When the Wu family harvested the wheat, it was the time when these flying locusts, which were now raging in the sky, came out of the soil, but they had not yet been able to grow wings.The locusts at this time were called nymphs in later generations.In the nymph period, the locusts have not yet grown wings, so naturally they cannot fly in groups to cause harm everywhere, and the locusts at this time do not have the terrible food consumption and the habit of eating everything they see, and it is relatively easy to destroy.Mo Shu had the poultry released, just in time to eat the potential nymph that would soon become part of the locust plague.In later generations, someone did an experiment, only 2,000 ducks were needed to eat up the locusts in 400 acres of paddy fields in less than a day, and the chickens were even more capable of it.Even if the Wu family's field is not a paddy field but a dry land, and there are relatively more locusts in the dry land, and there is a locust plague this year, there are naturally more locusts in this field, but Mo Shu put more than a few thousand poultry in the field to eat insects.In Yuhu County alone, there are almost 10,000 chickens, ducks and geese, not including the free-range farmers and villagers next to them.The number of insects eaten by these poultry is naturally huge.And at that time, after these poultry finished eating the insects in the Wu family's field, Mo Shu saw that there were also insects in the field next to her, so she put the relatively honest ducks and geese over to help other people's fields eat insects.These ducks and geese are eaten by insects, but they are very obedient and do not waste food, but only eat locusts.Mo Shu saw that this thing worked, not only next to the villa, but also next to the Wu family's fields and Lingbei in Zhongzhou began to follow suit, what she said at that time was that she could save feed.Some farmers are not very happy, afraid that the poultry will eat their own grain, and they are unwilling to refuse when they see these poultry eating the insects in their fields in vain.If it weren't for Mo Shu's thought that if these insects were not eliminated, it would be just a disaster to these unsuccessful farmers, and they would fly to the fields next to them, so she really wanted to keep this part of the field alone.In the end, it was Moshu who asked the people on the farm to give these short-sighted farmers a few eggs, and as a benefit, these people happily agreed to let Moshu's poultry go to the field to catch insects.There is no one who dares to bargain with the people of the Jin State Mansion so boldly.A large number of locusts were eaten before they had grown wings, and the fields where these poultry had destroyed locusts naturally could not afford any locust plagues.In the aftermath of locust plagues elsewhere, most of the farmers who had collected eggs from their farms went to the farms in shame.Of course, there are a few cheeky ones, and there are also some words that the farm originally wanted to take advantage of her family, and eliminating the locust plague is just a crooked attack.The people in the field next to them, after hearing her crooked reasoning, couldn't help but say to her: "Even if there is no locust plague, people's ducks and geese have eaten insects in your field, and there is no harm to the food in the field, and the manure can also fertilize your own field, you really think that other people's poultry are rare A few insects in your field are not successful" When the people next to him heard it, they all felt that it was very reasonable, and suddenly realized, and they echoed it, while admiring the benevolence of the Mo family and the Wu family, while disdainfully staying away from the peasant woman who collected eggs on the farm.Just imagine, nobles like the Wu family and Mo Shu would save so much feed in order to let the poultry eat the insects in a small piece of the field, just look at the faces of these farmers, it must be because they want to eliminate locusts to avoid locust plagues.Because of this, these farmers felt that they were being taken advantage of, and it was the Wu family and the Mo family who did not say anything else, but gave a few eggs to send people away.If you change someone else, you have to think of such a good nobleman, I heard that the Wu family and the Mo family have adopted poultry seedlings for people on weekdays and do not charge money, and they will hire people to work from time to time, pay wages and take care of food, who doesn't want to do this good thing, but these because other people's poultry go to the field to eat insects, and collect other people's eggs, in the future, don't want to touch the Wu family and the Mo family, not to mention the light, the nobles of these two families did not trouble these farmers, they should say that the Wu family and the Mo family are benevolent.In today's world where you pay so much attention to the level of your family and your status, the nobles will look at you as a poor peasant and now it must be because of the locust plague that there is no time to investigate.Mo Shu didn't know what these farmers thought, and she really didn't have the leisure to pay attention to these little things, these days she just stayed in the villa, at most she went to the fields next to her to take a look, the locusts in these fields had already been eaten by the poultry, and she couldn't see the horror of the locust plague at all.In the memory of the dream in his previous life, when the locust plague occurred, Mo Shu was also in the palace, but he only heard the palace maid talk about the panic of the locust plague, and the locusts that fell from time to time in the palace and then caught by the palace people, and he did not personally experience the tragic scene of thousands of miles of red land in the mouths of the people.Thinking of such a scene, Mo Shu was still a little stunned.Wu Ziheng didn't approve of Mo Shu going to Ludi to see this, she was too timid and wanted to have nightmares when she saw it.Mo Shu sat a little absent-mindedly, playing with the forbidden step of her skirt in her hand, and she didn't even notice that Wu Ziheng was coming.Seeing this, Wu Ziheng asked: "What is my cousin thinking" Mo Shu looked up in surprise, saw that it was Wu Ziheng, and said unhappily: "I didn't think about anything, cousin, you scared me again" Wu Ziheng did not argue with Mo Shu about whether he deliberately scared her, sat down and poured a cup of tea, and then said slowly: "According to the household visit and verification, it is preliminarily estimated that the poultry you raised in various places, cousin, has reduced the original ten percent of the disaster to forty percent." ”The disaster has been alleviated by half, which is a feat that the locust plague has never had, even if he has always been calm like Wu Ziheng, he couldn't help but raise his hand and flick Mo Shu's forehead, and his tone was appreciative: "Shu'er, you are so powerful" Mo Shu was also very happy, but seeing Wu Ziheng like this, he couldn't help blushing slightly, and took Wu Ziheng's hand away and said with some annoyance: "I can't talk well" "This time my cousin still kept my Wu family's harvest in the drought and locust plague, what reward do you want" Wu Ziheng asked with a slight curl at the corner of his lips.Mo Shu thought for a while before saying, "I found all my cousins directly for me, and I really couldn't think of anything else that could be used as a reward for a while." ”Wu Ziheng said: "Since I can't think of it for a while, I will think about it slowly."
When I came over, I saw the little girl in charge of the farm and hatchery, what is her name" Mo Shu raised her head and said: "Dani, she is waiting for me outside" Wu Ziheng nodded: "It seems that I want to talk to you about driving poultry to the northeast where the locust plague is serious, this idea is good." ”: