Chapter 1018 Special Talent
"That's easy to say. Isn't Brother Fu at home?"
Hu Zhiyuan said with a smile:
"I'll take you two there, and you can get rid of this bug later, and there will be no conflict while I'm busy with other things."
Lu Miao nodded and said yes.
They were all one of our own, so Lu Miao was not polite to Hu Zhiyuan.
Letting people come in and sit wherever they want, she quickly started lunch with Tian Guihua.
In the afternoon, Lu Miao put on a straw hat and carried a small backpack.
After thinking for a while, I put another small can bottle in the backpack.
Finally, Fu Jingyou took her on a bicycle and set off behind Hu Zhiyuan.
No one in the countryside grows cacti seriously. Wherever there are cacti, there are mostly small patches here and there.
Hu Zhiyuan recalled what he had seen before, and led Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao to visit several places one after another.
When Lu Miao got off the bicycle and started to shuttle among the cacti, Hu Zhiyuan said hello and left first.
On the way, someone happened to ask who Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou were and what they were doing here.
Hu Zhiyuan explained with a smile, saying that in the first few years, he was a college student from the countryside, and one of them was the number one scholar.
As for what Lu Miao did with cochineal insects, Hu Zhiyuan couldn't tell clearly for a while, so he stuttered and explained that he came here to do research.
The villagers felt strange after hearing this.
I think college students have a high level of education and do quite weird things.
Many people came over curiously to look at it, but they were just looking at it, no one interfered.
Lu Miao shuttled among the large and small cacti.
In addition to harvesting a few more cactus with fresh cochineal insects, she held a glass canning bottle in one hand and a short branch in the other.
A lot of cochineal insect bodies were also harvested.
There are many more insect scabs on a cactus than live cochineal beetles.
It's just that some of them have been around for a long time and are obviously rotten and unusable.
Lu Miao picked up the shriveled insect scabs and collected them.
Fu Jingyou helped her.
Cut off a piece from a banana leaf, collect the insect scabs on the leaves first, and then pour them all into her bottle when they can no longer fit.
After two hours of busy work, the two people blushed, and the 800 ml round-bellied can was actually about seventy full.
The quantity is very considerable.
After carefully turning the pile of cacti several times and making sure that they were all collected, Lu Miao screwed on the lid and prepared to go back with Fu Jingyou.
Lu Miao's legs were pricked many times as she was wearing thin summer pants while weaving in and out of the cactus.
She squatted down and scratched her calf. Fu Jingyou got on the bicycle first, then she got on the seat behind and said:
"Zaohua said that a sister-in-law on the team has a nice patch of cactus in front of her door. Should we go and have a look? Maybe we can find it too?"
Fu Jingyou turned around to look at her face, which was flushed with heat, and tried to dissuade her:
"These should be enough, right? It's enough so I won't go."
Lu Miao pouted and hit him on the back:
"No! Cochineal insects are expensive and rare. If these can be used, wouldn't it be a loss to miss them?"
Of course, the main reason is that these are not available in the north at this stage.
If the follow-up processing is done and it is confirmed that it can really be used, what chance do they have of coming back after such a long journey?
Why not just take advantage of the free time now and do everything you can.
Besides, it’s okay to let live cochineal bugs continue to reproduce naturally.
If we don't get those insect scabs back, won't they all be wasted after a few storms?
Lu Miao had the right idea and insisted on joining the team.
Fu Jingyou could only rely on her. Tianzao was in class at the team school and couldn't spare any time. Her mother-in-law saw Lu Miao and the others going there. After hearing the reason, she took the initiative to take Lu Miao and the others to a place with cacti.
Not to mention, Lu Miao really guessed it right!
There were not many live cochineal beetles, but there were quite a few dark brown insect scabs.
It's just that the cactus grows on a sloping soil slope, and the middle and upper parts are really difficult to collect.
As a last resort, Lu Miao had no choice but to give up.
Fu Jingyou saw her unwilling appearance, as if she could fly over walls and climb walls, so he took the cans and bottles from her hand and climbed up the slope.
Not to mention the danger of standing leaning on a slope, Lu Miao saw his long legs moving almost against the cactus and said quickly:
"No more, no more! The bottles are almost full, these are enough, come down quickly!"
"These nests are densely packed, I'll scrape them off first."
"Oh, hurry up!"
Lu Miao stood at the foot of the slope and jumped impatiently:
"They're all going to be stabbed to death!"
Fu Jingyou laughed. Seeing that the cans were really full, he used branches to compact the insect scabs down, and stayed on the slope for a while to collect them before going down.
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Lu Miao lifted up the backpack and helped him carefully avoid crushing the live cochineal insects as much as possible. After putting the bottles away, she glared at him and babbled:
"I've kept you here for a long time. You're a pigskin, so you're not afraid of being pricked!"
Fu Jingyou only smiled indulgently and did not refute.
It's almost time for school to end.
Fu Jingyou and Lu Miao went to the school where the team went.
After waiting outside for a while, the children rushed out when the school teacher knocked on the broken tin can hanging under the eaves.
Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou picked up Minjie and Shun.
Let Minjie sit on the horizontal bar in front, while Lu Miao sits on the back seat holding Minjie in his arms.
Four people, two large and two small, wandered home.
I am afraid that there is still moisture left in the cochineal scabs, which will cause chain mildew in the bottle.
Lu Miao went home and cut a large piece of oil paper. After laying it out in a bamboo sieve, he poured the insect scabs out of the bottle and spread them evenly to dry.
As for the pieces of cacti with fresh cochineal insects, she had them all hung under the eaves with holes and strings.
Raised temporarily.
Lu Miao plans to turn around and take him back to Beijing.
The outdoor survival conditions for cochineal insects in northern Beijing are insufficient, but conditions can be created.
As long as these "seeding insects" can be successfully brought back, everything else is possible.
Lu Miao daily combs silk fans and looks through cochineal insect scabs.
Fu Jingyou knew that cochineal insects were hard to come by, and seeing that his wife was very interested in them, he set off several times early in the morning with cans and bottles.
When I came back in the middle of the morning, I came back with another bottle, and each time I brought back more or less cochineal scabs.
The thorns of the cactus are difficult to deal with. Lu Miao guessed that he must have gotten them by running up the slope, so he had to nudge him every time and not let him go again.
He did have some tricks up his sleeve.
After that, he stepped on his wellies and went out. When Lu Miao saw it, he didn't say anything and simply let him go.
Around this time, meetings between senior leaders in Beijing and Beijing continued.
In another meeting, Minister Zhan translated the party's cadre guidelines and pointed out in a sharp speech:
According to relevant regulations, people with outstanding abilities, even if they are involved in business, can be recruited as "special talents" by relying on their professional characteristics and expertise.
Minister Zhan always believed that Lu Miao's ability limit was very high.
Even if the process is cumbersome and time-consuming, it is worth opening a separate channel to properly arrange and handle this matter.