Wang Pu in the late Ming Dynasty

Then, in the stunned eyes of thousands of people, Gu Yan cut off that corner, and the stone rolled down and hit the ground with a bang. Li Guo suddenly woke up. He waved his hand and led his soldiers to climb up from this gap. Without the city wall, this gap was just a gentle slope. Li Guo was skilled and daring. When the fortress was in chaos, he was the first to climb the city and shouted: "The divine soldiers have descended from the sky, and those who surrender will not be killed." His soldiers were also not vague, and they chopped down several unlucky guys nearby one after another, and set up a battle array in this corner.

The Fu family finally recovered. Master Fu's face turned pale as he shouted, "Go and kill the bandits quickly. Everyone will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, no, 100 taels."

But black smoke still gushed out from the cracks in the ground in this corner, which invisibly dampened the morale. Everyone was confused about the details of the black smoke and thought it was magical, so they didn't dare to move forward. As the saying goes, suspicion breeds evil. At this time, some people were confused and muttered privately, "I, I just heard a strange cry coming from inside."

When the people around heard this, their faces changed drastically. They all thought that the fort had a gap for no reason, and it must be a witchcraft. Master Fu had no choice but to raise his knife and roared: "That's just the sound of a pig. Of course a pig will sound when it is burned to death. You pig, they are just playing tricks. Hurry up, hurry up. If the bandits come in large numbers, you will die if you still want to survive. The bandits are so unscrupulous that they leave a lot of trouble wherever they go. Don't you know what's going on?"

This finally reminded everyone. When everyone thought that if the bandits attacked, their families would be in danger, they were immediately filled with righteous indignation and threw aside their fear of the magic. They clenched their swords and guns and rushed towards the bandits.

Master Fu was so anxious that he forgot that the bandits had already attacked him. There was no wall in front of him to block the arrows. When Li Guo saw the old man shouting, he knew it was the leader. He took advantage of his unpreparedness and shot him with a bow, piercing his heart with an arrow.

Master Fu fell down with blood spitting out of his mouth. Seeing that the master was gone, the farmhands around him panicked and had no one to lead the command. They could not kill the bandits in formation and gradually lost their spirit. Once someone took the lead, they were like mercury on the ground, dissipating and running for their lives. When Li Zicheng and others arrived, the situation in the fort was already decided. Looking at the piles of food, Li Zicheng cried out. Before this, every time they broke the city with great difficulty, those gentry knew that their chances of survival were over. They were unwilling to leave their family property to the bandits, so they burned their own food and other property first. Therefore, the rebels broke many cities, but got very little food.

This time, they were lucky enough to kill the commander of the fort first, so that the fort was caught off guard and had no time to burn things. Finally, the entire warehouse was full of rice, flour, wheat, millet and other crops piled up into a mountain and fell into the hands of the rebels intact. With so much food, no one would starve to death within half a month.

Li Zicheng then remembered that Li Yan had made great contributions this time and he couldn't let him down. He hurriedly ordered people to invite Li Yan back. Unexpectedly, King Chuang Gao Yingxiang stopped him and said, "I have wronged him. I will go and invite him in person. If he doesn't come back, I will kneel down and kowtow."

"King Chuang, you can't do that. Li Yan is just a young man. How can you go in person? Don't damage our prestige." EveryoneThey all tried to dissuade him.

"Am I a person who doesn't know what's good for me? You don't need to persuade me. A real man is born in heaven and earth, and he should stand tall and upright. He should correct his mistakes. How can you achieve great things if you are full of calculations and are stingy like a woman for a little gain and loss?" said Gao Yingxiang, the King of Rebellion, displeased and left.

Everyone knew that the King of Rebellion had a stubborn temper. As long as he was determined to make a dead point, there was no room for negotiation, and no one dared to persuade him.

When Wang Pu saw Gao Yingxiang abandon his personal soldiers and ride his horse to him, he actually bowed to him respectfully, saying that he didn't recognize the great man and apologized. He knew that his method of breaking the city with live pigs was successful. Wang Pu had been in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, so of course he didn't have those poor and fussy things that were easy to offend people. He immediately smiled and exchanged greetings with Gao Yingxiang. He was invited to return to the rebel camp.

This time, the whole army of the righteous army looked at Li Yan with new eyes, and a welcoming banquet was a piece of cake. Even Li Guo became much more honest and did not dare to flatter Xing Hongniang openly.

At the welcoming banquet, everyone drank a few glasses of wine and ate the rare wax meat stew, so they talked a lot.

Someone asked: "I heard that Mr. Li is a nobleman from a wealthy family. What delicious dishes have you eaten?"

Wang Pu thought for a while and said: "Nothing to eat, just Hu La Tang every day." He was not the real Li Yan, he only knew that Henan's Hu La Tang was very famous, and he did not dare to say more details to avoid revealing flaws.

