"In the end, I don't know who called the village chief to come over, and the village chief scolded them and told them to go back." The second fat continued to speak.

"But I heard that the whole family was smashed that week, the doors, windows and walls all collapsed, and even the hen that laid eggs at home didn't know who trampled to death, and the eggs in the house were also taken away."

"......" Bai Jinli.

If those people dare to go to her house like this, let alone her, her mother alone can spray those people to death.

Thoughtful family, no.

"Who are the people who went to look for trouble, the names are recorded, and we will not look for them in anything we will do in the future."

These people are too uncertain, and they are also easy to be driven by a little fanning the flames, and they can't think rationally, so it's better that they don't intersect.

"Got it, Boss."

"By the way, how is the situation in the rice family?" Bai Jinli thought of the little cherry and couldn't help but ask.

"I told the rice to let his family harvest the wheat early, and he also told his father and mother, but his father and mother didn't take it seriously. However, the rice secretly harvested a batch of wheat, which is estimated to be enough to eat for a while. ”

"Well, that's better than nothing. When you go to harvest the fruit, bring the rice with you. Bai Jinli opened her mouth to suggest.

"Well, boss, that's what I thought too." The second fat nodded and showed a smile.

The implication of his boss is already obvious, that is, let him help with more rice.

"Well, okay, then you go and get busy!"

In the afternoon, Old Man Bai went to the field to take a look, and all the crops in the paddy fields were gnawed, and there was basically nothing left.

The people in the village became more and more desperate, and one by one they carried baskets and took their children to the fields to collect ears of wheat.

After being swept away by the locusts, the crops were destroyed, but didn't they finally drive out the locusts? There must be a little leftover, right?

Anyway, I don't have anything to do now, go around the field, how much can I pick up?

Compared to others picking wheat ears in the field, Bai Jinli's family picks up ...... in the field Locust.

The locusts that have just fallen are large and large in large quantities, and naturally they need to be dealt with.

It's okay to just fall, pick it up and give it to the chicken, and it's time to add a meal.

If it takes a long time, the locusts will have to find a way to deal with it, dig a pit and bury it, and use it as nourishment.

Otherwise, who knows what kind of problems will arise from the dense locust corpses.

Bai Jinli once heard a saying, called the drought and locusts, and now the locusts have appeared, does it mean that this drought weather will continue?

It seems that the idea of digging a well in the old house that she was thinking about at that time had to be put on the agenda, and all the food she had to do needed water, and she couldn't find someone to fetch water every day, it was too troublesome.

Just do it, and when Bai Qi picked up a wave of locusts from the field and began to feed them to the chickens at home, the chickens really had some interest in those locusts.

Then I heard Bai Jinli say to him: "Second brother, do you know the person who drilled the well?" ”

"I don't know, what's wrong little sister?" Bai Tianqi couldn't understand how his little sister thought that one came out.

"I want to dig a well in the yard of the old house for a few days. If you don't know, I'll go to the county tomorrow and ask. ”

"Digging a well? Are you going to dig a well at home? Are you sure? Bai Tianqi looked at her strangely.

"Sure, sure! How, do you have an opinion? Bai Jinli raised her eyebrows.

"No, no, since you want to dig a well, let's do it! I'll go to the town and ask you later, I've heard that there are people in the town who can dig wells. Bai Tianqi hurriedly shook his head.

Old Man Bai and Mrs. Li have told him, and he must listen to what Bai Jinli said in the future, and he is not allowed to refute it, otherwise he will not eat.

And as soon as Xiaomei predicted the locust plague, the disaster really happened, who knows if Xiaomei dug the well and found something earth-shattering.

"That's okay, it's hard second brother."

Sure enough, after finishing speaking, Bai Baiqi drove his family's donkey cart to the town to inquire about digging wells, and when he came back in the evening, he told Bai Jinli that he had already negotiated.

The man who drilled the well had time the next day, when he drove a donkey cart to pick up the people, and the requirement of those people was to check the terrain to decide whether it was suitable for drilling a well.

If suitable, the group of four of them can start working immediately, but they have to take care of food and shelter for the next few days of digging wells.

If they don't, they'll have to be sent back to town before dark.

After hearing this, Bai Jinli felt that there was no problem with this, and nodded in agreement.

After the well digger came, Bai Jinli asked Bai Baiqi to take them to the old mansion together.

Those people looked really professional, analyzed the place and feng shui, asked about the general situation, and then circled a place in the backyard, saying that they could try it.

In this way, the matter of drilling wells has been successfully opened.

