"Is this?" Zhang Pengzu asked with chopsticks and picked up a piece of meat.

"mutton."

"Where is that soup?"

“Mutton soup.”

The first bite of meat is not hot. Because Zhang Pengzu picked it up and asked a few questions, it was very palatable.

The first bite of soup burned him, but after he blew it two or three times, he drank a large bite of soup.

After repeated this, Zhang Pengzu ate three bowls in a row, shouted six words "scent" or "too fragrant", and four words "comfortable". If Chen Yue shouted, there would definitely be only two words, that would be "ok". Chen Yue only ate one bowl, and he felt that the difference between him and his previous food was not an ordinary big deal.

Because there were more and more people on the other table, Chen Yue took the initiative to bring a pot to them. The three of them and Zhang Pengzu and the four of them ate two pots. Because of Zhang Pengzu's big belly, Chen Miao and Chen Wu only ate one and a half bowls.

Of course, this bowl is much larger than the household bowls used in later generations.

After dinner, the women packed the bowls and the men sat in a bunch of bragging and chatting. The core was Zhang Pengzu, Chen Yue was the second escort, and Chen Miao could be counted as the third escort.

After everyone sat in a pile, except for Chen Yue, they seemed to be savoring the mutton soup just now. Only Chen Yue was thinking that the mutton soup has a bit of a strong smell and is not fragrant enough. How can we achieve the taste of the southwest region in later generations?

Chen Yue believes that the main reason is that there is no fish. The mutton soup should be fresh and fragrant. Fresh is composed of the word fish and the word sheep. It can be seen that the taste should be delicious. With mutton, fish cannot be missing.

"A Yue." Zhang Pengzu took the lead in breaking everyone's aftertaste, it was not right to be meditative.

After seeing Chen Yue looking up at him, Zhang Pengzu continued: "Why is your mutton soup different from what I made at home? The taste, how to say it is... I just feel it smells good, and I still want to eat it after eating it. Did you put something on..."

"I've put the medicine." Chen Yue said unstoppable and wanted to ask what I put out, and see if I don't scare you to death.

With this sentence "I've put the medicine", all the servants brought by Zhang Pengzu stood up. Even Zhang Pengzu was shocked. His body swayed and almost fell from the chair to the ground. He asked tremblingly: "What medicine?"

"Cassin." Chen Yue said with a smile, "Have you had such a big reaction? Everyone has eaten it, and I have eaten it too. Even if you put poison, everyone will finish playing together."

Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, is a kind of spice.

"A Yue, you almost scared me to death." Zhang Pengzu said suddenly, "Why didn't I think of it? If you poisoned it, how could the whole family eat it together?"

Chen Yue came again: "We can take the antidote first!"

This time, Zhang Pengzu took the initiative to laugh: "Haha, I have never seen anyone take the antidote first, and the poison is the poison again. I can only take the antidote after taking the poison."

Then, he turned around and said to the servant at home, "A Yue is a sick friend and is also my friend. Why are you doing such a big reaction? How could he harm me? Sit down quickly."

He turned around and asked Chen Yue: "Isn't cinnamon a medicinal material? Can it be cooked in meat and eaten?"

Everyone stared at Chen Yue, wanting to hear his explanation, Yishui's primary school student expression.

Chen Yue was roasting on fire and said with a smile: "Food tonic and medicinal tonic are actually the same principle. Let's talk about medicinal materials. Do you put the medicinal materials in water when decocting medicines, and take them after decocting. Of course, what we take is the essence of the medicinal materials. Similarly, cinnamon is added in mutton soup to boil its essence into the soup and meat, and finally everyone eats it. Of course, no one will eat it whether it is boiling medicine or the cinnamon left after cooking mutton soup."

After listening to Chen Yue's explanation, everyone felt something was gaining. Of course, Zhang Pengzu was the first to speak. He asked the question everyone wanted to ask: "Can you boil medicine in the future be like today, put it in mutton?"

"Of course not." Chen Yue replied immediately, afraid that they would do whatever they wanted, so he immediately added, "Only a few such as cinnamon, star anise, etc. can be stewed in the meat, and the others can only be decocted with water. Don't do it randomly. Putting things randomly during decoction will kill people."

The medicine, this perfection cannot be boiled randomly, and it will cause death.

"It's a pity that there is only cinnamon, and no other suitable one was found." Chen Yue said, "I was all at home in my illness and finally got it. After saying a lot of good things, he agreed to let me take it away."

"A Yue, if you don't say it, I almost forgot." Zhang Pengzu said angrily, "You went to the sick and stayed at my house for five or six days, but you didn't come to my house to play with me."

Chen Yue had no choice but to explain: "Brother Peng Zu, it's not that I don't want to go to your house. I've been busy at home when I'm sick. After that, I found out that I've been away from home for five or six days. I was afraid that my mother would worry, so I rushed back in a hurry."

