Chapter 207

"A cold noodle set meal."

Pei Shuo chose a corner to sit in and ordered without looking at the water brand. Although he hadn't been here for some time, he knew everything about the replacement of the water brand in sun Niang's foot store.

"Young master Pei, I haven't seen you for a long time." Li Gang cleans the table attentively, yells the name of the dish to the kitchen, and then talks to Pei Shuo about the past.

Pei Shuo smiled and nodded, but did not answer.

Cold noodles are served.

Mix the noodles with spinach juice and dye the dough green. The dough is stretched, twisted into hemp, and stretched repeatedly. In this process, the length of the noodles is increasing and has toughness. Just control the thickness of the noodles with one hand, boil them in the pot, cool the water, mix them with fried radish sauce, fresh bean sprouts, crisp cucumber silk, seasonal vegetables, dried beans, brine and loose eggs, mix the noodles well, and the noodles are stained with fried radish sauce with strong taste, A chopstick with diced meat, bean sprouts and shredded cucumber is full of taste. Finally, it is accompanied by a daily changing summer heat relieving soup, which is also a kind of adjustment for those who have eaten sweet and sour cherry meat and hibiscus chicken slices for a long time.

Pei Shuo mixed the cold noodles well, picked them up one by one, chewed them carefully and swallowed them slowly. Small shops in the street also ate the feeling of an important banquet.

His way of eating is in sharp contrast to the surrounding big bowls of wine, meat, talking and laughing peddlers and pawns. There is an invisible barrier between them. Pei Shuo's loneliness and posture can't affect them, and their circle can't spread to Pei Shuo.

"If you put Mr. Pei in the window, it's estimated that a large number of women's family members will step through the threshold." Li Gang touched Li Rou on her shoulder. She was stunned. "Wake up. It's dark."

Li Rou, who was awakened, beat him with a pink Fist: "if you have the ability, please invite Mr. Pei to sit by the window."

"Don't dare, Mr. Pei must be waiting for sister yaozhu to take her home." Before that, he came to send ah Yao back. It was common for them. Li Gang thought of the envy of Li Rouyan just now, thought of a possibility, and said, "Li Rou, I tell you, you can't compare with Mr. Pei when you find your husband, then you can't get married!"

Li Rou glared at him, "I just need to find a husband who can hold you down."

Go back and tell ah Yao that Pei Shuo is coming.

Pei Shuo is here?

A Yao was stunned. She packed up her work, washed her hands and cut her hair before she went out to meet people.

"Ah Yao." He wiped his mouth with a towel. It was obvious that he had eaten well. Yu Guang noticed that ah Yao came out. For a moment, his eyes were soft and thousands of stars were in his eyes“ Let's go. "

"Landlady, let's go first."

It was already closing time. A Yao told sun Niang and went out with Pei Shuo.

Pei Shuo usually doesn't call her to go together so early. It's estimated that there's something wrong. She guessed it casually. He nodded and agreed: "well, I'm not sure about some things, but it's not important. Just think about it."

"Ah..."

Pei Shuo stopped and asked, "what would you do if locusts came?"

plague of locusts.

If the locust disaster comes, it must block out the sky and block out the sun. There is no grass where the locust army goes. If there is nothing after eating food, it will be cruel to eat even its own companions. In front of the huge locust group, the personal strength will become small.

When Pei Shuo asked about this, a Yao was worried: "is it..."

Shh——

Don't ask.

Pei Shuo shook his head at her.

"You must be careful." A Yao said, nodding and urging her to answer, "if the locust plague comes, the capital will not be affected, and the fields in the suburbs will suffer."

Then they returned to a Yao's house. Pei Shuo sat down in the yard. A Yao went to the kitchen to prepare tea for him and a small plate of walnut with tea.

In her own home, ah Yao speaks freely.

"The plague of locusts is really serious. Are you going to catch locusts?"

"According to past experience, the association formed a group of ten people to catch locusts. In my opinion, the past practice did not have much effect on locusts. Either thousands of white birds suddenly attacked the locusts, or the locusts didn't migrate until the place was devastated by locusts. But the plague of locusts will still happen again in the place where locusts have plagued it. "

"Locust control..." ah Yao vaguely remembered that she had seen it. "After spring ploughing and autumn harvest, turn the plow. If cattle, sheep and other things step on the soil firmly, they should be able to step on the locust eggs."

Farmers use the method of digging locust eggs. If this is not done, the locust eggs are in the soil, and two or three batches of locusts can be born a year. Such harassment will easily bring down the economy of the local village.

But what Pei Shuo wants is how to catch locusts, and the prevention and control must be done by farmers who have been dealing with the land for many years.

She thought, "the locusts fly in one direction. They have strong mobility. They can't chase after them. They have to fight head-on, and even if the locusts in front are dead. You have to fly behind, and you're going to die. "

"As long as you hit head-on, the effect will be followed well." Pei Shuo murmured.

"But it must be more dangerous than following. Locusts will attack people and even children bite. It's terrible."

Pei Shuo: "I'm not afraid. Locusts won't come in when you're in the capital."

A Yao held her cheek. "You said it would be nice if locusts were like moths. Make a fire and they take the initiative to rush in... Wow..."

Suddenly greedy.

Pei Shuo was helpless: "what did you think of?"

"Delicious. The locust legs are wrapped in flour, fried, or strung into a string, baked over fire, sprinkled with salt and crunchy. "

The food was so delicious that the children next door were greedy and crying.

"You just want to eat."

"I'm a cook!"

"But can you really eat it?"

Seeing Pei Shuo's suspicious eyes, a Yao snorted that insects were eaten in many places, such as fried cicada pupae, sheep scorpions, bee pupae, or dark barbecue - originally only green insects were roasted.

Locusts are also insects. When looking at the data, she said that the locust legs feel a little fleshy compared with other parts. They taste good, but let alone eat. She doesn't even know what locusts grow.

Fire, fire

Pei Shuo thought about the feasibility of burning campfires in the fields at night. The more he thought, the more he could try.

"What's more, chickens, ducks and geese eat insects, and locusts are also insects. Maybe they can make chickens, ducks and geese fat, boil chicken oil and make fat chicken mushrooms, hey hey ~"

Anyway, ah Yao thought of eating.

Osmanthus trees shed leaves and spin and slide on the edge of the stone table. They can't fall off.

"Yes, there is a big temperature difference between morning and evening. Dew touches clothes. Don't worry about catching a cold." Ah Yao pinched the leaves and turned, reminding him.

Dew?

Pei Shuo looked at a Yao playing with the leaves in his hand. His eyes were cold. The dew was heavy in the morning, and the leaves hung with dew, which was the same for insects.

He once saw a butterfly whose wings couldn't fly when it was wet by dew. It had to fly low. Finally, he grabbed its wings and caught it. Would locusts be the same.

During the day, a group of ten people were caught with a net, and a pioneer team was divided. Wearing a beekeeper's mask, they beat head-on in front of them.

In the evening, build a bonfire, wait until the sun sets, light a bonfire, rest, and start again in the deeper dew morning.

When the number of locusts decreases, organize people to turn the plow and graze chickens and ducks.

A series of plans were in his mind.

But before that, he dispelled his doubts about a Yao.