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"Brother, can you detoxify this pepper?

When Wulang heard his brother say that he could make money again, he couldn't help but get excited. Thinking that he would be able to make money from mushrooms soon, Wulang was also full of expectations for the poisonous pepper.

Ye Xiaozheng had personally witnessed his brother being poisoned, so he was somewhat wary of the poisonous pepper, but when he heard Wu Lang's question, he was also very curious.

"We can't completely remove the poison from this pepper, otherwise it will lose its value. We just need to significantly reduce its toxicity."

Ye Changyan thought, if this pepper is not spicy at all, it will just become a vegetable pepper, and the value of the pepper itself will be gone.

"Then the poison has not been completely removed. Is it still harmful to people?"

Wulang was still a little worried when he heard what his father had just said about his second uncle's miserable appearance.

"As long as you strictly follow my methods and steps, there will be no problem, don't worry."

Soon, Ye Changyan took out the gloves sewn by the cook of Chuyuan. The two brothers put on the gloves and spread the peppers in the basket on bamboo plates.

Ye Changyan also carefully picked out the rotten ones.

The two brothers dried all the peppers and took off their gloves. Wu Lang was surprised to find that there were no symptoms of poisoning as his father had said. Only then did Wu Lang feel relieved.

When Lian and Erniu came back from the mountain, they saw several red fruits drying in bamboo baskets in the yard and were very curious.

Ye Changyan explained in detail to his family the precautions for drying the peppers, and in the next few days the task of drying the peppers fell on Wulang.

The fifteenth day of the lunar month is approaching, and the Ye family has been busy and fulfilling these days.

Although the Double Ninth Festival has passed, the sunshine in late autumn is still abundant.

Ye Xiaozheng is responsible for drying mushrooms every day and has developed his own set of experience.

Lian’s mother and daughter would go into the mountains every morning and afternoon. As the picking area expanded further, they still had a good harvest every day.

Every morning after drying the peppers, Wulang would follow his brother up the mountain with an axe and hammer to hammer them. On the way back, he would bring some firewood with him and after lunch he would review his lessons at home.

Ye Changyan goes into the mountains every day to test his mushroom-shocking technique. He focuses on several places where water flows and the air humidity is relatively high. He hopes that his mushroom-shocking technique can be successfully tested, which is crucial to how he will promote Rujixian in the future.

After Wulang dried the peppers for a few days, they were basically dried.

That evening, Ye Changyan planned to start his chili pepper experiment project.

Lian and Erniu both wore gloves and took scissors. They quickly cut all the peppers on a bamboo basket into two pieces according to Ye Changyan's request. Then they used a fine sieve to sift the pepper seeds, and kept the sieved pepper seeds for seeds.

"Erniu, you come and light the fire. Make sure it's as small as possible."

Erniu quickly lit the fire. She carefully controlled the temperature. Ye Changyan was very satisfied with Erniu's fire-making skills.

Ye Changyan poured a little rapeseed oil into the pot, and then poured the sieved chili segments into the pot.

Wulang kept pacing around the pot, looking forward to the birth of delicious food.

Ye Changyan held the spatula and kept stirring. Not long after, a pungent and spicy smell wafted into the air.

“A-choo! A-choo!…”

Wu Lang, who was guarding the pot, began to sneeze non-stop, "Brother, what's going on? Why is it so strong?"

"A-choo! A-choo! ..."

Erniu, who was making the fire, also started to sneeze.

Ye Xiaozheng and Lian, who were not far away, were picking mushrooms they had picked up today. They were soon sneezed by the pungent smell.

"A-choo! Aren't we detoxifying this poisonous pepper?"

Ye Changyan couldn't resist the pungent smell and sneezed.

"This thing is really poisonous! I almost feel poisoned by the pungent smell before I even touch it."

After a while, Ye Changyan saw that the surface of the peppers had turned slightly burnt, so he asked Erniu to turn off the heat. Amid a series of sneezes, Ye Changyan stir-fried the peppers for a while before shoveling all the peppers in the pot into a bamboo plate.

"Hiss, this pungent smell has finally dissipated!"

Goro noticed that the pungent smell floating in the air was gone, and he took a deep breath.

Ye Changyan touched the fried peppers in the bamboo basket, which had become cool and crispy.

Then he put a small amount of chili peppers into the mortar hole prepared in advance, picked up the wooden pestle, and began to pound the chili peppers carefully.

As time goes by, the peppers in the mortar begin to emit a special aroma with a slightly spicy taste.

"Wow, although it has a bit of spicy taste, it's not pungent and it smells so good!"

Goro, who was watching from the side, was surprised when he smelled the fragrance.

Ye Xiaozheng was picking dried mushrooms when he smelled the faint spicy aroma and came over to check.

Lian and Erniu, who had just finished frying mushroom strips nearby, also smelled an unprecedented fragrance and came over.

"Wulang, come and finish pounding the rest."

Ye Changyan scooped out the pounded peppers from the mortar and gave instructions.

"Erniu, light the fire. Let's have a different kind of noodles tonight."

Ye Changyan took out the noodles he had bought a few days ago, and then brought out a ceramic bowl, put lard, salt, sugar, soy sauce, pepper powder and chicken meat in it, and then put in two large spoonfuls of chicken mushroom oil, and finally scooped out a large spoonful of chicken mushroom oil.

Seeing that the water was boiling, Ye Changyan scooped a large ladle of boiling water into the ceramic basin, and then put the noodles into the pot. After the noodles were cooked for a while, he threw the spinach that had been washed in advance into the pot.

After a while, Ye Changyan picked up a noodle, tasted it, and found it was cooked.

"Erniu, Xiaohuo."

Ye Changyan scooped all the noodles and spinach from the pot into the ceramic basin. He then wrapped the wok with a towel, poured the hot water from the wok into the sink, rinsed the wok with water, and put it back on the stove.

"The fire can be increased."

After the water in the pot was boiled dry, Ye Changyan added a small amount of rapeseed oil into the pot.

Then, Ye Changyan scooped two spoonfuls of the chili powder he had just pounded and sprinkled it on the noodles he had just picked up, and then sprinkled minced ginger, garlic and chopped green onions on it.

Soon the rapeseed oil in the pot began to emit a fragrant aroma and green smoke.

"Erniu, turn off the engine."

Ye Changyan picked up the spatula, scooped up the hot oil in the pot, and poured it onto the noodles sprinkled with chili powder, onion, ginger and garlic.

Under the stimulation of the hot oil, a special aroma mixed with the aroma of ginger, garlic, chopped green onion, and a light spicy taste wafted away instantly.

"Wow! It smells so good!"

Wu Lang, who was pounding peppers nearby, quickly put down the wooden pestle in his hand and ran over in two steps. As he was stimulated by the strong aroma, Wu Lang kept swallowing his saliva.

"Shh, so fragrant and delicious, another bowl please!"

Wulang's face was flushed red from the spiciness, and his forehead, nose tip and chin were all covered with crystal clear beads of sweat.