Chapter 70: The Locust Plague

Lin Shijing: ?

He wanted to shake off his sister's hand, but after shaking it for a long time, he found that he couldn't shake it off, so he couldn't bear to whisper: "Lin Chonghan, I can't give birth to your nephew by myself." โ€

Lin Chonghan laughed: "Why not, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely be able to do everything!" โ€

Lin Er: ...... No, this really can't.

At this moment, Lin Chonghan's drunken eyes are hazy, her eyes are in good shape, and when she bends up slightly and smiles, it seems to be as intoxicating as the Milky Way.

Xiao Yongqi laughed: "Hou Ye, Gu Hou Ye, you quickly wipe your saliva, look at your saliva, it is almost flowing into the ground." โ€

Gu Qingzhang subconsciously wiped the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and realized that there was no saliva, but after Xiao Yongqi lied to him, he was so angry that he smoked, and his whole face turned red.

Doctor Sun was also drunk, he crookedly approached Lin Shijing, and told him earnestly: "Big nephew, you medicine - hiccup, don't take it when you have something, and eat it when you're fine!" โ€

Just when Lin Shijing nodded helplessly, Lin Chonghan pushed his face away with a serious face: "Divine doctor, you are wrong, this is not your eldest nephew." โ€

She stretched out her finger and pointed at Gu Qingzhang, who was flushed on the side, and said, "This is your eldest nephew." โ€

"Oh," Doctor Sun nodded repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you, eldest nephew and daughter-in-law." โ€

Lin Shijing: ......

Seeing that a table of people were dancing wildly, he couldn't help it, and his eyes fell on Lin Yizhou, who had been silent and didn't speak.

The other party's eyes were clear, his demeanor was as calm as usual, he didn't pay attention to the people around him, but looked into the distance while eating peanuts.

Lin Shijing was a little inexplicably relieved.

"The black clouds are crushing the city and want to destroy it," Lin Yizhou suddenly put down his chopsticks, his expression was extremely serious, "Take my saddle armor, the enemy is coming." โ€

Unexpectedly, even he fell in the end, Lin Shijing was about to collapse, he said in a low voice: "Lin Yizhou!" This is in Suzhou, not on the border, there are no enemies. โ€

"No," Lin Yizhou retorted seriously, "Yes." โ€

Lin Shijing couldn't cry or laugh, he was just about to continue arguing with him, when he suddenly heard a guest next to him exclaiming: "Oh my God! What is that?! โ€

The drunken Xiao Yongqi suddenly sobered up, he leaned to the window in twos and threes, and looked up-

In the evening, the sky should have been a warm orange-yellow, but now there was a large black oppressive thing on the horizon, and those things did not stop in the sky, but kept rushing forward.

The blood on Xiao Yongqi's face faded completely, his face turned pale, and he said with trembling lips: "Locust...... It's locusts. โ€

The word locust silences the whole table, and even the most drunk person will be frightened to sober up.

Xiao Yongqi sat down again in a trance, his hands trembled uncontrollably, he had indeed made a divination this year, and knew that there had been difficulties recently, but he never expected that it would be a locust!

He looked up and met Doctor Sun's eyes, and when the two looked at each other, they could see the shock in each other's eyes.

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No one expected that the locusts would suddenly erupt and appear at this time, but if they did, everything was already in sight.

Last year's winter was unusually warm and snowless, perhaps this was the harbinger of this disaster.

Lin Chonghan and the others were not in the mood to eat anymore, but returned directly to Gu Qingzhang's house, and when they arrived at the house, a little girl ran over in horror to tell them, saying that there were many locusts in the backyard.

There is a vegetable patch in the backyard, and when Gu Qingzhang bought the house five years ago, he asked people to grow some vegetables.

When he returned this year, he also asked people to redouble the vegetable patch, intending to plant some vegetables again, but he didn't expect that locust eggs were even found in this land.

With a solemn countenance, he commanded, "Go and light some torches and kill all these locusts." โ€

Lin Chonghan stood next to him, she looked at the sky-high firelight, and remembered that she had seen the locusts covering the sky and the sun before, pursed her lips, and had an indescribable emotion in her heart.

"I haven't seen it, have you?" Lin Shijing asked her in a low voice, and he laughed at himself, "Like us who grew up in the capital, we almost don't see locusts." โ€

Lin Chonghan turned his head and asked him: "I have only heard others say it before, and I know that the locust plague is very serious, but I have never seen it. โ€

"Now is the time for the mango seeds," Xiao Yongqi sighed, "It is the time when the farmers are busy, and now that there is a locust plague, this year's situation is even worse." โ€

It's just that a few of them don't have official status, and although Gu Qingzhang has a knighthood, it's not easy to interfere with the affairs of Suzhou officials without authorization.

Even so, there are small things that can be done.

After a few days, everyone felt that they couldn't wait any longer, and after some discussion, they asked Kasuga and Guaer to take a few people to the countryside near Suzhou to take a walk to see how the situation was.

As soon as they walked away on the spring day on the front foot, there was a knock on the door of the back foot.

Gu Qingzhang had just finished telling Gua Er about things, and walked back by himself, when he heard a knock on the door, he went to open the door directly.

He thought that they had forgotten to bring something, but he didn't expect to bump into an anxious face head-on, this face was still a little familiar, Gu Qingzhang had seen it in the capital a few times.

"Are you the ......" Gu Qingzhang sank his face, "the scholar who talked to Chonghan in the capital before?" โ€

Lu Tingxuan was also stunned when he saw him, the hand knocking on the door paused, he took a few steps back or so to look, but found that he had not made a mistake.

Seeing that Gu Qingzhang was about to close the door, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "That, I want to ask if the hussar general lives here?" โ€

Gu Qingzhang wanted to close the door, but when he looked at the clothes on the other party's body, he knew that he was an official in Suzhou, and he might have something important to do with Lin Yizhou.

He opened the door and said with a stinky face, "Yes." โ€

Lu Tingxuan hurriedly squeezed in, and after he hurriedly thanked Gu Qingzhang, he trotted to the back.

When he arrived in the backyard, Lin Yizhou was sitting on the rockery in front of the small building staring at the lake in a daze, and Lu Tingxuan cried with joy when he saw him.

"Hussar General," he rushed to the other man breathlessly, "something is wrong!" โ€

Lin Yizhou indifferently withdrew his gaze to the bottom of the lake and asked, "What's the matter?" โ€

Lu Tingxuan held his knees and gasped for a few breaths before he recovered and said: "In the past two days, there has been a locust plague, and all the food in the field has been eaten, so there are homeless people outside the city who mutinied and went up the mountain to become bandits. โ€

"The prefect wants you to go and suppress the bandits."

Lin Yizhou didn't raise his head: "Don't go." โ€

Lu Tingxuan was stunned on the spot, but he didn't expect the other party to refuse, which made him a little incredulous: "Why did the general refuse, if the bandits were allowed to make trouble, it would be the people who would suffer!" โ€

"Little scholar," Lin Chonghan saw the movement here, she walked over and said, "There is a reason why my brother doesn't go to suppress bandits, aren't these people who have fallen into the grass also some people?" โ€ยท

"If the prefect can solve the locust plague, these bandits don't need to send people to exterminate them, they will naturally disperse on their own."

Lu Tingxuan turned his head after hearing her voice, and was surprised to find that the county lord who had had a few relationships in the capital was also there, but he didn't have time to blush, but his face changed after hearing Lin Chonghan's explanation.