The frightened crowd all ran towards the houses.

The two brothers surrounded Song Ruan and moved with the crowd.

Suddenly, several screams were heard from the edge of the crowd.

Wu Lei and his best friend were playing in the village. They heard a lot of noise here, so they walked over here. Unexpectedly, they saw a group of people scrambling to escape.

While running, an aunt fell and fell right in front of Wu Lei and his friends.

Wu Lei was unmoved. He said something to his friends and prepared to go home. There were a lot of people here and he was afraid of being trampled by accident.

But what he didn't expect was that his little friend was so stupid that he tried to help the adult on the ground, which resulted in him being pulled to the ground.

But the aunt who was helped up ignored him at all and ran away screaming.

They were still children and too short, so they were easily lost in the fleeing crowd, so the little friend was knocked down as soon as he stood up.

Wu Leidun stood there, struggling with his thoughts.

After a while, he decided to go back. He ran over and dragged his friend who had been knocked to the ground several times and couldn't get up, to the side of the road, avoiding the crowd in the middle of the road.

After all this effort, a lot of locusts fell to the ground, and some of them even landed on his clothes and bit him so hard that it hurt.

He instinctively shook his clothes and jumped at the same time, trying to shake out the things inside the clothes.

But it seemed to be of little use, because not many locusts were shaken out, but many new ones came in instead.

After all, he was young and was a little at a loss.

"Xiao Lei, Xiao Lei."

Song Ruan and the other two squeezed through the crowd.

"Sister Song Ruan, Brother Song Wu, Brother Song Cai..."

Wu Lei looked up and saw them squeezing towards him against the crowd, and his eyes suddenly became moist.

Song Wu and Song Cai squeezed over and without saying anything, they each picked up a child.

"Let's leave here first. There are many crops here, so there are many locusts."

When they got home, the first thing the three siblings did was to close the windows and doors of each room.

Then clean the locusts off everyone.

After packing up, they gathered in their parents' room because there was a window in this room, which allowed them to see what was happening outside.

In a short period of time, it was as if we had experienced a turmoil, and everyone was sweating all over. After sitting down in the room, everyone's tense bodies relaxed a little.

Song Ruan looked through the window at the dense swarms of locusts outside, frowning.

"Second brother, third brother, father, mother, and eldest brother and his wife haven't come back yet."

Song Cai hummed and nodded: "I have thought about this problem, but we can't go out. There are dense locusts outside."

"Sure." Song Ruan looked at him, "We can do this."

Song Ruan found a few ropes in the drawer and tied them around his trouser legs.

"We can wear long shirts and long pants, tie up our cuffs, and then put on scarves, hats and raincoats, which can provide some protection."

Song Wu had been a little confused since he saw the overwhelming swarms of locusts. But when he heard his sister's idea, he immediately felt confident.

"Yes, yes, let's get dressed now, take some raincoats with us, and go pick up our parents."

Song Ruan nodded and continued, "When the time comes, one of us will go to the village entrance and wait for our parents, brother and sister-in-law with clothes, and the other two will go to the private plot and pick all the vegetables."

Locusts like to eat leaves and stems of plants, so not only will the sweet potato leaves and corn in the farmland be eaten, but even the vegetables planted in the private plots will be eaten up.

Therefore, the only thing they could do was to pick all the vegetables from their private plots and bring them home before they were harmed by locusts, so that they could have more food.

"Go to the private plot to pick vegetables? But don't we have stored a lot of food?" Song Wu asked.

"But once the crops are eaten this time, food will be extremely scarce until next autumn, before the new harvest. There is no such thing as too much food," Song Ruan replied.

Song Cai understood it immediately and obviously thought of this, adding: "Moreover, this is based on the premise that there are enough seeds next year and the planting and harvesting are smooth."

After Song Cai figured it out, he immediately took action without her saying anything, changed his clothes and put on protective gear.

Although Song Wu is not sensitive to this aspect, it does not prevent him from following his younger brothers and sisters' pace.

They tied their trouser legs and cuffs with ropes, wrapped scarves around their faces and necks, put on straw hats and raincoats, and carried bamboo baskets on their backs.

In an instant, he became fully armed like a warrior with no loopholes, giving people a sense of security.

There were not many raincoats at home, and apart from the ones they were wearing, there were only two left.

"Then go get two long coats that can cover your skin," Song Ruan suggested.

"I remember that my dad still has an old-fashioned black raincoat that he doesn't want to use anymore."

"Then bring them all here, quickly, we have to hurry."

Soon, they found the clothes and put them in the bamboo basket on Song Ruan's back.

Obviously, Song Ruan was asked to wait for people at the village entrance, and the two brothers were also responsible for harvesting vegetables from their private plots.

"Xiao Lei, can you stay home? We'll be back soon."

Wu Lei, who had been following them quietly, nodded obediently, "Okay, I will take good care of the house and won't let outsiders in, you can go out without worry."

"Xiao Lei is awesome."

After settling Xiao Lei down, the three siblings went out.

Now, most of the villagers are hiding in their homes in fear, observing the situation outside through the windows.

Therefore, the figures of the three brothers and sisters swimming upstream were particularly eye-catching.

Someone couldn't help but stick his head out and ask, "Where are you going dressed like this? There's a locust plague, why aren't you hiding at home?"

Song Ruan pulled a slit in the scarf on her face and said, "Let's go to the private plot to harvest the vegetables."

After saying this, he immediately closed his mouth.

As for what people will do after hearing this, it is not up to her to decide.

(I have something to do today, so I will only update one chapter. I will add another chapter tomorrow.)