On the bustling street, Fan Meng looked thoughtfully at his brother Fan Jinyan who was walking in front of him, and he never dared to believe that this was his eldest brother. In the past, he was timid and fearful, and he loved to be greedy for small gains, how could he spend a lot of money like now. The person in front of her felt so familiar and so strange to her, she didn't know if it was her own delusion.

Fan Jinyan always felt like someone was staring at him along the way, but he didn't have a murderous aura. After a while, that feeling became stronger and stronger, he suddenly looked back, and saw that it was his sister who was staring at him, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange, "Mengmeng, what are you staring at my brother for?" Am I getting dirty? ”

Fan Jinyan turned around suddenly, but Fan Meng was also startled, and seeing that his brother didn't suspect it, he breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "Brother, you scared me to death." ”

Fan Jinyan didn't take his sister's blame to heart at all, moved to Fan Meng, patted her little head, and smiled: "What is the little girl thinking, is she greedy and embarrassed to speak?" ”

Fan Meng's blushing for no reason made Fan Jinyan think that he had guessed the little girl's thoughts, and he didn't say anything anymore, pulling her all the way to sweep all kinds of delicacies in Banpo Town. Although they can't be called food, for Xiao Fan Meng, who has been frugal since he was a child, this is already extremely delicious.

Fan Meng was holding a sugar gourd in one hand, and various snacks in the other, and his mouth was not idle, chewing on the sugar gourd that propped up his cheeks. The happy little eyes, squinted, are very cute.

Fan Jinyan followed his sister, and a sense of happiness that he didn't have again, spontaneously emerged. Perhaps, it is the body's instinctive reaction to its loved ones!

Shaking his head, seeing that the time was almost up, Fan Jinyan was about to talk to Fan Meng about going back to the cottage, but he smelled a choking smell, a familiar smell.

That's right, it's the smell of dried chili peppers. Fan Jinyan is not picky about eating, when he first arrived here, he also ate whatever he wanted, he was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and he didn't notice anything when he started to eat light stews, but after a long time, he couldn't help but be a little boring.

When he was in Aozi Mountain, Fan Jinyan asked the lame cow who was cooking if he knew about chili peppers, and the lame cow said that he hadn't heard of it, so he didn't pay attention to it. Now that I see it, for a person who was in Shuzhong in his previous life, it is like a treasure.

Suddenly, Fan Jinyan picked up Fan Meng, who was still reminiscing about the sweet and sour taste of rock sugar gourd, and ran straight to the grocery store where the choking smell came.

Grabbing a handful of choking-smelling, red chili peppers, Fan Jinyan couldn't wait to take a bite, and immediately coughed directly choked by the spicy taste.

"Guest officer, this pepper is not for eating, why are you ......" The owner of the grocery store who was moving things couldn't help but laugh when he saw that Fan Jinyan actually brought the pepper to eat.

"Peppers?" Fan Jinyan was stunned when he heard this, and then reacted again, maybe people at this time didn't know the real use of chili peppers!

In fact, Fan Jinyan didn't know that chili peppers were originally produced in South America and were only introduced to the Asian continent in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At that time, it was only regarded as an ornamental flower potted plant, and it was really used as a condiment on the table, which was only available in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

The reason why there are dried chili peppers in the grocery store, Fan Jinyan only knew when he asked, and he dared to love because the dried chili peppers were too choking and were used by the common people as a tool to repel insects.

For this answer, Fan Jinyan can only express his wounded heart in one sentence, which is really a violent thing!!

didn't say a word, Fan Jinyan bought half a pocket of dried chili peppers with three cents of silver, so Fan Meng didn't know why his brother bought such a choking thing, are there a lot of insects on the mountain?

Different from their puzzled expressions, Fan Jinyan was full of joy, for a Shu person, there is no chili pepper in the dish, just like stir-frying vegetables without salt, and they can't taste at all.

Just as he turned around, from the afterglow of his eyes, he found another thing that made him nostalgic for his childhood, sweet potatoes.

When I was a child, my family was poor, and I drank porridge every meal, and my mother always added some sweet potato wedges and sweet potato leaves to the rice pot. At that time, Fan Jinyan was still young, always picky, complaining, and leaving all the sweet potatoes in the bowl and not eating. When I grew up, my living conditions improved, and I ate different kinds of meals every day, and I didn't eat anymore. Now, the whereabouts of his parents, wife and children are unknown, and when he sees sweet potatoes again, Fan Jinyan can't help but think of them again.

When the boss was happily counting the few pieces of silver, he saw that the customer had not left, and when he was looking at the sweet potatoes in the bamboo basket at the door, his eyes couldn't help but light up, "This lord, do you want to taste this rare thing?" ”

"How do you sell these sweet potatoes?" Fan Jinyan didn't look up, and asked casually.

"Sweet potatoes?" The boss was stunned, and then smiled: "This is called sweet potato, I heard that it came from Nanyang, and the little old man also planted it in the backyard to try, but I didn't expect it to really bear fruit, and I usually give it to the children to eat and play, and there is so much left here, so I try to sell it." By the way, we still have cooked ones at home, do you want to try them? It's pretty sweet. ”

The taste of sweet potatoes is certainly not unfamiliar to Fan Jinyan, but he didn't expect it to have spread to China. Sweet potatoes do not pick the land, the yield is high, and the storage is also convenient, in the event of a famine, it is simply a life-saving elixir. He remembered that he had watched a program in later generations, which said that the prosperous era of Kangqian was actually the prosperous era of sweet potatoes, and if sweet potatoes had not been popularized, the Qing Dynasty would not have been recognized by the Han people so quickly.

Fan Jinyan has never thought about what to save the world and save people, for the country and the people, and he also knows that even if he takes sweet potatoes to the north where there has been a famine for many years to tell the people about high-yield and life-saving things, it is estimated that he will be burned alive as a magic stick that bewitches the public.

Thinking of this, Fan Jinyan didn't say anything more, threw the boss a dime of silver, told him to load it all, carried a sack on one shoulder, and left the grocery store with his sister.

On the way, Fan Meng stopped talking for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back, "Brother, what are you buying this for!" Are we short of food on the mountain? ”

Of course, there is no shortage of food on the mountain, and the black duck has grabbed several truckloads of grain in just one month when he arrives in Fangshan, and the dozens of people on the mountain can't eat it all in half a year. But it's just that you can eat a full meal, and if you want to eat well, it's still far away.

"Hey, hey." Fan Jinyan blinked mysteriously, and said with an appetizing voice: "You know in the evening that today, my brother is going to cook for my baby sister and cook a good meal for our baby sister that you have never eaten." ”

"Really?" When Fan Meng heard that his brother was going to make something for himself, he was immediately overjoyed, and his eyes narrowed with a smile. However, he soon put his face on his shoulders and pouted: "Brother lied, you don't know how to cook, I used to cook, and you can't even burn the fire." ”

Of course, Fan Jinyan knew all the past of his body, but he didn't care about his sister's words, she knew how great her brother was tonight. Thinking of this, Fan Jinyan couldn't help but speed up his pace and went to the vegetable market not far away.