The sunset is red and the clouds are flying over the western mountains.
The entire Jianxian Hall was filled with the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes. Everyone's face was beaming with joy, and their words seemed to be sweet.
Cen Xijin blinked and teased playfully: "Your Highness, my aunt didn't lie to you this time, did she? This roasted sweet potato is one of the most delicious delicacies in the world!"
The second prince squinted his eyes lazily, licked the corners of his mouth with satisfaction, and said with gleaming eyes: "Well, it smells so good. I just don't know if other foods can be roasted and eaten like this."
After saying that, he looked at Cen Xijin with eyes full of expectation. She is someone who fell from the sky, so she definitely knows more than him.
Cen Xijin was startled, but what the second prince said reminded her, and he introduced with a smile: "Yes, in addition to sweet potatoes, chestnuts can also be roasted and eaten like this, and there are roasted corns, which are more fragrant than roasted sweet potatoes. "
It made her drool.
Cai Xin was lively, smart and courageous. She asked with a smile: "Auntie, I know the chestnut you are talking about, but what is corn?"
Cherry also covered her mouth and laughed, with a smile on her face: "At first glance, you seem to be an ignorant person from a small family. Corn, corn, is naturally rice made of jade! It is the same as emerald shrimp!"
Shuangfu, who rarely spoke, also had a proud look on his eyebrows. He glanced at the cherry and chuckled: "No, this must be glutinous rice, japonica rice, pearl rice."
Guo Chaoen saw that the atmosphere was good, so he also joined in the fun: "Auntie must be talking about something rare. How do we know? I'm afraid only His Highness and auntie here understand it!"
After saying this, everyone turned their attention to the second prince.
The second prince bit his mouth, looked up at everyone shyly, cleared his throat and laughed: "This should be a kind of food."
How could he know this?
Cen Xijin pursed his lips and secretly laughed. Corn, an imported product from the American continent, has not spread to Dali yet, and even if it spreads a little along the southeastern coast, it may not necessarily be called this name.
So Cen Baike kept talking: "Your Highness is right. Corn is indeed a kind of food, but it is not rice, and it is not a decoration. Corn is also called barley, corn, corn, corn, and corn. It is a kind of food. The new crop has plump grains and a golden color. Not only does it taste great, but it can also be grown in large areas on dry land or barren sandy land. The yield is very high and can feed thousands of people!"
One of the reasons why the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong was the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong was the large-scale planting of corn and sweet potatoes, which led to the achievement of "no famine in the prosperous age".
Cherry opened her mouth slightly and said blankly: "Since this thing is so good, why haven't we heard of it?"
Cen Xijin suddenly discovered that the usually fierce Cherry was actually quite cute when he looked up.
So he touched her head, pointed to the direction of the setting sun, and laughed heartily: "As long as you keep walking in the direction of the setting sun, you will find a large, unclaimed open space, where there are plants everywhere. There’s corn, pumpkins, tomatoes, and sunflowers!”
In fact, considering that the earth is a spherical object, whether you go east or west, you will find the New Continent. Cen Xijin was just doing it to suit the occasion.
Cai Xin's eyes were shining brightly. She stood up excitedly and looked toward the setting sun. The winter wind blew over her young face, but she didn't feel cold because of the excitement in her heart. She just murmured dreamily: " Auntie, is that place bigger than our palace?"
"I'm afraid all the prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili together are not as big as that place!" Cen Xijin looked at the second prince pointedly, smiling meaningfully.
Everyone's eyes widened when they heard this.
"Bigger than Beizhili?! Then, how big must it be!" Cai Xin gestured with her hands and shook her head, finding it unimaginable.
When she was a child, she felt that the land owned by the landlord in the village was big enough, but that guy couldn't even see the land at a glance. Every year during the busy farming season, the whole village would be temporarily hired by the landlord to help, and that was enough.
After that, she entered the palace and became a maid. After this visit, she realized who was the biggest landowner in the world and what the ultimate wealth in the world was - if all the land in the palace could be planted with crops, that would be called grandeur. Woolen cloth!
For Beizhili, the imperial palace is just a sesame seed on a sesame pie.
It’s bigger than Beizhili, so what a huge piece of land it must be!
Cai Xin clenched her fists and her spirits were very high. She seemed to have seen a door to a new world...
Only the second prince opened a roasted sweet potato neatly and said nonchalantly: "What is this? In the whole world, it is the royal land. When I grow up, I will lead my troops to occupy that place!"
Cen Xijin nodded happily: "My aunt is very happy that His Highness has this ambition. In the future, he will open up territory for His Majesty and seal the wolf as a surrogate. It will also be a good story in the world."
This is for those who care. The so-called opening up territory and enlarging territory and enclosing wolves in Xu sounds glamorous, but the Dali Dynasty pursued a policy of emphasizing culture over military affairs.
The second prince also sighed quietly, paused for a moment holding the sweet potato hand, and sighed: "The corn there must be delicious, but it's a pity."
Cen Xijin's happy smile was fixed on his face. Suddenly his hands were itchy and he wanted to hit someone. Why?
More than a dozen people chatted and laughed until the evening. Cen Xijin supervised Hui'er, extinguished the charcoal fire, washed up in a hurry, arranged the night shift, and then drove the second prince back to rest.
"Auntie, I can't sleep!" After serving the second prince, he washed up and fell asleep on the couch. Unexpectedly, he sat up and acted coquettishly at Cen Xijin.
Cen Xijin asked with a cold face: "Does the tooth still hurt?"
The second prince pouted, pointed to his stomach in aggrieved tone, and said in a muffled voice: "My belly is bloated."
"Who told you to eat so much!" Cen Xijin curled his lips. This little meatball who can't control his mouth deserves it!
The second prince lowered his head and stuck out his tongue in embarrassment: "I've been hungry for several days..."
"Who told you not to eat before!" Cen Xijin clasped his hands in his fists, snorted coldly and turned his head away, not looking at him.
"Aunt, I want to hear a story..." After the second prince finished speaking, he flattened his lips, then stretched out his arms with tears in his eyes and coquettishly said, "Aunt, I want a hug!"
There was no other way, Cen Xijin hugged him again.
Suddenly, the second prince burst into laughter and blinked his clear eyes in her arms. This child has a red mouth, eyelashes like small fans, a pair of phoenix eyes that are even more sparkling, and a milky white complexion. He looks like a baby with pink makeup.
Helpless, Cen Xijin could only shake his head: "What do you want to hear? Or Journey to the West?"
Sniffing her scent, the second prince's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning, and he shook his head and said, "I don't want to listen to Journey to the West anymore. The fairies in it are all so beautiful, but they are all so bad. It's not good. I want to listen to something else."
"Then let me tell you something you haven't heard before," Cen Xijin cleared his throat and began to talk, "On that land where large areas of corn grow, there is a mouse named Mickey Mouse. He has A good friend is a duck named Donald Duck. This Mickey Mouse has big eyes and big ears, and wears brightly colored pants and big shoes..."
"Mickey Mouse is the mouse that eats Mickey Mouse? Is the Sugar Duck the Sweet Salted Duck? How come they wear pants and shoes? Are they monsters?" The second prince asked curiously. He had never heard of such a strange thing before. Weird story.
Cen Xijin frowned, and suddenly felt that it was a bit difficult to tell the story of Mickey Mouse. It felt like he would touch a book called "One Hundred Thousand Whys"!
