Daily life of noble ladies of the Three Kingdoms

News from the front line came one after another.

After Cao Cao broke the siege of the white horse and returned to Guandu, Yuan Shao also pulled the main force back here.

Cao Cao's troops were inferior to Yuan Shao's, so he was inevitably at a disadvantage in the confrontation. In the end, Cao Cao almost lost his confidence, but finally stayed with Xun Yu's encouragement.

The wait finally paid off.

Not long after, Xu You, Yuan Shao's adviser, defected to Cao Cao and offered a plan to attack Wuchao.

According to Xu You, Yuan Shao's vehicles transporting grain, grass, ordnance and uniforms would spend the night in Wuchao on the way without the protection of heavy soldiers, and attacking Wuchao to cut off Yuan Jun's supply was a strategy that could draw fire from the bottom of the pot and severely damage Yuan Jun's morale.

After Cao Cao attacked Wuchao according to Xu You's suggestion, Yuan Shao was furious. In order to gain the first opportunity to catch Cao Jun, Yuan Shao ordered the army to take a shortcut to attack Cao Cao's base camp, but he didn't want to be defeated by Cao Jun instead.

The final result of this battle was that Cao Jun defeated Yuan Jun at Guandu. Yuan Shao finally took only 800 people and was defeated to the north, and finally declared his defeat to Cao Cao. 【1】

Si Qi only knew that the Battle of Guandu was a famous battle in history where fewer people won more, and that the victory of this battle greatly enhanced Cao Cao's power and established Cao Wei's dominance, but he didn't want such thrills in the war.

After the victory, the army set off to return to Beijing. After receiving the news, Liu Yun and others got busy in advance.

Liu Yun was busy, but he was always in a good mood.

After all, no matter what the result was, the battle that lasted more than half a year was finally over, and everyone in Xudu City was finally relieved.

In order to be loyal to the above table, after the news of Cao Jun's victory came, almost every household held a celebration banquet of different grades.

With Zhang's status, it is inevitable to go out to socialize, and eight times out of ten, she will bring Siqi there.

When going to the banquet, he ate all the big dishes, and the barbecue was even more indispensable. After eating like this for a few days, Si Qi started to get angry again, and two blisters appeared on the corners of his mouth.

After Si Qi copied the books selected by Hua Tuo that day, he sent someone to send the slips to Hua Tuo. Hua Tuo thanked her again and again.

Since then, Si Qi and Hua Tuo have been in constant contact, always picking out a few medical books to copy and send to him when they have free time.

On the day when Si Qi got angry, the maid in the house was ordered by Si Qi to deliver books to the Hua family. When chatting with the servants of the Hua family, she revealed a few things about the little lady at home who got angry.

After Hua Tuo found out about this, he put down his work and came to treat Si Qi himself.

Si Qi looked at Hua Tuo who came to treat her with a serious face, and felt very guilty in his heart.

I remember that Liu Yun's hand was squeezed by the door before, so he specially invited Hua Tuo to the house to bandage him.

At that time, she was still complaining secretly in her heart that her father was using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken, but she did not expect that just a few months later, she would follow in his father's footsteps.

After Hua Tuo helped Si Qi get a pulse diagnosis, he asked Ah Fei for a pen and paper, planning to leave a prescription for Si Qi.

Traditional Chinese medicine is really bad these days, and it is rare to meet a genius doctor. Si Qi feels sorry for Hua Tuo for making a special trip here if he doesn't make some exorbitant demands.

Si Qi stood up, looked at Hua Tuo leaning over the desk, pen and snake, struggled to ask: "Sir, is there a prescription that doesn't taste a little bit less bitter?"

Hua Tuo froze for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

She is still a girl after all, she has been pampered in Prince Li's mansion to such a big age, she has never suffered, and even wants to take medicine that tastes better.

The little lady wasn't seriously ill in the first place, so it didn't hurt to change a few herbs temporarily to meet her request.

