TPITWOHEF

Chapter 148

"You can't even get this in the imperial palace?"

Sitting by the campfire, Duoti noticed that in the time it took to say a few words, the Jing Country soldiers had already finished eating. They poured water into their bamboo tubes several times, consuming every last drop of the soup and oil.

Then the soldiers went to clean the bamboo tubes.

In the blink of an eye, the rich aroma that had been lingering in their nostrils completely disappeared.

In the open area, the north wind blew, extinguishing the fragrance along with the sparks from the firewood.

Duoti opened his mouth.

He recalled that in previous battles, there were times when he couldn't find his way, but he always managed to locate his destination by following the smell of food.

Often, when he arrived, the foolish soldiers from other tribes would still be cooking soup or roasting meat. By the time they saw him attacking, it was too late for them to pack up!

But with these bamboo tubes of the Jing Country, how was it possible that before he could even finish asking his question, the Jing Country soldiers had already prepared, eaten, and cleaned up their hot soup and noodles, with the smell completely gone?

"That's right, even in the imperial palace, I heard that the princes can't get it," Hou Yuchuan spoke up. "If it weren't for Concubine Liu, who helped us develop these instant noodles and saved a portion for her own son, the Fifth Prince, the princes wouldn't even get a sip of the noodle soup."

"!"

Duoti was stunned, and the other grassland cavalry were equally incredulous, as if they had heard an outlandish tale.

What?

On the grasslands, not just their Khan Wu Yun, but any tribal leader would never let good things go to their soldiers without having it themselves first!

What kind of joke was this?

"Concubine Liu?" Duoti felt a sense of familiarity. "Why does that sound familiar?"

Hou Yuchuan slapped his thigh, "You certainly wouldn't know our imperial concubines. But it's normal that it sounds familiar to you."

He pointed to the military canteen hanging at his waist, which he had been cherishing all along the journey. "The inventor of this thing, as well as our military thermos flasks, is Liu Runnian of the Ministry of Works, who happens to be Concubine Liu's elder brother."

"They're both surnamed Liu, huh."

Duoti was taken aback.

At this point, a nearby Jing Country soldier couldn't help but interject, "The Liu family are all clever people. They think of us soldiers, knowing how hard it is for us to march and fight. They've come up with one good thing after another for us elite troops to use. We all feel like we have boundless energy lately."

"Indeed, when I'm eating dry rations and can have such a delicious sip of chicken soup from the instant noodles, I'm reminded that I need to work hard this year too."

The few Jing Country soldiers who had come along were all elite troops.

"We can't let down Concubine Liu and Lord Liu's thoughtfulness. Even the common people don't have these good things, they're prioritizing us."

Duoti and the grassland soldiers listened with indescribably strange expressions.

"Hey, I heard a storyteller at the foreign embassy say that without military pay, soldiers starve and freeze to death..." a burly grassland man couldn't help but speak up.