Dressed as a farmer group pet

Chapter 196 196 It's finally raining

Jiang Hu led everyone to the back door. There was a room next to the cattle pen, and there were piles of bellflowers of various crops, which were dry and flammable.

Jiang Hu was not stingy either, he asked everyone to carry a bundle, and went to the river by the moonlight.

When approaching the river, it was obvious that something hit his leg.

Jiang Hu was stunned for a moment before reacting in shock: "Locusts! The locusts have already come to this place!"

At most, an hour had passed since Liu Yang came to find him by the river, and in this short hour, the locusts by the river had already arrived in the fields, and were even spreading out quickly.

At this time, Jiang Hu and the others could already feel a large number of locusts when they walked to the middle section between Jiang's house and the river.

"Yes, there are more and more. If this is not dealt with in time, there will be more."

The village chief carried last year's sorghum stalks, while Liu Yang and Jiang Hu carried dry firewood. Last winter, because of the drought, there was no work in the fields, so they went to the mountains to cut firewood if they had nothing to do.

There is a lot of firewood at home, so I don't care about this.

The river bed was crowded with people, the fire was flickering, and many people were busy by the river.

Set up a fire, extending from the end of the village to the head of the village.

"The fire will attract locusts to fly over, and it can also burn the eggs in the ground to death. Whether it works or not, at least it is better than doing nothing."

The village chief explained it to Jiang Hu, and then went to the river to get busy.

Jiang Hu also saw torches flashing by on the terraced fields on the hillside, and it could be seen that those who were lucky before were now rushing to collect them in a hurry.

We could vaguely hear the cries coming from the ground. It seemed that the locusts had already spread and started to spoil the food.

While laying corn stalks on the ground, the village chief shook his head and sighed softly. Some people are so stubborn that they can't even explain it.

It's all right now, there are more and more locusts, and the crops in the field will not be recovered in a short while, and the loss may not be small.

Jiang Hu was busy with the village head, looked around a few times, and found that Liu Yang put down the firewood and left, and almost all the fields were old people.

except him.

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Hu understood: "Village chief, have all the young people in the village gone to help harvest sorghum?"

"That's right, no matter what, let's take back the food first. We old men have bad eyesight at night, so we come to work by the river."

The movements of Jiang Hu's hands paused: "Then let me help, anyway, food is more important."

After speaking, he quickly turned around and went home. The moon was still bright tonight. Jiang Hu walked home quickly, explained a few words to his family, and then picked up the sickle and went out.

Erniang and Qixi quickly followed, leaving Uncle Liu and Aunt Yang to watch over the children at home.

Even though everyone is helping, there is still a part of the loss. The locusts spread too fast, and in the middle of the night, they almost hit our faces.

As usual, Xiaomi stayed in the space at night. Wei Ziang no longer took anti-inflammatory drugs. Although the wounds on his body were scarred, the edges were still a little red, so we still needed to continue to disinfect them.

Every day when Xiaomi was about to leave the space, he would scrub and disinfect Wei Ziang's scars.

Wei Ziang also recuperated in the house with peace of mind, and occasionally went for a walk in the yard.

What makes Xiaomi strange and reassuring is that Wei Ziang never once asked why it is always daytime and there is no such thing as night.

Xiaomi pondered, it should be because of his young age and amnesia, which made Wei Ziang not have so many concepts of day and night in his mind.

Coming out of the space again, Xiaomi stretched his waist and woke up, and was about to get up when Xiaoxue held him down.

"Xiaomi, if you want to sleep, go on sleeping. You can't go out today. Dad will bring us something to eat later."

At the same time, Xiaomi also felt that on the window paper, accompanied by the sound of 'bang bang bang', densely packed bugs hit the window.

Some fell to the ground, and some crawled around on the windows.

Xiaomi gasped: "Why are there so many locusts!"

But only one night!

Xiaoxue thought her sister was scared, and patted her on the back to comfort her: "Don't be afraid, Xiaomi, the doors and windows are closed, they can't get in, and the food is also in the cellar, so they won't go hungry."

In Xiaoxue's heart, as long as she is not hungry, she is already the happiest thing.

Xiaomi nodded, she is not afraid, but the drought has not passed yet, the locust plague is coming again, everyone's life may be even more difficult.

Just as he was talking, someone hurriedly opened the door and entered. Even though the door was closed quickly, a large swarm of locusts still followed.

"Mom!" Xiaoxue jumped down directly, and Xiaomi also got up to get dressed quickly.

