Li Xing had suspicions in his heart, but he still needed to ask the Ye family for confirmation before he dared to draw conclusions.

Everyone in the Ye family watched Li Xing tinkering in the garden from afar, and they were all silent, for fear of making a noise and disturbing Master Li. Seeing her approaching at this moment, Ye Mubai opened his mouth and asked, "Master Li, have you found anything?" ”

"There are clues, but I have to ask Uncle Ye a few questions first."

Ye Mubai was overjoyed: "I know everything!" ”

"The Ye family suffered a locust plague more than 20 years ago, can you tell me about the specific situation?"

"This ......"

Including Ye Qingting, the faces of all the Ye clan members became heavy.

The Wutu True Locust Incident can be said to be a thorn in the hearts of all Ye clansmen. In one night, the home was destroyed, thousands of blood relatives died in battle, and thousands of hectares of medicine fields were destroyed, not to mention, it was up to the second lady to sacrifice her lifelong happiness in exchange for rescue. All this is a disaster, and it is a shame that they will never want to remember.

Ye Mubai was still hesitating, but Ye Chun spoke: "Mubai, what's so embarrassing about this, tell Master Li!" ”

"Yes!" Ye Mubai said slowly: "Twenty-two years ago, a group of Wutu True Locusts descended on the mountain behind the Ye family without warning. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Ye family did not have time to open the mountain protection array, causing the locusts to drive straight in, gnaw on the herbs, and attack the clansmen. All the martial artists and rune masters of the Ye family poured out their nests to fight and exterminate the Wutu True Locusts with all their might. ”

"It's a pity that this batch of Wutu True Locusts is huge in number, extremely manic, and its combat effectiveness exceeds its due level too much, and the Ye family is not an opponent, and there are heavy casualties. Thanks to the arrival of reinforcements from the Guardians of Emerald City and other families, the Wutu True Locust was annihilated. ”

Li Xing frowned, the Wutu True Locust will only have a manic temperament during the breeding period, and its combat power will skyrocket.

"Uncle Ye, was this piece of Jiuqu Spiritual Ginseng destroyed back then?"

Ye Mubai's face showed a look of pain, and he said slowly: "No." My wife sacrificed her life to protect the ginseng garden with a talisman array, and did not let the Wutu True Locust get infected with the Jiuqu Spiritual Ginseng. ”

I see, Li Xing can now be sure that the living creature that Sam Ying is talking about is the Wutu True Locust.

"Master Ye, Uncle Ye, everyone, I think I know the reason for the abnormality of these Nine Qu Spirit Ginseng. There are eggs of the Pentose locust in the ground of this ginseng garden, and they are about to hatch. ”

Ye Chun and Ye Mubai roared almost at the same time: "What——! "Impossible——!"

Ye Chun's expression was unprecedentedly serious:

"Li Xiaoyou, back then, we also thought of the possibility of the Wutu true locust laying eggs, so we spent a great price to plow the entire back mountain. The soil was dug up to a depth of twenty meters above the ground, and the soil was burned in flames, exposed to the sun, and left to dry for three years before the herbs could be planted again. Even if the locusts really lay eggs, they won't survive. ”

Ye Mubai also nodded in agreement: "Yes, Master Li, the medicine garden is too important to our Ye family, so even though the spawning of the Wutu True Locust is just a hypothesis, we still have done the most thorough emergency treatment according to the worst consequences, and there will definitely be no mistakes." ”

If it weren't for the fact that ploughing and burning soil required a lot of money and manpower, the Ye family couldn't afford it, and Ye Lan wouldn't have to marry into the Chu family and be wronged.

Facing Ye Chun and Ye Mubai's doubts, Li Xing explained: "The Wutu True Locust is an earth-attribute insect beast, and its eggs can drill up to twenty meters underground, but who stipulates that the eggs can only move vertically? Can't it just go sideways? ”

"The Ye family ploughed, dug the soil, and burned it, which can indeed kill the eggs, but definitely not all of them, some of the eggs escaped."

"Because Jiuqu Lingshen is too precious and has not been damaged by the Wutu True Locust, you will never dig up the soil of the ginseng garden and burn it. In this way, the garden becomes a refuge for insect eggs. ”

Ye Chun and Ye Mubai were silent, and they had to admit that there was a possibility that Li Xing said.

