Chapter 129: Green Coffee Beans

Yao Huan's estimate did not deviate much.

Taixue's rice grains, mixed with various dried fruits, have been supplied for almost ten days with seven or eight pots, each pot is supplied to one hundred people.

When Mr. Shao joined halfway and began to set up a medicine stall next to the porridge stall, although he had heard the people's explanations in advance, he still couldn't help but ask Yao Huan to be especially kind to the old and the young, so it was okay to stop why the same adult men and women had two teams for women, and only one team for men.

Yao Huan read history in his previous life and read Zeng Gong, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, "Yuezhou Zhao Gong Disaster Relief". It is mentioned that when Zhao Luan, a scholar of the Senior Administration Palace, was in Yuezhou for disaster relief, in order to fear that the victims would fight for food and kill each other, and even more afraid that women would be killed in large numbers due to their infirmity, it was stipulated that on the day of opening a warehouse for relief, men must receive one day's food and women must receive one day's food.

Where would Yao Huan have thought that she would be able to form various relationships with Zeng Gong's younger brother Zeng Bu's family with twists and turns, but Zeng Gong's account of the disaster relief practice of virtuous officials really impressed her.

She secretly thought that she had always behaved not very cultured in front of Shao Qing, and of course it was not good to mention Zeng Gong's masterpiece.

So I had to make it up: "Once upon a time in Gyeongju, I heard my father say that in the year of famine, the state and county opened warehouses for relief, and there were often scenes of women and children being killed, because men were afraid that they would take up the rations. And if the women receive the alms' bread, as long as there are elders, husbands, and children in the family, they will never eat it alone, but will live with their families. Therefore, allowing more women to receive porridge actually allowed the older and younger men behind them to survive. Otherwise, it may not be ......"

These words really hurt the man's face, but no matter how he embellished, he couldn't embellish the euphemistic flowers, since it was just a general comment on the difference between men and women, and Mr. Shao was not a narrow person, so it was better to explain it directly.

Unexpectedly, Shao Qing made an epiphany: "It is reasonable, the lady can see the hearts of the people in the world clearly." ”

These are his heartfelt words.

What Yao Huan said, Shao Qing can not only understand, but also see it many years ago.

It was a past that he buried in his heart.

The past is sealed in the dust, which is not the same as annihilation.

His noble mother, who was trapped by love and fell into madness, desperately took him south, and encountered a famine in the south of Liao on the way. His mother and son have really seen that in order to survive, the man received food but did not give it to the women and children in the family, and there were even scenes where he agreed with his neighbors to kill each other's wives and children.

His mother was originally a princess with fine clothes and food, and she could have been so frightened, but fortunately, her adoptive father led the knight to gallop to find him and protect his mother and son from returning safely.

Today, after Shao Qing heard her reason from Yao Huan's mouth, what surged in his heart was a different experience.

The word "rest assured".

In his mind, she is about to usher in a new path, she is not stupid, and she has enough understanding of the good and evil of human nature, so it is good.

Shao Qing was like this, cooking soup for a few days, and cooperating with Yao Niangzi, and he felt satisfied.

Even when I saw the carriage that appeared mysteriously a few times, my mood was not too fluctuating.

It's not that I didn't arrive early enough, it's just that the opponent is too good.

Or, from the first time Yao Huan was in distress reported by the Zeng Fu informant, Zeng Wei was more lucky than him, and always appeared on crucial occasions in a timely manner.

……

On this day, Mr. Shao, who seemed to lack some of the evil spirit of "killing the Quartet" in business and affairs, succeeded immediately, bringing Yao Huan a good news she had been waiting for.

"Mrs. Yao, what you asked me to find, but this thing?"

Shao Qing motioned for Qili to open the cloth pocket in his hand.

A few days ago, when Yao Huan first saw Qili, he was already in good spirits. The young men have brown skin, high noses and deep eyes, and curly eyelashes, which is simply a proper prince of Dubai. Mr. Shao's friend, sure enough, is an Arab.

However, in today's time and space, the Arabs should be called "black-clothed food" by the Han people of the Central Plains, and their Abbasid dynasty will be destroyed in the hands of the Mongols more than a hundred years later, just like the Southern Song Dynasty.

At this moment, Yao Huan stared intently at the hand that untied the bag rope in the deed, staring at the hand reaching into the bag and taking out a handful of things.

In the palm of the brown-skinned palm, there was a pile of gray-green beans with a slit in the middle.

What is this not green coffee?

Happiness comes as you wish!

It turned out that green coffee beans had really come to the territory of the Song Dynasty on a camel or a big boat.

O merchant...... What a lovely group this group is often referred to as derogatory.

No matter which dynasty or generation, regardless of war and peace, merchants can travel energetically and fearlessly through the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, and between the borders of various countries, and finally make the material and cultural exchanges of mankind go from extreme prosperity to greater prosperity.

Shao Qing saw the strange surprise on Yao Huan's face, and said suspiciously: "Yao Niangzi has actually seen this thing before?" ”

Yao Huan decided to make up the story thoroughly, "Mr. Bu said that when I was a teenager in Gyeongju, I did see Fanke cook it and drink it, and this year in Xiyuan, I heard Huang Gong (Huang Tingjian) mention that it is also common in Guangzhou to carry big food merchants, I guess it should be this kind of bean." “

In the past two years, the northwest has entered a stalemate due to the Song and Xia wars, and the merchants of the Western Regions have taken 6 routes into the Central Plains, which has become more dangerous.

The Liao State is different, Liao and Xia have long been close to each other, and there is no war. Xiao Linya's Hu businessmen who arranged in Kaifeng to take care of and respond to Shao Qing actually have a Liao background, and they can still take 6 roads. Shao Qing was cautious, and explained to the deed, saying that this time the beans were begged for by a friend in Guangzhou.

Yao Huan also dealt with Hu Ren Qili for a few days, and knew that he was fluent in Chinese, so he asked him directly: "We people who are in business have the most lively minds. Since this bean can be boiled and drunk like the tea of our Han people, why don't the fans bring the tree seeds for planting? ”

Cheri said with a smile: "The lady doesn't know that since Da Shi defeated the Tang Dynasty in the Battle of Talas, he has not allowed any live plant seeds to be shipped out of the country. Ostriches, peacocks, these are fine. The beans that the lady saw were sun-dried food, and the border officials would not care. Besides......"

Qili looked at Shao Qing and said to Yao Huan in a flattering tone: "Besides, it is also bitter, the sencha of the Great Song Dynasty is so bitter and mellow and delicious, this bean is so bitter that it is all grass and astringent, the Central Plains people have their own treasures, where will they pay for this bitter bean water?" It's just a guest chatting about homesickness. ”

Yao Huan said in his heart, that's because you don't understand the roasting technology of coffee yet, and the coffee beans have not undergone a caramelization reaction, and the bitter and astringent taste of chlorogenic acid is naturally very strong.

If you talk about baby, in the bitter drinks of the human world, tea and coffee are really equal!

Yao Huan picked up these green beans, and naturally he wouldn't say something like "they need to be roasted" so quickly.

That's too suspicious.

The act of baking should still be taken slowly, and it seems that she has figured it out by herself.

However, even if she uses green coffee beans, she relies on her rich work experience in her previous life, and she also knows the recipe for several green bean extract drinks, which can be said to have been taught by Gyeongju Hu Shang, and anyway, it is also the spices of the Western Regions.

"I would like to ask you to buy some fennel seeds, cardamom, cloves, and dried limes, can you please bring them for me tomorrow?" I will take this mung bean and cook a good thing for you to taste. ”