Chapter 76

Zhao Hexi plopped down on the edge of the field. "Now I know where you got those great muscles. That medicine pot is really heavy; working on it all morning is like working out all morning."

Qing Mengzhu: "It'll be great if we make money. When we have money in the future, we'll use drones for spraying pesticides."

Zhao Hexi nodded repeatedly. "Buy!"

Tan Wenlei and his team quickly bought back the glyphosate.

Qing Mengzhu and the others prepared the pesticide solution and found two other fields with similar weeds to begin spraying it to kill the weeds.

They spray the pesticide today, and they'll see results tomorrow.

Qing Mengzhu was actually quite looking forward to the pesticide laced with bamboo vinegar on her back.

If it works well, they can plant more bamboo in the future.

Author's Note:

Here it is! There will be 88 small red envelopes given away in this chapter, and another chapter at 10 PM tonight!

Chapter 76

Qing Mengzhu and the others waited anxiously all day, and they didn't sleep well that night.

Early the next morning, Zhao Hexi knocked on Qing Mengzhu's courtyard gate, urging Qing Mengzhu to go and take a look.

After Zhao Hexi became the vice president of Zhuxi Agricultural Technology Company, he rented a house in Pingkou Village and lived there alone. They usually gathered in the fields in the morning.

The fact that he's personally coming to arrest people shows he's genuinely desperate.

As autumn deepens, the days grow longer and the days grow longer.

When he arrived, Qing Mengzhu was still in bed, wrapped in a warm blanket and unwilling to get up.

It was Ming Chunxi who heard the knocking and went to open the door.

Zhao Hexi, embarrassed to enter Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi's room, asked in shock from outside, "You're still not up? Where's Qing Mengzhu, who used to get up earlier than the chickens?"

After quickly brushing her teeth, Qing Mengzhu yawned as she put on her coat and walked out. As she passed Zhao Hexi, she said, "You single people wouldn't understand. It's perfectly normal to not want to get up when someone's warming your bed."

Zhao Hexi: "Who said I'm single? I was chatting with my goddess yesterday, and I'm practically on the verge of finding a partner! Hurry up, let's go check out the effects of the pesticide with bamboo vinegar, stop dawdling."

Qing Mengzhu: "The pesticides have already been sprayed, so checking a few minutes earlier or later won't affect the result."

Zhao Hexi pushed him, saying firmly, "But it will affect my confidence in planting bamboo!"

As she spoke, Zhao Hexi stopped him from going to the kitchen, and called out to Ming Chunxi, "Chunxi, we're going to the fields first. You'll have to eat breakfast by yourself."

Ming Chunxi hurriedly came out carrying three sandwiches and three bottles of water. "I'll go too. We'll eat as we walk."

Qing Mengzhu: "Don't you say you don't eat while walking?"

Ming Chunxi: "Take it with you first."

The three rode electric bikes to the edge of the fields; Zhao Hexi rode alone, Ming Chunxi carried Qing Mengzhu.

It's difficult to make a U-turn on country roads, so riding an electric bike is more convenient than driving.

A few minutes later, they stood on the edge of the field.

The difference between the two fields sprayed with pesticides was not obvious, but the difference between the two fields sprayed with herbicides was very large. The grass in the field without bamboo vinegar was still green, while the grass in the field with bamboo vinegar had turned yellowish-green and wilted, like leeks buried in the ground.

Zhao Hexi gasped in surprise, "The effect is actually so good!"

Qing Mengzhu was also surprised. She and Ming Chunxi exchanged a glance, wondering if the good effect of this batch of bamboo vinegar was due to the characteristics of Cloud Mirror Bamboo, or if all bamboo vinegar would have such a good effect.

In any case, bamboo vinegar is worth making.

Ming Chunxi held Qing Mengzhu's hand. "We can prepare to plant bamboo on another mountain."

Qing Mengzhu gripped her hand tightly in return. "Let's plant everything, while the weather's still cool, let's cover the whole mountain with plants."

Zhao Hexi shouted from the front, "Reduce costs and increase profits! We'll sell more bamboo vinegar later. Speaking of which, is bamboo vinegar a health product or a pesticide? I've seen some people sell it as a health product."

