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Jiang Lie wasn't idle either. He held two glass bottles in his hand, the mouths of which were tied with fine mesh. He held them up and probed ahead, but after walking for a while, the locusts in the bottles didn't react.

He frowned: "Is there really no cure for locusts? Sigh, what will we do then?"

He didn't want to harvest prematurely, because the losses would be too great.

Buzz buzz buzz~~

The locusts in the bottle suddenly became restless and began to ram against the bottle. Jiang Lie's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he began to hold the bottle up and probe around to see what they were afraid of.

It quickly landed on the small blue fruit. I didn't recognize what kind of fruit it was. It looked only the size of a soybean, and its deep blue color looked somewhat... eerie.

Jiang Lie picked one, crushed it, and threw it into a bottle. The locusts inside immediately bristled and frantically flapped their wings, trying to escape, reacting much more strongly than they had to Bai Yezi.

His eyes lit up slightly, and he called out, "Wife, come here for a second, I've found something."

Upon hearing this, Wen Yao rushed over, her face full of anticipation: "What discovery? Let me see."

"Do you recognize this fruit? I just noticed that locusts reacted very strongly to it, so I crushed one and threw it in. And look, honey, the locust struggled violently for a moment and then stopped moving."

"Blue berries, that color is really strange."

"I don't recognize it, and I've never seen this before."

Jiang Lie picked a few, thought for a moment, and said, "Wife, why don't we try to find other insects to see if there are any edible blue fruits, or if we'll get poisoned?"

"Try it a few more times and see what happens. If it really works on locusts, then this big patch of blue berries will be enough."

Wen Yao nodded and said, "Okay, let's give it a try."

The two picked more and went to catch birds and rabbits, throwing them to the insects to eat, but they found that there was no reaction. However, whenever they got close to the locusts, the locusts struggled like crazy.

He died in less than ten minutes.

Jiang Lie rummaged through his basket and found some small locusts. He tried them on with blue berries and found that they didn't react much to the locusts. They would try to avoid them, but they wouldn't react so violently that they would die.

The two looked at each other, and their eyes slowly lit up.

Wen Yao smiled and stared intently at the blue fruits: "Ah Lie, I understand. The larvae have a different sense of smell than the adults. They don't react much to the larvae."

"But the adult insects are more sensitive. These blue fruits must have some kind of smell that will irritate them. Now let's try to make a spray to make it."

"Let's see how long the shield against locusts lasts. If the shield lasts a long time, we can start spraying before the locust plague arrives."

Jiang Lie didn't quite understand the recipe, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do whatever my wife says. I don't really understand the recipe, I'll just do it."

Wen Yao hummed in agreement: "Okay, I'll look into it."

The two stayed in the valley for several days, which worried the brigade leader and the others to death. They finally came down the mountain with two large baskets of things on their backs, but when they saw the brigade leader, he didn't react much.

"Boss, boss's wife, did you find anything on this trip to the mountains? Time is running out, some of them have already molted and can fly, and there will be more and more soon, oh dear, it's worrying."

Jiang Lie smiled and pulled his father toward the courtyard: "Dad, I have good news. Let's go inside and talk about it."

When the captain heard this, his eyes lit up: "Boss, are you serious? You really have a way to deal with locusts? How did you find it? Where is it? Let me see the medicine."

"Father, don't worry."

"Oh dear, I'm so anxious! How can I not be anxious?"

The family sat in the main room, and the brigade leader urged, "Boss, stop being so mysterious and tell us clearly where the medicinal herbs that can cure locusts are. I can arrange for someone to pick them."

Jiang Lie grabbed a handful of blue fruits and placed them on the table, pointing at them: "Dad, these are the fruits that can kill locusts. We don't know their exact name, and this is the first time we've ever seen such blue fruits."

"I've tried it and it's not poisonous, but it's incredibly effective against adult locusts. I'll let you try it and you'll see."

A few minutes later, the captain craned his neck to look at the motionless locust, picked it up and examined it. After confirming that the locust was dead, his eyes slowly lit up, and he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Haha, that's great, that's really great. So this thing is definitely not poisonous, right? I hope it doesn't kill the grain. I still need to go and test it and observe it."

As he spoke, he got up and rushed out in a flurry.

Jiang Lie reached out and grabbed it, saying, "Dad, don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet. This fruit can be effective, but there aren't many of them in the mountains. Ask the people in the brigade if anyone has seen this fruit in other places."

Outsiders are definitely not allowed to enter the Medicine Valley, but if we expect the two of them to pick the herbs, it would take forever. Whatever grows in the Medicine Valley, might also grow elsewhere.

The brigade leader thought for a moment and nodded: "What you said makes sense. Wait, I'll take this fruit to a meeting and ask around. If it's available elsewhere, that would be great. If not, I'll ask the commune."

"In short, it's enough to know that we can deal with locusts. We should spread this news as soon as possible so that other brigades can prepare together to deal with the possible locust plague. We can't just sit and wait."

Jiang Lie nodded: "Alright, then Dad, you can ask around in our brigade first. Do you know anyone who has seen him? If not, you can ask other brigades or even the commune."

"Okay, I know what to do, Dad."

The man went outside and spent two days asking around. Finally, he learned from the child that there was this kind of fruit near the former mass grave on the back mountain of the forest farm.

The forestry director led a few people to find it. A gust of wind blew by, making it cool, and there was a faint smell of decay in the air.

"Old Jiang, to be honest, this is my first time in this godforsaken place. If the kids hadn't been running around like crazy, I wouldn't have known that the fruit you're looking for grows here."

"That thing growing inside the bones of the dead, can it really fight off locusts? Is it poisonous? Why does its color and back look so creepy to me? What kind of good fruit grows that color?"

The captain laughed upon hearing this: "Haha, what's the big deal? It doesn't matter if the color isn't pretty, as long as it works and kills locusts. Since there are quite a few here, I'll have someone come and pick some."

"After we get back, we'll make a medicine and sprinkle it on the field ridges. Let's see if those damned locusts come back. We don't need to kill them all, just drive them away."

"Well, at least we don't have to harvest the autumn crop early. If the grain production doesn't decrease, then winter will be a little easier."

The director nodded and said, "You're right. Could you give us some of this medicine? We plan to spray it in the fields and see how it works. It's better than just waiting around."

"Your Jiang Lie is really capable; he managed to find a solution to this. Did you report it to the higher authorities? Are the other brigades following suit?"