When Shao Xuan arrived at the farmland, Ao and the person in charge of guarding the farmland tonight were already waiting there.
Those people all had tools in their hands. In addition to their own hunting weapons such as knives and axes, there were also special tools for guarding the farmland, such as large nets woven by vines, long poles, and giant fly swatters. These are also prepared on weekdays, but mostly only used during the day and less at night.
"Are you all ready?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Well, just wait for you to start." Ao said.
The farmland guards who were called over were still puzzled. They didn't know what was going on with Ao calling them here, but the doubts turned into doubts, and they would still do as the two elders told them.
Shao Xuan looked around and asked one of the guards: "Where are the most bugs at night here on weekdays?"
"Which side is the most?" The guard thought for a while, then raised his finger to show Shao Xuan, "Just there."
There are relatively precious crops planted there, most of which are given by Jiju, and it is also close to the place where the thousand grains of gold are planted.
"Then go there and try." Shao Xuan carried the water moon stone in his hand.
The two moons in the sky were blocked by clouds again shortly after they came out, and the moonlight on the ground quickly disappeared.
The bugs that were chirping from nowhere were paused by the disappearance of the moon, and then resumed their chirping.
The surroundings are very dark, but with everyone's familiarity with the farmland here, it is unlikely that they will accidentally walk into the ditch. Moreover, although the surrounding is very dark, with their eyesight, even if it is not clear at night, the fire burning on the ground allows them to see the nearby scenery.
Shao Xuan did not start at the edge of the farmland, but at a distance from the farmland, he poured out the "inferior products" of the water moon stones in the animal skin bag, stacked them together, and placed them in a circle. .
"Turn off the torch, everyone back away first." Shao Xuan said.
The people who followed around did as Shao Xuan said, and all the torches they were holding were extinguished.
Because of the rich feast, many soldiers patrolling and guarding here are very frugal, and they rarely use water moon stones for lighting on weekdays. Although they do not think that a rich feast can feed their tribes into poverty, but In my mind, saving a little is always good. Therefore, from the day they knew they were going to prepare a rich feast, everyone saved it in unison. In the tribe, when they could use torches, they would never use water moon stones. Even now that the Yanhe feast was over, they still did not change this immediately. saving habit.
Therefore, when Ao came to ask them before, they couldn't say whether Qingshui Moonstone attracts bugs or not, because they have been using torches recently.
The surroundings were all darkened, and there was no fire at all. In this way, the place where the water moon stones were stacked was very conspicuous.
Each piece of water moon stone is relatively dark, and dozens of pieces are gathered together, and the brightness has increased a lot. Even if the brightness is still not comparable to the high-quality water moon stone, it is better than that.
After retreating, Shao Xuan restrained his breath and tried to weaken his existence.
The others had already received Ao's orders and knew what to do. When Shao Xuan and Ao were hiding their breath, they quickly followed suit. But they all stared curiously at the group where the water moon stones were placed.
What good are those dim water moon stones? Fishing for bugs
The surroundings were very quiet. There were faint sounds coming from the mountain where the tribesmen lived, and there were also insects chirping in the nearby woods, but no one paid any attention to them.
Shao Xuan listened carefully to the sounds around him.
In the farmland, there are some man-made ditches, and the water is flowing.
The night wind blew, and the leaves of the crops in the farmland rubbed together, making a squeaking sound.
Um
Shao Xuan turned his head slightly and listened carefully to the movement from one direction.
It sounded like it was coming from the farmland.
wow - wow -
The beating sound came over here.
There is also the sound of the rapid flapping of wings approaching in the sky, those are flying insects that are active at night.
A slender figure appeared on the rock pile where the water moon stones were placed, and the black figure was quite conspicuous in the water moon rock pile with a dim light.
it works!
Shao Xuan was overjoyed.
When I saw that figure, I kept staring at the soldiers guarding the farmland over there, with raised eyebrows.
Although they couldn't see it completely, they knew what kind of bug it was just by seeing the figure. That kind of bug is one of the kinds of bugs that annoy them the most, because that kind of bug often moves on the ground, stays underground during the day, and only comes out of the ground at night.
Moreover, the insects are not afraid of the insect repellent they burn, and they can't be driven away by smoking. Every morning they see many worm holes in the leaves in the farmland, they hate it.
Unexpectedly, the dim water moon stones placed there can really attract those troublesome bugs!
Almost at the same time as that worm, there were also some other nocturnal flying insects flying in the air, and there were more and more.
Soon, I probably felt that there was no danger around, and other insects hiding in the trees, grass, and farmland also flew towards this side, as if something was attracting them here.
There are more and more dark shadows covering the water moon stone, big and small, long and short, those with wings and no wings, and those flying beating, all starting to concentrate over there, and some even try to seize the bright spot. And fight.
