After waiting for about a cup of tea, the village chief finally spoke in a deep voice: "Yue girl, I'm not saying anything discouraging, but it's just that many families in the village can't afford to raise a duckling. Not to mention that a duckling costs a penny, we can't even afford to feed it. Besides, people don't have anything to eat, let alone a duckling."

"Grandpa Village Chief, I understand exactly what you're worried about. It's actually not difficult to solve. For one thing, ducks can eat locusts, and they can also eat small fish and shrimp in the river."

"I'm also really worried that after the locusts leave, there won't be anything for the ducks to eat. We can catch more locusts in advance, dry them into dried locusts, and feed the ducks."

"If that doesn't work, after the locust plague, if any family in the village doesn't want to continue raising locusts, I can buy them out at a reasonable price, so the villagers won't suffer any losses."

As soon as Li Mengyue finished speaking, the village chief's frown instantly relaxed and his mouth opened wide, and he couldn't hide his smile.

"It seems that our ancestors did not lie to me. A noble person has indeed come to the village." The village chief thought proudly.

"That Yue girl, I can convince the villagers to raise ducks, but..."

It was really difficult to say what he was about to say. The village chief had the words on the tip of his tongue, and after chewing them over several times, he just couldn't say them.

Li Mengyue noticed the village chief's embarrassment, but she didn't intend to ask directly.

Because there are still many things that require the village chief. If the two of them do not communicate well and the village chief hides things from her, it is easy for uncontrollable things to happen.

She always liked to take matters into her own hands, so she naturally wouldn't allow this kind of thing to happen. So she sat on the chair, not wanting to speak at all.

In fact, the problem that Village Chief Li wanted to talk about was not very difficult for Li Mengyue. On the contrary, she could use her lucky draw to win an unlimited breeding base.

"Girl Yue, let me be frank. Even if every household wants to raise ducks, where can they get so many ducklings?"

"You don't know, there aren't many people selling ducklings in town. Most people like to raise chickens, especially hens. They can save the eggs they lay and sell them in town to supplement their family income."

When Li Mengyue heard that the question was about ducklings, she said word by word: "Grandpa Village Chief, don't worry, I can get enough ducklings."

Village chief Li originally thought that since it was the ancestor who sent a dream, he should tell his benefactor, who might have a way to solve the problem of ducklings.

He tried to ask it, but he didn't get a satisfactory answer.

"Great! Now that we have ducklings, every household can raise ducks."

"Then can I arrange for the villagers to catch locusts?"

"Grandpa Village Chief, of course you can."

Hearing the affirmative answer, Village Chief Li stood up and was about to go out the door.

But before he took a few steps, he was stopped by the village chief's wife.

"Hey, old man, where are you? The meal is ready. Let's eat first before we get busy."

The village chief waved his hand to his wife and said anxiously, "I have something urgent to do. You guys eat first and don't wait for me."

Then he hurried out the door and the village head's wife couldn't stop him even if she called out to her.

Having lived with the village chief for so many years, she knew her husband's character very well. He must have had something important happen that he didn't even have time to eat.

"Yue girl, your village chief is just like that, don't mind it. He's not here, let's eat first."

Li Mengyue also knew that the village chief was busy raising ducks, but she just had another idea.

Even if every household in the village raises ducks, raising ten ducks per family is already a lot.

There are only four or five thousand people in the entire Xinghua Village, with an average of 15 people per family, and there are only about 80 households.

What's more, in this era, basically no one has a large family. A family may have more than a dozen people, which makes the number even smaller, and the number of ducks raised cannot be many.

"Grandma Li, how many households are there in our village?"