The time is approaching the end of the year. Under normal circumstances, it is autumn, and the temperature should drop. However, the fierce beasts and forests are still active, and there is no sign of autumn. On the contrary, the weather is hotter.
"It was the same at this time last year." The old man, Wu, sat on the stone, looking at the mountains and forests in the distance, and sighed, "No, this year is hotter than last year."
The weather is becoming more and more unusual, making people feel uneasy.
Fortunately, thanks to last year's experience, they have calmed down a lot this year. Moreover, this year's two split branches of the Yanjiao tribe can reassure people's hearts and boost their morale.
After experiencing the extremely cold winter over the sea, and then experiencing the weather here like summer, Zheng Luo and others were quite uncomfortable. Still, it's better to be warm than frozen, right
The warm weather also has its disadvantages. The animals in the forest that should have started to wilt are unusually active one by one. These flying insects are just one of them. When hunting people go into the forest to hunt, they can clearly feel them. The beasts didn't plan to spend the winter at all, they were quite energetic. Venomous snakes and ants are also a problem.
"What's going on over there?" The old lady Wu walked over with a sullen face, watching a team hurriedly rushing out of the mountain forest not far away.
"Nah, what's going on over there?" The old man Wu Jiang stopped Nia, who was running on his feet.
Hearing Wu calling him, he didn't care about nibbling, so he hurried over to explain, "Wu, I heard that a lot of insects in the fields outside were flying to eat cabbage, and the leader was so angry that he asked us to help."
"A lot of bugs?" The two witches were startled. The first thing they thought of was the heavenly veins planted in the mountains and forests. They hurriedly ran to the ground to see, for fear that the ground where the heavenly veins were planted would also be infested by insects.
The good thing is that on the side of Tianmai, there is not a single flying insect at all, and even underground, it is rare to see insects. These heavenly veins seem to be naturally resistant to insects. Of course, it is limited to the Heavenly Vein without rupture.
Seeing this situation, the two witches calmed down a bit, and waved their hands to let Ni Ni rush to the field outside to help kill the insects. There are a lot of things planted in the ground, some have not sprouted, some have just sprouted. I am afraid that the only ones who suffer the most are those Chinese cabbage.
"In previous years, those bugs wouldn't be so active." Wu's eyes showed worry.
Excluding the situation of last year, at this time in the past, under normal circumstances, many wintering insects and beasts in the mountains and forests are preparing for winter, and they will not fly around in groups. past such a plague. Perhaps because of the weather, these bugs who had no plans to spend the winter at all came out to work, as if another spring was ushering in.
In addition, Yanjiao's expanded farmland outside the mountains and forests also attracted many flying insects.
Before, I only saw a small wave of flying insects occasionally, and the people guarding the farmland could handle it.
When Shao Xuan got there, the farmland was in chaos.
Those who wielded knives, swords, clubs and hammers crowded together noisily.
Those flying insects were more than 20 centimeters long. Shao Xuan took one down with his sword, pinched it and looked at it.
A light green flying insect with a slightly bright yellow body color, with two large compound eyes, a slightly wider front chest and a slender abdomen, two pairs of almost transparent wings with criss-cross reticulated veins, and five pairs of thin wings on the body. Long feet with sharp claws on the feet, the front pair of feet is in a catching style, used to catch, when they fly on the leaves, these pairs of claws can firmly grasp the leaves, and keep them from falling.
This kind of flying insect also has chewing mouthparts, and chewing leaves will be very agile.
It is these flying insects that make the warriors in the tribe so anxious that they can't wait to see the flames on their heads. They can deal with large beasts, but when they encounter so many small flying insects, they can't be busy all of a sudden, and when these flying insects fly high, it becomes more difficult for them to kill them. With arrows? Nor is it appropriate.
