"When these chili peppers are planted, my brother will make them with you often." Luo Yong said with a smile. He couldn't help but start looking forward to all kinds of spicy dishes, such as spicy hot pot, mapo tofu, boiled meat slices...

"Brother, can't this thing be exchanged for money?" Wulang, a wealthy fan, was not very enthusiastic about peppers, and he wanted to know if this thing could be exchanged for money.

"As long as someone likes it, you will naturally get money." When you push a few hot dishes out and make a name for yourself, why worry about not being able to get money back, especially in some miasma-rich places in the south, these peppers can save people and water and fire.

Luo Yongtong has been here for so long and has some understanding of the climate of this era. If you want to talk about the temperature, it seems that it is not much different from later generations, but it feels generally more wetter than later generations.

Such moisture is more suitable for them in Lishi County. For many places in the south, the humidity may be a bit too high.

Moreover, in this era, the forest coverage rate of the entire earth is very high, and many primeval forests have not been destroyed yet. In many places in the south, miasma is generally serious.

I heard that chili peppers can also resist miasma. In later provinces that like to eat chili peppers the most, such as Sichuan, Hunan, and Jiangxi, most of them are places where the air circulation is not particularly good and the miasma is easily formed.

"Can you exchange a lot of money?" Si Niang also gathered it up.

"Natural." Mr. Luo said confidently.

When I heard that the peppers could be exchanged for a lot of money, the children at home were excited. They filled the soil one by one and watered them, and carefully buried the pepper seeds in the clay pot, hoping to breed pepper seedlings early.

If the gas is warm today, these pots do not need to be placed on the kang anymore. They just need to be placed under the eaves against the wall and watered every day. When they grow to transplant, they will be moved to the ground.

When the previous few peppers began to mature, Luo Yong picked some red peppers and made Mapo tofu at the Xu family's hotel.

Although there is no Pixian bean paste and they use their own dairy sauce instead, this dish still opens the door to a new world for those Tang Dynasty people who have never eaten Mapo tofu.

The peppers are spicy enough, the peppers are numb enough, and the tofu is tender enough. The fried noodles made by Xu Jiakeshe are thick and fragrant.

Seeing the gentry men wiping sweat and snot while stretching their chopsticks into the plate, Luo Yong couldn't help but remember the years when he was young.

Luo Yong used to live with Grandma Luo and didn't eat much chili pepper. His grandparents and grandchildren also lived frugally. Luo Yong had dinner at home since he was a child. It was not until he went out to college that he suddenly came into contact with many foreign flavors.

Luo Yong used to eat a lot of Mapo tofu. At first, he couldn't eat spicy food. He wanted to eat it even while sucking his nose and tears. Later, he became spicy and unhappy. It was really hard for him to come here for the past few years.

Looking at the people in front of him, Luo Yong felt that his peppers should be worried about the market.

It seems that the tastes of Chinese people have been similar throughout the ages. Mapo tofu is destined to sweep across the country, whether in the 21st century or the 7th century AD.

At the end of May of the 11th year of Zhenguan, Lishi Luosanlang began to purchase Hu beans from the surrounding people at a high price. A dou of Hu beans costs five cents, almost the same price as corn.

It’s a pity that not many people planted beans among their neighbors. People at that time said that this bean is a crop variety that Zhang Qian brought back to the Central Plains from the west when he was on a mission to the Western Regions. Because it came from the Hu land, the people called it Hu beans.

This bean is not food. Most people don’t grow much, but only a few dozen plants are planted, and the more they are just adding vegetables to their homes. In the past, no one was willing to pay a lot of money to buy.

"Master, I collected two dou of beans from outside yesterday." Early this morning, Liu Huo came to the Luo family yard with a bag of beans, namely broad beans.

"But it's better to collect it at five cents per bucket?" The Luo family was eating at this time. Luo Yong heard the sound, quickly put down the chopsticks and came out. While talking, he touched the money from his purse.

"That's right." Liu Huo smiled and asked again: "I have collected a lot in recent days, but now is enough?"

"If you meet, you will collect some for me." Luo Yong planned to use these broad beans to make Pixian beans sauce. He had made dairy sauce for a few years before and was quite confident about making sauce, so he wanted to make more. This time, he would continue to cook for a few months in summer. When winter comes, the fermentation time is still a little shorter, but he can almost cook it.

"Have you had breakfast?" After paying, he took a basket from the wall and poured the broad beans into the basket. Luo Yong asked Liu Huo again.

"I've eaten." Liu Huo held the linen bag in one hand and put the ten cents in his arms with the other, and said with a smile: "I will go to Dinghu County in the past two days. If there are also Hu beans there, I will collect some for you."

"Then if you receive some, hire a few porters, don't worry about the money," Luo Yong explained.

"I can't afford it." Liu Huo agreed, waved his hand, and then left the Luo family yard.

On the barren slope in front of the Luo family yard, a large field had been opened, and the pepper seedlings planted on it were fluttering in the wind.

The children of the Luo family watered and fertilized them all day long, and they wanted to offer these pepper seedlings as their ancestors, because Luo Yong said they could be exchanged for a lot of money in the future.

If the Luo family has a good income now, Luo Yong's disciples have all his share of the money. Now even the Xu family's guest house has to send him money every month.

In addition, there are also income from cement workshops and threshing machines. After a few months, the leaves of Eucommia ulmoides will come down again this year.

"Brother, how much money do we still owe now?" After dinner that day, the girl Si Niang sat on the edge of the kang and cut her toenails. As she cut her, she remembered this time.

"You can see it yourself." Luo Yong took a notebook from the kang cabinet and handed it to her.

"I want to watch too, I want to watch too." The two Liulang Qiniang, who were idle at their brother's kang, quickly came over.

"Well... five hundred, this is five hundred yuan, this is... one hundred and fifty..." The girl Qi Niang pretended to understand very well,

"Idiot, this is five hundred stakes, this is one hundred and fifty stakes." Si Niang reached out and flicked her forehead.

"Brother, sister beat me again." If Luo didn't use it here, she would be beaten by one side. It just so happened that Luo was using it now.

"Sister is right, is it Guan or not money." Luo Yong stretched out his hand and rubbed the girl's head. The few babies in the family counted her as the best as coquettish.

"Um... so much money!" When they thought of the huge amount written in the small notebook, the little girl Qi Niang couldn't help but sigh. There was a lot of money for a lifetime, and it was so heavy in their hands. Their family actually owed others several hundred cents of money.

"When will these debts be paid back?" Si Niang couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know." Luo Yong said.

"Brother, when we make the bean paste, we will sell it to pay off the debt." Goro said worriedly.

"No hurry." Luo Yong leaned against the kang holding a book, yawning while saying carelessly.

"..." Luo Siniang.

"..." Luo Wuro.

"..." Luo Liulang.

"..." Luo Qiniang.

"I'll eat all these white rice at home, so I'll use it for money." Si Niang made the decision.
Chapter completed!