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Chapter 43 Development of New Insecticides
"I'll be right over!" Xiao Yuan hung up the phone, and immediately rushed to the rice planting base in the suburbs. When something like this happened, he naturally wanted to check it out as soon as possible.

Soon, Xiao Yuan came to the rice planting base.

From a long distance, he saw a large number of yellow-green insects flying around in the rice fields, which were locusts.

At this moment, these locusts are desperately eating the rice in the rice fields.

"Xiao Yuan, you're finally here! Take a look, what should you do now?" Seeing Xiao Yuan coming, Lin Tao hurried over.

Obviously, Lin Tao was helpless against these locusts, and could only count on Xiao Yuan to solve the crisis.

"Have you taken any measures?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"I've had people spray insecticides on the rice fields just now, but it doesn't seem to have much effect, because these locusts don't seem to be our domestic species." Lin Tao said.

"It's not a domestic species? Are you saying that these locusts may have come in from abroad?" Xiao Yuan's expression darkened. If that was the case, the situation would undoubtedly be even worse, because it was an invasion of species!

The so-called species invasion means that after some foreign species enter the country, because there are no natural enemies in the country, the reproduction rate will be so alarming that it will get out of control!
After a while, the staff of the paddy field caught a few locusts.

Xiao Yuan grew up in the countryside. He has seen many locusts. He naturally knows what the locusts in China look like. At the moment when he took a look, he knew that these locusts were definitely not local locusts!

"These are not domestic locusts!" Xiao Yuan said with a serious face, "How could so many foreign locusts come here suddenly? I think someone must be playing tricks in the dark!"

"Yes, I think so too." Lin Tao frowned and said, "Our rice base is so successful, there must be many people who are jealous of us, maybe it's the ghosts of those who are jealous of us!"

Xiao Yuan nodded, then sighed: "Who did the trick, don't worry about it for now, let's solve the current difficulties first."

"How to solve this?" Lin Tao spread his hands and said with a bitter face: "Facing these foreign locusts, all the insecticides on the market are useless!"

Xiao Yuan snorted softly, and said, "Since the insecticides on the market don't work, let's develop a new type of insecticide ourselves."

"Ah? Research and develop insecticides by yourself?" Lin Tao stared blankly at Xiao Yuan. To be honest, he was struck by Xiao Yuan's idea again. Xiao Yuan's ideas are always so crazy.

"I think our rice won't last long under the gnawing of these locusts. Is it still too late to develop insecticides?" Lin Tao said with a wry smile.

"Of course it's too late, just give me one afternoon." Xiao Yuan said lightly.

"Ah? One afternoon? Are you sure?" Lin Tao opened his mouth so wide that he could stuff an egg.

"I'm sure." Xiao Yuan nodded, and then said: "Now I need to buy some raw materials for making insecticides, you can go buy them with me."

Immediately, Xiao Yuan and Lin Tao left the rice base together.

About half an hour later, they came to a chemical plant on the outskirts of the city.

The main business of this chemical factory is the research and development and production of rat poison, insecticides, mosquito coils and other chemicals. In such a chemical factory, Xiao Yuan can naturally find all the raw materials for insecticides he needs.

The reason why he came to this factory was because the machinery factory where Lin Tao used to work had some business dealings with this factory, so he was an acquaintance.

Xiao Yuan originally wanted to buy some raw materials from here, and then return to the laboratory of the rice planting base to develop insecticides, but after arriving here, he changed his mind: since he has already come here, it is better to develop here Forget about pesticides, after all, there are ready-made raw materials and equipment in this factory, which can save time to the greatest extent.

Xiao Yuan immediately communicated with the factory manager, and the factory manager readily agreed when he learned that Xiao Yuan wanted to borrow the factory's raw materials and equipment.

However, when Xiao Yuan walked into the laboratory and saw the chemical raw materials in the laboratory, he changed his mind again.

With his current knowledge base, it would be a breeze to develop an insecticide with great lethality. It didn't even take him an hour to develop an insecticide that could kill all the locusts. .However, it cannot be ignored that once these insecticides are used, the locusts can be killed immediately, but because of the contamination with these insecticides, the rice will also contain certain harmful substances, which will be harmful to human consumption. detrimental to the health of the patient.

Of course, the rice on the market now has been treated with pesticides to varying degrees. No one dares to say that their rice is completely green and pesticide-free. This is already an unwritten rule in the industry, but Xiao Yuan Always a person who likes to break the rules.He feels that a completely green and harmless rice product is needed in China now, and some insect damage is unavoidable in the rice planting process, so the only way to solve this problem is to launch a completely green and harmless rice product. pesticides!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yuan walked out of the laboratory and said to Lin Tao, "Let's go."

"Ah? Let's go? You don't research and develop insecticides anymore?" Hearing this, Lin Tao was taken aback, thinking that Xiao Yuan had lost confidence in himself and gave up the research and development of insecticides. Thinking about it, it is true, after all, the difficulty is too high Yes, Xiao Yuan probably retreated in spite of the difficulties.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yuan smiled and said: "Of course insecticides have to be developed, but I want to develop them in another way. Let's go to a Chinese medicine store in the city."

"What are you doing at the Chinese medicine store?" Lin Tao stared blankly at Xiao Yuan. He wondered if Xiao Yuan was out of his mind?
"Don't ask, you'll know when you go." Xiao Yuan said.

At that moment, Lin Tao had no choice but to leave the chemical plant with Xiao Yuan, and went to a Chinese medicine shop in the city.

On the way to the Chinese medicine shop, Lin Tao found out that Xiao Yuan planned to use Chinese medicine ingredients to make insecticides.

When Lin Tao learned about Xiao Yuan's idea, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Xiao Yuan didn't bother to tell him so much. After arriving at the pharmacy, he bought some Chinese medicinal materials, and then returned to the rice planting base in the suburbs.

In a laboratory at the rice base, Xiao Yuan started his research and development.

Xiao Yuan was immersed in the research and development of insecticides, and did not realize the loss of time at all. In this way, an afternoon passed before he knew it.

In the evening, Xiao Yuan walked out of the laboratory.

Lin Tao had been waiting outside for a long time, but to Xiao Yuan's surprise, Lin Lan also came.

"Lin Lan? Why are you here?" Xiao Yuan asked in surprise when he saw Lin Lan.

Because Xiao Yuan didn't tell Lin Lan about this matter at all, Xiao Yuan thought that Lin Tao would not take the initiative to tell Lin Lan about this matter, so he was very surprised when he saw Lin Lan appearing here.

"You didn't tell me about such a big thing?" Lin Lan gave Xiao Yuan a blank look, and said, "Do you know? Now many people in the outside world know that your rice fields are plagued by locusts!"

"What? Many people know about it?" Hearing this, Xiao Yuan frowned suddenly. This was beyond his expectation. After all, there were not many people in his rice planting base. How did the news spread so quickly? ?
"Are you surprised?" Lin Lan smiled and said, "Actually, there is nothing surprising about this. After all, since you won the bid to get this rice seed base, there have been many people who are jealous of you. Many people They are very concerned about the situation of this rice base, and knowing that you have a problem here, naturally they are busy spreading the news, which makes you very anxious."

"I know that." Xiao Yuan sneered, and said, "Actually, this locust plague came out of nowhere. I suspect that the person who spread the news is also the one who planned this locust plague."

Lin Lan nodded when she heard the words. In fact, with her IQ, she had already guessed that this locust plague was caused by someone secretly.

(End of this chapter)