Lu Yunchu took out the map, replanned the route, asked along the way, and almost confirmed which villages would be affected in the story.
His ability is limited, and he can't do much, but he can always give him a reminder.
When they arrived in front of the village, the captain of the guards pulled his horse closer to the carriage and knocked on the wall.
Lu Yunchu leaned out and asked him what was wrong.
"There was some movement up ahead just now. It must be some children." He wondered, "It's so cold, children shouldn't come here to play. And they turned around and walked away when they saw us. It's a bit strange."
Lu Yunchu walked forward and saw the backs of several children disappearing quickly.
She said, "Stop the car. I think we must have scared the villagers." She had thought that the village that was massacred in the story would be completely unsuspecting, but she didn't expect this to happen.
All the young and middle-aged men in the village had gone to the military camp, and the children who stayed behind were tasked with reconnaissance. They didn't look like good people, and rashly entering the village might cause them to panic, which was contrary to her original intention.
It was already afternoon, and since they were wasting time here, they might as well stop and eat and drink something to replenish their energy.
The guards were not surprised by her suggestion. They dismounted and helped pack up, as they were already used to it.
Lu Yunchu brought a lot of food with him and did not skimp on food and drink along the way.
She took out rice sausage and seasonings from the carriage and set up a small stove on the spot.
The production methods of rice sausage and blood sausage are similar, the difference is that rice sausage is made by mixing rice, tofu, diced vegetables, diced pork, etc. The filling is very rich, with both rice and vegetables, which is filling and delicious.
Boil hot water in a pot, cook the rice sausage and slice it. You can eat it cold, with soup, or fry it in oil to crisp the skin. There are many ways to eat it.
The casing of rice sausage is made of pig intestines, just like sausages. It is very thin and transparent because of the bulging fillings. The fillings are made of sticky rice, so they have a very soft and sticky texture. Although it looks plain, it is actually rich in fat and fragrance. Because it is added with various diced vegetables, it is not greasy.
Add a spoonful of frozen concentrated chicken soup, the fat will gradually break away, the soup will become milky white, and mixed with the dark red rice sausage and emerald green onion, the color is rich. In the dull winter, such a bowl of red and green rice sausage with soup can stimulate people's appetite.
You don't need too many condiments, just a little sweet soy sauce is enough. The soft and glutinous rice sausage is wrapped in steaming hot soup, with meat, vegetables and rice, with rich taste layers, and the soup is so delicious that it makes your tongue fall off.
The guard picked up the bowl and began to eat voraciously, just like before, praising as he ate: "This method is really good, much better than dry food. Before, when I went out with my wife, we had to soak the pancakes in hot water every day. Even if we put a lot of dried meat in them, it still made us sick." The wife was naturally Wen Jue.
"But this is not easy to do, let's just eat dry steamed buns honestly."
Wen Zhan sat next to Lu Yunchu and quickly finished a bowl of rice sausage. He lowered his head, looking a little unhappy.
His unhappiness came for no apparent reason, simply because the guards ate much more than he did.
In fact, Lu Yunchu did not deliberately give him less food. On the contrary, the amount he received increased compared to when he was in the mansion before. However, compared with other people, the increased amount was not so obvious.
Wen Zhan knew that he shouldn't think like this, but in the script that he had recently read, the prince preferred a muscular widower and horse slave to the handsome top scholar. Every word and sentence was very sharp and made him uneasy.
He needs to grow stronger. Wen Zhan thought seriously, does he need to drink alcohol and eat meat to grow into a sturdy figure like him
Seeing that he quickly finished the rice sausage, Lu Yunchu asked casually, "How does it taste?"
Wen Zhan came back to his senses and nodded quickly. But his expression was not right. He had finished eating before, and no matter whether he was full or not, Wen Zhan had become accustomed to begging for food, even an extra mouthful of soup would do, which always made Lu Yunchu feel that he was abusing him.
But today he was absent-minded, his eyes were glancing off into the distance, didn't he know where he was
Lu Yunchu didn't ask, but just picked up a piece of rice sausage with a bamboo stick and put it on the fire.
The flames licked the rice sausage, roasting the casing to a crisp, and the fat cubes inside the rice sausage melted in the heat, bubbling with oil. The oil soaked the rice, giving it a shiny layer of oil, making it more chewy and fragrant.
Wen Zhan's thoughts were pulled back by the fragrance, and his attention unconsciously moved from the sturdy man to Mi Chang.
Lu Yunchu held up the rice sausage, and Wen Zhan subconsciously moved his eyes while staring at it.
When she raised her hand, his eyes moved upwards; when she paused, his eyes also paused.
Lu Yunchu inexplicably remembered his life in modern times in his previous life.
She was sharing a house with someone, and her roommate had two cats. No matter what she ate, her roommate's cats would immediately appear, scratching the table with their front paws, their eyes wide open, not meowing, just staring at her, as if asking her to feed them if she had any conscience.
