Chapter 191: Qin Jiamei

Chapter 191: Qin Jiamei

  Chapter 191 Qin Family Beauty

  There are many beauties bestowed by the emperor in the backyard of Qin Lang’s mansion, such as Persia, Fushi orchid beauties, Sogdian beauties from the Western Regions, Turkic beauties, Tiele beauties, Goguryeo beauties, Silla beauties and so on.

  However, Qin Lang felt that according to the aesthetics of his later generations, in fact, most of these so-called beauties could only be regarded as above-average, and even most of them did not meet his aesthetics. In particular, these tribal beauties from the grasslands are too strong, and their hairstyles are too stylish, so I don't really appreciate them.

Those Persian horses from the Western Regions and the blond and blue-eyed wild horses from the Western Regions are still good, but once Qin Lang wanted to try the exotic customs, but found that he had a body odor, which was unappetizing. touched.

   Now that these beauties are in the mansion, they have even become vases for display. Yuxiao now asks her servants to teach them to speak Chinese and learn the etiquette of the Central Plains.

  Qin Lang returned to Pingkangfang Yiguo Duke's Mansion, and the Persian beauty already knew how to say hello in pretty good Chinese.

   "Da Lang, drink tea."

The Persian beauty Sirin is said to have been the daughter of an aristocrat from Taisifeng, the capital of the Sasanian dynasty. It is said that her father was a governor. She has red hair, deep and charming eyes, blue-green pupils, tall and plump .

  This Persian beauty, Sirin, is almost as tall as Qin Lang. She is wearing the Persian costume that Qin Lang asked her to keep, which is indeed full of exotic charm.

However, according to the current aesthetics of the Tang people, this woman is a bit too tall and plump, especially the face and cheekbones, which look long and high, making people feel like a horse face, just like a Dawan horse from the Western Regions. Compared with the Hetao horse, the Turkic horse is much taller.

  Qin Lang took the teacup, the tea had just been brewed, and the aroma was overwhelming.

  However, through the fragrance of tea, he could still faintly smell the body odor of Xilin incense, not to say that it smells bad, but it does exist. He wondered if he would study some perfume for her when he was free.

   "Are you still used to it?"

  Qin Lang asked her.

  Sirin nodded, traveling thousands of miles, from the Persian Plateau by the Mediterranean Sea to the completely different Oriental Tang Dynasty, indeed experienced a lot of fear and anxiety, and suffered a lot. From the noble governor's daughter to a female slave who fell into the hands of slave traders, she was sold from Sassanid to the Western Regions, and then sold by Sogdian merchants to Chang'an, the Great Tang Dynasty of China.

   Fortunately, she has a noble status, so the slave traders took care of them carefully to avoid losing a large sum of money.

Pingkangfang Yiguo Mansion is really a very good place for Xilin. After the initial panic, she has gradually adapted to this place, and she is only learning about the East by following the hostess every day. Chinese and cultural etiquette, learning oriental musical instruments and tea art.

   There is no need to do dirty work, and she even has a dedicated Silla maidservant here to serve her daily life. Even though she is still wearing Persian costumes, the material is excellent silk.

  If these silks were in Taixifeng, even when she had not been reduced to slavery, his father, the governor, would not have been able to enjoy these precious silks to his heart's content.

   There are also spices such as tea and pepper. These expensive things in the past can be easily enjoyed here.

  The male host is an extremely noble oriental nobleman, young, yet gentle and polite, and even caring about her feelings and life, which made her more and more fond of this young face.

  Xilin said that she is fine, she is very satisfied with everything now, she knows that a big noble like Qin Lang would not sell his woman again.

   "Did the carrots you planted last time grow well?" Qin Lang asked.

  When Sirin came, she brought some seeds from her hometown with her. These things represented her hometown to her and were a longing.

  Qin Lang accidentally discovered that the plants planted by Xilin were all good things.

  There are carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, and onions.

  These dishes are all vegetables that have not been introduced to the Tang Dynasty at this time. Although Zhang Qian brought back many vegetables with Hu characters in front of their names when he traveled to the Western Regions, these few dishes are not available at this time.

  After Qin Lang saw it, he asked someone to open up a vegetable garden for Xilin, and asked her to take good care of these fresh vegetables.

He also gave these dishes Chinese names, cauliflower and cabbage, which Yu Xiao and the others thought were quite appropriate, and they also understood carrots. After all, the yellow vegetable roots look similar to radishes, although they are much smaller. . Add a mustache to indicate that it came from the Western Regions, which is the same as Hutong, Pepper, etc.

   But why call that onion an onion instead of a shallot?

  Qin Lang told them that because there is a new vegetable variety in his vegetable garden, it has been named Shallot. This kind of shallot is somewhat similar to scallions, and it was Qin Lang who found out that Xilin had brought many vegetable seeds from his hometown of Persia, so he specially asked those Hu merchants in the Western Regions to find them.

It is also native to the Western Regions. Some people say that this kind of shallots are actually evolved from onions. Regardless of the origin, Qin Lang now has these two kinds of shallots in his vegetable garden, although he first discovered that Xilin brought them. Onions, the shallots we found later, but Qin Lang named them according to their original names for his own convenience.

   "Yang, originally meant a water area larger than the sea, the ocean. This onion came from Persia, and went southeast from my Tang Dynasty to the sea. The more oceans, the more it can reach Persia, so I named this onion onion."

