Although the Divine Dragon Battleship was very powerful, Su Ziheng did not dare to let it drive towards the middle of the locust swarm, but chose to raise a few positions so that the locusts could not fly to the current height of the battleship. This makes it harder to find the bug.

Pandora said, "You haven't gone deep into the locust swarm now, so naturally it's hard to find it. And that bug is very cunning, if you rush in with a dragon battleship like this, it is easy to startle the snake. The group of ignorant people below didn't recognize this as a starship, but that didn't mean the bug didn't recognize it either. ”

"How's that good?"

Pandora pondered for a moment, "Why don't you turn up the flamethrower's power a few notches first, go all the way to the center of the locust swarm, and gamble on your luck." ”

Su Ziheng controlled the Shenlong battleship and looked back, and found that he could no longer see Ma Lao Liu's figures, thinking that he had swept all the way over just now and landed locusts all over the ground, it was estimated that it was enough for Ma Lao Liu and them to pretend for a while.

He agreed to Pandora's suggestion, and made the flamethrower several notches more powerful than it could destroy locusts without burning them to ashes.

Su Ziheng also thought that after screening this batch of burned locusts, he might be able to select a batch of edible locusts.

He can't afford to be so economical, but there are too few meats and high-protein, nutritious foods in this era. If you want to train a group of qualified guards, the physical requirements are very high, and if you can't supplement the nutrition, it is easy to train the body down.

In addition, locusts are such a good thing, even if people can't eat it, they can feed poultry and feed livestock after grinding it into powder, which can make them grow quickly, which is a rare good thing.

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The people of this era seem to lack the means to deal effectively with locusts.

When Su Ziheng drove the Shenlong battleship through the locust swarm, he saw many people fleeing underground, but not many people really stopped to fight and exterminate the locusts.

The terrible thing about locusts is that they can fly, usually in swarms from one place to another, so that the people always think that they have nothing to do with them, but to watch them eat up the crops.

If you burn the locust wings like Su Ziheng, it is still very simple to deal with them. Therefore, if the government organization is in place and arranges for the common people to light fires in the fields, it will still be able to destroy a lot of locusts.

Even if the locusts cannot be burned to death, the locust swarm can be isolated in this way, and then they can be exterminated by sending people to drive them away, pounce on them, dig ditches and bury them.

It's just a pity that in this era, people not only did not dare to drive away locusts, but regarded them as divine insects. Every time the locust plague appeared, they would only burn incense and worship them, and even thought that the emperor had done something wrong, and the disaster that came down from heaven required the emperor to issue an edict.

In the face of such a situation, Su Ziheng couldn't do anything, even if he drove the Shenlong battleship and wiped out all the way, he could only ensure that there would be no locusts on the road in the direction of Sujiazhuang, and as for other places, he couldn't care so much.

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Zhao Sancai and 20 other family members rushed along the mountain road in a bamboo cage containing locusts, and it was nearly ten miles from the foot of Jiufu Mountain, where the locusts were captured, to Sujiazhuang.

On the way here, Zhao Sancai had already calculated, it took about more than two quarters of an hour, so half an hour was enough for a round trip. It seems that we can catch a lot of locusts today.

In the Su family manor, near the cement pit, more than a dozen stoves were set up in the open air.

More than a dozen cauldrons were set up on top of the stove, firewood was burning below, and the iron pot was steaming hot. From time to time, servants poured boiling hot water into the pit on the side, and soon the hot water in the pit was no longer than normal.

Zhang Wanqing was busy directing on the side, "Everyone should be careful, pay attention to safety when pouring hot water, don't fall into the pit, otherwise you will be scalded to death." Also, be careful not to let small children approach, it is too dangerous here. ”

Zhang Wanru pouted, "Sister, you're too careful." A half-man-high fence is built around this pit, who would be so stupid to fall down. Also, do you really believe Su Zhe's words, can you catch so many locusts back? If you can't catch so much, won't it be a waste to boil so much hot water? ”

Zhang Wan cleared the scattered hair on her sideburns, and smiled softly at her sister who had just met: "Xiaoru, you haven't been in contact with Uncle He, and it's normal that you don't know his ability." ”

After a pause, she seemed to be caught in a memory, and her face exuded a touch of imperceptible tenderness, "Uncle, he is the youngest talent in Xining Mansion, and he is the youngest one to be admitted to Xiucai in the past ten years. There's never a time when he can't do what he says. ”

Thinking of the great changes that have taken place in her family in the past month, Zhang Wanqing seems to be still living in a dream. In the past, the uncle was just good at reading, but now he first earned a few hundred taels of silver by selling words, and later he was engaged to the eldest lady of Zhao's firm, Zhao Wan'er, who is famous in the entire Xining Mansion.

Then he got acquainted with many people with great backgrounds, and now he has his own manor, and he also redeemed the White Deer Academy that he pawned out, reopened it, and finally helped him find his long-lost cousin.

These things are remarkable on their own. Who knew that he would do it all in a month. How does this not make her have confidence in Su Ziheng?

Zhang Wanru looked at her sister's face exuding admiration for Su Zhe, as well as the tenderness revealed in her words, she couldn't help but feel suspicious in her heart. She also slept with this sister last night, and the two chatted late and learned a lot about her.

Although her sister has been married for three years, she has not been with her father-in-law for more than three days, and they have never even had sex together. If you really want to talk about it, the relationship between her sister and her little brother-in-law is much deeper than that of her husband.

At that moment, Zhang Wanru had a bold idea in her heart......

It's just that when she was about to ask, she heard the sound of a carriage outside, and a strong domestic servant jumped down from the carriage, stepped forward and saluted Zhang Wanqing: "Big lady, the first batch of locusts has arrived, and many more will be sent later." ”

Zhang Wanqing nodded and smiled: "Fortunately, Sancai, a few of you will pour all the locusts in the cage into the pit, and we will deal with the rest." ”

Soon, Zhao Sancai and more than 20 other people poured dozens of locusts in cages into the boiling water pit, and then took the bamboo cages and replaced them with a new batch of horses pulling carts, and continued to rush to the foot of Jiufu Mountain.

Unable to fly without wings, the locusts fell into a puddle of boiling water and were quickly scalded to death.

Zhang Wanqing instructed people to scoop up the scalded locusts with bamboo fences, remove their wings and feet, wash them, and leave them for Su Ziheng to come back to deal with.