"It's really that delicious?"

“It doesn’t look like it’s pretending.”

“…”

Seeing Xu Anxin crazily catching locusts, everyone onlookers were talking. They felt that the scene just now was probably true. In order to be able to eat the locust feast again, Xu Anxin is now crazily catching locusts.

At this time, other prisoners came forward and asked to taste the locust feast.

However, Ma Mingfeng just gave them more than a dozen stings in a stingy manner.

Even so, the prisoners who ate the locust feast were all shocked. After obtaining Ma Mingfeng's guarantee, they immediately joined the ranks of catching locusts in a crazy way...

Then more prisoners joined, and another crazy capture was captured.

Then the people around Ma Mingfeng, Yu Zhenlong, Liu Zhaolin and others were surprised to see the actions of the prisoners. They picked up a locust and tasted it. They opened their eyes wide and threw the locusts they caught into the pot, either boiled, fried, or burned directly on the fire, and even scrambled...

After that, the yamen runners in Kaifeng Prefecture also joined in. They tasted the locust feast with some disbelief, and then fell into madness. Although many clerks in three classes and six rooms had a good meal, many yamen runners had a hard life, especially in the famine era, when they hadn't smelled meat for several months. Now they suddenly ate the good-tasting meat and were already crazy.

Driven by these people, the onlookers were also affected and joined the ranks of catching locusts. They were originally just watching the fun, and they had almost no tools, but just caught them with bare hands, but they did not give up. After catching three or five, they couldn't help but throw the caught locusts into the fire. Then, after smelling the fragrance, they took out the locusts with wooden sticks regardless of the high temperature and couldn't wait to eat them.

For ordinary people, this is simply a top-notch delicacy. Because of the two plagues of drought and locusts, many people have no food at home, and even the bark has been eaten up. Many people go to catch maggots to survive. Relatively speaking, the taste of locusts is simply a great gift. For those ordinary people who have long been hungry, it is simply a timely help.

In this case, almost all people joined the ranks of catching locusts. Some people are for freedom, some are for responsibility, and some are for fun, but more people are for life, have food, and they are delicious, and there are locusts everywhere. As long as you are willing to spend some effort, you will still have no problem earning enough food for a day.

"It's a pity that we don't have the tools to catch locusts, otherwise we can take these locusts home for food, so that the family and the young will not have to worry about eating... Why don't I go home quickly, call all my family, and then use the tools to catch locusts together? Well, catch them first, and wait until the locusts in my field are caught, and then catch the locusts next to the land. After all, only by catching locusts can the survival of the crops."

So these enlightened people ran home one after another, mobilizing the whole family to go to the fields to catch locusts, and then ate while catching them...

In the next few days, Ma Mingfeng did not need to launch a demonstration. The people of Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, all consciously caught locusts. At this time, they no longer ate the locusts crazily, but chose to collect the locusts together and marinate them with salt to leave them for later consumption. Because there were not many locusts in the fields, after a few days, most of the locusts in their fields were caught. It is estimated that in a few days, the locusts in the fields would be completely caught. They originally considered going to the adjacent fields to catch locusts a few days, but now they found that the neighbors were also crazily catching locusts. When they caught all the locusts in their fields, they probably wouldn't have any adjacent fields.

These people regretted it. If they had known this, they would have been better to go to the adjacent fields to catch locusts first. As a result, the neighbors now look at the locusts in their fields as if they were looking at crops, and they were strictly guarding them and did not allow others to enter their fields to catch locusts.

In less than half a month, the locusts in Xiangfu County were captured and the locust plague in Xiangfu County was declared to subside.

Then a strange phenomenon occurred. Many young and strong people in Xiangfu County began to leave their hometowns and go to Chenliu, Lanyang, Zhongmu and other counties nearby where locust plagues were caused. When they got there, they only did one thing, that was to help catch locusts.

The locals were very surprised. Why did the people in Xiangfu County take the initiative to help eliminate locusts? After a few days, I finally understood, so the storm of the locusts was set off in these counties, and the people in Xiangfu County began to be rejected.

So the people from Xiangfu County began to move to Qi County, Tongxu, Zhengzhou and other places further away, and the work they did was to help fight locusts...

Nearly two months passed, Xiangfu people's footsteps almost covered the four prefectures and thirty counties in Kaifeng Prefecture. It was not until the weather turned cold after the autumn harvest that they gradually returned to their hometown.

Because of the leadership of Xiangfu people and the influence of the prefect, especially under the spirit of Xiangfu people who dared not to fall behind, the people of the four prefectures and thirty counties under Kaifeng Prefecture spontaneously launched a campaign to eliminate locusts. It was really men, women, young and old, and they worked together day and night, tirelessly. In the end, the locust plague was extinguished. The local people still regretted why the locusts in their fields were so uncatched and extinct so quickly?

The locust-killing operation in Kaifeng Prefecture also affected other places. Almost all the people in the eight prefectures in Henan participated in the locust-killing operation. This allowed the people in Henan to obtain "food rations" from at least three to five days, at most one or two months or even longer, and also to obtain a certain degree of protection for their crops. Some farmers who had eaten up the crops by locusts in time according to the government's recommendations, planted some sweet potatoes, radishes, cabbage and other foods in time, and harvested some food before the frost. Although these foods are not too much, they can also ensure that they can have food to eat this winter. This is already a very good result in several provinces suffering from disaster.

As for the initiator of the locust-killing operation, the people of the other seven prefectures were not clear which one was, but the four prefectures and thirty counties that Kaifeng Prefecture finally knew it. It was the result of their new prefect's vigorous promotion that they were still crazy about eating locusts at the beginning, but in the end they understood that it was precisely because of this crazy locust hunting that saved their crops and prevented them from starving in winter.
Chapter completed!