Yipin County Magistrate: Start with invincibility

Chapter 124 Locust Plague　
"The locust plague is here? Where are you? Come on, show me!"

Qin Feng immediately put down the teaching in his hand and said to the yamen servant.

The yamen servant nodded and pointed to the southwest direction: "The plague of locusts is dense... It has already reached the top of Nanshan Mountain, and in a few hours, we will be able to reach our fields in Ninghai County!"

"Those locusts make their scalp numb just looking at them, and the farmers are going crazy, scrambling to collect food!"

"boom!"

Qin Feng jumped up against the case: "You quickly call all the yamen servants and stop them all!"

It was too late to collect food at this time.

Can their speed compare to migratory locusts?

"Tell the people, tell them to drive out all the ducks from every household, and drive them to the fields. It's up to them whether you can cure the locust plague!"

"Yes!"

The yamen servant got the order and went down immediately.

In the county town, all the laborers rushed out of the city with farm tools on their shoulders and sickles in their hands.

This grain, in fact, will be fully mature in ten days or so. It seems that rush harvesting will inevitably reduce production, but it is much better than letting locusts eat it all.

But when they reached the gate of the city, they found that they couldn't get out at all!

Yamen servants formed a human wall and blocked the gate of the city, prohibiting anyone from carrying farm tools out of the city.

"Master Qin has ordered that the people of Ninghai County are not allowed to bring farm tools out of the city! Everyone, drive the ducks out of the house, take the ducks, and go to the fields to release ducks!"

The servants kept repeating Qin Feng's orders.

The people were in a hurry.

"Master! The plague of locusts is just around the corner, why do you want us to release the ducks?"

"That's right, sir, we help Master Qin raise ducks on weekdays to thank Master Qin for his kindness to our people. But now that the plague of locusts is in full swing, how can we have the time to pay attention to those ducks?"

"Master, hurry up and talk to Mr. Qin, you can't ignore our life and death! How can we spend the winter without food?"

The ignorant people thought that Qin Feng was trying to harm them for his own self-interest, and they knelt down and begged to let them go out of the city.

The squires in Ninghai County had already received the news that the locust plague was approaching, and they all showed their heads. Several people gathered at the gate of the city and stood with the common people, fanning the flames and adding fuel to the flames.

"Folks! This Qin Feng, how can he care about your life and death? At this time, he actually, actually wants you to release ducks for him! It's unreasonable!"

"This kind of official, what qualifications do we have to be our parents' official?"

"That's right! Qin Feng, he only knows how to use you to make his profit, and your interests are involved, but he doesn't care about it!"

"A few days ago, the state government ordered you to collect grain in advance, but Qin Feng refused to let it go, and even said that there is a good way to control locusts! Pooh! I think he is deliberately fooling you!"

"That's right, now that the locust plague is here, he doesn't show his face! He has become a turtle and hid himself."

"Folks, in my opinion, after the locust plague, we must form a bond, sign a petition of thousands of people and send it to the capital, and sue Qin Feng, a corrupt official who does nothing!"

The country gentry worked very hard to arouse the emotions of the people, and they spoke vividly, successfully mobilizing the emotions of some of the people.

Some of the people kneeling at the gate of the city were so indignant that they stopped kneeling, but stood up, gathered together and rushed towards the gate.

There are more than a dozen yamen servants, how can they stop hundreds of people?

Even though they formed a team, they were driven to the gate of the city.

Fortunately, the gate of the city was lowered according to Qin Feng's order, so no one could go out with a sickle.

Near Zhu Zhechi, the yamen servants have followed Qin Feng for a long time, and they are no longer able to use the way of oppressing the people before, so they just resist hard.

They also knew that it was Zhang Shun, Hu Lai and those country gentry who were here to make trouble and confuse people. While resisting the people rushing to the city gate, they worked hard to explain and shouted.

"Folks, don't listen to their provocations! Lord Qin, you will never leave the folks alone!"

"Please trust the magistrate! The magistrate must have his reasons for not telling you to harvest!"

Zhang Shun and Hu Lai mingled in the crowd and retorted loudly.

"Hehe, don't you call harvesting food and letting the locusts eat it up, doesn't that mean you won't leave the villagers alone?"

"Master Zhangkou Shukou County, where is Qin Feng now? Huh?"

"You idiots, working as minions for tigers! It doesn't matter on weekdays, if the food can't be harvested today, the people will starve to death!"

"Folks, get out! That dog official Qin Feng has become a coward and dare not come out! Do you want to wait for his explanation? It's impossible!"

After a few words of incitement, the crowd became even crazier.

But at this moment, an incomparably loud voice came from behind the crowd, directly covering all the chaos, like the roar of a lion in the east of the river, clearly reaching everyone's ears.

"You say, who is the shrinking turtle?"

Qin Feng, here we come!
With the blessing of official power on his body, ordinary people and squires unconsciously became shorter in front of Qin Feng.

The crowd was excited just now, but as soon as Qin Feng arrived at the scene, he was honest for five or six minutes. The crowd automatically separated to the left and right, and Qin Feng, who was dressed in official clothes, came from behind to in front of the crowd.

"Hu Lai! Zhang Shun!"

When Qin Feng arrived at the scene, he called the names of two people.

The two responded with a guilty conscience: "My lord, my lord..."

"Hmph! Do you still know how to call me my lord? Didn't you just say that I am a coward and dare not come out?"

Qin Feng asked.

Just now, these two people had a very high voice in order to stir up emotions, and Qin Feng could hear it from a long distance away.

"My, my lord, don't talk nonsense. We...we are all good citizens who abide by the law, and we are all...students, knowledgeable and reasonable, how can we speak rudely to you?"

Zhang Shun and Hu Lai argued with a guilty conscience, thinking that Qin Feng had no evidence, so he couldn't do anything to them.

Too bad they got it wrong.

Is Qin Feng someone who needs evidence?
He didn't intend to spare them.

"I heard it with my own ears, can I be wrong? You two despise me, speak disrespect, act recklessly, and talk nonsense!"

"Come here! Everyone give me twenty slaps!"

"Yes!"

The yamen servant who had been gagged by the squires just now and could not speak came out immediately, and the two of them came out and shouted loudly.

Zhang Shun and Hu Lai couldn't dodge even if they wanted to.

After being beaten, it aroused their anger.

Zhang Shun touched his swollen face and angrily accused Qin Feng: "Yes, I just scolded, so what can I do? Qin Feng, you are bullying others!"

"At the moment of the locust plague, it is wrong for you to prevent the people from grabbing food! You lied about how to deal with the disaster, but filled your own pockets and used the people to raise ducks. Now that the locusts are coming, you still don't let the folks go! How can there be people in the world? Parents like you?"

"Yes! For a corrupt official like you, it's easy to scold you! What did we say wrong?"

Hu Lai also gritted his teeth and asked.

(End of this chapter)