More than 200 catties of sweet potatoes, Qin Xi wiped 100 catties, and cut and steamed 50 catties, all of which were to be dried, and the remaining fresh sweet potatoes were kept for the three of them to eat.

Most of the choices of other families in the village are the same as Qin Xi, either rubbing silk or steaming and drying, or to better preserve this batch of hard-won sweet potatoes.

The steamed sweet potatoes were dried for five days, until they were completely dry, hard, like stones, and they couldn't bite at all, and Qin Xi was satisfied with the bag and put it in the box containing the grain.

In the next time, early every morning, Qin Jiang and He Yuan went to fetch water, Qin Xi Tang Ying cooked at home, and after breakfast, he went to the forest to collect firewood and chop firewood, and flew up busily.

Because of the bad weather, the small trees in the forest, because they are covered by big trees and can't get sunlight, and the root system is shallow and can't absorb water, they hang up directly, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of the villagers to enter the mountain, after all, this dead small tree is a good wood!

Not only small trees, but also the branches under some big trees have also withered directly, which can be cut directly by climbing trees.

In addition, the bark and pine cone roots, these will not be spared, and everything that can be used to burn has been tried by the villagers to get it back.

To tell the truth, in just half a month, Qin Xi and Qin Jiang filled up the firewood room at home, and this result was unexpected.

There is no vacancy at home, and the firewood that they get back from behind, just like Tang Ying He Yuan, is stacked against the big pine tree at the door of the house, and the big deal is to put a few dry straw on it, which also has the effect of sheltering from the wind and rain, and on rainy days, they can also go under the tree to get firewood and come back to burn.

The time soon came to September, the spring of the reservoir is completely unsupportable, seeing, about to see the bottom, the people who go to fetch water directly lined up, after all, the amount of water at the outlet is so large, the water is so much, no longer like before, you can directly throw the bucket down to draw water, now it is all water scoop water inside.

Therefore, the people in line hate the queue, no one makes trouble, and as soon as the queue is opened, the queue will instantly understand what it feels like to be pointed out by a thousand people.

Overall, the situation is not too bad, although everyone is not eating very well, they have lost a lot of weight, and they have darkened a lot, but the order is still there, as long as the social order is still there, then there will be no chaos.

On this day, Qin Jiang, Qin Xi, Tang Ying, and He Yuan went to the mountains to chop firewood as usual.

But as soon as I walked into the forest, I found that something was wrong with the naked eye, there were too many caterpillars in the forest, black and brown with spots, and goosebumps rose for those who watched.

There were many caterpillars in the forest before, but not so many that they could be seen everywhere.

Now, just wriggling in front of them, it was as if there were a dozen, and there were caterpillars crawling everywhere on the trunks, branches, and even pine needles and leaves.

Although Qin Xi and Tang Ying are not afraid of caterpillars, the number of caterpillars that appear in front of them is too much, so many that they feel a little stunned.

"So many caterpillars, I don't know where they came from?"

"We'll climb up the tree and cut the branches later, won't we drop the caterpillars while chopping?"

"It's so scary, I can't even imagine that scene." As she spoke, Tang Ying hugged her arms and shook her body.

She is a girl, and she has no good impression of these fat, burried reptiles, and when she sees them at home, they are all going to be trampled to death, and now there are caterpillars everywhere, of course she feels scared.

"I don't know, is this the same in this large forest, or is there just a lot of bugs here?" Qin Xi said with a frown.

She is respectful of these insects, one is ugly, and the other is that she is afraid that the caterpillars in the forest are poisonous.

"There's nothing special about this place, it's supposed to be like this."

"It's good now, the lack of water is imminent, if there is another insect plague in the forest, this day will not be over?" Rolling her eyes, Tang Ying said very unhappily.

The creeping and crawling caterpillars that appeared in front of her now were not the end, but the beginning of everything, and it was only a matter of time before they spread over the entire forest at their reproductive rate, and when the time came, would the forest still be able to enter?

As soon as she thought that she would stay away from the forest because there were too many caterpillars in the forest and there was no place to put her feet, Tang Ying shuddered, she didn't want it, this was terrible.

"It's definitely going to be over!"

"Otherwise, let's go separately and look around in the woods, if it's all like this, we won't be able to cut this firewood today." Qin Xi proposed.

If there were as many caterpillars in the forest as there were here, and when a pine branch was chopped, it would be like a rain of caterpillars, it would be terrible, she refused.

There is a lot of firewood hoarded at home, and if you don't cut firewood this year, some of them will be burned, so you don't need to worry too much about it.

Besides, it is not necessary to go into the forest to cut firewood, and those bushes and thorn bushes on the roadside can be cut down and brought back as firewood.

Don't look at the word thorns in the thorn bush, there are thorns, you can burn the fire and rattle, cut back the branches, when you are lucky, you can also find fat white fat insects, she doesn't dare to eat this, but her brother loves to eat, Qin Qing also likes it very much, and said that it is the most fragrant to eat when roasted, that is, when cutting thorn bushes, it is more troublesome.

Of course, if it weren't for the trouble, it wouldn't be her turn to cut this thorn bush.

"Okay, let's take a look separately! If you have it, then go back. Qin Jiang said along with Qin Xi's words.

Something is not going well, it's getting more and more abnormal.

Tang Ying nodded with He Yuan, this is agreed.

So, the four of them each found a direction, and after walking in for a minute or two, they exited, and they didn't need to look at the inside, they were all like this, and there were many caterpillars.

"What to do? This caterpillar can't crawl and crawl, so let's go to the village! As long as Tang Ying thought of this possibility, she couldn't wait to go directly to the town to live, away from these ugly insects.

"No, they've been spinning around in the woods all the time, and we didn't see any caterpillars on the dirt road that separates the forest from the village, so we don't think they're going to run out." Qin Xi hoped that this discovery was not her babbling.

After all, her house is located in front of the forest, and the distance between the two will definitely not exceed ten meters, that is, seven or eight meters.

"I hope so, or I'll want to run away."

As long as there are no bugs around, she doesn't care about anything else.

(End of chapter)