Chapter 1496 Regrets piling up
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Li Tianhui and the Li family were dumbfounded. She turned to look at her parents and said, "Come out! Come out, we need to harvest the rice!"
"It's over! It's over! There really is a locust plague! Go and collect the food quickly! Go and collect it as soon as possible! The locust plague is here!" Old Madam Rong shouted as she looked at the locust that was getting closer and closer to the village.
"Go and collect the grains!" Old Madam Rong shouted at her family.
"This is going to be impossible. The entire village has harvested the rice, what are we going to do?" Old Master Rong asked as he looked at the dense cloud of the locusts.
Old Madam Rong turned around and glared at the foolish mer. "Even if it's impossible, we need to do it! Do you think that we can survive on a few catties of rice? Go and harvest it! Take a few torches with you if possible. The locusts are scared of fire; they would not attack you if you carry flaming torches."
Old Master Rong was so scared that his legs were trembling. He did not want to go out of the house, but he knew that if he didn't then he would get nothing to eat in the future.
He could only drag his unwilling body out of the house and when he saw that none of the sons-in-law of his family came out of their house, he immediately shouted at the top of his voice, "Locusts are coming! What are you hiding inside the house for? Are you waiting for the rice to break and harvest itself? Do you think you all are some young masters?
Come out and harvest the rice!" Old Master Rong had been storing his anger ever since he lost his daughter but couldn't find an outlet.
Now that he found a way, he did not stop himself.
"I am pregnant," the new husband of Rong Xi spoke with a frown. His expression was sullen as he looked at his father-in-law. If he knew that the Rong family was such a fire pit, he wouldn't have married in this family.
"So what if you are pregnant? Are you the first mer to get pregnant? Countless mers work in the fields when they are pregnant! What are you?" Old Master Rong scolded the new husband without holding back.
Old Master Rong looked crazy with his dishevelled hair, he was crying and cursing as he pointed at little Xing.
The official husbands of Rong Xi sneered gleefully when they saw Xiao Xing getting scolded. However, when their father-in-law looked over, they immediately picked up the sickle and went out.
As soon as Old Master Rong rushed out his expression changed when he saw how close the cluster of locusts was to the village. He was filled with regrets as he smelled the scent of rice, the entire village had harvested the rice.
Even Old Master Tong had harvested a few mus of rice by working alone. Only the rice paddies of his family were untouched.
If he had known that this would happen then he wouldn't have cursed and scolded the villagers who were working last night.
"Go! What are you waiting for?" Old Madam Rong shouted at her husband. For the first time in her life, she was finding this mer useless and annoying. If her first husband was alive then he would have never made a stupid decision like this mer and even if he did, he would have done a better job in correcting himself.
Old Master Rong snapped out of his daze and immediately rushed out of the house.
On the other side, Li Tianhui was trembling from head to toe as she looked at the locusts that were getting close to the village. She was holding a torch in her hands but her legs were trembling.
It was so dark despite it being morning. It was really scary.
"Village Head Gu! Village Head Gu! Please help our families! Village Head Gu, you cannot watch us die. Village Head Gu, if you do not help us then we all will starve to death!" Li Tianhui was begging in front of Village Head Gu. Earlier she had mocked Village Head Gu and the rest of the villagers for listening to Yu Dong but now she was filled with regrets for being dismissive.
"Us too.. help us too! Village Head Gu," Old Master Rong almost knelt in front of the woman as he said to her, "We will die if you do not help us. Our family has so many people and there is also a pregnant mer. My daughter is gone, if you don't help us what will become of us?"
Tears streamed down his cheeks as he spoke to Village Head Gu.
Village Head Gu gritted her teeth with hatred as she looked at the two families who were knocking on her door. She couldn't help but say, "Did you have a good night's sleep?"
Last night everyone in the village was working until their waists couldn't straighten up. Even now some of the women were crying in their houses because their calves were aching and their waists were hurting.
Her own feet were swollen and bleeding.@@novelbin@@
All she wanted was to go inside the house and then soak her feet in warm water but now the Li and the Rong family were asking for her help.
They really did not know the meaning of shame.
"Why? Did you not scold the entire village for being noisy and disturbing your sleep? Don't think that I did not hear the curses that you shouted last night." Old Master Gu sneered as he looked at the two families who had slept well all night ignoring the trouble of the villagers.
Old Madam Rong ignored the old mer and turned to look at Village Head Gu before saying, "Village Head Gu, please help us. We all will die."
Seeing that they were crying and begging, Village Head Gu couldn't refuse. What was more the Rong and the Li families were still members of the Big River Village, if something happened to them, then she would have to answer in the meeting.
Most probably these two families also knew that she couldn't ignore them and came to look for her.
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