When the little brother in the mall took the mushrooms and left, looking at the white silver in Gu Qing's hand, Dong Rong finally understood why his mother could take eighty taels in the hands of the head of the family.

Gu Qing put away the silver and let Yang Pei carry a large one. The bucket of pesticides to kill locusts followed her to Lizheng's house.

Gu Nuo and Gu Yu drove hundreds of ducks, large and small, to swim in the shallow water of the rice field, pecking violently from time to time, and a grasshopper was swallowed.

The ducks were playing happily, and Aunt Zhao in the field next door suddenly popped out of her head: "Alas, why did this duck fly to my field, Yu'er, Xiaonuo, hurry up and catch it back, don't spoil my rice!" ”

Gu Yu stomped over and explained: "Auntie, my ducks don't eat rice, they eat insects." ”

As if to prove herself, the duckling fluttered her little wings and stopped at Aunt Zhao's feet, pecking at a grasshopper on her trouser leg.

The ancients also called the grasshopper grasshopper locust, and when she saw this thing, Aunt Zhao's face turned white: "Why are there locusts in my rice field, where do the locusts come from?" ”

At the same time, Gu Qing and Yang Pei, who had just arrived at the door of Lizheng's house, suddenly heard a boiling in the village.

"Oh no! The locusts are coming! ”

"Oh my God! Why so many locusts! ”

"Don't be anxious, don't panic, these locusts are less than one-tenth of the locust plague that year, everyone must be calm!"

"Go back and get the guys, get the locusts away!"

In the sky, there are small areas of locusts flying over, not too many, but definitely not too little, although these locusts will not eat up all the crops, but will definitely cause a lot of losses to the harvest.

The people of Gujia Village were like crazy, beating and driving away all over the rice fields.

I don't know how long it took, the swarms of locusts slowly disappeared, and the villagers sat on the ridges tiredly, one by one with palpitations.

Locusts can eat more than three times their body size in an instant, and in such a short time, some people's families have suffered heavy losses, and at least half an acre of rice has been eaten.

Although there are losses, they are much better than before.

In the year of the locust plague, in only half a day, thousands of acres of rice fields in the entire village were eaten clean.

Many people dare not recall that scene.

Li Zheng asked about the losses of each family with a serious face, and basically they were all eaten more or less, only Gu Qing's family and Aunt Zhao's family did not have any traces of being invaded by locusts.

Aunt Zhao smiled with a smile on her face: "So many locusts flew over, but they didn't eat my rice, and I don't know why." ”

She took a number of fellows to drive away the locusts, but the locusts didn't give her a chance at all.

Gu Qing looked at his rice field, and the hundreds of ducks he bought yesterday were swimming in the water, and he was full at first glance.

She said: "Ducks are the natural enemies of locusts, and Aunt Wang and I have ducks in our fields, so locusts will naturally choose rice fields without ducks." ”

People don't believe that ducks can eat locusts, ducks can't fly, locusts can fly, people can't catch them, can ducks catch them?

When they looked at the ducks, the unfed ducks looked up very quickly, stretched out their beaks, pecked one in one bite, and then swallowed it, continuing to look for the next one.

Li Zheng waved his hand: "The locusts flying here today are a wake-up call for us, there is less than half a month of harvest, and we must not go wrong at this juncture, and if we still have money left at home, we should quickly buy ducks and raise them in the field, so that we can prevent a little is a little." ”

Everyone nodded hurriedly.

Ducks can drive locusts, lay eggs, and kill stews to eat.

The villagers gradually dispersed.

Li Zheng walked up to Gu Qing and said with a serious face: "Gu Niangzi, it's not enough to have ducks alone." ”

Gu Qing knew that ducks were useful, but thousands of acres of farmland needed at least 10,000 ducks, and they were adult ducks.

"Before the locust plague came, there were so many small-scale locusts flying, and everyone didn't take it seriously at that time, who would have thought that just a few days later, all the farmland would be destroyed......" Li Zheng sighed, "Huzhou flood, if we fly locusts, everything will be over......"

