dhibooks Chapter 233 A complete collection of overseas delicacies.
Chapter 233 A complete collection of overseas delicacies.
The palace is bustling with all kinds of flowers blooming, but Concubine Wan is still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.
Concubine Bai, on the other hand, tried her best to win back the emperor's heart and let him go to her bedroom to spend the night.
Queen Wang is still the same, but Emperor Xianzong respects her very much, of course, because she is very good to Wan Zhen'er.
However, Concubine Bai seemed to calm down on the surface, but in fact she became more ruthless.
At the end of June, there was an epidemic of chickenpox in the palace.
"Chickenpox?" Wu Youwei was taken aback: "...is it smallpox?"
"Smallpox has cowpox, which is not common." Wantong said with a straight face: "Chickenpox is different. It is caused by children, and I don't know how to prevent it. When chickenpox occurs in the palace, the sons and daughters of all generations have to go out of the palace to avoid it."
Historically, cowpox has existed since the Tang Dynasty, so in fact Tianhua already had the means to prevent it.
"Then the Grand Duke...?" Wu Youwei immediately thought of Wanfei's eldest princess.
"The elder sister and the eldest princess were sent to the Longevity Hill Palace after the emperor discovered the chickenpox." Wan Tao said, "I'm going to protect them. I won't be here for two days. You have to be careful."
"You carry what is given to you. If it's really not good, use it for the princess and empress." Wu Youwei was talking about the spiritual water he gave him.
He has developed a lot of uses for that thing so far: soaking seeds can optimize the seeds; cure all diseases; and restore the vitality of the body. For examples, you can look at those nursing homes.
When they came here, they were indeed crippled soldiers, but now they are almost fine, except for severed fingers and limbs.
"I know." Wantong thought for a while, then whispered again: "I won't let them know, put it in water, it won't drink out."
Well, if it doesn't work, you can come to me. Wu Youwei whispered: "I still have a lot." "
"I know." Wantong said: "But I usually come to you again, I can't come every time."
Such a miraculous cure, he is not a doctor, a genius doctor.
And that thing... To be honest, it's really amazing, it's like clear water, it doesn't smell at all.
Although the things I gave later were useful, they had a floral fragrance, sweet like honey.
There are also glutinous rice balls, which smell like licorice until the Wu Family Pharmacy opened....
Wantong was also confused by the variety of flavors.
What the hell is this?
But the stuff is really useful.
Wantong has a life-saving talisman, so he is full of confidence in escorting his elder sister and eldest niece. The Wanshou Mountain Palace has been surrounded to the brim.
In the palace, all the concubines who had sons and grandchildren were sent out, and those who were not sent out and became pregnant were also panicked.
The queen has no children and is not pregnant. She sits in the middle palace, sorts out palace affairs, and serves the two empresses.
No other concubine has a higher status than Concubine Bai, and Concubine Wan, who has been dominating the emperor, also left the palace and went to the palace.
Bai Xiang'er was immediately happy: "I didn't expect this chickenpox to have such an effect!"
"Your Majesty, adults don't get chicken pox, only children get it, after the age of eight." Dagong's daughter said with a smile, "Master's move really kills two birds with one stone!"
Not only can those children be spread out, but Wan Concubine can be taken away, they in this palace understand that as long as there is Wan Concubine, the emperor will not see others in his eyes.
Therefore, only by taking away Concubine Wan can he win the favor of the emperor alone.
"How is that palace daughter who knows medicine?" Bai Xiang'er valued another thing.
"He's already come in." Dagong's daughter said, "Arrange for her to come to see you in two days."
"Let her come here quickly, the emperor has been here with me these days." Bai Xiang'er said dissatisfied: "Taking advantage of the good times now, hurry up and let Bengong conceive a dragon fetus.
During the days when she was grounded, all those little sluts were caught, and the ones who were born were all here to collect debts!
