The Yu family didn't have time to take into account the reactions of these people, and everyone wished they had eight pairs of hands.

Ever since he heard that there was a locust plague, he had been talking about food, food, food! Regardless of the fact that his body has not fully recovered, he drove the family's carriage with Yu Hai, going back and forth between the town and Dongshan Village, purchasing food for a large family. Not only the few wings vacated by the family as warehouses were filled with coarse grains and fine grains. also quietly in the house in the town, also stored hundreds of catties of grain.

Liu Hu led the rest of the family, under the command of Yu Xiaocao, to break the ripe corn and transport it to the family in a donkey cart basket by basket.

Yu Xiaocao carefully avoided others, and under the spiritual power of the small mending stone, he ripened the corn batch by batch. The current ability of the small mending heaven stone can ripen an acre of land at once, and it will work once an hour. It wasn't until the evening that all the corn on the ten acres of land was ripe. Then there is an acre of potatoes.

Liu Hu put aside the half-built house and led a family of five to fight in the corn field. Except for Xiao Fangping, who was just six years old, everyone else was good at work. Even Liu Yan'er, who is not much bigger than the grass, can break up the corn, and she can admit that most of the labor force is called.

The Liu family sent Yu Hang to the dock and asked him to call Yu Xiaolian, who was doing business at the dock, back, and by the way, he learned the words of Yu Hai when he met the old fairy and taught them to the eldest uncle and mother. After hearing this, Han didn't care about helping Xiaolian close the stall, so he hurried home. The Liu family planted more than a dozen acres of sweet potatoes and had to take them back overnight. Now the sweet potato has only grown to the size of a fist, but it is better to harvest a little than to be plagued by locusts.

Liu took his two daughters to harvest vegetables in the yard. If you can't finish eating it, you can make it into dried vegetables. It takes a long time to get rid of locusts, and there will be no vegetables to eat for a long time after the locusts, even if they are taken back and rotten, it is better than feeding locusts! Besides, there is spiritual stone water, which can extend the freshness time of vegetables and can last for a while.

Lao Yutou and Yu Hai, father and son, after filling the barn at home, joined the camp of breaking corn and digging potatoes non-stop. The locusts arrived early, and the Yu family did not rest at night, cutting corn stalks. There are two animals at home, and some rabbits and so on, all of which need forage. Corn stalks are also to be transported home and stored.

In this way, I worked for two days and two nights before returning the crops to the warehouse. Even the sweet potato seedlings that had just been planted in the ground were pulled back. Fortunately, the house built by the Yu family is large, there are more rooms, and the wings in the two courtyards are all vacated as granaries. The vegetables in the vegetable garden at home are piled up in one room. The family locked the door of the room tightly, and the gaps between the doors and windows were blocked with mud. After everything was ready, the Yu family, who had worked hard for two days, was willing to close their eyes and sleep peacefully.

On the morning of the third day of receiving the news, I heard a commotion in the village. Yu Xiaocao's family came out to take a look, and a black and gray cloud in the south swept over. Black clouds are often seen, and it is the first time that the villagers of Dongshan Village have seen such dark clouds almost touching the ground.

The dark gray clouds drifted closer and closer, and no one in the village shouted: "Locusts, countless locusts!" Quick, hurry up and grab the food and vegetables that have been harvested!! ”

In the past two days, some villagers who were lucky only harvested part of the sweet potatoes. The next two days were uneventful, and some people relaxed. Some villagers who had already recovered the sweet potatoes complained that if the news of the locust plague was false, they would have lost half of their harvest.

Now I look at the panicked villagers, and these people are glad in their hearts, glad that they listened to the words of the village chief and Yu Hai and snatched all the food back. And those villagers who did not listen to the village chief regretted that their intestines were blue. Now if they want to grab the harvest, where can their speed be better than the speed of the locusts? Before they could touch the ground, the locusts had already come to them.

Sure enough, it was a once-in-a-century plague of locusts, and locusts flew over all over the world, forming an impermeable wall. This army of hundreds of millions of locusts, while flying, pursues the "three lights" policy - eat up, gnaw all, bite light! Everywhere I went, the vegetation was eaten away, all the greenery was gone, and even the bark was gnawed down. Some of the slightly tender saplings could not escape the poisonous hands of the locusts, and only a pitiful little trunk remained, trembling helplessly.

The army of locusts soon came to Dongshan Village, they landed on the old elm tree at the entrance of the village, the old elm tree suddenly seemed to be densely covered with a gray-brown curtain, the trunk, branches, and leaves, all fell full of locusts, and the rustle of gnawing leaves was clear to the ears.

Dongshan Village was soon covered with locusts, on the ground, on houses, and on farm implements...... Everywhere there were terrible locusts, and even the air was overrun by locusts flapping their wings. If a person wants to go out, he can trample on more than a dozen locusts with one foot, and he must cover his head and face with clothes, otherwise the feeling of locusts hitting his body will not be comfortable!

