The Necromancer of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 111 Drive up the price

There was a fire burning in the courtyard, and Yuan Xu and Yuan Xi sat facing each other.

Deng Zhan and Wei Ji stood behind him.

Holding a few bamboo sticks with locusts on them, Yuan Xu toasted them leisurely.

He picked up some condiments and sprinkled them on the locusts that were roasting.

Looking at the locusts being roasted, Yuan Xi had an expression of holding back the spit.

"My lord, is this really edible?" Yuan Xi couldn't help but wonder.

"Of course you can eat it." Yuan Xu replied solemnly: "Not only can it be eaten, but it also has a nourishing effect. The most important thing is that it is delicious."

After a while, he roasted a few bunches of locusts, handed one to Yuan Xi, and another to Deng Zhan and Wei Ke respectively.

Except for Yuan Xu, Yuan Xi, Deng Zhan, and Wei Ji all looked embarrassed.

They have never eaten locusts, and they have never thought that such things can really be eaten.

The three held the locusts and refused to eat them. Yuan Xu bit one off first, and while chewing, advised the three: "Try them all, the taste is really good, don't spoil the good things."

Yuan Xu ate first, and Yuan Xi reluctantly bit down one.

He originally had an expression of eating shit, but when the locust entered the mouth, his eyes widened, and he nodded with a "hmm" while biting another one.

People who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty ate simple food.

Most of the food eaten by the people is boiled with water.

Wealthy people don't do too much baking and frying.

The oil used is extracted from sheep, and lard is rarely seen.

Yuan Xi once tasted delicious dishes at the auction house, but he never ate the barbecue with the recipe after 2000.

The locusts baked by Yuan Xu were crispy and delicious. After eating two, how could he not forget them?
The two brothers ate them all, and Yuan Xi still had an expression on his face that he had eaten a peerless delicacy. Deng Zhan and Wei Ji also bit down a locust respectively.

Like Yuan Xi, their expressions changed instantly.

Wei Xie praised: "Sir, you really didn't lie to us, locusts are indeed a rare delicacy!"

"Did you know?" Yuan Xu asked with a smile: "It's so delicious, do you think it can be sold at a good price?"

"Yes!" Yuan Xi replied without thinking: "One copper coin may be a bit expensive."

"One copper coin at the auction house is pretty cheap." Yuan Xu said, "I have asked people to spread the cooking recipe to the people. It won't be long before locusts will be on the dining table."

"My lord." Wei Ji asked, "Can the folks find the seasoning in the formula?"

Yuan Xu patted his forehead: "I forgot about this..."

Wei Ke has black lines all over his head.

It's not difficult to distribute the recipe, but you have to get the seasoning together...

"Dare to ask, my lord, who will handle it?" Wei Ji asked again.

"Apart from Zhen Yan, the order to gather wealth, who else can it be?" Yuan Xu replied, "All things that make money are entrusted to him."

"Leave it to him, you can rest assured." Wei Ji said: "He will let people try to bake it with seasonings that can be found in the folks. Although the taste is not as good as the one baked by you, it is also a rare delicacy for the world."

With his words, Yuan Xu was relieved a lot.

The day after he left Yecheng, Zhen Yan hosted an auction.

At the auction, although there were some treasures, they were all upstaged by an unremarkable item.

There is a small plate in front of every guest participating in the auction.

On the plate was a roasted locust.

Zhen Yan presided over the auction in person.

He asked the guests: "Dear guests, do you look familiar with the things on the plate in front of you?"

"Grilled a locust for us to see." Someone replied: "If you don't want to buy a good auction, what are you doing?"

"Don't be impatient, please listen to me." Zhen Yan said: "Locusts are a new delicacy we have launched here, and they are currently going through the auction process, and the starting price for each one is one copper coin."

"Crazy thinking about money." Immediately someone shouted: "The locusts are also auctioned, have you lost your treasure?"

"Everyone can taste it first." There was also a baked locust on the plate in front of Zhen Yan. He threw the locust into his mouth and chewed it, enjoying it.

The guests who participated in the auction saw him eating, and showed expressions of enjoyment. Some of them were bold, but they also picked up the locust carefully and took a small bite.

With just one bite, the expressions of these people changed instantly.

They kept nodding their heads and said to the people beside them: "It's really good, it's crispy and refreshing, it's really worth a copper coin."

"Guests." Zhen Yan continued: "The price of locusts is not a copper coin, but your bid. The sale price of the day is subject to the highest bid."

"Two copper coins!" Someone who tasted it offered a price.

"Five!" Another person raised the price up.

The guests who hadn't tasted it all put the locusts into their mouths one after another when they saw people scrambling for it.

Bidding is easy to make people crazy, and a copper coin and a locust are already sky-high prices.

Even so, the final auction price of the locusts was set at twenty copper coins per locust.

There is no locust plague in Yanzhou, and of course there will not be too many locusts to provide.

The high-priced locusts sold out quickly.

Zhen Yan left the auction stage, the cook poked his head out from the back hall and bowed to him.

Seeing that he had something to say, Zhen Yan walked over: "What's going on?"

"I've read the recipe of Jucai Ling." The cook said, "There are some seasonings that cannot be found in the market, and even if they spread, no one can make them."

"Can it be baked with the condiments available in the market?" Zhen Yan asked.

"It's not impossible, it's just that the taste is worse." The cook replied.

"How bad is it?" Zhen Yan asked.

"It's far worse than what is provided to the guests here." The cook said, "But it's still delicious."

"Use the condiments that can be found in the market to make a recipe, and I will let people spread it." Zhen Yan ordered: "We must choose the best recipe, so that the world can taste the delicious food they have never tasted before."

"Don't worry about making money, I'll do it right away." The cook replied.

The chef who cooks food for the auction house is one of the best in the big man, so it is not difficult to prepare a recipe.

In the afternoon, the formula flowed out from the auction house.

The guests who had tasted it added fuel and vinegar to it, and everyone inside and outside Ye City soon knew that locusts were edible, and they were still a rare delicacy.

Some idlers who love to eat went to the farmland outside the city to search for locusts that day.

In Yecheng, locusts were sold at sky-high prices, and the people in Youzhou were still busy catching them and sending them to the government for money.

The people caught them wantonly, the locusts became less and less, and the damage to the farmland was not as serious as it was at the beginning.

Youzhou government, Wei Ji is busy buying locusts.

Yuan Xi reminded Yuan Xu: "There are more and more locusts being acquired. If you don't dispose of them, you will have to throw them away."

"Have someone send it to Yecheng." Yuan Xu ordered: "The price of locusts there should have already been driven up."

"Send it now?" Yuan Xi asked.

"Of course I will give it now." Yuan Xu gave an affirmative answer.

(End of this chapter)