On the day when Meng Zhuqing was asked to hire someone to irrigate, he sighed quietly to Xiao Changyi: "It would be nice if there was a water wheel, how to use people to pick it, just use a water wheel to transport water from the river to the ditch and then flow to the field, which is not only convenient, but also easy." ”

"Waterwheel?"

"Well, watermills. I remember that my grandfather's house had a keel waterwheel, hand-cranked, and the structure was not complicated. I didn't expect it to be hot for so long, and if I knew, I would have drawn the keel waterwheel for the carpenter to make. I'm in a hurry to irrigate the fields today, it's too late, and when Meng Zhuqing comes back, we'll let Meng Zhuqing take the drawings and go to the carpenter to make one. ”

After a pause, he said quietly: "Actually, it doesn't matter if we don't have a waterwheel now, anyway, our fields are now irrigated by hired people, and we don't need you to irrigate them." I make a waterwheel, mainly for our convenience in the future, we will have a long life in the future, maybe we will encounter such a drought again, the waterwheel is ready, there is no harm in being prepared. ”

"Hmm." After a pause, Xiao Changyi asked: "Jing'er, the drought will be full of locusts, do you have a way?" ”

There have been three locust plagues in the history of the Western Cloud Kingdom, each of which resulted in heavy losses, and in the end, it turned into a famine, and each famine killed many people.

But even if so many people died every time, they were still helpless against the locusts in the sky.

Every time it was a swarm of locusts, thousands of miles away.

Jing Jing was amused by Xiao Changyi's words, and quipped: "Xianggong, you have asked me directly now?" Am I too transparent with you? ”

Xiao Changyi said: "Is it opaque, what do you want to keep with me?" ”

Jing Jing immediately smiled and said, "I won't keep anything with you, but I will keep it with others." ”

He valued her more than his life, and even if she was a demon, he would only protect her, not hurt her. She really knows this quite well.

When Xiao Changyi heard the words of quietness, the corners of Bo Liang's mouth hooked slightly. In fact, between him and his daughter-in-law, they have long been transparent as a person. And he just likes to hear his daughter-in-law say that.

Quietly laughed twice before returning to the topic, and said: "I don't really know much about how to get rid of locusts in my original world, but I once read an extracurricular reading Xu Guangqi's complete book on agricultural politics, which seems to have written that if you use straw ash and charcoal ash to divide the fine powder, and sieve the top of the grain, the locusts will not eat." ”

Xiao Changyi said solemnly: "Jing'er, I thank you for the people of Xiyun. ”

"Fool, thank you, I live here with you now, and if there is a famine, our life will not be easy." After a pause, "Then you have to send someone to tell your father-in-law about this, if you wait for the locusts to come, it will be too late." ”

Now that the drought is like this, the locusts will definitely cross the border, and if the locusts in the sky are not prevented in advance, they will inevitably cause heavy losses to the crops.

Xiao Changyi said: "It will take several days to notify the old man, or I will first ask the government to notify each village to sift the grass and wood ash or lime on the grain to prevent locust plagues." ”

Quietly smiled: "You don't exist as a father-in-law like this, and you always do things without permission, is it really good?" ”

"I'm here to solve the problem for him."

Quiet and happier: "That's why you dare to solve the problem for your father-in-law like this." "Who didn't report it, and only dared to do it after it was approved by Emperor Xiyun.