Chapter 33 Taking Out the Pesticides
When the little brother in the mall collected the mushrooms and left, Dong Rong finally understood why his mother was able to take away 80 taels from the owner of the house, looking at the white money in Gu Qing's hand.

Gu Qing collected the money and asked Yang Pei to carry a big one.The bucket of pesticides for killing locusts followed her to Lizheng's house.

Gu Nuo and Gu Yu drove hundreds of ducks, big and small, to swim leisurely in the shallow water of the rice field. From time to time, they pecked violently, and a grasshopper was swallowed.

The ducks were having fun, when Aunt Zhao from the field next door popped her head out: "Oh, why did this duck fly into my field, Yu'er, Xiao Nuo, catch it back quickly, don't spoil my rice !"

Gu Yu ran over to explain: "Auntie, my ducks don't eat rice, they eat worms."

As if to prove himself, the duckling flapped its wings and landed on Aunt Zhao's feet, pecking at a grasshopper on her trouser leg.

In ancient times, grasshoppers and grasshoppers were also called locusts. When Aunt Zhao saw this thing, her face turned pale: "Why are there locusts in my rice field? Where did they come from?"

At the same time, Gu Qing and Yang Pei, who had just arrived at the gate of Lizheng's house, suddenly heard a commotion in the village.

"It's not good! The locusts are coming!"

"My God! Why are there so many locusts!"

"Don't rush, don't panic, these locusts are less than one-tenth of the locust plague that year, everyone must calm down!"

"Go back and get the guy and drive the locusts away!"

In the sky, a small area of ​​locusts flew over, not too many, but definitely not too few. Although these locusts would not eat up all the crops, they would definitely cause a lot of damage to the harvest.

The people in Gujia Village acted like crazy, beating the rice fields to drive them away.

After an unknown amount of time, the swarms of locusts slowly disappeared, and the villagers sat wearily on the ridge of the field, feeling lingering fear.

Locusts can eat food that is more than three times their size in an instant. In such a short period of time, some people's families suffered heavy losses, at least half an acre of rice was eaten.

Although there are losses, they are much better than before.

In the year of the locust plague, thousands of acres of rice fields in the entire village were eaten up in just half a day.

Many people dare not recall that scene.

Li Zheng asked about the losses of each family with a serious face. Basically, some of them were eaten to some extent. Only Gu Qing's house and Aunt Zhao's house had no traces of being invaded by locusts.

Aunt Zhao smiled all over her face: "So many locusts fly over, but I don't know why they won't eat my rice."

She took a lot of tools to drive away the locusts, but the locusts didn't give her a chance at all.

Gu Qing looked at her rice field, the hundreds of ducks she bought yesterday were swimming leisurely, and it looked like they were full.

She said, "Ducks are the natural enemy of locusts. Aunt Wang and I have ducks in our fields, so locusts will naturally choose paddy fields without ducks."

People don't quite believe that ducks can eat locusts. Ducks can't fly, but locusts can fly, and people can't catch them. Can ducks catch them?
When they looked at the ducks, the unfed ducks raised their heads very quickly, stretched out their beaks, pecked at one, then swallowed it, and continued to look for the next one.

Li Zheng waved his hand: "The locusts flying today have given us a wake-up call. There is still a bumper harvest in less than half a month. We must not make mistakes at this juncture. If you still have money at home, hurry up and buy ducks and raise them in the field." Come on, it’s a little bit of defense.”

Everyone nodded quickly.

Ducks can repel locusts, lay eggs, and kill them for stew. Raising ducks is a lucrative business, so there is no reason not to agree.

The villagers gradually dispersed.

But Li Zheng walked in front of Gu Qing, and said with a serious face: "Miss Gu, ducks alone are not enough."

Gu Qing knows that ducks are useful, but for a thousand acres of farmland, at least ten thousand ducks are needed, and they are adult ducks. If locusts come overwhelmingly, her small and small ducks will not be useful at all.

