Li Xiu's hometown in the history of the high incidence of various disasters, but he lived in a peaceful era, coupled with the improvement of productivity, so that all kinds of disasters were almost eliminated, so although he heard of various natural disasters and man-made disasters when he was a child, but rarely experienced, the only time closest to natural disasters, or a summer rainstorm, resulting in the level with the embankment, but in the end the flood still receded, as for the legendary locust plague, Li Xiu still knew the name from the book. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is precisely because of this that Li Xiu could not imagine the scene when the locust plague occurred, but in his mind, the so-called locust plague is nothing more than more locusts, and then gnaw away the vegetation on the ground, but what kind of scale does this "many" refer to, he did not have an exact concept in his heart, until he witnessed the scene when the locust plague came.

"Overwhelmed!" When Li Xiu saw the insect cloud flying in the sky in the distance, the only thing that came to mind was this word, and there was no word that could more accurately describe the scene when the locust plague flew over, and even he doubted whether the ancients just saw the scene of the locust plague coming, so he created the word "overwhelming", which is simply too vivid.

In fact, these locusts are not really hungry, they just need water in plants, so what they eat is quickly excreted after attracting water, which also allows them to continue to devour all the green they can see.

"Master, this is a bad thing, I'm afraid the crops in our fields will be gone!" As soon as the locust plague arrived, Yuechan immediately hurriedly ran over to find Li Xiudao, and her face was full of anxiety.

"It's okay, half of our fields are planted with sweet potatoes, although the locusts are powerful, but they can't eat what grows underground, although this year's harvest will definitely be greatly reduced, but it will not make the tenants hungry!" Li Xiu said in a deep voice at this time, in the face of this kind of natural disaster, the rent must not have to think about it, and he has done everything he should have done before, and now he can only wait and see what happens.

After Li Xiu finished speaking, he instructed Yuechan to organize the people in the family to drive out the locusts that flew to the house, and then he took a few guards to go out, but as soon as he got out of the gate, he was greeted by a group of locusts, and he was not afraid of people, so he flew directly to his body, as if he was going to eat people, and finally the guards took off their robes and walked forward while fighting the locusts.

Looking at the rain locusts falling around him like raindrops, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel an instinctive fear, no wonder the ancients regarded locusts as locust gods, because these locusts in front of them simply made people feel desperate, although they knew that they would eat all the crops, but people had nothing to do with them, even if they launched more manpower to eliminate locusts, but in the end they could still eliminate a few, it is estimated that they were also facing this huge sense of despair, so the people deified the locust plague, It is hoped that the power of the void can be used to curb the occurrence of locust plagues.

Locusts are almost everywhere along the way, the wheat fields on both sides of the road are no longer green, but a piece of gray insects, the long wheat seedlings disappear quickly under the gnawing of locusts, some tenants in the village come to the field, while watching their crops slowly disappear in distress, but they dare not make any moves, for fear of offending the locust god, and even many people kneel down and kowtow, hoping to move the locust god and let these locusts leave their fields.

In the past, Li Xiu might have felt that these tenants were too ignorant, but when he experienced this desperate locust plague himself, he could not regenerate such thoughts, but developed a deep sense of powerlessness, because in the face of this situation, he had already used all the means at his disposal, but he could not directly destroy these locusts.

When Li Xiu passed by the Li family's Zhuangzi, he saw that Liu Boss and other tenants of his own family were also standing at the intersection outside the Zhuangzi, looking at the locusts in the fields with sad faces, some women couldn't help crying, and even some ignorant children held the hands of adults tightly, and their eyes were full of fear when they looked at the locusts.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but step forward, and before he could speak, Boss Liu stepped forward quickly with a sad face and said, "Lord, our food ...... Food ......"

When it came to the end, Boss Liu couldn't help but whimper and couldn't say any more, although the entire Zhuangzi no longer relied on farming to eat, but for those of them who have dealt with the land for most of their lives, watching the crops they had worked so hard to plant were eaten, it was like their own children being taken away by wolves.

"Uncle Liu, don't be too sad, we don't plant much wheat this year, most of them are sweet potatoes, this thing grows in the ground, even if the vines on it are eaten, they can grow again in the future, so there will definitely be some harvest this year!" Li Xiu also opened his mouth to comfort at this time.

Li Zhuangzi is all his old tenants, so he was also biased before, let them plant seventy percent of the field with sweet potatoes, in fact, if he wants, he can plant sweet potatoes in the family's fields, but the sweet potato seedlings should be distributed to all parts of Guanzhong, and he has to plant one less in other places, and in the famine years, a sweet potato may save a life, so he has a part of the sweet potato seedlings at home.

"No wonder you let us plant so many sweet potatoes before, but even so, it is really distressing to see the crops in the field being eaten by these locusts!" When Boss Liu said the end, he couldn't help but pat his chest and exclaimed, Li Xiu is not a farmer, but he can also understand the mood of Boss Liu.

"Uncle Liu, these locusts have eaten our crops, it's really hateful, why don't we organize and eliminate these locusts, even if we can't stop the locust plague, we can reduce some of our losses, what do you think?" Li Xiu suddenly had an idea at this time, and immediately suggested to Boss Liu, of course, he also wanted to test the reaction of Boss Liu's people, and see if they had the courage to make a move against the so-called locust god?

"Absolutely not, the lord, you must not say that, otherwise let the locust god hear, in case his old man becomes angry, maybe there will be a bigger locust plague in the future, so we must not offend his old man!" When Boss Liu heard Li Xiu's words, he waved his hand in horror, and looked at the locusts around him cautiously as he spoke, as if these locusts could really understand their conversation.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that it is too difficult to change the concept of farmers like Boss Liu, but I don't know if Yang Nong and others from the Ministry of Agriculture will agree with his idea?