psychochemist

Chapter 68 The Light Chaser

The man took another puff of cigarette, and suddenly remembered that he forgot to smoke for Chen Xingyang and the others, so he quickly handed the cigarette case to Chen Xingyang and the others.

Chen Xingyang smoked a cigarette and held it in his hand without lighting it. Yu Fan and Guo Na didn't smoke, so they politely declined.

Yu Fan asked the man: "You just said that Chen Taizhou has a very weird personality, and then he is your hero, why?"

The man recalled: "I was very young at the time, about 5 years old. Brother Chen was a college student and came to us to jump in the queue. Because I was the only child in our family, I was very happy to have a big brother at home."

The man flicked the cigarette ash and continued: "At that time, the family was poor and the conditions were very difficult. Brother Chen actually suffered a lot when he came to us. He just went to work in the fields during the day, and the labor intensity was very high. Brother Chen was very thin, but he never had any problems. Complaints, at night, Brother Chen likes to read books alone. And he can read books very late. I remember the most clearly for a while, as long as there is a light source in the middle of the night, Brother Chen can be found reading there. We will give him back He took a nickname called 'The Light Chaser'."

Yu Fan, Chen Xingyang and Guo Na listened attentively.

The man scratched his ears: "Brother Chen is good at everything, but he has a very weird personality. Sometimes he is enthusiastic, and sometimes he is very irritable, but I always think he is a very kind person. It seems to be chemistry, but it has no use in our place, I think the reason for his unstable personality may be that he has nowhere to use his energy."

Yu Fan continued to ask: "Just now you said that he is your hero here? What's going on here?"

The man fell into memories again, and said: "In those years, the reason why we were poor here was firstly because the soil was poor, and secondly, we didn't understand anything at the time, and farming was unscientific. The most important point was the insect plague, a very terrible insect plague , For several years in a row, we have been worrying about this, survival is a big problem.”

While the man was talking, he gestured with his hands, and everyone seemed to see the embarrassing scene that year from his description.

The man continued: "Brother Chen came to our place to jump in the queue and saw this scene. What impressed me the most was that that day, Brother Chen and I stood on this high slope, looking at the insect plagues in the sky, our faces were livid and silent for a long time, then Brother Chen said something."

Guo Na couldn't wait to know the answer, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Man: "He said that wicked people still need to be tortured by wicked people. From that day on, Big Brother Chen started his research."

Yu Fan: "Research?"

Man: "Yes, he catches those bugs every day after work, and then rides a few miles to his 'laboratory'. He said that he has a friend here who can provide him with some places to help him do research. .He came back very late every day, and then continued to read books. In this way, he continued to run around for more than half a year, and he became thinner and thinner. My parents knew that he was doing research, and they felt sorry for him, and let him be less Do some work, but Brother Chen has a stubborn temper, and the farm work is not lost at all, so we have to leave some steamed buns for him every night."

The man continued to add: "He is really a very dedicated person. One day half a year later, I remember very clearly that Brother Chen came back early, took a box, rushed into the house excitedly, and told us that he had succeeded From that day on, the people of our town officially declared war on these pests!" As he spoke, the man's eyes sparkled, and one can imagine how excited they were by what happened at that time.

Chen Frameyang: "Oh? What's in that little box?"

Man: "Brother Chen brought back a small box containing a few small bugs. At that time, many of us gathered around this small box and watched Brother Chen carefully show it to everyone. At that time, some old people in the village joked that there were already so many bugs here. Why did you bring back some bugs. Brother Chen explained to everyone that these bugs are good bugs and they can help eat the bad bugs. Everyone expressed doubts and asked Brother Chen on the spot how to make bugs fight each other What? Brother Chen said another sentence that I will never forget."

This man's storytelling skills are very good, everyone's appetite has been raised by this man, waiting for him to announce the answer.The man smoked the cigarette with all his might, put the end of the cigarette in the ashtray, and said decisively: "Brother Chen said that they didn't want them to fight each other, but a unilateral massacre." After a pause, the man explained: "Chen Brother Chen said that this little bug is different from those pests. They are the natural enemies of pests. They specialize in feeding on pests. They are natural "evil hunters". Soon, these insects have reached a certain scale, and then Big Brother Chen divided these small insects into many small boxes and placed them on the crops, and the pests really became less and less, and later they even disappeared."

Everyone was dumbfounded. The man sat back straight and said excitedly with admiration: "Brother Chen has been our hero here since that day. The little bugs he cultivated are very powerful. They can not only kill pests, but also kill them." I don’t know how to eat vegetables. Later, many people from Murakami came to our house to give gifts to Brother Chen, but he declined them all. From that day on, I really felt that science is too great, and I also determined to study hard.”

Speaking of this, the man lowered his head in shame again: "It's a pity that I am far less persevering than Brother Chen. I wanted to run to play after only a few days of reading, but I didn't learn anything in the end. Looking back, I I really admire Big Brother Chen more and more." As he spoke, a scene appeared in the man's mind, Chen Taizhou was reading with his back against the only street lamp in the village, and he was so focused that even mosquito bites could not interrupt his thoughts. Shi Chen Taizhou raised his head and smiled at the man.The man couldn't help but smile too.

Yu Fan was surprised and said, "It's unbelievable. If I'm not wrong, this is the technique of 'treating mites with mites'. Unexpectedly, Professor Chen dabbled in this field at that time!"

Chen Xingyang had a question mark on his face: "What? What is using mites to control mites?"

Guo Nabang Yufan added: "'Treating mites with mites' is to paste or hang a box containing beneficial mites on fruit trees, moso bamboo, vegetables and other agricultural and forestry crops, and the beneficial mites will kill the key pests on the crops. , such as spider mites, rust ticks, acaroid mites, etc. There is no need to spray pesticides, and the cost is lower.”

Yu Fan continued to add: "This technology should have been officially developed and applied by the Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Unexpectedly, in that difficult era, Professor Chen directly researched this technology and directly applied it to practice."

Chen Xingyang was puzzled again: "Hey? Wait, isn't Professor Chen studying chemistry? How can he know how to raise bugs?"

Yu Fan turned his head and smiled and said, "Biochemistry does not separate families. Have you heard the saying? But Professor Chen is also very courageous. One hidden danger of this technology is that if the new bugs are not selected properly, they may be infected. To become a new 'pest', there are too many mysteries in the natural world, which ebb and flow, and it is not so easy to use the power of nature. In the scientific research environment at that time, the risk Professor Chen took was actually a gamble."

The man looked at the light, with a gratified face, and said to himself: "As far as I can see, Brother Chen, you won the bet back then."

　Half of destiny is in the hands of God, and the other half is in your own hands.Success is to use half of your own hands to win the other half in the hands of God. —— Paclobutrazol
　　
　
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