Out of Luoyang City, Liu Wei led Guan Qing, Liu Nu and dozens of dragoon guards, and ran non-stop towards the nearest village outside the city.

Before he arrived at the village, Liu Wei saw many villagers squatting on the ridge from a distance.

Due to the distance, he couldn't see the expressions on the faces of the villagers clearly, but from the figures squatting on the ridges one by one, Liu Wei could see that those figures invisibly revealed helplessness and sadness.

Seeing many villagers squatting on the ridge, Liu Wei clamped his legs towards the horse's belly and rode his horse towards the ridge.

When he arrived at the outer entrance of the ridge, he turned over and jumped off his horse, and walked quickly towards the villagers who were squatting on the ridge and helplessly looking at the crops in the field.

Guan Qing and Liu Nu refused to lag behind, and when Liu Wei walked towards the ridge, they also jumped off their horses and followed closely behind Liu Bian.

Dozens of dragoons dismounted and stood loosely at the intersection of the path and the ridge, each holding the hilt of their swords and looking around vigilantly.

The villagers who were squatting on the ridge were a little panicked when they saw a team of people coming on the road, and they saw the young man in Chinese clothes who led the team of people and horses getting off the horse, and they quickly stood up one by one, standing on the ridge, and looked at Liu Wei blankly.

"Folks!" When he reached a place only five or six steps away from the villagers, Liu Wei walked forward and asked the villagers, "How is the insect infestation?" ”

"Where did the nobles come from?" Most of the residents in the city have seen Liu Bian, and the villagers in the villages outside the city, except for those wounded soldiers and retired veterans who were wounded on the battlefield, do not recognize Liu Bian, and when they heard Liu Bian ask about the insect infestation, an old man separated the crowd and tried his best to open his eyes that were almost too old to open, and looked Liu Bian from head to toe, and asked Liu Bian.

"This is the King of Luoyang!" Without waiting for Liu Wei to answer, Guan Qing, who followed him in a general's attire, said to the villagers present: "Your Highness learned that the crops were infested, so I came to take a look!" ”

As soon as they heard that it was the king of Luoyang standing in front of them, all the people on the ridge were stunned. However, there was still a quick response, and after being stunned for a moment, he quickly knelt on the ground, and kept shouting: "Xiaomin to meet the king of Luoyang!" ”

Some people took the lead in kneeling, and the others immediately came back to their senses, and they also knelt on the ground one after another, calling "King Luoyang" in their mouths, and some people even couldn't cry when they called King Luoyang.

"Folks, please get up!" Striding in front of the villagers, picking up the old man who had just opened his mouth to ask him, Liu Wei said to everyone: "I hope that the villagers will inform the king of the specific situation, and the king can also prepare to cure the pest!" ”

The old man was helped up, and the others also stood up.

The old man who was supported by Liu Wei raised his face, stared at Liu Wei with a pair of eyes that were already old and chaotic, tears flashed in his eyes, and asked Liu Wei: "King Luoyang, can this insect pest still be saved?" ”

"Save!" Turning his head and glancing at the gnawed crop leaves in the field, Liu Wei nodded very resolutely, and said to the old man: "As long as you save it in time, you can still save it!" ”

"Folks! His Highness says the crops are saved! Liu Wei entered Luoyang, the villagers lived a day like a day, and Liu Wei was already convinced like a god, and he heard him say that the crops were saved, the old man turned his head, and as soon as the words came out, he was already excited and tearful.

Hearing the old man's shout, the villagers present knelt down again, bowed down one by one, and cried to Liu Wei: "Please Your Highness save me and other small people!" ”

"Hurry up, please!" Supporting the old man who also wanted to kneel down again, Liu Wei raised his hand to the villagers kneeling on the ground, and said to the villagers: "This king, let's see what kind of insects are growing in the field!" ”

After the villagers got up, the old man led Liu Wei down the ridge, squatted in front of a green seedling, stretched out his hand to peel off the leaves of the green seedling, pointed to a handful of small black insects densely packed in the core of the leaf, and said to Liu Wei: "King, not long after the wheat was harvested, the crops were planted, and the sprouts were just drawn. ”

Leaning down and looking at the handful of black insects in the old man's fingers, Liu Wei furrowed his brows tightly, and muttered in his mouth: "How can there be brown planthoppers here?" ”

"Does the king recognize this worm?" Before Liu Wei's words were spoken, the old man turned his head to look at him with a stunned face, and said to him: "I have waited for Xiaomin to grow crops all my life, and I have never seen this kind of worm!" I don't want the king to recognize it! ”

"This insect should only appear in the late stage of rice growth." Furrowing his brows, looking at the insects in the core of the leaves, Liu Wei seemed to be saying to the old man, and also said to himself: "This insect appears now, it is really a little strange!" ”

"Uncle!" After muttering these words, Liu Wei turned his head to look at the old man and asked him, "Do you know if there is only one kind of insect in the field in the nearby village?" ”

"Exactly!" Hearing Liu Bian's question, the old man stood up and said to Liu Bian: "The nearby villages are full of this kind of worm, and I don't know where they came from. Originally, the crops were growing well, but it was as if they suddenly had a ...... overnight."

