"Mingzhu, don't you know, now all over the place is crazy! The price of locusts is now an average of 30 wen a catty, and the grain that was prepared to collect locusts before is simply not used up! At most, half of the locusts caught by the people were sold to us, and this was because everyone remembered the kindness of the princess's smallpox vaccine. The other half was sold to other merchants, especially the merchants in Huguang with the highest price, and some of them were fifty wen a catty." Zhang Wuxi has been busy transporting grain to the affected areas lately, and is very familiar with the current situation there.

Mingzhu has been pretending to be sick in the house recently, and she is very happy to hear these news: "Oh?! Is it really from Huguang?! Humans with the widest range of recipes?! Is the disaster still severe? ”

Zhang Wuxi thought about it for a while: "It shouldn't be considered a disaster now, right?" Even if there is some food loss, it is made up for when the locusts are sold.

There are even some areas where potatoes are growing potatoes that are now crazy about their potatoes, and their potatoes are almost ready to be harvested. In previous years, they began to prepare for stalking old stalks and digging potatoes. This year, many of them deliberately released locusts into the ground, and did not start to catch them until they were almost gnawed, saying that they wanted to raise them a little bigger.

In the past, the people were afraid of the locust god, and every time there was a locust plague, they never dared to kill the locusts for disaster relief. Now everyone says that there was no locust plague at all, and the so-called locust plague was blessed by the locust god and took pity on the weakness of the people, and it was only a few years before the elixir of qi replenishment was given to the world. It's a pity that everyone didn't know about it before, but fortunately, there was His Majesty the Emperor and the princess, which made the elixir appear in the world.

There are even folk masters, saying that Her Royal Highness the princess's calamity is really a number of days, just to let the people know the treasure. There has been no locust plague, in fact, it is a locust blessing. This statement is now being believed by more and more people. ”

Mingzhu was finally relieved when he heard this, if even the foodies couldn't save the locust plague, then there was really no way. Imagine it, "Have you ever eaten locusts?" Is it really delicious? Do you want to try it? ”

Zhang Wuxi looked at Mingzhu in horror and hurriedly shook her head: "No, no, no, I still don't want it." If you want to eat, I'll send someone to bring some later, and now I haven't been to the hall for a few days, so if I want to go and see it, I won't bother you to recuperate. He turned around and wanted to leave.

"Aren't you curious?" Mingzhu asked: "Since everyone who has eaten it says it is delicious, and the imperial doctor also said that it does have the effect of relieving cough and asthma." I remember when the weather was a little wet and cold, you would cough, right? Besides, there is still some cumin left in the kitchen, and I think it would be better to sprinkle a little bit of it. ”

Zhang Wuxi's figure became more and more hesitant with Mingzhu's words. Especially when he heard the word cumin, he quietly swallowed his saliva: "Why don't we try it?" ......”

Mingzhu said dryly: "Then try it, you go to the warehouse to pick a few catties of fat and fresh ones, and send them to Si Cha." Let's have dinner together! ”

Zhang Wuxi gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" Although most of the locusts in the warehouse have been dried, there should be a lot of them that have not had time to be processed, so I'll take a look. ”

After Zhang Wuxi left, Mingzhu instructed Si Hai on the side: "You go to Rong'an Hall to say, dinner will be set in the main courtyard." Invite my grandmother and Wei Shu to come over and have dinner together. ”

"No."

After thinking about it, Mingzhu added: "Let's invite Li Yuanzheng and Imperial Doctor Sun to come over as well." ”

"No."

In the afternoon, Si Cha in the small kitchen looked at a large basket of locusts sent by Zhang Wuxi, and his face was pale and ugly: "That...... Miss Mai, aren't you going to think about it again?! Slaves...... You've never done this before?! ”

I don't know why, looking at Si Cha's appearance, Zhang Wuxi was weak and flustered: "This is none of my business, I was also forced by your master." Now, it doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it, this is the recipe I specially asked for from a Huguang merchant. You try it first. With that, he turned around and fled.

Si Cha looked at a large number of live locusts without tears, and "I vomited ......" instantly rushed to the corner and vomited. After spitting up, he shook the recipe in his hand with his back and shook it towards Amber: "You try to see if you can do it, I can't help it, I can't look at it twice." If I really can't help it, I can only go and ask the master for guilt......" If Mingzhu sees it, she will probably tell her, dear, dense phobia is like this. You're not the worst yet.

Amber was a little amused when she saw her master for the first time and was scared by the ingredients. But after opening the recipe and reading it, I couldn't help but turn white. Do you want to disembowelment them one by one? Can't you just scald it all with boiling water and then fry it all directly?

I want to throw this basket out immediately, far away. But he couldn't bear to be blamed for his master. I had to endure the goosebumps all over my body, and trembling and began to deal with it.

First scald to death in a pot of boiling water, remove it, remove the head, limbs, wings, and internal organs, put it into the pot with salted water, and simmer for a period of time to remove and drain the water. Boil the oil pan until it is hot, put in the locusts, fry until golden brown, and remove it. Finally, sprinkle the cumin that the pearl has specially greeted you.

In the distance, Sicha watched Amber tremble and complete all the steps, and his heart was a little touched. He walked over to the stove, took a pair of bamboos, and stared closely at the squeaking and steaming fried locusts on the plate with Amber.

It's still some time before dinner, but as a chef, where can you not try the dishes you cook?!

In the end, Si Cha finally picked up a big golden female locust, closed her eyes as if she were dead, and ate the whole locust in one bite.

"Huh? The taste is okay?! Try again."

When Amber saw that Tsukasa had started to eat the second one, she knew that it tasted really good. He also endured nausea and ate a locust. Then the two of them began to eat, one on the left and one on the right.

When Si Wei entered the door, she saw the two of them eating locusts, and they looked pretty good. Although insects are often seen in medicinal herbs, they have never been eaten whole. Eventually, her curiosity outweighed her disgust, and she picked up a locust and ate it......

"The smell of cumin is good, but I think the locust smell is also very good. I'll have to see if there's a better fit. Si Cha ate while thinking about improving the recipe......

In the end, Sicha tried to make some other flavors. Thinking that the sisters had never tasted it, they sent a few to each other.....

In the evening, Wei Ci and Wei Shu came to the main courtyard from the outer courtyard. Mrs. Tai and Mama Li have also arrived. Li Yuanzheng and Imperial Doctor Sun accompanied Gillian and Bao together in the nursery.

Mingzhu looked at the sky outside and ordered, "Okay, let's prepare to pass the meal." ”