Su Xiaomu didn't go back to Fucheng for the past few days, concentrating on tinkering with her potatoes in the farm.

It was probably because the rain was good these days, and Su Xiaomu served these potatoes in place, but after five or six days, the potatoes had already sprouted.

Once she had identified the place, she separated the sprouted potatoes and put them into small rooms, and then fertilized them one by one.

It's just that he has only dug up a third of the acre, and Su Xiaomu gradually noticed that something was wrong.

"Eggs ......"

She turned over the piece of land with a small hoe, and looked at the large pieces of insect eggs buried in the soil, and her heart instantly cooled.

If Su Xiaomu is not mistaken, the number of these insect eggs is a little terrifying, right?

Generally speaking, it is normal to have eggs in the field.

After all, land is also a small biosphere.

But too much is not normal, especially for crops grown in the soil, more eggs mean more germs.

Using soil with such excessive germs for farming is not conducive to the growth of crop roots, which has the risk of root rot.

And the pest crisis doesn't stop there.

Thinking of the terrifying things that might happen in the future, Su Xiaomu was in no mood to continue to wait for these potatoes.

She no longer carefully gave them a private room as she had just done, but quickly divided them, and then without a little delay went to the most experienced farmer on the farm.

Fortunately, she paid attention at the time, and when she bought the field for the first time, she asked Uncle Liang to introduce her to a capable person who had farmed, and look, it came in handy now.

This kind of Tian's big guy is surnamed Shi, and Su Xiaomu has had dealings with him before, so the two of them are also familiar with each other.

As soon as she saw him, she told him about the infestation she had found.

Then with him, he went around the village and looked at all the fields in the farm, and finally Uncle Shi's face was ugly.

"Mrs. Su is right, there are indeed a lot of insect eggs in this field, and some of them have even climbed behind the leaves of the crops...... If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have noticed these details. ”

Uncle Shi is really scared now, this is about to be harvested in the autumn, if the crops are infested, then they have worked in vain for the whole year, and they don't know what to eat next year.

Wait to starve to death!

"Su Niangzi!" Uncle Shi trembled, tears welling up in his eyes, "For this matter, our whole village will be grateful to you!" ”

"Needless to say, it doesn't matter if you are grateful or not, now the top priority is to solve these insect eggs, I wonder if Uncle Shi has any way to eliminate insect pests?"

Su Xiaomu is a very sober person, and whether he is grateful or not is mostly verbal, even if he can really take practical actions to thank her, that's it.

It's better to work for her well to earn money, which is practical.

"Yes, yes...... But I haven't done it for a long time, I'm afraid it's a little troublesome to do, so Su Niangzi will wait for me for a while, and I will go and turn out the previous formula. ”

Uncle Shi really couldn't think of any medicine to kill insect eggs for a while, mainly because he hadn't committed insect infestation in the past few years, and everyone hadn't used it for a long time.

"That's it, you go back and find it first, I'm also trying to make medicine here, let's take a two-pronged approach and solve this matter as soon as possible."

Su Xiaomu thought that she still had to let people do the sanitizing work as soon as possible, and if she remembered correctly, she could use Chinese medicine to blend that harmless and powerful insecticide.

Now, you have to go back and buy Chinese medicine.

Su Xiaomu and Uncle Shi separated, she went to the Chinese medicine shop non-stop to buy all the Chinese medicine she needed, and wanted to go back to the yard to mix potions immediately, but she still felt a little uneasy as soon as she stepped out of the Chinese medicine shop.

If there is a pest infestation in the farm, then the rest of the city will not be able to escape.

In this way, she had to talk to Gu Jingcheng about this matter.

If nothing else, if this pest matter can be solved smoothly, it will definitely be able to win a wave of popular support for him before the imperial examination.

"Virtuous help, virtuous help, a good daughter-in-law like me, I don't know where Gu Jingcheng burned high incense in his last life, so he worshiped me."

Su Xiaomu shook his head with emotion, and then sped up his pace to find Gu Jingcheng from Master Wanzi.

It also happened to be the right time for her to go, and Gu Jingcheng happened to be resting.

As soon as he saw him sitting in the room reading, Su Xiaomu immediately called the scholar to call him.

"Why did you come to me all of a sudden? But what's the matter? ”

The moment Gu Jingcheng saw Su Xiaomu, it was like a puppy seeing meat and bones, and his eyes lit up.

When he ran over, he was still holding the book in his hand, and his eyes were crooked into crescents with a smile: "What's the matter?" ”

"Can't I come to you if there's nothing to do?" Su Xiaomu wanted to tell him in a hurry, but when she met his smile, the nervousness and urgency in her heart were immediately appeased.

"It's a very important thing, I want to ask you, can you give me any advice? You have written so many articles about people's livelihood, so ...... How much do you know about pests. ”

"There's an insect infestation in Fucheng?" Gu Jingcheng caught the point of her words, and the grin on his lips immediately disappeared, "Did you find it in the farm?" ”

"I found it in the farm, but I don't think it's just the farm, so I may have to trouble you to come forward to find the master and talk to the county lord about it."

Su Xiaomu knew that it was not convenient to meet with the county master in his own identity, but the matter of the insect infestation had to be solved, so he had to let Gu Jingcheng go.

"Then you can explain the situation to me in detail."

Gu Jingcheng was born in a poor family, although he was favored by the Li family since he was a child, he also worked in the farm, so he knew how terrible the pest was for the Zhuang family.

If Fucheng really faces a large-scale pest infestation, and before the autumn harvest, the people are unprepared, then it is inevitable that this pest will be a catastrophe for Fucheng!

Of course, Su Xiaomu also knew how powerful it was, she made a long story short, and explained to him clearly the discovery of insect pests from beginning to end, and by the way, she also said that she may have insecticides in her hands to treat insect pests, although it still takes time to study, but she already has a good idea of the formula.

The two talked for almost a quarter of an hour, and Gu Jingcheng asked Su Xiaomu to go home first, and he went to find Master Wan himself.

After the father and son learned about this, they took Gu Jingcheng to find the county master without the slightest hesitation.

The three of them talked about this matter in the yamen for a long time, and after thinking about it, the county magistrate directly sent people to various farms in Fucheng to check the situation of the fields.

The county magistrate sent all his confidants, if what Su Niangzi said about the insect pest is true, then the outbreak of the insect pest will inevitably make the entire Fucheng people miserable!