Chapter 138 Flowers in Space
Sang Ning screamed and slapped the back of her neck, which scared Xie Yurou.
In her eyes, the imaginary "Huo Sanlang" burst like a bubble.
But she had no time to care and started circling around Sanning.
No matter who gets into trouble, she must not get into trouble!
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Nothing at all?
Sonning knocked the thing down with his own hands and stopped screaming.
She ran to the bushes to see what it was!
This sight turned surprise into joy.
It turned out to be a grasshopper!
The drought has lasted so long that even cicadas can’t crawl out of the ground. I didn’t expect there would be grasshoppers?
There’s something delicious again!
Sang Ning grabbed it again, and after taking a look, he felt something was wrong.
Although this thing is not very big, only three or four centimeters, it has a round head, long wings and short limbs.
Moreover, it has green and black spots all over its body and a hard shell, and it doesn't look like something you would want to eat.
She likes to eat the small green grasshoppers, and the ones with round heads and big wings are locusts.
Grasshopper is the general term for all grasshoppers, while locust refers specifically to grasshoppers under the Acrididae family.
Grasshoppers and locusts have different habits.
Grasshoppers prefer a warm, humid environment with plenty of light.
Locusts have a hard shell that can help evaporate the water in their bodies and prefer warm and dry environments.
Therefore, it has been said since ancient times that locusts will appear when drought is extreme.
It is not afraid of heat or dryness. When the moisture content in the soil is between 10% and 20%, it is the best time for locusts to lay eggs.
During droughts, water levels drop, rivers dry up, and the dry riverbeds become hard, which are the favorite places for locusts to lay their eggs.
Generally speaking, as long as locusts don't gather together, there's nothing wrong.
But because of the drought, there is no food everywhere, and in order to survive, the locusts will gather together to cause trouble, sweeping away the crops together, and then a locust plague will occur.
When locusts pass through a place, no grass grows.
Locust plague is one of the three most dreaded disasters in history.
You can see how terrifying it is.
Ask why not catch them and eat them?
First, it's hard to catch. It flies too fast and runs away after eating the Wind and Cloud Fragments.
Second, it doesn’t taste good! The shell is too hard.
If you want it to taste good, you have to fry it. There’s a drought going on, so who would be so well-off?
The most important point.
When locusts are few in number, they are not poisonous.
But once they gather in large numbers, they will mutate. In one locust plague, locusts can mutate five times, with their color and body shape changing.
In order to avoid being eaten by humans, they secrete a toxic chemical called hydrogen cyanide in their bodies.
So if you want to eat locusts, eat those that have not yet changed color.
However, the locust swarms have arrived. If you don't protect your food, how can you still think about eating?
So, to sum up, encountering this kind of thing during a severe drought is not a good thing.
The locust in Sang Ning's hand suddenly squirted out a stream of brown and black juice, making her hands dirty.
She threw it to the ground and stomped on it.
Then he rummaged through the grass and found two or three more.
There shouldn't be a locust plague, right?
There is a necessary condition for a locust plague to occur, that is, there is sudden rainfall somewhere, and that place happens to be an area where locusts previously laid eggs densely, and the climate is warm, which will cause a large number of eggs to hatch quickly.
It shouldn't be such a coincidence.
The autumn harvest is coming soon. The crops in the fields are already shriveled and small. These days, because well water has been dug out, many villagers have been given some water and are saving it for drinking, and using the rest to irrigate the fields.
I just hope that the ungrown corn ears can swell up again and produce more grains before the autumn harvest.
God, please don’t joke with me and give me a way out.
"Sister-in-law, this thing is not poisonous, right?" Xie Yurou asked worriedly.
"No, it's just its saliva."
Sang Ning pulled a handful of grass and wiped it. He saw that Xie Yurou was in much better spirits, with clear eyes and less sadness between her brows.
Judging from what she said just now, she seemed to have figured it out.
But it is better to drink some medicine to nourish the mind and calm the spirit.
Speaking of medicine, she thought of the flowers growing beside the spiritual spring pool in the space.
Given Sang Ning's familiarity with nature, he couldn't even recognize the varieties of those flowers. He probably thought they were just products of the space.
Every time he entered the space and smelled the fragrance of the flowers, Sang Ning felt relaxed and sometimes even took a lazily nap.
I feel full of energy after sleeping.
It can be seen that the flower should have a calming effect.
"Third sister-in-law, I heard from my eldest sister-in-law that you are good at flower arrangement?"
"It's just a way to kill time when I'm bored. It's not very useful." Xie Yurou said dejectedly.
It can’t be eaten, nor can it be exchanged for money. It’s the most useless thing, and it’s something that idle people make up.
I realized it when I was fleeing from the famine. It would be better to use a big stick like Jingya did.
"Its purpose is to kill time, make yourself happy, and provide emotional value. Every time has its own way of life, it just doesn't apply to now."
What Sang Ning said always made people feel that they were not useless and that their existence had value.
She would never give up something that they now think is not enterprising because of the current predicament.
For example, making fly sinkers for the kids.
Mother has secretly warned Jinxiu and Jinxin to be sensible and learn to help Fourth Aunt with some chores instead of bothering her and causing trouble.
So the children no longer mentioned making pendants.
But you see, she always kept the promise she made to the child in her heart, and went to the mountains to get pine oil to become General Cang.
She is really, so special!
Fourth brother, you are so lucky.
Xie Yurou almost couldn't help but pinch that cute little round face.
"Third sister-in-law, wait here, I'll pick some flowers for you." Sang Ning ran into the woods.
She entered the space, came to the spring, looked at the beautiful flowers... and reached out to pluck them.
But the roots of the flower seemed to be grown together with the ground and were not loose at all.
There was no other way, she could only break the stem.
When Xie Yurou returned with a bouquet of flowers, she exclaimed in amazement: "What kind of flowers are these? They are so beautiful!"
"This petal looks like a girl's dress, this one looks like a cicada's wings, and this one looks like a butterfly's antennae..."
“It smells so good…”
Sang Ning grinned. Sure enough, she didn't know how to appreciate anything. She only saw red flowers, pink flowers, and purple flowers...
Sang Ning and Xie Yurou carried the baskets home.
I met a few women on the way and greeted them. I tentatively asked if they had opened a snack shop and if they needed to hire more people to do the housework.
Seeing that everyone was doing their job, Sang Ning chatted with them casually.
He said it was not needed for the time being, but he didn’t say it was dead.
There was an elderly woman who walked with a limp, and she approached him deliberately to try to get close to him.
"Madam Sang, I just saw my two cousins who were beaten when they went to your house to cause trouble that day.
She was covered up so tightly that her buttocks still didn't heal, and she was walking with a wriggle. She followed her sister-in-law, and I don't know what they were doing. Instead of taking the main road, they went down that dark alley full of collapsed buildings.
The villain in Sang Ning's heart was suddenly stunned.
Something's happening!
"Where does that dark alley lead to?"
"No matter how many turns it takes, it will lead you there. Liangzhou City is only about the size of a winnowing basket."
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