Zhong Ling was stunned for a moment, yes, it seems that catching locusts here is also a problem.

Otherwise, it would be no fun to bring this pheasant back to be domesticated, she has to catch locusts, and there are still living locusts.

However, the locusts move quickly, and it is especially difficult to catch them alive.

"Okay, go to bed now, and think about it tomorrow." Shen Yichi touched Zhong Ling's head, looked doting, and went back to the room with Zhong Ling.

Zhong Ling was a little lost, but he still obediently went back to the room, and now he was still sleeping, and he and she might be able to find a solution tomorrow.

And here, after two days of driving, Zhong Huaiyu finally arrived at the place where there were locusts.

This made him very frightened, this was only two days away from Kyoto, and this locust plague was far more terrible than he thought.

When Zhong Huaiyu arrived at this place, he immediately began to investigate the situation here, and asked the villagers to quickly hatch chickens and ducklings, and use the methods he learned from the prince to catch locusts.

Zhong Ling wrote in the letter that locusts can be used to feed chickens and ducks as a kind of feed, and the growth of chickens and ducks is also very good. He popularized it for a few days, and the situation really got better, although there were many locusts, they couldn't withstand all the chickens and ducks, plus there was an order to let them hatch chicks before, and when Zhong Huaiyu came over, there were actually many chickens and ducks born.

With the popularization of this method, the farmers were in their fields, and as long as there were traces of locusts, they went to catch them for fodder.

It's a bit silly, but it's certainly effective.

Although everyone's fields have varying degrees of loss, this will not make the grain grains unharvested, and because the locusts are particularly well fed, some of their old hens lay eggs twice a day, which made the farmers laugh one by one.

Eggs are also food, and they can eat eggs if they don't eat them.

Everyone is very grateful to Zhong Huaining, this is the method he brought, but Zhong Huaining did not take this credit alone, or said that he was just conveying.

This method began to spread wildly in Haoyun in just a few days, and everyone followed suit, after all, raising chickens also needs food.

Because of the abundance of feeding, the chickens themselves will catch the locusts in the mountains.

Seeing that there was no sign of deterioration here, Zhong Huaiyu also left this place, of course, he did not go back to the palace, but went on the road by himself, and then went to the surrounding areas to have a look.

After all, he has a very important task when he leaves the palace this time, which is to check the specific situation of the locusts, and there are some problems that can be solved, which must be solved immediately.

Zhong Huaiyu didn't stop for a moment, and kept working hard outside.

Zhong Ling is also now, she looked at the pheasant that was imprisoned, her face was full of sadness, how could she domesticate this pheasant without wasted effort.

She really didn't know what to do, Shen Yichi wanted to comfort Zhong Ling, but it was undoubtedly useless to say anything at this time.

"I see." Zhong Ling suddenly seemed to have an enlightenment, gave Rou'er to Shen Yichi, and went to tinker with things like this. Shen Yichi was also curious, so he hugged Rou'er and followed Zhong Ling like this.

"Look, when the time comes, if you pull this opening, the locust will be locked inside." Zhong Ling held up the simple prince he had made, with a smug expression.

She's such a smart person.

"No matter how smart you are, you're my person." Shen Yichi hugged Rou'er, and when she came up, Zhong Ling gently dropped a kiss on her forehead.

"It's up to you." Zhong Ling was a little helpless, no matter how he felt that Shen Yichi had a sense of shamelessness.

Shen Yichi raised his eyebrows, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him like this, what he said was the truth, and Zhong Ling was his person.

Zhong Ling immediately went to catch the locusts, and sure enough, this tool was really useful.

She put the locusts she caught into the chicken pen that was locked in immediately, and the pheasants in it shrank to the corner with their cubs in fear, but after seeing the locusts, it gurgled and looked at Zhong Ling, feeling that they would not come in, it flew up and soon ate the locusts.

Zhong Ling was happy, what she wanted was this feeling, this pheasant obediently ate locusts, which meant that the rest of the matter was saved.

"Queen Mother, let me catch locusts in the future." Qiao Xi looked at Zhong Ling, she had been watching from the side just now, and she was already familiar with the use of this tool.

She felt sorry for Zhong Ling being so busy, the queen should have enjoyed happiness in the palace.

But now the queen is suffering here, and she really doesn't feel good in her heart, and she just hopes that she can do more.

"It's okay, it's all a trivial matter, Qiaoxi, you look at Rou'er, I'll go out with Ah Chi for a while." Zhong Ling pulled Shen Yichi and walked outside, and she remembered one more thing.

