Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 173 Tianchi

The army did not set up camp. Some people woke up at dawn the next day. There was a strange smell in the cold air. Some people looked curiously in the direction where the smell came from, and saw more than a dozen large pots boiling something.

"What's cooking here? It smells like meat. Is it broth?"

"That's impossible. Drinking broth so early in the morning, how can such a good thing happen?"

"What are you talking about? Let's go and take a look."

Several people went forward to check and found that what was cooked in the pot was not meat soup, but bone soup. The scraped meat bones were thrown into the pot and boiled overnight, and the soup had already turned into a milky white color.

These bones were naturally not from the pile of supplies, but from Song Chunlin's private collection in his space. There were several tons of beef shank bones in the cold chain truck. The Song family was not in great need of them, so naturally the consumption was not large. Song Chunlin simply took them out to make the soup base for snail noodles, which also reduced the burden on his space.

As for whether these soldiers could tell that the food they ate was beef shank bones, that was not his concern. Anyway, if the sky fell, Gu Fengyue would take the lead.

After almost everyone got up, Song Chunlin directed the cooks to prepare the ingredients. There were no snails in this place, so Song Chunlin simply used the bagged snail noodle seasoning packets in the space instead. The taste would definitely be a little worse, but it was a good opportunity to see if everyone could accept the flavor.

In addition to the soup, there are also various side dishes. Fried peanuts were also not available in this era. The peanuts just out of the pan were very fragrant. Bean curd skin, bean curd sticks and eggs were fried in the pan together and expanded collectively, which surprised Zhang Yu and the others.

The weather was cold and there were no green vegetables, so Song Chunlin planted an acre of water spinach, also known as vine vegetable, overnight. This thing is a standard ingredient in snail noodles and is indispensable.

Eating only noodles early in the morning will definitely not make you feel full. They are all men with big appetites, so Zhang Yu and his team also steamed buns and boiled rice soup. Those who are not used to snail noodles can choose steamed buns and rice soup.

However, to Song Chunlin's surprise, everyone actually chose snail noodles. The reason was that this thing had rich side dishes and was rich in oil and water. Isn't it much more delicious than those dry steamed buns?

The weather is still cold now, so I put a small amount of chili oil in the soup. After drinking it, you will feel warm all over. Then take a sip of noodles and a bite of fried egg. The fried egg that has absorbed the soup will burst directly in your mouth. It is definitely a new and novel taste that everyone has never tasted before.

Everyone held up big bowls and learned how to slurp noodles without any instruction. In that era, there was no such thing as rice noodles, and even noodles were rare. Everyone found the noodles fresh and new, even though they smelled a bit strange. The soup contained large bones, which were full of oil. The bones were chopped into two pieces, and the marrow could be slurped out directly from the broken end. The marrow was full of delicious soup and was very fragrant.

Zhang Yu quickly finished a bowl of noodles and was about to get another bowl, but he found that these bastards were quicker than him. When he went over, only soup was left, without even a bone.

"I'm not good at anything except eating!" Zhang Yu cursed while dividing up the last bit of soup. The soup was also delicious when eaten with steamed buns.

Gu Fengyue watched Song Chunlin turn the army into a large camping site, and suddenly doubted whether it was right or wrong for her to bring him on the road.

Song Chunlin had just eaten spicy snail noodles last night, so he didn't have much of an appetite this morning. Gu Fengyue couldn't eat anything too spicy, so the two of them were the only ones who drank rice soup and ate steamed buns early in the morning.

"Well, I told you that no one can escape the power of snail rice noodle."

"Yeah." Gu Fengyue quickly finished the steamed bun in her hand, then took the leftovers from Song Chunlin and ate them naturally.

Everyone around them saw their actions and their pupils trembled.

"I didn't expect that the Second Young Master would be such a person!"

People around were whispering, and Gu Fengyue heard it, but did not think much about it. Song Chunlin went into the space after eating. He wanted to take stock of the inventory and give priority to those that could not be used up.

After the army set off, Song Chunlin sat in the front of the carriage, looking at the desolate scenery around him. He asked Gu Fengyue curiously, "There is no river nearby, so why did the emperor name this city Linyuan? Where is the abyss? Is it underground?"

Gu Fengyue pointed to the mountains behind them and told him: "Look at that mountain. Can you see what's on the top of it?"

Upon hearing this, Song Chunlin stretched his neck and looked towards the mountain. In fact, his mental power had already reached the top of the mountain over there.

Different from the desolate scene here, on the other side of the mountain is a circular lake about several hundred feet wide. The entire lake is surrounded by mountains and looks very much like the so-called Tianchi.

Gu Fengyue gestured and saw a small black dot on a distant hill.

"There is a checkpoint there for the water transport convoys to pass through. All the water used in Linyuan City is taken from the Tianchi Lake. The Tianchi Lake is dangerous and ordinary people dare not easily go in, so it is heavily guarded all year round."

Song Chunlin was a little confused about what Tianchi was dangerous about.

Gu Fengyue saw his confusion and patiently explained: "You can think of those mountains as a huge bucket, and the Tianchi is the water in the bucket. The edge of the Tianchi is as steep as a cliff, with a huge drop in height. Even people who are good at swimming dare not go into the water easily. If someone falls into the water, no one dares to save them. Therefore, the government does not allow the people to enter, but instead opens up a relatively flat area on the edge of the Tianchi for people to fetch water."

After Gu Fengyue's explanation, Song Chunlin finally understood. This turned out to be the so-called abyss. It was indeed very deep. His mental power could hardly reach the ground. And the overall situation was indeed as Gu Fengyue said. It was a huge bucket filled with water. If there was no water, there would be cliffs all around. With such a deep body of water, anyone who went down would be seeking death.

Moreover, when Song Chunlin swept the surrounding area, he found that there was only one city, Linyuan, within a radius of a hundred miles. Except for the area around Tianchi, there was no grass growing anywhere else. No wonder they had to send heavy troops to guard it.

Their team was moving fairly fast, but the huge Tianchi Mountain Range was still standing majestically. Song Chunlin couldn't help but think, was there such a place in ancient China? This was also different from the geographical location of the modern Tianchi.

Song Chunlin called Dabao in his mind, and Dabao, who was working hard, replied to him with a confused look on his face.

"Master, Master, I'm here, what's wrong?"

"Dabao, let me ask you, you have been in space for so many years, have you ever seen such a Tianchi? It is not in Changbai Mountain, but here. Ah, let me see, the general location should be the Central Plains. Get out of the Central Plains quickly."

Dabao thought about it and realized that there really was such a Tianchi Lake.

"Indeed, there is. It is probably about 10,000 years earlier than the era of your previous life, Master."