My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 252 Mosquito Repellent Herb

  Chen Ling was still sighing that it was comfortable to lie down and earn money. After the three of Li Min walked out of the farm, they did not leave immediately.

   They walked slowly on the bluestone path in the fruit forest, lingering in the beautiful scenery around them, and occasionally stopped to watch and appreciate it.

The fish in the canal, the birds foraging in the forest, the little frog that suddenly popped out of the grass, the two guarding the chickens, ducks and geese, and the great dog running back and forth, many of them had never been seen before. , all made them feel novel and interesting, and they slowed down unknowingly.

   "Look at people here, how beautiful the scenery is, there are mountains and waters, and there are so many fish and birds. Sister Min, should we stop playing for a while?"

   These two are a man and a woman, and they belong to the city flood control leadership team with Li Min. Although they are not as good as Li Min, they have a good relationship and speak more casually.

   "What are you playing? They don't entertain guests here. Hurry up and leave. You are not tired of carrying the wine jar."

   "Why don't you entertain guests? I see that there are so many rooms in their farm, isn't it just for people?"

   "No, I asked last time."

   "Ah? Sister Min, can't you? This farmer is also bold."

   For a time, the two were both surprised and pity.

   However, after slowly walking out of the fruit forest, the pity in my heart became stronger.

   "It's really hot outside. I sweated profusely as soon as I walked out. It's still cool in the woods."

  There are no trees outside, and the sun is shining, which can be compared to the cool and pleasant inside the farmhouse and fruit forest.

   Even Li Min wants to stay for a while longer. It’s best to have a meal and leave in the afternoon when it’s cooler.

   But there is no way, people say that the children at home are too young to be busy, and they do not 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 the rain and water conditions next year."

   Li Min turned around and looked at the farmhouse hidden in the fruit forest, thinking helplessly.

  …

  In the farm, Chen Ling put the money away and walked out. This time the mother-in-law has nothing to worry about.

  Not only is there no problem with the wine, but it also attracts repeat customers. This guy, I don't know what those people think, why they are so willing to spend money.

   Sighing in her heart, Gao Xiulan soon became happy again.

   I thought that this son-in-law can really make money. This month has not passed, and the small 10,000 yuan will be in hand.

   Not only is she happy, Wang Cunye and Wang Susu's father and daughter are also very happy.

   Especially Wang Susu, although she supports Chen Ling to build a farm, but she is also worried that the money she spends will not be returned.

   Now he is finally relieved.

  The family had a happy lunch.

  After the meal, Wang Susu sat on the rattan chair and shook her son who woke up.

   Gao Xiulan squatted by the side and mixed the noodles with alkaline water. The steamed buns at home were finished, and it was time to steam new steamed buns at night.

  Because the steamed buns are not easy to preserve in summer, they are all steamed in one pot and one pot, and each pot of steamed buns is only a dozen or so. After three or four meals, new steamed buns are steamed.

  Otherwise, the steamed buns will easily become sour if the weather is too hot.

  Wang Cunye went to the backyard to make wine with scorpions and centipedes after eating.

  Chen Ling was washing diapers next to Wang Susu.

  Today it was finally his turn to do this job, let alone, washing and washing really made him feel good about washing.

  After washing it, scald it with boiling water again, and rub it repeatedly. The diaper that my son puts on must be careful and careful.

   As the three of Li Min said, the farm is now prosperous with trees and trees, and it is very cool to stay here and not to go out.

   It's not too hot to do some work.

   is that there are a lot of flies and mosquitoes, and the buzzing is very annoying.

  So after washing and drying the diapers, Chen Ling took the fly swatter and circled around his wife and son to slap flies and drive away mosquitoes.

   "A-Ling, look behind you, there is one behind you, here, here, and another."

   He was playing with flies, and Wang Susu gave him instructions, which attracted the little guy in his arms to look at him in a daze, and kept calling "Ah, ah".

   "What's it called, if you get enough sleep, you will be dishonest."

  Chen Ling glared at his son, and continued to spin in circles to catch flies and mosquitoes.

  No way, this little troublemaker won't stay in the room when he wakes up, so he has to come out, or he will cry at the top of his voice.

   I really can't do anything about him.

