Chapter 17: Killing Locusts

Simple happiness gradually changed with the changes of the times, when everyone else went to the city to make a living, Lin Fan's family could no longer survive in the small ravine, so the fields were deserted, the people were basically gone, only the old people and children were left in the village, and the young people rushed to the city, just to get out of this mountain one day.

After years of hard work, Lin Fan's family finally settled down in the big city and completely walked out of the mountains...... Now, as if going back in time, standing in the field, Lin Fan seems to see the scene of his hometown again, and the past is vivid, just like yesterday, just ...... There are no parents and brothers around......

"Dad, Mom, Big Brother, Second Brother, Sister, how are you doing?" Lin Fan thought about his family silently in his heart, slowly closed his eyes, and the appearance of his family appeared in his mind, showing the past time......

When I opened my eyes, my eyes were blurred with tears...... I once thought that I had been in Datang for so long and I could let go of the past, but now I have touched the scene and the past lingers.

The most unforgettable thing in life is love, since people can't forget love, then let love hide deep in the bottom of your heart, in this land that is both familiar and strange, slowly bloom new love, open up a new life, after all...... If you live, you have to live well, don't you?

"Brother, brother, what's wrong? Why are you crying? Xiaoxue waved her hand anxiously in front of Lin Fan, "Did the sand run into your eyes?" ”

Hearing Xiaoxue's call, his parents hurriedly put down the bowl in their hands and came to check, Lin Fan shook his head movingly, wiped his face and smiled, now this family is the closest person in this world, from them Lin Fan felt the family affection again...

Seeing Lin Fan smiling as before, Xiaoxue and her parents were relieved, her parents continued to eat noodles, and Xiaoxue silently followed behind Lin Fan, and the two wandered in the field like this, Lin Fan sometimes bent down to see how the rice was growing, and sometimes broke off a piece of grass and put it in his mouth to play.

His eyes fell on a piece of rice, squatted down and looked at it carefully for a while, tore off a young leaf from the rice, folded it and pinched it slightly, and a stream of green juice overflowed from the crack, which was flowing down from a small insect, and Xiaoxue could see this scene clearly.

"Brother, you just strangled a little creature." Xiaoxue held the tender leaves stained with insect juice that Lin Fan had dropped, showing the girl's unique love.

My day, this pest deserves your pity? Lin Fan was almost angry, and tore off another leaf crawling with small insects and asked Xiaoxue, "Who will you choose between this insect and rice?"

Xiaoxue looked at Lin Fan suspiciously, not understanding why he asked, but without thinking much, she pointed to the rice and said, "Of course it's rice, it can feed our stomachs." ”

"That's right." Lin Fan threw down the leaf, stood up and sighed softly: "It's just that your poor little worm will eat our rice, and when we grow up, we will only be hungry." ”

"So bad?!" Xiaoxue was shocked and furious, and stomped on the young leaves that were dropped by Lin Fan with her little feet, and it didn't take long for the ground to be covered with green juice, both the young leaves and the small insects.

Xiaoxue was still angry, and broke off the leaves with small insects crawling from the rice ears next to her, and threw them on the ground and stepped on them desperately...

After eating the snack, the father patted his full stomach and walked over leisurely, pointed to Xiao Xuehu, who was still stepping on it hard, and asked suspiciously, "Xiao Xue, what is she doing?" ”

Lin Fan said with a smile: "She is saving our rice." ”

Looking at his father's suspicious expression, Lin Fan took a few steps and broke off a young leaf from a rice plant, pointed to the small insect on the young leaf and said, "Xiaoxue killed this little insect." ”

"This little bug eats rice?" The father took the young leaves and looked left and right, he really couldn't understand what harm such a small insect would cause to the rice, and said with disdain: "Can such a small insect eat up all the rice?" Give it this young leaf and you will eat it for a lifetime. ”

"Don't underestimate this little thing, it will be the king of this field when it grows up... You may not know the name, it is a locust."

"Locusts?" Father's face changed suddenly, he is a native of the Tang Dynasty, extremely afraid of natural disasters, smell the locust color change, the harm of locusts to food has not happened in the previous dynasty, the past locust plague, the ancients can only let it go, if there is no food can only be hungry.

Lin Fan nodded and said: "If these locusts are not eliminated, there will definitely be a big locust plague in the near future, look at the number of these little insects now, they will definitely sweep the entire Guanzhong when they grow up, and the people will inevitably be hungry again." ”

"Locust plague, locust plague..." the father muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the rice paddies in front of him, not knowing what to say, and the smile on his face was gone, as gloomy as a dark cloud.

I can understand my father's feelings, the locust plague was a catastrophe for the ancients, unlike the various pesticides in later generations, when the locusts came, in addition to watching the grain being devoured by the locusts, I didn't know how to start.

"If certain measures are taken now, the locust plague may not happen."

"Do you have a way to stop the locust plague?" The father looked at Lin Fan excitedly, his expression was excited, his eyes were full of anticipation, the little locust in his hand had already been crushed by him, the green juice slid down from his fingertips, and Lin Fan was disgusted to see it for a while.

Lin Fan looked away from his father's hand, looked at the field and said: "There is a way, although this method cannot completely prevent the derivation of locusts, it can also reduce the harm, but it is not the best way... But it is difficult to implement this method in the entire pass, unless the emperor decrees it." ”

"It's going to be very difficult to implement it in the whole Guanzhong." Father buried his head in thought and asked, "Then it can save us in Anyangli, what kind of solution are you talking about?" ”

Lin Fan said: "There is no perfect solution at present, this method may destroy the rice to a certain extent, and the result will be the same as the locust plague, so let's wait, and wait until I come up with a perfect solution." ”

The father sighed a little sluggishly, his eyes fell on the young leaves that were crawling with locusts, and then threw them on the small snow that he stepped on the ground, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he went directly into the field without pulling his trouser legs, and his eyes searched for the rice keenly, and when he saw the young leaves crawling with locusts, he broke them off, and pinched his thumb and index finger, and the wriggling locusts instantly turned into a puddle of green juice.

After the father snorted and told the surrounding villagers that the small insects on the young leaves were locusts, the neighboring farmers told the people nearby the news, so that the people in Anyang knew the news, and their eyes searched the rice, and found that there were locusts in the young leaves, and they broke off and pinched hard, and they hated the pests that took their food, and they wanted to kill them all.

My father didn't break the young leaves anymore, and directly pinched the locusts to death on the young leaves, and the others followed suit, burying their heads in the fields to search for the most sinful locusts, Xiaoxue did not go to the ground, and she didn't dare to pinch it directly with her hands, but still stepped on it hard in the old way.

Looking at the crazy actions of these Tang people, Lin Fan felt for the first time how much damage the locust plague did to them, he didn't feel much when he heard about these natural disasters in the history books before, and now although he has not personally experienced the harm caused by the locust plague, he has seen the fear and helplessness of the ancients for the locust plague.

Although he knew that the method of pinching these young locusts with his own hands was very stupid and inefficient, Lin Fan didn't want to stop them, so let them vent the fear in their hearts.

He didn't expect that the eggs that Hai Dongqing ate not long ago were actually pests such as locusts, and he knew that this was the case, so he should have let Hai Dongqing eat it to his heart's content, although it could not achieve the effect of total extermination, but at least it would achieve some fatal effects in the bud.

Walking among the ridges, his eyes were all over the distance, Lin Fan seemed to see that the great locust plague in the Zhenguan period was slowly approaching, and as a modern person, he was only incapacitated・・・・・・