"What do you call this girl?" Zhang Peng asked the elegant Hu girl beside him with a smile.
"Back to Junma, my name is Latis," Suya Hu Nu didn't dare to raise her head and answered softly.
"Very well, Miss Latis, do you have any unharvested pumpkins at home? Can you let me wait and see? This is your reward," Zhang Peng said with a smile, and stuffed a gold ingot into Latis.
in hands.
Latis held the gold and was filled with joy. She put her hands on her chest and bowed to Zhang Peng to thank him for his generosity. Then she promised to lead Zhang Peng to visit her family's large vegetable garden, but only Zhang Peng and Xu Wanyi were allowed to enter.
Half an hour later, Zhang Peng and Xu Wanyi were led by Latis to a simple mud house on the outskirts of the city. Behind the house was a yard surrounded by high wooden walls, and the entire yard was covered with light-transmitting gauze.
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Zhang Peng suddenly became excited and looked at Latis, thinking that he would not be so lucky? Their family actually knew the original version of greenhouse planting technology?
Along the way, Zhang Peng observed Latis's appearance and behavior more than once, and found that although this Hu girl was plainly dressed, she had a very aristocratic temperament.
When accepting the ingot of gold, she did not have the etiquette of lying on the ground and kissing other people's toes like other Hu people.
This is a person with an arrogant heart, which can be seen from the fact that she dared to ask that only the princess and his wife be allowed to enter the backyard of her home.
"Princess, Princess, my father is seriously ill and cannot see guests, please forgive us for being rude," Latis spoke Chinese very well, and opened the wooden fence door behind the earthen house, which was one person high, "Please come in!"
Leaving the large troops outside, when Xu Wanyi and Zhang Peng walked into the vegetable garden of Latis' family, what they saw was a small green world. Although the north wind in October was cold, the small vegetable garden seemed to be still there.
Staying in summer general.
Xu Wanyi saw green courgettes (cucumbers), head-sized melons, plump spinach, several fruit-bearing pomegranate trees and two wooden sheds full of grapes. There were also many crops that she had never seen before.
She couldn't help but feel salivation in her mouth.
Even in the palace of Chang'an, you can't see so many fruits and green vegetables, right?
"Here, washed." Zhang Peng was not as reserved as Xu Wanyi. He had already picked two cucumbers and rinsed them in the water tank. He ate one cucumber himself and handed the other to Xu Wanyi.
Naturally, Xu Wanyi didn't answer. Eating cucumbers in public is a very unsightly thing and a lady wouldn't do it.
Zhang Peng put his heart in his stomach when he entered Latis's vegetable garden. Although he didn't know why there were peppers, peanuts, tomatoes and other crops from America in the vegetable garden, he pretended to be calm, but in fact, he felt
Already full of doubts: Did American civilization have exchanges with Asian and European civilizations as early as the eighth century?
These crops are planted in inconspicuous places, which is obviously intentional, but their existence is reasonable, and the reasons will always be clear.
But the premise is... we have to bring Latis back to the princess's mansion! This woman and her family are definitely not simple!
"Princess, Princess, look, these are the pumpkins grown in my yard, two in total," Latis said, pointing to a small area on the west side of the vegetable garden.
Xu Wanyi looked at it, and sure enough, two strong melon vines were crawling on the ground in the small courtyard, and five golden fruits larger than a horse's head were lying so innocently among the fat leaves, looking very attractive.
"Is this a pumpkin?" Xu Wanyi swore that she had never seen such a big fruit before. She stepped forward and picked up five of them one by one and weighed them. Good guy, the small one weighs forty kilograms and the big one weighs sixty kilograms. She
She turned to Latis and asked, "How many plants can be planted in one acre of land?"
"Back to the princess, one acre of land can be planted with anywhere from 500 to 800 plants," Latis thought for a while and gave Xu Wanyi a safe number.
Each plant yields five stones on average, so five hundred to eight hundred plants are...really three thousand stones!
Xu Wanyi felt her breathing intensify and her heartbeat speed up on the spot. Although she believed Zhang Peng's words were true before, she was still involuntarily horrified after she confirmed it herself.
"What Latis is talking about is only planting on the ground. If the cultivation is carried out properly, more than a thousand plants can be planted per acre!" Zhang Peng added while eating cucumbers.
After Latis heard Zhang Peng's words, she was obviously surprised. She didn't intend to say it, but she didn't expect that this commander knew everything.
"I wonder how to eat this pumpkin?" Xu Wanyi asked Latis again, this time her tone and attitude became very respectful.
"Wait a moment, Your Majesty," Latis turned and walked towards the back door of the house.
After a while, Latis came out holding an old dinner plate with two copper bowls placed on it. It was obvious that this was the best tableware used by their family to entertain distinguished guests.
The copper bowl contains pumpkin porridge with golden color and fragrant aroma.
Xu Wanyi had no resistance to this aroma, and her index finger moved for a moment.
"This is porridge cooked with pumpkin and barley. Princess, please taste it," Latis respectfully served the pumpkin porridge.
Zhang Peng couldn't wait any longer. He picked up the copper bowl and inhaled like a storm like a thirsty horse drinking from a spring. He finished the drink in two or three sips while still staring at the bowl in Xu Wanyi's hand, obviously still unfinished.
Xu Wanyi ignored Zhang Peng's eager eyes, picked up the spoon, scooped it up gently, and tasted it in small sips.
It is sweet in the mouth, soft and waxy, and leaves a fragrant fragrance on the lips and teeth. For a moment, the deliciousness of pumpkin porridge made Xu Wanyi feel a sense of ease.
Then, one bite after another, Xu Wanyi quickly finished her bowl of pumpkin porridge.
"How do you like it? Do you want another bowl?" Zhang Peng asked with a smile.
Xu Wanyi did not answer directly, but said: "The pumpkin seeds are a great achievement for you, and I will give you a debt of 100,000 yuan!"
"Princess, this time I won't use gold melons to repay the debt. I only want you to agree to one request." Zhang Peng quickly declined Xu Wanyi's rare generosity.
"Request? Okay, let's talk about it," Xu Wanyi was slightly surprised, thinking that this guy who wants money has changed his gender?
Zhang Peng smiled and walked up to Latis with confidence, then turned to Xu Wanyi and said: "Princess, I hope to invite Miss Latis to the princess's mansion!"
Latis looked at Zhang Peng with her beautiful eyes wide open, her face obviously a little shy, a little happy, but more of a fear.
"What!" Xu Wanyi immediately lost her composure after hearing Zhang Peng's request. She knew Zhang Peng was brave, but she didn't expect him to be so brave. She suppressed her anger and confirmed, "You say it again?"
Shocked! The shameless county horse actually took credit for his crime and coerced the princess to keep a mistress for him!
Doctor Zhang obviously didn't know what his words would mean after being filtered and translated by Xu Wanyi's ears, that is - "Daughter-in-law, I want to take a concubine!"
"I want Miss Latis to enter the princess's palace," Zhang Pengming still said his "reasonable" request sincerely, "You two can also develop a relationship, which will be of great benefit to our future development.
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"Shameless, don't even think about it!"
"Jianma, no!"
The two beauties said almost at the same time, making Zhang Peng look confused.
After saying that, the three people were stunned at the same time. The three people looked at each other, and the scene fell into a strange silence.