Chapter 55: Want to eat chicken?
The locust cooking guide is not only to be posted, but also to be passed down by word of mouth.
After all, there are very few people who can read in this era.
This reminded Chen Zhengtai of his third uncle. His nursery rhymes are very useful, easy to understand and have strong communication skills, so he made up nursery rhymes called "The Prince Eating Locusts Song".
Eating locusts...is an entertainment activity that people are happy to see nowadays.
The name of the prince was added to the front, which was exchanged for Chen Zhengtai with three chickens. After all, in this era, the prince was one of the most influential internet celebrities in the world. Once it was launched, it would inevitably cause a sensation.
Countless chickens and ducks are looking for traces of locusts, especially at night, which is most active. Chen Zhengtai asked people to drive chickens and ducks into dozens of groups, and move in all directions. Of course... for the locusts that are everywhere, chickens and ducks may not be of much use, but once the chickens and ducks are driven to a place with a lot of water and grass, most of them have locusts laying young eggs. In this regard, the ducks can be called masters of egg removal, so that they can prevent the reproduction of locusts.
The locust plague in Guanzhong is different from other places. In other places... Locusts are raging. In more than ten days, they can rush hundreds or thousands of miles, and the mobility is extremely high. The locust plagues in Guanzhong are often limited to the Guanzhong area. Because there are huge mountain barriers on all sides, the locusts have extremely serious damage to the entire Guanzhong. On the good side, there is no need to worry about the locust plague continuing to spread.
At this moment... the green wheat fields lost their greenery in a flash, and the one-year livelihood suddenly disappeared.
There are desperate people everywhere, and they try their best to drive out the locusts, but the locusts in the sky make people helpless.
Food...is still enough for the time being, but losing new food means that the livelihoods in the next year have been lost.
The victims who drove out the locusts in despair were ragged and unkempt. After hundreds of years of war, the entire Guanzhong was slaughtered again and again. After finally having only been more than ten years of stability, they were broken at this moment.
The sound of crying sounds endlessly, only those thin and slim children did not know the hardships of life, and excitedly chased the flying locusts and laughed.
The teeth shops in Chang'an City are said to be filled with countless children and women who are about to be sold. In the face of the upcoming hunger, there have been people preparing for the future.
The people in Guanzhong seem to have only one idea left to survive, no matter how they use.
What's scary is the stockpiling of large amounts of grain. After the price rose seven times, the Chen family tried every means to release grain. Although they barely stopped the rise, those families with a lot of grain still had no desire to sell grain at a low price.
At this time... the land price has begun to plummet. Ordinary people cannot resist such disasters at all. They must sell the land at a low price when the land price falls to the bottom. Only in this way can they get a year's food ration.
A huge disaster broke everyone's fantasy about life for the next year, a new piece of clothing for the children at the end of the year, a wedding dress for the bride prepared... Everything has gone into nothing, and no one cares about what is coming next year.
A large number of refugees began to realize that Erpigou might have food, and many ragged people headed towards Erpigou with the last bit of expectations.
And here... Chen Zhengtai finally realized... his previous preparations were a drop in the bucket in the face of this huge disaster, and his understanding of the disaster was still insufficient.
Seeing that Chen Zhengtai was frowning, Princess Sui'an returned to the palace that day. At noon, she came back panting. The eunuch behind her was carrying a few boxes.
The box is placed on the ground and uncovered, and there are all kinds of treasures inside.
Chen Zhengtai looked at the box: "Junior sister, what are you doing?"
"This is the dowry left by my mother for me. I have brought it all. Brother, don't be frowning all the time."
Chen Zhengtai took a deep breath: "The water in Taohuatan is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as that of the junior sister."
Of course... jewelry is useless at this time. Antiques and gold in troubled times. In fact, Chen Zhengtai thinks this is wrong, because this sentence is for wealthy families and for ordinary people, in troubled times, only food can survive.
...
Li Chengqian couldn't help but itchy when he looked at so many chickens and ducks.
As usual, he caught a fat chicken and his saliva flowed out subconsciously.