Unexpectedly, this remark attracted a breath. Wang Pu suddenly felt something was wrong and muttered in his heart. These people were amazed and shocked on their faces, and their mouths were about to drool. This meant that they thought Hu La Tang was a rare and hard-to-find good thing.

He didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to ask Xing Hongniang for help, leaning over and whispering, "Did I say something wrong just now?"

Xing Hongniang couldn't help but roll her eyes at him and said with a smile, "It is said that Hu La Tang was originally an appetizer in the palace, so the emperor could eat Hu La Tang every day."

Wang Pu hurriedly made amends, "You are surprised by what you have seen, the emperor will not eat those things, he eats more rare." In fact, under the low-yield conditions in ancient times, Hu La Tang might really be a peerless delicacy that only the emperor can enjoy every day. Wang Pu knew that he had made a small mistake of "Why not eat meat porridge", but now that the words have been spoken, he can't take them back. He can only exaggerate the emperor's diet to make up for his previous gaffe.

Unexpectedly, everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and they gathered around, as if they were listening to some wartime strategy. Even Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but lean over, frowning deeply, wanting to listen more carefully.

Sure enough, Li Zicheng asked, "What does the emperor eat? Sir, you are really well-versed in history and modern times."

"What does the emperor eat? Hiss." Wang Pu cursed inwardly: How should I know? I am not from the Ming Dynasty. Besides, I went into the palace and kowtowed and came out. I didn't dare to ask the eunuchs. But now it is clear that he is riding a tiger and it is difficult to back down. He must reveal some shocking news. "KFC. Yes, KFC."

"Sir, do you know how to make this dish?"Li Zicheng asked.

"Yes, make it and try it, it must be good stuff."

"Nonsense, how can the emperor eat bad food?"

"The emperor likes to eat this kind of chicken, I dare not even dream what it tastes like."

Wang Pu looked at them, the whole rebel tent was a Chongzhen fan club, inexplicably tired, thinking: You are all rebels, others beheaded, you are the kind of people who are lingchi, you should have a future, you don't care about the emperor's character flaws, character weaknesses, but you are so concerned about what delicacies he eats.

"Mr. Li, are you making fun of us? We rough people have only heard of beggar's chicken, what is the pit chicken. "A man with a rough voice shouted. This man had met Wang Pu before. He was the general named Liu who was guarding the pass outside the mountain. He even came to eat with a shameless face.

Wang Pu asked: "Who is this brother?"

"Liu Zongmin, have you forgotten that we just talked today?"

"I haven't heard of it." Wang Pu was familiar with this name. Liu Zongmin was the number one general in Li Zicheng's army later, but he couldn't stand this tyrannical character who killed people without hesitation, so he deliberately humiliated him.

Sure enough, Liu Zongmin's face was a little cold, staring at Wang Pu fiercely, as if a hungry wolf was staring at its prey. Everyone also saw that something was wrong, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent. It was Chuang Wang who came out to smooth things over, and said coldly: "Liu Bazong, I told you to watch the mountain gate, why did you leave your post without permission? Go back quickly, the government troops are ambushing outside the mountain, and you can't be careless. ”

Liu Zongmin was tired of eating human flesh, and when he heard that there were guests at the banquet here and that there was delicious food, he came here to eat. He didn't want to be ridiculed and humiliated, but he didn't have much power at the time, so he could only bow to the King of Rebellion and walk out angrily.

Wang Pu was a little surprised that King of Rebellion Gao Yingxiang would stand up for him. It seemed that this man was straightforward, and he was clear about gratitude and resentment. In fact, it was not difficult to get along with him. He changed his mind about him greatly. Seeing that everyone was so concerned about this dish, he couldn't refuse the kindness. He thought for a while and said, "KFC, I just learned a few tricks, but unfortunately my cooking skills are not good, and I can only make 30% to 40% of the taste."

"Teach us once, there is a good chef in our old camp who will figure out the trick of this dish. "Li Zicheng said impatiently.

Wang Pu thought about it and agreed to fry chicken with fried noodles. The steps were not difficult, so he nodded.

But knowing is easier than doing. Wang Pu found that there were too many diners and he couldn't do it alone. As a later generation, Wang Pu's mind was naturally flexible. This little trouble was not difficult for him, so he thought of self-service hot pot and ordered people to boil lard to make dozens of self-service oil hot pot.

"It is better to coat the flour with full flour. Yes, fry it until golden. Fry it until golden. Brother Li, pick it up quickly. Your fried chicken wings are burnt. Be careful. Chicken wings are easy to burn. Pick them up first. Fried chicken legs are the most difficult to cook thoroughly. Fry them for a while longer." Wang Pu walked back and forth, and the whole scene was quite like an examiner patrolling the examination room.

