No one was lazy today. They rested when they were tired, drank spiritual tea and ate spiritual fruits when their spiritual energy was exhausted. They worked until night to clean up the three farms.
As for the farm gardens that were later developed, the spiritual energy inside was thin and there was not a large amount of spatial spring water for irrigation, so there were very few such insects. When Li Qingyun was inspecting, he caught them in the glass jar.
During the final count, everyone caught a total of 11,362 black beetles. They counted them with their spiritual thoughts, which was absolutely accurate and error-free.
There were a little more male bugs than females, and the overall male-to-female ratio was pretty normal. That night, everyone chose some bugs and cooked them into various delicacies. Even Yang Yunu, who is afraid of bugs, ate a lot of them. Xiao Keluoyi, who said bugs are disgusting
Princess, her belly was so round after eating that she made Chong Chong laugh a lot.
Li Qingyun asked workers to clear out a site overnight, and surrounded a small yard on the wasteland next to the winery in the north of the village. Small glass boxes were placed densely.
Li Qingyun has no experience in insect breeding, but it can be seen that these beetles have strong vitality. As long as there is food and the glass box has air inlets, they will not die for a while.
Wait until tomorrow for some insect breeding experts to come over and guide workers in breeding this strange beetle that even the experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences cannot name.
Early the next morning, Li Qingyun went to various vegetable greenhouses to check. Even though the space spring water was irrigated, many vegetables were dead. It seemed that the taproots were damaged, and the space spring water was too late to save them all.
Li Tiezhu ran in excitedly with two workers, holding his mobile phone and shouting: "Boss, experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences got back the news, saying that this may be a mutated blade-billed earthworm beetle, which is said to have disappeared long ago.
, those experts found it from historical materials. No, experts from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences have already brought people over and said they would identify it on the spot."
"The extinct blade-billed earthworm beetle? They brought a special team here?" After hearing this, Li Qingyun felt something bad intuitively, and suddenly shouted, "They experts won't regard this blade-billed earthworm beetle as a protected animal, right?"
?Wouldn’t it be impossible for us to eat in the future?”
A worker said quietly: "Ah? Judging from the excitement of the expert, it seemed that he meant so. He also said that these are rare insects, rarer than giant pandas."
Li Qingyun said depressedly: "It's so rare to see this extremely destructive pest. If they carelessly protect it, their brains are really in trouble. It's rarer than giant pandas, and I haven't seen giant pandas eating the vegetable roots on my farm everywhere. I'm really standing talking."
I don’t have any back pain.”
"Then our insect farm, do we still allow experts to enter? Do we still need them to guide us in cultivating earthworm beetles?" Li Tiezhu asked hurriedly.
Li Qingyun smiled bitterly and said: "How dare we let the experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences know that we have caught more than 10,000 of them? Just bring out a glass box and put a dozen of them in, and let them take pictures to satisfy their eyesight. If they want more
If there are more, let them go to the Snake Valley in the West Mountain to catch them themselves. At the same time, let them see how many of the plants near the Snake Valley have died recently."
"Okay, we understand. Let's do what the boss says." Li Tiezhu said in response.
At noon, Li Qingyun was urging workers to reinforce the newly built insect farm and level the ground. Li Tiezhu called and said that more than ten experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had arrived and were at Farm No. 3, asking them to take photos.
Li Qingyun asked him to arrange whatever he wanted. The matter of consulting experts on the farm was to contact Li Tiezhu and other workers. As a boss, he had long since stopped caring about the tedious front-line affairs.
Zheng Xinyan, together with his senior brothers and junior sisters, set up a spirit-gathering array around the insect farm, and also set up several enchantment arrays and solid ground arrays to prevent the earthworm beetles from escaping.
"Boss Li, I know you are in there. I know you have caught tens of thousands of sword-billed earthworm beetles here. You must not think of taking them for private use. Do you know that these are extremely precious insects? If our declaration is approved by
Yes, the sword-billed earthworm beetle is a national first-level protected animal, and it is illegal to capture it privately and keep it in captivity.”
"Li Qingyun, I am Expert Hu from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Last time we had tea together, I also helped you detect problems related to vegetable mutations. Please let someone open the door, we will never allow you to destroy the earthworm beetle that is about to become extinct.
As food."
I don't know who leaked the news and actually let these experts know that there was an earthworm beetle farm here, and they even knew that more than 10,000 earthworm beetles were caught.
Li Qingyun frowned. He only blamed the lack of confidentiality yesterday. When everyone was catching bugs, they were noisy and laughing. Even the practitioners passing by could hear the sounds in the vegetable greenhouse. In addition, when cooking with earthworm beetles, the fragrance wafted out.
Even remotely, it is possible that some people with evil intentions deliberately leaked the information.
Of course, it is also possible that the workers on his own farm accidentally leaked the news.
The phone rang. It was a call from Li Tiezhu. After the call was answered, his anxious voice came out: "Boss, I don't know what's going on. These people know that we have caught more than 10,000 earthworm beetles. Take advantage of this.
When I received experts and asked them to take pictures, some experts ran to the north. They should have found an insect farm by now, right?"
