"Mother, I'm fine, why haven't my father and eldest brother and second brother come back yet?"

Bai Jinli was dragged into the house by Mrs. Li and asked worriedly.

"I don't know, when they saw this, maybe they were running home, right?" Mrs. Li also glanced up at the dark and oppressive sky, and her tone was heavy.

"Mother, I'll go find my father!" Bai Jinli said and went to prepare the torch.

"Bai Meng, Bai Mo, Bai Jasmine, you three come here, hurry up and light the torches, let's go to the field to find someone."

"Girl, you're crazy! There are locusts outside, what if you run out and get eaten by locusts? How can you let your mother live? Mrs. Li pulled her and didn't let go, and her anxious tears were about to come out.

"Mother, believe me, locusts are afraid of fire, as long as I have torches, they dare not come close. If I don't take out the torches to my father, they'll be gnawed by locusts. ”

"Then you stay at home, and my mother will send it." Mrs. Li still disagreed.

"Mother, obedient, you wait for me at home, I promise you, I will absolutely protect myself, absolutely and absolutely let myself not lose a single hair, okay?"

As Bai Jinli was talking, she saw that Bai Meng and Bai Mo had already run out with torches, and as for Bai Jasmine, she didn't know where she had gone, and she couldn't see a figure anyway.

"Bring a few more torches, as well as the net and sack I made a few days ago, and let's go!"

Bai Jinli glanced into the room, her eyes were a little cold, but she didn't have time to say more.

"Mother, be obedient, you hide in the house and don't come out."

"Pear, I'll go too." Zhang quickly ran out to catch up with her.

"Sister-in-law, don't come with me, you call the second sister-in-law and Jasmine, hurry up and go to other people's houses in the village, and tell them to light torches to prevent locusts."

"Yes, okay." Hearing this, Zhang nodded and ran to knock on the door to spread the word.

"Bai Meng, Bai Mo, take a handkerchief and cover your face, let's go."

"Okay, sister-in-law, let's go." Bai Meng nodded and followed.

"Sister-in-law, I'm here too." Bai Mo also followed.

As the three of them ran, they saw many people in the village running back, and shouted to remind them: "Lighting torches can burn those locusts that come close." ”

"Hey, who are the three people who just ran over?"

"I look like the three children of the Bai family."

"What? The Bai family? It can't be Bai Jinli, right? ”

"Hey, it would have been nice to listen to Bai Jinli earlier!"

"Who's to say it's not, let's not talk about that, hurry home and find the torches."

"Yes, yes, burn these damn locusts."

"Yes, run."

Bai Jinli and the others kept running and running, and when they were running, they met the second fat in the crowd.

"Boss, why did you guys get out?"

"Second fat, give it, take the torch, you run to find your father first."

"Boss, I'm with you." The second fat didn't say anything, and followed her.

After Wang Tiezhu helped the Bai family harvest the wheat, he began to help with other work.

Anyway, he is idle, helping the people of the Bai family to work, and he can manage one meal every day, and before thinking about what to do next, he plans to do so for the time being.

Old Man Bai also knew about the situation of their family, so he didn't say anything, and welcomed him to come and help.

Anyway, it's nothing more than a bowl of rice, how simple.

Their family is now also a person who can eat white-flour steamed buns at once, and they often eat meat, and they don't care about an extra bowl and a pair of chopsticks.

So when the locust plague came, Wang Tiezhu was also working in their paddy fields with the Bai family.

"Old man, I'll run away with you." Wang Tiezhu looked at Old Man Bai's body and spoke.

"No, no, Tiezhu, you run, I'll carry my father." Bai Yi shook his head and quickly put Old Man Bai on his back.

"Big brother, when you are tired in a while, I will replace you." Bai Qi spoke on the side.

"Well, I still have the strength, run." Bai Yi nodded and said.

"Come, old man, put my clothes over my face, save bites." Wang Tiezhu saw that he couldn't help much, so he quickly took off his coat.

Summer is hot, so everyone only has one long-sleeved shirt on them, and the inside is a short one.

After he took off his coat like this, he immediately exposed his two arms.

"Tiezhu, you put on your clothes quickly, I'm fine." Old Man Bai refused to ask for it.

"It's okay, I'm rough and thick-skinned, I'm not afraid." Wang Tiezhu insisted on refusing to accept it, and put his clothes on the face of the old man Bai and covered him tightly.

"...... "Old man white!"

Wang Tiezhu didn't care about anything else, and kept waving a straw hat in his hand.

In fact, most of the locusts are busy devouring food in the fields at the moment, and only a very small part of them are keeping up.

The reason why people panic is because they are defenseless, too scared, and make subconscious moves.