This kind of flying insect doesn't fly too high, but after all, the soldiers can't fly, and even if they can jump higher, they will look awkward when killing insects. Sometimes there are too many insects, and there are too many people. When killing insects, some people jump into the air and hit them. The insect didn't kill it, but knocked his own person into a daze.
Some people think of pulling nets, but the area of farmland is too large, and it is impossible to take care of it all at once. It is impossible to cover all the land. Besides, woven nets, unless the nets are stitched smaller, they will not be suitable for these Worms are useless, they can squeeze through the gaps in the mesh.
After finally destroying this wave of insect swarms, the people who were busy in a group rested.
"Someone made a net, and I can cover up another batch today, but if it's always like this, it's not a problem." Mai said angrily, looking at the gnawed leaves.
Shao Xuan also thought about it.
Farming must allow these crops to see the sun, too dense nets can block some flying insects, but also block the sun, which is not a safe way.
Spray pesticides
Not to mention that it has not been developed, even if there is, no one can guarantee that people will still be healthy after poisoning the insects. Due to limited conditions, it is impossible to study the ratio more precisely.
"Let's rely on us." Sitting next to him, he was breathing heavily, sweating profusely. He never felt that it was so hard to kill insects. They wanted to kill those flying insects, and they had to be careful not to step on the ground. It's really hard to plant something.
Some people took the shot with a generous wooden board, but the effect was limited.
"You can make some small holes in the wooden board, and then thin the bottom of the wooden board to make a handle, which is easy to handle." Shao Xuan said.
The eyes of the warrior holding the plank lit up, and he felt that this method was feasible, so he immediately took out his tools and began to chisel the plank.
Some people are cleaning up the mess, picking up the corpses on the ground and putting them together. Because the stupid birds they keep don't eat these worms, and most of the other breeders are vegetarians, they turn these corpses into fertilizer. , later fertile land. This also greatly relieved the people of the tribe. You came here, little flying insect, didn't it become fertilizer in the field in the end
Shao Xuan looked at the surrounding ground, raised his feet and headed back into the forest. He was going to the casting room.
That night.
Because the cabbage in the field is no longer a secret, the surrounding area is not too tight. After the insect plague during the day, the soldiers guarding the farmland are a little tired.
A figure sneaked in with the night, like a thin leaf blown by the wind, fluttered over the wooden fence around the cabbage field, and landed on the ground with an indiscernible sound.
After the shadow fell to the ground, I listened carefully and made sure that it did not attract the attention of those guarding the farmland, and then it "floated" again, like a butterfly fluttering on a flower, landing on a Chinese cabbage, and it left at a touch, only for a short time. The "chi" sound was like an unobtrusive insect chirping.
Still no one notices here.
Hiding in the shadow of a cabbage taller than a man, the man took a sliced cabbage leaf to his nose and smelled it. This small piece of leaf was cut from the vegetable ball near the middle. He heard from the people in Yanjiao that the leaves on the middle vegetable ball were more crispy and tasted better. He has been staring at it for a few days, and has always wanted to come over and taste the new dish discovered by Yanjiao. Today, he finally got the chance.
He likes vegetarian food, not meat. I put the small leaf in my mouth and tasted it. I chewed it carefully and tasted it. I felt that it was quite good, crispy and fresh.
After lurking for so long, he finally got something satisfactory.
The moonlight cast by the two moons in the sky is not bright, and there are clouds blocking it from time to time. The guards who glanced in did not find that under a cabbage leaf much taller than a person in the ground, in the shadow darker than the night , hides a person.
After eating the peeled leaves, the man looked around. When he jumped up, he quickly glanced around. Even if it was dark, he could still see the surroundings clearly. He remembered that not far away, there was a bigger cabbage, much bigger than the others around him. When he jumped up, he noticed it with a glance, and he decided to start with the biggest cabbage.
I don't know tomorrow, what kind of reaction will the people in Yanjiao find out that there is a vegetable ball missing in the middle of the biggest one in the field? Come to think of it, he was looking forward to it.