Chapter 962: Bean Sprouts!
After pointing out a few small mistakes in the greenhouse built by Hu Hanyun in Hanjiazhuang, Li Zexuan left in a hurry.
"Lady, do you have soybeans or mung beans at home?"
Back at home in Chang'an, Li Zexuan saw Han Yuxi in the courtyard and asked directly.
That's right, he wanted to get some bean sprouts to eat.
Although the greenhouse vegetables can provide vegetables on a large scale in winter, they can't quench their thirst far from water, and they will have to wait for nearly two months to eat them.
It's harmless to go once or twice, but if there are too many times, it's not very beautiful.
In the afternoon, the small bean seedlings in the field of Lao Hu's family made Li Zexuan's eyes light up, it takes a long time for greenhouse vegetables to mature, but bean sprouts don't need it! In this season when vegetables are scarce, crisp and refreshing bean sprouts feel much better than big fish and meat!
"Xianggong, there should be a 菉 (lǜ, the same sound as green) beans at home, but what are soybeans~?"
Han Yu heard this, thought about it, and asked a little strangely.
Mung beans and soybeans have a history of thousands of years of cultivation in China, before the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ancients called mung beans beans, although they are different words, but they have the same sound, so Li Zexuan said mung beans, Han Yuxi can also understand what he means.
But soybeans are different, at this time there is no soybean, later generations generally believe that the word "soybean" was first in the Tang Dynasty "Kaiyuan Zhanjing" (written between 718 ~ 726 years), "Youyang Miscellaneous" and other books, before the use of all the words, soybeans.
About soybeans, there is also an interesting fact, during the reign of Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty, a strange thing happened in the capital Chang'an: the price of agricultural soybeans, which was originally mediocre, soared overnight, and a stone of soybeans was sold for ten taels of gold! It is said that Tang Wenzong loved big-breasted women, and a palace maid surnamed Wang beside him flew up the branch to become a phoenix just because of a certain part of the abnormally prominent, and was promoted to Zhaoyi and became a celebrity around Emperor Wenzong.
With this successful precedent, the concubines in the deep courtyard of the harem began to buy and hoard soybeans in large quantities, and they must eat them at every meal. Because according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, soybeans have a certain breast enlargement effect. Boosted by the rush of concubines, the price of beans in Chang'an City has risen faster than modern housing prices!
"Uh... It's soybeans, lady, do we have soybeans at home~? ”
Li Zexuan patted his head, mobilized the memories of the predecessor of this body, and hurriedly changed his words.
"Hmmm! Yes! What do you want soybeans and beans for? ”
Han Yu replied.
Li Zexuan smiled: "Hey! Lady, you'll know when the time comes! ”
After that, he went straight to the kitchen in a hurry, and asked the cook Aunt Zhao for a scoop of mung beans and a scoop of soybeans, respectively, soaked two kinds of beans in clean water, in the previous life, Li Zexuan's grandmother's family often made bean sprouts, for the steps of bean sprouts, he still knows a lot, soaking beans in water is only the first step, according to his grandmother's experience, beans must be soaked for at least 8 hours or more before they can continue to the next step.
"Xianggong, what are you doing with beans? Do you want to grind tofu? ”
Han Yuxi followed in, and after seeing what Li Zexuan had done, he couldn't help asking.
When Li Zexuan heard this, he turned around, looked at Han Yuxi's chest and said with a wicked smile: "Xianggong, I can only eat tofu, but I can't make tofu!" ”
"What do you say, Xianggong? Aunt Zhao is still there! ”
Han Yuxi's cheeks blushed and said angrily.
Although she didn't understand what "eating tofu" meant, when she saw the bad smile on Li Zexuan's face, she guessed the general meaning, and secretly said that her husband sometimes looks like a righteous gentleman, and sometimes he is lustful and bad, which is really special!
Aunt Zhao, who was outside the door, hurriedly coughed lightly and walked into the distance.
Li Zexuan saw that Han Yuxi looked shy, and couldn't bear to tease her anymore, so he got back to the truth and preached: "Soaking beans for my husband is to make the beans sprout, although our family has made two greenhouses to grow vegetables, but if you want to eat the vegetables inside, it will take two months, to say the least." After the beans sprout, take the sprouts and put them in a pot and stir-fry, which is also a delicious dish! This dish is a great substitute until the greenhouses come out! ”
Han Yuxi is obviously not the kind of deep lady who doesn't eat fireworks and doesn't know about farming, she frowned and said: "Xianggong, this bean has been soaked in water, I'm afraid it won't sprout, but will stink!" ”
Li Zexuan said with a smile: "Of course I won't let it soak in water all the time, there are many more steps to follow!" Tomorrow morning, the husband will take out the beans and put them in a bamboo sieve covered with wet gauze, and then put the bamboo sieve in a basin of water filled with water, which is not too big to allow the beans to breathe.
The bamboo sieve needs to be covered with another piece of wet gauze, and finally a slightly more focused bowl is pressed on top, the weight of the bowl can make the bean sprouts thicker. After that, water the beans three to six times a day to keep them moist. After drenching, continue to cover with damp gauze. By the fifth day, the sprouts in the corners have grown and have roots, so they are ready to eat! ”
Han Yuxi listened seriously, and at the end, she asked, "Xianggong, how do you know so much?" Have you ever done it yourself? ”
The main reason is that Li Zexuan said that she couldn't help but wonder if Li Zexuan had made bean sprouts before, so she was so surprised.
Li Zexuan touched his nose, although he hadn't done it himself, he had seen his grandmother do it many times.
"Ahem! Sort of! ”
Li Zexuan coughed dryly and said vaguely: "Anyway, lady, you will be able to see what this bean sprout looks like in five days, and you can taste this deliciousness!" ”
Han Yuxi put his hand into the basin of water, gently stroked the soybeans in the basin, and said, "Xianggong, Zhuangzi and Yanhuang Academy all need you, you still have a lot of things to do, so leave this matter to the concubine!" The concubine has memorized all the steps you said earlier, and it is not a trouble, and the concubine will definitely do it for you!"
Li Zexuan thought about it, nodded and said, "That's good!" There's a Lao lady! ”
He is still very relieved about his daughter-in-law's ability to do things. In some things, Han Yuxi's carefulness even made him sigh to himself, the daughter-in-law he married seemed simple, but it was not simple.
"Xianggong, my father already knows that you are going to implement greenhouse vegetables on the Zhuangzi, and he said that since you are sure that you can cultivate vegetables in the winter through this method, then you can use this to make the other six Zhuangzi in our family rich in one fell swoop! But Dad said that there is one thing you may have overlooked, he asked the concubine to remind you! ”
Han Yuxi took his hand out of the basin and suddenly said to Li Zexuan.
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