"Ahem."
Village chief Ma coughed a few times and told the story of the locust collection in Xingying Village. Suddenly, the entire threshing ground erupted in screams and laughter.
Village chief Hou Ma watched helplessly as all the villagers ran away.
Soon, many people came to the fields of Lianxi Village, and everyone was bending down to catch locusts.
While the people in Lianxi Village were frantically catching locusts, the girls from Shitou Village, Guixi Village, and Zhoujia Village who had married into Xingxi Village all returned to their parents' homes and told them about the locust collection work in Xingxi Village.
These three villages also went crazy and followed the example of the villagers in Xingying Village and Lianying Village in catching locusts.
However, there are also villages that look down on catching locusts, such as Zhulin Village, which has a population of more than 2,000.
They have always prided themselves on being a big village, and have a sense of superiority over other villages. How could they engage in such a lowly task as catching locusts?
However, later, the locusts really broke out. There was not a single grain of food in the fields of Zhulin Village. With nothing to eat, they wanted to come to Xingxi Village to rob. In the end, they were severely beaten by Li Mengyue, and had no choice but to merge into Xingxi Village.
The village chief's wife and the five women from the Li family were busy all day long, and their backs and waists ached at the end of the day. However, the six of them all ignored their physical fatigue.
Because when they received the copper coins from Li, they felt a sense of pride in their hearts, realizing that they could also earn money to support their families like men.
Li Mengyue still went to the town to set up a stall selling fried locusts. Somehow, when she arrived in the town today, she saw a long queue at the place where she had set up the stall yesterday from afar.
Only when I approached the crowd did I hear what the people in the queue were saying, such as the miracle doctor from Miracle Doctor Valley, whose body became distorted after eating fried locusts, etc.
"My child ate fried locusts yesterday and has a better appetite. His mother puts a lot of effort into making the food for him. He used to dislike it, but now he can eat a big bowl of it."
"It's the same at my house. My old lady has been in poor health since the beginning of the year. The doctor told her that it would be difficult for her to survive this year."
"I brought the locusts home, intending to feed them to my child. But my mother, attracted by the delicious aroma, insisted on eating them. The doctor told her she could only eat bland food. I couldn't bear to refuse her, so I let her eat some. But after she finished, she vomited blood. I was so scared that I called the doctor right away."
"The doctor said my pulse was dying before my death, but now I have a little vitality. If I take good care of myself, I will live for another two or three years."
"The doctor was also puzzled. What kind of miracle cure did I give my mother? With our family's financial situation, how could we afford to buy precious herbs like ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum for her? Isn't it just half a pound of locusts? As soon as the sun rose, I rushed to line up. I want to buy five pounds today."
The people who were queuing with me, after hearing what the tall and thin man said, were surprised at how fried locusts could possibly cure diseases. But at the same time, they also confirmed that they had eaten fried locusts, and it made sense why I didn't feel tired after carrying sacks all day.
He originally bought half a catty yesterday and was planning to buy a catty today, but now he thinks that two catties are a bit too little, so he decided to buy three catties.
Li Mengyue heard everyone's discussion and realized where the problem lay.
It turned out that he was afraid that the fried locusts would not taste good and would not attract people to buy them, so he added a lot of spiritual spring water to the water used to wash the locusts. Lingquan water has the effect of strengthening the body, which made people believe that locusts have the effect of curing diseases.
Some people are willing to pay money to buy it, while some people don't care. They think that instead of buying a pound of it for five cents, it is better to catch it yourself in the fields and fry it at home. Wouldn't that save a lot of money?
There are quite a few people who have this idea, but what they don’t know is that the locusts they make, without the blessing of spiritual spring water, even if they taste good, they can’t be compared with those sold by Li Mengyue.
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