The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Li Yu raised his head and looked at the locusts that were covering the sky like clouds and the sun. He was also stunned. He remembered that in his previous life, he had only seen the tragic situation of the people after the locust plague on TV. He had never seen so many people with his own eyes. locust.

Li Yu saw the dark clouds getting closer and closer, and suddenly thought of burning them with fire. Li Yu shouted to Qian and Li Mei: "Auntie, go and light the rapeseed stalks. The locusts are afraid of fire."

As he spoke, Li Yu ran out and lit the rapeseed shells and rapeseed poles piled in the ground on fire. The rapeseed stalks and rapeseed shells burst into flames. Li Mei and Qian also ran out and lit the others.

Everyone held up wooden sticks and branches and waved to drive away the locusts, but it had no effect. They watched the locusts fly into the rice fields. In an instant, the rice fields were densely packed with locusts. In their ears, they could only hear the "chirping" noise coming from the rice fields. There was a sound of eating, and in less than half an hour, there was only bare soil left in an acre of rice.

There were locusts in the rice fields, vegetable gardens, and even in the woods. No locusts dared to go where Li Yu was burning the fire. Li Yu looked at Li Mei and Qian who were staring blankly at the locusts, and shouted: "Aunt, Aunt Qian , quickly pull out all those vegetables and take them home." Then the two of them stumbled and followed Li Yu to run to pull vegetables.

Other villagers rushed to Li Yu's field, carried rapeseed stalks and wheat straws, piled them on the field ridge, and lit them to drive away the locusts. However, it was too late. The locusts were not even afraid of people and kept attacking the crowd. It is flying on the ground and cannot escape no matter how many people beat it.

The old people in the village knelt on the ground, lit incense wax paper money, kowtowed with tears and begged the Locust God to spare everyone.

We could not drive away the overwhelming locusts in the east, but they all fell to the ground stupidly, wanting to cry without tears.

Everyone watched with great dismay as the green Xishan Village turned into a bare area after half a day, without any green in sight.

Zhou Jia drove the mule cart to Li Yu's house. He looked at Li Yu and said, "Xiaoyu, there is a drought and a locust plague. It seems that we have no choice but to flee."

"Yes! We have no choice but to flee the famine," Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, "My family just brought so much food home. If we take it all away, it will be too eye-catching on the road. I want to take some out and use it as before. What do you think of selling some at the market price to the poor?"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and nodded in agreement, "Xiaoyu, you did the right thing. I'll go back to pack the things I need to use on the way to escape the famine. I'll recruit money to go to the county to settle the clerks and shopkeepers. We'll leave the famine the next day, Xishan Some of the remaining villagers want to leave, and they can stay with us for safety in numbers."

Li Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, I understand."

Zhou Jia drove the mule cart into the courtyard and left with Jixiang. Li Yu tied up the mule, put the mule cart away and walked into the kitchen. He said to Qian and Li Mei who were choosing vegetables: "Aunt, Aunt Qian, the drought is not over yet." If we encounter locusts again, if this continues, we will have no choice but to flee."

Li Mei looked at Li Yu with a confused expression, "Yu'er, it's the same outside! Where can we escape to?"

Li Yu looked at Li Mei, "It's not safe here. As time goes by, everyone has eaten up the water and food. Think about it, when the food and water are exhausted, our family is the only one with food. The world is so big. , there is always a place that is not affected by disaster, so we will flee to that place."

After hearing this, Li Mei shuddered as she thought of the situation in her former hometown after the disaster. She nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back and pack my things right away."

After Li Mei left, Qian faced Li Yu and knelt down with a bang. Li Yu quickly helped her up, "Aunt Qian, what are you doing?"

Mrs. Qian cried and begged Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, I won't burden you and Mr. Zhou anymore. I just ask you to take Xiao An away and let him make a living. Auntie will work as a cow and horse in the next life to repay your kindness." .”

Li Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Aunt Qian, you knelt down before I could finish my words. I originally wanted to ask you if you would like to go with us?"

"Xiaoyu," Qian couldn't even say any words of gratitude and just kept nodding.

"Then you go home and pack your things quickly." Li Yu looked at Qian and said with a smile.

Qian hurriedly went home to pack her things. Li Qing rushed home, panting heavily, and said to Li Yu: "Sister, the husband said that we are going to flee. I will come back to help pack our things."

Li Yu thought to himself: I don’t know what he will encounter along the way, so I might as well let him kill those chickens to show his courage.

"Okay, then I'll give you a task. You kill all those chickens and wait for my sister to come back to deal with them." Li Yu looked at Li Qing, "Do you dare to kill them?"

Li Qing did not expect that Li Yu would give him such a task. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded and said: "Okay, I'll kill him."

Li Yu went out and walked towards the village. The village chief's family also gathered together to discuss how to face the problem at hand.

Li Yu walked to the door of the village chief's house. An old man walked up to Li Yu tremblingly. After seeing Li Yu hesitate for a moment, he said: "Xiaoyu, your family has just harvested grain. Can you sell a few stones to my family?" ah?"

Seeing that the old man was wearing white-washed clothes full of patches, Li Yu smiled and nodded: "Okay, please wait for me for a while. I'll go to the village chief's house to talk about something and then call you when I come back."

The old man didn't expect that Li Yu was so easy to talk to, so he bowed and saluted with joy: "Thank you very much! I'll wait for you here."

Mrs. Li heard the sound and walked to the door. When she saw Li Yu, she asked with a sad face: "Xiaoyu, what are your plans?"

Li Yu and Mrs. Li walked towards the main room and saw locusts crawling everywhere in the yard, which made their skin crawl.

Li Yu asked Mrs. Li, "Aunt Li, you and uncle, what do you think?"

Mrs. Li looked at Li Yu with a sad face, "We don't know what to do! What are you and Mr. Zhou going to do?"

"We plan to leave the next day. I want to sell some of my grain to those families who are short of food at the market price last year."

The village chief stood at the door of the hall and heard Li Yu saying that he wanted to sell some grain at the market price. He thought he had heard wrong and asked hurriedly: "Xiaoyu, do you really want to sell the grain at the market price last year?"

Li Yu looked at the village chief and smiled and said: "Yes, village chief, Grandpa, Mr. Zhou and I plan to leave the next day. My family has just harvested so much grain. I plan to leave twenty stones of wheat to take away, and the rest will be as per the year." I will sell it to people in the village who are short of food at the current market price. I would like to ask the village chief, Grandpa, to check it out to prevent me from making a mistake."

The village chief nodded and sighed: "Xiaoyu! Grandpa has lived for so long, but he is not as generous and open-minded as you. I know which families in the village are having a hard time, so I will ring the gong and call for them."

Chen Yaohui hurriedly called to the village chief, "Dad, you'd better go quietly! Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to be a little fish later."

"Why is it so difficult? Xiaoyu is doing a good deed." The village chief was stunned for a moment before he figured it out. "Yes, I was confused. I'll go and you all go to Xiaoyu's house to help."

The village chief asked people to go, and the two brothers Chen Yaohui asked Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, are your family and Mr. Zhou's family both going to leave?"

Li Yu nodded, "Uncle, please tell the people in the village who you can talk to. If you decide to leave, you can come with us. Everyone will have a companion on the way."

Mrs. Li looked at Li Yu and shed tears, "Where are we going? After living for so many years, we have only been to Qingshan City four or five times."

Li Yu glanced at Mrs. Li, turned around and pointed to the world outside, and said loudly: "Aunt Li, the world is huge. As long as everyone works together, are you still afraid that there will be no place for us to live?"

Everyone looked at Li Yu's firm and calm expression, and for some reason they all felt less anxious.