Ignoring whether the vegetables had grown properly or not, Yue Jiuyue picked up a basket and started pulling them up. Xiao Man'er thought it was fun and joined in.
"Mom, I'm going to the village chief's house now!"
Lin Chaodong shouted as he ran outside.
"Sigh! It's heading south!"
Yue Jiuyue called out, but it was unclear whether Lin Chaodong heard her. Lin Chaobei, who lived in the west room, did hear her, rubbed his eyes, opened the door, and asked:
"Mom, where did my eldest brother go?"
"Never mind your brother for now, quickly catch the chickens and rabbits and put them in your house!"
Yue Jiuyue said without turning her head.
Lin Chaobei glanced at the gate, then at Yue Jiuyue, and finally obediently went to catch chickens and rabbits. Of course, he wanted to find out why.
When Lin Chaobei learned that it was because of a possible locust plague, although he was not sure if it would happen, he had heard about how terrible locust plagues were when he was a child. He hurriedly stuffed the chickens and rabbits into baskets and carried them all to his house. Then he came out to help dig sweet potatoes.
They dug out all the sweet potato seeds that had sprouted, figuring they wouldn't leave them to benefit the locusts anyway.
Then she sealed the cellar entrance with stones and mud, and also covered the window cracks with mud. If it weren't for the fact that she needed to enter and exit through the door, Yue Jiuyue would have liked to seal the door cracks as well.
Because the west room contained chickens and rabbits, all in rectangular baskets about a meter long and thirty centimeters wide, piled one after another on the ground, Lin Chaobei didn't want to smell chicken droppings or hear the roosters crowing and the hens laying eggs, so he had no choice but to move back to live with Lin Chaonan again.
After the house was almost cleaned up, Lin Chaodong and Lin Chaonan returned together.
“Mother, the clan elder and several other elders said that this might really be a locust plague. The clan elder said something about ‘a long drought is sure to bring locusts,’ and told everyone to quickly check what crops and vegetables are still left unharvested in the fields, gardens, and yards, so that there won’t be nothing left.”
"Mom, is there anything else we need to fix at home? I don't know what the locust plague is like. Do you think we should all live together? My two brothers and I can sleep in one room, and my sister-in-law and Xiaoman can sleep with you. We can also move some grain into the main room so we won't go hungry. We also need to move the water jar into the room, but there's not much water left, so we have to use it sparingly."
When the two brothers returned, they saw that the house had been almost tidied up, so they started moving grain, water jars, and even the eldest brother and his wife's bedding.
Yue Jiuyue: (?○Д○)?
That can't be true!
However, Yue Jiuyue did not object. In fact, Lin Chaonan's arrangement was to her liking. Although she was not used to having two more people in her room, compared to her fear of the locust plague, this discomfort was completely overcome.
"Mom, are we going to sleep with Grandma tonight from now on?"
The little girl wrapped her arms around Liu's neck and asked in what she thought was a quiet voice:
"Yes, from now on, the three of us will sleep together."
Liu patted her daughter's head, and although she was anxious, she still tried to answer gently.
"Then, where's my dad? Why doesn't he come over and sleep with me?"
Little Man'er has slept with her parents since birth, and this is the first time she has slept separately from her father.
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