"Da Lang, what are you doing Your Majesty a favor?" Si'er said excitedly.

If Si'er didn't believe it before, but now he believes it, our little master is very capable!

However, Zheng Lang was in a heavy mood, although he was helping, it would cause controversy, and he was walking a tightrope. He didn't like this kind of gentleness, or rather the quiet surname, very much like this feeling.

For the sake of friendship, he still made a move.

Returning to the study, he picked up the pen and wrote on the paper:

There is a post at the head of the village, down to the river canal, every scorching summer, the grass and trees are in the sky, the minister is happy to look up at the sky here, the stars are counted, or the moon is out of the East Mountain, and the Qingyu is also between the clouds. Clear thoughts fluttering, as if taking advantage of the feathers, flying dragon clouds, swimming outside the four seas.

This is the first sentence, but if it is not a noble person, don't write it, people will laugh at it. But it's not that I'm more generous, but it's to lead to the text.

As soon as I said, there was a fairy in white who came with a crane, and I looked up and said, "Are you from the mountain of the despised aunt?"

A question not only leads to the text, but is also extremely unbridled and full of imagination.

Yes, yes.

I replied, where did you come from?

Answer, you often sleep with me, the reason why I come here to watch it.

It was this sentence that caused a lot of rumors, and it was a later story. Keep writing.

I said, but I don't like it, at the turn of July, the rice is fragrant, and the cool is ruthless, the scorched earth is cracked, the locusts are greedy, the bamboo leaves are gone, the trees are scattered, the wilderness is bleak, you come to the future, the future comes.

The Son is angry, who is your lord?

My lord is benevolent and simple, and he is like a stream, and the non-Han Wenjing is not enough to call it.

How?

If you don't understand it, you come from the mountain to despise my aunt, and if you know, please appeal to me, so that I am sleepy!

You and other vulgar husbands, I have a thought, and you wait for the green hair to become snow silk, so Lao Tzu said, heaven and earth regard all things as dogs, why are you also stupid?

I didn't dare to write more about this sentence, for fear of trouble, so I swept it by. In my thoughts, the world is already the vicissitudes of life, you have changed from a hairy boy to an old man, do you have so much spare time to take care of your mortal affairs? You're too self-conscious, aren't you? You can write more, there will inevitably be controversy, so I don't dare to write down, only one sentence turned to the following.

In my last thought, the third year of Kaiyuan is yes, is it a prosperous world?

Correct.

But what about the Shandong locust?

I can't speak.

At that time, the people thought that it was okay to burn incense and worship locusts, but they couldn't ban it. Yao Chongnai sent the imperial history to supervise the county to arrest him, and the speaker thought that there were too many locusts to be exhausted, and the Ming Emperor was also suspicious. Chong said, now the locusts are full of Shandong, and the people in Henan and North China are in exile, how can they sit back and watch the seedlings and not save them? Emperor Ming is from it, Huai Shen thought that there were too many locusts, afraid of hurt and angry, Chong said, the king of Chuzhuang swallowed the leech and healed the disease, Uncle Sun killed the snake and blessed, but he couldn't bear the locust and endure the hunger of the people! Woe to the locusts, please deserve it? The locusts are gone!

Correct.

Those who read all the books in vain, the season of the long right and barbarian (two ancient beasts, there are floods everywhere) is raging, and Yujiang (the god of wind and the god of plague) is rampant. And when the drought is longitudinal, there are many locusts and drums. Through the ages! However, tens of thousands of miles away in the west, there is a country called the Great Food, and its place is actually the place of the extreme south, the yellow sand is thousands of miles, not a single inch of grass grows, the birds are hidden, the red mountains are scorching, and the heat is steaming. The charm is more prosperous, the locusts are more numerous, and the people are safe, why is it?

I don't know, please give it to the fairy.

It is said that its people take locusts as a delicacy, its meat is also tender, and its taste is also fresh, if it is accompanied by fed poultry and livestock, it is especially better than feeding it to rice grain. For the locusts, though they are numerous, they are not enough to do harm.

What a fairy is like a word!

