Chapter 353: Precious Melon Seeds

Because she had been watched, Lin Ruan didn't dare to use her abilities too much, and the accumulation of her abilities for so many days made her feel a little uncomfortable.

As soon as he entered the mountains and forests, he came into contact with the flowers, trees, birds, and beasts that were all over the mountains, and Lin Ruan felt that he was almost unable to suppress his abilities.

There was really no way, Lin Ruan had to dig his ability into the ground, attach it to the roots of those trees, and in places that no one could see, the roots of various plants kept growing wildly, drilling deeper into the soil.

After the root system is developed, the growth rate of the plant will definitely accelerate, but it will not be visible all at once, and Lin Ruan does not have to worry about being exposed.

After some of the abilities were released, Lin Ruan felt much more comfortable, afraid that the big tiger and the little tiger would come out to greet her, so Lin Ruan hurriedly used the ability to inform them to avoid it first.

Because of those hot springs, the temperature in the valley is much higher than outside, and the big tiger mother and son no longer live here, but go to the cave where Lin Ruan killed the wolf before.

After making sure that their mother and son would not come, Lin Ruan led Zhong Bo and the others towards the valley.

Now that the business of the hot pot restaurant has entered the off-season, many dishes can be bought on the market, and Lin Ruan was worried that Uncle Zhong would encounter danger in the mountains, so he didn't let them into the mountains again. Those rare out-of-season vegetables, Lin Ruan didn't get them for the time being.

Now Shen Wushan is too unsafe, and she is being stared at every day, so she doesn't have to do this at this juncture.

It's late April, and the seedlings in the valley have long since been cleared, but the fruit trees are growing luxuriantly, and every tree is full of fruit.

There have always been a lot of baskets in the valley, and after Lin Ruan entered the valley, he rolled up his sleeves and dragged the baskets with Zhong Bo and them to start picking.

Now the fruit in the valley is only something that can only be found in summer, and there are even a few early-ripening grapes.

The vines were those that Lin Ruan had just found when he crossed over, and after he decided to plant them in this valley, he specially transplanted them.

This time, Lin Ruan's key play is grapes, and other fruits are foils.

A group of people moved very quickly, and without much effort, they picked enough of the first batch of fruits to be delivered, and then carried them down the mountain.

After transporting all the fruits away, Lin Ruan took out the seeds he had brought with him.

These seeds were the ones she had brought back from the trading house.

Now you can't grow vegetables in this valley, so it's better to try what these seeds can grow after planting.

I got a hoe, turned the ground over, and divided it into small patches, each with a seed.

Planting and planting, Lin Ruan found that there was a kind of black bean, mixed with a few different, but it made her feel a little familiar.

Picking it out and looking at it carefully, Lin Ruan's eyes widened in surprise.

This, it seems to be watermelon seeds?

Lin Ruan was very surprised that there were no watermelons in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

It is said that there were records about watermelons earlier in the Tang Dynasty, and this Great Zhou Dynasty was established after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, but there was no watermelon in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Not only watermelons, but many things are very different from the Tang Dynasty she knows.

Thinking about it, it is not surprising that this Great Zhou Dynasty does not appear in the history textbooks she has studied, so the dynasties before the Great Zhou Dynasty are estimated to be different from the histories she knows.

These things weren't for her to worry about, after all, she didn't have the power to change history.

But now, she can change the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty without watermelons!

Lin Ruan couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, looking at the few dry watermelon seeds in his hand, as if looking at grains of gold.

After she got these seeds back, she was busy with various things and didn't have time to study them properly, so she never found out that these watermelon seeds were also mixed in.

Carefully wrapping these watermelon seeds and sowing the other seeds, Lin Ruan went down the mountain.

These watermelon seeds are too precious, and she can't go up the mountain every day lately, for fear that wild beasts will break in the valley. So, she decided to plant these watermelon seeds in her yard so that she could keep an eye on them and use her abilities to ensure her survival.

After going down the mountain, Lin Ruan hurriedly went to the backyard, found a few earthen bowls, went to the outside crop field to dig some soil back, planted the watermelon seeds, and then applied the ability again, and the watermelon seeds in the sleeping state woke up.

These melon seeds are in good condition and can germinate, Lin Ruan is very happy, and he can't wait to smash more abilities to let them grow vines and produce watermelons immediately.

But being stared at by others, this kind of thing, you can only think about it.

Now she can only hold back the expectation in her heart, slowly waiting for these melon seeds to sprout.

The earthen bowl was placed in the best position in the courtyard, and Lin Ruan confessed that she had been curiously squatting next to her to watch her movements, and only after not moving the earthen bowl did she get up and wash her hands.

On the kitchen side, the cooks have been waiting nervously since they came back from Lin Ruan.

Seeing Lin Ruan washing his hands and coming over, a cook immediately stepped forward and said, "Big girl, the little ones have added some other things to make some adjustments according to the spices you said today, and a few things have been marinated, please taste them and see how they taste?" ”

Lin Ruan nodded, turned around and brought a cup of tea, went into the kitchen to get chopsticks, picked up a piece of marinated duck neck and tasted it.

After carefully tasting the taste, Lin Ruan didn't express any opinions, just took a sip of tea, diluted the taste in his mouth, and then continued to taste the next plate.

After tasting a few plates of lo-mei, Lin Ruan said to the chefs who were full of nervousness: "Give me all the spices and proportions of your lo-mei." ”

One by one, the cooks reported the spices and proportions they used.

Lin Ruan wrote it down, then walked to the shelf containing the spices, took the small scales that weighed them, grabbed the spices in those spice jars, weighed them carefully, and put them together.

After it feels about the same, the spices are soaked in white wine, a process to remove the astringency of the spices.

After about a quarter of an hour, Lin Ruan poured the spices into a cloth bag and threw them into the water to soak.

This bubble is half an hour.

Next, the brine is boiled, a process that takes an hour. Soon, a fragrance that Lin Ruan was extremely familiar with in his previous life spread in the courtyard.

Lin Ruan had a smile on her face, and she had a hunch that this pot of lo-mei should be not far from the taste of some duck necks she had eaten in her previous life.

When the brine was almost ready, Lin Ruan turned around and went to fry the sugar.

At this step, Lin Ruan had not taught these cooks before.

Stir-frying sugar is simple, but it is not simple, you need to be extremely careful to master the heat, after that, the sugar color is black, and the taste is bitter. If it is light, the things that come out of the marinade will have a sweet taste. If you want to fry the sugar color well, you need to practice many times to master the essence.

But this is not a difficult thing for Lin Ruan.

After a while, a large bowl of sugar juice was fried, and after the brine was boiled, Lin Ruan poured some of the sugar juice into the marinated pot, and then poured the various meats that the cooks had blanched in advance into the pot and began to marinate.