Chapter 110

If you protect yourself, locusts cannot bite you.

Therefore, even though locusts kept flying around in front of them, the three siblings were very comfortable. Song Wu and Song Cai went to the vegetable field, while Song Ruan went to the village entrance to wait for her parents and her eldest brother and sister-in-law.

A few brave ones, seeing Song Ruan and his siblings doing this, followed suit, wrapped themselves up and went out. It was obvious that they were also going to collect vegetables from the private plots.

With someone taking the lead, more and more people followed suit, put aside their fears, and followed him out.

In fact, people are just afraid of the sudden influx of large numbers of locusts.

But as long as you have adequate protection and go out, you will find that they cannot cause any harm to you, so you will naturally not be afraid.

Therefore, those who dared to take the first step went from being panicked at the beginning to slowly calming down.

At Uncle Song’s house, seeing that their neighbors were all rushing out to harvest vegetables from their private plots, they decided to go as well.

Uncle Song has been spoiled since he was a child, so naturally he would not go, and Liu Cuihua was reluctant to let him go.

So the three people who went were Liu Cuihua, Zhang Caihong and Aunt Song.

“I’m not going.” Zhang Caihong held onto the door frame and refused to go no matter what.

She was born with a fear of flying insects, and if there were a large number of them, she would get goose bumps all over her body just by seeing them.

Liu Cuihua tried to pry her hands away: “Hurry up, you are tall and strong, but you eat so much all day long and you are such a lazy bastard who doesn’t want to work.”

“I won’t go, not even if you kill me. I married into this family, and it’s your responsibility to support me. Why shouldn’t I eat?” Zhang Caihong hugged the door frame stubbornly.

Liu Cuihua couldn’t get rid of her, so she turned around and yelled at Aunt Song who was standing there, “Come over and help me pull her away.”

“You dare!” Zhang Caihong also yelled at Aunt Song.

Aunt Song didn’t say anything, but after thinking about it, she walked forward with a wooden face and pulled her hand that was holding onto the door frame.

Zhang Caihong was dragged all the way to the vegetable field, and it was no use for her to scream at the top of her lungs.

Because she had been uncooperative, Zhang Caihong didn’t wear any raincoat or anything like that. She only had a scarf around her neck, which Aunt Song had just taken off and given to her.

Zhang Caihong did not feel the slightest bit grateful for her mother-in-law’s action. Instead, she hated her for helping Liu Cuihua instead of herself.

When she saw locusts flying around in the sky, she hated it even more.

She squatted down in fear, and when she lowered her eyes, she saw locusts crawling densely on the leaves.

The dishes on top soon became full of holes from being eaten, looking disgusting and scary, which made Zhang Caihong even more scared.

“Hurry up and pick the vegetables. Are you standing there pretending to be dead?” Liu Cuihua urged Zhang Caihong immediately when she saw her standing there motionless.

Damn old woman. Zhang Caihong cursed inwardly.

He didn’t take her urging seriously at all, and was ready to take advantage of any opportunity to run away when Liu Cuihua wasn’t paying attention.

Anyone who wants to do this kind of human suffering can do it, but she won’t do it.

“You lazy, damn bitch!”

Zhang Caihong ran away, and Liu Cuihua chased after her with her neck stretched out and an angry look on her face, refusing to give up.

She runs away, she chases.

The farce performed by these two people provided a little entertainment for the surrounding villagers who were rushing to harvest vegetables in the fields, and eased their tense mood.

Zhang Caihong was running wildly. Just as she passed a group of people, she saw a figure slowly falling to the ground from the side and behind.

“It’s none of my business. I didn’t touch her at all.”

Zhang Caihong felt that she was being scammed, so she quickly stood still and turned around to prove her innocence.

But he found that the person who fell was Wu Xing.

Song Wen took his wife and parents to the town today. When he came back, he saw from afar that the village seemed to be shrouded in a layer of gauze.

When we got closer, we found that it was locusts that covered the village.

Many of them even flew over the weeds on both sides of the road.

“It’s really a locust plague! A locust plague is coming!”

Father Song looked at the scene in the village in the distance, feeling as if it had finally arrived, yet feeling incredulous.

Song Wen looked at the scene in front of him in silence for a while, then handed the bicycle carrying two large bags of grain to his father.

“Dad, we have to try not to let anyone see our two large bags of grain, for fear of causing trouble. You should ride your bike first and quickly carry the grain back and put it away. I will protect Mom and Wu Xing and walk back.”

Father Song frowned and thought for a while, then nodded: “Okay, then I’ll get the food back first and then come pick you up.”

Father Song sat on the bicycle and turned his head again.

“Boss, keep an eye on your mother. Although she doesn’t let you see it on weekdays, she is actually very afraid of snakes, insects, rats and ants.”

Song’s mother glared at him: “Why are you saying this in front of the child? Who is afraid?”

Father Song didn’t say anything, just looked at her for a while, then resolutely got on the bike and rode away.

Seeing his father’s solemn expression as he was about to part with his loved ones, Song Wen couldn’t help but laugh, which attracted his mother’s sidelong glance.

Song Wen coughed, squatted down among the dry long grass by the roadside, plucked up a few handfuls of dry grass, tied them up simply, and made something that looked like a feather duster.

“Take this and follow me. If there are locusts near you, hit them with this.”

He gave one to Wu Xing and his mother, and he also held one and led the way.