Chapter 207: Fighting Poison with Poison
"Nominate a vice president? Does that mean they'll elect another vice president from the regular staff?"
"It seems there are other cities with so many people competing for one, it's going to be difficult anyway."
Zhou Paopi gasped, "I have no other choice now. As long as you can cure it, it will definitely be included. And this Gastrodia elata will be your responsibility from now on, even if it is something you planted."
"Why, why? I worked hard for half a year to grow these things." Xiaoxiao said anxiously.
Zhou Paopi shrugged. "Then we can only watch this batch of Gastrodia elata die. Or you can go find your Tie Guild Leader to resolve it. Anyway, we can confirm now that these are red nematode eggs, and they are directly related to the heavy rain you collected rainwater for irrigation. You will be held fully responsible."
Xiaoxiao looked at Zhou Paopi in disbelief, and after a long while she said stubbornly, "Treat him, treat him. No one else can do anything except you. Let's see how you step down later. I think you can save him with all these Gastrodia elata."
Xiaoxiao was really conflicted. She hoped that there was no way to deal with people like her, but she also hoped that there was a way to prevent her from being held accountable. However, she was willing to give up Tianma.
Jingshu's mouth curled up slightly, "Only incompetent people would use the old people's common teachings to teach newcomers. Watch out for me."
In fact, this method is very simple, and it was concluded through continuous experiments by the Chinese people. Moreover, this method was not developed by scientists, but by an ordinary person.
Now is the time when the red nematode egg incident is fermenting. Mass planting started all over China a few days ago, but they will find in the next few days that even with careful care: 8 hours of simulated lighting, 24-hour temperature control, sufficient water source, etc., it is full of white larval eggs, which looks very scary, and most importantly, the anthelmintics are completely ineffective.
The whole country was in a frenzy looking for ways to eliminate insect eggs. During this period, there were many ways to find solutions, and some people even thought of filtering water sources.
Jingshu didn't want to make this method public, because that ordinary person would use this method in the next two days to get the reward he deserved, so it was okay to use it in advance, but don't take away the benefits from others.
Therefore, Jingshu was careful this time and did not make the method public. Besides, this method was not universal, so it was not popularized and promoted. It could only be used as an emergency measure.
There is an old Chinese saying that goes, "Where there is a strong poison, there must be an antidote, and where there is a strong poison, there must be a nemesis for the red nematode eggs. Fighting poison with poison is the best way to deal with the red nematode eggs."
When asked how he came up with this method, the man said, "I was wondering, 'Only half of the rainstorm is red nematodes, so how can the water used to irrigate the fields hatch so many red nematodes?'"
"The experts tried various methods, but none of them seemed to work. I think the red nematode eggs must have been eaten by the nematodes themselves."
Through careful observation and research, and after conducting many experiments, the man discovered that adult red nematodes do not eat eggs, but the large and long old red nematodes in the rainwater, which have lost the ability to mate, rely on eating eggs to survive.
Especially this kind of red nematode will reproduce eggs crazily after being exposed to salt water.
So he spent a whole half day finding thousands of adult insects among tens of thousands of insects. After soaking them in salt water, he put them in the vegetable field. They would then eat all the insect eggs in a large vegetable field.
During the process, you must not pick up adult red nematodes, otherwise... everything will be in vain.
So it can be used in emergencies, but not every day, because if you water it every time, dense insect eggs will grow every time. You have to pick out the old insects every day, soak them in salt water and then spread them on the vegetable field.
The most important thing is that vegetables cannot withstand such torture.
This is too time-consuming and labor-intensive to be widely adopted.
Therefore, the government wants to solve the problem of insect eggs in irrigation water from the root.
"Help me find two large buckets, one for catching with a net, and a larger bucket for pure salt water."
She quickly brought a bucket of filtered salt water, and then Jingshu took another bucket and a net to scoop it up, put on her raincoat and went out. "Wait a moment."
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This method may be time-consuming and laborious for others, but for Jingshu, with the bonus of the Rubik's Cube space, she only needs to put all the red nematodes in the rainstorm into the space and use her consciousness to identify them. As long as they are larger than ten centimeters and are alone and have not mated, they are old red nematodes.
It would take others at least seven or eight hours to identify the worms, but Jingshu took a full ten minutes to pick out half a bucket of red nematodes.
The people in the room were extremely curious and came out to see what Jingshu was doing. They saw Jingshu catching red nematodes in a net under the eaves, shaking it from time to time, as if she was selecting something.
The outsiders were watching the fun and everyone thought Jingshu was just catching red nematodes.
"Tsk, it takes so long to catch a red nematode, is it really that necessary?" Xiaoxiao said inwardly unbalancedly.
"Okay, let's go." Jingshu said while holding the bucket of red nematodes that didn't seem very active. The corners of her mouth rose slightly, as if she was digging a hole.
After reaching the third floor, Jingshu sprinkled all the old insects into the salt water, and saw that they all curled up together.
Everyone watched with wide eyes, wondering, "What's going on? We already know the effect of salt water on red nematodes."
"Didn't President Zhou soak it in salt water before?"
Next, Jingshu scooped out half a bucket of curled red nematodes and sprinkled them on the Gastrodia elata little by little. Only a dozen or so were enough in one place. Soon the entire shelf was covered with curled red nematodes.
The time to witness a miracle has come!
These dead red nematodes seemed to have smelled a delicious delicacy and began to eat like crazy. The eggs on the Gastrodia elata disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this rate, all the eggs would be eaten in less than half an hour.
These old insects are destined not to live long. After eating all the eggs, their lives will come to an end, and they can no longer be kept in water.
There were surprised boos from all around.
I didn’t expect it to be so simple!
Zhou Paopi was very excited: "You are really amazing, old man, I was right about you, how did you come up with this method?"
Jingshu continued to sprinkle salt water on the Gastrodia elata from time to time to speed up the red nematodes' devouring of the eggs. She said, "This is a method my friend has developed through many experiments, but it's not as simple as it seems. There are other steps involved. Don't try it rashly. He will publish the detailed method in the next two days."
"Of course it should be. Whoever invented it has the final say. Saving Gastrodia elata is a great achievement."
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