I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 39 Disgraceful!

Everyone picked up the watermelon, tentatively at first, and after a sip, they noticed the deliciousness of the thing, and their eyes lit up immediately, but Ying Changsheng, while eating the melon, glanced at the side of the pavilion, a well, and then ordered Yan Yiyi next to him.

"Go get a bamboo basket, hang these two watermelons in the well water, and freeze them!"

Using well water to freeze watermelon is particularly useful because the temperature of the well water is very low. If you put it in the well water, after an hour or two, the watermelon will taste as if it had been frozen in the refrigerator. the difference.

Yan Yi hurriedly did it, and everyone, you and I, sat in the pavilion, chatting and eating melon. It was so comfortable like this. What we were looking at was the group of people in the distance, who were in the ground. The Confucian scholars who were sweating profusely and digging potatoes were very envious.

They all regretted it. They already knew what happened, so why did they follow Chun Yuyue and Mao Jiao here to find fault?
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.

They should continue to dig potatoes in the ground!
Ying Changsheng ate a few pieces of watermelon, but he didn't want to eat it anymore. First, he was still young at this time, and his appetite was quite small. Second, although the watermelon was delicious, he was used to eating iced watermelon in later generations. It’s really hard to get your appetite after eating this kind of watermelon that has not been chilled.

On the side, Fusu Zhang Lianggong loses and makes a difference.

The deliciousness of this watermelon, people of later generations, of course know, and people like them, who eat watermelon for the first time, naturally eat piece by piece under the stimulation of this sweetness.

However, everyone is a civilized person, and it is quite elegant to eat.

Only Zhang Cang on the side seemed much ruder.

Three cut watermelons, a total of dozens of pieces.

One piece of this product was reimbursed and half of it was lost.

One piece after another, before the last piece was finished, he grabbed another piece with his left hand, eating it fast and hard.

A typical example of eating more and occupying more!

Seeing the three watermelons being eaten, Zhang Cang couldn't help frowning, then narrowed his eyes, and said to Ying Changsheng.

"Young Master Nineteen, why don't you take out those two watermelons from the well and eat them?"

"Also, the watermelon in the melon field is probably almost ripe, why don't you just take it and eat it?"

"No, it's just these few, I have to save them and eat them slowly!"

After finishing speaking, Ying Changsheng pointed to the watermelon seeds that Zhang Cang spat out on the ground.

"These are watermelon seeds. Collect them and you can grow them yourself and eat them when you go back!"

"Thank you, Young Master Nineteen, for reminding me!"

Zhang Cang's eyes lit up, and immediately he planned to bend down to pick up watermelon seeds, but he was too fat to bend down at all, so he took out a string of half taels from his pocket, and then called an eunuch over and asked him to take the responsibility. Pick up watermelon seeds.

Watermelon is a diuretic. After Fusu ate some, he wanted to go to the toilet. He got up and walked towards the toilet in the distance.

At this time, a eunuch came to report that the roasted potatoes ordered by Ying Changsheng had been properly processed. Then, a dozen roasted and steaming potatoes were presented to everyone on a bronze tray.

"Is this a potato?"

Zhang Cang hadn't eaten enough watermelon, so his eyes lit up when he saw these steaming potatoes.

"Take off the skin, and you can eat it directly!"

Ying Changsheng said, then he picked up a small potato, then gently broke it into two halves, then carefully peeled off the charcoal-stained skin on the surface, blew in the hot air, and tried to eat it. .

Potatoes are colorless and tasteless without seasoning.

It doesn't taste delicious.

Just like steamed buns, it's boring to eat dry.

However, after only one sip, Zhang Liang, Zhang Cang, and Gongshu Shangzao and others all had bright eyes.

The reason is very simple. In their eyes, the taste of potatoes is pretty good!

In the eyes of Ying Changsheng, potatoes are colorless, tasteless, and not delicious, but in their eyes, this kind of food has a delicate taste, and there is no discomfort after eating it. Although it is bland and tasteless, no matter it is rice , or corn rice, in fact, it has no taste!

Where does the taste of staple food come from?
If you want the taste, you still have to rely on condiments and eat it with the vegetables!
I only heard Zhang Cang say.

"Not only is this product high-yield, but it also has a very suitable taste. It can be cooked whether steamed or roasted over fire!"

As he spoke, Zhang Cang moved his mouth quickly, and within a short time, he ate a potato that weighed about one catty.

After eating, Zhang Cang also stroked his big belly, and then murmured.

"Besides, this thing still fills me up. I've only eaten one, and I already feel [-]% full. If I eat two more, I'll probably be full!"

"Did you eat a lot of watermelon just now?"

Gongshu Shangzao obviously had never seen Zhang Cang's appetite, so he couldn't help but frown.

"What is this? Although I ate a lot of watermelon, it was full of water. It was nothing more than a few pees. If you are really full, you still have to eat food!"

Zhang Cang shook his head, picked two more large potatoes, and ate them.

After eating and drinking enough, I saw Zhang Cang stroking his big belly and said with emotion.

"These potatoes are good. They fill me up. I feel good when I eat them. They are not much different from rice. With soy beans, vegetables, and meat as accompaniment, they are enough to be eaten as a staple food!"

"If this thing can be promoted and planted in our Great Qin, the people of our Great Qin will never be hungry again!"

"After all, the output of this thing is so high..."

"indeed!"

Ying Changsheng nodded.

Looking at the farmland in the distance again, it was suddenly unavoidable.

After so long, so many Confucian scholars have only harvested half an acre of potatoes.

The typical one is doing foreign work!
"Yan Yi, go over and hurry them up and tell them that if they can't collect them all within an hour, I will let them serve a year of hard labor here!"

Ying Changsheng went to Yan next to him.

"Also, if there are those who don't work hard, just whip me!"

Whips and threats are obviously quite effective, and it is no wonder that those plantation farmers will use these methods to deal with disobedient black slaves.

It's not, it's just a few whips.

The work efficiency of those Confucian scholars suddenly increased several times. Looking at this scene, Ying Changsheng couldn't help but shake his head and said to Fusu.

"See? These people are obviously being lazy. Once the whip is whipped, the speed will immediately increase!"

"a shame!"

Fusu also couldn't help shaking his head.

These Confucian scholars did not forget to be lazy when they went to work in the fields. They were only a few people just now, and their work efficiency was much higher than they were just now.

No wonder Ying Changsheng ordered them to be whipped!

(End of this chapter)