happy apocalypse

Chapter 217 Locust plague
"What are you looking at? You're so engrossed. You didn't even notice when I came in." Jiang Zhi asked aloud when he saw that I was still holding a book in a daze after entering the room for a long time.

"Is my girl good today, come say hello to Dad." Jiang Zhi started to stroke my stomach when he went to bed, and talked to it stupidly.

This movement is the favorite movement of the father and son recently, and Hanhan too, every time he sees me, he will touch my stomach first, say hello to the sister inside, and then talk to me.Why do I feel that giving birth to a girl is making things difficult for me? I haven't been born yet, and my status has plummeted, hey!
"Your girl is very good, but your girl's mother is not very good." I said angrily.

"What's the matter, the big baby in our family is jealous of the little baby again." Jiang Zhi took off his shoes and went to bed beside me. I naturally found a comfortable position on him and continued to nest.

"No, I'm worried about this." I said and handed the book in my hand to Jiang Zhi, letting him read it by himself.

Jiang Zhi took the book and read it, and he knew what I was worried about. He took the book and read it carefully, and I added some of my own opinions beside it.

"This is the last thing I foresee, and I am very worried. At that time, in my dream, I saw locusts covering the sky and rushing towards me, and they just passed through my body." I recalled that time Dreamland, trembling all over.

Jiang Zhi hugged me tightly with one hand and comforted me: "Okay, don't think about it anymore, your current body is not suitable for worrying about these things, don't worry, I will take care of everything."

"It's okay, I know my body, I'm not those weak flowers raised in the greenhouse. Besides, if you don't tell me, I'll be even more worried, and I won't be able to sleep well." I said deliberately exaggerated, but in fact I Now the quality of sleep is very high, I just touch the pillow and sleep until dawn.

Jiang Zhi thought about it, and decided to tell me that he understands my character and will never give up until he achieves his goal.

"Actually, I started to prepare for this a while ago. Do you still remember that when the rice seedlings were planted, I asked everyone to replace the bamboo poles standing next to the paddy fields with wooden stakes, and it was still At that time, everyone thought that they were used to cover the sunshade nets in summer, but in fact, I wanted to use something to cover the rice in our village, so as to minimize losses during the locust plague.” Jiang Jiang Zhi said his preparations.

He was also worried about this. The village finally had a bumper harvest last year. If this year's rice is again plagued by locusts, everyone will be back to before liberation.

I know about this, our family was the first to change the stakes, and other families followed suit. It turned out that Jiang Zhi had this idea at that time.

But I still feel that this is not enough to resist the locusts that are overwhelming the sky.

"Old Jiang, look here. They raised a lot of ducks and chickens in the field, and they wiped out all the locusts in the field. There are also a lot of chickens and ducks in our family. When the time comes, we will also drive away the chickens and ducks in the field." Go to the paddy field. There is a net blocking it, and there must be fish that escaped the net into the paddy field, so that these chickens and ducks will be useful. If these two methods are used together, our paddy field will be safer?" I asked. Pointed Jiang Zhi to the place I saw just now.

Jiang Zhi looked at it seriously and said, "This method is good, we can try it."

I thought of a new question, "Old Jiang, do you think we should tell the villagers about the locust plague?"

I have lived here for several years, and I have some feelings for the villagers here. I can't bear to see their hard-earned food destroyed in the locust plague, so I asked this question.

Jiang Zhi put his arms around me and said with a smile: "No matter where we start from, we have no possibility of being alone. Not to mention that our family can no longer keep a low profile in our village. We have a hundred pairs of eyes watching everything we do. To accumulate some good fortune for our unborn girl, we can't ignore everyone. But you don't need to worry about this matter. I will discuss it with Lao Zhangtou and the others tomorrow. They are so old and must have more experience than us. Everyone Discuss together and we will always find the best solution.”

I thought about it, okay, the three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, maybe they can really think of an effective way.

But I can't just watch, I have to contribute anyway, so I rummaged and rummaged through the ring, and finally found the end-time novel with the plague of locusts, and turned to that chapter for Jiang Zhi to read. , hoping to help him.

"Yo, does this end-time novel really have such a plot?" After Jiang Zhi read a few lines, he began to read it seriously.

"Of course, isn't it said that art comes from life!" I said in awe.

