Knowing that he would come soon, Shiba put on a smile again, "No need, my job is to follow you, girl. The boss said he would come, so he would definitely come."

On the other side, Lu Yan went to the Sihai Escort Agency. He did not take the usual route but climbed over the wall.

When Qingwu came back, he found that there was one more person in the room.

"Boss? You're back?"

Lu Yan nodded, "How many Qingyi Guards are there in Yongchang County now?"

Qing Wu counted on his fingers, "Except for those who have already gone out to escort, there are only about twenty people in the escort agency now."

"The prefecture and the government do have some manpower. If there are not enough, I can go and deliver the message right away."

Lu Yan tapped the table lightly with his fingers, "That's enough, gather everyone and follow me later."

Gather them all?

Qing Wu looked serious. The last time they gathered everyone together was at Tianmen Mountain.

He turned and walked out, and returned to the house a moment later. "Boss, is there something wrong?"

"How much do you know about the insect plague?" Lu Yan tapped the table lightly. The sound was neither light nor heavy, but it seemed to knock on people's hearts.

Qing Wu paused, and told everything he knew, "About seven days ago, the escort team discovered this situation. At that time, they didn't take it seriously, thinking that it was only in that place, but then they found that the situation also occurred in several villages they passed by."

"In addition to Yongchang, there are also insects in other places, but not as many as here. When they saw that something was wrong, they sent a message back. I immediately sent someone to do a count. Our Nanning Prefecture has two states and fourteen counties in total, and one state and eight counties have been found to have insect infestations."

"It's more than halfway." Lu Yan frowned. The situation was worse than he expected.

“Are there any actions in other counties?”

Qing Wu shook his head. "I heard from the brother who brought back the message that when they first discovered it, no one took it seriously. They thought it was just a few and they would just catch them. But after only three days, the fields were almost full of them, and then the village chief reported it to his superiors..."

He didn't say anything else, but Lu Yan understood that the people below didn't take it seriously, thinking that they were just a few bugs, what could be the problem.

As a result, it was delayed for a few days, and only when the situation became serious did people start to worry.

The final solution is probably the same as what Shen Xingye thought, just pull it out and replant it.

"Call back the rest of the people from all over the country first, and have the people from the escort agency wait outside the city first."

A county has 70,000 to 80,000 people at most, or 20,000 to 30,000 people at least.

More than half of the counties and cities have been affected by the disaster, with hundreds of thousands of people.

If we really let this continue, we don’t know how many people will die this year.

Lu Yan walked out, and Qing Wu followed him without hesitation. When the two arrived at the yard, the green-clothed guards in the escort agency had been waiting for a long time.

The moment they saw Lu Yan, everyone was excited, their eyes lit up, and they shouted “Boss!” one after another.

"Boss, what is the mission this time?"

Seeing him and gathering everyone together, I thought something big must have happened.

Lu Yan nodded in response, "I think you have heard about the insect plague."

Everyone looked at each other, "We've heard some of this, but it's not our business, right?"

"Yeah, and with just a few of us, we can't catch many."

"yes……"

Seeing that Lu Yan's expression was not right, the voices of several people gradually disappeared.

"You don't think this is a serious matter, right? A few bugs can't threaten the Great Zhou, right? You've been living in peace for too long, and you've forgotten what the duties of the Qingyi Guards are?"

As he finished speaking, everyone gradually lowered their heads.

"More than half of the counties in Nanning Prefecture have been affected by the disaster, and the disaster has not stopped yet. If it is not stopped, I am afraid that no one in the entire Nanning Prefecture will be spared. How many people are there in the entire Nanning Prefecture?"

"Nearly three hundred thousand." Someone replied.

If 300,000 people really fail to harvest anything, who knows how many people will starve to death.

"Boss, we know we were wrong."

Lu Yan didn't say anything, just stood in the yard with his back straight.

He clearly didn't say anything, and his tone was extremely casual, but his aura was so overwhelming that it made everyone feel breathless.

