Locusts, as long as they are in summer, are actually not uncommon, and when they don't usually gather together, the harm is not too great.

But once there is a drought, a large area of plants dies and there is no food to eat, and locusts begin to gather in large numbers.

Originally, there were few plants, and locusts gathered in large numbers, so it naturally showed a sweeping trend, and where the locust army passed, it can be said that there was no grass left.

Around Yang Wenhua's mountain gate, in addition to the mountains in the northeast, more than 10,000 acres of land have been reclaimed, planted with various new species, plus tens of thousands of chickens and ducks, thousands of pigs and some other domestic animals.

Because of the intensive farming, a large number of people are required when the farm is busy, and even in normal times, there are thousands of people in charge of taking care of it.

Knowing that there was a locust plague this year, Yang Wenhua had prepared hundreds of small nets earlier, which he thought would be useless, but at this time, it was just right.

asked the lieutenant chief Yang Guo to send people to catch locusts nearby, and Yang Wenhua himself prepared.

If you want others to do something, the best way is naturally to lure, and if you are willing, you are naturally much more efficient than those who are resistant.

So Yang Wenhua is going to cook a big dinner of locusts, so that these people can taste the delicious taste of locusts, so that they can understand that locusts are not only edible, but also very delicious.

First put the captured locusts in the water, wash them at will, and don't worry about the locusts running away during the cleaning process, the locusts' wings are sticky to the water, and they naturally can't fly.

Roll the washed locusts in the thin flour first, scoop them up with a bamboo colander, sprinkle some dry flour on them, and then shake off the excess dry flour.

Put it in the oil pan and roll it around with the bamboo colander, and you can take it out in a few seconds, and the fried grasshoppers are ready.

After throwing some fine salt to taste, Yang Wenhua personally grabbed two and tasted them, well, crispy and fragrant, the taste is very good.

"Click, click."

Yang Sanmei saw that Yang Wenhua ate crispy, and it smelled very good, and after swallowing her saliva, she couldn't help but reach out and grab one, throw it into her mouth and eat it.

I couldn't stop eating this time, and in the end, the third sister simply found a small bowl and scooped a bowl to eat slowly.

Yang Guo saw that the third sister liked to eat, and the expression on his face was even more puzzled, could this thing be really delicious?

Yang Wenhua ate a few, and continued to fry it, and after a while, he made a lot of them, and after the freshness passed, Yang Wenhua didn't want to continue to make them.

I plan to take the third sister back to the mountain gate, and as for catching locusts, of course, I will do it again at night.

When the third sister left, she also found a small bag with about ten catties of fried locusts and left, saying that she would bring it back to her little sisters to taste.

As soon as Yang Wenhua and the third sister turned around and left, there was a scramble behind them, and Yang Guo's shouting and scolding also rang out.

"What to rob, a few kills, Lao Tzu himself fried himself and haven't eaten it yet."

"The fairy master let us eat as much as we want, things are everywhere, so stingy and dry?"

If you want to catch a large number of locusts, there is no better way to use purple insect traps at night.

When you catch it, if you want to use it, you naturally have to make it into a dried locust.

After lunch, Yang Wenhua came to the reservoir embankment, led everyone to the place where the locusts gathered, and began to direct everyone to get busy.

The first is to dig out the row stove in the ground, after placing a dozen cauldrons, behind the row stove, put a few stone spoons, and finally build a few temporary rice warehouses with wooden planks to come out.

After the preparation, Yang Wenhua asked everyone to go back and have a good rest, and then eat dinner early and come back again, tonight is destined to be busy with green.

"Brother, what are you going to do after catching so many insects?"

"After making it into powder, it is mixed with grain and eaten by the people who built the embankment."

"Is it so delicious that the people who built the embankment can eat it?"

"Whatever you mix in the grain counts as much as the price."

The third sister rolled her eyes and proposed, "Otherwise, I'll help you go to Chang'an to sell these insects." ”

Yang Wenhua was a little speechless about the little girl's brain, not to mention whether people in this era can accept such things as locusts, which are usually better, with the current output of locusts, the bidding money that can be sold there.

"What are you doing with that matter, you are not short of money."

"But my students need money, and their families are earning money, and if they don't earn money, their families won't let them go to school.

Even if their family didn't say anything, they didn't give them a good face when they came home. ”

The third sister said, with a worried look on her face, her girls' school was about to collapse.

Cold and violent, Yang Wenhua can't help this kind of thing, no matter how big Yang Wenhua's ability is, he can't care what people think in their hearts, right?

"The locusts shouldn't be easy to sell, now the corn is almost ripe, we'll break a few corn and go back to dry, my brother will get you some popcorn to sell, you don't have to go to Chang'an, after you get it, just wholesale it in Lantian."

"Is popcorn made from corn?"

The third sister has eaten popcorn, but she just doesn't know what's going on.

"Popcorn is good, popcorn can make a lot of money."

When night fell, Yang Guo rushed over with two hundred people.

Yang Wenhua first asked people to burn the fire, scrubbed the iron pot vigorously, and cleaned out other things first.

After it was dark, Yang Wenhua turned on the purple flashlight, and after a while, the locusts began to gather.

"Go to twenty people, use online loans to catch locusts, remember that online loans can only shake in the air, but they can't get to the ground."

Twenty men in gloves and hoods stepped forward, raised their nets and drove forward along the purple pillar of light, and after running a few meters, the small nets were full.

"Quickly take it back and pour it into the pot, rest for a while, and go to another twenty people."

The first few iron pots were already burning red, and a bag of locusts was poured into the iron pot, and green smoke immediately came out, followed by a burnt smell.

"Don't care about the locusts that ran away, hurry up and scoop them into the iron pot in the back, don't you see that they are already mushy?"

Seeing the person with the big shovel, regardless of the many locusts in the pot, actually used the shovel to roll out the point, Yang Wenhua almost became angry.

"Don't stop, keep shoveling into the pot in the back."

The temperature of the iron pot at the front is the highest, and by the time the tenth iron pot is reached, the temperature may only be one or two hundred degrees.

The locusts are weak and do not have much water, but from front to back, after passing through ten iron pots, they have become crispy.

At this time, you can put it into the stone canopy, and after a few casual scoops, it will become locust powder, dig it out and fill a pot, and then put it into the temporary rice warehouse, and it will be over.

The whole process required about 50 people, 200 people in rotation, and it was always running efficiently.

More than three hours later, Yang Wenhua had to stop harvesting the locusts, because the rice warehouse for locust powder was already full.

Although it was four shifts, everyone was still tired, because they had almost harvested 100,000 catties of locust powder.

Looking at the many locusts that were still churning in the purple light, Yang Wenhua planned to bring Cheng Yanjin's forbidden army tomorrow night.