Zhao Feng smiled and explained directly.
"That's my wife's sister!"
Zhou Tong was a little surprised. He didn't expect Chen Rou's sister to be so good-looking, and she looked very similar to Chen Rou. They were exactly like twins.
In fact, Chen Rou is several years older than Chen Man, but because Chen Rou takes good care of herself and wears cosmetics, she looks as old as Chen Man.
Zhao Feng dropped the topic and looked at Zhou Tong curiously.
"Your Highness, is there something wrong?"
Zhou Tong nodded quickly and then remembered the purpose of coming here today.
"Mr. Zhao, you said before that you would build a road from here to the capital. Now the road is almost connected."
"And I see that the vegetables in the greenhouse are almost ready. What are the delicious things you mentioned before?"
Zhao Feng was stunned for a moment, and after carefully calculating the time, he realized that more than a month had passed since they returned from the capital.
Now that we have entered the twelfth month, it is the coldest time in the whole north, and the vegetables in the greenhouse should have grown.
"So that's what happened. Since Her Royal Highness the Princess asked, I will take you to take a look."
Zhou Tong nodded vigorously. At this time, Zhou Tong was wearing a leather jacket with a thin cotton coat underneath. Unexpectedly, the cotton coat was quite warm.
Since cotton production was not large, Zhao Feng only made cotton-padded clothes and quilts for Zhou Tong and his family. If he really wanted to sell these cotton products, he would probably have to wait until next year.
Limited by the weather, no matter how much Zhao Feng wanted to speed up, he could only do it step by step.
Zhao Feng took Zhou Tong to the outside of the vegetable greenhouses. Through the glass, he saw that the vegetables in the vegetable greenhouses were growing vigorously. It was ice and snow outside, but green inside, which formed a very shocking scene.
On weekdays, the outside of these vegetable greenhouses needs to be covered with warm materials made of straw. Only when the weather is fine, those things are opened to let the sunlight in and promote the photosynthesis of the plants.
Otherwise, if we just ensure the temperature inside, there will definitely be frost on the glass.
In order to be able to grow these vegetables, Zhao Feng not only built a greenhouse, but also put a lot of stoves in it.
These stoves are heated by coal and charcoal, making the place as warm as spring even in the coldest months of winter.
Seeing the plants in the vegetable greenhouse through the glass, Zhou Tong suddenly became happy.
"I don't usually come here, but I didn't expect there to be such a beautiful scenery here."
"In winter, it's really hard to see some green. Only here can you see these fresh vegetables!"
Zhou Tong said this and couldn't help but lick his lips. During this time, watching the vegetables in the vegetable greenhouse growing vigorously, Zhou Tong had already been a little greedy and wanted to taste the taste of these vegetables.
Although the varieties of these vegetables are not particularly rare, being able to eat these fresh vegetables in winter is a very novel thing.
Seeing Zhou Tong's look, Zhao Feng knew that Zhou Tong must really want to taste these vegetables.
So Zhao Feng walked over and opened the door. The heat inside suddenly hit his face, and Zhou Tong walked in very excitedly.
"Mr. Zhao, can all the vegetables here be eaten now?"
Zhao Feng smiled, nodded, and said directly.
"Of course, not only the vegetables here are edible, but most of the vegetables grown in the other vegetable greenhouses are also mature. I will take you to pick some and make you something very delicious today!"
Zhou Tong became happy and nodded vigorously. She had always wanted to taste what Zhao Feng was talking about.
Zhao Feng looked at the vegetables inside and found that the most important vegetables had grown, so he took Zhou Tong there to pick some red plants.
Zhou Tong looked at these red things with some confusion, wondering what Zhao Feng was holding.
Seeing the confused expression on Zhou Tong's face, Zhao Feng said with a smile.
"Your Highness, the delicious food I want to cook for you requires this kind of thing. This thing is called chili pepper."
"Although this chili is now a fresh chili and cannot reach the level of dried chili, we can roast it over low heat so that the moisture in the chili can be quickly evaporated."
Zhao Feng sighed softly. It is probably impossible to get dried chili peppers now. Fortunately, he left some chili peppers before, and with this fresh chili pepper roasted over the fire, it should be almost the same. Effect.
Zhou Tong nodded vigorously, Zhao Feng smiled, and started picking with Zhou Tong.
Except for some vegetables from the Great Zhou Dynasty, many of the vegetables that Zhao Feng grew here were not found in the Great Zhou Dynasty, including tomatoes and so on.
From the name of tomato, you can tell that it is a plant from a foreign country. When the caravan went to the Western Regions, it brought back many plants unique to the Western Regions to Zhao Feng. This was also Zhao Feng's request.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Feng asked someone to prepare some cabbage, tofu, etc., and took out the previously stewed mutton and cut it into thin slices with a knife.
Finally, Zhao Feng stir-fried the chili peppers, some peppercorns, Sichuan peppercorns, etc., added some other spices, and put a lot of fat on it to make the hot pot base.
Nothing brings more comfort on a cold winter day than a hot pot meal, if ever there was one, two.
After the chili peppers were fried, the spicy aroma suddenly hit his nostrils. Zhou Tong was choked and coughed, and looked at the red things in the pot in shock.
Since Zhao Feng did not make a special mandarin duck pot, he could only use two small iron pots instead.
On one side is a spicy pot with chili peppers, and on the other side is a clear soup pot consisting of onions, ginger and spices.
After everything was ready, Chen Rou also came back with Chen Man.
Seeing Chen Rou and Chen Man, Zhou Tong immediately greeted them.
"Sister, sister, you are finally back."
Chen Man was startled and looked at Zhou Tong in surprise.
"Sister, who is this?"
Chen Rou immediately smiled and said: "This is Princess Jinyang, but we have already become sisters, so you can call her sister."
Zhou Tong nodded vigorously. Although Chen Man was surprised, he did not refute, but obediently called her sister.
Seeing Chen Man being so polite, Zhou Tong suddenly became happy and took Chen Man's hand to sit at the dining table.
