Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 153 Natural Enemies
Du Xiaoyu found aphids on the leaves of honeysuckle this morning, and immediately had a headache.

This kind of insect is extremely scary, because it reproduces too fast, and often gathers in groups on the young leaves to suck the juice, causing the branches and leaves to wither and even the whole plant to die, causing significant losses to crops.

As a matter of urgency, they can only be eliminated by hand. Fortunately, they were discovered early and the number is not large. However, after working for half a day, she looked up and looked ahead, immediately disheartened.

The aphids are so small that catching them one by one is as slow as a tortoise. Not to mention that the hands are sore and the eyes hurt from staring at them. After catching for so long, she only cleared a few rows. It's not enough to give her a few days of hard work!

She thought about running to the rice field to find Du Xian.

The rice is good. It seems that aphids don't like rice. It may be too hard, and it is far less fresh and tender than honeysuckle.

After hearing her description, Du Xian said in surprise, "It's a wheat worm? Why did it go to eat honeysuckle? I used to gnaw wheat exclusively, but fortunately, it has been harvested." Their family grows winter wheat, which is harvested in March.

"Is there anything dad can do? It can't be caught at all."

Du Xian said, "Try it with garlic water, we used that before." He had a worried look on his face, "But we can't kill them all, we have to catch them one by one."

The two rushed home in a hurry, peeled dozens of garlic heads, smashed them and soaked them in water.

Zhao Dongzhi asked strangely, "Brother-in-law, what are you doing with Xiaoyu? Peel so much garlic."

"There are a lot of wheat bugs on the herbs."

"Oh, that's amazing. It tastes like a big piece. Do you want me to help you? Is this enough garlic?" Zhao Dongzhi leaned over and said, "I'm also most afraid of meeting that bug. It's exhausting to catch, you guys Sprinkle some plant ash on it when you go to splash the garlic water, it will be of some use.” He called Huang Yun again, “His father, you will go with him in a while.”

Huang Yun answered in the distance.

After soaking in the water, the three of them each carried a wooden barrel and took the ashes to the honeysuckle field. They took a ladle and poured it on the branches and leaves, and then grabbed a handful of ash and spread it on it. They saw that the aphids all fell or died. on the foliage.

Du Xiaoyu was finally relieved and didn't finish work until the evening.

It's a pity that the fighting power of the aphid was unexpected. The next day, she carried clear water and wanted to wash off all the things that had been sprinkled on the branches and leaves yesterday, but found that the aphid had crawled over again.

Although it is not as much as yesterday, it is impossible not to remove it, but the residue of garlic water cannot stay on the branches and leaves all the time, it has to be washed away with water. When she finishes doing this, she is exhausted, but Also kill any new aphids that fly over.

She really felt like crying, but she walked back with her head drooping.

"What's the matter, the bugs haven't been removed?" Mrs. Zhao was coaxing Xiao Qingqiu in her arms. Seeing her daughter's dejected expression, she comforted her, "When your father comes back, I'll ask you to do it again. Hey, you should take a rest, and the meal will be gone." It's better."

Just as he was talking, Huang Xiaoying came out with a plate of stir-fried pork with edamame, pickled vegetables, and saw Du Xiaoyu was covered in mud, and said with a smile, "Little fish, go wash it up, it's time to eat."

"Eat!" Huang Ligen cheered outside.

They rested today, the two brothers didn't go to private school, they were playing with slingshots and shooting birds in the backyard.

Huang Lishu also ran in, and seeing Du Xiaoyu, he laughed and said, "Like a little mud monkey, dirty! What's wrong? Is your herbal medicine not growing well?"

"Don't talk nonsense, wash your hands!" Huang Xiaoying slapped him on the shoulder.

Huang Yun and Du Xian also came back, and they sat down to eat.

There are a total of eleven people in the two families. Fortunately, Fu Dan and Xiao Qingqiu are not young enough to sit at the table. Zhao Dongzhi is eating with Huang Lirong in his arms, and the square table will be enough for eight seats.

Hearing that there were wheat bugs again, Du Xian said that he would go to get rid of the bugs with his daughter in the afternoon.

Huang Lishu giggled beside him, "What kind of garlic water do you use to catch bugs and eat them, you idiot!"

Zhao Dongzhi immediately tapped him on the head, and shouted, "Which idiot are you talking about? How dare you call your uncle an idiot after eating the ambitious leopard? You just don't deserve a beating!"

Huang Lishu hurriedly said, "I'm talking about Xiaoyu, hmph, isn't it a fool to pretend to be smart in front of me all day?"

"As long as you are smart and don't eat well, you know how to run wild every day and know how to farm?" Huang Xiaoying also reprimanded, kicking her brother under the table with her feet.

Under the pressure of the two violent forces, Huang Lishu had no choice but to shut up obediently.

But Du Xiaoyu listened to it. After eating, he found Huang Lishu and asked, "You just said you caught insects and ate them? What do you mean? Do insects eat wheatworms?"

She has seen the use of natural enemies to eliminate pests in agricultural books, but she doesn't know what kind of insects the aphid's natural enemies are.

Huang Lishu gave her a white look, "Why should I tell you? Aren't you going to bully me for writing without you? I'm not going to help you, just catch your aphids slowly!"

