Zhang Hui carried a hoe and walked barefoot in the front, while Li Ze followed with his hands in his hands and walked forward along the dirt in the village. It was almost noon, and many of the people who had been working outside the home were returning home to prepare for dinner, as could be seen from the smoke rising from the cooking stoves all over the village. Walking on the road and meeting their group, the villagers gave way to both sides of the road, and from the expressions and behaviors of these people, Li Ze could tell that these people were making way for Zhang Hui, not for themselves.

The prestige of Zhang Hui is very high!

Along the way, Zhang Hui casually nodded or greeted each other with the people he met, and casually said some homely gossip, but for the people who followed him closely, he didn't even think about it. And those villagers, at most, don't look at Li Ze and his party a few more times, probably as Gongsun Changming said, there are too many people looking for Zhang Hui here, I'm afraid that people who are bigger than themselves don't know the ordinary, in comparison, their seven or eight people still seem a little thin, of course, they can't attract the extra attention of these villagers.

At the easternmost end of the village, there is a house with a single courtyard, which is clearly different from the other houses in the village. The real green bricks and blue tiles, the fences are naturally generated from half-human-high bamboo, the branches are entangled, the green and yellow linger, and a natural interest will arise spontaneously.

Through the fence, Li Ze could see a large flock of chickens and ducks roaming freely in the huge courtyard, a middle-aged woman, sitting on a bamboo bench and choosing some vegetables, those chickens and ducks trotted to her from time to time to pick up one and run, and some dared to go away, and even stretched out their beaks to peck at the woman's clothes, whenever at this time, the woman's mouth made an oh sound, driving these chickens and ducks aside.

Of course, Li Ze also saw the two big dogs lying next to the woman. Originally, the two big dogs were sleeping soundly on all fours in the spring sun, but when Li Ze looked at them, the two big dogs raised their heads in unison, their eyes widened, their mouths opened slightly, revealing their sharp fangs, and they also made a low whimpering sound in their throats.

To Li Ze's surprise, in the row of rooms next to the main room, there were still some immature voices reading the article, and the person who read it was actually a woman.

Female masters are rare.

It's really a family history.

Standing at the door of the fence, Zhang turned his head, looked at Li Ze, who was following all the way, and said: "It's always a guest who comes from afar, so please come in and sit down. ”

"I am already happy to be able to enter this door, in Mr. here, even if it is coarse tea and light rice, Li is like eating dragon liver and phoenix gall!" Li Ze said with a smile.

Zhang Hui smiled, stretched out his hand, and Li Ze strode in. Behind him, Gongsun Changming was about to come in with him, but Zhang Hui stretched out his hand to stop him. The face that was still smiling just now is as cold as ice at the moment.

"Brother Zhang, are you trying to reject me thousands of miles away?" Gongsun Changming smiled bitterly.

"If it weren't for your years of hard work in Lu Long, I would have bitten people, but if you want to enter my door, you can't." Zhang Hui sneered.

"Yes, if you don't enter, you won't enter, but you have to give a few benches! Send a few pots of hot water! Gongsun Changming spread his hands and said.

"There are a lot of rocks over there to sit on, and if you want to drink water, how much should there be in the stream!" Zhang Hui pursed his lips and entered the door with a hoe, the young man smiled apologetically at Gongsun Changming, and walked in with a basket, and actually closed the bamboo fence with his hand.

Li Ze glanced back at his own guards who were stopped outside the courtyard gate along with Gongsun Changming, and waved at them, these people immediately unloaded some packages from their horses, opened them, and in a blink of an eye, they set up a tent outside the courtyard, and they were ready to make their own fire and cook outside.

The two big dogs also got up at this time, sniffed on Li Ze, probably because Zhang Hui was by his side, after sniffing a few times, he lost interest, and ran to the fence wall instead, and the person stood up, put his two front paws on the fence wall, and looked at the busy crowd outside.

"You're well prepared." Zhang Hui looked at Li Ze with a smile.

"Originally, I was going to be turned away by my husband, so I was entangled with a dead face, so I brought everything I needed." Li Ze said with a smile.

"You confess." Zhang Hui put down the hoe with a smile, and the middle-aged woman who was choosing vegetables came over, gave Li Zefu a blessing, straightened up, and looked at Zhang Hui.

"This is a distinguished guest, the envoy of the Henghai Festival, Li Ze, the general of the Qianniu Guard." Zhang Hui introduced: "Li Shuai, this is Zhang's inner son. ”

Li Ze hurriedly bowed his hand.

While speaking, the door of the wing door on the other side opened, and a group of children rushed out of it cheering, crossed Li Ze, and went straight out of the courtyard door.

