Not even half a grain of grain could be found in the plowed fields outside the city.

No matter how hungry the farmer is, he is not willing to kill the grain when it is about to mature, but the locusts don't care. The locusts flying in from the west covered the sky like a movable cloth covering the sky.

A curtain hangs over Dong'a County.

The grass is bare.

The leaves are gone.

In all the cultivated land, only the roots of seedlings less than an inch long are left...

The locusts have eaten everything that humans can and cannot eat, and nothing is left.

When the locusts were full, or probably had no more to eat, they continued to fly eastward, leaving Dong'a with only boundless worry and fear.

What to do next?

One stone of rice can be sold in the market for five to six hundred thousand yuan, and the price is still low, so there is not much quantity at all. In the past few years, one stone of rice was only two to three hundred yuan.

Between the sky and the earth, everything is an indestructible dark color, just like human blood has turned into a red and black color after being exposed for a long time.

Above the wilderness, a light flashed for a moment, and then a queue slowly appeared, slowly heading towards Dong'a County...

"The rat-catching team is back..." the soldiers on duty shouted, "get ready to open the city gate!"

Although it is already midnight, normally the city gates should not be opened, but in this extraordinary period, who would take this rule to heart?

What's more, this was originally an order from the county magistrate Cheng Yu. Five days ago, the county magistrate issued an order and sent soldiers to the barren mountains and wilderness outside the city to hunt rats...

"Uncle...the rat-catching team is back..." The young man couldn't sleep at all. Hearing the sound, he quickly lay down on the battlement and said while watching, "...the smell of blood is so strong..."

"Come back! Don't look anymore..." the old voice shouted.

The young man did not move, "... I heard someone said that when we went to hunt rats outside the city yesterday, a chief and five soldiers were bitten to death by rats... Uncle, why are wild rats so powerful...

Yes, I heard that the county magistrate is recruiting people for the rat-catching team again..."

The old man couldn't help but raise his voice a bit: "Get back! Shidanzi, get back here!"

Seeing that his uncle was angry, Shi Danzi ran back quickly.

"...Your father died early..." the old man sighed and said, "...I don't have the money to get a wife, so I treat you as my own...I haven't been able to make a name for myself in these years...

I’m just going to suffer from you and starve and freeze with you..."

"Hey, uncle, what are you talking about..." Shi Dan said, "Uncle, isn't he taking good care of me..."

"Shi Dan, listen to your uncle..." The old man held Shi Dan's arm tightly and said, "No matter what time, don't go to the rat-catching team! Don't even look at it!"

"Why?" Shi Dan opened his eyes wide and looked at the old man with clear and translucent eyes.

"No reason!" The old man couldn't help but gain a little more strength in his hands, "If I tell you not to go, don't go! Don't even look at me!"

"...Oh...I know..." Although Shi Dan felt confused, he still agreed first, "...But, uncle, I heard that the people in the rat-catching team have rat meat to eat..."

The old man raised his palm angrily, but it hit himself in the face.

"Uncle! What are you doing!"

"Shi Dan..." The old man held Shi Dan's arm tightly, with boundless fear and sorrow in his eyes, "If you recognize me as your uncle, you should listen to my uncle's words... You still want to be alone...
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