When the Wu family harvested the wheat, it was the time when these flying locusts, which were now raging in the sky, came out of the soil, but they had not yet been able to grow wings.

The locusts at this time were called nymphs in later generations.

In the nymph period, the locusts have not yet grown wings, so naturally they cannot fly in groups to cause harm everywhere, and the locusts at this time do not have the terrible food consumption and the habit of eating everything they see, and it is relatively easy to destroy.

Mo Shu had the poultry released, just in time to eat the potential nymph that would soon become part of the locust plague.

In later generations, there were people who did a practical job, only 2,000 ducks, in less than a day to eat up the locusts in 400 acres of paddy fields, and the ability of chickens is even better.

Even if the Wu family's field is not a paddy field but a dry land, and there are relatively more locusts in the dry land, and there is a locust plague this year, there are naturally more locusts in this field, but Mo Shu put more than a few thousand poultry in the field to eat insects.

In Yuhu County alone, there are almost 10,000 chickens, ducks and geese, not including the free-range farmers and villagers next to them.

The number of insects eaten by these poultry is naturally huge.

And at that time, after these poultry finished eating the insects in the Wu family's field, Mo Shu saw that there were also insects in the field next to her, so she put the relatively honest ducks and geese over to help other people's fields eat insects.

These ducks and geese are eaten by insects, but they are very obedient and do not waste food, but only eat locusts.

Mo Shu saw that this thing worked, not only next to the villa, but also next to the Wu family's fields and Lingbei in Zhongzhou began to follow suit, what she said at that time was that she could save feed.

Some farmers are not very happy, afraid that the poultry will eat their own grain, and they are unwilling to refuse when they see these poultry eating the insects in their fields in vain.

If it weren't for Mo Shu's thought that if these insects were not eliminated, it would be just a disaster to these unsuccessful farmers, and they would fly to the fields next to them, so she really wanted to keep this part of the field alone.

In the end, it was Moshu who asked the people on the farm to give these short-sighted farmers a few eggs, and as a benefit, these people happily agreed to let Moshu's poultry go to the field to catch insects.

There is no one who dares to bargain with the people of the Jin State Mansion so boldly.

A large number of locusts were eaten before they had grown wings, and the fields where these poultry had destroyed locusts naturally could not afford any locust plagues.

In the aftermath of locust plagues elsewhere, most of the farmers who had collected eggs from their farms went to the farms in shame.

Of course, there are a few cheeky ones, and there are also some words that the farm originally wanted to take advantage of her family, and eliminating the locust plague is just a crooked attack.

The people in the field next to her, hearing her crooked reasoning, couldn't help but say to her: "Even if there is no locust plague, other people's ducks and geese have eaten insects in your field, and there is no harm to the grain in the field, and the manure can also fertilize your own field. ”

After thinking about it, this man said again: "I estimate that the experienced people of the Wu family's Mo family have already seen some signs of locust plague at that time, after all, there are so many locusts in the field, it is because I am afraid that the insects in your field will come out and harm other people's crops, so I gave you a few eggs, you really treat other people's poultry as a few insects in your field?!" ”

When the people next to them heard this, they all felt that it was very reasonable, and they suddenly realized that they echoed it, admiring the benevolence of the Mo family and the Wu family, and at the same time disdainfully staying away from the peasant woman who collected eggs from the farm.

Just think about it, will nobles like the Wu family and Mo Shu save so much feed in order to let the poultry eat the insects in a small field, just look at the faces of these farmers? It must be because they want to exterminate locusts to avoid locust plagues.

Because of this, these farmers felt that they were being taken advantage of, and it was the Wu family and the Mo family who did not say anything else, but gave a few eggs to send people away.

If you change someone else, you have to think of such a good nobleman!

I heard that the Wu family and the Mo family have adopted poultry seedlings for people on weekdays and do not charge money, and they will hire people to work from time to time to pay wages and take care of food, who doesn't want to do this good thing, but these because other people's poultry go to the field to eat insects, and accept other people's eggs, don't think about the Wu family and the Mo family in the future!

Not to mention the light, the nobles of these two families did not trouble these farmers, they should all say that the Wu family and the Mo family are benevolent and righteous.

In today's world where you pay so much attention to the level of your family and your status, will the famous nobles look at you as a poor farmer? Now it must be because there is no time to pursue the locust plague.

Mo Shu didn't know what these farmers thought, and she really didn't have the leisure to pay attention to these little things, these days she just stayed in the villa, at most she went to the fields next to her to take a look, the locusts in these fields had already been eaten by the poultry, and she couldn't see the horror of the locust plague at all.

In the memory of the dream in his previous life, when the locust plague occurred, Mo Shu was also in the palace, but he only heard the palace maid talk about the panic of the locust plague, and the locusts that fell from time to time in the palace and then caught by the palace people, and he did not personally experience the tragic scene of thousands of miles of red land in the mouths of the people.

Thinking of such a scene, Mo Shu was still a little stunned.

Wu Ziheng didn't approve of Mo Shu going to Ludi to see this, she was too timid and wanted to have nightmares when she saw it.

Mo Shu sat a little absent-mindedly, playing with the forbidden step of her skirt in her hand, and she didn't even notice that Wu Ziheng was coming.

Seeing this, Wu Ziheng asked, "What is my cousin thinking?" ”

Mo Shu looked up in surprise and saw that it was Wu Ziheng, and said unhappily: "I didn't think about anything, cousin, you scared me again!" ”

Wu Ziheng didn't argue with Mo Shu about whether she deliberately scared her, sat down and poured a cup of tea, and then said slowly: "According to the visit and verification of the household department, it is preliminarily estimated that the poultry you raised in various places, cousin, has reduced the original ten percent of the disaster to forty percent. ”

Most of the damage has been alleviated!

This is a feat that the locust plague has never had, even if he has always been calm like Wu Ziheng, he couldn't help but raise his hand and flick Mo Shu's forehead, and his tone was appreciative: "Shu'er, you are so powerful!" ”

Mo Shu was also very happy, but when she saw Wu Ziheng like this, she couldn't help blushing slightly, and took Wu Ziheng's hand away and said with some annoyance:

"You can't talk well!"

"This time, my cousin still saved my Wu family's harvest in the drought and locust plague, what reward do you want?" Wu Ziheng asked with the corners of his lips slightly curved.

Mo Shu thought for a while before saying, "I found all my cousins directly for me, and I really couldn't think of anything else that could be used as a reward for a while." ”

Wu Ziheng said: "Since I can't think of it for a while, I will think about it slowly." When I came over, I saw the little girl in charge of the farm and the hatchery, what is her name......"

Mo Shu looked up and said, "Dani! She's waiting for me outside? ”

Wu Ziheng nodded: "It seems that I want to talk to you about driving poultry to the northeast of the locust plague, this idea is good." (To be continued.) )