Chapter 217 218 Treating Wheat Spiders

Zhou Jia smiled nonchalantly, "He just likes the excitement! Let's go back and eat dumplings too!"

"This tastes really delicious," Tu Dianshi praised him as he ate, and murmured to Mr. Qian, "I have gained ten pounds since I ate at your family's house. Now I'm worried about where I will go to eat after you get promoted!" "

Mr. Qian smiled and said: "It's still early! We'll make plans until that day. I'm following Mr. Ding. I'll go wherever he goes!"

Tu Dianshi glanced at Mr. Qian and said with envy: "Old Qian, you are still free and easy, but I can't do it."

"Alas," Mr. Qian sighed, "I am alone and have no one to care about, so I am different from you!"

Tu Dianshi smiled and said, "We are both old widowers, why are we different?" After hearing this, Mr. Qian thought, "Yes! Two old widowers."

After several people had eaten, they went back to the Yamen to get busy. Li Yu got up after a nap. Yang Wei hurriedly ran into the yard and reported to Li Yu: "Madam, the villagers in Houshan Village who followed us to grow winter wheat came to see you. , saying that there were many little red spiders growing in their wheat fields, and some of the wheat had turned yellow.”

Li Yu thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid I have wheat spiders. Let me go and take a look with you." The two of them went out to the street together and saw a charming girl followed by a woman. Coming out of the house next door, Li Yu glanced at him and got on the carriage. Yang Wei raised his whip and drove the carriage toward the outside of the city.

Yu Yan stood at the door, watching the carriage go further and further, and whispered to the woman beside her: "Auntie, the lady just now is probably the county prince's wife, right? I never imagined that the county prince's wife and the county prince are so compatible. "

Aunt Yu glanced at her daughter and said, "This lady is indeed good-looking, and her good-looking appearance also carries a heroic spirit. Yan'er, capable men mostly like delicate beauties." Yu Yan seemed to understand but not understand. nodded.

Li Yu was sitting in the car thinking, if there are any pesticides in this world now, we can only rely on plants to kill insects. What plants can kill red spiders? After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that I heard a comrade proudly say that his sister who was studying at the Agricultural University used walnut leaves and lime water to kill the red spider mites on the cotton seedlings, saving the family a lot of money on pesticides. At that time, I heard her talk about it. , I felt curious and asked how to mix it. I didn’t know if this method could be used on wheat spiders, so I could only give it a try to see if it had any effect.

When the carriage arrived at Houshan Village, more than a dozen households who followed Li Yu to learn how to grow winter wheat were waiting anxiously at the entrance of the village. When they saw Li Yu's car coming, they crowded around anxiously before the car stopped. After Li Yu got off the car, He said to Yang Wei: "Awei, go back to the city and buy a basket of quicklime and a big clay pot to send here."

"Yes, madam." Yang Wei drove back to the city.

Villager Tu Zhong asked anxiously: "Madam, look at my land. Many wheat seedlings are withered and yellow. There are many red spiders growing in the wheat field. I spread plant ashes several times and they still don't die."

"Don't be anxious, take me to see what's going on first. Who else has a walnut tree? Go pick some walnut leaves first and pick more." Li Yu's calm smile made the villagers calm down. The woman stepped forward and said, "Madam, there is a walnut tree in my backyard. I am going to pick walnut leaves."

Li Yu looked at her and smiled: "Hey! I see why you look familiar?"

The woman leaned forward and said, "Madam, my surname is Lin, and I am the daughter-in-law of the Ye family at the end of the village. Last year, my head wanted to sell my daughter to my mother-in-law for medical treatment. It was you who helped us drive away that old lady."

After she said it, Li Yu remembered, "Oh! Do you also grow winter wheat at home?"

The woman smiled shyly and said: "Since the accident last year, my family has been divided by my mother-in-law. I heard that the families working in your place learned from you to grow winter wheat, and I also learned to grow two acres. .”

"Oh, I'd like to trouble you to pick a basket of walnut leaves, a basket, and a load of water to the edge of the wheat field."

"Okay madam." Mrs. Lin trotted home. Li Yu followed villager Tu Zhong and his wife towards his wheat field. When they arrived at the wheat field, Tu Zhong went down to catch a few wheat spiders and gave them to Li Yu in the palm of his hand. Yu looked at it, then pointed to the yellow wheat leaves in the middle and said: "Madam, you see that that one has suffered particularly badly. The wheat seedlings are about to die."

Li Yu went to the field to look at it, then grabbed some soil in the field and looked at it again. He said to Tu Zhong: "Your wheat field is a little short of water. Remember to water more. Go back and find some gourds. The bigger the gourds, the better." , ask a carpenter to drill holes all over the bottom of the gourd, and then get some firewood and some water to use later."

After Tu Zhong nodded in agreement, he hurried back. Li Yu followed other villagers to check and found that the situation was similar. After walking around and returning to Tu Zhong's wheat field, Tu Zhong and Lin had already After preparing the things, Yang Wei also drove the carriage and arrived carrying lime and clay pots.

Li Yu asked the villagers to chop the walnut leaves into small pieces, boil them with water in proportion. After cooking, filter out the walnut leaves with a dustpan, add quicklime in the water boiled with the walnut leaves in proportion, put it into a gourd, and let the villagers sprinkle it on At the roots of the wheat seedlings, everyone was busy until the sun went down. They sprinkled walnut lime water on the households where wheat spiders were more serious. They walked around and returned to Tu Zhong’s wheat field. They found that some of the wheat spiders in Tu Zhong’s wheat field had died. , Li Yu and the villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the walnut lime water was effective, Li Yu said to the villagers: "Follow my method and sprinkle it several times until the wheat spiders are completely killed." The villagers saluted gratefully and said: "Thank you, madam, otherwise we wouldn't be here." There’s a way.”

Li Yu waved his hand and said, "It's getting dark soon. It's going to rain. I'm afraid it's going to rain. I'll go back first." Everyone sent Li Yu to the entrance of the village and walked toward the village after seeing the carriage go far away.

Li Yu asked Yang Wei to get off the carriage outside Zhuangzi and drove the carriage back alone. As soon as he entered the city gate, he saw Zhou Jia riding towards him on horseback. Zhou Jia saw Li Yu driving the carriage and dismounted to turn the horse around. He was tied to the carriage, got into the carriage and took the reins from Li Yu's hand, silently without saying a word.

Li Yu knew that Zhou Jia was a little angry, but after being tired all afternoon, he really didn't have the energy to explain to him. He sat on the rafters of the car, leaning against the carriage and squinting his eyes tiredly. Zhou Jia tightened her hair and slowed down the car. Li Yu put his head on his shoulder and said softly: "Yu'er, I'm not angry with you. I'm just worried that you are pregnant and that you will exhaust your body."

Li Yu silently put his arms around Zhou Jia, "Xiao Xi, I will be careful. It's just that the wheat seedlings are sick, and those villagers rely on the crops in the fields to live. I can't stand idly by."

Zhou Jia held Li Yu's hand and said distressedly: "I know, but you don't have to do it yourself. You can tell your servants to do it. Yu'er, when I go back, I will sort out the things you asked me to record before, and let people Copy some more and post them on the notice wall at the city gate, and have the government officials read them to the villagers. What do you think?"

Li Yu listened to Zhou Jia's deep voice and fell asleep leaning against Zhou Jia. After Zhou Jia finished speaking, he didn't hear Li Yu's answer. He lowered his head and saw that Li Yu had fallen asleep leaning against him.

"You fool, you make yourself so tired!" Zhou Jia glanced at the sleeping Li Yu fondly, and drove back slowly in the car.