[Okay, once the locust plague is over and the soybeans are harvested, I'll make them for you one by one.]

The old man was so happy that he could feel his stomach bubbling with happiness when he heard that his host wanted to use soybeans to make various delicious foods for him.

But it also knew that the most urgent problem was the locust plague.

After all, once a locust plague breaks out, not only Xingying Village, but even the county town and the provincial capital will not be spared, and it may even affect the capital.

At that time, many ordinary people with the surname Qi would flee their homeland because they had no food. The more refugees there were, the more chaotic it would be. This was not what she wanted to see. She just wanted to live a stable and leisurely life in Xingyi Village.

It is just a prerequisite for a comfortable retirement. First, you have to collect 100 million gratitude points, accumulate strength, and go to the capital to find Yun Ran to avenge the original murder.

Forget it, there’s no point in thinking so much. The most important thing right now is the locust plague.

So Li Mengyue dug a deep hole with a hoe, and all she saw were insect eggs.

She had read the conclusion that extreme droughts will lead to locusts in a book before, but she had just glanced over it and didn't take it seriously. Now it seems that it was not an exaggeration at all, but was true.

There were dozens of insect eggs in the deep pit. How many insect eggs were there in the fields of the entire village? It must be an extremely large number.

However, there is one point worth noting. Li Mengyue suspects that the locusts in the soybean field are only beginning to hatch now, largely because this place is located at the foot of the mountain, where there is not only sufficient vegetation but also sufficient water resources.

Locusts are drought-loving by nature. They thrive in drier places.

Another point is that since this place is close to the mountains, there are many birds living here.

In addition to eating mosquitoes, these birds also like to eat locusts. It is no exaggeration to say that they are the natural enemies of locusts.

Speaking of controlling locust plagues, in fact, locust plagues have occurred many times in later history. For example, during the reign of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, as many as 16,000 counties across the country were affected by locust plagues. Basically, from north to south, wherever the locusts flew, they swept away everything.

There are also historical records that during the first 25 years of the Tang Dynasty, there was a terrible locust plague.

Although locust plagues have occurred in all dynasties, the scale has varied, but people in every dynasty have proposed methods to eliminate locusts.

She clearly remembered that there was a comprehensive agricultural work in the Ming Dynasty called "Complete Book of Agriculture", which recorded converting dry fields into paddy fields to control locust plagues.

In the current situation, it simply doesn't work.

Not to mention that it hasn't rained for several months, the water level in the river has dropped, and many places have no water source. They rely on the weather for their livelihood every year, so the method of converting paddy fields has to be ruled out.

Since one method didn’t work, Li Mengyue started thinking of a second one.

Taming birds is not realistic, and burning them is not an option either. She would not even consider this method of killing a thousand enemies but losing eight of her own.

The efficiency of using tools to dig out all the insect eggs in the ground is too low and cannot be applied on a large scale.

There is also Chen Yi's "Records of Eliminating Locusts", which also contains methods to eliminate locusts.

"Locusts haven't learned to fly yet, so ducks can eat them. A flock of ducks will be in the rice fields, and the locusts will be gone in no time. This is also a method of catching locusts in the south of the Yangtze River!"

Thinking of this, Li Mengyue's eyes lit up. Raise ducks to eat locusts.

Besides, although there are locusts in Xingyi Village, there are not many of them. As long as we find an effective method before all the eggs hatch, we can take preventive measures and reduce losses before the locust plague breaks out.

Even if we cannot kill all the locusts, as long as we can eliminate most of them, we can reduce the losses and avoid a complete loss that leaves everyone in despair.

What's more, the weather will gradually become colder in two or three months. In the cold winter, the villagers' houses will be frozen to death as long as there is a heavy snowfall. Without food, they will be cold and hungry.

Therefore, raising ducks is imperative to kill locusts.

She doesn't worry about advantages that others don't have.

After all, the space lottery is a big advantage. Next, she must think about how much money to bribe the god to open a back door for her.