"There's... There is a plague of locusts! ”

These were the first words Zhang Liang said after waking up.

Zhang Jiao, who returned from the spirit world, was worried about his brother, and sat silently with Zhang Liang all night, but as soon as Zhang Liang woke up, he stared at the starry sky outside the window with a pale face.

"Ah Liang, have a nightmare?" Zhang Jiao picked up a bowl of soup and brought it to Zhang Liang's mouth, not caring about Zhang Liang's unexplained words.

"Locust plague! It's true! I see it! Let the villagers collect the grain! Zhang Liang pushed away the mutton soup that Zhang Jiao handed to his mouth, staggered up and walked to the window, staring at the distant sky in horror.

"Ah Liang, let's drink some hot soup first, I believe you, and I'll find a way to inform you tomorrow." Zhang Jiao put the overturned soup bowl on the ground, and stepped forward to support Zhang Liang worriedly.

"I really saw Big Brother! The heavens and the earth are full of locusts, and they have devoured all the crops in the fields! ”

Zhang Liang turned his head to look at Zhang Jiao, his eyes were wide open, and his pupils were bloodshot.

"Ah Liang! Where to!? ”

Zhang Liang pushed away the eldest brother who was holding him, rushed out of the door, Zhang Jiao was startled, grabbed a robe and hurriedly followed.

The starry night was shining, the corn swaying in the wind on the vast land, Zhang Liang was wearing only a single coat, staring at the field, and his young body looked extremely thin.

"Ah Liang, it's okay." Zhang Jiao wrapped Zhang Liang's body in a robe, picked him up and turned to go home.

"Ah Liang is not afraid, he must have been frightened by a nightmare, go to bed early after drinking this bowl of soup, and the eldest brother will accompany you tonight." Zhang Jiao put Zhang Liang back on the bed, picked up the bowl and turned around to serve a bowl of mutton soup.

"Big brother, I'm sorry for worrying you..."Zhang Liang looked at Zhang Jiao with guilt in his eyes, he had just seen a peaceful atmosphere on the field, how could there be a scene of locust plague, so he also thought that he had a nightmare.

Zhang Liang's complexion improved a lot after drinking some hot soup, and he fell asleep obediently under Zhang Jiao's gaze after a while, his young body was clumped, and his right thumb was still in his mouth.

When there was a glimmer of light by the window, Zhang Jiao once again took the trouble to tuck the kicked quilt for his younger brother, looked at the sleeping Zhang Liang dotingly, and tiptoed out of the door.

"Why is it cloudy for nothing?"

The morning light was white, shining down through a few clouds, Zhang Jiao stretched his waist, looked at the sky and muttered, intending to start the morning practice.

"Woohoo!" The thin dog Ah Fei suddenly pricked up his ears, looking at the sky and barking non-stop.

"That's not right!" Zhang Jiao was shocked when he heard Ah Fei's cry, and hurriedly looked up at the sky.

A few dark clouds on the horizon gradually grew larger as they watched, covering the sky and the sun, like large patches of smoke and dust flying, stretching for dozens of miles in the air.

"Flying locusts transit! What Ah Liang said is true! Zhang Jiao looked at the dark clouds flying down in the air and was shocked, and quickly pinched a handprint with his right hand, wanting to burn the flying locusts in the air.

"Stop! Cannot! Yu Ji poked his head out of the window when he heard the movement, and hurriedly stopped Zhang Jiao's movements.

"Do you want to turn this neighborhood into a sea of fire!? These locusts will fly around when they are caught by fire, and the grain in the fields will be ripe, and the fire will be even more harmful than the locust plague! Yu Ji jumped down directly from the window on the second floor of the dock fort, looking at the sky, his face was serious and gloomy.

"What then? Can't you watch these insects eat up the grain in the fields! Zhang Jiao was anxious, facing such a disaster between heaven and earth, for the first time, he felt that manpower was so insignificant.

"Grab the food first! Hurry up and inform the folks! As for bugs, we can catch as many as we can! There is no other way! Yu Ji shouted at Zhang Jiao, urging the wind technique to decide, forming pieces of wind blades, slashing at the locusts in the air.

"Hulahula!"

The corpses of countless locusts fell from the sky, instantly covering a piece of ground in front of Zhang's house. However, for the overwhelming swarm of locusts, which cover an unknown number of miles, this kind of casualty is tantamount to a drop in the bucket and is not worth mentioning.

Yu Ji's wind blade soon became useless, for the locusts had already landed on the field, gnawing on the grain.

"Knock knock! Harvest the grain! Harvest the grain! Zhang Jiao, who led the horse out in a panic, saw the situation in the field, flew on the horse, and urged Yuan Qi to shout on the road to warn people while striking a gong.

"Oh my God!" Zhang Huailin and his wife also went out, looking at the dense locusts in the field and screaming.

"Xiao Ru Yu'er, close the doors and windows of the house, Ah Bao and Ah Liang will go down to the field with me to collect grain!" Zhang Huailin shouted in the courtyard, instructed Liu Yue'e, ran to the warehouse, picked up a sickle and hurriedly went out.

"Wind Blade!"

Yu Ji was extremely embarrassed at the moment, and the swarm of locusts kept hitting his body, and he didn't care about his appearance, and he was hurriedly urging the wind blade as a sickle to harvest food.

Villagers kept coming out of their homes with scythes and no other than others, pouring into the fields.