"My son Zhang Xun, this is my daughter-in-law."

After making a brief introduction, Zhang Hui went to the corner of the wall to scoop a bucket of water, washed his face, hands and feet, and picked up the vegetables picked out by the middle-aged woman, and said, "Jie Shuai, I'm going to cook, if you have nothing to do, you can help me take care of the stove." ”

"Do you cook for yourself?" Li Ze looked at Zhang Hui in surprise.

Zhang Hui grinned: "No way, who told me to marry a famous lady, I don't know how to cook or anything, the daughter-in-law I ask for is also from a scholarly family, and my fingers don't touch the spring water, so I can only do it myself, and I take turns cooking with Xun'er." ”

Sure enough, it's a strange person.

Li Ze laughed silently in his heart, in the future life, it is common for men to cook, but at this time, it is indeed rare, let alone a character like Zhang Hui.

Walking into the kitchen, Li Ze was surprised to find that it was very clean and orderly, combined with the previous chapter, his wife did not enter the kitchen, so all of this was obviously sorted out by this person who looked extremely rude on the outside.

Very unexpectedly, Li Ze actually saw an iron pot in this kitchen, and also arrived at a familiar ceramic crockpot, stepped forward, opened the lid of the jar wrapped in cloth, and the fragrance of rapeseed oil came to his nose.

"See?" Zhang Hui smiled: "You made these out, right?" But I'm still not used to it, so I've always put it on the shelf! ”

"I remember these things, and I haven't sold them out." Li Ze picked up the iron pot that had been forged thousands of times and was obviously from his own Zhuangzi.

"Someone gave it to me." Zhang replied. "Gongsun Changming, that old man, may have told you that I am a person with peach and plum all over the world, so under your rule of Chengde, how can there be no disciples of mine?"

"I don't know it's that talent?" Li Ze asked.

"Yuan Zhou."

As soon as these two words came out, Li Ze couldn't help but be stunned, and the iron pot he was playing with in his hand almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, he was agile and fished it back before he landed.

"So it's him? In this way, the gentleman must know everything about me! Li Ze smiled.

"If not, how can you get through my door?" Zhang Hui said lightly: "Many dignitaries want to enter this rough courtyard but can't get it, of course, they can tear down the fence and break in." ”

"It's not a wise move to be rude to someone like my husband!" Li Ze smiled: "Since there are these things here, why don't I cook a meal for Mr. today?" How about a fire for me, sir? ”

"You're handsome and can cook?" Zhang replied.

"People take food as the sky, the first thing people do in life is to fill their stomachs, I am also a person, and I am an excellent person, how can I not cook?" Li Zedao.

"What a people live on food!" Zhang Hui nodded appreciatively, "Then there is Lao Jieshuai, I will open my mouth for dinner today." ”

"That's not good, cooking skills are very important, but the control of this heat, if it is bad, this meal will inevitably be a lot worse." Li Ze said with a smile.

Zhang Hui laughed: "Okay, good, good, then I'll listen to your orders, you say big is big, you say small is small, and look at your meal, how do you do it compared to me?" ”

"Naturally, it's stronger." Li Zedao: "Because I have not only been doing, but also have been seeking change, has been suffering in the world, Mr. craftsmanship is good, but living in this small village, inevitably a little unable to keep up with the changes, for example, this iron pot, after Mr. arrived, but it has not been used, ordinary cooking, or cooking and steaming old routine, today let Mr. see me use this iron pot, with this rapeseed oil that smells far less fragrant than sesame oil, for Mr. to cook a world meal." ”

Frying, frying, frying, stewing, boiling, stewing, Li Ze devoted himself to the process of making food, although he didn't do it often, but he could do it well.

Of course, in this way, this meal was much later than usual, and after a full hour had passed, there were a dazzling array of eight dishes and one soup on the table of the Eight Immortals in the main hall.

Zhang Hui was quite calm, because he had witnessed the whole process after all, while his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson were all stunned around the table at the moment, looking at the dishes on the table, which were all fragrant and good-looking, as for the taste, they hadn't tasted it yet, so naturally they didn't know.

But no matter how it tastes, the quality of the dish alone is obviously far beyond their imagination. On weekdays, where have they ever seen a dish made like this?

"If you don't be a festival handsome, you can live well with this dish alone." Zhang Hui sighed.

"If there is no peaceful world, where can I have such a peaceful and joyful place to cook my food with peace of mind?" Li Ze smiled: "Why don't you sit down and have a taste?" ”

Before Li Ze's words fell, the sound of swallowing saliva came, but it was Zhang Hui's little grandson, who finally couldn't help it and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.