Just looking at them made everyone sweat profusely.

Lu Yan turned and left, and paused when he passed Qing Wu. He clearly didn't say anything, but Qing Wu knew that the matter was over and this group of people would have to go back to training, including him.

Thinking of that place, Qing Wu instantly got goosebumps all over his body. If he went in there, it would be more than just a matter of losing a layer of skin.

Looking at the group of people with their heads drooped, he cursed in a low voice, "Why don't you catch up!"

"I really have indulged you too much. You have been living an easy life for so long that you have forgotten your responsibilities. You can expect to lose two layers of weight."

The development of this matter was somewhat unexpected even for Qing Wu. Who could have thought that the soft and chubby bugs could be so powerful? In just a few days, most of the fourteen counties in the two states had fallen.

When Lu Yan arrived outside the city, he only saw Eighteen waiting there. Su Ziling and the others were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing Lu Yan, Shiba was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, "Boss!"

Lu Yan nodded, "What about them?"

"We're already in the village. Miss Su took some people to pick peach leaves and they're already in the field. She asked me to wait for you here, fearing that you wouldn't be able to find them." Eighteen pointed to the village not far away.

Shen Xingye and Su Ziling came to the village chief's house. The villagers didn't know that he was the county magistrate. They just said that the county magistrate arranged for them to come and help kill insects.

The village chief was a middle-aged man in his forties, who looked a bit dark. He was very happy to hear that the county magistrate had sent them to help. However, he became very embarrassed when he spoke to Shen Xingye.

He spoke haltingly, usually answering every question Shen Xingye asked. Su Ziling really couldn't stand it anymore, so he pulled Shen Xingye behind him.

"You go aside, I'll come."

Looking at the girl in front of him who was a head shorter than him, Shen Xingye scratched his head, looking puzzled. He asked Chang Ce, "Is there something wrong with my question?"

Chang Ce: "That's right, but you are so imposing, everyone gets nervous when they see you..." He racked his brains for a long time, and then he couldn't make it up anymore, "You should take a break, and let Miss Su come."

"Uncle, can you take us to the fields to have a look?" Su Ziling thought. He had to take a look around first. He wouldn't get any information if he just asked here.

After one turn, you will understand the situation.

When Su Ziling took over, the man was no longer nervous. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, this way, follow me. Our village is close to the county town, the terrain is relatively flat, and the land is also connected."

"Changce, put the lime here." Su Ziling also asked the village chief to take a few backpacks and sacks, and a group of people walked towards the field.

Along the way, we saw people catching insects in the fields. The situation in their village was similar to that in Baihua Cave, so it wasn't too bad.

"These are the ones that have been caught, but those over there haven't been caught yet. But it's useless to catch them. Look, there are bugs again." The village chief's already dark face was wrinkled into a ball.

Su Ziling went down to the field, squatted down, pulled the mouth of the trumpet and observed carefully.

Seeing her going down to the field, the man's face turned pale with fear. "Girl, girl, don't go down to the field. Just stand on top and take a look. There is manure in the field. The bugs are fat and scary."

Su Ziling squatted on the ground and looked up at them. "It's okay, uncle. To be honest, we are all the same. I am also a farmer. Besides, what's wrong with us being farmers? We are not inferior to others."

The girl squatted on the ground, and when she turned around she smiled particularly brightly, without a trace of disgust in her eyes. The breeze blew by, gently blowing the loose hair around her ears.

She said, "Uncle, stand up straight, what are you afraid of? Those high and mighty people eat the food we grow. So what if we are common people? So what if we are farmers? We don't need their money. We farmers are great! Think about it this way. Without us farmers, they would have nothing to eat."

As Su Ziling spoke, she checked the worm curled up in the heart of the corn. She frowned, suppressed her nausea, took a thin stick, and picked it out.

The color is consistent with theirs, so it can be confirmed that it is the same kind of insect.

"It's the same recipe as ours. It works!" She threw the bug on the ground and stepped on it.

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