   "Ah, ah..." The little guy didn't know what his father was talking about, he kept scratching with his fleshy little hands, and his short legs also kicked restlessly.

   He didn't calm down again until Wang Susu staggered and walked up.

   "This baby is really hard to serve, raising you, your father and your mother are exhausted to death." Seeing this, Gao Xiulan raised her head and said with a smile.

   "Mother, did I make trouble when I was young?" Wang Susu asked.

   "You don't make trouble, you are the most down-to-earth, and you are honest when you are so old. Your eldest brother is the most troublesome. Don't think that he is a teacher now. He usually has a straight face, but he is actually the one who makes a lot of trouble."

   Gao Xiulan took another look at the little guy in her daughter's arms and pouted: "Then your eldest brother is not so troublesome, this nephew is much more powerful than his uncle."

   "This is just follow his father, no difference at all."

   At the end of the sentence, it fell on Chen Ling again.

  Wang Susu burst out laughing, and even the little guy in his arms followed him.

   "Yo, you also know Le? Smelly Ruirui, you really can."

   Even though he knew that his son was earlier than other dolls, Wang Susu was still very happy when he saw him smiling with a small mouth, looking at the little guy with loving eyes.

  Chen Ling was naturally very happy, but before he could say anything, there was an itching on his leg.

   looked down at his legs, a big mosquito, his stomach was full.

  Slapped him to death with a slap, and a large bloodstain immediately burst out on his leg, which must have sucked a lot of blood.

   "Good guy, I got a bag on my elbow too."

  Chen Ling frowned and scratched lightly, only to find five or six stings on his body after a while.

   "Hurry up and hold Rui Rui up, don't stay here, these mosquitoes are a bit powerful, they are all lit with matchlocks, so I'd better run this way."

   "Oh, really, this mosquito is so powerful that it bit such a big bag."

   Gao Xiulan glanced at the mosquito bag on Chen Ling's leg, it was already bulging.

   As she was talking, a mosquito fell on her own leg and was biting through her pants.

   Really called a ferocious.

   "I can't stay in the yard anymore, I'll carry Rui Rui upstairs."

  Wang Susu took a look and hurried upstairs with her son.

  Upstairs, the little guy cried unsurprisingly.

   This baby doesn't want to be bored in the room when she wakes up.

  Wang Susu hugged him and circled around the room, letting him howl and refusing to take him out.

  Chen Ling felt that this was not the way to go.

   After thinking about it, I packed the stroller.

   In fact, little babies about two months old are not suitable for strollers.

   But his son is not the same as an ordinary baby. After being baptized in the cave, his body and bones are very strong. It is no problem to lie down in the stroller for a short period of time, and take him out after coaxing him to sleep.

   So Chen Ling pushed the stroller into the room and asked Wang Susu to put his son inside and push it gently and slowly.

This time it really worked, the little guy didn't cry or make trouble, he just lay quietly in the stroller, staring at the small pendant hanging above the stroller with his dark eyes open. As the pendant swayed, his His eyes also flickered, and from time to time he grinned and hummed, and his calf moved gently, showing that he was quite satisfied.

   "This brat is really hard to serve."

  Chen Ling snorted fiercely, feeling tired again.

   "Yeah, I just like new things, and cry when I'm not happy. It's hard to serve."

  Wang Susu pouted and smiled helplessly.

   is very helpless to his son. In order to take care of this little guy, his clothes and hair are all messed up, and it is too late to clean up.

   Every day, Chen Ling and Gao Xiulan came to comb her hair and wash her clothes.

   She doesn't care about anything else right now.

   I used to say that I would open a pharmacy in the village after I gave birth to my baby, but now this is not the case, that is, I just talk about it.

   "I'll guard him, you go to take a nap and take a rest, or he'll have to toss again at night."

  Chen Ling looked at his daughter-in-law and said.

   "It's alright, I'm not sleepy now, I'll just keep watch. You go and pack up the eggs, duck eggs, as well as those medicinal materials, scorpions, etc. It's time to sell them at the fair tomorrow."

   "Oh, yes, then you see him first, I'll be back later."

  Chen Ling nodded and walked out.

  I originally wanted to play with my son for a while while he was awake, and when he was tired from playing, I would let him sleep well at night without tossing around.

   This is no good, there are so many mosquitoes outside, maybe there are some poisonous insects.

