“…… If I hadn't discussed it with you before, I had a bottom in my heart, and then I bit my head to death, do you believe that the eldest brother would want to leave all the 30,000 hundreds? ”

Lu Ren looked at Mi Zhen's angry appearance, shook his head helplessly, and said, "Faith." ”

Mi Zhen glared at Lu Ren, but then sighed: "If you want me to say, the eldest brother may be some, some ......."

She didn't find the right words, but Lu Ren smiled and said, "Brother Zizhong is a little crazy now." ”

"Gone mad?"

Mi Zhen tilted her head and thought about it, nodded and said, "It's quite appropriate, big brother, he is just a little crazy...... Alas, I know very well what my eldest brother is thinking. But think about it, since our Mi family's foundation in Xuzhou was lost, the eldest brother can't actually do anything by following Uncle Liu Huang's side. Now we can help him hold up, big brother he ......"

Lu Ren waved his hand and said: "Okay, don't talk about it, we naturally have to help if we can help, but we must control this degree, otherwise once Liu Jingzhou is suspicious, we will be quite troublesome, after all, Yizhou is still inseparable from the various utensils we bought back from Jingxiang for the time being." Anyway, we have to have a good talk with him in a few days, and I will make it clear to him that there is a lot to do here, so that he can understand that he can't be blinded by lard. Like he is now, he is simply a little exhausted. Oh yes, is our fleet already loaded? ”

Mi Zhen said: "It's not so fast, after all, we have a lot of things at hand, and it may take about a month to get them all done, but it's just a good time to take this time to finish this matter between you and me." Ay? You told me you were going to board the boat together? Are you going back to Yizhou? ”

Lu Ren shook his head and said, "No, I just want to leave Jingxiang for a while and avoid these messy things for a while." On the itinerary, I will go to Haichang first. Meet my brother Lu Xun, and then make another decision about where to go. If nothing else, you might have to bring it for me the next time you come over. ”

Mi Zhenqi said: "Lu Xin? What do you want him to do here? ”

Lu Ren smiled: "Maybe I will ask him to help me take care of the Lu clan for me...... The Lu clan of Wujun is already weak, if I don't start at this time, when will I start? And in my plan, whether the Wu Jun Lu clan is in my hands is also the most important. ”

Minchan and Mi Zhen glanced at each other, and Mi Zhen smiled dryly: "Why do you think he has suddenly become quite insidious?" ”

Minchan also smiled dryly: "I'm afraid it's forced by the situation." It's not sinister, right? Forget it, what he's thinking is none of our business. Sister Zhen, it's not early now, and we've been tired for so long, so let's go back to the room early to rest...... Now, as we said at the beginning, we will sleep together tonight. ”

Mi Zhen smiled: "Well, then I'll go back to the room first and ask the next person to clean up the bed, and you can chat with him a few more words and come over early." ”

After speaking, Mi Zhen didn't pay attention to Lu Ren, and got up and floated away. Lu Ren also took a while to come back to his senses. Looking at Minchan who was smiling evilly, Lu Ren was really puzzled and asked, "You two, what's going on?" ”

Minchan smiled and said: "In fact, there is another reason why Liu Qi will not be allowed by the Cai family, that is, since ancient times, the mother has valued the son, and the Cai family and Liu Qi's mother both have the desire to make their sons inherit the business, so they regard each other as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and they have been fighting in secret for a long time." And because of this incident, Liu Jingzhou's heart was disturbed, and his handling became increasingly unclear, so that the Cai family has the tendency to dominate today. Liu Jingzhou's family is also declining, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to recover in the future. And Yihao, you once said that Cao Cao would go south in the future. At that time, it was difficult to determine whether Liu Jingsheng's family could be safe. ”

Lu Ren hesitated: "It doesn't seem like this is what I'm asking, right?" ”

Minchan said: "You listen to me!" Zhenmei is not bad-hearted, although she had some discord with me before, but now seeing Liu Jingsheng's family affairs like this, it is tantamount to a wake-up call for her. is the so-called family and everything is prosperous, Zhen Mei understands that she can't add some chaos to you because of her little nature, so she is also deliberately reconciling with me. ”

"What about you?"

Minchan's expression darkened slightly: "Of course I also want to get along with Zhenmei." I used to suffer a lot because I was ostracized......"

Lu Ren understood. When Diao Chan was by Lu Bu's side before, she was often squeezed out by Lu Bu's original partner, and she naturally experienced a lot of messy things, and now this question evokes Diao Chan's sad past. So he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this." In short, if you can get along well, I will feel much more relieved. ”

Mink Chan smiled. He stood up and said, "It's almost three watches, right?" Let's all rest early. ”

Lu Ren suddenly remembered something: "Hey, wait, you sleep with Mi Zhen?" ”

"Well, it's already been said. It's rare to start getting along with her, of course, to have a good chat with our daughter's private conversation all night. ”

"That'...... Who's with me tonight? ”

Minchan glared at Lu Ren and said, "Sister Zhen and me, don't think about it!" The relationship is just getting better, and if you get involved, you will lose all your efforts. Isn't there still Wen Ji? You're going to find Wen Ji! ”

"But, but I let Wen Ji and Xiaolan sleep together!"

