As the setting sun cast long shadows, Qin He walked back with his shovel.

When passing by a collapsed house, Qin He was attracted by a piece of green-red fruit.

The fruits are slender, long and pointed, some are red or half red and half green.

It turned out to be...pepper!

Qin He was overjoyed. He walked over and took a look, and it turned out to be chili peppers.

Scattered in a piece of land that is obviously a small garden, with the ruins of the wall as the background, it looks particularly eye-catching.

Qin He rubbed his hands unconsciously. In his previous life, Qin He loved spicy food and enjoyed all three meals a day.

When I came to this world, I missed it a long time ago.

Sweet, sour, spicy and salty.

Needless to say, sugar is a luxury product for wealthy people, and salt is equally expensive. Let alone the common people, even the food in restaurants is unwilling to put more salt in it. The sour taste is mostly snacks, and it is not something that ordinary people can often eat.

What is left is only bitter. Qin He has already eaten enough, and the multi-grain steamed buns are bitter.

As for spicy.

Sorry, people in this time and space don’t eat spicy food at all.

Chili peppers have just been introduced from the other side of the sea. They are ornamental plants. The fruits they produce are red and festive, and no one has eaten them yet.

Qin He thought he would never be able to eat the spicy food he missed most again, but he never expected that he would find a piece of it under the mass grave.

Looking around, Qin He probably had a guess in his mind.

Although the house is in ruins, judging from the traces, a fairly well-to-do family originally lived here, but it fell into disrepair for unknown reasons.

Chili peppers are grown for viewing by people living in houses. Ordinary people have a hard time surviving and it is impossible to grow them.

Later, as the mass graves expanded, it became an unlucky place with hordes of wild dogs and inaccessible people.

So these peppers multiplied and bloomed and became one piece.

Although Qin He didn't have the conditions for cooking at the moment, he couldn't help but pick a big bag, took off his coat and wrapped it up, and also collected a lot of seeds from the peppers that fell on the ground.

There was no other way, Qinhe's mouth almost watered when he thought of the various spicy recipes in his previous life.

If you can't eat it for a short time, you can dry it in the sun, and you can eat it one day.

Qin He didn't stop until his coat couldn't contain it anymore, and walked back with the big bag on his shoulders.

It was still early when we returned to the crematorium. A group of cremators were very curious about the big bag behind Qin He. They also saw Qin He pouring the peppers into the bucket to clean them, so they all gathered around him.

"Brother Qin, what is this?" Liu Sanjin picked up a chili and asked curiously.

"This is chili pepper." Qin He grinned.

"chili?"

"What is it?"

"I heard that."

"Can it be eaten?"

The cremator was talking a lot.

"A bunch of firewood, these are peppers. Let me plant them and see if they grow." Old Liangtou said loudly.

Seeing that Old Liangtou could speak, everyone got out of the way. Old Liangtou stepped forward with a gray beard and picked up a chili pepper and said: "Look at the color, it's red, it's as festive as the lantern color, rich master

They love watching this."

Everyone suddenly realized.

Liu Sanjin asked Qin He: "Brother Qin, where did you get so many?"

"Picked outside."

"Why pick so many?"

"This thing can be eaten and cooked."

"What, can it be eaten?"

Liu Sanjin's eyes began to shine.

Everyone was also in a commotion. Although the crematorium had enough food and clothing, it couldn't get anything good to eat.

They are all bitter-flavored mixed-noodle steamed buns, so it’s hard to eat a little bit of salty sesame seed cakes that can break your teeth.

"Brother Qin, can you eat this pepper?"

Lao Liang's head was damaged, his beard fell off, and he looked surprised.

In the past, Lao Liangtou would have slapped Qin He on the head and scolded him, "You little melon-skinned kid, peppers are for viewing, not for eating, they are poisonous."

But now Lao Liangtou doesn't dare. Qin He is now the first brother of the crematorium.

A tough guy who can even burn a murderous corpse without dying.

"Yes, but it's very spicy." Qin He nodded sincerely.

"I'll try it."

Before Liu Sanjin could wait for Qin He to speak, he hurriedly stuffed the chili pepper in his hand into his mouth.

Chew once, twice.

The next moment, Liu Sanjin vomited everything out with a "wow" sound, opened his eyes and stuck out his tongue.

"Ah!! Fire, fire, fire..."

"The fire will kill you, the fire will kill you."

Liu Sanjin yelled, and he was so frightened that he was ready to share the food. Everyone hurriedly threw the peppers back into the bucket.

"You melon skin, you can't eat peppers, rinse your mouth with water quickly."

When Lao Liang took a look, his beard was raised again, his face full of pride.

Liu Sanjin quickly rinsed his mouth with water and wet half of his clothes before he recovered.

When everyone saw it, they all shook their heads and left.

Brother Qin is very good at burning corpses, but his brain has never been very good.

Don't offend official officials, don't eat peppers, sleep more when you have nothing to do, and don't run out all the time.

These are all truths.

Fool around.

"Brother Qin, you can't eat peppers. I really can't eat them."

Liu Sanjin also left with his tongue hanging out. Before leaving, he kindly gave Qin He a word of advice.

Qin He suddenly understood why chili peppers were not on the table in this era.

First, this is indeed a new thing.

The second thing is the taste.

Chili peppers must be soaked in oil. Only by frying them at high temperatures can the spiciness be reduced. Steaming or boiling them will not work.

But in this era, how can ordinary people afford to eat oil? It is more expensive than meat. One pound of fat meat refined from oil can be worth three pounds of lean meat.

If you can put a drop of oil star in green vegetables, you are considered a wealthy person.

I'm sorry, I can't even think of cooking with oil.

Qin He washed the peppers, strung them up with ropes, and hung them next to the stove.

The heat of the stove can quickly dry the peppers.

It was almost dark after all the work, and the Dongcheng Troops and Horses Division's corpse-carrying convoy appeared at the door of the crematorium on time.

There were twenty corpses in total.

There are eighteen corpse cremators, sixteen of them burn one corpse, and two of them burn two corpses.

When Gao Linkun and Li Tie learned the number, they looked at each other, and then looked at Ling Zhonghai at the same time.

The questioning in his eyes is barely written on his face, how can he give Qin He points?

Or to put it more bluntly, do we still need to clean up Qinhe?

"Tsk, what do you think I'm doing? Am I such a stingy person?" Ling Zhonghai was unhappy.

"Yes, yes, your head is generous, your head is the most generous."

"We are not as knowledgeable as that silly boy."

Gao Linkun and Li Tie nodded in agreement.

"Although I, Ling Zhonghai, am not a good person, I still follow the rules in everything. If that stupid boy offends me, I will give him three corpses. Even if this matter is cleared up, I can divide it how I want in the future. I will never do it.

It's hard to do anything for him." Ling Zhonghai patted his chest and said.
To be continued...