Zhang Hong was the first to pick it up and taste it, he carefully poured it into the bowl, didn't pour too much, and drank it in one gulp.

Then his eyes lit up.

"Sweet!"

Of course sweet, but the sweetness at this time is actually very different from the sweetness of later generations, but for people in this era, it is still extremely difficult to taste.

If you want to eat sweet, the most convenient thing is to find three places, the first is a fruit tree, the second is a beehive, and the third is a bear den.

The first two may not be so easy to find, but as long as you find the third one, you can basically find the first two, and you don't have to worry about the bees chasing you, so there were many "bear slayer warriors" in ancient times.

Not only to kill the bear, but also to seize his honey and rob him of his fruit.

Compared with the Southwest Hospitable Bear Cave that everyone passed by before, it can be seen that the hospitable Dog Bear is indeed very poor, and there is only water and no honey at home, but now it has moved.....

"What is it?"

Zhang Hong's heart was like ten raccoon dogs scratching, and Yu Zai patted the clay pot: "This is cane pulp, also called Zhuzhe." ”

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, caramel was made, and the main raw material was wheat, because during the period from Emperor Yu to Yao, wheat spread from Asia Minor to the Central Plains, and was quickly cultivated in the north.

"Zhou Yuan is full of flesh, and violet is like a syrup" is an ancient poem in the Book of Songs.

And in the south, because it is not good to grow wheat and a variety of rice, the witty Chu people found a thing called "Zhuzhe", that is, wild sugarcane, and because there is no cultivation of human race, the sweetness of sugarcane at this time is not so great...

However, after squeezing the juice, the sugarcane pulp actually tastes good, the nobles of Chu are good at this, from this time on, Chu has cultivated sugarcane, but not much, after all, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, grain is fundamental, most of the fields of course have to be pulled to plant grain, it is impossible to leave too much arable land for sugarcane, and there is another point, that is, sugarcane is too easy to obtain.

Therefore, the act of planting sugarcane is only done by a small number of people.

Chu Ci's "Conjuring Spirits" has a saying: "The turtle cannon lamb has some syrup." ”

And the real big white sugar, the Tang Dynasty only appeared, and it was turbid, and the refined white sugar was not until the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and the rich people at that time had to use two cups of ghee and white sugar to boil milk to drink.

In fact, the life of the people during the Warring States period was actually many times, even worse than the period of three generations, which only referred to the common people and even slaves, not to the class above the scholars.

Advanced development belongs to the upper class, such as ploughing tools and ox ploughing, which obviously appeared very early, but at the end of the Warring States period, Zhao even said that Zhao could not beat Qin's important factor, which was that Qin vigorously and widely promoted ox ploughing tools, but Zhao could not do it....

An important reason is privatization and class separation, a large amount of wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of the aristocracy, and the distribution to the inferior is only the most basic standard of life, and the aristocracy will not let others share resources with themselves, as for what interests their little heads are thinking about, that is another matter.

And in the three generations period, because it was a public world, the resources of the leader were not much different from the resources of the clansmen, and everyone had positive hopes for working together, so the ancient songs at this time could obviously reflect many things.

Take the scene shown in "The Song of Kik", by the beginning of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were basically not many commoners who could have such a comfortable and comfortable time, which is why Confucius praised the ancient sage kings.

"Sugar cane is a common thing in the south, but the taste of dry nibbling is not too sweet (in the current era), so after squeezing into juice, it is the one you taste now, although it is a little worse than stone honey, ah, it is the kind of ..... that looks like bamboo one by one."

Before he finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by Zhang Hong!

"Very good, already very good! I know what kind of plant you are talking about!

Zhang Hong laughed: "Each place has a different name for these plants and trees, and the sugar cane in your mouth, Zhuzhe, is the white that we call [Bayi Chinese Network] there?"

"There is a kind of tree in the southern Lunzhi Mountain, which looks like a pinch tree, has a red vein, and the taste of the juice that flows out is sweet, and people will not feel hungry when they eat it, and they can also relieve fatigue. ”

Yu Zai was also stunned for a moment, the south is indeed the place where sugarcane grows, but when I heard this, it turned out that in the more southern region, there were also large sugarcane forests growing.

Zhang Hong was already eager to try at this time, and he had already planned that if he left and returned to the South China Sea, he would cut down the mountains and cut down sugarcane, but his idea was just an idea, after all, it seemed that the Chifang clan had something better to come up with.

There was not much cane syrup, and after a few people tasted it, they all said yes, and at this time, everyone stared at the last clay pot.

It's like a mystery lottery, the front is full of good things, and the last one won't collapse, right?

Expectations are already full.

Tofu, oily bean skin, cane pulp, in addition to mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm for cereal planting, but also let everyone understand the new sugar source plants, it is conceivable that from now on, sugarcane will definitely be planted.

Isn't it easier to slash and simmer sugar cane than to risk being stung to fight a swarm of bees, or to be a bear slayer.

Yu Zai didn't let everyone wait longer, and the last clay pot was opened.

Black liquid, quiet multiplication placed in it.

"Vinegar?"

The people around looked at each other, but someone moved his nose: "No, this smell is not vinegar." ”

"It's soy sauce. ”

"Isn't soy sauce?

Vinegar and sauce have been brewed before, after three years of work, after the operation of a few friends in the mill, vinegar and sauce meat have also become the most popular agricultural products of the Chifang family, and this time the so-called "soy sauce" is again?

"The raw material of this thing is still soybean!"

Yu Zai said, and was even more emotional: "Come, let's taste it, Zhang Hong can cut a piece of tofu and dip it a little." ”

So Zhang Hong imitated what Yu Zai said, and when he put the steamed tofu soaked in soy sauce in his mouth, he was stunned for a while, and then let out an earth-shattering roar!

"This, this is the heavenly principle of the world!"

Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are now all alive, and the hot southern life is about to turn a new page!

The times and years have slowly entered the next small stage, that is, the "copper cooking period" of food development!

Cooking five flavors in oil, Ding kettle mustache plate!