Chapter 281: Ask about military rations

Chapter 281 Asking about military rations

“Hey, let’s eat grilled fish.” Brothers Gu Dewang, Cheng Geer, and Gu Qingxi all gathered around the table in the yard and shared the grilled fish.

 A palm-sized carp was gone without taking a bite.

Qin Sanlang saw this and accelerated the grilling speed. After a while, he grilled three more carps, gave one to Gu Dewang brothers, one to Brother Cheng and Gu Qingxi, and gave the remaining one to Gu Jinli: "You eat first, and I will grill it later. "

Gu Jinli finally ate grilled fish. The fish is carp from deep pools in the mountains. The meat is firm and delicious, with the aroma of sauce and grilling. One bite will make your whole body feel comfortable and delicious.

After eating, she went to change Qin Sanlang: "Brother Qin, you go and eat something, and I'll bake it."

Since they had a feast in the afternoon, they did not have lunch. Everyone was hungry, including Qin Sanlang. When he heard this, he went to find something to eat by himself.

He ate the bean dregs cakes that Luo Wu brought from the kitchen instead of grilled fish.

Gu Jinli saw him chewing on the bean dregs cake, put a grilled carp into his hand, and said, "Eat, I obviously like grilled fish, why should I embarrass myself?"

She glanced into the barrel and said, "There are eight more, enough to eat."

Qin Sanlang was stunned. Xiaoyu knew that he loved grilled fish.

He smiled and ate all the grilled fish she handed him without further delay.

Gu Jinli looked around and saw that except for them grilling fish, everyone else in the yard was either in the main room or working in the kitchen. He waved to Qin Sanlang, waited for him to come over, and asked him in a low voice: "Brother Qin, big brother What kind of rations did the Chu army eat?"

 Army rations?

"Why do you think of asking this?" Qin Sanlang was surprised. This kind of thing was not what a little girl like her should ask.

But he still told her: "Divided into different levels, the soldiers at the bottom usually eat sorghum dry biscuits, and sometimes they also eat soybeans and sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger. The vanguard troops who go up higher eat better, which is a dry biscuit made of flour. Both of these foods are very hard and dry and are resistant to storage. However, they can only be stored for about a month at most, and they cannot be eaten any longer."

“As for meat, animals are usually slaughtered before or after a war. There is dried meat, but not much.”

Gu Jinli frowned when he heard this: "What about oil?"

Qin Sanlang smiled and said: "I will boil it first and store it in jars. When cooking, put some oil in it to make the soldiers have some oil and water in their stomachs."

Gu Jinli: “The food is really bad.”

Qin Sanlang said: "It's already good. There is a shortage of food in the northwest. Many times the soldiers can't even eat sorghum cakes. They have to eat stewed soybeans or sweet potatoes."

“But sweet potatoes will rot if kept for a long time. Many sweet potatoes stored in the cellar will rot every year. Sometimes when there is no food, the soldiers will eat half-rotten sweet potatoes, and many soldiers will have diarrhea.”

Military rations have always been a big problem, not to mention Da Chu, even the previous dynasty could not solve it.

"Why do you ask this?" Qin Sanlang remembered what she had said about thinking of a new food for Gu Daya's family, and asked, "Have you come up with any new food?"

Gu Jinli nodded: "Well, it's a kind of vermicelli made from sweet potatoes. It can be stored for more than a year."

“What are vermicelli?” Qin Sanlang frowned, he had never heard of it.

Gu Jinli explained: "It is a food like noodles. After drying the vermicelli, boil water in a pot, put the vermicelli in, and after cooking, it will become a food like noodles. It is durable in storage, easy to carry, and easy to cook. Ripe."

Qin Sanlang was shocked when he heard this, and lowered his voice and said: "You mean, you can use sweet potatoes to make a noodle-like food that can be stored for a long time and is not easy to rot." Gu Jinli nodded: "Yes."

Qin Sanlang's expression changed and he said, "Xiaoyu, you can't do this, it will cause trouble."

　　Sweet potatoes are cheap. If you could really make a shelf-stable food like noodles out of sweet potatoes, the whole country would be shocked!

 After hearing what Qin Sanlang said, Gu Jinli also felt that sweet potato flour could not be made.

There is a saying that food is the most important thing for people. In ancient times, food was extremely important.

There is another saying that goes before the three armies use food and grass. Military food has always been the top priority of every court.

 Sweet potato flour is nothing in modern times, but in ancient times, it was something that could cause shock.

 She has no power now, so if she does something like this, she is seeking death!

Gu Jinli nodded and promised him: "Well, I won't do it. I will think of a new food for my aunt and them."

Originally, she thought sweet potatoes were cheap and low-cost, so she wanted to use sweet potatoes to make sweet potato vermicelli and let her aunt's family sell sweet potato vermicelli. But now it seems that it is better not to make it.

Seeing that she agreed, Qin Sanlang breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and saw that Gu Dewang and the others had finished eating the fish and ran to the kitchen corridor to help wash the vegetables with wooden plates. Then he whispered: "Don't tell anyone about this." , rotten in the stomach... If you really want to make that kind of vermicelli, wait until we are more capable and can protect it before we do it."

 But it can’t be done now.

This thing is different from tofu. Tofu is not easy to store and cannot be eaten as a meal, but sweet potato vermicelli can.

If a big family knew about something like this involving military supplies, let alone a few of them, they would not hesitate to massacre the entire village for the sake of food.

"Okay, don't do it, don't tell it." Gu Jinli smiled and said, "Don't worry, I do things in a measured way. I thought it was risky, so I came to ask you right away."

Qin Sanlang smiled and nodded, praising her: "Well, Xiaoyu is very smart and did the right thing."

 Fortunately I asked, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Everyone is here, it's really lively." Village Chief He brought He Jinsheng and came with congratulatory gifts. As soon as he entered the Luo family's yard, he saw Qin Sanlang and Luo Wu, and immediately smiled and said: "You two boys, you are here for us." Dafeng Village has become shameless. If people from our village go out and say that there are military officers and police officers in the village, then people from all over the country will look down on our villagers."

Then he said to the third grandfather who came to greet him: "Brother Gu, congratulations, the young people from your family have become successful. They have suddenly become officials."

Three grandpa said with a smile: "The village chief is joking, but he is just running errands for the adults in the yamen. He is not an official, and he is still far from making a career."

As he spoke, he welcomed the village chief's grandparents and grandchildren into the main room.

After Village Chief He sat down, he said to He Jinsheng: "What are you doing in a daze? I'll give you Brother Luo Wu a congratulatory gift."

"Hey." He Jinsheng hurriedly handed the gift to Luo Wu: "Brother Luo Wu, this is a gift from my family to you."

Luo Wu accepted the gift and said, "Thank you very much, village chief. You guys sit down first. I'll go to the kitchen to help. We can have the dinner in half an hour."

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. We live in a village and can have a meal at any time without rushing back." Village Chief He pushed He Jinsheng: "Don't hang around here, go help your brother Luo Wu and see if there is anything What kind of work can you do?"

Although He Jinsheng is a scholar, he is not squeamish. After hearing what village chief He said, he immediately followed Luo Wu and was busy.

 (End of this chapter)