Chapter 185: Locust plague
Liu family.
"Boss, third sister, fifth sister and sixth sister go to Zhang's house to help collect rice. Second sister, eldest sister, second sister, you go to Xu's house to help collect grain. The Liu family has few people and a lot of fields. Mother, the old family, the second sister, our mother and three go to Liu's house to harvest rice." After Huang Li returned home, he told the Huang family about this matter.
By the way, the people in the family were divided into three waves, and they went to the families they had with each other to help them harvest food.
Wang Lizheng went door to door to inform the villagers that after the locust plague, many villagers would believe that after seeing that Village Chief Zhang's family had already started to harvest grain, they also followed their family's footsteps.
As for some villagers, they didn't believe it, but after seeing that almost half of the villagers in the village went to harvest food, the people who didn't believe it became panic and began to harvest food.
But as the weather is too hot today, I took a straw hat to the fields to harvest food on a sunny day. I can't do long work. Not only is it sweating profusely, women with weaker constitutions may have heatstroke.
Heat stroke can be big or small. Some people can recover after a break, while others die of heatstroke.
When I harvest rice at night, there is no light. I hold a sickle in my hand. If I accidentally cut my hands and feet, I will also cut my hands and feet. In addition, the weather is dry and the things are dry, I dare not use the torch. At the end of the day, the families with a large population will harvest at most two acres of land.
Before dawn the next day, many families took advantage of the cool morning and quickly went to their fields to harvest food.
The Huang family was no exception. They all got up early and went to the Zhang family, Liu family and Xu family to help.
Except for the Liu family, the Zhang family and Xu family have more, and the Huang family is helping, so I was busy early this morning, and the rice in the paddy fields of the two families was almost half harvested.
"Okay, I've finally finished collecting it. Don't be worried, for fear that the locusts will eat the food." After seeing that all the last acre of land in his family were harvested, Xu Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
From morning to dark these two days, I had to finish the work that I had to finish for four or five days, and the family didn't care about any other work. In addition, with the Huang family helping, the rice in their fields was finally harvested.
But I'm very tired anymore.
"Yes! Uncle Xu Mu, after harvesting these rice, hurry up and pick them up and don't thresh them for the time being. They will dry them on the ground so as not to get the time. The locusts really come. After eating them, we will be in vain." Huang Yiyun beat his back and said.
The high-intensity harvest of rice in these two days and nights has also made Huang Yiyun very tired. Not only did he feel sore all over his waist, but his skin has been tanned for more than one level.
"Thank you Conghe and the eldest sister in the past two days, and you two sisters, otherwise my family would not have harvested these rice so quickly. I asked Zijun, the girl, to go back to cook. Let's take a walk, don't refuse today, and you have to go to my house for dinner." Xu Yu stepped forward, took Huang Yiyun's hand and walked towards her house.
"Grandma Xu, don't worry. Our two families live close to each other, so the meal is just a greeting, but today, I really can't go to your house for dinner.
Your family and Zhang family have harvested rice. The Liu family has few people, and there are still one and a half acres of land that have been confiscated. My uncle and I and my second sisters have to go and harvest the rice from the Liu family first. Let’s talk about the meal later.” Huang Yiyun said, breaking away from Xu Yu’s hand and walking into the Liu family’s paddy field.
"Yes, next time my grandma asked you to come and have no choice but to refuse." After hearing Huang Yiyun say this, Xu Yu did not persuade him. Of course, he did not ask his three sons to go to the Liu family to help. Although their family had harvested the rice in the paddy fields, they had to carry all the rice back, which was a big project and they would have to work hard for a while.
Waiting for Huang Yiyun, Huang Conghe, and the second sisters came to the Liu family's paddy field. Huang Congjiang, who helped the Zhang family, and the third sisters were also finished working, and rushed to the Liu family to help harvest rice.
With Huang Yiyun's family helping, the rice that only one acre of land in the Liu family was harvested quickly.
At this time, it was already halfway through Xu, and there were still many families harvesting rice in the paddy fields.
"Listen, what's the sound?" Huang Yiyun, who was planning to go home, suddenly seemed to hear a burst of sounds, and the sound was getting closer and louder.
"Sister, look over there." The fifth sister shouted sharply, pointing to the sky behind the mountain.
Everyone followed the fifth sister's fingers and looked at her.
I saw dark clouds flying towards this side quickly.
As the distance got closer and closer, after Huang Yiyun and the others saw the thing clearly, they immediately shouted, "It's not that the locusts are going down the mountain."
"Hurry, hurry up, tighten these rice and pick them back quickly." Huang Li shouted loudly when he saw that everyone was still stunned.
The villagers who were cutting rice in other paddy fields also saw this and quickly greeted them and quickly picked up the cut rice home.
"Yinhua, Yunqing, Liuqing, Liucheng, eldest, second, old master, old master, you guys from the second family carry the load and carry the rice. My eldest sister, second sister, third sister and you guys, hurry up and tighten the cut rice and tie it up with a rope so that they can carry it back." Huang Li arranged it.
Everyone was not as panicked as before, and they were all busy all the time.
After the locusts flew down from the mountain, they flew into the fields and began to swallow the crops.
However, most of the locusts fall on corn grown in drylands.
Of course, some locusts flew out and fell into other villages and cities.
"Tiansha, my rice has not been harvested yet? What should I do now?"
"I'm so sorry for the corn in the dry land. My family has planted two acres of land. Now it's fine, it's gone, it's gone."
"Wuwuwu, I would have known that my family would have grown all sweet potatoes and potatoes this year. What should I do now? How much grain is confiscated? I will have to pay the grain this year and pay taxes."
Suddenly, the villagers who had not yet arrived, who had been harvesting the food, started crying and shouting at her parents, and they all regretted not being the first.
There are so many people in the Liu family who help carry the load. After two trips, they will carry the cut rice home.
And close the door to prevent these locusts from flying in and eating food.
"Yun'er, where is the corn planted in your dry fields? Hurry, now we still have time and can still get some corn back." After all the harvested rice was picked up, Yun'er's girl suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Yiyun shook Yun'er twice and said.
"Oh, right? Here." Yun'er also came to her senses and hurriedly took Huang Yiyun, Huang Li and his brothers and sisters to their dry fields to harvest the corn they planted.
Chapter completed!