"You always know cucumbers, don't you? Last time, the pig's head meat was mixed with cucumbers, don't you still call it delicious? Jin Yu prompted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hey, smelt, when is it called cucumber? People are obviously green! As long as it is associated with food, Cheng Huaimo can react quickly, and by the way, he also despises Jin Yu: "Uneducated, it's terrible, don't tell anyone when you go out that you know me, brother, I can't afford to lose this person." ”

"Say you're fat, you're still panting! I'm happy to call it a cucumber, what's up? Can you get the seeds? "The cultural differences are too great, and after 1,500 years of changes, it is normal for names to change, and seeds are the focus of Jinyu's attention.

"100 pounds is enough to choke, Hu ...... Although cucumbers are more delicious, but the yield is low, there are not many people who grow them, and some farmers will plant a few in the yard to eat themselves, I will go back and find it. Cheng Huaimo frowned.

"Yes, you have also eaten eggplant, and when it was combined with fried lotus root, didn't you still say that it was soft and soft, and you could eat it without teeth, did you just bring back two plates for your son?" Seeing the cucumber play, Jin Yu teased Cheng Huaimo a little.

"That's Kunlun purple melon, didn't your eldest nephew eat two plates? As for being so stingy? Cheng Huaimo's old face flushed and retorted.

"The eldest nephew doesn't feel distressed when he eats me, isn't this worrying about the child's teeth?" Jin Yu laughed, "Can you get this eggplant seed?" ”

"Brother, try it, don't you dare to pack tickets. There are not many eggplants that hang fruit, and when it rains, they will leave scars or even rot, and there are fewer people who plant them. Cheng Huaimo scratched his head and explained the reason.

"Yes, try to find it, and I'll ask others to keep an eye on it." Jin Yu didn't expect the eggplant to be so fragile at this time. It seems that the eggplant sent by Qin Huaiyu last time should be a thousand choices, but it is really not big. It's not much bigger than your own fist, and I don't know if there's room for cultivation and improvement. Nurturing and improving is a big job. Pick an opportunity to throw it to Li Er's family to study.

"What's that onion? Little brother shouldn't have eaten it, right? The younger brother has never liked to eat green onions. ”

"Onions, although they can choke people to tears like shallots, are not a thing. As the name suggests, shallots are round, with purple skin, yellow skin, and one layer at a time. Forget it, I'll draw it for you. Jin Yu saw Cheng Huaimo's thinking face, so he gave up the comparison, not to mention that Cheng Huaimo hadn't eaten it. After coming to Datang, Jin Yu ran to the vegetable market a lot, and he didn't see anything for sale, and it seems that it has not yet spread to China in this year.

"Well, that's pretty much it. Go back and draw a few more copies, hand them over to your caravan, pass Dunhuang, go west, you should be able to find it. Bring back some more seeds. Jin Yu drew the floor plan, horizontal and vertical sections, and made marks, although the painter is a bit half-baked, but the appearance is correct.

"Done!" Cheng Huaimo agreed very simply. However, he asked with a skeptical face: "How does the eldest brother know that he can find it from Dunhuang to the west?" ”

"I'm from the Extreme Desert, I've seen it before." Jin Yu is now self-hypnotizing and really thinks that he came out of the desert, and his lies have come true a thousand times. Seems to make a lot of sense.

"No wonder." Cheng Huaimo nodded and agreed with Jin Yu's statement. "What do those two melons look like?"

"Pumpkins and loofahs, forget it. I'll draw it for you. "It's good to say that the loofah has not changed much for thousands of years, and the shape of this pumpkin is not fixed, it is round and long, and the color is not fixed.

"This is also from the west, right?" Cheng Huaimo carefully rolled up the painting and asked.

"The loofah may be in the cochin piece, but the pumpkin doesn't know, try to find it." Jin Yu recalled and said that some people say that pumpkins originated in South America, and some people say that there are records in the Yuan Dynasty, so they can only try their luck. "Try to find shallots and loofahs, sprinkle the seeds of local vegetables by the way, and write down the planting methods."

"Okay, but how does the eldest brother know that there is a loofah in Jiaozhi?" Cheng Huaimo asked suspiciously.

"Lao Tzu will not count? Can't you hear it from others? Are you curious about the baby? Inquire about it, get out of the way, hurry back and tell it to go down, and don't bother others when you see you. "Jin Yu began to pick people, this problem can't be explained, could it be that my brother often eats it after 1,500 years?

Jin Yu suddenly became angry and stunned Cheng Huai, opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't speak.

"Oh, by the way, you almost forgot a few things." Jin Yu turned around and dragged Cheng Huaimo back again. "Just listen to me this time, don't ask questions."

Cheng Huaimo closed his mouth and nodded, which was considered to be a promise.

"People should pay attention to whether there is something called 'peanut' or 'longevity fruit', and maybe something else. After flowering, it bears fruit in the ground, with an outer shell, and inside the shell there are two or three seeds, and the seeds are red-skinned. Jin Yu began to paint again, explaining while painting, "Generally speaking, it is 'hemp house, red tent, this white fat man lives in it', look for it carefully, I have a lot of use for this thing." ”

Seeing Jin Yu's serious face, Cheng Huaimo still nodded, there are too many fans in his eldest brother, which makes people unable to see through, he is very knowledgeable, and he is proficient in many unheard of things, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a genius. is a brother and a teacher, Cheng Huaimo is very respectful, so Jin Yu was angry, and he didn't dare to refute anything, only listened.

