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Chapter 37

Xiao Jiading woke up and hurriedly smiled in disguise, saying, "Come on! Let's raise our glasses, we will meet today, and have a drink for this fate!"

All the people had done it. Loulan hurriedly held the wine jar and poured wine for everyone.

Xiao Jiading picked up a piece of mutton and sent it to his mouth and chewed it slowly. He couldn't help but look at Loulan and exclaimed: "Okay! Great craftsmanship! This mutton is made very well, without any mutton smell, and the mouth is full of fragrance!"

Loulan was very happy and smiled and said, "Thank you, my son for the praise!"

Xiao Jiading picked up a few chopsticks and praised other dishes.

Yu Gui laughed and said, "If the young master thinks Loulan's craftsmanship is good, then please come to the small shop more."

"That's a must-have. If you don't invite me, I will come too!" Xiao Jiading said with a smile while chewing with a fragrant mouth.

Yu Gui was overjoyed and hurriedly said to Loulan: "Daughter, hurry up and respect Mr. Xiao, a glass of wine. If Mr. Xiao wasn't Mr. Xiao, how could our cow come back? Then our snack shop would not be able to open. Speaking of which, Mr. Xiao is our great benefactor."

Loulan then picked up a bowl of wine and said to Xiao Jiading: "Young Master, Loulan is polite to you!"

Xiao Jiading also brought the wine to her and looked at her: "You can have a good time to have a drink with the beautiful girl! Drink!"

After saying that, he took a big bite. He put down the cup and found that Loulan had not put it down. He was still drinking with his neck tilted down until he drank all the bowl of wine. Then he put it down.

Xiao Jiading said in surprise: "Good alcohol! I didn't expect that Miss Loulan has such a good alcohol tolerance! I did it too!" He picked up the remaining wine and drank it in one sip.

Loulan poured wine again.

Xiao Jiading said: "I have to go to the yamen in the afternoon. You can't drink too much, just drink three bowls."

These three bowls add up to about one pound. So, when these three glasses of wine were over, Xiao Jiading became a little drunk.

Zhu Haiyin was not as good as Xiao Jiading's alcohol. He was already six or seventy percent drunk, and his tongue was a little big.

Xiao Jiading said to Loulan: "The dishes you make are all very good, but unfortunately there are no chili! If you add some chili, it will be comfortable!"

"Chi pepper? What is chili? Is it delicious?"

Chili peppers were introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, but naturally they did not during the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Jiading said: "It is a seasoning for stir-frying dishes. After adding them, the dishes will be spicy, taste very fragrant, and are very appetizing. Let's have a meal."

Xiao Jiading likes Sichuan cuisine the most. When it comes to chili peppers, he not only drools. Unfortunately, there was no chili in the Tang Dynasty. Suddenly, his heart moved. Yes, did he bring a small bag of chili seeds from his time travel? Why not plant it yourself? Although he doesn’t know how to grow vegetables, his father likes to plant them, and his father has opened the garden on the rooftop of their house into a vegetable field. He has seen his father farming and sometimes helping him, so it should not be too difficult to grow chili peppers. If it really comes out, it will be a good thing!

His thinking did not just stop at the mouthfeelings. He then thought that Jiannandao is Shu, which is modern Sichuan. The Sichuan people like to eat the most is chili peppers. It can be said that most dishes are filled with chili peppers. During the Ming Dynasty, chili peppers were introduced from the coast to China, but did not affect the direction of the coastal dishes. Instead, they became very popular in the southwest Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan area and became an important part of the seasonings of the dishes. Sichuan people like to eat spicy food, and he had already realized this after traveling to the Tang Dynasty that the local dishes were mainly spicy, but spicy food at this time was not chili peppers, but ginger and garlic, and they were used very heavily in the dishes. If the peppers were made successfully, they would be very popular, and then they would have a lot of money!

Xiao Jiading was very happy when he thought of a way to make a lot of money. However, now he is an official in the yamen and lives in the yamen and has no place to plant it. He is not at ease to leave it to others to plant it, otherwise he can only wait and say it later.

Xiao Jiading ate another piece of mutton and felt that although Loulan had made the mutton very well, it was a pity that it was less cumin. If it was added to the cumin and made into roasted mutton, it would be comfortable. So he asked Loulan: "By the way, why didn't you add cumin to the mutton?"

"Cumin?" Several people were stunned for a moment and looked at each other.

No, I don’t even know cumin? Is it not yet introduced to China at this time? Xiao Jiading gestured and talked for a long time. Loulan’s eyes suddenly lit up and she spoke in the Western languages, with a pronunciation similar to cumin, and looked at him inquiringly.

Could it be that the name cumin is a transliteration of the Western language? Xiao Jiading nodded quickly and asked, "Do you know?"

Loulan nodded and said, "We have medicines to cure heart and mouth pain in our hometown."

Xiao Jiadingqi said: "Pharm? Do you take cumin as medicine?"

"Yes. Isn't it right?"

“Is there anything sold in Yizhou?”

