Chapter Thirty-Six: Fried Locusts
After solving the king's membership, Li Hao turned his head to look at the housekeeper.
"Tell me, who are you?"
"Me? I'm just a housekeeper. ”
Although the housekeeper looked flustered, his eyes revealed calmness.
"It seems that you people are very hard-mouthed, and you won't answer honestly without any means."
As he spoke, Li Hao looked at Guan Hai. Guan Hai understood and walked over.
Seeing Guan Hai walking towards him, the housekeeper suddenly panicked, "Wait! Wait a minute! Stay back! I say! I say! ”
After seeing the process of Guan Hai attacking Wang Yuanwai just now, and seeing Guan Hai walking towards him, the housekeeper's heart was stunned, after all, he was just an ordinary person, not at all like Wang Yuanwai.
Looking at the housekeeper's horror from the inside out, Li Hao said to Guan Hai: "You see, there are always people who feel that they have a hard mouth, but in fact, they feel it. Then he motioned for the butler to speak.
"I was sent to spy on the king." The butler said this, and did not say it.
"It's as simple as that? Brother Guan, no, you have to give him some food. ”
The housekeeper looked at Li Hao's understated expression, and he couldn't hold back for a moment.
"I was ordered to come here by order, and I don't know anything else. Just let me look at Wang Yuanwai, record his cultivation progress, and then put the letter in a designated place every once in a while. ”
This was not Li Hao's surprise, but he didn't expect the other party to send an ordinary person to monitor.
"So, this king is your experiment?"
The housekeeper looked at Li Hao with a puzzled look and asked, "What is an experiment?" “
It seems that this person does not know what the test object means, and perhaps other information is also limited. Li Hao found that the Three Kingdoms in this world were different from what he had learned from history textbooks, the Internet, and even games.
"Do you know your point of contact?"
The housekeeper looked at Li Hao with a blank face again.
Li Hao raised his forehead and said: "Stronghold, you always understand, right?" ”
"I'm just a little minion down there, and when an order is given from above, it will put the order in one place, and we will go and get it every once in a while. When a task is started, the original position is abandoned. ”
"Looks like the secrecy of your job is pretty good. Do you have a name for this organization? ”
But when he saw that this man was about to speak, a little brilliance flashed, and flew straight to the butler's throat.
"Uh...... Forehead ......"
The butler snorted twice, blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, his eyes were wide open, his head tilted, and he lost his breath.
Li Hao squatted down to check, and it turned out that there was a silver needle in the neck, and the place where the silver needle pierced also turned black.
Looking up at the location where the silver needle flew from, there was no one there, Li Hao smiled bitterly, "It seems that there are people around who are always monitoring this place." ”
Looking around again, the people outside the king were all dead. After sorting out the information I got, I don't know anything except that there is an organization behind it and that some experiments are being done.
Li Hao was wondering if to go in and search, but he felt that it was unnecessary, since the other party had done such a good job of secrecy, there should be no omission.
Before leaving, Li Hao set a fire, anyway, this Wangjia Village actually existed in name only.
Li Hao followed Guan Hai to a hillside and watched the fire in Wangjia Village. Not long after they left, in fact, there were already villagers from other villages who noticed that it was burning and rushed here. After all, it is impossible for no one to find out about such a big fire, not to mention that this is still a village of great benevolent people in the minds of other villagers.
"Let's go, find a place to catch up on sleep."
……
Not long after resting, it was dawn. didn't go to see Wangjia Village again, the two of them simply cleaned up and started to hurry.
"Brother Guan, which force did you say yesterday that Wang Yuanwai would be?"
Guan Hai was silent for a while, and then shook his head and replied, "In my impression, there are no similar forces. Even if it's an official force, they generally don't do this kind of thing. ”
Think about it, those people are forming parties for personal gain, they are all planning for themselves, and they really want them to do these things, unless there is great interest in it, or someone is persecuting them behind their backs.
After thinking about it for a while, Li Hao stopped thinking about it, he felt that he would definitely have contact with this organization in the future, instead of thinking so much now, it was better to wait until they really met in the future and ask clearly.
The further north you go, the more severe the drought you see.
After a few days of driving, the two of them drank almost the same amount of water. In fact, most of the water is drunk by Li Hao, and Guan Hai basically drinks wine.
After a long journey, even Li Hao, who had cultivated the "Secret Sutra of Qi Extraction", couldn't stand it anymore. Guan Hai felt that he could still hold on, after all, he was also a martial artist, and his physical function was much better than Li Hao's.
"Brother Guan, you really don't have to say anything about your body."
Looking at Guan Hai's fairly normal complexion, Li Hao had to admire, and at the same time, he also thought of those soldiers who marched and fought every time, and every time they marched a long route, which generals could still use horses to walk, but soldiers were impossible.
