original chef king

Chapter 24 The best of the best
In fact, what Li Qi is looking for is some condiments, because he knows that there is no concept of condiments these days, everything is eaten alone, and condiments usually have a pungent taste, and generally it is not good to eat alone Yes, and people here like to eat sweet things, so most of the delicious ones don't have any condiments.

After the two entered the woods, the women had disappeared, which fully demonstrated that flying is always faster than walking.

"This! This! This is not delicious!"

Not long after entering the woods, Nong ran to a grass that was about as tall as him.

Li Qi looked at the grass and thought, this shouldn't be garlic, right?Said: "You mean this grass is not tasty?"

"no no."

Nong suddenly squatted down, dug the soil with both hands for a while, then held the lower end of the grass, and pulled it hard, only to see that he pulled out a conical rhizome, just like a top, with a diameter as big as a football. .

"what is this?"

Li Qi walked over and cleaned the soil on it, but saw that the "top" had screw-like lines on it, the upper half was light red, and the lower half was white.He asked Nong again, "Have you eaten?"

Nong nodded and said, "This is really hard to eat."

That should not be poisonous.Li Qi took a knife and cut it open from the middle, only to find that the inside was light yellow, very tender, he dug out a little bit with the knife, put it on his tongue, and immediately frowned.

"Is it hard to eat?"

"On time!"

Li Qi said excitedly: "This taste is really on point, I have never eaten such delicious ginger."

"What ginger? Is this delicious?"

Nong took half of it, bit it down, and immediately spit it all out, saying: "It's delicious, but it's obviously bad, bah bah bah."

"It's still a foodie. I really don't have any taste. This is really the best of ginger." Li Qi was very excited, but he was also a little puzzled. I have never seen this kind of ginger, and it didn't exist in the Song Dynasty, but judging from the taste, it is obviously the taste of ginger. , but the taste is very mellow, could it be that this is the ancestor of ginger, yes, today is the primitive era, there are many seasonings that I have never seen, wow!This is so much to look forward to.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help twitching his index finger, threw the ginger in his hand to Nong, and said, "Take it! Let's continue to look for it."

Nong is at a loss.

The two walked for a while, Li Qi suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Nong, do you know what salty taste is?"

Nong shook his head and said excitedly, "What's the smell?"

"What's the taste? It's hard to say." Li Qi pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Does the water you usually drink have a taste?"

Nong thought for a moment, then shook his head vigorously.

Could it be that they can live such a healthy life without eating salt?Impossible, this salt is necessary for human beings, and the salt intake from animals alone is not enough, even if it is enough, they do not often eat meat, so where does he get the salt from?

Then I heard Nong yelling: "There is this one, this one is also very bad."

Li Qi came back to his senses, took a closer look, and saw Nong squatting next to a plant with a very special shape. The plant was cylindrical in shape, the stem below was as white as snow, and the top was as green as emerald. Thick, but only twenty centimeters high.

Nong Dao: "The white ones underneath are still edible, but not tasty, but the rhizomes underneath are very unpalatable."

As he spoke, he planed again with both hands.

After digging for a while, I saw that the farmer dug out a pumpkin-sized rhizome from the inside, but it was purple in color.

Could it be a pumpkin?Li Qi squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch it, and found that there seemed to be a layer of skin on the outside, so he wanted to stretch out his hand to peel the skin, "Wow! This skin is really hard to peel!" He took out the dagger again, and cut an incision , peeled it hard, but it was as hard as grapefruit peel, he said to the farmer who was still surrounded by the circle: "Peel it off."

Nong shook his head and said, "There is no need to pick it up."

Li Qidao: "But I want to see what's inside?"

Nong waved the stone knife in his hand and directly cut off all the stems and leaves above, only to see the skin slowly open.

"Why don't you be so scientific!"

Li Qi was dumbfounded.

After a while, the fruit inside was exposed, white jade color, crystal clear.

Li Qi sniffed it with his nose suddenly, his eyes lit up suddenly, he dug out a little bit with a dagger, put it on his tongue, and said in a trembling voice, "Is it big garlic?"

Nong said regretfully: "It's quite big. It would be nice if it was delicious. One can fill you up, but it's not delicious at all."

"Isn't this delicious?"

Li Qi rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know? This is simply the best of the best. It's really unfair. Why do you all have some of the best here! I used to eat all the shit!"

Nong wondered, "Is this delicious too?"

"You'll understand later! Take it, take it." Li Qi was so excited, with such a top-quality seasoning, plus that top-quality snake meat, his mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Nong was about to cry, he really felt that this thing was rubbish, those fruits were so sweet and delicious, this thing is not for people to eat.

But there was no way, and he threw it into the air with his hands in his arms.

Li Qi was startled, "What are you doing?"

"Didn't you let me hold it?"

Standing on the huge garlic, Nong said with a look of astonishment.

Li Qi was already dumbfounded, and after a while, he said: "It's nothing, it's nothing." I thought to myself, I can't peel off the skin of this thing, and I can't lift it. one party.

About an hour later, I saw that Nong's hands, head, and shoulders were covered with all kinds of grass, flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, and roots, but he didn't feel tired at all, just looked at Li Qi from time to time.

I saw Li Qi lowering his head, shaking his whole body from laughing, but couldn't stop.

These things, in the eyes of Nong, are garbage, but in his opinion, they are all the best of the best, and the taste is extremely pure. It can even be said to be a new taste, but it is similar to some condiments of later generations. How many dishes can be made, but he is very happy.

"Huh? Why are there so many white fruits here? Could it be that Qiaoma and the others didn't pass by here?"

Li Qi suddenly noticed that there were many fruits around, round and white as snow.

Nong Dao: "This is the most unpalatable fruit on the tree. They just picked a few and peeled some for us to eat."

Li Qi snorted and said, "Is this skin tastier than the flesh inside?"

Nong shook his head and said, "It's not delicious, but if you eat a little of this skin every day, you won't get sick, so we eat a little every day."

Li Qi recalled it, and found that there seemed to be a white thing in the dinner, and said: "We must try it today." He wanted to ask Nong to go, but it was obvious that Nong was embarrassed with so many things, so he went to Follow a tree.

When he came to a tree, he rubbed his hands together and climbed up.

But only halfway through the climb, he suddenly saw a fruit fall down. He was overjoyed and said, "I can't be so lucky."

He jumped down quickly, and suddenly saw Nong walking straight over, squatting down with his neck straight, and picked up the sharp piece of stone he had just thrown from the ground.

"Didn't people in your hometown climb trees before?" Nong couldn't help asking.

"Uh um, yes."

Li Qi walked over, wiping away his cold sweat, and picked up the white fruit that had been peeled off by the stone knife from the ground. The skin was relatively soft, but very elastic. He cut it open with the knife, and the juice immediately flowed out. The fruit will be hard to eat.

He dipped a bit of the juice on his finger and licked it.

"Wow! So salty! Bah bah bah!"

Li Qi's face was contorted.

Nong hehe laughed and said, "It is said that this is the most unpalatable fruit, but you still don't believe it."

"salty?"

Li Qi was startled, and suddenly looked at Nongdao: "You said that you eat this piece of skin every day, and you will get sick if you don't eat it?"

Nong hummed.

Does this. Does this contain salt?Li Qi stared at the fruit, saw that the flesh inside was really like snow, thought, this is impossible, this salt should also be regarded as minerals, how...how could it be in the fruit, this is really unscientific, maybe this fruit It just happens to be salty, not necessarily salt, but according to Nong, it is very likely that it contains salt.Forget it, take a few back to test and you will know, this practice brings true knowledge.

(End of this chapter)