Chapter 36 What is Chili
Lin Xiaoyue turned around and looked at Cheng Feng with amusement, "Why? It seems like Brother Liang is your master?"
Liang Jingyao shook his head in disappointment and pulled Lin Xiaoyue's arm. "Don't worry about him, just follow me!"
"Hmm!" Lin Xiaoyue lowered her head and glanced at her arm. It was really a waste of Cheng Feng's handsome face. He was not as good as Brother Liang, who was a rough man but had a gentleman's heart!
The cellar is right opposite the east wing and is surrounded by a circle of dense bamboo. It seems that Liang Jingyao really attaches great importance to this place.
But it’s understandable. There are no refrigerators or greenhouses here, and if we don’t store food, we will really starve to death!
After passing through the bamboo, Liang Jingyao removed the covering from above and walked down first. "Master Lin, be careful, it's dark down there!"
Lin Xiaoyue looked down and found it was indeed very dark. However, generally, there would be a lot of carbon dioxide in the cellar if it was not ventilated for a long time. People who went in would easily get carbon dioxide poisoning. So she pulled out the tinder. If the tinder did not go out, it meant that the ventilation below was good.
Although the flame of the tinderbox is not big, it is still very bright in the cellar. Lin Xiaoyue is not afraid of stepping on the empty stairs with it.
Walking down the stairs, Lin Xiaoyue glanced at the tinderbox. The flame flickered slightly but did not go out. She could finally look at the things in the cellar with peace of mind.
This cellar is very large, and various vegetables are neatly arranged inside, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, radishes, garlic, etc.... The person who put these in must have put a lot of effort, right?
More importantly, there are only Brother Liang and Cheng Feng in this valley. With so much food, they can eat it for a whole winter, let alone a whole year!
"Brother Liang, although you've preserved it well, there are only two of you here. If you leave it out for too long, it will still rot. I suggest you keep some for fresh consumption and pickle the rest, okay?"
Liang Jingyao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you! What do you need me to do? Tell me!"
Lin Xiaoyue thought carefully in her mind that Chinese cabbage can be made into kimchi, which is sour and spicy and almost everyone likes to eat. However, she didn’t see any chili peppers in the cellar. She wondered if Brother Liang didn’t plant them or if chili peppers were not grown here?
As for the radish, let's make dried radish. Chili peppers are a problem here, but they're a problem! Garlic can be made into sweet and sour garlic. She hasn't tried pickling potatoes and sweet potatoes before, but they're easy to store. At most, they'll sprout over time, so she can save them for seeds to plant next year.
"Brother Liang, pickling vegetables requires a lot of salt and sugar, and it would be better to get some chili peppers. Do you have any chili peppers here?"
Liang Jingyao frowned and asked curiously, "What is chili?"
Lin Xiaoyue sighed deeply in her heart. If there was no chili pepper, she could only make dried radishes!
But I still want to tell Brother Liang what peppers look like, so that if he sees some outside one day he can bring them back and plant them.
"Chili peppers vary in their spiciness depending on the variety. They have some medicinal value, but they're also very nutritious when used in cooking. Their spiciness, in particular, stimulates appetite, helps digestion, and promotes sweating and dispels cold. Generally, there are green-skinned green peppers and red-skinned red peppers, and both can be pickled in vegetables. Cabbage pickled with chili peppers is especially delicious; the sour and spicy taste goes really well with rice!"
The four words "sweating and dispelling cold" stayed in Liang Jingyao's mind for a long time. If there really was such a wonderful thing in the world, it would be great!
"Master Lin, do you know where to find chili peppers? I can ask someone to go find them!"
Lin Xiaoyue was suddenly caught by Liang Jingyao and was really scared!
Is this the charm of chili pepper?
Before she traveled through time, pickled pepper claws, spicy hot pot, spicy cabbage, boiled fish... made of chili peppers were popular in the streets and alleys. She didn't expect that after she traveled through time, chili peppers would be so urgently needed as soon as she introduced them!
But she had just arrived at this place, how could she know where to find the chili peppers?
She racked her brains and racked her brains! She recalled all her memories about chili peppers. In the country before she traveled through time, chili peppers were introduced from America during the Ming Dynasty. They were first introduced to Guangzhou, and it has a history of more than 400 years!
But this place does not exist at all in her history book, and she can only talk about the growing environment of the peppers. The rest can only rely on Brother Liang’s subordinates to try their luck!
"Brother Liang, peppers can only grow in warm and humid places. I think you can go south, or to the coastal areas where there are a lot of ships. Maybe they can be found among the imported goods."
Liang Jingyao asked curiously, "I see you know a lot about peppers, so how come you don't know where they grow? Or is it really expensive? Don't worry about the price, I'll buy it no matter how expensive it is!"
Lin Xiaoyue was so embarrassed that she could almost squeeze out a room in a three-bedroom apartment. Why did she mention chili peppers? Isn't this just shooting herself in the foot?
But now that I've said it, I can only think of an excuse to get away with it.
"Brother Liang, it's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that I really don't know where they are planted. I only know about this when I heard people talking about it on the roadside when I was a child. But so much time has passed, how can I find that person?"
Liang Jingyao was skeptical and stared at Lin Xiaoyue intently, trying to find some clues of lying in her eyes, but Lin Xiaoyue looked calm and clear, with no intention of dodging. Liang Jingyao finally chose to believe Lin Xiaoyue.
"Okay! Our Dongsui Kingdom does have an outlet to the sea, and there are often foreign ships coming and going there. When Cheng Feng's hand is almost healed, I will let him go there to take a look!"
Cheng Feng?
Lin Xiaoyue immediately rejected Liang Jingyao's words in her heart. Even if Cheng Feng was worried that his young wife would run away with someone, how could he leave alone without worrying about it?
"Brother Liang, Cheng Feng can still help you farm here, so you should pay someone outside to find him."
Liang Jingyao shook his head and said, "I only trust Cheng Feng. I feel relieved to let him go!"
Lin Xiaoyue had a headache. If Cheng Feng knew that the idea of going to find Chili was hers, he would definitely make a big fuss again!
But she was clear-headed and just wanted to live a peaceful life here. If Cheng Feng really went too far, she would not be merciful to him anymore!
"Whatever, but I don't think he'll want to leave."
As she said this, she took some radishes and prepared to leave the cellar.
Liang Jingyao felt a little strange. Isn’t it better with chili peppers?
"Master Lin, we don't have any peppers yet. How are you going to pickle the radish?"
Lin Xiaoyue turned around and explained, "I'll dry the radish first. This way, the radish can be stored for a long time. When I want to eat it, I can stew it with meat, or make dried radish pickles with chili sauce, fresh ginger and garlic."
Liang Jingyao heard two new things in one day, and he became more convinced that it was the right thing to do to keep Lin Xiaoyue. This woman was really like a book, plain on the outside, but the more you turned the pages, the more interesting it became!
"Do you need my help?"
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