Whose farming family has the male protagonist giving three piglets as a gift at the beginning?

When Su's mother came back, she was holding a small cloth bag in her hand. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw Ershi and Su Yonghe cutting fish vines. Seeing them like this, she was puzzled.

"Why is this wrapped like this?"

"This hairy fish vine is a little poisonous, so let them wear it just in case." Su Ziling took the lime, took a look at it and put it aside.

"Poisonous?" Su's mother exclaimed. Looking at the bucket, kitchen knife, chopping board, and basin, she felt so distressed.

"It must be poisonous. If it wasn't, the borer wouldn't be dead at all."

Su Ziling dragged out a large wooden barrel. It was made by Grandpa Su and was used to wash sweet potato flour. The barrel was too big and she could hardly drag it by herself.

"Mother, give me a hand."

The mother and daughter dragged the bucket to the well with great effort. Su's mother watched her busying around. She didn't know what she was doing, so she just followed her.

"If this vine is poisonous, then wouldn't all the things that have touched it be unusable? Also, since it's poisonous, will it have an effect on the corn seedlings? Will the corn cobs produced in the future also be poisonous?"

Su Ziling burst out laughing when he heard this, "Mother, you are so cute."

Mother Su frowned and said, "Speak properly."

"Oh." Su Ziling stopped laughing immediately and explained to her, "Don't worry, mother. The reed vine has a strong insecticide property and is quick to take effect. It has a strong killing effect on aphids, thrips and flea beetles. It is even more effective against the larvae of the cabbage butterfly and the diamondback moth. They will die as soon as they are exposed to the medicine."

"Derris contains rotenone, which has a long insecticide effect, usually about ten days, but its toxicity decomposes in the light, leaving very little residue, so there is no need to worry about any residue. These pots and knives can be scalded with boiling water and then placed outdoors in the sun for ten days or half a month, and they will be fine."

"This thing is not very toxic and poses no threat to humans or livestock. Even if it is accidentally ingested, it will only cause diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting."

"That's fine, that's fine." Hearing that everything was fine, Su's mother was relieved.

"How do I get this peach leaf?"

"Weigh it first. I'll try mixing a little." Su Ziling was unsure, as some of these methods were learned and some were learned from his elders.

She first weighed fifty kilograms of peach leaves at a ratio of fifty kilograms to one kilogram of lime, poured the peach leaves in, then added one kilogram of lime, and finally added three times the amount of clean water to soak it.

"Is this enough?" Su's mother didn't understand how peach leaves could kill insects.

Su Ziling shook his head. "It will take another two and a half hours to soak. Then squeeze the peach leaves dry and filter out the residue. The juice will be the stock solution. Mix five catties of stock solution with ten catties of water. Then just drip it directly into the corn's bell mouth."

"Okay," Su's mother nodded half-knowingly, "Then you guys stay busy at home. I'll go cook first and send them food later."

"Oh, by the way, mother," Su Ziling called her and pointed at the hairy fish vine on the ground, "I'm going to pound this later, so I need a pestle and mortar."

Mother Su waved her hand and said, "Use it. Didn't you say that it won't be poisonous if you expose it to the sun? Just do it as you see fit."

After finishing the peach leaves, she started to pound the hairy fish vines. Seeing that she was not strong enough, Twenty switched roles with her and let her cut while he was responsible for pounding.

For the entire afternoon, the Su family's yard was filled with the "thump, thump, thump" sounds of chopping boards and the "bang, bang, bang" sounds of pestles and mortars.

They worked until the afternoon and were very tired. They put the pounded hairtail vines into gauze for filtering, and the juice dripped slowly.

After pounding the peach leaves, they were almost done soaking. I washed the pestle and mortar and continued pounding the peach leaves.

It was not difficult to pound the peach leaves and I finished pounding them quickly. Then I took out a piece of gauze to filter and squeeze them.

The hairy fish vine was still being filtered, and the peach leaf juice was ready. Su Ziling took out two buckets and scooped out two buckets of peach leaf concentrate.

Even with the original liquid, how to spray the medicine becomes a problem. We can't just take a gourd ladle and water it slowly, right?