"The soil of the garden contains yellow spring soil, which has the effect of isolating spiritual power, and even if you use the exploration mirror, you can't see that deep. Therefore, for so many years, no one has found that there are real locusts in the ground. It wasn't until the eggs were about to hatch that Jiuqu Lingshen felt the threat from natural enemies, so they jumped out of the soil to hide. ”

Looking at Ye Chun and Ye Mubai's increasingly ugly faces, Li Xing knew that they were shaken.

"It's easy to know if I'm right, find the eggs, won't the truth be revealed?"

According to Li Xing's speculation, in order to avoid the burning of the fire, all the escaped insect eggs would be hidden under the garden. However, the density of eggs is too high, which is not conducive to their development, so after the incident subsides, these eggs will inevitably be transferred to other parts of the medicine garden.

Ye Chun immediately made a decision and ordered his subordinates to bring the exploration mirror and go to all parts of the medicine garden to find traces of insect eggs.

Only fifteen minutes later, not far from the ginseng garden, the medicine garden where the pear fruit was planted came with the news, and sure enough, the eggs of the Wutu true locust had been found.

Ye Chun couldn't believe that this was true, and flew to the pear orchard, snatched the Kun Kun Exploration Mirror from the hands of the clansmen and checked it for himself.

When Ye Chun saw the insect eggs reflected in the mirror, densely distributed underground, the old man only felt that his eyes were black, and he fell down.

"Head of ——!" "Father's ——!" "Grandpa——!"

Everyone hurriedly helped Ye Chun up and found that his face was like ashes. Ye Mubai pried Ye Chun's mouth open and poured a bottle of medicine into it.

Waiting for the medicine to take effect, Ye Chun turned gloomy, and the first thing he said when he opened his mouth was:

"Mu Bai, Ye family...... Finished. ”

The density of insect eggs reflected by the exploration mirror is much more than Li Xing estimated.

There are so many insect eggs under a medicine garden, so how many are there under the entire medicine mountain? When they hatch into worms, how many herbs will be left of the Ye family? If the events of twenty-two years ago were repeated, the Ye family would not have the ability to plow the medicine mountain again.

Ye Mubai's mood was not much better than Ye Chun's. "Father, do you want to inform Chu Yu and let the Chu family send someone to help?"

Ye Chun shook his head firmly: "No, in that case, the Ye family will owe the Chu family a favor, and your second sister will never want to leave." This time, our Ye family has to rely on ourselves! ”

Ye Chunqiang stood up, looked around at everyone, and commanded in a sad voice:

"Old Hu, pass on my order, all the Ye family's martial artists and rune masters are on standby twenty-four hours a day. The healer hurried up and picked all the herbs that could be picked and sold them as soon as possible, and it didn't matter if the price was lower. ”

"In addition, arrange for people under the age of sixteen and those who do not have Yuan Ling to live temporarily in other cities, and they will not be allowed to come back without my order."

Steward Hu said with tears in his eyes: "Yes, the head of the family." ”

"Mu Bai, you go and inform the city lord and let him prepare for battle, so that the Wutu True Locust will not run out and threaten the people in the city. Let Qingyun, Qingbo, and Qingxiao notify the rest of the major families in Cuihuan City to take precautions as soon as possible. ”

Ye Mubai choked up, he knew that his father was preparing to fight to the end with the Wutu True Locust.

This time, the Wutu True Locust would not even let go of the Jiuqu Spirit Ginseng, and the Ye family had no chance to turn over. No matter what the outcome of this battle is, the Ye family will be dealt a fatal blow

As soon as he thought that the family that had lasted for thousands of years would be destroyed in the hands of his own generation, Ye Mubai's heart began to bleed.

Ye Chun: "Qingting, you-you go back to Harshas, leave the affairs of the family to your grandfather and your uncle, you can study with peace of mind." ”

Ye Qingting shook his head: "No, I'm not leaving!" Grandpa, it's too early to give up, there must be a way! ”

Ye Chun sighed and said, "You are young and have never experienced the locust war back then, so you would say such a thing. If there is a little hope, grandpa will not make such a decision. Okay, be obedient, go back with Li Xiaoyou. ”

Li Xing? That's right, and Li Xing!

Ye Qingting's eyes were red, and he looked at Li Xing as if pleading: "Ah Xing, can you help us......"

Li Xing nodded briskly: "Okay, I'll refine a pill first!" ”