Loulan shook her head: "I don't know, I just asked the pharmacy."

"I understand, so you go to the pharmacy immediately to ask if there is any. If so, buy some and I will teach you a new dish!"

Loulan agreed and got up and went out. There was a medicine shop not far from their street. Soon, she came back with a small bag of cumin. Xiao Jiading opened it and saw that it was true. It turned out that during the Tang Dynasty, cumin had been passed on to the Tang Dynasty, but it was not used as a seasoning for food, but as a medicinal material. This medicinal material was also recorded in the traditional Chinese medicine book "Tang Bencao" of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Jiading took advantage of the alcoholism and stood up to Loulan and said, "Let's go to the kitchen and I'll teach you."

Zhu Haiyin had no interest in cooking and said, "Brother, I won't go."

"No need!" Xiao Jiading and Loulan walked out. When Zhu Haiyin saw that Yu Gui and Old Man Xiao wanted to follow him, he stopped him with a smile and said, "You two should not join us, let them stay alone for a while. Let the three of us drink!"

Xiao Jiading and Loulan came to the kitchen. Xiao Jiading had never made mutton kebabs, but had he never eaten pork or seen pigs running? He liked to eat Xinjiang mutton kebabs, so he followed it like that, sprinkled cumin and then grilled it. Soon, the fragrance came out.

Loulan is an expert in cooking. When she smells this, she knows that it is a good thing and said happily: "It must be delicious."

The cumin mutton of Xiaojiading was roasted and brought one to Loulan: "Here, try it!"

Loulan took a small piece into her mouth, and just chewed it a few bites, and her beautiful blue eyes were full of excitement! She said happily: "It's so delicious! It's so delicious! It turns out that mutton can be made like this! Thank you for teaching me, Brother Xiao."

When Xiao Jiading heard what she called him, he couldn't help but smile and took the roasted lamb out: "Come on! Try it!"

After eating, several people all applauded repeatedly.

Yu Gui was very excited and said, "This is a good thing. If our snack shop makes it and sells it, many people will definitely come to eat it!"

When Xiao Jiading heard his mind was spinning quickly, he immediately thought of using it on his snack shop and nodded in praise.

Zhu Haiyin was not satisfied with eating and said, "Is there any?"

Xiao Jiading only had a few skewers, and Loulan immediately said, "I'll go bake again!"

After a while, Loulan came back, holding a few cumin lamb skewers in his hand. Xiao Jiading took a skewer and ate it, exclaiming: "Your roast is better than mine. You are so powerful, you are better than blue than blue!"

This Loulan is a Hu girl from the Western Regions. People in the Western Regions like barbecue beef and mutton very much. She is naturally very good at barbecue mutton. However, Xiao Jiading told her the trick of adding cumin. When she added her own barbecue technology, she was much better than Xiao Jiading, an outsider who had never barbecue anything.

Xiao Jiading said: "If you are going to sell grilled lamb, I will tell you a tool that specializes in grilled lamb kebabs! You can customize one according to your customization, which will be even better." After that, Loulan brought paper and pen and drew a sketch of the shelf of the grilled lamb kebabs according to his memory. After telling Loulan how to use it, Loulan quickly understood.

After dinner, it was almost time to go to the yamen in the afternoon. Xiao Jiading and Zhu Haiyin said goodbye and went out to the yamen.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a clerk from the house, coming over with a chubby man, smiling at Xiao Jiading, and bowing, "Xiao Zhiyi!"

Xiao Jiading knew that he was a household house. Yesterday, County Magistrate Deng took him to various places in the yamen and saw this clerk. He was a household house, but there were too many people. He did not remember the name of this person and hurriedly bowed: "Hello! Is there anything wrong?"

"There is something, hehe, can we go over there to discuss?" The clerk pointed to the side of the yamen and glanced at Zhu Haiyin. Zhu Haiyin immediately knew that the other person didn't want him to hear what they said. He said to Xiao Jiading: "I'll go in first!"

Xiao Jiading nodded and came to the side with the clerk and the fat man. The clerk introduced: "This is my cousin, the town of Huayuan Township. His name is Lu Desheng."

Xiao Jiading knew that the townships in the Tang Dynasty were divided into two levels. The leaders of the village were the townships and villages. Among them, the townships were also called the elders. There were four to ten townships under one county, and the villages in each township were different. The township Zhenglu Desheng was the head of Huayuan Township. He bowed and said, "Good luck! Are you having trouble with me?"

Na Luxiang was just looking at the yamen and laughing apologized, "I'm going to the yamen soon. I won't delay Zhiyi. Let's just say a long story short. Well, I heard that Xiao Zhiyi wants to buy a house. It happens that there is a house next to the county government. It has just been built for a while, but I haven't moved in yet. There are more than 30 houses of all sizes and sizes in the three entrances. I wonder if Xiao Zhiyi is interested?"

Xiao Jiading said: "It's so big? It's very expensive, right?"

"I'm in a hurry to use the money, so the price is very cheap, only ten cents of money."
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