It has been six months since planting garlic in spring. During this period, garlic sprouts were pulled once in April and May. However, because Li Shuncong Yuezhi had brought too few garlic cloves, only less than half a piece of the ground was planted. The tender garlic sprouts were only two or three kilograms. Some of them were made kimchi, and some were made fried bacon twice. The family disappeared before they could satisfy their cravings. As for the hot pot garlic sprouts, Chen Xu did not dare to make them. He only picked a few thin and weak pieces of meat and stir-fried a plate of meat. Everyone did not eat them well. Yu Wuya was extremely regretful. In addition to saying that he would only eat it next year, he was also looking forward to the garlic cloves ripe and then a good meal of steamed scallops for garlic vermicelli.

Although autumn is not yet in full swing, it is almost time for garlic to harvest. A few days ago, Chen Xu found that the garlic leaves had begun to turn yellow.

After seven or eight days of coming, the garlic seedlings have indeed become a little older. Except for the leaves in the center that are still green, the old leaves around are already intertwined with yellow and yellow.

In order to plant these precious garlic seedlings well, Chen Xu not only gave people enough fat, but also had to water and weed on weekdays. In order to prevent the chickens and ducks in the yard from causing trouble, he also put a fence of more than one person high around the garlic seedlings.

Pushing open the fence door and looking at the garlic poles as thick as fingers, Chen Xu observed it and chose the oldest garlic that looked like it and pulled it out.

Under the thick garlic pole, there was indeed an egg-sized garlic head. It looked bulging under the garlic clothes. I peeled the garlic and looked at it. There were more than ten garlic cloves of big and small in this head of garlic. It looked no different from the garlic head of later generations. The only thing is that the size of the garlic cloves is particularly uneven.

But it is undeniable that this is the real garlic. Chen Xu peeled a clove and tasted it. A strong and spicy smell made him spit it out with a spit.

In later generations, people in many places had the habit of eating raw garlic cloves, and even had to peel a few cloves of garlic and drink. However, Chen Xu did not have this bad habit. In Chen Xu's opinion, garlic can kill bacteria, enhance fragrance, enhance taste, and promote appetite, and improve human immunity. However, eating garlic is also very particular. Not all dishes require garlic. Moreover, if you eat too much garlic, you will have a strong breath. It is because of the odor of allicin produced by the amino acid enzyme in garlic. Therefore, don't get close to people who eat raw garlic. Be careful that poison gas will come. Fighting can make people want to die, which is a biological weapon.

Yu Wuya, Xia Zijin, Shui Qingrou and others followed Chen Xu to the garlic sprouts and watched the garlic that Chen Xu regarded as a treasure together.

"My benefactor, how does this garlic taste?" Yu Wuya looked at Chen Xu eating garlic and couldn't help but ask.

"Hehe, you'll know if you taste it!" Chen Xu handed the garlic to Yu Wuya. Yu Wuya couldn't help but tremble slightly and waved his hands and said, "I saw my benefactor vomiting just now, it must be very unpalatable!"

Erguotou, who had been waiting for a few years last time, had already made him feel more and more unpredictable about the various things that Chen Xu had invented now, and many things have begun to develop in a very exciting direction away from the scope of deliciousness.

"How can life be sweet? Sweet and sweet, bitter and spicy, and only after they are combined can they make delicious food. Onion, ginger, pepper and mustard are not delicious, but cooking is essential. You can taste it, it will be exciting!" Chen Xu smiled and encouraged.

Yu Wuya was struggling for a long time and felt that what Chen Xu said made sense, so he peeled a piece and threw it into his mouth and chewed it for a few times. Finally, he swallowed it with a twisted and twisted face.

"Hey, my benefactor said it well. This garlic is extremely spicy. It makes you feel salivating after chewing it, which is very refreshing!"

"Try it for me!" Xia Zijin took the garlic from Yu Wuya's hand, peeled a clove and threw it into his mouth. He took a bite and couldn't wait to spit it out. Then he kicked Yu Wuya's butt, turned around and looked for tea to rinse his mouth.

"Hehe, Brother Wuya is going to be beaten again later!" Ying Shiman covered her mouth and couldn't straighten her waist.

Shui Qingrou picked up the garlic that Xia Zijin threw on the ground, peeled a clove and bit it a little and tasted it. He couldn't help but smile and nodded: "This garlic is indeed much spicy than the small garlic in the Central Plains. The garlic sprouts and garlic sprouts can be fried with meat. I wonder how to eat this garlic?"

"Fresh garlic is not easy to put into the dish, so it must be dried first. Now the garlic is already ripe. Let it be pulled up and cleaned, and then dry it. Then choose a few small ones to soak it in sweet and sour. In a few days, it will be an appetizing side dish!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

A few maids and a few maids took action together. All the garlic was pulled out in a few minutes. After cleaning the soil on it, people were holding it off the roots and spread it on a reed curtain to dry it. When drying, Chen Xu chose some thin and weak garlic poles to take it to the kitchen. He cut the garlic poles with only a tiny length. He peeled off the old skin outside and put it in a clay pot with a garlic coat, poured in some fruit vinegar and some salt, and then mashed a few pieces of fructose and put it in and mix well before covering it.

