It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 259

Jiang Yan stayed in the house for three full days until the noise faded away.

After killing several locusts that had sneaked into the house through some unknown crack in the door, Jiang Yan quietly opened the door and looked out. The already sparse dry grass in the yard had completely disappeared. The door frame that his palm was holding had become slightly rough, and his fingertips were stained with a little dust when he touched it.

Looking at the locusts flying in the sky, which were obviously much sparser, and the locust corpses scattered on the ground, which were not numerous, Jiang Yan thought for a moment, took out a bamboo basket and bamboo clips from the house and started to clean up.

Walking to the side of the house, all I could see were the bare tree branches and barren mountains nearby, and a little further away was the black fog swirling up and down. Further away, it was still the same as before, not yet completely eaten by locusts.

Jiang Yan was very worried. If they were to reproduce while eating, and there was a high probability that there would be swarms of locusts in other places, coming from all directions... She didn't know how many months the Qin Mountains hundreds of miles ahead of her could feed them.

Jiang Yan picked up half a basket of locust corpses in the yard, crushed them on the ground, and then she brought a large jar of wood ash from the kitchen and poured it in and mixed it evenly.

Wood ash is a powerful tool for sterilization, disinfection, decontamination, deodorization and composting in ancient times, and the demand for it in Jiangyan is extremely high. This time, it is time for it to show its effectiveness again.

Although he didn't know what kind of poison the locust corpses carried, and whether wood ash could destroy the toxin and render it harmless, Jiang Yan knew that there were iron wire worms in the bodies of mantises, and similar locusts would most likely have parasites.

And most importantly, what if there are active insect eggs hidden in the abdomen?

This was Jiang Yan's subconscious reaction after she used her straw sandals to kill locusts in the house two days ago. This posture was too familiar, and she could not forget the persecution from cockroaches. After all, these ghost things still popped up from time to time to cause trouble for her.

After the locust swarm left, dense black spots appeared on the surface of the land that could not be ignored.

Jiang Yan squatted down and took a closer look. These black or dark brown spherical particles, about four or five millimeters in size, were basically locust excrement.

With the mentality that whether it is useful or not, it should be used, and the little poison in the shit doesn't matter, she took the broom and swept the whole yard, gathering them together.

After sweeping a few times, Jiang Yan suddenly realized that since everything would eventually be mixed together, why had she gone to the trouble of picking up the locust corpses?!

Jiang Yan couldn't give an answer.

After cleaning the yard and even removing the layer of yellow soil, Jiang Yan saw that it was still early, so he set his sights on recycling the garbage outside the yard.

The fine bamboo branches on the broom made a rustling sound on the ground. After sweeping a distance, Zhou Huan obeyed his mother's orders and walked out of the house.

"Sister Jiang Yan, what are you doing?"

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Elsewhere in Qinshan, a super-large swarm of locusts had just arrived at Furong Village.

This group of locusts suddenly flew out from the remote depths of the Qinshan Mountains a few days ago. They grew stronger after continuously merging with locust swarms in the disaster-stricken counties along the way, leaving a barren yellow land wherever they passed.

Whether it was the villagers hiding in the houses and cursing the thief Laotian, the frowning steward, or Fu Weishen who was surrounded and protected by Baoqin Tingying, they all knew that the stability that Heding Prefecture had struggled to maintain was completely shattered.

After most of the locusts flew away, Fu Weixin came to Uncle Fu Wu's study wearing a veil that covered his entire body.

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

"Come in." Fu Jian put down the wolf hair brush in his hand and looked at the somewhat restrained girl.

"Fifth uncle, how are you?" Fu Weixin said, pausing for a moment before asking, "Is the marriage proposal mentioned in Fifth Uncle's letter after the New Year still valid?"