Guide to raise my cutie husbands-Chapter 1491: Harvesting the rice
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"What? But the rice hasn’t ripened yet!" One of the villagers couldn’t help but say. The rice in the paddies was yet to ripen as it was sown not too long ago. How could they harvest the rice when it was yet to ripen?
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"If you don’t want to harvest then you can leave the rice that belongs to your family but you will have to harvest the rice that you are growing for the Yu family," said Elder Sister Gu with a calm voice causing the villager who had just spoken up to turn quiet.
She looked at Elder Sister Gu in disbelief as she couldn’t believe that Elder Sister Gu abandoned her so easily! Couldn’t she have persuaded her a bit more to harvest the rice?
"When have you suffered after listening to Madam Yu? If anything you all have suffered by not listening to her."
Everyone in the crowd fell silent because what Elder Sister Gu said was the truth. They have never suffered a loss by following Yu Dong.
"Those who have the duty to guard the village keep patrolling, don’t let your guard down no matter what. Let the children help if possible but harvest the rice at all costs!" She paused and added, "If possible someone go and tell the Big Mountain Village and Big Sand Village to harvest the rice as well."
Though the magistrate was already on the move to alert the rest of the villages, who knows how long it would take for the messengers to arrive at the other two villages? What if they miss the precious time to harvest the rice?
"Just tell everyone who you know that the locust plague is coming," she then pointed to the horizon which was darker than the rest of the sky before remarking, "Doesn’t it look like the sky before the locust plague happened twenty years ago."
Though she was really young back then, she did remember the sky turning dark in the afternoon before everything was eaten clean by the locusts.
Some of them have experienced locust plague and while a few of the women in the village were too young they still remembered the hard days when they couldn’t eat anything for days.
Once the locusts passed by their village not even a single green leaf was left behind, everything was destroyed and there was no grain left to harvest.
That year countless villagers starved to death.
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When the old women saw the sky darken bit by bit, they couldn’t help but tremble. At first, they did not pay attention to the sky but now that Elder Sister Gu had pointed it out —— the sky indeed resembled the sky before the locust plague!
"Heavens! We cannot have a locust plague! This is simply adding insult to the injury. Dear Heavens are you trying to kill us all?" One of the women knelt on the ground as she kowtowed. Tears flowed down her cheeks as she muttered, "We are just commoners with no power, we have done nothing wrong."
"It is really similar to that day!" Another woman gasped as she staggered and was held by her daughter. One of the weak-hearted mer swooned before fainting.
"The heavens are killing us!"
"Enough!" Village head Gu who had arranged everything for her field, rushed and said to the villagers who were crying with tears flooding down their cheeks. "Instead of wasting your time by crying, why don’t you go and harvest the rice? We still have time, so unless you want to waste your time and miss the opportunity to harvest the rice in your field you can continue crying."
The villagers snapped out of the daze and then immediately made their way to the field but there were a still lot of villagers who did not believe that there would be locust plague.
One of them was Old Master Rong. After the death of his daughter, he seemed to have gotten even more crazy and messed up.
He immediately spoke up, "Just because Yu Dong said that there would be a locust plague you are believing her words? What if she is wrong, would we be not ruining a well-growing crop?"
"The rice hadn’t even ripened yet!"
"The reason why you can even grow rice is thanks to Madam Yu! What nonsense are you spouting without the wells that she had dug in the village with her own money and the paddies that she had arranged? Do you think that you can even say those words? How dare you even question Madam Yu?"
"You…"
"Those who believe in me and Madam Yu can come with me. We will start harvesting the rice and those who have doubts can stay behind and do whatever they want to do," said Village Head Gu. She did not have the time to waste by quibbling with someone like Master Rong.
She was already tired of dealing with these villagers who liked to court death. Last time it was Yu Linyun who caused great trouble for the village. Fortunately, Yu Dong and Wu Junfen were able to keep them safe.
Because of Yu Linyun even though they had nothing to do with what happened in the Black Pot Village, their village was still being blamed by the relatives of those who died in the fire of Black Pot Village.
It was simply too much!
"We believe in you and Madam Yu, Village Head Gu," one of the villagers said politely.
"That’s right, Village Head Gu. We trust you and Madam Yu, and we are willing to harvest the rice. At worst, we will only suffer for a night and even if the rice is half-ripened, we know Madam Yu will not wrong us. However, if the locust plague really came then we will be the one who will have to pay Madam Yu."
Even if someone wanted to deny it, the fact remained. Yu Dong’s majesty in the village was simply unrivalled. If she said that there would be a locust plague then there was a ninety-nine percent chance that there would be a locust plague!
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