The second master of the Lan family came back alive, and the news soon spread throughout Pingyang Mansion. However, in contrast, the sale of the fourth issue of the Lan family's monthly magazine, this topic was quickly suppressed.

The most famous thing about Gewu Monthly today is not the first edition of the poetry strategy, but the second edition of "Me and My Ancestors".

As soon as everyone got the monthly magazine, they went directly to the second edition and read the script directly.

This time the content also caused an uproar!

Jiang Xuewei was relieved that he had successfully controlled the plague. The ancestor made eucommia into glue and asked the people to make canned fruits, so that their specialty peaches could be exchanged for some money. Then the article wrote in detail how to grow eucommia and how to make canned fruit. He even talked about how to make sausages and preserved chicken and duck.

Salt is so expensive, and it's great to be able to preserve meat without using that much salt! Especially when marching and fighting, it is already good to have meat to eat.

Then he wrote about how to extract oil from soybeans and rape, and also talked about how to improve the oil extraction rate. The drawings of the oil extraction machine are available on the third page of the blue version.

Half of the book is about locusts.

The old ancestor liked to wander around in the middle of the night, and he found signs of locusts in Linxian. So he immediately asked Jiang Xuewei to issue a notice to inform the people how to deal with the locusts.

The first is the method of exterminating insect eggs, all the "Heze" land where locusts breed is developed into farmland, and the insect eggs are continuously eliminated during the planting process, and at the same time, mung beans, peas and other plants are planted in the wasteland, because locusts do not eat these plants, so they can also be used as spare rations.

If locusts have been found, prepare a white cloth about eight feet long and prop it up with a bamboo pole to copy it in the direction of the wind, and then gather the locusts in a pile and beat them with tools.

You can also set fire to locusts, and light a bonfire when it is dark, the locusts will be attracted by the light, so set up dense street lamp torches around the campfire.

In the end, if the locusts cannot be exterminated, then the only way to do it is to make food.

There are several paragraphs that follow about using locusts for food.

The first dish is to fry locusts, put the locusts in a basin, rinse them several times with water (it is best to soak them for half a day in advance), put in an appropriate amount of salt and marinate for two hours (the purpose of pickling is to make it easier to absorb the flavor in the later stage) and fry them slowly over low heat until the grasshopper's stomach bulges and becomes almost transparent. At this time, the locusts are cooked, and they can be fried once when they have time, sprinkled with salt, cumin powder, and chili pepper noodles and mixed evenly.

The second course is to dry fry the locusts, remove the heads and wings of the locusts, clean them and soak them in salt water for a moment, stir-fry them with oil, cut the green onions into sections, and add ginger and chili peppers.

If you don't have that much condiment at home, locusts can be cooked with wild vegetables, or pigs can be fed to ducks. Sun-dried locusts can also be used as dry food......

This time, the people were not as excited as the last time they "burned the sick corpses", and no one dared to throw rotten vegetable leaves to the Lan family's carriage, nor did they dare to throw things at the door of the bookstore again. First, there has been no locust invasion in Youzhou, and second, it will take about a month when the monthly magazine reaches the south.

But it still makes people panic.

There are also people from the south in Youzhou City, and some people even go to the bookstore to make trouble.

"It must be that we have done something wrong and angered the locust god, so many locusts have been sent to punish us, how can the locust god eat it?"

"The locust god is coming, we should set up a case to kowtow to the "locust god" and pray that the "locust god" can leave us a way to live! ”

"Yes, yes, there used to be a locust temple in our hometown village!"

Lv Yingfang: System, what's going on with these people? Locusts or gods? Why haven't I heard of it?

-- When the locust plague causes the peasants to lose their harvest, the people will subconsciously think that the other party is a god, because they feel that the locusts are the messengers of the locust gods, and their hearts are full of awe, so they naturally dare not eat them.

Lu Yingfang: Ignorance kills.

- Uh-huh, so they all starved to death in the end.

Lu Yingfang: Even if they eat locusts, they will starve to death, right? After all, it was not easy to catch locusts in ancient times, how could you survive a few months without eating staple food?

- So, you hurry up and buy high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn from the mall, and you can get a lot of merit for benefiting all people! You've got thousands of merit points and you can buy them. Speaking of which, Lan Rongcheng is here to contribute merit points, and eating a chicken leg has merit points, which is really powerful.

Lu Yingfang: This Lan Rongcheng is a stupid big man, and I don't know if his nature is so honest? is still with the villagers of Dashan Village, so he has a pure temperament. In short, he is the easiest to see through at the moment.

Captain Wang escorted them back to Pingyang Mansion and was warmly invited into the guest room by Captain Lan. He took his leave the next day, and came empty-handed. When he went back, the Lan family rented a carriage to send him back.

The soldiers of the army who accompanied them did not have good luck, so they went to the military camp in Binh Duong Province to spend the night, and the next day they followed Captain Wang back to Icheon City.

"Captain, you have a lot of good things in this car!"

"Captain, I heard that the fourth issue of the monthly magazine has begun to sell, did the Lan family send it to you?"

"Yes, I really want to see the script "Me and My Ancestors", there are a lot of good things in it!"

"Yes, yes, Captain, tell me about it!"

Captain Wang was in high spirits and waved his hand: "Yes, yes, when it will rest, I will show it to everyone." ”

Everyone smiled and thanked each other.

