According to his recollection, he was playing not far from his home when he suddenly felt dizzy in front of his eyes, and he couldn't remember anything after that.

Dr. Li said, "This kid must have encountered a kidnapper!"

Chu Xinyun didn't squeak, she learned from Xiao Shu at noon that she was kidnapped this time by the shopkeeper Chen of Dexing Building, and he was also inexplicably in a hurry to try his luck when he got the book, but he didn't expect her to be really there.

If Chu Xinyun offended Dexing Building because he helped Yunjian Restaurant, then why was Xiao Awen kidnapped?

And without the knowledge of both parents.....

"I have already informed Arwen's father, although this child is a little naughty on weekdays, but the person is still good, this time I can get it back thanks to the little lady, I mention Awen's father and mother thank you."

Chu Xinyun hurriedly waved his hand to indicate that it was not a big deal, and after a while, Ah Wen's father and mother came, and after seeing Chu Xinyun, he even called the living Bodhisattva, and said that she was destined for Ah Wen, otherwise how could she save him again and again.

Even knelt down directly to thank her, Chu Xinyun had a headache for a while, so he could only help them up and tell them that they must take good care of the child, and don't let him run around.

The husband and wife thanked Dade and left with Arwen.

Chu Xinyun sighed for a while, this couple is really a bit of a tribulation and difficulty!

Maybe it was the big waves ahead, and the next few months were very smooth, the hot summer gradually passed, and with the maturity of various crops, Chu Xinyun's contracted sweet potatoes and peppers ushered in a bumper harvest!

And the rice that has been re-seeded by her grows very well, and the golden ones are very dazzling, but the fields that have been sprinkled with rice seeds at will are sparse and sparse, and they look like malnutrition.

Aunt Wang came to thank her for this, and sent a lot of things, Chu Xinyun was embarrassed to give back some kimchi, and the relationship between you and me has become closer.

On this day, Chu Xinyun was discussing with Xiao Shu at home whether to harvest sweet potatoes or chili peppers first, when he heard Aunt Wang running over with an anxious face, and said hurriedly: "Xiao Yun!" Oh no, something happened!"

Chu Xinyun hurriedly reassured: "Aunt Wang, speak slowly, what's wrong?"

"I don't know where a swarm of locusts flew from, and they are gnawing on crops in the field at the moment!! Hurry up and check it out!"

Chu Xinyun's heart sank when he heard this, and he immediately took Xiao Shu to the field.

Before I walked in, I saw that many people were working hard to drive away the locusts, everyone had a look of resentment on their faces, although the locusts were small but could not bear their large number, they were always infested by thousands, and they almost flew to eat wherever they went.

"Damn it!" Chu Xinyun never thought that there would be such a thing as locusts at this time, she heard Aunt Wang say that not only Chujia Village, but also other nearby villages were plagued by locusts.

The locusts appeared suddenly, and the first to suffer were the crops, especially the rice that was growing very well, and at the moment it was crawling with dense locusts, and the piercing gnawing sound made the villagers feel extremely painful.

"Let's go! Don't eat my crops!" Everyone was desperately trying to drive away with their objects, but with little effect, and the group of creatures was driven around and fell into other fields to continue grazing.

It took two hours for the group of fellows to leave satisfied, leaving behind a mess of farmland.

Chu Xinyun's sweet potatoes are all in the soil, and there is basically no loss except that the leaves are gnawed a little, and the chili peppers don't like to eat at all, except for the first few bites and then they don't move.

Among them, the most serious ones are the rice fields and vegetables, and a large number of rice fields that are in excellent condition have been gnawed to the ground, and many villagers have red eyes when they look at them.

Chu Xinyun chased the locusts all afternoon, and she was tired and sweating profusely at the moment, she wanted to discuss with the village chief how to hit the power to drive away the locusts, but when she arrived at the village chief's house, she was told that the village chief had entered the county seat, saying that the disaster situation in the continuous area was serious, and the county magistrate asked the village chief to go to the county seat to discuss how to rectify the locust plague.

Chu Xinyun agreed, thinking that this new county master was not bad, and he cared about people's livelihood.

In the evening, as the ox cart of the village chief Chu walked into the village, everyone gathered around, wanting to know how the county magistrate solved the locust plague problem for the first time.

Village Chief Chu frowned, his lips moved lightly as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he sighed: "Go back, I'll tell you tomorrow." ”

Some people couldn't help but be anxious: "Village chief, this locust doesn't know when it will come back, we can afford to wait, but the crops in the field can't afford to wait!"

"Yes, village chief, our family lives on those few acres, and today it is almost all wasted by sugar, what am I going to do!"

When Chu Xinyun heard the news of the village chief's return, he also came with him, wondering how the county magistrate would solve it.

But as soon as he got closer, he heard the helpless voice of the village chief Chu: "The county lord means that this time he has angered the locust god, and he needs to produce ten boys and girls from each village to make sacrifices to calm the wrath of the locust god..."

Chu Xinyun almost couldn't believe his ears, asking ten boys and girls to sacrifice?!

She slammed away the crowd and asked, "Grandpa the village chief, is this really what the county master said?"

When the village chief Chu saw that it was her, he said sadly: "Although this is not appropriate, after all, it was ordered by the county magistrate himself..."

"I think it's a fart!!" Chu Xinyun was so angry that he burst into foul language on the spot: "When is it now, you still believe this kind of nonsense?" What does it mean to anger the locust god, this is simply a natural disaster!"

