"Give them a taste." Du Mei smiled mysteriously.

She brought over a cloth bag with a pierced mouth in the corner, soaked in dots of green grass juice. She untied the bag, lifted the bottom of the bag upside down, and shook it vigorously.

A bunch of locusts fell out, some dead, others with broken wings or hind legs, crawling on the ground, all of which Du Mei had picked up during today's culling. When she heard Du Ying's words yesterday, she had this thought.

The hungry ducks saw the food on the ground and swarmed up, their flat beaks quickly swallowing the locusts into their mouths, cocking their necks and swallowing them down their throats. But these, how could they fill the stomachs of more than 100 ducks, and the ducks ate them all in a blink of an eye, and they couldn't find food everywhere, and began to quack dissatisfiedly.

"Let's go." Du Mei picked up Chai He and said with a smile.

Seeing this, the three little ones immediately understood, Du Ying carried a horse lantern and walked in front with a food bowl, Da Bai followed her, the ducks naturally did not deviate, Du Tao and Du Gui each held two torches and looked at both sides, Du Mei carried the burden and pressed the formation behind.

Du Mei's family has two acres of land next to his grandmother's house, which is far away from home, and another two acres of rice fields and a cotton and soybean field on the river beach. The four sisters, in line with the idea of first far and then near, drove the duck to the two acres of land first.

The four sisters put torches on the ridges of the fields to light them up and drove the ducks into the fields. The fields were densely planted with rice, and it was pitch black, and the ducks were instinctively frightened, quacking, and refusing to go down to the fields.

"Sister, what can I do?" After trying a few times, it didn't work, and Du Gui had the heart to cry.

"Du Ying, you go get more torches and stick them on the ridges, Du Tao Du Gui, you catch some locusts first, and pull off the wings for me." Du Mei said in a deep voice.

The ducks have already arrived, and whether there is a harvest of rice this year depends on whether the ducks can be allowed to hunt in the fields tonight.

"Sister, give!" Soon the two little ones grabbed a handful and handed it to Du Mei hopefully.

Du Mei handed the locust to Dabai's mouth, and Dabai saw the writhing insect and pecked it in one bite. Du Mei fed and retreated, stepping into the field step by step, the field was full of muddy water, and she couldn't take care of it.

At this time, Du Ying had already inserted more than a dozen torches on the ridges on three sides of the field, illuminating the entire field clearly. Du Mei threw the insect in his hand into the air, and in a hurry, he suddenly flapped his wings and jumped up and grabbed it.

By this time she had reached the middle of the field, and Du Mei had no locusts in her hands, and she shook the rice stalks, so startled that the locusts perched on it flew in a panic. By the light of the torches, Dabai saw the flying insects at a glance, how could he let the food in his mouth run away, and he jumped up with great excitement and swallowed the locusts into his mouth accurately. When it fell, it caught a glimpse of a locust perched on the rice leaf next to it, and it turned around and pecked.

Du Tao and Du Gui also imitated Du Mei to separate the two ways and introduced the two big ducks into the field. Tasting the sweetness of the big white, quacking and calling for friends, Du Ying then gently plucked, and the ducks all entered the field. The rice grew so tall and dense that the four sisters could only hear the water in the fields being trampled by ducks.

A fire was set up at the edge of the field, and Du Mei and the two little ones washed their shoes in the ditch and dried them by the fire. Du Mei's two acres of fields are connected, and in order to prevent the ducks from running away, she and Du Ying surrounded the two acres with torches with her bare feet.

The ducks had been hungry for most of the day, and as soon as they had tasted the delicacies of locusts, they could not wait to devour them as soon as they entered the field. About half an hour later, the ducks began to croak again. Du Mei held the lantern and looked into the field, and vaguely saw that the ducks were half-bulging, and then looked at the rice leaves, and the locusts that originally roasted on them were all gone.

"Come and see!" She excitedly greeted the three little ones.

"Sister, you're so amazing!" Du Gui happily hugged Du Mei's waist.

"The ducks weren't full, so they just rushed to the two fields on the river beach." Du Ying smiled, reflecting the torch, and her face was flushed.

Du Mei and the two little ones put on their drying shoes, withdrew a torch from the ridge, and "Dangdang" Du Ying knocked on the food bowl, which was a signal to summon, and the big white collar climbed up the ridge.

The ducks went on the road one after another, Du Tao and Du Gui counted them, and Du Mei checked the area around the field with a lantern to confirm that no ducks had fallen.

There were a lot of ducks, and the three small ones led them to the river beach, and Du Mei added some firewood to the fire, and then he carried the burden to follow.

When they arrived at the two acres of fields on the river beach, when the torches around them were lit, Dabai directly led the way into the field, and they walked all the way, and they were hungry again!

The locusts in the two acres of fields were quickly wiped out by the flocks of hungry ducks, and some of the ducks even ran into the cotton fields, the soybeans were not high, and the ducks swallowed the leaves with the locusts, but the cotton grew tall and thick, half a man high, and the locusts inhabited it, and the ducks could not eat it, so they were so anxious that they quacked.

The Dumei sisters went directly down to the cotton field, walked between the two cotton plants, held one in each of their left and right hands, and shook it vigorously, so that the locusts jumped up, and the ducks flapped their wings and jumped up to peck. There were only fifty cotton plants, and the Dumei sisters walked back and forth twice, and they could no longer shake the locusts.

