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Chapter 251 Eating Locusts

Ye Chenxi stuck out his tongue: "Stingy!"

Chu Anlan snorted coldly.

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again, Ye Wanqing changed the subject: "There are locusts everywhere in Lin'an. Do you want to go to the fields to take a look before lunch?"

"Go!" Chu Anlan asked, "If we go to someone else's field, we might be mistaken for grain dealers.

How about going to Aunt Hua’s fields?
By the way, how about we go see Alan together?"

Ye Wanqing said gently: "Okay."

She turned to look at Ye Chenting and Ye Chenxi: "It's still nearly three miles from here to the fields, and the road is bumpy. Second brother, Chenting, you have been traveling for many days, do you want to go back and catch up on your sleep first?"

Ye Chenting glanced at the gloomy sky and said, "Alright. Go early and come back early. Don't stay in the fields for too long to avoid getting wet in the rain."

Ye Wanqing nodded: "Don't worry, second brother."

The three of them looked at Ye Chenxi again.

Ye Chenxi blinked: "Why are you looking at me? Don't you want to take me with you? Can you really bear to abandon me?"

"How can that be possible?" Chu Anlan put his arm around Ye Chenxi's shoulders and said, "Come on, I'll take you to see the world!"

Ye Chenxi was so suppressed that he took a breath of cold air: "What kind of world is this?"

The sky was overcast.

The carriage slowly drove out of the alley, and after making several turns, it turned into the fields from a not very wide stone brick path.

At the edge of the fields, many farmers were waving bamboo poles tied with cloth strips to drive away locusts that were eating the rice.

As soon as the bamboo pole fell, dense swarms of locusts fluttered up and then fell into the fields nearby in groups.

Seeing this, the farmer next to him said anxiously, "Why are you driving the locusts from your field to my field?"

"The bug flew over on its own. What does it have to do with me?"

"If you don't drive them towards me, how can insects fly towards me?"

"..."

Soon, the two families began to quarrel.

A group of people were standing across a ridge, pointing at each other and cursing at each other, waving bamboo poles to drive the locusts away.

Chu Anlan and Ye Chenxi both leaned against the car window, watching with great interest, wishing they could cheer from afar.

Ye Wanqing couldn't help but laugh: "Is it so interesting to listen to people quarreling?"

"It's nice!" Chu Anlan waved at her: "Look, the farmer in the field above looks like a pale-faced scholar.

When people scolded him, he cowered and was terribly scared.

His wife got angry, and while she was swearing at the people in the field below, she turned around and cursed him...

Tsk tsk, this guy is really interesting."

"What's the point?" Ye Chenxi said angrily: "My wife was scolded, but he was like a coward!

This kind of man is a disgrace to us men!"

Ye Wanqing was curious: "Let me see."

"Come quickly!" Chu Anlan moved to make room for her.

Three heads, neatly stacked on the car window.

Ye Wanqing looked over curiously.

At this time, there were already quite a few people in the fields, most of them were families, waving bamboo poles to drive away locusts.

The locusts in one field were driven to that field, and this happened repeatedly, making people very angry.

As time went by, conflicts arose.

There was a great noise in the fields.

Driving locusts from one field to another will not have any effect on keeping them away.

Chu Anlan laughed at what he saw.

He pushed the carriage window open a little further and leaned out most of his body: "Hey, let me tell you...

Is it any use for you to rush around like this?
Instead of wasting time arguing here, it would be better to kill a few more locusts!"

The people quarreling stopped for a moment, looked at him, and then continued quarreling fiercely.

It looked like some people were about to start a fight.

Ye Chenxi leaned on the window sill, holding his chin with the back of his hand: "They are all arguing and won't listen to you." Chu Anlan snorted: "Troublemakers."

Ye Wanqing handed him a cup of tea: "Moisten your throat?"

Chu Anlan lowered his head and took a sip from her hand: "What sweet tea."

Ye Wanqing chuckled: "Another drink?"

"Hmm!" Chu Anlan took the cup himself, drank the remaining tea in it, and asked Ye Wanqing to refill him another cup.

At this time, Ye Chenxi turned his head and said, "What are you drinking secretly behind my back? I want to drink too!"

Ye Wanqing poured a cup of tea: "Autumn Pear Imperata Root Tea, but you can only drink one cup."

"Why?" Ye Chenxi took the tea and tasted it: "It's sweet and fragrant. I like this."

Ye Wanqing changed the teapot: "You ate a lot of crabs this morning, so you shouldn't drink anything cold.

The maid also prepared red date ginger tea, I'll pour you a cup."

"Ah? Red date ginger tea..." Ye Chenxi muttered: "But I don't like drinking that stuff.

I don’t like the taste of red dates, and I don’t like the taste of ginger even more.”

"Then you drink warm water?" Ye Wanqing asked.

Ye Chenxi said in a wronged tone: "Warm water is bland and tasteless, and even harder to drink."

Ye Wanqing thought: "Well, how about I put a few crystal sugars in the warm water for you?"

Ye Chenxi puffed up her cheeks and was about to act coquettishly.

Chu Anlan was one step ahead of him and spoke first: "Who said yesterday that if you are worried about catching a cold after eating crabs, you should drink some ginger soup?"

"Who? Who said that?" Ye Chenxi stretched his neck and looked around: "Why didn't I hear it?"

Chu Anlan sneered: "Tsk..."

Ye Chenxi: “Humph!”

The two refused to give in to each other.

Seeing this, Ye Wanqing didn't want to help, so she took the initiative to change the subject: "Did you come up with a way to deal with the locusts during your journey?"

Ye Chenxi pursed her lips and said, "I can't think of it. This is the first time I've seen locusts up close since I was a child.

In the past, I only heard the teacher talk about it in class. "

Ye Wanqing looked at Chu Anlan again: "Where is the prince?"

Chu Anlan supported his chin with one hand, looking out the window at the vast fields, and said, "Qing'er, can locusts be eaten?"

Ye Wanqing was stunned.

Ye Chenxi was also stumped by the question.

Ye Chenxi was horrified: "Locusts... can be eaten? They are insects! They are so disgusting just looking at them."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and slapped away a locust that had hit the car window.

After taking the photo, he wiped his hands with a look of disgust.

Ye Wanqing handed a handkerchief to her brother, and then looked at Chu Anlan: "Locusts, you can eat them."

"Really?"

Chu Anlan and Ye Chenxi looked at Ye Wanqing at the same time.

"Yeah." Ye Wanqing didn't know what she was thinking of. She seemed to be mocking herself, but also seemed to be amused: "I saw it in the local customs."

Another local gazetteer?
Chu Anlan asked: "What is recorded on it?"

Ye Wanqing searched carefully in his mind for a moment: "After the locust plague, the crops were eaten up, and the people caught a lot of locusts to eat in order to vent their anger.

However, according to Fengwuzhi, locusts are ugly and taste bad, and some people believe that locust plagues are a punishment from heaven and eating them can easily bring disaster.

"It won't kill people, right?" Chu Anlan asked.

Ye Wanqing shook her head: "No."

Chu Anlan's eyes rolled around twice quickly.

After making up his mind, he said to Ye Wanqing, "Since it won't kill people, let's go catch two locusts and taste what they taste like."

Ye Wanqing smiled: "Okay."

As long as nothing goes wrong, she can indulge him in anything.

He has always been a clever person. What if, by chance, he really hits the jackpot and comes up with a reliable method?