Chapter 184: Harvesting Grain
It has been more than 20 years since the Huang family lent money to their family last time.
Village Chief Zhang has taken the medicine for so long, and his body has slowly improved, but the broken leg is not as good as 100 kung fu.
"Auntie and Yiyun are here, come in and sit." Village Chief Zhang, who was sitting in the hall, saw that Huang Li and Huang Yiyun were from home, and Village Chief Zhang leaned on crutches and asked Huang Li to sit down.
"Uncle, sit down, you're welcome." After Huang Yiyun saw this, he hurriedly helped Village Chief Zhang to sit down.
"My aunt and eldest sister came to my house, is there something wrong?" After Village Chief Zhang saw Huang Li and Huang Yiyun's sad faces again, he asked in his heart.
"Uncle still remembers the presiding officer of Huayun Temple, there will be a drought this year, and the drought will be a locust? Now that the drought has been fulfilled, the crops planted in the paddy fields are about to die of drought after there is no more watering, and the locust plague is about to come. Huang Yiyun thought for a while.
"Auntie, what do you mean by that, eldest sister." When Village Chief Zhang heard Huang Yiyun's words, he asked Huang Li with a blank face.
"When the eldest sister went up the mountain today, in a valley, she found a large number of dense locusts, these locusts are very large, as if they are laying eggs and hatching, once these locusts hatch, then it will inevitably attract locusts to come down the mountain and eat the crops. So, let's inform the village chief and tell the villagers to prepare in advance. Huang Li replied.
"Uncle, now that there is a big drought, there is not much water in the river in front of the village, and the paddy fields cannot be irrigated, and even the rice planted in the paddy fields of some villagers' houses has died of drought.
Although the rice has only been filled for a long time, at least some of it has not grown, so I think I can harvest the rice in advance.
If you really encounter locusts coming down the mountain to eat crops, I am afraid that this year will really be harvested, but now that we are harvested, we can still receive a little grain. ”
"Really, eldest sister, where are the locusts you are seeing, you take Da Lang to see it, otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to the villagers." Village Chief Zhang's face changed.
"Cheng, I can take Brother Da Lang up the mountain to see the dense locusts." Huang Yiyun also understood Village Chief Zhang's concerns, and he didn't refuse.
Huang Yiyun and Zhang Dalang carried the kettle on their backs and went up the mountain.
After Huang Li left, Village Chief Zhang asked Zhang Shilang to go to Wang Lizheng's house and invited Wang Lizheng to their house.
Huang Yiyun took Zhang Dalang and walked directly to the valley.
The valley was surrounded by tall trees that sheltered from the sun, and there was a stream across the valley, which gave the valley a suitable humidity and temperature, and all these conditions made the large locust nest in the valley and became a base camp.
After Huang Yiyun took Zhang Dalang to the valley, he saw that the valley was densely packed with locusts, and suddenly, his face changed greatly, if these locusts flew down the mountain, the crops in the village this year would be eaten up.
After seeing this dense locust, Zhang Dalang rushed down the mountain to his home, and he didn't care about Huang Yiyun anymore, he hurried home and told his father the news, and asked his father to quickly inform the villagers, at least first collect the rice or corn that was exposed and then outside.
"Dad, it's not good, it's really the same as the eldest sister of the Huang family, in that valley, there are a lot of locusts densely packed, these locusts are big, most of them, and there are even some locusts hatching and laying eggs." After Zhang Dalang returned home, he hurriedly said to Village Chief Zhang.
"Lizheng, you see this is ........"
"Since this is true, although I don't know if this locust will come down the mountain to eat the crops we planted, we have to tell the villagers about this matter, whether to harvest the grain or not is their business, and whether to tell us or not is our business." Today, Wang Li was invited by Village Chief Zhang to their house, and Village Chief Zhang told him before that the Huang family, who lived at the end of the village, found that there was a valley in the upper mountain, full of dense locusts, and he had already called their family chief to verify it, and asked him to discuss this matter.
Before the presiding officer of Huayun Temple, there will be a drought this year, and the drought will be the law of locusts.
The drought has been fulfilled, and Wang Lizheng heard again that Village Chief Zhang, a valley in the back mountain of Qingshan Village, is full of dense locusts, and when the time comes to make a locust plague, Wang Lizheng and his heart immediately believed seven or eight points.
Now after getting Zhang Dalang's confirmation, I believe it in my heart.
"Da Lang, Erlang, San Lang, Shiro, the four of you hurry up and go door to door to inform the villagers at home that there is a meeting in the village, and they all go to the square at the head of the village." Village Chief Zhang instructed his sons.
"Dad, now that the sun is so big, and there is no shade on the square at the head of the village, notify the villagers to go to the square for a meeting, will the villagers go?" Zhang Shilang scratched his head and said suddenly.
Village Chief Zhang and Wang Lizheng glanced at each other, and the two of them showed a wry smile on their faces, the villagers really wouldn't go.
"This is still Lao Fuli personally going door-to-door to inform the villagers." If it weren't for the inconvenience of breaking his leg, he should have done this by himself, but after he had no choice, he had to ask Wang Lizheng to notify the families.
Others will either not have enough identity or no prestige, and the villagers will not believe it.
"It doesn't matter."
"Dad, what should we do now?" After Wang Lizheng left, Zhang Dalang asked Village Chief Zhang.
"Collect it, now go and get the sickle, first collect all the rice, after cutting some of the rice, you brothers take turns to send all the cutting carts to the granary, don't wait until all the harvest is done before picking it home."
Tell all your daughters-in-law to go down to the fields to harvest rice, and don't suffer from heat stroke, if you really can't do it, do it for a while and rest for a while. Village Chief Zhang gritted his teeth and ordered.
Now that this noodles are not harvested, it will not work, not to mention, if other villagers are asked to harvest grain in advance, they must not be an example?
Otherwise, how could the other villagers believe that there would be a locust plague?
Now Village Chief Zhang is worried about when the locusts in the valley of the back mountain will fly down the mountain to eat the crops.
I hope that the lord will bless me and wait for the villagers to harvest the grain, otherwise, many people will be able to live a miserable life this year, tighten their belts and live.
"Wait, the eldest and the second, and the third, if you ask your daughter-in-law to go back to her mother's house, there will be a locust plague, believe it or not, they will go. Boss, by the way, you go to the villages around us, find the village chief, and tell them about it, believe it or not. Village Chief Zhang stopped Zhang Dalang, who was about to leave to cut rice.