Thinking of the grudge that he had coveted for a long time, Zhou Yanran, who had been coveted for a long time, was snatched away by Chen Xuan, Zhang Dafu's voice became even more gloomy.

"I want to drive more homeless people to the east of the city, and I want to make those homeless people hate this milky child!"

Wild in the mountains.

Chen Xuan looked at these, exuding wild vegetables with green leaves, purple-red rhizomes, and a unique earthy smell, and some similar wild vegetables in his previous life, gradually overlapping.

Bracken

This is the name of this wild vegetable in the Daning Dynasty.

He has another name, more familiar, Houttuynia cordata!

It was first included in the Tang Dynasty medical master Su Song's "Famous Doctors' Records".

At the beginning, it was used as a medicinal herb, which had the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying.

After the Tang Dynasty, due to the turmoil of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, years of war, and natural and man-made disasters, and other factors, the fertile land was deserted, and there was no harvest.

The ancient people who couldn't fill their stomachs had to make a living by gnawing Houttuynia cordata.

Because Houttuynia cordata is cold-tolerant, it is easier to plant and grow than millet and other crops, and after cutting one stubble, the next stubble will soon grow, and over time, it has become a unique local food in some areas of ancient times.

Liu Dalong pouted a few Houttuynia cordata, rubbed the soil on it, and swallowed it in one gulp.

After a while, he spit it out again, with a look of disgust.

"Phew!"

"This wild vegetable is unpalatable, and my mouth is full of fishy smell."

But seeing that Chen Xuan picked a piece of houttuynia cordata, rubbed off the soil, and chewed and swallowed it with the leaves, there was no discomfort, Liu Dalong was surprised: "Owner, can you eat this bracken?" ”

"What can't I eat, this bracken is in my eyes, but it is a unique delicacy."

"It's just a pity, it's too little."

Chen Xuan shook his head and said.

"Hey, bracken is in our back mountain city, but there are a lot of them, and the wild is all over the mountains."

Liu Dalong's words made Chen Xuan's eyes light up, and he swept away the gloomy color not long ago.

"Really?!"

"Can I still get the owner?"

Under Liu Dalong's explanation, Chen Xuan finally understood the reason.

Bracken Mo said that in Houshan City, even in the Daning Dynasty, it was also abandoned by people, and it had no value even for raising livestock.

As a result, in the wild of Houshan City, it has grown for decades and can be seen everywhere.

"I see, I see, I ...... so"

Chen Xuan's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he grinned.

was worried, how to relieve those homeless people, I met bracken, this is exactly what I want to doze off, someone sent a pillow.

Isn't this bracken, which can be seen everywhere in the wild, the food that feeds tens of thousands of displaced people?

Even if it is eaten openly, the homeless people will not be able to finish it for a while!

The unique earthy smell of bracken, some people even vomit, some people can adapt to it, in Chen Xuan's eyes, it is not a big deal.

"The people of the Daning Dynasty have not yet discovered the correct way to eat this Houttuynia cordata."

"It's not impossible to suppress that earthy smell."

Today, I'm afraid that the owner is not suffering from epilepsy.

Seeing Chen Xuan, who had been laughing, Liu Dalong shook his head, not knowing why.

"Old Liu, pick as many brackens as you can and go back, I have an urgent need." Chen Xuan said.

"Howler!"

Fortunately, it is the mountain of the bandit leader, and there is no shortage of baskets and other daily necessities, Chen Xuan found it, and in just half an hour, he has already picked two baskets of bracken.

Looking at the two heavy baskets that compacted the spiky vegetable leaves, Chen Xuan showed a satisfied look.

"Two grandfathers, you have a kind heart, can you let us go?"

The bandit leader and a group of bandits looked at Chen Xuan with blank eyes, begging bitterly.

"You guys, stay here honestly, it won't be long before there will be officials who will come to arrest you."

Instead of agreeing, Chen Xuan tightened the thick rope on their bodies even tighter.

These bandits didn't harm anyone's lives, these are just their words after all!

Chen Xuan can't be fully trusted.

Instead of thinking about whether to let them go, it is better to throw this problem to the county government.

After spending half a day on foot, Chen Xuan returned to the small workshop.

As soon as they came back, Zhou Yanran and Tie Zhu told a piece of news that made Chen Xuan's heart sink.

There are more and more homeless people!

Their consumption of sugar water is far greater than production, and it cannot be supplied in a short time, and many people have already made a fuss in the tea shed.

"This posture, it's not the entire homeless people in Houshan City, all of them have fled here."

Chen Xuan, who heard the news, suddenly felt a huge pressure and said: "Then in addition to eating and sleeping, the rest of the time is all about making sugar water, and making more of it will give more relief to the homeless." ”

"It's going to be hard for you all this time."

Chen Xuan said earnestly to Zhou Yanran and Tie Zhu.

After explaining some things, Chen Xuanwu moved the two baskets of bracken and returned home.

"Brother Dog, how can there be so many bracken?"

"It smells bad!"

Zhou Yanran pinched Qiong's nose with one hand and dispelled the earthy smell with the other.

……

at home.

The earthy smell emitted by these two baskets of houttuynia cordata was smelled by Chen's mother from afar.

"Dog, what are you doing with so many bracken?"

Chen's mother was very repulsed by this smell, and even Chen Xuan, who was contaminated with this smell, was quite disgusted.

"Mother, I'm thinking about how to improve the taste of bracken, so that more homeless people can accept bracken and not go hungry." Chen Xuan replied while cleaning Houttuynia cordata.

"I see."

Chen's mother's expression softened a lot, and she looked at Chen Xuan's old eyes, full of pride: "Then don't be too tired, remember to rest." ”

In his memories of his previous life, when the rhizome was stir-fried, the rhizome would be softened by the heat, affecting the taste, so it was often used in cold dressing.

Supplemented with salt, white vinegar, monosodium glutamate, red oil.

Or add minced garlic to add a spicy flavor to improve the taste.

In the Daning Dynasty, which was similar to ancient China, there was no such seasoning as fine salt, and there was no garlic, monosodium glutamate and red oil!

White vinegar, there is!

To a certain extent, it can remove the earthy smell of Houttuynia cordata.

Chen Xuan put three catties of Houttuynia cordata into a clay pottery bowl, soaked it in vinegar and coarse salt for more than a quarter of an hour, and then picked up a piece of Houttuynia cordata with chopsticks and put it in his mouth to chew.

"The earthy smell has been removed a lot, but it is still difficult for others to accept."

Chen Xuan's brows furrowed.

"It would be great if we could find a condiment to replace garlic."

Chili peppers and garlic are both imported products, and they only began to flow into China during the Ming Dynasty.

Before that, the ancient people used mustard and dogwood instead of chili peppers and garlic to add the spicy taste of food.