On the third day of the ninth month of autumn, although Xu Shu, who was in charge of the affairs of Guanzhong and Hanzhong, had already strictly ordered the officials under his command not to panic, and they must stick to their posts and handle official business. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But helplessly, many officials in Chang'an City were still so panicked that they had no intention of working because of the death of their lord Hua Fei.

Even many people who thought that Hua Fei had brought the army in time to save their lives that day also put down their work and came to Chang'an City with worries.

Everyone gathered around the Jingzhao Mansion, watching and praying worriedly and refusing to leave.

As for the unfortunate ones who swallowed one each, Tai Shici and Xu Chu, who were in the stomach of the 'angels', even after vomiting a lot, immediately asked the relatives at home to prepare for their funeral, and they were both bedridden.

It made the people of these two families cry and cry for it. Even Na Lufen cried so much that her eyes were swollen, but she didn't know who she was worried about or who she was hurting?

However, Hua Fei didn't know these things, at this time he was alone with the Buddha beads spinning rapidly, in the faint scent of sandalwood, his brain was exhausted, and he tried his best to think of a way to deal with the locust plague.

Time can't stop after all, it slowly moved from noon to night in everyone's panic, and from night to night approached the child time agreed between Hua Fei and God.

Almost every day, with the arrival of this final moment, all of them were nervous with their fists clenched and their teeth bitten, and they only felt that their fragile hearts were all "banging" and jumping straight as if they were about to jump out.

Even countless people knelt down to the sky, begging devoutly to let God not punish Hua Fei and not take away their good lord.

In fact, it's no wonder that they are worried about Hua Fei, who is dedicated to the people, because if Hua Fei dies, then they don't know what kind of situation their lives will face.

However, it turned out that they were just worried about it, because when the time came, nothing happened at all.

When Hua Fei sent out to the guards who accompanied him, "My lord, the time has passed...... Is it still there? In the anxious shouting, "haha" laughed and strode out, everyone exhaled one after another, and put down the heart hanging in the air.

Hua Fei, who strode out of the door, couldn't help but feel warm in his heart when he saw that so many people were worried about himself!

However, his emotion did not last long, because he knew that the locust plague would come at any time and be replaced by calm. So after he cleaned up his emotions a little, he said aloud to his subordinates.

"I'm okay to prove that the locust wasn't a godsend. But the plague of locusts is coming, and time is running out. I have just thought of a lot of ways to deal with the locust plague, and now I will discuss it together, so that everyone can go and destroy the locusts early tomorrow morning. ”

Xu Shu saw that Hua Fei was fine, so he ordered in a loud voice with a smile: "Come on, quickly go to the outside of the mansion and inform everyone, the lord has nothing to do, and the locust is not a messenger sent by God to punish us at all." ”

"Whoa!" When the guard heard the order, he ran towards the door. "Slow!" Hua Fei stretched out his hand to stop him, and asked loudly, "Everyone is outside the mansion?" ”

The guard clenched his fists and agreed: "Yes, my lord, after hearing about your locust eating, the villagers of Chang'an gathered outside the mansion one after another, refusing to leave no matter how much they persuaded them, and even many people were rushing towards Chang'an City from all directions. ”

"Since they are outside the mansion," Hua Fei was moved when he heard this! Nai waved his hand and said loudly to everyone, "In that case, I will personally go to the outside of the mansion to take a trip, so that everyone can see it for believing so as not to be suspicious." ”

With that, he led his subordinates to stride towards the outside of the mansion under the escort of the guards, and waved to the people who were so happy to see that he was okay that they wept with joy under the blazing and bright red firelight.

But after shouting to the people and explaining that he must go back immediately to discuss the method of organizing the extermination of locusts, he led everyone back to the house.

That night, when the people in the huge Chang'an City were cheering and celebrating, the Jingzhao Mansion was full of fire, and Hua Fei and his subordinates were discussing the plan to exterminate the locusts overnight.

As soon as the officials under Hua Fei's command stabilized their hearts and dispelled their worries, they immediately made suggestions to exterminate the locusts.

First of all, Xu Shu raised his sword and said to Hua Fei in a loud voice: "My lord, since the locusts are not the messengers of heaven, then if we want to destroy them, we need to know the depth of the enemy like a soldier, so that we can destroy them because of the enemy's plan." ”

"Not bad!" Fa Zheng, who waved lightly in the dust, also continued in a loud voice, "If you want to know the depth of locusts, you can let people catch a large number of locusts overnight and come to torture them. ”

As soon as Fa Zheng's voice fell, Bing Yuan, who was in the civil official column, was deeply ashamed to stand up to Hua Fei because he had blocked Hua Fei in every way during the day.

"My lord, I thought that if you wanted to destroy the locusts, you should first follow the hearts of the people. He was familiar with poetry and books, but because of ignorance, he hindered the actions of the lord, and thus almost missed the major event of exterminating the locusts. It was hoped that the locusts would be eaten in public early tomorrow morning to appease the hearts of the people. ”

Hua Fei listened to his words and saw that his face was full of shame, and he was about to say a few words to comfort him, but he saw that Ren An and Zhang Lu also rushed out of the queue in unison, and clenched their fists to themselves and said loudly.

"An has also been in danger of major events due to ignorance, and I am willing to eat locusts from the root to calm the hearts of the people, and hope that the lord will be fulfilled."

"Lu also acted like this, and now he is willing to eat locusts from the two of them, and I hope that the lord will forgive his sins!"

"Those who don't know are not guilty," Hua Fei waved generously when he saw that the three of them were ashamed, "This kind of thing is because it is related to the heavens, everyone is afraid of it, and it is not only the three of you who are afraid." ”

Saying that, he paused for a moment and turned the slightly cool Buddha beads, but continued: "The root is also very reasonable, if everyone can take the lead in eating locusts, it can indeed greatly calm the people's hearts." In this way, the general public can go all out to catch locusts without worries. ”

After a brief pause, he then ordered in a loud voice: "He Man listens to the order!" ”

"The last general!" He Man, who was nine feet long and had a face like a yaksha, shouted in response to this.

Hua Fei couldn't think of any way here because of his simple mind. Rather than wasting his time here with everyone, it would be better to send him to do something first.

Nai ordered in a loud voice: "Let you lead the subordinates of the headquarters to go outside the city to catch locusts with torches overnight, and ask one person to catch ten locusts and return to pay the order." ”

"The last general commands!" He Man picked up his stick and turned away amid the chanting.

Soon after, the bright red torches in Chang'an City lit up the entire night sky, and He Man led the army out of the city amid the shouting of people and horses. Hua Fei and the others discussed in detail in the mansion one by one the methods of catching locusts.

In the early morning of the fourth day of the ninth month of autumn, when He Man, who led here, was busy with his subordinates for a night and brought back a large number of locusts, the strange things in Chang'an City began. (To be continued.) )