"Hey, have you laughed enough?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaolong and Li Chaomeng, who were sitting there and smirked, and asked, after hearing this, Li Chaomeng nodded and said, "Enough laughter, enough laughter, but Brother Chaosheng, are you all food?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled: "Of course." ”

"The yellow, such a large grain is also grain?"

Li Chaomeng gestured to Li Chaosheng and said, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaomeng's gesture and smiled: "Yes, this thing is called corn, after grinding into noodles, pasting cakes, steaming nests, and making corn porridge are all very good food, if it is fresh, it can be boiled and eaten." ”

Li Chaosheng introduced to Li Chaomeng that in fact, corn had been transmitted to China in the thirtieth year of Jiajing (1551), and the earliest documentary record was a county chronicle of Henan "Xiangcheng County Chronicle".

However, although corn was transmitted to the Ming Dynasty very early, there were not many people who planted it, the first is that the corn at this time was still very primitive, not at all what we see now, a corn cob is full of grains, but the kind of corn cob on the cob, sparsely stretched a few corn kernels.

The yield is not very outstanding, which is eye-catching, and it is recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.

During his travels from 1552 to 1578, he also discovered that corn was cultivated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, although it is rarely recorded in the book.

It can be seen from this that corn was definitely not very popular at that time, and it was not popularized at all, as for the reason, it must be due to the seed problem, and the yield was not high.

Just like the potatoes at the beginning, they were very small, and then they were cultivated continuously to produce excellent varieties.

Therefore, although corn has been transmitted to the Ming Dynasty at this time, the people here in Shaanxi do not know this thing at all.

Li Chaosheng explained to Li Chaomeng, and Li Chaolong on the side said: "Chaosheng, there is still rice in the grain you transported?" ”

"Yes!"

Li Chaosheng nodded, and after hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "This is a rare thing, we don't grow rice here, there is a shortage of rice, and we can't eat a bowl during the New Year. ”

Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard this: "Okay, is this rice really scarce?" ”

At this time, Mengzi said: "Brother Chaosheng is very rare, I have eaten rice more than ten times in my life." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Okay, in this way, rice is used as reward food, and corn is used as regular food, but this corn is grinding." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "What's this, there are not many others in our clan, there are many grinding discs, and when I have time, I will bring a set to grind cornmeal." ”

"Cheng, by the way, millet everyone don't move, this is used as money, this rice is too expensive, easy to show wealth, corn is rare in others, don't take it out, this millet can just be used as a wage settlement for the big guy."

After listening to Li Chaosheng's words, Li Chaolong and Li Chaomeng nodded in unison, and followed Li Chaomeng and said: "Don't worry, Brother Chaosheng, it's absolutely no problem, from today onwards, I, Dezhen, and Debao, will lead people to stay outside here day and night and never let outsiders approach." ”

"Okay, security is up to you here."

Li Chaosheng said, followed by finding a small bag of rice and said to Li Chaolong: "Cousin, take this bag of rice home, make a big pot of rice, and satisfy the family's cravings. ”

"Okay."

Li Chaolong said and took the rice home, followed by asking his daughter-in-law to get up in the middle of the night to cook, and the daughter-in-law was quite unhappy at first, but as soon as she saw the white rice, her daughter-in-law's eyes lit up, and she looked at Li Chaolong and said, "The master, where did you get it?" ”

Li Chaolong said with a smile at this time: "Where else can I get it, Chaosheng gave it." ”

"My God, why do you give so much rice, this rice is so white, if you don't eat it separately today, you can take this rice and exchange it for millet with Wang Laocai, one pound of rice can be exchanged for two and a half catties of millet."

"Hey, what are you thinking about this ruined girl, this rice was cooked by Chaosheng and distributed to the big guys, not for our family to eat."

"Besides, how good this rice is, what are you going to change at Wang Laocai's house, you don't want to eat rice?"

Li Chaolong looked at his daughter-in-law and said, when her daughter-in-law heard this, she nodded and said, "I want to think about it, I think about it in my dreams." ”

"Then what are you waiting for, get out of the pot."

"Cheng, listen to you."

"Add a little less water, make the rice a little drier, let's eat rice, not porridge."

Li Chaolong said to his daughter-in-law, followed by the two of them and began to work, washing rice and steaming rice in the pot.

Half an hour later, the rice was ready, smelling the fragrance Li Chaogu and Li Dezong couldn't bear it, they all ran over and stared at the pot without speaking, Li Chaolong looked at the two little guys and said: "Don't worry, you Chaosheng brother (uncle) said, leave a copy of the rice for our family today, and after a while, you can all eat hot white rice." ”

Hearing this, the two little guys swallowed their saliva.

The lid of the pot was opened, and a burst of white gas rose, filling a large pot of rice, and the rice was covered with a layer of oil, which made the mouth water.

At this time, Li Chaolong said: "You first fetch me a bucket of rice, I will take it to the barracks, and for the rest, you and your family will keep some of it, and then ask your father to send some to a few uncles and uncles, which is ordered by Chaosheng." ”

The daughter-in-law heard this and said, "Cheng, I know, you can get busy, don't let the brothers of the security team go hungry." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaolong said, "Okay, I'll go first." ”

After saying this, Li Chaolong ran in the direction of the barracks with a wooden bucket of rice, and carried a handful of large grains of salt in his arms.

After Li Chaolong left, his daughter-in-law gave her own family a basin, and then separately divided five pots of rice for the clan elders to keep, and then the daughter-in-law dipped her hands in the water and directly turned her rice balls into rice balls, and then wrapped a large grain of salt in a drawer cloth, and hammered it into powder with a mallet used for washing at home.

At this time, he took a rice ball, sprinkled a little salt foam on it, handed it to Li Chaogu, and said, "Chaogu, this is yours." ”

"Dezong, this is yours."

One person divided a large rice ball, followed by the daughter-in-law to the house with the rest of the rice balls, and gave Li Jinli and his mother-in-law a large rice ball, at this time there were two left in the basin, a big one, a small one, the daughter-in-law took the small one and ate it, and the big one was left for Li Chaolong.

I was called up in the middle of the night, and my mother-in-law just wanted to speak, when she saw the white rice balls, her saliva came down, and then she looked at her daughter-in-law and asked, "Where did the white rice come from?" ”

"Uncle Chaosheng gave it, father, mother, you eat quickly, uncle also prepared rice for other clan elders, and I will have to bother my father to send it for a while."

Li Jinli was eating rice balls at this time and said, "I know, I'll go after eating." ”

The mother-in-law sighed on the side: "The nephew is so good, he thinks about us with a little bit of delicious food, and we can't forget this kindness." ”