"Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious."

The prince replied, but did not forget to pick up another locust and stuff it into his mouth, at first he sandwiched the shrimp steak for the first time, but after the second time he sandwiched a locust and ate it, he even sandwiched three locusts.

Feng Lishi coughed twice to remind the prince, but the prince also caught another one.

Luo Cheng laughed and said, "I have said a long time ago that if you eat one, you will want to eat two, and I will remind you now that Chef Liu will have more delicacies made of locusts in a while, you have to save some stomach, or you won't be able to eat it if you don't wait." ”

The prince finished chewing on the one and reached out to wipe his mouth.

"Father, the son is rude, but the shrimp and chicken steak are really delicious this day."

The prince said, bringing the plate of shrimp and chicken steak to the emperor.

Luo Cheng took a pair of new silver chopsticks from the inner palace and picked up a locust, which was really crunchy in his mouth, but it was stuffed with the smell of chicken, and it was not an exaggeration to call it a heavenly chicken.

The emperor only ate one, gave a thumbs up to the head chef, and then ate another shrimp, then pointed to the remaining locusts and shrimps, "Feng Lishi, you taste it, and the rest will be rewarded to everyone." ”

There were only eighteen locusts and eighteen shrimp in total.

The prince ate four locusts and one shrimp, the emperor ate one, Li Lianying also ate one, and there were fifteen shrimps and twelve locusts left, and there were many people and few grasshoppers, so they came according to the grade, one for each person, and those who didn't eat it later could only swallow saliva.

The prince couldn't help but ask Chef Liu, "What's the second course?" ”

"The second dish is drunken grasshopper, add salt, sugar, and pepper to boil in water, add wine and mix well to make drunk brine after cooling, and then wash and drain a pound of live grasshopper, drain the water, take a porcelain bowl, put in the green onion knot, ginger and tangerine peel, and then put in the live grasshopper, put the green onion and ginger tangerine peel on top, press the heavy object to add the drunken brine seal, put it in the ice room and refrigerate it for four days to eat, and then pour water into the water when eating, this dish is fragrant and fishy, and the taste is delicious."

The prince listened and drooled again.

"It sounds similar to the practice of drunk shrimp, and it has to be refrigerated for four days, so I can't eat it today."

The chief chef said, "The minister has already prepared this dish in advance, and he brought ten catties over today, and now he pours some drunken marinade, and he can eat it directly." ”

As soon as he waved his hand, a royal chef brought bowls of drunken shrimp.

A big bowl is just a pound of drunk shrimp, a full ten bowls.

Open it, pour it with drunken marinade, and a special aroma of wine comes to your face.

This time, Feng Lishi asked for a dish trial for the emperor.

The prince couldn't wait, so he directly took the silver chopsticks and picked one up and ate it.

"It's very similar to drunken shrimp, just as delicious."

This dish was enough to prepare ten catties, so all the officials in the Jing Locust Division, and even the Jin Wuwei who guarded it, were given one.

When I first took it, I felt that this locust was hideous, and I felt that there was nowhere to put my mouth, but I couldn't stand the temptation of the wine, and after taking a bite, I found that the taste was fresh and fragrant, and I wanted to eat it again after eating, but it was gone, and I could only lick my lips and lick my fingers.

"Chef Liu, what other locust dishes are there?"

"Flying locusts Tengda, spicy grasshoppers, crispy fried locusts, braised locusts, golden sand flying geese, fried chickens, grasshoppers over the snow-capped mountains ·······" Chef Liu reported a long list of dish names in one go, there are hundreds of dishes, and there is no stop.

The prince was shocked.

I was amazed by Chef Liu's ability to report the names of hundreds of dishes in one breath, and even more amazed by the hundreds of locust dishes, just listening to those names is very tempting.

With the two dishes of shrimp and chicken steak and drunken grasshopper as the base, the prince has no resistance to locusts now, and in his opinion, locusts are simply synonymous with deliciousness.

"Please ask Chef Liu to hurry up and make it for Lonely, no, it's for the saint to taste." The prince's saliva was uncontrollable.

