The dead enemy in the previous life gave me joy

It was because Chu Chu wanted to play with his temper, and he didn't have the strength at the moment, so he reluctantly put his arms around Gu Zhai's neck and climbed onto his shoulders.

The man's shoulders are strong and broad, and he can be easily carried on his back even after such high-intensity physical work as fishing.

"You are too light. In addition to three meals, you must also drink the tonic prescribed by the imperial physician. I will often invite the imperial physician to come to the mansion to diagnose and recuperate your pulse." Sensing that Chu Chu was a little restless, Gu Zhai said again: "You can't treat people like that." Keep it out, let alone pour medicine into flower pots."

Feeling the weight on his back, he was still worried about Chu Chu's body. When he realized that the person on his back was no longer moving and resting on his neck, he seemed to have fainted from hunger. He raised his feet and accelerated his pace.

The strong smell of fried fish wafted into Chu Chu's house, which woke him up a lot. He smacked his lips and muttered: "It's so hungry, it smells so good..."

The aroma became more and more intense, and finally rushed straight into his nostrils, and the heat steamed on his face, which made him sober up a lot.

"Fish! Is Gu Zhai the fish you fried?!" He looked at the plate of fried fish with scallions and eggs in front of his eyes, salivating, and stretched out five fingers to grab it.

"It's dirty, go and wash your hands before you come back." Gu Zhai patted his hand.

"I thought you only knew water shield soup and shepherd's purse wontons? I didn't expect Gu Zhai that you were also good at frying fish! Why didn't I know you were so secretive!" Chu Chu washed her hands and hurriedly served the table.

"There are many things you don't know. From now on, if you are obedient, I will naturally cook other delicious food for you." Gu Zhai replied with a smile, thinking about how to go to the Zuixianju to learn from a teacher in the future.

Of course he would not tell Chu Chu that this was the first time he had fried fish with chopped green onion and eggs, as if Chu Chu was eating well.

Gu Zhai concentrated on picking the fishbone for Chu Chu, and Chu Chu satisfied the hunger in his belly, and felt that his senses had recovered a lot.

His hearing was very good, and he immediately knew that there was a person standing outside the door, but he didn't know why that person didn't come in.

He said to Gu Zhai, "There are people outside."

Gu Zhai naturally noticed it too, but he just wanted to remove the piece of fish in his hand first and ignored it, now that Chu Chu said something, he couldn't pretend he didn't hear it, and said, "Who is it?"

The man outside the door came all the way to inquire, knowing that Gu Zhai and Chu Chu were together, he didn't dare to rush in like this, for fear of hearing something he saw that he shouldn't know, now he replied after listening to the question: " General, there is a decree."

Is there a purpose?

The Holy Majesty's will actually spread to this little Zhuangzi?

This is amazing, you must know that this Suozhou Village is not on the official road, they turned off the official road and walked along the path to find a rest here.

The decree officer saluted the two respectfully, and said: "There is a decree from the Holy Spirit, there is a locust outbreak in Suiyang, now the general is the closest to this place, your majesty ordered the general to change the route and go to deal with it with full authority."

I didn't expect that when I was a general in Sichuan, I would be sent to control locusts. Seeing that Gu Zhai frowned, he probably didn't like doing such things.

Chu Chu is different, Chu Chu thinks that this locust plague can be considered a natural disaster, isn't it the same as the drought in Tongling Kingdom?He must not stand by and watch the people suffer.

"Then you report back to the Holy Majesty, saying that the general has known about it and will leave for Suiyang immediately." Chu Chu said.

After the decree officer left, Gu Zhai said with some reluctance: "One thing more is worse than one thing less. What do you promise him to do? We are not in charge of such matters. Even if it is His Majesty's will, we can transfer the nearby place." Officials, generals are in the army, and the emperor's order is not accepted[1], we should not issue it, and we cannot be regarded as resisting the order."

Chu Chu ate the last piece of fish picked by Gu Zhai and wiped it off, smacking his lips as if he wanted to reason with Gu Zhai, but after thinking about it, he still couldn't offend him, because he didn't taste a piece of fish himself just now, so he picked it all The fish is gone. If you eat other people's fish, you need to be softer.

He patiently explained to Gu Zhai: "We don't need to be in such a hurry to go back to Beijing, you can order the soldiers to go back first, and then we two will go and have a look, maybe the situation is really urgent, and it happens to be close."

Chu Chu's attitude of begging for help was very upright, and the soft tone fell into Gu Zhai's ears a little bit crispy and numb, making his ears go soft.

Gu Zhai asked: "Want to go?"

Chu Chu nodded and replied: "I want to go, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda!"

"The plague of locusts is not fatal."

"But the locusts eat up the crops and are deadly! A large-scale locust plague will be followed by a food disaster, and many people will starve to death."

Chu Chu knew too well what it was like to be hungry. In his previous life, his mother starved to death because she left him food. If it wasn't for Xia Yi's kind meal, he would also starve to death on the street.

Gu Zhai hesitated and pondered for a long time, then blew his secret whistle, summoned Xie Lan, and ordered him to leave one-third of the soldiers and go to Suiyang with him, and Xie Lan led the other two-thirds back to Beijing.

"Your body is too weak, and you won't be able to help much if you go there, so let's go back to Beijing with Xie Lan." Gu Zhai said to Chu Chu.

Never thought that Gu Zhai would abandon him, the person who originally proposed to control locusts, how could he do it!His original intention was to relieve the suffering of the people.

He leaned closer to Gu Zhai, his black eyes were black and shiny, and he said obediently: "I also want to do a little bit, I can cure locusts, Gu Zhai~ You take me with you."

