Chapter 70: A Familiar Taste
The next day, Wu Yuanqing was woken up by a burst of chirping. The pen "Fun" Pavilion rubbed his eyes and got up without www.biquge.info changing his clothes, and went out of the house with his shoes in shorts and shorts made for Zijuan.
Pushing open the door, I saw the eldest girl, the second girl, Wu Yuanshuang, and Wei Xiaobao, squatting on the ground arguing.
"This is the same as apples, it's fruit," Erya said in a milky voice.
"No, the eldest brother said that it was a vegetable, and it was used for stir-frying" Erya disagreed.
"You're all wrong, the eldest brother said that this can be eaten raw as a fruit or stir-fried," Wu Yuanshuang concluded.
"But what is this, I haven't seen it, it's very good-looking," Wei Xiaobao asked with a confused face.
"This is called a tomato, and it was brought from the land on the other side of the sea far, far away," Erya rushed to popularize science.
"No, it's called persimmon," the big girl said.
"No, I heard my eldest brother say that this is called a tomato," Wu Yuanshuang said.
"Eh, what's it called, how can there be three names" Wei Xiaobao continued to ask forcefully.
"That...."The three brothers and sisters looked at each other and said uncertainly, "It seems that the eldest brother has said all three names."
"Ah" Wei Xiaobao almost didn't sit on the ground.
"Isn't this delicious?" Erya pressed her fingers to her mouth, looking like she wanted to taste it.
"It should be delicious, the eldest brother said that it is the best to dip it in sugar" Wu Yuanshuang thought for a while.
"Then should we try one," the big girl was a little eager to try and agitate.
"Isn't it just a food, look at your appearance one by one, it's good to pick one directly, I'm afraid that your eldest brother won't be able to eat you" The three of them wanted to eat but didn't dare to do it, Wei Xiaobao couldn't stand it, and directly reached out to pick the reddest one.
"Ahem" Suddenly, a coughing sound sounded behind them. Coaxed, Wu Yuanshuang stood up and ran away with a scream, leaving Wei Xiaobao standing there alone with the picked fruit at a loss.
Looking at Wu Yuanqing with an expressionless face, Wei Xiaobao didn't know what to say, but from Wu Yuanshuang's performance, he vaguely knew that he seemed to be in trouble.
"Hey, hey, hey, morning, this thing looks good, ha" Wei Xiaobao greeted with a dry smile, and spread out his hand and held the tomatoes for Wu Yuanqing to see.
"Did you know that you can't keep this thing before it's ripe. Do you know that this thing is so much in front of you in the whole Tang Dynasty, do you know that the popularization of this thing can make the people have one more dish on the table, and they can earn a little more when they sell it." Wu Yuanqing still asked three questions in a row with an expressionless face.
"I, I, I really don't know" Wei Xiaobao was about to cry when asked.
The three little guys who were hiding far away and peeking here were also frightened by the serious appearance of the eldest brother, and they were all silent, not daring to move, for fear of being discovered.
"Oh, I don't know" Wu Yuanqing said lightly: "Then forget if you don't know, pick it all, and fry it for you at noon."
"Ah, forget it" The turn came too quickly and suddenly, Wei Xiaobao asked stunned, he wondered if he had heard it wrong, what he said before was so serious, it was all related to such a major event as increasing the people's food ration income, how could he just say it.
As a result, he saw a smile on the corner of Wu Yuanqing's mouth.
"You kid lied to me" Wei Xiaobao suddenly reacted, he was tricked, and angrily grabbed Wu Yuanqing's neck and shook it.
"Go, go, who lied to you" Wu Yuanqing pushed him away, and said angrily: "What I said is true, all kinds of things here are superb, except for me, you will definitely not find a second place to have." Moreover, these things are very productive foods, and when there are more seeds in the future, they will be popularized, not to mention solving the famine in Datang, but they can also greatly reduce the problem of people not having enough to eat."
"In this case, I picked one of this, not to have a lot less seeds, why don't you get angry" Wei Xiaobao was a little uneasy, feeling that he had done a big mistake.
"Haha, I just picked one, not really. Besides, without these, Datang shouldn't live how to live, and if we don't taste it ourselves, how can we know if this thing is really edible and delicious." Seeing that Wei Xiaobao was interested, Wu Yuanqing smiled and comforted.
Then he waved at the three guys who were dodging: "Don't hide, come out, don't you want to taste it, if you don't come out, you won't have your share."
"Oh, oh" The eldest girl and the second girl saw that the eldest brother was not angry, and ran out with cheers, Wu Yuanshuang was old after all, and he was afraid that the eldest brother was cheating, until he saw the two younger sisters and ran over without being reprimanded, so he came out of hiding and ran over.
After coming back yesterday, Wu Yuanqing hadn't taken a good look at the growth of the crops in this field. Now is the time to take a good look.
The corn has grown more than half of the people tall, and there are already corn cobs growing on the top, and some of them are still growing on the top, which is an unexpected joy, generally only one cob grows on a corn stalk, and there are very few that grow two.
Sweet potatoes and peanuts also grow well, but both of these fruits are underground, and it is unclear what the results will be.
The rest of the pumpkin, the old man who spread the seedlings on the edge of the ground, dragged the pumpkin seedlings everywhere in the whole field, and when Wu Yuanqing left, he forgot to tell his subordinates to top the pumpkin, so it grew wildly. Fortunately, there is enough fertilizer in the field, otherwise these pumpkins would be blind.
