Chapter 185: The Locust Plague
The Yanagi family.
"Boss, the third sister, the fifth sister and the sixth sister went to Zhang's house to help harvest rice, the second, eldest sister, second sister, you went to Xu's house to help harvest grain, the Liu family is less, and there are many fields, mother, old family, second family, our mother three go to Liu's house to harvest rice." After Huang Li returned home, he told the Huang family about this matter.
By the way, the head of the family was divided into three waves, and they went to their own good families to help their families harvest grain.
After Wang Li was going door-to-door to inform the villagers that there would be a locust plague, many villagers would believe it, and some villagers even followed in the footsteps of their family after seeing that Village Chief Zhang's family had already started harvesting grain.
As for some of the villagers, they didn't believe it, but after seeing that almost half of the villagers in the village were going to harvest grain, the unbelievers also panicked and began to harvest grain.
It's just that the weather is too hot now, and on a sunny day, I take a hat to harvest grain in the field, and I can't do the work for long, not to mention sweating, and the woman with a weaker constitution is afraid that she will suffer from heat stroke.
Heat stroke can be big or small, some people can take a break to relieve their strength, and some people die of heat stroke.
Harvesting rice at night, and there is no light, with a sickle in his hand, one will cut his hands and feet if he is not careful, and the weather is dry and dry, and he does not dare to make a torch.
The next day, before dawn, many families took advantage of the cool morning to go to their fields to harvest grain.
Everyone in the Huang family was no exception, and they all got up early and went to the Zhang family, the Liu family, and the Xu family to help.
In addition to the Liu family, the Zhang family and the Xu family are more, and with the help of the Huang family, the rice in the paddy fields of the two families is almost half harvested early this morning.
"Well, the harvest is finally over, and there is no need to worry about it, for fear that the locusts will eat the grain." After Xu Mu saw that the last acre of his land had been harvested, he breathed a sigh of relief.
In the past two days, from morning to dark, the work that had been done in four or five days was done in a hurry, and the family didn't care about any other work, plus a few people from the Huang family came to help, and the rice in their fields was finally harvested.
But the tiredness is not light.
"Yes! Uncle Xu Mu, after the harvest of these rices, hurry up and pick them up at home, don't threshh them for the time being, and dry them on the ground, lest the locusts really come, eat them, and we will be busy in vain. Huang Yiyun thumped his back and said.
In the past two days, the high-intensity harvesting of rice day and night has also made Huang Yiyun tired, not to mention the backache all over his body, and his skin has been tanned more than one grade.
"Thank you Conghe and the eldest sister and the second sister in the past two days, otherwise, my family would not have harvested these rice so quickly, before I asked Zijun to go back to cooking, let's go, don't shirk today, I have to go to my house to eat." Xu Yushi stepped forward, took Huang Yiyun's hand and walked towards her house.
"Grandma Xu, don't worry, our two families live close, and the matter of eating is not just a greeting, but today, I really can't go to your house for dinner.
Your family and the Zhang family have finished harvesting the rice, the Liu family is small, and there is still one and a half acres of land that has not been confiscated, my uncle and I have a few second sisters, we have to go and harvest the rice of the Liu family first, and we will talk about the matter of eating in the future. Huang Yiyun said, broke free from Xu Yu's hand and walked towards the Liu family's paddy field.
"Cheng, next time Grandma calls you to dinner, you can't excuse yourself anymore." After hearing Huang Yiyun say this, Xu Yushi didn't persuade him, and of course he didn't ask the first three sons of the family to go to the Liu family to help, although their family finished harvesting the rice in the paddy field, but these rice still have to be picked back, which is also a big project, and they have to be busy for a while.
When Huang Yiyun, Huang Conghe, and the second sister came to the Liujia paddy field, Huang Congjiang and the third sister, who helped from the Zhang family, were also busy and rushed to the Liu family to help harvest rice.
With the help of Huang Yiyun's family, the Liu family only had one acre of rice left and was quickly harvested.
At this time, the time has reached more than half of the hour, and there are still many families harvesting rice in the paddy fields.
"Listen, what is the sound?" Huang Yiyun, who was about to go home, suddenly seemed to hear a burst of sounds, which were getting closer and louder.
"Sister, look over there." The fifth sister had sharp eyes and pointed to the sky in the back mountain and shouted.
Everyone looked at the fifth sister's finger.
I saw pieces of pitch-black clouds, flying quickly towards this side.
After the distance got closer and closer, after Huang Yiyun and the others saw the thing clearly, they suddenly shouted: "It's not good, it's the locusts that have come down the mountain." ”
"Hurry up, hurry up, gather these rice tightly, and quickly pick them back." After Huang Li saw that everyone was still standing aside, he hurriedly shouted loudly.
The villagers who were cutting rice in other paddy fields also saw this situation, and hurriedly greeted them and hurriedly picked up the cut rice home.
"Yinhua, Yunqing, Liu Qing, Liucheng, the boss, the second, the old family, and the second family, you guys pick up the burden and carry the rice back, my eldest sister, the second sister, the third sister and a few of you little ones, quickly tighten these cut rice and tie them up with ropes, so that they can pick them back." Huang Li arranged it.
Everyone did not have the previous panic, and they got busy one by one.
When the locusts flew down from the mountains, they flew into the fields and began to devour the crops.
However, most of the locusts fell on corn planted in the dry land.
Of course, some of the locusts flew out and fell into other villages and cities.
"Holy, my rice hasn't been harvested yet? What can I do now? ”
"I'm dying, the corn in the dry land, my family planted two acres of land, it's good now, it's all gone, it's all gone."
"Woo woo, I knew that my family had all grown sweet potatoes and potatoes this year, how about this? How much grain has been confiscated, this year we will have to pay taxes on the grain. ”
Suddenly, the villagers who had not yet come to finish the harvest of the grain cried for their fathers and mothers, and they regretted that they should not have done it in the first place.
There were so many people in the Liu family who helped carry the burden, and after two trips back and forth, they carried the cut rice home.
And shut the door of the house, so that these locusts do not fly in and eat the food.
"Yun'er, where is the corn planted in your dry field, quick, now we still have time, and we can still grab some corn back." After all the cut rice was picked back, Yun'er's girl breathed a sigh of relief, and Huang Yiyun hurriedly shook Yun'er twice and said.
"Oh, right? Over here. Yun'er also came back to her senses, and hurriedly took Huang Yiyun, Huang Li's family, and the Huang family's younger siblings to harvest the corn planted in their dry fields.