Chapter 28: Key Points for Making Beef Buns

Yun Chu stood behind He Yuanshan and watched how he acted.

As a result, he saw the image of a great general who commanded with confidence from this small official who had just become the eighth-rank Daguanling.

In half a day, he captured all the Turks in Qiuci City. The total number was not too large, only about a hundred men and women.

According to his requirements, each of the remaining 2,400 Hu people in the city needed to cut a piece of meat from those Turks, and then put the meat in the iron pot of boiling water next to it to rinse it, and then swallow it.

He deliberately left two of the strongest Turkic spies, broke their hands and feet, placed them on a high platform outside the city, and prepared clean water and food for them attentively, with the purpose of not wanting them to die too quickly.

Yun Chu forced himself to watch the whole process, and even forced out his obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Because those Hu people always subconsciously only cut the meat of the Turkic person who ranked first, so that the first person had been cut into a skeleton, and some Turkic people behind had not been cut.

Of course, this was related to the fact that the warriors at the front were all Turkic warriors.

These warriors who knew they were going to die spontaneously lined up at the front, followed by the Turkic elders, then the Turkic women, and finally the few children.

Each Hu cut a Turkic man with a knife and ate a piece or a small piece of Turkic meat. In the end, there were still seven uninjured Turkic children alive.

Yun Chu thought this should be a big problem, because those children who saw their relatives and tribesmen being forced by the Tang people to be chopped up by the Hu people were originally very scared, but later, they were miraculously no longer afraid. Although they were tied to the pillars, they stared at He Yuanshan, Yun Chu and others standing high up, with terrible eyes.

Yun Chu felt that his heart had long become as hard as stone, but he didn't expect that when He Yuanshan raised the copper hammer and smashed the heads of the seven children, his heart still beat violently a few times.

"I will die here!" He Yuanshan wiped his copper hammer with the clothes of the dead, his tone was indifferent and calm, no different from his usual chat.

"Now, I only think about how to defend this city, drag the Turks under the city, and wait for General Wu Hou to come and avenge me.

If I can do it, my children will be better. His Majesty will definitely reward them as the seventh-rank Wuqiwei. If I die brilliantly enough, even if I become Yunqiwei, my children will have a chance."

Yun Chu nodded and handed his wine pot to He Yuanshan, whose hands were shaking slightly. There was nothing he dared not do for a man who had long regarded himself as a dead man.

He Yuanshan drank a pot of wine in one breath, returned the pot to Yun Chu, patted him on the shoulder and said: "This city belongs to the dead. If you can avoid coming in, you should not come in."

Yun Chu smiled bitterly and said: "I had already run away, but later I came back."

He Yuanshan laughed: "You are not really for our comradeship?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Our relationship is good, but not to the point of living and dying together.

You took me to the Aries tribe with all the pots and pans. There are my adoptive mother who raised me for many years and a girl who has been calling me brother since she could talk. If they die here, I will have no good life in my life.

I originally weighed the time I lived. Long, and live comfortably but for a short time, in the end, I still think that being happy is the most important thing. "

He Yuanshan looked at Yun Chu for a long while, and then said coldly: "Don't think about going to the Aries to find them and take them away. If you do this, I will kill them as soon as possible. "

Yun Chu nodded and said: "Yes, it's okay for the people of the Aries to fight a favorable battle. If they know that they are fighting a desperate war, they will scatter like birds and beasts. "

"It's good that you understand. Since you don't want to live, then take people to eradicate all the barley seedlings outside the city and bring them back to feed the livestock. "

Yun Chu agreed, and took a team of soldiers to drive the group of Hu people who had just killed people and ate meat to the outside of the city to cut the barley that could be harvested in more than a month.

Since these barley can be used to feed cattle, sheep, and camels, the Hu people who cut the seedlings are still very active.

It only took three days, and the wheat fields outside the city of Qiuci, which were originally green, became bare.

After dealing with this matter, Yun Chu went to the Aries tribe to find Selaima and Naha. After all, this was what He Yuanshan promised him personally - he couldn't take them away openly, but could only take them away secretly without damaging the optimism of the Aries people.

When Yun Chu found Selaima and Naha, they stood on the periphery and watched the tribesmen tease the two Turks who were still alive with their hands and feet broken.

Yun Chu was no longer surprised by the self-destructive behavior of the Aries people.

When Yun Chu appeared in front of them, the first person to discover Yun Chu's existence was not Selaima, who claimed that she had excellent eyesight and could see the appearance of an eagle in the sky, nor was it Naha, who could tell where Yun Chu was by smelling the smell, but a wretched fat marmot.

There was an iron chain tied around the fat marmot's neck, which was rare in the Sai tribe. Now, the other end of the iron chain was in Naha's hand, and it was known that Jiesi Ka really loved Naha.

