A Lucky Wife Born Again From a Farm Family

Chapter 2109: Insect control and pregnancy?2?

Chapter 2109: Insect control and pregnancy?2?

Chapter 2109 Pest Control and Pregnancy2

Dr. Dai went to Dajiwei to help teach the soldiers and their relatives simple medical skills, but was not in the guardhouse.

"Yes." Xiao Ji responded and did not leave immediately. Instead, he brought some pairs of cotton gloves to Gu Jinli: "Madam, put them on before touching the sorghum. There will be insects."

Don't let bugs dirty the little boss's hands.

"Okay." After Gu Jinli took the gloves and put them on, Xiao Ji left and drove a carriage to find Uncle Mutong. Three quarters of an hour later, he brought Uncle Mutong, Panax notoginseng, and Ophiopogon japonicus together.

To prevent the insects from escaping and causing damage to the house, Gu Jinli had people move several large boxes to the tent outside the house.

Uncle Mutong and the others entered the camp and saw the box and asked, "Are the insects in there?"

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

As moths fly farther, the range of fields infected by pests will expand.

"Madam, please step back. Let me take a look." Uncle Mu Tong took out the stuff, 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 stuff that emanated from it. It smelled like water.

Uncle Mutong: "Bring me a pottery bowl."

Sanqi quickly handed over a pottery bowl.

Uncle Mutong knocked on the sorghum stalk, poured the white worms inside into the pottery bowl, and ordered: "Put it in bottles for later use."

Ophiopogon japonicus immediately brought bottles and divided the bugs into six bottles. The number of bugs was the same, which would be much more convenient when waiting for the test of the medicine.

After pouring out the worms from the sorghum stalks, Uncle Mutong took a knife and split the sorghum stalks. He found a lot of cocoons inside, and took them all out and put them in a pottery bowl.

Looked at the leaves again, picked off many moth cocoons on them, and then looked at the sorghum ears.

Sorghum ears are much larger than rice ears. They should be dropped at this time, but now the sorghum ears are light and fluttering. When shaken, a lot of sorghum husks are shaken off, which shows that they are seriously eaten by insects.

Uncle Mutong: Bring a big basin.

Sanqi quickly found a pottery basin, and Uncle Mutong rolled the sorghum ears into the pottery pot, which surprised many insects.

Xiao Ji was so shaken when he saw it... This place in the northwest is attracting insects. Things like this come back before all the poisonous insects are dead.

Uncle Mutong looked at the sorghum roots and soil again, cut the roots with the soil into a new pottery pot, pulled it with scissors for a while, and said, "I haven't eaten the roots, but there are small bugs in the soil. It should be where 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 entire Long'an Prefecture, at least the first line of defense is like this. It is possible that the entire Mu County has attracted such pests."

He added: "Pests like borers are the most harmful to crops. It is estimated that not only sorghum will be harmed, but soybeans, wheat, and millet will also suffer."

I dont know how to eat cassava and medicinal herbs.

Kuang was shocked when he heard this and shouted: "Oh my God, what can we do? There is already a shortage of food in the northwest. If we can't harvest this crop of food, many people will starve to death!"

Kuang almost cried as she spoke, remembering seven years ago, when the victims of the northwest disaster fled to the south... I heard they were so hungry that they even ate red meat. Now that their whole family is in the northwest, she is really afraid that they will not be able to harvest food. If you come up, something terrible will happen to you. There are still more migrants coming soon, and the population here will become more and more. If there is no food, how will we feed ourselves?!

Last year, the adults submitted a memorial to the Emperor, mentioning that refugees, beggars, and families who had fled famine should be moved back to the northwest to replenish the supply of troops. The Emperor agreed.

Each government has been busy for several months and finally sent people here. Now they are on the way. The food will be there when it is almost ready. Come to help collect the food and help eat it!

Gu Jinli: "Don't worry, Aunt Niu, anything alive can be killed, and this kind of moth is no exception. We will definitely kill them and save the food."

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

Well, Gu Jinli was shocked and said, "Although I don't know their exact names, just treat them as moths."

Uncle Mu Tong nodded: "Madam is right, let's do this. We have several prescriptions for killing borer. I will prepare them right away and try using smoke to kill them."

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

"Hmm." Uncle Mutong, Panax notoginseng and Ophiopogon japonicus began to work. They found a place, put the insects on dry firewood, started to light a fire on the ground nearby, added medicinal materials, and smoked the insects with medicine.

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

Kuang said bluntly: "Oh my God, these bugs and poisonous bugs are not brothers. I was almost fainted by the smoke, but they are okay."

Gu Jinli frowned and said, "Uncle Mutong, it seems that these medicinal materials are too mild, so some poison must be added."

"Add poison?!" Kuang was shocked: "If you use poison to smoke insects, won't the food become poisonous?"

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

Gu Jinli said: "Poison can evaporate, and some poisons can only kill insects. If people eat it, it will be fine. We will add some mild poison first. If it doesn't work, we will look at it later."

Mrs. Kuang trusted Gu Jinli. After hearing this, she said, "Okay, you can join me. I'll stay for a few days and wait for you to make the medicine before I go back."

"Okay." Seeing that Kuang was dirty and her hair was wet from sweat, Gu Jinli quickly asked Xiaoji to take her to the pharmacy house to take a bath and stay.

The pharmacy house is a brick house, which is much more comfortable than living in a tent. Widow Xiao and Xiaolan Qingyun live next door. The two women gossiped, and Kuang was no longer so anxious.

In the next few days, Uncle Mu Tong and Gu Jinli had to try out the poisons, changing the poisons one after another, and increasing the dosage again and again, but the effect was not very satisfactory.

Either it can only kill larvae, it can only kill moths, or it cannot kill insect eggs.

There is a membrane outside the eggs buried in the soil. It is difficult for the medicinal solution to penetrate the egg membrane.

Uncle Mutong said: "Both larvae and moths need to eat. As long as there are medicines in the soil and on the leaves, the insects and moths will die after eating them, but insect eggs are different."

Gu Jinli said: "I have tried the medicine for three days, and today is the fourth day. The crops cannot wait. If it is later, I am afraid that the poison will not evaporate long enough. First, add the glutinous rice cake, Qiang Nan powder, and red nest soil. Use insecticides to kill the adults and moths first. Let the eggs in the ground grow and then kill them when they come out. Kill them in a few years and you will be able to kill them all."

Several poisons are added to the pesticides, so the grains treated with pesticides have to be left in the ground for half a month to evaporate the remaining poisons.

Fortunately, these insecticides are made from traditional Chinese medicine and can evaporate very cleanly without leaving any residue.