In the kitchen, several chefs and chefs were gathering together to study the pepper in the sheepskin pocket. When they saw Chen Xu walking in happily, they all stood up and bowed.

"No gifts, please go and get the wooden mortar and help me prepare a few thick pottery trays. Remember that it is a pottery tray, not a porcelain tray, and the grill is also ready. Also, go and buy a large piece of fresh beef for me..."

Chen Xu gave a series of instructions, and a group of chefs immediately scattered and prepared things.

Chen Xu rolled up his sleeves and took out a handful of pepper from his leather pocket again to watch carefully. He smelled the smell of the leather pocket and frowned and ordered to find a clean bamboo plaque.

The pepper originally tasted pure, but it took a long time to put it in this sheepskin pocket, and it had a mutton smell.

Soon a kitchen worker brought a bamboo plaque. Chen Xu personally cleaned the bamboo plaque and poured the pepper inside. At this time, a kitchen worker brought the wooden mortar. Chen Xu held about half a pound and let the kitchen worker pound it into powder. The rest were brought outside to dry. He also ordered to find a brand new pot to put it in the drying. Chen Xu began to prepare oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, green onion, ginger and garlic.

Ying Shiman and Meng Wan came in while busy, Xing'er and Yu Ji ran over at some point and watched together by the stove.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang ~"

As the kitchen workers kept pounding the pestle, a spicy smell of pepper soon emanated from the kitchen. Xing'er and Yu Ji coughed and began to pinch their noses.

"Husband, what food are you planning to cook? Do you want us to help?" Meng Wan asked with her nose curiously.

"No, it's a bit harsh here. You can go and play for a while. When you buy the beef, I'll make black pepper steak for you!" Chen Xu waved his hand and said.

"Sister, it's very harsh here. Let's go to the study to write the story of Acacia Tree first?" Meng Wan couldn't hold on.

"Okay!" Ying Shiman nodded, and the two women left hand in hand. Xing'er and Yu Ji saw that they were not able to eat for the time being, so they turned around and ran away.

"Ahem~~"

The butler came in from outside and was immediately choked by the smell of pepper. He immediately coughed and tears fell. Chen Xu couldn't stand it himself, so he found a mask to bring it with him.

I have only seen pepper powder before, and the smell was not so good, but I didn’t expect that the fresh pepper would taste so strong after being mashed. However, Chen Xu was very happy. The smell smelled much more fragrant than the pepper in the steak restaurant.

"Mr. Marquis, Marquis Di Dao and Marquis Yinshan have all been counted. They are worth a lot, with a total of more than 50,000 yuan... Cough, Marquis, what are you doing? Are you the black seeds that the chefs are drying outside just now?" The butler said, covering his nose.

"Well, this thing is called pepper, and it is very delicious to make beef and mutton!" Chen Xu nodded while working.

"Pepper? Could it be that it's not the product of my Central Plains?" the housekeeper asked in confusion.

"Yes, this spice comes from the extreme west. It should have been stolen from the Huns by Marquis Di Dao and Marquis Yinshan. This spice is extremely precious and priced at the price of gold. We do not produce it in the Central Plains. Therefore, we must give instructions to take care of it carefully. Don't be harmed by the chickens and ducks in the yard..."

"Compared with gold? It's so precious?" The housekeeper was stunned for a long time and said with ecstasy expression on his face, "Mr. Marquis, last year, Marquis went back to Nanyang to visit relatives, and Mr. Yingbu also sent a bag, but the old servant didn't know him, and thought he was worthless and he threw it in the warehouse..."

"It's a waste of resources, go and find it for me!" Chen Xu was surprised and a little unhappy.

It seems that the butler of the villain in the villa seems to be a change. He has no strategic vision at all. He is not as good as those of the reckless men like Yingbu and Jiang Hu and Li Xin. I wonder if my favorite thing is all kinds of delicious foods. I collect seeds of various plants all over the world. You are so blind that you throw such a good thing in the warehouse.

The housekeeper hurried away and returned in a hurry less than ten minutes later, but his face was very entangled and ugly. He stood carefully at the kitchen door with a leather pocket tightly in his arms.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xu turned around with a kitchen knife, feeling a little bad premonition.

Looking at the shiny steel kitchen knife in Chen Xu's hand, the housekeeper shivered in fear and said with a pale face and stuttering: "Hou...Hou, Mr. Pepper... The old servant of Pepper didn't keep it well. The skin was bitten by a mouse, and it leaked a lot, and it was a little moldy..."

Chen Xuduo inserted the kitchen knife on the chopping board, and the housekeeper was frightened and shivered again.

"Show me!" Chen Xu took the sheepskin pocket in the butler's hand, and many peppers fell all over the floor through a hole.

A kitchen worker next to him quickly caught it with a bamboo plaque. Chen Xu opened his leather pocket and took a look, then grabbed it with his hand and smelled it, and his face suddenly turned dark.

Sure enough, I felt a tide and a musty smell when I bought it.

"Mr. Marquis, the old servant did something wrong. Please punish him!" The housekeeper was so embarrassed that he did not dare to look up.

