North and South groceries

It is said that people at this time in the early Tang Dynasty were more exploratory. The plate of fried pork that Luo used was so choking when it was fried.

"Hiss...so hard!"

"It's more powerful than five-spicy vegetables."

"I think it's not as good as Wuxincai."

"The fried meat is quite delicious."

"I just don't know if there will be any harm to the body after eating it."

"Sanlang, what is this?" Someone asked Luo Yongdao.

"I don't know." Luo Yong hasn't eaten chili for a long time, and right now he is eating chili fried meat with a big bowl of corn porridge. Yes, it's very exciting to eat.

"Since you don't know what it is, then eat less." Someone on the side advised him.

"The person who gave me the seeds said that this thing is edible." Luo Yong was eating vigorously at this time, how could he stop.

"Who gave the seeds?" the other party asked again.

"..." Luo Yong stopped his chopsticks, raised his head and thought for a while, then said, "It's been too long, I don't remember."

"..." Everyone was speechless. I don't remember, but you are so sure that this thing is edible?As far as your seeds are concerned, there are so many weeds growing in front, can those weeds also be eaten?

Pian Luoyong seems to be addicted to eating it. He just ate fried pork the first day, and added chili fried bean paste on the second day to make noodles with fried sauce. The children in his family also ate it one by one. It can be seen that his disciples and the villagers of Xipo Village are very worried about this family.

Fortunately, there were only a few peppers that Luo Yong had planted before, and they hadn't grown well yet. After picking them for two days, there were not many peppers left to pick.

"This thing is really strange. It was unheard of before." At Xu's Guest House, everyone has been discussing about chili peppers recently.

They asked Luo Yong what the name of this thing was, and Luo Yong said he didn't know, and then someone asked Luo Yong to pick one up, and Luo Yong said that they called it Chili Pepper. This and this.

"The taste is really too pungent, it burns on the tongue, and it's a bit stronger than raw garlic." Some people can't eat spicy food, so their acceptance of this chili is very low.

"I think it has a different taste." This is more spicy, and in addition to the spicy taste, you can also taste a little bit of other flavors of chili.

"Brother, do you have to plant all these?"

At the Luo family, Luo Yong started to grow chili peppers again. There were a lot of chili seeds wrapped in an oil paper bag in his house. Now he took out those clay pots used for raising seedlings in spring, and planned to plant them all in these pots. Grow pepper seedlings.

"Is this delicious?" Luo Yong asked them.

"It's delicious!" Qiniang's girl has the highest acceptance of chili peppers. I don't know if it's because she is naturally more spicy or something. She didn't eat less of the spicy fried noodles that Luo Yong made two days ago. .

"Once all these peppers are planted, brother will cook with you often." Luo Yong said with a smile, he couldn't help but start looking forward to all kinds of spicy dishes, such as Malatang, mapo tofu, water Boil sliced ​​meat...

"Brother, can't this thing be exchanged for money?" Wu Lang, a money fan, doesn't have much enthusiasm for peppers, so he wants to know if this thing can be exchanged for money.

"As long as someone likes it, you can get money in exchange for it." When the time comes, push a few hot dishes out and make a name for yourself. Why don't you worry about getting money back, especially in some places in the south where there are many miasmas, this chili can almost do it. Save people and water and fire.

Luo Yongchuan has been here for such a long time, and he has some understanding of the climate of this era. As far as the temperature is concerned, it seems that it is not much different from that of later generations, but it still feels more humid than later generations.

This kind of humidity is quite suitable for them in Lishi County. For many places in the south, the humidity may be too high.

Moreover, in this era, the forest coverage rate of the entire earth is very high, and many virgin forests have not been destroyed. In many places in the south, miasma is generally serious.

I heard that peppers can also resist miasma. Those provinces that like to eat peppers the most in later generations, such as Sichuan, Hunan, and Jiangxi, are mostly places where the air circulation is not particularly good and miasma is easy to form.

"Can I exchange a lot of money?" Si Niang also joined in.

"Naturally." Luo said confidently.

Hearing that chili peppers can be exchanged for a lot of money, the children in the family were all excited, filling the soil one by one, watering the watering ones, and seriously buried those chili seeds in clay pots. Breed pepper seedlings.

Now that the weather is warmer, these clay pots don’t need to be put on the kang, they just need to be placed against the wall under the eaves, watered every day, and when they grow enough to be transplanted, they can be moved to the ground.

When the previous pepper plants began to ripen, Luo Yong came back with some red peppers and made Mapo Tofu at Xu's guest house.

Although there is no Pixian Doubanjiang and they use their homemade soybean paste instead, this dish still opens up a new world for those Tang Dynasty people who have never eaten Mapo Tofu.

The chili is hot enough, the Chinese prickly ash is numb enough, the tofu is tender enough, and the fried noodles made by Xu's guest house are thick and fragrant.

Looking at the scenes of those gentry gentlemen wiping their sweat and snot while sticking their chopsticks into the plate, Luo Yong couldn't help thinking of the few years when he first came into contact with Sichuan cuisine when he was a teenager.

