No. 285 Locust shrimp
In the past, people got up early to go to the field to beg, and begging seemed to have become their occupation, but now they go to the county government gate every day to exchange locusts for porridge, and then go to the field to catch locusts.
Yun Xi washed the locusts, sprinkled them with salt, fried them in the oil pan and put them on a plate, don't you say that it tastes like prawns, Yun Xi fried several large plates every day, and Haotian also gave the fried locusts a nice name: "Oil-pressed locust shrimp." β
Imagine that in those days when there were no vegetables, this locust shrimp could be regarded as a delicacy on the dinner table. Sometimes Yun Xi put a plate of locust shrimp when she was giving porridge and gave it to the children, seeing that the children ate with relish, Yun Xi felt much more comfortable.
There were fewer and fewer locusts in the field, and the rice and grain for disaster relief were also getting less and less, so Yun Xi had to lower the threshold, catching fifty per person, and finally thirty, twenty......
The emperor sent people to buy food everywhere, and then brought in relief to the victims, Yun Xi saw that the locust plague had basically passed, and people caught fewer and fewer locusts every day, so the emperor purchased some crop seeds and came back for people to plant.
If you really don't know what to plant this season, it will be the harvest season in more than half a month, but the corn has been eaten by locusts, and it is a little early to plant wheat, so I have to plant some vegetables first.
Yunxi asked the emperor to buy some early-maturing vegetable seeds, distribute them to people for planting, and watched people work in the fields. Yun Xi said to Haotian: "Your Majesty, we have also been here for more than ten days, and the locust plague here has passed, do you think we should go back?" β
"Xiaoxi, don't you say that I really forgot about it, I came here on the tenth day of the first month, and now it's the twenty-first and exactly eleven days, it's time to go back, and I guess there are a lot of unapproved chapters!"
"Then let's go back now! I happen to be homesick too. β
"Not yet, we have to prepare enough food rations for the villagers. Otherwise, this is the time when the green and yellow are not connected. As soon as we left, the village names would beg everywhere again. β
"Then let's wait two days before leaving! You and Li Zhixian go to purchase grain, and I will stay in charge of distributing it by capitation, and you just ask him to give me a list. Yun Xi said.
Haotian called Li Zhixian to talk about his and Yunxi's ideas, and Li Lianjie also agreed very much. Ever since Yun Xi began to give up food. Li Zhixian's master, Li Ran, also came back to help. Li Lianjie asked Li Ran to copy a list of the county's residents for Yun Xi.
The next day, the emperor and Li Zhixian went to other places to buy grain. Yun Xi distributed rations to the residents with the help of his master. The distribution process is very smooth, first distribute the existing ones to a few nearby villages, and then distribute them to distant villages when Haotian acquires them.
On the third day, rations were finally distributed. The emperor called Li Lian Lian in front of him and said: "Li Zhixian, I will hand over the Li people of Sishui County to you, the rations have been distributed to them, and the wheat seeds have been prepared, I have an urgent matter and will return to Kyoto soon, I have copied a list of residents, and I will come back next year and hear that some residents are starving to death, so I will ask you." β
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Li people of Sishui County are my food and clothing parents, and I will treat them like my own parents. Never let them live a life of begging from their homeland. β
"Then I'll rest assured, I hope to see a different Sishui County today next year."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I promise that I will surprise you next year."
"Okay, I'll have a surprise for you then, you can get your official back first! We'll go back to Kyoto tomorrow, and I'm afraid you and my master won't be able to do anything! Give you this silver, and make clothes first," he said, and took out a few silver tickets.
Yun Xi and others said goodbye to Li Lian and his family to return to Kyoto, on the way Yun Xi saw that there were no beggars going out to beg along the way in Sishui County, everyone was busy planting vegetables in the field, along the way Yun Xi and others took some nests to satisfy their hunger, and after eating a day's nests, they finally went out of Sishui County, and the group walked to a restaurant Haotian asked everyone to stop, drove to Yunxi carriage and shouted: "Xiaoxi get off, I invite you to eat delicious food." β
As soon as Yun Xi heard that there was something delicious, he lifted the curtain and saw that it was a big restaurant, and hurriedly jumped off the carriage. Thanks to Haotian helping her, or she would have to fall to the ground with her bones, Haotian helped Yunxi and said, "Xiaoxi, slow down." β
"Your Majesty, you must invite me to eat big fish and meat, you see how weak my body is, this is caused by Yan zhΓ²ng's lack of nutrition, and I have to make up for it."
"Okay, make it up, make up for it here first, and go back to make up for it, okay?"
"I see that you are still sincere, remember to give me some supplements in your palace, I am a great blood winner." Yun Xi pouted and said.
"Xiaoxi, let's go in! I am hungry. Haotian said.
Yun Xi smiled, ran into the restaurant with a cigarette, and said to Xiao Er: "I want a private room." β
"Objectively upstairs pro." The shopkeeper led Yun Xi and the others to the private room on the second floor, and without waiting for Haotian to speak, Yun Xi hurriedly said, "Bring two of your most expensive dishes here." Serve every dish in the restaurant."
The shopkeeper shouted happily: "Okay, officer, please wait." β
"Xiaoxi, are you going to make up for the ten days?" Haotian asked.
"Do I eat it myself, aren't there a dozen of you?" Yun Xi said unhappily.
"The emperor and Miss Shangguan can use it, let's use it downstairs." Several guards hurriedly said.
"You are not allowed to go today, have a few drinks with me, you have worked hard these days, okay, sit down!" Haotian ordered.
Several guards didn't dare to sit down in disobedience, and after a while, a large table of wine and food was served, and the shopkeeper said to Yun Xi in embarrassment: "Guest officer, the table is full when you are only halfway through the dishes, do you want to bring you another table?" β
"Alright, that's it! I'll try the other dishes next time. Yun Xi looked at Haotian and said.
"See what I do? If you want to eat it, you can eat it," I watched Yun Xi talk to the shopkeeper while eating with chicken legs in his hand, and he didn't notice that the vegetable oil was dripping on his clothes.
"Don't want it, don't want it, you can't finish it." Yun Xi said while eating chicken legs in his mouth.
The shopkeeper looked at Yun Xi's eating appearance and twitched the corners of his mouth, Haotian couldn't help but say, "Grandma, can you be more solemn, how do you look like a prime minister's mansion." β
Several guards listened to the emperor call Miss Shangguan and her aunt and grandmother stared at the two of them inexplicably, Yun Xi saw a few guards looking at himself and Haotian, and looked at Hao Angel, Haotian looked at them all looking at himself, and ordered with a sinking face: "You just don't hear anything, otherwise let me hear someone chewing his tongue, and his head will fall to the ground." β
"We didn't hear anything, really the emperor, we didn't hear anything."
"That's the best, you keep eating, keep eating."
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