Tang Bohu Marries Qiuxiang

Chapter 285 Signs of Locust Plague
Tang Bohu watched Peng Cong and Sun Ge being taken down, and continued, "Although the decree has been made, there is only a little thunder and rain at Eunuch Liu's place these days. If you want to do it, you can't find your way like a headless chicken." , What happened in Chizhou tonight will allow Eunuch Liu to find a breakthrough."

"What Master Tang said is true." Gu Da said with a smile.

It was dawn, and the rain was still heavy. Gradually, some people opened their doors and looked timidly at the group of Jinyiwei.

"I haven't slept all night, Eunuch Gu should go back and rest earlier." Tang Bohu greeted, "I'll go see how the insect infestation is going here."

"Then there is Mr. Lao Tang." Gu Da clasped his hands, glanced at the burnt-out restaurant and let out a long sigh.

Tang Bohu called Tian San to come to his side and said: "Ask a group of brothers to find out the family background of Peng Cong and Sun Ge, and you follow me to see what the insect infestation is like here."

When he came to the edge of the field, Tang Bohu looked at the messy rice fields here and there, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried. The insect infestation here was much more serious than imagined.

Tian San squatted down to observe the rice field, and grabbed a locust from the field, "My lord, it's a locust!"

"Last year, the snow fell early, and the warm wind came early, and the insects came out early." An old farmer sighed and said, "When the wings of these locusts harden, something big will happen!"

Tang Bohu walked on the ridge of the field and watched it over and over again. It is true that the larvae of the locusts are about to grow into shape. If these insects fly up, the consequences will be unimaginable. In this ancient farming civilization, the harvest of farmers depends entirely on the sky. He has heard of locust plagues. Before traveling, Tang Bohu had seen the scene of locusts all over the sky in a foreign country. They were like dark clouds, and they were like harvesters, which could eat up thousands of fertile fields in a very short period of time.

From a small crop failure to a major famine, seeing these Tang Bohus in front of him realized that things were far more serious than he thought.

Families on the field took their children to catch worms in the field. The farmers had done it several times, but they couldn't finish it day after day.

"When these locusts fly up, no grass will grow anywhere they go." Tang Bohu sighed.

Some farmers are very smart to drive chickens, ducks, and geese into the rice fields and let these poultry eat worms. Although this may be a drop in the bucket, in the face of food and livelihood, the farmers still want to fight and want to fight. To live well, the people think that food is the sky, what will these farmers eat in the coming year without a harvest.

"Actually, locusts are edible." Tang Bohu looked at the few locusts thrown on the ground and said, "I ate it a long time ago, and almost forgot the taste."

"My lord, this is a bug." Tian San looked at his lord, as if he really planned to eat it.

Tang Bohu did what he said, "Tian San, hurry up! Come and set me on fire."

"Okay." Tian San resigned to his fate and went to start the fire, "My lord, you just need to be happy."

Tian San found a pot from nowhere, and then lit a fire. Under the puzzled expressions of the villagers, Tang Bohu picked up a handful of locusts and put them into the pot to stir-fry.

Tang Bohu saw Tian San walking away step by step, while frying locusts, "Tian San, what are you going to do?"

"Humble job to hire a doctor." Tian San replied hastily.

"Doctor?" Tang Bohu shook his spoon and said, "Are you sick?"

Tian San looked bitter, "The humble job is to invite a doctor to show you."

"You mean I'm sick?" Tang Bohu looked at Tian San.

"I don't dare to be humble..."

"Come here." Tang Bohu waved his hand and said, "It's almost ready, hurry up and taste it."

Tian San approached cautiously, but still kept a distance of two or three steps from Tang Bohu, "My lord, it's better for you to eat by yourself, the dishes made by your own hands are unbearable for a humble job."

"Eat it if you tell you to eat it. There are so many nonsense." Tang Bohu took out a hot locust from the pot and said, "Besides, what should I do if I eat something wrong?"

"My lord!" Tian San wanted to cry, "That's a bug."

Bringing the locust to Tian San's mouth, Tang Bohu smiled and said, "Come on! Be good! Ah... open your mouth."

Enduring the resistance in his stomach, Tian San went all out, allowing Tang Bohu to put the locust into his mouth and swallow it with a thud.

"How does it taste? Is my craft good?"

Tian San pouted, "Swallowed it whole, and didn't taste anything."

"One more, one more." Tang Bohu picked up a locust again.

"What..." Tian San backed away again and again, "I don't know how those guys are doing. Don't worry about the humble job, so let's go take a look."

After saying that, Tian Sanyi ran away in a hurry.

"What kind of virtue!" Looking contemptuously at Tian San who fled, Tang Bohu put two or three fried locusts into his mouth, chewed them, and couldn't remember when he ate locusts before , I almost forgot!The taste is not bad, with a different flavor in the crispness.

"Mother!" A little boy said to his mother, "This man is not sick. Why does he eat bugs?"

Tang Bohu: "..."

After the little boy finished speaking, the mother glanced at Tang Bohu in official uniform and hurried away with the child.

While eating locusts, he looked at the situation in the field and became worried. The problem was still in front of him. Tang Bohu knew that even if he ate locusts, he couldn't eat them all at once, and he couldn't catch them all.

Picking up a handful of fried locusts, Tang Bohu distributed them to some of the children, "It's delicious, try it."

The children looked at Tang Bohu and smelled the aroma of the freshly fried locusts, so they plucked up their courage and ate a few.

"Delicious!"

"It tastes good."

"Well! Really!"

Several children ate locusts with relish, Tang Bohu said with a smile: "There is still in the pot, it is hot."

Seeing the children scrambling to eat a pot of locusts, Tang Bohu encouraged him as if cheering him on: "Chew! His body will be smashed to pieces, and he will die if he eats it."

When the adults saw the children eating locusts, they also came to taste them. After eating a few, they found that the taste was really good.

In fact, the idea of ​​eating locusts has been around for a long time. I remember that in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong took the lead in eating a few locusts, and they were still alive and kicking after eating, which shows that locusts are not poisonous. It is rumored that some people eat locusts, and even eat bark when they are hungry. In contrast, eating locusts can vent their anger.

Tang Taizong ate it raw. Tang Bohu thought about how tolerant Tang Taizong was at that time. Tang Bohu couldn't do such things as eating locusts raw, but he could eat them after they were cooked. Now he still has to think about how to deal with this situation. There will be a plague of locusts. This is the real problem of coming to Chizhou this time.

(End of this chapter)