peasant young lady

Chapter 168 Chili Sauce

"Me," Dahua answered Cheng Xia's words leisurely while cleaning the chili peppers in the small spring well built by Yang Dalang, "My surname is Yun."

"What?" Cheng Xia was surprised, and almost threw the plate with green pepper stuffed meat in her hand, "Sister-in-law, your surname is Yun, Yun Dahua?"

"Well, yes, what's wrong?" Dahua didn't know why.

Seeing Dahua's ignorant face, Cheng Xia suddenly felt like punching the cotton. He didn't have such a reckless person. The surname is Yun. Such a good surname should be matched with a name like Dahua. Waste it.

I really want to change her name, what to do, I can't restrain the prehistoric power in my body.Cheng Xia tried her best to restrain and restrain again, before she managed to suppress it, okay, even if it is called Dahua, it sounds good with the surname Yun.

Cheng Xia's heart is bleeding, if her name is Yun Xia, oh, it sounds terrible, forget it, Cheng Xia is also pretty good, don't be picky.

Cheng Xia put the green pepper stuffed meat aside and covered it with a plate. He was afraid that Yang Dalang and Eucommia would starve to death, so he didn't pay attention. Unable to accept the spiciness of chili peppers, they wrapped the tofu with eggs and made a fried egg tofu to relieve the spiciness.

The steamed rice prepared by Dahua was also ready, and four bowls were filled and brought to the room. Eucommia had already hugged his stomach and lay his face on the table and wailed. When it was full of chili peppers, he instantly withered again. Maybe he was really dying, and he had no chance to see his confidantes.

Yang Dalang knocked him with a book in a funny way, "I can't eat you to death."

"Or die!" Du Zhong nodded solemnly.

Cheng Xia looked at Du Zhong's reaction suspiciously, "Have you eaten?"

"No, no," Du Zhong pouted and waved his hands, "I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding."

"Then try it," Cheng Xia directly passed the chopsticks to Du Zhong, and then took the plate of green pepper stuffed meat and put it in front of him.Cheng Xia obviously saw Du Zhong swallowing hard, and the expression on his face was not admiration, but obvious fear. Cheng Xia suddenly stood in front of Du Zhong, staring carefully into his eyes, "Do you know that this thing is hot?"

"No, no, I haven't eaten it, so how could I know." Du Zhong said dumbfounded.

"Then you try one."

"I prefer tofu."

Cheng Xia burst out laughing, does Eucommia know the meaning of eating tofu?Cheng Xia was still holding the plate of green pepper stuffed meat, "Have you ever been to the mountains and seen this thing?"

"Miss Cheng, really, no, I'll eat it, I'll eat it now." In order to prove to Yang Dalang that he cooperated with him incomparably, Du Zhong decided to die bravely. Heroes.

Cheng Xia watched Du Zhong put a piece of meat stuffed with green peppers into her mouth, and her doubts eased a little. She felt that Du Zhong's reaction was not quite right, and before she went up the mountain, she clearly heard Du Zhong shouting that she wanted her to fish more. When a few fish come back, how does he know that there are fish where he went?However, Du Zhong's reaction now made Cheng Xia feel a little more at ease.

Du Zhong pinched his nose, took a small bite, and smacked it carefully, and it turned out, hey, it's not bad.

Eucommia took a big bite off another piece, and nodded in his heart. It was delicious. The spiciness was reduced a lot after frying in the oil pan, and the tasty minced meat was perfectly blended into the green pepper. One bite was full. Full of meaty aroma, it goes well with rice.

Du Zhong couldn't care less about talking, and kept moving his mouth and hands. He just lifted his foot and kicked the stool next to the table, sat up and hugged the rice, and began to feast on it.

Seeing his appearance, Cheng Xia felt a little relieved. It seemed that ancient people could adapt to the spiciness, and she became more confident in her chili sauce.

While wiping the sweat from his forehead, Du Zhong stabbed his tongue/head and stuffed scrambled eggs with green peppers into his mouth.After a meal, most of the food went into Du Zhong's stomach. After eating, he lay still on the recliner, saying that he was tired from eating and wanted to rest.

Cheng Xia and Dahua packed up their things, and Cheng Xia planned to make chili sauce. Before eating, Cheng Xia and Dahua cleaned all the red peppers, spread them on the curtain, and put them outside the room to dry , which would definitely all dry out.

The prickly ash and ginger picked from the mountain were also ready, but after Cheng Xia prepared the things he needed, he ran into a difficulty.

The Ming Dynasty didn’t have a so-called blender, and they couldn’t directly grind the peppers, so Cheng Xia and Dahua could only manually chop the peppers bit by bit, and this caused a problem. Hot eyes are one thing, and they can still open the window anyway. Ventilation, but they need to wear gloves on their hands, otherwise, the sourness after chopping is unimaginable.

Cheng Xia tentatively asked Yang Dalang if there was something similar to gloves. She didn't expect much, but Yang Dalang gave her a suspicious look, turned around and took out two pairs of gloves from the cabinet at the foot of the bed, which were still made of leather. .

Cheng Xia grabbed the gloves and left the bedroom in a daze, but she still didn't react when she got to the kitchen.

What Yang Dalang gave her were leather gloves, and they were military gloves, only needed for marching and fighting.

