Fleeing from famine and farming: I made a fortune by relying on medical skills

Chapter 306 Prepare in advance
"Susu, why are you here?" Luo Ping, who was watering the trees halfway up the mountain, saw his family Susu coming, he put down his work, walked towards his family Susu and asked.

"Let's see how the planting is going. By the way, I have something to say to Village Chief Zhuang." Huang Zisu looked at the medicinal planting base and said.

Today, on this mountain, on the halfway up the mountain, hundreds to nearly a thousand medicinal trees are densely planted according to the distance, and they are planted according to the fruit, seeds, bark, leaves, and branches used for medicine.

These medicinal trees were all transplanted from the mountains and planted on the mountain. Some were saplings, some were half-grown trees. As for the grown-up trees, Huang Zisu didn't let his uncle transplant them.

As for the location below the mountainside, Huang Zisu found that the soil quality was better and more fertile.

Huang Zisu asked her eldest uncle to reclaim the medicinal materials that can be planted for two or three years. When the planting time comes, they will plant them one by one.

"According to your instructions, Susu, nearly a thousand medicinal trees have been planted.

However, there are still some places left unplanted, because the season for planting trees has passed, and they are afraid that they will not survive if they are transplanted from the mountains.

There are also some medicine trees in the mountain where there are no suitable trees to transplant. My uncle plans to cultivate saplings by himself next year and plant them by cuttings. "Luo Ping also had some ideas.

"Uncle, you can do whatever you want, plant so many medicine trees this year, try to ensure the survival rate of the medicine trees, and try to plant the land full of medicine trees next year.

In addition, if you are short of manpower, you can also recruit people from the village to help. It would be even better if you could find some tree farmers to plant fruit trees for our family.

Also, spend more manpower and material resources to see if you can find a water source on this mountain, otherwise, it will be too troublesome to carry water up and down the mountain, and people will be tired. After Huang Zisu explained to her little uncle, she walked towards Village Chief Zhuang.

On the way, when the villagers met Huang Zisu, they all smiled and greeted her.

Huang Zisu also smiled and nodded one by one.

"Uncle Village Chief, I have something to talk to you about, let's find a shady place to sit." After Huang Zisu found Village Chief Zhuang, she smiled and said to Village Chief Zhuang.

"Let's go sit down under that tree and talk about it." Village head Zhuang pointed to a half-sized orange tree, where the sun could not be seen again.

There are a few stones under the orange tree, and it seems that people often sit under the orange tree.

"Uncle, has there been any drought or locust plague in our village or Shiliba Village?" Huang Zisu was not too dirty, and asked the village chief after sitting on a stone.

"Our village has never had a drought, but the nearby villages have had a drought, and there has been no locust plague.

Susu, are you worried that the weather will be too hot this year, which will lead to a drought, which will lead to a plague of locusts? "When Village Chief Zhuang heard Huang Zisu's question, he quickly reacted and said.

"Today, I heard from my second brother that there are a lot of little grasshoppers this year, and there are more than usual, so I paid attention to this matter.

If there is a locust plague, we can prepare in advance.

I have three ways to prevent and kill insects.

Chickens, ducks, and geese are a paradise for insects. Every household in our village raises more chickens, ducks, and geese. If there are locusts, we can use our own livestock to kill the locusts.

The second type, locusts and moths, are both phototaxis and like to jump into the fire and set themselves on fire. When there is a locust plague, they can light a fire to exterminate the insects.

The last one is that locusts don’t like the smell of mugwort leaves. Now there are many mugwort leaves in the mountains and fields. The village head can first inform the villagers to harvest some, grind them into powder at home, and sprinkle them into the fields, which can also prevent insects and repel them. Worm.

Also, if you are really afraid of locust plagues and droughts, the crops to be planted in the fields can no longer be delayed. I suggest that villagers plant sweet potatoes and potatoes as well.

Because these two kinds of crops are not only drought-resistant, but also the food grows in the soil. If there is a locust plague, at most the branches and leaves will be eaten up, and the food buried in the ground will not be edible.

Of course, I just gave some personal suggestions and ideas. The villagers can figure out how to do it. "Huang Zisu doesn't know if there will be a locust plague this year. She just gives the villagers a vaccination. How it happens depends on the villagers themselves.

"Okay, uncle also knows about this. In the past two days, I will visit the fields and mountains first to see if there are more grasshoppers this year than in previous years." After hearing what Huang Zisu said, Village Chief Zhuang immediately paid attention. this matter.

However, he did not blindly follow what Huang Zisu said, and he planned to check the situation himself.

After he has made up his mind, he will inform the villagers to go.

After Huang Zisu saw that Village Chief Zhuang had listened to his words, Huang Zisu nodded and said nothing more.

After that, Huang Zisu went to the county and told County Magistrate Song about the locust plague she suspected, and also told him how to prevent and kill insects.

As for whether Song county magistrate believed it or not, Huang Zisu didn't know.

As March gradually passed and the time came after April, the weather became hotter day by day.

The water level of the big river at the head of their village dropped by two-thirds directly, and the paddy fields in the village were slowly drying and cracking due to lack of water.

The soil on the dry land is the kind that becomes fine when it is dried.

And as the weather got hotter every day, Village Chief Zhuang also found that there were more small grasshoppers than usual this year, no matter in the fields or in the mountains.

All these phenomena made Village Chief Zhuang also judge and believe Huang Zisu's words. There is a high probability that there will be a locust plague this year.

Just in case, in order to minimize the loss of their village.

Village head Zhuang immediately told the villagers his guess, and by the way, he also told the villagers the methods of repelling, preventing and killing insects that Huang Zisu said.

As a result, the villagers are now either hoarding firewood or harvesting mugwort leaves, planning for locust plagues to come, lighting firewood, burning locusts, and grinding mugwort leaf powder in large quantities, planning to repel insects.

In addition, there are many village women who are hatching a large number of chickens, ducks and geese. They plan to let their own livestock be raised in their own fields to do their part when there is a real locust plague.

Even if there is really no locust plague in the future, so many chickens, ducks and geese can be eaten by themselves, anyway, it will not be a problem.

Many villagers also listened to Village Chief Zhuang's words and planted drought-tolerant sweet potatoes and potatoes in their fields. By then, they would be able to survive the drought and the locust plague.

As for County Magistrate Song, at first he heard Huang Zisu say that this year there would be a drought accompanied by locust plagues, but he didn't believe what Huang Zisu said.

He also felt that Huang Zisu only healed people, so how could he understand these miscellaneous things.

(End of this chapter)