"Lan Niang, make ten more tomato and chicken wontons so that Madam Xu can have some!"
Zhang's daughter-in-law replied with a smile:
"Alright! No need for you to tell me, Mother, I've already wrapped it up."
"Madam Xu, try this fresh flavor. I've heard these tomatoes are a new vegetable from a foreign land. They're bigger than a football, and they taste amazing too. They'd be even better than stewed mutton or fish soup."
Why are polar tomatoes so popular among the people of Chang'an?
It seems that Chenxiang and Hong Haier are doing a good job.
I'll give the two kids extra chicken drumsticks when I get back.
Xu Milu felt a strange sense of certainty, "Ah, I knew it."
Due to seasonality and transportation constraints, the vegetables available on the tables of Chang'an residents were actually quite limited. For example, spinach, which is common in modern times, was extremely expensive in Chang'an.
Most importantly, this thing can also be eaten as fruit!
Later generations all know the line, "A rider gallops through the dust, bringing smiles to the imperial concubine's face; no one knows it's lychees that have arrived." Ordinary people naturally couldn't even dream of such a precious fruit as lychees.
Therefore, when low-priced vegetables like polar tomatoes, which are available year-round, taste excellent, and have a high yield, appeared on the tables of Chang'an residents, the result was predictable.
"Ah Qing, I ordered you some flatbread. When we came over earlier, we saw a place selling cherry biscuits. Let's go buy some later."
Xu Milu's fingers, hidden in her sleeve, twitched slightly, and a glimmer of light enveloped Aqing. Only then did the latter breathe a sigh of relief and sit down, looking around with a sense of curiosity about everything.
The poisonous bird is extremely venomous; if Xu Milu hadn't had a way to deal with it, she really wouldn't have dared to touch anything from the mortal realm.
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