After Song Ruan sighed, she went into the cabin and prepared food for her fat piglets.

When she poured the food into the trough in the pigpen, she found several new and tender little piglets in the pigpen.

The big pigs started giving birth to piglets!

Song Ruan was overjoyed and hurried back to the cabin, poured out a basin of fine grain and added a drop of Yuquan water. This food was specially for the big pigs that had just given birth to piglets.

The next day, Song Ruan was awakened by the sound of knocking.

She stretched, opened the door and walked out.

"Second brother, third brother, what are you doing?"

Song Wu and Song Cai were riding on the wall of the yard, knocking and hammering.

"We're nailing sharp spikes into the wall."

Song Wu stopped and wiped his sweat.

"Yang Bin brought a bunch of these things over this morning and asked us to reinforce the doors, windows and yard."

"Oh, what about my parents and my eldest brother and his wife? Why can't I see them?"

Song Ruan poked her head into the house and found that they were all not at home, which made her feel strange.

"My eldest brother and his wife went to the black market to sell cakes. My parents also went to the black market, saying that they would use the money they earned from business to buy food."

"Little sister, I left some breakfast for you. It's warming up in the pot in the kitchen. Wash your face and go have breakfast."

After Song Wu finished talking to her, he continued knocking.

Song Ruan moved upon hearing the sound, fetched water to wash her face, and prepared to have breakfast.

The breakfast was very rich, with meat and rice left over from yesterday.

But this makes you full very easily. Early in the morning, Song Ruan ate a little and then stopped eating, preparing to go out to help.

"Second brother, third brother, what kind of wood do you use to reinforce the windows?"

"We have sorted them into categories. The pile under each window is the material for reinforcing that window."

"Okay." Song Ruan nodded, found a hammer, and joined in the hammering.

Seeing this, Song Wu stopped instead.

"Little sister, why did Yang Bin send these things to our house? Even if there is a locust plague, can't we just reinforce the windows to prevent the locusts from flying in? Why do we have to nail wooden spikes to the walls?"

Song Wu asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.

Song Ruan thought for a moment and replied, "The wooden spikes should be used to protect people."

The scary thing about disasters, besides the disasters themselves, is that another thing that is easily overlooked is the human morality on the verge of collapse.

Song Wu scratched his head: "Why?"

Song Cai, who was sitting on the other side of the wall, spoke slowly and measuredly: "Second brother, if you had read more historical books when you were studying, you wouldn't have asked this question."

Song Wu looked at him: "Why do I feel like you are mocking me?"

"Your feeling is right."

Song Cai smiled and said, "I think you have put all your smart talents into making money."

Song Wu said proudly, "Of course."

He is not ashamed at all, but proud of it.

Song Ruan, who was nailing the window, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Brother, think about it. Throughout history, all the regimes that were overthrown by uprisings were overthrown because the people could no longer survive. Let's put it this way. When a person is so hungry that he loses his mind, he will do anything."

Song Cai nodded in agreement: "That's the truth. When there's nothing to eat and people are in desperate situations, they will steal, rob and commit crimes."

After listening to their analysis, Song Wu's expression immediately became serious, and even the strength in his hands increased a bit.

Unlike their family who took it seriously, most people in the village did not take it seriously.

Like people in other villages, they thought the village chief was just worrying too much.

It's even worse at Uncle Song's house. Not to mention stockpiling food, the family has been like a war these days, with quarrels every day.

"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat. You lost a hundred yuan of work points from your family, and you still have the nerve to eat."

Liu Cuihua gets angry when she sees Zhang Caihong.

Zhang Caihong has been criticized for being thick-skinned these days, and now she is like a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water.

"People have mouths for eating, don't you eat?"

After Zhang Caihong finished speaking, she immediately scooped up a bowl of mixed grain and wild vegetable porridge, and deliberately drained out the water, leaving only the mixed grains.

This naturally caused Liu Cuihua to scold her again.

Zhang Caihong ignored her and simply took the bowl and ran outside to eat.

But before she took a few more steps, she saw a thick black fog in the distant sky, pressing towards her.

Zhang Caihong stood there, trying hard to see what the black fog was.

When she finally realized that it was not fog but a swarm of insects, she immediately dropped the bowl and ran home screaming.

Suddenly there was a sharp scream from outside.

And there was not just one person, but wave after wave of screams.

Song Ruan's heart sank and she had a bad feeling.

Song Wu and Song Wu also stopped what they were doing and looked at each other with serious expressions.

"Second brother, third brother, let's go out and see what's going on."

"Okay, let's go."

The three siblings quickly put away their things and went out to find out what was going on.

The sound came from the fields outside, and they walked toward the direction of the sound.

As soon as I walked onto the main road, I immediately saw a large patch of dark fog.

The black fog, with a murderous aura, moved towards this side quickly.

"What is that?" Song Wu murmured.

Soon, someone told him the answer.

"Locusts, lots of locusts, run."

The aunts and uncles in the fields saw this horrifying scene and ran towards the house screaming.

The locusts flew very fast and were soon right in front of people. Those who were still standing in the fields seemed to be wrapped in black fog.

Locusts do not bite people under normal circumstances, but when a locust plague occurs, they will bite people.

Moreover, its feet are covered with thorns, so if a few locusts get into its body, it would be very painful.

So, when they saw the locusts covering the sky and approaching, everyone quickly fled towards the houses.

There were a few who were running slowly, probably because the locusts had gotten into their clothes, and they were slapping their bodies as they ran.

But the locusts would only start attacking once they were hit, so the expressions on the faces of those people who were slapping their bodies became more and more painful.

"Little sister, let's go too."

"Hurry, go back."

Song Wu and Song Cai spoke at the same time.

(The humble author is begging online: Fairies who think this book is not too bad, can you move your fingers to give a good review and raise the rating? I would love it.)