Moyan's Best - Red Locust

Author: Mo Yan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In Gaomiao County, Jiaodong Peninsula, two devastating locust plagues occurred around 50 years ago. The locust plague 50 years ago saw the people of Dongxiang in Gaomiao County, led by the Fourth Lord, investing heavily to build a locust temple and worship the locust god to drive away the rampant locusts. However, the locusts, with their vigorous life and reproductive abilities, continued to surge and spread endlessly. Later, under the guidance of the Ninth Lord, the locust temple was destroyed, and the locust god was driven away. All methods were exhausted to exterminate the locusts, and even Liu General was summoned, but the locusts remained undiminished. Fourth Mother and her lover also died in that locust plague. The locust plague 50 years later, with the help of the People's Liberation Army and scientists, people finally defeated the locusts.