Chen Mu is newly married and is in the honeymoon period of her relationship. She doesn't feel tired even if we are together every day.

During this time, I stayed at home, accompanying Luo Fu's parents, siblings, and occasionally took Luo Fu back to her parents' home.

Anyway, Qinjiazhuang is not far from Linzi City, so it is a good thing to go out and walk around frequently, although it is indeed a bit cold recently.

Chen Mu originally planned to return to Taishan Academy to teach this year. He would teach primary school students in the academy in the morning and teach college students in the academy in the afternoon.

But newlyweds always feel as if they can't live apart. They get very anxious when they don't see each other for a while. On the contrary, they are delayed because they are with Luo Fu every day.

But it's not a delay, because the new year is approaching, and the academy will soon have a provincial holiday, which is the annual leave. Even if he goes back, he won't be able to teach for a few days, so he might as well spend time with Luo Fu.

A month and a half passed in a flash, and it was almost the end of the year.

At noon that day, Chen Mu came back from the College of Chemistry. He held a small cloth bag in his hand and walked straight to the kitchen.

Mrs. Fang is working in the kitchen with her two maids. Even though her family is now wealthy, she is still used to cooking by herself. There was no cooking in the Han Dynasty, and the four main methods were steaming, boiling, roasting and roasting.

, the reason for this is the lack of iron pans and cooking oil.

There is nothing we can do about the iron pot, and Qingzhou is also short of iron. The ore collected from several open-pit iron mines in the territory is now used to make weapons to prepare for future hegemony, and it cannot take into account people's livelihood.

As for edible oil, it is already on the road of research.

The reason why stir-frying appeared in the Song Dynasty was due to the improvement of oil extraction technology. Qingzhou was already studying the lever oil press that only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and used human power to squeeze soybean oil from soybeans, which are soybeans.

Therefore, as long as the iron problem can be solved, Qingzhou will be able to popularize cooking in a short time.

However, the absence of cooking does not mean that such things have not appeared. There are records of cooking as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but the lack of iron and oil has not spread to the public. Chen Mu is used to cooking. As a powerful man, he is not short of oil and iron, so naturally he cannot treat them badly.

Own.

Seeing him wandering into the kitchen, Mrs. Fang thought he was hungry and came to see if there was anything to eat. So while cooking the food in the cauldron, she said with a smile: "Is my son hungry? Don't worry.

, just wait a moment.”

Chen Mu came over and saw that she was stewing chicken. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, so he said to his mother: "Why are you stewing chicken every day? I've almost eaten chicken for more than half a month. Let's eat something else today."

"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat. You're going to be hungry! Give it to Luofu Azhi and A Feng. It just so happens that one chicken is not enough for four people."

Mrs. Fang was a little unhappy. When her family was poor, she might not even be able to kill a chicken during the Chinese New Year. Now she has chickens to eat every day, and she still dares to dislike them. Could it be that she is tired of eating and thinks that my mother's food is not delicious?

Chen Mu was such a smart person that he didn't notice his mother's little mood. He immediately walked over to help his mother pinch her shoulders and said with a smile: "Mom, don't be angry. I've seen my family eating chicken every day for the past month. I'm afraid everyone will be bored."

I want to change my taste. Besides, eating chicken every day is not good for your health."

Is eating chicken not good for your health?

Fang was confused and said suspiciously: "What are you talking about? How can eating chicken be bad for your health?"

Chen Mu explained: "Any kind of food will provide the nutrients needed by the human body. Eating chicken occasionally is good for the body, but if it is eaten for a long time without eating other foods, it will cause the human body to lack nutrients that chicken does not have."

Substances are naturally harmful to the body but not beneficial at all.”

Fang: "..."

She stopped talking, couldn't understand at all, and couldn't find any reason to refute.

However, Chen Mu didn't lie to her. Chicken was indeed a great supplement, but it was protein and the nutrition it provided was very simple.

The human body not only needs protein, but also vitamins and minerals. If you eat chicken every day to supplement protein, you will be deficient in vitamins and minerals.

Therefore, if you have money, it is not advisable to eat a lot of fish and meat every day. You must also have vegetables and cabbage.

After a while, Mrs. Fang sighed and said: "My son has read books, knows Chinese characters, and understands common principles. Why does my mother know nothing and can't help my son? She can only cook a few dishes. Ruo'er thinks that my mother

If it doesn’t taste good, let someone else do it.”

