I am old in the Han Dynasty

"Are you joking? Uncle Saburo." Xie Guang pointed at the locust in his net pocket, "Is this yellowish food edible?"

Xie Lang nodded, "Some people can eat it, but some people can't. I happen to be the former."

"Why?" Xie Bowen asked.

Xie Lang: "Some people will itch and turn red when they eat it, and if it's serious, they can't breathe well. Besides, I want this thing mainly to make it for them to eat." Pointing to the golden monkey lying on the side of the road, White Tiger and Black Wolf.

"Then give it to you." Xie Guang poured it into his water tank, "I dare not eat it."

Xie Lang smiled and said, "Okay, give it all to me." After a pause, "I suddenly thought of a question, where did these locusts come from?"

"I wondered too. There were none when I was enjoying the shade by the side of the road yesterday evening. There were so many in one night." Xie Bowen raised his hand and put the net into several throwing baskets, then closed the lid and said, "Did you hit the mark? These scourges It’s too hot, so I’m too lazy to come out. It’s getting colder, the beans are pods, and there’s food in the fields, so they all ran out.”

Xie Lang: "I'll go to the city tomorrow and ask the Second Young Master."

"It seems that there is no need to ask."

Xie Lang couldn't hear clearly, "What did you say?"

"Look." Xie Bowen raised his hand and pointed north.

Xie Lang turned his head, a group of people came from the north, all of them were riding tall horses.

"Why are they here at this time?" Xie Lang wondered.

Xie Bowen: "I must be worried about you."

Today is not a holiday, and there is another plague of locusts, shouldn't Weiyang Palace be dizzy from being so busy.

"Zhongqing, why are you here?" Xie Lang approached him a little more, and went up to meet him and asked.

Wei Qing nonsense said: "Your Majesty ordered us to come out to see the situation of the disaster. Is your side serious?"

"It's okay." Xie Lang pointed to the chickens and ducks lying on the ground, "They used to eat as much as they came out. What you see now are all flying from other places. They eat, we catch, and fly here It's not too much, and it won't be scary if you catch it for a while. By the way, are other places serious?"

Wei Qing looked into the field, "It's a little more than your side, but it's nothing to be afraid of."

"Then should you go home and rest, or wait for me to fix the field before going back?" Xie Lang asked.

Wei Qing looked at Liu Che.

Liu Che threw the reins to the guards, "You are busy with your work. I will rest here for a while."

"Okay." Xie Lang said as he threw the locusts in the net bag into the tank, and then closed the lid.

Liu Che couldn't help asking, "Everyone else uses a basket, why do you use this?"

"The frame was taken away by you." Xie Lang whispered.

Liu Che: "When will I pay you back one hundred tomorrow?"

"Thank you." Xie Lang smiled, and went to the field to catch locusts.He staggered under his feet, looked down, amused, "Xie Xiaoqi, bring your pannier here."

"What are you doing?" Xiao Qi raised his hand and handed the locust plague to the golden monkey. The golden monkey stuffed his mouth and smashed it, then stared at Xiao Qi, what did you give me to eat.

The child laughed happily, "Brother Stupid Monkey. I'm playing for you, not for you to eat."

"Xie Xiaoqi, didn't you hear what I said?" Xie Lang raised his voice.

The child hurried over, "I heard it, I heard it. What's the matter? Third Master."

"Your third master said that you are not far from being beaten." Liu Che said with a straight face, "Hurry up and get the basket."

The child ran home in a hurry.

After a while, he came out with the basket.

Wei Qing went up to meet him, "Give it to me." Send it to the ground, "There is no cover on this."

"Pick up eggs." Xie Lang bent down to pick up three eggs and put them in the basket, "Help me see if there are any duck eggs. If there are more, I will pickle salted duck eggs and make them into eggs."

Wei Qing: "Changed egg?"

"Shhh!" Xie Lang quickly looked around and was relieved to see that the people around were busy catching locusts, "I don't know if it will be possible. Don't say it yet."

Wei Qing smiled and said he understood, "Catch it, I'll pick it up for you."

Xie Lang pointed to the sweet potato fields to the west, "There are also over there. By the way, my sweet potatoes can be picked. Bring some for you when you go back?"

"Okay." The production of sweet potatoes is high, and Wei Qing is not polite to him.

