Chapter 1056 Cook

Handan City originated from Shangyin.

Handan belonged to Wei in the Western Zhou Dynasty and Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, Handan was already a famous city with well-known agriculture, handicraft industry and commerce. In the 12th year of Duke Ding of Jin, Zhao Yang, the minister of the State of Jin, had incorporated Handan into his sphere of influence. Since then, Handan has become the hereditary territory of the Zhao family.

In 381 BC, Zhao Jinghou moved his capital to Handan, which was the capital of the State of Zhao for 158 years.

After Qin destroyed Zhao and set up Handan County. The Western Han Dynasty established the State of Zhao. From Handan to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, it was still one of the five major capital cities in the country. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the heroes rose together and fought in a melee. Handan suffered a disaster and began to decline.

Xun Qian went out. At this time, he lived in a large dilapidate house surrounded by similar houses. These rooms are not simple, but they are obviously in disrepair. The structure is still there, and the walls and broken tiles are everywhere, like the remains of a city that has been dead for a long time. Most people on the street are yellow, thin and withered faces.

Between these houses, there are messy flags and washed clothes, garbage everywhere, and black water flowing everywhere. In the distance, you can see a towering wall. Xun knew that it is the Handan New City under construction. The dignitaries will move there in the future, and the rest of the houses will be opened to the people nearby to live at will.

Thinking of this, Xun shook his head. It can be imagined that if they do so, the people will definitely rush up and compete for each other for their residence, making the outer city of Handan a chaotic place - this is a typical Yuan Shao-style governance, big-handed, bold and generous, but lacks overall planning.

"All with a moment of hard work**, no planning at all. It seems generous, but in fact it is chaotic. Xun Xun made a comment with a disgusted face and deftly avoided a pile of broken tiles: if Tian Fengju was still there, even if the Yuan family was defeated repeatedly, it would not be so messy. Unfortunately, Tian Feng returned to the horse, and Ju Shu could not hide it, and the Xin evaluation of presiding over government affairs was only at this level.

At this time, Xun Chen has slowly come to the main road of the old city, which connects the new city and other places, so it has been repaired neatly. The road surface is paved with stones, and the middle convex side is concave, which is convenient for drainage. Unfortunately, the ditches on both sides have long been filled with mud and have no function. The trees planted along the way are still there, but the leaves are sparse, and there are traces of being stolen every few paragraphs, and the bottom of the trees is full of the smell of defecation.

"This official, come and drink some miscellaneous soup to warm up your body." A boss poked his head out of the door and shouted. Xun Qian waved his hand and motioned that he didn't want it. He saw that the boss was round - there were really few people who could be as optimistic as the boss in troubled times here.

The small shop is noisy, and it is obvious that the boss's business is good. However, Xun Yi just wants to drink some stuffy wine today, and he is not interested in those noisy environments.

Soon he came to the restaurant where he often came, ordered a pot of turbid wine and sipped it slowly. He doesn't like the fragrant and strong distilled wine of the Ma family - drinking requires a mood, just like at this time, he only needs a pot of slightly drunken wine to slowly intoxicate himself.

Xun Qian was not very drunk, and a few glasses of wine had made his brain a little dizzy. At this time, it was getting late. Xun wanted to close the window, but when he got up, he accidentally dropped the bag hanging around his waist under the desk. He scolded himself for being careless and bent down to touch it, but when he lowered his head, he saw that there were several marks on his case.

Xun's face turned cold, looked around, and saw everything around as usual. Then he pretended to pick up his bag and rubbed it behind his back.

He felt something with his fingers, and the bottom of the wooden case seemed to be a little uneven. At first, Xun thought it was just rough in production, but later it was found that these bumps seemed to be regular. He raised his body, slowly put his palms up to the bottom, slowly rubbed them, and gradually figured out the true meaning of those bumps.

Those bumps are some scratches, consisting of two right-leaning slashes and two circles at the beginning and end. Even if someone turned over the whole case, they would only think who inadvertently caused it, but they recognized the two contact slashes that only Ma spies could identify, and the two circles did not know what they meant. However, it is certain that these should have been engraved not long ago.

It happened that the drum on the tower banged three times, and there will be a curfew in half an hour. The drum sound is to remind all residents to return to their homes as soon as possible. Xun Xun settled the account and began to walk on the way back.

"This official, come and drink some miscellaneous soup to warm up your body." The boss poked his head out of the door and shouted again. Although it was like this every day, Xun Chen had something on his mind today and couldn't help but be a little angry. He was about to scold the boss, but he suddenly saw a dirty cover floating on the front pole of the restaurant - just the last afterglow of the sunset, he could see the cover There is the word "fried", which is nested in two yellow circles connected at the beginning and end.

Xun Qian seemed to have been hit by thunder. He sorted out his emotions a little and walked into this small shop under the warm greeting from the boss. As soon as I started, I saw a young woman with bright eyes gnawing a ball of meatballs regardless of the image. When I saw Xun Jian's entry, the woman just looked up slightly, which made Xun Chan frown slightly.

At this time, there were no customers in the restaurant, only this woman was eating and drinking. Xun hesitated for a moment, pretended to be a poor man, and said loudly, "Wen can control Lori with a pen, and Wu Neng** will determine his wife..."

The woman who was eating meat next to her laughed and said proudly, "Every time I hear this contact code, I can't help laughing. I don't know. What do you think? Why can't the contact signal of Shadow be changed to be more elegant?

The fat boss also seemed to blush a little and replied first with a blue face, "You can bully Zhengtai. Look back and lift your buttocks to welcome the public!" Then he reached out and pointed to the woman and introduced with a black face, "This is cheap." Finally, his face finally returned to normal and he bowed his hand and said, "Welcome everyone."

"What's the matter with Ma Mengqi?" Xun's face was not very good. He knew that since the last time Shadow got Li Fujian to kill the people's daughter in Yecheng and made Cheng Yu enter the city, Gao Lan felt pain and sprinkled most of the power of the red eagle riding in Handan City. He is almost a semi-retired staff, but because of his family respect, at least three red eagles are watching around him.

This is also the reason why Shadow wants to contact Xun Qian this time, which makes it so troublesome.

Duanmu didn't say much. He got up and began to make sobering soup. After thinking for a moment, he whispered, "Master's meaning is that the Yuan family's limit has arrived, and you should have some choices."

Xun Qian looked confused when he heard the words, and quickly sorted out his good intentions: "This is impossible. Yuan Gong still has 400,000 troops. Although Xin Pi is not as good as Ju Xuyun's strategy, he can also take on the responsibility of urging money and grain. Cao's family only has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. If they want to break Cao Gong, it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

"I don't know about these. The lord only said that this is the opportunity for everyone to choose. If there is any hesitation, it will be regarded as giving up obeying the Ma family. At this time, Duanmu has brought a bowl of sobering soup in front of Xun. Xun Xun took a sip. It was sweet and sour, but it was really a good soup to relieve wine.

"Although the lord does something unexpected, he also has to win every word." The girl looked back from the window and whispered, "Master Xun, it's not long before you go home. The vendor pretending to sell tea outside the window has glanced here."

Xun's hand, which broke the sobering soup, shook slightly. He said under the cover of drinking the soup, "It's a big deal. I need to go back and think about it."

"No, Master Xun doesn't make a decision at this time, so he doesn't need to go back and think about it." Duanmu looked humble, but the content of his words made Xunchen a little uncomfortable: "Tomorrow, this store will not exist. It seems that our husband and wife need to go to other people's house to be cooks."

"That's all!" Xun put down the sobering soup and took out five copper plates: "You two should come to my house. Coincidentally, there are still two cooks in my house..."