After being widowed, I pampered the rough man general by farming

"Are you talking about the insects in the crops? Don't worry about that, the rice hasn't headed yet. Besides, the leaves eaten by the insects are not rice, don't you think so?"

When Xu Liushi heard that Zhu Jiangjiang was here for such a trivial matter, he immediately put on a look of not needing to care, and told Zhu Jiangjiang not to take it to heart.

What she said was nothing short of shocking.

"Grandma Liu, didn't we use to kill insects when we farmed?"

"What kind of insects do you want to kill? We just need to beware of the mice and house sparrows eating the rice during the harvest. There is no need to kill insects."

Mrs. Xu Liu thought that Zhu Jiangjiang was inexperienced in farming, so she took her hand and patted it after speaking, "Sister-in-law, just relax and wait for the autumn harvest."

"Oh, look at how much land you have planted this year, and there will be a bumper harvest..."

When Mrs. Xu and Liu were still expressing their emotions and excitedly expressed their joy for Zhu Jiangjiang's harvest this year, Zhu Jiangjiang had already turned around and left.

I didn't expect that the people here did not kill insects when they planted the land. No wonder they didn't have enough food or clothing.

Zhu Jiangjiang tried to find the ancient method of killing insects to no avail, so he could only find a way by himself.

Standing on the ridge of the field, she has been observing the small insect named rice weevil in her hand for a long time. This is the most common insect before and after the heading of rice, and it eats rice leaves.

If it is allowed to gnaw on the rice leaves, the ears of rice will be dry and grainless, and the whole crop will die in severe cases.

Zhu Jiangjiang thought of an idea. Mixing lime powder with water can kill insects, but not eggs.

The insect eggs are still there, and the crops will still suffer after a while, but the lime water cannot be used frequently, otherwise it will kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

So the most troublesome thing for her now is how to get rid of the eggs?

"sister in law."

"I wish my sister..."

Pei Xiaoyu, who picked tea, came back with other children in the village. When they passed the village entrance, they saw Zhu Jiangjiang squatting in the field, so they ran towards her.

"Sister-in-law, is this tea fruit edible?" Pei Xiaoyu stretched out her thin fist and spread it out, holding the tea seeds picked from the tea mountain in her palm.

This is what the little friends in the village asked her to ask, because there are a lot of tea trees.

The absent-minded Zhu Jiangjiang didn't think about it, and blurted out mechanically, "Tea seeds can be used to squeeze oil, and the squeezed oil can be eaten. Tea seed cakes can't be eaten, but they can be used..."

Speaking of tea seed cake, Zhu Jiangjiang's eyes immediately brightened, "Yes, tea seed cake is not only a pesticide, but also a fertilizer, and it can prevent pests in rice fields!"

The degreased tea seeds contain saponin, which can kill insect eggs after hydrolysis!

"Little fish, put aside the tea-picking work tomorrow and help me pick the tea seeds from the old trees. I'm useful."

Tea can be picked at any time, but crops cannot wait.

There will also be a deadly flood at the end of July. If the crops cannot be guaranteed to grow vigorously and harvested in advance, it will be a disaster.

After making up his mind, Zhu Jiangjiang skipped dinner and went directly to pick limestone from the mountain not far behind the village.

After being burned overnight, the limestone has been thoroughly burned and can be easily crushed. When needed, it can be used with a little grinding.

Everyone in the village heard that Zhu Jiangjiang was going to deworm the crops, and such strange things attracted everyone.

Everyone stood in a circle around the Pei family's field, looking at Zhu Jiangjiang who was busy with his head down, and they all talked to persuade her.

"Sister-in-law, don't waste that effort, it's okay, the rice hasn't headed yet."

"Yeah, it's not a big deal for bugs to eat leaves, as long as they don't eat millet."

The villagers were all talking about what they believed to be the truth, but Zhu Jiangjiang heard that they were very helpless.

"Uncles and aunts, plants perform photosynthesis through leaves. If the leaves are damaged, the rice will not grow well. The lime I burned yesterday is enough. Let's all come and deworm the crops."

Zhu Jiangjiang used a basket to pick up the burnt stones, and used a bucket to adjust the proportion of lime water that would not burn the crops.

Then choose a green bamboo with a thick wrist mouth, leave the joints, punch a few holes, open the other end, and make a push-pull piston, which is a simple water sprayer.

"What's the use?"

"What is sister-in-law talking about?"

The villagers on the ridge looked at each other, unable to understand what Zhu Jiangjiang was saying

Before Zhu Jiangjiang had time to explain further, he had already rolled up his trousers and went down to the field with a bucket in one hand and a simple sprinkler in the other.

As soon as the lime water was sprayed out, the paddy field was immediately startled with black and gray bugs scurrying everywhere.

The bug fluttered a few times, trying to escape, but was finally dazed by the pungent lime water and fell from the air.

The villagers also seemed to have smelled the pungent smell, and stepped back one after another.

"Liang Xiucai, what my sister-in-law is doing now, is it written in the book?" Xu Laogen appeared behind Liang Wenzhou at some point, pulling him to ask.

He also saw Zhu Jiangjiang like this, and was afraid that her work would be wasted in the end.

The Pei family has planted nearly [-] acres of land. She sprays buckets of water slowly, and when will she spray, she doesn't even sell tea.

This is not doing business properly!

Liang Wenzhou shook his head, and said slowly: "I rarely read books on farming, but what my sister-in-law is doing now is probably something I have never heard of or seen before."

He had never heard of the photosynthesis Zhu Jiangkou mentioned just now.

So he firmly believes that what Zhu Jiangjiang is doing now must be useless.

The sun is climbing higher and higher, and the weather is getting hotter.

In one morning, Zhu Jiangjiang stopped after spraying three or four acres of land.

The temperature is too high at noon, so it is not suitable to spray, otherwise it will hurt the crops. She can only wait until the sun is not so strong in the afternoon before coming back.

During this period of time, Zhu Jiangjiang still couldn't rest. She had to fry and pound the tea seeds picked by Pei Xiaoyu and the others, then wrap them in cloth to squeeze out the oil, and save the rapeseed cakes for storage.

There is a common stone mortar and a millstone in the village. The millstone is used to grind millet, so it is often used.

On the contrary, the stone mortar has not been used all year round, and moss has grown in it.

The caliber of the stone mortar was about as long as an arm of an adult man, and the stone wall was as thick as a palm. The whole stone mortar weighed five or six hundred catties.

It is impossible to move it back for use, so Zhu Jiangjiang can only work hard to run back and forth, taking the roasted tea seeds to the stone mortar in the village for pounding.

After picking up several loads of water, the stone mortar was finally cleaned, dried with a rag, and then allowed to dry in the sun before use.

"Come on, here are the pounding sticks. I've washed them all for you." Xu Laogen brought her two wooden sticks that had been used until they were smooth and handed them to her.

Looking at the wooden stick that was taller than her head and thicker than her arm, Zhu Jiangjiang couldn't laugh or cry.

With this pounding, when will she finish pounding!

"Grandpa Xu, I think I'd better make a seesaw that can be stepped on with my feet."

This time-traveling life from scratch is too thorough, everything here is unreliable, it seems that I have to rely on myself.