   Don’t dare to take it out.

   "Let's not pack up for now, we have to find a way to get rid of the mosquitoes, otherwise it won't work." After Chen Ling walked downstairs, he turned around and walked outside the farm.

  The number of mosquitoes in the orchard is increasing, but it is not an immediate outbreak.

   should have been lurking for a long time.

   After all, mosquitoes also need time to hatch.

   It is very 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 transformed, and the number of mosquitoes began to increase sharply.

  Summer is the golden time for all kinds of mosquitoes to grow, especially in the grass near the ditch, there are countless kinds of insects, especially in the fruit forest of the farm, which is more attractive to them than other places.

   can fly, crawl, and drill holes.

   barbed, winged, hairy, horned…

   That's really everything.

  Chen Ling hit the grass with a bamboo pole, and kept the mosquitoes flying in front of him into the cave.

  As long as it is collected, it will be immediately divided into independent areas and isolated, so that it will not spread in the cave.

   After being so busy for more than half an hour, I caught hundreds of mosquitoes, including flower mosquitoes, black mosquitoes, green mosquitoes, poisonous mosquitoes, and stinky mosquitoes that look like small dragonflies, plus various flies, gadflies, bed bugs, etc.

   Even some poisonous insects crawled on him and tried to bite him, but he was taken into the cave by him before he even opened his mouth.

   Shortly after noon, when the sun is at its most venomous, no one came over from the farm, and no one paid attention to him.

   When the mosquitoes were ready, Chen Ling walked up the mountain alone, found a hiding place and dodged into the cave.

   Don’t do anything else in the cave, go straight to the cut off area of ​​mosquitoes.

In the depths of the woods, in a small open space, a circular area is separated, and the surrounding is invisible and colorless. It seems that the surrounding is no different from the normal scenery, but these mosquitoes cannot fly out, as if they are invisible to the naked eye. blocked by a transparent barrier.

   However, there are grasses below, they can't fly out, and they can hide in the grass as much as they want.

   In fact, it was similar to what Chen Ling expected. After a while, the mosquitoes fell into the grass one after another.

   This isolated small space suddenly became quiet.

  Chen Ling reached out and summoned some plants with special fragrance to start his mosquito repellent experiment.

  These plants include mugwort, mint, mugwort, etc. from the outside world, as well as grasses and trees with special flavors that originally grew in the sun and moon cave.

  Chen Ling classified these plants and trees into different categories. After one type of test was completed, he would switch to another.

   In fact, wormwood and mint from the outside world were planted in the cave, and after being controlled by Chen Ling and no longer spreading, there was a certain degree of optimization and variation. This kind of change was good and bad.

   For example, mint, its fragrance is no longer pungent, and it is more refreshing. It is the kind of very comfortable that makes people feel refreshed, and the stimulation is greatly reduced.

   But in repelling mosquitoes, although it is still not attractive to mosquitoes because of its special smell, it does not play a big role.

After   Chen Ling put it in, there was no obvious mosquito repellent effect.

   is followed by wormwood and mugwort.

  The medicinal effect and fragrance of wormwood have some changes, but the mosquito repellent is not obvious.

  It is mugwort, the fragrance becomes extremely strong, and the mosquito repellent effect is obvious.

   As soon as it was put in, mosquitoes flew out of the grass in a panic.

   "Well, mugwort didn't disappoint me, but I can continue to rub some matches to repel mosquitoes."

  Chen Ling nodded secretly, but he was still not satisfied. This effect was swept away from the ideal mosquitoes, and the gap was still a little big.

   So I went on to experiment.

   Then he tossed here and there for nearly an hour, experimenting with dozens of plants and plants.

   It wasn't a waste of time.

   In addition to mugwort, he successfully let him find two kinds of plants.

   One is the mountain pepper from the outside world, which is often referred to as "rosemary". It entered the country during the Cao Wei period and is now a relatively common weed in the wild.

   Originally used as a commonly used western food spice, it has a spicy smell and tastes much like the aroma of pine trees.

   After being cultivated by Chen Ling, this enhanced version of rosemary has also become different.

The smell of    is stronger. If it is paired with meat, the effect is better than that in Western food.

   I didn't expect that the mosquito repellent effect is also very good.

