"Fourth brother, you don't believe me?" Wang Luojing's face almost collapsed.
"Fourth brother, I suggest you listen to that girl." The older Wang Luotong also came over, "Although Luo Jing is young, she has loved playing with bugs since she was a child. She has a deep understanding of bugs, and she also has special tricks.
insect."
"Interesting~" Wang Shouzhe suddenly became energetic and said with stern eyes, "Tell Fourth Brother first how you will deal with the honey bugs. Don't rush and tell us slowly. We have plenty of time."
"In recent years, I have always heard my grandpa complain that there are too many honey bugs and there is not as much food as in previous years." Wang Luojing said weakly, "So I think if I can solve the honey bugs for grandpa, grandpa will be very happy. I can ask him
Grandpa begs me not to marry my sister off, I don’t want my sister to leave~"
Wang Luotong's face suddenly turned pale, and she lowered her head and did not dare to speak. It was not her turn to make the decision in this kind of matter.
"If you can really solve the honey bug disaster, fourth brother promises to protect you." Wang Shouzhe promised firmly, "As long as you don't want to marry, we won't marry."
"Thank you, Fourth Brother." Wang Luojing said with a happy brow, "Actually, I have read in the "Insect Classic" that the ancients once used lacewings to control honey insects, but in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer lacewings.
.Last year I raised some honey bugs and lacewings, and it was really effective, so this year I entrusted my brother to go to the mountains to catch two king lacewings. It took me some effort to tame them..."
"Wait a minute..." Wang Shouzhe's expression changed and he asked, "What is the "Insect Book", and can you tame the lacewing king?"
"The Book of Worms is the Book of Worms. It's an ancient book I found in the family library." Wang Luojing said innocently, "The Book of Worms says how to tame insects. It's not very difficult. If my fourth brother wants to learn, I can teach you."
Isn’t it difficult!?
Wang Shouzhe's face turned a little dark. He had merged the memories of his predecessor and knew the Xuanwu world quite well. There are a small group of people in the Xuanwu world who like to control spiritual insects to produce or fight. They are usually called
As a spiritual insect master.
However, the spirit insect master is relatively partial, and the threshold for talent requirements is relatively high, even higher than that of an alchemist. The reason is also very simple. Ordinary people who are smarter can barely learn alchemy. At most, it consumes a lot of money and has limited achievements.
That's all.
But for a profession like the spiritual insect master, if you don’t have the rare talent of being able to communicate with spiritual insects, you won’t even be able to touch it.
Therefore, spirit insect masters are very partial, and ordinary children from aristocratic families have never heard of them. According to what Wang Shouzhe knows, the Xu family of Changning and the Liu family of Shanyin have secretly trained two spirit insect masters.
If Wang Luojing had the talent of a spiritual insect master...
For a moment, Wang Shouzhe's heart started beating loudly.
"Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, what's wrong with you?" Wang Luojing waved her hand in front of him, pouted and said angrily, "Does Fourth Brother not believe it either?"
"Believe it, believe it." Wang Shouzhe nodded sharply, "My Luo Jing is the smartest, and the fourth brother is very interested. Let's go farther away, and you can demonstrate it to the fourth brother."
"Hmm, those two lacewing kings are on the fourth brother's carriage." Wang Luojing looked very happy after being recognized, "My sister and I will go get them together."
Wang Shouzhe immediately remembered that when he met the sisters this morning, he found that they were each carrying a strange big box. At that time, he thought it was their belongings. Girls' personal belongings were not easy to touch, so he just asked them to put them in the carriage.
superior.
Now that I think about it, they must have planned to come to the farm to try it out.
"Let the general go." Wang Shouzhe waved.
The general who was waiting in the distance immediately ran over and said respectfully: "Chief, what are your orders?"
"Wang Wu, Wang Yong. Go to the carriage and bring Miss Luo Jing's two boxes."
"Yes, Master."
The two generals ran away at great speed. Within half a quarter of an hour, they each rushed back with a box in their hands.
"Wang Gui, Wang Wu, you guys go to the Fourth Old Master to see if we can help." Wang Shouzhe sent them away. Anyway, he saw that Wang Xiaozhi seemed to be thinking of ways to control aphids with plant ash juice and other methods.
, it should be due to a shortage of manpower.
