After a good introduction and boasting, the shopkeeper finally got out of the way and invited those in the crowd who were interested in the fried chili peppers on the long table to come and try it.

As soon as I heard about the tasting, the crowd of onlookers was lively. This kind of thing is not to say that there is no such thing in that era, but after all, it is too rare, and it is even rarer to make such an exaggeration like Lu Ren. And the most important thing is that the aroma of fried chili peppers is so easy to arouse people's appetite, and more than ninety percent of the people present can be said to be stimulated to drool.

People who don't touch chili peppers may not understand, but people who can eat spicy peppers and love peppers know that chili peppers are definitely a very magical food. Therefore, in a sense, it may not be an exaggeration to say that chili pepper is a food poison/product with no side effects.

Of course, in the era that Lu Ren is living in now, people have not yet come into contact with chili peppers, so I am afraid that the taste of chili peppers will not be acceptable for a while. But Lu Ren is not worried about this problem, because Lu Ren believes that chili peppers will naturally have the charm to conquer the people of Jingzhou easily.

You must know that Sichuan, Lianghu, and Jiangxi are called "not afraid of spicy, spicy, and not spicy" in later generations, if it is not for the fact that people in these areas have a preference for spicy taste in their bones, how can this situation be formed? The chili pepper first entered the Chinese mainland in Jiangshu and Liangguang, but the people of Liangguang did not like spicy food very much. Anyway, Lu Ren has read some information, and it is said that this is related to local climatic factors......

There is little gossip, just that after the tasting began, the crowd was full of "hissing" inhalations, and there were many people who were in tears. But just as Lu Ren expected, after tasting the sense of taste that can be described as "enjoyable", many people's eyes lit up at that time, and they came to the long table. I asked if I could try it again.

Lu Ren wants this effect, so he has already given the bottom to the shopkeeper, and these things just let everyone go to eat. Not only can you taste fried chili peppers at will, but Lu Ren also deliberately asked people to prepare a lot of rice early.

This is even more incredible. People who know how to eat spicy and love spicy food understand what kind of combination fried chili and white rice is, while those who really love spicy food are afraid that one plate of fried chili peppers is enough to deal with two or three bowls of rice. Even in this era, people don't know what chili peppers are, but they can't resist the natural craving for spicy taste in their bones.

It's just that the scene is a bit chaotic in this way, but Lu Ren's official position for several years has not been in vain, and he has long been prepared to deal with this situation. And things have developed here. There is no point in pulling it any longer, anyway, Lu Ren's purpose has been achieved. As for whether there will be a lively one and then there will be no follow-up, Lu Ren is not worried. One is that Lu Ren has follow-up means, and the other is still the same sentence, Lu Ren believes in the magic of this thing. Not to mention the Chinese mainland, didn't even Europe fight the war over spices?

After making a fuss, there were still some leftover fried chili peppers on the plate on the long table, and among the crowd of onlookers, there were many people who did not dare to come forward to try it. And so. The shopkeeper took his men to distribute the leftover fried chili peppers to those who didn't come forward to try them, so that they could take them back and try them. Finally, it was announced in public that this tasting will be held for a total of three days, and today is only the first day......

Among the shops at this time. Mi Zhen glanced at the situation outside from the crack in the window, heard the sound of footsteps behind her, and turned her head to see that it was Lu Ren coming with a tray, so she rolled her eyes at Lu Ren and said, "You are really a loser!" ”

Lu Renle was happy: "Loser? How can you say that about me? ”

Mi Zhen pinched her fingers. While calculating the accounts, he said to Lu Ren angrily: "Although this pepper was successfully planted by Shirley in Yizhou, it has only been planted for more than 100 acres in two years. This harvest excludes the number of pepper seeds needed to further expand the planting, and the total total is only about 6,000 catties. There were only more than 2,000 points left in Yizhou. The rest of the 4,000 catties were all brought here by me, wanting to use this novelty to make more money in Jingzhou. But you're good, you haven't tasted much fresh in Yizhou, and you will give it away directly in Jingzhou! ”

Lu Ren was a pleasure again, and while putting the food on the tray on the table, he smiled at Mi Zhen and said, "How can this be said to be a free gift?" Is this called publicity investment? As the saying goes, the aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and no matter how good the goods are, they have to be able to drink. Although our things are good, the people here don't know, and they can't be sold. If you are willing to give up, you will have to give before you can get it. Besides, it doesn't really take much in the past three days, and it doesn't last more than 500 catties, and there must be buyers to buy it when you turn around, and you can't lose a few dollars. ”

In terms of doing business, Mi Zhen's ability is a few streets away from Lu Ren, how can Mi Zhen not understand the truth in this? Just now, I just felt sorry for those hard-won chili peppers for now, and said that Lu Ren was a little stingy.

