Chapter 491: , The locust is coming

Old man Wang's house.
The old man Wang looked at the village head in front of him with a dazed expression, and the village head eagerly asked him about the locusts.
"The locusts are really coming to us?" Village Chief Li looked anxious, "How serious will the locust plague be?"
"Uh...very serious!" Old man Wang was dazed and nodded firmly.
The old man Wang saw Li Yongnian behind the village head, so he knew how to talk.
It must be the pot thrown by the apprentice again!
He is used to it!
"Is it really that serious as Yongnian said?"
There was sweat on the forehead of Village Chief Li. It was the summer weather. In addition to the flustered heart, the clothes on Village Chief Li's body were soaked.
"Well! It's that serious!" The old man nodded with a serious face.
Although he didn't know what they were talking about!
However, he nodded right!
He carried the apprentice's pot!
Village Chief Li’s lips trembled, but fortunately, the village had also prepared in advance and stored some food.
If there is a real famine, the people in the village will be able to tide over the crisis in unity.
"The head of the village, quickly inform everyone to go harvest the wheat!" Li Yongnian heard what Old Man Wang said, and hurried to his house, "I will not go back with you, I will go back to harvest the wheat!"
After Li Yongnian finished speaking, he ran from the old man's house to his own without waiting for the response from the village chief.
Bai Lian's family has a lot of food, but Li Yongnian has never eaten enough since he was a child, and he regards food as more important than his own life.
Therefore, when I heard that the locusts were coming, I naturally became anxious.
The village chief was stunned when he saw Li Yongnian's back. After reacting, he hurriedly took the crutches and went home.
You have to beat the gongs and drums to inform the villagers.
When Leizi was holding a gong and shouting in the village, Li Yongnian had already harvested a wave of wheat in the field with a sickle polished by Bailian.
"Boom boom boom!"
"The locusts are coming! It's time for everyone to grab food!"
"The wheat is ripe! Don't wait any longer!"
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Leizi knocked on the gong, propagating loudly in the village.
However, no one wanted to pay attention to him.
The weather is very good now, the sun is harsh, the wheat has just matured, and some are mixed with some green wheat.
The weather in these two days was clear sky, and the sun was shining fiercely on the golden wheat ears.
These two days are just a good time to let the crops in the field dry.
If it is taken back now, not only will the threshing be difficult, but the wheat will need to be dried for a few more days. If the wheat is too moist, it will mold.
The village chief took a long slender cane and went to notify each household one by one.
When everyone saw the village chief coming in person, they were a little shaken, but in order to sell their own food at a high price, not many people still harvested the food.
Finally, the village chief was anxious, so he could only let Leizi continue to inform the village, and the rest of the family went down to harvest the wheat together.
The village chief's house has harvested wheat.
Li Yongnian's family harvested wheat.
Uncle Wang’s house harvested wheat.
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Gradually, everyone began to harvest wheat.
Sometimes this is the case. If someone tells you that locusts are coming and let you harvest crops, you may not believe it.
However, if you see that others are harvesting food, you will think, what if this thing is true?
Anyway, the weather is so good, I cut it home, dried it, and threshed it. Although it was a little troublesome, if the locust thing was true, it could really save the lives of the family.
Five villagers began to harvest wheat, and some people said that locusts came.
The people in the neighboring village were also panicked. Even at night, some people braved the moonlight to harvest wheat from the fields.
In the early morning of the next day, the first thing Bailian did when she got up was to spread out the wheat with poles in the yard and dry it well.
In one day, all ten acres of land in the family were harvested.
It is not the credit of Li Yongnian alone, but also the credit of Li Yi and the others.
Li Yi is now a little proud.
Not only can he chop people, he can chop wheat!
Even the master praised him!
On the second day, sporadic locusts came to the five villages. The villagers saw the locusts, and some of them were lucky.
What if this matter is false?
The locusts are here too, but these are not enough to stuff their teeth!
However, many old people started to panic. They were so knowledgeable that they knew that there were one or two locusts, and they reproduce very fast, and there will definitely not be just a few scattered ones.
In the fields, the crowds are lively and lively. The adults are sweating like rain in the fields harvesting wheat, while the children are holding a bamboo basket and then picking up the wheat ears behind the adults.
When the time comes, people in their family will use the wheat ears they pick up and put them aside, use the wheat ears they pick up to grind them into white flour, and then use the white flour to bake them a candy pie.
This is the happiest time for the children in five villages.
Fortunately, the villagers grow peppers and sell them to the Bailian family for a lot of money, and they can eat some white noodles.
In the old days, no matter how much wheat was grown at home, there would not be too much white flour at home, because the wheat had to be sold, and then some coarse grains were bought.
The price of coarse grains and white noodles is worlds apart, and white noodles are very luxurious.
Therefore, there are still many people in the village who decide to take risks. They can't think about the locusts and then go to harvest crops.
The locusts can't eat up all the food in the blink of an eye!
The people in the Li family's old house are also harvesting grain.
It was Mr. Li that harvested the grain. He didn't believe in Leizi too much, but he was originally a gentleman.
Even if I was expelled, I knew a little bit.
Even if there is no locust plague, the situation is already in the family. Could it be worse?
There was not much land in the Li family's old house. They had sold a lot before, but now the land is still bought by Liu Meijun with the money he got from Old Man Li.
No one in the family looked into the ground, and no one came to see if Grandpa Li had finished harvesting!
Old man Li was reaping wheat with a plain face, and carrying a bag of wheat ears to the mountain very calmly.
Only Bai Lian knew, it was the Rat brothers who said it.
That is, the old man Li is hiding his own food, he really can't believe the old man of Li family.
There are more and more people drying wheat ears on the road in the village. In many families, half of them go to the fields to harvest wheat, and the remaining half are dried at home.
When the sun is almost done, you can gather the ears of wheat, and then use a wooden stick to beat the ears of wheat vigorously.
After the wheat kernels are peeled off, the peeled husks have to be lifted.
If this thing sticks to the skin, it makes people feel itchy and scratchy.
The men in the field stayed down with sweat, but they did not complain, after all, this is their own food.
Wheat is much better than miscellaneous grains!
The conditions of the family are getting better and better. Just leave some wheat for the elderly and children at home this year, so that the elderly and children can also taste the deliciousness of th