Zhang Chao and his father were chatting under the tree. Cheng Qian and the others were not idle either. A group of naughty kids caught frogs, grasshoppers, and locusts.

After catching it, tie one leg with straw and then come together to fight the insects.

"Up to top!"

"Bite him!"

Seeing the excited look of a group of guys, Li Chao just smiled. The father said, "You are so brave, you are so brave to bring such noble children to work as coolies."

"This is not a coolie, it's just a training. The noble one is their origin and bloodline. Whether they can keep their ancestral property depends on their own ability. If they are just superior and do not know the sufferings of the people, they will be out of touch with this society, which is not a good thing."

Chengqian's big locust was very big, but it was useless. He always wanted to escape in the battle, and Chengqian was so angry that he trampled him to death.

Li Chao called Chengqian with a smile, "The locusts are actually quite delicious. You can catch more people and I'll give them to you after you get home."

"Can locusts eat them?"

Cheng Qian looked disbelieving.

"You have eaten cicadas last time, how does it taste?" Li Chao asked.

"It's okay." Cheng Qian thought about how he almost burned the Li Mansion last time to eat a few cicadas. As a result, he not only wrote a few thousand words to review, but also picked up feces for several days, which was unbearable to look back. However, the roasted cicadas were indeed pretty good and tasted very crisp.

Locusts and gooses are a bit similar, not like them, but they all eat green. They eat green very well and eat everything. In the rice fields, as long as the rice fields grow steadily after transplanting, they can put ducks in the fields and eat some pests. But they will never dare to put geese in the fields. If the geese go down the fields, they can eat up all the rice seedlings.

The same is true for locusts. If the number is small, it is better and they eat only limited food.

Once a drought year occurs, a locust plague will often occur. Because the locust eggs will not die, then the locusts will cover up the sky and eat up all the green crops and plants.

Locusts are also called grasshoppers in some places, but they are very large.

In fact, the ancients also ate locusts. When they encountered locust plagues, they were covered with locusts, and the people would also catch locusts. However, the characteristics of locusts are large in number and fast movement. They can quickly chew the green in a place and then fly away. Therefore, even if they catch locusts, the time is short, which is like a fishing flood in a river.

Some rivers near the sea, and some fish swim into the river from the sea to the upper reaches to lay eggs. It is very easy to catch fish at this time, but there is also a time when the fish flood will disappear after this.

In later generations, locusts even became a kind of delicacy, and there were countless delicacies made from locusts.

Spicy locusts, fried locusts, pickled pepper locusts, locusts fried dumplings

There are even some pretty good names, such as the Locust Tengda.

According to the records of Compendium of Materia Medica, locusts have high medicinal value, rich nutrition, tender meat, delicious taste, and even the structure of the nutrients is more reasonable than that of animals.

However, few people usually eat this kind of thing, just like more people eat shrimp and few people eat crabs. This thing looks too fierce, and it’s still a worm.

However, Cheng Qian and the others are just children. They had eaten roasted cicadas last time, and they felt good. Now, after hearing Li Chao's tricks, they all ran to catch locusts excitedly. Although it is not the year of locust plague, there are still many locusts in the fields during the harvest season.

Locusts are actually easy to catch.

However, if it is during a locust plague, there are too many locusts and move too fast, so it is difficult to catch them. Otherwise, no matter how many locusts are, they will be a delivery of vegetables.

After a while, I had caught a lot of it, and the servants also helped me. The locusts in this place were considered unlucky. They were almost caught for a lot of them. They caught a bag of at least several kilograms.

Li Chao put the pocket directly into the puddle on the side.

"Okay, continue to work!"

Seeing that it was still early, Li Chao planned to do something else.

When the sun rose higher and the sun became more and more vicious, everyone was also reluctant, and Li Chao announced that he would end his morning work. He put out the rice in the barn, sifted it, and then put it into a basket.

Roll the threshed straw one by one, spread it in the fields and dry it. After the straw is dried, it can also become a forage for cattle and sheep in winter.

"Put the threshing hood and go home!"

"I'll get the locusts!" Cheng Qian was thinking about the bag of locusts and drowned in the puddle for a while, and the locusts were dead.

When he got home, Cheng Qian and the others didn't care about resting, so they asked Li Chao to make locusts for them.

Li Chao planned to make a fried grasshopper first. After all, it is not a poor person. Eating locusts is not for fullness, but for snacks, focusing on color, fragrance and taste.

"Can locusts really eat them?"

Cheng Qian led a group of friends to circle around Li Chao, and still doesn't believe that these ostentatious insects can eat them.

Li Chao just smiled.

The locusts had drowned, so Li Chao first set up a pot to boil water. He took out the locusts and put them in a basin. When the water was poured into the water, he stirred them with a shovel. He almost washed them, picked them up and drizzled them dry.

"Get the salt."

Wash the dried locusts with fine green salt on the water, mix well and marinate, so that it will taste more delicious.

The locusts caught include female and male. The mother has a big belly and many seeds inside. After being fried, they will be like crab roe. Some of them have large heads and very hard wings. The locusts have two layers of wings. The outer layer is protected, and the wings inside are very thin and fly. The soft wings inside are delicious when they are fried, but the outer wings have to be pulled off first.

Li Chao pickled while pulling off his outer wings and asked Cheng Qian and the others to help.

The outside of the locust is usually green, but after it is fried, the color is the same, golden.

"Then start to explode?" Cheng Qian was quite brave. He pulled up his wings and was so cruel. He was very happy to play.

Reset the pot and set the fire.

In fact, it is fried, but it is even fried.

Fry slowly over low heat, which saves oil and is not greasy. Fry slowly to make it more fragrant and crisp.

Put oil in the pot, first put the peppercorns in it and fry it to bring out the aroma, remove the peppercorns, then pour in the pickled locusts and stir-fry slowly over low heat.

Slowly, the aroma was stir-fryed.

The more you stir-fry, the more fragrant it becomes, the more fragrant it is.

Li Chengqian and the others have already started drooling.

"Teacher, how long will it take?"

"Wow, it's golden, so beautiful."

Li Chao patiently continued to flip the shovel and cook, the most important thing was the heat. How high should the heat be for stir-frying locusts? Each grasshopper seemed slightly translucent all over, turning into a deep and heavy red, and his belly was swollen and full, so he could be cooked.

Sprinkle salt before it is served.

Li Chao used salt and pepper.

Fry it and sprinkle with pepper and salt. There is no need for anything else. Just fry the locusts.

"Okay, this dish is called "Flying Locust Tengda!"

"The flying locusts are so good, this name sounds really good."

However, although I was so greedy for the fragrance just now, I was really fried and put on the plate. A group of little guys were just watching, and no one dared to eat first.

In the end, Cheng Qian was bold and the first one reached out and picked up one and put it in his mouth.

“It tastes good, let’s have another one.”

After chewing for a few times, Chengqian found that the locust was really delicious, fragrant and crispy.

"What does it taste?" Chai Lingwu asked hurriedly.

"Like fried river shrimp, salted river shrimp, crispy and delicious, delicious!"

Chai Lingwu likes to eat the salted shrimp made by Li Chao the most. When he heard this, he could no longer hold back. He reached out and picked up a golden fried locust and bit off half of it in one bite.

Crunch!

“It’s really delicious.”

Other naughty kids rushed forward, and the locusts were instantly snatched away yesterday, and some of them were so slow that they didn't get it!
Chapter completed!