Chapter 68 [Old Acquaintance at the Marquis of Zhaoping’s Mansion]
The village official gestured for Lin Ye to go and look at Zhang Xin's land: "If you don't believe me, just look—"
After the village official finished speaking, he turned around and was dumbfounded.
I saw the masked man spraying the potion in his hand evenly under the command of the little guy Liao Dabao. The locusts that flew over one after another turned around and went back, as if there was a ghost chasing them.
The locusts that were now covering the crops and were reluctant to leave were now taking off and running away as if their lives were being urged.
However, some locusts were unable to dodge in time, and after being touched by the potion, their nervous systems were damaged, causing them to fly unsteadily and finally fall.
Wherever Liao Dabao pointed his finger, that was the place that locusts were terrified of!
The swarms of insects in Zhang Xin's field quickly disappeared in large numbers. In contrast, in the field commanded by Village Chief Liu, the villagers took insect nets and caught the locusts one by one and put them into their backpacks.
Some insects react so quickly that it's really frustrating, and the locusts in the field are very slow to clear.
Moreover, new locusts flew in from afar and joined the battlefield. The villagers were soon exhausted and sweating. They could not catch them all.
The comparison between the insect extermination efficiency of the two sides is really heartbreaking!
Even Lin Ye, a veteran and knowledgeable man, was stunned for a long time when he looked at Liao Dabao. He responded to the village official: "I saw it. You saw it too, right?"
"I guess it's not my eyes that are blurring my vision. This anthelmintic is incredibly effective!"
Village chief Liu and his fellow villagers looked pale at this time!
My face hurts!
Lin Ye excitedly found Master Liao and said, "Son, please save our Yunhai County. Can you make more of this potion?"
Lin Ye was afraid of scaring Liao Dabao, so he squatted down and spoke to him: "I am the prefect of Yunhai County, the county to which Tianshui Village belongs. The cost of making the potion to cure the locust plague and your hard work will be paid by our government!"
"Well, you should talk to my eldest sister about this!"
Master Liao remained calm when he saw the high official: "My eldest sister is busy working in the fields."
He pointed at Jiang Lili, who was spraying medicine on the ground and was wearing a green silk dress.
"I'll get my people to help right away!"
Lin Ye quickly sent someone to replace Jiang Lili.
Jiang Lili was surprised when she learned that it was the county magistrate who had arrived, and then she was delighted.
She was still thinking about how to sell the medicine for controlling the locust plague to the government. After all, the advertising effect had already been achieved in Zhang Xin's land.
I didn't expect that the most important official in this area would come to me himself.
Lin Ye was a little surprised to see how young Jiang Lili was, looking no more than seventeen or eighteen. "This must be Miss Jiang, right? I'm Lin Ye, the governor of Yunhai County. I'd like to buy the formula for a potion to curb the locust plague from you. Please name your price."
It’s not that Jiang Lili is unwilling to sell it, but the prescription doesn’t exist at all. It would be impossible to make it under the conditions in ancient times.
"Master Lin, it's not that I don't want to sell this prescription, but only our family can make it. If someone else were to follow the steps in the prescription, they wouldn't be able to make it successfully."
Lin Ye also knew that what he had just said was a bit unreasonable. After all, such a powerful prescription would probably be worth a fortune. "Today, I would like to buy from you the amount of potion that can curb the locust plague in Tianshui Village. Please name your price!"
Jiang Lili roughly calculated that the locust-killing potion cost about a hundred yuan per liter. She estimated that 20 to 30 milliliters were needed per mu of land. Based on the land area of Tianshui Village, she roughly estimated that it would cost more than a thousand yuan. Converted to silver at the silver price, it would be about ten taels of silver. Adding in the labor cost, she said, "Twenty taels!"
Jiang Lili doubled her money without any guilt. After all, she was earning money from the government, so she might as well earn as much as she could!
This amount was within Lin Ye's acceptable range. He nodded and asked the clerk beside him to take out the writing brush and ink from his bag.
Lin Ye wrote a receipt to Jiang Lili and took out a tael of silver from his pocket: "This is the deposit. I'll have someone collect the rest of the money."
Jiang Lili put the silver into her purse. She looked at Lin Ye's attitude when he squatted down and talked to Master Liao. Details reveal a person's character. She was not afraid that the other party would default on the debt.
Although he was happy to receive the money, the most important thing now was to cure the disaster, so he just took the money and did the work: "I will go and prepare the medicine right now. Lord Lin, please listen to the instructions of this little brother of mine."
Seeing that the people and crops were saved, Lin Ye was very excited: "Of course! This little brother Liao is truly a prodigy among prodigies!"
Not long after Jiang Lili collected the money, Zhao Pinghou took off his gas mask and walked towards Lin Ye: "Captain Lin, it's really you! Why are you in Lingnan?"
Marquis Zhaoping had shown Lin Ye his talents and had also taught him military tactics and martial arts.
Lin Ye was a little nervous when he saw the masked man walking towards him. He didn't expect that the face under the mask was familiar to him: "My Lord!"
Jiang Lili, who had returned with her men to fetch medicine, saw Marquis Zhaoping and Lin Ye recognizing each other. It turned out that her father knew the county magistrate.
Jiang Lili suddenly paused. Lord Lin's arrival made quite a commotion. Could it be that her father had already recognized the county magistrate?
He only met the county magistrate after he had negotiated the price. Was he afraid that he would not be able to discuss the price with Lord Lin if they were acquaintances?
It turns out that Marquis Zhaoping also has such a sinister side! Jiang Lili silently gave him a thumbs up in her heart.
Lin Ye's face flushed red as he joyfully shook the hand of Marquis Zhaoping. "I heard from Village Chief Liu that the people helping out in the village were refugees from the capital. I was wondering if I'd run into you, but I didn't expect to actually run into you!"
Marquis Zhaoping patted Lin Ye's shoulder and said, "I've been at the border for the past five years, and I don't know much about what's happening in the capital. You're in Lingnan now, have you been demoted to be a county governor?"
Lin Ye smiled bitterly and nodded: "You also know that I have a straightforward personality and speak harshly. I angered the emperor, so I was exiled to Yunhai County to be the prefect. This happened in your first year at the border."
Lin Ye was initially exiled to Lingnan to serve as an official. He was filled with anger and felt frustrated.
Until one day he fainted from heatstroke on the road and was rescued by an embroiderer from Tianshui Village. The two secretly fell in love, and Lin Ye married the embroiderer.
The embroiderer had not received much education, but she taught him many truths, and also made the resentful Lin Ye calm down and become a good county magistrate and do practical things for the people.
The embroiderer was in poor health and caught a cold last year.
Lin Ye did not remarry. He devoted himself to improving the economy of Yunhai County, governing Tianshui Village and Yunhai County where Xiu Niang grew up, and protecting the hometown of his beloved.
"There's unrest in a nearby village because of a locust plague, and they're planning a rebellion."
Lin Ye lowered his voice and said to Marquis Zhaoping, "Someone is behind this, probably trying to use the locust plague and the victims to plot a plot, so that I, the county governor, will lose my job, or even die in the riot."
Marquis Zhaoping was shocked: "The situation is very serious now. Have you found out who is behind this?"
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