Xiao Jiading came to his senses at this time, smiled busily in disguise, and said, "Come on!" Let's raise a glass, meet today by fate, and toast to this fate! ”

Several of them did it. Loulan hurriedly hugged the wine jar and poured wine for everyone.

Xiao Jiading took a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, and couldn't help but look at Loulan and exclaimed: "Okay! Good craftsmanship! This mutton is very well done, there is no smell at all, and the mouth is full of fragrance! ”

Loulan was very happy and smiled: "Thank you for the compliment!" ”

Xiao Jiading sandwiched a few chopsticks and other dishes, and they were all full of praise.

Yu Gui smiled and said, "If the son thinks Loulan's craftsmanship is okay, then please come to the shop more often." ”

"That's bound to come, if you don't invite, I'll come too!" Xiao Jiading said with a smile while chewing with a fragrant mouth.

Yu Gui was overjoyed, and hurriedly said to Loulan: "Daughter, hurry up and salute Xiao Gongzi with a glass of wine, if it weren't for Xiao Gongzi, how could our cow come back?" Then our snack shop won't be able to open. Speaking of which, Xiao Gongzi is our great benefactor. ”

Loulan picked up a bowl of wine and said to Xiao Jiading: "Childe, Loulan respects you!" ”

Xiao Jiading also looked at her with wine: "I can eat and drink with a beautiful woman, it's fun!" Drink! ”

After that, I took a big bite. He put down the cup and found that Loulan had not put it down, and was still drinking it with his neck tilted until he had drunk all the bowl of wine.

Xiao Jiading was pleasantly surprised: "Good amount of wine!" I didn't expect Miss Loulan to drink so well! I did it too! He took the rest of the wine and drank it dry.

Loulan hurriedly poured wine again.

Xiao Jiading said: "I have to go to the government in the afternoon, I can't drink too much, only drink three bowls." ”

These three bowls add up to almost a catty. Therefore, when these three glasses of wine went down, Xiao Jiading was slightly drunk.

Zhu Haiyin's alcohol consumption is not as good as Xiao Jiading, he is already six or seven points drunk, and his tongue is a little big.

Xiao Jiading said to Lou Lan: "These dishes you make taste very good, but unfortunately there are no chili peppers!" Add some chili peppers and you're good to go! ”

"Chili? What is a chili pepper? Is it tasty? ”

Chili peppers were only introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, and naturally there were no them in the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Jiading said: "It is a kind of seasoning for stir-frying, and the dishes will be spicy after that, and it will taste very fragrant, and it is very appetizing. ”

Xiao Jiading's favorite food is Sichuan-style dishes, and when it comes to chili peppers, he is not only a little drooling. It's a pity that there were no chili peppers in the Tang Dynasty. Suddenly, his heart moved, yes, didn't he bring a small bag of pepper seeds with him? Why don't you plant your own? Although he doesn't know how to grow vegetables, his father likes to do so, and his roof garden was turned into a vegetable patch by his father. He had seen his father farm and sometimes help, so it shouldn't be too difficult to grow peppers. If you really plant it, then you will be blessed!

His thoughts did not stop at just the mouth of the blessing, he further thought that Jiannan Road is Shudi, that is, modern Sichuan, and the Sichuan people's favorite food is chili, and it can be said that most dishes are added with chili peppers. In the Ming Dynasty, chili peppers were introduced to China from the coast, but they did not affect the direction of coastal dishes, but became very popular in the southwest Yunnan, Guichuan and became an important part of the seasoning of dishes. Sichuan people like to eat spicy, this he has experienced after crossing to the Tang Dynasty, the local dishes are also spicy, but the spicy at this time is not chili, but ginger, garlic and the like, the dishes are used very heavily. If you succeed in making your chili peppers, it will definitely be very popular, and then you will be rich!

Thinking of a way to make a lot of money, Xiao Jiading was very happy. However, now that I am an official of the yamen, I live in the yamen, and there is no place to plant. I don't have to worry about handing it over to someone else, otherwise I can only wait until later.

Xiao Jiading ate another piece of mutton, and felt that although Loulan had already made this mutton very well, it was a pity that there was a little less cumin, and if cumin was added to make it into roast mutton, it would be comfortable. Then he asked Lou Landao: "By the way, why didn't you add cumin to the mutton?" ”

"Cumin?" Several people were stunned for a moment and looked at each other.

Wouldn't it, you don't even know cumin? Isn't it that it hasn't been introduced to China at this time? Xiao Jiading gestured and talked for a long time, Loulan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she said a sentence in the Western Regions, which was pronounced a little similar to cumin, and looked at him inquiringly.

Could it be that the name cumin is a transliteration of the Western Regions? Xiao Jiading hurriedly nodded and asked, "Do you know the way?" ”

Loulan nodded and said, "Our hometown has medicine for heart and mouth pain." ”

Xiao Jiading said curiously: "Medicine? Do you take cumin as medicine? ”

"yes. Isn't that right? ”

"Is there anything for sale in Yizhou?"

Lou Lan shook her head: "I don't know the way, I only know the way when I ask the pharmacy." ”

"Understood, in this case, you immediately go to the pharmacy and ask, if there is any, if there is, buy some back, and I will teach you a new dish!"

