Two years later

The crops in the field are at a good time to set ears, the green green spreads all over the earth, and every rice plant is full of green ears, just waiting for the arrival of early autumn for a good harvest.

Most people in Linshan County have planted new grain varieties of ginger cotton.

In the first year, only most of the villagers in Changping Village and other squire families in Linshan County were able to plant it.

When the first batch of new grain was planted, the squire families still wanted to sell the newly planted grain as grain at a high price.

Want to sell grain seeds at a high price?

Yes, go out and sell it.

Suddenly, there was one more grain shop in the county, and the peers who knew and didn't know about the "grain snack shop" were silent.

Knowing that the "food snack shop" is secretly scolding, a snack shop, what kind of food shop to open, a layman who overturns a group of insiders, seems to be capable or what?

Those who don't know are also secretly scolding, "There is a grain store"? Whose grain shop has no food? It's arrogant.

However, what reassures the peers is that "there are grain stores" do not seem to have the intention of selling grain, they are all selling grain seeds, and what are the sweet potato seedlings that are known as "three points of land to feed a family".

Sweet potatoes They know that the "grain snack shop" has sold a kind of snack called dried sweet potato.

The price is not expensive, the eldest girl and little daughter-in-law in the family have it in their small pockets.

Can this grain shop sell sweet potato seedlings? This feeling is good! Growing sweet potatoes, whether it is making your own dried sweet potatoes or selling sweet potatoes to "grain snack shops" is a very good livelihood!

Even peers are quietly asking people to buy the sweet potato seedlings.

To this day, the "grain shop" still sells seeds, but it is not limited to rice seeds and sweet potato seedlings, but also all kinds of vegetable seeds and seedlings, and even medicinal seedlings.

Recently, there have been some pepper seedlings.

The operation of "grain shops" instantly settled the hearts of major grain shops.

What kind of grain shop, that's a grain shop, it can't pose a threat!

Time goes back to the present –

"Daddy, so many grasshoppers!" The child playing in the field clapped his hands and said to his father, "Daddy, I want to eat roasted grasshoppers, you make it for me!" ”

"Huh? Grasshopper? Yes! Lots of grasshoppers! ”

The people in the fields all looked up to the sky, and the dense locusts were like passing through no man's land, and they were coming violently, and there was no grass growing in the places they passed.

"his grasshopper! Why are there so many grasshoppers? Hurry home and go home, this bug will eat people! ”

"O iniquity! The locust god is angry, the locust god is angry! ”

The people who worked in the fields did not dare to fight against so many locusts, and they did not have time to feel sorry for the crops, so they hid back in the house.

As he ran, he was still begging the locust god to calm his anger.

Jiang Mian came out of the house and looked up at the locusts in the sky.

Seeing the locusts flying in the direction of his own fields, Jiang Mian hurriedly asked Gu Yanning to contact the gold and thunder zombies stationed in various fields to work immediately.

As early as two years ago, Jiang Mian had already thought that if there was really a locust plague, then when the locust plague came, the fields would be covered with thin and tough barbed wire, which would not be a problem for the gold zombies. Then have the Thunder Zombies unleash their abilities on the wire.

She didn't believe she couldn't cure this swarm of locusts!

It works really well.

His own hundreds of acres of land are safe and sound.

However, the number of locusts is so great that it cannot be solved in a day and a half.

Jiang Mian had no choice but to let the gold and lightning ability zombies continue to stay in the field.

"Cotton cotton, not normal."

"What's not normal?"

Gu Yanning said: "It is impossible for the locust plague to form in a short period of time, and it is impossible for the weather environment in the past two years to breed so many locusts. ”

Jiang Mian thought about it carefully, indeed.

Judging from the books that have been written in the past, there is a drought and locusts.

This is also because locusts prefer a warm, dry environment. Locusts lay their eggs in dry, hard soil, and the dry weather is conducive to the survival of locust eggs.

The eggs become worms, and the adults lay eggs again, and this is repeated for several generations, more than ten generations, and it will be flooded.

If the locust swarm can reach its current size, why will it have been dry for a few years?

But these locusts, as if they appeared out of thin air, without the slightest warning.

She and Gu Yanning had been keeping an eye on the number of locusts and had not found anything abnormal.

So, where did this vast area of locusts come from?

The source of locusts is not mentioned for the time being, and the first thing to do is to destroy locusts.

It's just that the speed of the locust spread is too fast, but in just a few days, the entire Yingzhou has fallen.

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Lu Yunbei was discussing with his subordinates how to fight the locust plague.

"My lord, in this situation, it is difficult to recover this year's taxes. The yamen's account has only been rich for a year or two, why did it encounter a plague of locusts, huh! ”

"Lord Liang, when is it now, still thinking about that little tax? Now the people are extremely panicked, and if they don't suppress it, I'm afraid something will happen. My lord, why don't we hold a sacrifice to calm the hearts of the people?

"My lord, where is the convincing power of sacrifice to destroy locusts? According to the lowly office, it is better to gather the people of the county to get rid of the locusts together. “

"The locusts are now very powerful, and they are extremely ferocious, and they are difficult to get rid of."

"The swarms of locusts are too difficult to deal with, and we have to be careful when we come here, for fear of being surrounded by them."

"Yes, I heard that several people in the eastern suburbs have been eaten by locusts."

"It's so dangerous, if you call for people to remove the worms, I'm afraid, the people will complain even more, causing riots."

……

Lu Yunbei listened to them, you glanced at me, and he really had a big head.

"What is the price of food in the city?"

"The grain shops in the city are closed, and I don't know what the price of grain is."

Lu Yunbei is glad that there has been a bumper harvest in the past two years, and the people's homes have surplus grain, even if there is a locust plague, there will not be a shortage of food in a short time.

"I'll talk about the sacrifice later, but let's talk about how to get rid of the locusts."

Everyone was silent.

In the middle of the night, someone said, "Why don't you let the ducks eat locusts?" ”

"Hey, it's hard for people to go out, let alone ducks? When the time comes, it's not the duck that eats the bug, but the bug that eats the duck? ”

"Then, if you don't light a fire at night, the locusts will take the initiative to put out the fire."

"This method works."

"This method works."

"This method works."

Lu Yunbei also thinks that this is okay.

Once agreed, he immediately set about preparing for it.

Everyone dispersed, and Lu Yunbei was about to squint for a while, when Liu Baoneng came in and said to him, "My lord, Gu Xiao and his wife are looking for you." ”

Lu Yunbei's sleepiness disappeared all of a sudden.

Gu Xiao and his wife?

What are they doing here?

"Let them in. By the way, when they come to me in the future, I don't have to report it. ”

"Yes."

As soon as Jiang Mian and Gu Yanning came in, Lu Yunbei wanted to tease the two, but he didn't want to see the solemn faces of the two.

No, Gu Yanning has always been expressionless, I should say, I saw Jiang Mian's solemn face.

"Wait, I'll take a pill first."

Lu Yunbei stayed up late at work for a long time and had a bad heart. The doctor said that you have to take care of it well in the future, and the emotional fluctuations should not be too big.

He intuitively felt that what Jiang Mian and Gu Yanning were going to say would make him feel a lot of emotional fluctuations! So he had to take care of his heart in advance.

Jiang Mian saw that Lu Yunbei swallowed the pill, and said, "The locust plague is man-made. ”

Lu Yunbei: !!