Allure of a Country Maiden

The huge locust plague is actually very scary. Thinking about the densely packed locusts flying in the sky, rushing towards people, blocking the sky and the sun, it makes people's scalp numb.

The previous dynasty experienced a major locust plague that had not been seen in decades, which affected the entire Central Plains. The people had no harvest and could only survive by eating tree roots.

That year, the previous dynasty was in crisis, the court imposed excessive taxes and heavy taxes, and the people were miserable. In the end, the government forced the people to rebel, and today's Minze Dynasty came into being.

Someone on the street saw dark clouds covering the sky. The experienced old man knew that locusts were coming and shouted: "Locusts are coming! There is really a locust plague!"

The people walking on the street looked up and saw how many locusts there were in this dark area!

"Oh my God! It's so dark, how many locusts are there? It's over, there will be absolutely no food harvest this season!"

"It's tragic, it's tragic. If I had known better, I wouldn't have sold all the food stored at home. I only kept half a year's worth of food. There will be no grain harvest this season. Then we will have to chew tree roots in the second half of the year!"

"Hurry up, everyone, hurry up and kill these scourges with brooms! If you can kill one, it's just one! Don't let it continue!" The county magistrate knew that there was a locust plague and had been guarding the city wall for many days.

Now that the locusts are really coming, I quickly call on everyone to go home and get brooms.

When he knew that there was a locust plague in the neighboring county, he asked the police to make a notice with gongs and drums, and asked the people in every household to prepare big brooms, and everyone would beat these locusts to death!

If you shoot one to death, you'll get one, if you kill a few, you'll make a profit!

Now the county magistrate gave an order, and after listening to his words, the people in the city and the soldiers guarding the city ran back to their houses, wrapped their heads in cloth, and then ran out to prepare to fight the locusts.

Some elderly people who are over seventy years old have experienced the locust plague in the previous dynasty. The previous dynasty was superstitious and regarded these locusts as locust gods and did not dare to kill them. They lived a long and miserable life. However, the emperor of the Minze Dynasty He didn't believe this. After receiving reports of locust plagues in many counties at the desk, he ordered the counties that might be affected to prepare and find ways to kill these pests as soon as possible.

The magistrate of Xiangyang County thought of this method.

When Xiaoer heard the people's comments, she knew that no one would release the duck. It didn't matter if they didn't, she would!

She and Shangguan Xuanyi traveled all over the county's fertile fields for two days and nights and put down tens of thousands of ducks.

She raised these by taking advantage of the time difference in space. In the evening of that day, she finally put the last two thousand ducks on this field. Xiaoer rubbed her waist and smiled and said to Shangguan Xuanyi: "I feel like I have become I am a professional duck farmer! It’s a pity that I raise them all for others!”

There were so many ducks, and Xiaoer had no intention of running for two more days and nights to recover them.

However, if all the locusts cannot be wiped out in this county, the ducks will still have to be captured and then run after the locusts!

Xiaoer felt a headache when she thought about catching ducks one by one in the field. If not, she would definitely eliminate all these locusts in Xiangtang County!

Shangguan Xuanyi saw Xiaoer rubbing her waist, stretched out his hand and caressed her back, and said distressedly: "Tired?"

"A bit." Xiaoer nodded, and then she heard a strange sound from the horizon, and the two of them looked up at the same time.

On the northern horizon, a black cloud is slowly approaching.

Xiaoer remembered that insects all have phototaxis. When this group of locusts arrived, it happened to be in the evening and it was getting dark. Wouldn't it be just right to use fire to trap them?

"Brother Shangguan, hurry up, let's tell the people to use fire to trap these locusts!" Xiaoer wanted to knock her head. Why didn't she think of this method in advance?

Xiaoer took Shangguan Xuanyi's hand, and the two quickly ran to the tree, took off the reins, then got on the horse and went to inform.

Xiaoer went directly back to the city to inform the county magistrate, and asked the magistrate to send someone to inform him.

Shangguan Xuanyi rode his horse to inform various villages.

He first went to the nearest village to find the village chief, and asked the village chief to inform the people in the village to make some torches and build some bonfires to trap locusts.

Upon hearing this, the village chief also felt that it was better to burn the locusts with a torch than to swat them with a broom, so he picked up a copper pot and went to notify the villagers with gongs and drums.

"Village Chief, please send someone to inform the village chiefs of the nearby villages about this method! Let's go to the villages farther away and inform them!" Shangguan Xuanyi said to the village chief before mounting his horse.

"Okay, okay, I will." This was related to the villagers' rations for the second half of the year, so naturally he didn't dare to be careless.

When Xiaoer came to the city gate, it was not dark yet, and the sky was filled with locusts flying everywhere along the way.

The soldiers and civilians guarding the city were holding brooms to swat the locusts flying in the air. The scene was quite spectacular.

Xiaoer looked up and saw the county magistrate standing on the city wall waving a broom. She flew directly from the horse. This move made the magistrate dumbfounded.

This Princess Rui’s martial arts skills are so high! How could she, a woman with such a high martial arts level, let him, a weakling, live?

Xiaoer ignored the county magistrate's stupidity and directly ordered: "My lord, county magistrate, immediately send people to all villages to use torches and bonfires to trap locusts tonight. Make as many bonfires as possible! We must work hard to kill these locusts." Kill them all in Xiangtang County!"

The county magistrate looked at the locusts flying everywhere, and after listening to Xiaoer's words, he felt that she was being stupid again!

"Princess, there are more than tens of thousands of these locusts. Isn't it a bit unrealistic to kill them all in Xiangtang County?"

"This is an order! Follow my instructions and tell the villagers in the entire county to use bonfires to trap locusts in the past few nights! If you can't keep all these locusts in Xiangtang County, wash your necks and wait to behead them. Come on!" Xiaoer looked at him and said coldly.

What bothers her most is people who are incompetent, don't listen to others' instructions, and are self-righteous, and this county magistrate is such a person.

"I'll make arrangements right now!" The county magistrate was so frightened by Xiaoer's eyes and tone that he felt a chill on his neck! He quickly trembled with his legs and ran down to find arrangements for the arrester.

God, where did this God of Death come from to give him such an impossible task!

Didn't she know that locusts could fly? How to hunt them all down!

God! Let's use some poisonous rain to kill all these locusts! Otherwise, he would have no chance of living!

Naturally, Xiaoer didn't know what the county magistrate was going through in his mind at the moment.

She jumped up and landed on the horse, then returned to the inn to find Yangliu Yangmei, and asked them to ride the horse to notify the villagers further away.

Locusts should soon be all over the county.

Yangliu and Yangmei quickly took the order and left.

After they left, Xiaoer entered the space and took out a wooden basin, filled it with space water, and dropped a few drops of venom into it. Then she harvested a lot of grass in the pasture and soaked the grass in the wooden basin. Then he left the space and left the inn again on horseback.

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