It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 255

Jiang Yan used to have no interest in insects. He was a blind student who couldn't tell the difference between crickets and grasshoppers.

After coming to Dongshan Village, although her memory improved and she gradually recognized the differences between the four, she always assumed that locusts were the fifth type of insect, regardless of ancient or modern times.

Jiang Yan mistakenly thought she knew and didn't ask any more questions. Others also thought Jiang Yan knew and didn't say anything more.

Thinking back now, grasshoppers began to appear in the fields when the drought first began. There weren't many of them at first, so Jiang Yan caught them and brought them home to feed the hens.

Then there were more and more grasshoppers, and she found that they would eat the stems and leaves of crops, but the drought was getting worse and worse, and she was busy storing water for irrigation, so she slowed down in catching insects.

Jiang Yan was upset. "I didn't know they were locusts. I thought no matter how much they ate, there would always be some left for me. But if I don't water the land to preserve water, there won't even be roots. I didn't expect them to be so numerous in just a few days that I couldn't catch them all..."

Jiang Lu sighed, "If there are too many of them and they gather together in piles, it will cause a locust outbreak and it will be difficult to stop them."

"I don't know about this either." Zhou Huan threw the grasshopper that jumped onto his body to the ground and stomped it to death.

There is no point in regretting now. There are so many wastelands. If there is no disaster here, there will be disaster there. It is better to harvest the land as soon as possible.

After finishing a row of harvest, Jiang Yan stood up and took a breath. She held the half-full wheat grains in her hands, worried that she wouldn't be able to harvest the wheat seeds she had planted this spring.

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In a flat valley more than ten miles deeper into Furong Village, a group of people placed several thick wooden boards and large stones firmly behind the wooden door of the cave entrance in an attempt to block out the smell.

Outside the cave, a tiger and a brown bear seemed to be fighting each other. Their roars and growls made everyone in the cave turn pale, their legs went weak, and they dared not breathe.

The adults even covered the children's mouths tightly to prevent them from crying out in fear and attracting the attention of wild animals.

The valley covers an area of ​​about 1,000 mu. They opened up more than 200 mu of land this year and planted wheat on it all this winter.

In order to cope with the drought, they worked together to dig several deep wells in the valley, and skilled craftsmen built water wheels to facilitate their daily use and water drawing for irrigation.

Because the temperature in the valley is low, the wheat matures late, and more than ten acres have not been harvested yet, not to mention the few acres of land planted by our family.

Today they were harvesting wheat in the fields as usual. When they were thirsty and sunburned, they went to the enclosed pond to get some water to cool off. Unexpectedly, they heard the sound of wild animals in the distance.

First, the kid Jiang Ning suddenly said in fear that he seemed to hear the roar of a tiger. Others joked that this notorious crybaby from Dongshan Village had backed down again.

The people of Furong Village would check or clear the area around here every once in a while, and there had never been any ferocious beasts such as tigers, brown bears, or wild wolves. Jiang Ning was simply scaring himself.

But the elders of Dongshan Village knew Jiang Ning's character very well. He was very likely to have heard something. Even if it was not a tiger, it could have been some other ferocious beast.

For safety reasons, Jiang Wang discussed with the manager and decided to let everyone take shelter first, just in case.

But the manager didn't hear it in the first place, and since everyone else said they didn't hear it, he naturally didn't take it seriously. He also advised Jiang Wang to comfort Jiang Ning and tell him not to be too nervous. The most urgent thing was to harvest the wheat in the field as soon as possible.

Jiang Wang had no choice but to use his eyes and mouth to ask Jiang Ning to gather the children in the village and bring them to the cave where the grain was stored.

Together with other villagers, they slowed down or sped up the harvesting speed and slowly approached the side of the cave.

Ever since the people of Dongshan Village encountered trouble one after another, these old guys have slowly summed up a life-saving experience: no matter who feels something is wrong, even if it sounds unreliable, they must take it seriously first.

After a while, not only the people of Dongshan Village, but everyone present heard the tiger's roar echoing through the valley, and the bear's roar as dull as thunder.

Jiang Wang held a sickle in one hand and pulled his wife with the other, and ran towards the cave.

The wooden house outside is useless. It might break if hit by a tiger's paw or a bear's paw, and your life might be in danger.