kingnovel Chapter 290 The Locust Plague
Chapter 290 The Locust Plague
She paused, then continued, "They are not family, but they are better than family."
An Yue naturally knew what Meng Xiuer was thinking at this moment.
She recalled that when she lived in the thatched hut, her grandmother Zhou accused and insulted her all day long. Her mother-in-law Zhang did not scold her, but assigned her to do everything.
If you do it well, it will be the credit of your mother-in-law; if you do it poorly, you will inevitably be scolded by your grandmother.
An Yue quickly comforted her: "Sister-in-law, don't think about those unhappy things in the future. When you are tired here, go back to your room and rest. Being happy is the most important thing."
An Yue laughed and said, "Haha, the most important thing for sister-in-law right now is to give birth to the baby safely. Yueyue is here to take care of other trivial matters, so sister-in-law doesn't need to worry about them for now."
"Yes, yes, then let me thank my aunt on behalf of Xiaobao first." Meng Xiuer responded with a smile, her expression turning from gloomy to bright.
After washing her face, Meng Xiuer also cleaned the rabbit meat.
An Yue rubbed some salt on the rabbit meat, then hung it on a bamboo stake in the yard, ready to expose it to the sun for an hour.
Meng Xiu'er went back to the ear room to thresh the wheat grains, while An Yue put all the potatoes she had brought back in the cellar.
There are various vegetables in the vegetable garden right now, including tomatoes, eggplants, spinach, Chinese cabbage, peppers, etc. The potatoes will be stored first if possible.
It's dry and hot outside, but the opposite is true in the cellar.
As An Yue arrived at the entrance of the cellar, she clearly felt a cool air blowing towards her. She slowly walked down the stairs into the cellar.
I dumped all the potatoes in the basket into the cellar, thinking: "It would be so cool if I could sleep in here!"
After dumping the potatoes in the cellar, she came out.
At this time, it was already 3 p.m., and An Yue thought that the Wang family and the Qin family would not come to weigh the goods for a while.
So she carried a basket on her back and prepared to go out and cut some mugwort.
She leaned against the door of the east ear room, poked her head out and said to her sister-in-law Meng Xiuer, "Sister-in-law, I'm going to be out for a while."
Meng Xiuer turned her head and said "hmm" to show that she understood.
An Yue then walked towards the gate of the yard carrying the basket on her back, and Ba Shi followed behind her, wagging her tail.
An Yue remembered that there was a lot of mugwort on the barren slopes behind the mountain.
So she led Bashi toward the barren slope.
A man and a dog soon arrived at the barren slope.
An Yue found a place under the shade of a tree, put down her backpack, then squatted down and cut the mugwort that was half a person's height.
Ba Shi was running back and forth happily in the grass on the barren slope, and from time to time it rushed towards Anyue from a distance, and Anyue was knocked to the ground by it several times.
An Yue couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Stinking eighty! You must be crazy!"
Ba Shi barked twice at An Yue, then turned around and ran madly into the bushes, while An Yue continued to squat and cut mugwort.
Due to the drought, the mugwort on the barren slopes has become semi-dry, and it doesn't take long to dry after being cut and exposed to the sun.
Since the entire barren slope was covered with mugwort, An Yue was able to cut it very quickly.
An hour later, when the sun moved westward, it was able to shine on the entire barren slope.
At this time, An Yue had already cut several large bundles of mugwort.
Ba Shi kept running around, and finally he was too tired to run anymore, so he lay down beside Anyue's backpack, sticking out his tongue and taking a rest.
An Yue took the backpack to the place where the mugwort was piled and put all the mugwort into the backpack.
At this moment, An Yue discovered flying insects in the air, and it seemed like there were insects crawling on her legs.
An Yue looked at the ground and saw locusts.
She quickly picked up the backpack and ran home quickly.
When I got home, I found Chunzhi, Daniu and Ale were already in the yard.
As An Yue entered the yard, Daniu, who was standing in the yard, pointed outside and said, "Miss, there are so many locusts outside!"
An Yue put down the backpack and arranged: "Everyone, quickly close the doors and windows, and then everyone go to the fields and pick all the leafy vegetables and put them back home and put them in the cellar."
After hearing this, everyone immediately understood what An Yue meant, and everyone rushed back to their rooms and closed the doors and windows.
An Yue said to Meng Xiu'er who was standing beside her, "Sister-in-law, don't go out. Put everything you can back into the house."
Meng Xiuer clenched her fists nervously and responded with a look of horror: "Yeah, okay."
After everyone closed the doors and windows, they put on their backpacks and ran out to the yard.
As I ran to the edge of the field at the bottom of the slope, I saw more and more locusts in the air in the distance.
An Yue hurriedly took a shortcut and ran towards the west end of the village.
She planned to go find the village chief and ask him to find a way to notify the villagers to take all the edible vegetables and fruits from the fields home.
As An Yue ran along the way, she shouted loudly: "Everyone, take the vegetables home quickly!"
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"Everyone, take your vegetables home!"
An Yue came to the west end of the village and happened to meet the village chief Li Huairen. An Yue shouted breathlessly: "Uncle, quickly notify the villagers to take the vegetables home and store them."
The village chief heard that it was An Yue, so he ran towards An Yue and asked, "Yue Yue, what did you just say?"
An Yue said breathlessly: "Hurry up and notify the villagers to take all the edible fruits and vegetables from the fields back home."
Seeing An Yue so anxious, the village chief asked again, "Why?"
An Yue calmed down and explained, "The locust plague has come, so let everyone take the fruits and vegetables home."
When the village chief heard what An Yue said, he was instantly horrified.
But he quickly calmed down and said to An Yue, "Yueyue, go home first. I'll send someone to notify them."
After saying this, the village chief Li Huairen quickly ran towards his home, shouting as he ran: "The locust plague is coming, the locust plague is coming, quickly collect all the edible food from the fields and bring it home!"
When some people heard this, they all shouted loudly: "The locust plague is coming, the locust plague is coming, bring back all the edible things from the fields."
Word spread quickly, and the villagers told each other and started to busy themselves in the fields harvesting vegetables.
An Yue turned back to the east end of her village and heard an old woman who was harvesting vegetables in the field crying, "Oh, God! You really won't leave us a way out!"
Soon, villagers everywhere were heard shouting, "The locust plague is coming."
The villagers all took action, picking fruits and vegetables from their own fields.
The locust plague that we guarded against day and night finally came.
In just a short while, the number of locusts increased.
There were so many of them flying in the sky and crawling and jumping on the ground that they looked like demons crawling out of hell, gnawing at everything.
Every time they move forward an inch, they attach themselves to the vegetation and gnaw on it at an extremely fast speed.
In the morning, An Yue saw a green rice field two kilometers away, but it turned yellow in just half a day.
An Yue was extremely anxious, but she knew that human power alone was simply not enough to resist this disaster.
An Yue has done everything she can to deal with the drought and locust plague. For example, she previously went to the village chief and asked the villagers to dig deep wells collectively to resist the drought.