I became a master of alchemy by picking up trash

Li Xing has doubts in his heart, but he still needs to ask the Ye family for confirmation before he dares to draw a conclusion.

Everyone in the Ye family watched Li Xing working in the ginseng garden from a distance, and they all kept silent, for fear of disturbing Master Li by making any noise.Seeing her approaching now, Ye Mubai asked, "Master Li, did you find anything?"

"There are clues, but I want to ask Uncle Ye a few questions first."

Ye Mubai was overjoyed: "I know everything!"

"The Ye family suffered from a plague of locusts more than 20 years ago, can you tell me the specific situation?"

"This……"

Including Ye Qingting, the complexions of all members of the Ye clan became heavy.

The Wutu real locust incident can be said to be a thorn in the hearts of all Ye clan members.Homes were destroyed overnight, blood relatives of thousands of people died in battle, thousands of hectares of medicine fields were completely destroyed, and the second lady had to sacrifice her lifelong happiness in exchange for rescue.All this is a disaster, and it is a disgrace they will never want to recall.

Ye Mubai was still hesitating, but Ye Chun said: "Mubai, what's so embarrassing, tell Master Li!"

"Yes!" Ye Mubai said slowly, "22 years ago, a swarm of real locusts descended on the back mountain of the Ye family without any warning. Due to the sudden incident, the Ye family had no time to activate the mountain protection array, causing the locusts to drive straight in and gnaw on the mountain. Devour herbs and attack the clansmen. All the martial artists and rune masters of the Ye family went out to fight and wiped out the real locusts."

"It's a pity that the number of Wutu real locusts is huge, they are extremely manic, and their fighting power is too much higher than they should be. The Ye family is no match, and they suffered heavy casualties. Thanks to the arrival of the Cuihuan City Guards and reinforcements from other families, Wutu was taken away." The real locusts are wiped out."

Li Xing frowned, Wutu real locusts are only in the breeding season when they are manic and their fighting power soars.

"Uncle Ye, was this piece of Nine Songs Spiritual Ginseng destroyed?"

Pain appeared on Ye Mubai's face, and he said slowly: "No. My wife sacrificed her life to protect the ginseng garden with a talisman, and did not let the Wutu real locust touch the Jiuquling ginseng."

So that's the case, Li Xing is now certain that the living thing Shen Ying mentioned is the Wutu real locust.

"Patriarch Ye, Uncle Ye, everyone, I think I know the reason why these Jiuquling Ginseng appear strange. Under this ginseng garden, there are eggs of Wutu real locust, and they are about to hatch."

Ye Chun and Ye Mubai shouted almost at the same time: "What—!" "Impossible—!"

Ye Chun's expression was unprecedentedly serious:
"Li Xiaoyou, back then we also thought about the possibility of real locusts laying eggs in Wutu, so we plowed the entire back mountain at a great price. The land was dug to a depth of 20 meters from the ground, and the soil was burned with fire and then exposed to the sun. , It took three full years to plant medicinal herbs again. Even if the real locust really lays eggs, it will not survive."

Ye Mubai also nodded in agreement: "Yes, Master Li, the medicine garden is too important to our Ye family, so even though the real locust laying eggs in Wutu is just a hypothesis, we still made the most careful emergency response according to the worst consequences. There will definitely be no mistakes in handling it."

If it weren't for the large amount of money and manpower needed to plow the land and burn the soil, the Ye family could not afford it, and Ye Lan wouldn't have to marry into the Chu family and suffer grievances.

Faced with Ye Chun and Ye Mubai's doubts, Li Xing explained: "The Wutu real locust is an insect beast of the earth attribute, and its eggs can drill to a depth of 20 meters underground. Can it move vertically? Can't it go sideways?"

"Ye Family's plowing, digging, and burning can indeed kill the eggs, but definitely not all of them. Some of the eggs escaped."

"Because the Jiuquling ginseng is too precious and has not been damaged by the real locusts, you will never dig up the soil of the ginseng garden and burn it. In this way, the ginseng garden will become a refuge for insect eggs."

Ye Chun and Ye Mubai were silent, they had to admit that the possibility Li Xing mentioned was possible.