The locust swarm was too terrifying, although Zhang Jiao's palm kept blowing out the wind to sweep the locusts in front of his vision, he could still only see the distance in front of him only ten zhang away, and even the sound mixed with Yuan Qi couldn't reach far.

"Ahhhh

People's anger is often bred by a sense of powerlessness, and Zhang Jiao suddenly felt powerless and sad when he thought of the locust swarm he had just seen in the courtyard, which was covered by a swarm of locusts dozens of miles wide. Thinking that his village had been almost informed, he didn't care about more places, so he threw away the gong, turned the horse's head violently, and ran back home.

Zhang Jiao usually thought that the magic technique was extraordinary, but in the face of such a locust plague, he also looked extremely weak, and the wind blade was at most faster than the sickle wielded by ordinary people.

In a quarter of an hour, the sun finally rose in the eastern sky, but the vast expanse of corn in the field had been gnawed off by the insect swarm.

An hour passed, and although Zhang Jiao Yuji and Zhang Bao kept harvesting with magic, and Zhang Liang kept loading Qiankun bags, a few people were able to take a few acres of grain from the locust's mouth.

Because they not only have to get rid of the insects that crawl on the seedlings, but also carefully pack them, as for the Qiankun bag, it can't fit one or two acres of grain.

"What a sin! It's clear that it will be fully mature in a few days, and these damn insects are coming to take food at this time! Zhang Huailin screamed sadly as he picked up a piece of millet seedlings and put them in the bag.

Yu Ji and Zhang Jiao also stopped harvesting, picked up the millet seedlings and put them in bags. Because no matter how fast the harvest is, the grain that is not packed in time is no longer food, but a feast for the swarm.

Two hours later, the swarm took away the only remaining greenery in the world in front of them, and those leaves became food for the swarm before the golden autumn could be killed.

The millet seedlings in the field are only a small half-pole, and they are still not let go by the swarm, and they continue to gnaw on the field.

"Ahhh Zhang Jiao rushed out like crazy, and his palm continued to spray the wind blade, killing the insect swarm.

Yu Ji saw that all the grain that could be harvested was harvested, and he also took Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to join the team to hunt and kill locusts.

The plague lasted for three days, but the damage caused to the people was terrible.

The fields near Yuanping Village became an empty wilderness, and some bare trees were planted in the wasteland, looking lonely and desolate. Even the willow forest in the village was gnawed away, and one of the tiny willow seedlings even became a wooden stick, which was stuck in the ground in a daze.

The roofs of many of the thatched huts of many families in the village no longer exist, and only the wooden beams and earthen walls remain.

Zhang Jiao and the others killed for three days, and there were countless locusts that died under their hands, and there were still large areas of locusts gathered back into the sky, forming a dark cloud again, wanting to go to the next destination.

"Die!" Zhang Jiao's eyes were bloodshot, his hair was scattered, and when he saw the swarm of insects gathering back into the sky, he pinched the fire seal, urging the little Qi that had just recovered in his body, and shot wildly.

Seeing this, Yu Ji and the others also followed, the food was almost eaten, and those insects gathered back into a clump and flew in the middle of the wasteland. Don't worry about fires anymore.

Under the joint action of the four of them, the huge insect swarm was instantly ignited, and countless charred insects fell with sparks, and in a short time the ground was covered with layers of insect corpses and ashes.

Despite the effectiveness of the fire method, the huge swarm still flew away for nearly half of it.

……

The people of Julu County were plagued by locusts, and after only half a month, hundreds of people ate the only surplus food left at home and began to worry about survival.

Two sheds were re-erected near Zhang's house to cook some porridge and rice all day to relieve the people nearby.

Early this morning, Zhang Jiao was boiling porridge in the shed, looking at the increasingly thinning porridge and rice in the pot, and was thinking about asking those big families for some food.

"Immortals, save us!"

Zhang Jiao was thinking about things, and a woman holding a package suddenly knelt in front of her and cried, followed by many people.

"What is this doing, get up quickly, wait for the porridge to boil, everyone eat first, I will find a way to borrow some food back in the next few days, we can all survive this disaster year, everyone rest assured." Zhang Jiao recognized the person in front of him, who was the homeless person he and Yu Ji had brought home, and now they were all neighbors.

"Ask the immortals to be the masters of the children!" The woman still did not get up, but put the package on the ground, and kept kowtowing to the horns, tears raining down and her voice was terrible.

"What's wrong with your son?"

Zhang Jiao remembered that this woman did have a male doll, which was very cute. At that time, he also carried the doll into the dock fort of Chenjiazhuang, and the little doll was really sensible, and on the first day of settling down near Zhang's house, he held a bowl of millet porridge and ran to Zhang's house to thank Zhang Jiao for saving his life.

The woman said nothing, her face was pale, her fingers trembling as she unwrapped the package, and then fell to her knees again, her body trembling.

“！！！”

Zhang Jiao's body shook when he saw the things in the package, the spoon in his hand fell to the ground, and some porridge splashed on his body.

Guo Jie screamed even more when she saw the contents of the package, and was so frightened that she picked up Zhang Ru and retreated again and again, tears gushing out, and she couldn't say a word with her mouth pursed.

It was a pile of bones, the bones of a child. The hollow skull leaned diagonally against the leg bone, the pelvic bone had been halved, and many of the bones still had holes in them, with the marks of a knife and an axe.