Du Xiaoyu twitched the corner of her mouth, which shows that it is really bad to offend people. Don't bully the young man. When she didn't expect Huang Lishu to help, she turned her eyes and said, "My herbal medicine blooms this year and can be sold better. What about money, how about this, if what you said is really useful, how about I give you benefits?"

"Benefits?" Huang Lishu was a little loose, "What benefits?"

"Didn't you fancy that iron slingshot? It can fly far and hit big birds! How about I buy you a slingshot like this?"

She heard Huang Lishu and his sons talk about this matter, but Zhao Dongzhi vetoed it and refused to buy it for them. Because of this, Huang Lishu ignored his mother for a few days.

Huang Lishu's eyes widened suddenly, "Really?"

"I always mean what I say. Whoever wants to lie to you is not a valuable thing." Du Xiaoyu said disdainfully.

Hearing her loud tone, Huang Lishu felt uncomfortable. This cousin is obviously one year younger than him, but her status in the family is too different!

He would ask his parents about everything he bought, how much money he had at most, unlike Du Xiaoyu, who raises rabbits and grows medicinal herbs by herself, so she has earned a lot of money!It was so aggrieved, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he gritted his teeth angrily.

"What's going on, have you thought about it?"

"No!" Huang Lishu said decisively, "It's too cheap for you!"

Do you still want the lion to open his mouth to take advantage of it?Du Xiaoyu was unhappy, "Don't push yourself! If you don't want to tell me, I'll tell my aunt, but you said you have a way to cure wheat bugs but you refused to tell me, and you still want to cheat some money from me, and see if my aunt won't beat you up." !"

Huang Lishu stared at her, "You, you are so poisonous!"

"Then why don't you say it?"

"Just tell me, I'll just say that I don't know at all, I was just playing with you, hehe, what can you do with me?" Huang Lishu also has a trick.

Du Xiaoyu twitched the corner of his mouth, "What exactly do you want?"

"Two, two slingshots!" Huang Lishu was afraid that she would not agree, so he added, "Don't pull them down!"

Du Xiaoyu burst out laughing, unexpectedly his request was to add another slingshot, was it for Huang Ligen to play with?It turned out to be a simple baby.

"Okay, okay, just two, let's catch bugs then?"

"You buy it for me first." Huang Lishu stared at her vigilantly.

Afraid that she would play tricks, Du Xiaoyu was speechless, but there is such a slingshot grocery store, Qin bought a lot of these gadgets to seduce the children in the village, she ran to pick out the two most expensive and best ones, Huang Lishu Only then was he so satisfied that he took her to find Xiao Chong.

There are a lot of this kind of insects on the hillside, the wings are red, round, with several small black spots on them, Du Xiaoyu discovered that they are seven-spotted ladybugs.

The two pounced for a long time, got dozens of them and put them in a gauze net bag. Du Xiaoyu wanted to see if it worked, so he temporarily caught so many and went back to try.

It turned out that it was really useful. When the ladybugs were released, they looked like mice that had fallen into a rice jar. They were eating happily. They all found the branches with aphids accurately, and they flew on them for a long time without moving.

For those who left, Du Xiaoyu went up to take a look, and found that the aphids were eaten clean, not even a scum was left.

She couldn't help clapping her hands, and shouted, "It's really useful, eat them all, good, good! Let's catch them again!" Xing hurriedly pulled Huang Lishu, and even went home to call Huang Ligen, three Go to the mountains alone.

But the two brothers went to private school the next day, and Du Xiaoyu and Du Xian caught aphids together.

I don't know if there are more than one hundred these days. Anyway, there are seven-spotted ladybugs flying over the two acres of land, just waiting to catch aphids and eat them. The aphids are too scared to come again.

After solving this worry, the flowers of honeysuckle also bloomed one after another.

Compared with last year, the number has increased a bit, but it opened earlier this year, and it will obviously open again. In this way, it has more than doubled.

But this year, she doesn't want Du Xian to watch at night anymore. It was stolen last time, and she didn't tell the truth, so she hired a short-term employee, only seven or eight days, fifteen yuan a night , If the guard is not good, if it is stolen, the loss will be deducted from the wages, which has been explained in advance.

The person was introduced by Aunt Wu, his surname is Hua, his name is Hua Xiaoshun, he lives in the north of the village. Dogs are much easier.

Hua Xiaoshun did his duty as expected, and he hasn't been stolen these days. I heard from him that some people still had bad intentions and secretly wanted to pick some back. Fortunately, a few dogs were more sensitive. When they barked, he followed the sound. The man ran away in fright.In the next few days, no one came, probably knowing that someone was guarding.

Du Xiaoyu was very satisfied, and said that he planned to grow a few acres in the future, and asked him to look at it specially, and the wages would naturally increase.Hua Xiaoshun was always at home, with only a few acres of Susukida, and his own son was looking after him, so if he had an errand to ask him to do, of course he agreed, and the matter was settled.

After the honeysuckle was dried and sold, they sold cold melons again. The whole family was so busy that they didn't touch the ground every day, and the hottest weather in June soon ushered in.

At this time, their new yard was almost finished.

(End of this chapter)