Real World Simulator

Chapter 423: After the Drought...

In a blink of an eye, Fang Yu and the others have lived in Taguchi Village for almost a month.

Within a month, they repaired the house, went to the county seat to register their household registration, and officially became villagers of Tiankou Village, Xiangping Township, Pingyuan County, Sanhe Prefecture, Chenghuai County.

If there were no accidents and Fang Yu, Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei would recuperate here and continue to live.

They will slowly get used to the diet and customs here, and gradually be assimilated.

And some of the northern food customs brought by them will be accepted by everyone, integrated into the village, and become the culture here, while some will become the knowledge base of their village and passed down from generation to generation.

If Huangmei can have a child, then her child will intermarry with people in the village, and the last generation will reproduce.

Perhaps in their later years, Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei would look into the distance at the door of their house from time to time, and their grandson might ask them what they were looking at.

Afterwards, Fang Sanduo would slowly tell his grandson about their experience of fleeing famine. Although many years have passed, those memories in Fang Sanduo's mind should still be fresh.

For my hometown, where I used to live, my Fangjia Village.

His grandson will hear things from Fang Sanduo that he may not be able to experience in this life, but these things will be remembered deep in his mind, until one day, when he is also around his grandson's knees, maybe He would suddenly remember, then hold his grandson on his lap, and start telling him about his grandpa's experience.

The so-called inheritance is like this, from generation to generation, from generation to generation.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, changing circumstances, although the environment of this era has been oppressing these common people, these bottom-level existences.

But their tenacity and hard work allowed them to retain their sparks under such circumstances.

Let their life traces continue to be passed on.

When facing suffering, the reason why we can always find a reason to struggle in our lives is that these things have been passed down from generation to generation as early as thousands of years ago.

Those tenacious and tenacious factors have already been deeply engraved into the blood and integrated into the body.

This is China

However, the above results were all without Fang Yu's involvement.

If there is no player like Fang Yu here, then everyone can live in peace and peace.

But it's a pity that there is a player named Fang Yu here.

Players are called the Fourth Scourge, and not for nothing.

In this world, Fang Yu is undoubtedly the center of the world.

The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind doesn't stop.

Even Fang Yu had expected this.

During this month, although he himself felt pretty good, he played boxing every day, repaired the house, and built earth bricks, just like a rural pastoral life.

If the main body of this world is leisure, then there is nothing wrong with it, Fang Yu may really be able to live like this here.

But unfortunately, the description of the main task alone told Fang Yu.

The world is in chaos.

Sooner or later this leisurely life of his will be broken.

It's just a matter of time.

Fang Yu had realized this a long time ago.

After all, Ziyang Shelter, Chongqing Base, and BJ03 Dungeon all told him with too vivid cases that as long as the system revealed some signs, his ass wouldn't be able to stay for long.

Sure enough, just one month later, Fang Yu suddenly discovered that it would take some time before the rice was harvested, but suddenly someone in the village had already started to harvest it in advance.

"Sanzhuzi, why did they start harvesting so early? Isn't it the harvest season yet? The rice seedlings are still green!"

Fang Sanduo looked at so many villagers who had started to go to the fields with sickles, and they were still piled with soil embryos.

He was making adobe bricks and planned to build a house for Fang Yu alone.

In the open space next to it, there is a fence around it, and a few chicks inside are pecking on the ground.

Thanks for that bag of silver.

Fang Sanduo's previous savings were all taken away by Bishop Ling when he was taken into the dungeon, but in the end they got money multiplied several times from Bishop Ling.

With these eight taels of silver, Fang Sanduo and the others are actually richer than before when they didn't flee the famine!

From ancient times to the present, Qian Ketongtian has never been talked about.

It only cost four taels of silver, and now, Fang Sanduo's life in Taguchi Village is even better than that in Fangjia Village.

The house was refurbished, and people from the village were hired to do the work, and the house was bigger than the original one.

All the house furniture was also bought by craftsmen in the village.

After all, Taguchi Village is a village in the south, he is much richer than Fangjia Village, and the style of furniture is much more detailed than theirs before.

Huang Mei likes this very much.

