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Examiner Wailang Wangyan and county magistrate Li Chuanjiang headed for Panshan Village along the road.Along the way, there are scorched earth and dead trees in sight. The wheat has either been harvested or swallowed by the migratory locusts in front of me, and there is no trace of green.

Wang Yan was a little impatient after walking for a long time, and asked displeasedly, "Brother Chuanjiang, when will we arrive at Panshan Village?"

"Yuanshan, how long is it?" When Li Chuanjiang heard this, he turned around and asked the county magistrate habitually. He didn't know it himself and was a little embarrassed.

Liu Yuanshan cursed in his heart, bent down and replied: "Report to Yuanwailang and Minggong, Panshan Village is coming soon, and we should be able to see it in a moment."

Seeing that Li Chuanjiang was not even familiar with the road, Wang Yan couldn't help but want to laugh: You haven't run a few times yourself, and you are not familiar with the road, how can you think about it?Smile and say nothing.

Near the entrance of the village, there were some ditches on both sides of the village road, half a foot deep and one foot wide, in which there were piles of extinguished bonfires every few places, and the charred locust corpses under the ditches were densely spread.

Some villagers in the field not far away are struggling to wave their hoes.And in the place where they dug behind them, there are many village women driving flocks of chickens to forage in the field.Teams of children rushed to and fro, hunting and killing migratory locusts with their pockets, and put their bodies into the waist basket after they succeeded.

The scorching sun was in the sky, and everyone was sweating profusely, but no one had a disheveled face, but no one had an expression of impatience on their faces!

Wang Yan, Li Chuanjiang, Liu Yuanshan, Zhang Bao and others watched in shock.

Is this the scene that a severe drought has started and the sky is full of migratory locusts?Is this the behavior of the people in a period when food prices are high and people's hearts are fluctuating?

"Brother Chuanjiang! You really gave me a surprise!" Wang Yan was happy in his heart, and his words relaxed.

County magistrate Li Chuanjiang just smiled, he didn't know how to answer.But he was full of turmoil in his heart. He didn't have much hope for the Panshan Village Newspaper, but he didn't expect to see such a scene. Although he didn't go deep into the village, just looking at the scene at this moment, it must be much better than other villages!Not even comparable to other villages!

While everyone was thinking, a group of village boys ran past them laughingly with their bags in their hands, and Li Chuanjiang winked at Liu Yuanshan.Liu Yuanshan didn't know what it meant, so he hurried to stop a village boy and asked, "Xiao Lang, what are you doing? What are the adults in the field over there doing?" He pricked up his ears and waited for the answer.

The village boy who was stopped took a look at them, seeing that everyone was wearing official uniforms, he was a little shy and afraid at first, but Liu Yuanshan seemed to have seen his face several times, so he asked, "Is it Uncle Liu, the magistrate if you dare to ask?"

When everyone heard it, they were all curious.Wang Yan looked at Liu Yuanshan softly and nodded slightly.Liu Yuanshan was ecstatic in his heart, he didn't care about the weird barking of the village boy, he was the magistrate and uncle Liu.It's just that the words of this village boy just show that he often visits the people and is diligent in political affairs, otherwise how would we know him.With a bright smile like a flower blooming on his face, he said, "Xiao Lang, it's that."

When the village boy got the answer, he stood still and said: "My boy, I have seen the county magistrate, we are catching locusts! Forty locusts cost a penny, but today I caught nearly two hundred locusts, which is five pennies! Yesterday! I also caught a lot of them the day before yesterday, and I exchanged them for money, and my mother said to save it for me, so that I can marry a wife!" After saying that, her face flushed slightly, she was very ashamed, and she returned to her childish appearance.

The crowd burst into laughter, firstly because they were relaxed, and secondly because the children were polite and orderly, and their innocent answers made everyone happy.

You have to strike while the iron is hot. Liu Yuanshan naturally understood this truth, and hurriedly asked, "What about the people in the fields? What are they doing?"

