Chapter 366 Delicious lunch (please vote and subscribe)
A group of people returned to the yard. Two long solid wood tables had been placed together to form a large square table. The wooden barrel on the table was filled with fragrant rice, and several large pottery basins were filled with stewed meat and stir-fried vegetables, as well as a bucket of tomato and egg soup.
This was already the top meal in Hanyang City. The ordinary tribesmen could not eat such a rich meal at ordinary times. At this time, it was used to entertain these foreigners, just to let them fully understand the life of the Han tribe.
Several long benches surrounded the wooden table. The two leading team members demonstrated how to sit and eat, and then personally served them rice and egg soup. The vegetable basin was placed in the middle of the table.
Because they were worried that these people would not be able to use chopsticks, the elders also carefully prepared ceramic soup spoons.
This meal can be said to have shocked the inspection team quite a lot. First of all, sitting on stools and lying on the table to eat, compared with the previous sitting on the ground and eating with hands, now it feels so much more advanced.
Then there are the tableware with white porcelain prints. How exquisite and luxurious they are, especially the bowls. These are all containers. Not to mention the exquisite porcelain, even stone basins are scarce. It is so difficult to put water in them.
"How are these 'stone basins' made? They look so beautiful. There shouldn't be many in your tribe. Can only the leader use them?" An old man in the expedition team asked tentatively.
"No, this is not a stone basin. This is called 'ceramic'. Of course, it can also be called pottery or porcelain. It's all right. It was created by our leader. The method of making it is not difficult. We can make as many as we want. Now not only can everyone in the Han tribe use porcelain bowls, but we also make a lot of them and sell them to other tribes. Well, selling means exchanging."
One of the team members recalled the pedal-powered pottery wheel invented by Luo Chong. Now the pottery industry in the Han tribe has reached countless levels. Not only has the output increased, but the quality has also been improved to a very high level. Now it can be said that it is 'very easy' to make.
After hearing the explanation, the group of people in the inspection team were surprised again. Such a "black technology" was placed in front of them. If Luo Chong was a god, it was indeed an irrefutable proof.
A group of people expressed their hope to meet Luo Chong, the magical leader, as soon as possible, and then began to taste the food on the table under the guidance of the two team members.
The rice was very sweet and easy to feel full. The egg soup was also delicious. More importantly, it was salty. In addition, vegetable oil was added when frying tomatoes. It tasted even better than the barbecue they usually eat.
The green pepper fried loofah, even without other seasonings, only needs white salt and vegetable oil, and does not need meat to set off, it can fully release the taste of this vegetarian dish.
At first, they couldn't stand the irritating spicy taste, but after eating it, they couldn't control their hands and reached out to this dish again. It seemed very popular with them.
But this is understandable, after all, their normal food is bland or has a bloody smell, and they rarely eat food with special flavors, which is one of the reasons why the ancients always loved spices.
Of course, they would not let go of the most important meat dishes, this time they cooked mutton, but the method was the same as pork, in order to make full use of vegetables, it was a bit like the Northeast region's hotpot.
Dice the mutton and blanch it in water to remove the blood foam. Drain it and set it aside. Heat oil in a pot, add the semi-solidified sugar paste formed after the syrup of the man-eating tree is dried, and burn it until it smokes and turns black. At this time, pour the mutton in and fry the sugar color. After stirring it evenly with
a spoon, the mutton that has been cooked to white will turn into caramel color. This is also the only way to color food without soy sauce. Then add cabbage, beans, dried chili peppers, star anise, white salt, and fill it with water. Stew until the mutton is rotten when poked with chopsticks.
This unique meat made everyone eat it very happily. They had never eaten meat other than barbecue. It turned out that meat could be eaten like this! This was the first reaction of all of them after eating it.
The peculiar way of eating and the peculiar food soon left an indelible impression on them, but they still didn't understand, what is the staple food of the Han tribe? It's impossible to eat this for every meal, so someone soon raised this question.
"Something you can eat every day? That must be rice. Ah, that's it. The white thing in your bowl is made of rice. Rice is also a good thing our leader got." The team member answered briefly, but still kept the leader's words on his lips, as if these things would not appear without Luo Chong.
"Is this rice a lot? It looks a bit like fruit. Do we need to send people to collect it every day?" Another person asked again.
"It's just a seed of a grass called rice." The team member said in a way that they could easily understand. "As long as you bury this grass seed in the soil, it will grow a new kind of rice. Our leader calls this planting, and we rely on planting this kind of rice to get rice."
"Just burying it in the soil can grow new ones? Doesn't that mean you can grow as much as you bury? Doesn't that mean you can get as much as you want to eat?!"
The old man who asked the question first stood up in surprise, staring at the team member who spoke, hoping to get his affirmative answer. After all, this is a problem that has always troubled their "unity". Without sufficient food, the population cannot gather together.
The team member was a little scared by the old man's gaze, but finally said: "Well, that's about it, but growing rice is not a simple thing, and this kind of grass can only grow in the mud that is flooded, so it is difficult to get enough suitable land, but our leader also has a way to transform the paddy field. You can go to the paddy field and see it later. You will understand after you see it."
The old man was also very happy to hear his words. He had confirmed this way of obtaining food. As for the difficulty of growing it, he thought it was normal. Food can't fall from the sky. Whether it is hunting or gathering, you need to work hard.
The key is that hunting and gathering are purely a way of obtaining food. Sometimes even if you pay, you may not get any harvest. As for planting, it sounds like as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely have a stable harvest. This is the key point. Safety and stability are more important than anything else.
After a group of people cleared the food on the table, they didn't even have time to rest. They immediately asked the two team members to take them to see the rice. After all, this is the top priority of this investigation.
(End of this chapter)
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