After a burst of fire, the smoke filled the air, and the sound of clanking was heard. The blacksmith began to make the biogas pipe according to Shen Lie's instructions.
A simple stove made of fine iron was quickly made.
Shen Lie took the stove handed over by the blacksmith and looked at the nozzle. Although the structure was a bit rough, it looked very well polished.
There's nothing wrong with using it to make a fire.
This made Shen Lie slightly stunned. He looked at the strong blacksmiths and was very surprised by the Ming Dynasty's iron-making technology in this era.
Are the blacksmiths of the Ming Dynasty so powerful?
"Ahem."
At this time, Tian Hong and Victor came over with people, covering their mouths with silk cloth while looking at the craftsmen who were busy.
Tian Hong was still confused.
Victor understood a little bit. He picked up a simple spray gun and looked at it. He asked very worriedly: "Is this thing safe...will it catch fire?"
As he spoke, he began to gesture. The combustible gas in the pool spurted out from the pipe, and then you lit the spray gun. Wouldn't that detonate the biogas pool?
Shen Lie smiled slightly: "Of course not."
This reason is very simple and clear, because the air flow in the pool is sprayed from the inside to the outside. The pressure inside is high and the pressure outside is low, so it will not cause backfire.
And there is no oxygen in the pipeline, so it will not cause an explosion.
Victor didn't seem to understand, but Tian Hong and the other Jin Yiwei still touched their heads in confusion. It's okay if they don't understand anyway.
I was busy until late at night.
As the craftsmen fell asleep one after another, Shenjiazhuang returned to calm again.
Sunrise and sunset.
Three more days later.
As morning comes, it is another sunny day.
Shen Lie gently opened the door. The craftsmen had finished their work, collected their rewards and left.
Looking at the somewhat messy Zhuangzi in the field of vision, the pig pen, chicken coop, and biogas pool have been built. It will take a few days until the three-piece soil solidifies.
His farm renovation plan is complete.
In comfort.
Shen Lieshu worked hard and paced slowly in the fields facing the rising sun, but he missed her, Yun'er, and...
about there.
After staying in Zhuangzi for so many days, Shen Lie couldn't hide his lovesickness. He was about to go back to Beijing, but when he turned around, Yingting's figure froze.
His eyes fell on a huge locust crawling in a vegetable field.
This locust...
so big!
Shen Lie didn't take it to heart at first, but wherever he looked, he saw several locusts stacking up on top of each other in broad daylight, doing indescribable things.
Shen Lie's expression froze, and he looked around again, and sure enough he saw more locusts, densely covering his vegetable and potato fields...
These locusts seemed to appear overnight.
At this moment, Shen Lie's heart skipped a beat, as if he noticed something, and he suddenly raised his head and looked at the northwest sky.
Under the rising sun, a group of dark clouds appeared in the northwest sky. Shen Lie's body froze and he stared at it with condensed eyes.
The dark cloud seemed to be moving, and moving very fast.
"Oops!"
Seeing the dark clouds sweeping towards Shenjiazhuang from far to near in just a quarter of an hour, Shen Lie's expression changed drastically.
That's not a dark cloud.
"It's a plague of locusts!"
Shen Lie, whose expression changed greatly, did not dare to delay any longer, and quickly ran to the bunker at the entrance of Zhuangzi, picked up the gavel and sounded the alarm.
As the alarm bell rang, Victor was the first to rush out, followed by Tian Hong and the villagers who were still a little confused.
But soon they noticed something unusual. They looked towards the northwest sky with pairs of eyes. Everyone was stunned.
Shen Lie threw down the gavel and ran back in a hurry, shouting anxiously: "What are you still waiting for... Copycat!"
In panic, everyone picked up brooms, brooms, sacks, shovels, and various tools to prepare themselves, and stood in the village looking at the northwest sky.
Just half an hour later, the dark clouds flew over Shenjiazhuang.
The terrible chirping of locusts reached my ears.
look up.
Shen Lie felt his scalp numb, as the locust swarm crossed the Yanshan Mountains, and then fell all over the mountains and plains, and began to eat all green plants.
The color in Shen Lie's face instantly faded.
"Quick, quick!"
As Shen Lie picked up the broom and pounced on the locusts falling around him, scoldings spread everywhere, and a locust-killing battle began in Zhuangzi.
But more locusts fell, not even afraid of people at all, and landed on everyone. Shen Lie was shocked and quickly closed his eyes.
Give up unnecessary resistance.
roared.
"Walk!"
Everyone retreated one after another, waving brooms and brooms as they hurriedly retreated to a safe house, closing the doors and windows tightly.
Standing in the room, looking at the locusts that kept falling on the window lattice, everyone lost the ability to speak for an instant and could only stand quietly.
This moment seems like the end is coming.
same time.
Xiyuan.
There was no one in the sparkling pavilion in the middle of the lake. The maids and eunuchs all stood far away, with their heads lowered, not daring to look directly at the Long Live Lord in the pavilion.
Zhu Yijun changed his usual attitude and stood in the pavilion with his hands behind his hands. In front of him knelt an army general wearing a mandarin duck battle coat.
It was too far away to hear clearly, but judging from the respectful attitude of several generals, they should be showing their loyalty to the emperor. This scene is so mysterious.
But at this moment, a burst of noise came from outside the pavilion, breaking the tranquility of the royal garden, and the noise became louder and louder.
Zhu Yijun was furious, turned around suddenly, and shouted angrily: "What's the fuss about..."
But before he finished speaking, his pupils shrank suddenly, and following the panicked eyes of the palace maids and eunuchs, he looked at the large dark cloud flying from the northwest.
In panic.
Under the dense swarm of locusts, they began to eat the precious flowers, trees, grass and various plants in Xiyuan.
The entire Xiyuan, the Forbidden City...
No!
The entire capital was in panic, boiling like boiling water.
There were low shouts all around: "Escort!"
"ah!"
Amidst the scoldings of the imperial guards and the generals of the capital camp, the palace maidens who fell in dense numbers let out ear-piercing screams and fled in panic.
At this moment, Zhu Yijun's face was ashen, and he hurried away under the protection of the guards, but he only moved his legs mechanically, like a wooden man who was being manipulated.
The blood on that green face had long since faded.
Pale as paper.
Afternoon.
Shenjiazhuang.
After experiencing the baptism of the locust cloud, Shen Lie, who was also ashen-faced, pushed open the door, raised his foot, and trampled several huge locusts to death.
But this didn't solve the problem. The dense locusts landed everywhere and refused to leave. They were eating all the green plants visible to the naked eye.
After experiencing the terrible locust plague for the first time in his life, Shen Lie had already accepted the reality of no harvest, but his expression changed slightly.
He knew that in this era, the locust plague...
It’s definitely not as simple as a natural disaster!
In this superstitious era, such a natural disaster means that the emperor has no virtue, so God sends such a terrible punishment.