Reborn as the crippled king's favorite

Chapter 273 is a great thing for Guangzong Yaozu

"What about this one? There are green and red ones."

Jun Yuyan picked up a red vegetable with a green stem on it. As soon as he opened it, his eyes felt a spiciness.

"Why does it taste a bit like dogwood?"

"It's pepper!" Murong Jiu was very surprised and took the pepper over and smelled it under his nose. "Do you still remember the beef jerky I asked the caravan to deliver to you separately? It was sprinkled with pepper. The pepper noodles taste spicy and very enjoyable!”

Of course Jun Yuyan remembered that the first bite he took was extremely spicy, but the more he ate, the more delicious it became.

"At that time, the fleet brought the powder made from ground pepper, which is called pepper noodles. Spices such as pepper, fennel, cumin are added to it, and then poured with hot oil, and the dried meat is soaked in it. This is what I will give you. The spicy beef was dry.”

Murong Jiu was almost drooling as she spoke. She really liked spicy food.

In addition to crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes that have high yields and can provide enough food for the people, what she is most looking forward to is growing peppers.

She then asked Jingniang: "How is the yield of pepper?"

"The yield is not as high as that of the kidney bean. When its seedlings mature, they can only grow to the height of a human thigh at most. However, they are still blooming. It remains to be seen how many peppers can be produced on one pepper tree."

"It's great to be able to make it successfully! I'll ask the kitchen to use these in the basket to prepare dishes and send them to you later. You guys have been guarding the glass shed every day. It's too hard."

Jing Niang smiled gently:

"It is Jingniang's honor to be able to relieve the princess' worries. Seeing the princess's smile, Jingniang feels that everything is worth it. Besides, what you want to do is a great thing that benefits the country and the people. How can a little girl like me do it? Participating in this is a great honor for our ancestors. If my parents are still alive in heaven, I will be extremely happy."

She followed several old farmers and saw with her own eyes how terrible the yields of crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes were. Compared with rice and wheat, sweet potatoes and potatoes were easier to grow and more resistant to heat and cold. It was estimated that the yield of one acre of field was enough. Food rations for a family of five for half a year.

If the whole country is planted with Yan, even if there is another famine, there will be no need to worry about starvation.

Murong Jiu held Jing Niang's hand and told her not to do the work herself, but to leave it to the people below. She was Chang Chonghai's wife, and she was also a guest of the palace. From the beginning, Murong Jiu never thought of letting her and Xiaoqin I didn't expect that she would volunteer and help Murong Jiu so much.

This kind of credit is enough for Jing Niang and several other senior farmers to leave their names for eternity.

After sending Jing Niang away, Murong Jiu's face was still full of smiles.

"Husband, can we eat a persimmon raw?"

She was so curious about the taste of persimmons. She heard that it tasted completely different from the persimmons on the tree, but she couldn't imagine it.

Persimmons are not as easy to preserve on ships as sweet potatoes and potatoes. What she got was only a few seeds and she had never seen fresh persimmon fruits.

"It's too cold..."

"Put it in hot water and scald it."

Jun Yuyan couldn't resist her coquettishness, thinking that Uncle Zhai only asked Ah Jiu not to eat anything too cold. If she boiled it in hot water, it wouldn't be too cold, so he agreed.

Although the hot water was too hot and burned off the thin skin on the outside of the persimmon, it did not affect its deliciousness.

A fist-sized persimmon was cut in half, one half went into Murong Jiu's belly, and the other half went into Jun Yuyan's belly.

The sweet persimmon is not as sweet as the persimmon. Instead, it has a bit of sourness, but it is not purely sour. It has a fragrant and sweet-sour taste. The sweetness is higher than the acidity. The flesh inside has a slightly gritty texture. It tastes like the native Dayan fruit. Fruits and vegetables taste completely different.

<divclass="contentadv">"It will definitely taste better if sliced ​​and sprinkled with sugar. However, people in overseas countries like to cook it into sauce. It tastes sour and sweet. I don't know what it tastes like when fried. "

There were a few red persimmons left. Murong Jiu cut them open and gave them to Chun Taohongyi to taste. Little Wolf came up and sniffed them, but was not very interested.

She asked Chuntao to be sent to Master Xiaowen, and the rest was kept in the kitchen with beans, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. After the dishes were cooked, they were sent to old Sinong Jingniang.

The four father and brother have returned to the general's mansion.

I spent the New Year in the palace, but if I don't go back on the first day of the new year, mold will grow in the general's palace, and I have to worship my ancestors.

And early this morning, before Murong Jiu woke up, Jun Yuyan and his father and brothers went to the palace to kneel and kowtow to participate in the annual congratulatory ceremony.

In previous years, it was very lively, and there was a royal banquet in the palace. However, this year, the second prince's confinement has not been lifted, and the third prince's injury has not healed. The emperor is not in the mood, so Jun Yuyan can come back early to accompany her.

Murong Jiu decided to wait until the kitchen made the most delicious dishes before inviting his father and brother to eat.

I heard from Jingniang that persimmons, kidney beans, peppers, etc. are grown one crop after another. They grow very quickly in the glazed greenhouse and should last for a long time.

And many crops have already bloomed.

There is a crop called corn. Jing Niang said that green buds have grown, and there are whiskers growing on the green buds. It is estimated that it will mature in ten days and a half.

Corn can be ground into cornmeal, which can replace wheat.

In short, Murong Jiu was full of expectations for the coming days.

However, these new dishes in the kitchen really embarrassed the cooks.

They had never seen these vegetables before, and they didn't know how to start with them. When they heard that they were overseas seeds, grown in the huge glazed shed in the palace, they became even more cautious. Several people racked their brains to think. How to deal with it.

Because I didn’t know the taste, I thought about it and decided to try both steaming, cooking and stir-frying. Except that there weren’t many persimmons and peppers, there were quite a lot of sweet potatoes, potatoes and kidney beans.

When Chuntao delivered the dishes, she specifically reminded her that the beans needed to be cooked.

By the time Murong Jiu and Jun Yuyan got the food, it was not too late. It was lunch time, and the table was full of various attempts at the fresh dishes.

Divine Doctor Zhai and Xiao Wen also came, and the four of them had this all-ocean banquet together, having traveled across the ocean.

"Well, this fried potato dish is delicious, crispy and tender, with garlic cloves added, very fragrant!"

Murong Jiu picked up a random dish and found that it tasted delicious. He quickly asked everyone to try it, while the familiar one picked up a chopstick for Jun Yuyan first.

Doctor Zhai finished the product and nodded: "Well, it's really good!"

Jun Yuyan was also a little surprised. The potato looked unattractive, but it tasted really good. There was a whole steamed potato on the side, and there was a small pile next to it with soy sauce and vinegar for dipping.

The taste is okay. It tastes different from the fried ones. It is more floury and glutinous. The fried sweet potatoes are not crispy, but a bit soft and sweet. The steamed ones taste better. Although they are a bit choking, it is better than what people eat. I often eat multigrain steamed buns with rice bran added to them, but they are too much to eat.

Murong Jiu's eyes fell on the scrambled eggs with sweet peppers that were farthest away from her, and she swallowed, eager to try her chopsticks.