Soon, the wife of the villager Liu Gouer brought some food. These things were the same as what Chen Fei ate in that village, and they were all called "steamed cakes". This kind of steamed cake is also steamed buns, and the Tang Dynasty mainly ate "cakes". Steamed buns are called steamed cakes, boiled wonton dumpling noodles are called soup cakes, and most other staple foods are also called cakes. The staple food in the northern Tang Dynasty was mainly pasta, from the imperial family to ordinary people. Of course, now at the junction of wheat and corn, so both foods are eaten by people. As for corn, that is, yellow millet, but this yellow millet has been gradually replaced by wheat. Chen Fei would not hate steamed buns, because steamed buns were often eaten when they were in the army in later generations. In the military camp of the left guard, he also ate steamed buns with meat filling.

"Dou'er, let's have some together!" Chen Fei said.

In order to show that he is friendly to the people, Chen Fei ate the steamed buns with Liu Gou'er. Soon Liu Gou'er's wife brought a pot of vegetable soup, which was obviously made with some vegetables.

"Cache?" Chen Fei saw the vegetable and immediately said the name of the dish.

"Yes, County Magistrate Chen, this is cabbage. Some things we grow in our own home are not respectful! We all eat cabbage and there is nothing else to eat." Liu Gou'er said.

Chen Fei knew that ancient times were different from later generations. In fact, agriculture in ancient times also carried out a lot of division of labor. A group of people specialized in planting vegetables. However, in ancient times, many people were self-sufficient and did not need to buy vegetables. Many of the vegetables were grown by themselves. If they really wanted to buy, the price was not expensive, and the price was similar to that in later generations.

Chen Fei knew why the large-scale planting in later generations was similar to that in ancient times. Because the people in ancient times were self-sufficient, and vegetables were no exception. There were not many vegetable vendors in the middle to increase the price. Therefore, although the yield of vegetables in ancient times was small, it was similar to that in later generations. However, there was also a problem in ancient times, that is, there were very few types of vegetables, and the vegetables that people could afford were only two or three. If we were to use the statement in a TV series to describe it, that is, stir-fry radish and stir-fry radish, it would be good to make up for two dishes. Of course, it was not easy to be able to eat stir-fry. Because the technique of stir-frying in the Tang Dynasty was not invented, and it would take a hundred or two years before stir-frying. Now most of them are braised, and not everyone can eat braised vegetables. Generally, it is good to cook them with boiled water.

"Wanrou, eat it!" Chen Fei pulled Li Wanrou and said.

"No oil!" Li Wanrou seemed a little uncomfortable.

Chen Fei actually realized that although salt was added to this cabbage soup, there was no oil. Generally speaking, it was necessary to add oil to make vegetable soup, and there was no oil in this bowl of vegetable soup, so everyone ate it a little lightly.

"Miss, where can we afford oil here? Nowadays, oil is squeezed with flax, and flax is of high value and most people cannot afford it!" Liu Gou'er said.

Chen Fei thought for a while before he remembered that a middle school history textbook mentioned that sesame seeds were from the Western Regions, so the name shisha was given. The sesame cake was later called shisha cake in ancient times. In ancient China, the word "hushicha" liked to add the word "hushicha" in ancient times, and the same was true for carrots. There are many similar things, such as tomatoes, which are called tomatoes. The "fan" of tomato means foreign, which means that this thing is a foreign eggplant.

However, Chen Fei did not expect that in ancient times, sesame oil was used to press oil. Even in the 21st century, sesame sesame oil was all high-end seasonings and rarely used to cook directly. However, in ancient times, sesame oil was all used, and the price of sesame seeds in ancient times was even more expensive, so most people could not afford sesame oil. Sesame oil was too expensive, so only dignitaries could afford it. Chen Fei used to eat standard foods for officers in the military camp of the Left Supervisor Guard, and he ate standard foods for officers, all of which were meat-filled steamed buns. He didn't feel that there was any problem. But when he really reached the bottom of the Tang Dynasty society, all this proved that the people were much worse than those of later generations. All of these were factors of productivity, because the productivity was not good, which caused the people to live such "unhappiness". The so-called unhappiness was also aimed at Chen Fei, a later generation, and for the ancient people, they must have been very happy.

"Why don't you use soybeans to squeeze oil? Even without peanuts, soybeans should be OK!" Chen Fei asked.

"What are peanuts? What are soy?"

"You don't have to think about peanuts, and soybeans are small yellow particles, the kind that can sprout." Chen Fei said.

"Oh? We call that kind of thing Shu here, but I didn't expect there was another name called soy?" Liu Gou'er was a little surprised.

Chen Fei's face turned red because he didn't know that soybeans were called Shu in ancient times. However, Chen Fei knew that peanuts were a plant in South America. Before the West was voyage, China would not have peanuts, so it was naturally even more impossible to produce peanut oil. So Chen Fei settled for the second best and wanted soybean oil.

"Can Shu be able to squeeze oil? We haven't heard of this! But Shu was used to be grain, but now it has been hundreds of years since it has not been used as a staple food." said the Xiangzheng next to him.

"I don't even know how to use soybeans to squeeze oil?" Chen Fei immediately realized something.

"Then why don't you use lard?" Li Wanrou asked.

Because since you can’t afford to use sesame oil from plants, you can use lard! Although lard is not that delicious, it should be much cheaper!

Liu Gou'er immediately said: "The cheapest of all meat is pork, and the cheapest pork costs more than 250 cents per pound, so we can't afford it!"

"What a expensive pork!" Chen Fei exclaimed again.

When I heard that the cheapest pork costs 250 cents, this is simply more expensive. The 250 cents from the Tang Dynasty cost more than 100 yuan in later generations. Chen Fei even suspected that it was pork or Tang Monk's meat.

Li Wanrou was speechless again, and she actually exposed her "shallow-knowledge" side again. Chen Fei stroked Li Wanrou's head to comfort Li Wanrou. After all, she was the princess before, and it was impossible for her to know the price of ordinary folk products.
Chapter completed!