Fields of Gold

The rest of the family had no time to take into account the reactions of these people, and everyone had no choice but to have eight hands.

The old man has been talking about food, food, food ever since he heard of a locust disaster! Despite the fact that his body had not fully recovered, he and Yuhai drove the carriage home to and from the town and Dongshan Village to purchase food for the whole family. Not only were the houses vacated as warehouses filled with coarse grain fines. Hundreds of kilograms of food were also stored quietly in houses in the town.

Liu Hu led the rest of the family, under the command of Yu Xiaograss, broke the ripe corn, and used the donkey cart to transport it home one by one.

Yu Xiaograss carefully avoided others, under the spiritual power of Xiaotong Tianshi, batch by batch to ripen the corn. Little Tianshi is now able to cook an acre of land at once, once an hour. It wasn't until night that all the corn in the ten acres was cooked. Then an acre of potatoes.

Liu Hu built a half-cut house and led a family of five who fought hard in the cornfield. Except for Square, who was just six years old, everyone else was a good worker. Even Liu Yan, who is much bigger than Little Grass, can pick up the corn and admit to the labor force.

Liu sent Yuhang to the pier to get Yu Xiaolian, who was doing business at the pier, to come back, and by the way, if Yuhai touched the point of the old fairy, he would learn to listen to the aunt and the mother. After listening, the Han family hurried to the house, unable to help Xiaolian close the stall. The Liu family planted more than a dozen acres of potatoes and had to retrieve them overnight. Potatoes now grow only as big as fists, but a little harvest is better than being hit by locusts.

The Liu family, with their two daughters, seized vegetables from the yard. If you can't finish it back, you can make dry dishes. It takes a long process to get rid of locusts, and after locusts have been gone for a long time without vegetables, it is better to retrieve them and rot them than to feed them! Besides, the presence of spirit stone water can prolong the fresh time of the vegetables and can last for a while.

The old man and Yu Haifather filled the warehouse at home, and the horse continued to join the camp of corn diggers. The locusts arrived early, and the rest of the family did not rest at night, cutting corn straw. There are two animals fed at home and some rabbits and everything that needs grass. Corn straw is also to be transported home and stored.

It took two days and two nights to return the crop particles from the field to the warehouse. Even the potato seeds that had just been planted were pulled back. Fortunately, Yu built a large house with more rooms, two courtyards of cabins, all freed up for grain warehousing. Home vegetables The garden is full of vegetables. The door of the room was locked tightly by the family, and the cracks in the doors and windows were clogged with dirt. When everything is ready, it takes two days for the rest of the family to close their eyes and sleep peacefully.

On the morning of the third day of the news, a noise was heard in the village. The Yu Xiaohua family came out and looked at the black and gray clouds to the south. Black clouds are common, and the villagers of Dongshan Village have met for the first time when the clouds almost stick to the ground like this.

The darker grey clouds drifted closer, and no one in the village shouted: “Locusts, countless locusts! Quick, get back every grain and dish you collect!! ”

Over the past two days, some lucky villagers have only partly harvested potatoes. The next two days were safe and relaxed some people. There are also villagers who have retrieved the potatoes, complaining that if the news of the locust disaster is false, they have been deprived of half the food.

Now to see the villagers who panicked, these people are happy to hear the words of the village chief and Yu Hai, and grab all the food back. And the villagers who didn't listen to the village chief, they regretted that their intestines were blue. Now, if you want to take it, how fast can they beat locust flying? We haven't touched the ground yet, and the locusts are on their way.

It was a hundred-year-old locust disaster, and the locusts flew all over the place, forming an airtight wall. These hundreds of millions of locust armies are flying and following the "Three Lights” policy - eating up, chewing up, biting up! In the past, the vegetation was devoured, and all the greens were left unattended, even the bark was devoured. Some of the slightly younger seedlings, too, could hardly escape the locust's poisonous hand, leaving only a pitiful little trunk of trees shaking helplessly.

The army of locusts soon arrived in Dongshan Village, they landed on the old elm tree at the entrance of the village, as if the old elm tree had been tightly and securely covered with a gray brown screen. The trunk, branches and leaves were all filled with locusts, eating the sand of the leaves and clearly entering the ear.

Dongshan Village was soon covered with locusts, and the ground, houses, farm tools… were filled with terrible locusts, and even the air was occupied by winged locusts. If you want to go out, you can step down and kill more than a dozen locusts. You have to wrap your clothes around your head. Otherwise, it's not easy to feel the locusts hit you!

