Xiyue just smiled and asked, "I don't know what the adults think of the taste of the food just now." ”

One of them was the first to speak, "The taste of this food is naturally excellent, but I don't know how it is made. "They've all tasted it before, it's charred and crunchy, and it tastes really good, but they don't know what kind of food it is.

The emperor also bowed his head slightly when he got started, expressing his satisfaction.

Xiyue showed a big smile at this point, "Okay, then I'll thank everyone for their appreciation of my cooking skills." ”

After listening to Xi Yue's words, everyone wondered in their hearts, what did this new champion mean? Come and invite them to eat her cooking, does he not want to be an official, does he not want to be a gentleman, and wants to be a cook? It's just that everyone was speechless, quietly waiting for Xi Yue's next words.

Xiyue said again: "I know that everyone has been panicking about the insect plague in the south recently, so I thought of a solution,"

After saying this, Xiyue paused again, looking at everyone's reactions, an anxious minister couldn't sit still, and immediately stood up, "I don't know what Mr. Li thinks." "This insect plague has always been a major problem in their country, and almost every autumn harvest time they face a large-scale insect plague, which has caused great losses to farmers. If this problem can be solved, the country's economy will be greatly developed.

Xiyue just smiled lightly: "Do you know what you just ate?" Everyone frowned tightly, what they ate just now, the food they ate tasted good, but they didn't seem to have eaten this food material......

The corners of Xiyue's mouth hooked up a wicked smile: "What you ate just now is the food made from these insects in your door. Didn't you just say it tasted good?"

When everyone heard Xiyue's words, they couldn't help but feel sick in their hearts, can this insect really eat it? They have never eaten such a thing since they were children. Although it tasted really good just now, when I think about the insects they ate, I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.

Xiyue clapped her hands, and asked the palace maids and eunuchs to bring up the food that was still in the imperial dining room.

Xiyue smiled and said to them, "You see that these are not inedible, as long as you have an idea." Moreover, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that locusts can treat a variety of diseases when used alone or in combination, such as tetanus, infantile convulsions, fever, asthma, swelling, cormorant plague, chilblains, tracheitis and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. You can take ten decoctions, or fry the end of the grinding, five/time, and apply the fried and stored sesame oil to the affected area. This shows that locusts are also edible, but no one dares to try them. ”

Then Xiyue introduced the food she made, and everyone listened to Xiyue's words, and the doubts in their hearts decreased a lot, and it seemed that this was really edible. Looking at the food in those bowls, I remembered the taste in my mouth just now, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, isn't this so unacceptable?

Xi Yue looked at their expressions, knowing in her heart that this matter was feasible, and introduced them to the names of the dishes made by these locusts.

Xiyue pointed to one of them and said: "The name of this dish is called Shanghai Drunken Grasshopper, and the method is not very complicated, boil with water and salt, sugar, and peppercorns." After cooling, add flowers to mix wine and Daqu wine to make drunken marinade. Wash the live grasshoppers and drain the water. Take a clean container of moderate size, put onion knots, ginger and tangerine peel on the ground, put live grasshoppers, put onions, ginger and tangerine peel on top, press heavy objects and add drunk brine sealing, and put it in the ice cellar for four days to apply. Pour in a little drunken marinade when serving. ”

Everyone nodded, indicating that they remembered, although they were not proficient in this, but in front of the emperor, they still had to say that they had to listen carefully. The imperial chefs on the side also nodded, the emperor also likes these dishes very much, this must be done well, and it can also solve the emperor's troubles, and he must learn it well.

Next, Xiyue continued to introduce, "This dish is called the ...... of chicken and shrimp steaks"

"This dish is fried flying shrimp ......"

"And this fried chicken. ”

"This dish is spicy grasshopper ......"

Xiyue continued, slyly smiling, "The next dish that everyone should like, this dish is called Flying Locust Tengda, as for the method, wash the locusts with concentrated salt water." Drain and fry in oil. Or the locusts are fried directly in oil, and then eaten with pepper and salt, which is as delicious as shrimp. Listening to Xiyue's words, the saliva at the corners of their mouths is about to stay, for these insects, now in their eyes, it is completely a delicacy. But they had never heard of these dishes, and they had to memorize them carefully and let the cook cook them for them when they returned. Well, by the way, I have to ask the people in the south to leave some more bugs for themselves.

