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

Li Mengyue carried firewood and Li Mingyu held bamboo bowls and chopsticks, and the two, one big and one small, walked home.

As the two of them walked on the road, a grasshopper would fly over from time to time.

When Mingyu heard that his sister was going to send him to school, he was no longer so depressed, and the knot that had been bothering him was also untied.

Being happy and jumping while walking, this is how a child should be.

Seeing her brother so excited, Li Mengyue felt relaxed too.

"Sister, this grasshopper is so big."

Li Mingyu held up a big grasshopper and handed it to Li Mengyue.

Seeing that his sister was still carrying firewood, he withdrew his hand embarrassedly.

"Mingyu, take it first. I'll bake it for you when we get home."

When Li Mingyu heard that grasshoppers could be roasted, his eyes lit up instantly and he said excitedly, "Sister, I'll catch more and give them to Dad, Mom and Minghao."

"Catch more? Mingyu, do you think there are a lot of grasshoppers?"

"Yes! Sister, Minghao and I come out to pick grass for pigs every day, and we encounter quite a few. But Mingyu and I didn't know that grasshoppers are edible, so we didn't catch them."

When I looked towards the dense grass, I saw seven or eight grasshoppers.

Seeing this, Li Mengyue felt panic for no reason. Her intuition told her that something bad would happen soon, and it would not only concern her, but also the entire Xinghua Village, and even Wuning County and Qingshan Prefecture.

[Beep! Beep! Beep! Alarm! Alarm!]

Before Li Mengyue could figure out what kind of disaster was going to happen, a shrill alarm sounded in her mind, making her head buzz so loudly that she could no longer hear anything.

I just saw Mingyu talking to her, but I couldn't hear what he said.

She was about to ask the system what happened and why the alarm sounded for no reason, but she heard other words.

[There will be a locust plague in a month. Please find a way to solve it and collect gratitude points. ]

When she heard the word "locust plague", Li Mengyue finally understood what was going on.

It seemed as if she had never seen a drop of rain since she came into this world.

She also heard from the villagers that there were several rains after the New Year, but each rain was not heavy and the ground was not thoroughly soaked.

When I came to Xinghua Village from the capital, I saw that the land in many places was relatively dry.

The key point is that the capital is five hundred miles away from Xinghua Village. If you travel by carriage at the speed of an ordinary horse, it will take more than ten days.

There has been no rain over such a long distance. Once a locust plague occurs, one can imagine how large the area covered would be, and tens of thousands of people would be affected.

Thinking of the villagers who helped my family repair their houses and weed, there are still many kind people in the village.

She really didn't want these lovely people to face the locust plague, fall into despair and become helpless.

After all, even though she had not experienced it herself, she knew a thing or two about how devastating the locust plague was from the books she had read.

She once read a book about a locust plague, which described the locusts covering the sky like dark clouds.

The raindrops fell to the ground with a rustling sound like hail. It wouldn't be long before all the crops in the fields were eaten up, leaving only bare land for people.

This resulted in a significant reduction in food production, and in serious cases, food shortages occurred.

As far as she knew, crops in this era generally had low yields. Even in years of good weather and good harvests, the maximum yield of rice in the fields was three shi, or three hundred kilograms.

In addition, there are many kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies. In addition to the grain tax collected by the court as usual, local officials will also make up various reasons to take away as much grain as possible from the people in order to "generate revenue."

However, these grains are often not sent to the capital, but instead go into the pockets of local officials.

As for Wuning County, County Magistrate Yang, whom I met at the Huang Mansion last time, seemed to be a good official who could stand up for the people.

No one can say for sure whether they will find a way to collect grain over time.

In addition, when a locust plague occurs, the locusts not only eat crops, but also reproduce very quickly and have an amazing reproductive capacity.

Basically, a female locust can lay 100 to 150 eggs at a time and produce 3 to 5 batches of offspring in a year.

If we only calculate based on the minimum number of eggs laid and the minimum growth efficiency, a locust can give birth to up to one million locusts in one year.

If calculated based on the highest egg-laying rate and the highest reproductive efficiency, one locust can produce 1 billion locusts in a year.

75 billion locusts, what a scary number.

There are only a few of them on the road now, so it's not scary and won't cause any big harm. But if there were thousands of them together, it would be troublesome.

Moreover, during the reproduction process, locusts not only erode the soil but also cause plant death.

Extreme drought will inevitably lead to floods. Once there is a heavy rainstorm, the soil on the mountain will easily be washed away by the rain in the absence of vegetation to protect it, causing floods.

[Host, I found that the alarm is working. It gave a warning that there will be a locust plague in a month.]

【Oh! I know, you said it too late. 】

When the system heard what Li Mengyue said, it suddenly said: [Ah! Host, I didn't mean to not tell you, please don't be angry. It was mainly because I finished eating a big pot of pheasant stew and was forced to shut down without knowing it. I felt the circuits in my body were numb. I don't know how long it took, but when I woke up again, I saw the light on the alarm was on. ]

[And the alarm also indicated that there would be a locust plague in a month.]

In fact, Li Mengyue was not angry at all. Instead, she made Tuanzi happy.

You know, ever since she became bound to Tuanzi, she learned that it was framed by Xiaojiantong and was almost destroyed.

Only with the help of the Lord God did she retain a "life". Even so, the functions that she had upgraded with great difficulty were all restored to factory settings. She was no longer one of the three powerful rulers of the world, but a weak system with a combat power similar to that of a newborn human baby. She felt distressed.

Even though she often complains about how good Tuanzi is at eating, and is a veritable foodie, she is still the one who dotes on Tuanzi the most. If Tuanzi says something is delicious, she will always find ways to get Tuanzi to eat it.

Even if the conditions are not available now, I will arrange them for Tuanzi when I meet them later.

Even though they had only been together for a little over two months, she already considered Tuanzi a close friend.

When she heard Tuanzi say that her phone was forced to shut down without her noticing, she became worried for no reason.

Knowing that Tuanzi's alarm function had been restored, he was immediately relieved, but he did not forget to "taunt" it.

[Maybe I ate too much chicken! ]

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Tuanzi was acting shy, and a suspicious blush appeared on his chubby face.

[Tuanzi, please don't tell me that it was really because of eating chicken. I was worried for nothing.]

[Host, I am like this because your cooking is so delicious. You said they were just two pheasants, why did you cook them so deliciously that I couldn't stop eating.]

Really not wanting to listen to the system's excuses, Li Mengyue unilaterally cut off contact and prepared to take her brother home.

But when I saw what Mingyu was holding, I suddenly felt that time was running out.