Chapter 630: Supper
When Shao Xuan arrived at the farmland, Ao and the people in charge of guarding the farmland tonight were already waiting there.
In addition to their own knives and axes, they also had tools for guarding the farmland, such as large nets woven by vines, nets with long poles, and giant ******. These are also prepared on weekdays, but most of them are only used during the day and rarely at night.
"Are you ready?" asked Shao Xuan.
"Well, just wait for you to get started. Ao said.
The farmland guards who were called over were still puzzled, they didn't know what was going on with Ao calling them over, but they were puzzled, they would still do what the two elders had told them.
Shao Xuan looked around and asked one of the guards, "Where is there the most bugs at night here on weekdays?"
"Which side is the most?" the guard thought for a moment and raised his finger to show Shao Xuan, "That's it." ”
The crops planted there are more precious crops, most of which are given by the millennium, and it is also close to the place where the thousand grains of gold are planted.
"Then go over there and try it. Shao Xuan lifted the water moon stone in his hand and went over.
The two moons in the sky were obscured by clouds again shortly after they came out, and the moonlight on the ground quickly disappeared.
The bugs, who were chirping out of nowhere, paused at the vanishing of the moon and continued to chirp.
It's dark around, but with everyone's familiarity with the farmland here, it won't happen if you accidentally go into the ditch. Moreover, although it was dark, with their eyesight, even if they couldn't see clearly at night, the fire burning on the ground allowed them to see the surrounding scene.
Shao Xuan didn't start at the edge of the farmland, but at a slight distance from the farmland, he poured out the "inferior products" of the water moon stones in the animal skin bag and stacked them together. Arrange in a circle.
"The torch is extinguished, everyone retreats. Shao Xuan said.
The people who followed him did as Shao Xuan said, and all the torches they were holding were extinguished.
Because of the Kufu feast, many of the patrolling and guarding soldiers here are very frugal, and rarely use water moon stones for lighting on weekdays, although they don't think that a Kua Fu feast can make their tribe poor. But in my heart, I feel that it is always good to save a little. Therefore, from the day they knew that they were going to prepare for the Kuafu feast, everyone invariably saved, and in the tribe, when they could use torches, they would never use water moon stones, even if the Yanhe feast was now over, they still did not immediately get rid of this habit of saving.
Therefore, when Ao came to ask them before, they couldn't say whether the clear water moon stone could attract insects. Because lately they have been using torches.
Everything around was dark, and there was no fire at all, so it seemed that the place where the water moon stones were stacked was very conspicuous.
Each piece of water moon stone is relatively dark, dozens of pieces are gathered together, and the brightness has increased a lot, even if the brightness is still not comparable to the high-quality water moon stone, but it is much better. The gathering points form a cluster, and the area of light becomes larger.
After retreating. Shao Xuan restrained his breath and tried to weaken his existence as much as possible.
The others had already been instructed by Ao and knew what to do, and when Shao Xuan and Ao were hiding their breath, they quickly followed suit. But they all stared curiously at the ball where the water moon stone was placed.
What can those dull water moon stones do?
The surroundings were quiet, and there was a faint sound coming from the mountains where the tribesmen lived. There were also insect chirpings in the nearby woods, but no one paid attention to them.
Shao Xuan listened carefully to the surrounding voices.
In the farmland, there are some artificially dug ditches, and the water is moving.
The night breeze blows, and the leaves of the crops in the fields rub against each other. Make a gurgling sound.
Well?
Shao Xuan tilted his head slightly, listening carefully to the movement coming from one direction.
It was like a sound coming from a farmland.
Boom - Boom –
A throbbing sound, coming this way.
There was also the sound of rapid flapping of wings approaching in the sky, and those were flying insects that were active at night.
A slender figure appeared in the stone pile where the water moon stone was placed, and the black figure was quite conspicuous in the water moon stone pile that glowed with a dark light.
Useful!
Shao Xuan was overjoyed.
When he saw that figure, he had been staring at the soldiers guarding the farmland over there, and his eyebrows were raised.
They couldn't see it all, but just by seeing the figure, they knew what kind of bug it was. This bug is one of the most annoying insects, because it is often on the ground, underground during the day, and only comes out of the ground at night, and they cannot guard against it unless they put an underground fence in the field.
Moreover, the insects are not afraid of the cordyceps repellent they burn, and they can't repel them with smoke, and every morning they see many wormholes in the leaves of the farmland, they hate itchy.
Unexpectedly, the dimly lit water moon stones placed there could really attract those troublesome insects!
Almost at the same time as the bug, there were a number of other nocturnal flying insects flying through the air, and there were more and more of them.
Soon, probably thinking that there was no danger around, other insects hiding in trees, grass, and farmland also flew towards this side, as if something was attracting them here.
