There was a fire in the courtyard, and Yuan Xu and Yuan Xi sat facing each other.

Deng Zhan and Wei Qi stood behind him.

Holding a few bamboo sticks strung with locusts, Yuan Xu roasted them unhurriedly.

He twisted some condiments and sprinkled them on top of the roasting locusts.

Looking at the locusts that were roasting, Yuan Xi had an expression of holding back his spit out.

"Lord, can this thing really be eaten?" I couldn't help but wonder, Yuan Xi asked.

"Of course you can eat it." Yuan Xu replied seriously: "Not only can it be eaten, but it also has a nourishing effect." The most important thing is that it is delicious. ”

After a while, he roasted a few strings of locusts, handed one to Yuan Xi, and then handed one to Deng Zhan and Wei Qi respectively.

In addition to Yuan Xu, Yuan Xi, Deng Zhan, and Wei Qi were all embarrassed.

They hadn't eaten locusts, and they hadn't thought that this kind of thing could really be eaten.

The servants refused to eat the locusts, Yuan Xu bit the next one first, and while chewing, he persuaded the servants: "Taste them all, the taste is really good, don't spoil the good things." ”

Yuan Xu ate it first, and Yuan Xi reluctantly bit the next one.

He originally had an expression of eating, but the locust entrance suddenly had round eyes, and he couldn't stop nodding his head while biting down on the next one.

People who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty ate simple food.

Most of the food eaten by the people was boiled in water.

Rich and noble, not too much baking and frying.

The oil used is extracted from sheep, and lard is rarely seen.

Yuan Xi had tasted delicious dishes at auction, but he had never eaten the barbecue recipe 2,000 years later.

The locusts baked by Yuan Xu are crispy and refreshing, and after eating two, how can he not forget them?

The brothers both ate it, Yuan Xi still had the expression of eating a peerless delicacy, and Deng Zhan and Wei Qi also bit a locust each.

Like Yuan Xi, their expressions changed instantly.

Wei Qi praised: "Childe really didn't deceive us, locusts are indeed a rare delicacy!" ”

"You know?" Yuan Xu smiled and asked, "It's so delicious, do you think you can sell it for a good price?" ”

"Yes!" Yuan Xi replied without hesitation: "Five copper coins may be a bit expensive. ”

"The auction house has a copper coin, which is quite cheap." Yuan Xu said: "I have already had the cooking recipe spread to the people, and it won't be long before the locusts will be on the table." ”

"Childe." Wei Qi asked: "Can the people find the seasoning in the formula?" ”

Yuan Xu slapped his forehead: "I forgot about this stubble......"

Wei Qi is full of black lines.

It's not difficult to spread the recipe, and people have to be able to get together the seasoning......

"Dare to ask Childe, who will do it?" Wei Qi asked again.

"In addition to gathering wealth to order Zhen Yan, who else can there be?" Yuan Xu replied: "Everything that makes money is handed over to him." ”

"Leave it to him, and Childe can rest assured." Wei Qi said: "He will let people try to bake it with seasonings that can be found in the folk, although the taste is not as good as that of Gongzi's baking, it is also a rare delicacy for the world." ”

With his words, Yuan Xu was relieved.

The day after he left Yecheng, Zhen Yan presided over an auction.

At the auction, although there were some treasures, they were all stolen from the limelight by an ordinary thing.

In front of each of the guests participating in the auction, there is a small plate.

On the plate was a roasted locust.

Zhen Yan personally presided over the auction.

He asked the guests, "Ladies and gentlemen, is the thing on the plate in front of you very familiar?" ”

"Roasted a locust for us." Someone replied: "If you don't do a good auction, what are you doing with this?" ”

"Listen to me." Zhen Yan said: "Locusts are our new delicacy here, and we are currently going through the auction process, with a starting price of one copper coin each. ”

"I'm crazy about money." Immediately, someone shouted: "The locusts are also put up for auction, are you without treasures?" ”

"You can taste it first." There was also a roasted locust on the plate in front of Zhen Yan, and he threw the locust into his mouth and chewed it, enjoying it with a look of enjoyment.

When the guests participating in the auction saw him eat, they also showed expressions of enjoyment, and some of them were bold, and they also carefully picked up the locusts and took a small bite.

With just one bite, the expressions of these people changed in an instant.

They kept nodding their heads and said to the people beside them: "It's really good, it's crispy and refreshing, a copper coin, it's really worth it." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen." Zhen Yan continued: "The price of the locusts is not a copper coin, but a bid by you. The sales price of the day is subject to the highest bid. ”

"Two copper coins!" There are people who have tasted it.

"Five!" Another person raised the price.

The guests who had not yet tasted it saw that some people were scrambling, and they all released the locusts into their mouths.

Bidding is easy to make people crazy, a copper coin and a locust are already sky-high.

Even so, the final auction price of the locusts was set at twenty copper coins each.

There is no locust plague in Yanzhou, and of course there will not be too many locusts to provide.

The high-priced locusts sold out quickly.

Zhen Yan left the auction table, and the cook poked his head out of the back hall and bowed to him.

Seeing that he had something to say, Zhen Yan walked over: "What's the matter?" ”

"I've read the recipe for the Wealth Gathering Order." The cook said, "There are a few spices that you can't find on the market, and even if they are circulated, no one will make them." ”

"Can you bake it with condiments that are available on the market?" Zhen Yan asked.

"It's not that it can't, it's just that the taste is a little worse." The cook replied.

"How bad?" Zhen Yan asked.

"It's far worse than what is offered here to guests." The cook said, "But it's delicious." ”

"Make a recipe with condiments that you can find on the market, and I'll get people to spread it out." Zhen Yan instructed: "We must choose the best recipe, so that the world can taste the delicious taste they have never tasted." ”

"Don't worry about gathering wealth, I'll do it." The cook should be down.

The chef who cooks the food for the auction house is one of the best in Dahan, and it is certainly not difficult to concoct a recipe.

In the afternoon of the same day, the formula flowed out of the auction house.

The guests who tasted it added oil and vinegar to the rendering, and both inside and outside Yecheng soon knew that locusts were edible, and they were a rare delicacy.

Some idlers who love food went to the farmland outside the city that day to search for locusts.

In Yecheng, locusts were fired up to sky-high prices, and the people of Youzhou were still busy catching them and sending them to the government for money.

The people caught it on a large scale, the locusts became less and less, and the damage to the farmland was not as serious as it began.

In the Youzhou official mansion, Wei Qi was busy buying locusts.

Yuan Xi reminded Yuan Xu: "There are more and more locusts being acquired, and if you don't dispose of them, you can only lose them." ”

"Let people send it to Yecheng." Yuan Xu instructed: "The price of locusts there should have been raised." ”

"Send it now?" Yuan Xi asked.

"Now, of course." Yuan Xu gave an affirmative reply.

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