The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 217 218 Treating the Maid Spider

   Zhou Jia smiled indifferently, "He just likes the fun! Let's go back to eat dumplings too!"

"This tastes really delicious," Tu Dianshi said in admiration as he ate, "Since I ate at the adults' house, I've gained ten pounds, and now I'm worried about where I'll go to eat after the adults are promoted! "

  Mr. Qian said with a smile: "It's still early! I'll make plans after that day. I'm going with Lord Ding. I'll go wherever he goes!"

  Tu Dianshi glanced at Mr. Qian and said enviously, "It's still Lao Qian, you are free and easy, I can't do it."

   "Hey," Mr. Qian sighed, "I'm all alone, and I don't have much to care about, so I'm not the same as you!"

   The ambassador smiled and said, "We are both old widowers, why are we different?" After listening to Mr. Qian, he thought, "Yes! Two old widowers."

After a few people had eaten, they went back to the yamen to get busy, Li Yu fell asleep, Yang Wei hurriedly ran into the yard, and reported to Li Yuqi: "Madam, the villagers in Houshan Village who followed us to grow winter wheat are looking for you. , said that many small red spiders had grown in their wheat fields, and some of the wheat had turned yellow."

Li Yu thought about it for a while, and said, "I'm afraid there are wheat spiders. I'll take a look with you." The two went out to the street together, and saw a charming and charming girl followed by a woman, just now After coming out of the house next door, Li Yu glanced at him and got on the carriage. Yang Wei raised his whip and drove the carriage towards the outside of the city.

Yu Yan stood at the door, watching the carriage go farther and farther, and whispered to the woman beside her: "Auntie, the lady just now was probably the county magistrate's wife? I didn't expect that the county magistrate's wife and the county magistrate match so well. "

Aunt Yu glanced at her daughter, "This lady looks really good, and she has a heroic spirit in her actions. Yan'er, most capable men like delicate beauties." Yu Yan seems to understand but not understand. nodded.

   Li Yu sat in the car and thought, is there any pesticides in this world, and can only rely on plants to kill insects, what plants can kill red spiders? After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered hearing a comrade proudly say that his sister who was studying at the Agricultural University used walnut leaves and lime water to kill the red spiders on the cotton seedlings, saving the family a fortune on pesticides. I heard her talk at that time. , I was curious and asked how to match it. I don't know if this method can be used on the wheat spider, and I can only try it to see if it works.

The carriage arrived at Houshan Village. More than a dozen villagers who followed Li Yu to learn how to grow winter wheat all waited anxiously at the entrance of the village. When they saw Li Yu's car approaching, they anxiously surrounded Li Yu's car before it stopped. He said to Yang Wei, "Awei, go back to the city to buy a basket of quicklime and bring it here along with a large clay pot."

   "Yes, ma'am." Yang Wei drove the car back to the city.

   Villager Tu Zhong asked anxiously: "Madam, look at my field, many of the wheat seedlings are withered and yellowed, and there are many red spiders growing in the field. I sprinkled grass and tree ash a few times and it didn't die."

"Don't worry, take me to see what's going on first, who else has a walnut tree, go and pick some walnut leaves first, and pick more." Li Yu's calm smile calmed the villagers. The woman stepped forward and said, "Ma'am, there is a walnut tree in the backyard of my house. I'll go pick walnut leaves."

  Li Yu looked at her and smiled: "Hey! I think you look familiar?"

The woman bowed her body and said, "Madam, my surname is Lin, and I am the daughter-in-law of the Ye family at the end of the village. Last year, my boss wanted to sell my daughter to treat my mother-in-law. You helped us drive away that old lady."

   After she said it, Li Yu remembered, "Oh! Does your family also grow winter wheat?"

The woman smiled shyly and said, "Since the accident last year, my family has been separated from my mother-in-law. I heard that the families working in your house have learned to grow winter wheat from you, and I have also learned to grow two acres of wheat. ."

   "Oh, I will trouble you to pick a basket of walnut leaves, a shawl, and a load of water to the side of the wheat field."

"Okay madam." Mrs. Lin trotted home. Li Yu followed the villagers Tu Zhong and his wife to his wheat field. When they got to the wheat field, Tu Zhong went down to the field and caught a few wheat spiders and put them in the palm of his hand for Li Yu looked at it and pointed to the yellowed wheat leaf in the middle: "Madam, you see that piece of wheat has been badly damaged, and the wheat seedling is about to die."

Li Yu went down to the field to look at it, grabbed some soil and looked at it again, and said to Tu Zhong: "Your wheat field is a little short of water, remember to water more, go back and find some gourds, the bigger the gourd, the better. , find a carpenter to fill the bottom of the gourd with tiny holes, and then take some firewood and some water for later use."

After Tu Zhong nodded in agreement, he hurried back. Li Yu followed the other villagers to look around and found that the situation was similar. After getting things ready, Yang Wei also arrived in a carriage carrying lime and clay pots.

Li Yu asked the villagers to chop the walnut leaves, add water to boil them in proportion, and after boiling, filter the walnut leaves with a shawl, add quicklime in proportion to the water boiled from the walnut leaves, put them in the gourd, and let the villagers sprinkle them on At the roots of the wheat seedlings, everyone was busy until the sun went down, sprinkled walnut lime water on the few households with more serious wheat spiders, and went back to Tu Zhong's wheat field. They found that some of the wheat spiders in Tu Zhong's wheat field had died. , Li Yu and the villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the walnut lime water was effective, Li Yu said to the villagers: "You follow my method and sprinkle it several times until the wheat spiders are completely killed." The villagers saluted gratefully: "Thank you madam, otherwise we would not have There's a way."

  Li Yu waved his hand and said, "It's getting dark soon, and I'm afraid it's going to rain today, so I'll go back first." Everyone sent Li Yu to the entrance of the village, and then they went to the village when the carriage was far away.

Li Yu asked Yang Wei to get off the car outside Zhuangzi, and drove the car back alone. Just after entering the city gate for a while, he saw Zhou Jia walking towards him on a horse. Zhou Jia saw Li Yu driving the carriage, dismounting and taking the horse off. Tethered to the trunk of the car, he got into the car and took the reins from Li Yu's hand, without saying a word.

Li Yu knew that Zhou Jia was a little angry, but he was tired all afternoon, and he really didn't have the energy to explain it to him. Sitting on the rafters, leaning against the carriage and squinting tiredly, Zhou Jia tightened his head and slowed down the speed of the car. Li Yu put his head on his shoulder, and said softly, "Yu'er, I'm not mad at you, I'm just worried that you are pregnant, that you will be exhausted."

  Li Yu silently stretched out his hand and embraced Zhou Jia, "Xiaoxi, I will be careful, but the wheat seedlings are sick, those villagers rely on the crops in the fields to live, I can't stand idly by."

Zhou Jia held Li Yu's hand and said distressedly: "I know, but you don't have to do it yourself, you can tell someone to do it. Yu'er, after I go back, I will sort out the things you asked me to record before, so that people can do it. Copy some more and put it on the notice wall at the gate of the city, and let the yamen read it to the villagers, what do you think?"

   Li Yu listened to Zhou Jia's low voice, and fell asleep leaning on Zhou Jia. Zhou Jia didn't hear Li Yu's answer after speaking, and looked down to see that Li Yu had fallen asleep leaning on himself.

   "Fool, make yourself so tired!" Zhou Jia glanced at Li Yu who was asleep, and drove the car back slowly.

   (end of this chapter)