Chen Mu said with a smile: "It's not that the food cooked by my mother is not delicious. My child means that I must eat all kinds of food, not just one kind. No matter how expensive it is, it can only provide very little."

"What does Zhao Mu'er mean?"

Fang asked tentatively: "Mother, will you cook a fish for Mu'er?"

Chen Mu said speechlessly: "Mom, fish and chicken are the same, they provide the same kind of nutrition."

"Then what to cook? Do you want to eat grilled meat or steamed vegetables?"

"It doesn't have to be steamed or grilled. I taught my mother a new way of cooking."

"In what way?"

Fang looked over curiously and saw Chen Mu taking out a round pot from the corner of the kitchen.

The pot looks different from the pots usually used for "cooking", it looks like a bowl.

"Cooking" means frying, which was practiced in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes.

However, the pan used for frying is a ceramic or bronze pan. This is the first time that Fang has seen a round iron pan like this.

Chen Mu put the pot on the stove, took out the vegetable spoon, dug out a little lard from the lard can on the stove, poured it into the pot, and then said to the maid who was lighting the fire on the other side of the stove: "Bake the fire bigger."

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"yes."

The maid began to add firewood to the stove.

Since the beginning of Han national civilization, Han people have had extremely deep feelings about eating.

Foodie nation is no joke.

Wang Chong's "Lun Heng. Ridiculing the Sun" says: "Think of life as a matter of death, and of people as a matter of ghosts. Seeing that living people have food and drink, if you die as a ghost, you should be able to eat and drink again, and you should be sensitive to things and your relatives, so you can offer sacrifices."

Therefore, stoves related to eating were already very developed in the Western Han Dynasty.

There are many small holes on the kitchen stove, and you can use the mechanism to adjust and control the heat.

This can be proven by the ceramic models of stoves unearthed in the Han Dynasty.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Controlling these mechanisms is also simple, a bit like a dry pot. If you want the fire to be bigger, just remove the fire baffle. If you want the fire to be smaller, just

Pull up the baffle, leaving only a gap.

Chen Mu directly fried the oil at the highest heat. After a while, the solidified lard melted. There were eggs in the kitchen. Crack five and throw them in.

Sizzle!

The oil splashed onto Lao Gao's hands. Although it hurt his hands, Chen Mu couldn't suppress the joy on his face as he watched the changes in the eggs in the pot.

The dishes made by steaming and grilling are really boring.

Imagine what it would be like to have no cooking and only have soup and barbecue every day?

Life will be boring.

"Chop some green onions."

Chen Mu began to stir-fry the eggs with a vegetable spoon while giving instructions to the maid.

The maid chopped some green onions, put them on a plate and handed them over.

Chen Mu took it, poured the green onions into the pot, added a little salt, and stir-fried a few times until the eggs gradually turned golden brown.

Seeing the eggs that were completely cooked, Chen Mu immediately lifted the pot, took it out and put it on a plate.

The eggs were scooped into the dish.

The first stir-fried dish in history - scrambled eggs, freshly baked.

"Mother, taste it."

Chen Mu handed the dish to his mother, and the smile on his face became even stronger.

This is the first stir-fry in history.

Because in historical records, the first appearance of stir-fried vegetables was in the "Essential Art of Qi Min" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was also a dish of scrambled eggs. Before the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was no record of stir-fried vegetables.

Therefore, the plate of scrambled eggs that Chen Mu is holding now is definitely the first in history, something that can be written into history books, and is of great commemorative significance.

Of course, Mrs. Fang didn't know that she had become the first person in history to taste stir-fried vegetables. Smelling the aroma of eggs, she couldn't help but increase her appetite. She took out a pair of chopsticks and asked, "Shall I try it?"

"Try it."

Chen Mu smiled.

Fang took a piece, put it in front of his nose, smelled it, and stared at it carefully for a long time. It was really different from the appearance of a boiled egg. After a slight hesitation, out of trust for his son, he opened his mouth and put it in his mouth.

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At first, her expression did not change much, but as she chewed the eggs in her mouth and her taste buds entered her brain, her eyes became brighter and brighter.

"Mom, is it delicious?"

Seeing her expression, Chen Mu asked with a smile.

Fang swallowed the piece of egg and sighed: "I never thought that eggs could be so delicious."

"That's natural. Stir-frying can greatly enhance the flavor of food. If mother likes it, I will cook another dish for her."

Chen Mu smiled.

When Han people deal with eggs, they often can only boil or steam them.
To be continued...