The Space’s Twelve Zodiac Comes to Farm!

The next morning, it was just dawn.

Li Yongnian and Bai Lian drove Li Xiaoniu to the town early in the morning.

After Bai Lian and Li Yongnian left, Lei Zi took the gong and started beating in the village.

"Everyone came to the ancestral hall for a meeting!"

"Every family must come with one person!"

"Peng Peng Bang!"

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The sound of the gongs in the morning is incessant.

Every time there is a sound of the gong, it means that the village has to announce something important again, so the villagers get up quickly and rush to the ancestral hall.

Grandma Ciying went to Bailian's house. Li Yongnian and Bailian were already shopping in the town at this time.

"Village Chief, what's the matter, hurry up and tell me?"

"Yes, the village chief! I have to hurry up and catch grasshoppers in the field!"

"Yeah! There are so many grasshoppers this year! I'm afraid the crops are a little bad!"

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The people who came first could not sit still. The crops in the field were the most important to them. There were many grasshoppers in the field, which meant that the family might starve in the coming year!

"Wait a while!" The village chief sighed and waved his hand, "This matter is more important, everyone wait for a while, there are people who haven't come."

The village chief spoke up, and everyone stopped urging them, especially when they saw that several elders from Wuming Village were being helped to the ancestral hall, everyone waited wisely.

When the ordinary clan elders are present, something major has happened!

After a quarter of an hour, almost everyone in the family arrived.

The village chief glanced at everyone with a solemn expression, and his voice was a little heavy, "Everyone has discovered it now? There are so many grasshoppers in the field!"

Everyone nodded, thinking to themselves, isn't it?

It was the first time their younger boys had seen so many grasshoppers in the field!

When I was young, there were grasshoppers in the ground. Many young people liked to catch a few big grasshoppers and roast them with fire.

No way, too poor.

"Grasshoppers are locusts. Some of you may not know. About 20 years ago, there was a locust plague in the fields. Not to mention the crops in the fields, even the leaves on the mountains were eaten up." The long voice had a hint of heaviness.

"This...isn't this serious?"

Some young people couldn't believe it, how could all the trees on the mountain be eaten up?

"The locusts covered the sky. Some people didn't come and ran into the house. They were bitten with blood all over their faces and had no food. My second brother was starved to death at that time." Memories of years ago, look in a trance.

"I heard my grandma say that because she was a girl, the family left all the food to my uncle, and my grandma almost starved to death..." Someone interjected.

Grandma Ciying's face turned pale. Li Yongnian was only two or three years old at the time, and she almost starved to death.

That is to say, Grandma Ciying's dowry was still valid for a while, and Mr. Li and Mrs. Li Wang didn't let them starve to death when they saw the silver.

Even so, he almost starved to death.

Li Yongnian naturally didn't remember when she was young, but she would never forget it.

So, she asked Li Yongnian to buy food early this morning. She was really hungry!

I didn't want to recall that incident, but I always remembered it to warn myself that life is hard-won now, and don't be confused again.

"Okay! Everyone be quiet!" Village Chief Li waved his hand, "Yesterday Yongnian told me that there were too many grasshoppers in the field. There are indeed too many grasshoppers, more than ever!"

"Then what can we do?" Some people's voices were a little flustered. "Our family went to the field to catch them, and we can't catch all of this stuff!"

"You still have to catch grasshoppers, but I have also discussed with a few clan elders. We'd better prepare in advance!" Village Chief Li looked at the villagers in front of him and asked, "You still have some at home. How much food?"

"Enough to plant a stick next time!"

"Enough for half a year!"

"Me too!"

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People in the village usually grow one season of grain and one season of peppers. The peppers are grown and sold to the Bailian family, and the money they get is much more cost-effective than growing food.

Moreover, there is enough food left to eat, and everyone will go to the town to sell it, adding new clothes to the elderly and children at home.

Therefore, if there is no harvest for a year, few people will have enough food.

"Half a year is not enough!" Village Chief Li shook his head. "Even if we have fought this crop, who can guarantee that the next crop will be able to grow food?"

As soon as the village chief spoke, everyone fell silent.

Everyone thought of that long winter five years ago.

"Everyone has been doing pretty well in the past few years. You should have some money at home. If you can, everyone will go to the town to buy some food. In case the price goes up after a while..." Village Chief Li said as he spoke. Can't go down.

The peasants don't have much income just relying on farming, and they saved some by selling chili peppers to the Bailian family a few years ago.

If everyone bought food now, everyone would be destitute.

But it's nice to be alive in times of famine.

What more can you ask for?

"Don't spread the word about going to the town to buy food. It's not like it will be spread at that time. If there is no locust plague, people will be panicked, and the court will blame it!"

The old Xie Clan, who had never spoken, looked at the people in the ancestral hall with cloudy eyes, "Everyone must keep their mouths shut!"

This is actually what Bai Lian asked Li Yongnian to tell the village chief. After all, this is all speculation.

If there is a false alarm, it is not good to make people panic!

"Then can I remind the child of his grandmother's house?" Someone scratched his head, wondering whether to remind him.

He felt that Village Chief Li was right, but the clan elders had spoken, and he did not dare to spread the word.

After all, it is not a sure thing. If you really let your relatives buy more food, it will be bad if you lose money!

"Everyone can remind, but don't spread the word!" Village Chief Li said in a deep voice, "It's everyone's business to buy or not to buy food. When there is no locust plague, everyone will be happy. If you buy too much food, you can't blame others. If there is a locust plague, you can plan ahead."

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Should be!"

"I think I still have to buy some food. If it's really bad, I can't go hungry!"

"Yeah! Even if you buy too much, it's still food, and you can still eat it, so it's not a loss!"

Everyone in the ancestral hall nodded in agreement.

But there are still people who are more stingy who disagree.

"Forget it, let's not buy it! In case there is no locust plague and the money is wasted, the money has to be kept for my son to marry a wife!" Aunt Fatty immediately shook her head when she heard the money to buy food.

There is food in the fields at home, and I still buy food. Isn't this a waste!

"Isn't it! The grasshoppers seem to be numerous now, but they don't look as many as they were twenty years ago."

"Even if the harvest is not good, and my family has a lot of land, I won't have nothing to eat!"

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Village Chief Li glanced at a few women with broken mouths, but didn't open his mouth to persuade them. Those women have this temperament, and no matter what they say, they will never change their minds.

All of them regard money as their life, and they don't want money.

Among them, the most joyful one is Aunt Fatty. After all, she has just saved enough money and is about to buy a daughter-in-law for her son!

There were too many grasshoppers in the field, and the village chief did not delay for too long.

Some people went home straight away, and went straight to the town after summing up with their family members. They were all starved and afraid to gamble this time.

Young people can gamble, but old people and children cannot.

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