A soft-waisted educated youth has sex with a loyal dog and a rough guy in the 1960s

Chapter 1018 Special Talents
"That's easy. Isn't Brother Xiao Fu at home?"

Hu Zhiyuan said with a smile:
"I'll take you two there, and you guys can deal with the bugs later while I do other things."

Lu Miao nodded and said yes.

Since they were all family, Lu Miao didn't bother to be polite with Hu Zhiyuan.

Let the people come in and sit anywhere they want, and she quickly started preparing lunch with Tian Guihua.

In the afternoon, Lu Miao put on a straw hat and carried a small backpack.

After thinking about it, he put another small can into the backpack.

Finally, Fu Jingyou rode his bike with her and followed Hu Zhiyuan.

No one in the village seriously grows cacti, and where there are cacti, they are mostly in small patches here and there.

Hu Zhiyuan recalled what he had seen before and took Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao to visit several places one after another.

When Lu Miao got off his bicycle and started walking among the cacti, Hu Zhiyuan said hello and left.

On the way, I met someone asking who Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou were and what they were doing there.

Hu Zhiyuan explained with a smile, saying that in the past few years, many people from the countryside were admitted to college, and one of them was the wife of the top scorer.

As for why Lu Miao was getting cochineal, Hu Zhiyuan couldn't explain it clearly for a while, and he stammered to explain that he came here to do research.

The villagers found it strange.

Considering that college students have a high level of education, the things they do are quite strange.

Many people came over to watch out of curiosity, but they just watched and no one interfered.

Lu Miao shuttled among the cacti of different sizes.

In addition to harvesting a few more pieces of cactus with fresh cochineal insects, she held a glass canning bottle in one hand and a short branch in the other.

We also harvested a lot of cochineal bodies.

There are far more scabs on a cactus than live cochineals.

However, some of them are very old and are obviously rotten and unusable.

Lu Miao picked out the shriveled and less severe scabs and collected them.

Fu Jingyou helped her.

Pull off a piece of banana leaf and collect the scabs on the leaf first. When there is no more space, pour it all into her bottle.

After two hours of work, both men's faces were flushed with excitement, and the 800 ml round-bellied cans were only seven-tenths full.

The number is considerable.

After carefully going around the cactus pile several times and making sure that most of them had been collected, Lu Miao screwed the lid on and prepared to go back with Fu Jingyou.

The summer pants were thin, and Lu Miao's legs were pricked many times while moving back and forth among the cacti.

She squatted down and scratched her calf. Fu Jingyou got on the bicycle first, and she followed him and sat on the back seat and said:
"Zaohua said there's a whole patch of cacti in front of the house of a sister-in-law on the team. Shall we go take a look? Maybe we can find some there, too?"

Fu Jingyou turned around and looked at her flushed face, trying to dissuade her:

"These should be enough, right? If they are enough, then we won't go."

Lu Miao pouted and punched him on the back:
"No! Cochineal is expensive and rare. If all of these can be used, wouldn't it be a loss to miss them?"

Of course, the main reason is that these cannot be obtained in the North at this stage.

If it is subsequently processed and confirmed to be usable, what chances do they have of returning after such a long journey?
It’s better to take advantage of the free time now and do whatever you can.

Besides, it would be fine to let the live cochineals continue to reproduce naturally.

If we don't get those scabs back, won't they be wasted after several storms?

Lu Miao had a positive idea and was determined to join the team.

Fu Jingyou could only obey her. Tianzao was in the team school and couldn't spare any time. When her mother-in-law saw Lu Miao and the others coming over and heard the reason, she took the initiative to take Lu Miao and the others to the place where there were cacti.

You know what, Lu Miao guessed it right!
There were not many living cochineal insects, but there were quite a few dark brown scabs.

However, the cactus grows on a sloping slope, and the upper middle part is difficult to collect.

As a last resort, Lu Miao had to give up.

Seeing her unwilling look, Fu Jingyou took the can from her hand and climbed up the slope as if he could fly over eaves and walls.

It was dangerous for a person to stand on the slope, and Lu Miao saw that his long legs were almost touching the cactus and moved, so he quickly said:
"No more, no more! The bottles are almost full, these are enough, come down quickly!"

"These nests are dense, I'll scrape them off first."

"Hey, hurry up!"

Lu Miao stood at the bottom of the slope, jumping anxiously:

“They’re all going to be stabbed to death!”

Fu Jingyou laughed. Seeing that the can was really full, he used a branch to press the scabs down a little, and stayed on the slope to collect them for a while before going down.

Lu Miao picked up the backpack and helped him to be careful to avoid crushing the live cochineal. After putting the bottle away, he glared at him and nagged:
"I told you to come down for so long, you are a pig skin, you are not afraid of being pricked!"

Fu Jingyou just smiled indulgently and did not refute.

It’s almost time for school to be over.

Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao went to the team's school.

After waiting outside for a while, the school teacher knocked on the broken tin can hanging under the eaves, and the children rushed out.

Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou picked up Minjie and Minrui.

Let Minjie sit on the horizontal bar in the front, and Lu Miao hold Minrui and sit in the back seat.

The four people, two adults and two children, staggered back home.

I am afraid that there is still moisture left in the cochineal scabs, which will cause a chain of mildew if put in the bottle.

Lu Miao went home and cut a large piece of oil paper. After spreading it on a bamboo sieve, he poured out the insect scabs in the bottle and spread them out evenly to dry.

As for the pieces of cactus with fresh cochineal insects on them, she pierced holes in them, threaded ropes through them and hung them under the eaves.

Keep it for now.

Lu Miao planned to bring it back to Beijing North.

The conditions for cochineal to survive outdoors in northern Beijing are insufficient, but the conditions can be created.

As long as we can successfully bring these "seed bugs" back, everything else is possible.

Lu Miao spends his days fiddling with his silk fan and turning over cochineal scabs.

Fu Jingyou knew that cochineal was not easy to obtain, and seeing that his wife loved it very much, he set out several times early in the morning with canning bottles.

When he came back in the morning, he brought back the bottle again, and every time he brought back some cochineal scabs.

The thorns of the cactus are difficult to deal with. Lu Miao guessed that he must have gotten them on the slope where the running team went, so he would always nag him not to go there again.

He has a way to deal with it.

He then went out in his rain boots. When Lu Miao saw him, he didn't say anything and just let him go.

Around this time, high-level leadership meetings in northern Beijing were constantly held.

At another meeting, Minister Zhan turned over the Party cadre guidelines and pointed out in a sharp speech:

According to relevant regulations, even if those with outstanding abilities are involved in business, they can be introduced and recruited as "special talents" based on their professional characteristics and expertise.

Minister Zhan always believed that Lu Miao's ability ceiling was very high.

Even if the process is cumbersome and troublesome, it is worth opening a separate channel to properly arrange and handle this matter.