Daily life of the imperial mausoleum

Frightened and frightened, he stayed in the room for a long time, but found no trace of the thief. Xia Xiaoqiao had no choice but to put down the machete. Before it was dark, he resigned to his fate and went to the vegetable garden to pull some vegetables, and came back with some fresh leeks.

Since the black gnocchi was stolen, he didn't want to eat gnocchi at night. After thinking about it, Xia Xiaoqiao decided to make a leek box with some meat noodles. He beat two wild eggs he picked up into the leek box and made the leek box Fresh and fragrant, the vegetables are also added with some coarse salt and a wild egg to make a simple vegetable egg soup. It is indeed an ancient vegetable without pesticides and fertilizers. Although the fibers are a bit rough, the taste is better than those grown in modern greenhouses. eat a lot.

The harvested leeks were a bit too much, so Xia Xiaoqiao simply put more black noodles, and made more than a dozen leek boxes, and prepared to keep them for breakfast the next morning. Take out the yellow rice and red beans, and prepare to make a porridge, which is just right for drinking tomorrow morning.

"Hmph! I'll just stay in this room and see how you steal it?" Looking at the stone pot for rice, Xia Xiaoqiao smiled triumphantly, and went to count some sundries he had collected just now.

Those beasts scraped the ground three feet away, taking almost everything they could take away. Fortunately, those soldiers were richer, and some unnecessary things were left in the barracks, such as some relatively heavy tools and swords. Xia Xiaoqiao put it all away and found a proper place to bury it. Some old beddings that were thrown away could not be used directly. When it is empty, it will be dismantled and washed, and then two beddings, pillows, cushions, etc. will be made according to his needs, and the rest will be put away for later use.

Speaking of this, Xia Xiaoqiao felt that he had to thank his father who died early. If his father hadn't killed himself and drunk driving himself, he wouldn't have lived with his grandmother and mother at a young age. , so he learned a lot of life skills that are difficult for boys of his age, such as sewing quilts, making padded jackets, knitting sweaters, weaving scarves, and even the most basic sweaters and long johns. He can do everything, not to mention the most basic washing and cooking. Sometimes, Xia Xiaoqiao really feels that his grandma and mother must want to make him a warm man with full life skills, so as to make up for the shortcomings of his family. Successfully counterattacked in the marriage market, defeated the little white horse who didn't work hard, married Bai Fumei, etc...

But now, Xia Xiaoqiao is only full of gratitude to his grandmother and mother. If it weren't for the two ladies' teachings, he would freeze to death if he wasn't starved to death. You know, the night in the imperial mausoleum is very cold.It is said that there are vast mountains around here, and the temperature is at least several degrees lower than those in big cities!

"Two big bags of all kinds of clothes, this one can be disassembled and washed, and changed to a size that suits me, and there is no change of clothes; two small hoes, this one can be used to grow vegetables; these rags can be put together, and they can be used to make shoe soles. Okay..." After tidying up the pile of messy things that I had collected with great difficulty, I put aside those that needed to be washed immediately, and took them to the river to wash slowly tomorrow. After finishing all this, Xia Xiaoqiao felt a little hungry and decided to give it Get yourself some supper.

Everything is ready-made, warm up the leek box, and the yellow rice porridge will probably be ready...

Huh?What about the leek box?

Opening the lid of the stone pot, Xia Xiaoqiao was dumbfounded.

I rubbed my eyes vigorously, blinked, and the chubby leek boxes in the stone pot had really disappeared!

He clearly remembered to put these leek boxes in the stone pot and cover them before dinner. By the way, there is also yellow rice porridge!

Xia Xiaoqiao luckily opened another stone pot containing the yellow rice porridge, and sure enough, more than half of the yellow rice porridge was missing.Look again, there is another small piece of silver on the stove!

"Who?! Who the hell is playing tricks there? Come out to me!" Xia Xiaoqiao was almost pissed off.

"Hey~ My temper is not small~" Jiang Yuanzhen looked at Xia Xiaoqiao who was alone and no longer pretending to be funny. For the first time, he found that his new cook was really good-looking, with beautiful big eyes, a straight nose bridge, and ruddy Her small mouth, with a mole the size of a sesame seed on the corner of her mouth, looks very...delicious.

