After nightfall, Li Rui took a short look and put on a captured animal fur coat, brought a bow and arrow and a long sword to patrol the city wall.

After today's bloody battle, the city walls of the new city became even more broken, and many city walls were destroyed and could not be repaired in a short time. They could only use thick wooden boards to nail them into side signs to fix them to resist the rain of arrows. Otherwise, once they were attacked by the enemy, the people standing here would be in great trouble. The city gate, which was smashed by the stone ball thrown by the catapult, was not repaired. The hole was opened like this, and the sergeant could only be built outside the city gate to arrange for soldiers to guard them, and then set up two layers of horse-resistance in the city gate corridor. The same was true for the hole in the city wall that helped the Liangzhou army very much. There was definitely no time to block it, so I could only use the horse-resistance first.

It can be said that the new city is not suitable for defense at all because it is too broken and has too many loopholes. To defending such a city is simply a matter of being unable to overcome your own life!

However, the Liangzhou army did not intend to stick here for a long time. According to Beigong Jing's plan, they would just rest here for one night and would give up here tomorrow and head towards Yiyang.

So this night is very important and you must be wary. If someone is not careful and is stolen from the house, you will cry without tears.

Li Rui was responsible for defending this broken city wall. He placed fifty people on the city wall and prepared to work in three shifts. On such a night when water splashed into ice, it was too difficult to hold from dark to dawn. Three groups of people took turns to stand guard, each of whom stood for two hours, which was much better than that.

Now the people on duty on the city wall are Yang Zhi and his group of people.

When Li Rui arrived, Yang Zhi was just overwhelmed and was patrolling the city wall with a strong bow and a long sword in his hand. Seeing Li Rui coming, he immediately came over to salute: "See Quhou!"

Li Rui said: "No need to be polite. The Sheep team's rate is, how is the situation now?"

Yang Zhi said: "It's quite calm. There are no traces of Beilu's activities. Maybe it's because we were beaten during the day and dared not come over."

Li Rui said: "This is a good thing. I hope it will be so calm in the second half of the night."

Yang Zhi said: "I hope."

Li Rui found a place to be leeward, sat on the homemade stool, kept venting his breath in his palm, murmured and cursing: "This damn weather is so cold! How long has it been before I got on the city wall? My ears and fingers were so cold that they hurt! "

Yang Zhi said: "Yes, it's really too cold. Thanks to Quhou's arrangement of three shifts for us, otherwise we will definitely have someone who freezes to death while on night!"

Li Rui said: "What can I do if I don't work in such a cold day? Not to mention guarding from dark to dawn, just staying on the city wall for two hours, I feel like I'm going to be frozen into an ice sculpture... No, it's too cold, I have to make some hot things, otherwise I will definitely not be able to stand it! Who, take the things I prepared!"

With a shout, two people immediately followed him and brought a small stove, and the other brought a set of tea sets. I don’t know where to get it.

In the small stove, the charcoal fire was burning vigorously, emitting a burst of warmth. Li Rui put his hand over and baked it, and immediately narrowed his eyes and showed a comfortable expression. Seeing that he was baking so well, Yang Zhi couldn't help but reach out to him...

Don't say it, it's so comfortable.

After Li Rui baked for a while, feeling that his fingers had become flexible, he took out a stone pot and put it on the stove, poured clean water into it, and then covered it with a lid.

The charcoal fire gently licked the bottom of the pot, and in a short while, a trace of heat came out of the spout of the teapot.

Li Rui took out a bag of tea, grabbed a handful and put it down carefully.

Yang Zhi asked curiously: "Does Quhou want to make tea?"

Li Rui said: "Yes."

Yang Zhi looked a little strange: "Quhou, your method of making tea..."

After putting the tea leaves, Li Rui covered the lid casually and asked, "What's wrong with my method of making tea?"

Yang Zhi said: "It's very strange!"

Li Rui wondered... He has been drinking tea like this since he was a child, but no one has ever said anything! He asked: "What a weird way?"

Yang Zhi said: "Often people have to put a lot of things in it when cooking tea, such as salt, cheese, dogwood..."

Li Rui's eyes were wide open: "My God, adding so many things to it, is this still called making tea? It's obviously cooking!

Yang Zhi said seriously: "Everyone cooks it like this!"

Li Rui: "..."

Well, he is ignorant.

The history of Chinese people dealing with tea can be traced back to the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. The history of tea is as long as the history of Chinese civilization. However, the history of Chinese people drinking tea is very short, as short as a thousand years.

Why so short?

The reason is very simple: Before the Middle Tang Dynasty, Chinese people did not drink tea, they only ate tea.

How to eat it?

Take the Tang Dynasty as an example. When people were having tea, they would first put the tea cakes on the fire and roast them. After a certain heat, they would roll them into powder and cook them in water. How about it, isn’t it eye-opening?

