When Zhou Ming came over, Lin Taohua was squatting on the ground with Gao Juxiang muttering, not knowing what to say.

"Sister-in-law." He bowed not far away.

"Brother Ming, come on." Lin Taohua greeted him very happily when she saw Zhou Ming.

"This girl was just talking about you, you came quickly." Gao Juxiang stood up and said with a smile.

"Brother Ming, have you seen these little holes? There are locust eggs in there, and we have to get them out and kill them, otherwise soon the locusts will be raging again. Lin Taohua pulled Zhou Ming and pointed to the small hole in the ground and said.

Zhou Ming found a wooden stick and dug down the small hole, and sure enough, he saw rows of yellow and white insect eggs, so he led Lin Taohua to find the village chief.

In the days that followed, the entire village of men, women and children was mobilized to catch the adult insects and kill the eggs. When several nearby villages heard about this, they sent people to learn the experience of locust control, and soon the entire Qiongya County was mobilized, and the menacing locust plague ended not long after.

The locust extermination campaign in Qiongya County stopped the locusts from advancing, and the villages in Yuzhou's jurisdiction that had not yet suffered from the locust plague were greatly relieved, and even sent a delegation to express their gratitude and learn from the experience of locust control. The village chief Zhou Dahai felt that his face was shining, and he beckoned the mother-in-law in the village to buy a table of wine and food, and called all the promising descendants of Zhoujia Village to come to the house to accompany the guests, and the three sons of Zhou Yuan's family were also invited.

"Brother Ming, are you going to a banquet?" Lin Taohua's eyes were shining, looking at Zhou Ming, who had changed his clothes and was about to go out.

Zhou Ming saw that she was so elated and thought that she also wanted to go, and said with some hesitation: "Peach Blossom, this banquet is made by a woman in the village, and the taste is average, if you want to eat banquet noodles, will I take you out to eat next time?" ”

In ancient times, women were not qualified to eat at the main banquet, not to mention that all the men invited to this banquet were men, and there was no possibility for women to attend the banquet, so when she heard Zhou Ming's words, Lin Taohua knew that this was a tactful attempt to prevent her from going to eat, so she asked with a smile: "Xianggong, can I serve at our banquet?" ”

Zhou Ming saw that she was not angry, so he also joked: "You have the final say in our family, you can go up if you want, and you just want to hang them if you don't want to." ”

Lin Taohua glanced at him, "Am I the one who doesn't understand the rules and is rude?" You bring this box of dishes to them to try. ”

Zhou Ming suddenly thought of the fried locusts she had said, and asked with a strange face: "Fried locusts?" ”

Lin Taohua smiled and narrowed her eyes, lowered her head, pinched a charred locust from the food box in her arms, and leaned into Zhou Ming's mouth and said, "You taste it." ”

To be honest, Zhou Ming really didn't want to eat it. The sage said, don't get tired of eating, don't get tired of fine, don't eat if you don't cut right, don't sit if you don't sit at the table. They don't pay so much attention to the poor countryside, but the matter of eating insects is beyond the scope of Zhou Ming's cognition.

Lin Taohua saw the entanglement on his face, and said with a smile: "There is an emperor who has eaten it, and it is raw food, I have fried it for you, what are you afraid of?" ”

Zhou Minghu was suspicious, "The emperor eats locusts raw? This is against etiquette, are you lying to me? ”

Lin Taohua smiled and said, "You idiot, is the people important or the etiquette important?" Forget it, I'll tell you a story. ”

She put the locust in her hand into her mouth and chewed it under Zhou Ming's blazing gaze, her eyes narrowed deliberately, looking like a delicious thing in the world, but unfortunately Zhou Ming didn't crave this thing at all.

"What a nerd, people have to have the courage to try things that have not been tried, do you know? In ancient times, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, not for a livelihood, I think you are still hungry. Lin Taohua gave Zhou Ming a political lesson in a similar manner, and then cleared his throat and said: "It is said that during the Zhenguan period, Chang'an caused a locust plague and the people were displaced for thousands of miles, and Emperor Taizong was very distressed, grabbed the locusts and said, people take the valley as their life, and you eat it, which is harmful to the people. The people have had, in one person, they have a spirit, but when it erodes my heart, it harms the people! Then I put it in my mouth and swallowed it. I'll tell you, it's high protein, it's very nutritious. ”

Zhou Ming listened to the stories he hadn't heard of, as well as the words he didn't understand, and said gently: "Peach Blossom will tell me more stories about your side in the future?" ”

Lin Taohua smiled: "Okay, I can tell you about the history of the East and West for five thousand years." Hehe, let's try one first, people have been busy all morning for this. ”

Zhou Ming was willing to see her disappointed, grabbed one and put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, it was crispy and soft, salty and fragrant, and the taste was very good.

