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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 5: The King of the West Banquet

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    The food was served very quickly. Eight large plates and twelve small plates were placed on the table. Xiao Yungui's eyes widened. He originally thought that Xiao Chaogui was leading an army to attack, so it would be good to have a bowl of hot rice.  , I didn¡¯t expect it to be so rich.

    "Sir, these dishes are all famous Hunan cuisine. I don't know if they suit your taste." A fat chef nodded and said with a strong Hunan accent. His eyes were narrowed because he was too fat.  There was only a seam left, and my hands were wiped with the apron tied around my waist from time to time. The apron was greasy, and the fat hands were still greasy no matter how I wiped them. It made me feel a little disgusting.

    Rider Li Zuo on the side pressed the hilt of the knife, opened his eyes and yelled loudly: "What big lord, this is His Highness the King of the West of our Kingdom of Heaven!"

    The fat cook was startled. His legs gave way and he knelt down. He kowtowed and worshiped like a pound of garlic: "Your Majesty, I'm here. I have eyes but no eyes. I have eyes but I can't see Mount Tai. Please spare my life"

    The cook was in his forties, much older than himself. Seeing him kneeling down to beg for mercy, Xiao Yungui felt very uncomfortable. Was he treating himself like a dead person?  Regarding the ancient etiquette of kowtowing and kneeling at every turn, Xiao Yungui could not experience any sense of superiority. Instead, he felt like a thorn in his back, making him very uncomfortable.

    "Get up and talk first." Xiao Yungui waved his hand and wanted to help him, but felt it was inappropriate. In the end, he did not reach out and just asked in confusion: "What Mingtang are these dishes?" Xiao Yungui has also eaten them.  There are a lot of good things, but the dishes in front of me are all Hunan cuisine, and I rarely eat Hunan cuisine before.

    The fat cook wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up tremblingly, pointed at the dishes on the table and introduced them one by one: "These are the famous dishes in our Hunan cuisine. This dish includes steamed cured meat, five  Yuanshen fairy chicken, Maren crispy duck, Dongting beetle, and Daozhou gray goose are all cooked with the best ingredients. The chicken is Hunan's famous Taoyuan chicken, the duck is Linwu duck, the goose is Wugang goose, and the Dongting beetle is  Golden-threaded turtles in Dongting Lake. Twelve small plates contain rock sugar Xianglian"

    Xiao Yungui raised his hand to interrupt him and asked curiously: "This is Chaling, why are there so many ingredients from all over Hunan?"

    The fat cook lowered his hands and bowed and replied: "Master Guo, the county magistrate" After saying this, Li Zuoche shouted angrily: "What bullshit county magistrate? It's the Qingyao magistrate Guo Shijian!"

    The fat man nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, yes, it's Guo Shijian, the magistrate of Qingyao County. He originally liked delicious food from all over the world, and his birthday would be in a few days, so he spent a lot of money to collect these ingredients from various places to prepare for a banquet.  , but I didn¡¯t expect that the prince and his troops would arrive so quickly. Yesterday, Guo Shijian had no choice but to take his family and flee out of the city overnight, and in such a hurry, all these ingredients were left behind.¡±

    Xiao Yungui suddenly realized that Guo Shijian, the magistrate of Chaling County, was a good eater. He did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to purchase ingredients, but he did not even take a bite, and they all became the spoils of the Taiping Army.

    At this moment, Tang Erniu loudly reported outside the door: "His Royal Highness the King of the West, Guard Lin and President Li have arrived."

    Xiao Yungui stood up with a smile and said: "Er Niu, let the two brothers come in." Xiao Yungui usually does this kind of eating, drinking and having fun. He has a group of fair-weather buddies around him, so he knows how to use some small favors to win over people.  .  The two tiger generals Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang are now the best cards in their hand. Only when they play well can they have a little capital to fight the King and "Heavenly Father". If they can't play well, they will really have no hope.

    I saw Tang Erniu leading two men into the house. The first man looked about thirty years old, with a square face, a short beard on his lips, a red scarf on his head, and a uniform on his body.  Wearing a colorful opera robe and a white jade belt around his waist, Xiao Yungui relied on Xiao Chaogui's memory to recognize that this person was Lin Fengxiang.

