Chapter 8 The World of Foodies
The ancients said that the people took food as the sky. No matter what time it is, the most important thing for Chinese is nothing more than eating. In no exaggeration, the 5,000-year history of the Chinese is a history of eating (but if anyone dares to write a "History of Eating", I will obey you with this name alone).
Even in the distant pre-Qin period, people would try to enhance the taste of food as much as possible; No matter how few dishes there are, no matter how simple the means of cooking, the dishes you cook are better than those of others, and you will definitely be favored by others. If your food is delicious and alarms the princes, it is even more prosperous, and it is not a problem to become an imperial chef.
Just like Yi Yin, if it weren't for the good cooking, how could he get the favor of Shang Tang, and how could he become the ancestor of Chinese cooking?
But I just hope that I don't meet those traversers surnamed Yun, otherwise everyone's food will be pig food (the two fat foodies are too powerful).
However, Taijia doesn't dare to expect too much now, all he hopes is that his family can buy more salt, buy slaves, sell cattle and sheep, and become a slave owner!
Slave owners had surnames, and for that alone, the Tygar family was considered a powerful person.
Yiyue and Geng looked at each other, put down the bowl and chopsticks in their hands, and looked at their son suspiciously, thinking that he had something wrong with his brain, why was he suddenly so serious?
And make salt money? Don't go out and sell yourself!
I only heard Taijia say: "Father, mother, now everyone in the country can weave, and raising silkworms is no longer the way out; In my opinion, we can exchange Amu's special sauce with other tribes, and we must have more salt money in exchange than today! ”
He was even more stunned, then laughed, and kept patting Taijia's shoulder; Yiyue also pursed her lips and snickered, and said softly: "After holding it for a long time, I said what are you going to say?" What a word! Taijia Wu'er, this sauce is available in every family, not to mention in other tribes, it is completely worthless in our tribe! Who cares about this except the old immortal? Although you have a strange idea, you still have too little experience, and it seems that you should travel more to other places! ”
"Your mother said very much, although the sauce made by your mother is the most famous in this tribe, have you ever seen people in the tribe come to exchange for your mother's sauce?" Geng Wu also sarcastically said, "It's such a waste of sauce, it's better to spend some time and prepare more for the winter!" Don't think about it, fast food! ”
Taijia pouted unconvinced, blaming his parents for being short-sighted, clenched his fists and said: "It is precisely because every family has it that it is quite important!" The sauce is not like silk, it has many ways to make it, and if any family is tired of eating their own sauce, they must be willing to try other sauces! ”
"What's more, Gong Changqiu, that old guy doesn't often ask me for sauce with a cheeky face? This is enough to see how good my sauce is! The boy doesn't plan to trade in our tribe, I'm going to go to other tribes to mess around, maybe I can get a lot of salt! ”
Yi Yue Gengwu still didn't think so, in their stubborn heads, something like sauce that has been passed down for hundreds of years, every household has one, how could those tribesmen be interested in this ordinary thing that can't be more ordinary? The old immortal is just lazy to get home, and you really have a business opportunity?
They are sure that no one will buy this sauce unless they are fools!
But if they knew the struggle history of the old godmother Tao Bihua, they might not say so. After all, how can a mere mortal understand the world of foodies?
Eating is what really changes the world, in order to eat things farther, people invented cars, ships and airplanes; In order to preserve what they eat, people invented refrigerators; In order to buy food online, Taobao and Jingdong were developed...... Far from it.
Taijia must not know Tao Bihua, nor do they know how profitable the catering industry is; Maybe it's just the stubbornness in his temperament that makes him want to work against his parents; Didn't you say you couldn't sell it? I'm going to sell it to you!
Originally, Taijia was just trying to ask, but now it's okay, and now he is determined to sell sauce.
After all, his son is the meat of his heart, and under the tough requirements of the Tai Jia, Yiyue and the others thought that this was not an opportunity to train him; If you really make it, it's naturally a good thing, if you don't make it, all you lose is a little sauce!
Their family has not been hungry, and there are large vats of grain storage behind the house, and there are small half buckets of corn and brown rice hidden, which is just a big winter.
In three years, the Thai will be an adult, and they can't protect him all the time.
Yiyue shook her head helplessly, looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and said, "That's it, I'll let you try it tomorrow and eat quickly!" ”
After getting a satisfactory answer, the Thai Jia settled down and ate quite well-behaved; There was no word at the table, and as dusk passed, the children of the tribe began to gather together to play, but Tygar still sat at home, watching how his mother made the sauce.
"Thai armor, Thai armor! Hurry up and play! ”
Poor Jian was shouting outside the house, but there was still an incomparably clear red mark on his face, it seemed that his mother's dear brand had not been erased!
However, in the face of the invitation of Poor Jian and others, Taijia politely refused. He didn't know anything about kitchen before, and he was going to look for business opportunities tomorrow, if he didn't know anything about it, wouldn't it be a joke for others to see?
Poor Jian could only wave his hand and have fun by himself, only hoping that Taijia wouldn't think of any ghost ideas to involve himself.
But he seemed to be looking forward to being involved, and he kept looking at the Thai armor house while having fun, and said in his heart, why is the Thai armor, who likes to make trouble, so peaceful?
Itsuki's method of making sauces is really different from other homes. The rest of the family would chop up everything from the animal and salt it, and wait a hundred days for it to be fine. But Yiyue took out all the organs and bones, so that the fishy smell would not take over the sauce; The second thing is to put the spices made by Aizi on the animal's body, and tell Thagar that she will take it to dry the next day.
After drying, the meat is finely chopped, smeared with mugwort spices, and finally marinated. Although this step is not much more than that of other houses, it really improves the flavor and taste of the sauce.
It's just a pity that those organs, which could have been made into delicious dishes, were wasted because the ancients didn't dare to try them. If they dare to be the first to eat crabs, maybe wok and vegetable oil will have to be invented thousands of years in advance to meet the needs of foodies.
After all, simply boiling, steaming, and roasting cannot meet the needs of Chinese foodies.
Thaika tried to jot down the details, but maybe it would be nice to have some ideas, but it was difficult for him to jot them down. After reading it once, he forgot it all! Forgot......
After a sleepless night, the next morning, Yiyue solemnly handed over the remaining half-sauce to Taijia's hands. Although I don't know where my son's confidence comes from, since he intends to give it a try, he can't hold him back. It's a big deal that they haven't eaten sauce within a month, and it's not like they haven't had this kind of day.
"Mother, father, wait for my good news!"
With dark circles under his eyes, he simply sorted out his things and was ready to go. The tribe he planned to go to was a tribe on the other side of the river to try his luck, because there was an edict from the enlightened king, so there was a lot more communication between the Qiang and Qiang tribes; If you're going to trade, there's no better place to be.
However, looking at the back of Taijia, Yiyue was still a little uneasy, after all, he went to a strange tribe without acquaintances this time, what if there was an accident?
But she and Gengwu have something to do, so they can only pray to God to bless their son.
He didn't know how much surprise the Thai armor would bring her......