When he arrived at the boundary of Jinan Prefecture, Cheng Yuan got off the bus and walked with more than a dozen entourages, and Zhu Bai followed, and everyone was hungry.

When he was about to reach the vicinity of a city god temple, Cheng Yuan saw cooked mutton, roast chicken, and steamed goose on the table, and there was a tablet on it, which said Locust Fairy.

There were also people's blood books on it, and there were several old men in Confucian robes under the trees not far away, muttering with their eyes closed.

Locusts flew in the fields behind.

There were also locusts on the table.

He who gave food to locusts, wasted food, and was struck by thunder from heaven.

Cheng Yuan's chest was pressed against his back for a long time, is it easy to help Zhu Laosi treat locusts in Shandong, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he should be treated.

It doesn't matter what locust god or locust immortal this is for.

walked directly to the offering table in three or two steps, picked up the roast chicken and steamed goose and entered the carriage, and the sheep's head and steamed bun were directly divided by the entourage behind him.

"Lord Wang, this roast chicken is good, it tastes more beautiful than the taste of the capital, crispy but not greasy, and with the fragrance of leaves."

Cheng Yuan divided five by two, and ate the whole roast chicken with only the bones, and burped with satisfaction.

Zhu Bai also didn't care about his appearance, tearing off the goose leg and gnawing it was very fragrant, but the appearance was very gentle.

The entourage directly ate the mutton, and after eating, they didn't forget to burp and pick their teeth.

The people under the trees at the head of the village noticed something strange, and their surprised eyes were about to pop out, and they rushed over as if they had been dug up their ancestral graves, and they wanted to follow desperately.

A few young men also ran over with sticks, and they were about to beat the chamberlain and Shi Kai.

Where these people were the opponents of these soldiers, they were quickly thrown directly to the ground.

"Who are you to be so rude to the locust fairy, what should you ......do?"

Before they finished scolding, Shi Kai kicked the man's buttocks, causing the man to hold his ass and scream.

"Who are you, and why do you eat our sacrifice to the locust god, and smash the locust's offering table, and the locusts will send disaster upon you to punish you."

Cheng Yuan scratched his head and did not speak.

After all, he ate other people's roast chicken, and after thinking about it, he directly lifted the carriage curtain and exposed Zhu Bai in front of everyone.

Zhu Bai was eating with relish, when he found that the curtain of the carriage had been lifted, and he raised his head and looked at the big men.

Cheng Yuan winked at Zhu Bai and motioned for him to take out the gold medal he was carrying, which was something that could prove his identity.

"This king Zhu Bai, today by the will of His Majesty, came to Jinan Mansion to check for locusts, and slept all the way, just now I saw the offerings in your village, and I was hungry for a while, so I couldn't help but eat."

The surname is Zhu, the surname Zhu is the emperor's surname, and the people also heard that the imperial court sent the king of Xiang and several ministers down to help eliminate the locust plague.

The Ming prince is not in vain, the literate Confucian took Zhu Bai's token and looked at it, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

The prince of Daming is the brother of His Majesty today, if the prince sees His Majesty today, in the hearts of the people, there is not much gap between him and His Majesty.

The youngest was a Confucian student, saying that they had heard from relatives in Qingzhou Mansion that King Xiang had done a lot of good things in Qingzhou Mansion.

Zhu Bai wiped his mouth and said, "The taste of your steamed goose is too light." ”

Cheng Yuan: "......"

Confucian scholars: "??! ”

Cheng Yuan said: "What the prince means is that locusts like to eat leaves and crops, and do not eat light goose meat. But shouldn't you learn how to catch locusts in Qingzhou Mansion? How can you still take food and offer locusts? ”

A younger Confucian monk walked up to Zhu Bai and said respectfully: "Back to the prince, the locust is a god, so naturally I beg it not to send a disaster." ”

"This is the famous Zhenguo Gong, who used locusts to recycle as fertilizer in Qingzhou Mansion, and the locusts hid away when they saw him." Zhu Baidao.

It's time to brag...... Cheng Yuan said: "I have eaten locusts since I was a child, and now I am the first prince of the Ming Dynasty!"

