Traveling through the famine years with the system to raise cubs

"Locusts! It's locusts!!" Jiang Suihe stretched out his hand and said with a panicked expression.

Jiang Ling's heart trembled after hearing this.

She knew that locusts were a disaster in ancient times. The food in Lujia Village was just a little bit, and the locusts swarmed in, which clearly meant no way for people to survive.

"Suihe, take your younger siblings home, and mother will go to the fields!" Jiang Ling said, jumping off the bullock cart and running towards the fields of the Lu family village.

Everyone in Lujia Village panicked and took all kinds of things to drive away the locusts, but there were too many locusts. As soon as they walked to the field, their clothes, pants and even their hair would be covered with locusts.

At this moment, Jiang Ling suddenly remembered that locusts were afraid of fire. She ran back to her home, took the fire bag, torches and hay and ran back to the field.

Jiang Ling lit the torch and waved it towards the sky, a smell of burnt flesh rushed into Jiang Ling's nostrils, and at the same time there were "pop", "pop", "pop" sounds.

More and more locusts were burned to death around Jiang Ling. Seeing this, Jiang Ling quickly shouted to other people in Lujia Village: "Quick! Use fire! Use fire! Locusts are afraid of fire!"

After hearing this, everyone looked for tools to start the fire. There were more and more torches, and the smell of burnt flesh became stronger and stronger.

The wave of locusts finally couldn't bear the attack of the flames and fled. When the locusts flew away, everyone in Lujia Village squatted down and rested panting.

Jiang Ling looked at the corpses of locusts all over the place, and at the rice that had been gnawed by the locusts. Although he didn't have any land at home, Jiang Ling still felt a little sore for such a waste of food.

"Oh, locusts that killed thousands of knives!! This is trying to force us to death!" Zhao Erling's daughter-in-law stomped on the dead locusts on the ground to vent her inner anger.

Before the drought, everyone was saving money, but now the water source has been found, and the rice has come back to life. Everyone seems to feel that a bumper harvest is in sight, and naturally every household is no longer saving money.

The appearance of locusts this time made everyone panic, sighing and sighing one after another, Jiang Ling's heart was also sour.

"No, the matter of controlling locusts must be resolved as soon as possible. I can't just watch the people in Lujia Village suffer indiscriminate disaster!" Jiang Ling thought to himself looking at the sad or angry expressions of the surrounding farmers.

As soon as he got home, Jiang Ling saw the three children standing not far away in fear. Jiang Ling walked over, squatted beside them, gently hugged the three of them in his arms and said, "Don't be afraid, the locusts are already gone!" Driven away!"

"Mom, are we going to be hungry?"

Jiang Ling could hear a trace of panic in Jiang Suhe's voice.

She hurriedly patted Jiang Suhe on the back and comforted him: "Don't worry Suihe, there is mother here, mother said before that she would not let you starve!"

Speaking of which, Jiang Ling gently pushed the three children away, put the snacks on the table, and took out the "Three Character Classic" from her arms and handed it to Jiang Suhe.

"Books? Mother! Mother! You bought me books again?" Jiang Suhe's eyes were shining when he spoke.

Jiang Ling smiled and did not speak.

At this moment, there was another knock on the door. Jiang Ling opened the door and saw that it was still the same group of children. Jiang Ling quickly put the mint aside and gave each of them two copper coins.

Seeing the children's footsteps about to leave, Jiang Ling said quickly: "Don't go back, my aunt has something to tell you."

The children all stopped and turned to look at Jiang Ling in a daze.

Jiang Ling smiled and said to the children: "From now on, you can send over two baskets of spicy grass every day, and my aunt will give you four copper coins!"

"Really...really?" Zhao Xiaoyu asked first.

"When did Auntie lie to you? Today you can also go to the mountain to pick a basket, and Auntie will give you two more coins!" Jiang Ling said with a smile.

After hearing this, the children were overjoyed and dispersed, while Jiang Ling started to clean up the mint.

She planned to take the mint back today to Li Shanren's home tomorrow. As for the rest, Jiang Ling planned to use all of it to make mint ointment, and planned to go to Pingxi Town to try her luck tomorrow.

The remaining oil paper Jiang Ling made a total of twenty peppermint pastes. After these peppermint pastes were completely solidified, Jiang Ling carefully placed them in bamboo tubes.

Then Jiang Ling began to clean the mints that the children brought over for the second time, packed all the spicy herbs in bamboo tubes, and planned to take them to Li Shanren's house tomorrow to make mint syrup together.

As soon as these tasks were finished, there was another knock on the door, and then came the voice of the village chief.

"Jiang Shi, can I come in?"

"Please come in quickly!" Jiang Ling stood up and walked towards the door of his house.

Just halfway through, the village chief had pushed the door open and entered. He frowned and asked with a serious expression: "Mr. Jiang, how did you know that locusts are afraid of fire!"

"My grandma's family has encountered locust plagues before, and they used this method at that time!" Jiang Ling rolled his eyes and lied.

"What's the effect?" The village head continued to ask with his eyes moving.

"Well... this, the village chief, you also saw today that it's okay to deal with a small number of locusts, but the effect on most of them is very mediocre!" Jiang Ling touched his chin with his hand.

This sentence seemed to make the village chief a little discouraged, he sighed lightly and shook his head and asked, "Is there no other way?"

Jiang Ling thought for a while and said, "The way, I'll ask my brother tomorrow, he is a scholar and he should know some ways."

The village head was overjoyed when he heard the words. He looked up at Jiang Ling with an expression of disbelief and said, "Really...really?"

"Of course, but it might be in the afternoon. I'm going to deliver goods to Li Shanren and County Magistrate Duan in the morning. I guess I'll be back in the evening!" Jiang Ling thought about the fact that he still had work tomorrow, so he set the time for In the afternoon, at least it doesn't sound too obtrusive.

The village chief heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, thanked him repeatedly and left Jiang Ling's house.

At night, the clear moonlight shines on the yard.

After Jiang Ling put the three children to sleep, she sneaked out and hid in a corner to open the mall system.

After studying for a long time, I finally bought a book "Compendium of Locust Control". Then, under the cold moonlight, Jiang Ling looked it up carefully.

The first half of the book is almost all about the origin and development of locusts. Jiang Ling found a way to control locusts after reading almost half of it.

Most of these methods use modern pesticides, but the ratio and quantity of these pesticides is a difficult problem for Jiang Ling.

Jiang Ling continued to read the book, and finally found a few methods, one of which is to disperse the locusts by lighting the wormwood, and adding sulfur will be even better.

Another way is to raise ducks. Ducks like to prey on locusts as food, but if the cost of raising some ducklings is a bit high now, no one knows when the next time locusts will fly over.

Jiang Ling continued to flip through the book helplessly, when suddenly a method of catching locusts caught her attention.