That's it time to talk about it. Mi Zhen's total carrying capacity of the fleet this time is not large, in addition to the necessary supplies for the fleet, it is probably about 30,000 Hu, that is, the amount of grain that Lu Ren purchased from Cai Mao.

The 30,000 catties of grain were purchased with 10,000 catties of sugar, and of course Mi Zhen's fleet could not only transport this 10,000 catties of sugar, and there were many other goods in the fleet. It's just that compared to the main force of 10,000 catties of sugar, the rest of the goods are not enough, they are nothing more than some local products from Yizhou. Of course, a lot of money can be made, but in general it is not enough. Or it can be said that after removing the main goods, the rest of the goods are to earn some liquidity and pocket money for Lu Ren and Mi Zhen.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, the current population base of Yizhou is only 15,000 or 6,000, except for the old and young who can't participate in the labor, the available labor force is very helpless. Correspondingly, after satisfying one's own needs, the surplus output that can be used for trading is also very limited. If it weren't for this, Mi Zhen would not have had such a fierce quarrel with Lu Ren when she learned that the 10,000 catties of sugar were exchanged for 30,000 yuan of grain by Lu Ren.

But then again, Mi Zhen has confidence in Lu Ren, even if this confidence is a bit close to blindness, anyway, Mi Zhen believes that Lu Ren must have a reason for doing this. Besides, now it is nothing more than a loss of some money, since it is a business, it is inevitable that there will be a time to lose some money, and although the small city of Yizhou is still small, but with the current scale of Mizhen's fleet, there is no problem in losing money for three or five trips.

At that moment, the two of them didn't say much, and sat down to eat. The meal is actually very simple, it is scrambled eggs with chili peppers and shredded pork with green peppers made by Lu Ren himself, although simple but appetizing. Although Mi Zhen ate with relish, Lu Ren wanted to cry a little after the chili pepper entered his mouth. For nothing else, Lu Ren was originally a spicy person, but it has been ten years since he crossed over, and he can not really eat chili peppers again until today......

When Shirley's chili peppers were only halfway planted, Lu Ren left Yizhou for his own plan. And a person who loves spicy food, finally encountered this long-lost taste again, and that feeling is no less than meeting his first love after many years. Although Lu Ren has eaten Master Kong's spicy instant noodles during this time, people who really know how to eat spicy noodles know that the spicy taste in instant noodles is really not authentic and enjoyable.

After eating a small meal, Mi Zhen raised her sleeves to wipe the beads of sweat that were spicy on her body, and said with a smile: "Not to mention, I was a little scared when I first touched this pepper, but slowly I found that the more I ate this thing, the more enjoyable it became." You say, can we make this chili pepper business bigger by then? ”

Lu Ren smiled but did not speak. Chili pepper is one of the spices, and spices have caused wars, although the spice war is actually nothing to do with chili peppers, mainly referring to all kinds of spices produced in India and Southeast Asian islands. However, Lu Ren believes that it is only a matter of time before this thing becomes popular, as long as he grasps it well, it is not a minute to make money?

Nodding casually and talking a few more nonsense, Lu Ren asked, "Your eldest brother will be here tomorrow, right?" ”

Mi Zhen nodded. And Lu Ren turned sideways and looked out of the window through the crack in the window, and said with a smile: "Then tomorrow we will take advantage of the crowd to make a good scene, and the more fierce the trouble, the better." ”

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The next day is the next day's peace.

Lu Ren's chili tasting is the second day. And after having such an opening day yesterday, there are a few more onlookers today. When the chili peppers here in the shop were stir-fried, as soon as the stimulating but attractive aroma came out, the onlookers were eager to try it, and Lu Ren's shop was even more surrounded because of this.

Finally, people waited for the tasting to begin. But just as people were tasting there and the sound of "hissing" inhaling was endless, a man's extremely irritating roar came from inside the shop: "Lu Ren! Do you dare to say that you haven't done anything to my little sister? ”

Before the people who tried the food could react, they heard the sound of the cracking of utensils in the shop, and a sharp female voice pierced everyone's eardrums with a faint pain: "Big brother! How can you slander Xiaomei and Mr. Lu like this!? ”

There was another banging sound, so that everyone probably knew that a lot of artifacts were smashed into pieces on the ground: "You still have the face to say?" ”

Suddenly, something flew out of the window of the shop and flew straight to the crowd of onlookers. Poor fellow couldn't dodge and was smashed by the thing that flew out of the window. Luckily, it's just a fluffy couch pillow, and it's not lethal to speak of. If it's pottery, bronze or something like that, this trick will have to break his head and bleed...... (To be continued.) )