Chef Liu's face was calm, but he was still very proud and excited in his heart, the prince and everyone liked his dishes so much, proud, although these locust dishes were all eaten by the emperor, and then he perfected them, but after all, it was still the sage's recipe, which was the only regret.

"Li Lianying."

"The minister is here." Li Lianying was also very satisfied, and she ate more than a dozen locust dishes, but she didn't get tired of it at all.

"I brought the prince and the imperial chefs over today, the most important thing is to ask you Jing Locust Division to help promote this locust recipe, to find a way to let more people know these recipes, and to let more people accept these locust dishes in the shortest possible time."

Li Lianying was a little puzzled why the Son of Heaven should pay attention to such a small matter.

"If everyone likes locust dishes, then the locust extermination will increase the chance of success, so don't underestimate this, as long as everyone thinks that this locust can be eaten and delicious, then I believe that there will be fewer locust plagues in the future."

"Nachen first sent someone to notify the restaurants and restaurants in Luoyang City, let them come over to visit and learn locust dishes, try locust dishes, and then let them go back to add locust dishes?"

"This is not enough, isn't it the period of the imperial examination, there are many scholars in Chang'an, and there are many businessmen from all over the country, and now Luoyang is also demolishing the walls of the workshop and setting up a market, I think that you can let people set up some food stalls on various streets in Luoyang, what fried locusts, roasted grasshoppers, etc., get up!"

"As for me, I will also hold an all-locust banquet in the palace, and let the civil and military officials, as well as representatives of meritorious soldiers, scholars, prisoners, businessmen, craftsmen, etc., come to eat."

The Jing Locust Division is the yamen of the imperial court's commander-in-chief to control locusts, so to promote locust dishes, Luo Cheng also took this place as his first stop. It is impossible for the emperor to do everything himself, and the most important thing is to use the following to carry it out.

He, the emperor, was able to personally study the locust recipe and take the lead in tasting it, which was already a great example.

"If you can set off a craze for the whole people to eat locust vegetables, I will remember your Li Lianying's great achievements, but if the promotion is not effective, I will be severely punished when I arrive."

When he left from Jing Locust, Prince Jiawen did not forget to grab a few skewers of roasted grasshoppers in his hands, saying that he wanted to take them back to his mother and younger siblings to eat.

"Even if you kid is still a little filial, it's not blindly greedy." Luo Cheng took out a handkerchief to help the prince wipe his mouth, "You can't eat too much fried things, it's easy to get fat, prince, how has you practiced martial arts recently, how many bows can you shoot, how many arrows can you shoot, how is your equestrian shooting?" ”

As soon as his father asked about this, Jiawen's joy suddenly dissipated.

He replied a little embarrassedly, and Luo Cheng frowned when he heard it.

"Your riding and archery practice is too commonplace, your younger brother Zhewei's riding and archery is far superior to you, although you are the prince, you will be the son of heaven in the future, there is no need for you to go into battle to charge and kill the enemy, but our Luo family started with martial arts, and your uncles and I are all brave and good at fighting, you can't be too bad."

Jiawen said with some frustration, "Erchen will redouble his efforts." ”

"Exercise should be strengthened, diet should also be relatively improved, I will go back and ask the Shangshi Bureau to formulate a special diet recipe for you, in addition, you will have to get up early every day in the future to exercise, come to exercise with me, riding and archery martial arts, there is no trick, only study hard and persevere, you come to practice martial arts with me in the morning, and then go to the court with me to learn government affairs, and after the next court, you will take classes in the Chongwen Pavilion, and in the afternoon you will do your homework in the East Palace, as well as some tasks such as feeding horses, raising dogs, raising silkworms and raising flowers that I gave you."

The prince nodded helplessly.

"Do you feel stressed and overworked? Jiawen, my father sent you a message, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. You're eleven years old now, and you're going to start learning government affairs, and when you're older, you're going to learn the art of war, strategic command, etc., and gradually, I'll let you take charge of the East Palace by yourself, and start to share some affairs, and you have to learn to adapt, and you have to work hard to adapt, understand? ”