You are stupid, the big food is the same as the Tang Dynasty, where is the Tang Dynasty today? Five generations have changed, and the big food is still standing in the West! If you do not respect the gods and the people, but respect the gods and the locusts, I am afraid of your country!

Words are lost in an instant.

I also wake up, the night is white and the wind is clear, the moon is gradually slanting westward, the fallen leaves are Xiao Xiao, empty the remains, as if the fragrance still exists, but I am dazed and dazed.

After writing it in one go, he did not immediately send it to the capital, but called Xiao Bo and said to him: "Xiao Bo, you go and do two things for me." ”

"Dalang, please command."

Zheng Lang was sixteen years old at this time, and even Lao Xiao gradually changed his title from Xiaolang to Dalang.

"You lead people to build more chicken sheds in the back, put lime in them, and then collect more chickens from the township to raise them, the price is a little more expensive."

Putting lime is a simple measure to prevent chicken plague, and collecting chickens is not for profit, just to set an example, otherwise he said, if there is a disaster, please take it. May I ask you for a small move, what qualifications do you have? I can't say it, but I can do it.

Xiao Bo didn't know his intentions, his little master wanted to do it, whether it was right or not, didn't it just cost some small money, the current Zheng family is not the Zheng family in the past, and the monthly income has reached more than 1,000 yuan, don't care.

said, "Oh." ”

But then Zheng Lang's words made him a little creepy, Zheng Lang said: "You told the villagers that I will buy locusts, and if you catch locusts, I will buy them at a price of twenty yuan a catty." ”

"Dalang, what are you going to do?" Xiao Bo was frightened.

"There's nothing wrong with listening to me."

"No, a few ladies don't agree."

Not to mention the court, even no one in the family will agree.

But Zheng Lang thought of a way, called Si'er over, and said, "Si'er, you go home and let your family do something for me." ”

"Okay."

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, Si'er also hesitated.

"If you promise, I will let you give birth to a few good sons for me, if you don't agree, I won't let you give birth."

What is it...... But in reality, this is the case, and it is very difficult to change ideological concepts.

"Da Lang, why are you doing this?"

"You'll find out later."

Si'er reluctantly returned to her parents' house, and Si'er's mother's family was not happy, but Si'er was very aggrieved and said that if he didn't agree, his own Xiaolang would not have sex with him in the future. The family was helpless, it was destined to be the position of a concubine in the future, and only after having a child could the status of the Zheng family be guaranteed. For the sake of his daughter, he had to endure it. While burning incense and praying to the gods for forgiveness, they built a chicken shed, and then let out the wind to buy locusts.

This thing is very small, and it weighs a lot of pounds. However, now there are many locusts, and it is not a problem to catch one of three or four catties a day. Replaced with grain, that is, nearly a bucket of grain. At first, no one dared to catch it, but some people were forced to have no choice but to kneel and burn incense while going to the field to catch it. Someone started and more people joined in.

Use these locusts to feed the chickens, as for the ones that can't be fed, put them on the drying field, fortunately, the weather is dry, there is no rain, and the locusts are dried in a few days, and then stacked up with straw bales for storage. These high-protein foods were later regarded as first-class dishes, and the little chickens and ducks jumped up vigorously after eating, but countless people in the village began to blame Si'er's family.

At this time, Zheng Lang had already submitted this recital to Zhengzhou.

The lifting can also be played, but there are many procedures, and it will take a long time before it can be handed to Dongfu. Zheng Lang's twists and turns, but Kochishu did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately sent it to the capital with a fast horse. But I quietly glanced at it, and after reading it, I recited Amitabha Buddha in my heart, and I didn't dare to look at it anymore and sealed my mouth. By the way, Zheng Lang asked Si'er's mother's family to purchase locusts, wrote a note, and presented it to the capital. Let's not evaluate right and wrong, guys, you think about it slowly.