All the furniture in the house has been replaced with new ones, and chicken cubs have been bought, and Fang Yu's house is already being planned.

Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei have already made up their minds, as soon as Fang Yu's house is ready, they plan to propose a daughter-in-law to Fang Yu.

Although they knew that their nephew was extremely extraordinary, it was precisely because of this that they were so anxious.

They wanted to let Fang Yu stay behind quickly.

In this case, no matter how risky Fang Yu is, they can at least keep this trace of Fang Yu's blood.

And, the more kids the better.

Of course, they hope that Fang Yu can live here in peace and stability. In this case, even if they cannot return to their roots after death in this life, they will have no regrets.

Sanzhuzi was their neighbor, just beside him, only a few dozen steps away, Fang Sanduo saw him standing at the door and watching the villager with a sickle and a bamboo hat go to the field, with a troubled expression on his face.

When his house was being repaired before, he also hired three pillars to carry the beams. After coming and going, the two families got acquainted.

Hearing Fang Sanduo's shout, Sanzhuzi opened the door, made a detour and came to the courtyard of Fang Sanduo's house.

General helped Fang Sanduo pour the soil model, while muttering.

"Brother Fang, this day seems to be a little bit worse. No matter how many disasters happened in previous years, we have been fine. After so many years, Brother Fang, you are still the first family I have seen in my life. !"

"But this year is really a bit evil. I heard that our place was fine at first. I don't know who bumped into the locust god. I heard that there was a locust disaster in Donghongxian next door, and a lot of rice was eaten by the locusts!"

"Someone tried to obstruct it, but the locusts were blessed by the locust god. Those who rushed in to shoot the locusts were all cast by the locust god, and they all fell on the bed. They can't get up now!"

Speaking of which, Sanzhuzi's relatively strong body trembled.

Then he clasped his palms covered with loess, and began to mutter incessantly.

"Master Locust God is not to blame, forgive me for talking too much, it is not to be blamed."

Hearing San Zhuzi's words, Fang Sanduo's face was also a little uneasy.

There was an inexplicable feeling of bad premonition in his heart.

And Fang Yu, who was making mud next to him, also frowned.

He naturally doesn't believe in this so-called locust god, or in other words, this world should be a normal ancient historical world, and in his opinion, there are no gods, immortals, or anything like that.

Otherwise, the degree of authenticity can't drop in a straight line?

As for the locust plague, he happened to know a little bit.

The locust is still an amazing creature.

In modern multiple studies, it has been found that in nature, some creatures have very magical dimorphism.

The so-called dimorphism means that when these creatures live alone, their bodies will undergo completely different changes than when they live in groups.

The locust is the most favorable evidence for this research.

When locusts appear alone, they are harmless and rich in protein. They have also become a unique delicacy in some areas.

But once the locusts swarm, their body structure will change. The swarms of locusts will not only change the color of their bodies, but also, in order to resist the predation of natural enemies, their originally harmless bodies will secrete a poisonous The compound phenylacetonitrile, when in danger, they will convert the phenylacetonitrile into the highly toxic compound hydrocyanic acid!

Therefore, once locust plagues occur, locusts cannot be eaten. Even if they are to be used, they must be eaten after the toxicity is weakened by high temperature.

But even at high temperature, it only weakens the toxicity and cannot completely eliminate it.

Therefore, when there is a locust plague, whether you attack the locusts or eat the locusts, your life will be in danger.

In ancient times, when few people knew this, everyone generally pushed it to the blessing of the gods.

It is believed that this is the blessing of the locust god.

Therefore, there are locust temples in some places, hoping to reduce the damage caused by locust plagues to their hometown.

Locust plagues generally occur during periods of severe drought.

After the so-called severe drought, there must be a plague of locusts!

In the previous severe drought in Fengnan, for the locusts that lay their eggs in the soil, the drier the climate environment, the better for their reproduction, because the locust itself is a drought-tolerant creature.

When the drought occurs, because the vegetation on the ground becomes very sparse, this also makes the locust spawning area much larger. In the dry environment, many lakes and rivers also shrink in size, and some even dry up. , So these low-lying lands become natural spawning rooms for locusts.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that locust plagues always break out after droughts, and in this era, after locust plagues occur, there are still ways to deal with small-scale locust plagues, but once large-scale locust plagues occur, they can only Hope is pinned on the Locust God.