When the water and moon rock pile was almost completely covered by the insect body, and the sound of wings flapping was heard everywhere in the air, Shao Xuan gave a low voice: "Action!"
For a time, the person who copied the net rushed over like an arrow and whistled a few times, and put the densely concentrated flying insect nets in the air into the net pocket, and then went down with a beat.
Snapped!
The flying insects in the net pocket were flattened.
The bugs on the ground were directly beaten continuously by the person holding the giant fly swatter. At this time, the closer the bugs were to the water moon rock pile, the harder it was to escape from the area where they were beaten to death.
After everything was over, Shao Xuan took a wooden stick and looked at all kinds of bugs by the light of Shuiyueshi. Some of the bugs on the ground were not flattened but had lost their ability to move and could not go far.
Shao Xuan is about to travel far, and he is still going downstream along the Yan River, so the bugs they will encounter may be similar to these, and he wants to see what they have.
Shao Xuan picked up a few bugs and put them into a cloth belt that he brought over. The few he picked out were all bugs with intact bodies, which were rarely seen on weekdays. Some of them looked very fierce, poisonous needles or worms. With poisonous fangs, the protective color on their bodies is easy to ignore. If they are not caught at night, even if they see them during the day, they may not be able to find them.
These have to be seen by those who travel far, so that they also have a precaution.
Ao has already sent people to clean up the place, sweeping the flattened corpses together, and wait for the people who take care of the farmland to come over tomorrow to see if they can be made into fertilizer.
"How?" Ao came over and asked Shao Xuan, looking very happy.
Can you be unhappy? Knowing that these water moon stones, which can almost be regarded as waste products, still have such a function of attracting insects, although it may not solve the fundamental problem, it can at least alleviate the harm of insects at night to the farmland. It works, that's enough.
"It's alright, but there are limitations. Not necessarily all the bugs that eat crops." Shao Xuandao, "Also, if there are no clouds at night, the effect of these may not be very good, and it is more effective to use high-quality water moon stones. "
"Of course I know this, but the insects that eat crops are still the majority. As for the moonlight, depending on the sky, there may be clouds at night these days, even if it's just to block the moonlight for a while." The effect is as good as it is effective. It is better than those water moon stones that are wasted in vain and cannot be caught by a bug in the farmland at night.
"Then I'll go to the Mo tribe and get some of these water moon stones tomorrow?" Ao asked.
"Can."
This is also a trap for nocturnal insects.
The next day, Ao went to the other side to find the leader of the Zang tribe.
Knowing that Yanjiao needed those "failures", the leader of the Embrace tribe didn't say a word, and directly dragged out a few large bags to Ao. Even if Ao wanted to exchange the price for them, Fanmu firmly refused. For the people of the Emblem tribe, These are really not very useful, they are also wasted in the warehouse, and they can't be sold at a high price, so I just gave them all to Ao.
However, Ao didn't want all of it. He took nearly two-thirds of it and left one-third for the people of the Eng tribe. By the way, he told the people of the Enchant tribe what happened last night. Shao Xuan agreed.
The people of the Zan tribe are now short of food. Although they don't like eating insects very much, the insects flying out from the forests on the other side of the river, where there are beasts and beasts, have a lot of flavor. Moreover, those insects have already begun to fly across the river. There is activity here, but the people of the Mo tribe live too close to the fire pit where the fire was once placed. Even if the original fire no longer exists, some of the breath in the fire pit still remains, and those insects dare not fly close.
"How could it be like this!" Fanmu felt very strange. They have owned the water moon stone for so long, but they have never discovered this situation.
"You can try it from a distance, maybe you can catch more." Ao suggested.
"Thank you for letting me know!"
The people from the Yanjiao tribe were very grateful for the fact that the people from Yanjiao could impart their experience and skills. They let the patrolling people try it that night, and they really caught some and were baked by the patrolling people for supper.
On the Yanjiao side, the Shuiyue Stone, which was originally a waste product, was divided. At night, in the farmland, when the moon is obscured by clouds, the sound of popping will be heard after a while.
"Hey, take it lightly! Don't shoot it all into fertilizer, the whole one is bigger, let's see if you can eat it!" Someone shouted, waving the copy net.
"I know!" The person holding the giant fly swatter made of rattan wood responded while busy swatting.
After the filming is over, they will clean up the ground, pick out the large insects that are still intact, eat what they can eat, and put aside what they can't eat, waiting for the farmer to make fertilizer. As for those insects they don't know, They will try it carefully. For people with flaming horns, eating insects is really nothing.
This situation occurs in several places around the farmland.
Since then, for a long time, the guards of Yanjiao in the farmland at night have one more activity - guarding the water moon stone and waiting for supper.