Among all the seeds, the most important thing for Jin Yu is peanuts! Not for the taste of peanut rice, but for peanut oil! Coming to this era, Jin Yu not only experienced the differences in culture, opinions, and food. In this era, the rich used sesame oil, the common people used meat oil (mainly mutton fat and lard), and the poor had no oil to eat...... Jin Yu himself is a rich man, right? But I can't stand the sesame oil every day. The so-called sesame oil is the sesame oil of later generations, in Jin Yu's view, sesame oil can only be regarded as a condiment, if it is used for stir-frying...... The taste is so torturous! That's why he built an oil mill on his Zhuangzi, specializing in soybean oil.

Although soybeans were also cultivated in the Tang Dynasty, they were very scarce for oil extraction. This involves the issue of yield per mu and oil yield. The yield per mu of sesame and soybean is not much different, but the oil yield is several times different, the oil yield of sesame can be about 75%, but the soybean is only about 15%, and the remaining bean dregs are not sold at a high price, which is too wasteful, so soybean oil has not been widely promoted. But now it's different, the Jin family Zhuangzi now raises pigs and chickens, in order to quickly fatten and lay eggs, Jin Yu has also invested enough. Ordinary domestic chickens generally lay eggs at eight months in size, and chickens raised by Zhuangzi of the Jin family start laying eggs at an average of six months. Not only chickens, pigs are also good, from the Cheng family to transport wine lees to feed the pigs, and then mixed with some soybean cakes, the long meat is fast, the fat is also thick, one is said to be the pork produced by the Jin family Zhuangzi, the scene of rushing to buy is very spectacular.

Cheng Huaimo saw that Jin Yu had been flustered, and he didn't dare to make a sound, so he gently poked Jin Yu with his fingers.

"Huh?" Jin Yu reflected, "I'm sorry, the resentment is a little deep, just finished talking about peanuts, right?" ”

Cheng Huaimo nodded, stretched out his hand and motioned for Jin Yu to continue.

"Do you have a caravan heading east? Your hometown or a coastal place. Jin Yu asked, he knew that the Cheng family did a lot of foreign trade business, but it was not clear in China. The strength of the seven surnames and ten families in the north is still very strong, this strength is not only reflected in the abundance of talents, but also in the accumulation of wealth, they not only do transnational trading, but also the accumulation of commerce and trade in the territory is also very amazing. Even Li Er now chooses to endure, and it is possible that the Cheng family may choose not to intervene there in order to avoid conflicts, so Jin Yu asked.

Cheng Huaimo nodded, and waved his hand at Jin Yu again, not knowing what he wanted to express.

"Talk, what a blind gesture!" Jin Yu glared at him, didn't he just show a little impatience? Is it necessary for this girl to be so obedient? Could it be that he was shocked by his royal spirit?

"Hehe, it's suffocating me." Cheng Huaimo exaggerated a few breaths and explained: "My family also does domestic trading, and the eldest brother is worried about the seven surnames and ten families, right?" Although they are powerful, they are not able to stop other companies from doing business. In addition, I heard the old man say that His Majesty is also very troubled by their gate valves, and he may be co-opted and suppressed, and he will definitely not let them be so disobedient. ”

"You know! Don't talk about things in the court, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth, and cause trouble to Uncle Cheng! Jin Yu admonished.

"Yes, I'll listen to you, and I won't talk about it later." Cheng Huai acquiesced to Jin Yu's statement, seven surnames and ten families are just a general statement, and there are many snakes on the ground, take Chengnan Wei as an example, in order to win them over, didn't His Majesty favor Wei Jue? Also sealed the concubine? Don't forget, Concubine Wei and His Majesty are married for the second time! The daughters born before marriage have been named county lords, and even when they see it, they have to salute, and then look at the mother, alas, don't want to, Cheng Huaimo shook his head secretly.

"Since you have a caravan at home, when you go east, take it to the beach, buy some kelp, seaweed, and sea rice from the fishermen, and if you have sea cucumbers, you can also collect some of them, everything must be done, pay attention to moisture on the road, and you can stuff some quicklime or something in the box. The price to the fishermen should be fair, and we must establish a long-term and stable supply relationship. Jin Yu explained. Now I don't have the financial resources or so much manpower to develop long-distance business, everything still depends on the Cheng family to be carried out smoothly, which can be regarded as a bundle of interests, making the relationship between the two families more solid.

"Big brother, it's okay, the Cheng family has always been a fool in business, otherwise how can you gain a foothold?" Cheng Huaimo patted his chest with some pride and reassured.

"Well, you do something, I'm relieved." Jin Yu worked hard to learn the style of the great man, patted Cheng Huaimo on the shoulder and instructed: "Let the caravan find it with your heart, I am bound to get what I told you, and you will know in the future that growing vegetables is not less profitable than traveling long distances to make money!" (To be continued.) )

ps: In 2015, it was first updated, and it was supported by the book friend's "Fish Funeral of the Scenery" and the monthly pass of the book friend "WK".