After all, Meng Wei felt embarrassed to eat the landlord's grapefruit and peppercorns, so she often helped take care of the two trees.

Meng Wei spent several years in her previous life running from a small restaurant to a big hotel, and Meng Wei had been living in that place for several years before that, so she had also seen the pest problem of the pepper tree.

So Meng Wei didn't lie to Dr. Xu when she said this.

It can be seen that the insect pest problem is very troublesome to Master Xu, hearing that Meng Wei may have a way, Master Xu is busy with the shopkeeper for half a day off, and in addition to leaving the small half bowl of the so-called secret recipe prepared by himself, anyway, not everyone is like Meng Wei Even if the peppercorns are ground into powder, they can distinguish it.

The shopkeeper didn't want to let people go, after all, even if Master Xu left the secret recipe, in the end, the people in the kitchen didn't have Master Xu's skills.

But thinking that Master Xu said that the matter related to the secret recipe, if it is not solved in time, there may be no secret recipe next year, so the shopkeeper thought about it, and agreed, and intimately asked Xiao Er to prepare the carriage.

Knowing that Meng Wei and Master Xu had something to say, Xiao Jing recommended herself to be a coachman, although Meng Wei was twelve, but because she didn't eat very well before, she looked like a little girl about ten years old, even if people saw it, they wouldn't think much about it.

Master Xu's family lives in a small village on the outskirts of the capital, Master Xu used to open a food stall with good craftsmanship, and accidentally found that the use of peppercorns was thriving.

However, Master Xu took root in the village because he fled the famine, and his family only had a third of the backyard to grow vegetables, but it was a little unrealistic to rely on that land to support his parents, wife and children.

Although Chef Xu also made a little money, Chef Xu used to make money by cooking, and he had no experience in farming, and his parents were also old, so he couldn't work too hard.

Moreover, although Chef Xu has not opened a store again, he has a love and desire for cooking skills in his heart, but he also knows that he has no background, and a strong dragon can't overpower the head snake.

Master Xu was unwilling, thinking that he had the secret recipe, so he simply came to the capital to look for an errand.

Later, I happened to meet the chef of this Xiangyun Building who was poached by other restaurants, and the shopkeeper was discerning.

So, Chef Xu became the chef of this Xiangyun Building, and later Chef Xu's cooking skills became better and better, and with the secret recipe in hand, Xiangyun Mansion became bigger and bigger in a few years, and now it has become the first restaurant in Beijing.

Therefore, Master Xu is loyal to Xiangyunlou, and therefore bought a hill with the silver he saved, and planted the hill with pepper trees.

It's just a pity that since the year before last this pepper tree has been pested, but this pepper used to grow in the mountains, Master Xu was able to find out the habits of the pepper, so that the pepper growth fruit is not easy, it can be said that now is a little helpless.

As he spoke, the carriage slowed down, and the small mirror said that it had arrived at the backer village in Master Xu's mouth.

Master Xu followed the carriage on the other side and pointed out the direction of his house, and soon arrived at the door of Master Xu's house.

Blue brick and large tile houses, all the way to look around are mostly thatched houses, the better ones are wood or stone houses, and there are very few people who can afford bricks.

Master Xu's family can't be regarded as unique, but this style is not available in other families.

Before they got out of the car, the closed gate opened, and a seven or eight-year-old child stretched out his head and looked around, and when he saw Master Xu sitting on the carriage, he couldn't help but be happy: "Dad, you're back." ”

"Yes, is your mother at home?"

"Mother and grandma went to the back to see the pepper tree," After speaking, the child pulled Master Xu with one hand again, but shouted backwards, "Grandpa, grandpa, Dad is back." ”

Master Xu followed into the door, and the two little guys at the door nodded to Master Xu hurriedly: "Hello, master." ”

Meng Wei glanced at each other with the little mirror, feeling a little unbelievable, she didn't expect that this little chef Xu not only lived in such a good house, but also bought a little maid to be the master, which was indeed a bit unexpected.

Xu is eyes of the two of them were too direct, and Master Xu scratched his head a little shyly: "Don't care, because there is a mountain behind my house, I am afraid that hiring someone will expose the peppercorns, so I bought a few small servants to help take care of the peppercorns, and adopted two more as maids." ”

"Your idea is very good, since you have money to enjoy life, you naturally have to enjoy it, if you do everything yourself, it will be too tiring."

I thought that this Master Xu was an honest man, but I didn't expect his thoughts to be so similar to myself.

The two entered the house and saw an old man with a kind face on crutches walking out with the support of a small servant: "Son, you are back, who are these two?" ”

"Dad, these two are my friends, and they are helping me to see if I can cure the pepper tree."

"You sit down and have a cup of tea, and then go after dinner, Xiaolin, you go to the back mountain to call the lady and the old lady back." When the little guy left, the old man sighed, "A few days ago, it was said that the pepper tree insect infestation is getting worse and worse, and a few trees are gone."

Although a few of the little guys are not very old, they are very polite.

Meng Wei took a symbolic sip of tea, and then said, "Now that there is still a period of time before lunch, we might as well go and see how serious the insect infestation is." ”

"This"

"I didn't come by carriage for an hour, and it didn't work hard, and then the little mirror worked hard, or the little mirror you can rest here, and I'll go and see it with Master Xu."

The little mirror nodded: "Cheng, I'm here to accompany your father, you guys go." ”

Anyway, he doesn't know what pepper pests are, and he can't understand them if he goes along, so it's better to drink tea and chat here.

Meng Wei has investigated more than 100 kinds of pests of pepper, but the treatment method is also simple, in modern academic terms: chemical control, physical control, biological control three methods.

I have to say that although the mountain that Master Xu bought is not big, it is not small, Meng Wei has no concept of acres, so she doesn't know how big it is, she only thinks that this mountain is not much smaller than the orchard she saw in her previous life.

The two of them walked all the way, but they didn't meet Master Xu's wife and mother, and they were not in a hurry, after all, such a big mountain, as long as one walked forward, they would always meet.

Meng Wei simply slowed down and observed the pepper trees as she walked.

I thought it was a serious insect infestation like the pepper gall mosquito, or some kind of pepper tree rot, which would cause the branches and trunks of the pepper tree to festering and die.

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