Chapter 23 Pests
What made Yun Zhu's face change was that a few insects that had impressed her in her previous life had gathered on the bean seedlings.
I saw that on the bean seedling closest to Yunzhu, a worm about the length of a thumb was lying on it.
Because it is not far away, Yunzhu can see it relatively clearly, only to see that the head of the insect is reddish-brown, the head cover has reticulation, the forehead is flat, there are brown coarse longitudinal stripes on both sides of the body, slightly figure-of-eight, there are brown reticulations on the outside, the body color is light green, and there are also black, depending on the plants eaten, or when the insect infestation is large, it will almost become black. There is a wide black-brown longitudinal band on the outside of the gastropod, and a semi-ring-type black-brown toe hook at the apex of the foot.
Yunzhu is very sure that this is definitely the bug she knew about in her previous life and deliberately checked on the Internet - armyworm.
Armyworm is the name of an insect that is found on cereal crops such as wheat, rice, millet, and corn, and can also produce insect pests in more than 104 species of plants in 16 families, such as cotton, beans, and vegetables.
The larvae eat leaves, and when they occur, they can eat all the leaves of crops, causing serious losses.
Because of its swarm, migratory, omnivorous, and gluttonous nature, it is simply a big pest of the most important thing!
You know, in ancient times, the people planted some dealers how intolerable, in addition to leaving a part of their own food and used for other food, the rest probably had to be used to pay taxes, if it was really pit by pests, I am afraid that this year's rations will be gone!
Thinking that the yield of soybeans with insect infestation would be reduced, Yunzhu felt that all his silver had run away with long legs, no, he must not let this happen!
Hearing Yun Zhu's voice, Old Man Yun looked at her with some doubts, but seeing that her face seemed to be very anxious, he walked towards her with the tools in his hand.
"What's wrong?" Coming to the front of Yun Zhu, Old Man Yun asked.
"Grandpa, I saw that there were insects growing on those bean seedlings, and I was a little scared." Yun Zhu naturally couldn't say it directly, she found the armyworm, because this is her body has grown so big, and she has come to the field three times.
The first time was when the Yun family had not been abandoned, and the second time was when she first came, helping the Liu family deliver food to the field, but that time she didn't notice what was planted in the field, because she had just come here at that time, and her mind was still a little muddy.
As for this time, she really noticed that soybeans were planted in the ground, so she didn't know what this insect was.
"Bugs?" You know, there are insects on the bean seedlings, which is not a trivial matter, so Old Man Yun hurriedly lowered his head and looked for the bean seedlings that Yun Zhu said.
"There!" Seeing that Old Man Yun was looking for him, Yun Zhu stretched out his hand and pointed to give Old Man Yun a hint.
Following Yun Zhu's hand, Old Man Yun saw the insects on the bean seedlings, and his face suddenly changed, obviously recognizing the insects on the bean seedlings.
"the boy, the eldest child, the second child, the third child, you come here!" shouted at the three uncles of Fang and Yun Zhu, who were busy in the field, and Old Man Yun's brows furrowed tightly.
Hearing the voice of the old man Yun, several people immediately came over with the tools in their hands, and the old man Yun pointed to the bean seedlings, and the four of them suddenly changed their faces.
"Although the color of this sticky worm is still light, it seems that it can't get up yet, but if there is this thing in the ground, it will soon be in large pieces, how can it be good now?" Old Man Yun looked at the Fang clan and the others, who had changed their faces, and opened his mouth to ask everyone's opinions.
"This ......" For a while, the four mothers, you look at me, I look at yours, and I have no idea.
You know, Yunzhu is in an overhead era, different from modern times, at that time for the control of pests is really dark-eyed, usually if there is a pest, you can only ask someone to report to the government, in order to reduce taxes, otherwise, when the pest spreads, to the autumn harvest season, I am afraid that these farmers who rely on the fields to eat will starve to death.
"Let's finish this little grass first, and let's go home and discuss." Although he knew that if such a thing happened, he could basically only wait for it to spread, but Old Man Yun still had hope in his heart, what if there was a way to do it suddenly? You know, this is a year's worth of food for a family!
It seems that because of the discovery of the relationship between the armyworms, Yun Zhu's uncles and Grandma Fang all had gloomy faces, and followed Old Man Yun to carry tools and continue to weed.
Yun Zhu looked at the backs of several people, and her brows furrowed tightly, these soybeans are rations for a family, but they are also very important to herself, she must find a way to solve these pests!
Thinking like this, Yunzhu desperately recalled the information she had seen in her previous life about getting rid of armyworms, and she needed the most convenient, trouble-free and money-saving way, because this is not modern, and there are no pesticides that work.