The villagers looked at her in amazement, and the insulting words to the gods seemed to them to be bold and presumptuous.

Aunt Wang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyun, this girl is straightforward, don't mind!"

"Aunt Wang, let go of me! Asking for boys and girls to sacrifice is a cult at all! That's ten living lives!" Chu Xinyun shouted anxiously.

But there are still many families who do not have children.

Village Chief Chu said helplessly: "Xiao Yun, this is all ordered by the county magistrate, if there are no children in the family, you can replace it with ten taels of silver, but where does our village get so much silver!"

Chu Xinyun instantly calmed down when he heard this, there is definitely something wrong with this county master!

Ten taels of silver for a child, ten children for a hundred taels, this is completely naked blackmail!

What's more, if you pay the money, will the locust plague disappear? I'm afraid that it will not disappear but will be more serious, and the village that has produced this money will not be able to survive because of the debt and the destruction of crops!

I originally thought that this county magistrate was a good and honest official, but I didn't expect that it was not as good as the previous Qian County Order, which was completely the rhythm of running away with a sum of money!

Chu Xinyun looked at Village Chief Chu and asked word by word, "Village Chief, do you think this child's sacrifice is really useful?" Which child is not the treasure of the parents, and now there are more than ten, what if this child sacrifices to the locust plague and is not solved at all?!"

Although the people of this era are ignorant, they are very humane, there is no silver to earn, crops can be replanted, houses can be rebuilt if there is no more, but if the child is gone, it is equivalent to having no roots!

The village chief was choked up by the question, and on the way back he thought a lot, and his first thought about this order was to oppose it, and he had lived for so long, and he had never seen any miracles happen, and he had long since paid less attention to the affairs of the gods.

But he was not the only one who went this time, there were also the village chiefs of the other seven or eight villages, and some of them were much more seriously affected than Chujia Village, and they were almost wiped out.

After hearing this idea, even if they want to go back to prepare, if they are indifferent, in exchange for the disgust of everyone and the county lord, how should Chujia Village gain a foothold in this place at that time?

If you don't have any money, you can only use your children to make up the money.

Seeing that he was stunned, Chu Xinyun knew that if this matter was not handled well, the lives of the ten children would be buried here.

As soon as she tried to open her mouth to persuade her, she heard a familiar voice from the side.

"I see that the source of the locust plague is you stinky girl!"

Chu Xinyun turned around, and saw the arrogant Liu Shi walking over, staring at her viciously: "This insect plague is strange, we have never suffered any disasters here in the past few years, but this year, it is you who hyped up what new farming method attracted locusts!"

I haven't seen Liu for a long time, Chu Xinyun can't recognize her for a while, she is like two people compared to before.

Liu couldn't stand her scrutinizing gaze, and shouted, "Look at what!" Uncultured stuff!"

She has been washing clothes in the town's laundry for a while lately, washing clothes day and night, and can only get a meager salary, which has made her whole person old by several years.

On the contrary, looking at this stinky girl, she is no longer as dark and thin as before, her skin is white and delicate, her facial features have grown a lot, and she doesn't look like a peasant woman in clean clothes at all, but she looks like a young lady in the city.

Chu Xinyun sneered: "I'm looking at you with a bright future, why are you uneducated?"

The more Liu thought about it, the more angry he became, and pointed at her nose and scolded: "Village chief, look at her, this stinky girl must be the root of the locust plague, and when the time comes, you will burn her to death, and this locust plague will definitely be gone!"

The villagers looked at her like idiots, after what had happened before, the Liu family had almost no status in the village, and no one wanted to associate with them, as miserable as a single household.

Village Chief Chu glared at her: "You go back for me, it's not your turn to speak here!"

"Xiaoyun, let's go to my house to talk."

Chu Xinyun followed the village chief back, and the villagers also dispersed, leaving only the Liu family alone in the same place and gritting her teeth in anger.

After coming to the village chief's house, Chu Xinyun cut directly to the topic and asked, "Village chief, do you really want to use the children as sacrifices?"

Village Chief Chu sighed: "Xiao Yun, this matter is not something I said, this is an order from the county master, if we don't start it from him at that time, we can't do anything about it!"

"Village Chief, let's ignore the affairs of this county lord for now, if I tell you that I know some ways to deal with this locust, can I save these children?"

As soon as Village Chief Chu heard this, his expression changed, and he asked anxiously, "Can you really know how to treat this fly and insect like this?"

"Village chief, there is no earlier situation now, if it is not treated, what will happen to the village that the villagers have worked so hard to plant? Let's try slowly, there will always be a way, better than sitting here and waiting for the sacrifice of the child, okay?"

Village Chief Chu thought for a while, nodded and said: "You're right, we can't put our hopes on others, we still have to figure out our own way, if your method is really useful, then we don't have to sacrifice our children!"

Chu Xinyun saw that the village chief was now enlightened, and his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

In the afternoon, the village chief summoned the villagers to discuss the locust matter, and they all said that word of mouth is the fastest, and it is only a meal, and everyone in the village knows about the matter of offering the child, and many people come with sad faces, and their eyes flash with a look of worry that cannot be hidden.

Village Chief Chu said loudly: "I called everyone here today, just to discuss the method of remediating this locust, and everyone knows what the county master means, right?"