After a locust plague, Takouchi Village was removed from Xiangping Township.

No one can accept such a result.

But that's the truth.

At the call of the village chief, the villagers who returned to the village wiped away tears and began to pack their things.

The village chief took several village representatives and rushed towards the county seat.

He wants to report the disaster situation here to the county government and apply for subsidies.

Moreover, he also has to report to the county magistrate on how to deal with these locust eggs.

Regarding the locust plague, although the Chu State did not have any early response methods, they did have certain methods of dealing with it after the locust plague.

There are established procedures for how to burn or dry these insect eggs, and how to reuse the land here.

However, some things are just as shiny as donkey skin.

Post-disaster disposal actually consumes a lot of financial, manpower and material resources.

The damage to Taguchi Village was so serious that one county alone would not be enough to recover under such circumstances.

Therefore, in this case, there is a high probability that Taguchi Village will be abandoned by the county seat, and the villagers here will be coordinated and relocated to other villages. And even if this place is restored later, the original villagers will basically not move back.

After all, in this era of scarce population, land is enough.

If this place is destroyed, then it needs to be reclaimed in another place.

This is the most appropriate approach at the moment.

Not long after the village chief set off, every household had their things ready. When the village chief came back and told them the village where they would be resettled, they would set off for the new village.

But at this moment, someone in the village suddenly noticed that the sky outside suddenly became dark.

Not only that, the originally calm sky suddenly began to blow with strong winds.

The villagers who were still in the house, including Fang Yu, all came out of the house and glanced at the sky.

You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

The sky was clear before, but suddenly it was covered with dark clouds.

Coupled with gusts of wind.

Obviously, a heavy rain is brewing and will fall at any time.

As a result, everyone didn’t have to wait long.

It only takes an hour for the clouds to gather, the wind to rise, and then the rain to fall.

One drop fell to the ground, and raindrops as big as an egg began to fall from the sky.

The rain was pouring down and the wind was strong, so everyone had to hide in the house to take shelter from the rain.

Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo began to move the firewood next door to the room in a panic.

With such a heavy rain, if they don't move quickly, once the firewood gets wet, they won't be able to light a fire in the next few days.

Only one-third of the firewood came and was carried, and the remaining firewood was already wet.

After returning to the room, I still closed the doors and windows as before to prevent the locust plague.

However, this time it was not leaking locusts, but rain...

Under the influence of strong winds, rainwater penetrates everywhere, starting from the window edges, and the roof is also undergoing a waterproof test at the moment.

The result is not good, some areas have started to drip.

It was originally a dry day, but the sudden heavy rain directly caused the temperature to drop one after another.

Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo couldn't help but put a coat on themselves, and then began to move the supplies and beds to a location where there would be no rainwater leakage.

After finishing their work, the three of them sat on the stools and looked at each other. No one was in the mood to talk. Everyone just sat in a daze, waiting for the rain to stop.

Fang Sanduo and the other two were in a daze, and Fang Yu seemed to be in a daze. In fact, he was opening the task panel and was deep in thought while looking at the side quest [Migratory Locust].

Nearly half of the time has passed since Fang Yu took over this task.

According to the time bar above, Fang Yu's task will be completed in about 10 days.

But Fang Yu is not happy at all now.

Because, he felt something was wrong...

He has already experienced the locust plague. Judging from the disaster situation, it is indeed terrifying.

Wherever the locust plague passes, the grass and trees are withered and the ground is bare. As long as there are fields within the range, it is basically a devastating impact.

In just three days, Taguchi Village was removed from the Chu State because of this, and this was just one stop the locusts passed through.

For the entire Chu State, the harm caused by the locust plague was even more serious than the war.

But, here's the problem.

These problems are huge.

So big that it has become a hazard to the entire country.

But unfortunately, for individuals, especially for Fang Yu and the three of them who had just arrived in Taguchi Village, that was not always the case.

The locust plague destroyed Taguchi Village, but they had only been there for a month.

Because they had prepared in advance, Fang Yu still had sufficient supplies and the house was still there. Even if they moved to another village, it would not be a big problem for them.

Spending the last 10 days like this is like just lying down!

But...will the task be so simple?

Thinking of the tasks given by the system in the past, its difficulty was always determined based on Fang Yu's own real-time changes.

This kind of mission, whose difficulty and reward are not proportional, has never been released before.

So let's do this.

The problem is obvious.

Since the problem is not the locust plague, it means that the real problem has not yet arrived!

So what is the real problem...

The pupils in Fang Yu's eyes began to shrink again, and their focus was in front of a puddle on the ground.

heavy rain?!

"Uncle... I remember that I heard from the village chief before that it has not rained in Taguchi Village for almost two months, right?"

Fang Sanduo was in a daze, and when he heard Fang Yu's words, he felt like he was waking up from a dream.

"Oh...oh! Yes, I heard from the village chief last time that it hasn't rained in Taguchi Village for a long time. If it weren't for the abundant well water and river water, there would almost be no water for irrigation of the fields..."

"This rain is also the first rain we have encountered in the past few months..."

After listening to Fang Sanduo's words, Fang Yu lowered his head and seemed to be talking to himself.

"Yeah...it's true, I almost forgot, this is the first rain we have encountered..."

After hearing this, Fang Sanduo realized that this was the first rain they encountered after they fled to Taguchi Village due to drought.

Although it was because of the drought, it was all because of famine, so they never paid attention to the drought.

After all, although it was a drought, there was still no shortage of water resources along the way. This made their only memory of the drought the hot sunshine, not the fact that it had not rained for a long time.

"A long drought is followed by a locust plague... heavy rain... strong wind..."

"Drought...flood? Drought...flood! Flood!! Flood! Flash flood?!!"

Fang Yu continued to associate and associate what happened recently with what he observed, and then diverged his thoughts to think about what might happen next.

Then he remembered the summary of these natural disasters in modern society.

For example, severe drought will inevitably lead to locust plagues...and droughts and floods!

In modern climate research, climate change actually follows the laws of nature.

During a severe drought, the evaporated water vapor will not disappear out of thin air. This water vapor will often be carried to other areas by air currents, and then form large-scale rainfall.

Maybe there was a severe drought in the east for three months, but then it rained heavily in the north for a month.

There is drought and water shortage in the front, and flash floods occur in the rear.

This is drought and flood disaster.

Moreover, it is possible that after a severe drought in the same location, heavy rains may continue, and the drought and floods may change rapidly, causing two injuries.

Natural disaster, natural disaster, this is a natural disaster!

The more Fang Yu thought about it, the more she felt that this idea was becoming clearer.

Heavy rain, heavy rain, but the river and well water in Taguchi Village have not dried up, which means that the river water here is still very rich.

Water levels rise during heavy rains. In this era when levees were only sand structures, flash floods were basically unavoidable.

Moreover, heavy rains will not only cause flash floods, but may also cause major hazards such as mudslides and landslides.
To be continued...