Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 2110 Pest Control and Pregnancy [2]

Dr. Dai went to the Great Thorn Guard to help teach the soldiers and relatives simple medical skills, but he was not in the guard.

"Yes." Xiao Ji responded, and did not leave immediately, but brought a few pairs of cotton gloves to Gu Jinli: "Madam put them on before touching sorghum, there will be insects."

You can't let the bugs dirty the little boss's hands.

"Okay." After Gu Jinli took the gloves and put them on, Xiaoji left and drove the carriage to find Uncle Mu Tong. Three quarters of an hour later, he brought Uncle Mu Tong, Sanqi, and Mai Dong.

In order to prevent the bugs from escaping and causing damage to the house, Gu Jinli had ordered several large boxes to be moved to the tent outside the house.

Uncle Mu Tong and the others entered the tent, and when they saw the box, they asked, "Is the bug inside?"

Gu Jinli nodded: "It can form cocoons. I just cut one and looked at it. It looks like a chrysalis, but it is red. I have never seen a red chrysalis. The wings are too long, more than twice as long as the body. I guess it can fly very far.”

The farther the moth travels, the larger the area of ​​the infested field.

"Ma'am, let me take a look." Uncle Mu Tong took out something, opened the big box, and cut open the sorghum stalks with a knife. He saw that the inside had been eaten hollow by white worms, and there was a layer of black matter, emitting It smelled like water.

Uncle Mu Tong: "Bring a pottery bowl."

Sanqi hurriedly handed over a pottery bowl.

Uncle Mu Tong knocked on the sorghum pole, poured the white worms into the pottery bowl, and ordered: "Bottle it for later use."

Mai Dong immediately brought the bottles and divided the worms into six bottles. The number of worms was the same, which would be much more convenient when testing the medicine.

After pouring out the worms in the sorghum stalks, Uncle Mu Tong took a knife and split the sorghum stalks open. He found many cocoons inside, and took them all out and put them in a pottery bowl.

I looked at the leaves again, picked off many moth cocoons on them, and then went to look at the sorghum ears.

The ears of sorghum are much larger than the ears of rice. At this time, they should have fallen from the hand, but the ears of sorghum are so light and fluffy. When they shake, many sorghum husks are shaken off, which shows that they have been seriously eaten by insects.

Uncle Mu Tong: "Bring a big basin."

Sanchi quickly found a clay pot, and Uncle Mu Tong rolled the sorghum ears into the pot, which surprised many insects.

Xiaoji trembled when he saw it... This place in the northwest is attracting insects, and the poisonous insects are coming again before they are dead.

Uncle Mutong went to look at the sorghum roots and soil again, cut the roots together with the soil into a new pottery pot, pulled them with scissors for a while, and said, "I didn't eat the roots, but there are small bugs in the soil, it should be where the moths laid their eggs last year." In the soil, they hatched as soon as the weather got hot this year."

Gu Jinli frowned: "Doesn't that mean that there may be such pests under the land here?"

Uncle Mu Tong nodded: "Not to mention the whole Long'an Mansion, at least the first line of defense is like this. It is possible that the whole Mu County has recruited these kinds of pests."

He also said: "Pests of the moth type are the most harmful to crops. It is estimated that they will not only harm sorghum, but soybeans, wheat, and millet will also suffer."

I don't know how to eat cassava and medicinal materials.

Kuang was shocked when he heard this, and shouted: "My lord, what should we do? There is a shortage of food in the northwest. If this crop of food cannot be harvested, many people will starve to death!"

Kuang almost cried when she said that, remembering seven years ago, when the victims of disasters in the northwest fled to the south... I heard that they were so hungry that they even ate red meat. If you don't come up, something bad will happen.

"There are still migrants coming soon, and the population here will increase. If there is no food, how can we support them?!"

Last year, the adults wrote a memorial to the emperor, and mentioned that refugees, beggars, and families who had fled famine before should be moved back to the northwest to replenish the source of troops, and the emperor agreed.

The various prefectures have been busy for several months, and finally sent people here. Now they are on the way, and they will arrive when the food is almost ripe. Come to help collect the food, and also come to help eat!
Gu Jinli: "Don't worry, Aunt Niu, as long as it is alive, it can be killed, and this kind of moth is no exception. We can definitely kill them and save the food."

Kuang: "But you don't even know what kind of insects they are, can you really think of a way to kill them without destroying the crops?"

Uh, Gu Jinli was stunned, and said: "Although I don't know their exact names, I just treat them as worms."

Uncle Mu Tong nodded: "Ma'am is right, let's do it this way, we have several prescriptions for killing chir'e, I will prepare them right away, and try to kill insects with fumigation."

"Okay, okay, try it quickly." Kuang wiped his sweat and said, "If I can kill them, I will rush to take the medicine back to Yangshanwei tonight. I can't let them harm the crops again."

"En." Uncle Mu Tong, Sanqi, and Mai Dong started to work, found a place, put the worms on a piece of dry firewood, started to light a fire on the ground nearby, added medicinal materials, and smoked the worms.

But these bugs are a bit fierce, and I tried several prescriptions to kill them, and smoked them until dark, but I didn't see them die.

Kuang said straightly: "My God, these insects and poisonous insects are not brothers, right? I was almost fainted by the smoke, but they are fine."

Gu Jinli frowned and said, "Uncle Mu Tong, it seems that these herbs are too mild, we need to add some poison into it."

"Adding poison?!" Kuang was startled: "Using poison to smoke the bugs won't make the food poisonous?"

The ancients were very afraid of this, thinking that if poison was used to eliminate pests, the food would be contaminated with poison, and if people ate the food, they would be poisoned and die.

Gu Jinli said: "Poisons can volatilize, and some poisons can only kill insects. People will be fine after eating them. We will add some mild poisons first, and then we will see if they don't work."

The Kuang family trusted Gu Jinli, and said after hearing it: "Success, then you can add it, I will stay for a few days, and I will go back after you make the medicine."

"Okay." Seeing that Kuang's body was dirty and her hair was wet from sweat, Gu Jinli hurriedly asked Xiaoji to take her to the pharmacy house to take a shower and stay overnight.

The pharmacy house is a green brick and tile house, which is much more comfortable than living in a tent. Widow Xiao and Xiaolan Qingyun live next door. The two women gossip, and Kuang's heart is not so anxious.

In the next few days, Uncle Mu Tong and Gu Jinli had to test the prescriptions, changing the poisons one by one, increasing the dose again and again, but the effect was not very satisfactory.

Either it can only kill the larvae, or it can only kill the moths, or it can't kill the eggs.

The insect eggs buried in the soil have a membrane, and it is difficult for the medicinal juice to penetrate the egg membrane.

Uncle Mu Tong said: "Larvae and moths need to eat. As long as there is medicine in the soil and leaves, the insects and moths will die after eating, but the eggs are different."

Gu Jinli said: "I have tried the medicine for three days, and today is the fourth day. I can't wait for the crops to wait. I'm afraid it won't be enough time for the poison to volatilize. First, add ghost fruit, Qiangnan powder, and red nest soil Use the insecticide to kill the adult insects and moths. Let them grow the eggs in the ground, and then kill them when they come out. After a few years, they will be completely killed."

Several types of poisons are added to the insecticide, so the grains that have been treated with the insecticide have to be left in the field for half a month to evaporate the residual poison.

Fortunately, these deworming poisons are all made of traditional Chinese medicine, which can evaporate very cleanly and leave no residue.

(End of this chapter)