"Ah? Fellow villagers, what happened to you? Why are you all vomiting? Deputy General Zhang, why are you all vomiting too?"
The officials of Suzhou Prefecture were stunned when they saw that everyone vomited after taking a bite of the meat pie.
"Could it be that the roasted meat went bad and caused my stomach upset?! That's impossible. The pork and mutton were freshly slaughtered, and the roasted meat was only roasted not long ago. It couldn't have been expired! Besides, the Zhejiang Army soldiers ate it, too. Are they fine?!"
The first reaction of the officials was that the meat was not fresh and had gone bad. Everyone ate the spoiled barbecue and had stomach upsets.
But he quickly denied it. In order to express his consolation to everyone for cleaning the battlefield, Prefect Shang specially ordered people to slaughter pigs and sheep to ensure that the ingredients were fresh and delicious. The barbecue was also freshly baked and definitely could not be expired.
In addition, the Zhejiang soldiers also ate, so why were they fine? From Lord Zhu Ping'an to the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army, they were all fine. They finished half of a pancake, and no one vomited.
"Deputy General Zhang, what's wrong with you? How disgraceful?" Prefect Shang asked unhappily, "What's wrong with you after you vomited?"
"Ahem, sir, I am really in a bad mood. While cleaning the battlefield today, thousands of Japanese pirates were burned to charcoal in the woods. The scene was filled with the strong aroma of burnt barbecue... which was about 70% similar to the broken pieces of barbecue in this meat pie. It was like chewing the corpses of Japanese pirates, and my stomach was churning. It was really unbearable, so I lost my composure. I hope you will forgive me," Lieutenant General Zhang explained with a face full of shame.
"It's fine for you fellow villagers, you haven't been on the battlefield, but you were born in the military and have been through war for a long time, how could you be so incompetent?"
Prefect Shang looked at Deputy General Zhang and others, then looked at the Zhejiang army soldiers who were eating and drinking leisurely, and could not help but shook his head and sighed.
It is true that if you compare yourself to others, you will die; if you compare goods to others, you will throw them away!
You are all soldiers, but why are the Zhejiang Army so good at fighting and they win no matter how they fight, while you are so bad at fighting and you always fail? Even your mental qualities are as different as heaven and earth. For the same pancake, the Zhejiang Army eats it calmly, but you vomit it all over.
However, the Zhejiang Army is the Zhejiang Army after all, and it is top-notch in the entire Jiangnan region. It is understandable that you cannot compare with the Zhejiang Army.
Very normal.
However, you must learn from your mistakes and then be braver in the future. I don’t ask you to catch up, but I just ask you not to fall too far behind.
"I am ashamed..." Lieutenant General Zhang and others felt even more ashamed.
"Forget it, forget it. You have rarely seen wars, so it is understandable that you are not as good as the Zhejiang Army. You should train well in the future. I don't ask you to catch up with the Zhejiang Army, but I just ask you not to be left too far behind."
Prefect Shang waved his hand.
Deputy General Zhang and his companions were so embarrassed that their faces turned red and they wished they could find a rat hole to crawl into...
"Since they can't eat meat patties, tear them down and bring some fried cakes over." Shang Zhifu said considerately.
"My fellow elders, you have vomited so much, your stomach must be empty, please fill it with some fish soup."
Officials of Suzhou Prefecture also earnestly advised those who had vomited to drink some fish soup to fill their empty stomachs.
"Thank you, sir." After hearing this, everyone picked up the fish soup and drank it. After vomiting so much, their stomachs had long been empty. They were already hungry, and now they were even hungrier. Their chests were sticking to their backs and their stomachs were aching.
Gudonggudong
I finished a whole bowl in one go.
"Delicious, delicious. This fish soup is really delicious."
"It's as white as milk, rich and delicious, with an endless aftertaste. This fish soup is so delicious that I almost swallowed my tongue."
After drinking a big bowl of fish soup, everyone praised it highly.
"Of course it's delicious. Every pot of fish soup is prepared by the chef of our Suzhou Tangji, which is the best fish stew. And the fish are freshly caught by the Lord of the Mansion from the river ahead. Each one is at least one foot long, not an inch less."
The officials of Suzhou said this boastfully, while flattering the prefect Shang.
As soon as the official finished speaking, he felt that the atmosphere was not right. The scene became quiet all of a sudden, and everyone seemed to have been acupunctured.
"Ahem, where did you catch the fish?" someone asked with a cough.
"It's in the big river ahead. Not long after you set out, the Lord asked us to go fishing in the river."
The officer answered again and pointed in the direction.
"Ugh..."
As soon as the official finished speaking, there was a sound of vomiting at the scene. It was still those people, vomiting even more violently than before.
"Oh my god, what happened to you guys?"
Seeing this spectacular and chaotic scene again, the officials were stunned and asked in a dumbfounded manner.
"Deputy General Zhang, what happened this time?" Prefect Shang asked Deputy General Zhang, who had just vomited, with a helpless look on his face.
"Ahem, Your Excellency, it's the same as before, it's also a psychological effect. The river where we are cleaning the battlefield today is the river where they fish. The first battlefield where Lord Zhu and his men ambushed the Japanese pirates was the river. Countless Japanese pirates were shot to death or drowned in the river. When we went to clean the battlefield, the bodies of the Japanese pirates in the river were swollen, and there were many fish eating them. Maybe the fish they caught was one of them, and the pots of fish soup they made might contain the flesh of the Japanese pirates. Ugh... I'm really sad. When I think of this, my stomach can't help but churn... Ugh..."
Deputy General Zhang explained with a pale and haggard face, vomiting as he explained.
"The section of the river where we fish is still more than ten miles away from the section where you clean up the battlefield. The fish can't swim over..."
The official of Suzhou Prefecture explained helplessly.
"It can't be completely ruled out, right?" said Lieutenant General Zhang with a pale face.
“Uh…” The officials were speechless. Although they were more than ten miles away, they could not guarantee that it would be completely ruled out.
Who knows if there is any fish with nothing to do, so it gnaws on the corpses of the Japanese pirates and then swims upstream for more than ten miles.
They are not fish, so how can they know what the fish are doing? And the fish are not obedient.
"Ahem, Lord Zhu, fellow soldiers, how can you drink this? Don't you feel uncomfortable?" Deputy General Zhang and others saw Zhu Ping'an and others eating barbecue and drinking fish soup as usual, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Disgusting? Why should I be disgusted? Not to mention that the two places are more than ten miles apart, and the river is upstream at such a long distance. Generally speaking, it is impossible to catch fish from the battlefield. Even if you catch them, so what? Yue Wumu once wrote in "Man Jiang Hong" that 'I am so ambitious that I would eat the flesh of the barbarians when I am hungry, and drink the blood of the Huns when I am thirsty.' If I could eat the flesh of the Japanese pirates when I am hungry, and drink their blood when I am thirsty, it would be a pleasure in life. Why would I be disgusted?" Zhu Ping'an smiled indifferently.
"Master Zhu, I am convinced."
After hearing this, Lieutenant General Zhang was completely convinced and was full of admiration for Zhu Ping'an and the Zhejiang Army.