Bai Rou'er came downstairs, and Bai Nongrui suddenly said with a serious expression, "Zhang Fan, my family has another shop in Hudong Province, and we want to hand it over to Rou'er to manage. This may require you two to be separated for a while. Can you accept that?"
Zhang Fan: "Okay."
He will hinder Bai Rou'er's development.
Bai Nongrui said with a look of relief, "Good child, I'm entrusting Bai Rou'er to you."
Zhang Fan gave the medicine to Liu Li, and it will be delivered directly to Kelai Restaurant tomorrow.
He also asked for some other medicines to keep on hand, and a set of silver needles.
Bai Rou'er saw Zhang Fan off and told him about Bai Nongrui's plan to send her to Hudong Province. She hadn't decided whether to go or not, and her eyes were full of confusion.
Zhang Fan: "I will support whatever decision you make."
Bai Rou'er looked blissfully happy, hugging Zhang Fan tightly and reluctant to part: "When I become rich, I'll keep you at home and have you whisper sweet nothings to me every day."
Zhang Fan: "Okay."
“I’m not thinking about these things right now. I’ve met a boss from Hudong Province. His products are sold all over the country. If I can cooperate with him, I’ll definitely have a bright future and get one step closer to my goal of keeping you at home.”
"waiting for you."
...
It was late at night. Ji Zhi drove to the herbal medicine shop first. Liu Li was waiting at the door. When he saw Zhang Fan, he handed him the medicine directly.
"Dr. Zhang, this is your medicine."
After receiving the medicine, Zhang Fan glanced at it briefly to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the herbs. He then immediately transferred the money via mobile banking. It was getting late, so they didn't linger. After exchanging a few pleasantries, they drove straight back to the village.
"Dr. Zhang, Boss Bai is very satisfied with you as his son-in-law, as he has prepared such a sumptuous meal."
Zhang Fan didn't say anything. He felt that Bai Nongrui's behavior today was strange, but after thinking about it for a long time without figuring it out, he stopped thinking about it.
Halfway there, Li Chunyan called.
She hadn't seen Zhang Fan all day and was so worried she couldn't sleep.
Knowing that Zhang Fan was alright, she was relieved. Knowing that Ji Zhi was nearby, she invited him to stay.
Before dawn, Zhang Fan was awakened by locusts jumping in through the window.
Looking at the locusts flying everywhere, Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes dangerously.
A quick divination revealed a locust plague in seven days. Even harvesting the rice immediately wouldn't be enough, so we had to find another solution.
When locusts swarm, nothing grows.
Zhang Fan hurried to find Zhang Youde, who immediately became serious upon hearing this. Although he didn't know how Zhang Fan could foresee the future, he knew Zhang Fan's abilities and paced anxiously back and forth in the room.
With Zhang Fan's Qi-replenishing pills, he has now discarded his crutches and, apart from walking a little slower, is no different from an ordinary person.
Zhang Youde: "Then we should hurry up and buy some pesticides?"
He rushed into the room and rummaged through it, finally finding a yellowed phone book. He then located a pesticide vendor in the county town and dialed the number.
Zhang Fan handed over the phone, and Zhang Youde immediately turned on the speakerphone. Before Zhang Youde could explain his purpose, he heard the reply from the other end: "The pesticide supply is cut off. There's a locust plague in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and they've bought up all the pesticides. I can't get any more here, so don't call to ask."
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Youde's face turned pale. Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are hundreds of miles away from here, and there is a locust plague there. According to the timeline, the locusts will arrive here in about a week.
Drought causes locusts to lay a large number of eggs. Under suitable conditions, 4,000 to 5,000 eggs can be laid per square meter. They eat and lay eggs along the way, and who knows how many more locusts will be added along the way.
Zhang Youde paced back and forth anxiously: "I've heard before that ducks eat locusts, but I don't know if that works?"
Zhang Fan: "It can drive away some locusts, but more locusts will run to higher places, and the ducks will not be able to eat them at all. This method is only suitable for open places like grasslands, but it is better than nothing."
Zhang Youde was pacing anxiously: "What should we do?"
Zhang Fan called Jiang Tao directly. Agricultural science also has biological control methods, which Jiang Tao didn't understand, but other teachers should.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Tao immediately called the teachers in the relevant major.
Not long after, Jiang Tao called back, saying that he had just developed a new type of agent that would only infect locusts and kill them in large numbers after spraying. If used in conjunction with drones, it could almost wipe out the entire locust army.
Zhang Fan's eyes lit up: "Where can I buy this potion?"
Jiang Tao: "It is still in the experimental stage and has not been widely marketed. However, our school's teachers can do it. If needed, it will take about three days, and the cost is about the same as that of pesticides."
Zhang Fan: "That's enough. I need the dosage for several hundred acres."
That's settled. Now we need to figure out how to handle the drones.
Upon hearing about drones, Ji Zhi immediately chimed in, "Dr. Zhang, Boss Zhao has two drones at home."
Zhao Lin knew Zhang Fan wanted a drone, so he offered to send it over. The drone was a gift from someone else, and Zhang Fan didn't need it anyway.
When Zhang Youde heard that there was a medicine specifically for locusts, his anxiety subsided considerably.
He immediately held a meeting in the village to explain the plan and ask everyone to pool their money to buy locust-killing medicine.
Upon hearing that there would be a charge, someone immediately protested: "Village chief, the locusts are all gone, why do we need to buy medicine? Aren't you just charging us arbitrarily?"
"Village chief, can I not participate? My family has suffered heavy losses."
"Could there really be locusts?"
"That can't be right, where would you expect two waves of locusts to come?"
Zhang Youde waited until they finished speaking before slowly saying, "I just asked the pesticide seller, and they said that all the pesticides in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have been sold out because of the locust plague. Let's calculate how much time we have left."
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