After Bai Jinli caught a sack of locusts and tried to fry them once, the family was very resistant at the beginning, and in the end they felt that the taste was not bad, and they were not as good as crayfish, and they all regretted that they didn't catch a few more sacks when the locusts attacked.

I heard that the family who bought Wang Tiezhu's land went to his house yesterday to look for trouble and scolded him.

At the beginning, Wang Tiezhu was obviously thinking about them, so he started harvesting wheat in advance, so that their family was different from those in the village, and they had food reserves.

But even so, they were not grateful, but said that Wang Tiezhu deliberately made it bad.

I had already learned from the Bai family that such a thing would happen, and I deliberately sold the land to them, just to cheat them out of their money and let the land fall into their hands.

Wang Tiezhu explained for a long time, but the family didn't listen, and the tone of scolding him and the Bai family was even more fierce.

Then, they were scolded back by Tu.

At the beginning, because life was really unbearable, they had to make that decision.

The land was originally sold cheaply, and those people were obviously rushing to pick up the cheap.

Now that I see that there is a locust plague, I have no harvest, and I regret it, and I feel that I have spent unjustly money, and I feel uncomfortable, so I come to make trouble.

Fortunately, Tu Shi is not soft-hearted, and he sent them away in a few words.

The family was still unwilling, so they asked Wang Tiezhu to pay the previous price and buy their land back.

Tu Shi sneered when she heard this, and she said, "Okay, you want us to buy the land back at the previous price, no problem, but all the wheat we cut in the field will be sent back to us." ”

At that time, the wheat that Wang Tiezhu cut was cut from the land sold by their family, and there was at least one and a half acres, which could be eaten for a long time as rations.

The family was naturally unwilling, but they had more confidence than the rest of the village, and it was impossible to give it away.

And so the matter came to a standstill.

After the well drilling began, Bai Jinli pulled Old Man Bai and Bai Qi over to help her keep an eye on the process, and she went to the county seat.

When I arrived in the county seat, I really heard more news.

This locust plague destroyed not only their stone village, but also the surrounding two provinces and thirteen counties.

A large number of crops were lost, and there was a cry of pain.

And their Qinglin county did not rank among the hardest-hit counties.

I heard that the people of Sanhuang Village started harvesting wheat a few days earlier, and they suffered the least losses of all the villages.

Unless there are two other villages, where the wheat ripens a little earlier than in other places, some of them barely harvest some wheat at home.

Rao is so, for these people, the future is still not easy.

The local government officials have reported the matter to the imperial court, and as for the reaction of the imperial court, so far, there is no news.

Because of what happened, even the people in the county seemed to be a little less.

However, Bai Jinli was still a little happy, and the fact that there was such a situation in Sanhuang Village meant that the letter she wrote to her uncle's family had been received.

Not only did they receive it, but they also listened to her advice and prepared in advance, which was good.

And after the locust plague happened, people paid less attention to the bandits who had not been able to catch the news for a long time.

Even the lost child has not been heard from yet.

Even a lot of people have forgotten about it.

After Bai Jinli arrived at Zhong Ling's embroidery workshop, she handed over the pork jerky she brought to Zhong Ling's wife, and by the way, there were snowflake peanuts that she had recently made.

"Sister Jinli, it's really your best, I talk about you every day, and now I can see you at the door."

Mrs. Zhong Ling enthusiastically pulled her over and sat down, poured tea and picked up a piece of pork jerky and began to eat.

"Well, it's delicious, it's the taste I miss."

"If you like it, you can eat more, and it's not too much of a problem to do anyway." Bai Jinli took a sip of tea from the teacup.

"By the way, I've been talking about locust plagues lately, how is your family's situation?" Thinking of this, Zhong Lingniang asked with concern.

"My family is fine, we have harvested all the wheat in the field before the locust plague, and the damage is not very large. By the way, there's one more thing for you to try. ”

As she spoke, Bai Jinli took out the fried locusts she had packed again.

"Really? You're in luck. I heard that this year's disaster is serious, and I am afraid that it will be a famine year, and I don't know how many people will starve to death. ”

Zhong Lingniang said and took the things handed by Bai Jinli, and after taking a look, she was suddenly startled.

"What is this? Insect...... Bugs? Can you eat it? ”

"This is the locust that eats the grain, also called grasshopper, which can be eaten naturally, high protein and low fat, in addition to the current snacks, it is nutritious and does not grow meat, and it can also relieve cough and asthma." Bai Jinli said.

"Really...... It's true? Zhong Lingniang pinched one and smelled it in her hand, the taste was indeed very fragrant.

But she looked at the thing, and she couldn't say anything.

was struggling, when she saw a hand suddenly appear in front of her, taking away the fried locust she was holding in her hand.