Space Farming: Pampered

Chapter 70 A Delicious Food

"It's mid-to-late June now, shouldn't the crops in the field be ripe?" Shen Mu asked.

"It's mature, and many people have already started harvesting."

"But even if this season's grain is not affected, when it is planted again, I am afraid that the seedlings will be eaten up by locusts as soon as they emerge."

……

The group discussed until noon, and after a hasty lunch, they talked about the sunset, but they still couldn't come up with any good solution.

While serving dinner, Wu Qiuniang served him a meal, looked at his frowning and asked, "Why does he look so preoccupied? But what trouble did you encounter?"

Shen Mu then told about the locusts.

Shen Yunyu and the others heard the words and thought for a while, but there was no good solution.

Shen Jintang thought of the methods of controlling locusts in the books he read in his previous life.

She swallowed the food in her mouth and said slowly: "Father, locusts are a delicacy with high protein content.

You can mobilize the people to catch them with nets, so that there will be an extra delicious meal on the dinner table, and the damage of locusts will be reduced. "

After thinking for a while, she continued, "The crops are ripe now. We can wait for the people to harvest the crops and put some ducks in the fields. They are the natural enemies of locusts."

Shen Mu's eyes lit up when he heard the words, looked at Shen Jintang and quickly asked, "Really?"

It was the first time he had heard that locusts were delicacy.

He didn't understand the words like protein, but it seemed to mean very nutritious and nourishing.

Ducks are the natural enemies of locusts, and this is the first time he has heard of it.

If this method is feasible, then there will be no need to be afraid of locust plagues in the future.

Early the next morning, Shen Mu hurriedly ate breakfast, and asked his master Dong Hongyu to invite Liang Deyu, the county magistrate.

Informed the three of them that locusts are edible and that ducks are natural enemies of locusts.

The three of them said dubiously after hearing the words: "Can this duck really deal with so many locusts?"

As for the fact that locusts are edible, they automatically ignored them.

What a joke, who wants to eat bugs.

But no matter what, since they already knew that the duck can control locusts, they had to give it a try.

However, in such a large place as Yichang County, a certain number of ducks are needed to find them.

So, they first found hundreds of ducks and rushed to the crop fields that were most severely affected by locusts.

Seeing this, the common people were at a loss as to what they were doing.

It wasn't until seeing the ducks eating all the larvae and eggs of the locusts that they reacted with surprise.

"Here, this duck actually eats locusts?"

"In this way, as long as there are locusts in the future, we can just drive ducks into the fields."

Shen Mu and the others saw the effect with their own eyes, and confirmed that the duck can indeed prevent and control locusts, and they couldn't hide their joy on their faces.

On the other side, Shen Jintang brewed mulberry wine for half the night in the space.

I slept until the sun was high before getting up.

After breakfast, she also went out for a walk with Shen Yunxuan and Shen Yunxuan brothers.

The three brothers and sisters are all dragons and phoenixes, and they have attracted many people's attention as soon as they go out.

There were even some bold women who came forward and threw handkerchiefs on Shen Yunxuan and Shen Yunxuan brothers.

Shen Jintang couldn't help but laugh seeing the two of them blushing in embarrassment.

An angry Shen Yunxuan said that she had no conscience.

When the three brothers and sisters reached a field with crops, they saw a family catching locusts all over the ground.

Shen Jintang went forward to borrow their nets, caught some locusts and packed them up.

"Girl, why are you still packing up these harmful bugs?" The woman in the family frowned and said, "Quickly put them down and trample them to death, we can't let them go."

Shen Jintang smiled when he heard the words, and said slowly: "I took this home to make and eat."

"What?" The woman was startled.

"Can this locust be eaten?" She asked in shock.

Shen Jintang nodded: "Of course they can be eaten. They all grew up eating grain and grass, and they are not dirty."

"Just fry it like this?" The woman asked curiously.

"Frying or grilling is fine." Shen Jintang said, "Before cooking, they must be cleaned first, and then their wings should be cut off."

Seeing that the woman was still dubious, Shen Jintang said, "You will know after you go home and try it, and it doesn't cost much."

……

When he got home, Shen Jintang threw all the locusts into the water to wash them several times, and then cut off their wings.

Shen Yunxuan and Shen Yunxuan looked at her, and said in surprise: "Sister, are you really going to make this locust to eat?"

"Big brother and second brother, when I make it, you will know that this is really edible." Shen Jintang said.

At noon that day, there was an extra dish of fried locusts on the dining table of Shen Jintang's family.

Shen Mu's food tasted good, so he specially saved some and took them to the front county government office.

He plans to share this fried locust dish with Dong Shiye and the three of them.

When Master Dong and the others came to the county government office after lunch, they saw a plate still on the desk in front of Shen Mu, and asked in surprise, "My lord, haven't you finished your lunch yet?"

Shen Mu raised his head from the official document, asked them to sit down with a smile, pointed to the plate of fried locusts in front of him and said with a smile: "I have already had lunch, this new dish is newly made by my daughter .

It tastes good after I eat it, so I brought it here for you to try. "

Master Dong and others heard the words, stepped forward quickly, and when they saw the plate of fried locusts on the table, they said in surprise: "This, aren't these locusts?"

Shen Mu nodded with a smile, stretched out his hand and squeezed one into his mouth to eat.

"That's right, my taste is no worse than meat, you should try it too."

Master Dong and the others were a little hesitant when they heard the words.

Are locusts really edible?
It can be seen that Shen Mu ate in front of them, and they couldn't refuse, so they had to bite the bullet and stretched out their hands to squeeze one into their mouths.

After chewing twice, his eyes lit up.

Master Fu loves to eat, as long as it is delicious, he will not pick anything.

Immediately, he squeezed another one and put it in his mouth: "This locust is really edible, and it tastes really good."

Liang Xiancheng and Master Dong also nodded, and the movement of putting locusts into their mouths was no slower than him.

After a while, the small plate of locusts that Shen Mu left for them was exhausted.

"It's gone?" Mr. Fu smacked his mouth twice, looking at the empty plate, still a little bit unsatisfied.

"It tastes good, right?" Shen Mu smiled.

"Nowadays there are plenty of these things in the field, and if you want to eat them again, just take a net to catch them in the field." Shen Mu said.

"My lord, you let us taste this locust, do you want us to tell the common people what it can eat?" Master Dong was astute, and immediately understood what Shen Mu meant.

　About using ducks to control locusts was found on Baidu.

　　Chen Shiyi's "The Story of Eliminating Locusts" and other books introduce the successful experience of releasing ducks to control locusts: "(Locusts) are not released, but ducks can eat them. Hundreds of ducks enter the rice fields, and the locusts are wiped out in an instant. Law also. "Many people still use ducks to fight locusts, and the effect is very good, so ducks can be called the number one killer of locusts.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)