"That's the difference with you warlocks, you're too weak."
"Yes, I'll practice hard later."
Li Hao felt that he had better say less and retain his spirit, after all, he didn't know how far away there was a village in front of him. And in the bare mountains around it, I don't expect any animals or anything like that.
After another half a day's march, I climbed over a hill. As far as the eye could see, I saw a small village. And one of the houses also had smoke rising from the cooking.
When he came to the village and found this family, Li Hao stepped forward and knocked on the door: "Is there anyone?" ”
After a while, an old man came out, "Is there something wrong with you two?" ”
"Uncle, we want to beg for a bowl of water to drink, is it okay?"
Looking at the dusty appearance of the two, the old man did not speak, turned around and went back to the house. Li Hao and the others thought it was no show, and were about to turn around and leave. The uncle came out of the house again, carrying two bowls in his hands.
"Take it and drink it."
The two thanked each other, took the bowl and drank.
Returning the bowl to the old man, Li Hao opened his mouth and asked, "Uncle, I don't know where this is?" Is there no one else in this village? ”
"This is a village below Pingjian County. The land was dry, the locusts were crossing, and no one else had fled, and I was left alone in the village. ”
Hearing the old man's words, Li Hao's face was strange.
"Uncle, you said locusts?"
The old man who was about to go back to the house heard Li Hao's words and turned around.
"Yes, there is nothing left of the crops that were planted with great difficulty, and there are still locusts in this field. The villagers who originally wanted to hold on to it have already left. ”
When Guan Hai looked at Li Hao like that, he knew that he must have paid attention to something. "Do you have any ideas?"
Li Hao nodded, and then looked at the uncle, "Uncle, can you take us to the field to have a look?" ”
The uncle didn't say anything, and led the two to a field not far away.
Looking at the crops that should have grown, crawling with locusts and still gnawing, the uncle was very distressed.
"When we heard that there were locusts, we dug a pit in advance so that when the locusts came, we could bury them. But when it really came, I realized that the number could not be buried by digging a few pits. ”
"Uncle, haven't you ever thought about getting this locust to eat?" Li Hao asked the question he had always wanted to ask.
When the uncle heard the young man's words, he looked at him in disbelief.
"Eat? This is a pest, how can a pest eat it? Not to mention how I could catch them when they were so fast. ”
I saw Li Hao come to the field, use his clothes as a cloth bag, catch those younger locusts, and when he came up, his arms were already full of a bag.
"Uncle, if this locust is to be said to be a pest, that's for sure. In fact, these can also be eaten, although this thing is not full, but at least it can satisfy hunger. ”
Uncle still didn't believe that this could really be eaten.
A few people walked back, and Li Hao told the uncle, "Uncle, you want to." If they can eat your food, why can't you eat them? What's more, these are larvae, so you can rest assured. ”
Guan Hai actually didn't believe that this could really be eaten, after all, the classification of locusts had been ingrained in their hearts.
And Li Hao signaled that it would be done later, and the two of them would know.
Back at the uncle's residence, Li Hao dealt with the larvae, and asked the uncle to get some flour and add some water to coat the flour. The uncle reluctantly took out the meat oil, and Li Hao got up the pot to burn the oil and fry it.
Because there was no cooking oil in ancient times, it was all meat oil, and after a while, there was a burst of fragrance in the pot. Although there is no seasoning, the golden color also makes people's index fingers move.
The old man smelled the fragrance and swallowed his saliva, he had seen such fragrant food for a long time.
"Is this really edible?"
Li Hao didn't answer, but picked up a piece of fried locusts and put it in his mouth.
"Uh-huh........."
Looking at Li Hao's expression of enjoyment, Guan Hai immediately started to move. He didn't care so much, anyway, Li Hao had already demonstrated it himself.
After chewing a few bites, Guan Hai swallowed directly.
The uncle looked at Guan Hai expectantly, thinking that he would say something, but unexpectedly, Guan Hai picked up another piece and put it in his mouth.
"Is it really that delicious?"
The uncle was ready to move, but he couldn't step through the hurdle in his heart.
"Uncle, if you don't eat, we'll finish eating."
Li Hao and Guan Hai were not polite, and quickly started eating.
The old man had a heart, anyway, if he didn't eat it, he would starve to death sooner or later, and he would be a full ghost when he died, so he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he also joined the army of food grabbers.
When the three of them finished eating all the fried locusts, they were still a little unsatisfied.
"Little brother, this fried locust is good, but it doesn't matter if it's full."
"Uncle, this thing is hungry. You can't really rely on this. ”
After greeting the uncle for a while, the two of them also felt that it was not too early, so they simply stayed here with the uncle.