    The other man was also in his twenties, with a thin face, high cheekbones, a mustache, and a red scarf on his head, but he was dressed in red, with a red short coat, large red bloomers, and high heels.  Riding boots, this person is Li Kaifang.  The two people's nondescript appearance almost made Xiao Yungui laugh out loud.

    Xiao Yungui straightened his face, and after thinking for a while, he really couldn't laugh anymore. The two people's dressing up was actually nothing in the Taiping Army. Many old long-haired people don't need to wear uniforms, but they must wear turbans. Generally, they don't need to wear uniforms.  All people wear red scarves, and only those who have been crowned kings can wear yellow scarves.  The soldiers of the Taiping Army did not pay much attention to the uniforms they wore during wartime, but there was one thing the Taiping Army did very well, that is, they would never wear the cheongsam and mandarin jackets of the bannermen. They would wear the clothes of the Han people!

    But it has been nearly two hundred years since the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Many people don¡¯t know what Hanfu is like, so many Taiping soldiers would rather wear costumes than cheongsams and jackets.

    Thinking of this, Xiao Yungui couldn't laugh anymore, and an inexplicable sadness rose in his heart. Most of the Taiping Army were from farmers, and they were dominated by the simplest thoughts.Because of them, the ancestors of the Han people lost their own clothes and were forced to shave their heads and change clothes. This was not the fault of the Taiping Army, but they rose up to resist and were unwilling to wear the clothes of the enemy. They should have been respected, but it is sad  The only thing is that they were forced to choose costumes because they couldn't find out what Hanfu looked like. This is not the Taiping Army's ridiculousness but the tragedy of the entire nation!

    Xiao Yungui took a deep breath and suppressed the surging air. After all, he was not from this era, and he was not an angry youth. After a moment of emotion, he returned to his original mentality. It was more important to save his life first.  .

    At that moment, Xiao Yungui pointed to a few empty seats and said: "Brothers, come quickly. Haha, you haven't eaten yet. Let's eat together. These are all good things."

    Lin Fengxiang pursed his lips tightly and frowned but said nothing. Li Kaifang smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, His Highness the King of the West. I have been living in the open air all the way. I haven't eaten such good food in a long time." She followed him.  Lin Fengxiang said: "Thank you, King Xi."

    Xiao Yungui became a little suspicious. Lin Fengxiang had such a bad face. Could it be that he had a grudge against him?  After the two sat down, Xiao Yungui smiled and asked Li Zuoche and Tang Erniu to sit down together.  The two of them were very flattered, thanked them again and sat down.

    When the fat cook saw everyone sitting down, he boldly bowed and said with a smile: "My lord, please take it easy. I will go and prepare some fine wine for you. There are still good ones in the wine cellar in the mansion"

    Before he could finish his words, Lin Fengxiang interrupted him with a loud shout: "Don't come and practice these etiquette of demons! We are marching and fighting at the moment, so let's drink some wine!"

    Li Kaifang hurriedly kicked him, and Lin Fengxiang lowered his head to look at the table in dismay. Xiao Yungui's little action did not escape Xiao Yungui's eyes. He smiled. It seemed that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had really done a great job. They hated the Qing court.  , even the Qing Dynasty¡¯s gift of beating a thousand people was hated.

    Lin Fengxiang is right. We are alone now, and the surrounding areas are considered enemy-occupied areas. Several leaders of the army are here. It would be very bad if something happens to us when we are drunk.

    Xiao Yungui hummed and said: "Brother Lin Xian is right, we can't drink wine now. When Changsha is captured, we can drink again." Then he glanced sideways at the fat cook and said warmly: "We can't eat so much food.  After that, you can sit down and eat some."

    The cook's expression changed, and he laughed and said, "Your Majesty has killed this villain. I'm just a cook. How dare I sit at the same table with all of you adults?"

    Xiao Yungui noticed something was wrong with the cook, so he lowered his face and said, "Don't you want to try the food you cooked? I'll let you sit down!"

    The cook was sitting at the end of the table slantedly, squinting at the plate of Dongting Golden Turtle. Xiao Yungui frowned and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this dish?"