"How's it going?" Lin Taohua had a happy expression waiting for praise.

Zhou Ming touched her head and said with a smile: "It's delicious, how do you make this thing?" ”

Lin Taohua waited to ask, put the food box into his arms, and said with a smile: "Pick nymphs, oh, it's the kind of locusts that haven't grown wings yet, put them in a ventilated place for two days, and then scald them to death with boiling water, remove the head, limbs, wings, and internal organs, and then add salt and cook them together on low heat for a while, and put the hot oil in it and fry it for a while." In the past two days, this thing has wasted a lot of food, but you can't take them to the table, this food is popular, and there are a large number of people to catch locusts, which can be regarded as a way to advocate everyone to exterminate locusts as soon as possible, hehe. ”

Zhou Ming had never seen many species that were eaten during the Celestial Empire and were about to become extinct, nor could he foresee the scene of human beings hunting locusts in large numbers for the sake of their tongues. He just couldn't bear to brush off Lin Taohua's kindness, so he went to the banquet with a food box, and said that the fried locusts were unparalleled in the sky and the ground at the banquet, and he was stunned to say that a box of locusts went into everyone's stomachs, and then the dish of fried locusts became popular inexplicably, and soon swept the entire Qiongya County, and expanded rapidly with the merchants coming and going.

Zhou Ming expressed surprise at this, but Lin Taohua regretted not making a fortune from this, after all, she used up all the oil and salt left in the house for that box of locusts, looking at Zhou Wang's expression of pain and reluctance to blame her, eating a lunch that had no taste, Lin Taohua felt a strong sense of guilt.

In the afternoon, the three brothers of the Zhou family returned from the village chief's house to the banquet, and heard that there was no oil and salt at home, and then looked at Lin Taohua's embarrassed expression, waved his hand, indicating that it was a trivial matter, picked up the bamboo basket, took the bow and arrow, and prepared to go up the mountain to hunt for money to buy oil and salt. As soon as Lin Taohua heard that she was going up the mountain, she pulled Zhou Ming's clothes and had to follow, but her brother had no choice but to take her.

Lin Taohua thought that the village should be at the foot of the mountain and the mountain should be fast, but she didn't walk for half an hour, she was so tired that she was sweating, and her feet were grinding and hurting.

"Peach Blossom, I'm tired, I'll carry you." Zhou Ming took Lin Taohua's hand, felt her discomfort and whispered.

It was Lin Taohua who had to come with her just now, so she was embarrassed to let Zhou Ming carry her at this time, not to mention that there were the eldest brother and second brother walking in front of her, so she said, "I'm fine, let's go quickly." ”

Zhou Ming saw that there were dense beads of sweat on her forehead and nose, her cheeks were red, and he pulled her indiscriminately, "Come up, I'm your father-in-law, what's there to be shy about, and your feet will be blistered if you walk again." ”

Lin Taohua blushed and climbed onto Zhou Ming's back with her head down.

Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu glanced back, smiled knowingly and didn't say much.

After walking for a while, Lin Taohua felt that her face was not so hot, and she began to wonder about Zhou Ming's strength: "Brother Ming, it's not that my father and mother let you take the test for fame, I haven't seen you read these days, and you really don't look like a powerless scholar like you." ”

Zhou Mingwaner: "Didn't you say a while ago that I didn't look like a farmer, but now you say that I don't look like a scholar." ”

Lin Taohua herself smiled and said: "Wenwen is weak and white and pure like a scholar, look at the muscles on your arm, this is too abrupt." ”

Feeling that Lin Taohua was pinching and touching his big arm, Zhou Ming suddenly felt that this girl was very bold and dared to flirt with a man, but how to say that she was also her own lady, the strange thought turned in Zhou Ming's mind and threw it to the back of his head, and he just smiled and said: "It's not a young master with a lot of money, in addition to studying, he always has to live, and he can't compare to the scholar Lang in the city who doesn't touch the spring water." Does the lady say that she likes the kind of scholar who falls when the wind blows? Actually, I think I'm pretty fair-looking, and I'm not strong, so I don't look much different from those scholars. ”

"Giggles." Lin Taohua chuckled, "I don't want that piece of paper that falls when the wind blows, Brother Ming is very good, I like it." After speaking, he felt that what he said was a bit like a confession, and his face couldn't stop burning.

The first time he heard such straightforward words coming out of Lin Taohua's mouth, Zhou Ming was also surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but turn his head. Lin Taohua was unguarded by him and suddenly turned his head, his red lips rubbed against Zhou Ming's cheek, and he was instantly embarrassed, and directly hammered him coquettishly, and pushed his face back with a stretch of his hand.

Zhou Ming didn't expect to be kissed unexpectedly, and then looked at her delicate and shy, her heart was instantly hot, and the corners of her lips couldn't stop rising.