"I've already asked someone to make it. You can just take it back when you go back. But I tell you, don't think about it anymore. I won't do this thing again," Lin Xuan said.
Dressing tables are now being sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Although it is a bit exaggerated, there are still a lot of people who will buy them for thousands of dollars.
In any era, there are rich and poor.
In the eyes of some people, a few thousand dollars is nothing at all.
But Lin Xuan has no intention of using this to make money. Some people may be willing to spend a few thousand dollars to buy a dressing table, but it will definitely not be more.
Where can I find a good deal on selling mirrors? A palm-sized mirror with an outer frame made of copper and a handle can be sold for hundreds of dollars.
Something about the same size as a bronze mirror can be sold for hundreds of pieces.
The mirror is fragile and if it breaks, you have to buy a new one.
Wherever you put the dressing table, as long as you don't smash it intentionally, it won't be broken at all. Even if it is valuable, how much can it be sold for?
Although Lin Xuan doesn't plan to sell it, he can't let it go out too much, otherwise it won't be rare anymore.
"Don't worry, you have already helped us so much, how can we have the nerve to trouble you again." Yuchi Baolin said with a smile.
Lin Xuan rolled his eyes, you guys are so shameless, how can you be embarrassed?
"If you have nothing to do, you can stay and have a meal at noon. I happened to have invented a new way to eat." Lin Xuan said.
"A new way to eat it? Then we have to try it." Cheng Chumo said with his eyes shining.
Stir-fried dishes have now spread throughout the Tang Dynasty. Although they have different tastes, they are very popular.
Their chefs all learned from the Lin family, and their taste is much better than those who have tried their own way.
Now that I heard that Lin Xuan has come up with a new way to eat it, I naturally want to try it.
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"Is this the new way of eating you said?" Cheng Chumo and the others stared at Lin Xuan with their eyes wide open.
At this time, there were two very 'strange pots' placed in the middle of the table.
The reason why it is described as strange is because the pot has a pointed top, a round barrel, a wide waist and abdomen in the middle, and a round belly suddenly appears. There are two animal pattern pull rings on the top and a round belly on the bottom.
It is a base, hollowed with patterns, and you can see the burning charcoal fire inside. The charcoal fire passes through the seemingly hollow belly of the furnace, and occasionally a few sparks are seen shooting out from the furnace barrel above.
They really didn't know whether it was a pot or a stove.
Among the two pots, one had a white soup base and the other had a red soup base. They were boiling with a "gudong, gudong" sound, and a lot of things they didn't recognize were added to them.
In addition, there are plates of dishes on the table, including green cabbage, spinach, tender yellow bean sprouts, dark wild mushrooms, and red and white mutton. Especially those plates of mutton, which are cut as thin as cicadas.
The wings are crystal clear and will whet your appetite just by looking at them.
The problem is, these are all raw.
Lin Xuan nodded and said, "Yes, you guys should try it quickly."
Cheng Chumo and the others looked at each other, how could they eat?
"Haha." Lin Xuan laughed at their looks and stopped teasing them. He picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of mutton, put it in the bottom of the red pot, brushed it for a while, took it out and blew on it, and stuffed it.
In the mouth.
"It's great!" Although I breathed cold air from being burned, my heart was filled with excitement.
He had wanted to eat hot pot before, but although the weather was cold at that time, the mutton could not be frozen hard.
The knife at this time is not very fast. When the mutton is not frozen hard, it is impossible to cut it very thin.
He experimented once and then gave up.
It snowed the day before yesterday and the temperature dropped sharply, so he had people prepare it today.
Seeing Lin Xuan's intoxicated look, Cheng Chumo and others imitated Lin Xuan, picked up the mutton, put it in the pot and started cooking it.
Cheng Chumo was the most impatient. He immediately took it out and started eating it as soon as it entered the pot.
Lin Xuan was a little speechless. Although the mutton was cut very thin and the blood was no longer visible when it was put into the pot, it tasted almost the same as raw meat.
