As we all know, this coffee bean grows on a tree and is bright red, just like the sun that is indispensable in the life of the coffee bean. It is very beautiful, like a young girl. 《≠,w▼ww.23w＄x.co≮
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But the coffee beans in this barrel are like those of an old woman. They are slightly yellow in color, a bit like beige, and wrinkled. You can tell at a glance that they are not the freshest coffee beans.
However, Li Qi was filled with joy when he saw it. He was very familiar with coffee beans at this stage, which were "parchment coffee beans".
This "parchment coffee bean" is the state of mind that fresh coffee beans present after certain processing.
Of course, this kind of processing is only the initial stage. The main thing is drying. Just like millet, it is placed in the sun, but the temperature cannot be too high. However, the peel, pulp, and pulp must be removed beforehand, but the coffee beans must be dried.
The outer layer of silver skin is usually not removed immediately. It is used for storage. This layer of skin is usually removed just before export in later generations.
Because this layer of silver skin looks like parchment skin when dried, coffee beans in this form are also called parchment coffee beans.
Because the beans had just been planted when Li Qi was in Jiaozhi, he could only teach the farmers how to process the coffee beans to this step. As for the subsequent roasting and frying, they all required considerable skills. A qualified
As a coffee bean roaster, if you don't practice for three to five years, you won't be able to become a master.
Moreover, at that time, they didn’t know what kind of coffee beans they were producing, and Li Qi didn’t dare to make a judgment. Therefore, he asked them to grow them, dry them, and quickly transport them to the capital for him to develop them himself.
So excited!
Li Qi casually grabbed a coffee bean, peeled off the outer layer of skin, and threw the coffee bean inside into his mouth, biting it loudly.
The sound was crisp and sweet to Li Qi's ears. The sound was enough to prove that the coffee beans were not damp, which showed that they were well protected. After chewing them into pieces, he closed his eyes and remained silent for a while, then suddenly walked to the side.
Beside the pile of fallen leaves, he spat out the coffee bean dregs in his mouth.
Duan Shiwen looked shocked and hurriedly followed him and asked: "Privy Envoy, is there something wrong?"
Li Qi shook his head and said, "When did I say this?"
Duan Shiwen pointed at the debris and said, "Then the Privy Councilor is this---?"
Li Qi smiled and said, "I'm just trying out the aroma of the coffee beans. There's no need to eat them. I don't want to be unable to sleep tonight."
Duan Shiwen listened vaguely and said: "The Privy Councilor thinks these coffee beans are good or bad."
"Okay! Of course!"
Li Qi immediately said: "Now I feel that the aroma of this coffee is lingering between my teeth. It is of the highest quality. This shows that you have preserved these coffee beans very well."
Duan Shiwen breathed a sigh of relief and nodded: "That's good, that's good."
Li Qi put a hand on Duan Shiwen's shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Duan, don't say I didn't take care of you. These coffee beans are inexhaustible wealth!"
Duan Shiwen's eyes lit up when he heard this. He said, "Where did the Privy Council start with these words?"
Li Qidao: "Don't worry about where I start. You just need to know that in the Song Dynasty, you are the only two counties that can grow coffee. If you two counties can create a few more coffee states, huh, within ten years, we will be able to grow coffee."
Coffee farmers will be the richest farmers in the world. It’s hard for your two counties not to get rich just by relying on medicinal materials and coffee!”
This is not to fool Duan Shiwen. Needless to say, medicinal materials are available to everyone. Rich medicinal materials naturally lead to more money. As for coffee, you must know that there is not a complete cup of coffee in the world today, which means that this market has not yet appeared.
In other words, the entire market belongs to you. Even if only 10% of the people in the future are willing to drink coffee, this wealth is still extremely considerable, because it is the second county that completely monopolizes this coffee.
Duan Shiwen was pleasantly surprised. In fact, he took the initiative to transport the coffee beans here because he wanted to know the wealth in the coffee beans. Now listening to Li Qi's tone, it seems that the wealth in the coffee beans is greater than the wealth contained in the medicinal materials.
