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Shen Ping originally thought that Dadong was making a big deal out of nothing, but when she saw the situation, she realized that the insect infestation was indeed very serious.

According to Dadong, the insect infestation was not that serious yesterday, but after one night, there were unexpectedly many more insects visible to the naked eye, and dozens of cotton trees died in one night.

Shen Ping took a closer look and saw that the withered and dead cotton tree was densely packed with insects. The wriggling insects gave Shen Ping goose bumps. She had trypophobia.

The insect had thorns all over its body, so it couldn't catch it even if it wanted to. It was conceivable that the tree would die if the insect lay on it, sucking the sap and leaves.

Shen Ping continued walking forward and found that the cotton trees close to the dead cotton trees were also affected by insect pests and there was a trend of further development.

Continue walking forward for more than ten meters. The affected tree in front is not so serious, but if you look carefully, you can still see the insect.

"Madam, what should we do?" Dadong asked worriedly.

Shen Ping pondered for a while, then made a decisive decision with a serious face: "Hurry up and cut down the dead tree and burn it! Try to burn the insects as well, and don't let the eggs continue to reproduce."

"it is good!"

Dadong quickly asked the other servants to take axes, cut down the trees, and put them together to burn.

Shen Ping knew that it was the cotton picking season and there was cotton to be picked every day, so spraying pesticides was impossible. The only way was to control pests manually, that is, to catch the insects by hand.

I heard from Dadong that the pest was not so serious yesterday, but it multiplied very badly in just one night. As you can imagine, the pests reproduce very quickly and bite very quickly.

These dozens of insects can eat up an entire tree in just one night. It’s creepy to think about it.

Shen Ping continued to walk forward about ten meters, and looked at the cotton tree carefully again. She found that there were almost no insects on the cotton tree here. She looked carefully.

Then he told everyone to start from there and move forward in a parallel line to see where there were no insect pests. They had to find a dividing line to separate the two sides.

Dadong understood and asked his servants to do the same, making a dividing line in the middle and marking it.

Then, Shen Ping was still worried, so she continued walking forward and found that there were indeed no pests ahead, so she was finally relieved.

It seems that the front is the hardest hit area by pests and has not yet spread to the back. The focus now is to control the front to prevent the back from being infested with pests.

Dozens of people worked for a whole morning and finally figured out that the area at the back was indeed free of insects and that the focus was on the front.

Shen Ping arranged for some people to continue picking cotton, while others to catch insects, but there were far from enough people.

Shen Ping roughly estimated that the area infested with insects was about four to five acres.

There are less than ten people catching insects now. There are dozens of insects on one tree. These insects have thorns and are poisonous.

Everyone felt itchy all over when watching this, but they didn't dare to scratch it themselves. They could only pick it with branches. They couldn't be too hasty, and they couldn't damage the tree. They had to look carefully to see if there was anything missed.

At this rate, even if people catch insects by nightfall they still won’t catch half of them.

Shen Ping knew that she couldn't let these insects stay overnight. If she left them alone, all the cotton trees would be wiped out in one night.

These four or five acres of land can produce more than 1000 kilograms of cotton, so we can't just leave it like this.

Shen Ping looked around and realized that there were probably a few servants at home. She had to go back and ask them all to come over. In addition, she had to urgently recruit workers to see if anyone was willing to catch insects. She wanted to catch all the pests today.

Shen Ping did not dare to delay for a moment and hurried back to buy several hundred pairs of cowhide gloves in the mall. She asked Guihong and Cuizhi to take them to the fields to catch insects and distributed these gloves to everyone.

In addition, he brought small buckets and told them to try to catch the insects alive and then process them collectively.

Seeing the lady's serious expression, Guihong and the others realized the seriousness of the situation and quickly took gloves and buckets and went to the cotton field.

Considering that everyone has their own fields and is busy, it would probably be difficult to recruit so many workers in a short period of time.

Shen Ping changed her mind and decided to start from her own workshop, asking the workers to stop working temporarily and help catch the insects.

Shen Ping visited several workshops and carefully questioned Dachun, Sanchun and Zhang Tiezhu. She found that the chili workshop was busy, so she excluded them.

Finally, it was decided to select 70 people from the cosmetics shop and 30 workers from the stew shop, a total of 100 people, to catch bugs.

Dachun and Sanchun knew that their mother would never do this unless it was a special situation.

Moreover, with the transfer of some people, the workshop can still operate normally, but the output is not as high, which will not affect it for a day or two.

The two of them urgently deployed manpower, and soon 100 workers lined up neatly at the entrance of the workshop, waiting for Shen Ping's instructions.

The workers didn't know what was going on and were all whispering to each other.

"What the hell is going on? Let us out."

"I don't know either. I guess something happened."

Seeing everyone coming out, Shen Ping stood in front and stretched out her hand to make a quiet gesture: "Everyone, be quiet and listen to me~"

Suddenly everyone stopped and there was complete silence, with everyone looking at Shen Ping.

Seeing that everyone had finally quieted down, Shen Ping continued, "There are insect pests in the cotton fields right now, so I decided to ask everyone to help catch the pests. I'll pay you, and we'll try to catch all the pests today~"

Suddenly, everyone's expressions changed. This was the first time they had encountered such a thing. Everyone was asked to catch bugs, which was like a piece of cake.

Some people were happy, but some were not very willing. Although it was October, there was still sunshine, and working under the sun would be extremely hot.

The atmosphere at the scene began to become restless again

Seeing that some of the insects were not very willing, Shen Ping knew that she had to increase her efforts in terms of money. She would rather pay more money and catch all the insects, otherwise the cotton would be really wasted.

Shen Ping looked around at everyone and said slowly, "How about this, you will still receive your wages for today's workshop. In addition, I will give you an extra 20 coins. Hurry up and do your job."

When they heard that they would continue to receive their wages and would be given an extra 20 cents, everyone's eyes lit up.

Seeing that everyone's enthusiasm was aroused, Shen Ping quickly directed everyone to go to the cotton field.

100 people went to the cotton fields, put on gloves, and caught the insects.

When the villagers heard that there were insect pests in the cotton fields, they all went to their own fields to check.

Some people's cotton fields are beginning to show signs of insect infestation, while others are not.

With strength in numbers, we finally caught all the pests before dark, and then burned them all.

Shen Ping was worried, so after dinner, she asked Dadong to bring the servants to observe carefully again in the middle of the night with headlamps on their heads to see if there was anything missed.

In the evening, Wu and Sanchun talked about the incident in the daytime when they saw Dachun bump into Cui Feng.

She also expressed her concerns, but Sanchun told her not to think too much and not to tell her sister-in-law about it, so as not to cause unrest in the family.