"If you're not the son of the princess's family, I'm afraid I'll believe it. What kind of clever tricks can you have for controlling locusts as a person who stays in Beijing all year round?" Gu Zhai looked at the little head that came over with a smile.

"Look, you don't believe me anymore. Before that, you thought I couldn't help you defend against the enemy, but in the end, I beat back the Nanman." Chu Chu groaned angrily.

That's true, this little sick man often makes surprises and doesn't play cards according to common sense, maybe it can really make him do it unintentionally?

"In this way, if you can tell me the point of view on locust control and convince me, I will let you go with me, otherwise, just return to Beijing obediently, and I will let Xie Lan watch over you." Gu Zhai said.

This is what you've been waiting for!

Gu Changning, Gu Changning, I didn’t buy this book for nothing when I was fighting you in Panning. I can memorize "Catching Locusts" [2], and now it can be regarded as very useful.

"We can use bamboo poles to support some white cloth, chase all the locusts together, and then concentrate on killing them." Chu Chu suggested.

Gu Zhai nodded and said, "Reluctantly, it's kind of like the art of war."

"We can also dig a hole, bury the locusts in it, and suffocate them," Chu Chu said.

Gu Zhai seconded, "If the pit is shallow, the locusts will still crawl out."

"I heard that there is another method called 'burning locusts'." Chu Chu said with a smile.

"What do you mean by 'burning locusts'?" he asked.

For some reason, Gu Zhai always feels that Chu Chu, the "burning locust", is a little cautious and has some malicious intentions. What kind of conspiracy is brewing in his little head?

"Fire locusts, as the name suggests, is to burn locusts. When it gets dark, we will light a bonfire and attract a large number of locusts. As long as they are burned by the fire, these locusts will not be able to fly. We can catch them, and then... ..."

"And then?" Gu Zhai raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, then set up a large pot, pour oil, and cook..."

"No." Gu Zhai's face gradually darkened.

He knew that Chu Chu was delicious, but he didn't expect him to be so delicious. Is this the "highest state" of the so-called foodie, seeing is eating?

Emotional Chu Chu responded that he came to treat the locusts because of this "fried locust". He looked at Chu Chu in disbelief, and by the way, he was also reflecting on whether he had treated him badly by bringing him into the army.

"Gu Zhai, listen to me, I heard that there is a way of frying insects to make delicacies in the south, and it is quite delicious after frying..." Chu Chu said.

"Shut up! Don't think about this again. If you get greedy, you can invite the cook from Zuixianju to the mansion for seven days when you return to Shangjing." Gu Zhai said with a straight face.

"Oh." He also just suggested it, but he didn't expect Gu Zhai to turn his head around and become fierce. Sure enough, the nature can't be changed easily.

He thought that people should not only look at the surface, such as Gu Zhai, he has seen his fearless appearance on the battlefield, fighting bloody battles, he has seen his elegant and handsome body, and his deceptive pair of eyes. His amber pupils, in fact, who would have thought that he was so stubborn in his bones...

If he wanted something, even if he gave up his life, he should hold it firmly in his hands.

Fortunately, on the way to Suiyang, Gu Zhai still took him with him.

Chu Chu had never seen a real locust plague, and he didn't understand why the locust plague could be called a "disaster" until he saw a large area of ​​locusts gnawing on the crops.

The soldiers brought by Gu Zhai were already helping the people exterminate the locusts in the field, so Gu Zhai took Chu Chuxing to a high place to see the damage to the crops.

"Large tracts of land have already been devoured by locusts, but the speed at which we kill locusts is still not as fast as the speed at which locusts eat crops." Chu Chu analyzed.

"Not only that, look at the overlapping locusts, they are obviously breeding, and the breeding speed of locusts is extremely fast." Gu Zhai told Chu Chu.

Overlap, reproduce?

"The method of slapping must be useless, why not try the methods I told you?"

"You can give it a try."

Gu Zhai summoned the soldiers leading the locust extermination, and together with Chu Chu taught him the methods of extermination of locusts.

Gu Zhai waved his hand to Chu Chu, indicating that he would also go down to the field to help them exterminate the locusts together. He put the locust-proof cover made of gauze on Chu Chu before leaving in peace.

It took about four days and three nights in total, and the number of locusts gradually decreased, which shows that Chu Chu's method is still effective, or maybe because of the help of more soldiers, the most powerful group of locusts has disappeared in nearly a week.

"This control of locusts is quite similar to using troops. Once the main force of the enemy is eliminated, there will be nothing in the future that can threaten us." Gu Zhai said with emotion.

"Congratulations, you are almost done!" Chu Chu was also quite satisfied.

"It's also thanks to your good strategy. You are actually Zhuge in this world. How about sending you to our army as a military adviser?" Gu Zhai said.

It doesn't have to be that way.

Chu Chu knew that Gu Zhai was joking with him on purpose, he always thought he was weak, this time he was an exception in joining the army, how could he be allowed to serve in the army, he did not have such delusions.

Gu Zhai quietly took out a net bag from behind and handed it to Chu Chu.

"Here, here is your reward."

Chu Chu took a closer look, and it turned out to be a bag of big, fat locusts!

The author has something to say: [1] From the "Historical Records Biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qi" by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty: "Since the minister has been ordered to be a general, he will be in the army, and the emperor's order is not accepted."

[2] About catching locusts and exterminating locusts, there are Baidu reference online methods and methods of catching locusts in ancient times.

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Gu: Here, the reward is for you~ [I'm awesome]

Chu: ... Gu Zhai, you idiot!

Gu: It's really hard to guess what my wife is thinking.

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The next chapter, the warning of fried locusts, is not very heavy-handed, but I still remind the little angels who feel uncomfortable that they can selectively skip the first part.

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