The generals are all Xuanwu practitioners, and when used properly, they are much more efficient than ordinary tenant farmers.
The most important thing is that the matter has not been determined yet, and he does not want everyone to know it.
After Wang Gui and the other four generals left, Wang Shouzhe personally carried two large boxes and ran with Wang Luotong and Wang Luojing to a remote wheat field.
Three thousand and several hundred acres of land is like a vast ocean. It is empty and deserted, which is perfect for demonstrations.
Wang Shouzhe opened the wheat ears, and sure enough, there were some green aphids in the wheat field here. Those tiny insects made his hair stand on end.
"Luo Jing, let fourth brother see what you can do."
"Hmm~ This time the recruitment for the honey bug outbreak came earlier than I expected." Wang Luojing's expression was also a bit solemn and uneasy, and she carefully opened one of the boxes.
Wang Shouzhe glanced curiously into the box. He suddenly suffered from trypophobia and the hairs all over his body stood up because the box was full of leaves, and those leaves had filaments growing out, and they were covered with threads.
Densely packed dots.
"Fourth brother, sister, please help me." Wang Luojing took out pieces of "leaves" and said, "Place a leaf in every square foot."
The corner of Wang Shouzhe's mouth twitched. This little girl is so courageous. Even the clan leader dares to do whatever he wants. But his hands and feet are very honest and he obeys Wang Luojing's instructions. He is so advanced in cultivation that he can hold a "leaf" and flick it with his hands.
Throw it, and the "leaves" will fall steadily in place.
According to Wang Luojing's "instructions", approximately dozens of leaves need to be placed on each acre of wheat field, but she only opened one of the two large boxes, which contained only hundreds of "leaves", which was barely enough to put on ten acres of land.
Thousands of acres of wheat fields are just a drop in the bucket.
After taking a quarter of an hour to put it in, Wang Shouzhe and Wang Luotong stood near Wang Luojing, listening to her instructions and waiting patiently.
"Fourth brother, these lacewing eggs are three days old." Wang Luojing explained, "They will hatch slower in a dark box, but they will hatch soon after seeing the sunlight."
Okay~ You are a technical master in this area, so what do you say?
Wang Shouzhe has always been very honest about the blind spots of his knowledge and never oversteps his bounds. Time passed little by little, and in less than half an hour, the first few leaves changed, and strange-looking little bugs broke out of their shells with difficulty.
And out.
Those leaves are right in front of you, and you can clearly see the little bugs. They are about less than two millimeters in size and look like long beetles, but they have two large pincers in front of their heads, which makes them very ugly.
They are motionless after birth, just hanging on the threads so quietly.
After another long while, they finally started to move, sliding along the threads on the leaves and slowly spreading in all directions. They seemed to be born with the ability to sense where there was food, and climbed up the wheat stalks leisurely.
.
Suddenly!
One of them encountered an aphid. It pounced on it ferociously, stuck the aphid with a pair of pincers, pierced the aphid with its mouthparts and began to suck. In just half a quarter of an hour, the poor aphid was sucked.
It became an empty shell and flew away when the wind blew.
Then, the lacewing larvae continued to climb forward, looking for its next prey.
"Awesome!" Wang Shouzhe exclaimed, "This little bug is so ferocious."
"Fourth Brother, I calculated when I was raising lacewing larvae before that it only takes ten days for it to pupate, and during this period it can eat nearly a thousand honey worms. It was still relatively small when it was born, and it could only eat ten ten a day in the first two days.
A few." Wang Luojing has been playing with this kind of thing, and by then it was no longer strange.
"If this is the case, although the yield of these more than ten acres of wheat fields that have just begun to fill will be reduced slightly, they can be saved." Wang Shouzhe said in admiration, but at the same time he was worried, "Just in our Fenggu Farm alone, there are thousands of acres of wheat.
ah."
"Fourth brother, don't worry, I just tried it." Wang Luojing opened another box. Inside were no longer densely packed lacewing larvae, but small, colorful beetles.
"Isn't this..." Wang Shouzhe saw that the beetles looked familiar and couldn't help but said in surprise, "Seven-star ladybug?"
"Do you know Fourth Brother too? But the Insect Book says it is a nine-spotted insect, not a seven-spotted insect." Wang Luojing took out a giant beetle the size of a fist with nine spots on its body and caressed it happily, "From now on it will be called