The village boy looked back, turned back and replied: "Oh, I know this too. Brother Ouyang told us that day: when migratory locusts cross the border, we must first guard, then kill, and then guard. And the aunts who catch the chickens behind are doing the last "re-defense"! Brother Ouyang said that locusts will lay eggs in the soil. If you need to plow and turn the soil deeply, you can bury the locust eggs deep in the ground so that they cannot After hatching and digging out of the soil, we can also carry out shallow plowing to dig out the locust eggs on the surface, and let the aunts drive the chickens to eat the eggs, so that there will be no hidden danger of locusts in the coming year."

After the village boy finished speaking, everyone pondered and tasted the truth, Wang Yan hurriedly asked: "Xiao Lang, I want to ask if the grain in the village has been destroyed by locusts?"

"How is that possible? As early as a few months ago, Brother Ouyang and Grandpa Cunzheng had notified everyone to guard against severe drought and locust plagues. When the wheat was ripe, everyone rushed to harvest it overnight to prevent the nasty flying Locusts eat a grain of grain!" After saying that, his face was angry, as if Wang Yan had slandered their achievements.

"It turned out to be so! Kind! Very kind!" Wang Yan was full of praise, but his eyes glanced at Li Chuanjiang.I thought that there are such people under your rule, who can not only remind the village to prevent disasters, but also have strategies for controlling locusts. As a parent of a county, how can you not know, and how can you make other places suffer!

Seeing Wang Yan's wink, Li Chuanjiang was filled with regret.What should I do now?He could only say: "Yuanwailang, I wrote a letter to the governor three months ago, stating that Ouyang Yu was the one who came up with the Ming Dynasty's strategy to control locusts. But..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a group of people rushing towards him, led by Wang Cunzheng.

Wang Cunzheng stepped forward to salute and said: "I have seen the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant. The little old man is late, so please forgive me." This saved the county magistrate Li Chuanjiang, and he didn't know what to do. How to say it.

After receiving the introduction from the county magistrate, he reintroduced everyone and saluted, and then talked while walking.Wang Yan asked about Ouyang Yu's ins and outs in detail.

"Good! Very good! Brother Chuanjiang, amazing! There is such a village under the rule, and the folk customs have taught me, needless to say, to prevent drought and eliminate locusts. I, Wang Yan, have been Yuanwailang for nearly five years, and I have never seen such a climate in a village. Some must Letter to the sage, to clarify this matter, brother Chuanjiang has a bright future!" Wang Yan sighed after seeing it, in fact, he also has selfish intentions, and it will be good for him to get good grades in this course test, but this year happened to be a natural disaster, so the grades are bound to be bad Wherever there is such a village now, this bargaining chip must be held tightly.At the beginning, I really wanted to blame Li Chuanjiang, but later I thought if I could be a water-delivering favor and save him some face, I wouldn't treat myself badly, wouldn't I?

"Thank you, Yuanwailang, for your praise. I dare not claim all the credit. Ouyang Yu, the son of the Li family in the village, is the person in charge and the one who made great contributions this time." Li Chuanjiang didn't take all the credit, but mentioned Ouyang Yu, firstly, saw that Wang Yan wanted to help him avoid the fault of ignoring people who knew others, and secondly, he really didn't contribute, so he had to mention Ouyang Yu.

"I always listen to this young man with curly hair. Is he in the village? How about seeing him!" Wang Yan looked at this kind of person with eager eyes.

"Yuanwailang, don't wait, I'll call him right away." After saying that, Wang Cunzheng also disappeared and ran away to look for Ouyang Yu in the field...

A group of people did not rush back to the county office until evening.

Wang Yan smiled and said to Li Chuanjiang: "Brother Chuanjiang, a certain person wrote a letter today, describing everything about Shenshan County and Panshan Village, and reporting it to the saint. What do you think?"

Li Chuanjiang knew in his heart that if he wanted to submit a letter, he still needed to discuss it with himself as a small county magistrate. This was beating himself, and he had to express himself in order to erase the things that he ignored Ouyang Yu's suggestion before.After thinking about it, he got up and bowed: "Thank you Yuanwailang for taking care of me!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.

After Wang Yan bid farewell to Li Chuanjiang, he set off on the road, opened a small box in the car, looked at it, and nodded with a smile!