Ming Zhao saw that there was still some resentment on the faces of the villagers, so he stood up and said: "Fellow villagers, the sudden increase in locusts is also something we did not expect. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNone of us have experience in dealing with locust plagues, including all of you. However, just because there are suddenly more locusts, we can't start spreading the word about the locust god again. Think of your wife, your children, and think of the old people in your family, these locusts are taking food from their mouths, can you bear it? Don't you hate it?"

The villagers' expressions gradually changed, "So what should we do?"

"Please rest assured. We will go to the fields to find out the reason for this, and the sudden increase in locusts must be because we have not noticed something, so there is such a sudden outbreak. Don't be afraid, the court will definitely get through this difficult time with you. ”

Feng Shanyue nodded secretly when she heard this, Ming Zhao was indeed very smart, he sang white face by himself, and suppressed these people, so he stood up and sang red face, so that the people could be relieved. The common people finally calmed down after listening to the words of the two of them.

Feng Shanyue came down from the stone, "Okay, who will take me to the field to see?"

The villager who spoke just now said, "I'll take you there!"

Feng Shanyue nodded, and followed him to the field with Ming Zhao, and the villagers were not at ease and followed behind.

"Two nobles, it is this farmland, a lot of locusts appeared at noon today, and the black pressure is too scary!"

Feng Shanyue walked to the ridge of the field, grabbed a few locusts casually, and found that these locusts did not seem to be too mature, and it seemed that they had just transformed from larvae to adults.

"Which of you took the lead?"

"Me!"

A villager stood out from the crowd with a head in his hand, Feng Shanyue nodded, and pointed to a place at his feet, "Dig up here!"

The villager picked up his head and dug down to the place where Feng Shanyue was pointing, and then turned the whole mud up, and was immediately startled, "This...... What is this?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"

The people gathered around to look at it, and saw a few rows of pale yellow, rice-like things in the clods, "What is this?"

Feng Shanyue reached out and picked up a few, put them in her hand, and pinched them with her hand, "This is the egg of the locust." That's where the little locusts come out. ”

"What? Locust eggs? So locusts lay eggs?"

These villagers have been farming for most of their lives, but they have never noticed how locusts are born. I've dug up this kind of thing before, but I thought it was some kind of bug, and I didn't care about it.

"Yes, locusts lay eggs, and these eggs hatch very quickly, and it only takes four or five days for the little locusts to come out in hot weather like this. Feng Shanyue reached out again and grabbed a locust from the ground, "You see, this is a small locust, it is the juvenile stage of the locust, so the wings have not grown well, and it cannot jump as far as the locust that has grown." ”

It dawned on the villagers that they had thought that these wingless locusts were another species.

"You now understand why the locusts suddenly broke out again, right? It's because a batch of larvae has grown up again, that so many locusts suddenly appear. It's not a locust wrath at all, it's just a normal phenomenon. ”

"I see!"

"As long as it's not a locust god, we're relieved!"

"Then we'll continue to fight locusts, anyway, the government will buy those dried locusts, and we won't do it in vain!"

At this time, Dai Daren rushed over with a team of officers and soldiers. Seeing the heavily armed soldiers, the people hurriedly retreated to the side, not daring to make a sound.

"Prince Zhao, Miss Feng, are you all right?"

"It's fine. ”

Only then did the villagers know that the man they were talking to just now was a prince, and they all quickly knelt down, "Meet Prince Zhao!"

Ming Zhao smiled and asked everyone to get up, "I'm here to help everyone deal with the locust plague, don't be afraid, get up quickly!"

The people thought that the imperial court had actually sent a prince down to help deal with the locust plague, and their hearts were a little more stable and less flustered.

"Dai-sama, please come over for a moment!"

Lord Dai hurriedly came to Feng Shanyue's side, "What do you have to say to Miss Feng?"

"Now that the situation has changed, if we continue to catch only the locusts that have grown as before, the disaster may continue to recur, and we must eradicate the locusts once and for all. ”

"What to do?" Miss Feng just commanded. ”

"First, immediately notify that in addition to the previous adult, the government will also buy this larvae, and the price is higher. A bag of larvae can be exchanged for two liters of sorghum, so please do your best to catch them. Second, the fields that have been determined to have been eaten should immediately start ploughing the ground, turning out all the eggs. Before ploughing the ground, notify the government, and we will send people to send chickens and ducks to peck at these eggs. If people have chickens and ducks at home, they should also try to put them in the ground to help peck. Those who could not finish pecking were collected by manpower and burned to death. ”

"Yes, it's just that there are so many chickens and ducks in the government?"

Ming Zhao smiled, "Lord Dai, you forgot, there are many chickens and ducks in Miss Feng's farm!"

"That's right, why didn't the lower official think of it?" Lord Dai patted his head, and immediately took the soldiers back to the city, ready to inform them.

Feng Shanyue carefully explained what the villagers of Donggang Village did before returning to the city with Ming Zhao.

"Senior sister, how do you know so much about locusts?"

Feng Shanyue smiled, "I'm just observing and speculating. In fact, she used the phoenix pattern bronze mirror to find information, but this can't be told to Ming Zhao.

"Senior sister is really smart, I've been here in Yudi for so long, and I haven't understood what the locusts are all about. I didn't expect that as soon as my junior sister came, she figured it out. ”

"Senior brother has won the award, and I am also blind. Actually, I still have a question that I haven't figured out. ”

"What's the problem?"

"The only way I asked Daisama to inform me just now is to destroy the existing locusts and eggs, but not all locust eggs are laid in the fields, and those dirt slopes may also have them. Besides, after the field is turned over today, the eggs have been destroyed, and there is no guarantee that the locusts will not lay their eggs tomorrow. ”

When Ming Zhao heard this, his relaxed expression also faded, "You're right, it seems that this locust plague will continue for a while." However, I believe that according to your method, there will be fewer and fewer locusts. ”

Feng Shanyue nodded, "It would be nice if there was a way to get those locusts to lay eggs in the same place." ”

Ming Zhao was about to ask what to do, but he saw a person standing at the gate of the city, looking at this side with an excited face.

"Zichang, why is he here?"

"Who is Zichang?"

"My father's third son, my third brother. ”