Great Qin's son-in-law

Chapter 10 Recalling the past, the glorious years!

It's past noon.

Qin Luoheng brought a few small dishes from the kitchen, adjusted some dipping ingredients, scooped a bowl of millet porridge with a wooden spoon, and set it on the simple wooden table, ready to eat his own lunch.

The staple food of the Qin Dynasty was somewhat different from that of later generations.

The staple food at this time is millet.

The taste of millet is much worse than that of the rice and white noodles of later generations, but the advantage is that the output is very high, so it is the staple food in today's society. The rations that are distributed in vain and the salaries paid to officials are all millet.

Sheji Sheji.

The society is the land, and the millet is the millet.

In addition to millet, the five grains of the Qin Dynasty also included millet, bean, hemp, and wheat.

Of course, there were other grains in the Qin Dynasty, such as sorghum, weed, can, glutinous rice, etc., but not many people ate them, so they were not included in the list of five grains.

The Qin Dynasty also had five dishes.

They are sunflower, Huocai, scallions, leeks, shallots.

But the taste is naturally indescribable.

Ever since Qin Luoheng settled down in Mount Li, he never had these five dishes as his main dish. Instead, he went outside to look for wild vegetables. Over the years, he found a lot of 'wild vegetables', such as gourds and Chinese cabbage etc., were found inadvertently in the mountains and forests.

It also greatly fleshed out his recipes.

But these are secondary.

The reason why he was able to find a balance in Daqin's recipes that were always unsuitable for him was due to a sachet. This sachet was brought by the original owner, but it was filled with chili seeds.

When he saw these seeds back then, he was taken aback.

Although he doesn't remember these things very clearly, he still vaguely remembers that peppers and other crops were only introduced to our country during the Ming Dynasty, but what happened to the seeds on his body?

But at that time, the army was in chaos, and he was busy trying to survive, so he had no time to find out the reason.

Followed by the master, he settled down in Mount Li, and he began to try planting. After wasting most of the seeds, he finally planted a few plants. By the summer, these plants did produce millet peppers.

He ran to ask his master.

His wife's answer surprised him even more.

This is Qinjiao!

Seeing his stunned expression, the master gave him a special explanation.

"Shan Hai Jing · Bei Shan Jing · Jingshan" says: Three hundred miles to the south, it is called Jingshan, looking south at the salt dealer's marsh, and looking north at Shaoze.There are many grasses and potatoes on it, and there are many peppers on the grass.

Qinjiao is used as medicine at this time.

It is mainly produced in the southern region of Qin and Chu.

It is even written in the Songs of Chu that Chu people would deliberately add this kind of spicy food when offering sacrifices.

"It's bitter and sour, but it's sweet and bitter."

Xin means spicy.

Qin Luoheng didn't understand at the time, but he was still greatly shocked.

But with chili, his recipe expanded a lot. In the past ten years, he has cooked all the wild vegetables found nearby.

Food is constantly improving.

Now his three meals a day, although far less than those of the later generations, are much higher than those of the present, which is also the main reason why he can live in seclusion in the deep mountains.

Swish!
Suddenly there was a sound from outside.

Qin Luoheng immediately became alert.

But soon his expression relaxed.

He is no longer dead.

Qin Luoheng raised his head and looked not far away. If he guessed correctly, the person who came this time was either from the government to verify the information, or it was the official Qin.

a few breaths.

A tall figure appeared in the snow.

Seeing someone coming, Qin Luoheng quickly put down his bowl and chopsticks, got up and greeted him.

"Chairman, it's very cold and you're still coming here in the snow. If something goes wrong on the road, I can't afford it. Come in."

while talking.

Qin Luoheng welcomed Ying Zheng into the house.

He is still very grateful to the chief official of Qin.

If it weren't for this chief official, he might have continued to hide outside, and even if he didn't pay attention, he would be caught and taken to see the officials, and his head would inevitably fall to the ground. Now he has not only obtained a household registration , and the opportunity to change household registration.

In the future, I will be able to walk more freely in society.

This kindness is great!

Ying Zheng raised his forehead slightly: "It's okay, I just passed by Lanchi, so I'll come over to have a look, and ask about your household registration status along the way."

Qin Luoheng said:

"Thank you, Chief, for your concern."

"My household registration has been done."

"The officials from Xianyang household Cao in front have sent 'inspection, biography', and now I am a veritable Qin native."

Ying Zheng nodded.

Immediately after seeing the food on the table, he couldn't help but frown.

Qin Luoheng touched his nose.

There was indeed some mess on his desk.

He said with a little embarrassment: "I'm really sorry, I forgot the time when I read the book earlier, and the living room hasn't been cleaned up yet, so I'll go and clean it up right away. Please wait a moment, Chief Official."

while talking.

I am ready to put the food in the back kitchen.

Ying Zheng raised his hand, but he didn't take it seriously, instead he sat down on his seat, rather anti-customer, and said, "No, I just didn't have lunch, if there is any extra porridge, give me some too. bowl."

Qin Luoheng was startled:
"The chief official should not be joking. For a person of your status, you can't get used to the rice and meat that you eat every day."

Ying Zheng's expression turned cold.

Displeased said:
"I told you to go to Sheng, go to Sheng!"

"I haven't eaten these wild vegetables before."

"When we were in Handan, the officials of the State of Zhao deducted our food and salary. When we were struggling to make a living, we even ate turf and tree roots, not to mention miscellaneous grains and wild vegetables. At that time, I took Dan to fight with other princes to grab food."

"None of those sons are my opponents!"

Recalling the past, a smug expression rarely appeared on Ying Zheng's face, but then his eyes darkened, and he said in a gloomy tone: "It's a pity that we will be in our respective positions later on. No matter how difficult it is to return to the original relationship, even when the swords and soldiers meet, it has already changed. We are strangers, we are enemies."

Seeing Qin Changli's serious tone, Qin Luoheng wanted to say something, but in the end he could only let out a long sigh.

"This is troubled times."

"If it is possible, who wants to join the troubled world?"

"But fortunately, with the great talent of the first emperor, he swept away the world and made the world unified. From now on, the world will not fight again, and the world is already peaceful."

Qin Luoheng went to the back kitchen to fill a bowl of thick porridge, and also specially brought a pair of wooden forks and spoons.

People in this era eat with knives and forks.

Sometimes it goes straight to it.

When Qin Luoheng came back from the back kitchen, Ying Zheng had regained his composure, his eyes were calm and deep, as if the emotional fluctuation just now had never happened at all.

But Qin Luoheng knew.

The scene just now really happened.

One grown and one young, they ate each other like this.

Although Ying Zheng was a little surprised that Qin Luoheng used two long wooden sticks to eat, he didn't take it seriously. Everyone has their own eating habits, and Qin Luoheng has been wandering in the countryside, so it is inevitable that he will not develop some unique idiosyncrasies.

He didn't take it seriously.

After a full meal.

Ying Zheng put down the bowl and spoon in his hand, and suddenly said: "You said earlier that the first emperor was a great man, but as far as I know, the Guanzhong Dasuo has aroused people's resentment, what do you think about it? "

　In the book "Research on the Origin of Agricultural Things", after many arguments, it is determined that my country is actually the origin of pepper, but it is in the south, Xishuangbanna. In ancient times, it was only cultivated less, and it was not as common as that in South America.

　　In some tombs of the Han Dynasty, seeds of crops such as cabbage have been found, so these vegetables should have been available in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but the main dish at that time was mainly sunflower vegetables, and others were not common, and they were all classified as wild vegetables.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)