, how can he be unhappy?
Li Qi asked Mrs. Chen to call all the servants in the house to help and gave them some details. Then he went to the house with Duan Shiwen and asked about the situation of coffee and the second county.
Having said that, the Second County was already very poor at the time. It was like the stock market had dropped to its limit. It could not fall any further. It would definitely rise again. Coupled with Li Qi's drastic reforms, everyone in the Second County could feel that life was better.
There are changes and everything is developing in a good direction.
Li Qi felt relieved and had lunch with Duan Shiwen, who then left.
But Li Qi was not idle either. He quickly got a small bag of coffee beans and went out.
In fact, when he saw the coffee beans, he thought of a person, this person was Liu Yunxi. This coffee bean was a testimony of their love, and the name of the coffee bean was Yunxi Coffee.
He had been back for a few days, but he hadn't seen Liu Yunxi yet. Maybe Liu Yunxi didn't even know he was back. Li Qi heard from Bai Qiannuo that Liu Yunxi rarely came back when he was away and was always busy with research at Taishi Hospital.
For penicillin, Li Qi originally wanted to go find Liu Yunxi in the next two days, but the coffee beans happened to arrive, so he hurriedly took the coffee beans to find Liu Yunxi.
Arrive at Taishi Hospital.
Compared with the opening day, the flow of people in Taishi College has not decreased but increased, and the entire registration hall is full of people.
Although this shows that Taishi Hospital is very successful, it is not a good thing.
Li Qi also didn't like to see the patient's distressed expression, so he didn't stay and walked towards the laboratory from a path at the door.
But after entering the first door and arriving in front of the laboratory, Li Qi was about to take out his badge. Suddenly he thought, this penicillin research is very sophisticated. If I rush to find them, I might disturb them.
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So he did not go in, but went to the waterside pavilion where Liu Yunxi and others were in the hospital.
But there was no one inside. I thought that Mrs. Yin had also gone to help. It was really boring for him to sit alone. It suddenly occurred to him that Shiniang must be very tired when she comes back from a long day of work. This is the best way for us chefs to win the hearts of beautiful women.
Time, alas, I have been an official for a long time. I have even forgotten the basics of being a chef.
So he put down the coffee beans and hurried to Shuixie, a street next to Taishi Hospital.
This street was originally a small alley, with few people passing by. After all, it was once the residence of the Right Prime Minister, and it was solemn and solemn. Li Qi had visited it once when he climbed the wall, but after the opening of Taishi Hospital, this place immediately changed.
It has become a vegetable market, and the business is very good. Because of the large flow of people, some people buy some vegetables when they go home after receiving medical treatment. This is the joy of the economy. Sometimes, opening an additional street or opening a store will change many things around it.
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Li Qi wandered around the vegetable market for a while, bought a carp, a black-bone chicken and some ingredients and went back. As for vegetables, Yin made a small piece of soil at the back and planted a lot of vegetables.
Back at Shuixie, Li Qi saw that it was almost time, so he hurried to the kitchen and started cooking.
The fish is sweet and sour carp, which is used as an appetizer to go with the wine. The chicken is black-bone chicken and red date soup, which is used to replenish Shiniang's health. After all, this research work is not that easy. In addition, there are several exquisite side dishes.
The dish was ready and it was getting dark, but Shiniang and the others were not seen for a long time.
He knew that this group of fanatics would forget all sleep and food in their research. Li Qi almost fell asleep while waiting. Suddenly he heard someone talking outside, opened his eyes, and hurried out, and faintly saw three people walking over.
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"Shi Niang."
Li Qi shouted excitedly.
The visitors were none other than Liu Yunxi, the strange Jiulang couple.
"Husband---husband?"
Liu Yunxi seemed to be unable to believe her ears. She never expected that Li Qi would suddenly appear here, but when she saw clearly the man standing in front of the door, she couldn't help crying with joy, lifted up her skirt with both hands, and ran over quickly.
The two hugged each other tightly in front of the door.
After hugging for a while, Li Qi held Liu Yunxi's face with both hands, stared at her and said, "Shi Niang, you have lost weight."
