As soon as they heard the mention of the saintess who had been in the limelight in Northern Qi recently, the prime ministers of the Prime Minister's Pavilion stopped talking and turned their eyes to Xie Dongli.

In addition to Prime Minister Shen Dacheng, Emperor Yuan Hong listened to Xie Dongli the most.

If Xie Dongli said to invite the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi, Emperor Yuan Hong would definitely agree.

Everyone already tacitly believes that Xie Dongli is the next prime minister.

Xie Dongli lowered his eyes, hid the gleam that flashed at the bottom of his eyes, and pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled: "...... Saint? The Holy Maidens of Northern Qi are so powerful, how did they suffer from a great drought this year that has not been seen in a century? ”

“…… But it was the saint who begged for rain! Otherwise, such a big drought will cause a big mess of grain. Vice Minister Lu muttered, but after looking at Xie Dongli's face, he quickly swallowed the next words.

But the saint did not ask for much rain. As far as we know, most places in Northern Qi are still suffering from severe drought, and only a few places have been begged by the saint for a light rain. Also, their saintess has now gone to several states in Northern Qi that produce grain, and it is estimated that even if they can be invited, they will have more than enough heart but not enough power. Zhang Shaotian stood on Xie Dongli's side, and he also disagreed with the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi.

He's telling the truth.

The officials in Jiangnan also had no way to come up with this idea.

Now that the officials above don't want to be invited, he doesn't dare to speak anymore.

"Okay, even if we can't invite the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi, then what about our locust plague? Do you sit still? Tobe knocked on the table, his head growing in a hurry.

"How to exterminate locusts, what do you have to say?" Prime Minister Shen asked with a frown at this time. "It's better to have less of a saint's thing. The son is silent, and the strange power is confused, and the cloud respects the ghosts and gods and stays away. Let's not be the same as Northern Qi. Besides, this saint is the saint of Northern Qi, can she pray for the blessing of the Eastern Yuan Kingdom? ”

"Your Excellency is right!" Zhang Shaotian immediately seconded the proposal and said: "When I traveled abroad, I saw villagers catching locusts, and some of them beat gongs and drums in the morning to scare the locusts away. There are also those who dig ditches and bury locusts. There were also those who set fire to the beach, led the locusts to the ground, and then burned them to death. We can write these methods into notices and send them to the villagers as they see the opportunity. How is it? ”

Digging ditches and setting fires is definitely not possible in Jiangnan.

Locusts plague crops, digging ditches and setting fires, harming their own food. This is to splash the dirty water in the bathtub and splash the child out together. Pay for one's whistle.

But beating gongs and drums to scare away locusts sounds child's play.

Xie Dongli frowned and thought for a while, and said, "You can send out a notice first, and let the villagers prepare for it first." I'll go back and look through the book again to see if I can find a better way to get rid of the locusts. ”

Everyone agreed on the matter, discussed the division of labor, and acted separately.

Xie Dongli returned home and said to Yingsleeve: "I'm going out for a few days." You stay at home, don't worry. ”

Of course he refused. "Where are you going? What's wrong? ”

Xie Dongli hesitated for a long time and said, "There is a locust plague in Jiangnan. ”

"A plague of locusts?" Yingsleeve frowned, "Why?" Aren't locusts supposed to appear in a year of great drought? We have just passed the flood this year, where are the locusts from? ”

"I said the same thing, but the locust plague just appeared, and who knows why?" Xie Dongli rubbed his forehead, "The top priority is not to find the cause, but to exterminate the locusts." I remember seeing a kind of grass called 'locust grass' somewhere, and as soon as the locusts got on this grass, they would die the next day. Moreover, this kind of grass does not harm people and livestock crops, but can fertilize the fields, which is indeed a good thing. ”

"Locust grass?" Ying Sleeve thought for a moment, "I haven't heard of it, where did you hear about it?" ”

Xie Dongli was silent for a long time and shook his head, "I was reading a book in the Sheng family's Medicine King Valley, and I accidentally saw it. ”

Xie Dongli never forgot it, and he went to an unknown place, and he remembered more and more things.