Filial piety in ancient times was very important. Even the emperor dared not easily criticize or prevent an ordinary person from performing filial piety. Otherwise, it may attract the spitting of court officials or people all over the world. In severe cases, it may even lose the throne due to virtue. Of course, it is possible to encounter powerful ministers like Yi Yin, Huo Guang, Wang Mang, Cao Cao.

Zhang Pengzu nodded, recognized Chen Yue's explanation, and said, "The bed you are repairing at home is wrong. It seems that the bed you are talking about is not called that, but called... the kang, by the way, it is the kang. It's so comfortable to sleep on it. You have it at home, so I'll sleep at your kang tonight."

"Six people can't sleep?" Chen Yue counted the heads. The two brothers and Zhang Pengzu and the four of them would definitely not sleep.

It is impossible to let Chen Wu go to another house to sleep. The other three families have only one kang, and each family has a woman. It is impossible to let the people Zhang Pengzu take to each house to sleep.

Zhang Pengzu touched his head and said, "I can sleep four or five people at the kang in my house when I see a doctor. Is your house younger than his?"

"My kang is almost the same as the one in my house." Chen Yue deliberately counted the heads, "Six people can't sleep. Even if Xiao Miao goes to sleep with her mother, the five of us can't sleep."

"I am a man, I can't sleep with my mother anymore, I want to sleep with my brother." Chen Miao stood up and strongly opposed it, mainly because the man who Chen Yue usually irrigated him with too much knowledge, and now he always says that he is a man.

"Can the three of them fall asleep?" Zhang Pengzu waved his hand and said with a smile: "How can six people sleep? You and I will sleep on the kang with three more people, so they can sleep anywhere."

"Is this feasible?" Chen Yue asked.

"Feable." Zhang Pengzu answered affirmatively.

This is easy to deal with. The people brought by Zhang Pengzu can build flooring in the room, because in a house, the flooring will not be cold, and with the blessing of the kang, the ground will not be wet.

Chen Yue was unwilling to offend people at will, even if the other party was a servant, no matter how they discussed their relationship, others were closer to Zhang Pengzu than him. It would be beneficial to offend him now, and he might even be ill of things, so he asked Zhang Pengzu to say it.

Due to limited conditions, it was impossible for Zhang Pengzu to sleep in the same room with his servant, but Chen Yue told him that the other room was too cold and not suitable for people to live in. If he didn't freeze and die the next day, he might fall ill at any time.

The people brought by Zhang Pengzu were his more caring servants. He could not let them sleep in a cold room or a warm room by himself.

Chen Miao took three servants from the Zhang family to find wheat stems and linens to pave the floor, while Chen Yue took Zhang Pengzu to the next door to add charcoal to the kang.

"Your house will be a warehouse in the future, right? You have opened a hole here to burn the fire, aren't you afraid of igniting food in the future?" Zhang Pengzu asked worriedly after coming to the next house.

Chen Yue pointed to the original warehouse and said, "I will change the granary in the beginning of next spring. Now, this kind of food that is not easy to load directly is not only easy to get damp, but also rats and insects are not easy to drive away. Therefore, next year, I will rebuild the granary and raise the bottom of the warehouse to avoid moisture. I also need to build a new wall to surround it. After that, not only will the grain be two or three feet wide from the entrance of the kang, but there will be a wall separated by the wall. I also need to cover the entrance of the kang with something unless an accident occurs."

There was only one charcoal that was almost burning out in the kang pit, which was slightly red. Chen Yue thought about it and took two charcoals about a foot long and gently put them in it, recognizing that they were connected obliquely so that the two charcoals would burn differently, but burned one by one.

Although the kang was successfully built, its disadvantages were also obvious. It was unevenly heated, and the charcoal fire burned directly above the top, which was extremely hot, and sometimes it really burned the butt.

Chen Yue also thought about the location where the kang opening was opened. It would be impossible to open it on the back wall. If you add charcoal, you have to turn around the house halfway. It would be very convenient if you open it on the front wall. Although you just need to go out and turn left and right, you should forget about the security issues of the man. If anyone sneaks in in the middle of the night and extinguishes the fire, it is a trivial matter. You can slowly add the fire, and you won’t know if it’s roasted after dawn.

Zhang Pengzu didn't understand and couldn't care. He just watched Chen Yue join the black stuff at the entrance of the kang and was interested. He found that there was still a bunch of them on the ground and found that his hands were dark. Although there was an oil lamp, he still couldn't see it clearly. He took a piece of charcoal and asked, "A Yue, is this Shi Nie?"

"No, it's charcoal." Then, he asked again, "What is Shi Ni?"

"Shi Ni is a kind of black stone. I heard from the old people that it was turned into after the stone died." Zhang Pengzu explained.
Chapter completed!