When the locusts in the ground were caught in a hurry and the three big tanks were all full, Xie Lang led Xiao Qi back home.

Xie Lang didn't find the locusts until he had breakfast here, and they found them in other places last night.The local officials reported to Weiyang Palace overnight, and Liu Che never fell asleep again. He had a casual breakfast and brought people out to check after the morning court.

Traveling all the way from Weiyang Palace, Liu Che felt relieved when he saw that although some crops were gnawed badly, they were not bald and there were not many locusts.When the locusts dropped sharply in the sericulture, there would be no famine next year. Liu Che relaxed, feeling tired and hungry.

After Xie Lang arrived home, he went to sleep in Xie Lang's room.

Liu Che was unusually silent today, Xie Lang saw that his eyes were black and blue, so he didn't provoke him.

When they got home, they put the three tanks at the door of the west side room, and asked Wei Qing to trick Xiao Qi away, and Xie Lang got a pot of perch from the map of mountains and rivers.

Xie Lang sat in the kitchen and cleaned up the perch, then went out with a bucket of dirty water and a bucket of plant ashes, dumped the fish scales and other things into the cesspit, and the plant ash was poured on the fish scales to cover up the truth.

Then Xie Lang filled up the water in the tank, leaving one perch, and put the remaining perch into two pottery urns, stewed in one pot for Liu Che's guards, and stewed in one pot for the three of his family.

Liu Che's guards lit the fire, Xie Lang went to the stove to steam chestnut rice, crab, bream and sea bass.

Wei Qing and Xiao Qi were sitting in the main room, and when they saw him coming and going, they asked Xiao Qi to stay in the room, and Wei Qing walked over, "Shall I light the fire for you?"

Xie Lang immediately stood up, "Burn it. I'll go see if the locusts are dead."

Wei Qing had learned from Xie Guang that the reason why he put the locusts in the water tank was to eat them.Rao Wei Qing believed in Xie Lang, so he couldn't help asking, "Who told you that you can eat it?"

"I've eaten it before." Xie Lang said.

Wei Qing opened his mouth, "Have you eaten? Didn't you say that you have never been hungry?"

Xie Lang opened the vat and saw that some of them were not completely dead, so he closed the lid, "This stuff belongs to wild game. When are you going back? I'll get some for you when I prepare it. But this stuff is the same as mangoes and stinky durians. You can eat it, but some people can't eat it."

"We, don't care when we go back, we don't want it." Wei Qing said.

Xie Lang shook his head and smiled, washed his hands and came in, "There are no more pancakes and steamed buns, I will only eat vegetables later, do you want to eat prawns? Shall I make another plate?"

"I can do it." Wei Qing glanced in the direction of the main room, "Your Majesty is not in a good mood."

Xie Lang: "For the sake of his hard work, I'll give him two more." With the door ajar, he packed a plate of prawns and abalone and put them in the pot.

After the dishes were finished, Liu Che was still sleeping, and Xie Lang didn't call him. He went to Xie Guang's house to borrow a pair of scissors, and sat with Wei Qing in the yard to cut the locust's wings and legs.

Liu Che came out rubbing his eyes and almost fainted when he saw this scene, "What are you doing?"

"Are you awake? Are you hungry?" Xie Lang asked.

Liu Che pointed to the densely packed locusts, feeling goosebumps all over his body trembling, "I'm asking you something."

"Cut the wings and feet." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che: "Do you really want to eat? I don't agree!"

"Have you eaten fried cicadas?" Xie Lang asked.

Liu Che subconsciously shook his head, "No. Wait, have you eaten?"

"Delicious!" Xiao Qi jumped out of the room, "Grandpa Meng Da, I dare not eat it, so I ate it, it was delicious."

Liu Che turned to him, "He still feeds you? Xie Sanlang, you don't raise children like you."

"Is Xiao Qi stupid?" Xie Lang asked back.

Liu Che subconsciously wanted to say, how could he be stupid.After thinking about it, "Did you vomit and feel uncomfortable after eating?"

"No. It's delicious. However, the third master said that the cicada monkeys can't be eaten now." Xiao Qi said, "For next year."

Liu Che: "So you thought of eating locusts?"

"Grass people eat more than locusts." Xie Lang glanced at him with a smile, took the scissors away from Wei Qing's hand, poured the locusts with their wings cut off into the sink, added a little more water, scooped up some water and washed Wei Qing's hands, "Grassmen even ate mice."