"Have you seen it in the Sheng family's book? So where are you going to find it? Yingsleeve worriedly grabbed Xie Dongli's shirt, "I'll go with you, okay?" ”

Xie Dongli looked at Ying Sleeve, lowered his head and kissed her on the lips, "I'll go faster alone, Jiangnan is in a hurry, we can't delay." ”

The place Xie Dongli was going to was the medicine mountain near the capital of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

There is a mountain where the Sheng family used to grow herbs, which originally belonged to the Sheng family, but later the Sheng family lived in seclusion, and this mountain was gradually abandoned.

But there are still a lot of medicinal herbs on the mountain, but no one takes care of them, they are left to fend for themselves, and many of the precious medicinal herbs have died, leaving behind all the herbs that are natural selection and very strong themselves.

The villagers near Yaoshan often go up to the mountains to hunt and collect medicines, and when they are lucky, they can always pick some rare and rare herbs.

Locust grass is not a rare medicinal herb, but it has high requirements for the place where it is planted, and there is indeed a place suitable for growing on the medicine mountain on the outskirts of the capital of Northern Qi.

At the beginning, the Sheng family planted a locust grass here, although after so many years, there should still be a remnant there.

Xie Dongli only needed to get some locust grass to make a potion and spray it.

If Xie Dongli is the only one who goes, he can go back and forth in four or five days, but with his sleeves, it will take ten days to go back and forth at the earliest. The average person rides a fast horse, and it takes twenty days to go back and forth.

At this critical juncture, time is everything.

Ying Sleeve understood this truth, although she was not very happy, but she still agreed to Xie Dongli and let him go alone.

Xie Dongli left that night, he only packed a small bag, packed some dry food and water, and left Xie's house.

Yingsleeve sent him to the gate, and only after seeing his figure disappear into the vast night did he turn back to his yard.

After Xie Dongli left, Yingshou was a little unaccustomed to it, and he couldn't sleep at night.

She counted for a while where Xie Dongli had gone at this time, and for a while she thought about the locust grass on the medicine mountain on the outskirts of the capital of Northern Qi, and she didn't know if there was any more.

If not, wouldn't Xie Dongli run for nothing?

It's just a trip for him, but how can the locust plague in Jiangnan be solved?

If the locust plague in Jiangnan cannot be solved, Dongyuan will reduce its grain output by more than half this year.

When the time comes, the tragic scene of selling children and girls will appear again.

No. This scene must not be allowed to appear in the Eastern Yuan Kingdom.

Ying Sleeve clenched his fist and finally fell into a deep sleep.

Maybe she was too involved in the problem of this locust before going to bed, after falling asleep. She actually dreamed that the overwhelming locusts flew from the sky, landed on a field, and began to eat the green crops.

Yingsleeve heard the clatter of locusts chewing their crops, and her heart was so anxious that she raised her fist to drive away the locusts.

She ran towards the locust-covered field, shouting, "Where did you come from?!" How can there be a plague of locusts in a flooded place that has just passed?! ”

In the midst of her shouting, she noticed that the locusts began to retreat like water.

Ying sleeves were stunned. I couldn't help but take another step forward.

The locusts confronted her for a moment, then took a step back.

It was as if the locusts were afraid of her.

Yingsleeve's heart moved, and she couldn't help but run forward again. While running, I do a driving form.

Those locusts suddenly scattered in all directions, as if they had seen a natural predator!

In the swarm of locusts scattered in all directions, Yingsleeve saw some faint golden particles. It was like the little golden particles she had seen in the dragon's water-absorbing pillar of clouds. But there was no golden sparkle and dazzling when the dragon sucked the water.

The little golden particles here are actually dark golden, more rusty, and gold is just a very light color.

Those little golden particles seemed to be driving away the swarm of locusts.

But as soon as Yingsleeve ran in, the little golden particles hurriedly retreated.

He stepped back a little slower, and as soon as he was hit by Yingsleeve, he was immediately knocked away.

Ying Sleeve found out about this situation and was very happy, Xu knew that it was in a dream. She was very open, and deliberately ran around chasing those little golden particles. Wipe them out clean.

