453 Chocolate and tobacco

"Oops, this is reaching out?! Don't cry? ”

"The hand is still fast! Looking at this lightning technique, I must have been amused by the young people on the ship......"

Xu Rou next to her said with a smile on her aunt's face.

"Children, I'm really only interested in food......

"It's not a good habit! Take the food by grabbing it! Not ladylike at all......"

"A little girl has been on the boat with those rough guys for more than a month, it's strange to be a lady!"

In this regard, Xia Xiaoou complained.

"Hey, this is a hard eat, the little girl must be hungry!"

Someone in the female crowd judged.

"You haven't eaten in the morning, have you? It's best for children at this age to eat four meals a day......"

At this time, mothers with babies in their arms subconsciously talked about parenting.

"I'll just say, how do they have a bunch of big men with their children?"

It was Cheng Fangfang who said this.

"Still laughing while eating, I see this little girl grow up unexpectedly, I feel that Wei @Hong, a stupid boy, can't control her......"

Cao Limei puffed up her stomach and commented with a faint smile.

"Hey, that's not going to happen! I heard that Xiao Wei is the god in Sylvie's heart! ”

"Pull it down, God won't be a god after a long time....."

It was Xia Xiaoou who said this.

"Huh? What kind of clothes is this little girl wearing? ”

"A belt in the middle of a seafarer's undershirt, a dress! I've noticed ......"

"Creative enough!"

During the time when the ladies were watching and commenting, Sylvie had finished eating the chocolate bar, then raised her head to look around, and suddenly spoke:

"Thank you, brother, thank you uncle, Sylvie is so cute and cute, Sylvie loves chocolate!"

"Hey! Who did this little girl learn from!? ”

"Those young people, it's obvious that my sister gave me chocolates, but I still thank my brother and uncle......"

Tao Tao stared at the little girl a little unhappy.

"So you can't let these people take the children ......"

Someone in the female crowd said with a pun.

"But to be honest, these Chinese are very well taught, and it can be seen that this kid usually interacts with the crew......

Apparently the onlookers were surprised by Sylvie's performance, and the Chinese spoken by the little loli was actually correct and round, except that the tone was like Google Niang.

The ladies were not only surprised, but also pleased, this once again shows that as long as they have long-term contact and exchange, indigenous children can be "naturalized", and now, the twelve indigenous children in the Red Chamber are already reading and writing the Three Character Sutra......

"What's the matter with the little girl's accent? It's weird, doesn't you sound like Nicole's tone? ”

Aunt Duna said very carefully.

"Learn from the men on the boat! The accents of that group of people are also from all over the world, so this synthesis has become like this. ”

"It's okay, I've been together for more than two months, and children of this age are full of language talent skills......"

Xia Xiaoou commented firmly, thoughtfully, nodded and continued:

"This kid is smart, huh...... Now she's at our Sunflower Girls' School, and she'll be my personal secretary when she grows up......"

"The problem is that Xiao Wei may not be willing."

"Now that the child is so young, slowly **!"

"It doesn't matter if Xiao Wei is willing or not, in the end, it doesn't depend on this little girl's opinion......"

Cheng Fangfang nodded beside her in agreement with Xia Xiaoou's opinion.

"It's a good thing for us that such a small Chinese slips like this."

"It's normal, isn't it time for children to learn languages?"

"Yes, look at the young children in the building, it's only been a few months, and they can talk to the peach card for half a day......

"Hmph, it seems that the brothers and uncles in that boatload gave him chocolate......"

Cao Limei said next to her.

"yes, yes, it looks like it's all in your mouth!"

"Then what should I do, where do we sisters and aunts have so much chocolate for her to eat, I can't afford it!"

Cheng Fangfang sighed.

"Hey, Sister Wang, I heard that Uncle Wang wants to make chocolate, oh, it's a cocoa tree, isn't there 500 kilograms of cocoa beans in the cave?"

"Well, it takes at least five years of growth! It is also necessary to find the right soil and climatic conditions......"

Wang Xue looked at Sylvie with her eyes, gently stroking Sylvie's hair while answering the questions of her female companions.

"Didn't you say that you can do it within 18 degrees north and south? I think growing cocoa beans is better than growing tobacco, Wang Gong, what do you think? ”

Xu Rou looked at Wang Xue and asked.

"This, everyone still has a disagreement......

Wang Xue responded, her eyes still not leaving Sylvie, because at this time, the little girl was curiously looking up at the swaddling clothes in Wang Xue's arms, and reached out to touch it.

"I don't know, I heard that Elder Sun said that there will be a discussion meeting in the next few nights, so I guess I have to do both......"

Cao Limei responded to Xu Rou's question on the side.

"I heard Lao Wang say that although he had thought about chocolate before, but the progress was a little stagnant, and then I saw the telegram saying that Sylvie was very fond of eating chocolate, which reminded him, so Wang Lao is now very concerned about the cultivation of cocoa beans.

Wang Lao also said that in this era, about a year or two ago, there was a Frenchman who opened a shop called Tobacco Coffee Shop on the street of London, specializing in selling chocolate, which is very expensive and rare, and is said to be the food of the current London high society, and said that it was the first chocolate shop in the history of the world, but I don't know if the historical record is true or false......

Wang Xue continued to stroke Sylvie's hair as she spoke, and it could be seen that she liked this little girl very much......

"Really? Is there chocolate in this era? ”

"That's right, strictly speaking, it's a hot chocolate drink, and it's a ...... in a cup."

Wang Xue's eyes finally moved away from Sylvie, raised her head and said to the female companions around her:

"If we can produce chocolate on a large scale, then the popularization of chocolate as a food to the whole society will be at least one or two hundred years earlier, in the old world of Europe, it was not until the mid-to-late eighteenth century that chocolate entered the homes of ordinary people, and for us in the East, if we really make it, it will be three hundred years in advance!"

"That's it! Then we seem to have an advantage, we can produce sugar now, right? It's an important ingredient in chocolate production, but I forgot about it......

"It's cocoa butter! Extracted from the oil of cocoa beans. ”

Cao Limei next to her replied.

"Yes, that's the ......"

"In this way, we seem to be short of cocoa beans as a raw material......

"yes, hey! Peach! Don't feed her chocolate, if you feed her, she'll only thank her brother and uncle! You teach her to feed her sister and aunt first! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, first get this child back to the Red Mansion to take a bath, and then change into a girl's clothes, how to look at the mix and match of this broken dress and sports rubber shoes......"

While the ladies were talking about Sylvie and chocolate, the men's circles seemed to be talking about chocolate, but more intensely.

First of all, Gu Jin briefly talked about the situation on Zixia Island, which was a matter that Lao Wang was very concerned about, and he thought that the climate there should be no problem if it was used to grow cocoa trees.

Today, in Lao Wang's list of strategic agricultural development projects, there are three major strategic projects: sugar cane, five-spice powder and chocolate.

At the same time, there is also a project proposed by the Fire Pond Club - tobacco.

However, as soon as the tobacco project was proposed, there was strong opposition from some people, mainly ladies and some non-smokers.

In fact, more than half of the men in this group are smokers, and of course some are forced to quit, such as Xu Zhi, Li Junming and Hua Li, etc., obviously these people do not have that personal sense of urgency for tobacco cultivation.

In short, so far, the support rate for the series of projects on tobacco and cigarette production has not exceeded half of the total traversers.