Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

Improving experimental seeds is not as easy as everyone thinks.

Seeds grow from generation to generation.

Most of the crops are seasonal, one kind a year, or two or three kinds a year.Under such circumstances, it is already very surprising to be able to produce some experimental results in one or two years.

Gu Qingling has been working for so many years, but he can only cultivate a few that can be sold.

That's it, they are still "experimenting" all over the country, to see if they don't have the good quality of large-scale planting all over the country.

Since it was going to be reported, it was necessary to say hello to the editor-in-chief Yao Jiuye.

"Huh? I've read this book too."

Yao Jiuye was very surprised when he saw the book brought by the twenty-second prince Li Zheng.

"Have you read it too? Then do you think that what is said in this book is true?" asked the twenty-second prince Li Zheng.

Yao Jiuye shook his head: "Then I don't know. "Agronomy Strange Talk" talks about a lot of miraculous things. Plants are divided into male and female. Both male and female have infertility. If you are unlucky, I came across an infertile tree, or one of them with bad traits, either it couldn’t grow seeds, or there was something wrong with the grown seeds... I haven’t tried it, but I just think the things mentioned in it are quite interesting of."

Yes, that's right, Yao Jiuye had indeed seen it, but he was young and had never experienced any natural disasters or suffered.

So the content mentioned in this book, in his opinion, is just an interest.

The "infertility" twenty-two prince Li Zheng mentioned by Yao Jiuye had also turned to it last night, but he was so focused on the locusts that he really didn't pay attention.

The twenty-second prince Li Zheng felt a little awkward talking about "infertility" to such a young child. Even if he was talking about plants, he also felt embarrassed.

Quickly changed the subject: "It's really interesting, but... I'm more interested in the locust chapter."

"I have a book dedicated to introducing locusts, and I will bring them to you tomorrow. It not only records the types of locusts that have been discovered so far, but also their living habits. They like to eat fat leaves. They are also called grasshoppers. There are no katydids in their antennae. They're long, sort of like short whips, but their hind legs are so powerful that they can jump extraordinarily high..."

Yao Jiuye has a good memory, especially after reading a lot of books about locusts, he was quite impressed.

Of course he didn't know that the twenty-second prince Li Zheng was suddenly interested in locusts, not in the locusts themselves, but as a way of avenging his past.

So, he introduced the locust here vigorously, and the twenty-two prince Li Zheng was choking there, vomiting no, not vomiting no.

He had no choice but to stiffen his neck and listen to Yao Jiuye's introduction.

Yao Jiuye saw that he really liked to listen, so he showed him the drawing with a pen and paper.

It was Yao Jiuye who was young and had good calligraphy and painting skills.

Back then when Ke Yuan was discovered by Gu Qingling and sent to the Yao Clan to cultivate, Yao Jiuye found out that Gu Qingling praised Ke Yuan so much, and even learned sketching from Ke Yuan.

Although Yao Jiuye's painting skills are not as good as Ke Yuan's, compared with the popular calligraphy and painting style of "resemblance in spirit but not in form" and "can only be expressed in words", Yao Jiuye's realistic sketches are quite unexpected of.

Thin strips appeared under the pencil, and after a while, a vivid locust appeared on the paper.

Yao Jiuye was very clear about its body structure and introduced it carefully.

Originally, I was only talking to the [-]nd Prince Li Zheng alone, but I didn't expect that the grandson Li An and Li Gen, the grandson of the third emperor, also ran over, and listened happily to Yao Jiuye's introduction of the locust.

"So locusts look like this?"

"I didn't see it, Uncle Jiu, your drawing is quite interesting, I feel like it. When I was reading picture books, I didn't have a picture like yours."

……

Yao Jiuye said with a smile: "The picture book you read is a simple version. I have a whole set of "Insect Observation Diary", which contains observation records about locusts. Where do they usually live, what do they eat, what do they look like? Write it all clearly."

The next day, the twenty-second prince Li Zheng saw the book about locusts that Yao Jiuye had said.

As soon as he opened it, on the first page of the book was a super-large version of locusts, which was even thinner than Yao Jiuye's previous drawings.

There are a few hairs on the legs, and people have drawn them in.

The twenty-second prince Li Zheng: "..."

You don't have to.

Suddenly, I regretted mentioning this matter to Yao Jiuye, how can I break it?
But looking carefully, the twenty-second prince Li Zheng really saw something of value.

Locusts are divided into male and female. Female locusts generally lay their eggs in the ground about 10 cm deep, wrapped in a white cylindrical plug, and can lay about dozens of eggs at a time.

The exact amount still needs to be verified by experiments, but what is certain is that a female locust lays a lot of eggs, otherwise there will not be so many white things when the land is opened.

The twenty-second prince Li Zheng: "..."

So, how much can be produced, has no one verified it yet?

This question can be published in the newspaper to see if there is any capable person in Daming who has verified it.

Locusts have three growth stages, one is the egg, then the larva, and then the adult.

The eggs are buried in the soil and are generally difficult to find without careful observation.

Generally, it reproduces in summer and autumn, and is produced on bare tidal flats...

Wait, on the beach? !
The twenty-second prince Li Zheng stared at the word "beach" with wide eyes.

But even if you know its spawning address, it is not easy to find it. After all, it lays its eggs in the soil below 10 centimeters, so you can't dig around the mudflats, right?
The twenty-second prince, Li Zheng, hesitated.

However, there are indeed many natural enemies of locusts, such as frogs, lizards, birds, ants, carapaces, coriander, young wasp flies, insect-eating flies, chickens and ducks, etc.

Among this group of natural enemies, the best ones to raise are probably chickens and ducks.

But, locusts can fly, can chickens and ducks really catch so many locusts?
"Why not?"

Yao Jiuye felt strange when he heard the question from the [-]nd Prince Li Zheng, "Although locusts can fly, don't forget that even if they can fly again, they have to land. Could it be that they can fly in the sky all the time, non-stop? Come down. As long as they stop, that's fine."

"Did I say it?" The twenty-second prince Li Zheng was taken aback.

"Well, I said it."

Well, the twenty-second prince, Li Zheng, was a little helpless: "How many chickens and ducks do we have to raise to catch so many locusts? With so many chickens and ducks, the common people can fill their stomachs."

Yao Jiuye looked puzzled: "Do you want to use locusts to feed chickens and ducks? If so, you shouldn't ask how many locusts you need to catch to feed the chickens and ducks, right?"

The twenty-second prince Li Zheng: "..."

Can that be the same?

What he wants to solve is the locust plague, not raising chickens and ducks.

He doesn't care how the common people raise chickens and ducks.

"Are we reading a book?" said the [-]nd Prince Li Zheng, "I read "Agronomy Strange Talk" that said that chickens and ducks can control locusts. Suffering. So when I saw that said in the book, I felt a little nonsense, if raising a few chickens and ducks can prevent and control locusts, then the locust plague has been solved long ago, and it will be left now?"