Their village is currently short of food. Now that he knows that the seven villages of Xinghua Village, Lianhua Village, and Zhoujia Village have obtained a large amount of food from other places, it would not be Zhu Lei's style not to take some back.

He was thinking of starting with Zhoujia Village, but Master Liu disagreed and insisted that he start with Xinghua Village first.

He said that the premise for him to be introduced to the second lady of the Xiangfu was that he not only had to help him get 10,000 kilograms of grain, but also had to destroy Li Mengyue.

It's not that he hasn't heard of Li Mengyue. Some time ago, the villagers told him that there was a girl in Xinghua Village who had lost her innocence and was doing business in frying locusts. They asked if they should go to the fields to catch locusts and bring them to Xinghua Village to sell.

At that time, he scolded the villagers, saying that they were not so poor that they had no food to eat, so why did they need to sell locusts? He said that they were all grown men, and how could they catch locusts and sell them to a girl who had lost her virginity and degrade themselves like this? As the village chief, he would never allow the villagers to have any quarrels with Xinghua Village.

Everyone in his village listened to him. He said that no one was allowed to catch locusts. Sure enough, adults and children had nothing to do every day. They just watched the locusts flying around in the fields and didn't catch a single one.

What he didn't expect was that the girl called Li Mengyue by the villagers not only made the living standards of the seven villages much better by trading locusts, and was even showing signs of surpassing Zhulin Village, but also attracted the attention of nobles in Beijing.

When he heard Li Mengyue's name from Master Liu again, he knew that he was wrong and should not have taken Li Mengyue's locust collection lightly.

The key point was that he later asked someone to find out who Li Mengyue was and how she could come up with the idea of ​​frying locusts.

When he learned that Li Mengyue was the biological daughter of Li An and his wife in Xinghua Village who was swapped, he immediately felt that Li Mengyue had lived a hard life in the past, otherwise why would she even eat locusts.

She even had the crazy idea of ​​frying locusts and selling them. Even if she dared to do it, would anyone dare to buy it? So he treated it as a joke and didn't take it seriously.

Until before the locust plague came, someone went to their village and said that a locust plague was coming and that the rice should be harvested early. He found it ridiculous.

The rice will be harvested in a dozen days. Even if the crops in their village are not well grown, they know how much loss will be caused by harvesting early.

Not only was he unwilling, the villagers would not do that either. As a result, a locust plague really came and ate up all the crops in their village.

Only then did he realize what a big mistake he had made. Thousands of acres of land in the entire village were completely wiped out by locusts, leaving him with absolutely no harvest.

But even if the grain harvest was not much in previous years, they still had other ways to make a living, so they would not be unable to see a single grain of food.

He knew that the whole village listened to him and no one dared to contradict him, because he was able to lead everyone to survive.

But what the villagers didn't know was that although he was brave, he also needed to know where the food was before he could bring people back.

But as far as he knew, not only the entire Qingshan Prefecture, but also Yongkang Prefecture had suffered a locust plague. Everyone was out of food. Even if he had a big plan, he couldn't make food appear out of thin air.

But they couldn't live without food. The villagers listened to him, and even if he had something to do, he would make sure everyone had enough to eat.

No matter what means he uses, as long as the people in Zhulin Village are not hungry, it's fine.

He would have been able to deal with this in previous years, but not this year, because there was no food anywhere and he couldn't afford to spend money to go to the town to buy food.

Not to mention that he doesn't have that much money, even if he did, he would never spend it on the villagers.