Chapter 3440: Extra Chapter 19
The group found an inn to stay in.
Not only are the costumes here different from those in the Central Plains, but the houses are also very different. Most of them are made of wood and are brightly colored.
Bai Shan reached out and patted the wall, then looked out the window. There was a lush tree outside. It was spring, and small white flowers were blooming on the tree. Because of the wind, a thin layer of white petals covered the ground, which looked very beautiful.
Zhou Man also looked out and saw the branches reaching out to the window. She reached out and plucked a bunch of small white flowers, saying with a smile, "This is a Chinaberry tree."
Bai Shan was surprised, "It seems different from what I have seen."
"Yes, there are some differences," Zhou Man said, turning the flowers in his hand. "It must be a different variety."
Zhou Man asked Ke Ke in his heart, "Do you want to include it?"
Keke took a photo and scanned it, and after a moment, he concluded, "It can be included."
The varieties are different and are worth including.
Zhou Man was also straightforward. He reached out and grabbed a branch and broke it.
Bai Shan: ...
He didn't expect her to move so quickly.
Zhou Man took the branch in his hand and looked at it, and soon it disappeared from his hand.
Bai Shan couldn't help but look around the room, his back straightened, "My little father-in-law... is here?"
Zhou Man scratched his head. How should he tell him that he was not there, yet seemed to be there?
The two looked at each other for a long time, and finally looked away tacitly.
Yin Huo put away his luggage and walked out. Changshou hurriedly followed him, "My dear, we can't understand what the people outside are saying. We'd better not go too far. Wait for Bai Langjun and the others to come out together."
Yin Huo: "I saw a stall across the street that smelled like rice. I wanted to go see what it was."
It was just across the street, not very far, so Changshou went with him.
The stall owner opposite was holding a steamer covered with gauze. When he opened it, it turned out to be sections of bamboo.
Yin Huo looked very curious and gestured to the other party, "What is this?"
Although Yin Huo spoke in Mandarin, the stall owner didn't quite understand what he was saying, but he could see the gestures, so he replied loudly in his own language. Seeing Yin Huo's confused face, he simply picked up a piece of bamboo and opened it with a click.
A fresh aroma of rice wafted into Yin Huo's nose, and he stared blankly at the rice strips in the middle of the bamboo.
The stall owner generously grabbed a handful of rice and gave it to him, motioning him to eat.
Yin Huo glanced at the rice in his hand and politely declined, but bought all the bamboo tube rice on his stall in one go.
Changshou tentatively took out copper coins to pay the bill, and the other party accepted them generously.
The master and servant breathed a sigh of relief, as the copper coins of the Dajin Dynasty were recognized here.
Yes, how can I not recognize it?
After all, this is the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty. Even the Western Regions recognize the money of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Yin Huo bought all the food in one go. When Zhou Man and the others came down and saw it, they were stunned for a moment, "We're having this tonight?"
Yin Huo sat at the table and greeted them, saying, "Try it. I think it smells nice and might taste good too."
Everyone sat down separately and carefully took out a bamboo stick and opened it...
There is meat buried in the middle of the rice. Use chopsticks to pick it up. The aroma of the meat mixed with the aroma of the rice, entangled with the fragrance of bamboo in the air, and then hit your nose, making people who smell it salivate.
Zhou Man couldn't help but pick up a chopstick first. It was a little sticky, but after chewing it, her mouth was filled with the fragrance of rice. She nodded vigorously to Bai Shan and the others, "This is the most delicious rice I've eaten in recent years."
When several people heard this, they all started to eat.
Of course, they couldn't finish the two baskets of food, so Yin Huo asked Changshou to distribute them to the servants, guards, and two guides.
The two guides were in Annan City for the first time, but it was also their first time to eat such delicious bamboo rice. They introduced it to them, saying, "Bamboo rice is a specialty of the Liaozi tribe. Many restaurants and inns make it. We have eaten it before, but rarely have we tasted it as delicious as this."
They said, "The rice and bamboo he uses must be of excellent quality."
These two things are the most important.
Mingda asked curiously, "Besides bamboo rice, what else is delicious here?"
"There are many, but the most famous one has to be the Banquet of Hundred Insects."
Zhou Man perked up, "I know that. I heard there are all kinds of insects, right?"
"Yes, there are all kinds of insects, and they are all delicious. If adults like them, they can go and try them."
Zhou Man was eager to try, but Bai Shan didn't want to. He always had a different mentality towards insects and found it difficult to view them as food.
Everyone had their bamboo tube rice with restraint and decided to go out to eat more delicious food they had never seen before.
The guide accompanied them and introduced them.
The streets outside are more like a big market. Many people set up stalls in the open air, and they are not standardized at all. It is common to see people just occupying a piece of land and putting their goods there.
So Zhou Man and the others felt like they were visiting a market.
Bai Shan looked around curiously and found that in addition to people who were obviously Han Chinese in clothing, there were also many foreigners with high noses and deep eyes.
"Where did they come from? Did they go around the Jin Dynasty and come to the Liaozi tribe?" That's too far.
"They came from the southwest," the guide said. "Some came from the sea. Our Great Jin's maritime transport is becoming increasingly prosperous. Some people didn't sail to the Great Jin, but stopped south of the Liaozi tribe and landed before coming here."
Bai Shan asked, "Are there any special products here?"
The guide shook his head, "I don't know."
Zhou Man looked at the things sold on both sides of the street and said, "Medicinal herbs..."
She pointed to several stalls and said, "Look, they're all medicinal herbs."
The guides took a quick look and said nonchalantly, "This area specializes in selling medicinal herbs, the one in front specializes in selling porcelain, and the one further ahead specializes in selling cloth..."
They just happened to walk into the area where medicinal herbs were sold.
Zhou Man looked at the herbs on the stall and sighed, "What a pity! They are all good herbs, but they are not processed properly."
Not to mention the preparation, some medicinal materials are not even dried properly, either they are not dried at all or they are dried too dry.
Some medicinal materials cannot be exposed to the sun and can only be dried in the shade. The medicinal effects of the two processing methods are very different.
However, Zhou Man still wanted some. When she heard that the place ahead was selling porcelain, she immediately squatted down at a stall, grabbed a piece of rhizome and asked, "How much is Gastrodia elata?"
The stall owner immediately said enthusiastically: "This medicine is good, very good."
The other party boasted in his unskilled Mandarin, looked them up and down at their clothes, and then said bluntly: "Two hundred yuan, take it all."
Zhou Man's eyes lit up, and he drew a big circle on his stall, basically covering all his medicines. "All of them?"
"No," the stall owner looked at Zhou Man as if he was mentally retarded, pushed a pile of Gastrodia elata forward and said, "These."
Zhou Man glanced down, then looked up at the other person with a "retarded" look, and put down the Tianma in his hand. "You are not sincere, I won't buy it."
This pile of Gastrodia elata is only about eleven or twelve yuan, but she wants two hundred yuan. Does she look like a fool?
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