If the fire pit is well built, a major matter will be solved.

After that, Li Mengxi went to see the military doctors nearby. What he thought yesterday was that dumplings are an excellent medicinal material to keep out the cold.

When making dumplings, adding ginger to mutton and some other medicinal materials can maximize the cold-resistant ability of the dumplings.

After summoning the military doctors, Li Mengxi said, "I have a medicine that can be taken to ward off the winter cold.

It's just that I only have half of the prescription. Can you guys who are proficient in pharmacology make up the full prescription for me?

This prescription is - add ginger to mutton, or add other heat-generating medicinal materials, wrap it in dough and cook it, it can be used both as medicine and food.

Do you think, besides mutton, ginger, what else should be added?"

Li Mengxi asked, and the military doctors began to talk among themselves.

All the military doctors in the army were personally selected by Tian Bu. Tian Bu had excellent medical skills. Tian Bu was attracted by Tian Bu and selected him as a military doctor. His level was not low, and he was definitely not comparable to ordinary herbal medicine doctors.

These good doctors exchanged words——

"Mutton is dry and hot, and ginger is also a heat-producing substance. Taking these two will immediately produce heat and sweat, which can indeed ward off the cold."

"...What else can be added to the medicine for sexual heat?" a military doctor asked someone else.

A middle-aged military doctor next to him smoothed his long gray beard under his chin, lowered his eyebrows and said thoughtfully, "Fever medicines, Pinellia ternata, cocklebur, centipede, etc., can be used..."

He hasn't finished a sentence yet.

"That's inappropriate!" Someone nearby retorted, "It's just to keep out the cold. Centipede poison is a powerful medicine. How can we abuse it?"

Being refuted, the middle-aged military doctor did not feel dissatisfied. Instead, he smiled, looked at the person who refuted him, and nodded, "That's right! Centipede should be used with caution."

Next to him, another military doctor interjected, "Xanthium is OK, but pinellia is not. Pinellia goes against mutton."

Someone else chimed in, "How about using ephedra?"

"Ephedra is good." A military doctor colleague on the side said after evaluating the effectiveness of ephedra.

"How about Guizhi?" Tian Bu also interjected.

Someone next to me said first, "Guizhi is good."

Then another person retorted, "That's inappropriate! If you use ephedra, don't add cinnamon twigs. If you use cinnamon twigs, don't add ephedra."

Everyone agreed.

In this way, Li Mengxi watched this large group of military doctors discussing each other with great enthusiasm.

Li Mengxi smiled as he looked at it. This situation was quite like the scene of an academic discussion. The academic style is very upright, and this is right.

After a long time, a group of military doctors gave Li Mengxi four prescriptions (food prescriptions) after much thought and discussion.

The first side, mutton, ginger, cinnamon twig, cocklebur, kudzu slices, coptis.

The second recipe is mutton, ginger, angelica root, Ligusticum chuanxiong and saponin.

Third party, mutton, ginger, mugwort leaves, white mustard seeds, aconite, and red ginseng.

The fourth side, mutton, ginger, tangerine peel, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, corneum, and fennel.

After Li Mengxi got the prescription, he subconsciously counted it. There were four prescriptions. Each prescription had different ingredients and involved as many as seventeen medicinal materials.

Li Mengxi was even surprised.

I don’t know if the first generation of dumplings invented by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing used so many medicinal materials.

Anyway, when military doctors give dumpling recipes, they use a lot of medicinal materials.

Li Mengxi said to the military doctors, "Can you please give me one copy of each of these four prescriptions?"

The military doctors went to work.

Not long after, Tian Bu came over. Tian Bu was embarrassed and said, "Military advisor, some medicinal materials are not available..."

"If not, it doesn't matter. I'll match whatever you have." Li Mengxi said.

With Li Mengxi's permission, Tian Bu went about his business with peace of mind.

After a period of time, Tian Bu brought four packages of medicinal materials. Tian Bu also carefully smashed the medicinal materials in a mortar and turned the medicine into powder, which was convenient for Li Mengxi to use.

After getting the medicinal materials, Li Mengxi raised his head and thought for a moment. He wanted meat. If other meat was not good, he wanted mutton.

Moving to the area where poultry and livestock were raised, Li Mengxi found sheep. There were not many pigs and sheep raised in the army, only six sheep, and six sheep were generally not big enough.

Li Mengxi picked the largest sheep and looked left and right. He felt that this sheep could grow for a while.

After hesitating and hesitating, Li Mengxi thought again. After all, it was to test the prescription, not just to eat meat. It would be okay to kill the sheep earlier.

So, Li Mengxi took away a sheep, then found the butcher's camp, and ordered the butcher's camp to kill the sheep immediately.

Fortunately, not everyone from the Butcher Camp went hunting with Zhang Fei, otherwise there would be no people to kill pigs and sheep.

