The tough wife has room to farm

Chapter 281 The Big Green Heads Increasing in the Field
Wen Nuan didn't expect that while their well-drilling project was still going on, she would inadvertently find the answer that flashed in her mind while the children were playing!
It's a plague of insects!
Droughts are often followed by horrific swarms of the biggest killer of agriculture, the locust.

The children wore strings of locusts with straw ropes one by one in the grass, and took them home to feed the chickens and ducks raised at home. The strings of insects can definitely make people with dense phobias fall ill on the spot.

Among these children was the little fat man from the village chief's family. He followed his elder brothers and sisters naked at a young age just to join in the fun, and he was walking home with a lot of locusts in his little hands, because he was so small. With a lot of meat and walking slowly, he fell to the end, which also made Nuannuan succeed in catching him.

"Little guy, do you still recognize me?"

Nuan Nuan liked to pinch the child's fleshy face, but he didn't expect to get this kid's enthusiastic smile, with a shy expression on his face.

"I know, you are a beautiful aunt, the mother of Mr. Wen Qingxiao!"

Hearing this answer, Nuan couldn't help but feel a little excited. It turns out that he still has such a little fanboy, and his daughter is now a well-known little gentleman, and her sense of honor is doubled.

"Auntie wants to ask you, have you been catching so many bugs for a long time?"

"No, no, Chongchong is easy to catch now, I am small, and I catch the least... Hehe!"

Looking at this naive little fat man, Nuan Nuan didn't ask any more questions, and waved him to run slowly, then turned around and went to Baicaoxiang. She was going to do an experiment and needed some helpers. Those who were studying in Baicaoxiang at home Helping children is a ready-made candidate.

He greeted Mr. Chang and successfully borrowed a group of children from the classroom. Even Wen Liang was curious about what his sister was going to do, so he followed them to a relatively flat area at the foot of the mountain.

"Sister? What do you want to do?"

Wen Nuan pointed to the area of ​​more than an acre of land and said, "Of course I have something to do, so don't ask me anything, just within the area of ​​this land, within half an hour, catch as many Daqing as possible." The head and the locust string, I will tell you the reason after I finish."

For the children who grew up in the village, regardless of boys or girls, when it comes to catching big green heads and locust skewers, it is basically one of the entertainments they did the most in childhood, and they didn't think much about it. They all rushed into the open space.

One by one bent over and pouted, bouncing and laughing, and Wen Liang was past the age of playfulness, standing next to his sister thoughtfully, watching those children screaming and jumping happily because they caught bugs screen.

"Sister, don't you want to..." Determine the number of scattered locusts, could it be...

During these times, Wen Liang seized the time to borrow Mr. Chang's collection of books. Now he has read a lot of poems and books, and he never misses all kinds of travel notes and historical records. He even likes them even more. He has seen many locusts in the book. remember.

The Daqingtou and Locust Chuanzi that my sister asked the children to catch are the other names for locusts in their countryside, and they are named according to the color of their bodies.

As long as there are records about locusts in the books, the subsequent events can basically be described as disasters. Hunger is everywhere, people and animals are wiped out, and even plagues and wars are all tragic things. Is it possible that such a thing will happen again in this year? Is this a horrible thing?
Wen Nuan sensed his younger brother's worries, and adhering to the idea that his younger brother is already an adult, Wen Nuan didn't hide it, "Your brother-in-law found that this year's drought limit, isn't our family already digging a well, and the other thing I saw Many children are catching insects, so there is such a guess."

She patted her brother on the shoulder twice, and comforted her, "But the current situation is not very bad, let's see the situation first, but the situation here is not bad, there are already a lot of locusts appearing, I am here I wonder if there have been locust plagues in other places, or even suffered losses.”

Communication in this era basically relies on going out and yelling at people to find people. Disasters that have already occurred in other places will not be spread to other places soon.

And when the news arrives, these winged things have passed through the border, and disaster has already formed.

"Sister, this is not a trivial matter. We have to face it squarely. Regardless of the current situation of the affected areas, at least keep the unaffected areas until the grain in the fields matures, and then it is the best policy to relieve the affected areas on a small scale. If a large area is affected by a disaster, not to mention the great pressure on the court, the common people will suffer the most."

As he said that, the young teenager was already sweating anxiously, nodded warmly, and agreed with his younger brother's thoughts, and comforted him, "Don't mess around, go back and change your clothes, come out and catch insects together, study We can learn at any time, and we must not forget our roots."

Wen Liang also knew that now was not the time to talk about the direction of the political situation, so he nodded and quickly ran towards the Shen family's house. Now he was wearing a long robe with books, and he looked like a modest gentleman, but in the face of life and death, this is just skin , for each egg.

What he has to do is to rush to the front with his sister. Since he already knows that there is a possibility of a disaster, he can't sit still!

At this time, Wen Nuan was really not ready to stand on the lofty position of compassion and compassion. She thought very simply, that is, if there was a plague of locusts, basically no grass would be left in the place where these beasts passed by. The ten acres of greenhouses can be ignored, but the hundred yaks on the mountain are still alive!
In addition, the most direct impact of the disaster is on people's livelihood. My family is also an ordinary person, and what I do is one of the four major industries that are inseparable from people's livelihood, food!

The impact she will receive at that time can be imagined. She doesn't want to see her career just started and receive a devastating blow. Compassion is just a good deed at this meeting.

Shen Pingxi at home saw the hurried brother-in-law who came back suddenly, and only after asking about his daughter-in-law's big discovery, he immediately came to the place where his wife was and looked at the group of children who were catching insects in the grass.

"Wen Liang told me, do you think that is really going to appear?"

Shen Pingxi was very secretive about the word locust plague. This was a major event related to the stability of Daliang's current court. Few people would mention these two words lightly.

The last time there was a locust plague in Daliang country, which almost swallowed up most of the grain-producing areas. The losses and casualties caused by it had not been fully recovered for three years.

Shen Pingxi felt scared when he thought about it!
(End of this chapter)