I farmed and raised cubs in ancient times

Chapter 90
Jiang Zhi started to run against the wind.

The air was filled with the breath of autumn, and the smile on Jiang Zhi's face inexplicably diluted the sense of desolation and desolation.

The autumn tiger is still there, and the temperature is a little muggy.

Ye Xiaomei stretched out her hands to stroke the invisible wind, and a warm and cool feeling flowed from her hands.Ye Heng followed Jiang Zhi and ran away. Jiang Zhi ran back and forth twice before flying the kite into the sky.

"Baby, can you ask little aunt to teach you how to fly a kite?" Jiang Zhi pointed to Ye Xiaomei who was not far away, and Ye Heng was so obedient that she pulled Ye Xiaomei over.

Then Ye Xiaomei accompanied Ye Heng to fly the kite, and her goal was achieved.

Ye Xiaomei stays in the house every day, not weaving nets, making embroidered fans with silk cloth, practicing calligraphy and doing housework. Jiang Zhi was afraid that she would get sick, so she made kites in autumn. Originally, kites were a special product in spring.

Suddenly, the kite line broke, and the kite fell mercilessly.

Ye Heng burst into tears.

"Brother, don't cry, little aunt will help you get the kite back." Ye Xiaomei suddenly looked up, and a dense mass of black things was flying towards them at super fast speed.

Ye Xiaomei's eyes widened, she quickly hugged Ye Heng in her arms, turned her head and shouted at Jiang Zhi who was washing her hands by the river: "Sister-in-law, go!"

"What?" Jiang Zhi looked in Ye Xiaomei's direction.

Good guy!what is that?
Jiang Zhi couldn't care about anything else, and immediately ran to Ye Xiaomei's side. At this moment, she saw a few insects lying on the reeds beside the field.

It is roughly tan in color, with yellowish antennae and curved sides.The front wings are long and narrow, with brown and dark markings, and the hind wings are colorless and transparent.

This cat is a locust!

Summer and autumn are the most prone to locust plagues, not to mention that since the beginning of summer this year, there has not been a single rain, and the water level of the river has dropped severely, and even the water level of the well has dropped.

A plague of locusts is not out of the question.

She had just finished harvesting the rice, but there were still many households in the village confiscating it.

"It's over!" Jiang Zhi muttered, and then she stared at Ye Xiaomei: "Little sister, take Ye Heng home quickly, cover the vegetable garden with bamboo pleats, cover as much as you can, and then put all the chickens in the house." come out."

"Okay, what about sister-in-law?" Ye Xiaomei's eyes flashed with worry.

"I know some ways to deal with this thing. You go back first. There are many cypress trees behind the house. Use a knife to chop off their branches. I am useful and protect myself." Jiang Zhi patted Ye Xiaomei on the shoulder to reassure her. Then run to the village.

Ye Xiaomei looked at Jiang Zhi's back, swallowed, and ran home with Ye Heng in her arms.

"Ms. Jiang, what are you running?" It was Mrs. Yan who was holding a basin and seemed to be going to wash clothes by the river.

Jiang Zhi pointed to the direction of the river and said, "Miss Yan Si looks at the sky."

"What is that?" Yan Siniang's feet went limp, and the wooden basin in her hand fell to the ground with a "crack": "It's a grasshopper! My God! What should I do? What can I do about this? My family still has several acres of rice that have not yet been confiscated." Come back!" Yan Siniang burst into tears.

"Don't worry, go home quickly, take the sickle and go to the field, as much as you can collect!" Jiang Zhi nodded to Yan Siniang, and then quickly ran to the second room.

She has no medicine against locusts. They are mainly crops, and they eat almost all of them. They are extremely fast and leave almost nothing behind. They are the number one enemy in agriculture.

For the current plan, there is only one way to keep the grain in the village, and that is to unite and rush to harvest.

In the past, the village also came to the yamen servants to publicize the rules set by the officials.If you encounter locusts, you can catch them. Each liter can be exchanged for a bucket of Shumi, or twenty dollars.

The important thing now is not to catch the bugs, but to rescue as much food as possible from the bugs' mouths.

Many people in the village have discovered that the locusts have crossed the border. Many people came out with sickles, and those at home who had harvested the millet also came out to help.

"Grasshoppers, grasshoppers are crossing the border. Although our family finished harvesting the millet yesterday, we can't just sit and watch other households in the village whose grains are not yet ripe!" Uncle Ye was heartbroken. Can't see this kind of thing anymore.

As the head of a village, you have to take responsibility.

He is already ready to take someone to snatch it up. It's better not to be familiar with it than nothing at all.

"Big sister, what good solution do you have?" For the locusts, Ye Ermao had nothing to do, he could only pin his hopes on this educated woman, he knew that Jiang Zhi was a thoughtful person.

"Smoke! It's better to use wormwood and pepper leaves. The more pungent the taste, the less locusts should like it. After harvesting, they have to burn the fields to kill the eggs." Jiang Zhi added: "Besides In addition, the chickens and ducks are driven to the fields, chickens and ducks like to eat these most."

"It's too late, I can't stay here any longer, my eldest sister will go back soon, your family still has two acres of sugarcane land, Ermao will help my eldest sister." Ye Erbo made a decision on the spot, prepared to smoke immediately, and passed this method on to the village For other households, even if the grain is burned today, don't let the pests eat a bite.

There are many men in my family, and the few acres of dry land in the family are completely sufficient for manpower.

Considering that she was the only one in Jiang Zhi's family who could do things, Uncle Ye pushed his second son out.

Ye Ermao is not hypocritical, and Jiang Zhi doesn't think there is anything wrong.The two of them were running on the country road, and along the way, insects were already eating the bean sprouts in the field.

The sugarcane field in Jiang Zhi's family was not spared at all.

what to do?Jiang Zhi panicked.She could only rely on her mechanical consciousness to ignite the cypress branches around the sugarcane field, and then cover it with the sawdust left over from Ye Erlang's usual carpentry work, and puffs of thick smoke rose in Yejia Village.

Half an hour later, Jiang Zhi saw thick smoke rising from the other side of the mountain.

It should be that Qikuai Tiancun also thought of the method of smoking when he saw the thick smoke rising from Yejia Village.

Jiang Zhi's eyes were red from the smoke, and Er Mao thought she was scared.But he was short of words, and he didn't dare to speak out to comfort him.Jiang Zhi wiped her eyes, took a deep breath, then wet the handkerchief, used it as a mask to cover her mouth and nose, and then entered the sugarcane field.

Because of the smoke and dust outside, there were not so many locusts inside, so she could catch them and exchange them for money.

"Brother Ermao, go back. Your family has a lot of fields and needs a lot of people. I'm almost done here, as long as the smoke doesn't go out." Jiang Zhi said to Ermao who was catching locusts.

"Okay, I'll go and see another house." Ye Ermao nodded and left.He just looked at it. There are not many grasshoppers on Jiang Zhi's side. She can handle them. The big ones should be on the paddy field side, especially the rice fields that have not been confiscated.

Ye Xiaomei asked Ye Heng to stay at home obediently and not to come out, then locked the door, carried a basket on her back and went to catch insects with Jiang Zhi.

Today was originally a sunny day, but this group of hateful uninvited guests completely ruined the beautiful day.Ye Xiaomei was chasing insects almost with hatred, and even trampled many to death.

"Little sister, you have to pretend to be trampled to death. It's all money." Jiang Zhi gritted her teeth.

(End of this chapter)