Chapter 78: Forming a Group
Shan Xiongxin was finally released from prison. He walked out of the prison door and saw the light of day again. Shan Xiongxin burst into tears without realizing that he was crying. A loud Shandong man couldn't help but kneel on the ground and kissed the earth with his mouth. This was the free earth and the free air.
During the period when he was imprisoned, Fei Jiang Shan Xiongxin's hair turned gray and he became much more haggard.
"Second brother, the family has prepared a welcome banquet for you to go to the fun of you." Qin Qiong stood aside.
"Thank you Shubao, thank you Yaojin, thank you Shixin, thank you Jinda, thank you Junxian, thank you Heita, thank you all the old brothers." Shan Xiongxin stood up and thanked the old brothers of Wagang who came to greet you.
"It's all my brothers, why are they talking about this? Although Shiji is not here today, he has been working hard for a long time before leaving. Even when he went to Hebei, he was thinking about his second brother day and night, and several letters came."
"I will never thank you for your kindness. Shan will always remember this brother's love for life."
In the past, Shan Xiongxin was very crazy and arrogant, and his relationship with Qin Shubao Cheng Yaojin and others was only average. However, after this incident, he deeply understood that Shubao and the others were indeed very good to him. Almost all the surrendered generals in Luoyang were executed. Only himself, who had a life of death, and finally saved his life, and it was all a loss to Shubao and the others.
"Let's not talk about those, go home."
"Shubao, I want to go to Zhangjiagou, and thank you first." Shan Xiongxin said sincerely. He already knew the whole process before and after he could come out this time. His good brother Shiji and others made great efforts, but the key is to rely on Zhang Sanlang to say something, otherwise he would definitely die now.
He was also very curious about what the adopted son Qin Shubao was like.
"Sanlang's own family will be there again tomorrow."
"Let's go now." Shan Xiongxin smiled, "To be honest, I'm eating Zhang's pastries every day in prison these days, yellow steamed buns, meat buns, white buns, and soy milk and fried dough sticks. I don't eat them for a meal, and I'm really a little panicked."
"Hahaha."
The Shandong generals laughed together, "The pastry at Sanlang's house is really delicious, and now my family also asks Sanlang to deliver food to his house every day."
"Let's go to Zhangjiagou, let's go to Sanlang's house."
"Go to Zhangjiagou."
A large number of old generals from Wagang beat horses out of Chang'an, attracting many pedestrians to look at each other.
"Uncle Bao, thank you."
"What are you doing when you say these polite words?"
Shan Xiongxin didn't say much, but he kept this feeling in mind. He knew that Shubao had already given the emperor a marriage to Shang the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Guiyang.
If it weren't for his business, Shubao might not have agreed to this marriage. Nowadays, there are few new nobles who are willing to marry Princess Shang, and everyone is more willing to marry a daughter of five surnames. There are many five surnames and seven sects who are willing to marry Shubao, but in the end, Shubao still promised Princess Shang Guiyang. He knew that this was for him and that the emperor and the King of Qin would pardon him.
It was Shan Xiongxin, in order to come out this time, he finally agreed to marry the emperor's cousin Dugu. The Dugu family was also a widow like Princess Guiyang. When Li Mi surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, the emperor married Dugu to Li Mi. Later, Li Mi defected and was killed, and Dugu became a widow.
This time the emperor pardoned Shan Xiongxin, and one of the conditions was to let him marry Dugu.
If under normal circumstances, Shan Xiongxin was unwilling to marry such a widow, Dugu was not only a widow, but also the wife of his former master Li Mi. However, the situation was stronger than others, so he had to agree to marry Dugu.
Shubao married Princess Guiyang, and he married Dugu. Later, one was the emperor's son-in-law and the other was the emperor's cousin's husband, and they all became the Li family.
After leaving Chang'an City, Shan Xiongxin rode his horse and accelerated.
Since Luoyang's defeat and surrender, he has been in prison for several months and is simply invisible. Although he is taking care of his elder brothers, this life is still difficult.
I had eaten several meals of the dead head rice, and the torture was hard to describe.
Shan Xiongxin thought about it several times, so he just gave it a pleasure. But when he thought of his wife and children and his family, he lost this pleasure.
Many people say that he is not a hero or a husband, but he can't let go of his family.
Thirty miles away, the generals were racing horses and galloping in just a short while.
The horse's hooves were like thunder, and the movement also scared Uncle Gen, who was guarding the village gate, and almost turned around and rang the gong to call the police.
"Uncle Gen, it's my old Cheng."
Cheng Yaojin shouted from afar, and Uncle Gen realized that it was those nobles who came.
"It turns out that Mr. Cheng is here, I will notify Sanlang to go."
"Don't be so polite. If you are familiar with the game, we can just go in by ourselves."
Cheng Yaojin arrived in Zhangjiagou and regarded himself as half of his master.
Get off the horse and enter the village gate.
"Just a few days later, Zhangjiagou is much more lively."
Cheng Yaojin found that Zhangjiagou had not changed several construction sites that were under construction, "What are you doing?"
"When I returned to Chenggong, this is the new Tieqin family, and there is a steaming room built on the other side. There will be a lot of stoves in it, which is specially designed for steaming cakes. There will be a bathhouse and a canteen on the other side. Everyone will have dinner here in the future."
"You are building a bathhouse specifically? Zhang Wenyuan is so good at enjoying this, right?"
"The bathhouse was built for the whole village. Sanlang said that after the construction was completed, all the young and old in the village could go and wash it."
Qin Shubao Luo Shixin and others were quite accustomed to this. The generals such as Wu Heita, Li Junxian, Tian Liu'an, Chang He, Xi Bian, Yang Qian'an, Li Junyi and Dou Luda were very curious.
This small village in Bashang is very unique.