When the emperor's banquet was over, everyone hurried home, wanting to tell the cooks at home about the recipes for these dishes, and Xiyue also said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, although these locusts will damage crops, they are also a rare delicacy on the table. As long as you send the way to eat these locusts to the disaster area, I believe that this infestation will be solved soon. ”

Xiyue secretly thought in her heart, as long as she didn't eat and exterminate these locusts, it would be fine.

The emperor bowed slightly, "Aiqing, this time you have merit, I don't know what you want?" His eyes looked at Xiyue by mistake, as if he wanted to see some different emotions in her eyes.

Xiyue shook her head, isn't this matter what the emperor asked him for, the emperor is just polite, if he really wants any reward, although the emperor won't say anything at that time, but his status in his heart is low to the bottom, it will not be good. After all, now the emperor is his food and clothing parents, and if he wants to bring down the five princes, he still needs to rely on the emperor, and what the emperor says is the most authoritative. What I have to do now is to establish an image of a pure minister who does not seek fame and fortune in the emperor's mind.

"Wechen doesn't need any rewards, he just wants to teach well in the academy and cultivate more talents for the country. ”

The emperor's eyes flashed: "Okay, it's really worthy of the person I fancied." I can tell you a piece of news first, I plan to hold another imperial examination next year, and I hope to see the results of your teaching. ”

Xiyue lowered her head and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Wouldn't it be easy if he wanted results?

After all, exam-oriented education from childhood to adulthood is not learned in vain.

When she was teaching for Shantai Shengze again, she found that he was a little absent-minded today, which can be seen from his handwriting. It's just that Xiyue didn't say anything, just continued to talk to him about how to control it.

"Ordinary people like to look at people with words, but they don't know that people who are good at calligraphy are also good at covering up their inner emotions through calligraphy. As an emperor, you don't have to be unfathomable, but you can't make people feel moody. During the break, Xiyue wrote two words and put them in front of him, and said in a casual tone, "Your Highness thinks that with these two words, you can see Zaixia's character?"

Shantai Shengze looked up and saw that on this piece of paper, Ren was written on the left and Wei was written on the right. The word benevolence is mellow and gentle, and the majestic character is imposing, and there is no similarity at all.

He looked at these two words silently, then looked at Xiyue, who was holding a teacup with a calm face, and stood up with a solemn expression, and took a deep look: "Mr. Xie taught." ”

Xiyue put down the teacup and got up to hold the emperor's hand, and said with a smile: "Your Highness doesn't have to be like this, Sir believes that you will be able to do your best." I just don't know why His Highness is worried today. ”

Seeing that Xiyue's eyes were full of trust in himself, he was a little moved in his heart, he never thought that Mr. was so optimistic about himself, even he himself was not sure that he would be able to be an emperor in the future. He naturally knows what happened in the palace yesterday, Mr. has always been wise and brave, if he didn't look up to himself, he would not be able to get the trust of his father now, you must know that in the past, his father never had him in his eyes, only his brothers, but now he is worried that if he leaves Mr. in the future, what will he do......

Xiyue just looked at him quietly, "Your Highness, it's better to rely on others than on yourself, and if you master these, you will be able to achieve your own achievements in the future." ”

Shantai Shengze savored Xiyue's words for a while, and bowed deeply to her, "Thank you, sir, for your teaching." ”

When Xiyue came to the academy, she knocked on her desk, and when she saw that everyone's eyes were looking at her, she said, "Okay, students, no matter what you think in your hearts, I believe you have all got the news, and the day of the scientific expedition is not far away." Next, we should enter the preparation stage. As for you princes......"

Saying that, Xiyue looked at the people who were sitting in the back rows, "If you listen to it, it may also be beneficial to you, but it doesn't matter if you don't listen." ”

Then Xiyue took out the lesson plan that he had written a long time ago, which she had prepared a long time ago. Among them, Shantai Shengjin and Shantai Shengze also made a lot of efforts. One of them came to her at noon, and the other came to her at night when she was going to bed, and with his memories of the past, it was quite easy to write a lesson plan.

After Xiyue said this, everyone was staring at him closely. Although this one is the champion, he is still so young, and although the content taught in the past is deeply imprinted in their minds, the content is also very little, and it is absolutely not enough to cope with the exam. Can he really teach them well? It's just that if it were a gentleman, nothing seemed impossible.

Xi Yue snorted coldly in her heart at their suspicious eyes.