Chapter 252 Mosquito Repellent Divine Herb
Chen Ling was still lamenting the comfort of lying down and earning money. After Li Min and the others walked out of the farm, they did not leave immediately.
They walked slowly on the bluestone path in the orchard, lingering on the beautiful scenery around them, stopping from time to time to take a closer look.
The fish in the canals, the birds foraging in the forest, the little frogs that suddenly jumped out of the grass, the two guarding chickens, ducks and geese, and the big dogs running back and forth, there are many of them. Everything they had never seen before made them feel novel and interesting, and they slowed down unknowingly.
“Look at this place, the scenery is so beautiful, there are mountains and water, and there are so many fish and birds. Sister Min, why don’t we play some more?”
These two people are a man and a woman. They belong to the same leading group of the city's flood control command as Li Min. Although their rank is not as high as Li Min's, they have a good relationship and talk relatively casually.
"Why don't you play? We don't treat guests here. Let's go quickly. Are you tired of carrying the wine jar?"
"Why don't you treat guests? I see there are so many farms. Isn’t the room just for people to live in?”
“No, I asked you last time.”
“Sister Min, aren’t you even brave enough to run a farm? Big.”
For a moment, the two of them were surprised and disappointed.
However, after slowly walking out of the orchard, the pity in my heart became stronger.
“It’s really hot outside. I broke out in sweat as soon as I walked out. It’s cooler in the forest.”
There are no trees outside to block the sun. It's as cool and pleasant as those in farms and orchards.
Even Li Min wanted to stay a little longer. It would be best to have a meal and wait until it gets cooler in the afternoon before leaving.
But there was no way. People said that the children at home were too young and too busy to entertain outsiders.
If you really like this place and are willing to play here for two days, you will have to wait until next year at the earliest.
“Next year, I don’t know if I can come here next year. It depends on whether the rain and water conditions next year are optimistic or not.”
Li Min turned around and looked at the fruit trees. farm, he thought helplessly.
……
In the farm, Chen Ling put away the money and walked out. This time, the mother-in-law had nothing to worry about.
Not only did the wine go smoothly, but it also attracted repeat customers. This guy didn’t know what those people were thinking, and why he was so willing to spend money.
Sighing in her heart, Gao Xiulan soon became happy again.
I thought to myself that this son-in-law is really good at making money. This month has not even passed yet, and he has already received 10,000 yuan.
Not only was she happy, Wang Cunye and Wang Susu, their father and daughter, were also very happy.
Especially Wang Susu, although she supports Chen Ling's plan to build a farm in the mountains, she is also worried that she will not be able to make back the money she spends.
Now I am finally relieved.
The family had a happy lunch.
After the meal, Wang Susu sat on a wicker chair and gently rocked her son who woke up.
Gao Xiulan squatted next to her and kneaded the noodles with alkaline water. She had finished eating the steamed buns at home, and it was time to steam new steamed buns in the evening.
Since steamed buns are not easy to store in summer, they are steamed in pot after pot. There are only a dozen steamed buns in each pot. After three or four meals, new steamed buns are steamed.
Otherwise, the weather will be too hot and the steamed buns will easily become sour.
After dinner, Wang Cunye went to the backyard to make wine with scorpions, centipedes and the like.
Chen Ling was washing diapers next to Wang Susu.
Today it was finally his turn to do this job. Not to mention, it really made him feel good after washing.
After washing, I scalded it again with boiling water and scrubbed it repeatedly. My son’s diapers had to be placed carefully.
As Li Min and the other three said, the farm is now lush with vegetation and is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is still very cool to stay here without going outside.
It won’t be too hot to do any work.
There are a lot of flies and mosquitoes, and they are very annoying flying around.
So after washing and drying the diapers, Chen Ling took a fly swatter and circled around his wife and son, swatting flies and driving away mosquitoes.
"Aling, look behind you, there is one behind you, and here, there is another one here."
He swatted the fly, and Wang Susu gave him instructions, causing the little guy in his arms to also be stunned. He looked over at him and kept saying "ah, ah".
"What do you call it? I want to be dishonest after sleeping enough."
Chen Ling glared at his son and continued to circle around to swat flies and mosquitoes.
There is no way, this little troublemaker won't stay in the room when he wakes up, and has to come out, otherwise he will cry at the top of his lungs.
There is really nothing we can do against him.
