There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 159 Hot Pot Without Chili

"I heard that the Wu family is looking for you?" Wantong's news is like his name, and he knows everything.

"I found it, are you saying it's ridiculous or not? They came to me to marry me!" Wu Youwei told Wantong everything.After hearing this, Wantong said indifferently: "They see you as a bully!

That is, when I was easy to bully, I scolded them at that time..." Wu Youwei was quite satisfied with his handling method, but Wantong was not. But he didn't say it, he just kept it in his heart.

Wantong stayed here for dinner at night. He brought beef and mutton. Chef Fang in the kitchen made hot pot. What else is missing?" Wantong didn't understand: "That's all there is to eating hot pot in the palace."

Vegetables, frozen tofu, dried tofu, fungus, dried mushrooms, and foamed Xiangru... a thin slice of mutton, mashed garlic, sesame paste, chive flower sauce and sesame oil in the dipping sauce, red sauce Fermented bean curd, everything that one expects to have. "Small...hey!" Wu Youwei looked up to the sky and sighed, "How did I forget it!" What a lack of chili!

Eating hot pot, without chili, what kind of hot pot is it?

There are only peppercorns, peppercorns, and dogwood. Although the taste is good, it is a little less interesting after all.

"Chili?" Wantong had never heard of it before: "What is that?"

Wu Youwei gestured: "It's that long...."

He described it to Wantong, especially the hot pepper should have entered Daming now, just as an ornamental plant, so he most importantly described the fruit of that thing, first it is emerald green, and slowly it will turn red , and finally withered.

"What you're talking about seems to be a kind of pepper in the south." Wantong thought for a while: "It's also called sea pepper. It's a variety from overseas. It has white flowers and the fruit is green first and then red. It's very sweet." interesting."

Wu Youwei nodded madly: "Yes, yes, yes!"

He remembered that he had checked before. At first, people didn't know that chili was edible, and it was so delicious.

In the eyes of people at that time, pepper was just an ornamental crop and a medicine. People from all over the world rushed to give it names, such as pepper, ground pepper, spotted pepper, dog pepper, Guizhou pepper, hot pepper, sea pepper, and hot pepper. .

I only know that chili peppers only emerged in the late Ming Dynasty, because that time happened to be the Little Ice Age, and it was cold, so eat it to keep out the cold.

Another thing is that pepper may be first introduced to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan and other coastal areas and places with developed commerce, and then spread to Southwest and other regions.

Until the early Qing Dynasty, Guizhou and its adjacent areas were the first to eat chili.

In Guizhou, where there is a lack of salt, during the Kangxi period, "Scholar seedlings were used to replace salt", and pepper even played the role of salt.The habit of eating spicy food in Hunan was developed during the Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu periods.

What the hell is it called now?Wu Youwei couldn't be sure, so he could only hope that Wantong, who was well-informed, could find him.

Wu Youwei scooped out a bowl of soup from the pot: "Put some minced green onion, ginger and garlic, and this soup will be delicious.

After adding something, put some salt, and said to Wantong: "Drink!"

Wantong took it, lowered his head, and drank it all in one gulp, warming his mouth to his heart.

"You want that thing?" Wantong drank the soup and started to boil the meat when it was hot.

"Yes!" Wu Youwei was very excited: "There are others, can you find them for me too?"

"What else?" Wantong was easy to talk to.

"Yes!" Wu Youwei put down his chopsticks excitedly, ran to get a notebook, and handed it to Wantong: "Go and find these things according to the map.

Wantong glanced at it, it was so thick.This... book?

He didn't open it right away, but smiled rarely: "You want a flower shop? You got so many things you want?

"This is a big deal." Wu Youwei ordered some green vegetables, "You help me find them, and I will tell you what these things are useful for.

What Wu Youwei gave him was only a booklet of plant names, on which he drew the appearance of plants according to his memory, using sketches, and there were charcoal sticks at home. thing.

"Okay." Wantong nodded, agreeing.

The two started to cook hot pot again, Wu Youwei ate the hot pot and said: "You eat some vegetables, the vegetables here are the freshest, and they are all grown by ourselves.

"En." Wantong nodded, but he still stretched his chopsticks towards the beef.

Wu Youwei had no choice but to boil a chopstick of spinach and put it in a bowl for him: "If you eat green vegetables and always eat meat, you should be constipated.

Metrohm.....!!!"

We are eating, can we not bring up this unappetizing topic?

Besides, he doesn't have that much... okay.

In winter, the tea I drink is black tea, which is warm and green tea is cold.

After dinner, Wantong asked a few more questions, such as the Bordeaux solution, and he became curious: "Why is it called such a name?"

What can Wu Youwei say?

I can only say: "Well, because this is a place name, it is the name of a region in the Western Regions, where grapes are abundant. At that time, this formula was actually used to treat grape leaf blight. Later, it was called Bordeaux solution according to the name of that region.

If you don't like it, you can change it. "Anyway, there is definitely no such formula over there.

"Since it's called, let's call it that way." Wantong asked again: "We can't waste time, but we have to use it when it is ready?"

"Well, you can ask someone to pack the recipes according to the proportions, and then mix them together when they arrive at the place, and then use them." Wu Youwei said: "It is absolutely impossible to ship them after mixing, then it will have no effect.

We chatted again before going to bed.

Wu Youwei got into the bed warmly and fell asleep.

At Wantong's place, he met Xu Niang in the study of the guest house.

"Wang Qianqian?" Wantong heard the news.

"Yes, it is said that she is Wu Jun's aunt, but she has been pregnant for more than three months, but when Wu Sun went to redeem her, she took away the two aunts who gave birth to daughters, but they didn't even look at her... .." Xu Niang inquired from the side, and at night lay on the roof, listening to the housekeeper and his wife chatting at night.

