After a while, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali caught more than a dozen locusts in the fields by the river, later he was a graduate student specializing in agriculture, and he had a very deep study of insect pests, judging from the number of locusts in the field and the weather, a large-scale locust plague is likely to break out in the last two years, the scale of the locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan was so large, and it was also recorded in history at a large length, but unfortunately Sun Xiangfu is not from the Department of History, he does not know this history, but through his own experience to judge some clues.

After the locusts were cleaned slightly, they were still skewered with bamboo sticks, and when the young sergeant looked confused, Sun Xiangfu stuffed the first roasted locust into his mouth.

"Crunchy, chicken."

After eating the first locust, Sun Xiangfu only said these six words, and saw that Sun Dali also threw a big locust that was almost ten centimeters in size into his mouth with a generous and righteous expression.

"Well, it's really a bit like chicken, if only it had a little salt to taste."

Seeing the two of them munching on locusts, the young sergeant was a little convinced that locusts, a hateful insect, could also be eaten, but Sun Dali mentioned salt, and he really had it in his luggage, so he untied a small cloth bag from his horse.

"Dip a little."

"Well, it's delicious."

Well, the two refreshed the cognition of several sergeants again, they are people who have crawled between life and death, when the march is hard, they have eaten snake meat, hedgehog meat, and rat meat, but they have never eaten insects, and they tried to dip a little salt in the salt bag, and this roasted charred locust really became a delicacy.

So, more than a dozen locusts were quickly eaten by a few guys, and the villagers who cut bamboo were also shouted by them to catch locusts in the field, the locusts were big, full, unlike bamboo insects that could only stuff people's teeth, so after each person ate more than ten locusts, today's lunch was a gorgeous end.

Of course, not many of the people present thought about the significance of locusts as food for this society, after all, when there is no locust plague, there are not so many locusts.

"Boy, you're an interesting person, I remember you." The young sergeant picked between his teeth with a bamboo stick, said a word to Sun Xiangfu, and turned over on his horse.

"This is what you call fortune?" Sun Xiangfu did not expect this young man to be a man of his word, but he was still a little unwilling.

"Boy, it's already a great blessing to be remembered by me, there are so many people in this world, I really can't remember much, but after you have worked hard for a long time, I can't give you nothing, this small bag of salt, I will reward you."

As he spoke, the young man tied the mouth of the small cloth bag and threw it at Sun Xiangfu under the horse.

The salt bag is full of fine salt, even if it is only one catty, and it can be sold for dozens of dollars when it is taken to the county market, enough to buy several catties of millet seeds.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, although there was a lot of arable land, but the output was less, due to the war, the proportion of people who could not farm was larger, so the price of grain remained high, a pound of millet was about seven or eight cents, the price of one stone went to the consistent, and the price of a stone of rice and wheat went to the consistent five, so even if it was a laborer who did heavy physical work, he earned thirty yuan a day, and he could only eat two meals a day, and each meal could not exceed one pound of grain, otherwise the rest of your family would not be able to eat.

Just when Sun Xiangfu was converting the value of this bag of salt according to the memory of the original owner, a group of several cavalrymen stepped on their war horses, without saying much, they just left, they had been delayed in this village for a long time, and there were still many villages and towns waiting for them to go to Xuanfu, but after running for a while, the young sergeant turned around and shouted to Sun Xiangfu, who was a little stunned, "I will come back, and I will get something fresher to entertain me when the time comes." ”

This is a rich kid who came out to play.

Sun Xiangfu muttered so in his heart, but saw that many villagers had already leaned towards the fire that had not yet burned out, and their hands were roasting locusts or bamboo worms, especially some children.

"Everyone is short of food, so, Brother Dali, we have to find a way."

In the past, Sun Dali never felt that Sun Xiangfu had any brains, most of the time, he was fooling around behind his ass, but today, everything has changed, and the protagonist of the story suddenly changed from him to Sun Xiangfu.

Out of habit, today, in addition to Sun Xiangfu's slight skepticism on the two things that Sun Xiangfu said that bamboo insects can be eaten and locusts can be eaten, Sun Xiangfu is still obedient to Sun Xiangfu in other things, just like Sun Xiangfu was obedient to him in the past.