"They are knocking on the door. This group of experts is really a headache. No matter who leaked the news, let's send them away first." Li Qingyun said and walked straight out of the door without covering up the countless glass boxes in the backyard behind him.
.
Because Zheng Xinyan led his people to set up so many formations, even if they opened the gate and let them break in and wander around for seven days and nights, these ordinary people would not be able to walk into the courtyard, let alone see what was inside.
This is the power of the formation, a mysterious force outside the scientific system, a mystery that these old scholars cannot understand.
"It's out. Li Qingyun is out. Everyone, rush in before they take the opportunity to transfer the earthworm beetles. We discovered these insects first. When the declaration is successful, we will all become discoverers and become famous at home and abroad."
"This is a new species. It is different from the earthworm beetles recorded in historical materials. It must have mutated. In the next issue of Nature magazine, my paper will be about earthworm beetles. It will definitely be published. I have already predicted it."
"Because the stakes are so high, even if we die, we must protect these earthworm beetles with our lives and never allow others to kill them and use them as food."
Li Qingyun listened to the chaotic shouts of these experts, his face turned cold, and he said sternly: "What do you want to do? What did you discover first? It's just a few bugs, you want it, you can catch it yourself. Whatever is rare, what is extinct, all
That’s nonsense. Can you go and investigate near Snake Valley in Xishan Mountain before making these stupid remarks?”
When the experts from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences heard this, they immediately became angry and shouted in confusion: "Li Qingyun, you are just a businessman growing vegetables, and we are experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. What insects do you know, what values do you know, you know
How many types of earthworm beetles are there? Do you know the year when the razor-billed earthworm beetle last appeared? If you don’t know, just shut up and get out of the way and let us experts protect them.”
If these experts were quacks, Li Qingyun would have wanted to slap them to death.
It's a pity that they are just ordinary people. Li Qingyun kept reminding himself to regain his sense and not to make an uncontrollable situation.
"As I said before, if you want to protect the earthworm beetles, go to the Snake Valley in Xishan and catch them yourself. I don't have anything here, and it's a private house. If I say you won't be allowed in, even if you kneel down and kowtow, you won't be able to get in."
Li Qingyun didn't give them any face. He had some cooperation with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. When he asked about something, he would definitely pay them consulting fees and he wouldn't owe them anything.
The result was good, this group of people didn't know how smart they were, but they actually swore that they had discovered the earthworm beetles, and even wanted to snatch more than 10,000 earthworm beetles that the tenants had worked hard to catch.
"We won't go unless you hand over to us the more than 10,000 earthworm beetles hidden here. If you are stubborn, we will call the police now and let the provincial police arrest you." There is an expert who seems to have a bit of a police system.
relationship, he gave an extremely serious warning.
"The earthworm beetle is not a protected animal now, and you don't have the slightest evidence, so you let the police arrest me?" Li Qingyun was stunned. What kind of idiot expert would he have to say such a thing? With his status today,
Even the big boss of the Provincial Party Committee dared not say this. Where does this expert have the confidence?
"Yes, based on my relationship in the police system, it is easy to catch you. It can be done with just one phone call. Now, I ask you to open the door immediately and let us in to rescue those knife-billed earthworms you caught.
Beetle." The old expert with gray hair and glasses, his cheeks flushed with anger, pointed at Li Qingyun and said loudly and powerfully.
An expert next to him proudly reminded: "This is Professor Zhao from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His son is the deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department, and his old classmate is the deputy director of the Public Security Department. So, Boss Li, I advise you.
You should be more awake. As soon as the police arrive, it will be a major case with both people and stolen goods. Not to mention that the sword-billed earthworm beetle is not a protected animal now. Based on the reputation of sellers like us, we say that it will become a first-class protected animal, or even a protected animal.
For special protected animals, it only takes three days at most.”
Li Qingyun has a headache. He can't make sense with this group of experts who are sick in their brains. What kind of deputy director, deputy director, please try to call them and ask them if they dare to arrest me?
Li Qingyun was too lazy to give nonsense to these old experts and said impatiently: "No matter how many earthworm beetles I catch, they are all mine. No one can take away one. By the way, don't just stare at the earthworm beetles."
Let me tell you some important news. Recently, several kinds of strange snakes have appeared in Snake Valley. They are huge and have broken through the gene chain of snakes. Are you interested in studying this? If you write a few papers, it will cause more sensation than the sword-billed earthworm beetle.
big."
The leader, Expert Hu, was extremely anxious and twisted around at the gate, but couldn't get in. He said anxiously: "Impossible, don't talk nonsense and distract us all. Snake genes are extremely stable and have extremely high mutation rates."
Young master, there is no giant snake that can break through the genetic chain. Old Zhao, since Boss Li is not afraid of the police, then you should call an acquaintance in the provincial department to prevent him from taking our good advice seriously."
"You are really a stubborn money-grubbing businessman who wants money rather than your life. If you make this call, you will be sentenced to at least a few years in prison." Professor Zhao agreed, walked up to the experts with dignity, took out his mobile phone, and dialed a number.