Group pet small peasant girls: Escape the famine with the space of merit

Chapter 184 Discovery of Locust Eggs

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What the folks in Xinsheng Village didn't know was that the richness and delicacy of their banquet was quickly passed on to these guests from other villages.

Near Ningshui Town, the villagers who bought high-yield grain seeds from Nuannuan looked at the thriving rice in their fields, and their hearts were full of expectations.

In another two months, they will be able to live a life of food and clothing.

Those who are not willing to spend money to buy grain seeds from Nuannuan because they have saved grain seeds are envious or jealous of the people in Xinsheng Village, thinking why there is no "Lequan Township Lord" in their village?So that they can also enjoy the glory.

Wen Nuan noticed that the guests from other villages and the government servants in the county town liked to eat fish and shrimp, and felt that digging ponds to raise fish and shrimp could not be delayed any longer.

When she went to the town yesterday, she didn't see a fish stall. After thinking about it, she guessed that it might be due to the impact of the recent drought, and there were fewer fish and shrimps in the surrounding rivers.

Xinsheng Village is large enough to dig seven or eight ponds without any problem, but the villagers are not interested in raising fish and shrimps, so Nuan decided to do it himself and asked the villagers to help him dig three ponds first.

Wen Xingye suggested to his daughter: "Nuan Nuan, do you want to plant more lotus roots after digging the pond?"

There are a lot of lotus roots in my space, Wen Nuan doesn't want to waste this effort: "Father, I don't plan to grow lotus roots, I want to raise some frogs."

The energy in her own space keeps growing lotus roots, but she can't raise frogs, and she can't bring any living things into it except for the fish and shrimps that live in the space itself.

Wen Xingye was taken aback: "Does anyone still want to eat frogs?"

He didn't know about other places, but there used to be an old Taoist with profound Taoism here in Zhongzhou who said that frogs were reincarnated from humans, and that one of them was the ancestor of the people themselves.

The common people believed in the words of the old Taoist. They would not say that they would worship the frog devoutly when they saw the frog, but they would not dare to do anything to hurt the frog.

However, in the drought that year, many people had to catch frogs to eat in order to survive.

But as long as they can survive, no one in Zhongzhou is willing to hurt the frog, let alone eat it.

Warmth froze for a moment.

She really didn't know there was such a rumor in Zhongzhou.

But she didn't raise frogs to sell meat.

"Father, didn't you say that you saw locust eggs in the rice fields?" Wen Nuan revealed his real intention of raising frogs: "Frogs can eat locusts, dozens or even hundreds of them a day, and ducks can also eat them." For those who eat locusts, the rice will be harvested in two months, I am worried that there will be locust plagues, so I have to take precautions first."

Erlang came back from the outside, just when he heard Nuan Nuan's words, his heart tightened: "Nuan Nuan, is what you said true? Will there really be a plague of locusts here?"

"I can't guarantee it, but Dad said a few days ago that locust eggs were found in the field. Although there are not many, we have to make some emergency preparations."

Erlang was young and had never encountered a locust plague, but Wen Xingye had seen the terrible scene of locusts crossing the border when he was a child, and no grass could grow.

"Nuan Nuan, if you raise frogs and ducks, will there be no locust plagues?" Wen Xingye's face was a little dignified.

"Frogs and ducks both eat locusts. It doesn't mean that raising frogs and ducks can stop the plague of locusts." Wen Wen said, "Father, second brother, tell the folks in the village to go to the field to see the number of locust eggs Not much, let's make other plans."

If there is a real possibility of a locust plague, they must be prepared with both hands.

"I'll write a letter to Mr. Qi and Mr. Qin first!" Erlang said, turning around and going back to the room.

Although he returned to Zhongzhou, he did not forget the people in Lianzhou City. He was worried that there would be locust plagues in Lianzhou City, so he had to remind Mr. Qi and Mr. Qin first.

"Brother, you also copy the method of controlling locusts in the letter and send it to Mr. Qi." Wen Nuan handed a piece of rice paper for controlling locusts that he copied from Smart Bookstore to his brother.

Erlang opened the rice paper and scanned it hastily, he was both surprised and happy and said, "Nuan Nuan, if these methods can really cure the locust plague, it will be a great merit!"

Erlang didn't delay, went into the house to write the letter, copied the method of controlling the locust plague into the letter, took the letter to the town himself, and paid a lot of money to find someone to send the letter to Lianzhou City quickly.

And Nuan personally wrote a letter to Xu Gan, the prefect of Zhongzhou, reminding him that there is a high possibility of a locust plague in Qingyang County.

Nuan Nuan repeatedly reiterated in the letter that it is possible.

Lianqiu said that Xu Gan was a good official, but her relationship with Xu Gan was not as strong as her relationship with Qi Wenli, the prefect of Lianzhou.

Now the third prince is trying every means to trouble her, and she has to leave a way for herself and the folks in Xinsheng Village to do anything.

The villagers in Xinsheng Village learned about the locusts from Wen Xingye, and they all went to the field to check, and they found a lot of locust eggs. Adults and children took bowls to the field to find locust eggs.
Then it was burned.

"This is not the way." The old village chief frowned: "When the ground was dug up, there must have been a lot of locust eggs buried in the ground."

If they could get some hay and burn it as fertilizer when digging the ground, they might be able to kill a lot of locust eggs. It's too late to say anything now.

The folks were a little devastated: "Should we just watch the rice that has been planted so hard go into the belly of the locusts?"

They grow these rice not only to support themselves, but most of them are going to be sold to the Nuannuan grain store for money. They will live on these rice in the coming year!
"Nuannuan said that both ducks and frogs can eat locusts. Let's raise more ducks, and then go out and catch some frogs and put them in the warm pond. If there is a plague of locusts, we should still have some food left."

The old village head and the folks in the village who have experienced the locust plague are very negative.

Man cannot fight against the sky, and this kind of natural disaster cannot be reversed artificially.

Warm and silent.

Inspired by the conversations of the villagers, she quietly left Liao's house and returned to her own home, and went into the smart bookstore to search.

For two days in a row, Wen Nuan locked herself in the room, and all three meals were delivered to the door by Lian Qiu.

The whole family knew that Nuan was thinking of a way to control the locusts, so they didn't bother her.

On the third day, Nuan Nuan finally left the house.

In order not to put pressure on her, the family members prepared to go out without asking any questions.

"Father, second brother!" Wen Nuan stopped his father and elder brother: "I have some medicinal powder here, take it to the rice fields and spread it, remember to spread it evenly, when you sprinkle the medicinal powder, you have to wear masks and hats, and keep your hands on the ground. Wear leather gloves, too."

It turns out that my daughter has been developing a medicinal powder for killing locust eggs in the house these days!

Wen Xingye received the powder overjoyed: "If you sprinkle this powder, the locusts won't dare to eat our rice?"

Nuan Nuan explained: "This is just a medicinal powder for killing locust eggs, but the effect will not be known until two days later. If the locust eggs die after two days, I will distribute the medicinal powder to the villagers."

(End of this chapter)