When she saw Meng Yue again, she found that she looked even more beautiful than the first time she saw her. She couldn't help but feel jealous and cursed in her heart.

"Bitch, how come you have a face like a demon? You specialize in seducing men. You have no shame."

Mengyue's senses were so sharp that she noticed the moment Jiajia had any ill will towards her.

However, she did not take Jiajia seriously. She thought she was just a clown and not worth her attention.

The most important thing right now is to find out where they are and leave as soon as possible.

After all, if they travel at a normal speed, the village chief and his companions will be able to return to Xinghua Village tomorrow.

There are still many things waiting for her to arrange. Not to mention, more than 20,000 of the more than 50,000 ducks need to be returned, and the next thing to do is to put the digging of the reservoir on the agenda.

This time, leading everyone out to kill locusts gave her a deep feeling.

She originally thought that the villagers of Xinghua Village had a hard enough life, but she didn't expect that the people in all the counties of Qingshan Prefecture were the same.

Wherever she went, after she had people spread the news of buying locusts, it would cause a sensation among the crowd.

Everyone was not afraid of hard work and worked hard to catch locusts, hoping to use the locusts they caught to exchange for more money to buy food and store it, so that they would survive and not starve to death before the next year's harvest.

As for having enough to eat, they dared not even think about it.

In fact, the locusts were too powerful. Even though people tried their best to resist them, the duck army quickly strangled them, and many crops were still destroyed.

After all, not everyone was ready to harvest the rice in advance. Even before the locust plague came, she tried every means to inform everyone to harvest the rice quickly without a moment's pause.

However, only a few people obeyed, except for more than 90% of the people in Wuning County who harvested the rice in advance.

For other counties, it would be good if they could harvest 10%.

In other words, in the entire Qingshan Prefecture, only Wuning County retained the most grain, while many villagers in other counties and towns had nothing to harvest.

According to this situation, let alone waiting until next year to harvest grain, it is still unknown whether we can get through the winter of next year safely.

What's more, Qingshan Prefecture is located in the northern part of Da Zhou, where the winter is not only long but also extremely cold.

Especially if there is heavy snow, if a family does not store enough food and firewood, they will definitely freeze to death.

Of course, the crisis at hand is not limited to this, there is also a large number of refugees coming.

If her prediction was correct, Yongkang, which was adjacent to Qingshan Prefecture and the origin of the locust plague, would suffer a serious disaster if it was not prepared.

As a result, countless people will flee north to escape famine.

If it were according to past practice, the refugees would choose to go to the south without hesitation, because the south had just suffered a flood.

Many refugees have already headed north, so how could the people of Yongkang go south? They can only choose to flee north.

It just so happened that whether they were flood victims in the south or refugees from Yongkang, they all headed north and would inevitably pass through Qingshan Prefecture.

At that time, the people of Qingshan will not be able to hide away as they wish. If they do not want to watch their homes being occupied by disaster victims, they must take up arms and fight the refugees.

But life is not easy for everyone, and no matter which side wins, it is not a good thing.

In the case of extreme food shortage, a large number of refugees will naturally fall and many people will die.

If corpses are not handled properly, plagues will break out in this ancient time when there was a shortage of medical care and medicine.

As long as the plague breaks out, countless people will die, and the world will be in chaos.

By then, let alone wanting to raise her children and take care of her in her old age in Xinghua Village, it is another matter whether Xinghua Village can be preserved.

She had finally found a suitable place to retire, but she didn't want it to be ruined like this.

If we just want to save Xinghua Village, or even ensure the safety of the entire Wuning County and Qingshan Prefecture, we must plan well and prepare in advance.