When the ministers heard this, there was an uproar.

Zhang Baoer said with a smile: "I know that everyone doesn't believe it, so today I specially prepared a table of good dishes for those present, everyone can try it." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Bao'er shouted outside the hall gate: "Come in!" ”

The door of the main hall opened, and many attendants rushed in.

"The first dish, flying locust shrimp steak, is made of 20 locusts and 12 fresh tail shrimps, and the dishes are characterized by beautiful color, crispy and palatable."

"The second dish is drunk locusts, the raw material is a pound of live locusts, the basic characteristics are fragrant and fishy, and the taste is delicious."

"The third dish is spicy locusts, the raw locusts are one pound and two taels, winter bamboo shoots, celery, green onions, the basic characteristics are fresh and fragrant and slightly spicy, and the locust meat is soft and delicious."

"Fourth course locust Tengda ......"

"Fifth course fried locust ......"

"The sixth course braised locust ......"

"Seventh course fried chicken ......"

"Eighth course of golden sands and flying geese ......"

……

Zhang Bao'er looked at the dumbfounded ministers, and said proudly: "I call today's banquet a hundred locust banquet, although there are not a hundred dishes, but there are more than a dozen dishes, which are all carefully developed and carefully operated by the chef of Yonghe Building, and you can't eat it anywhere else." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Bao'er looked at Li Longji: "Your Majesty, please taste it first!" ”

Li Longji nodded, and unceremoniously took a sip and put it in his mouth.

"Well, it tastes really good!" As he spoke, Li Longji took another bite.

Zhang Bao'er looked at Yao Chong again: "Won't Yao Ge taste it?" ”

Yao Chong didn't know Zhang Bao'er's intentions, he smiled and said: "Even Your Majesty said that it was delicious, so wouldn't it be a blessing for us to wait?" ”

After that, Yao Chong also tasted it.

"That's good!" Looking at Yao Chong's expression, what he said didn't seem to be against his will.

Zhang Bao'er looked at the ministers again: "I hope you will use it slowly, so as not to disappoint Your Majesty's hospitality." ”

After that, Zhang Baoer stopped paying attention to everyone and began to feast.

Purun and Lu Xiangxian also moved their chopsticks.

Lu Huaishen hesitated, also picked up the chopsticks, he closed his eyes and put a locust in his mouth, chewed for a while, opened his eyes, and nodded involuntarily.

His Majesty and the Prime Minister all ate it, how could the other ministers be indifferent, no one in the entire hall spoke, and there was a sound of chewing in their ears......

……

At the end of the banquet, Li Longji issued an edict on the spot: "Prime Minister Yao Chong and Dingguo Gong Zhang Bao'er are jointly responsible for the extermination of locusts, and if the civil and military officials and local officials do not cooperate, Yao Chong has the right to remove him from his official post and then report it." ”

Li Longji's edict gave Yao Chong great power, and also marked Li Longji's greatest support for the extermination of locusts.

"Ding Guogong, your trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle has indeed worked, what should we do next?" Yao Chong was overjoyed and asked Zhang Baoer for advice.

"First, you are in charge of the long security plate, and I will go to Bianzhou to personally supervise the extermination of locusts."

Yao Chongdao: "It's better for you to stay in Chang'an, and I'll go to Bianzhou!" Ni Ruoshui is not easy to deal with. ”

Zhang Bao'er waved his hand and said: "Destroying locusts requires the cooperation of various departments at the same time, you are the prime minister, it is easier to coordinate than me, and you have a greater role in staying." As for Ni Ruoshui, Lao Yao, it's not me bragging, do you think he can beat me? ”

Yao Chong smiled bitterly: "It's me who thinks too much, if you talk about scheming, none of the civil and military forces in this Manchu Dynasty is your opponent, a little Ni Ruoshui, you will naturally not put it in your eyes." ”

Zhang Bao'er continued: "Second, 200 officials will be transferred from various ministries, and another 200 will be transferred from the criminal department to arrest them. ”

"What are these people pumping?" Yao Chong said strangely.

"I have some family members in Seven Star Village, and I haven't been idle these days, teaching them how to exterminate locusts!"

Yao Chong was overjoyed and said, "You have found a way to exterminate locusts?" ”

"Not really, it's just to minimize the damage." Zhang Bao'er continued: "The officials, the catcher and my family are in a team of three, and they are in charge of a county. If there is a county order that does not cooperate with the extermination of locusts, the officials who are selected will be dismissed from their posts on the spot and taken over by them. The catcher is responsible for the safety of the locust exterminators, and the specific locust extermination is the responsibility of my family members. In this way, each will be held accountable and nothing will be omitted. ”

Yao Chong nodded: "That's very good." ”

"If Lao Yao can hurry up, it's best to let them go tomorrow!"

Yao Chong got up and said, "I'll do it, and I promise to leave tomorrow!" ”

……

As soon as Zhang Bao'er returned home, he saw Yan Gu coming in a hurry: "Brother Bao'er, the matter of Shopkeeper Sun has been clarified." ”

"Tell me about it!"

Zhang Bao'er finally breathed a sigh of relief, if he couldn't give a satisfactory explanation to Ashina about this matter, even if he arrived in the Western Regions, it would be a heart disease.

……

On this day, a few people suddenly came to Wang Yuncheng's house in Wangjiazhuang on the outskirts of the city.

One of them, Wang Yuncheng, recognized that it was Ashina Xian who gave the pawnshop to him. He felt that the other people were blind, and among them was the capture of Jingzhao Mansion.

As soon as Wang Yuncheng wanted to speak, he heard a man in white say softly: "Open!" ”

I saw a man quickly open a broken bag in his hand.

In an instant, a familiar black lacquered wooden box immediately appeared in front of Wang Yuncheng's eyes.

Just after Wang Yuncheng was stunned, the person who came took out the pair of familiar ancient incense burners from it in the blink of an eye, and then saw the person who came to make a fire sickle, light flannel and burn charcoal......

In an instant, the long-lost strange landscape reappeared.

When Wang Yuncheng saw it, he couldn't believe his eyes, needless to say, this was clearly his own pair of ancient incense burners. At this time, I saw the man in white pointing to the ancient incense burner, and said coldly: "Wang Yuncheng, this pair of ancient incense burners should be the right pair of your Wang family!" ”

Hearing this, Wang Yuncheng's eyes widened in shock, and he couldn't help but ask the man in white, "Where did this ancient incense burner come from?" ”

The man in white said: "This is your pair of ancient incense burners, you must have that pair of smoking ancient incense burners, but the shopkeeper Sun can't take them, and before he dies, he didn't forget to tell his owner to mortgage the pawnshop to you...... Today, I came to the door to return it. ”

When Wang Yuncheng heard this, he couldn't help but sit on the ground in fright, and blurted out, "How is this possible?" How did you get the purple smoke from the ancient incense burner again? ”

The man in white didn't answer, just waved his hand, and the man next to him stepped on the bottom of an ancient incense burner with his feet, and reached out to pull out the tray in the furnace. It turned out that the tray could not only be unplugged, but the bottom of the tray was densely covered with countless holes smaller than the eye of a needle. Looking at the belly of the stove under the tray, it was full of sawdust from the belly.

The man in white pointed to the belly of the ancient incense burner: "In order to make this pair of ancient incense burners reproduce the strange landscape of the past, return it as soon as possible." I sent people to search around, and finally found the source of the ancient incense burner in the Bauhinia Mountain in Yizhou......