  The other kind is a kind of tree that originally existed in Dongtian. It is not tall and looks a bit like a toon tree, but the leaves are extremely large, like plantain leaves, with bumpy, thorny fruits.

  Its leaves and fruits have a special fragrance, but this fragrance is very light. If you don't smell it hard, you can't smell it at all. If you have to pick off the leaves and fruits, the flavor will gradually increase.

After the    test, this tree also has a very powerful mosquito repellent effect.

  Chen Ling mixed the two into it.

   One second ago, the wind was calm.

  The next second, just like a bee colony exploded its nest, a black patch of mosquitoes flew out of the grass.

   Mosquitoes, flies, and bed bugs flew around in a panic, turning into a pot of porridge. After knowing that they could not escape, they flew straight up quickly.

  When he controlled the two plants to fly up to chase after them, they immediately flew wildly as if they were dying, like madness.

  Chen Ling stretched out his hand and drew in front of him, creating a small gap a few centimeters long.

This time, these mosquitoes seemed to see the hope of survival at once, and they all seemed to be running for their lives, rushing to escape along this small gap, each making a panicked "buzz" and "buzz" that was both harsh and short buzzing. Voice.

   flew out like squeezing his head and fled in all directions, the scene was extremely spectacular.

  Chen Ling naturally couldn't let them fly around in 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 peppers and leaves on the ground with a satisfied look on his face.

   "Very good, the mosquito repellent effect is quite powerful, then choose you."

   He also did not expect that the two seasonings had the strongest mosquito repellent effect.

   The reason why Chen Ling is familiar with these things, and they are so familiar, can easily select dozens of them.

   Mainly because he used it as a seasoning before.

  Especially the several plants in Dongtian that originally carry exotic fragrances, and some seasoning plants planted in the outside world are very useful whether they are used to enhance fragrance, or to remove fishy smell and deodorization. Now it has become Chen Ling's unique secret recipe.

  For example, mountain pepper, after the transformation and optimization of Dongtian, it is very easy to remove the fishy smell of some wild boar, wild deer, muntjac and other meat.

   And the kind of tree that resembles the toon tree and the banana leaf, the fruit has a miraculous effect on the fragrance of fish and waterfowl.

   In addition, there are seasonings specially used for rabbit meat, all kinds of seasonings for water, and so on.

   Of course, the premise is that it has such a miraculous effect only if it is matched with the original seasonings from the outside world.

   "This method is easy to use, and the Sun Moon Cave can be used as my laboratory in the future."

  Chen Ling clapped his hands and withdrew from the cave.

  …

   After finding the mosquito repellent, Chen Ling returned to the farm and packed up the eggs, duck eggs, as well as medicinal herbs such as Uncaria and scorpions.

   After dinner, the old man and his mother-in-law left, he went to work outside the farm.

   First, the mountain pepper was planted, or the method of ripening was used, and the diluted spiritual water was used to make them grow.

  Because the previous paper mulberry saplings, thorns, etc. appeared one after another, a circle of mountain peppers suddenly grew outside the farm, and no one would think too much.

   Besides, mountain pepper is also a common weed, and it is not a valuable treasure.

  After planting the mountain pepper, I went to plant a tree. The tree was still planted in a flowerpot, and it was placed in some inconspicuous places in the farm as a bonsai.

   Overnight, the repellent effect is obvious.

  I used to burn a match every day, and mosquitoes were still flying around.

   Now there are no mosquitoes at all, and even flies are gone, as if it has really been swept away.

   But if you walk outside the farm and go outside the fruit forest, you will find that there are still many mosquitoes at the edge of the fruit forest.

   It was just one night, and the rest of the family hadn't reacted or noticed.

   I just felt that there were no mosquitoes and flies flying around during the meal. I thought it was because Chen Ling ordered two more match ropes.

   "I'd better carry Rui Rui up after dinner. The little doll still doesn't smell the smoke of the ignition rope. I lit two or three and left it. The smoke is a little thick." Wang Cunye instructed.

   "I know dad."

Chen Ling watched and said, "Father, let's not sell that dendrobium for now. It's too bad to sell it in the county seat. Let's keep it for a while. When we go to the city, I'll find a place to sell it. "

   "Okay, you can figure it out."

   (end of this chapter)