Chapter 89: Smooth
the other side.
He ran back quickly and closed the door of Xiangjingzhai. Seeing that the guards did not chase him anymore, Ye Shuo immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
“Mom! Look what I brought back!”
Hearing the noise outside, Concubine Rong slowly walked out of the room. Seeing the bucket of lively fish in her son’s hand, Concubine Rong was stunned.
Still, there really is…
“My son is really promising.” As expected of a royal concubine, in her eyes, even if Ye Shuo only caught a few fish, he was as good as someone who saved the world.
Ye Shuo has become accustomed to this.
It was getting dark, and after the fish was cleaned in the small kitchen, Ye Shuo took out the grill, lit the charcoal, put the fish on the grill, and sprinkled salt, cumin, chili powder, etc. on it. Soon the aroma wafted far away.
I have to say here that chili peppers have actually been around for a long time. It is recorded in Lüshi Chunqiu·Xiaoxinglan·Benwei: “Harmony must be sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty”, and “Tongsuwen” even said: “Spicy is called spicy”. From this, we can know that the “spicy” here refers to the spicy taste.