With a big wave of his hand, Hua Tuo wrote down the prescription according to Siqi's request, and asked the two nursing mothers beside her to prepare the prescription, take one each in the morning and one in the evening after meals, and stop taking the medicine after three days .

After Si Qi used to feed, the wet nurse Zhou brought the decoction to Si Qi.

Si Qi picked up the spoon and took a sip.

Sure enough, it was better than the medicines she used in the past. After careful tasting, it had a slightly sweet taste, which diluted the pungent bitterness of traditional Chinese medicine.

Si Qi raised his head and drank the small bowl of soup in his hand.

Hua Tuo is such a good person!

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Si Qi, who got angry from eating barbecue, fell ill for a few days, and began to miss cooking crazily.

In fact, vegetable oil had already been extracted in the Han Dynasty, but at that time, the vegetable oil was mostly used for weaving silk cloth, and no one used it for food. It was not until the Song Dynasty that vegetable oil really began to enter the kitchen and became the basic food for people's daily consumption.

Compared with wine making, pressing vegetable oil is not difficult.

It just so happened that Liu Yun was so busy going around outside these days that he couldn't be free for a moment, while Guo Jia was only busy with Liu Yun, and he couldn't take care of her as a student.

Si Qi asked Zhang for a few more people, saying that he was going to make a kind of edible oil that could be used for cooking. This kind of vegetable oil was different from the oil paper used in the past. It is delicious.

A few days ago, Siqi specially made rice wine for his birthday, which made Zhang very happy, but now after hearing Siqi's words, Zhang began to worry again.

Her granddaughter had a different starting point from hers, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were worlds apart.

His father is King Li, who is most respected by the emperor today, and his grandfather is the leader of the family, the head of the Xun family. Mr. Guo Jia is a well-known adviser in the world, and he is quite appreciated by the current emperor and empress.

Such a little lady should do more research on piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, etc., and become the leader among the clan girls and family girls. She shouldn't always concentrate on the kitchen, giving her good time to her for her own little appetite. ride inside.

Zhang's mouth was quicker than his brain, and after giving Siqi a few capable servants, he regretted it.

After all, it was she who told Ah Ying too much about her childhood experience, making the child think that at this age, it is only natural to find a way to make the family eat and drink well. Ying didn't put much effort into the books, instead she developed a strong interest in these miscellaneous things.

Thinking of how these actions of hers had had such a bad influence on her children, Zhang felt more and more guilty. It was difficult to explain to Liu Yun, and she was so worried that she couldn't eat anymore.

Si Qi didn't know the complicated psychological activities in Zhang Shi's mind, and thought that Zhang Shi was just like her, and felt that the food at home was too simple now, with those tricks going back and forth, so it was hard to swallow.

On the contrary, Zhang's performance further inspired her determination to develop soybean oil as soon as possible.

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When the first snow fell in Xudu City, the busy work of Liu Yun and others came to an end.

Si Qi also resumed his regular life before, taking time to go to Guo Jia's residence to study from time to time, and by the way, send some warmth to his husband and junior brother as much as he can.

Although Guo Jia and Liu Yun have no mistresses in their families, Liu Yun himself is a person who loves life and has high requirements for the quality of life. Even though he and his wife Xun Yue have divorced, they still live a colorful life.

Guo Jia, on the other hand, devoted himself to his lord's career and didn't pay much attention to the trivial matters at home. Such a slender and handsome eight-foot man almost never changed the style and color of his clothes. Si Qi even suspected that his clothes Like professional suits for work in later generations, they are mass-produced.

Although wearing these clothes does not conceal Guo Jia's handsomeness, Si Qi still feels a little reckless for such a good-looking classical male god with a natural hanger, who just relies on his handsomeness to dress casually.

Guo Jiayuan is not a person who likes to take advantage of students, but he does not prepare gifts with all his heart like Si Qi, so when Si Qi gives food, drink and clothes, he takes some precious spices, jade and gold ornaments as gifts in return.

