"Look at you two, stop playing dumb riddles, tickle people's hearts!" Qian Maoda's wife made Du Mei a cup of sugar water and brought it to the low table next to her.

"Auntie, when I came in, I heard the sound of ducks, how many of them did you have?" Du Mei put away the joke and asked very seriously.

"Oh, there are one hundred and seventy or eighty of them." Qian Maoda said after taking a bite of food.

"Hey, it was all hatched when my leg was bad, your Uncle Maoda couldn't go out to sell it, and now it's all smashed in his hands, if you hadn't bought more than a hundred, I'm afraid my family would have been eaten by them now." Qian Maoda's wife patted her chest and said with palpitations.

"Why did you think to ask this now, don't you want to buy ducks again? There is a locust plague right now, so you can't buy these foodies. Qian Maoda's sun-tanned face was flushed with wine, black and red.

"I'm not trying to buy ducks, I'm bringing duck food to your ducks." The cloth bag in Dumejan's hand was dripping with fresh green juice mixed with old black stains.

"What is this? It's not enough for our ducks to stuff their teeth! Qian Maoda glanced at the deflated bag, shook his head with a smile, took a sip of the wine in the glass, smacked his mouth, and ate the vegetables by himself.

"Uncle, don't look down on my bag, if your duck can really eat this, forty liters of rice a day or four hundred yuan will belong to you." Listening to his words, Du Mei was not angry, and still said with a smile.

With a bang, Qian Maoda's wife's chopsticks fell to the ground in shock, she hurriedly bent down to pick up the chopsticks, and stammered: "Four hundred wen a day!" True...... It's true? ”

"Of course it's true!" Du Mei raised her eyebrows, and the dim light flickered, brightening her smile.

"And what's in your bag?" The woman who worries about firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea every day is always more tempted, she can't wait to open the bag and take a look: "Ah, locusts! ”

"That's right, locusts. Let me tell my uncle and aunt the truth, the county lord of Qinghe County wants to ask me to help other villages exterminate locusts, and give one liter of rice or 10 yuan per acre of land as a subsidy. I tried it in Dujiagou, and my ducks are more than enough to catch forty acres a day.

But with my family alone, it is really difficult to wipe out all the villages under the jurisdiction of Qinghe County in a short period of time, if my uncle can do it with me, according to a hundred acres a day, it is also possible that the locusts will really be exterminated by our ducks. This is a great thing to do for the country and the villagers. Du Mei told them what had happened.

"That being said, we have also heard about your ducks exterminating locusts, but how can my ducks have the ability of yours." Qian Maoda heard not only Du Mei's extermination of locusts, but also heard the jokes of Zhou's Dong Shi Xiaofeng, and many villagers in Chen Qian Village encouraged him to drive ducks to the fields, but he was very afraid that his ducks would make a fool of themselves, and he never dared to move this idea.

"My duck didn't buy it from your family, my family can do it, and your family can do it." Du Mei said lightly.

"It's not the same, it's not going to work, it's not going to work." Qian Maoda didn't know if he had too much wine or something, so he just shook his head vigorously.

"You elm pimple head, how do you know if you haven't tried everything, with Du Mei here, you will definitely be able to do it!" Qian Maoda's wife thinks that what Du Mei said is simply a pie-in-the-sky thing.

In the past few days, I have seen the locusts ruining the crops, and the family is worried about the rations of the ducks in the future.

"Auntie, do you have a duck in your duck flock?" Du Mei asked, whole

If a flock of ducks is released, if there is no duck, it will not be able to be held by people alone.

"Yes, yes, it's a two-year-old duck." Qian Maoda's wife said again and again.

"What do you use to summon ducks?" Du Mei then asked.

"Your uncle whistles every time, and he comes as soon as he blows, and he will try everything!" Qian Maoda's wife said a little ostentatiously. She pouted, intending to learn, but made an unpleasant sound that made her laugh at herself.

"Uncle, as long as you feed the locusts, you duck will be able to go out to collect work in less than three days!" Du Mei said with a smile, Qian Maoda is worthy of doing this business, and the accumulated experience is not worse than what she has learned in modern times.

"This ...... How to feed it? Qian Maoda drank and said, his eyes were red.

"You haven't fed the ducks tonight, have you?" Du Mei came in and heard the call of the ducks, obviously hungry.

"Hey, it's not that I'm afraid that the food won't be available, but now we feed this meal before going to bed at night, just to get a good night's sleep in the middle of the night." Qian Maoda's wife said helplessly.

"Then let's try locusts." Dume stood up and said.

"Old man, let's take a look." The woman tugged at Qian Maoda's sleeve, picked up the lantern and walked into the courtyard.

Du Mei helped to bring the duck shed, and the ducks scrambled out, croaking at Qian Maoda with their necks up, as if to vent their hunger dissatisfaction.

"Come here." Du Mei poured the locusts in the bag to the ground.

A large male duck with gray-brown feathers is the most responsive, and the locusts in the Dumei bag have not yet been poured, and he has already pecked at the first bite of the locust heap.

"This is a duck." Du Mei looked at the duck excitedly.

"Hmm. The little gray is the most darling, and these mother ducks and ducklings revolve around it all day long. Qian Maoda nodded.

