Planting a fairy in ancient times

Chapter 291. 290. Go Against the Sky
"Tomorrow we will continue to drive the poultry to the field to eat insects, the children and the elderly will go to the field to catch locusts, and the strong laborers will harvest the sweet potato vines in the field. We can count as much as we can." Chen Daniu thought for a while and said.

Chen Daniu also had no choice.

When there is no food in the ground, the locusts will naturally fly away.

Anyway, sweet potatoes are almost at harvest time.When harvesting sweet potatoes, the sweet potato vines must be cut off first.

Although doing so, there is some suspicion of disregarding the life and death of villagers in other villages.

But I can't even take care of myself, I can't let the locusts destroy all the crops in Xinghua Village, can I?Besides, what should I do if the locusts lay eggs in the ground after they are full?
"Okay, I'll inform everyone right away." Zhou Dazhu's eyes lit up.

Sweet potato vines are good feed for pigs and chickens. After harvesting and storing them in large tanks, the pigs and chickens at home can eat them for a whole year!
In any case, it is a little bit to be able to regain a little bit under the mouth of the locust.After the locust plague is over, every household can use the looted sweet potato vines to raise pigs.

"Uncle Zhou, wait a minute." At this moment, Chen Xiaoyu came over.

Chen Xiaoyu felt a little regretful.

Before, Chen Xiaoyu thought that he could use spells to deal with the locusts, so he just briefly talked to Chen Daniu about how to deal with the locusts after they arrived, and asking everyone to raise poultry to eat locusts was one of them.

Chen Xiaoyu hasn't talked to Chen Daniu about other methods of exterminating locusts.

Seeing Chen Daniu racking his brains to find a solution for the locusts in the field, Chen Xiaoyu couldn't help but want to meddle in "nosy" again.

【Master, don't be stupid! ] Little Pendant is in a hurry.

【Shut up! 】Chen Xiaoyu scolded, and put a "forbidden speech" ban on Xiao Zhuizi.

Xiao Zhuizi stared anxiously, but he was helpless.

After Chen Xiaoyu finished the small pendant, she said to Chen Daniu: "Grandpa, I read a book before and saw that there are several ways to kill locusts. Grandpa, you have now used two methods of catching locusts by hand and killing locusts with poultry, and there is also a luminous method." Booby trap, would you like to try it?"

Chen Xiaoyu's previous life was the era of information explosion.

No matter what it is, if you don't understand, you can ask Du Niang.

Out of curiosity, Chen Xiaoyu searched the Internet for ways to kill locusts.There is a way to trap and kill locusts at night with a light source, and Chen Xiaoyu thinks it is quite useful.

"Xiaoyu, tell me quickly." Chen Daniu's eyes lit up.

As long as the locusts can be eradicated, Chen Daniu will definitely not dislike many methods.

"Grandpa, find an open place to light a fire at night, put a few big vats next to the fire, fill the vats with water, when the time comes, the locusts will jump over and fall into the water when they see the fire." Chen Xiaoyu frowned. Frowning, he said, "Grandpa, I also read it from the book. I don't know how to operate it. You have to figure it out yourself."

"Xiaoyu, Grandpa will ask someone to do it right away. If it really works, it will be a merit!" Chen Daniu was overjoyed.

Chen Daniu is very much looking forward to Chen Xiaoyu's "light source booby-killing method".

no effect?That is impossible.

When did Chen Xiaoyu say something unreliable?
Looking at the back of Chen Daniu jumping away, Chen Xiaoyu felt a little heavy.

Chen Xiaoyu didn't know if he would attract Heaven's revenge after taking action this time.

However, in life, there are things to do and things not to do.

Obviously there is a way to exterminate the locusts, but they hide it and don't say it. Chen Xiaoyu can't do it.

Cultivation is fighting against the sky for fate, and it is against the sky.

The world is not benevolent, and treats everything as a straw dog.Tiandao, a bastard, actually created such a big locust plague in order to give merit to the Son of Destiny.

