Chapter 140: Cool
[Depressed, the last paragraph of the previous chapter has been changed several times, and it has been wrong, and now it has been corrected]
There are also five wild pepper trees not far from the Dragon Tribe's hometown, compared with the more than 800 pepper trees outside the wall of his hometown, the yield of these five wild pepper trees is not much, and Su Yan is too lazy to waste time picking them.
The planting team set off in the morning, because the things on their backs affected the trip, and they only joined the salt mining team in the middle of the afternoon.
There are more than 150 people in the salt mining team, and the harvest of the planting team is dispersed, and the average weight is only about 30 catties per person, which has little impact on the speed of the team.
On the morning of the fifth day of the return trip, the party returned to the Dragon Tribe, and many of the Dragon Tribe's people were eager to see through it, hoping that the king would return with the team that had gone out as soon as possible, and they missed the smell of the peppercorns.
Since Su Yan discovered the pepper, pepper powder has become one of the most valuable things in the dragon tribe, the spicy feeling that pepper brings to the people is described by Su Yan as a word taught by Su Yan is "cool", this wild pepper is mainly hemp, and the spicy feeling is a little lighter than hemp.
There are people in the dragon tribe who are not strong in resistance to spicy taste, and every time they chew on food with red eyes and pepper powder, shouting "cool" loudly while eating.
The salty taste of salt has been accustomed to the tribesmen, the spicy taste of pepper makes the tribesmen more refreshing, there are many wars before modern times because of spices, the importance of spices almost throughout history, until with the frequent exchanges of people around the world, bringing spices to all parts of the world, the "spice war" has disappeared.
Limited by the fact that there are only five wild pepper trees, the dragon tribe can not get much pepper powder every year, except for the big people of the dragon tribe, ordinary people can only make meritorious contributions to get the king's reward if they want to get pepper powder, and each person's reward each time is only one or two grams, and the fried pepper powder every year is only a little more than a catty.
Su Yan returned to the Dragon Tribe with the team, Su Yan unexpectedly found that there was a trace of longing in the eyes of the clansmen, and when he looked at it again, they put their eyes on the peppercorns picked back, and Su Yan suddenly realized.
"These spicy guys."
The salt, pepper seeds, hemp seeds, and hemp skins brought back by the team all need to be processed, but now that it is the autumn harvest, it is good to leave only a dozen laborers, and the rest of the clan are busy picking fruits everywhere.
Making impurity salt into refined salt, drying pepper seeds and hemp seeds, and soaking hemp skin in water, Su Yan and his people were busy.
In the end, more than 250 catties of Zanthoxylum pepper seeds made a total of nearly 35 catties of Zanthoxylum powder, compared with more than one pound of Zanthoxylum powder produced in previous years, this year's output of Zanthoxylum pepper powder has increased dozens of times.
Su Yan himself tried the pepper powder produced by the artificially planted pepper tree first, well, the taste is not much different from the pepper powder produced by the wild pepper tree, anyway, Su Yan himself can't feel it, the current feeling is not bad, Su Yan and the people of the dragon tribe can accept it, I hope that there will be little change in the future.
Next is the time of public music, Su Yan first divided the peppercorn powder in his hand into ten parts, each weighing one catty, and sent them to the Wu and patriarch of the five clans of the Dragon Tribe, as the high-level of the Dragon Tribe, this is the treatment they deserve, and then the backbone of the Dragon Tribe, a total of ten people, each of them received one or two pepper powder as a reward.
In this way, Su Yan still has nearly twenty-four catties of peppercorn powder left in his hand, except for a small part that Su Yan himself kept, in the future, these peppercorn powder will be used to reward the tribe for good performance, including slaves.
In the evening of the day when all the pepper powder was made, Su Yan deliberately took out a small part of the pepper powder, so that everyone in the dragon tribe could enjoy the spicy taste of the pepper powder once.
"Cool!" The tribesmen swallowed the food with pepper powder, and a small number of people had red eyes, but they still did not put down the food with pepper powder, and a few tribesmen ate food while drinking water, which can be called numbness (spicy) as life, but their bodies have little resistance to spicy taste, and most of the people of the Dragon tribe have adapted to the spicy taste of pepper powder.
It was the first time for the slaves to eat food with pepper powder, and the first time they tasted the spicy taste of pepper powder, it was as unacceptable as the people of the Dragon Tribe, and they thought that the food was poisonous and spit out the food directly.
However, the slaves also saw that the food they ate was the same as that of the dragon tribesmen, the food could not be poisonous, and the spicy taste left in their mouths made them feel a strange feeling, and they tried to eat the food with peppercorn powder in their hands, and soon, they also liked the delicious food, just like the first time they ate the food with salt before.
"Cool!" "It's so cool! "It's so cool! ”
From the words of the clansmen, Su Yan could feel the happiness of the clansmen, beside Su Yan, the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters happily ate the roast beast meat with pepper powder, and made a "hiss" sound while eating in their mouths, the spicy sensation stimulated their taste buds, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on their foreheads, but the two of them were often able to eat food with pepper powder when they followed Su Yan, and they were used to the spicy taste.
It's autumn now, the temperature has dropped a lot, but the most suitable season is winter, in the cold winter to eat food with pepper powder is enjoyable, spicy sweat in the cold day, how refreshing.
After a night of revelry, the dragon tribe returned to normal life, and the tribesmen were busy picking fruits, and when the fruits were almost collected, they had to go to the river to fish from morning to night.
Fortunately, now that the dragon tribe has moved here, they can catch more fish from the big river, if they are still in their hometown, the small river alone can no longer support the food needs of the dragon tribe, even if they have been fishing in the small river since autumn, the small river always has an upper limit.
The houses in the dragon tribe have been renovated, and the simple houses that were originally framed by wood and robed with wide blades have been greatly transformed after in-depth transformation, and there are four more walls around the house, the walls are two-layered, the innermost layer is made of sticks or rattan, and the outside is made of mud and clay, and finally the clay has to be used to smear all the gaps, so that the house can withstand the strong wind and the cold to a certain extent.
Unfortunately, the interior of the house was too small to add a stove to the house, so the people had to add more hides and hay to keep them warm in winter.
Time passed, the temperature dropped day by day, and a large amount of food had been hoarded in the Dragon Tribe's settlement, which was enough for the Dragon Tribe to survive this winter, but the Dragon Tribe did not stop, and no one was sure whether the winter would be extended, or stock up on more food just in case.