Gongqing bone

Chapter 101 Pineapple and Bread

The bearded thing is called "pepper", which is similar to prickly ash and pepper: it can't be eaten alone, it is a spice for seasoning.

However, compared with the latter two, this "pepper" is more spicy and less fragrant; curious diners only think it is as delicious as tomatoes, and want to grab the first person who sticks out their chopsticks.

Xue Feibai's ghostly thoughts were all used in eating. When a plate of fried meat with pepper was brought out, he could smell the hot air from a distance, so he didn't say anything to taste the first bite.

And the gluttonous eater who won the first prize and desperately stuffed a big mouthful, his tongue stuck out, and his eyes almost rolled out.

His face was flushed, he had to drink water and gasp for breath all the time, and even had someone fan him in the cold weather; when he finally calmed down, he would lose money if he caught that bearded man!What did you say that almost caught up with his old life...

But the people who avoided the pot of fried pork with peppers just gave Xue Fei a loophole.

Xue Fei stretched out his chopsticks instead of picking up the pepper, but only picked up the fried meat, but he only dared to put a little bit into his mouth; after eating, he stuck out his tongue and gasped, but his eyes lit up uncontrollably, and he looked straight at Du Heng gave a thumbs up, and then went to pinch.

After eating, Du Heng felt that the feeling of rapid heartbeat and sweaty hands and feet was a little uncomfortable, but it was very addictive, and it would make people keep chasing this painful and happy process.

This is like the love between a man and a woman. When you like someone, you will subconsciously avoid the other person's eyes, but the physical feeling can't deceive you; the more you force yourself to turn your eyes, the more uncontrollably you will look at that person...

Du Heng also had a vague feeling, did she see Xue Feibai too much recently? ...

In the past, she disdained to look at him, but now she seems to want to look at him...Maybe it's because his parents are pleasing to the eye...

"Cough cough", Du Heng clenched his fists and coughed twice, and turned his eyes away from Xue Feibai who was stealing food; there is no more excitement here, and her special products haven't started to be sold yet...

They've been out for too long, and there's no need to waste any more time on the road, so after they've almost finished shopping, Du Heng sternly rejected Xue Feibai's unscrupulous request to eat "Hui, Fujian, Xiangzhe" dishes again, just like burning his butt Go to the capital.

When I returned to the capital, it was not yet the first lunar month, and I went home to pay my respects to Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Xue in her old age. I accepted the question of "Why have I been there for so long?" ".

After tossing about this set for half an hour, they were able to return to their room.

Xue Fei was so tired that he fell asleep without changing his clothes.

Du Heng was very much like a hostess, and directed the unloading of the big and small bags of the things he brought back, and sent them to the whole house; he also picked out gifts for the aristocratic family and prepared to give them in a few days.

After finishing all this work, although Du Heng was exhausted physically and mentally, he still called Jingse and asked one by one what kind of major events could happen in Beijing.

I don’t know if I don’t ask, but I’m startled when I ask:
Shortly after Du Weilan married, Xiao Zimei married the tenth prince, Zhou Yan, and became the side concubine second only to Du Weilan; this was not a simple matter of giving a gift.

Du Heng also wanted to understand that she was willing to marry the tenth prince, which meant that she would definitely help the tenth prince win the heir.

Their Eighth Prince's Party is also fighting fiercely, and the situation is becoming more and more favorable to her.It's really interesting.

However, Du Weilan is afraid that she will be in danger...

She couldn't beat Xiao Zimei, and without the intervention of external forces, her death was inevitable; it only depended on when Xiao Zimei wanted her to die.

But she, Du Heng, is the "external force" who wants to stop Xiao Zimei.

"Oh, by the way, miss, Mrs. Sheng has a letter from Lingnan! Along with the letter is a big apple covered in thorns!" Jing Se said.

Du Heng raised his eyebrows and silently expressed a "Huh?"

Jingse turned around to take it, and after a while, she walked in with a large thick-skinned fruit as tall as a palm on a tray.

Du Heng frowned more and more tightly: "Is this thing really edible?" and started to pinch the "lotus head" like a spider plant.

"Miss, be careful, it hurts!" But she spoke too late, and Du Heng retracted the finger that was poked.

Du Heng looked at the thick, yellow-green, sharp-toothed skin of the rough fruit, and for the first time had doubts about the shape of the fruit.

"Let me try it!" Xue Fei, who didn't know when to get up, slept like a red apple with a white face, full of energy, and his eyes lit up when he saw this thing.

He took out a willow leaf knife out of nowhere, and started gesturing towards the fruit.

Du Heng was not interested in watching him play tricks, so she picked up the letter from her little aunt and read it.

The letter first reported safety, saying that Lingnan was much better than she had imagined:

First of all, it is full of wild interest; ——the wisdom of the people is not yet developed!
The second is to communicate more with people; ——Because I can’t understand dialects, I have to popularize Mandarin!
Xianggong found that the rice here can be cooked three times! ——Agricultural foundation is very poor, we can only develop this first...

The letter is eloquent and relaxed.But Du Heng, who was from her natal family, didn't "see" the slightest bit of good news, and always felt that she was living a hard life.

But there is a paragraph in it that Du Heng still approves of: Lin Ling said that the fruits here are very sweet and big, and she would gain weight just by eating fruits.

It is also said that this "pineapple" was brought by merchants who went to sea, trying to plant it on a large scale in Lingnan and then open up sales in the north;
The local people ate this stuff and found it sour and sweet.
Lin Ling said that in time, pineapples might really be listed as "Lingnan Famous Fruits".

Many farmers were deceived by merchants from other places, and immediately wanted to destroy their crops and grow pineapples to sell, but were stopped by Sheng Ruchi.

The roads in Lingnan are inconvenient, so how can you sell things if you can’t transport them out?Moreover, there are many fruits in Lingnan. Pineapple may be a novelty at first, but it does not have a particularly prominent advantage among many fruits and vegetables over time;
And the most important thing is, if the food is smashed in the hand, at least you can eat it by yourself, but the pineapple can't satisfy your hunger!
In addition, although there has been no war along the coast for a long time, if there is a fight with pirates, the status of Lingnan will become more important, but what about the important place for transporting food and people...

Du Heng closed the letter, looking at Xue Feibai who had already cut out the golden flesh, and was studying how to remove the sharp thorns in the flesh, and then cut into slices.

Du Heng squinted his eyes, and counted the delicacies imported from foreign lands since ancient times: grapes, peppers, walnuts, pomegranates...

It seems that it has been too long since the ancient times of "lack of food and clothing". It has been a long time since wheat, sorghum and other crops that can fill the hunger have been introduced; and the last food that can fill the stomachs of poor people was introduced more than ten years ago the "maize";
Some places also call it "Baogu", "Baolu" and "Pearl Rice", and the common people prefer to call it "Liugu", that is, the "sixth valley" besides the "five grains".

(End of this chapter)