Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

Mu Zhiyuan read the princess' letter and handed it back to Butler Wang.

"Steward Wang, go back to your house and make preparations for me, and go to Beidu with me in three days!" He looked at Shu Xi, "And Ah Shu, you will also accompany me. Haven't you always wanted to go to Beidu?"

Mao Xi borrowed a short knife from Lu Da and was playing with it in his hand. He swung out the knife and stabbed it steadily on the tree branch nearby.

"Then are you still investigating this ghost-faced man?"

"When did you learn to use a flying knife?" Mu Zhiyuan asked in surprise.

To avoid exposing her secrets, Mao Xi hurriedly covered it up: "I've recently gotten used to using a knife to carve ingredients. I'm a vegetable chopping knife..."

When Lou Lan'er brought the native dog Pi Dan over, Shui Xi let him smell the remaining saltpeter and sulfur powder on the axle.

"Woof woof——" Pidan barked twice and rushed forward.

Everyone followed Pi Dan to the dog hole where the Ghost Faced Man escaped last night.

"Woo-woo--" Goudan got through the dog hole, passed through the abandoned house, and rushed towards the suburbs.

"If I had known, I would have brought hounds to track last night..."

Half an hour later, Goudan brought everyone to a cave hidden in a dense forest deep in the mountains.

There is a hot spring in the cave and the remains of a boiler for extracting sulfur.

Pidan rushed to a corner of the cave and started digging.

Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan followed, and some charcoal ash was scattered on the ground.

"Gunpowder!" Mao Xi blurted out.

Charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur can be used to make gunpowder. It was not difficult for Mao Xi to deduce this with his middle school knowledge.

Mu Zhiyuan and Lu Da smeared the remaining powder on the ground with their hands and smelled it.

In addition to charcoal, this mixed powder also contains sulfur and saltpeter.

"Brother Mu, could it be that the ghost-faced man's real purpose is to make black powder?"

After checking around the cave again, there was no equipment for making gunpowder. It must have been destroyed. Mu Zhiyuan concluded that the gunpowder had most likely been transported in batches.

"No! The Black Orchid Society mainly operates in Beidu. Is this batch of gunpowder meant to..."

The native dog Pidan barked a few times, then rushed out of the cave and continued running north.

It didn't stop until the mountain pass.

Lou Lan'er: "Brother Mu, go north from this road, pass through two counties, and then cross the Huaijiang River, which is Beidu."

"Lou Lan'er, Lu Da, you take Pi Dan and track him down in Beidu first. Shui Xi and I will go back to Lihua Town to get ready. We will meet up at the Huaijiang River."

Back in Lihua Town, Mu Zhiyuan told Butler Wang about the discovery of the cave and asked him to go to the county government to report and deal with it.

Mao Xi also made arrangements for the restaurant and bakery, and after explaining it to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Chen, she packed her parcel and followed Mu Zhiyuan to Beidu.

Butler Wang had already prepared food and luggage, and the palace's coachman took Mu Zhiyuan to the door of Haowei Building to pick up Shui Xi.

Mao Xi got on the carriage with her luggage and walked out of Beixunmen. She looked back at Lihua Town, feeling a little attached to it.

"Brother Mu, do you have to first congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday this time when you go to the north? This ghost-faced man is hiding in Beidu and has brought gunpowder. Is there any conspiracy?"

"As long as we find the gunpowder first, the Black Orchid Society won't be able to make any huge waves."

After arriving at Huaijiang and meeting Lou Lan'er, the three of them headed to Beidu together.

On the way, Mao Xi was thinking about what dishes would be appropriate to celebrate his birthday.

"Brother Mu, the princess's letter said that we should prepare two dishes for birthday celebrations. What do you think is appropriate?"

Mu Zhiyuan took out the roasted sweet potatoes prepared by Butler Wang from his luggage and gave them to Shu Xi and Lou Lan'er.

"What do you think of these baked sweet potatoes?"

"Roasted sweet potatoes are too ordinary!" Lou Lan'er shouted, "At least it must be at the level of palace cuisine, otherwise it will appear insincere!"

Mu Zhiyuan shook his head. He stared at the sweet potatoes and said quietly: "The Queen Mother cannot do without all kinds of delicacies in the palace. Instead, this roasted sweet potato, although it is a roadside snack, is novel and can satisfy the hunger. In the past two years, the whole country has The large-scale planting of sweet potatoes has also alleviated the famine caused by drought in some states and counties."

"Then I'll also make a roadside snack? Is that okay?" Mao Xi scratched his head and couldn't think of a suitable palace dish.

But if she wants to make novel snacks, she has a lot of ideas.

After all, before time travel, she was also a foodie, and she ate all the snacks at the night market.

"It's not a bad idea! It's midsummer, so why not make a refreshing snack." Mu Zhiyuan suggested.

"Then A-moon's sugar water shop just makes some iced sugar water and that's it. It's so easy!"

Lou Laner thought of mung bean smoothie. It would be great if she could have a bowl now. The weather is really hot!

"Have you ever eaten Liangpi?"

Ma Xi seemed to have an idea.

Mu Zhiyuan and Lou Laner both shook their heads.

"Wash the dough to remove the gluten, then steam the batter to make a transparent cold skin, mix it with cucumber, peanuts, chili, sesame sauce, etc., it tastes great..."

"Ah Shu, you can do whatever you want, as long as it comes to your mind. On the day of the birthday banquet, the Queen Mother may not be able to eat the dish we brought. Besides, the main purpose of going to Beidu this time is to capture the ghost-faced man and find the black gunpowder place to go.”

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Beidu, in a private house in the west of the city.

Xiao Debao, a ghost-faced man, disguised himself as a goods merchant and took his eight capable men with him. They hid the black powder in a hidden compartment under the car and transported it to a private house several times.

There is a circle of roses planted in the small courtyard of the house, which are in full bloom, exuding a delicate fragrance under the scorching sun.

This aroma also masked the smell of saltpeter and sulfur from the gunpowder in the car.

After Xiao Debao inquired about the news in the capital, he exchanged the code with the gatekeeper and entered the house.

"Brother Bao, the uncle is here!"

The uncle is the spiritual leader of the Black Orchid Society, and all Xiao Debao's actions are subject to his orders.

Although the gunpowder was successfully brought back to the northern capital this time, the reconstruction of Lingnan power was undermined.

Xiao Debao knelt on one knee and plead guilty with clasped hands: "Uncle, Xiao Debao is guilty! Xiaoyaosan's layout in Lingnan was destroyed by Mu Zhiyuan."

"It's Mu Zhiyuan again, you should get up first."

"The Goshawk Gang was also arrested?"

Xiao Debao nodded and remained silent.

"As long as the black powder reaches Beidu safely and blows up the emperor and the prince, are you afraid that there will be no place to sell Xiaoyao Powder in the future? You can handle the black powder matter well!"

The uncle helped Xiao Debao up.

"Uncle, what's next...?"

"Everything went according to plan."