"Ah, ah..." The little guy didn't know what his father was talking about. He kept stretching out his fleshy little hands to scratch, and his short legs moved restlessly.
It wasn’t until Wang Susu started walking swaying in her arms that he became quiet again.
"This baby is really difficult to take care of. Your father and mother will be exhausted to raise you." Seeing this, Gao Xiulan raised her head and said with a smile.
"Mom, did I make trouble when I was a child?" Wang Susu asked.
"If you don't make trouble, you are the most down-to-earth. You are really honest even when you are this old. Your eldest brother is the most noisy. Even though he is a teacher now and usually has a straight face, he is actually the most noisy." br>
As she spoke, Gao Xiulan glanced at the little guy in her daughter's arms again and curled her lips: "Then your eldest brother is not so noisy. This eldest nephew is much more powerful than his uncle."
"This is just following his father, no difference at all."
At the end of the day, it fell to Chen Ling again.
Wang Susu burst into laughter, and even the little guy in her arms laughed along with her.
"Oh, you also know how to play? Ruirui, you are really capable."
Although she knew that her son had everything earlier than other children, but when she saw him grinning, Wang Susu Still extremely happy, looking at the little guy with eyes full of love.
Chen Ling was naturally very happy, but before he could say anything, there was an itching sensation on his legs.
Looking down at my legs, I saw a big mosquito with a full stomach.
Slap him to death, and a large amount of blood immediately bursts out on his leg. How much blood must he have sucked.
"Good guy, I also got a sting on my elbow."
Chen Ling frowned, scratched it lightly, and found that in just a short time, he had been stung five or six times.
"Hurry up and carry Rui Rui up. Don't stay here. This mosquito is a bit fierce. It's already lighting a match. It's better to run this way."
"Oh, it's really true. , This mosquito is so powerful, it bites such a big bag.”
Gao Xiulan glanced at the mosquito bag on Chen Ling’s leg, which was already swollen.
As she was talking, a mosquito landed on her own leg and was biting her through her pants.
What a fierce person.
“We can’t stay in the yard anymore, so I carried Ruirui upstairs.”
Wang Susu took a look and quickly carried her son upstairs.
When we got upstairs, the little guy started crying without any surprise.
This baby doesn't want to be bored in the room when he wakes up.
Wang Susu held him in circles in the room, letting him cry, but refused to take him out.
Chen Ling felt that this was not the solution.
After thinking about it, I packed up the stroller.
In fact, babies around two months old are not suitable for using strollers.
But my son is different from ordinary babies. After being baptized in the cave, his body bones are very strong. It is okay to lie down in the stroller for a short period of time and then take him out after coaxing him to sleep.
So Chen Ling pushed the stroller into the room and asked Wang Susu to put her son inside, pushing it gently and slowly.
This time it really worked. The little guy stopped crying and making noises. He lay quietly in the stroller, staring at the small pendant hanging above the stroller with his dark eyes. As the pendant swayed, his eyes darted wildly, and from time to time he would make babbling grins and hum, and his calves would move slightly, showing that he was quite satisfied.
“This brat is really difficult to take care of.”
Chen Ling sighed hard and felt tired again.
"Yeah, I just like new things. I cry when I'm not happy. I'm very difficult to take care of."
Wang Susu pursed her lips and smiled helplessly.
I couldn’t help my son. In order to take care of the little guy, his clothes and hair were all messed up, and he couldn’t clean them up in time.
Every day, Chen Ling and Gao Xiulan came over to comb her hair and wash her clothes.
She doesn't care about anything else now.
In the past, they said that after the baby was born, they would open a medicine shop in the village with the baby in their arms. Now, how can this be done? It is just talking about it.
"Let me guard him. You go take a nap and rest, otherwise he will have trouble again at night."
Chen Ling looked at his wife and said.
"It's okay, I'm not sleepy now, I just need to keep watch. You go and pack up the eggs, duck eggs, medicinal materials, scorpions, etc. You should go sell them at the market tomorrow."
“Oh, that’s right, then you can see what he knows first, and I’ll be back later.”
Chen Ling nodded and walked out. Originally, I wanted to play with my son for a while while he was awake, and when he got tired from playing, I would let him sleep well at night without any further fuss.
This is no longer possible, there are so many mosquitoes outside, maybe there are some poisonous insects.
Don’t dare to take out any more.
