Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

Youxi couldn't believe what he saw and rubbed his eyes hard.

"No, how did you hit sixteen birds with ten stones?!"

I counted them again and there were sixteen.

"You, you, you cheated!"

Shiro explained honestly, "I didn't cheat. I was just trying to kill two birds with one stone. However, I didn't use the stones very well this time, so I only hit two out of six."

He, he, he! One stone hits two!

Silang was a little embarrassed: "There are many of us brothers and sisters, and we have a lot to eat. Killing one at a time is not enough. I thought about it for a few days and practiced this method."

This is what fills their stomachs, so he can only think of some tricky ways.

After saying that, she felt awkward and didn't dare to look at Youxi, wondering if he would dislike her.

However, she lowered her head and looked at Youxi's face, her hands tightly hugging his legs.

"Brother! Dear brother! Brother, please, teach me."

If I had known Shiro was so capable, there would be no point in competing with him. He just loves being called brother.

Shi Lang's face instantly turned red: "No, no, no, get up."

"I can't afford it, but you have to promise me first."

"Teach, I'll teach you."

Youxi got up quickly and said, "Brother, when do we start learning?"

He is now thirsty for knowledge.

"The village head is still waiting for us to return."

Youxi finally remembered this matter and picked up his poor nine birds with frustration.

"What about tomorrow? You teach me tomorrow!"

Silang nodded, and Youxi finally put his heart at ease and ran home happily.

The village head's wife added water twice before she finally waited for them to come back.

"I told you to go and come back quickly, but you're playing around again." The village head glared at Youxi.

Youxi stuck out her tongue and pulled Shilang to stand aside.

There was one more person in the room than before, he was Hu the butcher from the village. When he was young, he worked as a handyman in a butcher shop. When he was older, he apprenticed to a master and learned how to slaughter pigs. The place where pigs were slaughtered was very dirty, and over the years he had gotten used to being unkempt.

He returned to the village a few years ago. He farmed on weekdays and helped the village slaughter the New Year pig during the Spring Festival. He has less murderous aura, but the messy beard on his face remains the same.

Butcher Hu took out a sharp knife and ripped open the stomachs of all the birds in no time.

Although Hu the butcher looks big and strong, he is very delicate in his work. He took out all the bird stomachs, laid them out in a row, and cut them open one by one, making sure they were clear and distinct.

The headman looked at them one by one and didn't see a single grain of food. There were only undigested worms and something that looked like rice grains in the stomach. If it weren't for the yellow color, he would have thought it was rice.

Wu Lang raised his voice: "Grandpa Lizheng, these are locust eggs!"

Everyone's eyes fell on the yellow rice grains.

The village head had a vague impression, as if he had seen it when he was turning the soil, but what he saw was a whole pile, neatly arranged in rows.

Is this a locust egg?

Everyone present had been farming their entire lives, but none of the children knew much. The village head couldn't help but ask, "How did you know this?"

Speaking of this, Goro felt a little embarrassed.

"I've picked some up in the fields before, thinking they were delicious. I dug up a lot and boiled them in water. But even the pot was stinky after cooking, so I couldn't eat them at all. I just buried the rest in the yard, but I didn't expect a bunch of locusts to come out a few days later."

Silang remembered and secretly slapped Xiaowu on the butt.

He got a good beating from his mother because of this, and he would have almost forgotten it if Xiaowu hadn't told him.

The village head clenched his fist on Wulang's head. This Feng.

"We still need to be cautious about this matter." The head of the village said a few names and asked Youxi to call them.

These people are all old farmers in the village. They are all old and should not be in the mountains now.

People came quickly.

After looking at it, two of them confirmed that it was locust eggs.

The room fell silent again.

It turns out they have been wrong all these years.

If they had known that the bird-flowers eat locust eggs, they would definitely not have hunted them. If they hadn't hunted the bird-flowers, they would have eaten all the locust eggs. Without eggs, there would be no locusts, and without locusts, they would...