Qing Mengzhu: "Then it depends on whether we sell it as a health supplement or a pesticide."

Zhao Hexi: "Let's stick with pesticides. I'll urge them to expedite the application for our pesticide business license."

The bamboo vinegar works very well; everyone is incredibly enthusiastic about planting bamboo, like they've been injected with adrenaline.

Seeing this, Qing Mengzhu thought about how she should give out more holiday bonuses during the Mid-Autumn Festival, since everyone had been working so hard lately.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival even arrived, their company was notified that there was an agricultural exchange conference and that they needed to send representatives to participate.

In addition to promoting agricultural products, this exchange meeting also included experience sharing, mainly aimed at increasing the income of these agricultural companies and strengthening their sense of belonging to Vine City.

Zhao Hexi has been busy with the white fungus and lotus seed soup project lately. The feedback from Qing Xun has been very good, and he has ordered another three hundred boxes.

Other companies received the news and also came to place orders with them, but they weren't as willing to offer prices, feeling that their gift boxes were too expensive and trying to negotiate a lower price.

Zhao Hexi wouldn't budge, nor did he want to miss out on a major client, so he spent every day negotiating prices with people, leaving him extremely busy.

Feng Ningxiang and her production department were clearing forests and farmland, with a focus on clearing farmland.

There are many weeds in the field now. Even if we spray herbicides, we must cut and burn the weeds to avoid leaving space for pests to survive and reproduce.

The company has rented over 100 acres of land, and even though they are busy with all kinds of machines every day, they are still not able to keep up.

After all the calculations, the person with the most free time in the entire company is Qing Mengzhu.

Qing Mengzhu had no choice but to take the invitation and attend the exchange meeting in person.

Qing Mengzhu has been engaged in agriculture for about half a year and is very familiar with many industry news. This exchange meeting was not a particularly cutting-edge one. He walked around the meeting twice but gained very little.

In addition to the exhibition booths, the organizers also held several presentations.

Qing Mengzhu listened to people promoting various new crop varieties and agricultural machinery in the morning, but she wasn't very interested.

After finishing his boxed lunch, he bought a strong coffee, planning to attend two more lectures before heading back.

He's been loitering around here all day; he should be able to report back now.

He found a corner seat in the large lecture hall and sat down while the speaker was giving his presentation, still drinking coffee.

Before I could even finish a few sips of coffee, the presenter started talking about crop pest control.

Qing Mengzhu listened to the presenter share their experience, she couldn't help but sit up straight.

They had recently been researching pest problems, and this report hit the nail on the head.

However, to his disappointment, the speaker only talked about some relatively simple things, which he had read about in books or heard about before and were not unfamiliar with.

As the speaker continued, he started talking about cost savings, mentioning that some drugs could be reused, and gave an example of killing Bacillus thuringiensis.

The reporter said that dead insects could be collected from fields that had been sprayed with Bacillus thuringiensis. The dead insects died from infection with Bacillus thuringiensis and had a high concentration of the bacteria in their bodies. After collecting the insect carcasses, they could be crushed, diluted with water, and used as a Bacillus thuringiensis preparation to be sprayed on new farmland.

After the insects are sprayed, they will be reinfected with Bacillus thuringiensis.

Utilizing insect carcasses in this way not only saves on pesticide costs but also achieves better pest control results.

Qing Mengzhu had heard of this method before; it wasn't anything particularly special.

He listened to the report and began to ponder, but then another thought occurred to him—since the insect corpses were full of bacteria, could they simply collect them directly from the public?

Now they also collect the insect corpses and send them to Gu Benshu and his group.

The only problem is that the collection area is too narrow; they collect from their own fields or newly rented fields, and they only collect the same few types of crops.

Perhaps because of the small sample size and the fact that many samples were duplicates, they have made little progress in their search for novel Bacillus species that can kill insects.

If insect corpses were collected on a large scale, the situation might be different.

Many farmers can find dead insects in their fields; if they were to buy them, they should be able to acquire a batch.