It's just that the locusts that live in groups are poisonous now, and I don't enjoy them for the time being.

If there were locusts in the world, and the duke had eaten so much before, the locusts would have cured the duke first.

But now I am on the rise, and I once killed three bandits with my bare hands, crushed countless locusts to death, filled seventy or eighty bags of insect powder, and killed not 5,000 locusts, but 10,000 locusts.

This locust is to bully the weak and fear the hard, the more you admire it, the more unscrupulous it becomes, you have been making offerings for so long, why don't the locusts leave?

We are here to help you exterminate the locusts, and we must eat our stomachs first, and this food should be regarded as compensation for us. ”

Awesome, too good to say. Zhu Bai admired Cheng Yuan's "reason" in his heart, why couldn't he think of such a way.

"But, what do the princes and princes plan to do?" As soon as the Confucian student spoke, several locusts flew into the man's mouth, and he subconsciously took a bite, feeling extremely bitter and smelly, and immediately spit it out.

A few old men behind him said: "You guy, how did you bite the locust god to death, it's over, the locust god will be blamed." ”

Cheng Yuan saw a few locusts crawling behind those old men, and immediately said, "Don't move." ”

A few people suddenly heard that there was no movement, and immediately took a step back, click, and several locusts were immediately trampled on and broke their intestines, and green juice flowed to the ground.

Shi Kai stopped gnawing on the meat and shouted happily: "A few of them trampled on a locust. ”

"Look, it's okay for you to trample to death, so why fear the locust gods."

Without waiting for the villagers to speak, Cheng Yuan said to them: "Catch the locusts well, and when the time comes, carry the dried locusts on your back to exchange for food, and the government will give them, if you don't give them, you will find me Cheng Yuan, and I will not let you starve to death." ”

Zhu Bai added: "Jinan Mansion, tomorrow to everyone porridge, remember to catch more locusts in exchange, the first bowl of porridge does not cost money, the second bowl, the third bowl of locusts, dried locusts, remember, the more the better."

During the locust plague, the first bowl of porridge distributed every day was given to you free of charge, and the second and third bowls were given to locusts. ”

"Later, we will all go home and make nets and catch locusts."

As he spoke, Cheng Yuan picked up a few locusts and threw them into the jar of neem and other medicinal water in the carriage, and the locusts immediately stopped moving.

"What kind of elixir is this? It's so powerful. Everyone gathered around Cheng Yuan, looking at the locusts he threw into it in amazement.

In their eyes, the person who can kill by soaking locusts in potion is a powerful person.

When the others saw this scene, several people immediately threw away the locust blood book, and went home to make their own fishing nets, and said that they would cut down the locusts and eradicate the roots.

The people of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty should unite in the locust plague and get rid of the locusts together.

Cheng Yuan can't be offended in front of Zhu Ji, but he can clean up these locusts, and whoever retreats in the face of the locust plague is his grandson.

"Let's catch locusts together, this is the most fundamental thing, not to ask the locust god." Cheng Yuan said and kicked over the stall.

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In addition to boiling porridge in a large pot, Jinan Mansion also prepared a lot of wooden barrels, which were all traditional Chinese medicine transported from the surrounding prefectures and counties, and made into water to sprinkle on the tidal flats and riversides.

The people went into action, and the nets, with brooms, killed the locusts in patches and dried them in the sun.

The officials of the government would give a man a duck egg and half a corn.

In addition to the officials who spray potions everywhere every day, the Qingzhou and Jinan governments are the people who catch locusts all over the streets.

Everyone caught locusts, and their eyes were red.

There are also ducks running around in the fields, busy pecking non-stop, one bite at a time.

Indeed, the strength of the people is great.

This reminded Cheng Yuan of a group of aunts in the 21st century, once they found any wild vegetables and good things, they would soon be gone, and they would stop until something was cut off.

Sure enough, the wrath of the puppet is also powerful.

For the sake of food and reward, some of the people came out to catch them even if they didn't sleep at night, and the children boiled hot water, and when the father and mother brought back the whole sack of locusts, they began to pour them into the pot and scald them to death, and then fished them out to dry.