Chen Xu didn't say anything, poured all the pepper in his pocket into the bamboo plaque, and found that many had begun to grow moldy and clump.

"Mr. Marquis, these peppers are moldy and cannot be eaten. It seems that they can only be poured out!" A chef reminded him with great distress.

The housekeeper instantly made another move.

Just now, everyone in the kitchen heard what Chen Xu said. The price of pepper is comparable to gold. This pocket is at least seven or eight kilograms. If it is exchanged for gold, it is worth more than 20,000 yuan, and the butler's annual salary is only 3,000 yuan. It takes seven or eight years to repay the loss if he doesn't eat or drink.

"It's not enough to eat it anymore. It's a pity to pour it out. Although the sowing season has passed, I'm still arranged for people to make a piece of land sowing to see if it can sprout. I hope the seeds have not rotted!" Chen Xu sighed regretfully and stood up.

"Yes, my servant will make arrangements now!" The butler breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Well, remember, this thing is said to be not easy to plant in my Central Plains, and the temperature and climate are not adapted very well. It is estimated that the humid and hot south will be easier to survive. But since it is moldy, you can try sowing as a live horse. Take it to find a place close to the water source. Don't be too sunny. Sprinkle water in time after sowing, and cover some plants and trees to shade. If it sprouts, tell me in time! By the way, choose a piece of land with half a pound of large and plump peppers to sow seeds, and arrange for people to take care of them carefully."

"Yes, marquis don't worry, the old servant will arrange for someone to take good care of him!" The housekeeper left with a bamboo plaque as if he was amnesty.

The original origin of pepper was India.

Because India is warm and humid, many fruits, vegetables, and crops such as cucumbers, eggplants, carrots, onions, as well as cotton, etc. were from India. Pepper was also produced in later generations in China, and the production areas are all in the south. Vietnam and Thailand are also important pepper production areas. I have never heard of pepper being able to grow in the Central Plains and the North, mainly because the climate and soil are not suitable.

The current Daqin is completely different from China two thousand years later. The entire Central Plains is still very warm and humid. The distribution range of rhinos and elephants is still very bright. It is heard from time to time in the Qinling area. The entire Loess Plateau is full of lush and primitive forests. The Yellow River is not as turbid as later generations. There are reeds and large farmlands above ten feet high. The vegetation is lush and diverse species. Because of its sparse population, it is full of primitive smell.

Therefore, as long as the pepper can germinate, it may be successfully cultivated in Xianyang. If it doesn’t work, it is possible to arrange for people to take some to the south to plant it, and the possibility of success is still very high.

If pepper is successfully grown, mustard, a very spicy seasoning, can slowly withdraw from the ranks of seasonings. Chinese people like spicy food, not spicy food. Moreover, pepper is also a very good medicinal material, which has the effects of strengthening the stomach and digesting food and relieving pain. It is a very good spice for medicinal food.

After preparing the tools and seasonings for steak frying in the kitchen, I waited for nearly half an hour before the servant who went to buy meat came back on his horse and sweating profusely, bringing back a piece of fresh beef and a whole half of sheep.

"Mr. Marquis, I went late today. The beef in the vegetable market was almost sold out, and there were only some horn tendons left. So I took my own initiative to buy half of the sheep. Do you think it's okay?" The servant looked at Chen Xu with a little nervousness.

"Okay, beef and mutton are fine!" Chen Xu happily ordered the chef to move all beef and mutton into the kitchen.

This piece of beef looks like only five or six kilograms. Although there are many people in the Hou Mansion, it is definitely not enough to eat it, but it is definitely no problem to use it to taste and satisfy your cravings. Especially now, Yu Wuya, a foodie, is not in the mansion, and consumes more than half of it.

Chen Xu washed his hands and rolled up his sleeves, put on his clothes and put on a chef's hat and did it himself. A group of chefs and chefs stood by and watched.

Generally speaking, the Marquis only cooks fresh dishes, and the chef has to watch carefully and learn as soon as possible. Once Chen Xu learns, he will not do it again. It will be the chef's business in the future. If you want to eat, you will ask the kitchen to make it. Moreover, after learning many new dishes, you will have to go to the imperial kitchen in the palace to teach them to the imperial kitchen, and you will not be careless at all.

Chen Xu looked very serious and serious.

He had only eaten black pepper steak in fast food restaurants before, but he had never made it himself.

But since he traveled to Daqin, he has slowly made many foods according to his interpretation.

Pure green and ecological ingredients plus almost pure wild ingredients, although there are only simple condiments such as sauce and salt, the food tastes even more delicious than later generations.

Therefore, Chen Xu did not have much psychological burden on this fried steak.

As long as there is pepper, no matter how you make it, it will be pepper steak. I think the taste will not be much worse. It is better than cooking frogs with onions, ginger, garlic and salt in Xiaohe Village.

When Chen Xu thought of boiling frogs in clear water, he instantly remembered the heroic and craziness of Niu Dashi's cooking of the whole frog.

A can of frogs with skin appeared in front of him, and Chen Xu shivered slightly.

I have to make a pepper steak to suppress my shock, otherwise the frog will vomit if I think too much.
Chapter completed!