Chapter 254: Yu Wuyou Helps
“It’s Daddy Rong, and another Daddy asked me not to tell you first.”
Xie Chong: “Rong what? Why can’t I say it!”
Just as Qin Wanwan was about to say Daddy Rong’s name, someone rushed in from outside.
“General, it’s bad, locusts… the locusts are back.”
Xie Chong stood up: “Everyone prepare to catch the locusts!”
“Yes!”
Qin Wanwan also clamored to go along: “Daddy, if you don’t take me, I’ll go by myself.”
Xie Chong believed this little one was absolutely capable of doing that.
For safety’s sake, he’d better keep this little one by his side.
“Daddy, Daddy Yu, let’s go together, let’s go catch locusts.”
Yu Wuyou snapped back to his senses: “I don’t want to go.”
What’s so good about catching locusts?
Qin Wanwan: “After we catch them, we can go back and eat strawberries and grapes. Some of the grapes at home are already mature and edible.”
Hearing this, Yu Wuyou instantly stood up.
“Since I’m bored anyway, I’ll go take a look.”
Xie Chong didn’t pay him any mind.
As soon as they arrived at the wheat field, the locusts flew in.
It was a vast swarm, as dark as a thundercloud, several times more numerous than yesterday’s locust swarm.
Qin Wanwan started catching locusts again with her little net bag.
Yu Wuyou stood beside Qin Wanwan, and suddenly several small, light red insects the size of ladybugs emerged from his body and flew out.
Soon, wherever those small insects passed, the locusts began to ignite.
Qin Wanwan was stunned.
“What is this?”
“Flame Lamp Insect.”
Yu Wuyou showed Qin Wanwan a Flame Lamp Insect resting on his finger.
“This is cultivated from a special type of firefly that lives near the Flame Flower. They can emit light that is much hotter than their own body temperature. After cultivation, they become like this. When they come into contact with hot weather and the body heat of other creatures, they emit high temperatures and ignite the surrounding creatures.”
Qin Wanwan’s mouth widened: “So powerful.”
Yu Wuyou raised his finger, and the Flame Lamp Insect on his fingertip also flew out.
However, after burning for less than a minute, those Flame Lamp Insects also died.
Yu Wuyou said: “But their burning comes at the cost of their lives.”
Xie Chong glanced over, his blood pressure soaring.
“Yu Wuyou, are you crazy? This is all grass and wheat here. What if you let those things fly around and burn the wheat!”
Once it started burning, it would burn in patches!
Yu Wuyou looked innocent: “I just wanted to help.”
Xie Chong: “Hinderance?”
Yu Wuyou pouted, and Qin Wanwan hugged his arm to comfort him.
“Daddy Yu, don’t be sad. I’ll give you more strawberries when we get back.”
He was instantly comforted.
However, there were really too many locusts this time.
Qin Wanwan ran until she was out of breath, and she was bumped by locusts on her face several times, which hurt.
Her eyes welled up with tears, and Keke cursed angrily, quickly using his beak to peck at the locusts.
“Damn it, we should have brought the big hornets from home!”
Qin Wanwan, with teary eyes, nodded. They were so focused on bringing food that they forgot.
Yu Wuyou released some of the flying insects from his body, as well as the beautiful purple butterflies Qin Wanwan had seen before.
The purple butterflies circled the locust swarm and then, leading a large group of dazed locusts, flew into the net bag as if walking into a trap.
Xie Chong also saw the situation with the butterflies over there. His eyes lit up, and he came to find Yu Wuyou.
“Can your butterflies lead those locusts into the bonfire?”
Yu Wuyou nodded: “Yes, they can.”
Xie Chong instinctively reached out to pat his shoulder to thank him, but then remembered that the guy was covered in all sorts of poisonous insects and retracted his hand.
“Thanks, I’ll treat you to a drink later.”
Killing the locusts was important, so he would temporarily overlook the matter of this guy trying to snatch his daughter.
Soon, under Xie Chong’s command, several bonfires were lit in a safe area.
The rest depended on Yu Wuyou.
He took out a bamboo flute, and the moment the flute sounded, several beautiful purple butterflies flew out. After circling a few times, they led a large swarm of dazed locusts towards the bonfire.
It was like moths to a flame.
After completing their task, the purple butterflies flew back and circled around Yu Wuyou and Qin Wanwan.
The pair, already good-looking, surrounded by butterflies, looked like immortals descending to earth.
People nearby couldn’t help but stare for a few moments.
So beautiful.
If they weren’t busy dealing with the locusts, they would have watched for longer.
“They like you very much.”
Yu Wuyou said, looking at the butterflies surrounding Qin Wanwan.
“You’ve raised that tracking butterfly very well.”
Yu Wuyou raised his hand, and several red butterflies flew out.
The red butterfly on Qin Wanwan’s body excitedly flew towards its companions.
The few butterflies danced gracefully, and it was obvious that Qin Wanwan’s red butterfly was a bit larger.
Yu Wuyou wasn’t being polite; Qin Wanwan had indeed raised that red butterfly very well.
With the help of the purple butterflies, Qin Wanwan and Yu Wuyou found a tree and sat beneath it to cool off and rest.
“Daddy, can you make some medicine that will make these locusts die or be afraid?”
Yu Wuyou blinked: “It seems I can.”
When it came to dealing with insects, Yu Wuyou could confidently say he was number one.
He understood various insects very well. He immediately took out several plants from a pocket hanging at his waist that Qin Wanwan didn’t recognize.
These plants had been processed. Then, he took out a small medicine pot and put these plants, along with the corpse of a type of insect, into it, grinding them into a small pile of powder in a certain ratio.
“It’s ready, shall we try it?”
“This medicine is harmless to anything else, but as soon as a locust touches it, it will lose its strength.”
It was specifically targeted at the locust breed.
So, the two, one big and one small, took the medicinal powder to a patch of locusts to try it out.
The effect was immediate.
Even when the medicinal powder landed on the wheat, and the locusts landed on the wheat, they quickly fell to the ground.
Qin Wanwan: (☆o☆)
“Daddy, you’re too amazing!”
Yu Wuyou puffed out his chest proudly when praised: “Of course, I understand insects very well.”
“But I only have this much medicine on me, so I can only make this much.”
Qin Wanwan tugged his hand: “Let’s go find Daddy Xie first.”
The two found Xie Chong and, with sparkling eyes, showed him the effect of the medicinal powder.
Xie Chong: (☆_☆)
“How much of this medicinal powder is left?!”
This was incredibly useful.
Yu Wuyou: “Just this much.”
He spread his hands. After sprinkling it just now, only a small pinch remained.
Xie Chong: He was overcome with heartache.
Such a large amount had been sprinkled out just now!
“Can you make more?”
Yu Wuyou: “There are no more medicinal herbs.”
Xie Chong: “Tell me what medicinal herbs you need!”
Yu Wuyou: “Mugwort, white velvet grass…”
He listed five types of herbs, four of which were relatively common and could be found here. The only difficult one was an herb that only grew in the south, which wasn’t available here, and the manure and corpse of another type of Gu worm.
