The next morning, Gao Huan arrived at the entrance of the village early. Zhao Xian, Yang Yan and other teenagers, as well as adults at home, were already waiting under the archway.

Although they did not have any expectations for defeating the locusts, even if they were driven out of the village, they could only listen to Gao Huan's words and give it a try.

A few teenagers, including their family, were about forty people standing quietly.

Gao Huan stood in front of them and waited for a long time. No villager came over, which immediately made everyone's hearts cold.

"Young Master! I heard from someone that Mr. Wang said, "Who dares to help us eliminate locusts, this year, don't think about borrowing a grain of food from the master. This year is a disaster year. If you can't borrow food, you will starve to death. No one will come." A thin old man with wrinkles in the crowd whispered.

A trace of murderous intent flashed in Gao Huan's eyes, but he did not say anything. Wang Jiaping's actions would make these more than 40 people stand on his side, and this was exactly what Gao Huan was looking forward to.

Over the years, many things in Gao Laozhuang have been managed by Wang, so even if someone sympathizes with Gao Huan, he will not be close to Gao Huan. He is afraid of offending Wang, which makes Gao Huan very isolated in the village and can only play with the children.

Most of the villagers and tribesmen understand the thoughts of the Wang family. There are still people in the village that the death of Gao Huan's mother and the fall from Gao Huan in the water were caused by the Wang family, but there is no evidence.

Many people in the village saw Gao Huan standing at the entrance of the village and felt somewhat sympathetic to Gao Huan. However, if they offended Wang in the village, they would be dead, so the villagers just took a look and went into their houses.

Gao Huan stood for a long time, but still no one came. In the end, only Li Wu led the family out.

"Young Master, I'm useless. The villagers are already afraid of locusts. Wang Jiaping sent another message and refused to help the young master." Li Wu said angrily: "The families I told last night have changed their minds this morning, and no one will come."

Gao Huan supported Li Wu, "It's enough to have uncle come over. Others, they will come."

Although there are less than fifty people, half of them are still old and weak, Gao Huan is still confident and still so arrogant.

In the past, everyone thought that the eldest young master's inexplicable confidence was a bit stupid, but now it has become their hope.

The villagers sometimes don’t understand why this young master always looks down on anyone and thinks that no one in the entire village can compare to his confusing self-confidence.

At this time, Gao Huan made arrangements for fifty people, and he divided the crowd into two teams. He personally led forty people to catch locusts, and arranged ten strong men to cut some firewood for later use.

After everything was ready, Gao Huan and his group came to a large wheat field on the northwest of the village, beside the Yingshui River.

This is where Gao Huan takes the lead in catching locusts, and it is also the land rented by Yang Yan and other tenants. It is in the limelight and is also far away from the river beach.

Since the Tianqi period, there have been continuous famines in Henan. Every time there is a famine, people need to borrow food and money from large households to survive the disaster.

After repeated famines, and the taxes collected by the imperial court became heavier and heavier, the large households passed the taxes to self-cultivated farmers, which made the self-cultivated farmers in the village go bankrupt.

More than ten years have passed, 80% of the land near Gaolaozhuang has been annexed by the Gao family, and most of the villagers have become tenants. On the plain, it is said that not only the self-cultivated farmers have gone bankrupt, but even the gentry and wealthy families have gradually lost their land and have been annexed by vassal kings in various places, and the land has become vassal property.

The land in Gaolaozhuang was good and bad. The fertile fields that were close to water sources and were easy to irrigate were naturally distributed to people close to her to cultivate, and the ones that were almost there were other tenants.

Gao Huan naturally would not take people to protect the Wang family's gang's fields. In fact, his manpower could not protect so much land.

Fifty people stood on the ridge of the field. The wheat seedlings in their fields were not good because they were far away from the water source, but now they looked better than the surrounding fields.

"What's going on?" Yang Shulin said in surprise.

"This is because I brought someone to catch locusts yesterday. There are fewer locusts in the fields than others. Other people's crops are eaten more and less, so they look good!" Gao Huan explained, his face was still cool, his voice was not emotional, and his expression was cold and arrogant.

Yang Shulin and others hurriedly squatted down and checked carefully. They found that there were indeed not many locusts in their fields. Then they ran to see other fields in the distance and found that there were many locusts attached to the wheat seedlings. The one-foot-high wheat seedlings had been eaten by the locusts three inches shorter.

Yang Shulin said happily: "It's true!"

"According to Wang Jiaping's words, we offended the Locust God, and the Locust God should aspire to us." Gao Huan pointed coldly at the wheat field and raised his voice, "Then why are there fewer locusts in our fields than others?"

Gao Huan didn't talk about me, but talked about us, and without realizing it, he tied everyone together to form a community of interests.

The group of people were slightly stunned, "Yes! Why did they offend the Locust God? Instead, the crops were eaten less?"

Gao Huan looked at everyone and said aloud: "This locust is either consuming soft and afraid of hard, or fearing me. This shows that Wang Jiaping is talking nonsense, and locusts are not impossible to catch!"

The villagers thought of Gao Huan's terrifying appearance of eating locusts, and thought that the locust might be the same as a human being, afraid of being stunned and afraid of being desperate. The eldest young master is the devil king in the world, so the locust is also afraid of him.

People were talking a lot, and after hearing Gao Huan's words, they seemed to be less afraid of locusts.

"Young Master is right!" Li Wu took the opportunity to say, "Young Master, just tell us what we do, we will listen to you!"

With Li Wu taking the lead, Yang Shulin and other adults also agreed, "We all listen to the young master."

A group of children had already picked up their net bags and were eager to try it out. They hadn't eaten well yesterday, and today they were all looking forward to eating the chicken-flavored grasshoppers.

At this time, the sky in the west became dark, and a buzzing sound came, and the locust's forward came.

Gao Huan immediately waved his hand and said, "Yang Yan, Zhao Xian, you go and take the limelight and use the net bag to catch it. Uncle Li, take people to prepare firewood and pile it around the fields."

The number of people is already small, and each family only cares about their own land. It is definitely not possible. It must be intercepted uniformly in the limelight.

With a command, the teenagers happily picked up the net bags, and the field was in the limelight. After a while, locusts flew over, and the teenagers' eyes shone and used the net bags to prevent the locusts from falling into the wheat field.

For the teenagers, this is not a bug, but a fragrant chicken.

When the adults saw that their children were full of energy, they hesitated for a moment. Thinking of their own wheat fields, they also waved their net bags and set up fishing nets to join in.

At this time, there were not many locusts, and the crowd was divided into three waves to intercept them. After working hard all morning, many locusts were caught, but many of them still slipped through the net and fell on the wheat seedlings.

Looking at the green wheat seedling leaves and were bitten off by locusts, Yang Shulin was anxious, "What should I do if my master?"

The people were heartbroken when their crops were ruined by locusts. Everyone wanted to go to the field to catch locusts, but once they put the net bag, more locusts would fall into the field.

Gao Huan narrowed his eyes, but there were still too few people. He asked people to go to the field to catch it. The efficiency was too low, and the speed of catching it could not keep up with the speed of locusts falling. In the end, the wheat seedlings would definitely be eaten clean.

"I have it!" Gao Huan suddenly shouted: "You each sent one person to go home and drove all the chickens and ducks at home to their own fields, so that the chickens and ducks can eat locusts!"
Chapter completed!