When Qin Ming and his party were about to return to the Qin Mansion, Qin Ming saw Si She running over from a distance.
A long way away, the snake shouted to Qin Ming:
"Young Master, Young Master, Sheng, Mr. Li, they are here."
Qin Ming was stunned for a moment, but soon thought that Li Shimin's visit should be about rice.
He looked at the panting Sishe in front of him and said:
"Don't be impatient. Speak slowly. Who is in the house this time?"
Because he had run too fast just now, Sishe was a little out of breath.
She held her waist with one hand, caressed her plump breasts with the other, and whispered:
"Along with the saint are Fang Fushe and Hejian County Prince. Butler Xiao has already taken them to the front hall."
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After Qin Ming returned home, he came to the front hall alone.
As soon as he entered the door, he saluted Li Shimin who was sitting on the throne and said:
"My lord, Qin Ming pays homage to Your Majesty."
Li Shimin stood up and helped Qin Ming up and complained:
"How many times have I told you that here, you can just call me Uncle Li as before. Why did you forget that I haven't been here for a few days?"
"I don't dare."
Li Shimin's eyes widened when he heard this.
"Um?"
"My nephew doesn't dare."
"That's pretty much it!"
Next, Qin Ming saluted Fang Xuanling and Li Xiaogong one by one, and then everyone sat down.
After Li Shimin asked about Qin Ming's injury, he got to the point.
He stroked his long beard and smiled:
"My dear nephew, I heard from the Crown Prince and the King of Yue yesterday that you are planting a kind of national grain called rice. I am very curious, what does this rice look like? So I thought of coming to your place to have a look."
Qin Ming nodded and said:
"I see, Uncle Li, please wait a moment. There is still some rice left in the house. My nephew will ask someone to get it."
After Qin Ming said this, he glanced at Xiao Changxi who was standing beside him. Xiao Changxi saluted Qin Ming knowingly and then left the room.
After a while, Xiao Changxi entered the front hall carrying a small bag.
After Qin Ming took it, he put the bag on the table, reached out and grabbed a handful of rice.
Li Shimin and several grown men gathered around him curiously, then picked up a few grains of crystal clear rice from Qin Ming's hand and observed them carefully.
Fang Xuanling squeezed the rice hard with her hands, feeling that the rice was much harder than corn.
After hesitating for a moment, he carefully picked up a grain of rice and put it in his mouth, biting it hard. As a result, the rice was not broken, but his teeth were almost not broken.
When Li Shimin and Li Xiaogong saw this, they also imitated each other and wanted to take one to try.
Upon seeing this, Qin Ming hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the two of them, and said:
"Uncle Li, this rice cannot be eaten raw, otherwise it will not be chewable and it will easily jump to your teeth."
Upon hearing this, Fang Xuanling glanced at Qin Ming angrily and said:
"You kid, why didn't you tell me earlier! My tooth almost fell out."
"Uncle Fang, your actions were too fast. My nephew couldn't stop you in time even if he wanted to."
Li Er looked at the hard rice in his hand, frowned and asked:
"You mean this rice needs to be cooked before it can be eaten?"
Qin Ming nodded and explained to everyone:
"This rice can be boiled directly into rice porridge and eaten, or it can be steamed into rice, or ground into rice flour. This rice tastes very good and is a very good grain. Uncles, do you want to try it?"
The three of them looked at each other after hearing this, and then nodded towards Qin Ming.
They just came, not only to see what the rice looked like, but also to taste what the rice tasted like.
After all, when new grain varieties are to be promoted, in addition to yield, the most important thing is taste.
If it tastes difficult to swallow, it will be difficult to promote it.
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Noon, Qin Mansion, restaurant
Li Shimin and the other three looked at the white jade-like grains of rice in front of them, and when they smelled the aroma of the rice, they couldn't help but move their index fingers.
Qin Ming smiled slightly when he saw this. He picked up his rice bowl and said to the three of them with a smile:
"Uncles, this is rice made from steamed rice. It is the best to use as a staple food. Try it quickly. You can eat this rice with vegetables. It is delicious."
After saying that, Qin Ming took the lead in picking up a dish with chopsticks, put it in a bowl, and started eating it with rice.
In the later generations, he didn't think rice was so delicious, but he had been in Datang for more than half a year and had never eaten rice.
Now when I eat it, I suddenly feel that this rice is particularly sweet and delicious.
Seeing this, Li Shimin and the other two started to move. As soon as they picked up the rice, a strong aroma of rice came over them.
Then the aroma of rice mixed with delicious dishes hit the taste buds of the three people over and over again.
Li Shimin felt that he had tasted the most beautiful delicacy in the world, and he couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.
Li Xiaogong was even more unbearable, because the rice was so soft and sweet that it was hard to compare with the past bread, so he ate it so sweet that he wanted to swallow it all.
"My dear nephew, do you have another bowl of this rice for me?"
Qin Ming raised his head, glanced at the empty rice bowl in Li Xiaogong's hand in disbelief, then looked down at his still full rice bowl, and said:
"Uncle Li, most of the rice in the house has been planted in the greenhouse by my nephew. If you don't dislike it, how about I give you this bowl?"
After saying that, Qin Ming raised his rice bowl to Li Xiaogong. Upon seeing this, Li Xiaogong took the rice bowl from Qin Ming's hand without hesitation.
"Then uncle would be disrespectful. Haha."
Qin Ming smiled bitterly when he saw this, then picked up a piece of bread from the table and started eating it.
In fact, there was quite a lot of steamed rice at noon today, enough for the four of them to serve three bowls each.
However, Qin Ming specially told Qingwan that after the rice was steamed, he asked her to serve a bowl to Xiao Changxi and others in the backyard.
It was the first time to eat rice in the house. How could Qin Ming just entertain Li Er and ignore his own family?
Li Er swallowed a mouthful of rice, thought for a while, looked at Qin Ming and said:
"My dear nephew, I have something to ask you this time."
Qin Ming put vegetables in his mouth and said:
"Uncle Li, just ask."
Upon seeing this, Li Er put down his chopsticks and stared at Qin Ming closely. He asked:
"The Champa Kingdom is thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty. How do you know that this rice can be harvested three times a year in the Champa Kingdom?"
"Don't tell me what you learned from the Champa merchant. Yesterday I sent someone to ask the merchant, but he never told you that this rice can be harvested three times a year in their country. "
Qin Ming was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then turned around to see Li Er staring at him.
My heart couldn't help but tighten.
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