“There are many people in this village.”
"Well, there are a lot more people than when we came before."
"Zhang Sanlang, your Uncle Cheng is here, why don't you come out to greet him quickly?" Cheng Yaojin shouted far away.
Zhang Chao heard it from afar and hurriedly came to greet him. When he saw this stance, he was very surprised. Did he come from a group?
Qin Qiong pulled Zhang Qiao away, "Today, your Uncle Shan came out, and you came to you before you even returned home. He said he would like to thank you very much. You have met your Uncle Shan Er."
Shan Xiongxin.
Zhang Chao looked up at the brave general with the name of the flying general. He saw that although the man had a pale face and a haggard expression, he was tall, with a square red face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, at least 1.9 meters, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist. He could tell at a glance that he was a hero.
"Sanlang has seen Uncle Shan." Zhang Chao was about to kowtow quickly, and Shan Xiongxin reached out and held him, "It is me who should give a big gift. If you were not for your words, I, Shan Xiongxin, would have become a ghost under the knife this day. Sanlang, please accept Shan Xiongxin's bow!"
As he said that, Shan Xiongxin was about to kneel down as soon as he lifted his clothes, which scared Zhang Chao. Fortunately, Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin were working quickly, and they supported him from the left and right.
"Go into the house first."
The Zhang family cave was so old that he finally took a long bench and sat in the yard outside. Fortunately, the weather was not hot today and he could still bask in the sun.
Under Qin Qiong's introduction, Zhang Chao met a group of old Wagang generals one by one. Naturally, Luo Shixin would not talk about it anymore and they met each other. Shan Xiongxin finally met today, but many others were not as famous as Qin Qiong and the others.
"This is your uncle Li Junxian, now the chief officer of the left-handed horse army of the Qin Palace."
When Zhang Chao heard this name, his first reaction was a TV series he had watched, which seemed to be called Supreme Beauty. In it, Li Junxian had white hair and was entangled with Wu Meiniang in various love and hate.
But this must be a fool. Li Junxian is now able to serve as the deputy general manager of the Ma Army, which is highly valued by Li Shimin, and his position is only a lower than Niu Jinda. Nowadays, the generals of the Ma Army have always had a higher position than infantry generals.
The second one introduces Wu Heita. Wu Heita is named Guang and his name is Heita. He has a similar name to Liu Heita. He is also a powerful general. He was born in Wagang. He left Wang Shichong and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Qin Qiong and others. Now he is also under the command of the Qin Palace and is the general manager of the Right One Horse Army.
"This is your Uncle Chang He, who was originally from the Qin Prince's Mansion, and he is currently the General of the Left Leader Guard."
Chang He, Zhang Chao knew about this person, and had heard of it.
During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Chang He guarded the Xuanwu Gate. He heard that he was originally an old general of Wagang, but later surrendered to Wang Shichong, and later surrendered to Li Tang. He was originally under Li Shimin's command, and later served as the general of the imperial guards to guard the Xuanwu Gate.
Prince Li Jiancheng tried his best to win over Chang He and win him over as his confidant.
But some people say that Chang He was actually Li Shimin's counter-espionage plan. He pretended to surrender to the prince, but in fact he was still the King of Qin. This is why when the Xuanwu Gate changed, Chang He turned against Li Shimin at the last minute and turned against Li Shimin. At the critical moment, he let Li Shimin enter the Xuanwu Gate, and then locked the prince and the King of Qi in the palace, blocking the prince and the prince's mansion outside the palace gate, allowing Li Shimin to use his weak troops to complete the feat of controlling the emperor, capturing and killing the prince and building the prince, and turning the tables against the wind.
Chang He is the most critical step in the Xuanwu Gate Incident. If he turns to the crown prince, Li Shimin may fail in the mutiny.
But now, Chang He is just a burly and strong man. I really didn't expect that this was actually a person who determined the direction of history.
Other generals such as Douluda were also generals who served as General of the Cheqi and Cavalry, General of the Cavalry, and mostly worked in the Qin Palace. They were both old brothers and subordinates of Qin Shubao and others.
"We don't want to sit there, Saburo, take out the food you eat!"
Shan Xiongxin ordered the dishes directly, "First, let's have more meat buns. You need to have all the meat stuffing, don't mix vegetarian dishes or mix them. The bigger the better."
Now Zhang Chao doesn't make pastry by himself, but this group of people asked him to make it by himself, so Zhang Chao had no choice.
"All meat buns are filled with meat, no problem, wait!"
Zhang Chao sells several types of meat buns now, divided into one liang, two liang, three liang, four liang, four liang, four liang, four liang, four liang, and four liang, are big meat buns.
The main feature of buns is a stuffing bun that mixes meat and vegetables.
A pure big meat bun of 4 liang is a high-end product.
For such large meat buns, each weighing four liang, the meat filling weighs one liang and the tare weighs three liang. The ingredients are also very particular. The dough crust ingredients are one pound of flour, two to one with half pound of warm water, then one qian and a half qian of dough alkali, and one qian of sugar. The meat filling is seven liang of pork with three fat and seven liang of fat, two qian of salt, four qian of sugar, three qian of sesame oil, two liang of water, and appropriate amount of green onion.
This ratio is a luxurious configuration. In the end, ten large meat buns are steamed, each weighing about four taels, and the meat filling is one tael. Sesame oil and sugar are also added to it, especially sugar, which is quite expensive. These days, it is called Brahman candy, also called sand candy. Adding a little bit of it will be worth a lot of money.
Zhang Chao plans to take the high-end route to this kind of 400-ounce meat bun with pure meat filling and sugar in the future as a product for wealthy families and restaurants.
Such a big meat bun would have to be sold for fifty cents per. In later generations, such a big meat bun would have to be sold for four or five cents per person.
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Chapter completed!