After becoming a top-notch peasant woman, she continues to be a top-notch

In addition to Da Nan Village, people from other villages certainly also knew about the locust plague in Chi Dingzhou. Some people thought that the locust plague would not come to their An Ning Prefecture, but some old people felt that it would definitely come.

The main reason is that those elderly people had also experienced it when they were young, and the locust plague at that time also came from other places and was not in Anning Prefecture at the beginning.

Regardless of whether they come or not, some people are still prepared. They will harvest what can be harvested from the crops grown at home, and if they cannot be harvested... there is nothing they can do.

For example, rice and wheat, how can they be harvested in a short time? All we can do is to look after our own fields and catch more locusts if they come.

The Qiao family thought the same thing. "Then let's leave the vegetable plot empty for now. There's no need to plant new ones."

Qiao Er: "If there is no food, then we can't send food to the Song family?"

Zhen Yue: "They won't die if they don't eat our vegetables. Besides, I gave the Song family seeds before and they grew their own crops, so they shouldn't be short of vegetables. They have their own farm. It's just that we're not making any money."

"It's better for us to not make any money right now than to plant and not get any harvest and be eaten by locusts. It can also reduce some losses."

"That's true." Everyone thought about it and felt that it made sense.

Zhen Yue: "Store more vegetables at home, don't sell them all and then you won't be able to eat them at home."

Qian: "Sister-in-law, the vegetable garden behind the house is usually used for our own consumption."

Zhen Yue: "Yeah. Better save some more."

The villagers were a little worried because of the locust plague. Some people went to the county town all day to inquire about the news, asking where the locusts had gone, how the people in Chidingzhou were doing, and whether there were any people organized to catch locusts.

"If the people over there had caught the locusts, they wouldn't have come to our side."

However, within two days, the locust plague reached Handan, and if it passed Handan, it would reach Anning Prefecture.

Now Handan is also beginning to fall into dire straits. Everyone is busy catching locusts, but it seems that there are endless locusts to catch. They are everywhere. Some even enter people's rooms. Some people's quilts are even covered with locusts. The children are scared to tears.

Not long after the rice was planted in the field, it was covered with dense locusts. Not a single grain of rice was left.

The locusts grew fat after eating so much, and not only that, they also laid eggs in the fields. The county magistrate had no choice but to have people burn the fields to try to kill the locust eggs.

But then the crops in the fields will be gone. There is nothing that can be done about it. If the eggs give birth to small locusts again and again, nothing will grow on this land.

Some people could only fall to the ground and cry as they looked at the fields that had been eaten by locusts until nothing was left.

"It's gone, all gone! What should I do this year?! Wuuuuuu!"

"Ahhh! Oh my God!"

For half a month, Handan was complaining bitterly and Anning Prefecture was also facing a formidable enemy. The new county magistrate finally took action. The locusts had already reached the border of Handan and Anning Prefecture. The county magistrate organized some people to kill the locusts that were about to come to Anning Prefecture.

But how could they kill them all? Some locusts flew over from the top of the mountain, and soon Anning Prefecture also began to suffer.

When the first locust appeared in the field, everyone knew that something big was coming.

“Kill the locusts!”

"Hurry, hurry, catch them with the fishing net."

"Build a fire!"

"What should I do if I can't kill them all?"

“My vegetable patch was eaten.”

Locusts began to appear on Zhen Yue's land, and every day Qiao Chao and other grown men went out to catch locusts.

Zhen Yue: "Bring the chickens and ducks from home over so they can eat."

"alright."

Qiao Chao took a group of chickens and ducks to the fields. When the chickens and ducks saw the locusts, they quickly pounced on them and caught them one by one in their mouths.

When Qiao Chao saw it, he was surprised. He didn't expect it to be so useful. However, some locusts seemed to be uneatable by chickens and ducks, particularly those very large ones that were about to turn black.

These can only be killed manually.

When they were going home, Qiao Chao asked why the chickens and ducks didn't eat the locusts. Zhen Yue didn't know, "Maybe they were poisonous? They all turned black. Maybe the locusts ate too much and mutated?"

Qiao Chao: "You probably can't eat it anymore, right?"

Zhen Yue: "...I mentioned it before, do you really want to eat it? Actually it seems to be quite delicious, but it needs to be fried."

Qiao Chao looked at her, "Have you eaten it?"

Zhen Yue shook her head. "That's just what I heard. The black ones can't be eaten, but the tender ones can probably be eaten? You can ask the doctor."

Qiao Chao: "...Forget it, I'll just kill those locusts first. They're still laying eggs in the ground, oh!"

Qiao Chao sighed. He knew the harm that the locust plague brought to the people, but actually seeing it was another matter. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you wouldn’t know how cruel the reality was.

"Let's burn it, there's no other way." Zhen Yue didn't know how to develop any insecticide, so they could only kill them manually.

In fact, from Chidingzhou through Handan to Anning Prefecture, the number of locusts has decreased a lot, and many people have also killed a large number of locusts in the previous places.

But their crops were still damaged, and even a few locusts appeared in the Qiao family's yard. Little Achu held the dead locusts in his hand and wanted to give them to Zhen Yue with a smile.

Then he was spanked, and his buttocks made loud slapping sounds.

"Wuwuwu... Mother... is bad! Wuwuwu..."

Qiao Chen on the side couldn't bear it, "He's still young, and he didn't mean it."

Zhen Yue: "If you don't beat him, he won't remember! Locusts are probably poisonous and dirty. I don't know how long he has been playing with them!"

When Mrs. Qiao Chen heard that it was poisonous, she was immediately shocked, "Ah! Is my eldest grandson okay? I'll go find a doctor."

Zhen Yue: "It's okay, no need to find a doctor, boil some hot water and I'll wash him."

"Then I'll go now."

Mrs. Qiao Chen went to the kitchen. No one begged for mercy, so Zhen Yue spanked little Ah Chu a few more times. "If you dare to play with dirty things again, I will spank you again."

Little Ah Chu was crying so hard that he was hiccuping. "Hiccup... Mom, you are so bad!"

Zhen Yue pinched his fat face and said, "No matter how bad I am, I can't be as bad as you! You didn't get enough of playing with earthworms last time, and now you're playing with locusts."

Qiao Chao heard about this when he came back from the fields. Looking at little Achu lying in his arms, he said, "He is helping to kill the locusts."

Zhen Yue: "That's called playing, not killing."

Qiao Chao then asked about the situation at home, "Locusts have appeared at home, are you okay?"

Zhen Yue: "It's okay, I stepped on it and it died. Madam Zheng was cooking in the kitchen, and suddenly a locust flew over. Madam Zheng got scared and swatted it with a spatula, and the locust fell into the dish and was cooked along with it."

It was a black locust, and I was afraid it was poisonous, so I couldn't eat the vegetables, and I couldn't even feed it to chickens and ducks.

Qiao Chao: "It's okay to waste a pot of food, as long as you are okay."

"Ah."

Qiao Chao: "I'll take a break. We have to continue killing locusts at night. The village chief has organized a team and asked everyone to take turns killing locusts."

Zhen Yue: "Then you go to sleep for a while, I'll wake you up later."

"it is good."