Chapter 809 An Unquiet Day
On this side, when Zhou Xu was wondering where to move the freed labor force to continue to shine, as the most important grain-producing point in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Pingyuan Farm A restless day has come...
It was a quiet afternoon, with crisp autumn air and cloudless skies. Farmers were busy harvesting mature crops.
Because the field area is so vast and the crops are growing so well, their busyness here is often even more exaggerated than other farms. They are so busy every day. Heaven and earth.
For farmers, this is a painful and happy day.
As the Minister of Agriculture at the time, Zhao Geng was picking samples in the farm's experimental fields and recording them.
At this moment, a strange sound penetrated his ears faintly.
This hairstyle made Zhao Geng frown subconsciously.
【What's going on? What sound? 】
With doubts in his heart, Zhao Geng stood up and looked around subconsciously.
There are many flying insects in this area. Zhao Geng and the others are not unfamiliar with that sound. It is the sound of insect wings flapping at high speed. But listening to the sound, is it a bit exaggerated?
“Look over there!”
Before Zhao Geng could react, the nearby farmers had already discovered the source of the sound.
In the distant sky, there was a large group of objects that looked like black clouds approaching quickly towards them.
As the distance quickly shortened, Zhao Geng finally saw the true face of the black cloud.
Those were actually countless large and ugly flying insects!
The exaggerated number was overwhelming, like a sandstorm sweeping across the sky, causing members of the Ministry of Agriculture, including Zhao Geng, to look horrified.
"What the hell! What the hell is going on?!"
At that moment, those ferocious flying insects were like evil beasts that smelled the smell of blood, sweeping over crazily, as if to Completely submerge an entire plain farm!
The members of the Ministry of Agriculture, who had never seen such a battle before, were all frightened at this moment. The terrifying number made their scalps numb, and they even began to scream in surprise, not knowing what to do. What to do.
Zhao Geng behaved quite calmly. With his sharp eyes, he quickly noticed that the flying insects quickly flew to the surrounding mature crops and began to eat crazily. There were at least ten or twenty of them crawling on one crop. There were even more flying insects, which made people’s scalp numb just by looking at them.
“Damn, they are eating the crops!!”
Zhao Geng shouted as he rushed forward quickly, trying to drive away the flying insects.
But there were so many flying insects that it was impossible to finish the photo. It felt dangerous even for people staying inside, and the scene had already completely gotten out of control.
During the commotion, the guards responsible for protecting the farm quickly rushed in and took Zhao Geng away from the field as quickly as possible.
"Minister Zhao, it's useless for you to stay here now. In order to ensure your safety, let's evacuate to the house first!"
During the shouting, the guards who rushed over did not care about anything and started fighting. After Zhao Geng got up, he ran out until he was out of the sweep range of the insect swarm, and then he put the man down.
At this moment, looking at the flying insects that almost enveloped the entire farm, Zhao Geng looked extremely ugly.
Since the establishment of Pingyuan Farm, it has been very stable these years. No one thought that it would suddenly suffer such a disaster.
It’s useless to go crazy now, the most important thing is to think of a solution quickly!
With this thought, Zhao Geng forced himself to calm down.
“Wait a minute, why are there no flying insects here?!” Zhao Geng calmed down and quickly noticed something was wrong.
Flying insects are not completely absent here, but they are so few that they are almost negligible.
Just when Zhao Geng was looking so strange, a "clucking" sound not far away caught his attention.
Zhao Geng immediately turned around and saw that it was the place where chickens and ducks were raised in their farm.
After all, the area of the plain farm is too large. If all this land is used for farming, the food output will be too much, which is really unnecessary.
The lizard people here also need a daily supply of meat, so they specially cleared an area.
First they took over a batch of chickens from a breeding farm in Salt Lake City. Later, as His Majesty took over the New World, they sent a batch of ducks from the New World. Now after a year of raising , is already quite large.
As his eyes turned, Zhao Geng happened to see a chicken quickly come out of its mouth, pick up a flying insect in its mouth, and then eat it.
Zhao Geng, who saw this scene, was stunned for two seconds, then quickly reacted, and then rushed to the place where the chickens and ducks were kept as fast as possible, shouting as he ran...
"Quick! Release all the chickens and ducks on the farm and rush to the fields! Hurry! Hurry!!!"
In the time between shouting, Zhao Geng was already rushing as fast as he could. When he got to the fence door, he opened it, then rushed inside, and kept driving the chickens and ducks inside toward the outside.
Although the guards who chased him didn't know what Zhao Geng wanted to do, since the other party said so, they simply followed it.
At that moment, a large number of chickens and ducks filed out of the breeding pens. There was no need for them to deliberately drive them away. The flocks of chickens and ducks swarmed directly towards the swarm and were almost completely overwhelmed by the insects. of fields.
Then, a magical scene happened.
Faced with the swarm of insects that they were afraid of avoiding and at the same time helpless, the flocks of chickens and ducks were as if they were on the dining table. As their necks stretched and shrank, one after another Flying insects are constantly eaten into their stomachs.
The flying insects that were eating the crops unscrupulously finally met their nemesis at this moment!
In areas where chickens and ducks swarm, the number of flying insects continues to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The remaining flying insects were undoubtedly aware of the threat and quickly swarmed towards other areas.
When the chickens and ducks saw that there was no 'food' here, they naturally dispersed towards other areas where 'food' was more abundant.
The insect plague that was once out of control was brought under control in a short period of time.
Including Zhao Geng, the expressions on everyone's faces at this moment were filled with uncontrollable joy.
This time the insect plague came suddenly. If they had not happened to raise chickens and ducks on their farm, all the crops in the field that had not been harvested in time would have been fed to these insects.
"Quick! Hurry up and collect the food!!"
After his mood dropped, Zhao Geng quickly called on everyone to collect food.
Although the presence of chickens and ducks has controlled the insect swarm to a certain extent, it is undeniable that these insects continue to eat their crops.
Now seize the time to harvest, and you can reduce some losses to some extent.
During this period, Zhao Geng did not forget to observe the insects, chickens and ducks.
After something like this happened, in order to avoid similar things from happening again in the future, as the Minister of Agriculture, Zhao Geng must do some research.
And now is a good time!
(End of this chapter)