In April of the second year of Zhenguan.
The drought was still ongoing, and there were no signs of a locust plague.
Many farmlands near water sources in the Guanzhong Plain relied on farmers to divert water for irrigation, barely planting some crops.
Not long after, farmers found large numbers of eggs that looked like corn in the dry land by the lake and river.
After a few days, the eggs would hatch into insects the size of flies, which would jump and move in groups.
This type of insect was called a nymph.
A few days later, the little bugs 'wings had fully developed and they could all fly…
This was the locust that terrified countless people!
As long as the drought was maintained, the locusts would continue to reproduce until autumn, when the weather turned cold!
Wherever the locust army went, all the crops would be eaten.
At that time, there would be no food harvest, famine everywhere, and starving people would be everywhere!
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Chang 'an, Tang Empire, Jude Lane.
Near the west gate, a shop that covered an area of one mu was being renovated.
Many passersby were watching curiously.
In the lobby of the shop, there were hundreds of square tables and matching benches with novel designs, all of which had never appeared in Chang 'an before.
Under the eaves of the street, there were more than a dozen stoves and large iron pots lined up in a row. It looked very unique. Other shops did not have the habit of putting stoves outside their houses.
This strange shop was called " Ascendant ".
There was a flag hanging in front of the shop. The flag was embroidered with a vivid picture of a large grasshopper, and it had the advertising slogan," In the past, locusts gnawed at the fields. Today, I eat locusts!”
Seeing this, the onlookers finally understood what this strange shop was for.
Locust snack themed shop!
The passersby who understood this were all stunned.
Could locusts be eaten?
It was said that there were starving people who would eat locusts when they had no other choice. However, that was also a choice that the dying had no choice but to make.
Who would take the initiative to eat locusts?
Was the owner of this shop crazy?
Luo Yanran had similar thoughts.
She wondered if her young master was crazy. He actually asked her to take over such a big shop to make locust snacks?
The current Luo Yanran was still Yang Qian's right-hand man.
She had personally hired craftsmen to supervise the rental and renovation of the shop.
Of course, the theme style and furniture design of the entire store were all done by Yang Qian according to the theme of the snack bar in the future.
"Young Master, there are already many passers-by watching outside. Shouldn't we hand out the flyers?”
Luo Yanran looked at the crowd outside and asked Yang Qian who was sitting behind the counter.
Using flyers to advertise was naturally Yang Qian's idea.
The hotels in this era did not have such high-end marketing methods.
The top half of the flyer was a beautiful and vivid picture of locusts. The bottom half of the flyer wrote the address of Tengda's flagship store and a few lines of enlarged and blackened advertising slogans:
Flying Locusts Tengda Snack Bar, taste the delicacies of the world-fried flying locusts!
One coin for a catty, buying large amounts of live locusts, effective for a long time.
Recruiting cooperative stores, all major merchants are welcome to come and discuss joining business!
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"Yanran, do you think there's anything you don't understand about the advertisement on this flyer?”
Yang Qian pressed one hand on the flyer and asked casually.
Luo Yanran had stayed in Qingxu Temple for one and a half months, so they were quite familiar with each other.
In the beginning, Luo Yanran had been working hard to overcome the influence of her body's exuberant energy being drained, and a large amount of bad luck and illness. It took her half a month to go out normally.
Yang Qian thought that Luo Yanran would hate him because of this, but he didn't expect that after this incident, Luo Yanran would admire his mysterious methods and firmly recognize him as her master.
After another month of running errands, Luo Yanran barely got Yang Qian's approval and was allowed to work under him.
In this one and a half months, Yang Qian had been working hard to cultivate the Qi Gazing Technique and basically did not leave the Qingxu Temple much.
Yang Qian discovered that without the help of external forces, his Essence Qi had not even increased by 1% in a month and a half.
At this rate, it would take at least eight to ten years to reach the third level of the Aura Gazing Technique.
Later on, Yang Qian discovered that after the imperial court began to provide large-scale relief to the people who were stranded on the streets of Chang 'an due to the drought, there would often be streaks of colorful weather light falling on his head, turning into pure Vital Qi and improving his cultivation.
Now, Yang Qian could already confirm that those meteoric lights were rewards from the people who changed their fates because he had warned the Imperial Court in advance.
In just half a month, the number of rewards that fell from the heavens had exceeded Yang Qian's cultivation of five to six years of hard work…After Yang Qian realized this, he instantly felt that it was a waste of time to cultivate the Qi Gazing Art behind closed doors.
Hence, the " Flying Locust Tengda " themed snack bar appeared.
Yang Qian hoped that this unique snack bar with an advanced concept could also change the fate of some people who were destined to escape disaster.
Right, in order to make it convenient for ordinary people to capture live locusts and sell them, Yang Qian even found craftsmen to make a lot of gauze tools in advance. He was prepared to distribute them to ordinary people when the locusts broke out on a large scale.
Hearing Yang Qian's question, Luo Yanran subconsciously looked at the flyer again and said," The first two lines are understandable, but the third line is about cooperating with the stores. I don't know what it means. I hope Young Master can answer it."”
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