Just one pregnancy and four babies, but the prince actually pledged his love to her

"Someone, bring the tools over here."

"Yes, my lord."

After a while, countless chicken cages and ducks were brought up by the yamen runners.

Everyone present was shocked when they saw this scene, there were simply too many ducks.

The ducks that I got from Li Mengyue have grown into half-grown ducks after more than two months, and each of them is very ferocious when eating locusts.

But he had promised Li Mengyue that the ducks would be under her command.

This does not mean that he did not have other preparations. He had already secretly asked people to buy chickens and ducks. Although these chickens and ducks were relatively small, they cost him a lot of money.

Apart from this, they collected a lot of rags and scraps from farmers and asked the women to sew them into nets to keep out the locusts.

At this time, the net made of cloth has been set up by the yamen runners.

The other five county magistrates came to see Yang Zhijin to see if he had any good methods to kill locusts.

Seeing Yang Zhijin directing the yamen runners to break the net and move the chickens and ducks, he felt embarrassed to just stand there and watch.

Everyone put aside their pride and helped, regardless of whether their clothes would get dirty.

Yang Zhijin naturally saw the actions of the five county magistrates, but said nothing and ordered the yamen runners to set up four more nets.

A net that is more than ten meters long can block locusts to a certain extent.

As long as it is not a large-scale attack, the net will not be destroyed in a short time.

In addition, although locusts can fly, they cannot fly very high.

Soon a large number of locusts entered the first net.

"Retreat, get to the ditch quickly."

"Yes."

The yamen runners poured the locusts in the first net into the pit that had been dug in advance, and someone buried them nearby.

At this time, the second net moves forward and reaches the position of the first net.

Sun Biao and other county magistrates understood the method of killing locusts, but they didn't care about chickens, ducks, rag nets, and killing in pits. Although it was useful, it was not enough when facing a large army of locusts.

They originally came with high hopes, thinking they could find a cure from Yang Zhijin, but they didn't expect it to be nothing more than this.

I felt a little disappointed immediately and wanted to go back.

"Master Yang, we also have to go back to arrange the locust extermination, so we won't stay here for long."

"So is I."

"Same below."

……

So all five county magistrates resigned without exception.

Yang Zhijin naturally understood what the county magistrates meant, but he didn't have any better solutions, and the county didn't have any extra chickens, ducks or people to allocate to them.

I could only politely say, "Everyone, please go slowly. I am busy and cannot see you off."

"it's okay no problem."

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

The noise became increasingly louder, stopping the five county magistrates from leaving.

Because tens of millions of locusts arrived in Wuning County near dusk.

"coming."

The five county magistrates did not leave in time, so now they couldn't leave even if they wanted to.

After all, a huge army of locusts was flying towards them.

Yang Zhijin didn't even bother to greet the five county magistrates, and just ordered people to start killing the locusts.

Dozens of yamen runners had never seen so many locusts since they were young.

So much so that when the locusts swarmed over, they were so scared that they broke out in cold sweats.

"What are you all standing there for? Stop them now."

"Yes...sir."

The five county magistrates all hated locusts so much that they joined the locust extermination effort without caring whether they would be bitten or not.

Unlike the vanguard army, the locust army that came this time was extremely ferocious, and everyone present was bitten by locusts to some extent.

Looking at the locusts that kept swooping down, Yang Zhijin felt a surge of despair. He knew that they alone could not stop so many locusts, and the outcome would be very bad.

"Bang bang bang!"

In just half an incense stick of time, the yamen runners caught countless locusts with their cloth nets.

But simply setting up nets is not a solution after all, as there are so many locusts that you can’t even count them.

Coupled with the fact that a large number of locusts swarmed together, the impact was huge.

The first net was only used four times before locusts tore a big hole in it and it seemed unusable.

"Get out of here."

The cloth net, which was originally very light, was now heavy. Needless to say, it was filled with thumb-sized locusts.

"Pour it down and bury it!"

The moment the first net was withdrawn, the second net was already put up.

In less than twenty seconds, the fate of the first net was repeated.

The catching net in Yang Zhijin's hand danced vigorously, and hundreds of locusts entered the net.

Because he was too angry, the string of reason in Yang Zhijin's mind broke the moment the locust army arrived.

Instead of burying the caught locusts in the pit, he stepped on them all to death, leaving the soles of his shoes and the catching net covered with juice and locust carcasses.

Seeing that the number of locusts was increasing instead of decreasing, Yang Run walked to Yang Zhijin with a catching net in his hand and caught locusts while catching them.

"Master, there are too many locusts. If they continue like this, we won't be able to stop them."

"We have to stop it even if we can't."

The other five county magistrates were all touched when they saw Yang Zhijin disregarding his own safety and frantically catching locusts.

Sun Biao, in particular, felt that he had been too prejudiced against Yang Zhijin before, always believing that Yang Zhijin came from an aristocratic family and was ignorant of the sufferings of the world.

He was willing to come to Wuning County to serve as a county magistrate, definitely for the purpose of gilding his reputation. After his term was over, he would return to the capital and, with the help of his family connections, he would be able to get a good official position.

He never expected that Yang Zhijin was not the nobleman he thought he was, but a man who could humble himself and truly care about the people.

Not to mention that Yang Zhijin usually acts fairly, just looking at his enthusiasm in killing locusts now, one can know that Yang Zhijin is not a person who seeks fame.

Yang Zhijin had no idea that his efforts to kill the locusts had changed the five county magistrates' opinions of him. He was busy killing the locusts.

But there were too many locusts, and catching them in this way was like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm, and it would be of no use.

Soon the four nets were used in turn, and many holes of varying sizes were made, and the pits that had been dug in advance were almost filled up.

"My Lord, the pit is almost full."

"Quack quack!"

"Chi chi chi chi!"

The chickens and ducks in the cages were all very excited when they saw the locusts.

In their eyes, these are not destroyers of crops, but food.

But they were brought here and stayed in the cages ever since, and no one let them out.

I could only watch the food flying around, but I could do nothing.

Only the chickens and ducks standing by the cages would eat a few locusts when they flew out of the cages.

But this was not as satisfying as eating to one's heart's content, so they all started to get angry.

"Quack quack!"

"Chi chi chi chi!"

They are trying to tell people that they can eat locusts and can eat a lot of locusts, so let them go quickly.

Yang Zhijin seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, so he spoke.

“Release the chickens and ducks!”

Then the ducklings and chicks came out of the cages, as happy as fish entering the sea.

It is not picky about the flying locusts, no matter big or small, it swallows them all into its stomach.