Do you think this is over? No, no, no, this is where? The next is the start that makes modern tea drinkers stunned. When the tea boils slightly, the ancients who were even bigger than pineapple will add salt, cheese, ginger, green onion, orange peel, red dates, mint, etc., and even meat! You can imagine what the cooked stuff is all. Not only did the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty do this, but even in the Song Dynasty, there were many people who would do this. For example, in the Song Dynasty, a kind of tea soup that the Song people liked to drink in winter was to use peanuts, sesame, walnuts, almonds, ginger, longan, coriander and tea leaves to be crushed and cooked. Whether this is tea or eight-treasure porridge depends on their own opinions. The ancients before the Tang Dynasty had no idea of ​​drinking tea at all. People called eating tea, which was eating tea, which was just eating and drinking tea? Can this thing be drunk?

It was not until the tea saint Lu Yu came out of nowhere that the "Tea Classic" was popular all over the world. The ancients discovered that the most correct way to open tea is not to use it to make porridge, but to use it to boil it in sweet spring water and drink it...

The way of tea in the Han Dynasty was not much different from that in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not as wild as the Tang Dynasty. It could throw meat into the tea soup and cook it. However, in Li Rui's opinion, it was also a pure dark dish. He decisively stopped Yang Zhi from letting him continue, because if he asked him to continue talking, he would probably have no appetite to drink it.

While chatting, a string of small bubbles appeared in the spout of the teapot, making a cooing sound, and a light tea fragrance spread out, causing the Jin army soldiers who were standing guard to twitch their noses and muttered in their hearts: "What is this Quhou stolen again? Why is it so fragrant?"

The tea was cooked, but it was so hot that it could not be drunk. Li Rui carefully picked up the teapot and put it aside, took out a thick-eyed net made of thick iron wire and placed it on the stove, and then opened his backpack. There were a dumpling inside, all of which were just made. He first brushed a little oil on the thick-eyed net, and then put two breads on it. As soon as the bread encountered the high temperature of the fire, water vapor immediately emerged, turning yellow little by little, and squeaking...

Yang Zhi asked: "Quhou, what are you doing?"

Li Rui said: "No, of course I'm making food!"

Yang Zhi said: "It's not meal time now. If you do this, it's a violation of military law!"

Li Rui rolled his eyes: "What kind of military law is violated? I have a bad appetite during dinner and I didn't eat enough. I can make some midnight snacks by myself. Is that a violation of military discipline? It's nonsense!"

The one he made was also an unleavened cake, which baked quickly. In just two or three minutes, one side of the cake had been roasted until browned, and the whole cake had nearly doubled, emitting an attractive fragrance. Li Rui quickly turned over it, baked the other side, then put it aside, and put two more on it...

After putting the two cakes, he took two thick porcelain tea cups, picked up the teapot and poured two cups of tea, and handed one of them together with the baked cake to Yang Zhi: "Try it?"

Yang Zhi took the cake and took a big bite. Yes, the one with the stuffing. Li Rui, a very good guy, probably picked a few pieces of fat from the horse meat that he had not finished eating at dinner today, slap the sauce, and then wrapped it into the cake for filling. When scone the cake, the meat filling inside was hot and the fat oozed out. The oil and water were oozing down one mouthful of it, which was so fragrant. His eyes shone and said, "It's delicious!"

Li Rui said proudly: "As long as it is made by me, there is nothing that is not delicious!"

Yang Zhi took another big bite, and the more he ate it, he became more and more delicious. He sincerely admired: "Even if Quhou doesn't lead his troops to fight, he can still have a prosperous business and live a good life when he goes to Luoyang City to open a restaurant!"

Li Rui also took a big bite of the cake and turned over the baked cake: "Oh, do you think I don't want it? But in a war, there is nothing I can do about it. God just likes to be a foodie. It's obviously suitable to be a foodie, but it wants to make me a soldier... I'm not the material for leading troops to fight!"

Yang Zhi said: "In fact, Qu Hou's method of governing the army is quite good. Since you took office, we have never sent deserters."

Li Rui said: "That's just that the Hu people are at the foot of the mountain. Everyone has nowhere to escape. How can they count on me?"

Yang Zhi said: "Quhou, you are too humble."

Li Rui shook his head: "It's not that too humble, I know how much I have." He swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up the tea and took a sip... Oh, it's okay, this tea is made of no fertilizers or pesticides, and the aroma of pure natural tea leaves is so strong. Take a sip and the pores of the whole body are relaxed, which is so comfortable. It's hard to drink such tea in modern times. Maybe it's sold by two, which is a few hundred and one taels!

He enjoyed it, but Yang Zhi didn't move, just looked at him with an incredible look on his face, and asked, "Qu Hou, are you... you really drinking?"

Li Rui said: "No, if I don't drink it, why should I cook it?"

Yang Zhi hesitated and said: "This kind of tea was used when sacrificing to ancestors..."

Simply put, it is for the dead to drink.

Li Rui: "..."
Chapter completed!