The common people always have a compromising attitude towards things that make them helpless, such as vengeful weasels, clever foxes, etc. If they can't deal with them themselves, they simply regard them as supernatural beings who are both monsters and immortals, and enshrine them, which is quite a bit.

It means "join if you can't beat it".

For example, if weasels or foxes steal chickens, people will capture them. However, the odor they release is toxic and can damage the central nervous system of people. If a person is hit by this poisonous gas at close range, it will seriously cause confusion.

, and even hallucinations appear, making people feel that their minds are being "controlled", which is why people remain in awe of them.

However, these "fairies" are not the product of complete helplessness, they also play a good role in human life.

For example, hedgehogs mainly prey on insects and worms, and they have to eat up to half a kilogram of bugs in one night. Moreover, many bugs are poisonous, but they are fine after eating them; they can even survive well after being bitten by some venomous snakes.

Another example is the weasel, which eats chickens, but prefers to eat mice. It can eat about two thousand mice a year, making it the biggest natural enemy of mice, much more powerful than cats.

All these make people respect him.

That's why people regard them as immortals.

These truths have all been explained to Xiaobao clearly. Now Xiaobao tells everyone, which also makes these rough guys gain knowledge.

Once something is explained clearly, it loses its mystery, and whatever fear remains in everyone's heart is gone.

"My boss, how did you know that locusts are edible? Did your mother teach you that?" asked the boy from the escort agency.

Because he was not surrounded by people from the Chu family, Xiaobao would not say "mother" in front of them, but would really say "mother" like everyone else.

"Yes," Xiaobao replied: "When I was a child, my mother once told me a story about a country called Datang. Their emperor encountered a locust plague, which covered the sky and the sun. It was very serious. The emperor took the locust plague seriously.

If it is not enough, the courtiers must pay attention to it. Otherwise, how can we govern it?

So he caught a few locusts and cursed them: "People rely on grain as their livelihood, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people. The people have done something wrong, but it's only one person who has a spirit, but if it destroys my heart, there will be no one."

Harm the people.’ Then he put it in his mouth and ate it.”

"What? Eaten it?" everyone exclaimed.

Some people also asked: "What was he cursing?"

Xiaobao explained: "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty said, 'The people regard food as their wealth and life, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people. The people are guilty, and those sins are all on me. If you really have

Spirit, just eat my heart and stop harming the people.'"

"Wow! What a good emperor!"

"That's the emperor, eating bugs? Isn't anyone trying to persuade him?"

"Yeah, how can you let the emperor eat locusts, or raw ones? Why don't you fry them?"

Discussions started again, and the last sentence was said by Chu Yuan. He felt that the fried ones tasted better than the dry-roasted ones, and they were faster to make and took no effort.

Xiaobao nodded: "Yes, I ate it, raw, not fried."

Someone else asked: "What about the locust plague? Has it been resolved?"

Xiaobao shook his head: "I don't know, that was just a story told by my mother. However, based on this story, my mother caught locusts and roasted them for me to eat. Later, she also made some oil and fried them."

After Xiaobao finished speaking, he fell into memories.

At that time, I had just arrived in Wushu Village and I couldn't speak. My mother was busy every day. In addition to cooking for the school, she also copied books to earn copper coins. Whenever she had time, she would tell herself stories or chat with herself.

Sometimes I feel that I will not grow taller if I don't eat meat, so I catch locusts or dragonflies and roast them over the stove fire for myself to eat. I even go to the river to spear fish and roast them for myself.

I was poor at that time and had never eaten fried food. At most, I fried it with oil on the bottom of the pot, but it was very fragrant and fragrant.

Soon, my mother was rich, but she almost died.

As I thought about it, Xiaobao's eyes became a little moist.

At that time, I knew that my mother was not really my mother, but I just felt that following her would make me feel at ease.

Following her makes me feel at ease.

Seeing Xiaobao stop talking and thinking about something, Gan Lai sat over and whispered: "Tomorrow, you can catch more locusts and send them to your mother."

Chu Yuan hit her: "Can that thing be saved? It doesn't stink?"

But Xiaobao nodded seriously: "Okay, I'll fry them and dry them in the sun, so they can last longer."

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Yibin Mansion.

Chu Qing was also eating locusts at this time, surrounded by a large circle of children.

In the evening, Chu Qing used a spoon that was twice as big as the lid of a pot, placed it on the grass by the river and waved it wildly, and then many locusts got into the spoon.

Chu Qing's arm strength was strong, and she had been exercising all year round, and her waist strength was also strong. Just by half-hunching her body and hugging her back and forth, she was able to hug all the locusts within a radius of one mile in two quarters of an hour.

The man who was grazing ducks on the bank was dumbfounded: "Sir, luckily this is grass. If you went to the crop fields to do this, the ears of rice would be scratched."

Chu Qing divided half of the locusts he found into Wu Bing and asked him to take them back to feed the chickens and ducks. He also kept half of the locusts. The children who came to feed the ducks with Wu Bing all watched eagerly, hoping that Master Mian Mian could do the same.

Give some to their chickens and ducks.

Chu Qing lit a fire by the river, and asked Wu Bing to take the children to find thinner stones and teach them how to roast locusts.

Under the guidance of Wu Bing, the children now dared to say a few words in front of Master Mian Mian, so they "reported" the duck raising situation to Chu Qing.

First, Wu Bing summarized some experiences in herding ducks, which made the children wide-eyed and surprised.

Wu Bing said: "The weather is getting hotter and hotter, so I need to 'close the eggs' of the mother duck and molt her feathers."

Chu Qing asked: "What is 'Guan Dan'? How to change duck feathers?"

Without waiting for the answer, the children rushed to answer:

"'Guan Dan' means not letting ducks lay eggs!"

"Don't take them out to graze!"

"If you don't clean up their nest, they have to block the sun during the day!"

"Don't clean their shacks!"

"Give me little food, and nothing else except grass and water!"

"As soon as their good days stop, the hair on the duck's chest and back won't grow anymore and will fall off on its own. Even if it doesn't fall off, it will fall off if you reach out and pull it."

Chu Qing immediately felt that the ducks were so pitiful. They were all a group of "pregnant women". As a result, their treatment was directly reduced from "waiting for delivery" to the level of "starving to death". What a cruel treatment!

Wu Bing looked at Chuqing with an unbearable expression and summed up the children's quarrel: "This is for their own good. It's hot and they will lay fewer eggs. If they continue to lay eggs, they will become weak;

When it’s time to ‘close the eggs’, you have to ‘close the eggs’, and also help them moult and dissipate heat. Otherwise, it will take three or four months for the ducks to moult on their own, and the recovery of health will be very slow, which will delay egg laying in autumn;

Let's help the ducks complete their molt, which will only take two months at most, and the ducks won't get sick easily."

After Wu Bing explained it, Chu Qing looked relieved, but the children were full of awe.

They have learned and done these things, but they have never put these things together and thought about the reason, so even if Chu Qing asks, they can only give simple answers.

Not only can I tell the truth, but I also dare to "preach" to officials. It's amazing!

Chu Qing led everyone to turn over the locusts on the stone slices and continue to bake them, and continued to make "reports" when they were no longer sick.


Chapter completed!