A few days ago, Erpigou was reluctant to eat more millet for chickens and ducks. These chickens and ducks were all skinny and looked like a group of refugees. Now... their food is everywhere. What's terrible is that the nutrients of locusts are much richer than ordinary grains. The meat on chickens and ducks is growing at a visible rate. A group of hatched chickens and ducks also exert the spirit of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. Following the female ducks and hens, biting the locust's corpses.
Li Chengqian hummed the song happily, bleed and plucked hairs. The eunuch followed him to carry a special bag of sacks. The bag contained on the sacks, including onion, ginger, ginger, vinegar, and Li Chengqian's favorite peppercorns. Naturally, there were white salt. The ingredients were prepared, so the fire was set up, and the yellow mud was wrapped, and it started to burn.
The chickens in the yellow mud emit a faint fragrance. Li Chengqian likes this feeling of waiting. From the beginning of my memory, there are always a group of very "excellent" people around him. Today, he told him what he should do and told him what he could not do. Only roast chicken can make him have a different kind of expectation.
The meat fragrance began to overflow.
Li Chengqian danced happily. When it was cooked, he took out the chicken, but he was still anxious. He didn't care about the hotness, so he tear off a chicken leg and put it in his mouth...
"fragrant!"
There was already an eunuch who had a futon on the ground, so Li Chengqian sat on the futon on the ground, and a mouthful of fragrant and tender chicken... Li Chengqian felt refreshed.
"But... today, there seems to be a little more salt, and the heat is still a bit lacking, and the meat is a bit stuffy. Next time... it's better to heat it carefully. Oh, and, the taste of pepper is a little worse. Could it be that the taste is heavy? Well, I'll put it more next time." He still felt very delicious while holding the greasy chicken leg bones in his hand.
Just...wait for him to look up.
But I found... in the distance, many people in ragged clothes appeared quietly.
These people were all unkempt and had a little fear on their faces. They did not dare to get too close. Instead, they stopped a dozen feet away from home, and then squatted on the ground, their eyes seemed to not care about His Royal Highness Li Chengqian, his face full of dirt and dish-colored, and they were numb. Only those eyes, green and oily, looked at the chicken legs in unison. Their Adam's apple rolled, without making any sound. Only occasionally, they could feel their inaudible saliva swallowing.
Li Chengqian was stunned.
More and more people gathered, and they were crowded with each other.
So the guard behind Li Chengqian became nervous and hurriedly pressed the hilt of the knife around his waist.
Li Chengqian suddenly felt a strange feeling.
In the past, he would not care about the opinions of the people around him.
In his opinion, the people around him were all dressed in decent clothes. Even the humble eunuchs would never show such an expression when they were having their meals, because... these damn dogs had long been fed by the East Palace.
But the group of people in front of me, their faces with delicacies and their eyes with desire, had an indescribable smell.
Especially some of the more courageous children, they were even naked without pants, and were closer to Li Chengqian. They squatted on the ground, sucked their noses, drooled, and their swollen stomachs made a rumbling sound.
Li Chengqian... doesn't care about this.
He is the prince's emperor and he is conscious of this as necessary. Although he feels a little strange, in the court education since childhood, he has placed himself in the position of a superior person.
So he continued to gnaw on the chicken legs, and waited for the chicken legs to become a skeleton, and threw them away casually.
The skeleton drew a perfect arc in mid-air.
The crowd in the distance was a little sensational, but fortunately, many people were still restrained.
But the children were different. A group of ragged children seemed to be fighting and rushing towards the landing site of the skeleton.
The last older child got the skeleton, like a victorious general, and he was so arrogant that he stuffed the skeleton into his mouth. He sucked and licked it desperately, making a squeaking sound in his mouth. At this moment... he seemed to have light on his face, and his life had reached its peak.
And this scene... happened to be attracted by Li Chengqian.
The hand that was about to tear off the chicken wings was paused suddenly.
At this moment, Li Chengqian suddenly realized...it seemed like this world... was not what he knew, and the people in this world were not as they imagined.
Chapter completed!