Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 33 Wolf's Poison

The two horses were running fast across the land of Dengzhou, and winter was approaching. In this warmer day, summer was hotter, but winter seemed to be colder. It was just after Dengzhou in October that there was a very lingering wind. Bitter cold wind.

At first, Hu Sanniang thought it was too hot, so she threw the fox fur scarf she brought from home into Sun Xin's basket, and followed Sun Xin on a gallop. Plateau red.

At first, Sun Xin was full of thoughts about collecting herbs after going up the mountain and completely forgot about it. He didn't realize it until he looked back, and quickly stopped the horse.
He said with some embarrassment: "Look at me, I was so busy on my way that I completely forgot about it."

Hu Sanniang was already flushed from the cold, but she joked: "I didn't know you could run so fast when you got on the horse, and the wind blows on the horse's back, and you can't hear me when I speak."

Sun Xin took the fox fur bib out of his medicine pocket, and carefully patted off the dust on it.Hu Sanniang stayed there quietly, watching Sun Xin help herself wrap the fox fur scarf around her, and then tuck her clothes tightly, making sure that she was not cold before riding the horse again.

"Let's walk slowly this time, if you feel cold, please tell me."

"Understood!" Hu Sanniang said with a smile.

The young couple rode horses in such a leisurely manner, and soon came to Dengyun Mountain.

When she got off the horse, Hu Sanniang still had some unfinished thoughts, thinking about how she arrived so soon.She watched Sun Xin go to tie the horse, and she just felt that it used to take more than half an hour from Shili Pai to Dengyun Mountain, which was a long journey, but today she felt that it was very close.

After tying the horse, Sun Xin picked up the medicine basket and the medicine hoe in one hand, and naturally took Hu Sanniang's hand with the other hand.

This holding was completely easy with Sun Xin, but Hu Sanniang was stunned for a moment, and looked down at the hands they held together, her face flushed instantly, but she obediently followed.

After Sun Xin went up the mountain, he carefully inspected the plants on the mountain.

Today, I went to Yunshan Mountain and told Hu Sanniang that it was to collect medicine. In fact, what Sun Xin really wanted was to learn more about the products near Shili Pai so that he could make plans for his work in the coming year.

In this era without chemical fertilizers and modern pesticides, if Sun Xin wants to ensure the production, he can only use soil fertilizers and pesticides as much as possible.

Fertilizer is okay. Now that the output of my farm is so large and there are more than 50 people, there is no shortage of sources of manure and livestock fertilizer. In hot weather, farmers should go to the river to clear some river mud or go to the beach to catch some sea moss. , starfish shells and the like, although it is a bit troublesome, it can also supplement the lack of trace elements.

In the past few days, Sun Xin has also inquired about the coal mines in Laizhou. Zhaoyuan, where Laizhou is located in later generations, is a famous mining town in the country. Far away there is now mainly developing gold mines, but after asking, there are also businessmen who tell Sun Xin that if Sun Xin wants some coal mines, they can help to transport them.Coal mine slag is an excellent base fertilizer raw material.In addition, the boron ore produced in Zhaoyuan can also be made into soil liquid medicine for soaking seeds, so that the fertilizer can be solved.

However, although the fertilizer problem has been partially resolved, pesticides have become a hidden danger that Sun Xin is very worried about.

He had no idea how many kinds of soil pesticides he could produce under the conditions of this era.

The two climbed up the mountain together hand in hand. Along the way, Sun Xin scanned the surrounding grass. Although he found many kinds of herbs, he didn't stop until Sun Xin saw a grass growing in the corner of his eyes. Herbaceous crops with swollen rhizomes.

Wolf Poison!

A cleverness flashed through Sun Xin's mind, and he finally found a good thing.

He hurriedly took Hu Sanniang to the place where the chamaejasma grew, and when he looked around, he found a large area of ​​chamaejasma.

Sun Xin was very pleasantly surprised.

Chamaejasma is a very toxic plant, and the alkaloids in it are very effective in controlling underground pests. This is what Sun Xin himself used in the ecological planting experiment field before.

As long as the chamaejasma root is cut into thin slices, it can be used. It can be dried and crushed to make a powder. It can be sprinkled on the roots of plants to kill pests that come out of the ground, and it also has a certain control effect on pests that damage plant roots.

Boiling and filtering the root of chamaejasma can also be used to spray wheat crops directly. Although the effect of modern pesticides is completely different, at least with chamaejasma it has a basic control method for leaf-eating pests.

In this era, chamaejasma was also sold in pharmacies, but the output was not large. Maybe the sum of chamaejasma in all the pharmacies in Denglai Second Mansion was not enough for the consumption of Sun Family Village.

Unexpectedly, there is such a large patch of wolf's poison growing on Dengyun Mountain.

Seeing Sun Xin inspecting a plant, he squatted down and started digging. Hu Sanniang walked up curiously and asked, "What kind of medicinal material is this?"

"Don't touch it!" Sun Xin had just cut off the root of a plant with a hoe, and when he saw Hu Sanniang touching the wolf's poison with his tender hands, he hurriedly stopped it.

Euphorbia chamaejasma is poisonous all over its body, its roots, leaves, flowers and fruits are all very poisonous, if there is any wound on Hu Sanniang's hand that she didn't notice, just touching it is enough for her to suffer.

Hu Sanniang was startled, she didn't dare to go forward, and asked from a distance, "What is this thing for?"

"This thing is very poisonous. I want to take it back to make pesticides to prevent pests. Now I have to cut a few roots and plant them back."

"Can it be planted with roots?"

Sun Xin nodded, this piece of chamaejasma is probably enough for him to use next year's pesticides after drying, but after that, he can't keep up, the two of them are too busy to harvest these chamaejasma flowers, he can be called a farmer later Let's do it, now he wants to take back Wolfbane and try to breed it.

In the previous life, no one in the Shandong area was interested in this thing, because it was a waste of land because of its low value, but when Sun Xin went to several desertification control bases in the Northwest for business exchanges, he had seen farmers breeding chamaejasma.

According to what he knew at the time, this thing is very wild. It can be planted even on the edge of a desert. It is resistant to cold and drought. They should have no problem feeding them.Just be careful about the spread of this thing. Sun Xin has already planned to plant it on wasteland far away from his own farmland. After all, this thing is extremely competitive, and ordinary weeds cannot compete with it. Poisonous weeds can be troublesome if your own field is full of poisonous weeds.

Hu Sanniang never knew that this thing could be used as a pesticide. Seeing Sun Xin carefully handling the rhizome of chamaejasma, she felt that Sun Xin was very capable and knew everything.

(End of this chapter)