Speaking of which, she glanced at the Young Emperor.
"Normally, grasshoppers don't eat their own kind, but when locusts have no food source, they will choose to eat their own kind in order to survive," she said.
Yuan Shangyi turned pale upon hearing this.
Feng Yun crushed the locusts underfoot in the oxcart, tossed them out, and said indifferently, "In order to avoid being eaten by their own kind, the more locusts there are, the faster they move. That's where the saying comes from about locusts passing through, darkening the sky, and leaving barren thousands of miles..."
"Then why do they swarm?"
"For reproduction, for survival," she answered.
Where there was a question, there was an answer.
Yuan Shangyi grew to like the Princess, full of learning, even more.
"Madam knows even more than the Grand Tutor," he remarked.
Feng Yun looked at him and said, "I too learned these things from books. If Ayuan likes, he can often come to my manor to read books..."
