In the kitchen, several cooks and kitchen workers were gathering together to study the pepper in the sheepskin bag, and when they saw Chen Xuxing rushing in, they all quickly stood up and bowed.

"Excuse me, go get a wooden mortar, help me prepare a few thick pottery plates, remember that the pottery plate is not a porcelain plate, the grill is also ready, and go buy me a large piece of good fresh beef......"

Chen Xu gave a series of orders, and a group of kitchen workers immediately scattered to prepare things.

Chen Xu rolled up his sleeves and took out a handful of pepper from the leather pocket again to look at it carefully, smelling the smell of the leather bag, frowning and ordering to find a clean bamboo plaque.

The pepper originally tasted pure, but it turned out to be in this sheepskin bag for an unknown amount of time, and it already had a bit of a mutton smell.

Soon a kitchen worker took a bamboo plaque, Chen Xu personally brushed the bamboo plaque, and then poured the pepper inside, at this time a kitchen worker took the wooden mortar over, Chen Xu held almost half a catty in the wooden mortar to let the kitchen carefully scoop into powder, and the rest let people take it outside to dry, and instructed to find a new clay pot to hold after drying, Chen Xu began to prepare oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and green onions, ginger and garlic.

Busy Win Shiyan and Meng Wan came in, Xing'er and Yu Ji didn't know when they also ran over and watched together by the stove.

"Bang Bang~"

As the cook continued to pound the pestle, a spicy smell of pepper soon emanated from the kitchen, and Apricot and Yu Ji coughed and began to pinch their noses.

"Husband, what are you going to do, do you want us to help?" Meng Wan asked with the same curiosity covering her nose.

"No, it's choking here, you go play for a while, and when the beef comes back, I'll make you a black pepper steak to eat!" Chen Xu waved his hand and said.

"Sister, it's very choking here, let's go to the study first to write the story of the acacia tree, okay?" Meng Wan couldn't hold on.

"It's good!" Ying Shiyan nodded, and the two women left arm in arm, Xing'er and Yu Ji saw that they couldn't eat for the time being, so they also turned around and ran.

"Ahem~~"

The housekeeper came in from outside, and was immediately choked by the smell of pepper, and suddenly the coughing snot and tears came down, Chen Xu himself couldn't stand it, so he found a mask to wear.

I've only seen pepper before, and the smell is not so rushed, but I didn't expect the fresh pepper to taste so big after mashing, but Chen Xu was very happy, this smell is much more fragrant than the pepper in the steak shop.

"Master Hou, the gifts sent by Di Daohou and Yinshan Hou have all been counted, and they are worth a lot of money, totaling more than 50,000 yuan...... Ahem, Master Hou, what are you pounding here, is it the kind of black seed that the kitchen worker is drying outside? The butler said, covering his nose.

"Well, this thing is called pepper, and it's very delicious to use to make beef and mutton!" Chen Xu nodded as he worked.

"Pepper? Isn't it my Central Plains product? The butler asked suspiciously.

"Yes, this spice comes from the extreme west, it should be snatched from the Huns by Di Daohou and Yinshan Hou, this spice is extremely precious, the price is comparable to gold, we don't produce it in the Central Plains, so we must order to go down and take care of it carefully, don't be troubled by the chickens and ducks in the yard......"

"Comparable to gold? How precious it is? The housekeeper was stunned for a long time and then said with a look of ecstasy on his face, "Master Hou, last winter, Lord Hou returned to Nanyang to visit relatives, and Master Yingbu also sent a bag, but the old servant didn't know it, and thought it was worthless and let people throw it in the warehouse......

"Tyrannical things, go get it for me!" Chen Xu was pleasantly surprised and a little unhappy.

It seems that the housekeeper of Nima Villa should be replaced, he has no strategic vision at all, and he is not as good as Yingbu and Jiang Hu Li Xin, I don't know if Master Hou My favorite is all kinds of delicious food, Lao Tzu collects seeds of various plants all over the world, and you are so blind that you throw such a good thing in the warehouse.

The butler hurried away, and returned in less than ten minutes, but his face was very tangled and ugly, and he stood cautiously at the door of the kitchen with a leather bag in his arms.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xu turned around with a kitchen knife, feeling a little bad premonition in his heart.

Looking at the shiny steel kitchen knife sharpened in Chen Xu's hand, the housekeeper trembled slightly in fright, his face turned pale and he stammered, "Hou ...... Hou Ye, pepper...... The old pepper servant didn't keep it well, and the rat bit the skin and leaked a lot, and it was a little moldy......"

Chen Xu inserted the kitchen knife on the cutting board aggressively, and the housekeeper trembled again.

"Show me!" Chen Xu took the sheepskin bag in the butler's hand, and a lot of pepper fell from a hole in the hulala.

A kitchen worker next to him quickly caught it with a bamboo plaque, Chen Xu opened the leather pocket and only glanced at it, then grabbed it with his hand and sniffed it, and his face immediately darkened.

Sure enough, I felt a tidal feeling when I started it, and there was also a musty smell.

"Master Hou, the old servant has done something wrong, please punish Master Hou!" The housekeeper frowned and didn't dare to look up.

