Looking at the animal bones that Chen Han pulled out from the pile of soil.

A very vivid scene appeared in Kong Wenjian's mind.

Four thousand years ago, in this rammed earth house that once stood on the ground of Lajia.

A Chinese ancestor who had just finished his work and returned home took a steaming pottery bowl from his wife's hand.

In the bowl, there is a ball of light yellow noodles, a few pieces of minced meat with bones, and maybe a few vegetable leaves floating in the soup.

The meat is tender, the gluten is tender, and the soup is fresh.

Take a nice sip and feel comfortable from head to toe.

However, before he had time to enjoy this rich bowl of lunch, a sudden disaster happened.

The bowl of noodles was also knocked over in panic and fell to the ground.

With this click, four thousand years have passed.

This bowl of noodles that was too late to enjoy has become one of the most precious discoveries in the Lajia ruins that was suddenly destroyed by disaster.

It also allows modern people like them, through this bowl of noodles, to get a glimpse of the food culture of the La family four thousand years ago.

Kong Wenjian held up these bone fragments with almost trembling hands and said excitedly: "Quick, pack them together and send them to the capital as quickly as possible!"

"Let people from the Academy of Sciences help verify what kind of animal bone fragments these are!"

Now, Kong Wenjian was four to five percent confident that the bowl of upside-down food that Chen Han accidentally discovered was a bowl of noodles from four thousand years ago!

It’s basically certain that this thing must be food, and it looks so much like noodles.

The pottery bowl turned upside down on the ground creates a semi-vacuum effect, which can indeed delay or even prevent food from spoiling.

The rationality of this preservation has also been explained.

There are always signs that this thing may be noodles!

Once the evidence is confirmed, it will shock the world!

...

Chen Han's unintentional discovery caused a sensation in the entire Lajia site archaeological excavation site within two hours.

From construction site No. 1 to construction site No. 4, all archaeologists knew that a noodle-like relic was discovered at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences!

This is amazing!

Members of archaeological teams from various places, as long as they were not nervous about the work at hand, immediately put down their work and came to No. F20 to explore and watch.

Unfortunately, when they received the news and rushed there, it was already too late.

The entire pile of soil underneath the pottery bowl was removed, and after simple protection, it was escorted back to Beijing by a dedicated person.

In order to speed up the process, send it back as soon as possible and reduce the weathering of physical evidence, Kong Wenjian even asked the local government for help and opened a green channel.

That night, this bowl of "noodles" from four thousand years ago was delivered to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences, which had received the news in advance, solemnly formed a team composed of experts in biology, chemistry, and botany, and immediately took over the research work on this suspected noodle substance.

"No, are there really noodles that can last for four thousand years?"

In a highly confidential laboratory affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

When I saw the light yellow strip in the tight packaging.

Jiang Jizhou, a researcher from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was shocked.

He carefully took out the almost dry relics from the package and carefully divided them into a dozen small portions.

Next to him, Zou Shu, an assistant researcher from the Institute of Microbiology, who was helping him pack specimens, asked with a puzzled look:

"Professor Jiang, didn't you say that noodles were introduced to China from the Middle East through the Silk Road?"

"Before the Han Dynasty, didn't we have the habit of eating noodles?"

Jiang Jizhou rolled his eyes at him angrily: "That's not necessarily true."

"It is just a mainstream speculation in academic circles to say that the craftsmanship of Chinese noodles was introduced from the Middle East."

“Wheat has been cultivated in my country for 10,000 years!”

“In 1985 and 1986, carbonized wheat and barley grains dating back about 5,000 years were discovered twice in the Donghuishan Neolithic site.”

"This is proven by the discovery of physical objects."

"At least five thousand years ago, our Chinese ancestors had domesticated wild wheat and cultivated it artificially on a large scale."

"During the five thousand years, has no one of our Chinese ancestors ever tried to make noodles?"

Although Jiang Jizhou somewhat agrees, China's large-scale noodle making and eating techniques came from the Middle East.

After all, according to historical records, various noodle products began to appear one after another starting from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The timing is indeed consistent with the prosperity of the Silk Road.

But if he said that before the Eastern Han Dynasty, no Chinese had tried to make noodles, he didn't believe it.

After all, the Chinese people have been cultivating wheat for thousands of years, and the process of making flour products is not difficult.

There must have been sporadic instances of individuals making pasta throughout history.

However, due to the speed of news dissemination in ancient times and various external factors, it was difficult for a few people to make pasta and spread it across China all at once.

It is even more difficult to shake the status of millet and broomcorn millet as the staple food of Chinese people.

It may only be popular in one or two villages, and it is difficult to become the mainstream.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty, after hundreds of years of influence from the Silk Road, that the conditions and space for pasta to become popular may have appeared.

Even so, it took five hundred years for pasta to defeat millet and broomcorn millet during the Tang Dynasty, and truly became the mainstream food of northerners.

Jiang Jizhou carefully sliced ​​a piece of the relics unearthed from the Lajia site into slices, put it under a microscope, and observed it.

In order to determine what this lump of substance suspected to be noodles is made of, the research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences must conduct rigorous and tedious sampling analysis and comparison.

First of all, we naturally start with the comparison of wheat, the main plant for making pasta.

However, something unexpected happened to Jiang Jizhou.

After scientific confirmation, it is certain that this thing is not made of wheat!

"Isn't this a face?"

Faced with this reasonable and unexpected result, Jiang Jizhou felt very regretful and puzzled.

Since it's not wheat, what is this light yellow strip of food made of?

Being able to enter the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiang Jizhou is naturally a very talented scientific researcher.

Soon, he got out of his strange thinking circle.

Isn’t wheat the only thing in the world that can make noodles?

Buckwheat, highland barley, soybeans and other plants can also be used to make noodles using complex techniques!

Thinking of this, Jiang Jizhou immediately expanded the scope of comparison, and even some food crops that could not be made into noodles, but could be used as human staple foods, also entered his comparison scope.

Soon, buckwheat, highland barley, soybeans, rice and other food crops were eliminated one by one.

A result that surprised Jiang Jizhou appeared. The composition of this thin yellowish curly food was very similar to that of millet and millet!

And it also contains a small amount of fat and animal bone fragments!

In other words, this bowl of "noodles" from four thousand years ago is actually made of millet!

However, after figuring out the ingredients, a bigger question posed in front of Jiang Jizhou.
Chapter completed!