It was indeed Erniang: "Hey, don't be afraid Xiaoxue and Xiaomi. Mom will bring you some food. You should stay in the house today and don't come out."

While speaking, Erniang had trampled dozens of locusts to death swiftly, only a few escaped.

Erniang's face was still covered with a cloth, obviously to avoid being attacked by locusts.

"Mom, where are daddy and the others?" Xiaomi was curious.

Based on what she knew about her father, if her father was there, why would she not let mother send them food at such a time?

Er Niang took out the food and put it on the table: "Your father and eldest brother Ozawa and the others went to catch locusts with cloth curtains and net bags, and caught a little less."

There were too many locusts, and they flew out from both sides of the river bed overwhelmingly. When they gathered together, they formed a large area, which was really scary.

Not only Jiang Hu's family, but many people in the village have spontaneously organized to catch a large number of locusts.

Xiaomi couldn't go out, but only listened to Ji Niangqin's narration, and knew what it was like outside.

"Mom, what about Tie Dan and the others?" Xiaoxue took a corn bun for Xiaomi.

"Tie Dan is in Grandpa Liu's room. You eat first, and Mother will help later. If you are hungry at noon, you can eat by yourself."

Erniang took a lot of steamed buns, a plate of pickles, and a pot of water.

After exhorting the two daughters, Erniang hurried out again. Taking advantage of the moment Erniang opened the door, Xiaomi went to have a look and gasped in fright.

The overwhelming locusts were densely mixed together, like dark clouds.

"Xiaoxue, trample the locusts in the house to death yourself, mother hastened to go first."

After Er Niang went out, she hurriedly ran to the backyard, not forgetting to tell Xiaoxue and the other sisters.

Xiaomi was secretly anxious, and didn't know when the rain would fall. As long as it rained, the locusts would definitely not be so arrogant.

"Xiaomi, let's eat first. After eating, you can continue to sleep. You won't be afraid when you fall asleep."

Xiaoxue took a steamed bun for her sister, and dragged her back to the table.

Erniang poured a bowl of water for each of them just now, and a big basket of steamed buns, not to mention noon, it was enough for the evening.

Xiaomi took a hard bite: "Don't sleep anymore, Second Sister, we will also catch locusts later!"

Damn, killing one counts as one, you can't just wait in the house, can you?
Although it is a drop in the bucket for them to catch locusts, but if they catch one, there will be one less to reproduce.

Xiaoxue was a little at a loss: "How to catch it?"

Xiaomi gnawed on the steamed buns and said nothing. He was thinking hard, and his eyes were looking around.

Suddenly seeing the embroidery basket of the second sister on the table, a thought flashed in my mind: "There is a way!"

The two quickly ate the steamed buns and drank water. Xiaomi dragged the second sister to the bedside, stabbed with scissors, and cut off a large piece of bed cover.

Following Xiaomi's instructions, Xiaoxue quickly made a fishing net bag, surrounded by a bamboo ring that Xiaoxue used to fix the embroidered handkerchief.

Immediately, Xiaomi threw a small piece of steamed bun into the fishing net, opened the door a crack, and stretched out the fishing net.

In an instant, a large number of locusts buried their heads in the fishing net, and even felt their wrists sinking slightly.

The big fishing net seemed to be full in an instant, Xiaomi quickly brought it in, put it on the ground and stepped on it!
The two sisters stomped on it directly, and the locusts quickly turned into a puddle of meat paste, and then were poured into the bucket, and then the same method was used to continue the next round of arrests.

But this time, there is no need for steamed buns, the corpses of locusts are good bait.

In one morning, the two sisters trampled countless locusts to death, and the locust meat paste almost filled the bucket.

Er Niang and the others did not come back at noon, but Grandpa Liu covered his face and came to see the two sisters.

Seeing their arrest method, I was very interested, and then I went to find a bamboo stick, and asked Xiaoxue to make one for him, and by the way, helped them take the Gong bucket that was about to be full to the backyard to empty.

I don't know what's going on outside, but even though they've worked so hard, the locusts in the sky don't seem to show any signs of decreasing.

In the evening, Jiang Hu and Erniang finally came back, as well as Aunt Yang, Qixi, Jiang Yu and Liu Ze, two big boys.

Everyone covered themselves tightly.

Xiaomi also saw how they caught locusts, that is, they used long cloth curtains, tied to bamboo poles, and swooped down to catch a large area.