The flying speed of locusts is not low, and after the formation of locust plagues, because of the lack of food in dry areas, they will instinctively fly towards areas with abundant food.

The more food they eat, the faster they multiply, and the cycle continues.

As a result, the common people will be in distress. Facing the large-scale locust plague, they can only let it go and let the food in the fertile fields be eaten up, and they cannot take other actions.

"I heard that the village chief is planning to build a locust temple in the village recently. He plans to burn incense for the locust god. I hope that the locust god grandpa can prevent the locust plague from coming to us. Now the location has been found, and we will be there in a few days." It's time to start work."

After Sanzhuzi paid homage to God Locust, he continued talking to Fang Sanduo.

At this moment, Fang Sanduo's work has stopped.

For those who have just experienced fleeing from famine, they all have an instinctive PTSD for disasters.

Even after many years, they can still remember the disaster vividly.

Not to mention it's only been a month!

Hearing the plague of locusts in the neighboring county, Fang Sanduo inexplicably had a sense of déjà vu.

It seems that when he was in Jiaoling before, he also heard the drought in the neighboring county. As a result, it didn't take long for Jiaoling to start, and then everyone started fleeing.

After finally escaping to the south, looking at the beautiful mountains and clear waters here, I thought that life could finally settle down, but unexpectedly, I heard the news of the locust plague again.

At this moment, Fang Sanduo felt only heavy in his heart, and when he looked up at the clear sky, his heart was full of sadness.

Fang Yu noticed something was wrong with his uncle's expression.

He knew that what Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei hated to hear most now was the news of this kind of disaster.

They just want to start over now.

This is the common thought in the hearts of every disaster victim after fleeing famine.

They can't resist, so they can only selectively forget the past sufferings and let themselves live strong.

Therefore, he hastily interrupted San Zhuzi's words and said.

"Brother Zhuzi, I just saw that my sister-in-law called you for something."

San Zhuzi frowned.

"Chun Niang? But Chun Niang is not going to wash clothes."

While he was talking, he suddenly saw the heavy expressions of Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei, and immediately realized it.

oops! I am so talkative!

San Zhuzi secretly slapped himself in the heart, and then said haha.

"Oh, yes, she should be looking for me for something. Brother Fang, don't worry, we are far away from the county town, so we shouldn't make trouble here. When the locust temple is built, let's go burn incense together , please, I should be fine!"

San Zhuzi wiped his hands and wiped off the mud on his hands, then turned his head and left Fang Sanduo's yard in embarrassment.

After the three pillars left, Fang Sanduo suddenly lost interest in making soil embryos.

He turned his head to look at Fangfang Yu, then nodded to Fang Yu and Huang Mei and said.

"God, go, let's go in"

After speaking, Fang Sanduo wiped off the mud on his hands and walked into the house.

Huang Mei also rubbed her hands, and walked into the room with Fang Yu.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Fang Sanduo sitting on a chair, propping up the table with one hand, frowning.

It's still the same posture, and the same expression, but the room and the table are different.

But Huang Mei and Fang Yu seemed to see in a trance a few months ago when they were in Fangjia Village, after Fang Sanduo picked up the bag of grain, it looked like this.

"Goofy. Do you think we can do it here?"

Fang Sanduo asked Fang Yu.

He was uneasy and wanted to ask Fang Yu for reassurance.

At this time, Fang Yu only needs to comfort him, and he has reason to persuade him to take his thoughts as his own paranoia.

If Fang Yu was still the same asshole from before, he must have appeased them.

After all, no one wants to escape another famine after they stabilize.

To be able to escape for the first time, it was luck against heaven.

The countless corpses on the road proved that they were just lucky.

Let's do it again, let's not say whether it will be successful or not, just the psychological pressure makes people unwilling to accept it.

But unfortunately, when Fang Yu heard San Zhuzi talk about the locust plague, his heart skipped a beat.

Because, after listening to San Zhuzi's words, the system, which had been quiet for a month, made a sound again.

"Boom~"