It's just that she didn't know that Wu Youwei told the housekeeper a big lie, but housekeeper Lin Su didn't even tell his wife because he thought it was the greatest humiliation for a man.

"How could he take in such a woman?" Wantong felt uneasy: "Like it?"

"I didn't like her very much. Since I took her in until now, I haven't even looked at her. I just told her to take good care of her. There is no other meaning. Besides... Which man can tolerate the woman he likes, pregnant with other people's children? Or with himself The child of the first brother who didn’t deal with it?” Xu Niang was also confused: “If you say you don’t like it, why take her in? You also paid the ransom money of ten taels of silver to the car owner and his wife who bought her, and took the deed of sale. Going to the yamen, it is said that she has established a household registration, which is a good registration, and she is also a good family now."

"Good Kong..." Wantong thought for a while, "He wants to raise that child.

"Huh?" Xu Niang was even more confused.

The two of them thought about it for half the night, but they didn't come up with Ziwu Maoyou, so they hurriedly ended the meeting. Xu Niang went back, and Wantong lay on the kang, staying up half the night, and got up late the next day, and no one came in the morning. Call him, it's already past Chen's time when he wakes up in the morning, and there is still a hot breakfast to eat, and when he asks, the master didn't wake up for long.

Wantong.."...!

It was the first time I knew that Wu Youwei started so late.

After staying here for another day, Wu Youwei still didn't tell him about Wang Qianqian. Wantong was very unhappy, but he stayed here for a short time and had to leave for the capital.

After Wu Youwei left, he asked Chef Fang to make braised beef. The main dish he ordered was hot soup noodles, braised beef noodles.

They also made beef bone soup, put shredded radish, shredded cabbage, shredded dried tofu, and sprinkled with a handful of minced garlic...

After a hot meal, I was sweating again, and took a hot bath.

Sitting in the study, Wu Youwei was thinking about his future again.

In the winter month, the weather was very cold, with gloomy clouds, and it snowed at night. When Wu Youwei opened the door the next morning, he found that it was snowing.

"The snow this time is so heavy!" Wu Youwei said to Xiaoxiao who was yawning beside him, "Do you want to build a snowman?"

"Will it melt?" Xiaoxiao remembered that it snowed in October, but it fell a lot, but it melted a little later. He was afraid that the snowman would also melt.

"No!" Wu Youwei said: "Let's dress warmer, put on cotton gloves, and after breakfast, we'll go build a snowman."

The little child still had some temperament, and wanted to play with the master, so after breakfast, the two of them really swept the snow in the yard and made a snowman.

A few children also wanted to join in, but Wu Youwei just asked them to make a little snowman, and then drove them back into the house: "I'll ask you to come out and see after the snowman is built."

A few children were not happy, so they coaxed them a little: "Be good!"

Several children waited in the house, and after a while, the snowman was piled up outside. Wu Youwei entered the house, dressed them all in thick clothes, held the youngest one in his arms, and took them out to see the snowmen. Snowman.

Not two snowmen, but a bunch, one for each person in the family, even including children who are only a few years old.

When Steward Lin Su saw these snowmen, his heart was very complicated. Based on the master's character, these people would all be loyal to him.

Compared with the Lin family he once stayed in, he prefers Moring Villa.

If it is early winter in October and you can still see some people, it will really be cat winter in October.

Wu Youwei asked someone to buy maltose to cook syrup and make candied haws for his family to eat.

I also gave sugar hawthorns, various dried fruits and other things to several families I knew.

It is a snack in winter.

In the middle of the month, Wu Youwei went to Zhang Sheng's place in the capital again.

"It's the twelfth lunar month, let's rest for two months." Wu Youwei said, "Just take it as a holiday for the children, and you can study with peace of mind.

He actually wants the kids to have winter vacation.

"That's okay, the weather is getting colder and colder. I'm also afraid of freezing him when he walks back and forth. It's not good if he's sick." Zhang Sheng said, "But the book can't be delayed. Remember to watch the child read when you go back."

"Yes." Wu Youwei arranged a vacation for his little nephew, but it was actually because the weather was too cold and it was too inconvenient to walk back and forth.

Don't think that there were no car accidents in ancient times, and cattle and horses were prone to slipping and frostbite when walking on ice and snow.

Although transportation in winter is not easy, Wu Youwei still insists on sending people to the capital to deliver food every ten days, including two teachers, as well as classmates and friends, and more importantly, to send a car to Fahai Temple. This is for Master Ji Kong. Wu Youwei doesn't know if the old monk can eat green vegetables in winter, but when he has green vegetables, he sends a cart to Master Zhi Kong.

Every ten days, several cars from Moring Villa would go out.

He doesn't give away money, and giving money is easy to criticize, but it's not good to give meat, which will make people feel tacky. It's quite appropriate for him to give some vegetables in the winter, which are fresh and avoid being chewed on.

Even if the two seat masters didn't reject it, he knew that he had given the right gift.

In fact, there is nothing difficult about green vegetables. In autumn, I carried a lot of seeds. The old houses in Wujia Village with heated kangs have become greenhouses. Your family grows spinach, and his family grows coriander. Wu Er's family planted chives, which is a good thing.

Wu Youwei brought his little nephew back, and the second sister-in-law was very happy to hear that he would go to class on February [-], but Wu Youwei still told his little nephew to read the book once a day and write fifty big characters.

"When my uncle is free, he will teach you nine chapters of arithmetic. From now on, you will be a family member, so you can't be ignorant of numbers." Wu Youwei taught little Wu Qiong: "In the future, you can't discriminate between grains and minced meat, you know?

"Understood, uncle!" Little Wu Qiong said with a smile: "My nephew won't do that."

Wu Youwei put his hands on his hips and said, "With your uncle here, of course you wouldn't do that.