Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

That night, Li Xu made a meal of dumplings with the leftover lard residue from boiling the oil. The lard residue was chopped and added with chopped green onion and wild vegetables. When seasoning, he added the meat sauce bought in the city. The dumplings made had a special flavor. Lin Zhao ate fifty dumplings by himself.

For the next few days, the smell of lard would always be wafting from the big kitchen of the post house. Li Xu would cook a new dish for every meal. There are many dishes that can be cooked with pork, fried, fried, steamed, stewed, etc. Most of them are very popular, but there are exceptions. For example, he just made a shredded pork with Beijing sauce. Except for the little princess and her two maids who like it, everyone thinks that lean meat is not tasty enough.

The braised pork that is full of oil is their true love. The braised pork was once the favorite dish of this group of elders. The status of braised pork has been shaken a little.

In the next few days, everyone discovered a strange thing. Whenever it was cooking time, there would be idlers gathering outside the post house, squatting outside the wall closest to the kitchen, wriggling their noses, with an intoxicated expression on their faces.

"Sweet! It's so fragrant!"

"What kind of food is this? It's really delicious."

"I heard that His Royal Highness King Shun from the capital is living in the post house. The food eaten by the royal family and nobles is really not comparable to ordinary people like me, even if it is eaten by immortals?"

"That's natural. Your Majesty is the son of the dragon, and your highness is the grandson of the prince and dragon. Naturally, the food they enjoy is different."

"If you can let me eat a bite of the food of the immortal family, I will die in peace."

"Daily dreaming, relying on me to wait for the untouchables, how can I have such a blessing?"

Li Xu was also a little surprised when he found out about this. He didn't expect the charm of braised pork to be so strong. He was short of people, and these idlers could come in handy.

He had someone post a notice at the gate of the posthouse, saying that His Royal Highness King Shun was recruiting for a short period of time. He would come to work four hours a day, with lunch and meat to eat.

The idlers spread the word, and soon someone came to apply for the job, as long as they had all the hands and feet, they were hired, and then Liu Shu divided them into three groups, one group was in charge of making sleeping bags, and the other was in charge of cutting tent cloth. the battens, and the rest of the team sewed the tents.

In the beginning, there are always people who can't do it well. After all, these idlers are usually thieves and tricksters, and their hands-on ability is very poor.

Liu Shu ran to Li Xu and complained, saying that these people were useless and wanted to fire them. Li Xu smiled and said, "Go and tell them, if they do anything wrong, the lunch meat will be gone." , Whoever does it the fastest and the best, I will give him an extra dinner."

Liu Shu conveyed the news. Sure enough, everyone's efficiency was much higher. The thick hands that struggled to hold a knife on weekdays even used embroidery needles without shaking, which showed their dedication to eating meat.

Ordinary people have very few opportunities to eat meat throughout the year. They only cut some meat during the Chinese New Year, festivals or weddings, and they haven't been able to eat more. Everyone can only taste the meat.

The meals Li Xu prepares for them are not the best, but no matter how full they are, there is always a meat dish in every meal, sometimes it is fried mushrooms with lard residue, sometimes it is pork ribs with roasted radish, and it is rare to eat braised pork once.

Even so, it was already better than what they usually ate, and the stir-fried and braised dishes were new to them, and they were very fragrant.

If you have enough to eat, you will have enough energy, and you will be willing to spend [-]% of your energy on doing anything. The lazy men are working hard one by one, and their efficiency is rising steadily.

"Mr. Liu, what are these things? Why do they look so strange?" An idle man asked Liu Shu after finishing a sleeping bag.

As a supervisor, Liu Shu became familiar with them, and said with a sneer, "What do you ask so many people for? Is this what you should know?"

Liu Shu thought to himself, this is a good thing invented by my highness, how can it be learned by you idlers.

The sleeping bag Li Xu made was stuffed with wool into Gebu, first made into the shape of a small quilt, and then the bottoms were sewn together, and a few holes were opened on the side, and a long cloth rope was passed through these holes. Lie in it, and then tighten the cloth rope from the top, it is a warm sleeping bag.

After making a few sleeping bags, Li Xu took them to the Habayashi Army for trial use. The sleeping bag compressed into the cloth bag immediately inflated. At first glance, it was a long cylinder. The Habayashi Army had heard about it before There will be this thing, but it is the first time I have seen the real thing, it is strange and weird.

Li Xu showed them how to use it, and everyone murmured in their hearts: This King Shun is also a genius, and he can come up with such a quilt, which is not ventilated on three sides, and only his head is exposed when sleeping. Before he could climb out, his head was chopped off by the enemy, just like harvesting leeks.

Everyone was not used to sleeping on the first night. After all, the sleeping bag has a small space, and the hands and feet are bound and cannot move. It is very uncomfortable for people who sleep in a bold position.

And it's the end of summer, no matter how cold it is at night, wrapping in a sleeping bag can make you sweat all over, so everyone didn't last all night and got out of it.

But anyone who has used it knows that this is a good thing. In the future, you don’t have to be afraid of the cold when you sleep in the wild. I heard that there are tents that can protect you from wind and rain, and you can sleep comfortably even in cold nights.

Making the tent was more troublesome. Li Xu drew the blueprints and personally taught Liu Shu to make the first tent. It took a lot of effort to make it successful.

He asked someone to buy oilcloth, cut it into pieces of the same size and shape, and then stitched them together according to the shape of the tent. After sewing, he sewed thin bamboo strips on it, and it stood up like a big umbrella. .

Although the flexibility of the bamboo strips is good, they can't support the shape of the tent after being inserted into the soil, and they are easy to break after being fixed forcibly. Li Xu didn't find a better way to improve it for a while, so he could only add more A backbone, use it as a big umbrella, at least it can keep out the wind and rain.

But in this way, the thin bamboo pieces are unnecessary. Li Xu asked people to dismantle the bamboo pieces, replace them with thinner wooden strips, and connect them with the umbrella ribs to make a shrinkable model. A large umbrella is ready. up.

There are already umbrellas in this era, most of which are made of oiled paper, which is easy to break. Oilcloth is more expensive, but it is also more durable.

When one umbrella is opened, it can cover up to five people. Li Xu made a hundred of them, and these umbrellas alone require two more cars to transport them.

After the bulky luggage was finished, Li Xu asked people to sew small knapsacks with the remaining oilcloth, making them into the style of backpacks. He planned to have one for each person to hold personal belongings.

The backpack can be carried on the back, which is safer than hanging on the saddle. If the horse gets lost, at least the luggage is still there.

He also asked Liu Shu to distribute a toiletry bag to everyone, a small cloth bag containing a cloth towel, a wooden comb, a small razor blade and a piece of soap locust for bathing.

Li Xu found that these big men completely disregarded their appearance after they went out. Some people didn't wash or comb their hair for several days, didn't change their clothes for several days, and didn't shave their beards.

In fact, everyone also brings toiletries, but not many. Combs and blades are used in turn. Use the saponins if you have them, and don’t use them if you don’t have them. In summer, they are satisfied as long as they have water to bathe. Hey, it's so particular about going out.

After receiving the laundry bag from Li Xu, some careless people still muttered: The prince is used to being pampered, maybe he thinks I'm too dirty and smelly?

However, everyone loves free things, and there are bags to carry them on the back. They don't affect the riding and are not heavy. Apart from being ugly, there are no other disadvantages.