Chu Qing has been in a good mood these past few days.

Every day you can see chickens and ducks walking in the fields and soaking in water in an organized and disciplined manner by the river.

This morning when she was walking in the field, she came across some chickens. When she looked at her chickens, she discovered that the leader was a duck.

"It's okay, your chicken flock has changed its leader?" Chu Qing greeted her.

"Hello, sir, I've met you!" He saluted properly. Although the posture of the salute was not very standard, his attitude was serious.

Wuhan is not as bold as her brother, and is always very reserved when meeting Chu Qing.

"Sir, this is no longer the original chicken flock. Those chickens were sold, so my brother helped me replace it with a powerful duck to serve as the 'head chicken'." said Wuhan.

No matter what kind of animals are herded, it is best to have a leading animal. If not, one must be trained.

For example, there is a "head sheep" for herding sheep, and there is a "head horse" for herding horses. Usually the animals submit to them on their own. If not, it needs to be established manually.

Chu Qing: "The original top chicken was also sold?"

It turns out that the head chicken is a big rooster. As I said before, it seems to be called Red-crowned General. When it crows every morning, all the chickens in the village will crow along with it.

No disaster: "No, that one can't be sold, but among the chickens sold were his favorite flower hens, so the red-crowned general was very sad and stopped eating and drinking since yesterday."

Chu Qing "...This seems to be a sad story."

"Can ducks control chickens?" Chu Qing asked.

"Yes," said Wu Bing, "'Bigfoot' likes to meddle most. The ducks all listen to him, and the chickens also listen to him. Only General Red Crown doesn't listen. The two of them always fight, but the big rooster is still there.

Sad, my brother said to let the duck take care of it for a few days."

Oh, this duck is called "Bigfoot".

Chu Qing: "What about the ducks?"

No disaster: "My brother and I didn't come out at the same time, so one of us had to stay at home to help my mother with the work, so I went back after letting the chickens go, and Bigfoot came out with my brother's flock of ducks."

No overtime pay was given.

Chu Qing asked: "Why did you change the chicken flock? Where are those chickens?"

No disaster: "Sold. Yesterday, the village chief said that a big grain merchant came to the county and offered two hundred and five cents per bucket of rice. If you want to buy it, the whole village can go together. It will be one or two cents cheaper, so he took us there.

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My mother said that the harvest this year will definitely be poor, and the price of food may have to rise. We need to buy some food to store, so we drove the chickens to the county. The county magistrate was watching, and each restaurant sent people to buy chickens and ducks, so we

I sold my chickens to buy rice."

Two hundred and five articles, it seems that the county government takes a commission, but it doesn't matter, the sale is a matter of mutual consent. Besides, their price is limited no matter how high it is. If the price is much higher, the villagers will organize a group to go to the city to buy.

However, it seemed that the county magistrate was very good at doing things. Thinking that the people might have no money, he recruited shopkeepers from restaurants and other industries to let the people exchange money to buy food.

Chu Qing asked again: "Have you bought enough food for your family?"

No disaster shook his head: "My family bought two shi of rice and spent more than four taels of silver. My mother said that I would save some food and try to eat it until this time next year."

Chu Qing: "How can that be enough? You two brothers are both growing, and your mother also needs to take care of herself. She can't be hungry."

Wu Hai lowered his head and whispered: "My mother said that we are too young to farm, and she doesn't want us to farm. She said that we would hatch more eggs, sell chickens and ducks, and save money for my brother to study.

Save me a dowry, mother said, and life will always get better."

After a pause, the little girl added: "I just don't know if we can sell so many chickens and ducks in the future. Now every household has them."

Chu Qing felt a little sorry for the little girl, who was younger than Xiaobao but worked hard for a living all day long.

Chu Qing: "There is an alley east of the government office. There is a gate. There is no plaque outside the gate, but there is a black plaque on the door inside, which says 'Director's Office'. If you go there, you can exchange locusts for food. Two pounds of locusts."

I don’t know how much I can exchange for a pound of rice. If I exchange it for something else, do you want to go and see?”

Buhan suddenly raised his head with bright eyes: "Really? Can locusts be exchanged for food? Sir, is it true?"

Chu Qing nodded: "Yes, it started today. I guess not many people know about it. You can tell the people in the village to change it together."

No disaster: "Can I not tell them? What if everyone catches locusts and loses them?"

Chu Qing: "...catch or not...".

Locusts can lay eggs once in a month and reproduce once in less than forty or fifty days on average. This species is not extinct in the world of Chu Qing.

"You catch the locusts every day after breakfast and before going to bed at night. At this time, the locusts are resting. You can catch a lot each time. If you don't have land at home, then look for places with tender grass by the river. There are many there." Chu Qing

Tell her.

"Yes!" The little girl nodded happily and immediately asked for instructions: "Sir, do you have anything else? I think I will go back and tell my brother now!"

Although he still wanted to chat with her for a while, he still wanted not to waste the child's time, so Chu Qing nodded: "I'm fine, you can go back quickly."

Chickens and ducks can eat locusts, and birds in the sky also eat locusts. Then mobilize the people to catch locusts together, and try to prevent the locusts from surviving the egg-laying period...even if only half of them can survive.

Deputy Wang Qianhu is very active.

After Baijiaxing told him to undertake the "locusts for food" event, he sent people to catch locusts. Anyway, he had already seen how Chu Qing caught them.

Then he asked these people to dress up like farmers, swaggeringly carrying locusts in strings to exchange for food, and discussing loudly while carrying the food.

Soon the news spread, carrying locusts in and food out, "there is a picture and the truth."

Therefore, Chu Qing quickly received the first batch of locusts and sent them to the "food court" of the ferry.

Two kilograms of locusts are probably more than six hundred. In the world of Chu Qing, they would weigh about two and a half kilograms and cost about one hundred yuan. But here, more than six hundred locusts can only be exchanged for one kilogram of rice, which is equivalent to twenty yuan.

money.

A grilled locust skewer costs one penny in the food court. More than 600 locusts can make more than 60 grilled skewers for more than 60 pence. After deducting labor costs, fuel costs, and seasoning fees, you can still make a net profit of more than 20 pence.

Deputy Wang Qianhu put on a mustache again and walked with Chen Yasi in the "Food Street", smacking his lips while looking at it: "Oh, others waste time and effort to run a porridge shed, only to make a profit at a loss;

You see, not only did they help the people, the method was unique, they also made money, and they even gave me a free credit, and... they also let the people eat the 'Locust God'!"

Chen Yasi reminded: "Sir, you have said a little less, and I have exchanged good food for it."

Deputy Wang Qianhu paused: "Yes!" He stepped on the green brick floor again: "Then tell me, where does the money for building this road come from?"

Grandma! They are all officials, why should I be poor!

Chief Chen Xu thought for a while: "Going back to her Blue House branch? The road is paved to the entrance of her store. Will it attract a lot of diners?"

Deputy Wang Qianhu pondered: "How long will it take to get back the money?"

Chen Xu: "Yes, it's quite slow, so I can't guess it."


Chapter completed!