Chapter 235 Half-dead seedlings
It was already late at night, but the lights were still bright in front of Li Xiu's house, and there were two long rows of guards standing on both sides of the road, and the torches were blown violently by the cold wind of the winter night. Princess Pingyang was waiting outside the door with an anxious look on her face, looking into the distance from time to time, with an anxious look in her eyes, while Li Xiu next to her kept comforting her.
"Here you come!" At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly found a few ignitions appearing in the distance of the road, and slowly approached him. He couldn't help but shouted in surprise, which also made Princess Pingyang stand up straight and look into the distance with longing.
The firelight in the distance was getting closer and closer, and finally appeared in the place where the guards stood in the distance. At this time, Li Xiu finally saw clearly that this was a convoy of several large carriages, several of which were piled with cloth bags, which looked like grain seeds, but the carriages behind them were carrying carriages. Isn’t it a waste to use this kind of car to pull grain seeds?
I saw several large carriages coming to the door of Li Xiu's house. Then a coachman in the lead jumped out of the carriage. Seeing Li Xiu hurried forward and said, "Is this young master Li Xiu Li Jiji? Is my young master here?"
"Yes, here is Li Xiu. Brother Eleven is having a meal in the living room. In addition, you have worked hard and you have prepared some wine and food in the mansion. Don't be polite!" Li Xiu stepped forward and walked forward. He sent such an important thing from afar. He was even rushing to the middle of the night. Naturally, he couldn't be too negligent.
When he heard that there was wine and food, the coachman in charge thanked him happily. After walking for so long in the middle of the night in the cold wind, his hands and feet were almost frozen. Now he was very grateful to drink with hot water, but he didn't expect that he would even prepare wine and food.
Yuechan and the helmet greeted the coachman in, while Li Xiu and Princess Pingyang hurried to the first car. The car was filled with marijuana bags. Li Xiu reached out to pull a marijuana bag down and opened it, but he pulled it a few times but didn't pull it. He wanted to open the pocket but found a knot tied to the rope, which made him even more anxious. He simply borrowed a knife from the guard behind him and cut a hole in the bag, and a brilliant golden light appeared inside.
Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but throw the knife down excitedly, reaching out to pull the hole open. Sure enough, he saw that there were golden corn inside, which made him so excited that he grabbed a handful of corn seeds with both hands. Although the corn yield is not as good as sweet potatoes and potatoes, it is much stronger than the current wheat and rice, and the corn stalks are still excellent feed, which is also a great boost to the animal husbandry industry in the Tang Dynasty.
"Li Xiu, this... is this corn?" Princess Pingyang said excitedly when she saw the golden seeds in Li Xiu's hand. She had seen some high-yield crops painted by Li Xiu before, so she could recognize them at a glance.
"Yes, this is corn, and there are peppers and sweet potatoes!" Li Xiu suddenly thought of Zhang Shiyi's words just now, and hurriedly threw the corn to find other seeds. However, he overturned three big trucks in a row, but found that the car was filled with corn. Until the fourth truck, he found something different through the bag. He grabbed a bag and suddenly tried hard, and actually pulled the bag down. As soon as he opened the bag, he immediately felt a familiar spicy smell coming to his face!
"Chi pepper! Haha~, there are finally chili peppers to eat!" Li Xiu reached out and grabbed a handful of red dried peppers. He couldn't help but laughed to the sky. He liked spicy food very much in his previous life. Although it was not as good as spicy food, it was almost the same. However, after coming to the Tang Dynasty, it became a luxury to eat chili peppers. Occasionally, he could only use some dogwood paste, pepper and the like, but the taste was not right at all. Especially every winter, he missed the spicy hot pot in his later generations. Now this wish can finally come true.
"This is the pepper? It looks pretty beautiful!" Princess Pingyang picked up a fiery red pepper and looked it up, then put it in her mouth and bit it gently, because she often heard Li Xiu pick up the pepper, and every time he looked greedy, which made her very curious about what the pepper tasted.
"Ah!" Although she had only bitten a sketch, Princess Pingyang still felt that her mouth was bitten by some poisonous insect. The hot and hot feeling in her mouth was very uncomfortable, and her originally fair and jade-like little face suddenly turned red.
Seeing Princess Pingyang's reckless behavior, Li Xiu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Then he saw Princess Pingyang's embarrassing look and couldn't help laughing. However, he then took the pepper from Princess Pingyang's hand and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it and said: "No, it's very spicy. If this pepper is made of chili oil, it will definitely taste great!"
"This... this pepper is really spicy. How could you like to eat this?" Princess Pingyang finally recovered at this time. She asked in confusion while covering her mouth and covering her breath. She felt that after she tasted it, she would not want to taste this thing again in the future.
"Hehe, this dried chili cannot be eaten alone. If you need to cook it, you will find its deliciousness. You may fall in love with it in the future!" Li Xiu smiled at this time. Princess Pingyang's taste was relatively light, so she would definitely not be used to chili at the beginning, but after getting used to it slowly, she might really fall in love with chili.
With the peppers, Li Xiu already felt that the bearded guest and the others had not gone to America in vain this time, but thinking that there were sweet potatoes behind him, Li Xiu was also excited again. This thing is the key crop to solve the shortage of food in the Central Plains.
Thinking of this, Li Xiu immediately walked back, but at this time there were only a few cars with cars, which made Li Xiu a little strange. He opened the door of a car, but found that the door and carriage were nailed with thick linen, which seemed to be trying to keep warm. There were several large basins in the carriage, and there were seedlings one after another. However, because the weather was too cold, the leaves of the seedlings were drooping, looking half-dead!
"See it. The sweet potatoes have already started to sprout on the way back. I had no choice but to plant them. But my people don't know how to plant them at all, and I don't know how to plant them. So after thinking about it, I've sent them to you. I heard that you can feed vegetables in winter, so I guess these sweet potatoes are not a problem!" At this moment, Zhang Shiyi walked over with a toothpick in his mouth and said.
Chapter completed!