"Look with me, what is the page written?"

“That’s how to make sauce with chili.”

"Make sauce? Looking at this picture, I still think it's brewing wine."

“…Chi peppers make wine, you can think of it.”

"What's so strange? Even pepper can be filled with wine. Why can't peppers be?"

“…”

At this time, pepper was added to the Tusu wine and pepper wine that people drank at this time. Maybe it was also to remove dampness and evil.

So after reading the pattern on a certain page on the "Cipoise Manual", the woman thought that this page was about making wine. After asking her husband, she realized that it was making sauce.

This book of "Cipoise Manual" is also wonderful. It not only contains text messages, but also pictures. The pictures are also very interesting. Using extremely concise lines, you can convey the content of the text.

A few days ago, she had to take out this booklet since the woman's husband gave her. She had to take it out if she had anything to do and read it over and over again. Except for this sauce-making man, she probably understood the other contents and guessed.

The contents in this booklet are also very detailed, from cold salad, cooking soup, stir-frying, to drying chili peppers, making chili oil, making sauce, pickled vegetables, almost everything you can say, but most of them are very simple and easy to explain, which is only enough for daily needs. If you want to study delicious food, you have to spend more time thinking about it.

The next morning, the men at home were all busy. The woman went to her mother-in-law to pay tribute, and then she saw that her mother-in-law was also holding the booklet in her hand and was studying.

The old man couldn't see the nearby objects clearly. He held the booklet and was far away, stretched his neck and raised his chin and looked there seriously.

"Why are you watching this again early in the morning?" the woman said funny.

"Wife, what was the one I said yesterday? Have you asked my son?" the old lady asked.

"I asked, that page talks about making sauce." The woman replied.

"I said it looked a bit like making sauce." The old lady said, "It's been cold these days. Later, I asked someone to go out and buy some good meat and mash it into minced meat, and make some meat sauce."

"This is not detailed," said her daughter-in-law.

"What's the problem? Just follow the previous years' practice and add a little chili." The old lady was very confident.

They are more good at eating. If they change those who don’t know how to make sauce, even if there is such a page in this booklet, they will not be able to make it.

However, this whole book is the most difficult to make sauce on this page, while the others are quite simple. It is probably because of this reason that this book sells very well.

"It's a pity that I can't buy fresh chili this year."

"The pepper seedlings planted two days ago grew well. After three or two months, there will be fresh peppers at home."

"I want to read the garlic hot sauce drawn on the booklet, too."

"When the time comes, follow what is said above and do it one by one."

"It's winter is coming, I wonder if those peppers can grow well."

"If you build a greenhouse in winter, you can grow courgettes and loofahs, and the peppers should not be bad."

Not to mention, there are quite a lot of people who have grown peppers recently. Because of the experience of growing vegetables in the winter two years ago, these Chang'an people are now engaged in winter planting, without any ambiguity.

I guess a batch of fresh chili will be available on the market without waiting until the end of the year, but the chili in the greenhouse will probably not grow red and it is not very easy to keep.

Luo Yong's colleagues in the Imperial Academy have grown peppers at home. Anyway, every household has such a large yard, and the vegetable garden is equipped with basic equipment, so it's hard to make a lot of trouble.

Chang'an City is already relatively cool in September, but it is still some time before the arrival of winter. In recent years, Chang'an City generally does not snow until November of the lunar calendar.

The weather is dry and cool in autumn and the food is rich, which is a season that many people like.

Recently, many farmers and vendors have used wooden trucks to push persimmons, dates, pears and other things to the market. The prices are not expensive. People in Chang'an will buy some, and they will dry them into persimmon cakes and dried dates. When there are no fruits in winter, they are also a good snack.

Compared with persimmons and jujubes, pears cannot be made into dried fruits, so the pear prices in Chang'an City were not high in previous years, especially those small and sour pears, which could not be sold for a few dollars, and sometimes they simply rot on the branches.

Until two years ago, a method of frozen pears was introduced from Lishi. It is strange that those pears with thick skin and sour skin became very sweet after frozen. Now the price of these pears has increased a lot. Originally, a stolen tumbler cost less than two or three cents, but now they don’t have more than ten cents, so they can’t buy them.

