Li Xiu's hometown in later generations was once a high incidence of various disasters in history. However, he lived in a peaceful era, and with the improvement of productivity, almost all disasters were eliminated. Therefore, although he had heard of various natural disasters when he was a child, he rarely experienced them. The only time he was closest to natural disasters was a heavy rain in a certain summer, which led to a level with the water dam. However, the flood finally receded. As for the legendary locust plague, Li Xiu still knew the name from the book.

It is precisely because of this that Li Xiu could not imagine the scene when the locust plague occurred. However, in his opinion, the so-called locust plague is nothing more than more locusts and then gnawed the vegetation on the ground. But what scale does this "more" mean? He didn't have any exact concept in his mind until he witnessed the scene when the locust plague arrived with his own eyes.

"Pumbing the sky!" When Li Xiu saw the insect clouds flying in the distance, the only thing he thought of was this word. No word could describe the scene when the locust plague flew over more accurately than this word. He even doubted whether the ancients saw the scene of the locust plague coming, so he created the word "Pumbing the sky", which was so vivid.

Pieces of locust plagues like dark clouds flew over black, and then fell among the green wheat fields and grass, constantly swallowing the green like starving ghosts. In fact, these locusts are not really hungry. They just need water in the plants. Therefore, after the food they eat attracts water, they are quickly excreted, which also allows them to continuously devour all the green they can see.

"Master, it's awful now. The crops in our fields may not be harvested!" As soon as the locust plague arrived, Yue Chan immediately rushed over to find Li Xiudao, with an anxious look on her face.

"It's okay, half of the species in our fields are sweet potatoes. Although locusts are powerful, they cannot eat what grows underground. Although the harvest this year will definitely be greatly reduced, it will not make the tenants hungry!" Li Xiu said in a deep voice at this time. Faced with such natural disasters, there is no need to think about rents, and he has done everything he should have done before, so now he can only wait and see what he has changed.

After Li Xiu said that, he ordered Yue Chan to organize his servants to drive out the locusts that flew into the house, and then took a few guards to go out. As soon as he left the gate, a group of locusts were rushing to his face, and he was not afraid of people, so he flew directly to his body, as if he was about to eat people. Finally, the guard took off his outer robe and walked forward while slapping the locusts.

Seeing the rainy locusts falling like raindrops around him, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel an instinctive fear. No wonder the ancients regarded locusts as locust gods, because the locusts in front of him were simply hopeless. Although they knew that they would eat all the crops, people had no way to use them. Even if they mobilized more manpower to eliminate the locusts, the few who could be eliminated in the end were probably the face of this huge sense of despair, so the people deified the locust plague, hoping to use the power of nothingness to curb the occurrence of locust plague.

Locusts were almost everywhere along the way. The wheat fields on both sides of the road were no longer green, but gray insects. The long wheat seedlings disappeared quickly under the gnawing of locusts. Some tenants in the village came to the edge of the fields, watching their crops slowly disappear with distress, but they did not dare to do anything, for fear of offending the locust god. Many people even knelt down and kowtowed constantly, hoping to move the locust god and let these locusts leave their fields.

If it were in the past, Li Xiu might have felt that these tenants were too ignorant, but after he experienced this desperate locust plague, he could not have such thoughts again, but instead developed a deep sense of powerlessness, because in the face of this situation, he had used all the means he could use, but could not directly eliminate these locusts.

When Li Xiu passed by Lijiazhuang, he saw that Liu and other tenants were standing at the intersection outside the village, looking at the locusts in the fields with sad faces. Some women couldn't help crying. Even some ignorant children held the adult's hands tightly, and their eyes were full of fear when they looked at the locusts.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but walk forward. Before he could speak, Boss Liu stepped forward with a sad look on his face and said, "Master, our food...grain..."

At the end of the day, Boss Liu couldn't help but whimper and could no longer say it. Although the entire farm was not only relying on farming to make a living, for those who had been dealing with the land for most of their lives, watching the crops that they had worked hard to plant were eaten, it was like their own children were taken away by wolves.

"Uncle Liu, it's too sad not to be here. We don't grow much wheat this year, most of which are sweet potatoes. This thing grows underground. Even if the vines on it are eaten, they can grow again in the future, so there will definitely be some harvest this year!" Li Xiu also comforted him at this time.

The Li family farms were all old tenants, so he was a little biased before and asked them to plant sweet potatoes in 70% of the fields. In fact, if he wanted, he could plant sweet potatoes in his family. However, the sweet potato seedlings had to be distributed to various parts of Guanzhong. He had a variety of one tree at home, and one less tree in other places. During the famine, a sweet potato could save a life, so he divided the sweet potato seedlings in his family.

"No wonder you asked us to grow so many sweet potatoes before, but even so, it is really heartbreaking to watch the crops in the fields being eaten by these locusts!" When Liu said the last thing, he couldn't help but pat his chest and cried out in pain, "Li Xiu is not a farmer, but he can understand the mood of Boss Liu and others."

"Uncle Liu, these locusts eat our crops, which is really hateful. Why don't we organize them and eliminate these locusts. Even if they can't stop the locust plague, they can reduce our losses. What do you think?" Li Xiu suddenly had an idea at this time and suggested to Boss Liu. Of course, he said this and wanted to test the reactions of Boss Liu and others, and see if they have the courage to attack the so-called Locust God?

"No, lord, don't say that, otherwise the Locust God will hear it. If he gets angry, there may be a bigger locust plague in the future, so we must not offend him!" When Liu heard Li Xiu's words, he waved his hand in horror. When he spoke, he looked at the locusts around him carefully, as if these locusts could really understand their conversation.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly. It seemed that it was too difficult to change the concepts of farmers like Boss Liu. I just didn't know if Yang Nong and others from the Ministry of Agriculture would agree with his ideas?
Chapter completed!