The Lan family gave him twenty copies of the fourth issue of the blue journal and color magazine, which is convenient for him to do favors! At the same time, he also sent a lot of preserved chicken and duck sausages, several pieces of cloth, and some medicinal materials, and also gave his youngest son a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

He is not a generational military household, nor is he a military member, so he can still be an ordinary person if he wants to go back. The Lan family was generous and gave him a hundred taels of silver.

Mrs. Lan said vaguely that if she had the opportunity, she would let him go back to Jinbei to be an official. If he wants to stay in Youzhou, his son doesn't have to worry if he wants to enter Mingde Academy in the future.

He expressed his understanding, after all, the Lan family is not a powerful person now, and if he wants to transfer his military position like this, he has to leave the favor.

After this battle, I don't know if he can be promoted to a higher position. If you go back to Jinnan directly, it will be difficult to have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. The Qiling clan was already very obedient and didn't dare to do anything more.

If he stays in Youzhou, General Li Daxiao may still look at the face of the Lan family and give him some care! And my son can still enter Mingde Academy in the future, so it's cost-effective to stay.

Captain Wang thought about it, and the smile on his face never stopped. His Uncle Youliang has picked up a treasure! There is no need to worry about Uncle Liang and Dashan Village.

Qiu Ming...... No, it's Lan Rongcheng! He won't forget his roots.

"Second brother......" Yaqing hid to the side and beckoned to Lan Rongcheng.

He walked over, and Yaqing grabbed his sleeve: "Hurry up, Wanling just sewed a sachet and wants to give it to you, you have to praise her!" ”

Lan Rongcheng saw that Wan'er was tall and beautiful, and naturally felt very relieved, and finally lived up to Qiu Niang's last wish. Wanling was a little afraid of him, especially after knowing that he was a bearded man who cut off people's arms, she hardly dared to approach him.

Seeing that Lan Rongcheng was close to Wan'er and not close to Wanling, the Qian family and the Qian Gu family were very anxious. In the end, Yaqing came forward to rob people.

Wan Ling had just repaired a sachet with a bamboo pattern, and her mother said she would give it to her father. But she was so afraid of her father, and her father only smiled at Wan'er......

Wan Ling...... Ah, this sachet is so well embroidered, your hands are so skillful. Lan Rongcheng came from the corridor and praised her very bluntly.

Wan Ling was startled, and when she saw Yaqing behind Lan Rongcheng, she was relieved.

Yaqing walked over: "Wanling, aren't you going to embroider a sachet for your father?" I looked, it's all embroidered. Second brother, you are really blessed, Wanling's craftsmanship is even more powerful than Wanting! "At the end of the day, the sound became quieter.

Wanling was praised, and her face turned red: "The big sister embroiderer is really good, how can I compare with her." ”

"I think it's very good, this bamboo is very carefully embroidered, is this a butterfly?" Lan Rongcheng asked, holding the sachet.

Wanling's face turned pale, pursed her lips, glanced at Lan Rongcheng with an aggrieved expression, and then turned around and ran.

"Hey......" Lan Rongcheng was holding the sachet, should he catch up?

"Nursery rhyme, what nonsense are you talking about, this is a bee!" Yaqing was so anxious that she stomped her feet.

Lan Rongcheng looked at the sachet with an "ah": "Why is this bee bigger than a flower?" ”

Yaqing's little face collapsed: "This is for you, how can you embroider butterflies?" You see, there are only a few small flowers under the bamboo,...... Why can't you even boast about people, stupid ......"

"Qing'er......" Aunt Ma walked quickly from the side, "How can you say that about the second master?" ”

Yaqing pursed her lips, and Lan Rongcheng said embarrassedly: "It's me who is wrong, it annoys Wanling." ”

Aunt Ma didn't say anything, so she pulled Yaqing away.

Lan Rongcheng took the sachet and looked at their backs, shaking his head with a smile.

He is still living in the guest room and does not sleep with Qian. For him, the identity of the second young master of the Lan family is a constraint. But for Dashan Village's father (Qiu Youliang), Wang Xiaowei and the villagers of Dashan Village, it was an opportunity.

My grandmother said that she would send someone to send silver and medicinal materials to Qiu Youliang, and she would also give Wang Xiaowei the greatest help, and she was also thinking about what kind of help to give to Dashan Village.

His sister Lan Yajie and Aunt Bai stayed up late to make him two sets of clothes and shoes, he hadn't worn such good clothes in the past eleven years, nor had he worn such comfortable shoes.

The eldest brother is a person who does not smile, the third brother is a fat man who smiles, and the fourth brother often frowns and thinks deeply.

When the eldest sister Yayu met for the first time, she looked him up and down, her eyes were full of displeasure, and she didn't hide it.

The third sister Yabing and the fourth sister Yaqing were both born to Aunt Ma, but the two sisters' personalities are completely different. The third sister is demure and quiet, and the fourth sister is lively. The third sister also made socks for him. The fourth sister always brought him some delicious snacks.

Even the old man Cai in the porter would pull him to talk about the past. When he was five years old, he climbed a tree and fell, when he was eight years old, he was scolded by his master, and when he was older, he sneaked out of the house with the fourth child......

Maybe that's what it's like to have a big family!

Lan Rongcheng looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and his chest felt swollen and warm.