After breakfast, Lu Changge went to the town.
There weren't many locusts in the town, at least there wasn't a situation where a few locusts would hit you in the face while you were walking.
However, due to the locust plague, there are far fewer street stalls than before.
The doors of all the shops were blocked with bamboo curtains and business looked very bad.
The people on the road were in a hurry and did not dare to slow down.
Some even wore veils.
Lu Changge did not stay in the town for long. After buying the cloth and bamboo curtains, he also bought three veil hats, two large and one small.
There were too many bamboo curtains, so Lu Changge hired a horse-drawn carriage to transport them back.
Before going back, Lu Changge found a snack shop and bought a few strings of candied haws and a bag of cakes.
After returning home, Lu Changge first brought the cloth his wife wanted and the candied haws for the kid into the house, and then began to install the bamboo curtains.
The outside of the corridor was surrounded by a blue brick wall that reached the height of the land-based soldiers' knees.
Lu Changge first cleared away the debris placed on it, and then began to hang the bamboo curtain.
The length of the bamboo curtain is just slightly longer than the length from the eaves of the corridor to the blue brick wall.
[Two vines.] Lu Changge shouted.
[Understood!] Nido replied.
At the same time, roll up the bamboo curtain in the host's hand onto the eaves.
Then, a strong rattan is passed through one end of the bamboo curtain and fixed to the eaves.
After being fixed, the bamboo curtain fell down with a swish, and the bottom end landed just a little below the top of the green brick wall.
Lu Changge nailed the bottom of the bamboo curtain to the green brick and it was done.
Next, each person repeats the previous steps with one vine.
Before long, the bamboo curtains were all installed.
After the bamboo curtains were installed, the vines of the second vine covered the entire roof.
Thin, green vines hang down from the eaves, swaying in the wind.
It has a different feeling under the reflection of the bamboo curtain.
Lu Changge stood in the yard, looking at the renovated house.
You know what, it looks pretty good.
In addition to hardening and toughening, the ereng also has a special ability.
It is a smell that all animals hate.
It was precisely this ability that allowed it to safely reach level six in the apocalypse, until it was taken in by Lu Changge as an alien pet.
Therefore, the three exits of the corridor were blocked by vines hanging down from the two vines.
After the rattan curtain fell, the number of locusts around the door decreased significantly.
Soon, a vacuum zone was formed in front of the three curtains.
The corridor was sealed, and Lu Changge went in to check it carefully.
Only after making sure there was not a single locust did he open the door.
"Wife, you can come out now." Lu Changge shouted at the door.
"Is it done?" Su Qingyun looked over when he heard that.
"Well, come out and take a look."
Hearing her husband say this, Su Qingyun put down her needlework and walked over.
Little Tuanzi was obviously annoyed by the shadow outside the house. When he saw his father was about to go out, he stamped his feet anxiously and said, "Father, there are... there are bugs outside! Don't go!"
"It's okay, father will just go out and take a look." Su Qingyun comforted.
Su Qingyun walked out of the house and what she saw was not the familiar courtyard, but a long bamboo curtain wall.
The sunlight outside shines in through the gaps between the bamboo curtains, falling on the floor and the walls.
There is a dusky afternoon atmosphere.
Listening to the buzzing sound of locusts flapping their wings outside, Su Qingyun no longer felt irritated or anxious.
It feels like, letting the wind and rain blow outside and yet hiding in a safe haven, feeling relaxed and at ease.
"How is it?" Lu Changge asked.
"Very good." Su Qingyun looked at him and smiled.
It feels so good to be loved unconditionally.
Afterwards, Su Qingyun turned back and called Tuanzi out, "Tuanzi, come out, there are no more bugs outside."
"Really?" Little Dumpling was still a little scared. He hid behind the bed curtains, daring to only show his head.
"Really? Ask your father if you don't believe me."
Hearing this, the little girl looked at her father and asked silently.
"Well, come out."
After hearing what his father said, the little girl finally ran over.
When he approached the door, he saw the scenery outside.
"Wow! What a delicious brew!" The little girl looked up at her surroundings, then ran back and forth in the corridor excitedly.
In order to avoid locusts, little Tuanzi has been staying indoors these days, which makes him feel suffocated.
After running back and forth in the corridor several times, the little girl finally found the special curtain.
"Huh? This one looks like Er Er..." The little dumpling grabbed a vine.
[My dear little master, this is a part of me!]
"Two, two!" Little Dumpling was very happy when he heard Er Teng's voice.
"Er Er, I miss you so much!"
Having stayed in the house for the past few days, Xiaotuanzi hasn't talked to Ertong for a long time.
[I miss you too, little master! Little master, if you lift up the vines, you can see outside.]
"No, no!" Little Dumpling shook his head like a rattle, "We can't open it, or bugs will fly in."
[No, no, those bugs don’t dare to get close to me. If you don’t believe me, little master, lift up the vine and try it. I guarantee that none of the bugs will dare to fly in!] Er Teng promised.
"Really?"
[real!]
Finally, the little girl ran around in the yard wearing a wreath of two rattan flowers on her head.
