Chapter 554: Huoyunrui and Chili Freedom
Xie Yingmian: ...
There are actually people in this world who don't want to listen to gossip.
Xie Yingmian: "I know who the father of Ji Yunshu's baby is."
"I was gossiping one moment, and the answer came right to me the next. I was so happy to eat this gossip."
"Do you want to know?"
Yu Lingye: "I don't want to."
Xie Yingmian: "Aren't you curious at all?"
Yu Lingye thought for a moment, then asked in a serious, but definitely not argumentative, tone, "What does Ji Yunshu's child have to do with me? Why should I be curious?"
Xie Yingmian felt like he was punching cotton.
Chatting with Yu Lingye sometimes leaves me speechless.
"Then I have some explosive gossip about the Fan family. Do you want to hear it?"
Yu Lingye immediately put down the letter in his hand and said, "Listen."
Xie Yingmian: ...
No, how can this person be so hypocritical even when listening to gossip?
Xie Yingmian: "I was just kidding. There's no gossip about the Fan family. I'll have Qing Huang pay attention to it next time."
Yu Lingye was slightly disappointed.
He continued to look down at the folded paper.
There is chilled osmanthus and sour plum soup in the ice container.
Xie Yingmian poured two cups.
He handed one cup to Yu Lingye, took the other cup and found a place to sit down.
"By the way, hasn't Sui Sui, who's going to make the fish feast, come back yet?"
Yu Lingye said: "I came back and went out again."
Xie Yingmian: "What are you going out for?"
Yu Lingye: "I asked it, and it gave a vague answer. The gist of it was that there was something on Mu Hu that interested it, but the captured Mu Hu no longer had that aura."
"It speculated that Mu Hu might have accidentally dropped the thing when he jumped into the lake. It was so focused on catching Mu Hu and the big fish that it didn't notice it was missing. It said it would go back to the lake to look for it."
Xie Yingmian said "Oh".
It is something that can be done every year.
The weather in July is still very hot.
Xie Yingmian had no appetite. After drinking the sour plum soup, she inexplicably wanted to eat something spicy and appetizing.
She thought of chopped pepper fish head, boiled fish, pickled fish, spicy fish...
These are all dishes that make you want to slurp them just by thinking about their names.
There are chili peppers in this era.
But it is somewhat similar to the history of pepper being introduced to flower growers. In this era, pepper is not a seasoning, but an ornamental flower with a very elegant name, called Huoyunrui.
The image of Huoyunrui is inspired by the ripe peppers hanging in bunches.
Xie Yingmian wants to reproduce various delicacies of the 21st century, and chili peppers are indispensable.
But she didn't find chili pepper among the commonly used spices. She asked Fu Mo, but Fu Mo didn't know about the existence of chili pepper.
To this end, Xie Yingmian searched almost all the spice shops in Shangjing.
Just when she thought that chili peppers had not yet been introduced like potatoes, she accidentally saw them on Zhaoyao Street.
Zhaoyao Street is the largest flower and bird market in Shangjing.
When she and Wen Juexia were strolling around buying flowers, they found a small red pepper placed in the corner among the flowers, which no one cared about.
The variety of pepper is the unimproved chili pepper.
One of them is only the size of a child's little finger, and they hang in bunches on the branches, all bright red.
There was a sign hanging on it that read: Huoyunrui is on sale, ten taels of silver per pot.
The name Huoyunrui is indeed very fitting.
Xie Yingmian went over to ask the shopkeeper, and it turned out that when the foreign merchants came to the capital, the shopkeeper fell in love with the Huoyunrui at first sight. He bought a pot at a high price, intending to sell it at a high price to dignitaries and nobles who liked rare and exotic things.
What a coincidence.
On the day that the nobleman bought the Huoyunrui, he accidentally stepped on empty air and broke his nose, causing a lot of nosebleed.
The nose bleeds in strings, a bit like Huoyunrui.
The nobleman thought Huoyunrui was unlucky, scolded the shopkeeper, and returned Huoyunrui.
Shopkeepers who sell flowers and plants take great pains to give them auspicious names.
Once it is tainted with the word "unlucky", it is doomed to be ignored.
In this way, the Huoyunrui worth one hundred taels of silver was picked up by Xie Yingmian at the price of ten taels of silver.
At that time, the peppers in the pot were overripe and would fall off at the slightest touch.
Xie Yingmian carefully collected the seeds and found someone who was good at farming to plant them in the backyard of Danyue Courtyard.
After several months of cultivation, she has achieved pepper freedom.
"It's almost dinner time. We're having a fish feast today."
Xie Yingmian left this sentence and got up to go to the kitchen.
After a while, an overbearing spicy smell that rushed straight into the nose covered the entire Tanyue Courtyard.
The aroma is so fragrant that my mouth is watering just by smelling it.
Yu Lingye couldn't sit still because of the overbearing fragrance.
He went to the kitchen.
From a distance, I saw a crowd of people outside the kitchen.
Everyone was slurping and looking intoxicated.
Fu Mo was the first to see Yu Lingye.
"Your Majesty, you are here too."
"The princess said we're having a fish feast today at the palace. We'll have boiled fish, spicy fish, chopped pepper fish head... The aroma is so overpowering."
"Were you also attracted by the fragrance?"
Yu Lingye: ...
These gluttons.
"Everyone go back."
"Tomorrow morning, everyone will do three extra laps during the morning exercise."
There was a sudden wailing.
After the crowd dispersed, Yu Lingye saw from afar Xie Yingmian in the kitchen directing the cooks to prepare various dishes.
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