and put it in, and everything will be ready!

If you really can't cook one day, you can use this seasoning packet to eat with bread to fill your stomach. This thing is really a good thing.

……

And so, starting from the next morning, smoke began to rise from the garrison camp.

The air was filled with the aroma of meat, oil, and fried onions and ginger.

Ye Xinran didn't sleep all night.

She distributed all the seasonings and put them into bamboo tubes one by one.

In this way, during the production process, each stove only needs to pour the seasoning in the bamboo tube into the pot, and the most important part is completed.

Others don’t need to know what’s inside, and a lot of tedious processes are saved.

Before it gets dark, all the lard for the day has been refined.

The batch that was made earlier had already frozen into shape, and was cut into pieces and wrapped.

"At this rate, we'll be able to make a few thousand before we leave."

Zhao Yun said cheerfully.

"Even if we spend a hundred dollars a day, it will last us for twenty days. We can be considered to have a good meal along the way."

"You're going to have a hard time this time, why are you just thinking about the good food?"

Ye Xinran found his mentality very interesting.

Zhao Yun said: "Young girl, you don't understand. The more bitter the life is, the more you should think about sweet things. Only in this way can you have hope in life!"

"That's true!"

Ye Xinran nodded in agreement.

While they were busy making seasoning packets, grains transported from various places gradually arrived at the granary outside the city.

Fearing that there might be problems with the grain, King Rui sent his trusted confidants to check the quality and weight of the grain every day.

But as the day was approaching, problems arose with Qiandong Prefecture's grain transport team.

"Your Highness, the guard who went to welcome the grain team reports that the one hundred carts of grain from Qiandong Prefecture all...all fell into the Huanmeng River last night!" Guard Donglai reported.

King Rui paused as he was writing the letter, and a large pool of ink immediately appeared on the paper.

"what happened?"

He put down his pen and asked.

“I heard that because time was of the essence, the grain team immediately loaded the food onto the ship after arriving at the riverside yesterday, preparing to cross the river overnight.

No one expected that when dozens of grain transport ships reached the middle of the river, a violent storm suddenly arose on the river, and countless ice blocks floated down from upstream and hit the hulls.

It was difficult to tell the direction in the dark, and the scene was chaotic, so those dozens of ships were... smashed beyond recognition.

Only a portion of the people on the boat escaped, and the rest, along with the food, all sank to the bottom of the Huanmeng River!"

Prince Rui was furious. "The Huanmeng River is transported by water all year round. Where does all the ice come from?"

Dong Lai said quickly, "I asked someone to check. The weather this year is abnormal. A dock upstream of the Huanmeng River was frozen. In order not to affect the mooring, they broke the frozen ice yesterday. But they didn't expect that it would arrive just in time for the ship..."

Donglai felt more and more guilty as he spoke.

This kind of thing only happens once in a century, but it happened at this time.

Qiandong Prefecture was a major grain-producing province. This time, the court allocated them a share of one hundred carts of grain.

Now that something has happened over there, there is nowhere to transfer these one hundred carts of grain.

Prince Rui hesitated for a moment and said, “Immediately arrange for the government to post notices and find salvage experts to go to the river to salvage grain and sunken ships.

Go to the Ministry of Revenue again and ask Fan Mingyuan to find a way to transfer grain from other places immediately."