Chapter 27 Insect plague
In the first month of summer, the weather gradually became hotter and more birds and insects were chirping in the mountains and forests.
One day, Chenbei was woken up during a nap.
"Chief, leader, go and have a look. There are more and more bugs in the vegetable field, and the vegetables are almost eaten up."
Yan ran anxiously to Chenbei's wooden house. This honest man had no choice but to come to Chenbei.
"insect?"
Chen Bei opened his eyes, his mind was not very clear. He walked to the stone jar full of water, scooped a scoop of cold water with a wooden scoop, washed his face, and woke up.
"Yes, the weather is getting hotter and there are more and more bugs in the vegetable field. At the beginning, the children of the breeding team were very happy. They went to the vegetable field to catch insects every day to feed the colorful pheasants. But now, there are so many bugs that they can't catch them, and they are almost eating up all the vegetables."
During this period, Yan was so anxious that he was tortured by insects. He would dream that the insects were eating vegetables.
"Take me to see."
"good!"
Chen Bei followed Yan hurriedly into the vegetable field. He met those tribe members who were greeting him along the way, but he didn't respond much.
These vegetables are the tribe's food this winter. If the insects eat them all up, the previous efforts will be in vain.
In the vegetable field, the people from the planting team were catching the insects with all their strength. Each person had a skin bag, grabbed the insects on the vegetable leaves with bare hands, and then threw them into the skin bag.
Chen Bei walked over and saw that the good vegetable leaves were gnawed so badly that they were missing one piece in the east and one piece in the west, which was very ugly.
These wild vegetables are similar to cabbage and green vegetables, and they all eat leaves. The leaves are gnawed, leaving only the bare leaves and veins, which look very miserable.
"I'm careless. Although I turned the ground over last winter and many of the bugs underground were frozen to death, there were mountains and forests near the tribe, and there were countless bugs."
"After they discovered this vegetable field, it was like a mouse falling into a rice jar and eating whatever he wanted."
Chen Bei patted his head and did not prepare any measures to prevent insects in advance. This was his fault.
"Chief, what should I do now?"
Yan looked at Chen Bei with a gaze, and then looked at Chen Bei to make an idea.
In the eyes of the people of the Mang tribe, Chenbei has always had many ways and can come up with all kinds of strange ideas.
So, Yan put all his hopes on Chen Bei.
Chen Bei looked at Yan, but he wanted to say something but stopped. In fact, he really wanted to say, don’t look at me like this, I’m not omnipotent.
But this sentence cannot be said no matter what.
Chen Bei took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and thought quickly about how to deal with these hateful insects.
It would be great if there were pesticides, which were the nemesis of insects.
Unfortunately, Chen Bei could only think about it. He didn't know how to develop pesticides.
Suddenly, Chen Bei thought of what Yan said just now.
"You just said that the children in the planting team caught insects and fed the colorful pheasants?"
Yan nodded and said, "Yes, they come to catch it every day, otherwise there would be more bugs."
Chen Bei thought for a while and said, "You go find Lao Lu and ask him to bring all the colorful pheasants to the vegetable field."
"Yes, leader."
Yan didn't even ask why, and went to find the leader of the planting team, Lao Lu.
Soon, Lao Lu brought the sixteen colorful pheasants with the children of the planting team.
Lao Lu walked to Chenbei and said respectfully: "Chief, you have brought all the colorful pheasants you want."
Lao Lu looks older, but she is in good spirits.
Since he became the captain of the breeding team, he has another goal in his life, and his spirit has become different from before.
These colorful pheasants were originally very thin, but now they are all fattened. If they continue to raise them, it will probably be difficult to fly.
Chen Bei pointed to the vegetable dial and said, "The colorful pheasant is put directly in and eat the insects, you can follow the chicken and watch."
"Yes, leader."
There was still a rope tied to the legs of the sixteen colorful pheasants. Each of them led a rope and followed the colorful pheasants into the vegetable field.
These colorful pheasants are indeed much more powerful than humans to deal with insects. Their eyes can accurately see the insects hiding on the leaves of vegetables and accurately eat the insects in one bite.
However, soon, Chenbei found a colorful pheasant after eating the insects, and then pecked on the vegetable leaves a few more bites and ate some vegetable leaves.
"I almost forgot that these colorful pheasants not only eat insects, but also eat vegetables."
Chen Bei's face was a little dark. He was just thinking about letting the chicken eat insects, but he didn't expect that there would be one more meal.
However, after all, the temptation of insects is greater. Most of the time, the colorful pheasants eat insects, and the vegetable leaves only occasionally peck at each other, which is still acceptable.
Chen Bei looked at it for a while, then said to Lao Lu: "From the future, you will send a few people to come and see these colorful pheasants and let them eat the insects on the vegetables. If you see them eating vegetables, stop them."
"Yes, leader." Lao Lu agreed immediately.
Chen Bei said to Yan again: "Thank you to catch insects first, and you can eat a lot of colorful pheasants every day. Try to keep these dishes as much as possible. I will think of a solution when I go back."
"Chief, then you have to find a way faster." Yan couldn't help but say.
"Don't worry, I won't watch the vegetables be eaten up by insects."
Chen Beichao waved his hand, then turned around and left the vegetable field, he wanted to find a way.
Chen Bei first found the elder because he was old and had many knowledges, so he might have a solution.
"Chief, I'm going to tell you that we have no experience in planting before, so I don't know much about how to deal with these bugs."
The elder felt guilty for not being able to help Chen Bei, but at the same time he did not have experience in this area.
Then, Chen Bei found Qingzhu again, wanting to see if there is any way to deal with insects in the inheritance she has obtained.
Qingzhu thought carefully for a moment and said, "In fact, the power of totem can drive out these insects. The power of the totem god will make all weak creatures feel fear. But they can only be temporarily expelled, and these insects will definitely come back after that."
"In addition, the insect kings in the insect tribe can also drive out these insects, but it is difficult for us to find an insect king, let alone tame it like the insect tribe."
Chen Bei frowned slightly. Neither method is feasible. In this way, the inheritance of the witch cannot deal with these annoying insects.
Qingzhu said again: "Chief, everything has natural enemies. If we can find natural enemies of insects, we can solve them."
What are the natural enemies of insects?
Bird? Frog?
Chenbei felt that the colorful pheasants were already considered natural enemies of insects, but the number of tamed colorful pheasants was relatively small and could not solve too many insects.
As for frogs, most frogs live in places with water, and it is not easy for them to go to the fields to eat bugs.
Therefore, Chen Bei could not imagine what kind of natural enemies could punish these damn insects after thinking about it.
"Chief, why don't I divine it."
In desperation, Qingzhu thought of divination again, but divination would definitely not tell her how to deal with the insects directly, but would give her the direction of whether this matter would develop in a good or bad direction.
"Okay, please trouble me."
In desperation, Chen Bei could only see the results of divination.
Qingzhu took out a piece of bone piece for divination, and while chanting the divination mantra devoutly, he placed the bone piece on the fire to roast it.
Like before, a mysterious force blessed the flames, which tumbling, wrapped the bone pieces, and then burned them out of cracks.
After Qingzhu finished reciting the spell, the flame returned to calm. She held the bone fragments that had already appeared in her hand and watched carefully.
After a long time, Qingzhu smiled and said, "Chief, don't worry too much. The results of divination show that this matter will soon turn around."
"Thank you witch."
Chen Bei still trusts Qingzhu's divination ability. Since she said there was a turning point, she shouldn't be wrong.
However, this problem is still unclear.
Chapter completed!