Da Qin: I exposed myself as a time traveler, why are you Zhao Gao panicking?

Chapter 43 Is this salt? ! Where did it come from! ! !

"You are quite happy to be free." Zu Long frowned.

He put his hands behind his back, looked at Qin Chi's mansion, and then glanced at Qin Chi.

He was a man of majestic appearance, Xiao Shuxuanju, a black robe draped around him. Although he still had short hair, he had an extraordinary demeanor and was free and unrestrained.

He squatted there, eating barbecue, his mouth full of oil.

Qin Chi looked confused. He didn't know what was going on with Lao Zhao, and suddenly blamed himself.

What's wrong? If I eat a barbecue, am I committing a crime?

Is Lao Zhao blaming me for eating alone?
  Qin Chi was helpless, good guy, Old Zhao, what do you want in the palace, and you come to me to snatch it, isn't it just a roast chicken?

Qin Chi had a black thread on his head, so he had to cut off a piece and handed it to Zulong.

"Let's all eat together."

Zu Long didn't refuse, and actually squatted by the fire pit, grabbed the chicken with his bare hands, and put it into his mouth.

When Li Si saw this, he stood aside and spat, but Zulong was squatting, so he had to squat too!

Qin Chi also gave him a piece.

Li Si thanked him briefly, took it with both hands, and ate it carefully.

Qin Chi was a little surprised. Although Lao Zhao was the emperor of the ages and the Great Qin Ancestor Dragon, the way he ate was very rough.

The people of the old Qin Dynasty are not like people from the Central Plains or Qilu who have so many etiquettes when eating.

Even in the imperial palace, the First Emperor also used a cutting knife to eat, and sometimes even held it with his bare hands when chewing bones.

It's not finished until your mouth is full of oil.

It's not as gentle and gentle as people of later generations imagine.

After the world was unified, the First Emperor invited all the princes of the world to the palace for a banquet.

When the princes came to the imperial palace, especially the nobles from Qilu, they couldn't help but feel disgusted when they saw Zulong eating.

But at that time, who would dare to dislike Zulong face to face? I can only complain in my heart.

Qin Chi didn't care about this, he just felt that Zulong was very down-to-earth when he ate like this.

However, Ying Zheng and Li Si were a little shocked as they ate Qin Chi's barbecue.

This taste is unusual. It is salty and crispy in the mouth, with oil, filling the mouth and tongue, making people linger.

Charred on the outside and tender on the inside, when you take a bite, the fat will spill out.

Ying Zheng felt that this was even more delicious than the one he made in the imperial palace.

For a moment, the dissatisfaction in my heart was wiped away. The anger accumulated due to the clan members forcing me to have a baby was also relieved a lot by this bite of chicken meat.

Li Si squatted behind Zu Long, also chewing chicken, his intoxicated expression clearly visible.

He was shocked by Qin Chi's cooking skills, which were much better than the chefs at home!
  This is just a chicken, but it is roasted to such a delicious taste, it is really amazing!
  Zulong chewed the chicken bones and asked: "Why does your roast chicken taste so good? Could it be that you have some secret recipe? Tell me honestly!"

Qin Chi's head was filled with confusion: "There's really no secret recipe. It's just grilled over charcoal fire and simply sprinkled with salt."

Zu Long and Li Si said in unison: "Impossible!"

If it was such a simple method, how could such delicious meat be roasted? !
  The chefs in the imperial palace used no matter how many secret recipes they used, but they could not match the taste of Qinchi's barbecue.

Zu Long only felt that his appetite was greatly increased, and he wanted to eat more after eating.

Qin Chi was speechless when he saw that they didn't believe them and that the chick had almost been eaten by them, so he had to take out the meat he had skewered in advance and put it on top.

"If you don't believe it, I will bake it again as it is."

Qin Chi took a few meat skewers and jumped on the charcoal fire like the barbecue masters of later generations!
  He held the wooden roaster with both hands, and the barbecue quickly became charred under the charcoal fire.

Zu Long and Li Si stared intently.

"Tsk, tsk, this is the first time I've seen barbecue like this!" Qin Chi also looked confused: "Your Majesty, is it possible that the cooks in the imperial palace don't roast meat like this?"

Ying Zheng shook his head.

They were skewered with wooden skewers and grilled over charcoal fire. Zulong had never seen this novel technique like Qin Chi's.

"Li Si, have you seen it?"

Li Si still held the leftover chicken bones in his hand and was reluctant to throw them away: "Your Majesty, I have never seen it before."

Zu Long was stunned and thought for a moment: "Could this be a way to make barbecue delicious?"

He planned to go back and ask the chefs in the Imperial Palace to do the same.

"Let me sprinkle some salt on it."

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Qin Chi rubbed some salt from the bag hanging on his belt with one hand in front of them and sprinkled it on!

this moment.

Zulong and Li Si’s pupils shrank!
  This...is this salt?

They were all stunned, with expressions of disbelief on their faces, and were very shocked!
  Ying Zheng's eyes widened, his dragon eyes were solemn and majestic: "Wait a minute! This salt, where did you come from this salt!"

He looked at Qin Chi spreading salt, and it turned out to be crystal clear and as white as snow!

The salt in Qinchi is very fine, like sand, and every grain is very white.

Spread it evenly on the meat skewers, even wasting a lot of it and falling into the fire pit.

Zu Long felt very distressed when he saw it, and stretched out his hands to stop it.

"This salt...where does this salt come from?!" Zu Long asked hurriedly.

Qin Chi said: "I made this myself. What's the fuss about? You haven't eaten it before?"

As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered that salt in this era was not only expensive, but also controlled by clans.

Also, salt is very rough!
  Only the sea salt produced by Qi Real Estate is of high quality. After all, it has the Pacific Ocean to the east, and the Shandong Peninsula is located between the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. There are so many production areas near the sea, which naturally brings unique advantages to the people of Qi.

However, the ancients did not refine salt directly from sea water, but extracted it from underground brine.

Sea salt can be extracted from these concentrated seawater with extremely high salt content by boiling it.

It's just because of technology.

The salt in the pre-Qin era was yellowish and blue in color and tasted bitter. This is normal because the technology was not yet available.

In places where there was no high-salt brine, the ancients had to prepare their own brine to refine the salt.

But in any case, due to technical reasons, there are only lake salt, rock salt, etc.

These are salts extracted directly from salt lakes, or salts made from brine and dried in salt fields.

As for better salt, even if it is coarse, it is not affordable for the common people. Generally speaking, ordinary people will buy green salt, which is in pieces, which is very hard, has many impurities, and even has a metallic taste.

Generally, this kind of salt block is used for livestock. If people eat it, they will be poisoned by heavy metals.

Even better is well salt, but it is expensive and the yield is extremely low.

Only nobles can eat it.

Qin Chi grabbed another handful and showed it to Zu Long.

Zu Long held it in his palm and was very surprised. The salt was as fine as snowflakes. No one in the entire Great Qin could refine such salt!

Li Si also took a breath!
  Salt and iron were the most important industries of the empire.

He was a little sad. Does Qin Chi know the importance of the salt he took out to Great Qin? !

(End of this chapter)