Loulan agreed, got up and went out. There's a pharmacy just down the street. Soon, she returned with a small packet of cumin. Xiao Jiading opened it and looked at it, and sure enough, it was right. It turned out that in the Tang Dynasty, cumin had been transmitted to the Tang Dynasty, but it was not used as a seasoning for food, but as a medicinal material. This medicinal material was also recorded in the Tang Dynasty's traditional Chinese medicine book "Tang Materia Medica".

Xiao Jiading took advantage of the wine, he got up and said to Lou Lan: "Let's go to the kitchen, I'll teach you." ”

Zhu Haiyin had no interest in stir-frying, and said, "Big brother, I won't go." ”

"No!" Xiao Jiading and Loulan walked out, and Zhu Haiyin saw that Yu Gui and Xiao Laohan also wanted to follow, so he stopped with a smile and said, "Don't go to the meeting with the two of you, let them stay alone for a while." The three of us drink! ”

Xiao Jiading and Loulan came to the kitchen, Xiao Jiading has never made lamb skewers, but has he never eaten pork and seen a pig run? He likes to eat Xinjiang mutton skewers very much, so he learned like that, sprinkled cumin and grilled it, and soon, the fragrance came out.

Loulan is an expert in cooking, and when she smelled this taste, she knew that it was a good thing, and said happily: "It must be delicious." ”

Xiao Jiading cumin mutton was roasted, took one and sent it to Loulan: "Oh, taste it!" ”

Loulan took a bite of a small piece in her mouth, and just after a few bites, her beautiful blue eyes were full of excitement! "It's delicious!" It's so delicious! It turns out that lamb can do this! Xie Lu, thank you for teaching me, Brother Xiao. ”

Xiao Jiading couldn't help but smile when he heard what she called herself, and came out with the roast mutton: "Come on!" Try! ”

Several people ate it, and they all applauded continuously.

Yu Gui was very excited, and said: "This is a good thing, if our snack shop makes it and sells it, many people will come to eat it!" ”

Xiao Jiading heard that his brain was spinning fast, and he immediately thought of using it on his snack shop, and couldn't help but nod approvingly.

Zhu Haiyin was particularly proud, and said, "Is there anything else?" ”

Xiao Jiading only baked so many skewers, and Loulan immediately said, "I'll bake it again!" ”

After a while, Loulan came back with a few skewers of cumin lamb in her hands. Xiao Jiading took a bunch and ate it, and exclaimed: "Your roast is better than mine, you apprentice is amazing, blue is better than blue!" ”

This Lou Lan is a bearded girl from the Western Regions, people in the Western Regions like to barbecue beef and mutton very much, and she is naturally very good at barbecue mutton, but Xiao Jiading told her the trick of adding cumin, and she is much stronger than Xiao Jiading, a layman who has never barbecued things, in adding her own barbecue skills.

Xiao Jiading said: "If you are going to sell roast mutton, I will tell you about a special tool for grilling lamb skewers!" If you make a custom one, that's even better. After that, I asked Loulan to bring a pen and paper and draw a sketch of the kind of shelf of kebabs according to memory. told Loulan how to use it, and Loulan quickly understood.

After eating, it was almost time to go to the office in the afternoon. Xiao Jiading and Zhu Haiyin said goodbye and walked to the yamen.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw a scribe in the household, who came over with a chubby man, smiled at Xiao Jiading, and arched his hand: "Xiao Zhiyi!" ”

Xiao Jiading knew that he was from the house, and yesterday the county lieutenant Deng took him to various places in the yamen, and saw this scribe, who was from the house, but there were too many people, he didn't remember the name of this person, and hurriedly said: "Hello! Is there something wrong? ”

"There's a little thing, hehe, let's talk over there, okay?" The scribe pointed to the side of the yamen and glanced at Zhu Haiyin. Zhu Haiyin immediately knew that the Daoist people didn't want to let themselves hear what they said. said to Xiao Jiading: "I'll go in first!" ”

Xiao Jiading nodded, and came to the side with the scribe and the fat man, and the scribe introduced: "This is my cousin, and he is the head of Huayuan Township." His name is Rudson. ”

Xiao Jiading knew that the county of the Tang Dynasty was divided into two levels: township and village. The leaders of the township and village are the township and the village respectively. Among them, the township is also called the elderly. A county has four to ten townships under its jurisdiction, and the number of villages in each township is different. This township is Lu Desheng, the head of Huayuan Township. Then he arched his hand and said, "Fortunately! Do you two have something to do with me? ”

Nalu Xiangzheng glanced at the entrance of the yamen, and said with a smile: "I'm about to go to the ya, don't delay the execution of clothes, and make a long story short." Well, I heard that Xiao Zhiyi wanted to buy a house, and it just so happened that there was a house in Xia, which was next to the county government. It's just been built, and I haven't lived in it yet. There are more than 30 large and small houses. I wonder if Xiao Zhiyi is interested? ”

Xiao Jiading said: "It's so big? Expensive, right? ”

"I'm in a hurry to use money, so the asking price is very cheap, only ten dollars."

"It's only ten dollars?" Xiao Jiading's eyes widened, the house in Xinghua Hutong was only ten, and two doors were entered. But the asking price is more than 40 yuan, and this Lu Xiangzheng's house is six or seven times more, so how can he get 120 yuan. After deducting the cost of ten yuan, it is equivalent to giving yourself one hundred and ten yuan for nothing, which is equivalent to 550,000 yuan! That's too generous, isn't it?