Don't panic when fleeing the famine, the peasant girl is busy farming

Chapter 206 The Locust Plague Is Coming, It’s Delicious

In the afternoon of that day, Jiang Erya called together the rich gentry and wealthy households in Qingjiang County, using the excuse that they saw a lot of locusts flying in the direction of Qingjiang County on the way home, and asked everyone to make plans in advance.

"The crops in the field, if you can grab them, grab them as soon as possible.

The granary at home should be repaired as soon as possible. Once there is a gap, the locusts will get in and will not stop until they eat up the food inside. "

Although everyone thought the news was sudden and subjectively didn't want to believe it, they weighed it silently and finally chose to believe it.

Let's harvest the crops in the field. Although it hasn't reached the best harvesting period yet, who let this little aunt speak up?

Think of it as making my aunt happy.

With the huge profits of the Huaxiang soap factory there, what does it matter if they harvest less crops?

Besides, what if it is true.

Walk around, go home and inform the people below, hurry up and harvest the crops!
The country gentry and wealthy households came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

Jiang Erya called Lizheng next door again, and said the same words to Lizheng again.

Li Zheng is also Jiang Erya's old fanboy, after hearing Jiang Erya's words, he immediately went to the village to announce the news.

Jiang Guangyi looked at it in a daze, and turned to Jiang Erniu, "Are you people in Qingjiang County so easy to fool? Erya said a few words casually, and they believed them? What locusts? We have seen locusts along the way." shadow?"

The three members of Jiang Erya's family nodded solemnly at the same time, "I have seen them, and there are many, many."

Jiang Guangyi: Everyone saw it, but I didn't see it?
Jiang Guangyi didn't believe it, so he ran to ask the guards assigned to Jiang Erya by Duke Ding.

"Have you seen locusts on the way here?"

The guards thought about it, and when they left the capital, Ding Guogong and his wife had told them that they must listen to the little lady Jiang Erya.

Since the little lady said that she has it, she must have it if she doesn't.

Thinking of this, the guards nodded towards Jiang Guangyi.

Jiang Guangyi was almost deranged by these people.

Is it really just me who didn't see the locust?

Jiang Erya decided to find something for Jiang Guangyi to do in order to let Jiang Guangyi stop thinking about it and stop doubting himself.

——she sent him to the mountains to herd chickens and ducks!
Jiang Guangyi grazed chickens and ducks on the mountain for two days and completely regained his vitality.

He is very happy to be able to practice his "[-] troops" on the mountain.

Although among the [-] troops, [-] are chickens and the other [-] are ducks...

As time passed day by day, the gentry and wealthy households in Qingjiang County took away the crops in the fields, and the people of Xinglin Village also took away the crops in the fields.

Other landed farmers had vaguely heard the news of the locust plague. Based on herd mentality, they followed the pace of their predecessors and desperately carried the crops in the fields to their homes.

Only a few people don't want to believe this, and they want to wait for the crops in the field to grow longer, fuller and heavier, so that they can harvest more and exchange for more money.

They waited and waited, waiting for the best harvest time for crops.When I was about to go to the field to harvest the crops, the locusts really came.

At first, people only saw locusts in the fields.

Immediately afterwards, people found traces of locusts on the paths, streets, and houses.

At noon, the sky suddenly darkened.

People raised their heads and looked into the distance.

There, a huge dark cloud is moving rapidly towards this side.

As this dark cloud gets closer, there are more and more locusts around people.

The locusts jumped onto people's hair, faces, necks, and backs of hands. Using these body parts as springboards, they jumped into the fields and gnawed on the crops.

The "dark cloud" covered the top of the head, and people realized that it was not a dark cloud at all, but a swarm of locusts, a swarm of locusts covering the sky and the sun!

The people who hadn't harvested the crops struggled to harvest them, but there were too many locusts, and the crops in their fields were eaten up in a short while.

They regret it too late.

But what's the use of regretting?
It's better to go home quickly and see if the granary at home is sealed.

In Xinglin Village at this moment, Jiang Erya had already distributed the net bags prepared in advance.

The people of Xinglin Village, the tenants of Jiang Erya's family, the servants of the family, and the guards all took action to catch the locusts for her.

With one swing of the net, half a bag of locusts can be caught.

Jiang Erya has already set up the grill and oil pan...

Jiang Guangyi led his [-] army down the mountain and rushed towards the direction where the locusts were flying.

According to Jiang Erya's order, the [-] troops have been starving for a whole day.

As soon as they rushed down the mountain, they almost went crazy with joy when they saw the locusts crawling and flying around.

[-] wood chickens are responsible for pecking the locusts on the ground, and [-] ducks are responsible for stretching their necks to pinch the locusts flying in the low air.

After a while, the number of locusts near Xinglin Village decreased by half.

Jiang Erya sat leisurely in front of the barbecue grill, teaching the villagers how to eat locusts.

Widow Li held a roasted locust, no matter how she tried to build her mind, she still couldn't get her mouth out.

Aunt Liu closed her eyes, stuffed the locust into Widow Li's mouth, and shouted, "Don't spit it out, chew it!"

Widow Li subconsciously chewed according to her mother-in-law's words.

Then I realized, well, it’s actually quite fragrant.In particular, Erya's roasted locusts are sprinkled with unknown spice powder, which is delicious when paired with the roasted locusts.

Widow Li picked up another baked locust and stuffed it into Aunt Liu's mouth.

"It's delicious, mother, you can try it too."

Aunt Liu couldn't dodge, she wanted to vomit, but this locust was roasted by Jiang Erya, and Jiang Erya was still looking at her.

Afraid of making Jiang Erya angry, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and chew.

"It's so delicious, it's like eating meat!"

After Aunt Liu ate one, she continued to eat the second one without being urged.

Others saw that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were not poisoned to death after eating, so they also swallowed their nausea and slapped the locusts.

After eating like this, they couldn't stop talking anymore.

Fragrant, so fragrant!good to eat!

There were not many locusts roasted by Jiang Erya, and they were gone as soon as everyone grabbed them.

Fortunately, it is also very fragrant when fried in a frying pan.

Except for Chinese New Year croquettes, who would be willing to use a pot full of deep-fried food to eat?
Everyone handled the locusts they had caught, poured them into Jiang Erya's oil pan, and rubbed the oil openly.

Jiang Erya didn't mind either, she could still afford to waste this little oil.

It is more important to teach everyone to eat locusts.

In less than half a day, the locusts that settled in Xinglin Village were eaten up by people and chickens and ducks, and the whole army was wiped out.

People from Xinglin Village began to enter the territory of other villages to snatch locusts.

People in other villages heard that locusts can be eaten, and they also tried to catch locusts in every possible way.

As more and more people eat locusts, everyone in Qingjiang County knows about it.

Those who have tasted the taste of locusts say it is good.

Originally, these locusts planned to eat up the plants on the ground in Qingjiang County and continue to attack the surrounding counties.

Never expected that the ruthless people in Qingjiang County would catch them and eat them.

The locusts that survived by luck fluttered up and fled Qingjiang County...

(End of this chapter)