Chen Zhe and Zhang Jing nodded solemnly.
"Understood, we'll go and give them the instructions right away."
After saying that, the two went to instruct the others to hurry up and clean up the insect eggs, and try to finish collecting them all today, otherwise they couldn't imagine what would happen tomorrow.
Ye Yunxi quickly took out her phone and contacted Professor Hu and Zhou Yan, telling them about the insect eggs.
Professor Hu shouted loudly from the other end.
"What?? Insect eggs? How could they suddenly appear? Yunxi, wait a minute, I'm going to go and see what's going on."
After finishing her call with Professor Hu, Ye Yunxi called Zhou Yuan, Zhou's assistant.
"Uncle Zhou, this is Yunxi. I have something very important to do. The grain I planted has developed insect eggs, and it will be two days before I can harvest it. But considering the harvest, I've decided to harvest it all today. Please call a few trucks to come and load the grain later."
Also, please tell Base Commander Wu to have the soldiers at the base check the area around the base to see if there are any other places where insect eggs have appeared.
On the other side, Zhou Yuan frowned deeply after hearing what Ye Yunxi said.
"How did insect eggs appear? Okay, I'll send someone and a truck over right away to help you harvest the grain. Just be careful yourselves."
After Ye Yunxi finished her call with Zhou Yuan, she looked at Fu Heng.
"What did Captain Li say?"
Fu Heng said seriously, "Captain Li said he'll bring men over immediately to help with the harvest. He'll also take men on patrol later."
Ye Yunxi nodded. "Okay, let's leave it at that for now. We'll deal with the insect eggs together with them."
Fu Heng and Ye Yunxi then went to get busy.
If you see insect eggs, use a twig or knife to gently pry them off the leaves. Then harvest the vegetables. If there are no insect eggs, harvest them directly and set them aside.
They worked for about half an hour when Professor Hu arrived with several people. He came to the vegetable garden and shouted in the direction of Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng.
“Yunxi, Fu, Old Hu has brought a few men to help you.”
Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng stood up and looked at Professor Hu. Ye Yunxi said to him.
"Professor Hu, please take a look at the grains and vegetables in the garden. They are almost covered with insect eggs."
Professor Hu bent down to look at the grains, which were covered with insect eggs, and some of the vegetable leaves had wormholes. He stood up and looked at Ye Yunxi with a melancholy expression.
"Yunxi, do you know how this came about?"
Ye Yunxi shook her head. "I don't know, I only just found out myself. Chen Zhe and Zhang Jing said it suddenly appeared yesterday, and after only one night, there were wormholes in the vegetable leaves."
Professor Hu looked at the vegetable leaves, pondered for a moment, and then sighed.
"That explains it. We don't know where they came from. We can't even tell what kind of insects these eggs are, and we don't know if pesticides are effective against them."
Ye Yunxi replied, "I don't know if pesticides will work; I haven't tried them yet. How's Professor Hu's greenhouse? Have those insect eggs reappeared? If so, we need to clean them up promptly, or harvest all the vegetables."
Professor Hu waved his hand. "I just checked, and there aren't any right now. I'll go back and check again later. Let's not talk about that now, let's collect them all first."
Ye Yunxi nodded and joined Professor Hu and the others in harvesting grains and vegetables.
A while later, Assistant Zhou arrived with several people in a truck and joined Ye Yunxi and the others in the harvest.
One team was responsible for cleaning up the insect eggs, while another team was responsible for harvesting the grain and vegetables. The harvested vegetables and grain were first placed in baskets, and then loaded onto the truck together after all the harvest was completed.
It took a group of people more than two hours to collect all the vegetables and grains from the garden.
Don't underestimate the importance of cleaning up insect eggs; they are all attached to the leaves, including sweet potato and potato leaves.
Cleaning them is troublesome and requires great care, especially the vegetable leaves. If you use too much force, you'll break the leaves, which will reduce the harvest.
On the contrary, if the insect eggs are cleaned up slowly, after the base takes them in, personnel will be gathered to clean them up little by little.
After Zhou Yuan finished cleaning and collecting everything in the baskets, he asked someone to carry them onto the truck.
A dozen minutes later, the grains and vegetable scraps, except for Ye Yunxi's portion, were loaded onto the truck.
Zhou Yuan and Ye Yunxi chatted with Fu Heng for a few minutes before saying goodbye and driving away with his men.
After Zhou Yuan left, Ye Yunxi turned to Professor Hu and said to him.
"Professor Hu, please check the area around the planting area when you get back. If there are any insect eggs, try using insecticide. Make sure there are no omissions."
Then he spoke to Chen Zhe, Zhang Jing, and the others.
"Go home early today. We won't plant anything for the next few days. We'll resume planting once the insect eggs are gone. Also, when you get home, check your house to see if there are any insects. If so, remove them immediately."
I'm worried these insect eggs won't disappear so easily. They came suddenly, so they're probably on other places besides the food. Anyway, just be careful.
Chen Zhe nodded and then spoke to Ye Yunxi and Fu Heng.
"Sister Yunxi, Brother Heng, you should also get checked out when you get home. Don't just tell us; you need to be careful yourselves. If anything happens, you can call me by phone."
Zhang Jing echoed, "Yes, you all need to be careful too. We don't need to worry, we'll get a thorough check-up when we get back."
The others echoed their sentiments. They all knew that Ye Yunxi had treated them very well since they started following her. Every time they received their wages, they could contribute half in kind and the other half in food.
Sometimes they would even give them more, saying it was the result of their hard work. So, they all decided to work for Ye Yunxi.
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