The small town where Luo Yong used to live with Grandma Luo didn’t eat much chili peppers, and the grandparents and grandchildren lived relatively frugally. Outland taste.

Like this mapo tofu, Luo Yong has eaten it a lot in the past. At the beginning, he couldn't eat spicy food very much. He wanted to eat it while sniffling his nose and tears, but after eating it, he became fond of spicy food.The past few years of traveling here have really been difficult for him.

Looking at these people in front of him, Luo Yong felt that there should be no market for his chili peppers.

It seems that the taste of Chinese people has been the same throughout the ages. Whether it is in the 21st century or the [-]th century AD, the dish of mapo tofu is destined to sweep the north and south of the country.

At the end of May in the 11th year of Zhenguan, Luo Sanlang of Lishi began to buy soybeans from the surrounding people at a high price. A bucket of soybeans was five cents, almost the same price as corn.

It's a pity that there are not many people who grow soybeans among the neighbors.People at the time said that this soybean was a crop variety that Zhang Qian brought back to the Central Plains from the west when he was on an envoy to the Western Regions. Because it came from the Hudi, the people called it Hudou.

This pea is not food either. Most people don't grow many plants. If there are few, they will plant dozens of plants. If there are more, it is just a vegetable for the family. In the past, no one was willing to pay a big price for it.

"Master, I brought two buckets of soybeans from outside yesterday." In the early morning of this day, Liu Huo came to Luo's yard with a bag of soybeans, that is, broad beans.

"But still take five cents a bucket?" Luo's family was eating at this time, when Luo Yong heard the voice, he put down his chopsticks and came out. While talking, he fumbled for money from his purse.

"Exactly." Liu Huo smiled, and asked again: "I have received a lot in recent days, but is it enough now?"

"If you encounter it, you can collect some more for me." Luo Yong planned to use these broad beans to make Pixian bean paste. He had made soybean paste for several years before, and he was more confident in making sauce, so this time I just want to make more, and I will continue to do it at this time. I will dry it in the sun for a few months in summer, and when it comes to winter this year, although the fermentation time is still shorter, it can almost be used for cooking.

"Have you had breakfast?" After paying the money, he took a basket from the wall and poured the broad beans into the basket, Luo Yong asked Liu Huo again.

"I've eaten." Liu Huo held the linen bag in one hand and put the ten Wen coins into his bosom with the other, and said with a smile, "I'm going to Dinghu County in the next two days. If there are peas there, I'll help you." You take some back."

"Then if you do receive some at that time, you can hire a few porters. Don't worry about money." Luo Yong confessed.

"I'll save it." Liu Huo agreed, waved his hand, and left the Luo's courtyard.

On the barren slope in front of Luo's courtyard, a large field has been opened at this time, and pepper seedlings planted on it are fluttering in the wind.

The children of the Luo family kept watering and fertilizing them all day long, wishing to offer these pepper seedlings as their ancestors, because Luo Yong said that they would be able to exchange for a lot of money in the future.

To say that the current income of the Luo family is not bad, Luo Yong's disciples have given him a share, and now even Xu's guest house has to send him money every month.

In addition, there is income from the cement workshop and the threshing machine workshop. After a few months, this year's Eucommia leaves should fall again.

"Brother, how much does our family still owe?" After dinner that day, Si Niang's girl sat on the edge of the kang and trimmed her toenails, thinking about this again as she cut her nails.

"Look for yourself." Luo Yong took a notebook from the kang cabinet and handed it to her.

"I want to see it too, I want to see it too." The two Liu Lang Qiniang, who were too idle to roll and play on their elder brother's kang, hurried over at this time.

"Well... five hundred, this is five hundred dollars, this is... 150..." Qiniang pretended to understand it well,

"Idiot, this is 150 guan, this one is [-] guan." Si Niang stretched out her hand and flicked it on her forehead.

"Brother, sister hit me again." If Luo Yong wasn't here, she would have been hit if she touched her, and it happened that Luo Yong was here at this moment.

"Sister is right, it's the body, not the money." Luo rubbed the girl's head with his hands, she was the most coquettish among the dolls in the family.

"Oh... a lot of money!" Thinking of the huge amount written in the little book, Qiniang couldn't help but sigh, there is always a lot of money, it is so heavy to hold in her hand , Their family owes several hundreds of pens to others.

"When will these debts be repaid?" Si Niang couldn't help but also asked.

"I don't know." Luo Yong said.

"Brother, when we make the bean paste, we should sell it to pay off the debt." Goro said worriedly.

"No hurry." Luo Yong said casually while leaning against the kang with a book in his hands, yawning.

"..." Luo Siniang.

"..." Luo Wulang.

"..." Luo Liulang.

"..." Luo Qiniang.

"I don't want to eat the white rice at home, let's exchange it for money." Siniang made a decision.

"Mmm!!!" The remaining children nodded repeatedly.