"Just make clothes for us, father and mother, eldest brother and sister-in-law, younger brother, and Zhiyuan Zhicheng They don't do it, why are you embarrassed?" On the way to the vegetable market to sell vegetables and meat, Hui Niang kept saying, "I spent almost two taels of silver, and I have some money, how many things can I do......"

"What's this? We made clothes a few days ago, and the New Year will be two months away, so it's not too late for us to make new clothes. When the time comes, we won't be able to control you......" Xie Wang joked.

Li Ying and Zhou Qin were whispering what style they would make their clothes, and they couldn't stop smiling on their little faces, showing a yearning look.

Li Lian heard that Xie Wang said that he would ignore their new clothes during the New Year, lowered her gaze slightly, and then tilted her gaze to Xie Xuan for a while.

Xie Xuan was silently thinking about what she was going to buy for a while, where would she pay attention to her.

Drove the mule cart to the vegetable market, everyone got out of the car to go to the vegetable market to buy things, originally wanted to let a few children wait in the car with Ping'an, but a few children arrived at this prosperous territory, where are they willing to stay in the car honestly? It is to follow up with Xie Wang's Hui Niang, and Ping An is carefully guarded in the back.

Everyone bought 30 catties of meat in the butcher shop, and bought 10 catties of offal offal, went to the rice noodle shop to buy a stone of white flour rice and millet, weighing about 162 kilograms, went to the oil shop to buy a large jar of rapeseed oil, a small jar of small grinding sesame oil, went to the shop with salt to buy a jar of coarse salt, and went to the vinegar workshop to buy a jar of vinegar.

Before the things were bought, they had already been spent.

Fortunately, let Ping'an drive the mule cart to follow, otherwise so many things, their group of women and children really can't take it back, and people are in charge of sending it in their shops, but only if they buy more, they will send it, and if they buy less, they will have to pay for running errands.

"I've got to buy a few jars of wine! You don't need too good wine, just buy the rice wine we usually drink......" Seeing that the money was spent like flowing water, Xie Wang's was also a little distressed, and she silently calculated in her mouth: "I haven't bought the ingredients yet, and there are not many mountain goods at home, so I have to beat ten catties of tofu, and I have to buy some ...... vegetables."

"Mother, just buy some food, who is the owner of the family, like us, can you still provide workers with a banquet like a restaurant?" Xie Huiniang has been in the Li family for a few years, and she is inevitably affected by the Li family's way of life.

"Mother, where can these things be eaten for them, we will eat them in the future! Buy more and run less twice, it doesn't cost anything! Xie Xuan said with a smile.

Xie Wang also said yes.

When they arrived at the sauce shop, Hui Niang and Ping'an took a few children to watch things by the car. Xie Xuan followed Xie Wang's in, saw Xie Wang's conversation with the shopkeeper, and scooped a tube of soy sauce with a straight tube to see the color and smell the taste.

According to Xie Xuan's previous experience, he knew that Xie Wang's family would have to be good for a while, and he and the shopkeeper were back and forth to find shortcomings and bargain, so Xie Xuan looked at the goods in the shop casually.

The ingredients of this shop are also quite complete, with large and small fennel, peppercorns, star anise, dogwood, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, soybean paste, and autumn oil.

The hot skin, the dazzling color, thinking of the various hot delicacies made with this kind of ingredients in his previous life, the saliva in Xie Xuan's mouth couldn't help but soak out.

"Shopkeeper, what is this thing? The color is red, and it's pretty good? Xie Xuan pretended to be ignorant and pointed to the chili peppers that were placed at random.

The shopkeeper was swearing to Xie Wang's that his soy sauce was the best brewed in the county.

"That's a pepper, it's a seaside merchant who came here to ship, saying that this thing came from Fanbang, we don't have it locally, and I want to sell it at a high price. I looked at the red and glamorous, and it was still a dried fruit, who knew if I tasted it, ouch, it was like poisoning, and my mouth was hot and painful......"

