In Gaolaozhuang, scattered locusts fell in the village. The people gathered together in groups of three or three, and were frowning, talking about Gao Huan's destruction of locusts.

Under the threat from Wang Jiaping and the fear of locusts, no one thought that Gao Huan would succeed, and the villagers stayed in the village as if they were willing to accept their fate.

As for the crops in the fields, they can only be left to fate.

The villagers looked at the falling locusts and thought that after the crops were eaten, the family would have lost their harvest this year. Everyone was frowning.

When Wang Jiaping saw that the villagers were all there, he was quite satisfied, "Stay all in the village honestly!"

After saying that, he went to Gaojia Fort and expressed his merits to Wang.

A group of men and women gathered on the burger field. When the Wang Family Ping walked away, an old man sighed, "Oh! When will this year be the end!"

"The Locust God is here, and I worship each time, but I didn't see the Locust God leaving us a way out!" someone said angrily.

Droughts and locust plagues take turns to come, and the villagers' patience is actually approaching their limit.

If there is a Taiping Dao now, saying that "the sky is dead, and the yellow sky should be established", most villagers will join the Yellow Turban Army and begin to rebel.

"That's right, can the eldest master do it?" someone asked curiously.

Many people actually have some expectations in their hearts that Gao Huan can defeat the locusts.

After all, every time the locusts pass by, they burn incense and pray, but every time they don’t work, the crops will be eaten up by the locusts.

Such days make them unable to see a glimmer of hope, hoping that a hero can save them.

"Why don't we go and have a look?" a man suggested.

A woman immediately scolded her man and said, "You didn't listen to Mr. Wang. If you offend your wife, you will not be able to borrow food this year. You want to starve me and my child to death!"

When a man is immediately depressed, he has to rely on the landlord's family to borrow food to survive in the famine.

But what kind of mortgage should be used this year?

There seems to be nothing at home.

The debts from the previous year have not been paid yet. I originally thought that after the wheat harvest this year, I could pay back a portion of them, but I didn’t want to borrow new debts before the old debts were settled.

In this way, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay back the money I owe Mr. Gao in this life.

The villagers realized their destiny and felt a little desperate deep in their hearts. Their life was over. Even the children had to be slaves to the master since childhood, and their children and grandchildren had no chance to make a breakthrough.

What kind of world is this? I have worked hard all my life, I can’t eat enough or wear warmth, and I have to bear the debts that I can’t pay off even my grandchildren, which makes people not expect this world.

Sometimes the villagers think that they heard that the bandits had already come out, and they couldn't pay off their debts anyway, so it might be a little messy. When the bandits come, they don't have to pay back their debts, and they can also share the food of Mr. Gao's family together.

At this time, while everyone was silent, they suddenly saw several women rushing back to the village.

"Why is the wife of the Yang family back? The crops were eaten by the locust god!" The tenant, who was desperate about his situation just now, suddenly felt in the mood to tease him when he saw someone worse than him.

After all, they can still borrow food to survive, while Yang Shulin and the others are going to be driven out of the village.

This year, I was driven out of the village and I had no choice but to eat the bark of the tree. I could only eat Guanyin soil to death.

Yang Shulin's wife Gao is also a famous fool in the village. She usually quarrels with others and never loses.

At this time, I heard someone gloating, but not willing to be outdone. "Senior high school, our crops are good, your seedlings are not good, and they have been eaten up a lot of them."

When everyone on the threshing ground heard the words, they couldn't help but be stunned. The man nicknamed Senior High School felt that he had lost face and showed a disbelief. "You're just a stubborn woman! After so many years, no matter how many locust plagues, all the crops in each family have eaten up. Why don't you eat them?"

Gao clutched his waist and was about to say goodbye to them, but the little sister of the Zhao family pulled her, "Auntie, don't delay the eldest young master's business!"

This reminded Gao, and he didn't bother to argue with them, so he hurried back home.

Soon, the people in the village saw them hurriedly passing through the threshing ground with a chicken in their left hand and a duck in their left hand, heading out of the village.

"What are they doing?"

"Why go and have a look!" Someone still wanted to go and see the crops after hearing Gao's words.

"You forget about Butler Wang's words!"

When talking about Wang Jiaping, the tenants immediately became discouraged.

At this moment, everyone saw Gao Youcai sitting on a bamboo carriage and coming out surrounded by a group of elders of Gao.

The tenant in the gravel drying ground quickly stood up and bent down to salute Mr. Gao. However, Gao Youcai was carried by someone and left the village and headed towards the fields.

"The master is going to see the eldest master kill locusts." Someone said in surprise.

When the tenants saw Gao Youcai and several elders of the Gao family left the village, they looked at each other, and some people couldn't help but suggest, "We'll go and see it. It's not against the wife's intentions."

"Yes, we're just looking!"

"Central! Look!"

The tenants quickly reached a consensus that the law did not punish the masses and headed towards the fields together.

