It is a small hollow silver jar of a bust of an imported figure, with four small stops and a small knob lid at the bottom, which is very elaborate for shooting and making.

The object was unearthed from a stolen burial tomb, cleaned and placed on a table outside Zhang Nan's exclusive tent—there were a large number of items that Nong Bosheng had asked Chen Jianghua to send for Zhang Nan to admire.

The small silver jar is individually packed in a transparent specimen bag: the figure has a distinctly Western look, and the overall feel is like a bust of ancient Greece, with beautiful costumes, intricate hair accessories, and a smooth and smooth place because of the use of it.

The statue is laughing, and even if you look at it a few more times, you will feel that this guy's smile seems to be a little funny, and people want to laugh when they see it.

Tom, the butler, came in at this time and asked the question of whether to take a shower before or after the meal: the conditions of this hellish place are limited, but it is still possible to let the boss take the simplest hot bath, and the servants who came with him are not decorations.

"After dinner. Zhang Nan didn't feel uncomfortable, "Tom, tell everyone not to be too busy, just prepare two pots of hot water for me, and then get a bucket of clean cold water, I'll wipe it." ”

The temperature is up to more than 20 degrees, and the normal situation is up to seven or eight degrees in the early morning, and the air is relatively dry.

In my previous life, I was a buyer and I would go on a business trip, but I couldn't find a bathroom anywhere, and there were even fewer cases where the room had a hot water bathroom, so even if I did, I couldn't afford it.

It is fashionable and so to work for the government, not to mention the two years when I was a Tufuzi, it was the norm not to take a bath for a long time, and Zhang Nan was not so delicate.

Wash it every day when you have the conditions, and you can make do without the conditions.

Tom didn't say any advice, and since the boss said it, he would do it himself.

"Sir, dinner is scheduled for half past seven, both Chinese and Russian, and Mr. Andrei has also invited several Russian officers to our camp for dinner, let me ask you what you mean, do you want to go to the big tent to eat, or will it be brought for you?"

Inviting others to dinner Andre was angry with himself, but not in the name of Zhang Nan.

I didn't want to deal too much with these middle-level officers, so I said: "Just send it in, notify the director of Nong Bosheng, and I won't go to them to use hot pot."

The main dish is to get a stir-fried deer loin that the kitchen will prepare, and the argali, let the kitchen refrigerate a few pounds of lean meat, I will use it tomorrow, and what else to eat.

I don't need to drink, I want to rest early after the meal. ”

After speaking, Zhang Nan pointed to the items on the table, and said, "Let the people sort it out as it is, and then send it back to the agricultural curator." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the small silver jar on the table with a funny smile, "Tell them it's a pepper shaker." ”

As he spoke, he took out a gadget from the small storage cabinet on the side, "Take this one together and let them compare it." But tell them to wash their hands and see later, I'm going to use it for dinner. ”

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"The Huns have pepper? That's a nice find. ”

The experts who can continue to sort out the unearthed cultural relics in the big tent here took back the items sent back by the servants around Zhang Nan, and after hearing the words and the things they brought, Lao Wang said this.

Nong Bosheng was using a small brush to clean up the bronze ornaments on a piece of horse harness, and after hearing Lao Wang's words, he said: "It's not surprising that there was pepper on the menus of ancient Greece and Rome, and a large pile of Hellenistic kingdoms left behind after Alexander's westward expedition in the southwest of the Green Mountains also had pepper.

The Xiongnu and the countries of the Western Regions intersected, and the Da Yue clan was directly connected with those Hellenistic countries, and it was normal for the Huns to have a pepper shaker. ”

It's normal, it's more normal Zhang Nan's identification of this pepper shaker is authoritative here, whoever let him have an ancient Roman pepper shaker, which will be in the hands of an African-American servant in a hunting suit, and a new transparent specimen bag.

When the things were sent back just now, Nong Bosheng didn't let anyone put Zhang Nan's pepper shaker on the table: he saw that Zhang Nan had used this ancient Roman pepper bottle, and he knew that Zhang Nan was sometimes very particular about it, so he didn't let this seasoning pepper shaker that was still in use touch the things dug up from these tombs.

By the time the servant left with the pepper shaker unearthed by Hochson, the experts' discussion about the pepper shaker continued, focusing on the condiments of the Hun diet.

Lao Zhang and Zhang Hongfu thought that the Xiongnu were unlikely to use pepper, but Lao Wang had her own opinion: "Maybe they snatched it from the Da Yue people, and the Yue people got it from the Greeks in Bactria."

It cannot be said that the Xiongnu nobles often ate pepper, and it is very likely that they have eaten it.

Besides, I remember that there should be a lot of pepper records in our ancient classics, right, but I can't remember it clearly. Turning his head, "Old Qiu, tell me." ”

Lao Qiu, the famous Qiu Honggao, was sixty-seven or eighteen years old, and he had a deep research attainment in ancient Chinese classics.

As soon as he heard this, Lao Qiu said: "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Volume 88, "The Legend of the Western Regions", records: 'A person in Tianzhu Kingdom is poisonous, thousands of miles southeast of Yueshi... The west is connected with Daqin, and there are treasures of Daqin. Again... Pepper, ginger, black salt. ’

In the later Northern Wei Dynasty, the fourth volume of the "Qi Min Yaoshu" quoted the "Guangzhi" written in the Jin Dynasty and said: "Pepper comes out of the Western Regions. ’

I won't talk about the later ones, so look at the Han Dynasty, we Central Plains people should have seen pepper, and the Huns have eaten pepper is also strange. ”

As he spoke, he took the small jar handed over by Zhang Hongfu, looked at it a few more times, and said: "This thing may be used for dozens or hundreds of years after it is in the hands of the Huns.

However, according to the transportation and trade environment at that time, even if the Xiongnu were alone, it was impossible for them to eat pepper often, let alone ordinary nobles.

I think it's more likely that it was used for salt, or other spices, like benzoin or peppercorns.

Mao Dun will be known as 'Breaking Donghu, Walking the Yue Clan, Shocking the Barbarians, and Surrendering to the Qiang.' The western Qiang was enslaved and sent by the Huns for a long time, and the territory of the Qiang people should have produced peppercorns at that time.

I can't eat pepper, so it's okay to change to peppercorns.

I said, everybody, I just saw a whole lamb roasting in the kitchen outside, how about we wash this thing and put on some cumin powder?"

A group of old friends, Lao Qiu is amused, using the ancient Greek style pepper bottle unearthed from the Hun tomb to fill the cumin called benzoin in ancient times, this must be very interesting.

Interestingly, the experts didn't do such a creative move in the end - without the ancient Greek-style pepper shaker, those roast sheep still tasted good.