Si'erniang's family couldn't stand the white eyes of the people in the village, so they ran to Zheng's house and told Zheng Lang about the situation. Zheng Lang said: "Don't worry. ”

Then he called the stonemason in the village to come over, quietly engraved this piece on the stone tablet, and carried it to Si'er's village with Si'er's eldest brother's father, put it on the grain floor, and then said to the onlookers: "Fellow villagers, this is what I instructed, don't be embarrassed." Soon it will reach the imperial court, and if I am wrong, the imperial court will oppose it, then I will stop. If I am right, the court will definitely support it, so please support it as well, okay? ”

Needless to say, I'm buying locusts, and the fewer locusts, the less harmful your crops will be, but if you say that, it doesn't make sense. So let the bigwigs of the court determine right and wrong. At this time, Zheng Lang came forward, which itself gave the villagers a kind of pressure.

There are too many rumors, and there are ghosts and gods. So the villagers had no choice but to accept this fact, and some thought that this was a battle between the gods, a battle between the locust gods and Wen Kuixing, and I mortals didn't interfere. Let's see who's the best.

In fact, the locust plague in Zhengzhou is relatively small, and the big deal is that the grain production is seriously reduced. But between Jingdong Road and JAC, if this move can be passed, it will be of great significance. Why fight with locusts for grass to eat, it's better to eat locusts directly.

Isn't it good that this not only reduces the harm caused by the locust plague, but also increases the source of food?

But to think that way would be wrong.

Fortunately, Zheng Lang didn't think so. calmed down the opposition of the people in Si'er Village, and the opposition of his own family came. Only three days later, Zheng Jiazhuang heard about it, and several ladies called Zheng Lang over, and the eldest lady asked in a panic: "What's going on with Si'er's family?" ”

"Auntie, is it the people who matter, or the locusts?" Zheng Lang didn't answer directly, Yao Chong had already answered for him for hundreds of years.

"That's a living thing, too."

"Auntie, listen to the child's words, Buddhism also talks about killing demons and eliminating demons, the drought is serious, and the locusts are worse, which is more hateful than demons and monsters. Why should we honor them? ”

After talking for a long time, I comforted the eldest mother. It can't be regarded as comfort, but the eldest mother said that he couldn't say anything, so he was so angry that he didn't say anything, and then pulled the second mother, the third mother, and the fourth mother and they ran to the temple to burn incense and make a wish. But this twist and turn quickly arrived in the capital.

A few big guys looked at it and didn't know what to do.

Several bigwigs know about the big food, where the people like to eat locusts, they haven't heard of it, and they don't know if there is. But Yao Chong knew all about killing locusts. Strictly speaking, this is Zheng Jiazi's first letter in the true sense of the word, but it goes one step further. As for the conversation with the fairy, no one took it seriously. But they were a little dumbfounded, not only killing locusts, but also eating locusts, people eating, and letting chickens and ducklings eat after eating.

and ridiculed the use of natural disasters [***] to put pressure on the monarch, and none of the bigwigs agreed. However, it should be said that the current emperor seems to be developing in the direction of perfection, and most of the ministers in the court are upright. If it is accompanied by this, it seems that God will punish it as well, and it seems unreasonable.

Several people discussed it and handed it to Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen was also a little confused, so he threw out this recital in the morning court, and everyone discussed.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ouyang Xiu, who was most opposed to slander, stood firmly on Zheng Lang's side again and said, "What Zheng Juzi said, the minister thinks it is. At that time, the two plagues of drought locusts in Henan, North and South and Shandong were still worse than today. Emperor Ming first prayed to God, but to no avail, Yao Chongli expelled the public opinion to kill the locusts, and the minister tried his best to oppose it. So the Ming Emperor came to the city tower in person and ordered someone to catch a fried locust and eat it on the spot. The minister thought that since the Ming Emperor ate the locust, the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty had really arrived, and the Tang Dynasty erupted. Your Majesty, please think again. ”

He remembered his surname and talent, not only remembered Yao Yuanchong's killing of locusts, but also remembered Li Longji's eating of locusts, and regarded this matter at the beginning of the prosperous era of Kaiyuan.

After finishing speaking, he looked at the little emperor earnestly, he didn't count what he said, Zheng Jiazi didn't say it, and what the little emperor said was counted. did not disappoint him, the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty was not what everyone in the Two Song Dynasty dared to think, it was the peak era of Wenzhi and martial arts that reached the peak of China's feudal era for thousands of years.

The little emperor was enthusiastic when he heard this, and said, "Come on, catch a locust for me." ”