"This king will go to other villages to see!" Nodding at the old man, Liu Wei said to him: "Please tell the villagers, don't worry, there is a way to cure this worm!" ”

"King!" Liu Bian's words fell, and the old man knelt on the ground again with a "poof", turned his face up, and said to Liu Bian with tears on his face: "If it weren't for the king, we would have long since forgotten where the bones were buried, and now the king wants to heal the pests for the small people, and the small people have nothing to repay, so they can only farm and pay more food and grass for the army!" ”

"Hurry up, old man!" As soon as the old man knelt, the villagers on the ridge reflexively knelt down, Liu Wei hurriedly helped the old man up, and said to him and the other villagers on the side: "The villagers take care of the crops and sell more grain to the treasury as military food, which is to share the great worries of this king!" The king said goodbye first, take care, folks! ”

As he spoke, Liu Wei arched his hand towards the old man and the villagers present, turned around and went up to the ridge, and walked towards the side of the road with Guan Qing and Liu Nu.

When Liu Wei turned around, the old man and the villagers present knelt on the ground again, and one by one they knelt very low, kneeling to see Liu Wei who was gradually moving away.

"Your Highness is really interesting!" was about to get on the path, and Liu Nu, who was following behind Liu Wei, said with some heartlessness: "On weekdays, those generals and officials are all submissive when they see His Highness, and they seem to be very afraid of His Highness. These ordinary people, His Highness is very kind to them! ”

"If there are no people, how can you be noble?" Liu Wei, who had already walked on the path, did not reprimand her after hearing Liu Nu's words, let alone glared at her, but turned his head to her and smiled at her and said: "What the people want is actually very simple, as long as they can eat enough, dress warmly, have a place to live called home, they can rest when they are tired, they have saliva to drink when they are thirsty, and they can multiply, and they will know enough!" If we can't even satisfy them, how can we have the face to call ourselves noble? ”

Listening to Liu Bian's words, Liu Nu didn't have any feelings, Guan Qing on the side looked at Liu Bian, but there was a little more complexity in his eyes.

She thought that if when she was a child, the officials in her hometown could be like Liu Wei, who had not lost their humanity for the sake of accumulating money and forced the already poor people to a dead end, how could she and Guan Hai's parents be starved to death? How could the Zhang Jiao brothers take the opportunity to launch the Yellow Turban Rebellion?

Thinking of this, Guan Qing couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart, but after thinking about it, if these things didn't happen, Liu Wei was afraid that he was being his emperor at this time, and she was just an ordinary peasant girl, and it was impossible for the two to cross path.

Thinking about it like this, Guan Qing actually felt some calmness and happiness in his heart.

got on the war horse, Liu Wei led the people, and ran non-stop to several villages, and everywhere he went, he saw this kind of brown planthopper.

If the insect pest is not cured, when it comes to the autumn harvest, there will be no harvest.

In Luoyang City, there is not a lot of grain in stock, because Liu Wei is still shallow as the king of Luoyang, and the army is endless, the consumption of military food is very huge, and the granaries are mostly empty, once the year is not good, I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain the consumption of the huge population and the army.

Pest control is urgent!

ran through several villages, and it was not until the sun set in the west that Liu Wei led everyone to gallop in the direction of Luoyang City.

Following Liu Wei and galloping on his horse, Liu Nu pouted with a look of displeasure.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Liu Nu had an unhappy face, Guan Qing, who was riding with her, turned his head and asked her, "Who bullied our secondary?" It would make Juji so unhappy! ”

"Not Your Highness yet!" Muttered forward, looking at the back of Liu Bian's galloping horse, Liu Nu said to Guan Qing very unhappily: "I thought it was fun to go out of the city, but I didn't want to watch insects for a day!" ”

"Your Highness is out of the city, but there is something important, and it is not out to play!" Smiling at Liu Nu, Guan Qing said to her: "When His Royal Highness takes care of the current matter, I will accompany Ju Ci out of the city to play, how about it?" ”

"Good!" As soon as Guan Qing said this, Liu Nu's mood was a little better, he nodded heavily, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, followed Liu Wei, and rode the horse towards Luoyang City.

Back at the Luoyang Palace, as soon as Liu Wei jumped off his horse, he dropped a sentence to the soldiers guarding the gate: "Send someone to invite Mr. Hua Tuo!" Let's just say that this king has something urgent and needs his help! ”

"No!" The soldier answered, and watched Liu Wei, who led Guan Qing, Liu Nu and a group of dragoons to the back garden. It wasn't until Liu Wei walked away that he turned his head and said to the soldiers on the side: "I'm sorry for you to take care of it, I'll go and invite Mr. Hua Tuo!" ”

Several soldiers on the side responded, and the soldiers went out of the mansion and ran towards Hua Tuo's residence.

Following Liu Bian, as soon as he walked into the back garden, Guan Qing walked forward along the bluestone pavement and asked Liu Bian: "Your Highness, although Mr. Hua Tuo is a famous doctor, he is a doctor after all. If you want him to heal the pests, I'm afraid ......"

"I'm afraid it's not human, right?" While walking forward, Liu Wei turned his head and smiled at Guan Qing, and said to Guan Qing: "Insect pests are born because of insects. We don't need to heal the seedlings, we just need to get rid of the worms. A doctor can heal people, but killing people is even more invisible. If Mr. Hua Tuo can make a murderous poison and use it on that bug, how can the worm not die? ”