Chickenpox was also common outside the palace and in Beijing, but the children got less and it was not as severe as in the palace.
Wu Youwei is in the suburbs, Moling Mountain Villa has good Fengshui, adults and children are fine.
On the contrary, it is a tossing dowry, which I have already ordered.
Wu Youwei specially chose four houses in Wujia Village for the four nursing homes to be the head of the house. The property deeds have been given, and each of the four nursing homes has one.
However, the four nursing homes were not in vain. Each of them gave Wu Youwei 1000 taels of silver as money to buy a house, and Wu Youwei went to the government office to transfer the ownership.
The land use rights have also been given to them.
But even so, Wu Youwei didn't know what their surnames were.
The 1000 taels was enough for Wu Youwei to pay back his capital, but he still divided it up to 500 taels to give to his four younger sisters.
In July Yiyou, the imperial court stopped purchasing in Henan.
In July, the weather was very hot and the chickenpox was spreading. Many children were sent away and some died, but Wu Youwei didn't know about it.
Gong... also died of the child.
In the south, Luo Lun is in charge of the summer harvest. In the harvested rice fields, he continues to plant the next season of rice. Because he is afraid of heat stroke, he basically goes to the fields in the morning and evening, and goes back to rest for half a day at noon.
When the sun came up, they all hid back to escape the heat.
But Wu Youwei drank mung bean soup and sour plum soup at home to escape the heat. It was hot outside, and of course the crops grew much faster.
Shang Ming has nothing to do recently, so he ran to Wu Youwei: "There are already a lot of strawberry seeds, and they can be promoted next year."
"Hmm." Wu Youwei turned over, "Stop talking, the weather is too hot and stuffy.
The two of them lay facing each other on the mat to enjoy the coolness. The ice silk mat that Shang Ming brought to Wu Youwei was said to be woven with ice silk, which was cool but not icy to the body.
"Is it going to rain?" Shang Ming stretched out his head to look outside: "Our family is staying with you today.
Just after saying this, there was thunder outside, and the torrential rain poured out one by one.
A layer of mist immediately formed between the sky and the earth, and the rain brought a touch of coolness.
The kitchen made water noodles and served them with shredded pepper and pork stew. Wu Youwei and Wantong had already eaten various overseas crops, and this time he planned to let Shang Ming have a taste.
"This is...green pepper?" Mr. Shang Mingshang, who can be regarded as the number one person, even pulled the green pepper on the plate with his chopsticks strangely.
"This is hot pepper stewed shredded pork, eat it!" Wu Youwei served him a bit of stew. Of course, he filled more by himself. The two of them used the stew from a deep plate, and Wu Youwei was the first. Time himself took a few bites.
Cool!
The green pepper tastes good, with a hint of sweet and spicy, and the shredded pork is just right.
Compared with the bitter taste of cornel, chili is of course better.
It was also the first time for Mr. Shang Ming to try spicy food in summer, but after eating it, he couldn't stop.
A small urn of noodles was eaten by two people with small appetites!
Xiao Xiao and Xiao Zhuzi watched with trepidation. After eating, they hurriedly found some dried hawthorn to soak in water. It was raining outside, so they couldn't go out for a walk to digest food. Let's drink some tea.
"This green pepper tastes really good!" Eunuch Shang Ming replied, "I'll have another serving of noodles tomorrow morning!"
"You like spicy food!" Wu Youwei really didn't expect that Eunuch Shang Ming liked to eat chili.
"It's hot and warm!" Eunuch Shang Ming sighed: "In the future, if possible, give some to the eunuchs in the palace. If we eat this food in winter, it will make people like us feel better." .
Wu Youwei was silent for a while: "Then let me tell you about eating chili."
My father-in-law is a physically handicapped person, maybe there is nothing wrong with it, so his hands and feet are prone to coldness. It is said that his father-in-law has high martial arts skills, but in fact it is for physical exercise. A small piece of handicap can affect the whole person. My hands and feet became inactive, and my whole body felt stiff.
