The news brought by Xu calmly made Lu Dong's trip a little dignified, I have seen the legendary Heavenly King Zuo Envoy on both sides, and I know that a character like him, who can fight with him, must be a well-known big man in the rivers and lakes for a long time, such as my master Li Daozi or Wang Hongqi of the General Bureau, and although I have gained a little in the cultivation recently, it is not enough to support such a situation.

You must know that although it has been in decline for many years, in the leaderless evil spirit sect, the left envoy of the Heavenly King is equivalent to the leader of the evil way in the rivers and lakes, in front of such a person, let alone me, even my famous uncle Li Daozi, has to be strategically transferred.

However, there is a problem, that is, he was born here, but Wang Xinjian will not necessarily be in Ludong and Bohai Bay, after all, after so many years of blows, it is difficult for him to build a nest in his hometown.

In other words, maybe all the worries are just self-inflicted, and the left envoy of the king may not have time to pay attention to us.

Thinking of this, I felt a little more at ease, and on the way to Dongying, I specially informed everyone to be careful, the situation here is very complicated, and it may not be much easier than ours in Southern Province. When we arrived in Dongying City, the comrades of the local city bureau and the agricultural bureau were waiting for us, and when we arrived at the conference room, the local leaders were responsible for briefing us on the situation of the locust plague, and I found the local deputy director in charge of the main business and inquired about the affairs of the Eighth Company Battalion.

However, I was surprised by this Director Zhou's answer, he actually sued me, what did he say about the Eighth Company Battalion? It's been history for a long time, and he hasn't heard of it at all.

I was a little surprised, I knew that I could hear the fame of the Eighth Company Battalion when I walked around the train casually, but how did it become history when I went to the relevant departments that specialize in supervising the local area? So I stared at him and asked you sure?

Seeing that I didn't believe it, Director Zhou said with a wry smile: "Team Leader Chen, if you don't believe it, why don't I find a comrade who is familiar with the situation and take you to the ruins of the Eighth Company Battalion to have a look?" Those local tyrants and shoddy gentry were rampant in those days, but before liberation, they were afraid of the prestige of our people's government, some went abroad, some went to Taiwan, and only a small number of them lived in seclusion in the mountains, forests and countryside, half a century, has long been history^"

I thought it was the local officials who deliberately concealed it, but I didn't expect that the famous Eighth Company Battalion in history had already disappeared without a trace.

Although it was strange in my heart, I didn't come out, and I kept this matter in my heart at the moment, waiting for the news of Zhao Zhonghua's return.

After the meeting of the city bureau, the night has fallen, and the local department is ready to set a table for us in the best hotel in Dongying, so that we can taste the eight major cuisines of the long-standing and profound Lu cuisine, and taste a CCTV standard King Confucius Mansion banquet wine, but this mention was politely rejected by us, first, the central government has recently judged the style of eating and drinking, and secondly, the journey is tossed for a day, quite tired, and there is still a lot of work to be done the next day, so I simply had some dinner in the canteen of the unit, and then they rested.

After eating, when I returned to the room arranged by the local department in the guest house, Nuer told me that the faces of several leaders of the city bureau and the agricultural bureau just now were not very good-looking, I shook my head and smiled bitterly, knowing that these two bureaus are Qingshui Yamen, maybe they are all waiting for a delicious meal today.

Uh, well, it's my idea that it's too simple, people can sit in this position, they may not be greedy for such a meal, maybe they just want to connect with us more.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day I summoned everyone to the scene for a brief meeting, and then assigned the task, with Nuer accompanying Ayiziluo to the countryside to investigate whether there are still unhatched insect eggs in the large areas of barren beaches or abandoned lands along the lake, coast, river flood, waterlogging and other areas, and whether there will be the possibility of large-scale locust plagues, while Xu Tanding led a team to visit the families of the deceased who died in the locust plague to find out the stories behind them, as for me, I took Zhang Liyun, Lin Hao and the little white fox to Zibo Tanxi Mountain in the southwest alone, Discover the mystery of the mysterious disappearance of locusts.

After the assignment was completed, the teams were ready and set off, followed by a local driver named Xiao Man, a young man who had just joined the Religious Affairs Bureau and a college graduate of East China Theological Seminary.

East China Theological Seminary is ostensibly a church school, in fact, it is the same as the Religious Affairs Bureau, a set of brands and two teams, is a place dedicated to cultivating high-end custom talents, the predecessor is similar to Wushan Reserve Training School, I chatted with Xiaoman for a few words, only then did I know that the former Wushan Training School has been upgraded to East China Theological Seminary, I think in the current situation of paying more and more attention to academic qualifications, do I contact President Dai to see if I can get a doctorate or something like that, and there will be some competition in the future?