Naha rushed into Yun Chu's arms like a cannonball, crying heart-wrenchingly.

The moment Sailaima saw Yunchu, she covered her mouth with her hands, but tears flowed out like a spring.

She wanted to rush over, but Yunchu's neat Tang official uniform stopped her in her tracks.

Yunchu didn't say anything, hugged Naha, and motioned Sailaima to follow him.

At this time, Miman just put a barley head into the crotch of the Turkic man, which attracted the laughter of countless tribesmen. Except for Jiesiga who was standing in the distance on horseback, almost no one noticed Sailaima, Naha, and a fat marmot following a Tang boy away.

Naha, as usual, habitually sat on Yunchu's neck, holding Yunchu's new webbed head with both hands, and shouted loudly "Gee, gee, gee."

Yunchu loosened the iron chain on Dafei's neck, and Dafei, who was free, immediately jumped and ran towards the distant meadow.

"I want to make it fatter and roast it when my brother comes back." Seeing Dafei running away, Naha felt a little regretful.

"I'll make you beef buns with shallots after we get back. They're much better than roasted marmots."

Yun Chu casually dealt with Naha, and then said to Selaima: "You'll live in my house these days."

Selaima suddenly stopped, looked back at Jiesiga who seemed to be looking at her in the distance, and immediately shook her head violently: "Those people will laugh at Jiesiga."

Yun Chu's brows just frowned, Jiesiga had already driven the horse over. He seemed to be happy to see Naha's presumptuous behavior riding on Yun Chu's neck. He just lifted Selaima onto the horse's back, put her in his arms, and said to Yun Chu with a smile: "Take Naha to play."

After saying that, he turned the horse's head and returned to the crowd of onlookers.

Naha didn't care about her parents' departure at all, and gave them a big grimace, and continued to ride with Yun Chu's webbed head.

Back to the mulberry forest residence, Naha was interested in everything, especially the pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the low table, and the piles of documents.

Yunchu began to boil water. It had only been two months since he left Naha, but the child was already extremely dirty.

It was not until Naha was stripped naked by Yunchu and thrown into the big pot that she started to cry loudly as if she had just woken up from a dream. She did not like taking a bath at all.

The marching pots in the Daguanling Yamen were no longer useful. He Yuanshan, Liu Xiong and others had not returned in the past few days. Once the Turks came, these pots would definitely be abandoned.

When Fangzheng left, he left some bath beans for Yunchu. This thing was actually a mixture of mung bean powder and medicinal materials.

It was expensive and was personally developed by the old immortal Sun Simiao. It was said that it was made of bean powder and medicine, which could both remove dirt and protect the skin. It was said that washing hands and face with it would make your skin as white as snow in ten days and as white as cream in thirty days.

After this thing was dissolved in water, there was a faint herbal fragrance. After Naha smelled this smell, she immediately calmed down and signaled Yunchu to apply more on her.

After half an hour and three pots of water, the dirty child was finally washed out. He put on the red bellyband that Lao Yangskin prepared for Yun Chu. He looked really cute with red lips and white teeth.

When preparing to cook for Naha, Yun Chu began to miss Hou San. No matter if he was a traitor or not, he was really useful.

Zhang An and his men were killing cattle and preparing to make beef jerky. This was the military rations that had been prepared long ago. They sent the mute to ask for a large piece of fresh beef. Yun Chu took Naha, who was only wearing a red bellyband, to pick a lot of sand onions and let the child pick the sand onions one by one. He began to make dough and chop beef stuffing.

The most important step in making beef buns is to remove the natural fishy smell of beef. The fishy smell of beef comes from the remaining cow blood in the beef. Therefore, when soaking the beef in cold water, it is best to put a few pieces of charcoal.

After soaking for two hours, pour out the water and charcoal, and then cut the beef into thin slices along the texture of the beef, and then cut the slices into shreds, and finally into small pieces of meat the size of peas with distinct grains.

In the Gobi Desert, the best thing to go with beef is actually sand shallots. This wild vegetable with natural fragrance will give the beef a fresh taste of grass when mixed with beef.

In order to make the beef slightly sweet, Yun Chu added some soaked and chopped raisins to it. After the fructose in the raisins blends with the salt, the grassy taste of the beef and sand shallots will be transformed into a complex taste with a little sour aroma of wild berries.

Yun Chu stopped making the beef filling at this step, allowing the flavors of the fillings to continue to blend. He took out the dough that had been fermented from the pottery jar and soaked it in the ash made from burning pampas grass. After the ash melted, he filtered the dark gray water with silk and got half a bowl of turbid alkaline water.

The dough will have a strong sour taste after fermenting with yeast. Only by using alkaline water to offset the sour taste can you really steam a pot of good buns without sour taste.