The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 59 59 Locust plague

Li Yu looked up at the locusts that covered the clouds and covered the sun in mid-air, and was stunned. He remembered that he was only on TV in his previous life, and he had seen the tragic state of the people after the locust plague. He had never seen so many locusts with his own eyes. locust.

  Li Yu saw that the black cloud was getting closer and closer, and suddenly remembered to use fire. Li Yu shouted to Qian Shi and Li Mei, "Auntie, you go and set the rapeseed sticks on fire. The locusts are afraid of fire."

   Li Yu ran out and set the rapeseed husks and stalks piled in the ground on fire. The stalks and stalks burst into flames, and Li Mei and Qian also ran out to set the others on fire.

Everyone held wooden sticks and branches to drive away the locusts, but it didn't help at all. They watched helplessly as the locusts flew into the rice fields. In an instant, the rice fields were densely packed with locusts, and all they heard was the gnawing of 'cha cha' from the rice fields. Eat sound, less than half an hour, one acre of rice is only bare soil.

There were locusts in the rice fields, vegetable gardens, and even the woods. Only where Li Yu was burning the fire, no locusts dared to go. Li Yu looked at Li Mei and Qian who were dumbfounded by the locusts, and shouted, "Auntie, Aunt Qian. , quickly pull out those vegetables and take them home." The two stumbled and followed Li Yu to pull the vegetables.

The other villagers hurried to Li Yu's field, carried **** straws and wheat straws and piled them on the field ridge and ignited them to drive away the locusts. Flying around the ground, no matter how people beat him, he would not escape.

  The old man in the village knelt on the ground, lit the incense wax paper money, and kowtowed with tears incessantly, begging the locust **** to forgive everyone.

  The overwhelming locusts could not catch up with the east and west, and they all fell to the ground dumbfounded, wanting to cry without tears.

  Everyone looked at the emerald green Xishan Village in dismay.

   Zhou Jia drove the mule cart to Li Yu's house, looked at Li Yu and said, "Xiaoyu, there is a drought and a locust plague, it seems that we have to flee the famine."

"Yeah! It's only after fleeing the famine," Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia. "My family only brought so much food home. If we take all of it away, it will be very attractive on the road. I want to take some out. Sell ​​some at the market price to those poor people, what do you think?"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and nodded in agreement, "Xiaoyu, you're right, I'll go back first to pack up the things I need to use on the way to escape from the wasteland, and I will go to the county to arrange for those guys and shopkeepers in the county. The remaining villagers also have to go, and they can be safe with us."

   Li Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, I see."

Zhou Jia drove the mule cart into the courtyard and left with Jixiang. Li Yu tied the mule, put the mule cart away and walked into the kitchen, and said to Qian Shi and Li Mei who were choosing vegetables, "Auntie Qian, the drought has not yet hit. If we encounter locusts again and again, if we continue like this, we can only escape."

   Li Mei looked at Li Yu blankly, "Yu'er, it's the same outside! Where can we escape to?"

Li Yu looked at Li Mei and said, "It's not safe here. After a long time, everyone runs out of water and food. Think about it, when the food is exhausted and the water is gone, what will happen if only our family has food. The world is so big. , there is always a place where there is no disaster, and we will flee there."

   Li Mei shuddered when she remembered the situation in her former hometown after the disaster, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back and pack my things."

   After Li Mei left, Qian moved towards Li Yu and knelt down with a 'bang'. Li Yu quickly helped her up, "Aunt Qian, what are you doing?"

Qian Shi begged Li Yu with tears, "Xiaoyu, I won't drag you and Mr. Zhou anymore, I just ask you to take Xiao An away and let him live a life, and my aunt will be a cow and a horse in the next life to repay your kindness and great virtue. ."

   Li Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Aunt Qian, before I finished speaking, you knelt down. I originally wanted to ask if you would like to go with us?"

   "Xiaoyu," Qian Shi couldn't express his gratitude, just kept nodding.

   "Then go home and pack up." Li Yu looked at Qian and smiled.

   Qian Shi hurriedly went home to pack up. Li Qing flew home, panting heavily, and said to Li Yu, "Sister, sir, said that we are going to flee, and I will come back to help pack up."

  Li Yu thought to himself: I don't know what I'll meet along the way, so let him kill those chickens to practice courage.

   "Okay, then I'll give you a task, kill all those chickens and wait for my sister to come back to deal with them," Li Yu looked at Li Qing, "Do you dare to kill them?"

  Li Qing did not expect that Li Yu would give him such a task. After hesitating for a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll kill it."

  Li Yu went out to the village, and the village chief's family gathered together to discuss how to face the problem at hand.

Li Yu walked to the door of the village chief's house, and an old man walked tremblingly in front of Li Yu, looked at Li Yu after hesitating for a moment, and said, "Xiaoyu, your family just picked up food, can you sell a few stones to my family? what?"

  Li Yu saw that the old man was wearing a white shirt full of patches, and nodded with a smile: "Okay, you can wait for me for a while, I'll go to the village chief's house to talk about something before calling you back."

  The old man didn't expect Li Yu to be so good at talking, so he bowed in joy and saluted: "Thank you, thank you! I'll be waiting for you here."

   Mr. Li heard the sound and walked to the door. When he saw Li Yu, he frowned and asked, "Xiaoyu, what are your plans?"

  Li Yu and Mrs. Li walked towards the main room and saw locusts crawling everywhere in the yard, and goosebumps arose.

   Li Yu asked Li, "Aunt Li, what do you and uncle think?"

   Li looked at Li Yu with a sad face, "We don't know what to do! What are you and Mr. Zhou going to do?"

   "We plan to leave the next day. I want to sell some of my food at the market price of the previous year to those families who are short of food."

  The village chief stood at the door of the main room and heard Li Yu say that he would sell some of the grain at the market price. He thought he had heard it wrong, and hurriedly asked: "Xiaoyu, you really want to sell the grain at the market price of the previous year."

Li Yu looked at the village chief and said with a smile: "Yes, the village chief, Mr. Zhou and I plan to leave the next day. My family has just harvested so much grain, and I plan to leave twenty stone of wheat to take away, and the rest will be the same as the year. The previous market price is sold to people in the village who are short of food. I want to ask the village chief grandpa to help me, so that I don’t make a mistake.”

   The village chief nodded and sighed: "Xiaoyu! Grandpa has lived for so long, it's not as generous and open-minded as you. I know who are in the village who are having a hard time.

  Chen Yaohui hurriedly stopped the village chief, "Dad, you should go quietly! It's hard for the little fish to do it."

   "Why is it so hard to do? Xiaoyu is doing a good deed," the village chief was stunned for a moment before he understood, "Yes, I was confused, I'll go and you all go to Xiaoyu's house to help."

  The village chief called someone to go, and the Chen Yaohui brothers asked Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, are your family and Mr. Zhou's family leaving?"

  Li Yu nodded, "Uncle, you can tell those people in the village that you can tell, and if you decide to go, you can go with us, and everyone has a companion on the road."

   Mrs. Li looked at Li Yu and shed tears, "Where are you going? After all these years, we have only been to Qingshan City four or five times."

  Li Yu glanced at Mrs. Li, turned and pointed to the world outside, and said loudly, "Aunt Li, the world is huge, as long as everyone works together, are you afraid that we won't have a place to live?"

   Everyone looked at Li Yu's firm and calm expression, and for some reason they felt less anxious.

   (end of this chapter)