"Let's not pack things for now. We have to find a way to control the mosquitoes, otherwise we won't be able to continue like this." After Chen Ling walked downstairs, he turned around and walked out of the farm.
There are more and more mosquitoes in the fruit trees, but they don't break out immediately.
It must have been lurking for a long time.
After all, mosquitoes also need time to hatch.
It is most likely that a large number of mosquitoes were attracted to lay eggs after the rain a few days ago. In the past two days, the eggs hatched or the larvae metamorphosed, and the number of mosquitoes began to increase sharply.
Summer is the golden time for mosquitoes to grow. Especially in the grass near the ditch, there are countless bugs. Especially in the fruit trees of the farm, they are more attractive to them than in other places. It's also more serious.
It can fly, it can crawl, it can drill holes.
Stingy ones, winged ones, hairy ones, horned ones...
That’s all.
Chen Ling hit the grass with a bamboo pole and kept collecting the mosquitoes flying in front of him into the cave.
As soon as it is taken in, it will be immediately divided into independent areas and isolated to prevent it from spreading within the cave.
After working like this for more than half an hour, we caught hundreds of mosquitoes, including flower mosquitoes, black mosquitoes, green mosquitoes, poisonous mosquitoes, smelly mosquitoes that look like small dragonflies, as well as various flies, gadflies, bed bugs, etc. We also caught a lot of them.
Some poisonous insects even crawled onto him and tried to bite him, but he took them into the cave before they could bite them.
Shortly after noon, when the sun is at its hottest, no one comes to the farm, and no one pays attention to him. His "skill" is fully activated, and mosquitoes will disappear as soon as they land on him.
When the mosquitoes were ready, Chen Ling walked up the mountain alone, found a hiding place and ducked into the cave.
When we arrived in the cave, we did nothing else and went straight to the mosquito isolation area.
Deep in the woods, in a small open space, a circular area is separated. The surrounding area is invisible and colorless. It seems that the surrounding area is no different from the normal scenery, but these mosquitoes cannot fly out, as if they are surrounded by a circle and cannot be seen by the naked eye. blocked by a transparent barrier.
However, there is grass below. They can't fly out, so they can hide in the grass as much as they like.
In fact, just as Chen Ling expected, the mosquitoes fell into the grass one after another after flying around for a while.
The isolated small clearing suddenly became quiet.
Chen Ling stretched out his hand to summon some plants with special fragrance and began his mosquito repellent experiment.
These plants include mugwort, mint, mugwort, etc. from the outside world, as well as plants with special flavors that originally grow in Sun Moon Cave Sky.
Chen Ling divided the plants and trees into categories. After testing one type, he replaced it with another.
In fact, after the mugwort and mint from the outside world were planted in the cave and controlled by Chen Ling from spreading, they have been optimized and mutated to a certain extent. This change has both good and bad effects.
For example, mint, its fragrance is no longer pungent and more refreshing. It is the kind that is very comfortable and cheers up people, and the irritation is greatly reduced.
But when it comes to repelling mosquitoes, although it still doesn't attract mosquitoes because of its special smell, it doesn't have much effect.
After Chen Ling put it in, it did not show obvious mosquito repellent effect.
This is followed by mugwort and mugwort.
The efficacy and fragrance of mugwort have changed somewhat, but the mosquito repellent is not obvious.
On the other hand, mugwort has a very strong fragrance and a very obvious mosquito repellent effect.
As soon as I put it in, mosquitoes flew out of the grass in panic.
"Well, the mugwort did not disappoint me. I can continue to rub some match ropes to repel mosquitoes."
Chen Ling nodded secretly, but was still not satisfied. The effect was completely different from the ideal mosquitoes. , the gap is still a bit big.
So I went on to experiment.
Then he worked here for nearly an hour, testing dozens of plants and grasses.
It’s not a waste of time.
In addition to mugwort, he was able to find two more plants.
One is mountain pepper from the outside world, which is often called "rosemary". It entered the country during the Cao Wei Dynasty and is now a common weed in the wild.
Originally used as a commonly used Western food spice, it has a spicy smell and tastes like the aroma of pine trees.
After being cultivated by Chen Ling, this enhanced version of rosemary has become different.
The smell is stronger. If used with meat, the effect is better than when used in Western food. The taste is very permeable, and the aroma becomes suitable for Eastern people.