Minchan smiled: "Oh, then I can't help it!" Sleep by yourself. No, don't you still have a big pillow? It's the same with a pillow to sleep. ”

“……”

Lu Ren watched Minchan leave in a speechless manner, and sighed helplessly in his heart: "Alas, what is this TMD called?" I have three wives now, but in the end I have to sleep alone. Why do you suddenly have the feeling of being punished by your wife as a 'director' in modern society? Alone with a big pillow? How did Zhou Huajian sing that song? Oh, thinking of your night, thinking of your face......"

After humming a few words indiscriminately, Lu Ren looked up at the starry sky again, but his face was a little weird.

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A bustling street market somewhere in Xiangyang City.

It cannot be denied that under the governance of Liu Biao during this period, Xiangyang City was actually in a golden age, and the flow of people made Xiangyang Market very lively.

And in this lively street market, a strange smell suddenly wafted out that pierced people's noses. But although it is straight to the nose and makes people can't help but itch in the nose, it is by no means an unpleasant smell. Antithesis. This smell should be attributed to the aroma of food, and after piercing people's noses, people can't help but give birth to a lot of sparkling haraz in their mouths.

But everyone basically likes to join in the excitement and see something new, and in the endless flow of street markets, the proportion of people who like to join in the excitement is numerous. That's going to be frighteningly high. Now this strange aroma that has never been heard before suddenly wafted in the street market, but anyone who has a little gossip will subconsciously look for the source of this strange aroma.

Soon, people gathered in the open space in front of a large shop in the market. Looking at the open space, I don't know when a few big stoves were erected, and the vigorous stoves naturally don't need to be mentioned, but the cooks next to the stoves are wearing big masks...... Yes, it's a big mask, and he is struggling to turn the big wooden shovel in his hand, shoveling the food in the three-foot iron pot on the stove. And the strange aroma in the street market. It is the food that comes out of the iron pot.

It didn't take long for the cook to stir-fry the ingredients in the pot, and then the ingredients from the cauldron were put out of the pot and into a huge wooden plate, and the man put the food on the long table next to it.

The crowd of onlookers watched the plates of food that had been placed on the long tables...... Now it should be said that it is a dish, anyway, the red, green, and green dishes are incomprehensible to everyone. At this moment, another man in the shop brought out several baskets of washed and cut food. After the cook heats the soybean oil in the pot, he nods to the guy, and the guy pours the ingredients from the basket into the boiling oil in the pot. And then with the "hiss-la-sizzle" sound of boiling oil meeting water. The strange aroma from before wafted out of the market again.

Just when people were becoming more and more puzzled, a shopkeeper-like person in the shop stood up. After looking around, he said in a loud voice: "Fellow villagers, fathers! The item on this table is an exotic ingredient that my grandfather brought back when he was doing business overseas, called chili pepper......"

That's right, it's chili. And this thing, in modern times, is a very common thing. But in the Han Dynasty, in mainland China, it was unheard of and unseen.

In fact, it was during the Ming Dynasty that chili peppers really entered the Chinese mainland. According to historical records, Guizhou and Hunan first began to eat chili peppers in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the general start of eating chili peppers was later after Daoguang.

Later, it was widely cultivated throughout China. It is the latest but most widely used spice in China. The Ming "Grass Flower Book" records "pepper", and the first Chinese who ate pepper were all in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the so-called "Xiajiang people". When the people of Xiajiang tried chili peppers, the people of Sichuan did not know what chili peppers were.

Interestingly, chili peppers were first introduced from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Liangguang, but they were not fully utilized in those places, but they flooded in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and southwest China. After Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Jiangxi provinces have been "planted as vegetables", "no pepper mustard is not under the chopstick, and there are many soups", "choose those who are extremely spicy, and every meal and every dish must be spicy". It shows that the history of Sichuan people eating chili peppers is about 400 years.

After European colonialism arrived in the Americas, chili peppers were first introduced to Europe in 1493 and to Japan from about 1583 to 1598. There is no specific record of the age of its introduction into China, but it is more recognized that the earliest record of chili pepper in China is the Ming Dynasty Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" (1591), which said: "The pepper is thick, the white flowers, the fruit is like a bald pen, the taste is spicy and the color is red, and it is very considerable". According to this account, it is generally believed that chili peppers were introduced to China in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

And what about Lu Ren? Lu Ren's fleet ran along the coast of the East Asian continent during this period, and wanting to go to the Americas to find chili peppers was tantamount to a fool's dream. But there is one thing, that "he" had collected a large number of seeds of earth crops and planted and improved them, and since Lu Ren had decided to do something here, of course he would not let go of the conditions that he could use.

So when Shirley came through, she brought some seeds of crops with her, and it didn't take up any limited capacity anyway. And Lu Ren and Shirley arrived in Yizhou between the summer and autumn of the sixth year of Jian'an, and it has been almost two years now, and these seeds have been harvested for the first time...... (To be continued.) )