In fact, Sun Xiangfu only did these two things today, and they were all questioned by Sun Dali, and then his doubts were shattered by the facts, so when he heard Sun Xiangfu say that he wanted to find a way, Sun Dali took it for granted that as long as they were still in this village, there was nothing to think about, and this was also his third question about Sun Xiangfu.

"If I can think of a way, I won't nest in this small village every day, I think it's better to take advantage of the fact that there are many locusts in the field, let's catch more, and we can deal with it at night, otherwise we will be caught by these starving ghosts in a while." Sun Dali pointed to a group of villagers roasting locusts around the fire.

"That's all you want? Locusts don't last a lifetime. ”

Looking at the small river hovering under the slope of the village, Sun Xiangfu suddenly had an idea, it is summer now, it is the most abundant period of fish, although the small river under the slope is not too deep and not too wide, but it has a long history, it is a tributary of Weishui, there should be a lot of fish in it, and the fishing level of the ancients is very limited, like yellow eel, loach, this kind of fish that is difficult to catch, it is difficult for the ancients to catch a large number of fish.

It can be said that more than 20 years of time have basically been spent in the countryside, and in his spare time he has explored a lot of fishing methods, and he can also make a lot of extra money while adding a bowl of vegetables to the table.

"That, Brother Dali, I remember that you can split bamboo strips and weave bamboo baskets!"

"Hey, that thing, who doesn't know it, haven't you made things yourself, if you want to make up any frames, Lou Zi will go to the market to sell it, just save it! It can't be sold for a few pennies, so you can save more than ten miles of running back and forth and wipe out all the food in your stomach. ”

"No, what I want to make up is a novelty, specially used for fishing, the river in front of our village is so long, I don't believe there are no fish in it."

"Fishing?" Sun Dali was moved when he heard this.

"That's right, let's go fishing, fill our stomachs first, and then think of other ways, let's drag those cut bamboos home, split them, and weave bamboo cages."

Just do it, after Sun Xiangfu told Sun Dali his thoughts, the two dragged a few big bamboos back to their door to split the slivers, the so-called slivers are to split the bamboo along the knots and split them into thin strips.

And the fishing cage, in fact, there is no trick, that is, the tail that can only go in and not out of the mouth to be good, the size of the main body can be arbitrary, the top of the left can be poured out of the fish, sealed with a wooden stopper, it is best to tie some earthworms and the like, the smell is big, the fish like to eat the bait in it, as long as there is no fish in the river, such a bamboo cage into the water, how much can catch some fish up, and it is the majority of loach eel fish.

When Sun Xiangfu came home, he found that the two bowls of millet porridge he left had been stolen by his younger brothers and sisters, thinking that they would not be able to eat anything this afternoon, and they had to exercise to help digestion when they were full, so Sun Xiangfu found the shovel at home and asked the two little guys to dig up some earthworms, while he and Sun Dali concentrated on splitting and weaving cages.

At dusk, after a dozen fish cages of not very standard size were made up and earthworms were loaded into them, two large and two small four people carried a dozen cages to the small river in front of the village, and began to look for more water and grass.

"Remember, the cage must be left partially on the surface of the water, and the stake in front of the plug must be inserted into the hard soil, so that the big fish do not enter the cage and break free into the middle of the river and be washed away by the water."

The first time I got into the fish cage, all four of them were a little excited, and due to the problem of weaving level, only a dozen of them were made in the afternoon, so after a while, the fish cages were all put into the water.

"Come and get it tomorrow when it's dark, and there will be fish."

With good wishes, the four of them began to return, and at this time, Sun Xiangfu and Sun Dali, who had been busy all afternoon, began to rumble in their stomachs again.

"Otherwise, let's go catch some locusts and roast them!" Sun Dali proposed.

"Don't be in a hurry, catch locusts, it's easy to catch when it's dark, now let's go back and prepare first, tonight, we will be able to catch locusts that can't be eaten in a day tomorrow." Sun Xiangfu is confident.