"Before the locust plague came, there were several small-scale locusts flying in. At that time, everyone didn't take it seriously. Who would have thought that in just a few days, all the farmland would be destroyed..." Li Zheng sighed. Tone, "Huzhou flood, if locusts fly here, everything will be over..."

Because the harvest is about to be bumper, the whole village has not been saving food recently. Anyway, new grain will be in the warehouse in ten days and a half months, so there is no need to save.

If a plague of locusts strikes suddenly, the whole village will be out of food within three days, what will we do then...

Gu Qing naturally knew the seriousness of the problem.

The number of locusts today is small, and if we can get away with it by chance, what about next time, what about next time?

She said: "Auntie Lizheng, don't worry, I have figured out a way for you. You can see that ducks can eat locusts, so I don't need to say more. I came to you today just to tell you that I Here is a pesticide prepared by someone, this is slightly poisonous, as long as we sprinkle this medicine on the rice, the locusts will die as much as they eat..."

Just as Li was about to ask, he saw a carriage slowly appearing on the main road of Gujia Village. The carriage stopped at the entrance of the village, and the driver jumped out of the carriage. Hoe turned around and ran towards Lizheng.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a middle-aged woman in silk and satin walked out. She was in her thirties and 40s with a luxurious look, and she was well maintained.

The woman wore a black gauze hat on her head. No one in the village except Lizheng had seen the magistrate, but seeing his attire, everyone knew that the magistrate was here.

Behind him was a man in his 50s and [-]s, who was a staff member raised by the county magistrate, known as Shi Ye.

All the people who were busy in the fields stopped their work, watched from a distance, talked in low voices, and did not dare to approach.

Three poles in the sun.

Although it was still morning, the sun was already very strong, the sun was scorching hot, and the back was sweating profusely.

Fortunately, Lizheng came out in his most decent clothes today, without a patch from head to toe, and the shoes were not the most common straw sandals in the village, but navy blue cloth shoes with smooth workmanship, and socks were rarely worn inside the shoes.

"The grass people have seen the county magistrate."

As soon as Lizheng ran over, he lay on his stomach on the ground, in a posture of throwing his body to the ground, it was already too late for Gu Qing to run, so Yang Pei held him down and knelt beside him like Lizheng.

The villagers watching from a distance shrunk their necks in fright, and quickly bowed down, hiding their bodies in the rice fields, for fear that the county magistrate would see them and kneel down to worship.

The county magistrate said softly: "Get up, first take me to see your rice fields!"

Li was leading the county magistrate and his team towards the rice fields. The traces of the rice fields being eaten by locusts were obvious and could be seen at a glance.

"What can you do to kill the locusts?"

The master and the county magistrate looked at Li Zheng at the same time.

Li Zheng: "..."

Don't look at him, he doesn't know either.

"Presumptuous!" Master Yuan raised his eyebrows, "The county magistrate is asking you something, are you deaf?"

Li Zheng was so frightened that he trembled, and suddenly remembered what Gu Qing said just now, he hurriedly dragged Gu Qing to the county magistrate, and said cautiously: "Master county magistrate, this is a capable person from our Gu family village. This method can exterminate the locusts!"

The county magistrate looked at Master Yuan: "These are all honest farmers, you can put your temper to rest."

Master Yuan nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, what the county magistrate said is true."

Gu Qing was a little surprised, the county magistrate turned out to be a good-tempered person, he didn't look like that kind of greedy and corrupt official.

Ri was looking down at the stones on the ground.

Gu Qing can also understand that ordinary common people in ancient times were like ants in front of officials, and they didn't dare to show their air.

Look at those women and farmers in Gujia Village. They love to watch the excitement on weekdays. Now that the county magistrate is here, they are either hiding in the rice fields, or the gates cannot be closed. In their eyes, the county magistrate is like a A tiger that can only eat people.

Gu Qing could only make up nonsense: "Caomin used to love drinking, and often got together to drink with drinking buddies from all over the world. Several of them told Caomin how their parents killed locusts. According to the formula they said, Caomin, People have prepared a kind of pesticide, as long as this medicine is diluted with water and sprayed on the rice, it can kill as many locusts as there are!"

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(End of this chapter)

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