Originally, Si Qi used the official money to support her husband's daily needs, but now Liu Yun and Zhang Shi don't want the things that Guo Jia gave her back, and gave them all to her as their own private houses.

As a result, Si Qi's purse became more and more bulging, and he couldn't put all the valuables in the box, so he had to ask someone to make a new box and put it away.

Si Qi was a little helpless, she didn't mean that, but she was made a middleman to make the difference.

After entering the winter moon, Siqi's soybean oil production project finally achieved gratifying results. Siqi immediately asked someone to make a plate of scrambled eggs with cucumbers to eat.

After all, this is the first time cooking with vegetable oil in the kitchen, so it's not good to make the difficulty too high. Once the car overturns, it will make everyone doubt her vision and ability.

Liu Yun heard that the soybean oil that Siqi had been working on for a long time finally came to fruition, so he also came to Zhang's for dinner that night.

After tasting the courgette scrambled eggs prepared in the kitchen, Liu Yun felt that it was surprisingly refreshing, and it was several steps higher than the deliciousness of cold dishes and mixed vegetables that he had eaten before.

Mrs. Zhang also loves the taste very much. When I am old, I always like to eat some light and soft food for dinner. Si Qi ordered the kitchen to stuff the plate made for Mrs. Zhang for a while, and the taste is more in line with Zhang's taste. Zhang's request also made Zhang easily fall in love with Siqi's new product.

After the meal, Liu Yun was in a good mood. Sitting with Mrs. Zhang over tea, he chatted with his mother and daughter about the rare things that happened in the court recently.

When Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting to the death in Guandu, Sun Ce of Jiangdong once thought about going north to attack Xudu, but he was assassinated by someone, and his military activities to attack Xudu were stranded.

Si Qi sighed inwardly.

Cao Cao is really the chosen one!

Liu Yun seemed to think so too, he paused for a moment, and then talked about Cao Cao's side.

Jiang Dong didn't move. Now that Cao Cao has returned from a big victory, he has Jiang Dong's idea again.Cao Cao's censor, Zhang Hong, said that if Sun Ce had just died and attacked Jiangdong now, it would be against morality and would be despised by the heroes of the world.Originally, they were on good terms with Jiang Dong, but now they have turned against each other after doing this.Moreover, they had just finished the war, and their vitality had not yet recovered. Although Jiangdong lost Sun Ce, Sun Quan had already taken over Jiangdong's affairs. I fell into a passive situation.

Cao Cao was a smart man. Since he didn't want to go to war at this time, he wanted to appease Sun Quan and asked Liu Xie to issue an edict and give Sun Quan the title of General Polu.

Si Qi couldn't help but nod.

Indeed, Cao Cao is a person who is very good at listening to counselors' opinions. It is precisely because of his character that he knows people well and accepts the world's heroes, and it is impossible to have the current achievements.

Si Qi remembered that in later generations and various novels about the Three Kingdoms, people used to call Sun Quan "General Sun", presumably because of this title.

Thinking of this, Si Qi said curiously to Liu Yun: "I heard that General Sun is only 19 years old now, and he can take over such a big business in Jiangdong. I think he is also a young hero."

Liu Yundao: "I heard from the emperor that Sun Quan will go to Beijing to thank him a few years ago, and he will inevitably run into him at a palace banquet. You just have to see for yourself."

Si Qi gave a small cheer in his heart.

She has seen both Cao Cao and Liu Bei, but only Sun Zhongmou has not seen, and she has always felt it is a pity, but she did not expect that the opportunity came so suddenly, and she could meet Sun Quan a few years ago.

Liu Yun saw his daughter's joyful expression, but Liu Yun's mood fell inexplicably.

Si Qi's interest in these outsiders is always greater than that of his father, which makes people feel sad.

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Note [1]: The information is referenced from the encyclopedia entry "Battle of Guandu"