When pickling sugar garlic, you must use fresh garlic, and it is best to use cloves instead of round-headed garlic.

Chen Xu had seen grandma and mother make it before, but he had to use an upside-down pickled jar and marinate it for two or three months. After the pickling, the garlic cloves turn red and taste sweet and sour, and it tastes sweet and crispy. It is a very good side dish, especially when eating Luofu, it is the best. However, Chen Xu was too lazy to make it so complicated and decided to make the simplest sweet and sour garlic according to his own method.

The pickling method of this kind is similar to kimchi. Although it is definitely not as good as real sweet and sour garlic, I think it will not be much worse.

The most important thing is that there is too little garlic, so Chen Xu is reluctant to make a big jar to eat. He only harvested a few hundred garlic this year, and all of them were peeled into garlic cloves and planted next year. It is estimated that it will be only half an acre of land. If you want to eat it with confidence, it will probably take three or five years to go.

And don’t expect Meng Tian’s army to bring back this kind of thing from the Yuezhi, because the Yuezhi people don’t grow vegetables at all. Except for cattle, sheep and horses, the rest of the agricultural and sideline products rely on the natural wild pattern, commonly known as junglers.

In the next few days, Chen Xu, except for getting up early and inspecting the Secretariat Office, spent most of his time hiding at home to draw drawings.

When Chen Xu drew the drawings, Shui Qingrou was also helping him. While Chen Xu was painting, he also explained some simple chemical knowledge to Shui Qingrou, which greatly increased Shui Qingrou's interest. Chen Xu also dug out many manuscripts recorded by his bored writing and paintings, pointing to some chemical element symbols on it and some chemical reaction formulas he still remembers to teach Shui Qingrou to understand.

The periodic table of elements is not clear, but the basic elements such as carbon, hydroxide, nitrogen, chlorine, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, and aluminum can still be remembered after continuous recollection. Some simple chemical reaction formulas can be roughly remembered or calculated. As for the more complex chemical reactions of organic molecules, they have long forgotten to Java.

But these chemical foundations that looked terrible in Chen Xu's eyes were exactly the same as those of the Heavenly Book in Shui Qingrou's eyes. Even Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin were quite interested in it at first and then gave up completely.

If you don’t recognize these strange symbols written by Chen Xu, you will feel dizzy if you read too much, which is far less easy to identify than the Book of Changes. According to Yu Wuya, these heavenly books are not read by ordinary people. If you read too much, it will hinder the operation of internal breath and easily become possessed by evil spirits.

However, Chen Xu curled his lips and expressed his doubts about this.

Damn the Book of Changes is the Book of Heaven, right? The hexagrams inside are all long and short lines that make you dizzy when you open it. The deduced hexagrams are even more unreliable.

Although Chen Xu did not reject metaphysics, especially after encountering legendary figures such as Chisongzi Guiguzi, he believed that some people could indeed obtain some useful information by deducing these hexagrams, but Chen Xu had to admit that compared with Western science, metaphysics lacked the theoretical basis of reality. Everything is based on idealism and all depends on guessing.

Although the origin of science also depends entirely on guessing, science also has a bold assumption and careful verification process, and this verification is the essence of science, because the verification process will reversely support whether the idea is correct, while metaphysics does not have this verification process. Fuxi's performance of the Eight Trigrams and King Wen of the Zhou Yi, all of which only have results but no process, so there is no way to reverse reason through verification.

Therefore, in addition to cautiously retaining respect for the ancient Chinese civilization, Chen Xu still focused more on promoting what he was familiar with.

Natural sciences such as mathematics, geometry, machinery, physics, and chemistry are the driving force and foundation for the rapid development of Daqin, and metaphysics can only be left to be found in the future to study.

When Chen Xu thought of the Book of Changes, he suddenly remembered Shi Xuan. The guy said that he had another volume of the Three Tombs Guyi, who had been passed down from the ancestors. He said that after killing Zhao Gao for revenge, he gave the Three Tombs Guyi to Chen Xu, but he never took it out. This time, Chen Xu conjectured based on Xu Fu's statement that the Miao Doctor hidden in the palace was Zhao Gao. Chen Xu suddenly became a little dazed.

I always thought that Zhao Gao was dead, but in fact he was not dead at all, and Shi Xuan never took out the three tombs of Gu Yi. There were only two possibilities: one was that Shi Xuan forgot what he said that day, and the other was that Shi Xuan knew through some method that Zhao Gao was not dead.

Judging from Chen Xu's current identity, Shi Xuan is unlikely to forget his promise.

Then there is only one possibility. Shi Xuan may have a mysterious way to know that Zhao Gao is not dead yet.

Hiss, it is stumped that Shi Xuan will also deduce the secrets of heaven.

Chen Xu almost plucked his chin and almost sucked a layer of skin.

It seems that I want to find an opportunity to talk to Shi Xuan about Zhao Gao’s and the ancient Yi of Sanfen. If Shi Xuan accidentally broke it one day, this ancient book might have been lost from the long history of Chinese civilization from then on.
Chapter completed!