"Well, there are some things in it that can be used for reference. Just collect locusts and use them as food reserves. Our village can learn from them. Although our pig farm has been established, the villagers are still celebrating the New Year. Pork can only be eaten when the locusts are eaten, and the children can also increase their nutrition." Jiang Zhi also saw the part where the locusts were stored.

"Yeah, I was thinking about it just now. They say locusts are delicious, but I've never eaten them. I have to try them this time." Thinking of the delicacy described in the book, I couldn't help crying.

"Daughter-in-law, don't you feel disgusted?" Jiang Zhi asked me very strangely, he never thought that I would dare to eat bugs.

I didn't expect that I would be so good. Although I am not too afraid of bugs, I can't reach the point where my face doesn't change color when I hear eating bugs.

"I don't know either. It stands to reason that I should feel sick, but now I'm really looking forward to fried grasshoppers." I don't know what's wrong with me.

Jiang Zhi thought for a while and said, "That's probably because my girl wants to eat, that's why you are like this. It's okay, when the time comes, I'll grab some more for you two, so that you can eat as much as you want."

"Okay, catch more live ones, and see if you can raise some in the space. If your girl wants to eat them in the future, you can eat fresh ones." I started to plan to add new species to the space.

In the next few days, Jiang Zhi started to get busy, and he didn't know how he explained the locust plague to those old men. It's been a busy day.

First, I told the villagers about the locust plague that might occur, and got the attention and support of all the villagers, and then launched a series of measures to prevent the locust plague.

The first one is to ask all the families to be like ours, to erect a solid wooden stake every 20 meters or so on the ridge of the paddy field, which is used to set up the net to protect the rice below.Second, don’t kill chickens, ducks, geese, etc. for the time being. I also explained the use of chickens, ducks, and geese in locust plagues, and said that if you are greedy for meat, then wait here to eat fried grasshoppers. I heard that children who have delicious food are happy.The third is to let every family go to the back mountain to cut some bamboo, and then make bamboo nets at home.At this time, there is no place to find barbed wire, so bamboo can only be split to make a net instead.At that time, it should be erected on wooden stakes and spread some branches on the bamboo net, which should be able to block most of the locusts.

We all know that during the locust plague, when locusts come not one or two, but tens of thousands, if people want to go out at that time, they also need to have some equipment.

This is what I prepared by myself. Our helmets are all ready-made. When I was in the city, I went to the auto parts city. I collected a lot of motorcycle helmets there, and now I just take them out for use.As for the protective gear on his body, it was made by Jiang Ma and the other four old people. They are all made of light and thin iron sheets. Jiang Zhi tried it, and it was not bad. Everyone, including the three members of my aunt's family, prepared a set.

Now all the preparations are completed, just waiting for the arrival of the locust plague.

One day at the end of July, Jiang Zhi looked at the blue sky and said, "Hurry up, I have to hurry up, they are coming soon."

After I heard this, I knew that the locust plague was coming. I was both happy and anxious. I was very happy that we were able to make full preparations before the locust plague. The locust plague was no longer a threat to us. It just brought us food.The anxiety is that I will be like everyone else, I don't know what will happen in the future, and I have to start exploring the unknown world again.

But fortunately, I am not alone, my family is here with me, my husband, and my two children.

The plague of locusts came without warning.

I took protective gear and hid in a small hut specially set up by Jiang Zhi at the edge of the field for a temporary rest. Looking at the original blue sky, it was like a burst of dark clouds drifting quickly, and the locusts covered the entire sky. It's no exaggeration to say that it can block out the sky, and it's accompanied by the huge buzz of their wings flapping.

They should have seen a piece of "green" here, and flew towards it. We heard the sound of puff puff in the shack, and knew that the swarm of insects had begun to land on the shelf.

The people in the shack heard the swishing sound, and they were secretly glad that the protective gear Mama Jiang made for everyone were all made of iron sheets, otherwise they might not be able to withstand the huge momentum of the locust from top to bottom .

From the gap in the shack, I saw that the grass next to it was covered with a layer of gray-green, and the swarms of insects above the head were still joining in the ranks of grabbing food. The original green grass was passed by the swarms. , the bare ground was exposed, I patted my chest, and muttered, "The swarm is too scary. If there are too many of these insects, they can kill an elephant."

And I also found that this grasshopper is different from what I saw together. It seems to be bigger, as long as my middle finger. Isn't this a species of my own country?
(End of this chapter)