The villagers who did not bring back their food and vegetables let out their cries of remorse. Their grain, almost instantaneously, was covered with countless locusts, and when they went to harvest it, only the pitiful roots remained.

What to do? In the days to come, they will face food shortages, famine and endless suffering. Yu Xiaocao looked at their desperate appearance and couldn't help but shout: "Locusts can be eaten!" Catch more, and you can top it with salt for a while!! ”

The villagers suddenly remembered that when they were children, who had never roasted grasshoppers to eat, and the roasted yellowed grasshoppers were fragrant in their mouths, and the same was true for locusts! Therefore, the villagers of the whole village mobilized to use bamboo baskets, sacks, and fishing nets to pull the locusts that fell on the ground.

In the vegetable field in the courtyard of Yu Xiaocao's house, there are still some rotten vegetable leaves, which attract a lot of locusts to come. The dense locusts lay on the ground, and the leaves disappeared at a rapid speed.

Liu Fangping's little pot friend was wrapped so that only his two eyes were exposed, and he bravely rushed forward first, grabbed a locust in one hand, and stuffed it into the bag that his eldest brother was holding. The Yu family was also mobilized, and everyone held a pocket in their hands and quickly grabbed the locusts inside.

There are so many locusts crawling on the ground and flying in the sky that if there are people with dense phobia, they will definitely faint with fright. Yu Xiaocao was stupid and bold when he saw it, and he got goosebumps.

Seeing that the fluff on her little daughter's arms stood up, Liu thought she was afraid, so he said, "Cao'er, if you are afraid, stay in the house, and our family will not point to locusts as rations." ”

The Yu family has stored so much grain, why do they still catch locusts? Lao Yutou saw the density of locusts, and estimated that this locust plague would not be so easy to pass, even if the army of locusts passed, the number of locusts left behind was not a small number. It is possible that for a long time, you will not want to grow crops in the field. There are more than a dozen people in the family, and no matter how much food they have, they will have an empty day. Since locusts can also be used as food, why not catch more and save as much food as you can!

After listening to the words of the old Yu head, the Yu family agreed one after another, and they all worked hard to catch the locusts. Yu Xiaocao took out the net pocket for fishing and swept it towards the dense locusts in the air, and dozens of locusts in the net pocket fell into the net. She shook the locusts caught in the net into the open pocket in Xiaolian's hand, and continued to catch the next net. Although they do not have direct contact with locusts, they can catch locusts at a speed that is not slower than others. The sisters worked together and soon caught a bag full of locusts. Tie the mouth of the bag, Xiaolian took out a half-person-high bag, and the two cooperated more and more tacitly.

When the vegetation near Dongshan Village was wiped out, the army of locusts flew all the way north. The villagers of Dongshan Village finally saw the color of the sky again after a day, and although the locusts in the sky had become scarce, there were still many locusts falling on the ground.

The villagers came out of their homes and looked solemnly at Xishan, which had lost its green color and looked bare, and then looked at the village without a trace of green embellishment, and their faces were even more gray. The villagers, who had lost food and vegetables in the locust plague, crouched on the ground and wept. But what's the use of crying? Every family has little food, and in the face of a disaster that does not know when it will end, no one will take the food that is related to the lives of their own family members to help others.

The village chief stood up at this time, looked at the villagers who were crying bitterly, sighed deeply, and said, "Don't be too sad! Our Dongshan Village is close to the mountains and faces the sea, as long as you are diligent, you will not starve to death! Hurry up to the town and see if you can buy some food and come back. In the future, I am afraid that the price of grain will only rise, not fall! ”

The villagers stopped crying and brought all the money they had in their homes. The Yu family selflessly drove donkey carts and carriages to help the villagers.

However, when they arrived in the town, most of the grain shops were closed. Although the Zhou family's two grain shops are still open, the prices are ridiculously high, more than five times higher than a few days ago. This is not the most outrageous, some unscrupulous businessmen sit on the ground and start the price, and the price has soared more than ten times.

This is tantamount to adding insult to injury, because the villagers who were already short of food can buy several times less food because of the rising food prices. Some people wanted to wait and see for a few days before coming to buy, but the village chief's words made them grit their teeth and exchange all the money for food.

The village chief said: "I don't know when the locust plague will pass, and if there is no grain in the field, the price of this grain will only rise in the next six months." ”

The villagers are still quite convinced of the village chief. In front of the Zhou family's grain store, there was a long queue, and the villagers of Dongshan Village lined up in the back with their heads down. All the people in the team looked heavy and didn't say a word, and the atmosphere was especially dull.

When it was the turn of the villagers of Dongshan Village, there was a well-dressed servant who whispered a few words in the ear of the grain store shopkeeper. The shopkeeper frowned, and shouted at the team: "There is no food, everyone should stop lining up, go to another house to buy it?" We've got no food here! ”