40: Zero Yuan Purchase, a Big Bang

Yun Feifei knew, of course, that snatching the things from the village chief would cause his dissatisfaction, so she spoke out before he even opened his mouth.

"Grandpa Village Chief, it's no use to continue driving them away and killing them. The crops can't be saved. The most urgent thing now is to catch these locusts!!"

"What???"

The village chief thought he had heard it wrong. Isn’t this the same thing?

"Grandpa Village Chief, listen to me. The crops are gone and everyone is going to starve. But there are so many locusts here. If we catch locusts and store them as food, they can still fill everyone's stomachs! After all, locusts can be considered meat..."

Yun Feifei explained it quickly to the village chief. The more the village chief listened to Yun Feifei, the more he felt that what she said made sense. He still had a question, so he asked it.

"Can these locusts be eaten?" Locusts eat crops, and everyone regards locusts as a scourge and beast and is unwilling to come into contact with them, especially in backward rural areas.

"Cockroaches and centipedes can be used as medicine, so why can't locusts be eaten?"

Yun Feifei paused for a moment and added, "But there are always unexpected things. These locusts may kill people. You should make it clear to everyone. Whether to store or not is a personal matter."

The best way to cook locusts is to fry them in oil. Fried locusts taste so delicious!

But oil was such a precious commodity in that era, and I guess no one would be willing to spend a lot of oil to fry locusts.

You can choose to roast them, and the roasted taste is also good. The simplest way is to steam or boil them, but steamed or boiled locusts have a bad smell.

Yun Feifei believed that for the disaster victims who were about to starve to death, as long as it could fill their stomachs, this little bit of strange smell would not be a big deal.

Yun Feifei looked around and said, "Village Chief, we have to hurry up to catch the locusts. After the locusts have eaten all the food in the fields, they will move to other places. Then we won't be able to catch them even if we want to."

After Yun Feifei finished talking to the village chief, she turned around and returned to her previous position, regardless of whether the village chief accepted her suggestion or not, waiting for her younger brothers and sisters to arrive.

Yun Feifei returned to her previous position and had not seen Yun Guohua and the others.

So she entered the space consciously and searched through the supplies in her space, looking for a container that could be used to hold the locusts.

Then he continued to use the previous method to collect locusts into the space.

After a while, Yun Guohua and his four siblings arrived. Following Yun Feifei's instructions, each of them came carrying a backpack and a large bundle of sacks.

Yun Feifei asked them to catch locusts and put them into sacks.

After listening to her, they didn't ask any questions and just started doing what Yun Feifei said.

The four of them were busy catching locusts, while Yun Feifei stood aside motionless as usual.

In everyone's opinion, no matter how seriously Yun Feifei was injured, food was very important at this time. Without food, they would starve.

Didn’t you see that everyone in the village, from the white-haired, disabled elderly to the children still rolling on the ground, contributed their efforts?

However, Yun Guohua and his four siblings did not complain at all when Yun Feifei watched coldly.

Yun Feifei was very satisfied with this. If they had many complaints about her and felt dissatisfied, they would have considered leaving them.

As soon as Yun Feifei had this thought, she felt something unusual coming from deep in her soul, and a vague belief came to her mind, telling her not to do it.

Because of this abnormality in her soul, Yun Feifei put the thought behind her and there was nothing on her mind in the depths of her soul.

Because it was a special period now, the strangeness in her mind came and went quickly, so Yun Feifei didn't pay much attention to it.

A villager who was close to them saw what Yun Guohua and his three siblings were doing and came over to ask.

"Why are you catching locusts? They are harmful. You need to kill them."

"My sister said she wanted to catch them and eat them."

"This thing stinks, how can it be eaten..." The man said while persuading Yun Guohua and the others not to waste their energy on catching them. Wouldn't it be better to just kill them directly?

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