Su Yuanyuan asked Zhao Yanli to help take care of the livestock at home. She drove to the city and found it at the pharmacy.
She wrapped up all the medicinal materials and hurried home.
They set up a stove directly on the ground, and Li Hongxiang, his third son, and the Zhao sisters all came over.
After the medicinal materials were boiled, each of the six of them had a bucket. They dipped the rice cooker made of sorghum ears into the medicinal juice and threw it on the cotton seedlings.
Su Yuanyuan observed carefully and felt that this was useful, so she asked the two of them to carry buckets back to their cotton fields to dump the medicine.
She still had to boil the medicine and spray it by herself. She didn't sleep at night. After three days, the cotton of ten acres of land of each of the three families was sprayed with the medicine. On the first day, the insects on the cotton seedlings were sprayed with the medicine.
More than half of them are dead.
Now all three families are confident. "Mr. Li, let's try it again. This medicine works."
Xiaoli, please send some to Big Brother and the others. I guess the goods should arrive in the city in the next few days. Anyway, it’s good to be able to keep some."
Now everyone started dumping the medicine for the second time.
Zhao Qingxiang and the others listened to the younger sister's words and started immediately. The two of them also own ten acres of cotton.
But at that time, the ten acres of land were very sparsely planted, which was different from now.
The Zhao brothers knew that this was hope. They originally thought that this year's cotton would not be able to complete the task. Unexpectedly, there was hope.
After Su Yuanyuan and the others gave away medicine for the third time, Li Hongxiang went to the city, but came back empty-handed. Several medicines they needed had not yet arrived at the drug store, and they were told that they would be available in about ten days.
Now the three of them pay attention to the cotton seedlings every day.
After the third time, almost all the insects on the cotton seedlings were gone.
Now the three families feel at ease.
The farming pattern of the three families is the same. The cotton field is next to the sweet potato field. They checked it several times.
The good news is that there are no bugs on the sweet potato seedlings.
Su Yuanyuan drove to find Feng Baoshan and asked him to come over and take a look at the cotton field.
"Xiao Su, do you still have this medicine?"
Su Yuanyuan shook her head, "No more, there is no more in the market."
There really wasn't any left, so she gave the rest to Ma Changshun. And his house didn't have enough.
Feng Baoshan sighed, there was nothing he could do if he didn't.
"Xiao Su, what's the solution?"
"I found it in an ancient book. There's really nothing we can do. Director Feng, you'd better go and urge the city to collect pesticides."
Counting on this is probably not possible. Su Yuanyuan thought to herself that the first thing this year is to go to the pesticide factory. This is too scary. Ten acres of land were almost scrapped like this.
In the following days, they paid special attention to the cotton fields and corn fields, fearing that the corns would also be infested with bugs.
Fortunately there are none in the cornfield.
Their cotton was saved, but almost none of the cotton farmers on the farm were saved.
The Zhao brothers and Ma Changshun will also have production.
This aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, and they all found Feng Baoshan.
Li Hongxiang went to the city to buy medicinal materials that day. Feng Baoshan came over again.
He felt very shameless. But he couldn't help but come. Everyone came to find him.
Today Su Yuanyuan is cutting sweet potato seedlings. At this time, it is useless if the sweet potato seedlings grow too long.
I saw Feng Baoshan and several team leaders coming over. Su Yuanyuan came out with a sickle and a basket on her back.
"Director Feng, are there any others coming today?"
Several of their team leaders went into the cotton field to check.
Their cotton seedlings are not completely free of insects, but the impact is definitely not big. Their cotton field has been saved.
Ma Changshun frowned and said, "I'm jealous. I know your cotton here is not infested by insects."
Su Yuanyuan probably guessed it. There was nothing she could do about it. People would be punished if they didn't do it for themselves. Besides, it was an experiment at that time. Who knew whether it would work or not?
"Xiao Su, I went to the city, but they haven't delivered the goods yet. The demand for pesticides is too great, so we have to queue up.
Even if it arrives, we won’t be able to use it anymore. The cotton will no longer be saved by then.”
Feng Baoshan regrets it very much. Why must he plant cotton this year?
At this time, several group leaders also came out.
One team leader, Chen, had a bad temper and asked, "Why are there no insects on your cotton seedlings?"
"Old Chen, what's your attitude?" Ma Changshun quit. Su Yuanyuan was really kind to her and had good things that she must be thinking about.
I have also applied medicine to my cotton field, and the effect is quite good.
"Aren't I anxious?
Xiao Su, what did you use for your cotton field?"
"It's the formula I found in an ancient book, so I tried it. The effect is still good. Although I can't kill them all, at least I can save them."
"Where's the prescription?"
Everyone is anxious to know.
Su Yuanyuan went back to her room, copied a copy, and gave it to Feng Baoshan. She could understand that they were anxious, but she would definitely not want to be in trouble with her.
Feng Baoshan took the prescription and read it over. "Xiao Su, you told me last time about this prescription. I didn't ask for this prescription because I knew there were no medicinal materials in the city.
There's no use for you to give me now." After Feng Baoshan finished speaking, he sighed again, his teeth had been hurting for a month.
"Director Feng, Li Hongxiang went to the city to buy medicine today. If there is any medicine, he will buy it back. If not, there is nothing we can do."
This is also hope, so they all have anxious faces.
But if Li Hongxiang doesn't come back, he won't know anything.
"Okay, thank you."
Su Yuanyuan shook her head. There was nothing she could do about such an insect disaster. If she had the means, she would do her best.
"Xiao Su, let's go back and wait for the news."
Li Hongxiang arrived home at around four o'clock in the morning and bought all the medicinal materials. They didn't sell them at first, but it was Li Hongxiang who told them about the conditions in the fields, so they brought them back.
The three families left some for their own use, some for the Li brothers, some for Ma Changshun, and some for team leader Tian. Then Li Hongxiang drove to the field department.
Zhao Yanli drove directly to deliver the medicine.
Su Yuanyuan is making medicine at home.
Li Hongxiang brought a lot of medicine to the farm, but it was simply unrealistic to use it on the entire farm. But this was not what they were worried about.
The three of them dumped each other again, and now they felt more at ease.
In fact, it is already mid-August, and the cotton bolls are not small anymore. The removal of pesticides now should also affect the cotton yield.
But there is nothing you can do about it, just save as much as you can.
It was not until the end of August that Zhao Yanli and the Li family began to harvest wheat. They didn't grow much wheat, they just wanted to keep what they could eat. So one day, the wheat arrived at their respective threshing grounds.
