Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 58 Asking the Gods to Cure Ghosts
Because she had been suffocating in her heart, even though she knew that Dachang regretted it, she had no intention of forgiving, and she didn't even go to the east courtyard to have a look and condolences.

After that, Dachang didn't have the face to see her, and it happened that the time for his own dry field came, so he drove the ox plow to farm alone.

As soon as Wu Zhaodi left, the East Courtyard was too busy with work, so Guifang had no choice but to go back to help coax Jiabao and take care of the family's large and small livestock.

Xiufen's mother has a good heart, and the Geng family has a lot of labor. The field has been planted early, so she sent Xiufen to help when she saw that her in-laws were too busy.

Xiufen likes children, and when she came, she would hold Jiabao in her arms and coax Jiabao to laugh all day long. With her and Guifang walking in the east and west courtyards, Mrs. Zhang would smile attentively all day long. The anger gradually subsided, and his attitude towards Dachang became better.

To say that Li Yongfa's luck is not good, he learned to grow rice in the first year of this year, but caught up with the rain, this spring the rain is heavy and intermittent, and the location of his rice field is not good, the terrain is uneven , the high places are fine, the water can circulate normally, but the water in the depressions cannot be drained out. The rice seedlings have been soaked in the water since they were planted in the field, with only a small tip exposed, and they have not grown taller for a long time.

However, Xianglai’s field is different. Not to mention the flat terrain, the design of the water outlet and water inlet is also very reasonable. When water is needed, the dam in the river can be blocked to enter the water, and when the water comes out, the dam can be released. The rice seedlings grow It was fresh and green, which was very gratifying.

On this day, Xianglai was checking the growth of the rice seedlings everywhere, but suddenly found that the color of the leaves of some rice seedlings was abnormal. She squatted down to take a closer look, but saw a few thin white marks on the tender green leaves of the rice seedlings.

She raised her hand and turned over the leaves to have a look, but saw a few small black mud spots under the leaves.

"Negative mud worm!" she whispered to herself.

As long as this thing appears, it will be a large area, not just one or two.So she turned over other rice seedlings to look, but saw that almost every seedling had it.The same is true for other land plots. I have a large area of ​​rice fields of about [-] mu.

This kind of worm looks inconspicuous, but if it really eats, it will kill a rice seedling in a short time.

Xianglai was in a hurry, stood up and wanted to call Shen Che who was not far away to go back to the village to find someone to help control the insects, but she stopped when she rolled her eyes, first called Tianlai over, whispered a few words to him, and then Tianlai Lai quickly ran to the east of the village.

Ever since Xianglai found out that Wu Zhaodi leaked the secret to Li Yongfa when he was transplanting rice seedlings, Li Yongfa never got the next management technology of rice fields, so he could only fumble for it by himself, thinking that the reason why it is called rice is that the more water the better, so he always used water The fields are irrigated, so there are more negative mud worms in other fields than in Xianglai fields.

At this time, he was squatting by the field and staring at the white rice leaves in a daze, not knowing what happened.

Tianlai has small people and small goals, and quietly touches the other side around the place where there are people.

He didn't need to turn over the rice leaves to see, he just looked at the white lines on it, and he knew that the pests in Li Yongfa's rice fields were worse than his own.

After looking at a few places, it was confirmed that Li Yongfa's rice fields were full of worms, and then ran back happily to report to Xianglai.

After hearing this, Xianglai felt secretly refreshed, damn Li Yongfa, let you use tricks to learn my skills secretly, let's see how I can trick you this time!

Thinking of this, she called Shen Che over, gave him such and such instructions, and then asked him to go back to the village to hire people to do things.

Now everyone in West Village along the Jiangjiang River knows that Shen Che is the long-term worker of Xianglai's family, and his words represent Xianglai's words, so they are also very warm to him.

Shen Che went back to the village for a while, then summoned all the idlers to the paddy fields.

One of these people held a long and straight wooden pole in his hand, and a foot-long strip of fine red cloth was tied from the end to the pole, hanging like tassels, and on the heads of these people They are all tied with red cloth.

When they came to the edge of the field, everyone formed a group of two, wet the cloth strips on the wooden poles, and then lifted them to the level of the water surface and scratched back and forth on the rice seedlings.

The red cloth had a certain amount of weight after it was soaked in water, and it swept all the mud worms on the rice seedlings into the water.

This kind of insect is stupid, and it cannot climb up after falling into the water, so it can no longer cause harm to the rice seedlings.

While Shen Che was doing this, Xiang Lai returned home, got on his horse, and ran towards the East Village with a look of urgency.

Li Yongfa's house happened to be at the intersection of entering the East Village, and Xianglai ran past the door with such an urgent look, which immediately attracted the attention of Li Yongfa's parent, Dazhuzi.

When Dazhuzi found Xianglai, he immediately ran to tell Li Yongfa: "My lord, Chen Xianglai came to our village without knowing what to do. He was so busy!"

Xianglai asked Tianlai to look at Li Yongfa's rice fields. Li Yongfa also asked people to sneak a look at Xianglai's rice fields. He knew that her rice seedlings had the same problem as his own. He was about to ask someone to find out how Xianglai solved it. But I don't want Xianglai to come to the East Village.

He immediately told Da Zhuzi, "Go back quickly and see what she is doing."

Da Zhuzi hurried back to inquire again.

Xianglai knew that Li Yongfa would definitely send someone to watch her, so after entering the village, she ran straight to the house of Qian Daxian, the only sorceress in the east and west villages.

Qian Daxian is a skinny woman in her fifties, with prematurely gray hair tied on her forehead with embroidery, and her eyelids are always drooping when she is fine, as if she might "go to the top of her body" at any time.

Xianglai entered the room and saw that she was sitting cross-legged on the kang with shoe soles, she pretended to be panic and shouted: "Qian Daxian, I beg you to come, you must help me!"

Qian Daxian raised her eyelids, and when she saw that it was the famous Chen Xiang Lai, she raised her airs and said unhurriedly: "What's the matter, talk slowly about what's going on, come to me, what's the matter?" Everything will pass!"

Xianglai still looked very anxious, and said: "Don't be in a hurry, Daxian, go to my field and have a look. There are marks on the rice leaves, like ghosts. I don't know if it's something that happened in my field. It's evil!"

Qian Daxian still sat still, shaking the sole of the shoe with his wrist in front of his wrist, put down the awl and threaded it through with a needle and thread, and said: "That's right, there are many water ghosts in the Xitun River. You stop? The harm to your crops is light, and it might cause death!"

Xianglai cursed inwardly: The dead old woman is really hurtful, she even threatened people with her life!

She thought so in her heart, but she put on a frightened look on her face, and said: "Oh, what can I do! If someone dies, I don't want to file a lawsuit! Daxian, please save me!"

Qian Daxian still sat there, pulled the thread on the sole of the shoe tightly, and said: "Girl of the Shen family, it's not that I don't want to help you, but this god doesn't come just by saying it. What does an old woman use to drive away water ghosts..."

(End of this chapter)