Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World

As soon as I walked into the wheat field, I could startle four or five locusts with every step I took. After only walking two meters, Xu Ge caught no less than twenty locusts. Looking at the bugs jumping around in front of him, Xu Ge frowned, feeling slightly uneasy.

The sudden increase in the number of locusts only happened in the past day or two. The community was not prepared and only hurriedly bought and replaced some insect catching nets.

Xu Ge and Xu Tao saw that there were not too many insect catching nets, so they didn't want to fight for them, so they didn't use the community ones.

After talking to Director Wang, I went back home, took out a few mosquito nets from home, and modified them a little to make a super large insect catching net.

Xiang Chi entered the space, rummaged through the storage room for a long time, and found a thick pile of paste boards.

Xu Ge took these things and returned to the wheat field, placed the paste board in place, and Xu Tao and he held the mosquito net and started catching locusts in the wheat field.

After only walking a few times, I got a pocket full of locusts.

After two or three hours of busy work, the white color of fish belly has already lit up in the east. After all, the area of ​​the park is limited. People from the entire community are out in force, and there are fewer locusts visible to the naked eye.

Seeing everyone around them disperse and go home, Xu Ge and Xu Tao also put away their mosquito nets and planned to go home.

Before leaving, Xu Ge gathered up the remaining pasteboards, put them in a bag, went to the community office, and left the bag of pasteboards with the community.

Officer Wang, who had just hung up the phone, saw that Xu Ge and Xu Tao were about to leave, so he quickly stopped them.

"Xu Ge! Xu Tao, please wait a moment."

Xu Ge heard someone calling him, turned around and saw that it was Director Wang. He was a little confused and stopped where he was with Xu Tao.

Wang Yanwen walked a few steps quickly and said gratefully to Xu Ge:

"Xu Ge, thank you for those pasteboards."

Xu Ge thought it was something and waved his hand indifferently.

"What are these? They are just some small things that I don't need at home. Besides, we also have a share of wheat, so we should worry about it. Don't thank me. I gave you more cornmeal last time. I haven’t thanked you yet!”

During the last corn harvest, Xu Ge's family sponsored one thousand meters of irrigation pipes for the community, and the community planned to give his family an extra 200 kilograms of corn flour.

Director Wang feels that because of these irrigation pipes, the manpower and material resources for farming have been greatly saved, and the most important thing is that it also saves water. I argued hard and won five hundred catties.

Wang Yanwen was not one to take credit, so he didn't tell Xu Ge and Xiang Chi. Unexpectedly, Xu Ge knew about this.

Hearing that Xu Ge was still talking about thanking him, his face turned slightly red.

"Don't say thank you, you deserve it. I just told the truth."

Seeing that the sky was about to get brighter, Wang Yanwen coughed and got down to business.

It turned out that the call he received just now was a notification from the city, saying that the base station could not be repaired temporarily. In the past month, my mobile phone has been temporarily unusable. Only the landline phone here in the office can still be contacted.

In response to this situation, the community will erect a notice board in the square. Any future notices will be posted on the notice board.

After hearing this, Xu Ge and Xu Tao nodded to express their understanding. Say goodbye to Wang Yanwen. The two of them continued walking home.

As they walked, Xu Tao sighed deeply.

“We don’t care about maintaining important equipment such as signal base stations. It can be seen that the recent situation has become more and more serious.”

Looking at Xu Tao with a sad face, Xu Ge just patted him on the shoulder.

"Who says it's not the case, but life is what people live. No matter what, you have to look forward, right?"

Xu Ge comforted Xu Tao. In fact, these words were not meant for him.

"We are old men. We have to cheer up and think about your daughter and your wife. No matter how hard it is and how tired we are, we have to resist!"

It has to be said that after Xu Ge drank this bowl of chicken soup, Xu Tao became visibly energetic after being sluggish for a while.

"You're right! Even if it's for my girl, I have to work harder."

Xu Tao, who was resurrected with full blood, put his arm around Xu Ge's shoulders, and the two of them walked home arm in arm.

"I'm telling you, my girl yesterday... blah blah blah"

Along the way, Xu Tao kept talking about how his daughter was doing, which made Xu Ge's ears feel calloused.

Finally arrived at Xu Tao's house, picked up Xiang Chi, and the two of them turned around and returned to their homes.

Looking at Xu Ge who was gritting his teeth, Xiang Chi curiously asked him what was wrong.

Xu Ge smiled and said,

"I'm not Xu Tao's daughter slave. Along the way, he just said that his daughter was about to turn over, that she was smiling at him, and so on."

Xiang Chi laughed hahaha for a while.

"I'm showing off my little treasure to you again."

Xu Tao gave his daughter a nickname, Xiaobao, saying that Han Dongdong was his eldest treasure and his daughter was his little treasure.

When he told Xu Ge and Xiang Chi, the shy Han Dongdong glared at Xu Tao angrily, but he acquiesced to the name Xiaobao.

For several days in a row, Xu Ge and Xu Tao went out to catch locusts in the wheat fields in the community. Sometimes, they also bring ink and briquettes. After all, these two geese are masters at catching locusts.

By the way, check the notice board every day to see if there are any new notices.

On this day, Xu Ge and Xu Tao were pushing a cart containing buckets to fetch water from the well. Just look at the notice board and there are a bunch of people crowded there. They are so noisy that I don’t know what they are discussing.

The two walked over and saw that most of the people looked unhappy. After reading the notice on the notice board, they immediately knew the reason.

The notice board informed that the city had received an early warning from Sanjiang City, not far south of Dancheng, and that a large number of locusts would cross the border in the next few days. We hope that the general public can voluntarily go to the nearest farmland and do their part to protect crops when locusts come, whether they are driving them away or catching them with their hands.

This announcement didn't say much, but the news revealed was huge. Everyone is not a fool. After thinking about it for a moment, they all feel that something is wrong.

How large a group of locusts must be for one city to give another early warning? That's certainly not a small amount.

This is also the most worrying point. How long will it take to catch a small locust just by hand? What's more, that thing is not dead, it is alive and flying!

For a time, everyone was talking about this matter. But soon, everyone's attention was diverted by another incident.

I saw a community employee come out and put another piece of paper on the notice board. People gathered around and took a look. Oh, it turned out to be a purchase order. The official promised that starting from tomorrow, as long as the locusts are caught, the official will They were purchased from the people at the price of one pound of cornmeal for every one hundred pounds of worms.

As soon as this notice came out, people's enthusiasm for catching locusts was completely aroused.