Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 218

The commander of the guards also fought for a long time to find this money, and the words of Second Master Wen scratched his itch.

“Thirty-seventy, I take seventy, you thirty.” He slanted Second Master Wen, and didn’t say whether he agreed or disagreed, but urged his subordinates, “How can we pay attention to this when we go out? Don’t say it’s wet, even if it’s moldy, don’t the people eat the same thing during the famine?”

Like most people in the era, people like the guards didn’t know how to distinguish old and new rice.

“Okay, let’s do that,” Second Master Wen’s eyes were full of pain.

The two hit it off, and then Second Master Wen took them to buy oil.

The last group of people also brought back some sauerkraut and mushrooms. The natural quality was not so good, but the worse things, the bigger the price difference.

The next group of people brought food back to the mountain, and the soldiers guarding the checkpoint also received their orders. In addition, the dogs did not respond to the smell of poison, so they happily let go.

So that evening, that batch of “fresh” ingredients was received in the kitchen.

Gu Yin breathed a sigh of relief after checking, but if those people from the imperial city knew some ways or refused to accept bribes and were more upright, the plan would not go smoothly to that point.

But that step was not over, and the difficulty was yet to come – to handle those ingredients so that there was no peculiar smell, so that people could eat them.

“How about we make sauerkraut and chicken porridge? It’s weirdly cold today, and it’s nice to drink something warm in the evening. They seem to have bought some mushrooms today. It’s best to fry shredded pork,” Gu Yin asked Manager Zhou.

Manager Zhou looked at Eunuch Shangshan again, who was drinking the lard residue that Gu Yin honored. In the past, he was only responsible for passing meals to the Emperor and testing for poison. When he went out, he was served by the little eunuchs. But he had become a person in the kitchen, wandering around the pot every day.

He waved his hand lazily, “You can decide for yourself.”

After the whole chicken was cut into pieces, she marinated it in spring onion and ginger and cooked them with wine for a quarter of an hour to remove the fishy smell, then sliced the tofu and mushrooms, and cut the potatoes into strips.

After that, they put oil, onion and garlic and sauteed it until it turned fragrant, then added sauerkraut and stir-fried it. At last, she added water to boil after frying, added the marinated chicken pieces, then added mushrooms, potato strips, and rice.

Gu Yin gave the porridge to Gu Yinlai. She checked the heat, and put some tofu on it before it was out of the pot.

And with that, the hot sauerkraut chicken porridge was ready.

At the same time, Manager Zhou also fried a large pot of fried meat with mushrooms – after being sent to the mountain, the mushrooms were soaked for half an afternoon. At that time, it had become gummy and soft. Gu Yin stir-fried it with high heat again, and added some spices, no matter in appearance or smell, it was no different from ordinary mushroom.

“Today, the little lady and Master Zhou didn’t hide their secrets.” Eunuch Shangshan swallowed the scent of the stove and said, “I am also a little hungry, so it’s time to have a meal first.”

But Gu Yin couldn’t let him eat that. If she let him eat first, how could the people outside eat it?

“How can you eat this big pot of rice?” Gu Yin smiled, “We’ll make you something else exquisite.”

Gu Yin winked at Manager Zhou, then put the sauerkraut in the pot again to fry until fragrant, and then added the chicken nuggets to stir-fry. At the same time, Gu Yin put down a bowl of chicken soup, hand-made noodles with enough chicken.

The sauerkraut fried chicken accompanied by the refreshing and delicious chicken noodle soup coaxed Eunuch Shangshan into a smile.

After a while, the guards came to eat the meal.

That time, the two guards who came to carry the food were complaining, “We used to eat gold and jade (glorious splendor) in the capital, when did we fall to this point?”

Their so-called fall, that was, the two dishes and one meal that was made like Emperor Longqing’s meal.

Not to mention marching and fighting, even ordinary wealthy people did not eat as well as they did. But even common people couldn’t even afford mushrooms.

But in their view, such treatment was like torture.

“Don’t talk!” the companion hit him with his elbow, and at the same time sighed, “Today’s food is delicious!”

“You have worked hard,” Manager Zhou smiled and went to distribute food to them as usual.

The army was strictly disciplined, even when it came to meals, so those brothers from the imperial city naturally didn’t pay attention to that.

Smelling the delicious food, everyone asked for more than usual. There was a lot of meat porridge and a small amount of mushrooms. Most of those mushrooms were finally presented to the dark guards. They were the people who were most admired by the Emperor in the camp.

In the kitchen, Gu Yin was impatient and scared, but she still had to smile to deal with Eunuch Shangshan.

At that moment, a tall figure appeared at the door, and when Gu Yin saw him, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The half-drunk Eunuch Shangshan looked at him with a funny look and joked, “It’s a coincidence. It must be because the little lady made such delicious food today that she hooked you up!” He waved to the young man again and continued to say, “Stop standing outside the door, come in quickly.”

Seeing Gu Yin’s trembling hand, the young man took it for the first time.

His hand was dry and warm, and the warmth spread from his fingertips to Gu Yin’s heart.