Wu Yuanqing topped the pumpkin and made an extra fork, checked the results of the pumpkin, and at a glance, Wu Yuanqing was sure that there were at least three pumpkins growing on each melon vine, and the size was not small.
"Big brother, can I know this?" the second girl bit her lip and asked hopefully.
"It's not good yet, it's still pumpkin, it's not delicious and tasteless" Wu Yuanqing touched his sister's head with a smile.
Tomatoes and peppers have a total of 10 furrows, or 10 ridges, and each ridge has plants on both sides.
Tomatoes have four furrows, and peppers have six furrows.
The fruit of tomatoes is very gratifying, large and small red, half red, green, and some have just bloomed.
Wu Yuanqing picked six big red tomatoes casually, the eldest girl and the second maid Wu Yuanshuang one by one, kept one for himself, and the remaining two were given to the big girl standing on the side: "Come on, come on, those who see it have a share, you take these two purple juan, one for Mrs. to send to Mrs. for Mrs. to taste, and the other will reward you."
Zijuan was overjoyed, the eldest young master had something good to remember her, which made her very moved, but she refused: "Young master, don't want it, you can keep such a precious thing and eat it."
"If you give it to you, you will take it, and be polite to the young master. Go and send it to Madame quickly" Wu Yuanqing stuffed two tomatoes into her hand and pretended to be impatient.
"Yes, thank you, young master, the maid will go" Zijuan ran happily.
Turning around, Wu Yuanshuang couldn't wait to eat it.
I don't know how to wash it, so I wiped it on my sleeve, thanks to this time, it is green and pollution-free, and there is no pesticide, otherwise I will wait for my stomach to feel uncomfortable if I eat it like this.
Oh, my second girl can still eat, and when I eat a tomato, I use my small hands to pick up the thin skin that can't be thinner.
Seeing that Erya was really picking the tomato skins seriously, and the nail prints on them one by one, Wu Yuanqing felt uncomfortable and anxious.
People with quick tempers can't afford to be hurt, forget it, I won't wash it. As the old saying goes, if you don't eat cleanly, you won't get sick, so be it.
The sleeve rubbed it twice last time and bit it, and after a while, the tomato juice splashed Wu Yuanqing's chest, and he didn't care, "Well, yes, this tomato grows very well, and it is rustling, although it is a little sour, it is not ripe enough." “。
After eating tomatoes in three or two bites, Wu Yuanqing came to the pepper field.
Looking at this, Wu Yuanqing was ecstatic.
I thought that tomatoes and pumpkins were growing well enough, but I didn't think that peppers were the best to grow.
The six peppers are all green and tall, and they are full of large and small peppers, and some of them have grown a lot. It's still green and not red, but you can eat it.
This is the best news for Wu Yuanqing, who is not spicy or happy.
What is the best way to eat chili?
As an authentic northerner, Wu Yuanqing will tell you that it is the most refreshing to eat whistle noodles with chili peppers.
Although the potatoes are not ripe and cannot be used as a potato wedge, the tomatoes can be eaten, and eating a meal of tomato and egg noodles is also a great pleasure in life.
I just didn't have breakfast, and when it was time to have lunch again, Wu Yuanqing picked a few more big tomatoes, grabbed a large handful of peppers and rushed to the kitchen.
Wu Yuanshuang was dumbfounded, I don't know why he was so excited.
After entering the kitchen and instructing the cook to make noodles, Wu Yuanqing washed the peppers and tomatoes and put them on the board.
Chop the chili peppers into cubes and put them in a large bowl, sprinkle them with salt, pour vinegar over the chili peppers, stir them, and set them aside to marinate.
After getting the peppers, the next step is to cut the tomatoes, Wu Yuanqing likes to chop the tomatoes a little bit when he eats tomato egg noodles, so that he can boil the juice as much as possible.
Cut the tomatoes and put them in a bowl for later use, then pour them into the pot, pour the stirred egg mixture into the pot and fry until they are eight ripe, that is, when they have not turned brown, pour in the chopped tomatoes, and then put an appropriate amount of salt and stir-fry.
When the fry is almost done, pour in enough water and boil, and five or six minutes after the water boils.
This method is to beat tomatoes and noodles, but it is different from what ordinary people often eat, the tomatoes and eggs that ordinary people eat are relatively thick and there is no soup, but Wu Yuanqing likes soup, so the braised soup he made is enough but not thick enough.
Wu Yuanqing had just finished the marinade here, and the cooked noodles over there had already woken up for a few minutes.
Wu Yuanqing changed the pot to boil the water, and the cook also took a rolling pin to quickly roll out the dough sheets. The water here has not yet boiled, and the cook over there has already rolled out the noodles into thin sheets, stacked them in threes and threes, and cut them into noodles of the same thickness with a knife.
After cooking the noodles, he didn't shout to others, Wu Yuanqing took a bowl of noodles by himself, poured tomatoes and egg marinade, and scooped a large spoonful of chili peppers with vinegar.
The first bite reached his mouth, and before he could swallow it, Wu Yuanqing was already in tears.
What a familiar taste, this is the taste of home in memory, the unique taste of mom's cooking.
I really want to see my mother rolling dough again!
I really want to see her again, and scream
"Mom"