Li Mengyue opened the door and saw so many villagers waiting outside, and fell into deep thought.
Before she could come to her senses, she heard many villagers scrambling to hold up small bamboo baskets. "Li girl, these are the locusts my family caught yesterday. Please weigh them for me first. I have to hurry to catch them in the fields."
"Hey, I was already in front, why are you cutting in line?"
"Don't push me, don't push me. I've been lining up here since before dawn. I should be the first one to be weighed."
"Tsk, look at the people here, everyone comes here before dawn, and I came in the middle of the night. You little brat, you still want to argue with me." As soon as he finished speaking, he leaned sideways to squeeze forward, and in the process, he did not forget to carefully protect the small bamboo basket in his arms, as if he was holding some big treasure.
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Just as everyone was scrambling to get to the front, a sharp voice suddenly came from the crowd.
"Oh, my locusts, don't step on my locusts, don't step on them, don't step on them, please." A woman cried, asking everyone not to step on her locusts.
It turned out that everyone was anxious and wanted Li Mengyue to weigh the locusts she caught first and get the copper coins.
After all, even though they heard the village chief give a positive answer, they still didn't dare to believe it.
You can earn money right at your doorstep, and it's not a difficult job. Just go to the fields and catch locusts, and even a child can do it.
And children are physically flexible and can catch more than adults.
In this way, when all the villagers want to get the money first, they will become more crazy, and there will be too many people, and it will be too crowded.
The older women in the crowd could not squeeze past the younger ones. Not only was Grandma Wang from the village squeezed, but the locusts in her small bamboo basket were also stepped on.
She and her grandchildren worked together to catch this, spending an entire afternoon.
She originally planned to use the money from the sale to buy some grains in town for her grandchildren to eat so that they would no longer have to eat wild vegetables and drink wild vegetable soup with her.
But now the locusts that carried her hope were being stepped on. She ignored the pain in her body and saw the locusts being trampled to death and crushed into mud one by one. She couldn't help but burst into tears.
Hearing the cries, Li Mengyue yelled, "Stop pushing! If you continue, I won't be collecting locusts today."
The villagers who were still struggling to squeeze forward stopped immediately when they heard this.
The people at the back who didn't have the strength to squeeze to the front patted their chests and breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, they were glad that they were not squeezed in and would not be the ones who were pushed down.
It’s okay to be squeezed down, but I’m afraid that the locusts I caught with great difficulty will be gone, and I will cry to death.
Seeing that everyone had become rational and was no longer pushing forward so frantically, Li Mengyue pushed through the crowd and walked towards the direction of the crying.
There was an old lady lying on the ground. Someone tried to pull her up, but the old lady refused to cooperate, regardless of how dirty her body was or how much pain she felt from being stepped on.
He used both hands to pick out the locusts that were trampled to death on the ground, picking out the half-dead ones, and then slowly putting them into a small bamboo basket.
After everyone stopped pushing and calmed down, they began to look around to see who was being pushed down, and some people in the crowd began to talk in low voices.
"Isn't this Grandma Wang from the village?"
"Yes, it's really not easy for Grandma Wang. She's so old, but she still has to compete with us to sell locusts."
"That's because Grandma Wang couldn't do anything. The old man died early due to illness, and his son went to work in town. He offended someone and was beaten half to death. If someone in our village hadn't happened to see him and brought him back, Grandma Wang probably wouldn't have been able to see her son for the last time."
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