Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 295

September and October are also the seasons for harvesting peppers.

Ryan Cui asked people to clear half of the yard at home to plant peppers. They started harvesting in September and continued until the frost came. In total, they harvested about 200 kilograms of fresh peppers.

This amount of peppers was enough to grow and give. He dried the big ones and stored them, leaving only about ten pounds of fresh ones for the cook to try pickling. The cook was used to frying pepper oil last year, but he didn't dare to pickle it, so he simply took the meat and chicken from the host's house to ask the Xie family's cook for help - Southern cooks are good at pickling side dishes and making sauces, so they always have some experience.

Ryan Cui didn't care what they could make. He packed several baskets of chili oil and dried chili powder and sent them to his teachers, students, relatives and old acquaintances as New Year gifts. He also sent some unseeded dried chilies to his maternal family in Yulin and his eldest sister's home in Sichuan, along with instructions on how to grow them so that they could grow and eat them themselves.

Li Dongyang just wanted to send some to his junior fellow student Yang Yiqing, so he asked his family if they could give it a ride on the way.