Anyway, like us who are incumbents in the official face, these masters, doctors, etc., who are serious about studying, but they are all benefits, right?

This is absurd, Xiaoman is not easy to accept, but smiled in awe: "Leader, like you, why bother to get a meaningless doctor, if you go to our school, you will definitely be a professor." "

Xiaoman is familiar with the road, but the car is Lin Hao driving, all the way to the Tanxi Mountain, which is the junction of Zibo and Qingzhou, here is not far from the hometown of Pu Songling, who set up a tea stall to write a story, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, the ancient trees are coiled, the white birds dwell, the rock is strange cypress, the forest is beautiful, it is also a good place to go, and listen to Xiaoman to introduce to us, indicating that the prince of Zhaoyang once took refuge here and read, and the famous peasant army leader Tang Saier also unveiled the uprising here, which is a place with historical origins.

We parked the car in Shigou Village, Ezhuang Township, and walked to Tanxi Mountain, along the way, only to find that the greenery was getting thicker and thicker, and there were no traces of locust infestation, which made us a little strange, but before we took the road, and the direction of the locust migration was not the same, I don't know what the specific situation is.

But seeing this situation, I also know that there will be a harvest in this pond of streams and mountains, what is the mystery here that can make all the ravaging locusts disappear?

Before entering the mountain, we ate a little dry food, and then began to search around the border of the mountain, and the five of us searched carefully, and finally found the route of the locusts into the mountain in the afternoon, but saw that there was a river across the river, and the grass and trees on the other side of the river were bare and muddy, while on the opposite bank was a green onion, full of life.

This situation is a bit strange, I asked Zhang Liyun and Lin Hao and others to collect plants, soil and water preservation, and then try to find witnesses nearby, but this is near the mountain, and no one lives there, we searched for a while, only to find a family downstream, greeted twice outside the courtyard, and walked out of the old and dizzy one-eyed old man to ask what was the matter. When we had explained our intentions, the old man beckoned us to sit down at the stone table in front of the courtyard, and shouted to the house, "Dog, guests have come, get some water and food." "

As soon as these words fell, a little boy of seven or eight years old with a toilet lid ran out, holding a large teapot and a large plate, and placed them on the table.

The grasshopper is the locust, but when we saw that these raging pests were fried to brown and crispy, the aroma was overwhelming, and the one-eyed old man poured tea for us, and then said: "Come, taste a fresh, we countrymen, there is nothing to entertain guests, the water is sweet, this grasshopper also wants to make it, and its own peanuts are fried."

Saying this, it is inevitable that I will be grateful for the new society, I am very gracious, I ate one, but found it crispy and crispy, and I couldn't help but eat two more, looking at others, but it was a rhythm that couldn't be stopped at all. We were eating this pepper and salt grasshopper snack, and the one-eyed old man shook the fan and said: "I haven't seen the locust plague for many years, but it has been two times in the past two years, and they are all settled in our Tanxi Mountain, I went to the temple last time to ask, and the master told me, saying that it was because there was a great immortal living in this mountain, specializing in driving away the plague."

I smiled bitterly and drank a big bowl of tea, I don't know if it's good to say, you must know that I came to listen to eyewitness testimony, not to listen to this old man set up a dragon gate array, tell stories, and stop at the moment, and ask him if he saw anything unusual when the locust plague occurred some time ago.

The one-eyed old man shook his head, and said that the locusts were traveling at night, and he closed the doors and windows, and when he woke up in the morning, he waited to pick up the locusts, and did not look at anything.

I smiled helplessly, and then the little white fox who was patrolling outside came to me and said, "Brother, come and see, I have found signs of the locust walking." When I heard this, I hurriedly said goodbye to this fellow, and then went out to have a look, but I saw that the little white fox had found a way, and walked straight into the mountains and forests, and walked a mile or two, and saw that there was indeed a large number of insect corpses accumulating there. Seeing this scene, I didn't say more, led the team to keep moving forward, and found that the further I went, the more insect corpses became, and the places that were sparse and ordinary elsewhere were piled up quite high at the moment.

When I walked to the junction of the two forests, I saw a Feiquan Waterfall in front of me, which flowed down, and on top of the clear pool, there were locust corpses more than one meter high, and others wanted to move forward, but I stretched out my hand to stop everyone, and I felt my heartbeat accelerate, as if there was something extremely familiar, just ahead.

Others saw that I was nervous, I didn't know what was going on, the pile of insect corpses looked dense, but I didn't need to look like this, but at this time, I suddenly heard the little white fox scream: "Fat girl! "

When the little white fox had finished calling, the people rushed forward, and I looked in her direction, and saw a little monkey under the waterfall, looking this way vigilantly.