The swarms of locusts, without the guidance of the little golden particles, flew like headless flies for a while, then turned around and flew away to the north.

Yingsleeve giggled happily in her dream, and even put two fingers to her mouth and whistled.

The locusts are gone, leaving only a green field, with beautiful mountains and rivers and smoke curling from cooking, and shepherd boys riding on the backs of oxen and playing flutes happily walking by, and peasants carrying hoes and going home from work.

Everyone had a cheerful smile on their faces.

Yingsleeve greeted these people with a smile, because she knew that she was in a dream, and she didn't expect a response from them, so when a little girl with braided braids, white and clean arms, and chubby arms like lotus roots, hugged her legs, Yingsleeves was really startled.

She bent down, picked up the little girl, and asked, "Whose daughter are you?" Why did a person run out? ”

On closer inspection, the little girl looked like she was two or three years old, wearing only small pants and gowns, revealing white and chubby arms and legs, and two bare little chubby feet, not even wearing shoes.

The little girl didn't seem to speak, but just hugged her and smiled, looking contented, as if she had been reunited after a long absence.

Yingsleeve also felt funny, she patted the little girl's face, and asked again: "Whose daughter are you?" Shall I send you home? ”

The little girl put her arms around her neck, stared at her with a pair of big eyes, and then slowly leaned towards her head, and just as she was about to put on her sleeved face, suddenly a thunderbolt sounded in mid-air, and a female voice as sharp as a blade rebuked in the sky: "Come back!" ”

Ying Sleeve watched as the white and chubby little girl became yellow and thin, and then disappeared from her arms.

"Don't go!" Yingsleeve woke up from her dream and sat up from the bed at once.

When she opened her eyes, she found that it was still dark all around, and that she had only dreamed a dream.

This is thinking about the day and dreaming at night.

Yingsleeve rubbed his forehead, sighed, and couldn't sleep.

She pushed away the quilt and got out of bed, came to the bookcase, turned on the lamp, lifted the paintbrush, thought about the little girl she had seen in her dream, and slowly began to paint.

……

At the same moment, thousands of miles away in the territory of Northern Qi, Yun Zheng, who was sitting in the middle of the altar in the big house, shouted "Come back", and a mouthful of blood was picked out by her and sprayed on her wrist.

The purple glass remnants on her wrists finally quieted down, and she no longer tried to break away from her body.

Yun Zheng wiped his sweat with palpitations, and secretly said that it was dangerous.

Just now she was in a meditative state, using the power of the purple glass remnant to ask for rain, but she didn't expect that for a moment, the power of the purple glazed remnant actually broke through her control, and she didn't know where she ran to.

If she hadn't stopped meditating early and sealed the purple glass remnant with her heart's blood, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Holy Maiden, are you alright?" Xia Fan was protecting her outside the door, and when she heard the shouting of Yun Zheng inside the door, she hurriedly knocked on the door and asked.

Yun Zheng lay down tiredly and said, "I can't do it anymore, I have to rest for a while, and Ming'er will ask for rain again." ”

The amount of rain needed for this drought in Northern Qi was really beyond her expectations.

Xia Fan didn't respond, and let Yunzheng rest.

Yun Zheng slept all day, and when he woke up at night, he heard a commotion outside the door, so he hurriedly dressed and pushed the door and asked, "What is the noise?" ”

Xia Fan's face was very ugly, he turned around and said in a low voice: "Holy Maiden, locusts...... Locusts...... It's back again. ”

"Back?!" Yun Zheng's face darkened suddenly, and he raised his voice, "What do you mean?" How can the locusts come back?! ”

How can such nonsense be said? Isn't it questioning her ability to be a great witch!

"I don't know, but the four towns and eight counties have just reported that the locusts that were driven away by the Holy Maiden have flown back early this morning and are gnawing on the few crops and trees and turf left."

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The first more is delivered, asking for a monthly pass and a recommended ticket.

Today's gag is still at 6 p.m. O(∩_∩)O~。

Thank you for the peach blossom fan that was rewarded yesterday in the warm winter. Thank you for the firecrackers that you rewarded yesterday...... (To be continued.) )