On the third day, the bean sprouts finally grew to the length of a finger.
No need for Jiang Rui's orders, Qiuhua immediately asked the palace servants who knew cooking skills to mix a sour and spicy mung bean sprout, which was made for the princess alone, and the rest made mung bean sprouts clear soup, everyone had a share.
There were two more dishes on the dinner table in the morning. After Wuerhan sliced the meat for Jiang Rui, he stared at the two dishes for a while. Bai Bai's appearance became more and more like grass roots.
He saw that Mrs. Yan had eaten a few wild grass roots and drank the grass root soup that was as clear as water. He couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"
"Mung bean sprouts." Jiang Rui picked up a chopstick and rolled the hot and sour bean sprouts into the sliced meat and put it on his plate, "I made them with mung beans."
Ur Khan looked at it with interest for a while, chewed the whole stuffed mouth twice, and was convinced that this was not grass roots, not rough and hard to swallow, but very fresh and tender, and it broke when bitten, but—
His face suddenly became a little strange, he chewed and swallowed it indiscriminately, his expression seemed to be enduring something.
Jiang Rui looked at him suspiciously for a while, and suddenly said, "Aren't you good at eating spicy food?"
Ur Khan snorted, took a few bites of meat and swallowed it, diluting the spicy taste in his mouth, and then frowned and said, "It's weird."
After only one bite, a little sweat appeared on his forehead, Jiang Rui might as well be speechless.
The seasoning for this plate of hot and sour bean sprouts was brought from Dazhao. The pepper powder that was paid in tribute from foreign countries was not much added. In her opinion, it was only slightly spicy, but it was so exaggerated for him. Could it be that his sense of taste is particularly sensitive
"You try this again." She gave him another half bowl of bean sprout soup.
With the previous lesson, Ur Khan couldn't help being more cautious. He picked it up and took a sniff, only to smell a grassy smell. After taking a small sip, the fishy smell was stronger, but at least it was better than the weird taste just now. Bear.
This was the first time Mr. Yan had served him vegetables, so he held his breath and drank it all.
Jiang Rui saw in her eyes that she knew the huge difference in diet between the two.
"Do all the people in Dazhao eat this?" Ur Khan asked as he put down his bowl.
"This is just a side dish, not a main meal. In fact, unlike the Di people, the Dazhao people have a very wide range of recipes. We eat almost everything we can eat, and apart from the staple food, we won't eat a single food for a long time."
Ur Khan thoughtfully nodded his head slowly. Seeing Mrs. Ye continue to eat, he remembered his performance just now, afraid that she would misunderstand him and dislike the bean sprouts, so he said, "It actually tastes good."
Jiang Rui glanced at him and said unceremoniously, "That's not what your expression said. It looked like I was feeding you poison."
Urhan curled the corners of his lips: "Although the taste was really weird at first, but now I think it's pretty good in retrospect. It looks like grass roots, and it tastes much better than grass roots."
"Have you ever eaten grass roots?" Jiang Rui asked casually.
"Eat." Ur Khan nodded, narrowed his eyes slightly and recalled, "I also dug up grass seeds and ate them. The most hungry time, I ate a bone that had been buried for more than two months."
Jiang Ruiton moved, "Why? Is there a famine?"
Even if there is a famine, with his status in the ethnic group, he should not be reduced to the point of gnawing on the bones.
"No, I used to live with the wolves." Urhan said.
Although most of the clansmen knew that he had lived with the wolves for a long time, Urhan had never really talked to anyone about that experience. Now that he was willing to listen, he didn't mind talking about it.
The Di people all thought that their Great Khan was adopted by the wolves because they were lost with the clan. In fact, Ur Khan was taken out of the clan by his elder brother, the former Khan king, and then abandoned in the wolf clan territory.
He and the former Khan were half-brothers. Although the former Khan was much older than him, their father Khan obviously preferred Ur Khan's mother at that time, and he also expressed his desire to let his younger son inherit the throne. Therefore, the former Khan King was vigilant, and this was why he came up with such a poisonous plan.
At that time, Ur Khan was six years old. Even if he was smart and strong since childhood, such a young child could hardly survive alone in the wild. Fortunately, the rain was abundant that year, and the wolves were always short of prey, so he was never listed. into the food range.
Even so, at the beginning he had a low status among the wolves, and it was not easy to survive.
One winter, the wolves failed to hunt twice in a row. After all, people's physique is different from that of animals. He was so hungry that he couldn't bear it. He went to dig out a bone buried two months ago, but was noticed by another wolf. The ranks of the wolves are strict, and the wolf's status is higher than that of Ur Khan, so it has the right to snatch his food.
It was the closest time to death after Ur Khan was discarded. He had a strong intuition at the time. If he lost the food in his hand, he would starve to death, and then the wolves would unceremoniously eat his body. , under the shadow of death, he exploded his full potential, killed the wolf, shared the wolf's body with the wolf pack, and inherited its position in the wolf pack.
Although for this, he also paid the price of almost dying, but in the end he survived, and has survived to this day, returning to the tribe and taking back everything that belonged to him.
Jiang Rui thought of the scars she had seen on Ur Khan. There were scars all over his strong body, not only from swords and sharp blades, but also from the tearing scars caused by beasts. left among the wolves.
"So the former Khan King..." She remembered the sudden death of the former Khan King. Is there any inside story
Ur Khan looked at her and understood what she was not saying, but he suddenly grinned. He only slightly curled his lips than he usually did. Even when he smiled, his expression was different. His expression was actually quite right now. Cunningly, "No, of course I didn't kill him. The ancestors of the Di people taught that you can't point the blade at your own relatives, so I was mad at him."
His tough and serious face was smug, like a bad boy. Jiang Rui looked at it and smiled unconsciously. With the connivance that only she knew, she gently shook her head.
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