Thinking about it, Yunzhu has a few methods, except for the most costly, Yunzhu still has the most disgusting and slightly expensive method.
Thinking of a way, Yunzhu had a headache again, how could he say these two methods?
After all, Yunzhu is only eight years old today, and today is the first time he has 'knew' armyworms, how can he know how to control them?
When Old Man Yun and the others finished removing all the grass, Yun Zhu didn't think of a solution, so she had to help Yun carry things, and then followed everyone back home.
As soon as he got home, Old Man Yun called all the family members except the children to the house, because there was also the Yun family, so Yun Zhu followed the Yun family into the house with a cheeky face.
Seeing Yun Zhu, Zhang glared at her fiercely, and was about to kick her out, but heard Old Man Yun speak.
"I called you in because Yunzhu found armyworms in the ground today, and you all know what will happen if this bean seedling grows armyworms?" Sighing, Old Man Yun frowned and continued, "This is a year's ration for our family, you all think about it, right?" ”
As soon as Old Man Yun's words came out, the room suddenly became quiet, and Yun Zhu felt that at this time, he could really hear the needle.
Yun Zhu peeked at everyone's reactions, and was very anxious, because she obviously had a way, but she couldn't say it at all, how could this be done?
Because Yun Zhu, the only one who knew the way, couldn't say it, so until dinner, he didn't discuss an idea, Old Man Yun sighed, waved his hand, and drove everyone out of the room.
Today is the Wang family's cooking, so Yun Zhu followed the Yun family back to the grass house in the backyard, because of the sticky insect thing, even the Yun family has been frowning, sitting on the kang and sighing.
"Mother, are armyworms very powerful?" Yun Zhu thought about it and finally decided to start with the Yun family, because armyworms are a large-scale scourge of crops, so as long as her family finds out, then the whole village will soon find out.
Yun Zhu felt that if she could tell the Yun family the way, and then tell the old man Yun and the people in the village through her, she should be able to change the people's opinion of the Yun family.
"Armyworms are not only powerful, but also headaches......" Hearing her daughter ask, Yun's hugged Yunzhu in her arms and told her about the disadvantages of armyworms, "My mother also heard it since I was a child, and it was the first time in so many years that I encountered a bad armyworm in the ground." ”
"Mother, I seem to have heard this you said." Yun Zhu let Yun Shi hold it, although it was summer, but in Yun Shi's arms, Yun Zhu did not feel hot, on the contrary, she enjoyed this feeling very much.
"Oh? Have you heard my pearls so young? Then tell your mother, when did you hear that? Just treating it as a daughter is a joke, Yun asked with a smile.
"Does my mother remember Granny He?" The Granny He in Yunzhu's mouth is a person who exists in the memory of the original owner, and when the Yun family was not abandoned, she lived next door to Yunzhu's house.
Granny He's temperament is very strange, so the people in the whole village don't interact with her much, and she doesn't like to interact with people, even if she is a neighbor with the Yun family, she has never taken the initiative to say a word.
Although Granny He has a strange temperament, she is good to Yunzhu, and when she was a child, Yunzhu often went to Granny He's house to play and listen to her tell stories to herself.
The reason why Yun Zhu mentioned her today was because that Granny He had passed away, and the aftermath at that time was that Yun looked at Granny He in the past and treated Yun Zhu well and helped with the cooking.
"Yes." As soon as she heard her daughter's words, Yun immediately remembered, she looked at Yun Zhu, waiting for her to continue.
"I used to go to Grandma He's house to play, she always told me some interesting things, she said that when she was a child, there was an insect plague at home, and there was a armyworm, and a monk who passed by told the people in the village two methods, and the people in the village did it, and they really eliminated the armyworm." Yun Zhu opened his mouth innocently, but he secretly despised himself in his heart, but there was no way, this was the only way to reasonably say how to deal with armyworms.
"Then what does Zhu'er remember to do? Tell your mother. Hearing Yun Zhu say this, Yun Shi hurriedly hugged Yun Zhu to his lap and asked with a serious face.
Seeing Yun like this, Yun Zhu smiled secretly in her heart, but her face was still innocent, she tilted her head, pretending to think, and after a while, she spoke, "Remember." ”
"Then tell my mother quickly, what are the methods?" There was a hint of eagerness in his voice, and Yun knew that if there was really a cure for armyworms, it would really be a great thing!
"Well, these two methods, one is to grind ginger into powder, or cut it into very fine and small pieces, and then put it in water, spray it on the ground and seedlings, and the other is to catch some armyworms, and then grind the armyworms, add some crushed wormwood and mother-in-law, and spray them in the ground, which can be used for a long time, and there will be no armyworms!"