It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 254

When the sun was not so scorching in the afternoon, Jiang Lu and Jiang Yan slowly walked to the field.

Because there is no water to irrigate the land, it is so dry that no weeds can grow.

Jiang Lu stretched out his palm and swept it over the half-drooped ears of wheat. After only two or three meters, he startled several grasshoppers and they jumped around everywhere, among which there were vaguely one or two yellow-brown ones.

Jiang Lu stood still and observed for a while, then said to Jiang Yan seriously, "We can't keep these crops in the field any longer. We have to harvest them quickly in the next two days."

Jiang Yan didn't understand why, but she knew that the person in front of her must have more experience than her in farming.

She immediately ran home to get the sickle, and at the same time, at Jiang Lu's request, she notified Zhou Xun and Zhou Huan to take the farm tools and go to the field together.

"Xun'er—you must hurry back to the village and tell grandpa and grandma to harvest all the crops that have been confiscated from the fields. It looks like a locust plague is coming soon." Jiang Lu shouted loudly at the people who were running towards him.

A locust plague?! Jiang Yan was shocked. She only cultivated less than three mu of land, and because of the drought, her yield had been halved. Now she was also hit by a locust plague...

No, drought and locust plagues go hand in hand... Jiang Yan suddenly felt confused. This was the first time he encountered a natural disaster when he was farming on his own. Was this considered a bad start?

Seeing Jiang Yan's serious expression, Jiang Lu paused and said, "Jiang Yan, I'll have to trouble you to accompany Xun Ge'er for a while. After you report the news, you two can return overnight to harvest the wheat."

Logically speaking, Zhou Xun would be an adult in a few months, so there was no need for Jiang Yan, who was younger than him, to accompany him on his trips. He had already done a lot of routine errands.

But for some reason, compared with Jiang Yan's calm and composed appearance, Zhou Xun looked anxious and ready to rush out at any time. Jiang Lu inexplicably felt that he was stupid and stupid, and there was a high probability that there would be twists and turns at some point if he entrusted things to him.

Jiang Yan was still immersed in thinking about how to change his luck in the future. He had no objection to Jiang Lu's arrangement. He looked at Zhou Xun, then put down the sickle in his hand and ran out of the village.

Zhou Xun started one step behind, but soon caught up.

Zhou Huan murmured, "Running really fast."

Jiang Lu regretted overthinking it and was too late to call Jiang Yan back: "... Let's get to work."

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It takes about half an hour to walk from Hezhou Village to Dongshan Village.

Jiang Yan and Zhou Xun ran and walked, and arrived in a hurry in about two quarters of an hour.

Zhou Xun told his grandparents about the possible locust plague in the fields. Then, when he was stopped by the aunt next door and questioned about the "internal secrets" of Dongshan Village, Jiang Yan quickly pulled him out of the aunts' encirclement and escaped.

The voice behind him was filled with anger: "Why are you running away so quickly? I'm not going to eat you!"

They won’t eat people, but they delay their return to the village to work.

While running, Jiang Yan figured out one thing. The first time she went to the fields, she was actually led by village elders such as Jiang Wang. They planted collective land, and then encountered a flood the following year.

In the years before, Dongshan Village also suffered from droughts and floods of varying degrees.

It's not that she had a bad start, but farming is a difficult and arduous task, extremely dependent on the weather, and the effort and reward are not often proportional. It is even more of a probability event to expect a good harvest year after year.

What she has to do is to do her best to deal with and reduce the negative effects brought about by external factors.

So, when Jiang Yan regained his composure and began to bend over to cut the wheat, he curiously asked, "Aunt Jiang Lu, how did you know there was going to be a locust plague?"

Jiang Lu replied without hesitation, "There were all of them in the pile this afternoon. Two of them can even fly." He then asked Jiang Yan, "With so many insects eating food growing in the fields, haven't you ever thought of catching any?"