"The soil in the ginseng garden contains Huangquan soil, which has the effect of isolating the spiritual power. Even with a probe, you can't see it so deep. Therefore, for many years, no one has found that there are real locusts in the ground. Until the eggs are about to hatch, Jiuqu Lingshen felt the threat from natural enemies, so they jumped out of the soil to hide."

Seeing Ye Chun and Ye Mubai's increasingly ugly faces, Li Xing knew that they were shaken.

"It's very simple to know if what I said is right. If you find the eggs, won't the truth be revealed?"

According to Li Xing's speculation, in order to avoid the fire, all the escaped eggs would be hidden underground in the ginseng garden.However, the density of the eggs is too high, which is not conducive to their development. Therefore, after the incident subsides, these eggs will inevitably be transferred to other places in the medicine garden.

Ye Chun made a decisive decision and ordered his subordinates to bring the Kun Kun mirror and search for the eggs in the medicine garden.

Only 15 minutes later, not far from the ginseng garden, news came from the medicine garden where the soil pear fruit was planted. Sure enough, Wutu real locust eggs were found.

Ye Chun couldn't believe it was true, so he ran to the pear orchard and snatched the Tankun Mirror from the tribe to check it for himself.

When Ye Chun saw the insect eggs reflected in the mirror, densely distributed on the ground, the old man felt his eyes darken and fell over.

"Patriarch—!" "Father—!" "Grandfather—!"

Everyone hurriedly helped Ye Chun up, only to find that his face was ashen.Ye Mubai pried open Ye Chun's mouth, and poured a bottle of medicine into it.

After the potion took effect, Ye Chun turned his head quietly, and the first sentence he opened his mouth was:

"Mubai, the Ye family...it's over."

The density of insect eggs shown by the exploration mirror is much higher than what Li Xing estimated.

There are so many insect eggs underground in a medicine garden, how many eggs are there under the whole medicine mountain?When they hatch into adults, how much of the Ye family's herbs will be left?If the events of 22 years ago are repeated, the Ye family will not be able to plow the mountain of medicine again.

Ye Mubai's mood is no better than Ye Chun's. "Father, do you want to inform Chu Yu and let the Chu family send someone to help?"

Ye Chun shook his head firmly: "No, in that case, the Ye family will owe favors to the Chu family again, and your second sister will never leave. This time, our Ye family will have to rely on ourselves!"

Ye Chunqiang stood up, looked around the crowd, and said in a sad voice:
"Old Hu, pass on my order. All martial artists and rune masters of the Ye family are on standby 24 hours a day. The healer hastened his time and picked all the herbs that can be picked, and sold them as soon as possible. It doesn't matter if the price is lower."

"In addition, arrange for those who are under the age of 16 and those who have no Yuan Ling to live temporarily in other cities. Without my order, they are not allowed to return."

Butler Hu said with tears in his eyes, "Yes, Patriarch."

"Mubai, you go to inform the city lord and let him prepare for battle, lest Wutu real locusts run out and threaten the people in the city. Ask Qingyun, Qingbo, and Qingxiao to notify the other big families in Cuihuan City to take precautions earlier. "

Ye Mubai answered with choked up sobs, he knew that his father was going to fight to the death with the real locust of Wutu.

This time, the Wutu True Locust would not let go of the Nine Songs Spirit Ginseng, and the Ye family had no chance to stand up again.Regardless of the outcome of this battle, the Ye family will suffer a fatal blow

Ye Mubai's heart began to bleed when he thought that the family that had lasted for thousands of years would be destroyed by his own generation.

Ye Chun: "Qingting, you—you can go back to Halsas, leave the family affairs to grandpa and your uncle, and you can study at ease."

Ye Qingting shook his head: "No, I won't go! Grandpa, it's too early to give up now, there must be a way!"

Ye Chun sighed, and said: "You are young and have never experienced the human-locust war that year, so you said such a thing. But if there is any hope, grandpa will not make such a foolish plan. Okay, be obedient, follow me Li Xiaoyou and the others go back."

Li Xing?That's right, and Li Xing!

Ye Qingting's eyes were red, and he looked at Li Xing pleadingly: "Ah Xing, please help us..."

Li Xing nodded cheerfully: "Okay, I'll make a pill first!"