The main ones sold on the streets these days are those big pears with thin skin and thick flesh. When snow is coming, it will be the turn of those little pears to come on stage. By then, every household will buy a few chunks, fill them in a pottery jar, and freeze them in the yard. They will take one or two out from time to time to satisfy their cravings in winter. That is really a delicious dish that cannot be compared to.

"Liu Da, when will your family pick pears this year?"

On this day, a farmer in Guiyifang came to sell persimmons with a cart. The persimmons were delicious and affordable. Because there were relatives in Guiyifang, they went to them to sell fruits every year, and many neighbors knew each other well.

"It will take about half a month." Liu Dalang was guarding his cart, his hands were empty and there was not even a scale.

His persimmons are sold at a price of a penny. The neighbors pick and take them all by themselves. Don’t expect a plastic bag to pack them. They either hold them back with their hands, lift up their clothes and cover them, or ask their children to bring them a basket and basin to pack them.

"After picking the pears, you will come to us to sell them."

"I heard that a load of pears will cost about fourteen cents this year."

"Why do you want to raise the price?"

"I, Aye, said that I bought pears with my family every year, so my family didn't increase much, and it was a penny more than last year, and it would be better to spend twelve cents a load of money."

"Oh, the price of this pear is rising every year..."

"Liu Da, your family is so lucky. If you guard that pear forest, you have to make a lot of money by selling pears all year round, right?"

"I can earn some of the past two years. No one wants the pears in the past, and the dozens of pear trees were almost cut off by our brothers as firewood."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"The pear trees in your house are all old trees, right?"

"It's all old trees that have been around for hundreds of years."

“How tall is it?”

"It's high, even if you set up a ladder, you can't reach it. People have to climb up the trees to pick them."

"That's too dangerous."

"My mother has been harvesting wheat in the summer and has made some grass slices at home. When I was harvesting pears, I spread the grass slices under the pear tree, layer after layer. I don't have to worry about falling on the pears. If a person falls from there, he will fall lighter."

"How many layers do you have to lay?"

“A dozen floors.”

"Oh, your mother is also careful."

“…”

These people here were talking and carrying persimmons. Xing Er also came out of the yard and asked Liu Da: "How many pears can your family pick this year?"

"You can pick up dozens of loads at least. Why? Do you want to buy it?" Liu Da asked with a smile.

"After you collect the pears, you can give you ten dans to Li Shi Luosanlang first, and then you can give you ten dans to my side."

Xing Er said, throwing a string of copper coins to him: "First one hundred cents, and when the pears are delivered, I will give you the rest."

"Okay!" Liu Da, a slut, took the string of copper coins, and his smile became even brighter.

After Xing Er finished speaking, he went back to his yard. Seeing that he was sweating profusely, he was probably fiddling with the iron blocks of wood again.

Liu Daxiu smiled and took the string of copper coins into his arms, without counting it. They could trust Xing Er's character.

"This year I'm generous. I've been asking for twenty dans in one breath, but he only bought three dans last year." Liu Da joked with everyone.

"You don't know that recently Xing Er and Na Luo Sanlang printed the booklets, ready-made carved papers, just brush in ink and print them. One book can earn half a penny, and you can print them better in one day. Every day, the whole car is moving the goods to the north and south groceries."

While carrying persimmons, these neighbors were talking about the gossip of Xing Er and others to Liu Da.

"I heard that he took two more children back yesterday?"

"It's a pair of little sisters."

"I'm so young, I'm afraid I can't work."

"Oh, life is also miserable."

"I think there are very few girls here?" Liu Da interrupted.

"If a girl goes to the streets, she will be taken away in a few days, and few people can come to him."

"Tsk."

"If you are more lucky, you will be a maid with others. Most of them are not..."

"Oh, I won't say it anymore..."

"Liu Da, my ten persimmons."

"Three cents."

"Oh, I can't afford to eat persimmons."

"When can Luo Sanlang's work on printing the booklets be divided into some of them and do it with us."

Their wish is not impossible to realize. Luo Yong has made a lot of money just by relying on this "Cupole Edible Manual".

He also saw Persian and big food merchants buying this booklet in boxes in his own shop.

Through this incident, Luo Yong saw the huge market of picture books in this era. He is currently considering whether to develop the printing industry in Chang'an City.
Chapter completed!