The koi of fast crossing are busy farming with their cubs

Chapter 302 The Control Group of the Escaped Heroine (17)

That kind of buzzing sound was deafening, and it moved to this side all over the sky.

The people on the side of the road couldn't help but stop and look at it, with indescribable panic and a trace of intuitive despair in their hearts!
"Yes, it's the Locust Immortal!" A skinny old man suddenly shouted miserably, and collapsed on the ground, "The Locust Immortal has come to accept the gift from heaven to mankind!"

Everyone fell to their knees and kept kowtowing, "I beg the Great Immortal Locust to leave, I am willing to sacrifice pigs and sheep every year to worship you, and hope that the Great Immortal Locust can leave some rations for our humble people..."

After traveling for more than half a month, the drought in Dahe became more and more serious, and the grain production decreased in a large area. Only a few villages were willing to put away the grain in advance.The rest of the people still rush to water and irrigate the crops every day. If the food grows in the field for one more day, they will be able to survive for one more day next year!
Food is everyone's life.

But now, the locust locust is here, where will the food in the field be harvested in time?
Whenever you think about locusts passing through the bare grass, a man who is 1.8 meters 9 can wipe away his tears and cry bitterly.

The locusts have not yet arrived, the humming of flapping wings and the rustling of chewing plants are intertwined into a desperate tune.

Zhu Jiayi pursed her lips tightly, wondering if the little stories spread in the town before had any effect. It contained the cure methods for several disasters in the future, even the prescriptions for plague, malaria, smallpox and other diseases that were helpless.

She didn't say anything, but just watched the people either worship the heavens and the earth and worship the ghosts and gods, or they hurriedly hid all kinds of food and wrapped them in layers of cloth to prevent them from falling into the mouths of locusts.

Even Zhu's family stuffed things that were afraid of being eaten by locusts into the carriage, and then tied straw with wooden sticks and dabbed some tree oil, preparing to light a fire to drive away the locusts when the locusts came!
She has been paying attention to the Xiang family from the corner of her eye.

In order to protect herself from the sun, Xiang Weizi wrapped herself extremely tightly on such a hot day.

She was doing a battle between heaven and man, and after struggling for a while, she thought that there might be many things along the way.Famine is one of them. If everyone has nothing to eat and only their family has it, it will put their family in danger!

"This is the heavenly meat given to us by the gods!" Xiang Weizi shouted loudly: "The drought is severe, and the gods know that we are short of food, so they give us locusts!
Everyone, hurry up and catch them, bake them, boil them and then dry them in the sun, they will support us through the famine caused by the drought..."

The girl's voice was shrill and high-pitched, piercing into people's ears.

Their team of more than [-] people going to Xijiang is doing well at present, with enough money in their hands, they can enter the town for supplies at any time.But other refugees were not so lucky.

The drought forced many people to leave their hometowns. They lacked water and food, begged and wandered all the way, but were refused to enter the city.Hunger is like a big knife hanging by the hair, which can kill them at any time.

How about a person who has difficulty even surviving, no matter how revering the gods, he is not willing to let go of a trace of life, right?

Everyone also struggled in their hearts, and then looked at the locusts covering the sky, their eyes were red with a kind of madness.

Zhu Jiayi knocked on the car wall.

Zhu Kaiyan cleverly lifted the curtain and came up.

"Brother, let's catch as many locusts as possible!" Zhu Jiayi said in a low voice, "Now that the weather is bad and meat is becoming more and more scarce, the meat of locusts is also a great tonic, and it can be fed to bamboo chickens to lay eggs.

Usually an abnormal celestial phenomenon will be followed by a series of problems. On the way to Xijiang, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles, we have to keep a low profile. "

The old lady Zhu nodded and said in agreement: "Yiyi is right, troublemakers come out of poor mountains!
The more you go to the west, the more chaotic, the horse thieves are rampant.

There is nothing wrong with being careful.

What don't children in rural areas eat?

Grasshoppers, scorpions, crickets, mice, and birds in the ground eat everything, and they are all good things.

The locusts are caught, fried with oil and spices, and the taste is very fragrant.

Grind it into powder and feed it to the chickens with some dry grass..."

Zhu Jiayi smiled and continued: "There are many ways to catch locusts. You can use clothes as a net and wave it in the air a few times to fill it up; you can also use sacks to directly fill it, or dig a big hole in the ground and throw the locusts over there." , a layer of worms and a layer of soil, and then dig it out later..."

Zhu Kai responded, "Success, grandma, mother, sister, you are waiting in the car, and our brothers will catch as many locusts as we can.

These are pests that ravage crops! "

Therefore, when the army of locusts rushed forward, everyone had already rubbed their fists and got ready, and it was really men, women and children who were all going into battle.

The number of locusts is huge, spreading over tens of miles, like a glutton in the sky with its mouth wide open, devouring everything one by one!
These little things are extremely greedy, and they will not let a little plant go wherever they go.

No wonder there is a saying called "locusts crossing the border"!
Dense worms crackled and crashed into the carriage, and some locusts were even overwhelmed and gnawed on the cart with their mouths open!

A few little guys took the bamboo scraper and rolled the locusts into the basin filled with salt water.

Fill a pot and put it into a sack and send it to the carriage.

Zhu Jiayi and the old lady have been pretending to be sick, so they can't get out of the car to participate in it right now.

But they deal with the locusts in the car.

Putting away all kinds of bedding and mats, wrapping them in oiled paper, they changed into old clothes, took scissors and began to attack a sack of locusts that had been tightly crushed.

Of course locusts are edible, they are baked or deep-fried on the spot, crispy and delicious.

However, the wings, heads and claws of locusts have no meat, and eating too much is not easy to digest.

So they have to cut these things out and put them in another bag, grind them and feed them to the chickens!
The number of locust swarms was huge, and it took them a day and a night to catch them before sending away the locusts that were about [-]% missing.

All the pots, pots, sacks, baskets, etc. were requisitioned as containers. In the end, people dug a lot of holes on both sides of the official road and buried a lot of locusts.

It was dawn, and everyone had no time to rest and began to deal with the locusts.

The big guys don't have so much energy to pinch off the locust's head, tail, wings and claws. They just choose a thin bluestone and light it on the bottom to dry the locust.

They also put the pot upside down, and when the locusts were drying, the water vapor dripped into the bowl along the pot, enough for everyone to have a few sips from time to time.

The taste of the water has a faint fishy smell, but it is much better than the yellow water that has been precipitated several times in the river!

Especially for some poor people, this is really life-saving water and life-saving food.

They chewed the lightly flavored and soft meat, wiped away their tears and couldn't help but knelt down, thanking both heaven and earth.

Everyone has a great harvest. They dig out the locusts buried in the ground and process them together. Everyone can get hundreds of catties of dry goods!
(End of this chapter)