After Jiang Hu rested for a while, he covered up the children and carried them to the kitchen, where Aunt Yang and Erniang were already cooking.

Today, I dealt with it casually during the day, so I have to get some decent food at night.

Fortunately, there is a small door connecting their kitchen with the firewood room next to them, so they don't have to worry about being robbed by locusts when they take food and bacon.

"The locusts are too scary. The sorghum stalks in the field don't even have a single leaf."

Last night when I harvested sorghum, I just cut off the sorghum ears with a sickle and carried them back. The sorghum stalks were still in the field. Now there are really only bare stalks left in the field.

"The weather looks like it's about to rain. When it rains, there should be a lot less locusts."

Uncle Liu is also a well-informed old man, and when he was young, he often led people to work everywhere, so he also has a certain understanding of climate change.

Jiang Hu nodded: "I also feel that it's time to rain, but I don't know when it will rain."

Er Niang came over with a pot of broth: "It's not going to rain. When it will rain, there's no use worrying about it. I noticed today that the water level in the pond seems to have risen a bit."

At least from the time of the drought to the present, although Fu'an Village is also short of water, it has never been cut off. Even people from the nearby ten miles and eight villages often come here to fetch water.

The people in Fu'an Village can be said to be extremely lucky.

People who came to fetch water from outside said that in places farther away, where there is no water, there are inevitably people who died of hunger and thirst. In towns and cities, the imperial court distributes water, but each household has a bowl, is there too much?

No one in Fu'an Village has ever been to the town since the last time they bought salt to make bacon, and the news outside came from word of mouth from other people.

"Really? The water level has risen, which means that the water under the ground has begun to recover, and the rain will definitely not last long!"

Uncle Liu was overjoyed.

In the evening, there are still steamed buns. I haven’t finished eating the steamed buns during the day, so I reheat them, and then I have a pot of bacon soup stewed with radishes, a few steamed sweet potatoes, and a plate of pickles. This is dinner.

The Chinese cabbage has been eaten, and now there are only a few radishes left. When these radishes are eaten, there will really be no vegetables at home.

For the next three days, the whole village was busy catching locusts. Some people came to the village to carry water, so I asked them about the situation outside.

Fortunately, everyone responded in a timely manner. At the beginning, they saw the Jiang family planting sorghum, and some people also planted some. Of course, it was limited to those who exchanged winter sorghum seeds.

This time the Jiang family harvested the sorghum ahead of schedule, and someone came to carry the water to get the letter, so they didn't care about the 21, and just collected it.

Of course, there are still those who don't believe it and insist on waiting a few more days. This kind of inevitable loss will depend on whether the reaction is fast or not.

As for locusts, they are almost the same everywhere, densely packed everywhere, and you can't catch them all.

On the third day, the sunny weather finally turned gloomy, and the arrogant locusts became sluggish.

Seeing that the rain that has been waiting for nearly half a year is finally about to fall, everyone's heart is full of anticipation.

However, on this day, it has been gloomy from morning to night, but there is still not a single drop of rain falling, as if teasing them, making people feel uncomfortable and anxious.

At night, lying on the bed restlessly, without any warning, there were a few crackling noises from the roof.

Before everyone could react, the next moment, dense, louder and denser voices sounded.

It's raining!
It's finally raining!
"It's raining! It's raining heavily!"

The roar of excitement spread from the village to the end of the village. Jiang Hu and Er Niang also hurriedly put on their clothes and went out, forgetting to light the oil lamp.

"Great, it's finally raining!" The couple ran directly into the yard, even couldn't help raising their heads, opened their mouths, and caught the raindrops.

Although they still have some water in their house, they still save it and save it. Only when they are really thirsty will they drink water, and they don't dare to waste it.

"Er Niang, hurry back to the house. It's too cold at night, and you'll catch cold if you get wet in the rain!" Fortunately, Jiang Hu reacted in time, and hurriedly pulled Er Niang back to the eaves, and trotted out by himself.

"I'm going to move out some water tanks to catch water!"

"Brother Jiang, I'll go with you!"

Qixi was also awakened by the sound of rain, and ran over barefoot.

Others also pushed the door out one after another, excited and happy, only Xiaomi was still 'sleeping'.

The eaves soon dripped water, dozens of large water tanks were placed in a row, and even in the backyard, rows of dung buckets were arranged to catch rainwater.

And behind the latrine, the ditch under the eaves was dug directly to connect the water from the eaves into the latrine.

Everyone was busy and excited tonight.

(End of this chapter)