Jiang Yuanzhen suddenly felt dry mouth and tongue. After becoming a ghost, he felt hot all over his body for the first time. He took a meaningful look at Xia Xiaoqiao who was still jumping on the spot, and Jiang Yuanzhen left in a hurry.

"Huh? No? Why am I angry? This thief obviously paid for the meal? It looks like a lot, so I still earned it!" Looking at the two silver coins in his hand, I remembered what the chef once said Xia Xiaoqiao suddenly figured out that the silver outside was very valuable.Why does he worry about how this person steals food under his nose?He spends money to buy food, and he is generous, so it's obviously his new client?As the former owner of a private restaurant, Xia Xiaoqiao has always been very serious about clients. After thinking about it, Xia Xiaoqiao decided to try to communicate with this amazing new client.

In the morning of the next day, Xia Xiaoqiao took the rags he had collected to the river, washed them, hung them on the clothes rail to dry, and went to the trap near Datian to check, and sure enough, he found two A dead hare and a fat pheasant, whose belly was pierced by an arrow, were struggling desperately, and seemed unable to survive. Xia Xiaoqiao simply gave it a happy, carrying the prey in hand, Xia Xiaoqiao Xiaoqiao happily returned to the temporary workshop, boiled hot water, peeled the hare and pheasant, put some coarse salt on the two hares, and marinated the two hares. Because the pheasant was too big, it was cut in half and half stewed I ordered chicken soup, threw some wild mushrooms in it, and chopped half of it into pieces. I was going to make a stewed chicken nugget later. I went to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables and came back to fry them. I scooped two bowls of yellow rice and stewed them. A big pot of yellow rice.

After finishing these, Xia Xiaoqiao thought for a while, and took out another set of clean bowls and chopsticks, filled two-thirds of the chicken soup, braised chicken nuggets, stir-fried seasonal vegetables and yellow rice, put them aside separately, and served them by himself With the rest of the meal, I ran to the side to eat.

He thought about it last night, and felt that the person who came to steal the meal was probably an ancient thief or a grand rogue. He was so light, and he would be able to easily get it under the noses of others. Therefore, in order to respect the privacy of the client, he simply refused to go. How did the customer eat? As long as he pays after the meal, he will not lose money. Maybe he can take the opportunity to save some money and buy some fields to become a small landlord in the future.

Sure enough, when he came back after eating, he had eaten all the food on the stove, not even the vegetable soup left, and beside the stove, there was a piece of silver that was bigger than yesterday.

"This guest is quite generous." Putting away the money, Xia Xiaoqiao went to wash the dishes with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, this new imperial chef's skills are really good, and the servants are drooling when they smell it." In the air, Jiang Yuanzhen's personal internal officer Huang Gou'er said with a smile.

"Well, it's really good! It's much better than those previous rice buckets. You dog, please send an order to them to send a prey over every day." The pheasant soup is very fragrant, but there is not much meat. For his future appetite, let the soldiers and ghosts go hunting.It is enough for the royal chef to cook delicious meals for the widow every day.

So, that night, Xia Xiaoqiao "ran into" a dead wild deer on his way back from collecting his clothes.

"This...couldn't this be brought by that hero too?" Xia Xiaoqiao looked at the wild deer that had been pierced by an arrow, and thought for a while. Maybe it was because there was too little pheasant meat at noon?So the hero didn't have enough to eat, so he went to hunt wild deer and came back to have an extra meal at night?

"Okay, the customer is the Jade Emperor! Let's eat venison tonight!" Xia Xiaoqiao picked up the wild deer weighing dozens of kilograms, ran to the river to peel it clean, and chopped it into several pieces with a kitchen knife. , threw it in a big basket, and then washed the deerskin and put it aside, worried that the smell of blood would attract wild wolves, and deliberately washed away the blood stains by the river.

Stewed venison, roasted venison, iron plate venison... A big meal was brought to the table. Xia Xiaoqiao took a little bit of each dish with clean chopsticks and put it in his own bowl, and left the rest for others. For guests, the staple food is still yellow rice.

Probably very satisfied with tonight's big meal. After the meal, the meal fee left by the "hero" is a round golden bead.

"This hero is such a local tyrant, he ate a golden bead in one meal." Xia Xiaoqiao said in amazement.