I thought of the modern hand-pull spray guns, and thought using bamboo should be feasible, right?

Seeing that there was still time, she took a knife and went to the gate to cut a bamboo, using the bamboo as a tube, about two feet (66.6 cm) long, with one end cut through and the other end left open.

She tied it tightly with a hemp rope, drilled a small hole on one end, put a reed in it, wrapped one end with cotton, put the reed in, and tried to pull it. (Note)

like……

Is that okay?

Never mind, just try it first. If it doesn’t work, you can only use a ladle and then water it slowly.

She went to the well, filled the bamboo tube with water, and then put the reed with the cotton end in. After the cotton absorbed the water, there was a certain resistance when it was pulled, but it was still a little loose.

She pulled out the reeds and tied some more in. After trying several times, the water finally started to spray out.

Well, she was quite satisfied, although it was a bit wasteful of water. However, it was much faster than watering each plant one by one with a ladle.

Seeing her fiddling with the bamboo pole by the well, Su's mother was curious, "What are you doing? Is the medicine not ready yet?"

"Okay, hehe." Su Ziling laughed foolishly, "Mother, let me show you something good."

She filled the bamboo tube with water and demonstrated it to Su's mother, "How is it?"

Seeing the water jet spraying far and thin, Su's mother's eyes were full of surprise, "You use this little thing for water fights? That's great, go deliver the medicine to your father first, and then play with it later when you have time."

"Mother, this isn't for playing with. I'm using it to spray pesticides. There are so many corns, we can't water them one by one, right?"

In Su's mother's subconscious, watering each tree one by one seems to be the normal thing to do. After all, just like catching insects by hand, these things are deeply rooted.

Who would have thought of just getting a bucket of medicine to kill the bugs?

Su's mother was stunned for a moment, "Can this thing work?"

Su Ziling put away the bamboo tube and said, "Of course it will work, but it will use up a lot of medicine, but it's fast. Mother, we're leaving now. Someone will come to sell mushrooms later, so please help weigh them."

Twenty was carrying two buckets of medicine, Su Ziling was carrying a backpack with her bamboo tube and gourd ladle in it, and she was also holding two empty buckets in her hands, which she would use to mix the original liquid later.

After going out the door, Su Ziling picked two handfuls of sika deer grass on the roadside and threw them into the bucket. When carrying water, especially when the road is long, it is good to throw some leaves into the bucket so that the water will not easily shake out.

The sun was setting in the west, and it had lost its temperature at this time. There were just as many people in the cornfield as in the morning.

They bent over and caught insects seriously. After catching for a while, they stood up, pounded their waists, and then continued catching.

"Xiaoqing, are you bringing food to your grandpa and the others?"

When I passed by my third uncle's land, I saw my third aunt and the others catching insects.

"Send them some water. Auntie San, are you guys here to catch insects too? Your family should have finished catching them, right? The corn seedlings look strong this year."

"No, how can we catch them all? We caught all of them in the front, and when we check again two days later, there are more in the back. It's no use trying to be strong. Looking at the momentum, we thought we would have a good harvest, but look at these insects."

My third uncle's wife was also very worried, her frown never relaxed.

"They are all so fat from eating so much that the corn seedlings are ruined."

The corn was neatly harvested, but its leaves were gnawed to tatters, and the corn core and leaves were covered with insect feces.

“I don’t know if it’s just our village or other villages as well.”

Su Ziling thought, if it was only their village that was experiencing this problem, no one would care. But if it was the same in all the surrounding villages, someone would probably report it. Wouldn't this also be considered an insect plague?

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One more thing to add, I looked up information about the spray gun, which is very niche information. This spray gun was produced in ancient times and was used on the battlefield to spray poison. It is very feasible, so I used it as a reference. Then there are two prescriptions, which were also used by the older generation. Finally, there is the ending, which many people asked about.

I had originally planned to update frequently and finish it this month, but the more I write, the more I write, so it's hard to say when it will be finished.

I also want to finish it, because now as the number of words increases, the profit is actually lower. But I haven't finished it yet. If I end it directly, it will be a bad ending, and I will feel uncomfortable, so I can't say when it will be finished.