Chen Xu didn't speak, poured all the pepper in his pocket into the bamboo plaque, and found that many of them had begun to grow mold and clump.

"Master Hou, these peppers are already moldy and inedible, it seems that they can only be poured out!" A chef beside him was reminded of a very distressed heart.

The butler instantly made a slight swing.

The people in the kitchen heard Chen Xu's words, the price of pepper is comparable to gold, and this pocket is worth seven or eight catties, if it is converted into gold, it is worth more than 20,000 yuan, and the housekeeper's salary is only 3,000 yuan a year, and it takes seven or eight years to pay off this loss without eating or drinking.

"You can't eat it, it's a pity to pour it out, although it has passed the sowing season now, but I still arrange for someone to get a piece of land to sow it to see if it can germinate, I hope the seeds are not rotten!" Chen Xu sighed regretfully and stood up.

"Yes, the old servant will arrange it!" The butler breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said.

"Well, remember, this thing is said to be not very easy to grow in my Central Plains, the temperature and climate are not very adaptable, it is estimated that it is easier to survive in the humid and hot south, but since it is moldy, the dead horse can be used as a live horse doctor to sow seeds to try it, take it to find a place close to the water source, don't be too dry, sprinkle water in time after sowing, and also cover some grass and trees to shade, if it sprouts, tell me in time! By the way, choose another piece of land that is half a catty of pepper to dry outside, and arrange someone to take care of it carefully."

"Yes, yes, don't worry, the old servant will arrange someone to take care of it!" The butler left with a bamboo plaque as if he had been pardoned.

Pepper was originally produced in India.

Because India is warm and humid, including cucumbers, eggplants, carrots, onions and many other fruits and vegetables, as well as cotton and other crops are transmitted from India, and China also has pepper production in later generations, the production areas are in the south, Vietnam and Thailand and other places are also important pepper producing areas, the Central Plains and the north have not heard of being able to grow pepper, mainly because the climate and soil are not suitable.

The climate of Daqin is completely different from that of China after two thousand years, the whole Central Plains is still very warm and humid now, the distribution range of rhinoceros and elephants is still very light, the Qinling Mountains have heard from time to time, the entire Loess Plateau is full of lush primeval forests, the Yellow River is not as turbid as in later generations, the coast is more than a zhang high reeds and large farmland, the vegetation is lush and diverse, because the population is sparse, so it is full of a primitive taste.

Therefore, as long as the pepper can germinate, it may be successfully cultivated in Xianyang, if not, arrange someone to bring some to the south to plant, the possibility of success is still very great.

If pepper is planted successfully, then mustard, a spicy seasoning, can slowly withdraw from the ranks of condiments, Chinese like spicy, not spicy, and pepper is also a very good herb, with stomach digestion and pain relief effect, is a very good medicinal food general spice.

After preparing the tools and seasonings for frying the steak in the kitchen, he waited for nearly half an hour before the servant who had gone to buy the meat came back on his horse, sweating profusely, bringing back a piece of fresh beef and a whole half of a sheep.

"Master Hou, it's late today, the beef in the vegetable market is almost sold out, and there are only some corner hoof tendons left, so I took it upon myself to buy half a sheep, do you think it's okay?" The servant looked at Chen Xu with a little apprehension.

"Okay, beef and mutton are fine!" Chen Xu happily instructed the kitchen staff to move all the beef and mutton into the kitchen.

This piece of beef is only five or six catties, although there are many people in the Hou Mansion is definitely not enough to eat, but it is definitely no problem to taste and satisfy cravings, especially now that Yu Wuya, a foodie, is not in the mansion, and the consumption is more than half less.

Chen Xu washed his hands and rolled up his sleeves, put on a smock and put on a chef's hat to do it himself, and a group of chefs and kitchen workers stood by to watch.

Generally speaking, Hou Ye only makes fresh dishes, the chef has to watch carefully and learn as soon as possible, once he learns it, Chen Xu will not do it a second time, it will be the chef's business in the future, if you want to eat, you will directly order the kitchen to make it, and many new dishes will go to the palace kitchen to teach the imperial chef after learning, and there is no room for sloppiness.

Chen Xu's expression was very serious and serious.

He had only eaten black pepper steak at a fast food restaurant before, but he had never made it himself.

But since he crossed over to Daqin, he has slowly made a lot of food according to the gourd.

Pure green and ecological ingredients and seasonings collected in an almost pure wild state, although there are only simple condiments such as soy sauce and salt, the food tastes even more delicious than later generations.

Therefore, for this fried steak, Chen Xu does not have much psychological burden.

As long as there is pepper, it is pepper steak, and the taste will not be bad, which is better than boiling frogs with green onions, ginger, garlic and salt in Xiaohe Village.

And when he thought of boiling the frog in clear water, Chen Xu instantly remembered the heroism and rudeness of Niu Dashi boiling the whole frog.

A jar of frogs with skin appeared in front of him, and Chen Xu shivered slightly.

You have to make a piece of pepper steak quickly to suppress the shock, otherwise the frog will vomit if you think too much.

In a tremble, Chen Xu rolled up his sleeves and began to move.