Villagers who did not take their food and vegetables home cried with remorse. Their food, almost instantly, was covered by countless locusts, and when they went back for the harvest, there were only poor roots left.

What should we do? They will face food shortages, famine and endless suffering in the days ahead. Yu Xiaograss looked at them in despair and couldn't help but shout: “Locusts are edible! Grab more and marinate with salt for a while!! ”

The villagers suddenly remember who never roasted grasshoppers when they were little. The roasted yellow grasshoppers were sprayed with incense in their mouths. So were the locusts! So the villagers all over the village mobilized, they had bamboo baskets, they had sacks, they had fishing nets, and they pulled the locusts from the ground inside.

In the vegetable grounds of Yu Xiaohua's yard, there are also some rotten vegetable leaves, attracting a lot of locusts. Locusts of dense numbness lie on the ground, and vegetable leaves disappear at a rapid rate.

Liu Fangping's little potty friend had only two eyes left on the outside. He bravely rushed up first, grabbed a locust with one hand and stuffed it in the bag held by his brother. The rest of the family also mobilized up and down, each holding a pocket and grabbing the locust quickly inside.

There are too many locusts climbing on the ground and flying in the sky. If there are people with intense phobia, they will faint. Yu Xiaograss, this foolish dare to look, all gave rise to goose bumps.

Liu Shi saw her little daughter's hair on her arm and thought she was scared. “Grass, if you're scared, stay in the house. Our family doesn't point to locusts for rations. ”

Why catch locusts when the rest of the family stores so much food? Looking at the density of locusts, the old man assumed that the locust plague would not be as easy to pass, and even if the army of locusts had passed, the remaining locusts would not be a small number. It could be a long time before crops are planted in the ground. There are more than a dozen people in the house, and more food is empty for the day. If locusts can also serve as food, why don't you grab more and save as much food as you want!

After listening to the old man, the rest of the family agreed and tried to catch the locust. Yu Xiaograss took out the net pocket for the fish and ran over to the dense locusts in the air, where dozens of locusts fell. She threw the netted locust into Xiaolian's pockets and continued to capture the next net. Although not in direct contact with locusts, locusts can be caught at no slower pace than others. The sisters worked together and quickly caught a bag of locusts. Tie the pockets, Xiaolian pulled out another pocket half a person tall, and the two people were working together more and more tacitly.

When the vegetation near Dongshan Village was devastated, the locust army swept north. The villagers of Dongshan Village finally regained the colour of the sky after a day, and although the locusts in the sky became scarce, there were still few locusts on the ground.

The villagers stepped out of their homes and looked heavily at the loss of green, bald western mountains, and looked at the villages without a hint of green dotted with a gray face. Villagers who lost their food and vegetables in the locust disaster squatted on the ground and cried. What's the use of crying? Every food is not generous, and no one will take food that concerns the lives of their own families in the face of disasters that do not know when to end.

The village chief stood up at this time and looked at the villagers who cried and lost their voice. He sighed deeply, "Don't be too sad! We in Dongshan Village are near the mountain sea. If we work hard, we won't starve to death! Go to town and see if you can get some food. I'm afraid the price of food will only rise in the future! ”

The villagers stopped crying and brought all the money in the house. The rest of the family selflessly chased donkey carts and carriages to help the townspeople.

But when we got to town, most of the grocery stores closed. The two grocery stores in the Zhou family are still open, but the prices are staggering, more than five times higher than in the previous days. This is not the most outrageous, with some bad businessmen sitting up to a dozen times the price.

This is compounded by the fact that villagers who otherwise lack food have been able to buy several times less food because of rising food prices. Some wanted to come back for a few days, and the village chief said something that forced them to bite their teeth and swap their money for food.

The village chief said: "When will the locust plague pass and no food will be produced in the land, this food price will only rise in the next six months. ”

The villagers are still more convinced of the village chief. Zhou Jia's grain store was lined up in a long line, and the villagers of Dongshan Village were at the back with their heads down. All the people on the team, they are heavy, silent, and the atmosphere is particularly dull.

When it was the turn of the Dongshan villagers, there was a decent servant in a dress, whispering in the ears of the grain store master cabinet. The master cabinet frowned and shouted out to the team: “There's no food, let's not line up, why don't you go buy it from someone else? We're out of food! ”