What have they been doing all these years!

Old Mrs. Cui was in a heavy mood, but more of a relief.

She was not wrong about Lin.

The village head carefully packed the bird's stomach.

"I will go to the magistrate tomorrow and show these to him."

It's not just Xiahe Village that's killing locusts. Besides, locusts won't stay in one place. Even if their village is cleaned up, it will be useless if other villages are not.

This is a major event for all villages and the county magistrate must be notified.

After the matter was settled, everyone went back home.

The head of the village gave orders for Youxi.

"Go and inform the villagers that from now on, no one is allowed to kill sparrows. If anyone is caught killing one, they will be fined one pound of grain!"

"Oh, okay." Youxi walked out, but stopped after taking two steps and picked his ears.

"Master, tell me again, what can't be hunted and killed?"

The village head glanced at him and repeated it again.

"No! Why can't I kill them?" Youxi couldn't accept it. "Then how can I learn to use a slingshot?!"

He just realized that there are people who are better than him. Silang finally agreed to teach him, but in the end, the master didn't allow him to kill the sparrow flower?

So he will never be able to surpass Shiro in this life?

He doesn't accept it!

"If you keep yelling, I'll throw away your broken slingshot." The village head said in a bad tone.

Youxi left the house in tears.

No one in Xiahe Village wanted to take a break.

I can't sleep well when I think of the water rushing away.

From dusk to dawn, the stones were finally laid at the bottom of the mountain. There was no time left to dig a pit, so Youqing led his men to block both ends of a section of the river and divert the water to the original river channel.

"It's been paved, uncle village head, all that's left is to bring in the water." The final moment was at hand, and all the villagers were in high spirits.

"Let's go up the mountain!"

The village head led the entire village up the mountain to complete the last step and witness the most exciting moment in Xiahe Village in recent years.

Youxi was sent by the village head to call the Cui family.

When the Lin family members climbed up the mountain, they found a stone-paved ditch extending all the way to the stone wall, only half a meter away from the stone wall.

"Chengliang's wife, come here." The headman's wife pulled Lin to the front.

There are also Cui Chengliang, Cui Jingwen, Cui Zhaozhao and Silang and Wulang.

The village chief struck the gong vigorously. Before the echo of the gong could reach the forest, he struck it a second time, and a third time...

With the sound of cheers, everyone in Xiahe Village was filled with joy.

The village head put down the gong in his hand.

"Everyone has been busy all night. I won't say more. Now let's just complete the final step of diverting the water down the mountain."

The stones were already placed nearby and ready. The village head picked up one himself and handed it to Lin solemnly.

"Although Cheng Liang's wife has only been in our village for a short time, she has devoted more efforts to our village than anyone else here. Does anyone object to what I say?"

"The headman is right!"

"My child's head was covered with lice bites, and I couldn't get them clean no matter what I did. Today, I finally had a good bath. He didn't complain about itchiness all day. I have to thank my wife Cheng Liang for that."

"Since everyone agrees, I'll take this opportunity today to officially announce that from now on, Mrs. Cheng Liang and her children will become members of our Xiahe Village. If I hear anyone talking about Mrs. Cheng Liang again, don't blame me for being rude."

"Don't worry, Uncle Lizheng, if we drink water every day, we will be blessed with a good wife every day."

"What's the point of reciting the name well, Uncle Village Head? From now on, I will treat her as my own sister." A woman shouted crisply.

The villagers burst into laughter, and the village head couldn't help laughing.

The villagers were eagerly discussing how to become relatives with the Lin family. They compared their ages with each other, and the women were unwilling to give in and insisted on being ranked according to seniority.

Looking at the innocent faces of the villagers, Lin's eyes were full of smiles.

In fact, the happiness of the villagers is very simple. They are satisfied with having food and drink. They would fight for a bucket of water yesterday, but now with water, they can put aside their past grudges and it is as if those bad things never happened.

Life is hard enough, why make it even harder?