Chapter 22 Food
After brushing his teeth, Tang Qi led the three of them towards the east side of the wooden house.
Arriving in front of a sweet potato field, Tang Qi pointed to the field and said, "Hey, this field is planted with sweet potatoes. You can pull up some sweet potatoes and bring them back to me. I'll light a fire first!"
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Liu Che stopped Tang Qi and said, "Mr. Tang, didn't you say you were going to make shredded sweet potatoes last night? Why did you ask me to pull these sweet potatoes again? Are you planning to change the dishes?"
Tang Qi was almost so angry that he spurted blood: "No, do you still need to act at this time? Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes, brother!"
Liu Che suddenly said: "I see, I am ignorant!"
"Okay, you guys hurry up and pull it out, I'll go live first!"
After Tang Qi finished speaking, he quickly walked towards the stove of the wooden house.
The fire in the stove must be extinguished every night.
After all, the forest vegetation on the island is so lush that if a fire accidentally breaks out, Tang Qi will have no place to escape.
To be on the safe side, it's better to destroy it.
As soon as Tang Qi left, Wei Qing couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, the ground is full of green. It's called sweet potato, why don't you see any fruits?"
Sweet potatoes were only introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, to the people of the Han Dynasty, sweet potatoes were a completely unfamiliar thing.
Liu Che is well-read and has no idea what this sweet potato is.
However, when Wei Qing was in front of this minister, Liu Che still said shamelessly: "Didn't you listen to Mr. Tang? This sweet potato is also called red vegetable, which is a kind of vegetable. It is normal to have no fruit."
Wei Qing nodded, and then said with admiration: "Your Majesty, you know so much!"
Liu Che laughed and said: "It's nothing. If you read more, you can understand a lot of things!"
At this time, Wei Zifu said: "Let's not waste time and pick these red vegetables quickly. Mr. Tang is still waiting to use them!"
"Yes, yes!"
Liu Che nodded repeatedly and said: "Let's hurry up. The carrot sweet potato sounds delicious when you hear it. I can't wait to taste it!"
After saying that, Liu Che ran to the field first and started picking.
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Tang Qi squatted in front of the stove and collided the iron block with the flint, causing sparks to ignite the haystack in the stove.
Flint is the ancient flint, also called fire saltpeter, which is naturally formed.
The iron blocks were smelted by Tang Qi from sand and gravel at high temperatures.
As for the earliest high temperature, naturally it was the stupid method of drilling wood to make fire.
Without further ado, Tang Qi spent a lot of effort and finally lit the fire in the stove.
At this time, Liu Che and Wei Qing were seen rushing over holding a ball of green.
"Mr. Tang, we have picked the red vegetables you asked for. Are these enough?"
Liu Che asked Tang Qi excitedly.
Tang Qi looked at the emerald green in their hands, and then at their excited expressions, and almost cursed.
"What are you doing? I asked you to pick sweet potatoes. Why are you picking a bunch of sweet potato seedlings? Are you kidding me?"
Tang Qi was almost desperate, feeling like he was being screwed.
Liu Che's eyes widened and he said, "Isn't this just a red vegetable? We picked it in the field designated by you, Mr. Tang!"
Wei Qing then said: "Yes, there are no other fruits in the ground, only these!"
Damn it!
Tang Qi rubbed his brows, suppressed his anger, and said, "Who told you to pick the sweet potatoes? Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, of course they grow underground! When you pulled up the sweet potato seedlings, didn't you see the sweet potatoes underneath?
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"Indeed... I did see a few!"
Liu Che smiled awkwardly and said, "I thought they were inedible rhizomes, so I threw them away. Did they turn out to be sweet potatoes?"
Tang Qi said helplessly: "Brother, we are all adults now. Stop playing such childish games. Don't you know what sweet potatoes look like? Didn't you eat them when you were children?"
Liu Che shook his head sincerely and said: "I really have never eaten sweet potatoes, and I have never even heard of them!"
Wei Qing followed up and said: "Wei is the same, he has never heard of sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes!"
"You... alas..."
Tang Qi sighed and said, "That's all, I'll go with you. I'll let you be a primary school student today and I'll do some popular science for you!"
After saying that, Tang Qi walked quickly towards the sweet potato field.
Liu Che and Wei Qing quickly followed.
At this time, Wei Zifu was still working hard in the fields picking sweet potato seedlings.
Tang Qi shouted: "Sister, stop for a moment, I will teach you how to pick sweet potatoes!"
Wei Zifu straightened up, hammered his waist, and said a little tiredly: "I really need your help, Mr. Tang, picking red vegetables is so difficult!"
Tang Qi shook his head helplessly, jumped into the ground, took out the simple shovel he carried with him, loosened the soil on a sweet potato seedling, and then pulled it out with all his strength.
A large bunch of plump and attractive red sweet potatoes were pulled out.
Tang Qi patted the soil off the sweet potato and showed it to the three people: "Now, this is the sweet potato. It is also called sweet potato, sweet potato or sweet potato. It tastes sweet and can be eaten raw, roasted, steamed or fried.
Eat it or fry it, do you understand?"
"This... can this be eaten?"
Liu Che was a little skeptical.
Without saying anything, Tang Qi wiped a piece of sweet potato clean with his sleeve, then took a bite, and Hulun swallowed it in his stomach.
Liu Che's eyes widened for a moment and he said, "This...is this really edible?"
"Of course it's edible, just take a bite!"
Tang Qi handed the sweet potato he took a bite to Liu Che.
Liu Che hesitated for a moment, then took the sweet potato and took a bite.
After chewing twice, Liu Che suddenly said excitedly: "The taste is really sweet. I didn't expect that the fruit growing underground would have such a taste. Zihu, you should try it too!"
Liu Che said and handed the sweet potato to Wei Zifu again.
Wei Zifu is a woman after all.
She didn't eat it immediately, but first wiped the sweet potato up and down with the silk scarf she brought with her. The wipe was cleaner than washing with water.
Then, Wei Zifu took a bite of the sweet potato.
"Well, it tastes really good, like fruit!"
Wei Zifu also praised aloud.
At this time, Tang Qi said: "This thing is much better than fruit, there are many ways to eat it, and it can also be used as food!"
Liu Che cheered up instantly.
"Mr. Tang, can this thing really be used as food?"
Liu Che asked Tang Qi with great interest.
As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he had to worry a lot in order to keep the people fed.
Tang Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course this can be used as food, it's very filling!"
"It is indeed a fairy island. There are new food crops. It's really... it really surprises me!"
Liu Che shook his head and praised loudly.
Chapter completed!