The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

The heads were all pulled off, and then the wings and legs were also removed.

Then, Liu Niang looked at the small wheel of locusts in her hand.

This was considered clean.

Following the same method, Liu Niang's movements gradually became faster and more skilled.

Not long after, she had cleaned up a basin of locusts.

Liu Niang walked into the kitchen with the wooden basin, and Li Fu followed her and stood at the kitchen door. If Liu Niang didn't handle it well, he could still remind her.

Li Fu saw that Liu Niang had prepared a clean porcelain basin with neat hands and added rice flour to it, and he knew that he had underestimated Liu Niang.

Since the last time she fried cucumber strips wrapped in batter, Liu Niang had her own set of frying systems in mind.

The cucumbers were not delicious, but the others were okay.

She had fried pork tenderloin before.

Locusts are also considered meat, right?

Fried cucumber strips are not delicious, that's because of the cucumber, not the batter and lard.

Liu Niang remembered the failure last time, and silently attributed the failure to the cucumber itself, which was not suitable for that. Otherwise, why is fried pork tenderloin delicious?

Not to mention pork tenderloin, even chicken ribs are said to be delicious when fried.

But after trying it, Liu Niang felt that it was just so-so, and it was not worth wasting so much oil.

Liu Niang mixed the batter in the basin, slightly salted the batter, and then covered the cleaned locusts with the batter.

"Ah Si! Light the fire!" Liu Niang called out to the outside.

Ah Si came in from outside with firewood and started a fire in the stove.

Liu Niang started to heat the oil in the pot.

The next step was even simpler. How to make fried food in the past, just do it now.

Li Fu stood at the door and watched Liu Niang busy.

In fact, it is better not to wrap it with batter. If it is wrapped, it will absorb oil and will be greasy.

Then, Li Fu said to the servant who was following him.

"You need to go outside and catch locusts now." Li Fu said, "We need them tomorrow."

"Yes." The servant replied.

He wondered in his heart, could this thing really be eaten?

Looking at it, it was really terrible.

Before he turned around and left, Liu Niang, who was standing in front of the stove in the kitchen, had already taken a long chopstick and put a locust into the oil pan to test the oil temperature.

The fragrance floated out of the kitchen and filled the yard.

Ah... this... smells pretty good.

The servant left quickly.

In the kitchen, Liu Niang kept putting locusts wrapped in batter into the pot.

After a while, she took them out and put them in a clean basin.

"My dear, do you want to try it?" Liu Niang turned her head and looked at Li Fu standing at the door.

Li Fu shook his head repeatedly.

"I won't try it. Wait, I'll find someone to try it."

He refused to eat it.

"Liu Niang, don't coat the remaining part with batter, just fry it directly." Li Fu reminded him, "I'll go find someone."

After that, Li Fu turned around and walked out of the kitchen yard.

Liu Niang stood there puzzled. No more batter?

It's better to coat it with batter. At least when it's fried, you can't see the original appearance of the locusts. If it's not coated with batter, can you see it?

Can it really be delivered to your mouth?

Suspicious, Liu Niang still did what Li Fu said.

At this point, Liu Niang already knew how to control the heat.

Li Fu came to the yard of the guards.

The guards who were exercising in the yard saw their husbands, stopped, stood still, faced Li Fu, and bowed.

Li Fu waved his hand.

"No need to be polite, you guys, come with me." Li Fu said to the guards.

"My dear, is there something important to do?" Wu Liangye walked out from the corridor and looked at Li Fu.

If they want to go out, the guards must be well armed.

"No, no, it's just a small matter." Li Fu said: "You come with me, go to the kitchen yard."

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what their husband was up to.

But they still followed Li Fu to the kitchen yard.

Before entering the yard, they smelled a very good meaty aroma.

"How is it?" Li Fu asked the guards behind him with a smile on his face: "Does this smell good?"

Everyone nodded.

"Hehe." Li Fu smiled: "I asked you to come here today because I want to treat you to something. If it tastes good, you can give me feedback."

The guards heard this, oh, there is such a good thing?

"My dear, has Lady Liu come up with some new food?" Wu Liangye was rather cautious.

"I guess so." Li Fu replied with a smile.

Wu Liangye nodded seriously.

Anyway, the things made by the kitchen staff in the house can be eaten.Eating is just a matter of whether it tastes good or not.

For Wu Liangye, what has he not eaten? When he was imprisoned in the dungeon, it was dark and he had nothing to eat or drink. People outside threw in a few dead rats and left them a small dagger...

If you want to live, eat, otherwise you will starve to death.

If you are really forced to that point, dead rats? That's meat too!

As long as you can survive!

Li Fu led them into the yard.

"Wait here for a while." Li Fu said.

He went into the kitchen.

"Are you done?" Li Fu looked at Liu Niang.

"It's done. This is the one wrapped in batter, and this is the one without. My dear, this one without batter looks creepy. Can you really eat it?" Liu Niang's face was about to overflow with difficulty.

It takes a lot of heart to eat this thing.

"I think it should be possible. Give me the one wrapped in batter first." Li Fu said.

Liu Niang picked up the basin and handed it to Li Fu.

"Do you still have the spices you ground before?" Li Fu asked, "Anise, pepper, salt, etc."

"Yes."

Liu Niang went to the cabinet to find the spices, and after finding them, she handed them to Li Fu.

Li Fu sprinkled some coarse cumin in the basin, and then shook the basin in his hand to let the cumin evenly spread on it.

The taste became more unique after adding cumin.

Li Fu went out with the basin.

"Come, come and try it." Li Fu smiled and placed the fried locusts wrapped in batter in front of the guards.

The guards surrounded him.

"My lord, what is this? It smells quite fragrant." A guard said.

"Meat." Li Fu smiled and replied, "Try it?"

"Thank you, my lord, then I will not be polite." The guard responded.

He reached out to take the locusts in the basin.

"You have to throw it into your mouth and eat it right away." Li Fu added.

If you bite half of it and find that there are bugs inside, ugh.

It's better to trick them into trying it first. If it's really delicious, even if you tell them there are bugs inside, they will be more likely to accept it.

The guards followed Li Fu's words and threw the whole locust into their mouths and chewed it.

"Hmm! It smells good!"

"Is it true? Let me try it!"

The guards around reached out to take the locusts in the basin.