Liu Che's face changed drastically, and he said angrily, "Xie Sanlang!"

"Eat." Xiao Qi spoke again.

Liu Che turned to the child, "He also fed you?"

Xiao Qi nodded, "It's delicious."

"You—" Liu Che pointed at him, "Xiao Qi is only six years old."

Xie Lang handed the face towel to Wei Qing, "I'm seven years old."

"That's a child too." Liu Che said.

Wei Qing wiped his hands and returned the face towel, "Don't tease Your Majesty. What's going on?"

"The mice that grew up eating bamboo were caught in the bamboo forest. At first glance, the fat ones looked like rabbits. I caught them for three to eat at first." Xie Lang said, "Brother Monkey has a picky mouth, and the expression of eating bamboo rats Just like eating chicken legs, I knew it was a good thing. I tried it with a dog before I dared to eat it.”

"But that's also a mouse." Liu Che said.

Xie Lang: "It's cleaner than chicken and duck. Because they only eat vegetarian food. Unlike chickens, they even eat bugs."

Liu Che opened his mouth and raised his hand to pause, "Forget it, I can't speak to you."

"Eating vegetables? They are all full." Xie Lang glanced at Liu Che's guards.

Liu Che nodded, washed up, and went to the living room.

Seeing the five dishes, Liu Che was shocked again, what day is it today?Xie Sanlang not only wanted to eat worms, but he was also generous and gave him five dishes.

"Are you getting married?" Liu Che asked tentatively.

"Pfft!" Xie Lang quickly covered his mouth, glared at him, and then turned to Wei Qing.

Wei Qing quickly found him a face towel.

Xie Lang wiped it clean and let out a long sigh of relief, "You want to scare me to death?"

"No?" Liu Che pointed at the dish, "How do you explain it?"

Xie Lang: "Being tired for a long time, reward yourself."

"So you don't plan to get married yet?" Liu Che asked curiously.

Xie Lang shook his head, "I'm not interested in women." Thinking of the historical rumors about Liu Che's sexuality, he quickly added, "I'm not interested in men either."

Liu Che suddenly realized, "I was wrong. You are a god who has gone down to earth, it is impossible to get married in this world."

Xie Lang felt a throbbing pain in his forehead again, "Your Majesty, don't you want to try it? Have you ever eaten this thing?" He used a bamboo tong to hold an abalone for him, "This is the best of them all. There are also these shrimps, which are fresh and delicious. Delicious." Peel one for Xiao Qi and throw it into his bowl, "Eat it."

"I want to eat this." The child pointed at the bream, "This is delicious."

Wei Qing picked one piece for him, put another piece in his mouth, and couldn't help exclaiming, "What a tender fish."

"The meat is fresh and tender, without any rustic or fishy smell." Xie Lang looked at Liu Che, "I just put some shredded ginger and sauce."

Liu Che finally couldn't help stretching out his chopsticks.However, once you eat it, you can't stop, because it is really fresh and delicious.

Among the five dishes, the sea bass and bream were huge, and the plate was full of abalone and prawns. Xie Lang thought there would be leftovers. Thinking that Leng was eaten by the four of them.

Xiaoqi was belching full, and was still staring at the plate of enlarged shrimp, hoping to spot a shrimp.

Seeing him like this, Liu Che couldn't help asking, "Haven't you done it before?"

Xie Lang nodded.

Liu Che: "If you have nothing to do, make something for him. Look, the child is so greedy."

"I want to too. But there are too many things, and I forget them when I get busy." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che choked, "Pretend I didn't say anything."

"Then I'll go to work." Xie Lang put away the plate.

Wei Qing went to find a rag to wipe the table.

Wei Qing tidied up, but when Xie Lang didn't come back, he poured Liu Che a cup of tea and went to find Xie Lang.

Seeing that Xie Lang was pouring oil into the iron pan in the kitchen, he couldn't help but ask, "Fry it now? Let's do it after we leave. Your Majesty is afraid of bugs. When he sees you eating, he can't help but dump it in the cesspit for you."

"He won't die after I fry it." Xie Lang said, "Fire the fire for me. I'll go and shake off the water in the locusts. Otherwise, they will explode when they are put into the pot."

Wei Qing sighed, "Sanlang—"

"Don't oppose even if your friends don't support it." Xie Lang said.