Wu Youwei expressed his understanding, and developed a special chili recipe with Mr. Shang Ming.
Eunuch Shang Ming is like a treasure.
Only in the evening, I made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, shredded green peppers and potatoes, and the staple food was boiled corn.
Eunuch Shang Ming fell in love with tomatoes again, and the shredded potatoes were also liked by Xiao Zhuzi, who actually liked eating corn very much.
"It's sweet!" The little guy also picked up several corns: "Give Lian'er and Erlao a taste too."
Because it was the first time to eat it, Wu Youwei was afraid that his family members would not like it, and he was even more afraid that they would not dare to eat it, so he only asked Chef Fang to cook his own portion. meals.
In the end, Chef Fang was afraid that others would not dare to eat it, so he made normal meals for others, but he himself ate the same as the master... He also wanted to taste it. What does the new ingredient taste like?
So Xiaoxiao also left a copy for her future daughter-in-law and grandparents.
"This is the taste of overseas food!" Eunuch Shang Ming was delighted: "It's no worse than the overseas delicacies that our family has eaten in the palace."
And such things are the overseas crops they will promote in the future.
High-yielding, delicious, and easy to grow, this is simply tailor-made grain for Daming!
"Is it delicious?" Wu Youwei shook his head: "There are more delicious ones, and I will slowly come up with some recipes in the future, there are many ways to make this thing.
He could have imagined that in the future, deep-fried French fries and candied sweet potatoes would become popular all over the Ming Dynasty. By then, who would dare to call these agricultural products cheap?
If the food that the dignitaries eat, who would dare to stop it and say that it is a cheap thing from overseas?
In ancient times, there were no advertisements, and it was impossible to show the official reports to the common people, but if there were high-yielding and easy-to-survive crops; things that the lords and wives loved to eat, who wouldn't want to grow them?
Forcible promotion will cause accidents, so slowly infiltrate it!
And their active planting and passive planting are completely different things, okay?
So in the cloudy and rainy atmosphere for three or four consecutive days, the two made several recipes!
It is much better for someone to participate in the work with him than to remember alone. Wu Youwei even made a sequence in the end, and the name is "Compendium of Overseas Delicacy Recipes"!
Although the name is a bit longer, it is not enough. There are booklets at the back of this "Daquan", and the first booklet adds a few words "of corn", "of sweet potato", "of tomato" after "Daquan". "," Zhishidou "
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Then on the signature, Wu Youwei wrote generously: Wu servant Wu Youwei Shang Ming Shang Gonggong.
Shang Ming was shocked when he saw it!
I am also an eunuch, I thought about being a big eunuch, factory supervisor, supervisor, I thought about being in charge of the ceremonial supervisor, and I was an eunuch who held a pen;
But he never thought that his name would appear in a book!
Still signed!
It's not unofficial history like biography, let alone the notorious Biography of Ning Xing.
It's a serious series of books, although it's just the eating practices of some overseas recipes.
But this is definitely the only one among the eunuchs!
What's more, these crops will be promoted nationwide sooner or later, and they will not know how to eat them, so of course they will have to read books.
When you read the book, you will see the author, Shang Ming is in the signature!
But then Shang Ming became nervous: "No way, how can our family... how can we sign it?"
"Why not?" Wu Youwei said, "In the future, my father-in-law will be like Mr. Zheng He, and he will be a famous person through the ages. The premise is that you keep doing this and don't learn from those bad father-in-laws."
Wu Youwei did it on purpose!
If eunuchs lose their roots, they won't be lecherous. Of course, there are also psychologically distorted ones who are even more lecherous...
It is not right that there will be no hope if there are no descendants. They can adopt countless children who are related to them by blood.
However, there are very few eunuchs who are not greedy for money. They feel that money is the last thing they can rely on.
But compared to descendants, money, beauties, etc., the most important thing and the hardest thing for them to get is fame.