The next day, the sky outside the window was foggy and it would take more than half an hour before it would be completely bright.

Li Mengyue was still sleeping soundly when she heard a whisper outside the door.

Without hesitation, I started getting dressed and got up.

Outside the door.

In addition to Goudan's mother and Li Li's mother and daughter, there were also many villagers carrying small bamboo baskets.

Everyone looked at what the other person was holding, and without saying much, they knew what was inside.

It seemed that everyone wanted to go together and sell the locusts quickly so that they could catch them in the fields. So they all got up very early.

Li Yan was so excited that he didn't sleep all night. He sat there waiting for dawn, holding a small bamboo basket filled with locusts.

There was still some time before dawn, but he couldn't wait and came to wait outside Li's house.

Yesterday afternoon, he went to the field to catch fish for a while, but felt that the pace was a bit slow, so he went home and found a bag.

Call your parents and go to the fields to catch them together.

It’s just that my parents are old, and their backs hurt after bending down to catch them for a while.

He felt sorry for his parents, so he asked them to go home and rest. However, ever since his parents learned that locusts could be sold for money, they never took a smile off their faces.

Ever since his fiancée broke off the engagement and he talked to several girls but none of them liked him, he had never seen his parents smile so happily again.

I still remember yesterday afternoon, my mother said that locusts could be sold for money, so their family would work hard to catch them and save the money from the sales to build a house and get him married.

In fact, there are many young men of marriageable age in the entire Xinghua Village, but they are all like Li Dazhu, Li Erzhu, and Li Yan. Their families are too poor to build houses, and it is difficult for them to even have enough food and clothing.

Parents with daughters are unwilling to let their daughters marry into such a family and suffer poverty all their lives.

Moreover, many parents in Xinghua Village hope that their daughters will get married and escape from here.

Unfortunately, Qingshan Town is a very poor town in Wuning County, and Wuning County is a poor county in Qingshan Prefecture. Not to mention paying the full amount of grain tax every year, and not having any natural disasters or man-made disasters, the court can just let an earthquake happen.

In fact, this is related to the geographical location of Wuning County. The entire county is close to the mountains, the roads are not accessible, and merchants are unwilling to come here.

It took Li Mengyue quite a while to get to Xinghua Village, as most of the way she walked was on mountain roads, so she didn't walk much.

However, being close to the mountains, there is still some hope.

You know, if you live by the mountain, you can eat from the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat from the water. The people in Xinghua Village can find food in the mountains.

It's just that people nowadays have a great awe of mountains. Plus, there are wild beasts in the deep mountains, so they only dare to dig some wild vegetables, pick some wild animals, mushrooms, etc. on the outskirts of the mountains, but it is difficult to fill their stomachs like this.

As a result, the villagers of Xinghua Village had a very difficult life.

But now it has changed. Ever since the village chief said that Mengyue, the girl from the Li family, would buy locusts at the price of one penny per pound, it has been a shot in the arm for Xinghua Village.

Every household was busy.

In the past, when farming was not busy, the villagers did not have much to do, except weeding the fields and catching insects.

I go to the fields every day and weed all the grass, but if I don't go to the fields, I can't stay at home, and I can't find a job in town.

I had no choice but to go to the fields. Even if I just stood in the fields and did nothing, looking at the crops in my own fields, I felt a little comforted and didn't have too many wild thoughts. I was worried that the harvest was too little and not enough for the whole family to eat and to get food next year.

But now, no matter whether adults or children, as long as they have hands and feet, they can go to the fields to catch locusts and sell them to the Li family at one penny per pound.

The whole family, young and old, went out to sell so many copper coins in a day.

"Hiss! I can't think about it. I can't help laughing when I think about it."

Li Yan stood in front of the Li family's gate, holding a small bamboo basket in his arms, with a smile on his face.

The villagers waiting in front of the Li family's door had no complaints when they saw that the door was closed.