Zhou Ting was in Canghai Garden, and Cheng Yuanxi and the others never bothered them; If you want to disturb, you can't get in, and you can't go in with the secret guards at the door, every time Zhou Ting comes, they are like outsiders, and they can't even enter their own yard.

"Yiyi, let's try the courgette, it has a very unique fragrance when it is sweet."

Zhou Ting took a thick and short courgette from a kind of melon and fruit that moved in, the skin was pale yellow and green; After breaking it, the fragrance wafts out, and it is indeed very fragrant.

One person and a half, the skin does not eat, only the melon flesh inside.

Mingyi knows this kind of courgette, isn't it a cucumber!

It's really good to eat, I haven't eaten this cucumber in this world for a long time; It is sweet and delicious, much better than the long cucumbers cultivated in the modern world, after all, it is an all-natural vegetable.

"Are there any courgette seedlings?" After eating half of it, she remembered to ask about it.

"There should be, all the seedlings from the house have been brought to you, and you may have this kind of courgette seedlings." But he didn't know it, so he could only rely on Mingyi to grow it and look at it again.

Mingyi nodded happily, "Thank you Chaosheng, I will plant it well." ”

"Just do whatever you want, and the caravan of the royal palace will go to the Western Regions after the year; Whatever you want, I'll let them find it. ”

Mingyi's eyes were calm, but her heart was open.

In Zhou Ting's eyes, she was in a daze at the moment; Dissatisfied with being ignored, pinching her baby fat, "Yiyi, how are you listening?" ”

"Huh? In. A slight pain in her face pulled her back to her senses, "Chaosheng, I want a few plants, I'll draw them and give them to you; You let the caravan find it. ”

Just do it, Mingyi ran to Cheng Mingli's room to get pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and sharpened ink on the spot to draw two kinds of plants.

"Of these two things, one of which I saw when I was fleeing the famine, is edible, and the yield seems to be not small, if it can be popularized, it can provide one more kind of food for the people in the northwest to fill their stomachs." Mingyi showed him the shape of the potato.

The potatoes on the drawings are large and small, and the colors are green and yellow, and there are also green and yellow.

"They're all potatoes you said?" The large output meant that the common people could grow in large quantities, and they had to buy a part of the military rations in the northwest from the merchants every year; The supply given by the imperial court could not keep up with the consumption of the Northwest Army, and if there were potatoes, the burden of military food could be reduced.

"Yes, potatoes must be cooked before they can be eaten, otherwise there is a high chance of food poisoning; It can cause stomach upset, foaming at the mouth, or even death. ”

"Poisonous?"

Mingyi solemnly bowed his head and explained how to eat potatoes, "Raw food is poisonous, it is non-toxic when steamed, boiled and fried, and even the stew is very fragrant; It's a pity that when the potatoes were first discovered, the clan continued to eat food and failed to leave a part of it. ”

There was a part of the space that she quietly transferred; There's no right reason to come up with it.

If it is found in the mountains, many people in Yuzhuang will go to the mountains to hunt, and they have never been to the mountains except for the deep mountains, and they must have run all over these mountains and forests.

They went in and didn't find any edible food, so how could she find it as soon as they entered?

It doesn't make sense, and she doesn't want to act rashly.

"If that's the case. I asked people to search for it, and there was it on the way to escape the wilderness, which means that this thing also multiplied in our Central Plains. ”

Mingyi nodded, thought about it, and said where the potatoes were planed; He drew a simple drawing for him, "Focus on finding this mountain, there must be one place and other places." ”

It is impossible for a mountain to have potatoes in only one place, and after the birds and finches take them out, it is very likely that the excrement that is scattered will also be carried and multiplied elsewhere.

"Okay, I'll send someone to find it, what's the other one?" Look at the picture of a stick, but there are a lot of things on the stick, "It looks weird." ”

There are several forms, some of which have been peeled and some that have not been peeled.

Mingyi explained: "This is corn, also called bud rice; A stick can be broken off a number of grains, the grains are yellow, that is, edible grain. After drying, it can be sealed and stored, as long as it is not damp, it can be stored for two or three years. ”

"Can it be left for so long?" His eyes lit up.

It is rare to see him like this, Mingyi smiled, "Yes, it can be stored for two or three years without moisture, and it will be delicious when ground into flour and made into cakes; The special incense has been popularized, and it is a rare food for the common people. ”

"Not only that, after the grain is eaten, the straw, the outer skin, and the leaves of the bud can be burned; After burning, the ashes are a good product for fertile fields. ”

"So much use." Zhou Ting's eyes brightened, and he was eager to try; He is young and young, and he can't bear to be born in a family of kings and grandchildren, plus he was born in Zaohui, he remembers what he has seen, and he remembers what he has heard.

Because of this, from a very young age, the children next to him were playing carefree, and he learned to think; Learning what to do is the best choice for himself, and over the years, he has seen a lot and seen the people struggling to survive.

He has seen the families of the martyrs who died in the war lonely and helpless, and he wants to give them a guarantee; However, he didn't have so much power before, and reality didn't allow him to be perfect, so he could only take care of those family members occasionally.

With these two kinds of food, his people in the northwest would surely be able to live a good life.

In winter, you don't have to worry about food, you can eat all year round; Life is good, there is no need for him to say more, the people will also find ways to change their living environment and make their lives better.

Under the virtuous circle, as long as the people want to live a good life, they have the idea of running towards a good life; They can all improve to a certain extent, after a long time, does he still need to worry about the military rations in the northwest?

In just a moment, Zhou Ting's mind was already turning a thousand times.

"Yiyi, I'll let you find it, thank you; If you can find it, the people of the northwest will thank you. "Delicately blow dry the wear marks on the three drawings, fold them and put them closely.

Mingyi shook her head, she didn't have any thoughts about it, she also had merit for doing good deeds.

"You let it go, there should be this kind of bud rice in the Western Regions."

"Well, I'll have someone look for it." Zhou Ting was full of excitement, unable to calm down and continue to play with Mingyi, and after staying for a while, he said goodbye, "Yiyi, I'll go back first, and when I arrange for my side to send someone to pick you up and go to the palace to play; I wrote to the teacher, and the teacher should come over in the next year, and then you will learn to draw with the teacher. ”

"Well, when the time comes, your mind is now on the grain; You're busy with yours, and I'll take a look at the seedlings. "She had to plan a plot of land to plant the seedlings.

Her yard is a little smaller, and she can't grow others with some plants and herbs.

Sending Zhou Ting away, he watched his frame leave, but when he turned around, he saw his father, brother, cousin and sister-in-law all waiting for her in the courtyard.

"Daddy, brother, cousin." Mingyi shouted over one by one.