A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 166 Remedy
The steward said: "The cotton field outside the city is dying! There is no harvest this year. Didn't you report it to the boss earlier?"

Xu Chenfang smiled and said with squinted eyes: "Then let them grab it, we won't grab it."

In fact, as soon as Meng Yan came back from outside the city, when the Xia family was teaching Monkey Bugui how to be a kind monkey, Meng Yan was thinking of a solution to the cotton disease.

It is not difficult to extract the Bordeaux mixture that kills cotton keratosis. Fortunately, Meng Yan did not return all the knowledge she had learned before. She also knows the two main ingredients of Bordeaux mixture-calcium hydroxide and copper sulfate.

Calcium hydroxide is easy to find, and it has a common name of lime.

This kind of thing is used to paint the walls when building houses in this city, and it is very cheap, so Meng Yan quickly went to buy two sacks and came back.

As for copper sulfate, there is also a common name called gall alum.For the past two days, Meng Yan has been thinking about how to refine bile alum under limited conditions.

Meng Yan came to ask Yin Heng, and said, "Did there be alchemists in ancient times? They have a tripod and can make things."

Yin Heng raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at her and said: "I don't know if there were any in ancient times, but if you use a tripod, you are talking about alchemy?"

Meng Yan patted his forehead and said, "Yes, it's alchemy." Anyway, whether it's alchemy or alchemy, it's the same thing.

There were no chemical laboratories in ancient times, and some chemical reactions were produced in Danding.

Yin Heng said: "What does Ah Nan want to practice?"

"Copper sulfate." Meng Yan blurted out, seeing Yin Heng looking at her, she reacted and changed her words, "Oh, bile refining."

"Refining gallbladder?" Yin Heng said, "You mean stone gallbladder, there is no need to specially refine it."

Meng Yan blinked, looked at him, and said again: "Go to the medicine shop and buy as much as you want."

Meng Yan's puzzled eyes suddenly brightened, and then burst into a bright and joyful light. He clasped his hands together and said, "I didn't expect that it is also a Chinese herbal medicine! Just go to the herbal medicine shop and buy it!"

As soon as Meng Yan was happy, she leaned over and kissed Yin Heng's cheek, and said: "Ah Heng, you are really my lucky star!"

Yin Heng's light-colored eyes were faintly filled with a smile, and he said, "Then you want to go to the street to buy stone gallbladders now?"

Meng Yan summed up, she wanted to buy a lot of gallstones, and the little extra money at home was not enough.So Meng Yan said thoughtfully, "It's time to take out the trump card."

She went into the house and took out the jade pendant that Xu Shenfang gave her, and was going to pawn it in the pawn shop.

She touched the transparent and beautiful jade pendant, and asked Yin Heng: "At the beginning, Xu Chenfang said how much this piece of jade could be worth?"

Yin Heng said: "At least 200 taels."

Meng Yan squinted her eyes and smiled, and said, "200 taels is definitely enough." The biggest practical effect of this jade is that it can be pawned for money when you have no money, and can be redeemed when you have money to preserve its value.

Soon, Meng Yan and Yin Heng went to the street together, first to buy jade pendants, and then to buy biscuits.

But Xu Chenfang had been staring at her, and Meng Yan had just gone to the pawn shop to pawn the jade pendant, and Xu Chenfang knew it on the back.

So just as Meng Yan and Yin Heng entered the pharmacy, Xu Shenfang came looking for them with a dark face.

As soon as Meng Yan saw him, she guarded him like a thief, after all, this guy was too cunning in business.Meng Yan said with a dry smile, "Ah, isn't this Boss Xu? What a coincidence."

Xu Chenfang said angrily: "You really take what I give you as you say."

There was a jade pendant between his fingers, but it was the one that Meng Yancai pawned, and he redeemed it again in a blink of an eye.

Meng Yan said: "Lack of money, please help."

Xu Shenfang said: "Don't you know how to find me when you are short of money?" He threw the jade pendant back to her, knowing that she would never take the initiative to ask him for money, even though he was willing to give it.So he added, "Just treat it as if I borrowed it from you. I'm better than a pawn shop." If this would make her feel more at ease.

Meng Yan said: "Okay then, I'll return the 200 taels of silver to you later."

Xu Chenfang smiled coquettishly, knocked on the fan bone and said, "Wrong, it's more than 200 taels. I redeemed this jade pendant, and it cost me an extra 30 taels, plus errand fees, you have to pay me back 250 taels."

Meng Yan rolled her eyes, "A profiteer!"

Xu Chenfang smiled and said: "No business, no adultery." With a cunning smile on his lips, he asked again, "My cousin became a jade pendant, what do you want to buy with that money?"

Meng Yan said, "Buy medicine."

Xu Shenfang said: "It seems that my cousin has recovered and does not need any medicine."

"I want you to manage."

Meng Yan knew that this guy was not easy to deal with. She and Yin Heng even changed two pharmacies, and they couldn't get rid of him no matter what.He just wanted to see what Meng Yan was going to buy.

Of course, Meng Yan was worried that this guy would follow suit.

In the end Xu Shenfang followed Meng Yan and Yin Heng back home, Xu Shenfang finally got straight to the point and said: "Cousin Ah Nan, I know you have a way to save the cotton fields outside the city."

Meng Yan squinted at him and said, "I also know that you want to know what I can do."

Xu Chenfang laughed twice, and said, "I can't help it, are you curious?"

Meng Yan said: "You are not curious, you are trying to steal my business opportunities."

Xu Shenfang waved her fan and said leisurely: "Then what do you think should be done? If you drag it on, your solution will be useless when the cotton plants die of illness, and I won't be able to receive the cotton either. So do you want us to cooperate?"

Meng Yan said, "Okay, I'll sell my pesticides, you'll take your cotton, and we won't spy on or interfere with each other, how about that?"

Xu Chenfang agreed, but said in surprise: "Your way is to sell pesticides?"

Meng Yan said: "People have to take medicine when they are sick, don't crops also have to take medicine when they are sick?"

If she and Yin Heng went to the pharmacy alone, it would take a long time, and the two of them would still have to work hard to get everything back home.But now an agreement has been reached with Xu Chenfang. In the afternoon, Xu Chenfang called the local tyrants to help, instead of running around with Meng Yan and Yin Heng, and Xu Chenfang herself did not take the initiative to participate.

Meng Yan asked the village tyrants to go to the city to buy biscuits, the more the better.

By evening, basically most of the gallbladder in the city had been piled up in Meng Yan's yard.

Meng Yan dug well water and dissolved lime and alum into the water, and the two reacted chemically.After the reaction is complete, it becomes a blue liquid medicine.

It's just that this liquid medicine can't be stored for too long, it needs to be prepared and used immediately.

Meng Yan used the freshly prepared liquid medicine to water the flowers and plants in the yard.Then she discovered that since there are no pesticides in this era, of course there will be no pesticide sprayers.

Yin Heng asked her what kind of pesticide sprayer it was.

Meng Yan described it to him as a box used to hold liquid medicine, and then there is a tube protruding from it, and the liquid medicine sprays out from that pipe, so that the cotton can be sprayed evenly on a large area.

(End of this chapter)