It was noon at this time, and the sky to the west became darker, as if a thunderstorm was about to come.

In the fields, the people who were busy catching locusts felt that the sky seemed to be darker. Li Wu raised his head and said, "Master, the swarm of insects is coming."

Gao Huan and others also looked at the sky, and the west was covered in darkness, like black clouds, which made people feel huge pressure.

These people seemed a little powerless in the face of huge natural disasters. Everyone had a premonition that they might not be able to defeat the locusts by themselves.

Li Wu looked at the people looking at the sky and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, catch locusts, don't stop!"

Everyone felt a sense of tragic feeling in their hearts, and Yang Shulin agreed, "Yes, you can't stop, fight!"

Everyone picked up the net bag and started to catch it wildly.

At this time, Gao Huan stood there, but looked back from time to time, as if waiting for someone to come.

At this moment, a large group of figures appeared in the distance, and the villagers came over surrounded by Gao Youcai's sedan chair.

Gao Huan saw Gao Youcai and his group, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He really felt that he was the smartest boy in the entire Gao Laozhuang, and everyone in the village was just a group of tool people in his eyes.

Yesterday, in addition to looking for Li Wu, Gao Huan also went to meet someone, Gao Youcai.

Gao Youcai was born as a Jinshi, and his son did not say anything about strange powers and chaotic spirits. Gao Huan knew that Gao Youcai did not believe in locust gods. Over the years, Gao Youcai did not lead the villagers to destroy locusts. When the locusts came, he also brought the villagers to sacrifice locust gods and engage in superstition. In fact, he had his own calculations.

First of all, it is okay to lead the villagers to destroy locusts. If they fail, the villagers will blame him for their ignorance and superstition and affect his status in the village.

Secondly, the old rich man is a bit unwilling.

When a villager is affected, he must borrow money and grain to spend the disaster. In the village, only the landlord's family has stored grain, so the villagers must borrow money from him.

At this time, Gao Youcai was able to purchase the land accumulated by generations of villagers from the villagers with only a small amount of money and grain.

For more than ten years, every famine has been an opportunity for Gao Youcai to acquire land and increase wealth.

To the south, it is said that there were a large gentry who dug up river embankments in order to annex the land of the people and flooded several counties. They artificially created floods, selling grain at high prices and purchasing the disaster-stricken fields in the hands of the people at low prices.

The food lost from disasters and famines is actually nothing compared to the money released from land at a low price.

However, this situation has changed now. At this time, 80% of Gao Laozhuang's land has become Gao Youcai's land, and the debts owed by the people have long been paid back, and many of them have become bad debts. Some unruly people even have no plans to repay them after borrowing them.

If you continue to ignore the locust plague, the one who suffers the most will become Gao Youcai.

Gao Huan didn't know why the dragon-slaying boy who once embraced the ideal of reform turned into an evil dragon, and what made Gao Youcai become a selfish landlord Laocai.

Although Gao Huan really disliked his stingy, conservative, and bad-minded father, Gao Huan knew that to destroy locusts, he had to convince Gao Youcai, and his great cause also needed the power of the Gao family.

Therefore, last night, Gao Huan found Gao Youcai and only asked him one sentence, "What should I do if the crops were eaten by locusts this year, and the people could not repay the food they borrowed?"

At this time, the villagers of Gao Laozhuang followed Gao Youcai's sedan chair and came to the field west of the village. They saw Gao Huan with thirty or forty people waving his net bags in the limelight.

Gao Youcai got off the bamboo carriage, stood on a crutch, and watched Gao Huan and others divided into groups to intercept the locusts. The villagers who followed him saw that the locusts were stopped by them, and only a very small part of them fell in the wheat fields that were in the limelight.

The senior high school looked at the fields of the poplar forest. The wheat seedlings were green. Then they looked at the wheat field at home. The wheat seedlings had been eaten a lot shorter, and their eyes suddenly glared.

"The eldest young master really saved the crops!" The villagers were shocked.

"How did the eldest master do it?" the villagers exclaimed.

At this time, they saw locusts flying in the limelight, being caught by the net. Occasionally, a few of them fell into the fields. A group of ducks twisted their butts and ran over, quickly eating the locusts.

In the wheat field, ducks ran around in groups, and the hens and roosters spread out to catch food. One of the big roosters was happy to eat, and they even cried with scarlet crowns, which made everyone stunned.

This is OK! What a genius!

The villagers have never seen chickens and ducks eating grasshoppers, but they have never thought that they can use them to fight locusts.

The people in the crowd saw that with the efforts of Gao Huan and Chicken and Duck, the wheat fields of Poplar and their own fields were protected, and the wheat seedlings were damaged to a certain extent because the locusts were not driven away, and people's hearts were shaken unconsciously.

At this time, a few of them were in the crowd who had a good relationship with Wang Jiaping. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, they quickly slipped away and went back to report to get a few rewards.
Chapter completed!