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

It was really because Mingyu caught too many grasshoppers. If he fried them at home, they would fill a whole plate, no more, no less.

The key point is that it has only been a short period of time and so many have been caught. It seems that the locust plague will come in a month, and it is definitely not an exaggeration.

"Sister, let's go back and roast the grasshoppers!"

"Well, Mingyu, let's go home quickly."

After returning home, Li Mengyue asked Mingyu to clean the caught grasshoppers and thread them one by one onto thin bamboo branches.

She took her tools and ran to the three acres of dry land at the foot of the mountain.

These are the three acres of dry land obtained after the family split, and the crops planted here are unknown to the villagers of Xinghua Village.

Old Man Li bought the seeds from a foreign businessman in town.

Originally, Old Man Li had no intention of buying. He went to the town mainly to give his son living expenses. As a result, he heard a foreign businessman shouting on the street, saying that he had imported a batch of precious seeds from overseas.

If his wallet had not been stolen and he had no money to go home, he would not have sold it at all.

At that time, Old Man Li didn't hear anything clearly. He only heard the merchant say that the yellow seeds were very precious.

He immediately had an idea, what if all the land at home was planted with this precious crop.

After the autumn harvest, I would take the fruits to the town and sell them for a high price, but I was still worried that my son would not have enough money to go to school.

The businessman also saw that Old Man Li was listening attentively, and he had an idea, so he walked forward and pulled Old Man Li.

It is said that Old Man Li has a good vision and saw the value of the seeds. He thought that no one in the town knew their value, but he did not expect to meet him who is knowledgeable.

Under the merchant's praise, Old Man Li gradually lost himself and lost his ability to make subjective judgments. He was deceived into buying 30 kilograms of seeds and spent a full five taels of silver.

You should know that these five taels of silver were the tuition for Li Jian's two months of study, but he ended up using the money to buy seeds whose names he didn't know.

When Old Man Li came to his senses, he wanted to find the merchant to return the goods, but the street was crowded with people coming and going, and the vendors selling things were shouting constantly, so there was no merchant anywhere.

Only then did Old Man Li realize that he had been cheated. He threw the seeds he had bought at a high price on the ground and kicked them hard a few times, but he still felt unsatisfied.

He wanted to throw it away directly, but then he remembered that he had spent five taels of silver to buy these seeds, so he felt reluctant to throw them away, so he carried them back home.

When it came time to plant, he was dumbfounded again. He was so dazzled by the businessman's praise that he didn't even think of asking how to plant, which season was suitable for planting, and whether to plant in paddy fields or dry land.

However, this did not cause Old Man Li too much trouble. After all, most of the fields in his family were planted with rice. Only the three acres of dry land reclaimed by his second son Li An at the foot of the mountain had not been planted with anything.

So Li An planted all 30 kilograms of seeds in the dry fields.

Ever since Old Man Li was cheated by the businessman, he has not been to the town or to the dry land to see what has been planted. Naturally, he doesn't know that the crops in the fields are growing well.

Otherwise, it would certainly not be so easy to divide the three acres of dry land to the second wife when dividing the family.

At this moment, Li Mengyue arrived at the dry land and was surprised to find that soybeans were planted there.

People living in the post-apocalyptic era know that soybeans are a good thing. They are rich in plant protein and are known as "plant meat". Eating them can supplement nutrition for the human body.

Soybeans are mainly used and can be cooked and eaten, and can also be used to make various kinds of delicious foods and condiments such as soy sauce.

She discovered that the food culture of that era was still relatively backward, and people did not know how to use various seasonings to cook, so naturally there was no soy sauce to enhance the taste and color of dishes.

When Old Man Li finds out the true value of soybeans, he will probably regret it to the core.

Seeing that the three acres of land in front of her were planted with soybeans, Li Mengyue thought of soy milk, tofu, tofu pudding, dried tofu, fermented bean curd, pig's trotters stewed with soybeans, pork ribs soup with soybeans, braised chicken and other delicacies.

[Host, I also want to eat the delicacies you think of. ]

[Okay, after the locust plague is resolved and the soybeans are harvested, I will cook them all for you.]

When the system heard that the host was going to use soybeans to make various delicious foods for it, it bubbled with happiness.

But it also knows that the most urgent issue is the locust plague.

After all, once a locust plague breaks out, not only Xinghua Village, but even the county town and the provincial capital will not be spared, and it may even affect the capital.

By then, many ordinary people will flee their homeland because they have no food. The more refugees there are, the more chaotic it will be. This is not what she wants to see. She just wants to live a stable and leisurely life in Xinghua Village.

But as a prerequisite for a comfortable retirement, one must first collect 100 million gratitude points, accumulate strength, and go to the capital to find Yun Ran and avenge the original owner.

Forget it, there’s no point in thinking so much. The most important thing right now is the locust plague.

So Li Mengyue dug a deep hole with a hoe, and what came into view were insect eggs.

She had read about the conclusion that locusts would appear during extreme droughts in a book before, but she just glanced over it and didn't take it seriously at the time. Now it seems that it was not an exaggeration at all, but the truth.

There were dozens of insect eggs in the deep pit. The number of insect eggs in the fields of the entire village must be extremely large.

However, there is one point worth noting. Li Mengyue suspects that the reason why the locusts in the soybean field are only beginning to hatch now is largely because this place is located at the foot of the mountain, where there is not only sufficient vegetation but also sufficient water resources.

Locusts are drought-loving by nature, and they live in more moisture-rich environments.

Another point is that since this place is close to the mountains, there are many birds living here.

In addition to eating mosquitoes, these birds also like to eat locusts. It is no exaggeration to say that they are the natural enemies of locusts.

Speaking of controlling locust plagues, in fact, locust plagues have occurred many times in later history. For example, during the reign of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, there were as many as 600 counties across the country affected by locust plagues. Basically, from north to south, wherever the locusts flew, they were all swept away.

There are also historical records that during the 25th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, a terrible locust plague occurred.

Although locust plagues have occurred in all dynasties, the scale has varied, but in every dynasty there have been people who have proposed methods to eliminate locusts.

She clearly remembered that there was a comprehensive agricultural work in the Ming Dynasty called "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", which recorded converting dry fields into paddy fields to control locust plagues.

Under the current circumstances, this simply does not work.

Not to mention that it hasn't rained for several months, the water level in the river has dropped, and many places have no water source. They have to rely on the weather for food every year, so the method of converting paddy fields has to be ruled out.

Since one method didn’t work, Li Mengyue started thinking about a second one.

Taming birds is not realistic, and burning them is not an option either. She would not even consider this method of killing one thousand enemies but injuring eight hundred of her own.

Using tools to dig out all the insect eggs in the ground is too inefficient and cannot be implemented on a large scale.

There is also Chen Shiyi's "Records of Eliminating Locusts", which also contains methods of eliminating locusts.

"Locusts are not yet able to fly, so ducks can eat them. A flock of hundreds of ducks will enter the rice fields and the locusts will be wiped out in an instant. This is also a method of catching locusts in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Thinking of this, Li Mengyue's eyes lit up. Raise ducks to eat locusts.

Besides, although there are locusts in Xinghua Village, there are not many of them. As long as we find an effective method before all the eggs hatch, we can take precautions and reduce losses before the locust plague breaks out.

Even if we cannot kill all the locusts, as long as we kill most of them, we can reduce the losses and avoid losing everything and making everyone despair.

What's more, after two or three months, the weather will gradually become colder. In the cold winter, if there is a heavy snowfall, the villagers will definitely freeze to death in their houses without food, cold and hungry.

Therefore, raising ducks to kill locusts is imperative.

She doesn’t worry about advantages that others don’t have.

After all, the space lottery is a big advantage. Next, she must think about how much silver to use to bribe the main god to open a back door for her.