Liu Yunxi stared at Li Qi with a pair of bright eyes, stretched out his hand and gently placed it on Li Qi's face, smiled sweetly, tears welled up, and said: "Husband."
The love is so deep that hugging is no longer enough to express it.
Li Qi slowly lowered his head, and Liu Yunxi also hid the joy in his eyes, waiting for this long-awaited kiss.
"Cough cough cough!"
They were about to suck their lips together, but a cough interrupted them.
Bastard! Li Qi raised his head and said, "I said, Brother Wei, you can turn around!"
This man is so shameless! I have been polite enough, and you still blame me for not turning around? Blame Jiulang said angrily: "Didn't you see that our husband and wife are both here? You are not terminally ill, so why rush for a while."
"What kind of terminal illness? Bah bah---compared to that, Shi Niang, I'll wipe it for you."
Liu Yunxi wiped it with his hand casually, gave Li Qi a shy look, gently pulled him to stop arguing with Gui Jiulang, then turned to Gui Jiulang and his wife and said, "Master, Master, I'm so sorry."
Mrs. Yin hurriedly smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay."
Li Qi glared at Gui Jiulang and muttered: "What do you know about the passion of young people?" Then he said to Yin: "Sister-in-law, I have prepared the food. Come in and eat quickly."
Mrs. Yin said politely: "You come here and you don't need to cook. It's really rude."
Gui Jiulang hummed: "He is making it for Shiniang, we are just passing by."
Li Qidao: "I am a woman who eats with me. If others are capable, don't eat."
"I really don't have the ability to go hungry."
As he said this, Gui Jiulang took big steps and walked in grandly.
It was so shameless. Li Qi moved his lips a few times, then led Liu Yunxi in again.
"Sister-in-law, Shi Niang, you guys should sit down for a while and have a bowl of chicken soup first. I'll heat up the other dishes first."
When he came into the house, Li Qi got busy. Because the chicken soup had been heated on a low fire, he first helped Yin and Liu Yunxi fill a bowl of chicken soup. He also helped Wei Jiulang fill a bowl and hummed: "It's poisonous."
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Gui Jiulang laughed and said: "I am still afraid of poison?" He started eating by himself and said: "The chicken is tender but not fishy at all, the chicken soup is fragrant but not greasy or greasy, good, good,
This chicken soup is really cooked just right, it makes your stomach warm after drinking it.”
You old weirdo, you are so shameless. Li Qi asked for trouble, went back to the kitchen, heated up the food, and then brought it out.
As soon as Li Qi walked to the door, Mrs. Yin praised him: "Smell the food before you see it. He is worthy of being the king of chefs with golden swords."
"Sister-in-law, thank you very much."
Li Qi put several dishes on the table.
The carp in the middle is shining with golden light under the candlelight!
Most of the carps in Bianliang come from the Yellow River, and their meat is plump. But I saw a huge carp lying on a long plate, with golden scales and a red tail. The flowing water on the fish's body was glowing with maroon red light, and there were still faint marks on the fish.
Judging from its texture, color and aroma, it is absolutely impeccable.
As for how it tastes, you have to try it.
"This Yellow River carp has always been my favorite. I have eaten a lot of it, but I just don't know how it will be different from the Yellow River carp cooked by the Golden Knife Chef."
When Gui Jiulang saw the carp's figure, he knew it was a Yellow River carp, and his appetite increased greatly. As an elder, he naturally moved his chopsticks first, picked up the chopsticks and dug into the fish body. With a slight twist, he wrapped the snow-white fish meat under the skin.
The stunning scene was revealed, and the heat was rising, and the tender fish could be "eaten" out of the eyes.
It’s really a touch of white among all the reds.
From the moment the fish meat entered his mouth, Gui Jiulang couldn't help but nod, "What a Yellow River carp. It's soft, tender and fragrant, with a hint of sourness in the sweetness, and a hint of saltiness in the sourness. It's crispy, tender, and sweet."
, salty and sour seem to be together, but also seem to be separated, wonderful! It's really wonderful."
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