Unexpectedly, the mosquito repellent effect is also very good.
The other kind is a tree native to Dongtian. It is not tall and looks a bit like a Chinese toon tree, but its leaves are extremely large, like banana leaves, with uneven growth and thorns. of fruits.
Its leaves and fruits have a special aroma, but this aroma is very light. If you don’t sniff hard with your nose, you can’t smell it at all. You have to pick the leaves and fruits, and the smell will slowly fade away. enlarge.
After testing, this tree also has a very powerful mosquito repellent effect.
Chen Ling mixed the two kinds in.
One second, everything was calm.
The next second, just like a swarm of bees exploding their nest, a black mass of mosquitoes suddenly flew up from the grass.
Mosquitoes, flies, and bedbugs flew around in panic, turning into a mess. After knowing that there was no way to escape, they flew straight upwards.
When he controlled the two plants to fly up and chase them, they immediately flew around and hit each other as if they were lifeless, as if they were crazy.
Seeing this, Chen Ling stretched out his hand and drew a small gap in front of him, a few centimeters long.
At this moment, these mosquitoes seemed to have suddenly seen the hope of survival, and they all rushed out along this small gap as if running for their lives, each one making a panicked "buzz" and "buzz" that was both harsh and short. Voice.
They flew out and fled in all directions like their heads were crushed. The scene was extremely spectacular.
Of course Chen Ling couldn't let them fly around inside the cave, so he circled them again, sent them to the fish pond, and fed them all to the fish.
Then he picked up all the mountain pepper and leaves on the ground with a look of satisfaction on his face.
“Very good, the mosquito repellent effect is quite powerful, then I’ll choose you.”
He also didn't expect that the two seasonings had the strongest mosquito repelling effect.
The reason why Chen Ling was familiar with these things and knew them so well was that he easily selected dozens of them.
The main reason is that he used it as a seasoning before.
Especially the several original plants that carry peculiar fragrance in Dongtian, combined with some seasoning plants from the outside world, are very useful whether they are used to increase fragrance or to remove fishy and odorous substances. Now they have become a common practice. Ling's unique secret recipe.
For example, mountain pepper, after Dongtian’s transformation and optimization, can easily remove the fishy smell when used with wild boar, wild deer, muntjac and other meat.
As for the tree that resembles a toon tree and a banana leaf, its fruit has a miraculous effect on adding flavor to fish and waterfowl.
In addition, there are also seasonings specially used for rabbit meat, various kinds of seasonings, etc.
Of course, the premise is that it is combined with the original seasonings from the outside world to achieve such a miraculous effect.
"This method is easy to use. The Sun and Moon Cave can still be used as my laboratory in the future."
Chen Ling clapped his hands and retreated from the Cave.
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After finding the mosquito repellent, Chen Ling returned to the farm and packed away eggs, duck eggs, uncaria, scorpion and other medicinal materials.
When it got dark and after dinner, the father-in-law and his mother-in-law left, he started working outside the farm.
First, plant peppercorns, and use the ripening method, using diluted spiritual water to make them grow.
Because the paper mulberry seedlings and spinach seedlings appeared one after another, a circle of mountain pepper suddenly grew outside the farm, and no one thought much about it.
What's more, mountain pepper is also a common weed, and it's not a valuable treasure.
After planting mountain pepper, I went to plant a tree again. This tree was planted in a flower pot and placed as a bonsai in some inconspicuous places on the farm.
After one night, the mosquito repellent effect is obvious.
In the past, when the match was lit every day, there were still mosquitoes flying everywhere.
Now there are no mosquitoes at all, and even the flies are gone, as if they were all wiped out.
But if you walk outside the farm and outside the orchards, you will find that there are still many mosquitoes at the edges of the orchards.
But it only lasted one night, and the rest of the family hadn't reacted or noticed yet.
I just felt that there were no mosquitoes or flies flying around when I was eating. I thought it was because Chen Ling lit two more match ropes.
"After dinner, it is better to carry Ruirui up. The little baby should not smell the smoke from the match ropes. I lit two or three matches and left them. The smoke is a bit thick." Wang Cunye instructed.
“I know dad.”
Chen Ling looked on and said, "Dad, let's not sell that dendrobium yet. It's too expensive to sell in the county. Let's keep it. When we go to the city, I'll find a place to sell it." ”
“Okay, you can do it”
(End of this chapter)