The rebels all looked solemn. They took skewers carefully and put the chicken, chicken breast, chicken legs, and chicken wings coated with flour.She carefully fry the chicken, turning her wrist from time to time, smelling the strange aroma she had never smelled before, her eyes were wide open, and she didn't even care about the blisters on her hands caused by the jumping oil beads. This was the emperor's delicacy, and it was indeed made of strange ingredients. Before she could eat a bite, she had already used up more than ten pigs and boiled a large bucket of lard. The emperor was the emperor, and the surname Zhu really loved pork. My goodness, normally, even a rich family could use such a bucket of lard for more than ten or twenty years, but the emperor's meal was all gone.

"My goodness, this is not eating chicken, it's clearly eating oil. If you eat this way, the emperor will be fat." Gao Guiying was a woman after all, and she knew more than the big men present. Eating too much oil will make you fat. This kind of thing is not common sense among the poor. It is only women like Gao Guiying who often go into the kitchen to take care of the ingredients and care about their body shape that can understand it.

"Yes, yes, I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin weighs 300 kilograms, and he needs several people to carry him when he goes out. The emperor is probably not light either." The royal family is very fat, which is common knowledge in the Ming Dynasty.

"It turns out that the old Zhu family likes this best, no wonder."

"The Zhu family we have met are indeed very fat, and they are all delicious, with tender and delicious meat."

"The Prince of Qin weighs 300 kilograms, so the emperor must weigh 500 kilograms, wouldn't he be a ball. Hahaha."

Gao Yingxiang frowned and said, "This dish is good enough, but we can't eat it in the future. If we get fat, it will only cause trouble."

"Yes, Prince Chuang, don't worry, I can't afford it either."

While they were talking and laughing, someone suddenly came outside to report that Zhang Xianzhong had come. Prince Chuang did not dare to neglect and went to greet him first. Wang Pu couldn't help but be curious and followed behind.

I saw a big man in bright armor smiling and bowing to the King of Rebellion. Wang Pu carefully looked at the man. The man in front of him was not bad-looking, and he was actually a little handsome. However, Wang Pu knew that this man was cruel and murderous, and there was a rumor that he massacred Sichuan in later generations. He felt uncomfortable and disliked his words and deeds.

When the King of Rebellion introduced Li Xin to Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Pu was pushed forward by everyone.

"So this is the brother Li Xin, the best young man in the world who did not hesitate to give up all his property to help the victims." Zhang Xianzhong had actually heard of Li Xin's deeds, and his eyes flashed at him repeatedly.

"Oh?" The King of Rebellion had obviously never heard of this, and was stunned when he heard this.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately told the story of Li Xin who gave up his property to help the victims, but was finally falsely accused of treason. Everyone was indignant after hearing this, and the look in their eyes when they looked at Wang Pu suddenly changed.

"The former Li Xin has died. I have changed my name to Li Yan. Please do not address me by my old name." Wang Pu responded indifferently.

Everyone could see that Master Li Yan was in a bad mood. Zhang Xianzhong was also stunned when he heard this. He realized that Master Li seemed to be very distant from him, and he could not help but feel cold. He had heard that Li Xin had broken a fortress with a clever trick, so he wanted to come and see this man. If he could be used, he would recruit him. Now it was clearly a case of being rejected. If he said he was not angry, he would be lying.

But he still suppressed his anger.He said, "I heard that Mr. Li is a talented man. I wonder if he has any tricks to defeat the government troops." He had lost his patience and just wanted to test Mr. Li's ability as soon as possible. If he didn't live up to his reputation, he would leave immediately. He didn't want to waste time talking to a disgusting person.

Wang Pu was not willing to help him, but he didn't dare to quarrel with him in person. He said politely, "The Divine Armor Camp is powerful. I don't have any good ideas."

Everyone was disappointed, but they didn't take it too seriously. They couldn't expect a rich man to be a master of war. He could learn some tricks from books, which was better than ordinary people. Moreover, Mr. Li was really a good man. He was willing to sell his family to help the victims. It was rare in the whole Ming Dynasty. Anyone who heard about his deeds would be in awe.

The King of Chuang actually liked the temperament of Master Li. He originally thought that this greasy-haired and powdered young man was useless, but now he couldn't help but admire him. At least he was a man of character, and he was also kind-hearted. He was clearly what the world called a gentleman. It was a pity that he didn't have a suitable female relative, and he was also engaged, so they couldn't become relatives. He laughed and helped Li Yan out of the siege, saying: "Let's work together, and someone will always come up with a solution. Don't just stand there, go in and have something to eat and drink, and make a long-term plan. Master Li, come, come, sit next to me."

After that, the King of Chuang pulled Wang Pu to his side and made way for Zhang Xianzhong.

Wang Pu frowned secretly. According to his observation, the King of Chuang Gao Yingxiang was not a bad person, and his temperament was even more fierce. Why was he willing to associate with a demon like Zhang Xianzhong, and the Chuang army seemed to be quite fond of and treated Zhang Xianzhong with courtesy.

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