Although she, Chen Xiaoyu, is weak, but she still has to use her own method to compete with the heavens for the lives of these ordinary people, so that it is not in vain for her to come to this time and space.

Pingjiang Mansion.

For two days, Zou Zhizhou could not sleep at night.

In the territory of Pingjiang Prefecture, a large number of locusts appeared.

The locusts flew all the way from Beiyan Mansion in the north.

Zou Zhizhou read the residence newspaper.In Beiyan Mansion, wherever the locusts went, it was a mess.

The magistrate of Beiyan Mansion wrote a letter to Emperor Tianjing, saying that this season, the crops in Beiyan Mansion have not been harvested.

Not only the crops, even the green grass and trees in Beiyan Mansion were devoured by locusts.

Half a year later, if the imperial court does not distribute relief food, the population of Beiyan Mansion will definitely drop sharply due to hunger.

Pingjiang mansion is better.

After Zou Zhizhou was promoted to Zhizhou last year, he vigorously promoted the cultivation of sweet potatoes in Pingjiang Prefecture.

The yield per mu of sweet potato is high, and it is not good to choose good land or poor land.

Because of last year's famine, everyone was worried, but Zou Zhizhou's promotion did not receive any resistance at all.

This season in Pingjiang Prefecture, more than half of the farmers chose to grow sweet potatoes instead of wheat as they were accustomed to before.

Even so, Zou Zhizhou looked at the details of the insect infestation in the county newspapers every day, and was still so worried that he couldn't sleep.

Zou Zhizhou is afraid!

Who knows if locusts will burrow into the ground to eat sweet potatoes after eating the sweet potato seedlings?

Even if you don't eat sweet potatoes, the other half of the wheat will definitely not be harvested.

Food is the lifeblood of farmers!

If the harvest drops sharply this season, wouldn't the people of Pingjiang Mansion have to tighten their belts again?
Moreover, Zou Zhizhou sensitively discovered that this time the locust disaster affected a large area.

Not only Beiyan Mansion and Pingjiang Mansion, but also Guangyuan Mansion and Jiangnan Mansion in the south, where there is plenty of fish and rice, it is said that sporadic locusts have appeared, but it has not yet formed a large scale.

The imperial court's food reserves are limited. If all the state capitals in the Xuanyuan Dynasty were covered, oh no, even if only half of them were plagued by locusts, how could the Xuanyuan Dynasty have so much food for disaster relief?
At that time, even if the sweet potato harvest in Pingjiang Mansion is gratifying, it is impossible to be alone.

Grain merchants from other prefectures come to Pingjiang Mansion to buy sweet potatoes. As long as the price is high, some short-sighted people are willing to sell them. Zou Zhizhou can't stop him, can he?

Thinking about it this way, County Magistrate Zou became more urgent to eliminate the locusts.

However, there are many villagers who are ignorant. Seeing the overwhelming army of locusts coming, they only know to kneel at the edge of the field, burn incense and kowtow, hoping that the "locust lady" will leave quickly and not eat their own crops.

Yesterday, Zou Zhizhou took a few people to Dawang Village on the outskirts of the city. When he saw Li Zheng leading the villagers kneeling on the edge of the field to burn incense, Zou Zhizhou was furious and told everyone to fight off the locusts.

Unfortunately, no villagers are willing to listen to Zou Zhizhou.

There are also villagers who drive Zou Zhizhou away, saying that Zou Zhizhou's nonsense will anger the "locust lady" and cause even greater disasters.

Zou Zhizhou almost died of anger.

Zou Zhizhou didn't understand why these people were so big-hearted.

Standing on the edge of the field, listening to the "rustling" sound of locusts eating, seeing the greenness of the field is decreasing, are these people not in a hurry?
Zou Zhizhou felt it yesterday.

He was jumping anxiously beside him, wishing he could roll up his sleeves and go to the field to catch locusts himself.

But what about the villagers of Dawang Village?All they knew was to kneel on the ground and kowtow to the locusts.

Can burning incense and kowtow make the locusts leave?It's ridiculous!
(End of this chapter)