"What kind of medicine did you spray before?" Xu Lin asked.
“Regular insecticides work, but they reproduce so quickly that the insecticide runs out fast and we have to catch them by hand,” Li Jingjing said.
Ordinary insecticides are fine as long as they kill the pests; Xu Lin was worried about having to prepare special pesticides, which would take too much time. By the time Zhou Pin got off work, she had already sprayed disinfectant on the yard.
“I’ll go home and spray disinfectant on the rest of the house. You go and talk to Section Chief Sun about the bugs. With Sun Wei there, he should be able to report it to his superiors,” Xu Lin said to Zhou Pin.
Grandma Wu and Li Jingjing also found insects in their yard. They were frantic because they didn't have any insecticide, as the bees in their yard were their livelihood.
“Xu Lin, how much insecticide do you have? We’d like to trade you our bees,” Li Jingjing said.
“Okay, come with me to get it.” Xu Lin didn’t hesitate; helping others at this time was helping herself.
Li Jingjing moved two beehives onto Zhou Pin's tricycle. They were in a hurry to come and had driven the tricycle, so they could take the beehives back with them.
Zhou Pin rode his bike to leave the beehives at the door and went to find Section Chief Sun. Xu Lin and Li Jingjing walked back.
"Wait here for me, I'll go get the insecticide."
Xu Lin told Li Jingjing to sit on the sofa in the living room and wait. She went to the storage room on the first floor and took out a box of insecticide from her space. Xu Lin had at least tens of thousands of boxes of such insecticide in her space, and some high-end ones also had tens of thousands of boxes.
"Here you go, hurry back and spray it on."
"Okay, thank you, I'll be going now." Li Jingjing left with the insecticide.
Xu Lin quickly sprayed every corner of the house, then called Dr. Dai and Wang Jing. Dr. Dai had a small amount of alcohol at home to disinfect, but Wang Jing had nothing, so she sent Zheng Ming to Xu Lin's place to exchange for insecticide and alcohol.
Dr. Dai gave Xu Lin a bag of potatoes, Zheng Ming took a sack of sweet potatoes and a sack of pumpkins, and Xu Lin prepared 10 liters of alcohol and a box of insecticide for each of their families.
By the time Zhou Pin returned, it was already dark.
"Why did it take you so long?" Xu Lin handed Zhou Pin a bottle of alcohol disinfectant.
"I was pulled into a meeting by Section Chief Sun to discuss the plan," Zhou Pin said while spraying disinfectant on himself.
"How so?"
"Insects were also found in the planting area, and they have grown quite large, eating all the vegetable leaves. In addition, Sun Wei explained the damage caused by the insect infestation. The base is taking this very seriously and has started to expedite the production of insecticides this afternoon."
"Luckily, we harvested our vegetables early, otherwise the leaves would have been ruined too," Xu Lin said thankfully.
"The base's radio is now broadcasting a message repeatedly: those who grow vegetables at home should harvest them as soon as possible, and those who have pesticides should spray them all over their homes. The base probably can't produce enough pesticides yet, but the base will start spraying disinfectant in public areas as early as tomorrow night, and then distribute it to each household. If you don't have enough, you can buy some yourself..."
Zheng Ming reported the results of the meeting at the base, and Xu Lin felt that the base had done a very good job in terms of emergency management.
"I've been working so hard and haven't eaten yet, I'm starving."
Knowing the direction of the operation, Xu Lin felt relieved. Only then did she realize she was hungry. There was no time to cook, so she took out the ready-made food.
Because of her fear of insects, Xu Lin ate steamed buns as her main food. After the two finished eating, they disinfected the house again before going to bed.
Xu Lin woke up at four o'clock the next morning, feeling that there were bugs in the house, and dragged Zhou Pin out of bed to disinfect.
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