Since ancient times, floods, droughts, and locust plagues have been called the three major agricultural disasters, which are large-scale natural disasters comparable to plagues.

The speed of locust swarms is even more astonishing, and everywhere they pass, there is no grass growing and the land is thousands of miles away.

Covering the sky and the sun, the black oppression, the humming sound of flapping wings is comparable to the beating of drums.

"Locusts, grasshoppers!" Tao Qini blinked, turned around and ran towards the yamen.

"What are you doing?" Tao Liuyi looked at her running and asked anxiously.

"Catch locusts and eat." Tao Qini said as she ran, her voice dissipating into the air, "There's something to eat now." ”

"Daddy, mother?" Tao Liuyi's gaze turned to Shen and Tao Fifteen.

"What are you doing? Hurry in and get the tools, grab as many as you can. Tao 15 stomped his feet and ran towards the yamen.

"Hey!" The three of them hurried into the yamen, and when they came out, they had straw baskets and baskets in their hands, as well as bags made of hemp rope.

"Can you eat this?" Yao Changsheng looked at the posture and waited for their family of four.

"I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten rats or insects, let alone this locust, they are food to eat, why can't they eat it." Tao fifteen said without thinking.

Yao Changsheng thought for a moment when he heard this, "That's right." Looking at Tao Shifteen, "Uncle Tao gave me a basket, and I will catch it too." ”

"Give!" Tao XV gave him a basket.

Zheng Tong and Deng He, along with the rest of Tokyo, also saw the dense locusts rushing towards them, and took their tools and waited for them.

When the locusts came, they began to hunt down these pests, and there were so many locusts that they lifted the basket, and the locusts slammed into the basket.

Tao Qini poured the locusts in the basket directly into the sack.

Fortunately, these days, when staying at night, Tao 15 would cut some hay, knead it into hemp rope, and then weave a bag, which was directly caught until dark!

"Nier, look." Tao Liuyi pointed to the sky excitedly and said, "It's tweeting." He stammered, "Yikes! It...... It...... Actually eat locusts. ”

"Doesn't it only eat dead things?" Yao Changsheng said in surprise.

Tao Qini was also surprised, how could vultures, known as the scavengers of the ecosystem, have sex with locusts.

Tao Qini looked at it fixedly, and suddenly smiled, "That's eating locusts, you see that the locusts are pecked to death." ”

"Ahh It's a real shock to their perceptions.

"Don't be in a daze, hurry up and catch the locusts, we want to live." Tao Qini looked at them stunned and hurriedly said.

"Oh! Oh! "They came to their senses and hurried into battle.

It was filled with twenty sacks more than one meter high.

"Whew! Exhausted. Tao Qini sat on the steps at the entrance of the yamen, looking at the locusts in the bag, "It seems that we won't be able to leave for a while, so we have to deal with them." ”

"What should I do with this?" Tao Liuyi sat beside her and looked at her and said, "In the past, we used to directly string branches and roast them on the fire. ”

"So much, it's just baking, I'm afraid it's too hot, and it won't last long before it gets stuffy." Shen Shi looked at these locusts and said regretfully.

"Like wolf meat, grilled into jerky, easy to put away." Tao fifteen looked at them with sparkling eyes and said positively.

Shen Shi looked at him and shook his head slightly, "There is another problem, there are so many bags, we only have one wheelbarrow, even if we can't carry it all!" ”

"No, no, it's too much, how long do we have to bake it!" Tao Qini shook her head slightly.

"Let's light the fire first, let's talk about it when we're full." Tao Qini looked at them and said directly, "I'm hungry." ”

The five people acted separately, the grasshoppers on the grasshoppers, and the fires on the fire.

Prepare for roasting directly in the open space at the entrance of the yamen.

After everything was ready, the five of them sat around the bonfire to roast grasshoppers, Tao Liuyi tilted his head slightly and looked at Tao Qini and said, "Nier, quickly say if there is any good way, so that we can eat for a few more days." ”

"Like a barbecue jerky, the locusts are charred and crispy, and then they are crushed into powder and preserved. When eating, you can eat it directly or brew. Tao Qini looked at them and said directly.

"This is good! For example, dry fried noodles, when I was fighting, I brought this kind of dry food. Yao Changsheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded.

"And my mother is worried that there is no way to take it away, and it will be solved, and it will definitely not take so many sacks to grind into powder." Tao Qini's eyes were shining, her thin lips were slightly curved, and she looked at her with a smile and said.

"This kid, why is his head so good." Shen looked at her tenderly and said gently.

"It smells so good!" Tao Liuyi sniffed his nose and snorted and said, "After eating barbecue for so many days, I can finally change the taste." ”

Tao Qini, who was red by the fire, looked at him and smiled lightly, "This is definitely not unpalatable." ”

"How can you be so sure!" Tao Liuyi looked at her with round eyes and said, "Don't talk about meat, we haven't even been able to eat insects for many years." ”

"Because they eat grain!" Tao Qini looked at him with a smile and said.

"After this! If there is no food, we can catch locusts to eat, we can eat enough, and we can solve the locust plague, which is really a double win. Tao Liuyi said childishly.

"Fool!" Tao Fifteen looked at him and said with a sneer, looking at them with fiery red eyes and continuing, "This grasshopper is not afraid of us eating it at all, and it is impossible to solve the problem by eating grasshoppers. They fly too fast and don't stay in one place for long. We have the tools, we have the sacks for them, and we have worked hard to catch so much, enough to eat for a few days. And wherever they go, let alone food, there is no grass. After a pause, he said, "So I can still farm and have enough food." ”

Yao Changsheng flipped over the roasted grasshopper in his hand, "Uncle Tao is right, this ancient man didn't dare to eat locusts for fear of offending God." Otherwise, the folk call it grasshopper, why is it called locust! ”

"Then who pioneered the eating of locusts?" Tao Liuyi asked curiously with a blink.

Yao Changsheng stared at the roasted grasshopper in his hand, and said in a slow voice, "Historical records: In the second year of Zhenguan, there was a drought in Beijing, and locusts rose up. When Taizong entered the garden to see the grass, he saw the locusts, took a few pieces and cursed: 'People take the grain as their life, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people.' The people have had, and they have a spirit in one person, but when they erode my heart, they will not harm the people. He swallowed it, and he said, "I am afraid that it will become a disease, so I can't do it." Taizong said: "What is the way to avoid the disaster?" Swallow it. After a pause, he said, "Tang Taizong took the lead, and people began to hunt and kill locusts, which they didn't dare to do before." ”

"Hmph......" Tao Qini snorted lightly when she heard this, and her tone was obviously not in disbelief.

"I don't agree with that." Yao Changsheng looked at her and raised his eyebrows lightly, "The history books shouldn't be mistaken. ”