Chapter 21: Locusts Eat Man

The old village chief leaned over: "Since we are all ancestors, and now we are all uprooted from our hometowns to beg for a living, I think we might as well join a small family for everyone, there will be no Xujia Village in the future, only the Xu family, how about it?" ”

The meaning of the old village chief's proposal is obvious, that is, he hopes to unite everyone's strength to the outside world, and the Xu family will not speak two words, and in the future, they will be blessed and enjoy the same difficulties.

This proposal can be said to be very wise, if you want to survive well on the way to escape the famine, you must huddle together to keep warm, and the family bloodline is a strong bond.

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

"The old village chief said well, we will be commensurate with our generations in the future, like a family" The villagers followed the old village chief to respond.

Haoyue thought silently, then won't I have a lot of relatives in the future?

Damn, we can't remember our relatives.

Seeing that no one objected, the old village chief began to count the generations.

Overnight, Haoyue had seven more cousins, eight uncles, nine brothers and ten sisters.

Understood, we are the youngest generation, just reach out and ask for red envelopes during the New Year.

Haoyue counted the days, and it had been five or six days since everyone came out to escape the famine, and this distance was only half of the way.

And now it is almost late autumn, and it is only a month before winter, and I hope that before the wind and snow come, everyone can settle down on the grassland of Inner Mongolia.

Inner Mongolia grassland, so much looking forward to it, it is said that there is like a dome, covering the four fields, the sky is vast and wild, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

To be honest, Haoyue is very much looking forward to her grassland farming life, and she can't wait to complete the remaining 500 kilometers in one step and step directly into the Inner Mongolia grassland.

However, what worries Haoyue is that now that the ox cart is gone, she can only walk the more than 500 kilometers on her legs......

Alas, the next long road is long, and the soles of the feet are estimated to be wasted, which makes people bald when they think about it.

Fortunately, Xu Jingyang still had the memory of the original owner when he was a carpenter, he asked Haoyue's third uncle for a wooden wheel, and then converted the ox cart into a wheelbarrow in three or two clicks.

Xu Jingyang put Haoyue on the wheelbarrow, and then put the tent, pots and bowls, bedding, food and other items on it, and then let Xu Ajiu push the wheelbarrow and squeak.

Shen Yinxing saw that Xu Jingyang was lazy to let his thirteen-year-old son push the cart, and glared at him fiercely.

But Xu Ajiu didn't care, he liked to push his sister to sit on the wheelbarrow and rampage around.

There were also a few uncles who enthusiastically invited Haoyue to sit on their donkey cart, but Xu Ajiu refused to let go, and no one could snatch his sister away.

In the end, Xu Jingyang sat leisurely on someone else's donkey cart, and then enthusiastically climbed up with other people's relatives.

Shen Yinxing was pestered by some half-old children, who were obsessed with dancing and playing with swords, and liked to listen to Shen Yinxing talk about her glorious achievements in fighting the Zerg with the Galaxy Legion.

Of course, only the children believe in these things, and the other adults also listen to the story for fun.

Haoyue sat on the wheelbarrow and looked left and right, and found that the surrounding scenery was very different from when she was in northern Henan.

There are many hills and hills in northern Henan, and the view here is mostly plain, but the similarity is that they are all dry land, and they are all yellow and barren color.

Hazy Moon, who had been watching the wilderness for a long time, withdrew her gaze, and then she suddenly felt her hand hold down a soft object, and it was still jumping under her hand.

Haoyue looked down and found that it was an obese locust in her hand, and there were several yellow-green winged locusts at her feet.

Seeing the locusts bouncing at his feet, Haoyue's brain exploded with a buzz.

First flood, then drought, locusts in patches, a big locust plague sweeping the world is coming!

Hao Yue's heart was tight, and she had to inform everyone about this matter quickly, otherwise the food and straw on everyone's car would be eaten up by locusts.

However, before Haoyue could shout, the southeast corner of the sky suddenly went dark, and then there was a roar comparable to that of a bomber.

I saw that the overwhelming locusts suddenly poured down from the sky, and the swarm of insects that covered the sky blocked the way for people to move forward, and the trees and weeds on the side of the road were gnawed away in an instant.

"Quick! Protect the grain and grass! Don't let the locusts eat the grain. "People are desperately waving sticks in their hands, trying to keep the locusts away from their bags of dry food.

The locusts have serrated teeth on their legs, and they can easily cut through the mouth of the sack under the impact, and then burrow through the hole to eat all the grain.

There are also children with fine skin and tender meat, who have not had a single piece of good meat on their bodies after being besieged by a swarm of locusts like a meat grinder.

"Lie down! Lie down! The people shouted for their children and food to be protected, and then fell to their knees, forging a wall of life out of their flesh and blood.

As soon as she saw the locust swarm, Shen Yinxing was a little excited, she seemed to have found some intimacy in these insects, and after protecting Haoyue and Ah Jiu in the barrier for the first time, she picked up a knife and danced around among the locusts.

But there were too many locusts, and the small ditches on the side of the road were filled with locusts, and these flying locusts could not be killed by Shen Yinxing, and in the end, the corpses of the locusts under her feet were almost piled up as high as a person.

The locust swarm raged for more than an hour, and when they saw that there was no more food or grass to eat, they flew away.

When the locusts come, they come overwhelmingly, and when they fly away, they also cover the sky and the sun, and the momentum is huge.

When the people on the ground looked up again, the surrounding area was already cut off from vegetation and trees, and the ground was thousands of miles away, and even the land was stripped of a layer of land.

"Woo woo, our food." Haoyue's fourth cousin had just taken care of protecting the child under her, and their food bags had been gnawed by the locust swarm to the point of only cloth slag.

There are many other families who have also been eaten up of food, and now they are all sitting on the ground crying one by one.

If there is no food, can the locusts on the ground be used to satisfy hunger?

The answer is no, eating some locusts in normal times is not in the way, but locusts in the locust plague are not edible.

Because the number of locusts increased sharply during the locust plague, the locusts were in the stage of irritability and anger at this time, and the body would produce drastic physiological changes, and the irritable locusts would produce a kind of hydrocyanic acid in their bodies, and the lethal dose of hydrocyanic acid was only 1mg, so during the locust plague, eating a locust may cause mild poisoning symptoms.

Even after cooking at high temperatures, it is difficult to remove the toxins from the bodies of these locusts, in short, locusts will be poisoned and die if they eat too much.

Looking at the Xu family who lost their food and sat on the ground and cried bitterly, Hao Yue didn't feel good in her heart, this locust swarm came too fast, and before she could react at all, everyone was pressed to the ground and rubbed.