  Qin Lang's explanation is far-fetched.

Now Qin Lang has built a vegetable garden in the mansion. In addition to carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, and shallots, he also collected two other vegetables, namely spinach and lettuce. One was obtained from merchants, and the other was obtained from Sogdians. This kind of vegetable is actually produced in Persia, Rome and other regions along the Mediterranean Sea.

   Coupled with Chinese cabbage and leeks, which were very popular among Tang people at this time, Qin Lang's vegetable garden was quite rich. He also planted radishes, garlic, onions, onions, alfalfa, etc.

  In addition, he also collected a lot of local vegetables already grown by the Tang Dynasty or brought from the Western Regions during the Han and Wei Dynasties, such as eggplant, cucumber, pea, lentil, broad bean, taro, coriander, celery, and even loofah.

  Qin Lang's vegetable garden is very rich.

  It's a pity that tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and sunflower seeds are all American specialties, and they are hopeless for the time being.

  Qin Lang went to the vegetable garden with Xilin, and found that Yuxiao took Anna from Fushu (Eastern Rome) to water there.

  The vegetable fields are lined with ridges and ridges, full of lush vegetables, verdant and verdant, and you will have an appetite just by looking at them.

"What are you doing?"

   "I saw that there was still a lot of open space in the vegetable garden, so I soaked some garlic seeds and planted the garlic today."

  Qin Lang walked in the vegetable garden, looking east and west, and the early garlic planted there had already sprouted small shoots through the straw.

  The leeks and green onions are also green and growing just right.

   Coriander has just sown its seeds and is still covered with straw.

   Celery is ready to eat.

  Chinese cabbage, small cabbage, and cabbage all grow well. It is not easy for these leafy vegetables to grow in this season. It is easy to attract insects in hot weather. The maid at home comes to catch insects every day, which is how to keep them.

  Farmyard manure works very well, and the color of the vegetables grows beautifully, so there is no need to worry.

"The white radish seeds are scattered a little densely. You can see that the seedlings have grown too much. They have to be evened out, otherwise they will not grow big. After evening out, you can fry a plate of seedlings, and then make the rest into sauerkraut with radish sprouts." .”

   "Peel off a little bit of this celery, turn it back into the water to make cold dishes, and mix with thousands of sheets of tofu skin."

   "This Chinese cabbage is ready to eat, chop one back, and vinegar the Chinese cabbage. This small cabbage also grows green and looks good, pick a few, and put a few when eating noodles, it looks good and delicious."

  Qin Lang looked at the vegetables in the vegetable garden, pointing Jiang Shan, if he likes this one, he will eat that one too.

  Yu Xiao smiled and said, "Sanlang, how do you know so many fresh ways to eat!"

   "You'll know when you try it."

"Don't you want to pull out some green onions and fry an egg later?" Yu Xiao said, the Qin family's chicken farming business is booming, not only selling chicken seedlings, but also opening many chicken farms, not only that, Qin Lang even asked Chickens were also raised in Duke Yi's mansion.

  Although there are not many raised, the chickens, ducks, and geese make the mansion much more lively.

   There are also advantages. For example, picking up eggs every day has become a pleasure. Fresh eggs are good no matter whether they are boiled or fried, not to mention that Qin Lang also invented the extravagant way of eating tea eggs.

   "Scrambled eggs with chives are really delicious, hurry up and pull a few more shallots." Qin Lang nodded repeatedly.

   Returned with a full load from the vegetable garden.

  Passing by a fenced field next to it, there was a group of chickens in it, and a servant was feeding them.

  Chicken food is made of locust eggs, clam snail powder, rice bran, etc., and some fresh grass is also mixed.

   "Remember to add sand in it."

  Qin Lang confessed.

  Yu Xiao was puzzled, "Why do you add sand to the chicken food? Do you think the chicken eats too much?"

Qin Lang laughed loudly, "Of course it's not the reason. The sand is actually added to make the chickens digest the food better in their stomachs after eating the sand. Our chickens are raised in enclosures. I think the land is very flat and there is nothing wrong with it." Sand and gravel, that’s why some sand is added. If it is free-range, the chickens will peck at the sand and gravel by themselves, and we don’t need human intervention at all.”

  If Qin Lang didn't say anything, how could Yu Xiao and the others know about this.

He looked at the chickens that weighed almost two catties each, and he was quite satisfied. Although it was not as good as the later generations who only weighed six or seven catties in three months, it was not too slow. It seemed that he raised chickens to prepare for famine The locust plague is still effective, and if there is really nothing to eat, then these chickens can also be slaughtered for meat.

   One weighs two to three catties, boiled soup and roasted meat mixed with some wild vegetables, enough to support a family for a day.

  Many places have already reported that locust eggs are beginning to hatch and unearthed. Although the people have been called on to dig locust eggs, and many places have dug, but digging alone cannot be exhausted.

  The locust eggs begin to hatch, and the real locust plague has just begun.

   Fortunately, the newly hatched locusts can't fly yet, and are still in the jumping stage where they can only walk and jump. This is also the best stage to kill locusts.

   It takes a thousand days to raise chickens, but it takes a while to use them. It's time for the chickens to show their power.

  “Starting tomorrow, there is no need to feed the chickens anymore. Take the chickens outside the city and let them catch locusts and eat them!”

  (end of this chapter)