The annoying thing is that when you feed it something, it just sniffs it and walks away, wagging its tail.
Lu Yunchu had been trained to have a strong heart. He put the rice sausage into his mouth and completely ignored Wen Zhan's gaze.
However, there is no comparison between Wen Zhan and cats. Cats are picky eaters, but Wen Zhan eats whatever he is fed and is not picky at all. In this respect, he is much better than a cat.
Wen Zhan withdrew his gaze and returned his gaze to the burly man.
His face turned red from eating, and he started laughing and chatting before he even swallowed the food. He had a hunched back and looked very rough.
Wen Zhan lowered his eyes in thought, then imitated his movements and slowly bent over.
Lu Yunchu started to roast rice sausage again. The fragrance spread into the air along with the hot air, like a hook, which unknowingly drew Wen Zhan's attention back.
He wasn't hungry, he was just simply... a little greedy.
Lu Yunchu shook the rice sausage in the air, and Wen Zhan's eyes shook along with it.
She suppressed her laughter and tilted her head to look at him.
Wen Zhan immediately retracted his gaze and pretended that nothing had happened, but his unnatural expression revealed his regret.
How embarrassing. He straightened his back and subconsciously held onto the hem of his shirt.
"Ah." Lu Yunchu suddenly raised the bamboo stick in front of him.
Wen Zhan was stunned, his eyes widened.
"Open your mouth." She said.
Wen Zhan didn't react, but when he heard her commanding tone, he immediately opened his mouth.
The next moment, Lu Yunchu directly fed the rice sausage into his mouth.
When his lips touched the warm food, Wen Zhan finally realized what was happening.
He stared at her in surprise, with rice sausage still in his mouth, his cheeks slightly bulging, and turned his head to look at Lu Yunchu stupidly.
Lu Yunchu was about to laugh in her heart. She put on a stern face and ordered, "Chew."
Wen Zhan's mind was still in a daze. He did whatever she asked and chewed mechanically.
The rice sausage is roasted over charcoal fire and is filled with a burnt aroma. It is crispy, salty and fresh. The aroma spreads in your mouth with the hot steam inside, leaving a lingering fragrance on your lips and cheeks.
"Is it delicious?" Lu Yunchu asked.
He swallowed it quickly and nodded.
At this moment, I finally understood what had happened in the blink of an eye. A blush crept up from my neck to my ears, and my head was rumbling.
Lu Yunchu couldn't help laughing and asked, "Do you want to eat more?"
Wen Zhan nodded subconsciously, then immediately regretted it and shook his head.
She guessed that he must be shy, so she grilled another one and held the rice sausage in front of Wen Zhan.
Wen Zhan sniffed the aroma, subconsciously opened his mouth and took the rice sausage.
The next moment, he frowned, and no matter how he tried to hide his regret, he couldn't conceal it.
Lu Yunchu thought Wen Zhan was so funny, he stared at him and kept looking at him with his head lowered.
She originally wanted to tease Wen Zhan for a while, but a little boy suddenly emerged from the bushes and interrupted her actions.
The little boy's face was red from the cold. He was wearing a patched jacket and his mouth was drooling as he stared at the rice sausage.
The guards were startled by the noise and stood up, scaring the little boy.
But he was very brave and did not run away. Instead, he took a few steps closer to Lu Yunchu.
Lu Yunchu pressed his hand towards the guard, indicating that he didn't need to be so vigilant.
She said to the little boy, "Come here."
The child hesitated.
"I'll give you something delicious to eat."
He hesitated, but finally walked to Lu Yunchu.
Lu Yunchu did not lie to him and immediately served her a bowl of rice sausage. The little boy was very excited and started eating from the bowl.
Seeing that he had lowered his guard, Lu Yunchu asked, "What are you doing here?"
He was eating rice sausage and mumbled, "I just fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes, my brother was gone."
The child was only about three years old. Lu Yunchu couldn't help but laugh and said, "He ran back home."
The child froze instantly and looked at Lu Yunchu cautiously. This reaction seemed to indicate that she might be the "bad person" that adults were talking about.
But bad people would not steal such delicious food. The child felt relieved again.
After a while, a group of people came this way.
The leader was a girl with a ponytail. She had a tough look and was shorter than the boy following behind her.
She was accompanied by a group of young men, and the guards immediately put down their bowls, stood up, and put on serious expressions.
She stopped immediately, her eyes moving among the crowd and finally landing on Lu Yunchu and the little child beside her.
She spoke, her voice a little rough: "Xiaoshan, come here."
The little boy named Xiaoshan looked at her, then looked at the unfinished food in his bowl, hesitated for a moment, put down the bowl, and ran towards the girl.
The girl breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Lu Yunchu and his group did not stop them and were quite friendly.
Lu Yunchu asked: "Are you a villager from the village ahead?"
She nodded.
Lu Yunchu smiled friendly and said, "Can you let me stay in your village for a few days?"