There were more and more black shadows covering the water moon stone, large and small, long and short, winged and wingless, beating and flying, all began to concentrate on that side, and some even fought to seize the bright spots.
When the Shuiyue stone pile was almost completely covered by the insect body, and the air was full of the sound of flapping wings, Shao Xuan shouted in a low voice: "Action!"
For a while, the person who copied the net rushed over like an arrow and whistled a few times, putting the dense gathering of flying insects in the air into the net pocket, and then went down with a beat.
Syllable!
The flying insects in the net pocket were flattened.
The insects on the ground were directly slapped continuously by the person holding the giant ******, and at this time, the closer the insects were to the Shuiyue stone pile, the more difficult it was to escape from the range of being swatted to death.
After everything was over, Shao Xuan took a wooden stick and looked at all kinds of insects by the light of the Water Moon Stone. Some of the bugs on the ground were not flattened but had lost their ability to move and could not go far.
Shao Xuan was about to travel far away, and he was going downstream along the Yan River, so the bugs they would encounter might be similar to these, and he wanted to see what they had.
Shao Xuan picked up a few insects and put them in a cloth belt that he brought over, and the few that were picked out were all intact corpses, and they were rare insects on weekdays, among which there were several that looked very fierce, with poisonous needles or poisonous fangs, and the protective color on their bodies was easy to ignore, if they were not caught at night, even if they were seen during the day, they might not be able to find them.
These must be shown to those who travel far away at that time, so that they can also be on guard.
Ao has already asked people to clean up this place, sweep the flattened insect corpses together, and wait for the people who take care of the farmland to come over tomorrow to see if they can be made into fertilizer.
"How?" Ao came over and asked Shao Xuan, looking very happy on his face.
Knowing that these water moon stones, which can almost be regarded as scrap, still have such a function of attracting insects, although they may not solve the fundamental problem, they can at least alleviate the harm of insects at night to the farmland. There is an effect, and that's enough.
"It's ok, it's just a limitation. Not all the bugs you catch are crop-eating insects. Shao Xuan said, "Moreover, if there are no clouds at night, the effect of these may not be very good, and it is more effective to use high-quality water moon stones." ”
"Of course I know that, but the bugs that eat crops are still the majority. As for the moonlight, depending on the sky, there may be clouds at night these days, even if it is just to block the moonlight for a while. "Ao has been prepared for this, I don't want how good it is, as long as it is effective, it is better than those water moon stones that are wasted and not a single insect in the farmland can catch at night.
"Then go to the Yu tribe tomorrow to get some of these water moon stones?" Ao asked.
"Yes. ”
This is also a kind of trap for nocturnal insects.
The next day, Ao went to the other side to find the leader of the Za tribe.
Knowing that Yanjiao needed those "failed products", the leader of the Yu tribe didn't say a word, and directly dragged out a few big bags to Ao, even if Ao wanted to convert the price to them, Fanmu also firmly refused, for the people of the Yu tribe, these are really useless, keep them and waste them in the warehouse, and they can't sell them at a high price, so they simply give them all to Ao.
However, Ao didn't ask for it all, he took nearly two-thirds of it, leaving one-third for the people of the Yu tribe, and by the way, he told the people of the Yu tribe about last night, which Shao Xuan agreed.
The people of the Saa tribe are now short of food, although they don't like to eat insects very much, but the insects that fly out of the mountains and forests on the other side of the river are full of fierce beasts, and many of them still taste good, and those insects have begun to fly across the river and move here, but the people of the Sau tribe live too close to the fire, and those insects dare not fly close.
"It's still like this!" Shiramme felt very novel. They had owned the Water Moon Stone for so long, but they hadn't noticed such a thing.
"You can try to get farther away, and maybe you can catch some. Ao suggested.
"Thank you for informing!"
The people of the Yan Horn tribe were very grateful for the fact that the people of Yanjiao would teach their experience and skills, and they asked the patrol people to try it that night, and they really caught some, and the patrol people roasted it for supper.
On the Yanjiao side, the water moon stone, which was originally a waste product, was divided. At night, in the fields, when the moon is obscured by the clouds, a crackling sound is heard not long after.
"Hey, a little lighter! Don't shoot it all into fertilizer, it's whole and bigger, see if you can eat it!" someone shouted, waving a net.
"I know!" replied, the man with the giant ****** made of rattan wood, as he busily patted his shots.
After the shooting, they will clean the ground, pick out the big insects that are still intact, eat what they can eat, put aside those who can't eat and wait for the people who farm the land to make fertilizer, and as for the insects they don't know, they will try them carefully. Eating bugs is really nothing to the people of Flame Horn.
This is the case in several places around the farmland.
For a long time after that, the guards of Yanjiao in the farmland at night had one more activity - guarding the Water Moon Stone and waiting for supper. (To be continued.) )