Because of the bumper harvest immediately, the whole village has not saved any more grain recently, anyway, there will be new grain in the warehouse after ten days and half a month, so there is no need to save.

If a plague of locusts strikes suddenly, the whole village will run out of food within three days, what should we do then......

Gu Qing naturally knew the seriousness of the problem.

The number of locusts today is small, and they can get away with it, so what about next time, what about next time?

She said: "Aunt Lizheng, don't worry, I didn't think of a way for you, ducks can eat locusts, you see, you don't need me to say more, I came to you today just to tell you, I have a good pesticide prepared by someone, this is slightly poisonous, as long as we sprinkle all this medicine on the rice, the locusts will eat as many as they want......

Li Zheng was about to ask, when he saw a carriage slowly appear on the main road of Gujia Village, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the village, and the little guy who drove the car jumped out of the car, and he didn't know what to say to the nearby farmer, the farmer threw down his hoe, turned around and rushed towards Li Zheng.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and out came a middle-aged woman dressed in satin, looking thirty or forty years old, with excellent maintenance.

The woman wore a black gauze hat on her head, and no one in the village had ever seen the county magistrate except Lizheng, but as soon as he looked at his dress, everyone knew that it was the county magistrate who came.

There was also a man in his forties and fifties behind him, who was a staff member of the county commander, called Shiye.

All the people who were busy in the fields stopped what they were doing, and watched from afar, whispering and not daring to come near.

Three poles on the sun.

Although it was still morning, the sun was already very strong, and the sun was scorching and sweating.

Fortunately, Li Zheng came out wearing his most decent clothes today, there was no patch from head to toe, and the shoes were not the most common straw sandals in the village, but navy blue cloth shoes with smooth workmanship, and the shoes were rarely worn with socks.

"The grass people have seen the county magistrate."

As soon as Li Zheng ran over, he lay on the ground, in the posture of throwing his five bodies to the ground, Gu Qing wanted to run too late, and was held down by Yang Pei to kneel on the side like Li Zheng.

When the villagers who were watching from afar saw it, they were so frightened that they immediately shrank their necks, and quickly bowed down, hiding their bodies in the rice fields, for fear that they would be seen by the county magistrate and would go over to kneel and bow.

The county magistrate said lightly: "Get up, take the official to see your rice fields first!" ”

Li Zheng led the county order and his party towards the rice field, which had just been eaten by locusts, and the traces were obvious, and they could be seen at a glance.

"What do you have to do to kill the locusts?"

The master and the county commander looked at Li Zheng at the same time.

Lizheng: "......"

Don't look at him, he doesn't know.

"Presumptuous!" Master Yuan's eyebrows raised, "The county magistrate is asking you, are you deaf?" ”

Li Zheng was so frightened that his body trembled, and suddenly remembered what Gu Qing had just said, and hurriedly dragged Gu Qing to the county order, and said cautiously: "Lord county order, this is our capable person in Gujia Village, she just said that there is a way to kill locusts!" ”

The county commander looked at Master Yuan: "Here are all honest and responsible croppers, you can take care of your temper." ”

Master Yuan nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, what the county commander said is true." ”

Gu Qing was a little surprised, this county magistrate turned out to be a good-tempered person, and he didn't look like that kind of insatiable corrupt official.

Ri was looking down at the stones on the ground.

Gu Qing can also understand that in front of the officials, the ancient flat-headed people were equivalent to ants, and they didn't dare to come out.

Look at the women and farmers in Gujia Village, they love to watch the excitement on weekdays, but now that the county magistrate is here, they are either hiding in the rice field with their waists, or the gate is closed, and the county magistrate is like a tiger who can eat people in their eyes.

Gu Qing could only make up nonsense: "The grass people used to love to drink, and often got together to drink with drinking friends from all over the world, and a few of them told the grass people about their parents' methods of killing locusts, and the grass people asked someone to prepare a pesticide according to the formula they said, as long as this medicine is diluted with water and sprayed on the rice, how many locusts can kill as many locusts as possible!" ”