peasant girl allure

Chapter 812
After watching Throwing Sandbags, the two went shopping again. In the evening, Xiao'er felt hungry. She wanted to enjoy the authentic Dai cuisine, so Shangguan Xuanyi took her to the biggest restaurant in the city. It was time for dinner. At that time, there were many people in the restaurant, and the private room was full, so the two could only find a table in the lobby and sit down.

Xiao'er ordered a five-spice grilled Dai carp, sticky rice with bamboo, as well as sour grilled vegetables and boiled chicken with sour bamboo shoots. It was enough for two people to eat three dishes and one rice.

The dishes came out quickly, five-spice grilled Dai carp, the grilled fish has yellow skin and crispy bones, tender meat with strong flavor, spicy and delicious, Xiaoer thinks this dish can be added to Four Seasons Restaurant.

Fragrant bamboo glutinous rice is actually baked rice in bamboo tubes. The bamboo tube rice here is made of precious fungi without meat, but the fragrance of bamboo and rice is mixed with the sweetness of mountain delicacies. It has a special taste and is served with Eating the stewed eel stewed with herbs and dipping it in the soup gives people an endless aftertaste. With her index finger wide open, Xiao'er ate the rice in two bamboo tubes at once.

There are also sour grilled vegetables and sour bamboo shoots boiled chicken are very appetizing dishes.

Shangguan Xuanyi saw that Xiao'er was eating with gusto, so he kept feeding her vegetables.

Dai cuisine is characterized by hot and sour taste, light, appetizing, people can not stop, very suitable for eating in summer.

There was a lot of voices in the lobby, but it didn't affect the appetite of the two of them at all.

When the two of them were almost full, a travel-worn man walked to the table next to them and sat down.

This person was acquainted with the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper personally poured tea for him, and the words of the two reached Xiao'er's ears.

"Brother Dalin, didn't you go to the north to join your brother-in-law? Why did you come back so soon?"

"Oh, don't mention it. When I first arrived in Guihe County, I was scared away by those locusts! It was so dark that you could get hit by locusts when you walked on the road! Those crops were gnawed to pieces! Besides, I I heard that there was a severe drought in the north, and many people went south, why should I go there!"

"So serious? Those locusts won't come to us, will they?" The shopkeeper felt that he had to go to the rice shop to buy more rice, flour, grain and oil, just to be prepared.

"I don't know! But I heard that those locusts came from neighboring counties in Guihe County. I saw that the crops in Guihe County were almost eaten away! Maybe they killed the crops in Guihe County. The crops are all eaten, and it is not certain that they will continue to go south. Let’s not talk about the shopkeeper, just bring me two dishes, I’m going to starve to death!”

"Okay!" The shopkeeper nodded, and he had to hurry to buy food!

Drought plus locust plague, this is no joke!I heard that the north is the main production area of ​​our country's grain, and the price of grain will definitely increase in the future!
Xiao'er and Shangguan Xuanyi looked at each other after hearing this, then hurriedly finished the rest of the meal and walked out of the inn.

"Brother Shangguan, locust plagues usually occur only when there is a severe drought. The black locusts are already a serious locust plague. If what that person said is true, Guiyang County is not far from here. Maybe those locust plagues are real. will affect here."

"It's not far, only one Xiangtang County." Shangguan Xuanyi frowned slightly, why didn't the court know about such a serious disaster earlier.

As soon as the two returned to the inn, Shangguan Xuanyi received a letter from Fei Ge.

There was a severe drought in the north, local officials concealed the disaster and did not report it, causing locust plagues, which intensified, and crops in several counties were already affected by disasters!

This is already a serious locust plague!
"I remember that I read relevant information about the locust plague in your space study. Ducks are the natural enemies of locusts. Girl, we have to raise more ducks in the space, and then rush to Xiangtang County as soon as possible." Shangguan Xuanyi handed over the letter Crushed, he had to find a way to stop the locusts in Xiangyang County, so as to prevent them from continuing to go south and causing disasters in more places.

Xiao'er nodded when she heard this. She also remembered that ducks were used to fight against the locust plague, so she said, "Okay, I will also inform the local officials in several neighboring counties to ask the people to raise more ducks, just in case."

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded, he took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, started to write quickly, and then sent the written letter by flying pigeons.

The two of them rushed to Xiangtang County overnight. They were about half a month away from Xiangyang County. If they drove overnight, they would arrive in about seven or eight days.

Zhao Yong was not there, during this time the carriages were driven by Yangliu and Yangliu, each of them drove one, now in a hurry, they could only drive one carriage, and Yangliu and Yangmei drove alternately day and night.

The few people ate in the carriage, and when Yangliu Yangmei went to the toilet together, Xiaoer changed the horses. Fortunately, there were no shortage of identical horses in the space.

Otherwise, if you ran day and night for seven days and seven nights, the horse would be crippled if not dead!

The days of driving like this are actually very hard work, especially Yang Liu and the others have to concentrate on driving.

Xiao'er was worried that Yangmei or Yangliu would be too tired, so she would take advantage of one of them to fall asleep, click on her sleeping point, bring her into the space, and let her sleep in the space.

It’s not that Yang Liu and Yang Mei haven’t had such a life before. They used to feel tired every time they woke up, but this time, they didn’t understand why every time they woke up, they felt more refreshed than usual. Feel comfortable physically and mentally.

While Yangliu and Yangmei were puzzled, Xiangyang County finally arrived.

The people in Xiangyang County have long received notices from the government, knowing that there may be a locust plague, and that it is impossible to harvest the crops as soon as they grow seedlings.

The common people have all experienced locust plagues. Large-scale locust plagues occur every ten or eight years. They have no good way to do it. They can only watch them eat up all the crops and leave when they have nothing to eat.

Although the army of locusts has not yet overwhelmed the city, the people here have already begun to panic. Pedestrians on the street look up at the sky from time to time, worried that suddenly black clouds will overwhelm the city!
Shangguan Xuanyi directly approached the magistrate of Shangxiangtang County and asked him to tell the people that if the locusts came, they would put the ducks in the field.

When the county magistrate heard Shangguan Xuanyi's order to let the people release ducks, although he didn't think so, he dared not listen to King Rui's words!

Soldiers can only be arranged to go to each town to notify the pavilion chief and then the village chief, and then the village chief will notify each household.

The villagers felt that the county magistrate was stupid when they heard that the government had actually asked him to release his ducks to eat locusts!The army of locusts is overwhelming the city, a group of black ones, even people have to hide in the house to avoid them, let the ducks out, is this trying to scare their ducks to death?
The people privately called the county magistrate a fool, and the county magistrate listened to the rumors and scolded Shangguan Xuan in his heart, causing him to be misunderstood by everyone as a fool.

In short, everyone does not believe that ducks will eat locusts. Even if they do eat locusts, eating a few of them will be of no use. No one intends to release the ducks in their homes.

In the evening, the sky in the distance was dark, as if a storm was about to come.

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