She immediately tensed up, raised her brows, and looked alert.
"If we want to do something, we can just barge in. Why ask?"
That's right. Ah Yue felt a little relieved. Her brother asked her to be responsible for protecting everyone's safety, but she was still a little girl, and the people in the village would not all listen to her. She asked the children in the village to wait here, and if there were bandits entering the village, they should report it quickly, so that everyone could go up the mountain to hide in time. But the elderly couldn't do it, and it would take time to go into the mountains, and the weather was very cold, so they couldn't stay for long, so going down like this was not a solution.
These people were well-dressed and had an extraordinary temperament. They were definitely not bandits. Ah Yue said, "Come with me." The village laborers were away, and this winter was very hard to endure. If the nobles could give them a little reward, it would be enough for them to eat for a long time.
When he arrived at the village, Lu Yunchu found that the gates were closed and there were few people.
Ah Yue whispered a few words to the boy behind her, and the boy immediately ran into the mountains.
She was not embarrassed and explained to Lu Yunchu: "There are bandits roaming around recently, so we have to be careful."
Lu Yunchu couldn't help but sigh. He had done his best to be on guard, but he still couldn't escape the vicious bandits.
After a while, the villagers came down from the mountain and looked at Lu Yunchu and his group cautiously.
A Yue asked people to clean up the empty house for them. The villagers immediately lost their caution and enthusiastically rushed to vacate the house just to get some tips.
Lu Yunchu and Wen Zhan were naturally assigned the best houses in the village. They spread out their bedding and lit a brazier. The accommodation environment was not much different from that of an inn, and was even much warmer.
Lu Yunchu couldn't help but think of the time when he was hiding in the countryside in his previous life, and felt a little emotional.
After cleaning up, it was already dark. Lu Yunchu called the chief guard and whispered to him that they would be staying here for a while and should be alert day and night to prevent bandits from entering the village.
The captain of the guards thought of the group of people he met on the road, his expression serious, and nodded in agreement.
Wen Zhan saw this scene right after he finished washing up. The two stood outside the door, blending into the night, unable to make out their expressions, and could only show their intimate postures.
Wen Zhan didn't think much and regained his composure, but his mind was filled with the story of Prince Benli and his guards.
He was rarely so childish. He pounded his head in pain, trying to drive away the words in his mind.
After that, I couldn't read those messy books anymore. I was completely confused.
Wen Zhan shook off the messy thoughts in his head, changed into clean clothes, and began to make the bed carefully.
Every corner had to be taken care of. Lu Yunchu was a restless sleeper, and liked to rub against me, so I had to hold him down with layers of sheets.
As soon as Lu Yunchu entered the room, he saw Wen Zhan bending over, kneeling beside the bed, stretching out his hands to make the bed.
The orange light from the candle fell on him, outlining a soft halo.
Because the posture is more relaxed, the hem of the clothes is pulled, which can better highlight the figure.
Feeling Lu Yunchu's burning gaze, Wen Zhan turned around and caught her red-handed.
Lu Yunchu tried to explain, but it only made things more obvious: "My butt... No... My hem is so raised... No... My hem is not pulled flat."
Wen Zhan was not on guard at all. He turned his head to look behind him and pulled at the hem of his clothes.
After the bedding was made, he got out of bed, put on his shoes, and sat down at the square table. He hesitated for a moment, but in the end he did not take out the book.
He has been "studying" recently. Lu Yunchu found it a little strange, but he didn't ask.
After washing up, she took off her outer clothes and rolled onto the bed. Wen Zhan had made a thick, soft mattress, and she sank into it when she slept on it, feeling extremely happy.
Wen Zhan was sitting in front of the table, staring blankly at nothing, so Lu Yunchu called him, "Go to bed, it's so cold."
Wen Zhan turned around and looked at him, shaking his head.
She waved her hand: "Come up."
Wen Zhan still shook his head.
"Do you want to read a book?" Lu Yunchu asked.
After being asked this, Wen Zhan stopped shaking his head and climbed onto the bed hesitantly.
He was a big man, and when he got on the bed, he felt a little crowded, and had the illusion that he was a lot warmer.
There were no entertainment activities in ancient times. Lu Yunchu took out paper and pen and taught Wen Zhan how to play Gobang.
Wen Zhan quickly got the hang of it and killed Lu Yunchu without leaving a single piece of armor.
Lu Yunchu suddenly lost interest: "Let's just chat."
Wen Zhan nodded and put away the paper and pen.
There was a strong wind outside, and it seemed that it was snowing again. The sound of wind and snow made the house even quieter.
Lu Yunchu felt that this boring and leisurely night couldn't be any more comfortable. She remembered a poem: "The wind blows through the rivers and lakes, and the rain darkens the village. The sound of the four mountains is like the rolling of the sea waves. The firewood in the stream is soft and the felt is warm. My cat slave and I don't go out."