What’s amazing is that wherever the little dumpling runs to, the locusts there will fly away quickly.
It was as if I smelled something deadly.
"Wow, Er Er is amazing!"
The little dumpling, wearing a garland of flowers, ran over here and ran away again.
Seeing Chong Chong was scared by him and hid far away, the little dumpling laughed happily.
Su Qingyun lifted the vines and watched Tuanzi running around wearing the familiar wreath.
Twenty two?
Can Tuanzi really hear plants talking?
Thinking that he suddenly had the ability to store things, Su Qingyun was a little suspicious.
Er Teng had no idea that his wife had begun to doubt its authenticity, as he was having a great time playing with his little master.
Finally, because of the two scented rattan sticks, the locusts dared not approach the main house.
I only dare to fly in the yard near the gate.
In fact, Lu Changge wanted Er Teng to climb all over the courtyard wall to keep all the locusts out.
However, this is too obvious and anyone with a discerning eye will see that there is a problem.
Lu Changge has always been a low-key person, so he gave up this once-and-for-all solution.
…
The third day after the locust plague broke out was the day when the government would send people to collect grain and taxes.
However, this year, drought first occurred, causing the soil in the fields to lose moisture and the land to dry and crack.
Then a locust plague broke out, resulting in a total crop failure this year.
There is no telling when the drought will end, and the number of locusts continues to increase.
As a result, food for the second half of the year could not be planted.
The newly enthroned emperor was a benevolent ruler and exempted the disaster-stricken areas from grain taxes this year.
Of course, there were also some local officials who took advantage of their high position and thought that no one knew about it, and continued to collect taxes.
However, the grain taxes received this year went into their pockets.
This is the situation in the town where Lijia Village is located.
There are four villages around Lijia Village, but these four villages are not so lucky.
Because the rice was harvested too late, more than half of it was eaten by locusts.
The whole family can’t even get enough to eat, but they still want to collect half of the grain tax. Isn’t this a life-threatening thing?
Fortunately, there was a traveling merchant in Lujia Village who had just returned from the imperial city.
In the imperial city, we also heard that the new emperor had exempted the disaster-stricken areas from grain taxes.
As a result, local officials who wanted to enrich themselves were punished.
Now, several villages are preparing to jointly report the incident to the provincial capital.
Originally, if this happened in the past, the people would certainly be angry but not speak out.
But now, I have no food to eat and I am about to be driven to death. How can I bear this?
Fortunately, Lijia Village had harvested all its food before the locust outbreak because of a rumor, so the loss was not too great.
But the village chief certainly cannot tell the truth to other villages.
Therefore, the village chief urgently summoned all the villagers and asked them to hide the food in their homes.
Also, we couldn’t tell anyone in other villages about how we had been working so hard to harvest the grain.
In short, the village chief is very smart.
Lu Changge didn't know what the other villagers did.
However, his family's food was really hidden in a place where no one could find it.
The issue of grain tax has been a topic for a long time, but Lu Changge didn't pay much attention to it.
He now has to fill the 600 empty buckets.
The water storage bucket is a regular type with a lid, about as high as Lu Changge's waist, and the diameter inside the bucket is quite large.
A bucket can hold about 350 liters of water.
Six hundred barrels can hold a total of 210 tons of water.
Under normal circumstances, a family of three consumes six to eight tons of water per month.
Based on this calculation, this water can be used for more than a year.
The drought lasted only one year.
Moreover, Lu Changge also has an infinite water storage bucket.
It seems that this is completely sufficient.
Now, all Lu Changge has to do is fetch water, pour it into the bucket, cover it and put it in the storage container.
This sounds simple, but it is quite laborious to do.
He practiced ten buckets in the morning and ten buckets in the afternoon. After a month, Lu Changge's arms, waist and abdominal muscles became stronger.
Coupled with his height of nearly 1.9 meters, he looks even more ferocious.
A month passed quickly, and now it is late August, and the number of locusts around has obviously begun to decrease.
The common people have already adapted to the locusts flying around them, and can even catch them with their bare hands and crush them to death without batting an eyelid.
At this time, Su Qingyun's belly was almost six months old, and she was four months away from giving birth.
Giving birth in December is when the weather is freezing cold, so you need to prepare warming facilities.
The lactation period of the ewes here is about 5 to 6 months.
Start preparing food for the baby now, which will last for two months.
It just so happened that their family was about to leave at that time.
So we have to start buying another ewe.
The one at home has run out of milk, so I'll buy another one to provide milk for Tuanzi.
Kill two birds with one stone.
Before going to the city to purchase supplies, Lu Changge started today's sign-in.
[System, sign in.]
[Ding—Successfully signed in on the 83rd day of fleeing famine, and received sign-in rewards: four pounds of rice, a pig's trotter, and three pieces of tofu.
Receive a random sign-in reward: a luxurious carriage.
The reward has been placed in the system space. 】
Luxury carriage?
Lu Changge raised his eyebrows when he saw the random reward.
Isn't this an example of someone giving you a pillow just when you feel like falling asleep?
You know what, this system is sometimes quite considerate.
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