Cheng Xia once studied ancient costumes and corresponding accessories with her mentor. The shape of ancient costumes is not static, but each dynasty has its own characteristics, whether it is style or color, they are very different.Even some simple accessories, such as forehead wipes, bunny hats or knee pads, have detailed records, but gloves have very few related records.This has led many modern scholars to believe that gloves are imported products that were introduced into China from foreign countries.Even in the "Guangdong Xinyu" written by Qu Dajun in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it is also said that gloves "introduced into China, imitated and manufactured, at most 300 years" and so on.Even the famous Song Dynasty book "Taiping Yulan" can't find any records about gloves.

But this does not mean that gloves did not exist in ancient times. In fact, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, gloves with embroidered faces and gold ribbons were unearthed from Tomb No. [-] in Wangdui, either embroidered with letter period or with red satin pattern, which are simple and beautiful; Ruins of the Northern Dynasties of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties also unearthed rose-purple embroidered rhombus gloves, which are generous and beautiful, and are mostly used to keep warm and cold.

Cheng Xia once remembered that his instructor said that earlier, when Jiangling County, Hubei Province was constructing water conservancy projects, a Chinese tomb complex from the Warring States Period was discovered. Inside, a pair of leather gloves were unearthed, 28.5 cm long, with five fingers separated, similar to those used in the 21st century. Gloves are no different.This can be said to be the earliest glove found in China, with a history of more than 2000 years.

The reason why Cheng Xia was surprised was that firstly, the actual gloves unearthed in ancient times came from the cemetery of a wealthy family, which she thought would not exist in a poor mountain village like Qingxian Village; secondly, what Yang Dalang gave her were leather gloves for military use, and Yang Dalang How could there be?
"Little sister, what are you thinking?" Dahua saw Cheng Xia sitting in a daze, and couldn't help shaking her fingers in front of her eyes.

"Oh, it's okay." Cheng Xia came back to her senses in an instant, shook her shoulders, shook off all the doubts in her head, and handed a pair of gloves to Dahua. Sure enough, seeing that Dahua couldn't even use it, she asked curiously. what is it.

Cheng Xia asked Dahua to put on the gloves like her own, and then began the long process of chopping peppers.

Leaving aside the hot tears in the middle, Eucommia in the bedroom also screamed hotly, and rushed to the kitchen window, weeping and howling, "I said, Miss Cheng, I won't kill you! Not reconciled, are you?"

Cheng Xia's throat was choking, and she didn't want to quarrel with him at all, so she just coughed and responded to him, "Then go back to your own home."

Du Zhong shrugged his nose and went back to the bedroom in a gloomy manner, trying his best to pretend that he had no distractions and draw circles on the ground.

Cheng Xia and Dahua chopped all the red peppers, then brushed out the big pot, put the peppers in the pot and started to fry, then poured salt, sugar, minced ginger, minced garlic, and vinegar into it to taste, and then Stir while cooking, and wait until the pot is ready.

Cheng Xia finally took a breath, let the boiled chili sauce cool, and after it was completely cooled, he took the remaining small porcelain jars containing the rose sauce and packed them one after another, leaving one-third of the chili sauce in each jar. In the gap, pour a lot of rapeseed oil into the gap, and then seal it, so that it can be stored for two months.

This is the simplest method that Cheng Xia remembers. There is another method, which is to chop the chili, then chop the garlic into mashed garlic, stir the minced chili and mashed garlic together, and add sugar, salt and high-grade white wine in the middle to stir , Stir well and put it in a clean porcelain jar, and add a lot of rapeseed oil on it, it can also be taken at any time, and it can be stored for a long time.

Cheng Xia and Dahua made a total of [-] porcelain altars, and Cheng Xia decided to bring them to the market for sale in the next market, and sell them for free, just to let as many people as possible taste them The taste of chili sauce, she is confident that when she goes to the market to sell it again, she will be able to attract more customers.

And she also took advantage of this market to print some of their brand names, and next time they will paste these brands on the chili sauce. In the future, their chili sauce will go out of Chong'an County and rush to the world.

"Sister-in-law, shall we name this chili sauce?" Cheng Xia discussed with Dahua.

"Chili sauce?" Dahua repeated, and smiled instantly, "Okay, I'll listen to my little sister."

"If there is a name for our chili sauce, it should be called Cheng Yun chili sauce. What do you think?"

When Dahua heard it, the younger sister added her own surname to it, and she felt even happier, "It's all up to you."

Seeing that the sun had already set to the west, Cheng Xia wanted to keep Dahua for dinner, but Dahua was in a hurry to go back, saying that her mother might be in a hurry, so Cheng Xia asked Dahua to come over tomorrow, and they would continue to make chili sauce, and treat her well by the way big flower.

Du Zhong saw that Dahua was leaving, and he didn't want to disturb the couple's warm time, so he raised eyebrows at Yang Dalang ambiguously, meaning that no one will disturb you tonight, buddies can figure it out.

Cheng Xia kicked Du Zhong away speechlessly, then slumped on the chair and pretended to be a dead dog. Yang Dalang put down his book and walked behind Cheng Xia, gently rubbing her shoulders, until the comfortable Cheng Xia kept yawning.

Cheng Xia originally wanted to say, how about going to bed and getting up before making dinner, but when she saw Lin Xiu running in anxiously, she said in a panic, "Sister-in-law, hurry up and have a look, mother and sister-in-law want to There's a fight."

Cheng Xia's drowsiness dissipated in an instant, she didn't get up in a hurry, but turned her head to look at Yang Dalang seriously, "What do you want me to do, help your sister, or just sit idly by?"

(End of this chapter)