At this time, the ducks, each duck was full of swelling, almost eating their throats, and when they were full, they also took a comfortable bath in the ditch of the cotton field. Du Ying knocked on the food bowl again, and Da Bai staggered ashore and led the ducks to staggered home.

Xu was too happy to eat, and the ducks quacked all the way. It took only two hours for the Doumé sisters to return home from the time they drove the ducks out to the time they returned home, and the ducks were full and the locusts in the fields were destroyed.

Xu's had already prepared hot water, the four sisters washed and slept, and since the locusts came, they had a good night's sleep today.

On such nights, there are many people who can't sleep with worry, although Dajin and his wife are lying on the bed, they seem to be making kang cakes, turning over and over and can't sleep.

"Listen, whose duck is this?" Daikin listened with his ears pricked up.

"People in the high-walled compound, what are you afraid of, you don't have to worry about the hearts of others, think about the harvest in our fields!" Zhou said angrily.

"Hey, it's really bad luck to get home this year, and I haven't had a day to live." Daikin rolled over and sighed with his face turned inward.

"If this bolt is at home, there is a lot of labor, and now he doesn't know where the cat is." Zhou suddenly said sadly. Mother and son are connected, not to mention the eldest son, she thinks about it tightly.

"What do you do when you say these frustrating words, hurry up and go to bed, I don't know what to do tomorrow." Dajin muttered, finally couldn't stay up and fell asleep, and gradually snoring.

Zhou's eyes were wet in the dark night, but no matter how sad he was, he would still come tomorrow, so let's think about how to live, if the crops in the field were plagued by locusts, their family could only drink the northwest wind in the second half of the year.

After a frightening night, Du Mei finished breakfast, but did not hear the sound of the gong, and felt strange, took a broom and went out, and rushed to the ancestral hall.

There were already seven or eight people gathered there, Du Mei looked around, but didn't see Du Huaibing, only to see his son Du Mingtang standing on the steps of the ancestral hall.

"Grandpa, where's the grandmaster?" Du Mei stepped forward and asked Du Mingtang, who was frowning.

"Your grandfather is old, this

A few days ago, I was in a hurry, and I had a fever at night. Du Mingtang saw that it was Du Mei, and said with raised eyebrows.

According to the rules of the clan, the gong can only be struck by the patriarch in an emergency, and others cannot use it without authorization. Even if it is the son of the patriarch and the future patriarch, it will not work, so Du Mingtang can only wait in front of the ancestral hall.

"Can you take the medicine?" Du Mei asked anxiously, there is nothing wrong at this juncture.

"I invited Dr. Zhong at night, and I have already boiled the medicine and poured it." Du Mingtang's face softened.

"That's good, that's good." Du Mei nodded repeatedly.

"Why haven't these people come yet!" Du Mingtang said a little angrily. His father is sick with the village, and are these guys still sleeping at home?

"I'll go to each house to urge." Du Mei took the initiative to ask.

"This ......" Du Mingtang glanced at the people chatting in front of the ancestral hall, although they were not as old as themselves, they were not young, he was nothing, naturally it was not good to order them to find someone, seeing that Du Mei took the initiative to say this, he had to nod helplessly.

"Aunt Zhang......" Du Mei ran to the nearest Aunt Zhang's house, and was surprised to find that the iron general in her yard guarded the door and called a few times, but no one spoke.

She went to the fat aunt's house again to look for it, and there was no one else, and then to other people's homes, except for the old grandmother who couldn't walk and had her ears back, there was no one in every house!

"Cousin, I went to see it, but there was no one in the house, and it was estimated that they all went to their own fields." Du Mei ran back to the ancestral hall out of breath.

"Ahh When a man heard this, he picked up his dick and left.

"It's just a few of us big fools, go quickly!" Two more men went away together.

The remaining few people were dumbfounded, looked at Du Mingtang, and then looked at the people who left, not knowing what to do.

Du Mingtang was so angry in his heart, he was upset for his father, these selfish guys only cared about their own fields. His face was so cold that he almost fell off the ice ballast, ignored everyone, waved his hand, and left with a conceited hand.

Du Mei sighed and went home, this can't be all blamed on the villagers sweeping the snow in front of the door, after two days of large-scale killing, tired people turned over on their backs, and the results are not obvious. If this continues, I am afraid that before the locusts are exterminated, the crops in the fields will be eaten up by it.

This is more than half a year's ration, and no one can be sloppy, so everyone can only get up early and go to the field and rely on manpower to catch locusts.

The ducks slept all night, their bellies empty, and their cries could be heard across the yard.

"Sakurako, don't feed it!" Du Mei saw Du Ying walking towards the duck shed with the reconciled duck food.

"Sister, why are you back?" Du Ying asked in surprise.

"The patriarch is sick, and everyone is scattered and busy in their fields." Du Mei put down the big broom and said helplessly.

"And we're going to drive the ducks out into the fields?" Du Ying said with a twinkle in her eyes.

"Well, locusts have wings, and when others catch them, they will naturally fly into our fields." Du Mei nodded.

"Okay, let's go too." The two little ones, I don't know when I heard them, came up and said.

"The ducks must be put in the field, but we have to divide the ducks into two groups, last night it was dark and afraid of losing them together, if we keep rushing around, not to mention the delay, the ducks are also tired and panicked." Du Mei thought about it carefully and said to listen to his sisters.

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