Saying that, the shopkeeper seemed to recall that hot feeling, and couldn't help touching his mouth: "Isn't he trying to make money and kill people, taking poisonous things to deceive me, I pulled him to see the official, he saw that the momentum was not good, and ran away, leaving this poisonous thing here, and he was afraid that he would throw it away and make others eat it and poison ......"

Xie Xuan's eyes became brighter and brighter, the shopkeeper's complaints sounded like heaven in her ears, and a huge food empire was like a picture scroll, slowly spreading out in front of her eyes.

"I like this red and glamorous little fruit, and when I finish buying soy sauce later, you can give this to us as the shopkeeper!" Patiently waiting for the shopkeeper to finish complaining, Xie Xuan tried not to let herself laugh and said.

"Little girl, this thing is poisonous, eating it will make your mouth hot and painful, and you will cry your nose!" The shopkeeper said.

"I look good, and I don't eat it." Xie Xuan said, seeing Xie Wang's coming, she quietly glanced at her.

When Wang Xie saw it, he suppressed his curiosity and only said to the shopkeeper: "Since my family Xuanxuan likes it, I will play with her." Anyway, I'll cut a little price for you, I don't buy a pound or two pounds, I want to buy a jar of ......"

As soon as he heard Xie Wang's words, the shopkeeper quickly scooped a jar of soy sauce for Xie Wang's family, personally moved it to the mule cart, and gave Xie Xuan the chili pepper in a small coarse cloth bag, and repeatedly told her not to eat it.

After thanking the shopkeeper, everyone in the Xie family left slowly, and then went to the wine store to buy wine.

"Xuanxuan, what do you want to do with this, didn't the shopkeeper say that it was poisonous!" Xie Wang couldn't help but ask her on the way, she knew that her granddaughter could no longer treat her with common sense.

"That's because he doesn't understand, this is also a kind of ingredient, put a little less, the dish will be spicy, better than dogwood!" Xie Xuan saw that Hui Niang and they all looked at it, and she didn't exaggerate, nor did she explain the future prospects of this thing, but simply said: "I like to eat this!" ”

It turns out that chili peppers were only introduced to China from the Americas at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and people before that rarely ate spicy peppers as commonly as in modern society.

But people also eat spicy food in their daily life, otherwise they would not have the five flavors of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty". It's just that the spicy of the ancients is different from what we call spicy.

The ancients ate spicy food, mainly from dogwood, spicy knotweed, and Sichuan pepper. The dogwood fruit looks like a ripe wolfberry, and the color is also red and bright, with a slight sour taste. Spicy knotweed is often used as traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of dispelling wind and dampness, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and the taste is pungent, which is not authentic spicy. Sichuan pepper is a commonly used ingredient, to be precise, Sichuan pepper is numb but not spicy.

Two pepper trees were planted in the mountain behind the courtyard of the Xie family, and they bear a lot of fruit every year, and they can't finish eating, so Xie Wang's family often gives them away.

Therefore, the pure spicy taste of chili peppers was almost non-existent in China before the end of the Ming Dynasty.

is imagining that in the future, she will grow a lot of chili peppers and develop her own food empire, spicy butter hot pot, mapo tofu, spicy chicken, spicy duck intestine duck neck...... became the ancestor of the spicy cuisine generation, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Just as you can! You know a lot! Seeing that Xie Xuan was in the limelight again, Li Lian glanced at her and said in a very angry tone: "What we don't know, how do you know?" ”

"I read it from a book!" Xie Xuan glanced at her lightly, and finally became a little impatient, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly: "If you are jealous of my literacy, when I teach Zhou Qin and the eldest sister, you can also come to learn!" ”

"Who rarely learns from you!" Xie Xuan's faint smile made her feel even more dazzling, thinking that Xie Xuan could read and read, Li Lian gritted her teeth for a while, and twisted her head away hatefully.