While talking, the other ducks saw that the duck had eaten and eaten, and they all gathered around, stretched their necks and looked curiously, and three or two bold ones came up directly and devoured one.

The ducks quacked, and the bold ones echoed the call. More and more ducks joined in the trial, and in a moment the pile of locusts on the ground disappeared.

"There's a door!" Qian Maoda's wife exclaimed in a trembling voice.

"Auntie, halve the food you eat at night, and catch some live locusts for them to eat tomorrow." Du Mei must get the ducks through the fear of living creatures, and there is really no other way to find a shortcut at the moment, except to adopt the method of "hunger rather than food".

"Well, I don't know how many days it will take before they can go directly to the field to catch insects like your ducks." Qian Maoda's wife said worriedly.

"As long as they dare to eat flying locusts, it's very simple to go to the field, just lure them with locusts." Du Mei is talking about her own real experience.

Du May put the ducks back into the duck shed, and the three of them went back to the house to talk. Qian Maoda didn't talk much, but the woman asked Du Mei how to herd ducks in the field, and Du Mei answered seriously and carefully.

"Uncle, this is my duck seedling money on credit in the spring. Now that I have plenty of money, it's time to pay it back to you. With that said, Du Mei handed the two hundred yuan in his purse to Qian Maoda's wife.

"This ...... This ......" Qian Maoda and his wife spoke in unison, but did not speak, only looked at each other.

At the beginning, they gave the ducks to Du Mei on credit, firstly, to thank her for helping to hire Dr. Zhong, which saved them a lot of medical expenses, and secondly, they were worried that the girl who had just lost her father would not be able to support these ducks, and did not want to be infamous for bullying orphan girls and cheating people out of money. Who knows that now, Du Mei not only feeds ducks, but also raises ducks

The son is famous for raising ten miles and eight towns.

This girl is also bold, from proving her widow's innocence, suing directly at the patriarch's house, to planting wheat and taking the lead, attracting the county lord to exchange food with her, and then to a family of mothers and daughters, she has done a big thing of building a house. None of these things can be done by ordinary girls.

"Take it." Qian Maoda mouthed at the woman Nunu, he knew that today's Du Mei was not the original time, and if he refused for 200 words, it would be inevitable to be hypocritical.

"This ...... All right? The woman was still a little hesitant.

"Auntie, you can take it. In the past two days, the ducks have been trained, and it is only right to go out to help the county lord and the villagers to exterminate the locusts. Du Mei pushed the money forward.

"Meizi, when are you going out?" Qian Maoda asked, 40 liters of rice a day or 400 yuan a day is still very attractive to a family like him.

"Tomorrow, the county will come and wait for a reply, if you agree, I will tell him and let you delay for a few days. But I'm going to have to go out the day after tomorrow. Du Mei didn't hide it, and said it directly.

"This is a good thing, of course we shouldn't shirk, I'm just afraid that my ducks won't be angry." Qian Maoda took a sip of wine and weighed his tone to speak.

"I'll be home one day tomorrow, have lunch, and I'll see how the ducks are doing." When Dume heard him say this, he knew that he was willing.

"That's great, I'll go down to the field tomorrow to catch locusts and come back to practice ducks." Qian Maoda's wife rubbed her hands, what a good thing this is, she can feed the ducks and earn food or money.

"Then, I'll go back first." Seeing that it was not early, Du Mei got up to say goodbye.

"It's getting late, I'll send you." Qian Maoda's wife accompanied Du Mei out of the house, said a lot of words, and sent them all the way to the entrance of the village.

The night breeze is cool, the moonlight is as clean as practice, the cicadas are chirping and the frogs are chirping, Du Mei went home along the stone road, his heart was brisk, and he didn't feel that he was walking fast, and he saw his own courtyard gate after a while.

The next day, Du Mei drove the ducks into Du Huaibing's field, twenty acres, and the ducks would stay until the afternoon. After eating the lunch sent by Du Ying, she asked her sister to guard it on her behalf, and she was worried about the situation of Qian Maoda's ducks, so she hurried to see it.

"Meizi, your method really works!" Qian Maoda's wife immediately said with a smile when she saw Du Mei appear outside the courtyard.

"yes, what's going on now?" Du Mei came in to look at it with interest.

"I haven't fed them for a day, but I've fed some live ones now, and I've robbed them all! You see...... "Qian Maoda's wife poured some more locusts from the bag on the ground.

Some of the locusts that had lost their hind legs could not bounce and still tried to crawl and escape, but they were swallowed by the quick-eyed ducks in their throats.

"Yes, let's let it go and try it." Du Mei said excitedly.

"That's what I mean, I'm going to rush to my own field first." The woman said with the same glint in her eyes.

"What about Uncle Maoda, what did he say?" Du Mei asked. Only he can whistle, so naturally he wants to go out.

"He's not going to be productive, and he said he was waiting for you to make up his mind." The woman laughed.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go." Du Mei raised his feet to leave.

"It's a minute and a half now, it's not too late to come in and have a cup of tea!" Qian Maoda looked at his own woman with a reproachful look, she was getting older and more unruly, she was really snubbing the guests.

Du Mei couldn't do it, so she had to hold the sugar water cup and wait for it to slowly cool down and drink it up. Qian Maoda refilled another cup for her, but he didn't mention the matter of herding ducks. 2k reading web