Looking at the animal bones that Chen Han pulled out of the mound of dirt.

In Kong Wenjian's mind, a very vivid scene appeared.

4,000 years ago, in this rammed earth house that once stood on the ground of Lajia.

A Chinese ancestor who had just finished his work and returned home took a steaming pottery bowl from his wife's hand.

In the bowl, a mass of pale yellow noodles floats in the soup, along with a few pieces of minced meat with bones and perhaps a few vegetable leaves.

The meat is tender, gluten, and the soup is fresh.

Meimei takes a sip and can be comfortable from head to toe.

It's just that before he could enjoy this rich lunch, a sudden disaster happened.

The bowl of noodles was also in a panic, and was knocked over and buckled to the ground.

This buckle is 4,000 years later.

This bowl of noodles, which was too late to enjoy, has also become one of the most precious discoveries in this Lajia ruins that were suddenly destroyed by a disaster.

It also allows them, the modern people, to get a glimpse of the food culture of the Lama family 4,000 years ago through this bowl of noodles.

Kong Wenjian almost trembled and picked up these bone fragments, and said excitedly: "Quick, pack them together and send them to the capital as quickly as possible!" ”

"Let the people of the Academy of Sciences help verify what kind of animal bone fragment this is!"

Now, Kong Wenjian has four or five points of confidence in his heart, this bowl of upside-down food that Chen Han inadvertently discovered is a bowl of noodles from 4,000 years ago!

It's almost certain that this thing must be food, and it looks like noodles.

The clay bowl that is upside down on the ground creates a semi-vacuum effect, which is indeed able to delay or even keep food from rotting.

The rationale for preserving this is also explained.

There are always signs that this thing could really be noodles!

Once the evidence is conclusive, it will be a sensation in the world!

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Chen Han's accidental discovery caused a sensation in the archaeological excavation site of the entire Lajia site two hours later.

From the No. 1 construction site to the No. 4 construction site, all archaeologists know that the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences actually found a relic that looks like a noodle!

That's amazing!

The members of the archaeological teams from all over the country, as long as they were not nervous about the work at hand, immediately put down the work at hand and came to F20 to explore the onlookers.

Unfortunately, when they received the news, it was too late.

The entire mound of dirt that was held under the pottery bowl was removed, and after a simple protection treatment, it was escorted back to Beijing by a special person.

In order to speed up the speed, send it back as soon as possible, and reduce the weathering of physical evidence, Kong Wenjian even asked the local government for help and opened a green channel.

That night, this bowl of "noodles" from 4,000 years ago was sent to the Huaxia Academy of Sciences.

The Huaxia Academy of Sciences, which had already received the news in advance, solemnly set up a team composed of experts in biology, chemistry and botany, and immediately took over the research work on this suspected noodle substance.

"No, there really are noodles that can last for 4,000 years?"

In a highly confidential laboratory under the Huaxia Academy of Sciences.

When I saw the yellowish strip in the tightly packed bag.

Jiang Jizhou, a researcher from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was shocked.

He carefully took out the remains that were almost dried from the package, and carefully divided them into a dozen small portions.

Next to him, Zou Shu, an assistant researcher from the Institute of Microbiology, who helped him sort the specimens together, asked with a puzzled expression:

"Professor Jiang, didn't you say that noodles were brought to us in China from the Middle East through the Silk Road?"

"Before the Han Dynasty, didn't we have the habit of eating noodles?"

Jiang Jizhou glanced at him angrily: "This is not necessarily. ”

"Saying that the production process of Chinese noodles came from the Middle East is just a mainstream speculation in the academic community."

"The history of wheat cultivation in our country is 10,000 years!"

"In 1985 and 1986, carbonized wheat and barley grains dating back about 5,000 years were found in the Neolithic site of East Ash Mountain."

"This is evidenced by physical excavations."

"At least 5,000 years ago, our ancestors in China had domesticated wild wheat and cultivated it on a large scale."

"For a long period of 5,000 years, hasn't anyone ever tried to make noodles in our Chinese ancestors?"

Although Jiang Jizhou also agrees, the process of making and eating noodles on a large scale in China came from the Middle East.

After all, according to historical records, from the Eastern Han Dynasty in history, various flour products appeared one after another.

The timing is indeed very consistent with the prosperity of the Silk Road.

But to say that before the Eastern Han Dynasty, no Chinese people tried to make noodles, then he also did not believe it.

How can the Chinese people say that they have planted wheat for thousands of years, and the production process of flour products is not difficult.

Historically, there have certainly been sporadic instances of individuals making pasta.

It's just that due to the speed of news transmission in ancient times and various external factors, it is difficult for a few people to make pasta at once, and it is difficult to popularize it throughout China at once.

It is even more difficult to shake the status of millet and millet in the staple food of Chinese cuisine.

It may only be popular in one or two villages, and it is difficult to become mainstream.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty, after hundreds of years of influence on the Silk Road, that the conditions and space for the popularity of pasta may have appeared.

Even so, it took 500 years for pasta to defeat millet and millet during the Tang Dynasty and truly become the mainstream food of the northerners.

Jiang Jizhou sliced a piece of the relics unearthed from the Lajia ruins with a very steady movement in his hand, put it under the microscope, and observed it.

In order to determine what the suspected noodle substance is made of, the research team of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences must conduct rigorous and tedious sampling analysis and comparison.

First of all, nature starts with the main plant that makes pasta, wheat.

It's just that something that Jiang Jizhou didn't expect happened.

After scientific firmness, it is certain that this thing is not made of wheat!

"Isn't this a noodle?"

In the face of this reasonable and unexpected result, Jiang Jizhou was very regretful and incomprehensible.

Since it is not wheat, what is this pale yellow strip of food made of?

To be able to enter the Huaxia Academy of Sciences, Jiang Jizhou is naturally a very talented scientific research worker.

Soon, he was out of his own thinking loop.

Isn't wheat the only thing in the world that can make noodles?

Plants such as buckwheat, barley, and soybeans can also be made into noodles using complex processes!

Thinking of this, Jiang Jizhou immediately expanded the scope of comparison, and even some food crops that could not be made into noodles, but could be used as the staple food of human beings, also entered his comparison range.

Soon, buckwheat, barley, soybeans, rice and other food crops were excluded one by one.

Jiang Jizhou was shocked by a result, this pale yellow thin strip of curly food, the composition is actually very similar to millet and millet!

And it also contains a small amount of grease and animal bone fragments!

In other words, this bowl of "noodles" from 4,000 years ago is actually made of millet!

However, after figuring out the ingredients, an even bigger question was placed in front of Jiang Jizhou.

How can millet noodles be made into noodles without gluten?!