Qiao Xi was very obedient and obediently hugged the princess.

Rou'er is still young and spends most of her time sleeping, so it is very convenient to take care of it now.

Shen Yichi looked at his queen and knew that Zhong Ling had a reason for this, so he didn't ask and went out with Zhong Ling.

"Ah Chi, let's walk around the village together, maybe we can find out a little." Zhong Ling pulled Shen Yichi and strode out of the village chief's house, she hadn't looked carefully at the situation in this village for the past few days.

She just wanted to look at the water and the fields in the village, and see how good the chances were that production could resume immediately.

"Hmm." Shen Yichi nodded, and together with Zhong Ling, he saw in the village what was worthy of their attention.

Zhong Ling's eyes looked around, to be honest, Zhong Ling really hoped that there would be new food here.

At this point, Zhong Ling realized how important it is to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, which is simply a life-saving artifact in times of famine.

After all, the kind of food that grows in the ground is not afraid of locusts at all.

But it's a pity that that kind of thing was only brought back by Zhong Ling, and it wasn't planted here at all before.

The previous crops here were all low-yield, low-protein things, and they could only be self-sufficient, and in the previous harvest years, they could only ensure their own food and clothing, and sometimes they had to save some food, not to mention this era of locust plague.

Zhong Ling and Shen Yichi were in the village, walking, looking at these people in front of them, they always felt that this was a bit strange, and many people didn't seem to have much strength. His limbs were weak and his face was blue.

Although there is not much food to eat now, it is not so miserable, after all, there are still a lot of wild vegetables growing in those places that have been eaten by locusts.

"Ah Chi, did you find it?" Zhong Ling pulled Shen Yichi, his eyes were serious.

"People here look a little bit weak." Shen Yichi's mood was not much better, when he and these people went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables before, he felt that these people were still very normal, why now it seems that they are a little poisoned.

"Let Shen Dian investigate, I suspect they ate something they shouldn't have." Zhong Ling's heart was full of worry, one or two people felt powerless, that might be normal, but there were too many people here who had this condition.

"Queen Mother, the people in the palace have sent someone to bring food over." Li Lanying was full of excitement, they could finally have a meal. And the horses' food can be taken care of.

The emperor's horse is a thousand miles, and now she is starving, and she is about to lose her ability, day by day, she is not less worried.

"Let's go and have a look." Shen Yichi took Zhong Ling to the entrance of the village to see.

In fact, it is a very dangerous existence to transport food at this time, but fortunately, Ye is delivery is a little over, after all, the queen is in this place, even if other regions are not satisfied, then they can only suffer, who let the queen mother not be in their village.

When the people in the village heard this shout, they were also very excited, and whether they had a share or not, everyone went to the entrance of the village to have a look.

After all, it was food, not wild vegetables, and if the queen was a good person, then they could get a little food.

In the past, Shen Yichi had already instructed Shen Yi to investigate what the villagers had eaten during these days.

"Queen Mother, we can only bring these two truckloads of food, and I hope that the Queen Mother will forgive her sins." When Zhong Ling appeared, the general who was in charge of escorting the grain knelt down at once.

"You've all worked hard, it's good to have food." Zhong Ling nodded, not meaning to blame at all.

Asking for food to be delivered in these extraordinary times is a very dangerous thing.

As soon as the food arrived, everyone was a little relieved, and Zhong Ling had no intention of enjoying it alone, she divided the food one by one, and each family had a little bit.

In fact, these two truckloads of grain are not enough for the people in this village to eat for a day, but everyone looks at this food, which is also a little comforting.

This is rice, rice, when the time comes, they will find some wild vegetables by themselves, and cook some rice cereal to eat, which is also a kind of happiness.

"How many of you feel like you're weak on your hands and feet." Zhong Ling looked at the villagers in front of her, she was a little suspicious that these people were suffering from food poisoning, but she had also seen it, and there was not much to eat in the vicinity, and she couldn't figure out why she had food poisoning for a while.

"I'm a little."

"Me too."

"And me."

"......" Many people came forward one after another, and Zhong Ling looked at it, almost half of them had this situation.

This made her and Shen Yichi very frightened in their hearts.

If so many people are poisoned, how much of that poison grows?

"What have you all eaten lately, do you remember the name?" Zhong Ling looked at them, full of investigation of what they were eating.

"It's all wild vegetables that we can't name, and the things we eat are so miscellaneous that we basically can't remember them." A big man scratched his head, and his face was entangled.