There are more peppers in the Yunnan and Guizhou areas. In the past, when I was surveying in the wild, after catching fish, I would just cook it with some mountain onions, perilla or wild pepper. The pure wild flavor, the soup is so delicious that it is indescribable.
Although the current climate can be considered to have four distinct seasons, the overall climate is warm, with long summers and short winters. Especially in summer, it is hot and rainy, lasting from late spring to early autumn, and the winter with real snow and ice can last up to a month in total.
Therefore, pepper, a tropical and subtropical crop, can completely survive in this climate.
What's more, he didn't even know whether he was still on Earth or not at the moment.
Looking at the terrain, climate, animal and plant environment, as well as the stars, moon and sun, they all look very much like the earth.
But the moon is much larger than what I saw before traveling through it, and it is so clear that it seems that the dark shadow on the moon can be clearly seen with the naked eye.
The same is true for the stars. They hang one by one in the sky like LED light bulbs, bright and bright.
The position of the North Star is also a bit wrong, it seems to be to the west, and the Big Dipper is also there, but the handle of the spoon is not pointing at the North Star normally, and there are also signs of deviation.
In short, the environment in front of him gave him the feeling of a specious prehistoric earth.
Of course, these astrological changes actually have a certain scientific explanation in the history of the earth's evolution, and that is the influence of the prehistoric flood.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that Gonggong's furious collision with Buzhou Mountain caused the sky to tilt to the northwest and the earth to sink to the southeast, causing a great flood that swept the entire world. After the flood receded, the mountains and rivers changed dramatically.
The scientific community once speculated that the great flood originated from an asteroid hitting the Pacific Ocean, causing seawater to sweep across the globe and changing the tilt of the Earth. The changes in the world were instantaneous, and the trajectory of the entire Earth was slightly changed.
Judging from the time, the climate environment in front of us should belong to the pre-Flood period. Animals and plants have not yet experienced the mass extinction of the Ice Age caused by the flood. The distribution of species will definitely be different from the records owned by humans.
Pepper is native to Asia. If you are still in Asia now, then the chance of having pepper is very high.
You might even find peppers and other American species.
Because these things may have existed in Asia originally, but they were destroyed in the great flood.
Otherwise, how could the Classic of Mountains and Seas record so many strange terrains and products?
The Classic of Mountains and Seas is already an ancient book from the Pre-Qin period.
As a geologist, Xu Chen will not be limited by so-called common sense. He is more stubborn than a savage and only believes in scientific results and reality.
Around the huge fire pit in the cave, a pond edge was built with stones and pottery bricks. The layout is similar to that of the Ba people, and they were all modified after they learned it.
The flames were burning in the fire pit, with two barbecue grills straddling it. Several women were slowly rotating the grills. Before they even got closer, they could smell a strong aroma of barbecue and a unique smell of goat.
Some strong smell.
Here, Xu Chen could smell it more clearly. There was indeed a faint smell of pepper floating in the air.
A large group of people followed Xu Chen to the fire pond. Xu Chen pointed to the piece of meat in his hand and asked which sheep it was cut from.
The girl who delivered the meat quickly pointed to half of the mutton, which was roasted and slightly burnt.
Xu Chen went up and smelled it. He felt that the mutton had a slight peppery smell. He tore off a small piece and tasted it. It was exactly the same as before. He was sure that he was not mistaken. The mutton had a peppery smell. Although
It's very faint, but he is very familiar with it.
However, there were obviously no peppercorns or minced pepper on the lamb.
Xu Chen believed that these savages did not yet have the concept of putting pepper on meat.
So he lowered his head and started looking inside and outside the fire pit.
At this time, everyone was alarmed. Hundreds of people came over and gathered around to watch. They all looked at each other and didn't know what Xu Chen was looking for.
The leader of the Wu tribe is a white-haired old woman, with an old face full of nervousness.
Feng and other hunters were also confused, wondering what kind of hysteria their boss was having.
It is already very strange for the Hu people to go to the mountains to look at the flowers. The strangest thing is that when looking at the flowers, they will occasionally pick up a stone and hold it in front of their face, twisting it left and right in a scissor-hands gesture, and saying something in their mouth.
Kaka kept chanting mysterious witchcraft spells.
Now that I'm in the Muya Clan, I'm touching all over the fire pit, and I'm so nervous that I'm confused.
"Haha, I found it, I found it!"
In the dark cave, Xu Chen used the firelight to lift a cane from a pile of firewood beside the fire pit, smiling happily.
This is a pepper vine that has completely dried up, but there are still a few tiny seeds hanging on it.
Xu Chen gently picked one off and sniffed it, then put it in his mouth and chewed it a few times. His face became even more excited and he actually started dancing.
"Haha, pepper, really pepper, get rich, get rich!"
All the Muya tribesmen were stunned.
Only Feng Deng and a group of Ba people understood the word "get rich", and they immediately crowded forward with eyes shining.
