After dressing up as the wife of the hero of the imperial examination, I ran away

Su Xiaomu hasn't returned to Fucheng for the past few days, and concentrates on processing her potatoes in the farm.

Probably because of the good rain in these few days, Su Xiaomu took good care of these potatoes, but after five or six days, some potatoes had sprouted.

After she determined the location, she planted the germinated potatoes separately, let them live in a small room, and then fertilized them one by one.

Only after digging one-third of an acre of land, Su Xiaomu gradually noticed that something was wrong.

"Eggs..."

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

If Su Xiaomu read it correctly, the number of these insect eggs is probably a bit scary, right?

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

After all, the land is also a small biosphere.

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

Using such soil with excessive pathogenic bacteria for farming is not conducive to the growth of crop roots, which has the risk of rotten roots.

And the pest crisis doesn't stop there.

Thinking of the horrible things that might happen later, Su Xiaomu was in no mood to continue serving these potatoes.

She no longer carefully gave them a single room as before, but divided them up quickly with quick eyes and hands, and then went to the most experienced farmer in the farm without any delay.

Fortunately, she had noticed at the time that when she bought the land for the first time, she asked Uncle Liang to introduce her to capable people who had been farming. See, it came in handy now.

The boss of this kind of field is surnamed Shi, and Su Xiaomu had contacts with him before, so the two of them are considered familiar.

As soon as she saw him, she immediately told him about her discovery of the infestation.

Then, together with him, they went around the village and looked at all the fields in the farm. In the end, Uncle Shi's expression turned ugly.

"Miss Su is right. There are indeed a lot of insect eggs in this field, and some of them have even clinged to the leaves of the crops... If you hadn't told me, we wouldn't have discovered these details at all."

Uncle Shi is really terrified now, the autumn harvest is coming soon, if the crops are damaged by insects, then they will be wasted for a whole year, and they will not know what to eat next year.

Waiting to starve to death!
"Miss Su!" Uncle Shi trembled, tears welling up in his eyes, "The whole village will be grateful to you for this matter!"

"I don't need to say anything superfluous, and it doesn't matter whether you are grateful or not. The most urgent thing now is to get rid of these insect eggs. I don't know if Uncle Shi has any methods to eliminate insect pests?"

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

It's better to work hard for her to earn money, which is more realistic.

"Yes, there is... But I haven't made it for a long time, I'm afraid it's a little troublesome to make, so, Miss Su, wait for me for a while, and I'll dig out the previous recipe."

Uncle Shi really can't think of any medicine that kills insect eggs at this moment. The main reason is that there has been no insect infestation in the past few years, and everyone has not used it for a long time.

"Well, you go back and look for it first. I'm also trying to make medicine here. Let's work together to solve this matter as soon as possible."

Su Xiaomu thought that now she had to get someone to do the disinfecting as soon as possible. If she remembered correctly, she could use traditional Chinese medicine to blend it into a harmless and powerful insecticide.

Now, I have to go back to buy Chinese medicine.

Su Xiaomu and Uncle Shi separated, and she went to the Chinese medicine shop non-stop to buy all the Chinese medicines she needed. She originally wanted to go back to the yard to make potions, but she still felt a little uneasy when she stepped out of the Chinese medicine shop.

If there were pests in the farm, then other places in Fucheng couldn't get away either.

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

Not for anything else, but because if the pest problem can be resolved smoothly, it will definitely give him a wave of popular support before the imperial examination.

"A good wife, a good wife, a good wife like me, I don't know where Gu Jingcheng burned her incense in her previous life to worship me."

Su Xiaomu shook his head with emotion, and then quickened his pace to look for Gu Jingcheng at Master Wan.

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

Seeing him sitting in the room reading a book, Su Xiaomu immediately asked the book boy to call him over.

"Why did you come to me suddenly? But what's the matter?"

The moment Gu Jingcheng saw Su Xiaomu, his eyes lit up like a puppy seeing a fleshy bone.

When he ran over, he was still holding the book in his hand, smiling so that his eyes curled into crescents: "What's the matter?"

"I can't come to you because I have nothing to do?" Su Xiaomu originally wanted to tell him in a hurry, but seeing his smile, the tension and urgency in her heart were immediately soothed.

"It's a very important matter. I came here 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?"

"Is there a pest in Fucheng?" Gu Jingcheng caught the point of her words, and the grin on his mouth disappeared immediately, "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 magistrate about it."

Su Xiaomu knew that it was inconvenient to meet the magistrate in his own capacity, but the pest problem had to be resolved, so he had to let Gu Jingcheng go.

"Then you 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 has also done farm work, so he knows how terrible pests are to farmers.

If Fucheng is really going to face a large-scale insect infestation, and before the autumn harvest, when the people are unprepared, then it is inevitable that this insect infestation will be a disaster for Fucheng!
Of course, Su Xiaomu also knew how serious it was. She kept a long story short and told him clearly about the discovery of the pest from the beginning to the end. By the way, she also said that she might have insecticides for treating the pest. Although it still takes time to study, but The recipe is already well-thought-out.

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

After Wan and his son learned about this, they took Gu Jingcheng to the county magistrate without the slightest hesitation.

The three of them discussed this matter in the yamen for a long time. After thinking about it, the county magistrate decided to send people to various farms in Fucheng to check the conditions of the fields.

The county grandpa sent all his confidantes. If what Mrs. Su said about the pests was true, then the outbreak of the pests would definitely make life difficult for the entire prefecture!