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

"That's right." Li Wenchong said, "Brother Can and the others are children after all, and they haven't thought about it very well. I still need Brother Huang to help describe what to do."

Emperor Mingguang glared at him.

Li Wenchong didn't take it seriously, and continued: "When it comes to raising chickens and ducks, I suddenly remembered that Qingling once mentioned to me that a hen is not necessarily needed to hatch eggs, as long as the temperature is right, artificial hatching can also be done artificially. It’s much easier than hatching a hen, and a lot can be hatched in one room..."

Barbara, let's start introducing.

How to operate it, Li Wenchong is not very clear.

But who let him go to those farms of Gu Qingling?
So he still knows roughly how to use a fire pit to hatch chicks.

Hearing what Li Wenchong said, Emperor Mingguang was very surprised: "This can also hatch chickens? Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

Li Wenchong nodded: "I just saw it, that's why I said that. If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't have dared to tell Brother Huang? If Brother Huang doesn't believe it, I'll go back and talk to Qingling and ask her to borrow a few professionals." Give it to Brother Huang, Brother Huang will know if he tries it. It takes about [-] days to hatch the chicks, and the results can be tested in less than a month. No matter how full the words are, they will not be more convincing than practice."

"You..." Ever since I married that woman, I have become more and more in a way of talking now.

Emperor Mingguang laughed.

However, what Li Wenchong said really caught Emperor Mingguang's heart.

If Gu Qingling's method can really solve the egg hatching problem, and chickens are the nemesis of locusts, maybe it can really solve the problem to some extent.

Although Emperor Mingguang didn't believe that raising chickens could solve the locust plague, he was satisfied if it played a certain role to a certain extent.

After returning, Li Wenchong told Gu Qingling about this and sent him to the palace.

On the other hand, a new issue of "Natural History" was released and appeared in the hands of thousands of households.

When they saw the locust control method mentioned in the newspaper, they were shocked.

"Isn't it?! This will kill the locusts?! If it were that easy, the locust problem would have been solved long ago, and it would be their turn?"

"This is too ridiculous!"

"Oh... a group of children, it's normal to be whimsical."

"Oh...if it's true, it would be great. If it's true, the common people won't have to suffer so much."

……

Few people believed what was written in the newspaper.

Thinking about it, it was a plague of locusts. For thousands of years, the plague of locusts that no one could solve could be solved with just a few words from the princes and grandchildren?

impossible.

Of course, some people don't believe it, and some people seriously think about the questions raised above.

Assuming the above plan is feasible, using the backward method, to eliminate the locusts, they only need to...

First of all, look for the location where the locusts hatch - the tidal flats.

This is easy to solve, as long as you go to the locust plague area, find a suitable place, and open it to see.

If true, then this one can be considered.

Second, destroy the food chain of locusts.

What do locusts eat?
It must be crops, otherwise the locusts would not become a plague of locusts.

Then, when it is young, replace all the edible plants around it with food that it cannot eat. If it cannot eat enough and wear warm clothes, will it not be able to grow up?

Again, start with the locust's nemesis.

……

After reading one by one, Xing Yuanjia felt more and more reasonable.

Xing Yuanjia hated locusts to death.

He grew up listening to the stories of locust plagues since he was a child, listening to his grandparents tell how many people died when the locust plague happened.

If it weren't for the locust plague, his grandmother would not have become an orphan.

If his grandma hadn't met his grandpa, she would have starved to death long ago.

In the area where they live, although there are no relatively large locust plagues every year, locusts flood from time to time and damage the crops in the field.

They didn't starve to death, they survived entirely on bark and wild vegetables, what they ate, and the little food left.

Come once in a while, it can make them miserable.

Xing Yuanjia has long wanted to solve the problem of locusts, and he has been doing a lot of research.Therefore, when he saw the locust extermination plan mentioned in the "Natural History", his eyes immediately lit up.

Before dawn, he took the newspaper and the guy who turned the ground and went out.

"Second, where are you going?"

Xingfu, who also got up early, saw it and looked puzzled.

"It's okay, I'll go out."

Xingfu thought that his son had gone to work in the field, and wanted his son to wait for him and go out together.

As a result, Xing Yuanjia said that he had other things to do, not go to the field.

Xingfu was at a loss, he had other things to do, what was he doing with a digging hoe?
At noon, Xingfu met Uncle Liu at the head of the village.

Uncle Liu said: "I watched your son go to the river beach outside the village early in the morning... What is he doing there? You don't need to bring a hoe to catch fish, do you?"

When Xingfu heard this, he was even more puzzled.

As soon as he got home, Father Xing saw Xing Yuanjia running back covered in mud.

"Father, let me show you something."

"What?" Xingfu lowered his head and saw the mud in his son's arms, "Why are you digging so much mud?"

"Father, have you seen these white things? Guess what they are?" Xing Yuanjia's eyes sparkled.

"What is it?"

"It's the eggs of locusts." Xing Yuanjia said, "The newspaper said that the eggs of locusts are laid in the mud of the tidal flat. I didn't believe it, so I ran to dig it out, but I didn't think it was true...Dad, you Look, there is a female locust beside here, I accidentally killed it when I was digging the mud."

Xingfu: "..."

He really didn't know that the locusts actually lay their eggs in the mud.

Wait, aren't locusts a pest of the ground?

Shouldn't it lay its eggs in the grass?
"Father, the newspaper said that locusts lay eggs and hatch in the same way as hens hatch eggs. To keep the temperature, if we take advantage of the locusts are still young, we will turn over the land, or turn the tidal flats into ponds to raise fish, etc. , the hatching environment of the locust eggs is destroyed, it will not be able to hatch..."

Xingfu didn't quite understand the truth, but he understood one thing - when the hen was hatching, if you kept disturbing it, it wouldn't hatch, and the good egg would turn into a bad egg.

So, what his son means is...

Do you want Madam to turn the good locust eggs into bad locust eggs before the locust eggs hatch?

However, how did his son know that turning over the land or building a fish pond would definitely destroy it?

"I don't know, but I have to try. Dad, think about it. When you keep disturbing the hen when it is hatching, it will not hatch. The locust eggs are all laid in the mud, and they can't escape. Then We turned over the nest where the hens hatched eggs, do you think the hens can still hatch eggs?"

This... Xingfu couldn't tell.

If it can be destroyed, it may really be useful.

But the question is, how do they know that they can destroy it by digging the ground or building fish ponds?

Xing Yuanjia couldn't explain it, anyway, that's what was written in the newspaper.

The newspaper also said, why did it say it was changed to a fish pond?
Because fish also eat locust eggs.

There are also certain birds, chickens, ducks, geese and the like.

Xing Yuanjia didn't know if it was true, but he could bring the mud back and catch a few more fish to try.