Seeing that it was not early, the two of them went to the stove again and cleaned up their lunch.

Before it was ready, Widow Mu ran back in a hurry, and some of her soul was not possessed.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Cai Wei was anxious and hurriedly asked.

"Weiwei, it's not good, it's not good......" Widow Mu's eyes straightened, and she kept pointing to the sky.

"Vivi, look!" Lu Ying pulled her to look up, and saw a black and oppressive dark cloud on the western horizon, covering the sky and the sun, moving over this way.

Strangely, the dark cloud also emitted a subtle buzzing sound, as if some flying insect was flapping its wings.

"It's going to rain?" Cai Wei wondered, even if it rained, her mother wouldn't be so excited?

Also, she has been through for so long, and she hasn't seen a drop of rain stars, and she can't complain that Widow Mu is so panicked.

"Hey, what's raining?" Widow Mu was so anxious that she stomped her feet and stared at the dark clouds, "Can this be rain?" I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a great disaster. ”

Cai Wei realized that the blue sky was cloudless, why did a dark cloud suddenly gather?

Something is wrong.

"I'm afraid it's a plague of locusts." Lu Ying saw blood for a while, and nodded firmly, "Twenty years ago, Beizhili Xuzhou Mansion suffered once, but I didn't expect that twenty years later, it would come again." The sky is out of phase, I'm afraid it's ominous. ”

He muttered, a tremor in his voice.

Although he had never seen a plague of locusts, it was clearly recorded in the court files that locusts had passed through the country, and there was no harvest of grains, and starvation was everywhere.

Looking at Lu Ying's worried face, Cai Wei's eyes also widened, staring at the dark cloud that had come overhead without blinking.

She had never seen locust plagues, but she had heard that most of them were caused by the drought climate.

She didn't know if it had rained before she came through, but she hadn't seen a drop of rain for more than two months after she came through.

As early as June, she went up the mountain and found a lot of insect eggs, as well as some small grasshoppers, and concluded that there might be a lot of locusts at that time, but she did not expect to finally gather into a plague.

Watching the dark clouds fly to the east, Cai Wei came back to her senses and ran out with her feet drawn.

"What are you going to do?" Widow Mu called out to her in a trance.

"Find Lizheng, let him quickly gather people to catch insects in the field." Cai Wei didn't look back, and left the next sentence.

"You come back to me." Widow Mu was in a hurry, and she didn't know where she got the strength, so she ran forward and grabbed Cai Wei, "The locust god is also something you can catch, aren't you afraid of retribution?" ”

Locust gods?

Cai Wei was stunned, a little worm, can he still become a god?

I didn't expect the ancients to be so superstitious.

If you don't catch them, just wait for them to eat and wipe the crops clean, and then people will wait to starve to death?

"Mother, it's just a worm, eat our crops, we have to kill it. Otherwise, it is man who dies! ”

Cai Wei was in a hurry, and he didn't let Li Zheng mobilize people to catch it, but in a moment, the locusts could eat up a field.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, the crops in the fields are heavy, where are they willing to feed the insects?

"No, you can't go." Widow Mu hugged her arm and used the killer weapon again, "Mother is dead this time, and I have to stop you." You're about to get married, and your mother can't let you suffer retribution. ”

Cai Wei was out of options, her mother hugged her, she couldn't push her and couldn't break free, so she had to ask Lu Ying for help, "You hurry up and persuade my mother." ”

Lu Ying is an ancient, although he does not deny the statement of the locust god, but thinking about the tragic scene in the world after the locust crossed, he was still moved, stepped forward, and persuaded the widow, "Mother, human life is a matter of heaven, if the locust god is good, it will never harm people." The crops were about to ripen, but they were spoiled by the locust gods, and the men and cattle were left to die. ”

Widow Mu looked at him blankly, and after a while, Ai Ai said, "Even you help Weiwei speak?" Wei Wei is about to get married, and when you go home and tell your father and mother in a few days, you will be able to get married, if this angers the locust god, how can it be good? ”

After all, her hand finally let go of Cai Wei.

Seeing Widow Mu's thin hands holding her face, whimpering and squatting down, Cai Wei felt very uncomfortable.

After all, she was brought up since she was a child, and it would be false to say that she had no feelings. It is said that it is better to be kind than to be gracious, even if Widow Mu drugged her before to make her fat and ugly, she didn't hold a grudge against her.

But right now, as Lu Ying said, human life is at stake, and she can't be entangled with her.

She glanced at Widow Mu and rushed out.

Lu Ying also hurriedly followed, pulling her arm, "Don't worry, run slowly." ”

"What are you going to do, my mother listens to you, you can persuade her well." Cai Wei whispered as she ran.

"Aren't you afraid that you will encounter such a thing when you go to Lizheng's house?" Lu Ying asked her with a smile.

Cai Wei was stunned for a moment, and then pursed her lips and smiled.

This guy is always so thoughtful, and what is even more commendable is that no matter what decision she makes, whether it is right or wrong, he will firmly support it.

Just like today, it is estimated that he also thinks that locusts are locust gods in his heart, right? After all, it's the ancients, how many people are not superstitious?

But even so, he persuaded Widow Mu to let go, and went to Lizheng with her, for fear that she would suffer some grievances.

Such a man gives her a sense of security for no reason, which makes her want to give up.

She really had no way back but to accept it.

When he arrived at Bai Xing's house in Lizheng, as Lu Ying expected, Bai Xing immediately blushed, "Cai Wei, it's not that Uncle said you, the locust god can't be offended, we can only scare and scare, how can we catch it?" ”

"Can scare work? If it's useless, you'll have to catch it. Cai Wei shook her head and persuaded Bai Xing earnestly, "Uncle, I am dedicated to the good of our village." Our village has few people and many people, and in the year when the wind and rain are good, farming and hunting can still get by, but now that there is a locust plague, seeing that the year's harvest is gone, what will the big guys eat at that time? ”

Where could Bai Xing listen to Cai Wei's words, his head shook like a rattle, "No, no, your children don't understand, uncle can't take this risk." ”

"Not risky, do you?" Lu Ying, who had been standing behind Cai Wei, suddenly took a step forward, holding a branch in her hand on Bai Xing's neck, hooking her lips and sneering, "You have to choose one if you take a risk." ”

Last time, Bai Xing's two long-term workers were beaten half to death, Bai Xing suspected that Lu Ying's kid did it, so he had always been afraid of him, and when he saw this, he was immediately frightened and his legs trembled like chaff, "Niece and son-in-law, what do you say, they are all from the villagers, don't hurt the harmony." ”

He sneered as he pulled the branch with his hand, but the inconspicuous branch of the finger did not move, like a sword, and pierced his flesh.

In the final analysis, he is still afraid of Lu Ying.

Bai Xing didn't dare to provoke this thing, so he had to smile and say, "Niece and son-in-law, put it down, can't I just call someone?" ”

When the words fell, I saw Lu Ying collect the branches and block the gate of his house with his arms in his arms.

Bai Xing couldn't, so he had to go into the house to find the gong and bang it on the ground.

Cai Wei turned her head and looked at Lu Ying with a smile, "You still have a way." ”

"For some people, reasoning with him won't work." Lu Ying smiled faintly.

Cai Wei agrees.