    The cook¡¯s face turned pale, he stood up hurriedly and said, ¡°No, there¡¯s nothing wrong.¡±

    At this time, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and others all saw that the cook had a guilty conscience and there must be something wrong with this dish. Tang Erniu stood up and grabbed the cook's collar and shouted: "When you were cooking just now, I had my subordinates watching you. This dish  What happened to the food?¡±

    The fat cook suddenly became so weak that he fell to the ground, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "My lord, please have mercy on me, my lord, please have mercy on me, the little man is obsessed with lard, and when he was passing the dishes, he took advantage of the military master's unpreparedness and added, added  Get some stuff in."

    Tang Erniu was furious, grabbed the fat cook and asked, "What did you add in it?!"

    The fat cook lowered his head and muttered: "Add, add some villain spit"

    Hearing that Tang Erniu raised his fist and was about to hit him, Xiao Yungui hurriedly stopped and looked at the cook and laughed. Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and others were very surprised. According to Xi Wang's fiery and stingy temper, this cook  Even if he is not killed, he will still be beaten severely.  Tang Erniu took action first because he wanted to hit him harder. When the King of the West lost his anger, he might be able to spare his life, but he never expected that Xiao Yungui would burst out laughing.

    Xiao Yungui laughed for a while, got up and walked over, looked at the cook and asked, "I didn't offend you, why are you teasing me?"

    The cook lowered his head and did not dare to look at Xiao Yungui, and said in a low voice: "My lord, you killed officials and rebelled in Guangxi. Originally, we people in Hunan gave you thumbs up and admired you. But now that you have arrived in Hunan, you believe in foreign religions.  It is said by the government and the people here that you kill people without blinking an eye, and you also coerce the people to join you. Anyone who does not follow you will be killed, and those who do not believe in you will also be killed. Today, after the villain was arrested, he will not be allowed to go home.  The villain knew that it was you who wanted to coerce the villain into turning into a traitor, so he got angry and added more materials."

    Tang Erniu shouted: "What rebels?! We are the holy soldiers, the heavenly soldiers! The Manchu lackeys are the demons and monsters! They are the Qing demons! We are here to rescue you and go to heaven together. You don't know anything and listen to other people's nonsense."Believe it?  !  Why don't you kowtow and apologize quickly?  !  "

    Xiao Yungui waved his hands with a smile and said: "This cook is quite interesting. We caught him and it is natural for him to be angry. But let me tell you, our holy soldiers are here to make decisions for the common people and deal specifically with those corrupt officials and bannermen.  Human bullies, how many towns have we destroyed along the way? If we all bring the people together, how many people will we have? We can't just have the few people we have now."

    The cook grinned and nodded. Xiao Yungui looked at the dish, frowned and asked, "Have you often done this before?"

    The cook nodded proudly and replied: "Qingyao Guo Shijian is very stingy, and he would have to scold him for a long time if he added more seasonings. In the past, whenever he scolded me, I would add some seasonings to him. In the government office,  Over the past many months, he didn¡¯t know how much saliva he had eaten from me.¡±

    Xiao Yungui laughed loudly and returned to his seat. He ordered someone to place the Dongting beetle in front of the cook, and said with a smile: "You are really interesting as a cook. I won't punish you. It's just that this ingredient is rare and cannot be wasted."  Well, it¡¯s okay if you eat your own saliva.¡±

    The cook grinned and nodded fiercely. He thought that his life would be in jeopardy and at least he would be beaten. Unexpectedly, the prince just let himself eat this dish, which was quite magnanimous.

    Xiao Yungui followed and invited everyone to eat together. When he was about to pick up his chopsticks, he saw Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and others holding their hands to their mouths and chanting softly.  Xiao Yungui slapped his thigh and thought to himself, how could he forget this?  These guys all worship God and are used to praying before meals.

    At that moment, Xiao Yungui also started to recite silently: "Thank you, Heavenly Father, for giving me food and clothing, and thank you, Brother Tian, ??for giving me food and clothing. The Holy Spirit is always there, stationed in my heart, sweeping away the demons, and doing everything possible."

    Xiao Yungui recited it very naturally. It seems that Xiao Chaogui also recited it well before. What kind of prayer before meals is this?  He didn't forget to kill the demons during the meal. No wonder the Taiping Army was extremely fierce at first. It seems that Master Hong's brainwashing skills are really good.

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