Chapter 87 Seeds? Seeds!
Without chili peppers, Jiang Yueyao could only use Sichuan peppercorns, ginger, and dogwood as substitutes, and ask someone else to prepare various ingredients.
There are certainly few green leafy vegetables in winter, but there is no shortage of various kinds of meat in the palace.
Jiang Yueyao specifically emphasized that the meat must be frozen and then cut into thin slices.
Then just wait to eat.
However...
It's still uncomfortable without chili.
[By the way, this fairy girl also has (System Mall) ****, go check it out~]
The IQ of the little fairy is admirable. Jiang Yueyao quickly opened her own system mall and found Chili...
Very expensive.
Wait... it's such a waste of money to buy such a cute little thing as peppers from the system mall. You can just buy seeds or buy fresh peppers and plant the seeds yourself!
This fairy is really smart.
Jiang Yueyao began to search for pepper seeds and fresh peppers, and then...
【Ahhhhhhhhhhh~~~~】
【Why is it so expensive? ! ! ! 】
[I can tolerate the fact that you want me to pay a hundred times the price for this little pill. After all, it is something that can cure diseases and save lives. How can this kind of pill be so ridiculously expensive! ]
[A small bag, which is the amount for planting on a balcony, costs 10,000 taels! ! ! !]
【（System）**Are you trying to steal money? ! ! ! !】
For a moment, the ears of the other people in Yangxin Palace were filled with Jiang Yueyao's screams.
Chu Yingrui, Chu Jiayi, Jiang Yuehua, Jiang Yuanbo, Xie Yanqing: ...
I want to cover my ears, but I can't!
o(╥﹏╥)o
Chu Wuxun: ...
The key point is, covering your ears is useless, this is the voice of your heart, okay?
┓( ′_｀)┏
Everyone in the room felt helpless, but they couldn't show it.
Jiang Yueyao, on the other hand, after experiencing the initial shock of being tricked, quickly realized something.
[Wait... this is a seed, a seed that cannot be found in Da Chu or even in the surrounding countries! ]
[Let’s not talk about peppers for now…if I could buy seeds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc., then…]
Jiang Yueyao's heart was pounding.
[If I remember correctly, the current grain production is not very high. Without chemical fertilizers and scientific planting methods, we can only rely on intensive farming to produce a small amount of grain every year. If we encounter a famine...]
[Uh, if I remember correctly, after the Yellow River burst its banks... a drought soon followed. I think it was three or four years later?]
[It must have happened anyway]
[At that time, there were starving people everywhere... The crazy guy took advantage of that time and took in a lot of disaster victims with the large amount of money in his hands. Not only did he win a good reputation for himself, he also secretly trained a team of soldiers. Later, when he was plotting to usurp the throne, he made great contributions.]
[Crops in Da Chu are not drought-resistant now, but potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, etc., especially sweet potatoes, are high-yield and drought-resistant.]
[If this fairy could get these seeds, plant them in advance and have people breed them to expand production, then... wouldn't it be possible to solve the famine to a large extent? ]
[Can it also directly put an end to those crazy little actions?! ]
[Oh my, how can this fairy be so kind, so wise, so... the light of righteousness shines on the earth~~~]
Jiang Yueyao couldn't help but get excited.
Oh my, I am a real fairy.
But...
[Kesu, Kesu, those seeds are so expensive]
[A small bag of pepper seeds costs 10,000 taels, and a pound of sweet potato, corn, and potato seeds costs 100,000 taels! A pound is only a few taels. If you want to plant on a large scale, or want to breed seeds... you need at least 10 taels... uh, a few dozen taels as a base. Wouldn't that cost a million taels, or even tens of millions of taels? ! ! !]
[Oh my god~ This is going to kill me!!!]
[Although this fairy girl got a lot of small money from Changsheng Temple yesterday, but... but I don’t want to spend it like this!!!]
For a moment, Jiang Yueyao was angry and sad, and the sound of knocking on the door resounded in the hearts of several people in the room.
but……
This time, no one wanted to cover their ears.
On the contrary, I want to hear it more vividly!!!
Jiang Yuanbai: ...Oh my god, how come my sister can predict things? She can even predict what will happen three or four years later? ! ! !
Xie Yanqing: ...What? Yaoyao can not only predict the future, but also buy seeds that are not available in the entire Great Chu or even the surrounding countries? She is indeed a fairy!!!
Jiang Yuehua, Chu Jiayi: ...She is truly Yaoyao, not only is she smart and kind, she also has a heart that wants to save the world and the people. We must support Yaoyao!
Chu Yingrui: ...In three or four years, a severe drought will come, and Jiang Yueyao was able to buy high-yield and drought-resistant seeds... This is really God's blessing on my Great Chu. I am worthy of being the son of destiny, and Jiang Yueyao is worthy of being the little fairy who came down to earth to help me, oh oh oh~~~
Chu Wuxun: ...
Sighed silently.
How can we make Jiang Yueyao, a money-grubber, willing to spend a lot of money to buy seeds?
…
…
Chu Yingrui's head was buzzing because of Jiang Yueyao's thoughts, and he really didn't have the mood to ask anything else.
He has to take it slow.
So Chu Yingrui simply used the excuse that he had other things to do and asked Jiang Yueyao and others to wait in the palace until he could do his work... uh, until he went to chat with the queen.
so……
Jiang Yueyao and others went to the side hall next to the Yangxin Palace, gathered around the hot pot and started eating hot pot.
Although there is no chili pepper, there are at least some ginger slices, peppercorns and dogwood to enhance the flavor.
And the soup is really good, with various mushrooms added.
The key is...Chef Yu's cooking skills are really good.
The beef, mutton and fish are all cut into thin slices, and the dipping sauces come in several different flavors, all of which are super delicious.
However, Jiang Yueyao's favorite is the sesame sauce dish. She adds some minced garlic, fermented bean curd, mushroom sauce and chopped peanuts to it... It's so delicious after taking a bite~~~
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh~~~”
"muamuamua~~~"
Jiang Yueyao ate with great satisfaction.
In the middle of winter, we still have to eat hot pot.
However...
Compared with Jiang Yueyao's hearty way of eating, the others were obviously a little absent-minded.
How to 'entice' Jiang Yueyao to get those magical seeds out?
Aside.
Chu Wuxun put down his bowl and chopsticks, picked up the tea and took a sip.
"Speaking of which, I was ordered to investigate the auspicious incident before. My men went to Quanzhou and accidentally rescued a group of foreigners. I heard that they came from a faraway place by boat... Unfortunately, they encountered a storm and eventually deviated from their route and came to our Great Chu."
"Those people are completely different in appearance and language from the people of Great Chu, but... they have brought a lot of new and fresh things with them."
"I have asked my men to send those things to the capital. Perhaps your Majesty will be interested... There are also some small items among them. Your Highness the Princess can also take a look."