The so-called getting rich means picking up things for nothing.
It looks like Xu Chen picked up another good thing.
"Chen Ga, Mo Xi is getting rich, Ga Ga?"
Feng grabbed Xu Chen's arm excitedly.
"Taste it!"
Xu Chen picked a pepper and handed it over. Looking at the seed, which was the size of a bird's shit, Feng excitedly threw it into his mouth and chewed it a few times. Then his face changed and he spat it out, shouting in horror that it was poisonous.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Xu Chen laughed even louder, walked up to the Muya clan leader with the pepper vine, handed it to her and said, "Where does this grow?"
Chief Muya carefully took it and looked at it carefully, then turned around and asked a few women who were cooking barbecue, then nodded and said, "There is a Ga on the hillside!"
Xu Chen's mood improved instantly.
It is said that there is no place to be found even if one wears iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.
The harvest alone from this tour is worth it.
Just now, he was thinking that the poor place of the Muya Tribe was far away and difficult to get around, and he was planning to trick them into moving to the river beach next to the Gonghuo Tribe. Unexpectedly, he discovered a good treasure like pepper in a blink of an eye.
Pepper is born as a high-quality seasoning for meat, especially beef, mutton, and fish. It can remove the fishy smell. Whether it is pickled, grilled, or stewed, it can enhance the freshness and flavor. It can also promote gastrointestinal motility and increase appetite.
The most important thing is that when there are no chili peppers, this thing can be used as chili pepper.
Especially now that meat accounts for most of the food source, it can greatly improve the taste of the diet.
If pepper is produced here, then the Muya tribe will not have any need to move away. They can stay to plant and collect pepper, and then they can exchange it for pottery and other items.
Not long after I returned to sit down by the campfire, a girl came over carefully holding a clay bowl with more than ten peppercorns at the bottom.
Xu Chen crushed the pepper with his hands, then sprinkled it on the barbecue, and then put it on the campfire to roast it. Suddenly, a stronger pepper aroma came out.
Smelling this strange smell mixed with barbecue, many people couldn't help but shrug their Adam's apples and start drooling.
This smell is so strange, it seems to arouse a strong appetite.
Xu Chen tore off a small piece of pepper-sprinkled meat and put it in his mouth. He nodded slightly and felt a little regretful at the same time.
Pepper can indeed make mutton taste more fragrant, but unfortunately these peppers are not stored properly, and the spicy smell is already very weak. In addition, there is no salt, and the bland taste also prevents the aroma of pepper from being perfectly stimulated, and the smell is still very strong.
Heavy.
"Mother, try it!"
Xu Chen tore off a piece of meat and handed it to the Muya clan leader.
The old woman was so flattered that she quickly put it into her mouth and chewed it a few times, with a look of incomparable weirdness and surprise on her old face.
"Chen Ga, let me try it!" Feng shamelessly squeezed over again.
Xu Chen tore a piece off and gave it to him.
"Sigh!"
Throwing the meat into his mouth and chewing it a few times, Feng couldn't help but praise it loudly.
These dogs have no stance at all, and you just said they were poisonous.
Xu Chen curled his lips and began to eat the mutton slowly. The remaining bits of pepper were snatched away by Feng and other hunters and quickly wasted.
Sunset, dusk.
A bonfire burned brightly in front of the spacious cave.
The air was filled with the rich aroma of cooking meat and barbecue, mixed with this faint and strange aroma.
Then, the name pepper gradually spread.
It is said that the seeds of this wild plant in the nearby mountains and forests are very delicious when used for barbecue, and Xu Chen has reached an agreement with the clan leader. In the future, the Muya tribe can pick these seeds and bring them to the Ba tribe in exchange for pottery and other things they want.
Things, and the value is very high, a small bowl can be exchanged for a clay pot.
Hearing the news, the entire Muya clan was shocked.
A group of women in particular were so excited that they cried with joy.
The Muya tribe has the worst living environment among the six tribes. There is no wide river beach at the foot of the mountain, and there are not many types of plants that can be collected, especially the most commonly eaten plant types such as wheat and beans. Most of the beasts here are
It is relatively difficult to hunt wild beasts in the mountains and forests, so food is relatively scarce and there are not many properties that can be exchanged for them.
Several other tribes have obtained a lot of pottery from the Ba tribe, but the Muya tribe is still in dire need of it.
There are many pepper plants near the hillsides. If you wait until autumn to collect them carefully, the Muya people will have extra wealth and income, which can be used to exchange with the Ba people for more urgently needed items such as pottery and linen.
Because there are very few hemp trees near the Muya tribe, although the tribe arranged for women to go to the Ba tribe to learn spinning and weaving, there were definitely not enough.
After a lively night of singing and dancing.
The next day, Xu Chen, led by the Muya tribe, went to search the nearby mountains and forests, and sure enough he found a lot of pepper vines.