Cheng Chumo didn't spit out the meat because it was undercooked. Instead, he breathed out from the hot pepper.
When he regained his composure, he shouted: "It feels so good!"
He felt a surge of heat in his body and felt comfortable all over.
Although the weather is very cold now, there is a stove in the room and the fire under the hot pot, so I don't feel cold at all. However, this heat flow comes from within, and the feeling is fundamentally different.
"That's enough, Chu Mo. If you want to trick us into eating chili peppers, you don't have to be so exaggerated, right?" Yuchi Baolin said speechlessly.
They didn't realize why the pot was red before, but when they heard Cheng Chumo yelling for spicy food, they remembered the fear of eating chili peppers last time, so they dared to eat it.
However, Qin Huaidao and Li Dejiao were cooking in another pot. They looked at Lin Xuan and asked, "Zi Chu, is this pot not spicy?"
Lin Xuan nodded and said: "Yes, of these two pots, the red one is spicy and the white one is not spicy."
Qin Huaidao and the two of them felt relieved and started eating.
When Yuchi Baolin said this, Cheng Chumo said a little unhappy: "What did I do? If you are afraid of spicy food, just eat something that is not spicy."
After saying that, he picked up another piece of meat and put it in the spicy pot. Just like before, he brushed it and started eating.
Yuchi Baolin looked at the meat in his hand and hesitated. Cheng Chumo probably wouldn't eat spicy food just to fool him.
After thinking about it, Yuchi Baolin gritted his teeth and stuffed the meat into his mouth.
Yuchi Baolin was so angry that he burst into tears and scolded Cheng Chumo all over his heart. But with so many people around, he was too embarrassed to spit it out and could only swallow it.
"Cool!"
When the meat entered his only son, Yuchi Baolin made the same cry as Cheng Chumo.
Qin Huaidao and Li Dejiao looked at Yuchi Baolin, a little puzzled.
The pot bottom they ate was not spicy, and it didn't taste as good as the stir-fry. I really couldn't figure out why Cheng Chumo and the others had such expressions.
Is it possible that spicy food tastes better?
Lin Xuan was too lazy to pay attention to them and made the dipping sauce himself.
"There is dipping sauce here, you can adjust it according to your own taste." Lin Xuan said to several people.
Cheng Chumo immediately put down his chopsticks and went to mix the dipping sauce.
He thought very simply. This way of eating was invented by Lin Xuan. Since Lin Xuan had to make some kind of dipping sauce, it would definitely taste better with dipping sauce.
"Zi Chu, what is this way of eating called?" Qin Huaidao asked.
Lin Xuan smiled and said: "Hot pot."
Qin Huaidao praised: "There is fire in the pot, which is quite appropriate. It's just that they didn't like chili peppers before, why do they like them now?"
Li Dejiang also looked at Lin Xuan strangely.
"You will know after you try it." Lin Xuan smiled.
At this time, people had not developed the habit of eating spicy food.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were main ingredients for preparing "spicy" flavor. People mostly used ginger and mustard or dogwood. However, after Lin Xuan tasted it, he felt that dogwood was closer to the taste of chili pepper.
Cornus officinalis is also called "Yuejiao". "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that eating Cornus officinalis "has a pungent and bitter taste. The native people pick it in August, pound and filter the juice, add lime and stir it into a mixture. It is called mugwort oil, also called spicy rice oil. The taste is
Spicy, used in food."
Although Cornus officinalis has a similar taste to chili peppers, it has a somewhat bitter taste and is not liked by many people.
This is also the reason why chili pepper replaced dogwood later.
Qin Huaidao and Li Dejiao, hesitantly, brushed a piece of meat on the bottom of the spicy pot and ate it.
They felt very hot at first, but when the warmth came from inside, they fell in love with this feeling.
Lin Xuan secretly laughed. The ancients first ate chili peppers to keep warm. Over time, they fell in love with them.
And some people who live in places that are not very cold are not particularly good at eating spicy food.
Especially the Lingnan people don’t like it at all.