Chapter 929 The Source of Lima Beans, Tawantingsuyu!

Chapter 929 The source of lima beans, Tawantingsuyu!

One day hangover and faint, one day uneasy. It wasn't until three days after the night drink that Priest Mecate received the official order to take full responsibility for the task of recruiting the Black Snake. And the personal guard in charge of delivering the order also brought a message from His Majesty to let him forget the complaints he heard that night, and just pretend nothing happened.

Only then did Priest Mecate heaved a long sigh of relief. He felt as if he had run around from the edge of the endless black abyss and came back alive.

"God bless you! Accompanying His Majesty...is really like accompanying a jaguar in the jungle!..."

Priest Mecate shook his head secretly, carrying a royal decree from His Majesty, and went to look for the old militiaman Chivaco. He searched around the city, and then went outside the city again, and finally saw the old militiamen squatting in a bean field in a daze in the nearest village.

"Meccat, you came at the right time! Show me the divinity of these three kinds of beans... Oh! Which one is better!"

The old militiaman wore a straw hat and held a long grass stalk in his mouth. After returning from Cuba, His Majesty also gave him an errand, which was to study the cultivation of different crops, water and fertilizer, growth, breeding, pest damage... and so on.

His Majesty called this "agriculture", and the position given to him was the head of the agronomy department of Shenwei University, which was said to be equivalent to a second-level priest of divine revelation. In addition, His Majesty also gave him a textbook on agronomy and a "scripture" on breeding inspired by the gods, asking him to find literate priests and read them to him from time to time.

Of these two books, the agricultural book is the better one. Seed selection, germination, water and fertilizer, climate, he has been planting the land for so many years, and he can roughly understand it, but he has not learned it systematically. As for the "divine revelation scriptures" on breeding, it is said that they directly point to the origin of all things, but they all sound very mysterious, just like the mysterious inheritance of priests.

The old militiaman asked someone to read it again, and he was dizzy when he heard it. There were all kinds of "light and dark gods are entangled in pairs", "the divinity of light is higher than darkness, it is dominant", "the gods of light and dark The sexes are freely combined and distributed independently, and each determines the appearance", "the twenty-three laws are gathered in the body, and twenty-seven thousand pairs of divinities are condensed into a human being"... These are brainless and very bluffing things. While drinking at night a few days ago, he plucked up the courage to ask His Majesty again, and His Majesty actually asked him to plant beans, saying that "beans are relatively simple, and can best see what divinity and laws"...

"Captain Qi, why are you here? I've been looking for you in the city for a long time, and I didn't even know you were here unless Didi told me!..."

Priest Mecate wiped the sweat from his brow, and squatted side by side beside the field ridge, leaning close to the old militiaman.

"It's better to stay in the field than to be in the city! In case His Majesty asks us to drink again, and then sends us to do some terrible work..."

Speaking of this, the old militiaman Chivaco shook his head, his eyes full of regret. I thought well at first, when Cuba comes back, I won't go to sea even if I die! ...But he never expected that he would still go to the far southern continent, and he didn't know if he would come back alive... Thinking of this, he sighed again, staring at the three kinds of beans in the field, and talked about the farm work that made him relax.

"Priest Mecate, look, these three kinds of beans are the most common in the world. This thin vine, winding up and climbing up, is kidney beans (kidney beans), green, yellow, and purple. Black. Kingdoms, alliances, every piece of Mirpari is planted, and the village also eats it as a staple food. This stuff is better to grow, but it has to be cooked and eaten..."

Hearing this, Priest Mecate hesitated to speak. He glanced at the attentive old militiaman Chivaco, and had no choice but to agree first.

"That's right! The Lord God blesses you! This kind of easy-growing bean is a crop bestowed by the Lord God to the world... and it is also a bean for common people!"

"Hmm... common people's beans are so easy to grow..."

The old militiaman's old eyes flickered, and he stretched out his hand again, touching another kind of bean next to him. The bean has pinnate compound leaves like the bean, butterfly-like purple and white flowers, and long, flattened pods. At first glance, this kind of pod looks like an obsidian knife, so it is also called "sword bean" (Phaseolus lunatus).

"This sword bean is very similar to a kidney bean, and likes warm and humid soil. But they grow much taller than a kidney bean! It can grow forever, and it is taller than a person! It is also better at carrying insect pests, but Ah, despite being tall, the beans produced are not too many..."

"Indeed! The Lord God blesses you! This kind of tall sword bean is also a crop given to the world by the Lord God... and it is also a bean for warriors!..."

"Samurai's beans! . . . like a knife..."

The old militiaman shook his head slightly, but he didn't know what he thought of. He continued to reach out, carefully touching the last kind of bean.

This kind of bean is very similar to the other two kinds of beans, the vine is very thin, and the leaves are pinnate, and there is no difference. But the pods it produces have a smooth surface and are slippery to the touch. The old militiaman peeled off a pod, and the beans inside were flat and round, white or reddish in color, with a delicate feeling. And he took one and put it in his mouth, chewed it, and it was obvious that the beany smell was much less.

"Blessed by the Lord God! This is a delicious fine bean, and it is also a sacred priest's bean! The taste is very delicate, tender, and there is no earthy smell..."

This time, Priest Mecate spoke first. He knew the beans and had eaten them for many years. And before he became an apprentice priest, when he was helping his family farm in the village, after harvesting such high-quality beans, they would be used as tribute and handed over to the samurai team who collected food!

"That's right! The priest's beans are very delicious... But the yield is not much, they are not resistant to pests, and birds like to eat them..."

The old militiaman Chivaco nodded, and handed another one to Priest Mecate. Priest Mecate chewed it in his mouth, and was about to say something, but he listened to the old militiaman's voice.

"Mecart, do you know where this bean comes from?"

"Ah? This kind of beans... Uh, isn't it one of the crops that the Lord God gave to the world?"

Hearing this, Priest Mecate showed some doubts on his face. However, he soon understood. With all that said, it’s true that many crops, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, are grown from…

"Captain Qi, you mean, this kind of beans also come from the Southern Continent?!"

"Yes! Your Majesty said so..."

The old militiaman scratched his hair and sighed with regret.

"Your Majesty said, this kind of fine beans, priest beans... are actually called lima beans. And in the not-too-distant future, when we go south to explore, at least the end point we have to reach...is this legend bestowed by the Lord God. Bean place!...”

"We will take the priest's fine beans and go all the way south, asking the tribes along the way...to a seaside land where a great river flows...'Lima'! And there, we will definitely meet a prophesied sun-worshipper A powerful kingdom... yes, it is a kingdom, not a tribe. It will be very, very large, controlling the inland plateau, and the seashore along the coast, bigger than the current alliance and kingdom combined!..."

"And the name of this kingdom...according to what His Majesty said...is called 'The Kingdom of the Son of the Sun', 'The Alliance of the Four Places'...What, oh!...'His bowl is very crisp'...Tawantin Suyu!..."