"Sister-in-law, look, is that grandpa and my father?" The sharp-eyed Bai Mo suddenly pointed at a few people in front of him and spoke.

"Yes, it's them, let's go."

After the four of them approached, Bai Baiqi was the first to recognize them and cried out in surprise.

"Pear, Bai Mo, Bai Meng, Er Fat, why are you here?"

"Second brother, you don't have to run, give it, you hold the torch, those locusts won't dare to approach." Bai Jinli handed over a few torches.

After Bai Qi and Wang Tiezhu took it, they lit the torch and waved it around, and sure enough, their surroundings were quiet.

"Pear, why did you run out? Will your mother let you out? At the strong request of Old Man Bai, Bai Yi finally put him on the ground.

Old Man Bai was very shocked when he saw Bai Jinli running out.

The fact that this girl of his family could run out and give them torches at such a critical time is too mysterious, too incredible.

"Grandpa, my grandmother didn't let my sister-in-law come out, and my sister-in-law said that she was worried about you and my father, so she had to run out, and grandma couldn't stop her." The clever Shirameng spoke on the side.

"Pear, you...... You're really, hey, you've grown up! When Old Man Bai heard this, he was immediately moved to tears.

In the process of running, they also saw some people pushing the people around them indiscriminately because they were in a hurry to run.

You know, it's their family or people close to them who are running around.

Look at his daughter, who used to be so selfish, who even dug a sweet pole in the field to snatch it from him, and now came to him at the risk of danger.

How could this not move him?

"Dad, look at what you said, go back quickly, my mother is still worried about you at home." Bai Jinli looked at Old Man Bai's expression and didn't understand why he was in tears.

"What about you, won't you go back with us?"

"Big brother, you send our father back first, and then take the torch to find me in our wheat field." Bai Jinli finished speaking to Bai Baiyi, and then spoke to Bai Baiqi and Wang Tiezhu.

"Second brother, Uncle Tiezhu, second fat, let's go to the field now, how about it?"

"Pear, what are you going to do?" Bai Qi couldn't understand it.

"Yes, of course...... Exterminate the locusts! A hint of coldness flashed in Bai Jinli's eyes.

"Boss, I'll go with you." The second fat nodded.

"Jinli, I'll go too." Wang Tiezhu put on his clothes again and nodded heavily.

"Sister-in-law, I'll go too."

"And me."

"Well, let's go."

The more the group walked into the field, the more locusts they saw, and the more frightened Bai Jinli became.

In the past, I saw a poem describing the attack of locusts, which called the flying locusts covering the sky and the sun without color, and the tears and blood in the wild fields.

At that time, she had never seen such a scene, but she felt that the description seemed to make people feel heavy.

Now when she saw these with her own eyes and was in this kind of scene, her heart was even heavier.

Looking into the field, the wheat that was still yellow was full of wriggling locusts, and from time to time broken branches fell from the wheat stalks.

When it fell into the air, the fat branches quickly thinned, and when they fell to the ground, only bare branches remained.

Rustle rustle......

The constant sound of locusts gnawing on crops in my ears makes people feel creepy.

"Bai Meng, Bai Mo, you have raised the torches, don't let the locusts get close." Bai Jinli reminded.

"We're fine, sister-in-law."

"Well, second brother, Uncle Tiezhu, second fat, you set fire to all the wheat stalks we threw here a few days ago, the locusts are afraid of fire and smoke." Bai Jinli said.

"Okay." After hearing this, the three of them began to act.

"Bai Mo, hold up the sack for me, Bai Meng, you help him hold the torch. Next look at mine! ”

After saying that, Bai Jinli lifted the large net she made and began to catch locusts in mid-air.

The net went down, and there were a lot of dense pockets, and she picked up the locusts in her pocket on the fire, and then all of them crashed into the sack.

Subsequently, there is a second net, and a third net......

The others watched her movements and didn't know what she wanted to do, but they didn't say much at this time, and they were busy with their own work.

While they were busy, the locusts in the fields were still devouring crops frantically.

There was a messy footstep in the distance, and Bai Jinli and the others turned around, only to find that it was the village chief who came over with many people from the village holding torches.

"Bai Jinli, do you know how to expel locusts?" Ji Ping walked up to her quickly and asked nervously.

"Well, you know, light a fire in every land, it's better if there is smoke, and then raise the torch, the more the better, the fire can burn all those locusts to death."

"Okay, did you hear that? Quick ignition, quick! ”

One by one, the people scrambled to run.

Soon, the flames were blazing, and the smoke was only rising into the air, and there were people holding torches and banging gongs, trying to drive all the crazy locusts away.