Li Mengxi once again lamented that the army needs to have technical personnel on standby at all times. In addition to carpenters, butchers also need to be on standby at all times, so that when war horses and livestock suddenly die suddenly, they can be dealt with immediately.

Sheep are small and easy to kill. The butchers have enough tools to prop up the door panel and hit the sheep on the head with a stick to kill the sheep. The sheep is lifted up from the door panel. After a while, the blood-letting, skinning and meat separation are completed smoothly.

Li Mengxi said, "Help me chop two kilograms of mutton, keep some haggis for yourselves, and send the rest to the wounded barracks."

The head butcher picked the best meat and chopped it for a while, and chopped two kilograms of very good minced meat for Li Mengxi.

The meat is gone, the meat is gone, and the noodles are left.

——

Night is coming.

When Liu Bei returned to the city lord's palace exhausted after a busy day, Li Mengxi saw Liu Bei back and smiled and said, "Xuan De Gong, we are waiting for your return."

As he said that, Li Mengxi pointed to some food made from white flour in a shallow basin on the low table, "These are dumplings. I made them with General Guan. I just cooked a piece to try."

When the hungry Liu Bei heard that there was delicious food, he smiled and said, "Okay! Let's try it."

Li Mengxi smiled, with flour still stained on his cheeks.

There were not many dumplings, only forty, and ten were placed on a dime.

Moreover, Li Mengxi didn't know how to make dumplings. He just barely made the dough alive, dried the dough into dough, stuffed the meat and stuffing into the dough, and then kneaded it.

It's not so much the dumplings that Li Mengxi made, but rather the ugly dough, which doesn't look like dumplings at all.

Li Mengxi doesn't know how to make dumplings, Guan Yu's hands are even more clumsy, and the dumplings made by Guan Yu are even more ugly. When Li Mengxi makes dumplings, he has some experience and knows how to pinch them carefully.

But when Guan Yu was making the dumplings, he used too much force, and they either broke here or there. Guan Yu then kneaded the broken dumplings and put them into the lake. In the end, Guan Yu's dumplings were filled with layers of noodles, which were better than those made by Li Mengxi.

The dough is twice as big as the dough.

The hot water has already been boiled. Li Mengxi took the ten on the left first and put them in the hot water to boil.

When the dumplings entered the water, Li Mengxi stopped putting them in.

Liu Bei wondered, "Why not put them in together?"

Li Mengxi replied, "That's not right! I asked the military doctors for prescriptions, and they gave me four prescriptions. Each prescription has its conflicting features and cannot be mixed."

Liu Bei was surprised. This was not food, but medicine.

Surrounded by the pottery urn, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Li Mengxi stared at the white dough rising and falling in the boiling water in the urn, waiting quietly without anyone speaking.

Li Mengxi's family knew about his family affairs, and he knew very well that the dumplings he made were garbage. The dough was so thick that they would not be cooked at all unless they were cooked longer.

The first pot of dumplings had been boiling for a long time. Li Mengxi thought that if they continued to cook, they would be overcooked, so he picked up the dumplings in a bowl.

He picked up the dumplings and put them in a bowl. Li Mengxi held them to Liu Bei with one hand, "Mr. Xuande, do you want to eat first?"

How could Liu Bei compete with Li Mengxi?

"No, no, Xi'er eats first."

Li Mengxi stopped giving in. The dumplings had just been cooked and must be very hot. It would be better to eat them after cooling them down.

Immediately afterwards, Li Mengxi cooked a second batch of ten dumplings, and then cooked a third batch of ten dumplings.

When the three batches of dumplings were cooked and the three bowls were filled, Li Mengxi picked up his bowl, looked at Liu Bei and Guan Yu, and said, "Let's eat!"

After that, he picked up a dumpling with a kuaizi and took a bite eagerly.

Then, his expression froze on his face and his expression was slightly distorted.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu had not noticed the change in Li Mengxi. When Liu Bei and Guan Yu tasted the dumplings one after another, they only took a bite. They stopped and looked strange.

"Xi'er, what's in this noodle?" Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi and asked.

"Mutton, ginger, angelica, Chuanxiong, and saponin." Li Mengxi quickly put down the bowl and answered with his tongue sticking out.

"General Guan's fillings are mutton, ginger, mugwort leaves, white mustard seeds, aconite, and red ginseng."

"As for mine, mutton, ginger, cinnamon twigs, cockleburs, kudzu slices, and coptis."

Liu Bei was extremely surprised, "Coptis? Is it bitter?"

It was okay not to mention the bitterness, but Li Mengxi frowned when he mentioned it. Li Mengxi said extremely depressed, "I knew Coptis chinensis would be bitter, but I never thought it would be so bitter."

Seeing Li Mengxi's embarrassed look, Liu Bei laughed.

Liu Bei probably understood. The three of them took three different prescriptions, probably to try which one works best.
To be continued...