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Chapter 168 Persuade the villagers to deal with the locusts together
Seeing her looking around on the shelves, Xiao Qi couldn't help but ask her, "Host, what are you busy looking for?"
"Find a panacea."
"A panacea? What do you want that thing for?"
"You don't know how terrifying the locusts are outside, and many villagers have been bitten. I remember that I accidentally saw this ointment last time. If you put it on your body, it will keep those insects away from you. of."
Shangguan smiled and explained seriously while continuing to look at the shelves.
Suddenly, she patted her head.
"Oh, I was really scared by the locusts today. Isn't it possible to use the search function."
With that said, Shangguan Xiaoxiao immediately began to search for "universal ointment". After a few seconds, a small round bottle appeared on the shelf, which was the thing she wanted.
"Yes, that's it, just this price"
Shangguan Xiaoxiao had to sigh once again that the system was a robber, just a bottle of ointment, and it actually cost 70 taels of silver?
"Forget it, let's get down to the blood."
In order to help these poor villagers, Shangguan smiled and glanced at his balance column, and finally he gritted his teeth and bought five bottles.
"Host, how do you decide to deal with these terrifying locusts?"
"I haven't thought about it yet. I can only use ointment to prevent the villagers from being bitten, and then find a way to completely eliminate this batch of locusts."
"Xiao Qi has an idea."
"What do you think?" Shangguan smiled and held the ointment in his arms, looking at Xiao Qi expectantly.
"Aren't insects afraid of fire? Wouldn't it be better to burn them with fire?"
"Burn with fire?"
Shangguan smiled and frowned.
Locusts fly in the air in a large area, how to burn them with fire?
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"Wow, I understand, Xiao Qi, you are still smart!"
Shangguan smiled and gave Xiao Qi a thumbs up, "Thank you for your good idea."
Saying that, she immediately exited the farming space and returned to the room.
Feng Lingzun was thinking hard at this time, but he never came up with a feasible solution.
"Young Master Mo, I have a good thing for you to see."
Shangguan smiled, holding the ointment in his hand, and stepped into the house excitedly.
"What good stuff?"
Feng Lingzun stood up from his position and smiled at Shangguan who hurried in.
"This is the ointment I got from an expert to prevent locust bites."
"Where is the master? Can you let me meet?"
"Do you want to see him? Next time, he has something to do."
A trace of disappointment flashed across Feng Lingzun's face.
This master always appears so elusive.
He really wanted to see him if he had the chance.
"Also, Young Master Mo, I have already thought of a good way to deal with the locusts."
"Really?"
"That's it, what we have to do now is to gather the locust swarms together and burn them all with fire."
"How to burn?"
Feng Lingzun also had doubts, the locusts were scattered in the air, and it was already very difficult to gather them together, let alone using fire?
"I don't think this method is feasible. Could it be that you are going to set fire to the air?"
"Of course not. We can concentrate the locusts in a pit, then set it on fire, and burn them to death while the locusts don't respond. We don't need to burn them all, as long as most of them are damaged, we can slowly trim them later. already."
After listening to Shangguan Xiaoxiao's opinion, Feng Lingzun was silent.
After he thought for a while.
"This method seems to be feasible, but how to lead it to a centralized place and how to set off fire?"
"Using food, don't locusts like to eat food the most? Just place a large amount of food in an open place, dig a big pit under the food, and when the locusts gather together, let the villagers use the method of beating to introduce the locusts into the pit. I don't believe that most of the locusts will be burned, how about it?"
"It works, I think we can give it a try."
Seeing that Feng Lingzun also agreed with this idea, Shangguan smiled and secretly rejoiced.
"I'll give you this bottle of ointment. I'll take the rest to the village chief, and let the village chief give some to the villagers. The villagers will need help at that time."
"okay."
"Then I'll go first."
Feng Lingzun looked at the back of Shangguan who left with a smile, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.
This girl is really smart, she was able to come up with a good solution in such a short period of time, and she can also get the ointment to prevent locust bites from the master.
It's a pity that she always wanted to leave the palace and leave herself.
After Shangguan smiled and brought the ointment to the village chief, he returned to the room again.
At this time, Liu Cheng had already returned, and was carefully studying the distribution of the locust swarm with Feng Lingzun.
"Smile, I think your method is really good, you are really smart."
Liu Cheng couldn't help but praise Shangguan with a smile.
Shangguan smiled and was embarrassed to be praised, and waved his hands again and again, "It's trivial, I'm also being instructed, so I have such thoughts."
"Don't waste time, hurry up and study what to do next."
Feng Lingzun interrupted the conversation between the two in a timely manner, and overbearingly pulled Shangguan Xiaoxiao to his side.
Shangguan smiled and twitched the corners of his mouth.
[The cheapskate emperor is here again, he loves to be jealous! 】
"Okay, let's study it now."
The three discussed for a long time, and finally determined the location of the food and the timing of the ignition.
Afterwards, Feng Lingzun came to the village chief's room again and told the village chief about the plan.
The village chief expressed his willingness to support them.
But whether the villagers are willing or not is really hard to say.
Although they hate locusts, they are unwilling to resist head-on now because they can't resist the attack of locusts.
"Grandpa, the village chief, didn't I give you the ointment? You let the villagers apply it on their faces, and the locusts won't bite them, so that I can defeat the locusts with me."
"Yes, I know. When I distributed the ointment just now, I already told the big guys, but they don't seem to be very willing to come and help."
"Then go to persuade them, do they want to watch the village be in a mess by the locust attack?"
Feng Lingzun said, turned around and was about to leave, "I'll go tell them."
"Wait for me."
Shangguan smiled and quickly followed.
Feng Lingzun came directly to the middle of the village and shouted to the villagers who closed the door, "Everyone, I know that everyone is used to the life here and loves this village. But you also know that the locust swarms are constantly attacking. Village, if you run away like this, it will only make the locusts more rampant, and you will definitely lose this place. If this is the end, are you still willing to hide like this?"
The village was silent, and I didn't know if anyone was listening.
Feng Lingzun refused to give up and continued, "Since you are so cowardly, why don't you just leave the village and stay here? But if you are willing to work together for the village, please cooperate with us."
(End of this chapter)